Morning Report for Thursday 9 August 2018

6:00 AM.Shell contaminates Taranaki streams with toxic foam, Student in hospital after third bus crash in weeks, Samoa police charge nurse over baby vaccine deaths, 'Relief' as ANZ bank scraps sales targets.

6:06 AM.The defending champion Southern Steel have cemented their spot in the domestic netball grand final with a 53-49 win over the Mainland Tactix in Invercargill. Audio

6:09 AM.The government's been warned it's at risk of putting off developers if it takes too long to make decisions about who it will use for the KiwiBuild scheme. Some developers, who met the June deadline… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.The holiday home company Bachcare is considering legal action over Auckland Council's new targeted rate for online accomodation providers. The council says the rate will bring those using platforms… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.An early look at the day's business news, and an update on global financial markets. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:40 AM.Taranaki locals are expressing shock at the discovery of groundwater and eels contaminated with firefighting foam chemicals. The oil company Shell has admitted using a firefighting foam banned 12… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.A plan to cut the number of international students allowed to work here will hit profits in the tertiary education sector but not as much as first feared. Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.SkyCity Entertainment looks to hotels and online gambling for future growth. ASB says solid economy still driving profit growth. ANZ Bank scraps staff sales incentives. Latest from money markets. Audio

7:06 AM.New Zealand's Josh Junior is considering protesting and trying to have today's race thrown out after a storm hit the Sailing World Championships in Denmark. Audio

7:09 AM.The oil company Shell has contaminated groundwater in New Plymouth using a firefighting foam banned in New Zealand 12 years ago. It only stopped using the foam containing damaging PFOS in March when… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.An Inglewood High School student is still in Taranaki Base Hospital this morning closed after a school bus crash yesterday afternoon. The 69-year-old driver of the bus died and 10 of the 13 students… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.The police in Samoa have charged a nurse over the death of two babies last month. The babies died minutes after they received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, which prompted the Samoa… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.An ANZ worker says there was enormous relief yesterday when the bank announced an end to front-line sales targets. The union for many banking workers says the move could mark the beginning of the end… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The government is moving against the exploitation of the student visa regime. It is bringing in stricter rules for work visas, especially for lower-level qualifications or foreign students who are… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.It's been revealed China's aid dominance in the Pacific is overstated. The Australian think tank the Lowy Institute has crunched seven years of data covering 13,000 projects in 14 Pacific countries… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.A senior Massey University academic, Chris Gallavin, has called out his Vice Chancellor for banning Don Brash from speaking on campus, says her decision was "unequivocally wrong". On Tuesday former… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Young teachers who are considering leaving Auckland for jobs somewhere cheaper say a housing allowance would help them stay. Their union, the PPTA, has tabled a claim with the Ministry of Education… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Dunedin taxi company Southern Taxis has been ordered to pay four former drivers almost $100,000 in arrears over minimum wages and holiday pay underpayments. The Employment Relations Authority… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Ben Stokes has described feeling "vulnerable and frightened" and "under threat of immediate attack" moments before he became involved in a brawl outside a Britsol nightclub in September last year. He… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.New Zealand's Josh Junior is considering protesting and trying to have today's race thrown out after a storm hit the Sailing World Championships in Denmark. Audio

8:15 AM.The fallout is continuing from Donald Trump's tweet that anyone doing business with Iran would NOT be doing business with the United States. The US has already re-imposed sanctions against Iran and… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The government has been warned it's at risk of putting off developers if it takes too long to make decisions about who it will use for the KiwiBuild scheme. One developer has told RNZ they are at risk… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Earlier we spoke to Karl Pearce and Professor Chris Gallavin on free speech after the controversial choice by Massey University's vice chancellor to cancel an event where Don Brash was due to speak… Read more Audio

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

8:35 AM.A new report reveals China is not spending as much aid money in the Pacific as some thought. Data from Australian think tank the Lowy Institute shows New Zealand and Australia have pumped the vast… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.It's been reported a senior member of Zimbabwe's opposition party has been arrested at the border with Zambia. Tendai Biti's lawyer says he's been arrested but Zimbabwe's state broadcaster says that's… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.The tourism industry is being urged to find ways of encouraging tourists to visit off-season and to venture towards much-less visited regions with new and unique tourism attractions. The country's… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The government has set an ambitious goal to have one million New Zealanders able to speak basic reo Māori by 2040. A draft of Te Maihi Karauna, or the Crown Maori Language Strategy, was released late… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.The people of South Sudan have been celebrating the signing of a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a brutal five-year civil war. The South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir, and the head of the… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.West Coast companies are finding success online as they look to overcome the barriers of living in such an isolated place. A series of digital technology workshops helping businesses lift their online… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.The non-fiction book, Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, took out the top honour at the Children and Young Adult book awards ceremony at Te Papa on Wednesday night. The book is the work of Christchurch… Read more Audio