Morning Report for Friday 27 September 2019

8:16 AM.New Zealand's biggest company is changing its mindset. Fonterra has written off $826 million from its assets as it looks to clear the decks and scale back. Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell told… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.New Zealand's biggest company is changing its mindset. Fonterra has written off 826 million dollars from its assets as it looks to clear the decks and scale back. Fonterra chief executive Miles… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.National is accusing Speaker Trevor Mallard of a soft attack on democracy, following his ruling that all political attack ads that use edited parliamentary footage, and withouth MPs permission, must… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.A highly unusual campaign is ramping up for a Whakatane District Council candidate who's pleading with people not to vote for her. Kay Boreham, dubbed the accidental candidate, had meant to stand for… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.A worrying decline in the number of children and teenagers taking part in physical activity has prompted Sport New Zealand to move to a greater focus on the importance of play when young. But boss… Read more Audio

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

6:45 AM.Dairy farmers are cautiously optimistic the Fonterra board can turn the tanker around after the company's record net loss of 605-million dollars. They are backing the company's plan to return to… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Thousands of people are taking part in what could be the nation's biggest intergenerational climate change march today. The youth of Aoteoroa are calling on adults - not just young people - to join… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.A more than 600 million dollar loss, massive write-downs in the value of underperforming assets, jobs are going and there is no dividend payout this year. Now Fonterra has announced it's moving in a… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.The whistleblower's complaint at the centre of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump has been declassified and released. In the seven-page complaint, the whistleblower says Mr Trump… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.Today thousands of people are expected to take part in what could be the nation's biggest intergenerational climate change march. The School Strike 4 Climate organisers are calling on everyone - not… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.The University of Canterbury's Vice Chancellor is promising the care provided to students living at the Sonoda village accomodation in Christchurch will be fully investigated. It comes after a student… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.National says the Speaker's ban on political attack ads using edited parliamentary footage is an attack on democracy and a chilling attempt at censorship. Trevor Mallard has ordered these social media… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.The police are accusing social media companies and internet providers in New Zealand of hampering their work to save children living overseas from sexual exploitation online. They say the companies'… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.The Green Party says lowering the voting age to 16 is now a priority, and the global climate strike movement by school kids has helped spark the move. The Party has added voting at 16 to their… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Former Maori politicians expect "full and final" Treaty settlements will be revisited in the future. Speaking to Morgan Godfery for Matangireia, an RNZ documentary series on Maori politics, the former… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.A Kapiti Coast district councillor is angry that Fonterra is closing its Paraparaumu speciality cheese site. The co-operative plans to consolidate all of its speciality cheese operations at its Eltham… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A year after Greyhound Racing officials admitted dogs have to be put down almost every day because they're injured, sick or unwanted, animal activists say little has changed. And they're angry the… Read more Audio

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

8:39 AM.An empty paddock next to a big box shopping development is the last place you'd expect to see a rare New Zealand dotterel nest ... or is it? In Auckland's Westgate, more and more pairs of the usually… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Pressure is mounting on the Wellington Regional Council to decline new applications to extract and bottle water for international export but it insists its hands are tied unless there's proof the… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.The mayoral race in Whangarei has just three contestants - and one says she's mainly in it for the publicity. Rural Roads campaigner Alex Wright, and lawyer Tony Savage are challenging Whangarei's… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.New mountainbike and hiking trails, to putting a basketball hoop in every suburban cul-de-sac. These ideas to engage more people in sport and recreation flowed thick and fast from Nelson and Tasman… 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