Morning Report for Wednesday 23 November 2016

8:55 AM.A bill to set up online schools in NZ is currently before the Education and Science Select Committee; but academics from the US are warning against the proposal. Audio

8:55 AM.Methamphetamine use has surged among people who've been arrested, according to a new Massey University study. Last year, 36 per cent of people detained by police reported using the drug compared with… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Antisemitism expert rejects argument that a Muslim cleric in Auckland comments should be seen in context of being spoken inside the Mosque. Audio

8:45 AM.David Seymour says there's a range of views on the car ban on Auckland's volcanic cones, but the Tupuna Maunga Authority didn't consult properly before its decision. Audio

8:40 AM.Early claims of success for a new system to monitor criminals deported from Australia have proved premature. Police figures show that six months into the new regime, only one in 20 had offended but… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:26 AM.The Council of Trade Unions' president, Richard Wagstaff, says the workplace death toll are alarming. "The government needs to do its job as a regulator, business needs to do its job and workers need… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Kaikoura's Paua Relocation Team have stopped trying to save tens of thousands of paua displaced by last week's earthquake - but it's saying it's been wrongly barred from saving the paua. Audio

8:15 AM.The chief executive of the Building Construction Industry Training Organisation, Warwick Quinn, says there's already a shortage of construction workers - so the Kaikoura repairs will just add to that… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Donald Trump has meet reporters at the New York Times. In his first remarks he said he had great respect for the New York Times but believed he had been "treated very rough." Our correspondent Simon… Read more Audio

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

7:55 AM.A former associate professor at Victoria University, Jim Veitch, says the comments by a Muslim cleric in Auckland reflect a conservative Islam view. "We're tetchy because anything to do with Islam in… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The First Union is promising a legal battle to ensure staff who've lost their jobs with the collapse of children's clothing chain Pumpkin Patch get paid redundacy. Audio

7:45 AM."We've got a crisis building here, but because the economy is built on consumption fuelled by immigation it's a merry go round the country won't get off." The New Zealand First leader Winston Peters… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Talk among Pacific rim countries has turned to whether they can still strike a trade deal without the United States. But the world trade editor for the Financial Times says talks will be put aside for… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Despite tightened health and safety laws in NZ, new figures show the rate of workplace deaths remains as high as last year, doing little to curb the workplace death toll. Audio

7:25 AM.Staff at NIWA's Wellington office are being told by their union to stay away from work today after it was revealed it was a NIWA manager, not an engineer, who declared the building safe after last… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.The Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, Steven Joyce says workers in Christchurch will be able to move north to repair roads and buildings damaged in the Kaikoura quake. Audio

7:10 AM.Construction bosses say at least one thousand workers will be needed to rebuild roads and repair buildings after last week's earthquakes. Audio

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

6:58 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:56 AM.The leading manufacturing company, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, says it has options to look after its lucrative United States business if U.S. president-elect Donald Trump carries through with his… Read more Audio

6:54 AM.The only thing likely to survive the collapse of the children's clothing chain Pumpkin Patch is its name. Audio

6:54 AM.The administrators of the failed crime software developer, Wynyard Group, say they are selling the group's Cognevo division to Australia telecommunications company Telstra. Audio

6:53 AM.Listed local vehicle auctioneer and automotive finance company Turners says it's on the look out for further acquisitions after it agreed to buy most of the Autosure motor insurance business from… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.The speciality infant formula and milk products company, A2 Milk, expects the strong demand for its products to continue, with sales in the first four months of the year nearly double what they were… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.The construction industry reckons at least a thousand workers will be needed to repair roads and fix buildings. And hundreds of workers will need to come from overseas. Audio

6:30 AM.Big Japanese earthquake brings back painful memories of the 2011 Fukushima disaster but our correspondent in Tokyo says there's widespread relief coastal defences rebuffed yesterday's much smaller… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:17 AM.The Turkish government has done a u-turn on its plans to pardon men's convictions for child sex assaults. Correspondent Natalie Carney says public protests forced the government to backtrack on its… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.The Labour Party says the Government needs to look at why new health and safety laws are failing to protecting workers. So far this year 43 people have died on the job - the same number for the whole… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.An 5.7 aftershock closes the inland route to Kaikoura again. Civil Defence will be checking the road again at first light. Audio

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

6:00 AM.Skill shortage more pronounced after last week's quake, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce responds, New laws do nothing to curb high death rate, Union tells members not to work in Niwa… Read more Audio