Morning Report for Friday 5 May 2017

6:00 AM.It was the bad news the Ministry for Primary Industries had been expecting since myrtle rust first appeared in Australia... the airborne fungus is now in Northland and a full-scale biosecurity… Read more Audio

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

6:09 AM.The Hill's Brent Budowski says a group of Republicans will be huddled at the back hoping they don't have to vote yes - but he's still expecting the bill to pass, albeit narrowly. Audio

6:19 AM.Ahead of his first WBO title defence, Joseph Parker's first coach talks about the champion's start in the sport. 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

6:44 AM.Winston Peters' says a member of the NZ First team negotiating possible coalition arrangements, reminded both Labour and National that it was not unprecedented for the leader of the second largest… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.A woman who's spent most of her life in either Black Power or the Mongrel Mob has described how she narrowly escaped being pack raped when she was 17. An ex-partner of a Mongrel Mob leader, Te Atawhai… 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

7:14 AM.MPI's response director Geoff Gwyn says myrtle rust has never been eradicated sucessfully internationally but there are a lot of things they can do in the long term. He says at the moment "we have a… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.Changes to Working for Families appear to be on the cards, as the Government talks about ways to raise the incomes of low and middle income earners. The Finance Minister is preparing to deliver his… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.Women in the Mongrel Mob say the gang culture is changing, and there are fewer instances of rape and violence towards women, with members attending leadership workshops and even holding events to… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.In RNZ's latest edition of 'The 9th Floor,' former Prime Minister Helen Clark insists she has no regrets about her government's handling of the Foreshore and Seabed controversy in 2004. At the time… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The French Presidential elections are this Sunday. .Christian Malard from i24 News says Emmanuel Macron won the last debate and is beating Marine Le Pen in the polls. "I will make a bet that Macron… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.A war of words is breaking out off the league field ahead of tonight's final Anzac match between the Kiwis and the Kangaroos. Australia's coach has claimed NZ is nowhere to be seen in Canberra in the… Read more Audio

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

8:16 AM.The cold medicine industry is rubbishing the idea sick people are better off taking painkillers and going to bed than taking over-the-counter cold-and-flu remedies. Scott Milne, the executive director… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.The fact that the seabed lifted during November's earthquake was "probably the saving grace" according to Kaikoura's mayor, Winston Gray. A review by the Ministry of Civil Defence found an almost 7… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Scientists and industry groups have been bracing for the arrival of myrtle rust for a number of years. The chief executive of Apiculture New Zealand Karin Kos, and Director of New Zealand's Biological… Read more Audio

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

8:37 AM.Keeping out the cold in the badly quake-damaged North Canterbury town of Waiau has just become a little easier, with a pop-up curtain bank helping locals. Audio

8:40 AM.The Health Minister Jonathan Coleman announced changes to the mental health sector yesterday. But Marianne Elliott from the People's Mental Health Review says it will do little to address years of… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.A New Zealand ship full of fertilizer has been stopped in South Africa over claims it was illegally mined. Western Sahara Resource Watch lobbiest Erik Hagen says the situation is not complex, it is… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.Nitrogen leaching from agricultural soils was estimated to have increased nearly a third between 1990 and 2012... and now a water quality scientist is warning New Zealand's water will be polluted for… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.A new report says ditching the car and relying instead on shared, electric cars could save thousands of dollars a year; cut greenhouse gas emissions and save time. Audio