Morning Report for Wednesday 3 May 2017

6:00 AM.Wellington's house prices soar, as others come off the boil, Housing crisis in Auckland hitting asylum seekers now too, Decision to hike uni fees undermines trasn-Tasman relationship, and Decision on… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:10 AM.The Ministry of Education has asked state schools not to ask parents for out-of-zone application donations, but one school, Auckland Grammar, is standing its ground. The Auditor General found there… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.Marine Le Pen's campaign has been hit by allegations that she plagiarised the speech of a defeated rival during an address to supporters days ahead of this weekend's French presidential election. We… Read more 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.Asylum Seekers Support Trust in Auckland has been turning people away, and has told lawyers and other groups to stop sending their clients to the Trust because its hostel is full and it can find any… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.A change due in this month's Australian Budget will force expatriates and permanent residents to pay full tuition fees, though they will get access to student loans for the first time. Phil Pennington… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

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

7:21 AM.A group that houses asylum seekers in Auckland says they are being forced to sleep in cars and on the streets because it has run out of room. Lawyers warn it could jeopardise their chances of staying… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.The Ministry of Education is telling schools to stop asking for fees or donations for processing out-of-zone enrolment applications. Post Primary Teachers' Association president Jack Boyle and… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Embattled airline United Airlines has promised to never again force a passenger off one of its planes. The airline's Chief Executive Oscar Munoz appeared before the US House Transportation and… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Younger, more women and more ethnically diverse. RNZ talks to the fresh faces of the Labour Party. Audio

7:53 AM.Hollywood has narrowly averted another potentially crippling screenwriters' strike. But our correspondent Brad Pomerance in Los Angeles says there's still a lot of tension "I would guess that we won't… Read more Audio

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

8:11 AM.House prices in the capital continue to rise. A Wellington real estate agent says the gain in houses are now slowing a bit but it's still hard for first home buyers. Audio

8:13 AM.More and more people are turning up at the Wellington Night Shelter because of the increased house prices in the capital. Audio

8:16 AM.Wellington's mayor, Justin Lester, says there is not a housing crisis in the capital but there is a need to build more houses. There has been a recent spike in housing consents and he hopes that this… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Caught between "a rock and a hard place" and "second class taxpayers" - New Zealanders who are permanent residents but not citizens, will soon have to pay full university tuition fees, typically… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Three new remand homes are being planned for Whangarei, Palmerston North and Dunedin in a bid to stop young offenders being sent to youth justice residences. The Children's Commissioner is confident… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.An FBI agent has secretly travelled to Syria to marry an Islamic State recruiter she'd been investigating. Audio

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

8:45 AM.Relations between Germany and Russia show some improvement but, as Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin talked overnight in Sochi, tensions remain over issues such as Ukraine and Syria. Audio

8:53 AM.Athletes have reacted angrily to a European anti-doping proposal which could see them lose world records set before 2005. Audio