Morning Report for Monday 19 December 2016

6:00 AM.Prime Minister unveils new Cabinet, Housing portfolio reshuffle amid Auckland crisis, PM downplays Collins move down, say she still have big portfolios, RNZ Political Editor discusses Cabinet… Read more Audio

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

6:10 AM.A Waikato Hospital patient says he fears returning for treatment after being verbally abused by a doctor he says was intoxicated. Audio

6:16 AM.Crowds of demonstrators have been gathering in Poland's capital Warsaw to protest about plans by the government to restrict media access to parliament. Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

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

6:39 AM.We speak to Labour's police spokesman Stuart Nash to get his reaction to National's refreshed cabinet and the fact Judith Collins has been stripped of the police portfolio. Audio

6:42 AM.New Zealand's free trade supporters are licking their wounds after a year of setbacks, culminating in the demise of the Trans Pacific Partnership. Our economics correspondent, Patrick O'Meara looks… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Two significant economic numbers are being released this week, and both are expected to show New Zealand in fine form in the September quarter. The market is picking around zero-point-9 percent… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Across the Tasman, and the future of Australia's Triple-A credit rating may hinge on the outcome of the government's mid-fiscal-year budget update, which is being delivered today. Audio

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

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

7:09 AM.Judith Collins is the most high profile victim in the Cabinet reshuffle, but other ministers have gained new responsibilities. Our political reporter Benedict Collins reports on cabinets winners and… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.The Government is under fire for disestablishing the ministerial portfolio of housing in the middle of a housing crisis in Auckland. Audio

7:16 AM.Prime Minister Bill English says people should not get too focussed on rankings. He puts Judith Collins movement down to some of the middle-ranking MPs moving up. And he says Ms Collins's still got… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.RNZ's Political Editor Jane Patterson says National's campaigning on stability and continuity so a complete rejig wasn't on the cards. Audio

7:45 AM.Auckland's teacher shortage has spread to the city's early childhood sector. Centre owners say they're struggling too find good staff. John Gerritsen, filed this report. Audio

7:50 AM.The freight train that fell prey to looters after being stranded north of Kaikoura by last month's earthquake has now been moved. Audio

7:54 AM.Kiwirail's group general manager of network services, Todd Moyle says the rail company is aiming to get the freight off the train this week but they had to wait until the train was shunted south, to a… Read more Audio

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

8:10 AM.Housing strategist Leonie Freeman says the Government needs to answer questions on which of the new ministers are responsible for the vital housing needs of Auckland's growing population. Audio

8:14 AM.Our Waikato reporter recounts his meeting with Robert Williams who says a junior doctor working on his case entered his room at around four on Saturday morning and proceeded to verbally abuse him… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.The national secretary of the Resident Doctors' Association Deborah Powell commends Robert Williams for speaking out. she says there would have been a whole lot of contributing factors but she says… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Last month's quake which blocked the main road through Kaikoura has turned a once quiet road in Marlborough into a main South Island highway. Our reporter Tracy Neal took a drive down the highway and… Read more Audio

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

8:35 AM.The UN Security Council has agreed on a draft resolution on how it will monitor the evacuation of eastern Aleppo. The UN is expected to vote on it later today. But there remains confusion as to what's… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.The Quakers have delivered around four-hundred posies of flowers to Mt Eden Prison at Christmas since the First World War. But the prisons tightened security is putting the tradition under threat… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.Southland locals are rallying around their aluminium smelter as electricity regulators harden their hearts against it. Eric Frykberg reports. Audio

8:50 AM.We take a look back at soem of the sporting highlights of the year. Today we hear from sprinter Liam Malone became a household name this year after being catapulted onto the world stage at the Rio… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.The Elizabeth Tower - or Big Ben to you and me - is now closed to the public. It's to undergo a huge facelift, and from January will be scaffolded for about three years - the longest conservation work… Read more Audio