Morning Report for Monday 12 March 2018

6:00 AM.The police face renewed criticism of their pursuit policy after three people die in a chase near Nelson, We look further into the case of a 14-year-old boy who was placed into the care of a Mongrel… Read more Audio

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

6:09 AM.Rain is starting to fall in the far north as cyclone Hola heads towards the north of the country. NIWA's principal forecasting scientist Chris Brandolino says rain is arriving over the far north of… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.Oranga Tamariki is refusing to criticise staff at its predecessor Child, Youth and Family, who placed a troubled 14-year-old boy into the home of a Mongrel Mob associate. The boy's family believed he… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.The White Ferns have swept the West Indies 3-0 in the one day international cricket series, after an impressive 205 run win at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. During the match, captain Suzie Bates… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.National's new housing spokesperson Judith Collins says she's delighted that she's been boosted up the party's rankings and given the housing spokesperson role. National's leader Simon Bridges… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Police pursuit policy is again being questioned after a chase near Nelson early yesterday morning left three people dead. Two occupants of a car that fled from police near Richmond were killed when… Read more Audio

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

7:21 AM.Oranga Tamariki has backed the decision of staff at its predecessor Child, Youth and Family, who placed a 14-year-old boy into the home of a Mongrel Mob associate and who later went on a crime spree… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.The new leader of the Opposition is hoping he'll rattle the government on housing by appointing Judith Collins as National's housing spokesperson. Simon Bridges revealed his caucus reshuffle at… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Students who successfully campaigned for a day of remembrance for the New Zealand Wars say Labour promised them a public holiday. The young campaign leaders, all former students at Otorohanga College… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, one of the greatest ballets in history, is taken in a whole new direction in one of the last big international shows at the New Zealand Festival this week. Michael… Read more Audio

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

8:10 AM.An investigation shrouded in secrecy into spending at the Counties Manukau District Health Board is almost finished. The highly contentious review is being done for the Health Ministry at the DHB's… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.The police are facing renewed criticism of their pursuit policy but say drivers who choose to flee have a choice to stop. A second review in ten years into the police's policy for giving chase to… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Housing is in the Opposition's sights with the appointment of Judith Collins to go up against Housing Minister Phil Twyford in the reshuffle unveiled by the National leader Simon Bridges. Mr Bridges… Read more Audio

8:34 AM.Coromandel and Gisborne will be worst affected by Cyclone Hola today, but the worst of the storm is likely to miss New Zealand. The Coromandel Peninsula and Gisborne are most at risk of slips and… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.The Social Security Appeal Authority says Work and Income was wrong to turn away a woman seeking help because she'd come to what it deemed to be the wrong office. She had gone to the Manurewa office… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Nearly half the country's jobs are at risk of being automated in the next two decades - and the government is being told to be more transparent about the changes to society that will cause. A new… Read more Audio