Midday Report for Friday 12 June 2020

12:46 PM.Super Rugby Aotearoa kicks off tomorrow night, and the crowds are expected to be the biggest in years.

The revised, pandemic-friendly competition format will see the five New Zealand sides playing… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.The principal at Christchurch Girls' High School says a staff member was wrong to remove Black Lives Matter posters put up by students. 

Year 13 students say they were told "all lives matter" when… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.A parade of speakers at parliament's Primary Production Select Committee decried the Organics Product Bill yesterday, calling it cumbersome, bureaucratic and expensive.

Eric Frykberg has the rural… Read more Audio

12:28 PM.Concerns player depth will be put under pressure in Super Rugby Aotearoa.

Barry Guy has sport. Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Surveys show tentative signs of economic recovery.

Gyles Beckford has business. Read more Audio

12:18 PM.New Zealand First has confirmed Auckland light rail is not on the party's agenda after RNZ revealed the party won't give the project the go-ahead before the election. 

RNZ understands the party won't… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The Hamilton City Council has just removed the controversial statue of Captain John Hamilton from Civic Square, following a formal request from local iwi Waikato-Tainui. 

A local kaumātua, Taitimu… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.A Māori social service provider and a senior Waitematā District Health Board advisor - both who are members of the Maori Party - claim they've stopped Oranga Tamariki taking newborn babies from their… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Claims Oranga Tamariki was stopped from taking children into state care this morning; a statue of Captain John Hamilton is removed from central Hamilton; and Auckland's light rail project comes to a… Read more Audio