Morning Report for Wednesday 12 June 2019

6:00 AM.The government is urged to massively increase the number of speed cameras on our roads, The Greens question the big spend on defence, Many marae are lacking basic fire protection according to the Fire… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The Football Ferns have been beaten by the Netherlands 1-0 in their Fifa World Cup opener in France, conceding the goal in stoppage time. Audio

6:12 AM.Climate change campaigners are challenging Auckland Council to walk the talk on the climate emergency declaration it made on Tuesday.

While the declaration carries no legal weight, climate groups… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Health authorities suspect measles may now be widespread in Northland and they're hearing only about the more serious cases.

Nine cases have been confirmed in the region, three of them since last… Read more Audio

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

6:40 AM.The trucking industry says it's not convinced a recommendation by government advisors to massively increase speed camera numbers and hike fines will achieve much for safety.

The Speed Reference Group… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The Fire Service says more than half the marae they've visited lack even the most basic fire protections.

The service is continuing its investigation into the fire that destroyed Wellington's Tapu Te… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The one thing that they knew they had to achieve at this World Cup has come back to haunt the Football Ferns as they lost 1-nil to the Netherlands in their opening game in France. Audio

7:10 AM.Hundreds of speed cameras attracting much larger fines could be added to the roading network under the next road safety strategy.

The Speed Reference Group is one of five advising the government on… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.A Wanaka midwives support group says the Southern District Health Board is wrong to say a woman who gave birth on an office floor could instead have used a room in a medical centre based in the same… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Activists are hoping the Auckland Council will make real significant change after it voted yesterday to declare a climate change emergency.

All councillors supported the declaration. But several said… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.National leader Simon Bridges says the political poll that showed his party had gained support was the most similar to National's own polling.

Two polls released in the weekend had two different… Read more Video, Audio

7:43 AM.The Air Force's ageing Hercules aircraft are set to be replaced with five brand new Super Hercules planes at a cost of more than $1 billion.

The upgrade of the 50-year-old jets was the highest… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Fire and Emergency says more than half of the marae they've visited don't have smoke alarms and very few have sprinklers, putting the marae and taonga inside it - in some cases worth millions - at… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The world's second largest retailer Costco is promising to provide stiff competition to established stores when it sets up in New Zealand.

Costco will be offering customers everything from groceries… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The Football Ferns coach Tom Sermanni hopes his side won't dwell on the disappointment of their last minute loss to the Netherlands in their opening game at the World Cup. Audio

8:10 AM.The government is defending its spending of more than $20 billion to upgrade the country's defence hardware, in what it calling a "humanitarian plan."

Included in the spending is more than $1 billion… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.National Party MP Judith Collins is ahead of leader Simon Bridges in the preferred Prime Minister stakes in the most recent political polls.

And when asked on Morning Report if she thought Mr Bridges… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.A District Health Board member who objected to an attempt last month to remove a baby from a teenage mother at Hawke's Bay Hospital says she will resist any effort to muzzle her.

Jacoby Poulain says… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Farmers from all over the country are flocking to Mystery Creek near Hamilton for National Agricultural Fieldays this week.

This year is the 51st Fieldays and about 130,000 people are expected to… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A seventh kākāpō being treated for the respiratory disease aspergillosis has died.

Nora 1A was just over 100 days old and was the sickest of the kākāpō being treated at the for Conservation Medicine… Read more Video, Audio

8:42 AM.Calls by a government advisory group to dramatically increase the number of speed cameras and hike the cost of speeding tickets.

The Speed Reference Group led by the Ministry of Transport says New… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.A 'cunning calculating and murderous dictator'.

That's how a new book is describing the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

The book, The Great Successor by New Zealander and Washington Post Beijing… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.The Football Ferns have lost to the Netherlands 1-0 in their first FIFA women's World Cup match in France overnight, after conceding a goal in the final moments of the game.

The Netherlands goal in… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.Bloodthirsty Wellingtonians will finally get their chance to find out what goes on in the shadows.

Second Unit is a new interactive theatre experience inspired by the award-winning vampire… Read more Audio