Morning Report for Friday 2 November 2018

6:00 AM.Immigration to blame for Czech criminal's residency - National; How did Czech criminal get NZ residency?; Porirua deaths were 'absolutely' preventable - Youth worker; Highest ever numbers get winter… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has a simple message for the 8 rookies named for Saturday's test against Japan. Audio

6:16 AM.All the attention, and the pressure, will be on the home town favourites for this weekend's Australian Supercars Supersprint event at Pukekohe. It's the second-to-last round in the championship and… Read more Audio

6:21 AM.An early look at the day's business news, and a catch up on overnight action on global markets  Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:43 AM.Should there be a mandatory quota for women on company boards? Earlier in the week an AUT study revealed only a quarter of board members on the country's 100 listed companies are women and while that… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A company has been awarded a licence for what will be the largest cannabis farm in the country so far, with thousands of plants for medical research. The Ministry of Health has given the go-ahead to… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.It's estimated that a quarter of young New Zealanders are having sex before they're 16 - the age of consent. More than 10,000 people aged 16 to 74 were surveyed in 2014 and 2015 about their sexual… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.Z Energy is expecting steady second half after apologising for what it calls disappointing underperformance in first half. BNZ confident nothing will cloud its outlook as it cracks $1 bn annual… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The All Blacks coach Steve Hansen insists he isn't feeling any extra nerves ahead of tomorrow's test against Japan in Tokyo. Audio

7:10 AM.National says the Immigration Minister should take the heat for making a botched decision, rather than throwing his officials under the bus. Iain Lees-Galloway has ordered an investigation into the… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Karel Sroubek arrived in New Zealand in 2003 using a false passport under the name Jan Antolik. Since then he's set up seven companies and managed to buy a house largely with cash. He was associated… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.A Porirua youth worker is questioning why key DHB mental health workers were unaware for months of a spate of sudden deaths. Joan Buchanan who runs the Spirit of Rangatahi programme says people's… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.More people have opted to get a flu jab this winter than ever before. Provisional figures for the last flu season indicate more than 1.3 million people were vaccinated this year. One hundred years ago… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The Chief Crown-Treaty negotiator is being accused of acting in bad faith in dealing with treaty settlements. Rick Barker is in charge of negotiating and concluding Treaty settlements on behalf of the… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Indonesian divers are now searching for the second black box from the Lion 737 which crashed into the Java Sea earlier this week killing all 189 on board. The first 'black box' flight data recorder… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Eastern Porirua is set to receive a $1.5 billion facelift as part of a new 25-year plan to revitalise the rundown suburb. A partnership with local iwi Ngāti Toa, it involves the redevelopment of… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.The Law Commission says it's time to end the simple solution of splitting property equally when a marriage breaks up. It suggests if one partner owned a home before the relationship began, only the… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.Karel Sroubek, the convicted drug-smuggler who's at the centre of a political furor over being allowed to stay in the country, has had many brushes with the law. Sroubek arrived in New Zealand in 2003… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Tales of a goat-man creeping around a cemetery, and children's swimming competitions in Lyttelton Port's dry dock are just some of the stories being collected for a project which will offer a guided… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Having initially refused to go, the chair of Cricket Australia David Peever has resigned in the wake of a scathing review of the board's governance and culture. Audio

8:11 AM.An immigration consultant who represented Karel Sroubek says he's puzzled by Minister Iain Lees-Galloway's decision not to deport him back to the Czech Republic. Sroubek was jailed two years ago, for… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.Former residents of the botched Bella Vista housing development are overjoyed they've reached the end of what has been a long and gruelling saga. The Tauranga City Council signed off on shoddy… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Despite the latest cold blast most of New Zealand is in for an early summer with temperatures expected to exceed 30 degrees this month. NIWA has released its three month outlook and it's expected to… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Renters have won their campaign against crippling letting fees. Parliament passed legislation yesterday that will ban the fees from next month. The Housing Minister Phil Twyford says this could put up… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.More now on the Law Commission's take on what should happen to a couple's assets when they split up. The commission has detailed eight proposals to change the Property Relationships Act that it will… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:35 AM.The former chief justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum who brought major change to the court has died, aged 87. Under his leadership, the first Māori High Court judge was appointed, judges' wigs were… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.There's been a record turnout of early voters as Americans count down to next week's mid-term elections. All the seats in the House and a third of the seats in the Senate are up for grabs on… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.After close to two decades confined in a mental health unit with long periods in seclusion, Ashley Peacock is finally adjusting to a much greater amount of freedom. Mr Peacock is autistic, with… 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