Morning Report for Tuesday 18 July 2017

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

6:00 AM.Labour promises to crack down on multinational tax dodgers; The Government moves to simplify Working for Families; Police are treating one of the two devastating Port Hill as suspicious. Locals want… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.The co-owner of the Sign of the Kiwi cafe on the Christchurch's Port Hills tells our our reporter Laura Tupou the thought that one of the February fires was deliberatly lit makes her angry. Audio

6:12 AM.The Government announced yesterday that 40 percent of those receiving Working For Families payments are being underpaid and about 25 percent are getting too much. It's put out a proposal to fix Inland… 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

6:38 AM.Under a new government proposal, child support payments will be automatically deducted from the wages or salaries of liable parents by Inland Revenue. Audio

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

7:39 AM.An Australian woman has shot dead by a US police officer in Minneapolis. David Chanen has been covering the story for Minnesota's Star Tribune newspaper. Audio

7:45 AM.The American doctor who has offered an experimental treatment for terminally ill Charlie Gard has arrived in the UK to examine the British infant. Haroon Siddique has been covering the case for The… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.One firefighter was killed, two thousand hectares of forestry and eleven homes were destroyed, and thousands had to flee their homes during two devaststing Port Hill fires in February. Fire and… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The demand for the seventh-season premiere of Game of Thrones crashed HBO's website. We spoke to Variety TV Critic Sonia Saraiya. Audio

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

8:10 AM.Tax expert Michael Littlewood explains how Labour's diverted profit tax would work, imposing a penalty tax on companies artificially diverting their profits to the country that chatges them the… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Horowhenua's former mayor is standing by his old chief executive, who has been intercepting and moderating emails sent by the public to council staff and councillors. Our local government reporter… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.The general secretary of the National Distribution Union, Robert Reid appraises the government's planned changes to the Working for Families tax credits. Audio

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

8:35 AM.Mental Health Foundation chief Shaun Robinson says an email trail has revealed what his office feared was true - that the Minister of Health, Dr Jonathan Coleman's office pushed to water down a goal… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Lakes DHB has been struggling without email or access to electronic patient records since a fire in its computer server room on Monday morning. Audio

8:43 AM.Auckland man in court on manslaughter charge after two-year-old daughter shot dead Audio

8:53 AM.Eel conservationists from around the country are meeting at the National Maori Tuna Conference to discuss the ongoing issues around eels and ways communties are helping to protect them. Te Aniwa… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Huw Fullerton covers sci-fi and superhero things for Radio Times in the UK. He talked to Kim Hill about the reaction to Jodie Whittaker being announced as the 13th Dr Who. Audio