1Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer has revealed tonight that the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is threatened with technical insolvency and substantial increases in levies will be announced before Christmas. Interview with the ACC MInister Stan Rodger.

2United States Secretary of State George Shultz has publicly voiced his reservations about President Ronald Reagan's arms shipments to Iran.

3There are conflicting reports tonight over whether North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung has been assassinated.

4An Australian court is considering whether or not to stop publication of a book which claims a former head of MI5 was a Soviet spy.

5There has been a generally favourable reaction to the Government's plan to crackdown on violent sex offenders. The plan will extend the powers of Preventive Detention and make it possible to keep certain offenders in prison as long as it is deemed necessary. However, Rape Crisis Centres are concerned that the threat of draconian penalties could endanger women even more - victims may be murdered by their attackers.

6Maori land rights campaigners have reopened the controversy over Bastion Point. The Waitangi Tribunal is hearing a new claim by campaigners trying to win back part of the contested site for Ngati Whatua.

7The Ministry of Energy has decided that most of the geothermal bores close to Whakarewarewa are to remain open in spite of a Government plan to close them.

8Bogus cancer therapist Milan Brych has apparently left New Zealand, only weeks after returning from a three-year jail term in the United States.

9New Zealand's America's Cup yacht KZ7 went back in the water today after being in dry dock since the second Challenger series ended last week. Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has voiced some novel ideas about how to check KZ7's success.

10Prime Minister David Lange has criticised programme cuts planned by Television New Zealand (TVNZ), and says the Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) is spending too much of its money on efforts to oppose a third channel and promote increases to the license fee.

11There is mounting concern over insider trading on the New Zealand sharemarket. Unlike other countries, New Zealand has no specific laws against insider trading.

12A group of nations attempting to negotiate a deal on mining in the Antarctic, have ended their two=week meeting in Tokyo with a number of key issues unresolved. Interview with Wellington conservationist Cath Wallace, who was among the observers at the conference.

13A Melbourne inventor is trying to launch a plastic house, but is facing considerable problems.

14There is mounting outrage at the first dwarf-throwing test between England and Australia.