Morning Report for Wednesday 5 June 2019

6:14 AM.With less than four months until the Auckland mayoral elections, there are slim pickings for right leaning voters. National is not backing anyone, nor is it planning to.

The two leading contenders… Read more Audio

6:38 AM.National is confident the investigation into Gabriel Makhlouf's Budget hacking claim will prove that Treasury sat on a lie.

The State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes says the investigation will… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.Invercargill police searching for a boatie missing on a Southland lake, think he and the woman he was with may have got into trouble nearly a week before they were reported missing last Friday.

On… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.National is confident the investigation into Gabriel Makhlouf's Budget hacking claim will prove that Treasury sat on a lie.

The State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes says the investigation will… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.At least four people have been shot dead by a gunman in Darwin, northern Australia.

Eyewitnesses said the gunman entered the Palms Motel in an inner suburb of the city with a pump-action shotgun and… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.The inflatable balloon depicting Donald Trump as a baby has been flown over Parliament Square in London again as part of demonstrations against the visiting US President.

On a rainy day, the protest… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The government is considering options for taxing online corporations such as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Uber and Airbnb.

A Digital Services Tax of two to three percent on turnover is one of the… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.National Party leader Simon Bridges says the Treasury Secretary may be the fall-guy for ministers' false allegations of criminal hacking of Budget documents.

The State Services Commission is looking… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The Transport Agency has estimated 95 percent of the country's open roads should have their speed limit dropped from 100km/h to 60-80km/h.

NZTA has released its online risk assessment tool called… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.What can you do with fourteen square kilometres of burnt pine trees?

That was the question confronting Tasman forestry operators after the Pigeon Valley fire.

Two companies tackled one of the… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.A group of Napier residents have filed High Court proceedings against the city council to try and stop a new $41 million pool complex being built.

They say the council has failed to properly consult… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The State Services Commission is under pressure to finish investigating Gabriel Makhlouf's 'Budget hack' claim before he heads to Ireland to start a new job.

Two days after saying the Treasury's… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.The Transport Agency has estimated 95 percent of the country's open roads should have their speed limit dropped from 100km/h to 60-80km/h.

The Agency's online risk assessment tool called Mega Maps… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.After spending Monday with the British royal family, US President Donald Trump turned to business on the second day of a state visit to the UK.

Speaking after meeting with British Prime Minister… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.A tax expert is warning the government not to rush into taxing large online companies like Facebook, YouTube, Uber and Airbnb.

The government is considering a Digital Services Tax of two to three… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.National is not backing a candidate for this year's Auckland mayoral race leaving some right leaning voters with a difficult choice.

With less than four months until voting opens, the two leading… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.The daughter of the New Zealand woman injured when a cruise ship crashed into a tourist boat in Italy says she justs wants her parents home.

Hamilton couple Colin and Joy Milmine were on board the… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The Kōhanga Reo National Trust says a $32 million cash injection from the government will help keep open centres that have been struggling for years.

While there were once as many as 800 Kōhanga Reo… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.An Auckland woman has found out that her late grandfather was part of a secret revolutionary group that helped overthrow China's last imperial dynasty.

She says the secret would have been kept… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Plastic bottles, cigarette butts and polystyrene are still being scooped out of the Hauraki Gulf in vast numbers - despite a charity working tirelessly for 17 years to clean up the pollution.

Sea… Read more Audio