Five O'clock Report for Thursday 17 January 2019

5:09 PM.Workers in the aged care sector believe staff shortages are leading to inadequate care for the elderly, according to a survey carried out by unions working in the sector. Nearly 1200 workers from the… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.A report into the death of a cruise ship worker in Dunedin in 2017 has highlighted the need for improved standards for the handling and storage of high-pressure cylinders on board the ships. Allan… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.The Whanganui Ratepayer's Association is being labelled as ignorant scaremongers for saying iwi should not gain ownership of some of the city's parks and reserves. It's demanding a council referendum… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.An Auckland woman has found the man who helped her when she was being stalked on Saturday morning. Charlie Tamuno was walking to her car after work when a man began following her. She reached out to… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.It's been a week of water woes for the small Rangitikei town of Marton. First the townsfolk experienced foul-smelling brown water running from their taps. Some people complained on social media that… Read more Audio

5:40 PM.Recent migrants are more likely to face bias, but feel safer than people who are born in New Zealand or have been here more than five years. New research from Stats NZ shows that about 26 percent of… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft says the deprivation suffered by Maori children links back to colonisation. He says the effects of that have historically and endemically disadvantaged them. Audio

5:56 PM.The Warriors coach Stephen Kearney is no longer shopping around for a replacement for star playmaker Shaun Johnson, instead he'll use one of the three young players he has in his squad. Johnson made a… Read more Audio