Morning Report for Friday 21 September 2018

6:00 AM.Sacked Minister Meka Whaitiri gets support from those in her home patch, Two shark attacks in 24 hours on Queensland's Whitsunday Islands, the second victim is reported to be a 12 year old New Zealand… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The World Anti-Doping Agency has ended the exile of Russia's officials. Audio

6:10 AM.Sue Grey, the lawyer who acts for 1080-opponents, is defending her advice to use social media to promote their cause. The Department of Conservation says the spam campaign mounted by anti-1080… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.Landlords are likely to be hit with some kind of capital gains tax in future - but don't expect house prices to drop by much. The interim report from the Government's Tax Working Group - released… Read more Audio

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

6:40 AM.Meka Whaitiri will be expected back at Parliament next week, despite the Prime Minister stripping her of her Ministerial warrant on Thursday. Jacinda Ardern says she's lost confidence in the… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.Private landlords are calling for some form of compensation after forking out big money on meth tests at their properties. Hundreds of state housing tenants will be compensated for being wrongly… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

7:06 AM.The World Anti-Doping Agency has lifted a three-year ban on its Russian agency. Audio

7:11 AM.The sacked Minister Meka Whaitiri is getting solid support in her home patch after being stripped of her ministerial portfolios by the Prime Minister. The Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP continues to dispute a… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.Meka Whaitiri has lost her Cabinet ministerial portfolios after losing the confidence of the Prime Minister. RNZ political reporter Gia Garrick is in the studio with her analysis. Audio

7:35 AM.The government's Tax Working Group is considering not one, but two possible taxes on capital. Minister of Finance Grant Robertson tells Guyon Espiner the recommendations will have a modest effect on… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A frail elderly woman who became a refugee after years of attacks by her husband in China faced being deported because she needed full-time care. A bureacratic bungle was eventually sorted by the… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.A new study has found teenagers are less fit and weigh more than their parents did at their age. The findings were part of the University of Otago's Dunedin Study, which has studied population health… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.A new study has confirmed what many older people suspect - today's teenagers are less fit and weigh more than their parents did at their age. So why has adolescent fitness gone backwards? Susie… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to lift the suspension of Russia has provoked an angry reaction from campaigners for clean sport. Audio

8:11 AM.A 12 year old girl from New Zealand is in a critical condition after being attacked by a shark at Cid Harbour in the Whitsundays. The young girl suffered a life-threatening wound down to the bone in… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.The government has edged closer to a capital gains tax with the release of the interim report of the Tax Working Group on Thursday. Joining Guyon Espiner to discuss the report are Bernard Hickey, a… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Private landlords who followed the now-discredited meth testing regime say they'll consider a class law suit if they don't get government compensation. Hundreds of state housing tenants are to be… Read more Audio

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

8:37 AM.Auckland Council is rejecting claims a new online voting system will be dangerous for New Zealanders. An Australian IT expert told Morning Report yesterday New Zealand could face widespread electoral… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Some Auckland dairy owners would back a ban on being allowed to sell tobacco, saying it could reduce the risk of being robbed. Early findings from a Regional Public Health survey show others would not… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The suspension of Russia's anti-doping agency has been lifted by the World Anti-Doping Agency's executive committee ended a three-year-suspension which followed a major doping scandal. The agency was… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Auckland and the northern region's hospitals have had to temporarily quake-proof their data centres after a warning they weren't up to scratch. Meanwhile, Christchurch Hospital has not properly… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.The Prime Minister has cleared the decks before her trip to the United Nations next week. Jacinda Ardern leaves tomorrow for New York for the annual UN leader's week. Yesterday she removed Meka… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio