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Morning Report for Friday 9 September 2016
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Top Stories for Friday 9 September 2016
6:00 AM.Call for rugby culture change gains momentum after Chiefs probe. Dame Susan Devoy says Chiefs set an appalling example. Social Development minister welcomes income report. Interislander ferries remain… Read more Audio
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A good start for our Paralympians
6:08 AM.New Zealand make a successful start at the Paralympics, with four athletes qualifying for finals tonight. Audio
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Early Business News for 9 September 2016
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 9 September 2016
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Housing costs eating away at income equality - Labour
6:36 AM.Labour's finance spokesperson Grant Robertson says low-income earners are being hit hardest by the housing crisis. Audio
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Sistema accused by union of sweatshop-like conditions
6:40 AM.The E Tu union is accusing the plastics manufacturer Sistema of running a 'modern day sweatshop'. But Sistema say the union is using bullying tactics. Audio
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Clean up after icy blast closes roads & downs trees
6:45 AM.Weather commentator Richard Green says the cold snap has given Auckland the second coldest September day ever recorded. He says the weather will slowly improve. Audio
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Tower shares may have been oversold on profit forecast
6:50 AM.The market may have over-reacted to a mark down in Tower's full-year profit forecast yesterday. Audio
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Cleaning franchise model under fire from Unions
6:52 AM.Businesses are being warned to be wary of cleaning contracts being offered at suspiciously low rates. Audio
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Almost half of NZ businesses dealing with disinterested staff
6:55 AM.Almost half of New Zealand businesses are dealing with staff who have given up on their job, even though they haven't actually resigned. Audio
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Morning Markets for 9 September 2016
6:58 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Call for rugby culture change gains momentum after Chiefs probe
7:13 AM.As New Zealand Rugby admits it didn't handle the Chiefs stripper scandal well, we are finally able to broadcast more details of what the stripper said happened when she performed at their end of… Read more Audio
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Dame Susan Devoy says Chiefs set an appalling example
7:20 AM.Dame Susan Devoy says the Chiefs scandal shows a major culture shift is needed and calls for a new, independent inquiry into the stripper incident. Read more Audio
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Social Development minister welcomes income report
7:25 AM.Social Development Minister Anne Tolley concedes the Government needs to look at accommodation benefit levels after an offical report reveals low-earning New Zealanders are now paying more than half… Read more Audio
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Interislander ferries remain in port due to high winds & waves
7:35 AM.Interislander hopes ferry sailings will resume on Saturday morning after huge swells of more than six metres force cancellations. Audio
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Bland plain packaging on way for cigarette packages
7:43 AM.Cigarettes will be sold in plain packets from at least next year and possibly sooner - after the legislation past its final hurdle in Parliament. Audio
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Education unions pleased new funding proposal looks likely to be rejected
7:43 AM.The NZ Education Institute, an opponent of global funding in education, is delighted the proposal looks set to be rejected. We speak with the union's national secretary. Audio
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Helicopters scramble to rescue 110 people trapped in cable car
7:47 AM.Sixty people are stranded overnight after being trapped inside a cable car in eastern France more than 3,000 metres above sea level. Freelance journalist Stefan de Vries is in Paris with the latest. Audio
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A better method for marketing food to children
7:50 AM.Health experts say a better method is needed to decide which foods and drinks may be marketed to children and which are too unhealthy. Audio
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Havelock North's water dominates a mayoral debate in Hastings
7:55 AM.Barely a month after Havelock North's water-borne gastro bug outbreak, and the three candidates vying for the mayoral chains in Hastings squared off in a debate last night. The water issue dominated… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 9 September 2016
8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Former Samoa International backs call for NZ Rugby to lift game
8:08 AM.Former Samoan rugby international Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu backs calls for a culture change in New Zealand rugby, saying: ''You can still love rugby, love the chiefs, and not be a sexist pig.'' Audio
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Williams says he never read explicit text Craig supposedly sent
8:17 AM.The man who is suing Colin Craig for defamation conceeds he does not know whether an explicit text message the former Conservative Party leader allegedly sent to his press secretary actually exists… Read more Audio
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Criminal Bar Assoc unhappy with closing legal aid offices
8:25 AM.Criminal Bar Association president Noel Sainsbury says a plan to close six of eight legal aid offices around the regions next year makes no sense. Audio
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Libertarian presidential candidate suffers a setback
8:27 AM.Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johns revealed a surprising lack of foreign policy knowledge when he asked an interviewer "what's Aleppo"? Our Washington correspondent Simon Marks talks us… Read more Audio
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Local tensions boil over at internationl conservation meeting
8:28 AM.Tensions between iwi and conservation groups over the proposed Kermadec Sanctuary have erupted at an international conservation meeting in Hawai'i. Our Maori Issues Correspondent Mihingarangi Forbes… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 9 September 2016
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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All Blacks to tackle Los Pumas in Hamilton this Saturday
8:35 AM.The All Blacks take on the Pumas in Hamilton on Saturday. Our correspondent in Buenos Aires, Frankie Deges, says the Pumas will struggle and the best they can hope for is a close loss. Audio
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E Tu union rejects accusations of bully tactics
8:38 AM.E Tu Union has labelled the plastics manufacturer Sistema a 'modern day sweatshop' but in turn it's been accused of using bully tactics to ram through its negotiations. E Tu has now expressed… Read more Audio
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School cleaning franchisees under fire from unions
8:46 AM.School cleaners are getting sacked as boards of trustees move to cheaper cleaning franchisees. Unions say the law intended to protect them when contracts change isn't working. Insight's reporter… Read more Audio
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NZ boosts support for Laos to deal with cluster bombs
8:47 AM.New Zealand has boosted its support to help the country of Laos clear its countryside of cluster bombs left over from the Vietnam war. Our Deputy Political Editor, Chris Bramwell, reports from Laos. Audio
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Maori music awards celebrate Maori music, artists
8:51 AM.The Waiata Maori Music awards - which honour the creators and performers of te reo Maori music - are being held this evening in Hastings. Te Manu Korihi editor Shannon Haunui-Thompson has more. Read more Audio
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Brain disease drug, cancer gene win NZ scientists awards
8:55 AM.Top scientists have been honoured at the New Zealand Association of Scientists awards - Our Changing World's Alison Ballance caught up with some of the winners. Audio
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Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
8:57 AM.It's Friday so we cross the Ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio