Morning Report for Thursday 29 November 2018

6:00 AM.Andrew Little discusses Huawei exclusion from NZ's 5g upgrade, National calls for Immigration Minister to resign, Two year legal battle, $300k for woman to keep kids in NZ, Auckland Council plans 100… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The Football Ferns have crushed hosts New Caledonia 8-nil to book their place in this weekend's final at the Oceania Nations Cup. Audio

6:09 AM.The National Party's calling for the Immigration Minister's resignation over what they say is yet another appalling display of incompetence. Iain Lees-Galloway has make a complete u-turn on his… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.The government has enraged mental health advocates by appointing top bureaucrats to advise on how to deal with the Mental Health inquiry. A 21-member leadership team has been set up to respond to the… Read more Audio

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

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

6:43 AM.The Minister responsible for the GCSB is insisting the decision to ban the tech giant Hauwei from Spark's 5G rollout is because of the technology not because the company is Chinese. The electronic spy… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A former Warriors coach says halfback Shaun Johnson will be better off at another NRL club. The rugby league club agreed yesterday to Johnson's request to be released from the final year of his… Read more Audio

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

7:06 AM.History has already been made for the New Zealand under-17 womens football team and they've got a chance to continue that in this morning's semi-final of the World Cup in Uruguay. Audio

7:10 AM.The Minister responsible for the GCSB is insisting the decision to exclude the tech giant Huawei from Spark's 5G rollout is because of the technology not because the company is Chinese. The electronic… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.National is describing the Immigration Minister as arrogant and inept and a danger to the country if he remains in the job. Karel Sroubek's convictions for violent crimes in the Czech Republic were… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.It took two years and more than $300,000 in legal fees for a woman to win the right to keep her kids in New Zealand. She was one of many women forced back to Australia to contest the international… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Auckland Council has put up a list of over 100 parks where people will be allowed to sleep in their vehicles without having to pay. But some locals whose properties border the free "campsites" aren't… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.The Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has done a u-turn on convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubek. He's now decided Sroubek will leave New Zealand when his prison sentence ends and won't be… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.A man adopted as an eight-year-old in Queensland, and whose passport says he is Australian, is being threatened with deportation to New Zealand because of minor convictions. Australian authorities say… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.A Northland doctor says he's heard from dozens of anxious parents willing to pay $138 for them to be vaccinated against a deadly strain of meningococcal disease. A free immunisation programme against… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.The government acknowledges the severity of damage from climate change on property and infrastructure is increasing but says it needs time to get the solution right. The Reserve Bank is warning about… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The New Zealand under-17 womens football team must continue their giant killing run if they're to make more history at the World Cup in Uruguay. Audio

8:10 AM.The Minister responsible for the GCSB is insisting the decision to ban the tech giant Huawei from Spark's 5G rollout is because of the technology not because the company is Chinese. The electronic spy… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.The use of a Māori karakia in a Korean pop song has ramped up calls for the government to step up and protect Māori intellectual property. Some say that cultural appropriation of Māoritanga is getting… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.A bill has passed that will help customers figure out if your bacon is from Carterton or Copenhagen. The consumer's right to know bill means some items in the chiller and on supermarket shelves will… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.A Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 people on board, was not airworthy and should have been grounded. Those findings come from Indonesian investigators who have… Read more Audio

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

8:45 AM.Ahead of celebrations to mark Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand, a Gisborne iwi is demanding an apology for the atrocities he brought upon their people. The English explorer landed on the shores… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.The Netherlands' state-run rail company has agreed to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors and their relatives for transporting Jews to a Nazi transit camp. More than 100,000 Jews were taken to the… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Plans for a cycleway and a seawall in Kaikōura have been scrapped to preserve the Mangamaunu Bay surfbreak - dubbed the Malibu of New Zealand. The Surfbreak Protection Society took legal action which… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.While fires and flooding ravage Australia, across the ditch New Zealand's summer is looking comparatively average.

The meteorological institute has issued its December to February seasonal climate… Read more Audio