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The Government\'s taking action on poor school attendance rates through a 74-million dollar package.
\\nMore than 80 attendance officer positions are being created to work with around three-thousand students who are continually bunking class.
\\nPrime Minister Chris Hipkins confirms that it\'s a different approach than previous efforts, which had a range of contracted providers who could employ whoever they wanted.
\\nIn the wake of Gabrielle, people are being urged to hand in any evidence of post-disaster crime.
\\nHipkins told Mike Hosking that claims of looting and other crime are being investigated, but so far they\'re unsubstantiated or there was another explanation.
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