Morning Report

One country perhaps more keen to see the back of 2020 than any other is Lebanon, which still reels from the blast that devastated its capital city. The explosion that rocked Beirut in August killed… Read more Audio

Can you imagine using you garage - to build a rocket to send satellies into space? That's what Rocket Lab staff had to do in New Zealand when the country went into lockdown and production had to stop… Read more Audio

A mid-pandemic government shut down has been staved off in the United States after President Donald Trump signed both a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill and a $1.4 trillion government funding… Read more Audio

Europe has embarked on a mammoth effort to immunize an entire continent. Health authorities across the continent have begun administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine following full approval for its… Read more Audio

Beef and Lamb says the Brexit deal will have an impact on the local economy. New Zealand had meat import quotas agreed with the European Union but now they've been split, roughly 50-50 between the UK… Read more Audio

Farmers and growers are counting the cost - thought to be in the tens of millions of dollars - of the Boxing Day freak hail storm in Tasman. A cloudburst shredded vineyards, smashing greenhouses… Read more Audio

Farmers and growers are counting the cost - thought to be in the tens of millions of dollars - of the Boxing Day freak hail storm in Tasman. A cloudburst shredded vineyards, smashing greenhouses… Read more Audio

National has welcomed the introduction of the new pre-departure testing regime - but it also says it doesn't go far enough. Initially, only travellers from the United Kingdom and the United States… Read more Audio

The Government's being warned against introducing a pre-departure Covid-19 test for desperate New Zealanders attempting to get home from high-risk countries. Yesterday, the Government announced an… Read more Audio

It's Morning Report's last show before Christmas, so what better way to end the programme than to cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh? Read more Audio

We know it will be a white Christmas at Scott Base, the New Zealand-run research facility in Antarctica, but how do the 31 staff there observe the festive season?

Are they immune from the threat of… Read more Audio