Media ID 0139-A |
News reports (17 April 1986) on the day after Part Two of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, outlawing discrimination, was lost (16 April 1986)
Unique ID | 1124270904-33 | ||||||||||||||||||
Speakers | Bill Logan, Fran Wilde, Geoff Braybrooke, Graeme Lee, Philip Burdon | ||||||||||||||||||
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Comments | Sound quality – recorded off the radio/television | ||||||||||||||||||
Disclaimer | This summary gives general themes as to the content of this recording. It is not a verbatim transcript. Always refer back to the original audio. This is a working document and any amendments/corrections are welcome. |
| Morning Report 0700, National Programme |
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01:06 | Time pips, Morning Report with Geoff Robinson and Maggie Barry |
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01:48 | Shooting has broken out around the headquarters of Colonel Kadafi |
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03:13 | Security has been tightened around US embassies |
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04:05 | Parliament has thrown out the second part of the Homosexual Law Reform Act (outlawing discrimination)..Graeme Lee is happy with the result. |
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05:00 | National Party is well ahead in selecting it’s 1987 election candidates |
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05:40 | Cook Islands Prime Minister visits Wellington |
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06:20 | The Rest of the World beat The Lions in Cardiff |
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06:33 | Weather forecast |
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06:50 | Shooting has broken out around the headquarters of Colonel Kadafi |
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09:00 | US planes over Tripoli |
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11:10 | Margaret Thatcher says terrorism cannot be tolerated, supporting the attack on Libya |
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12:20 | Neil Kinnock attacks Margaret Thatcher’s support of the US. |
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16:20 | Report on Parliament throwing out the second part of the Homosexual Law Reform Act (outlawing discrimination). |
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16:45 | Fran Wilde – I’m sad. What is it a sign of? |
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17:45 | Graeme Lee – Pleased with the result of Part Two – Human Rights Commission |
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18:40 | Bill Logan – Lesbian and Gays are going to face exclusion.. This part of the Bill was about discrimination. |
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| Television One News with Tom Bradley |
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19:10 | News introduction – Law Reform, AIDS |
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19:30 | Report on the throwing out of Part Two of the Law Reform Bill. |
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21:40 | “We thought we had the numbers” (unidentified speaker) |
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23:00 | Confirmation that Eve van Grafhorst has AIDS (the first Australian girl to be infected by HIV via a blood) |
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| Morning Report on the National Programme with Maggie Barry and Geoff Robinson |
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26:10 | Parliament throws out the second part of the Homosexual Law Reform Act (outlawing discrimination). |
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26:30 | Graeme Lee – I think there’s a growing concern about Part One of the Bill. |
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27:00 | Geoff Braybrooke – We received a letter from Cardinal Thomas Williams.. |
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27:50 | Fran Wilde – Did the Cardinal’s letter have an effect? |
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28:10 | Wilde – It was a political tradeoff for many politicians |
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29:30 | Wilde – Anti discrimination laws.. Part two applied to... |
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31:00 | Wilde – I feel reasonable confident to get the Bill through |
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31:30 | Wilde – There has been an increasing number of reports of discrimination |
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32:00 | Are you suffering? Wilde – I had no idea about the manufactured backlash. |
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33:00 | Wilde – New Zealand is one of the few countries that hasn’t changed its law |
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33:30 | Wilde – I’m concerned about anti-homosexual sentiment if this Bill doesn’t go through |
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| Television One News report |
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34:00 | Philip Burdon– amendment to raise age-of-consent to nineteen. |
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36:00 | Neil Billington – amendment to raise age-of-consent |
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36:22 | Philip Burdon– I don’t think the Bill will be defeated.. but I think Members would be happier if the age of consent was set at nineteen. |
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