Morning Report for Thursday 1 March 2018

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

6:00 AM.Struggling polytech sector holds crisis meeting, Wellington High Court holds top secret case, Winston Peters' National MPs legal action going ahead, Winston Peters' National MPs legal action going… Read more Audio

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

6:09 AM.One of the country's biggest marine manufacturers says its future in New Zealand could be in doubt if a waterfront site it uses, is lost to accommodate an America's Cup Village in Auckland. Southern… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.Te Puea Marae opened its doors yesterday to local employers in an effort to find jobs for the people it helps. One of those potential employers was Telnet co-founder and chief executive, John… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.The crippling leaf disease myrtle rust has been found in Department of Conservation land for the first time. It has infected Ramarama plants and also towering Rata trees in the northern part of… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.White-owned farms in South Africa will soon be able to be confiscated without compensation. South Africa's parliament has moved to amend the country's constitution so it can carry out the… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Apple growers in Hawke's Bay are preparing to work around the clock to cope with what's being described as an extreme shortage of seasonal workers. Orchardists say they less have than half the workers… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Hard on the heels of news of the Government's $33 million bailout of the West Coast's Tai Poutini Polytechnic, Polytech leaders are holding a crisis meeting to discuss how to save the struggling… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.A case shrouded in secrecy is expected to continue today in the High Court in Wellington. Security has been beefed up for the hearing, the subject of which is so secret it has not even been listed on… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A Northland marae just five metres away from a site on which Tegel plans to build New Zealand's biggest chicken farm says the plans will cause them 'immeasurable and excruciating trauma and pain.'… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Government and opposition are both furiously scrambling to explain their support for a project linked to a businessman who's under the scrutiny of the Serious Fraud Office. RNZ revealed yesterday the… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.People in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region are living in terror as aftershocks continue to rock the area. Transport and communications links to the Highlands provinces remain badly disrupted, so… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been immortalised in puppet-form. The Backbencher pub - just across the road from the Beehive - has revealed the latest figure to join its vast array of political… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.One of the country's biggest marine manufacturers says its future in New Zealand could be in doubt if a waterfront site it uses is lost to accommodate an America's Cup Village in Auckland. Southern… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Where are all the backpackers? That's the question Hawke's Bay apple growers are puzzling over, as they scramble to find enough workers to harvest a bumper crop. Orchardists say they less have than… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Te Puea Marae opened its doors yesterday to local employers in an effort to find more jobs for the people it helps. And for the employers who went along, it was an eye-opener. Te Manu Korihi reporter… Read more Audio

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

8:10 AM.It's the location of New Zealand's worst ever air disaster and now it's the location for Air New Zealand's latest safety video. In 1979 an Air New Zealand DC10 crashed into Mt Erebus in 1979, killing… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.The government and Opposition are pointing the finger at each other over their support for a project linked to a businessman who's under the scrutiny of the Serious Fraud Office. RNZ revealed… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.SKY Television has halved its cheapest plans in a bid to lure back customer, but industry commentators say the move may not be enough. SKY announced yesterday it would be lowering the prices of its… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Faulty airbags yesterday spurred Australia's federal government to issue a compulsory recall for nearly three million cars - the largest in the country's history. But New Zealand's Transport Agency is… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy has been introduced to life in the Far North this week on her first official visit to Kaitaia. Over three days, she's been welcomed by school children, held a… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Earlier this week RNZ reported the story of a father and son who said they'd both been sexually abused while attending Catholic schools. The pair were angry Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had decided… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.More than 50 Riwaka residents affected by former Cyclone Gita crammed into a school hall on Wednesday night to attend a post-disaster meeting with the Tasman District Council. The area was devastated… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Airstrikes are reportedly continuing in areas of the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta in Syria despite fresh attempts to implement Russia's five-hour pause in the bombardment. The United Nations… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.There was standing room only at the New Plymouth council last night when the public got to have its say on a controversial plan to carve up the city's only public golf course. The council wants to… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A local treasure, and a comfy old slipper, are how some of the punters in one of the country's oldest pubs described a beloved Auckland music venue last night, during its last ever gig. Hundreds of… Read more Audio