Morning Report for Tuesday 12 November 2019

6:00 AM.Millions of residents in New South Wales brace for the worst as 'catastrophic' fire conditions threaten greater Sydney, We reveal bullying of nurses has been going on for years at Middlemore's… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.Brisbane Broncos rugby league star David Fifita has been released from a Bali police station without charge, following an incident outside a bar at the weekend. Read more Audio

6:17 AM.The State Services Commissioner Peter Hughes has told the High Court he and former Ministry of Social Development chief executive Brendan Boyle acted properly when they told their ministers Winston… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

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

6:43 AM.The Green Party says Māori and Pasifika communities would bear the brunt of a Government proposal to give police the power to keep those they deem high-risk away from firearms.

The Government has… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.National's police spokesperson Brett Hudson says the Government shouldn't wait for public feedback on Firearms Prohibition Orders.

He says a previously rejected Member's Bill from 2018 is ready and… Read more Audio

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

7:06 AM.Rally Australia has revealed a heavily revised schedule as a proposal to keep this week's World Rally Championship finale running. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Three regions in New South Wales are expecting unprecedented catastrophic fire conditions today - the most serious fire rating possible.

The state's police minister David Elliott says it could be the… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Bullying of highly trained nurses has been going on for years at one of the country's busiest neonatal intensive care units for premature babies.

Staff have called into question the safety of care in… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.The Government's proposal to give police the power to keep those they deem high-risk away from firearms is being met with both approval and alarm bells.

A discussion document about Firearm… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is defending her proposed Firearms Prohibition Orders, after they received a mixed reaction inside parliament.

The Government is seeking feedback on the new orders… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Over the past year, an average of more than six people a month have attempted suicide while in police custody.

That's an increase of nearly 285 percent on four years ago.

The police say the increase… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.One person has been shot and another set on fire in Hong Kong as a 24th week of protests against the city's Government takes a violent turn.

In the first incident a protestor was shot in the stomach… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.Warning: This report contains detail that may disturb some people.

Jurors will continue to hear this morning from a witness who says she was terrified during a date with the man accused of murdering… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.The Tūpuna Maunga Authority is rejecting claims Ōwairaka-Mt Albert in Auckland will be clear-felled.

Protesters are attempting to stop the felling of nearly 350 exotic trees on Ōwairaka will continue… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.New South Wales bush fires have forced organisers of this week's Rally of Australia to reduce the route to less than a third of the original distance. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Australian political leaders including the deputy prime minister are angry some people the issue of climate change.

Carol Sparks is the mayor of a northern New South Wales town, Glen Innes, where two… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.Wildfires in Australia have claimed multiple lives and destroyed hundreds of properties, but show no sign of abating.

Channel 9's Gabrielle Boyle is on the line from Taree.  Read more Audio

8:21 AM.The Police Association says it broadly supports the government's proposal for Firearms Prohibition Orders, designed to keep guns out of the hands of the country's most high risk people.

The… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.It's a trial that's involved a man called Mr Lyttle, an undercover police operation called Mr Big, and a confession which a jury must decide whether is genuine.

David Lyttle is on trial at the High… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.The family of a Taranaki teenager killed in a head-on smash with a driver of a ute - who took more than a year to admit responsibility for the crash - say they are satisfied that he is now remorseful.

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

8:41 AM.Māori leaders are alarmed that armed police squads set up to tackle serious crime will also deal with low-level offending.

They say it was overkill that armed officers in Hamilton stopped a car and… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Climate change campaigners are meeting at a conference in Wellington today to talk about setting up a Citizens Assembly in 2020. Aotearoa Climate Emergency say they want to break the political… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.The Government will reveal today whether it wants a massive overhaul of the school system or something a little less ambitious.

The Education Minister, Chris Hipkins, is releasing the final report of… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Cancer advocates say lives are being cut short needlessly because there's no universal testing for a type of lung cancer mutation.

About 8 percent of advanced lung cancer patients have the mutation… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Councillor Nicola Young and Mayor Andy Foster are hoping to revive the capital's flag.

The flag features a curious looking blue dolphin, and a galleon ship adorned with the English flag in black and… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Almost exactly 250 years ago to the day that an astronomer on Captain Cook's first voyage to Aotearoa observed Mercury passing the sun, the rare celestial event has taken place again.

Keen… Read more Audio