Morning Report for Tuesday 1 May 2018

6:00 AM.BP's petrol price tactics are under fire... from customers, competitors and the Prime Minister, Drug Smugglers increasingly inventive concealment methods are causing a headache for ESR, and What will… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.Australian golfer Minjee Lee was in awe of the shot New Zealand's former world No.1 Lydia Ko produced to beat her at the LPGA Tour event in San Francisco. Audio

6:10 AM.A district health board has been asked to review its radiology department after missing signs that a teenage cancer patient's brain tumour was coming back. The 16-year-old girl who died three years… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.A Nelson teenager who says the region's youth mental health service possibly saved her life, is petitioning the government to keep it running 24-7. The Nelson-Marlborough District Health Board is… Read more Audio

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

6:22 AM.The listed kiwifruit and avocado grower, Seeka, has whittled down its foreign ownership, to avoid scrutiny by the Overseas Investment Office.  Audio

6:41 AM.Locals on the Kāpiti Coast are fuming after revelations about BP's petrol pricing tactics. A leaked internal email shows the company was losing sales in Ōtaki, where prices were 20c/l higher than… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.A group of constitutional law experts has warned MPs that the Government's waka-jumping legislation is undemocratic and should not be passed. The bill, which is part of Labour and New Zealand First's… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Small satellites assembled by NASA will be shipped to New Zealand in the coming weeks to be launched from Mahia Peninsula. Rocket Lab won the $9 million dollar contract with NASA in 2015. Its chief… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.New Zealand and China's Belt and Road Initiative. A further deterioration in business confidence, and the latest from the money markets.  Audio

7:06 AM.Former New Zealand swimming coach Jan Cameron, a former Olympic and Commonwealth medallist for Australia, has died suddenly in Queensland, aged 70. Audio

7:10 AM.The cut price fuel chain Gull says it's not surprised to hear about petrol giant BP's pricing tactics. An emailed leaked to Stuff showed BP has manipulated prices across outlets to counter cheap pump… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.The trucking industry says BP's petrol price tactics highlight flaws in the plan for an Auckland regional fuel tax. The chief executive of the Road Transport Forum is Ken Shirley. Audio

7:19 AM.The increasingly inventive concealment methods used by drug smugglers are causing a headache for the government's research institute. The institute of Environmental Science and Research does about… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.On average New Zealand doesn't get hit by even one cyclone each season. But in the 2017-2018 season, which ran from the beginning of November to the end of April, there were three - Gita, Hola and… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The government has had to scale back promises of cheaper GP visits to keep within its spending limits. So what else might fall off the wishlist when the Budget is announced at the end of May? Prime… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.A Canterbury farmer has laid waste to a threatened native shrub, knocking out a third of the species in one fell swoop. Once abundant along the East Coast, muehlenbeckia astonii -- or shrubby tororaro… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.A Nelson teenager is leading the charge to keep what she says is a vital youth mental health service running 24 hours a day. The Nelson-Marlborough District Health Board is planning to axe the… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.Stormy Daniels has just filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump for defamation. Ms Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted that his client filed the suit for Mr Trump's "recent… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Rankings are not a motivating factor for the New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko after her drought-breaking victory, though her latest win will lift her five places to world number 13. Audio

8:10 AM.The Commerce Commission allowed hundreds of sheets of substandard steel mesh to be sold to people for months, knowing the mesh supplier had forged a test certificate. Possibly a hundred homes used the… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.The government is set to announce what's been called the 'Amazon Tax' today, with the Prime Minister confirming to Morning Report GST will be added to overseas purchases. Greg Harford is the general… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Sixty years after Britain conducted its largest nuclear test in Kiribati, veterans who were there are continuing to demand recognition and compensation. Unlike the United States and France, Britain… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.It was one particular shot that set Lydia Ko up for her first victory in an LPGA tour event in two years. Ko and Australian Minjee Lee were tied for the lead at the end of regular play at the Lake… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.The cleanup job is under way in Ngongotaha near Rotorua after the heaviest rainfall in more than 50 years flooded the town, damaging at least 20 homes. Rotorua's Civil Defence Controller is Bruce… Read more Audio

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

8:40 AM.A Far North farmer and naturalist says wild pigs are causing terrible damage to ancient kauri forest on Northland's steep west coast. Kevin Matthews says he took Te Papa researchers to the Warawara… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Auckland public transport users could be sitting next to a furry friend or two if a motion to allow pets on board is passed. From July Wellingtonians will be allowed to carry pets on trains and buses… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.New Zealand's former swimming coach, Jan Cameron, has died. She has been remembered as successful swimmer and coach, with a no-nonsense approach. Audio

8:55 AM.Family Court staff are stressed and struggling to deal with a growing workload, family lawyers are quitting and parents can't get decent legal advice. That's the finding of a new report, commissioned… Read more Audio