Morning Report for Friday 4 March 2016

8:57 AM.Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh Audio

8:50 AM.While most of the nation's mastheads are losing readers, a few daily newspapers are bucking the trend. The editor of the Wanganui Chronicle is Mark Dawson. Audio

8:46 AM.The drunken Australia Day antics of a Sydney Roosters player have scored him the heaviest fine in Australian rugby league history. Audio

8:43 AM.The National Rugby League competition is underway. After finishing a disappointing 13th placing in last year's comeptition, there's a lot of expectation on the Warriors to make the playoffs this year… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Who would be a better President from New Zealand's point of view? Our political editor Jane Patterson reports. Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:24 AM.The veteran mountain guide who escaped a fatal icefall that killed three overseas climbers on Aoraki Mt Cook says the conditions that day were too bad for him to continue. Dave McKinley was the last… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Damage assessors are estimating that about half of Fiji's homes will need to be rebuilt. A ship carrying aid and damage assessment teams around the remote Lau island group that was heavily hit by… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.A number of young Africans say they are being unfairly treated by a racist justice system. Their accounts are part of a report put out by the Auckland University of Technology's Social Sciences… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Tributes are flowing in from all around the world for cricketing legend, Martin Crowe who died yesterday, aged 53, after a long battle with cancer. Tiana Barns looks back at the life of the batting… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:55 AM.Standing Room Only's Lynn Freeman joins the show to talk about the New Zealand Festival. Audio

7:50 AM.A group of Hawke's Bay regional councillors say the 600-million Ruataniwha water storage project is a ratepayers nightmare that can only be stopped at the ballot box. Audio

7:48 AM.MPs are accusing the Corrections Minister of being overly controlling. Judith Collins has sent a letter to all MPs asking them to go through her office before visiting prisons and to give a reasonable… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A woman in New Zealand has tested positive for Zika, without having visited an affected country. Auckland University's Dr Siouxsie Wiles is with me in the studio joins Morning Report. Audio

7:35 AM.Auckland's criminal underworld and the identity of the kidnappers of a woman who died trying to escape them remain the focus of the police homicide investigation. Murielle Baker reports. Audio

7:29 AM.Sarabjit Singh, the liquor store owner who was stabbed in the back outside his own store says he's too scared to go back to work. He spoke with Kim Baker Wilson from his hospital bed. Audio

7:24 AM.The journalist and author Joseph Romanos wrote the book Tortured Genius about Crowe in 1995 and went on to help edit Crowe's own book Raw in 2013. Audio

7:20 AM.A close friend of Martin Crowe's has described the cricketing great as a very obsessive cricket player, always striving for perfect. Sir Richard Hadlee says Martin Crowe's death wasn't unexpected but… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Young Africans say they've been racially profiled, harrassed and in some instances, physically beaten by police. Mohamed Hassan reports. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:58 AM.The New Zealand sharemarket ended on a record high and the Australian 200 index rose more than 1%. Audio

6:57 AM.A crown entity in charge of setting standards in financial reporting by companies says there's room to make things clearer. Audio

6:55 AM.The year is barely two months old but we've already had several large takeovers announced. Audio

6:53 AM.Big companies have wasted no time in going direct to the investing public with bond issues since the start of the year, carrying on last year's momentum. Audio

6:52 AM.The ANZ Bank's commodity price index rose for the first time in four months in February. Audio

6:51 AM.The value of building work done in the final quarter of last year has hit a 26-year high. ANZ Bank senior economist Mark Smith expects the momentum will continue into this year. Audio

6:46 AM.The tourism industry in Fiji is banding together to attract overseas visitors back in the wake of Cyclone Winston, but as Bridget Tunnicliffe reports the industry has already leapt to action. Audio

6:43 AM.A former teammate of Martin Crowe says he felt like a mere mortal playing alongside the world-class batsman. John Morrison spoke to RNZ sports editor Stephen Hewson. Audio

6:39 AM.Some young Africans say they've been racially profiled, harrassed and in some instances, physically beaten by the police. The accounts are part of a report put out by the Auckland University of… Read more Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:20 AM.Jonathan Mitchell with news from the business sector. Audio

6:14 AM.Tributes from around the world are flowing in for Martin Crowe. Scyld Berry from the Telegraph says the cricketer found a niche in cricket history no one else has occupied. Audio

6:09 AM.Republican ex-presidential candidate Mitt Romney has delivered a stiniging attack on Donald Trump calling him a conman and a fake. Our Washington correspondent is Simon Marks. Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Many in African community feel unfairly treated by police, Fiji's tourism industry galvanises to get visitors back, Stabbed liquor store owner too scared to go back to work, Criminal underworld… Read more Audio