Morning Report for Monday 22 July 2019

6:00 AM.Silver Ferns celebrate Netball World Cup win, New law returns child to whanau in Oranga Tamariki dispute, Talking trade more important than Trump's tweets - Peters, Silver Ferns end 16-year drought… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The Silver Ferns defender Casey Kopua says they've completed their mission. Audio

6:10 AM.The Silver Ferns are world champions in a thriller in Liverpool.

They beat defending champions, the Australian Diamonds 52-51.

Ranked fourth going into the tournament and after a horror year in 2018… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.The Commissioner appointed to lead the Waikato District Health Board out of financial and other difficulties says the organisation can be turned around.

Karen Poutasi and three deputies were… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.A teenage candidate at this year's council election says there's an art to knowing who to block online, and who to put up with.

Local government leaders say the rising wrath of social media keyboard… Read more Audio

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

6:40 AM.The Silver Ferns are netball world champions after clinching a thriller against Australia in Liverpool.

It came down to one goal - 52-51 - and finally the Silver Ferns were on the right side of the… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.The Silver Ferns have won their fifth Netball World Cup title after beating the Australian Diamonds 52-51 in the final in Liverpool. Sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe joins Corin Dann in the studio… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.More than 2,000 now-illegal firearms were handed in to police this weekend as the first gun buy-back events were held in main city centres.

Hundreds of people around the country, including in… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The Silver ferns legend Casey Kopua completed the perfect fairytale end to her career this morning, winning the Netball World Cup on her fourth attempt. Audio

7:09 AM.The Silver Ferns are world champions - beating Australia in the Netball World Cup 2019 final in Liverpool.

In a nail-biter they beat Australia by just one goal: 52-51.

Silver Fern captain Laura… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.A Wellington judge has applied a new law to return a child to their whānau after a long custody battle with Oranga Tamariki.

Section 7AA, part of the changes to the Oranga Tamariki Act that kicked in… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has returned from a visit to the United States where he spoke at an event promoting religious freedom.

Last week on Morning Report, the Prime Minister was asked… Read more Audio

7:37 AM."A long time between drinks" - that's how Silver Ferns captain Laura Langman has described the New Zealand team's win over Australia in the Netball World Cup in Liverpool.

It has been 16 years since… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The Silver Ferns are world champions - beating Australia in the Netball World Cup 2019 final in Liverpool.

Former Silver Ferns coach Yvonne Willering was at the game.

She joins us to discuss the… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The Silver Ferns are world champions - beating Australia in the Netball World Cup 2019 final in Liverpool.

RNZ reporters Emma Hatton in Wellington and Matthew Theunissen in Auckland are at the… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.The Silver Ferns have won netball's World Cup for the first time in 16 years.

The Minister for Sport Grant Robertson watched the final.

"We've had some quick chats with Netball NZ over in… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.At least five Northwood homes are unlikely to ever be lived in again after being severely damaged in a gas explosion in the Christchurch suburb on Friday.

On Sunday residents in those homes on Marble… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.NZ Police's Canterbury Metro Commander, Superintendent Lane Todd joins Susie Ferguson with the latest details on the gas explosion in Christchurch. Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The National Party has accused the government of dragging its wheels on electrifying its vehicle fleet.

So far 135 vehicles have been added to the fleet of vehicles owned by government agencies.

… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.It was fourth time lucky for three members of the Silver ferns as they hosted the Netball World Cup trophy in Liverpool this morning. Audio

8:10 AM.More than 2,000 now-illegal firearms were handed in to police this weekend as the first gun buy-back events were held in main city centres.

Hundreds of people including people in Auckland, Wellington… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Australian coach Lisa Alexander says Noeline Taurua should be lauded for guiding New Zealand to victory in the netball World Cup in Liverpool.

The Silver Ferns beat the Diamonds by just one goal -… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.A man with Down Syndrome has won his campaign to get early access to his KiwiSaver funds.

Tim Fairhall petitioned the government last year to let him take out his savings early - as his condition… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Police are awaiting DNA testing results as they make fresh inquiries in the unsolved 1984 Trades Hall bombing in Wellington that killed caretaker Ernie Abbott.

Mr Abbott was killed in the blast after… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Health authorities say unvaccinated children in Auckland should still go to school when it goes back - as the measles outbreak continues to spread.

About 50 schools and early childhood centres in… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.The commissioner who has the job of turning around the deficit-plagued Waikato District Health Board says it can be done but the changes won't be easy.

Karen Poutasi was appointed after the Health… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Local government leaders are worried angry social media keyboard warriors might be putting people off standing for council.

Some senior councillors, including a few bowing out this year, say online… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.More than 200 Ngāpuhi people turned up at Waitangi at the weekend for a meeting with Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little.

It was Mr Little's first testing of the waters with the hapū since the… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.A Fijian doctor is warning the island nation will become a population of blind, one-legged people if more isn't done to combat diabetes.

Almost 1,700 people die from the disease each year and 40… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.A growing number of Māori are ditching dairy and meat, and embracing veganism.

The topic was at the centre of a New Zealand Human-Animal Studies conference this month, where researchers highlighted… Read more Audio