Morning Report for Thursday 28 September 2017

6:09 AM.New Zealand First's new MP Shane Jones doesn't think his former career as a Labour MP will influence the outcome of his party's coalition negotiations. The party holds the balance of power after the… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.British Labour MP Emma Dent Coad says Grenfell Tower survivors are struggling to get by despite millions of pounds being raised for their benefit in the aftermath of the fire. Ms Dent Coad says three… Read more Audio

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

6:39 AM."Speculative drivel, tripe, malicious, malignant, and vicious in the extreme..." - all words NZ First leader Winston Peters directed at media during a press conference yesterday in which he promised… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Controversial former Alabama Supreme Court chief Justice Roy Moore is on course to win the seat in the Senate vacated by Jeff Sessions after beating the Donald Trump-backed Luther Strange for the… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has had a last blast at the media before retreating behind closed doors until the final election result is announced. At a press conference yesterday he made it… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.A leading building surveyor has revealed details of hidden and sometimes life-threatening faults on buildings, including a Wellington apartment block not bolted to its foundations. Thomas Wutzler has… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Major changes from the top down are wanted by the health sector, regardless of who forms the next government. Like many others, health workers are watching and waiting as kingmaker New Zealand First… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.Moves by Counties Manukau DHB to encourage some staff to take voluntary redundancy have been described as 'complete bonkers.' The senior doctors union says the decision to offer redundancy to senior… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.A chance to create a Māori seat on the Auckland Council may be lost when it's put to a vote today, with the mayor Phil Goff preferring to do nothing. The city's Independent Māori Statutory Board and a… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Women's rights activists around the world are welcoming the decision by King Salman allowing women in Saudi Arabia to drive. Activists have campaigned for years to allow women in the kingdom to drive… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.Women's rights activists around the world are welcoming the decision by King Salman allowing women in Saudi Arabia to drive. New Zealand women are also welcoming the decree. Anjum Rahman is a… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Human waste and toilet paper is littering the Milford Track, as another busy summer tourist season approaches, says a Department of Conservation contractor. About 14,000 people hike the South Island… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.A nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific has shed new light on how plants and animals may have arrived in this country. The research vessel JOIDES… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.An Auckland mother fears her four-year-old son will be confined to the corner at his creche, unable to learn because of what she says is a lack of teacher aides available for disabled students. Lucy… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Wellington's new deputy mayor Jill Day has only been a councillor since October. She takes over from Paul Eagle who was elected to Parliament on Saturday. Audio

8:24 AM.A New Zealand Air Force plane has returned from carrying out a survey of Vanuatu's erupting Manaro volcano. More than 7000 people have evacuated their homes and a state of emergency has been declared… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Police still can't say how much money has been distributed from a $1.8 million fund designed to protect dairies from violent attacks. They say security equipment has been installed in some stores but… Read more Audio

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

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

8:35 AM.The Bay of Plenty Regional Council's chair Doug Leeder is encouraging his colleagues in Auckland to "be brave" and embrace Maori wards. Auckland Councillors will decide today whether to pursue… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The New Zealand Open women's golf tournament begins in Auckland today and for the first time, there's more prize money on the table than the men's Open offers. The Women's Open has become an LPGA… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.A small New Zealand tech company has united with a major US firm to take its patented technology to the world. Nelson-based CORE Transport Technologies has developed a bluetooth device that can track… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Hamilton is going to trial free parking for two hours in the central city in an effort to revitalise the city centre. Also in the pipeline are a proposal to give the city's main square a makeover and… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.The Black Ferns' Rugby World Cup victory will be celebrated today in Auckland. In a thrilling final in Belfast last month, the women in black defeated the defending English side 41-32 to claim their… Read more Audio