Morning Report for Monday 26 March 2018

6:00 AM.Unfair dinkum: Australian cricket's blackest day, Australian ball tampering a low point in ugly test series, NZTA warned before Far North SH1 washout, Catholic, Anglican churches push to be in abuse… Read more Audio

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

6:10 AM.Drivers will be able to travel on a forest track under police escort to bypass the washout that has closed State Highway 1 north of Kaitaia. Motorists had been warned off using the forest route over… Read more Audio

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

6:38 AM.Cricket fans in New Zealand say they're less than impressed - but not exactly surprised - with the shame-faced antics of the Australian team. Australia's captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Drivers will be able to travel on a forest track under police escort on Monday morning to bypass the washout that has closed State Highway 1 north of Kaitaia. Motorists had been told not to use the… Read more Audio

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

7:10 AM.Australia's pride and joy - its world beating cricket team - are now an international embarrassment after being caught cheating in the third test against South Africa in Capetown. Young bowler Cameron… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Australia's champion cricket team have been caught cheating against South Africa in Capetown. Young bowler Cameron Bancroft was captured by television cameras in a clumsy ball tampering incident which… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Drivers will be able to travel on a forest track under police escort on Monday morning to bypass the washout that has closed State Highway 1 north of Kaitaia. Motorists had been warned off using the… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The Catholic and Anglican churches are making their most concentrated push yet to get the Royal Commission into abuse expanded to fully include them. The government's made clear it wants to exclude… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.The government's plan to build up to 4000 houses on roughly 30 hectares of former Unitec campus land in the central Auckland suburb of Mt Albert is raising some eyebrows. The Opposition says that… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.National Party leader Simon Bridges says Shane Jones has crossed a line by threatening the leaders of Air New Zealand over the axing of regional services but now one of his own MPs, Nathan Guy, has… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A Whangarei school with some of the neediest children in the north has formed a charitable Trust to help them before they start. Hora Hora school is opening a centre today for pre-schoolers who've… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Residents in West Otago are worried they may soon be without an after hours emergency service, leaving the community vulnerable. Staff at West Otago Health, a medical centre in Tapanui, have been told… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Catalan's former president Carles Puigdemont has been arrested in Germany and may face extradition. Mr Puigdemont has been living in self-imposed exile in Belgium after fleeing Spain in October when… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.A former Silver Ferns assistant coach says the New Zealand netballers are failing to keep an eye on how much better other teams are getting. The Silver Ferns at the weekend had to hand over the Taini… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.A memorial service has been held for four victims of a terrorist attack at a supermarket in Southern France. On Friday morning in Carcassonne 25-year-old Morroccan-born man Radouane Lakdim killed four… Read more Audio

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

8:10 AM.Cricket Australia is expected to take a tough stand against captain Steve Smith after he admitted ordering bowler Cameron Bancroft to tamper with the ball in their test match against South Africa in… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Changes to the way interest rates are set will be revealed this morning. Finance Minister Grant Robertson and incoming Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr will sign the customary policy targets agreement… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Housing Minister Phil Twyford plans to build up to 4000 houses, but the National Party says the numbers don't add up. Yesterday Mr Twyford unveiled the plan to build the homes on roughly 30 hectares… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.A survey has found almost all criminal lawyers have suffered bullying or harassment on the job and for the most part judges are the worst offenders. The survey by the Criminal Bar association found 90… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:36 AM.Pukenui locals are rearranging their lives in the wake of a washout on the only road in the area. State Highway 1 between Kaitaia and Cape Reinga was completely washed away on the weekend leaving… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Agencies providing 'first aid' courses for suicide prevention are experiencing huge demand, with one provider having about 400 people on a waiting list for its services. The courses give participants… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Grandparents from around the country will be marching in protest at the annual oil and gas conference in Wellington, which starts today. Five hundred people are in the capital to attend the three-day… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Māori leaders have thrown their weight behind the goal of making New Zealand carbon neutral by 2050 at the latest, saying climate change is the most serious threat facing New Zealand. More than 120… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.A Turangi motel owner is refusing to back down over demands he change a sign that gives directions to the river and city centre. Tongariro River motel owner Ross Baker's sign says 'Welcome to Turangi'… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.A sculpture of the Sunderland flying boats that once thundered in and out of a New Zealand air base in Fiji has been unveiled to mark 50 years since the Laucala Bay base closed. Seventy former Air… Read more Audio