Morning Report for Wednesday 27 November 2019

6:00 AM.Millions in private money pours into state schools in rich parts of Auckland, Samoa's told there's no end in sight to a deadly measles epidemic, a Mongrel Mob leader says Simon Bridges' promised gang… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The New Zealand Cricket CEO David White says an investigation into finding the spectator who shouted racial insults at England cricketer Jofra Archer may not find the culprit. Read more Audio

6:09 AM.Samoans living in New Zealand are rallying together to offer support for people back home as the number of confirmed measles cases continues to climb.

As of Wednesday morning death toll stands at 32… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.The Health Minister has given a warning to the Hepatitis Foundation after an investigation found evidence of gross mismanagement and extravagant spending.

The government provides $1.5 million to the… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.A weather forecaster is warning that areas east of the Southern Alps are tinder dry, much earlier than usual.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is keeping a close eye on parts of the country where the… 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

6:40 AM.International students are helping many Auckland schools make millions of dollars, much more than similar schools in other parts of the country.

Macleans College in Auckland reported the single… Read more Audio

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

7:06 AM.Black Caps wicketkeeper BJ Watling and bowler Neil Wagner have risen to career high positions in the latest ICC world Test cricket rankings. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Auckland's high-decile state schools are topping up their government funding with millions of dollars more than similar schools in other parts of the country thanks to international students and, for… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.There is no end in sight to the deadly measles epidemic in Samoa and there's a warning it will take the country a long time to recover.

The death toll now stands at 32 - most of victims children… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Samoa is still in the clutches of a deadly measles outbreak, which has claimed the lives of 32 people so far.

Freelance journalist in Apia, Maina Misa Foma'i Papalii says some families wait until… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.A high-ranking member of the Mongrel Mob's Tauranga chapter wants to meet National leader Simon Bridges to tell him his plans for a gang crackdown won't work.

The law and order discussion document… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.The National Party is proposing introducing a "Strike Force Raptor" to harass gangs, based off a squad of the same name in New South Wales.

Greg Coombes is a lawyer in the NSW town of Grafton and has… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges has revealed a raft of suggestions from the National Party to crack down on crime, with a special focus on gangs.

The discussion document released yesterday… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.A team of 10 doctors, nurses, and support staff are in Samoa helping at a district hospital on Upolu.

There are also 30 New Zealand vaccination nurses helping with the mass immunisation.

Dr Scott… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.The former chief executive of the Hepatitis Foundation says the board chair who racked up more than $128,000 of travel expenses should resign.

As RNZ reported yesterday a two-year investigation into… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Two of the outstanding performances from the Black Caps first Test victory over England have resulted in significant improvements for BJ Watling and Neil Wagner in the latest ICC world Test cricket… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.It's not yet summer but parts of the central South Island are already at extreme risk of fire.

Climate data shows areas east of the Southern Alps are tinder dry, much earlier than usual.

Fire and… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Just how the over $11 million of donations that have been given to the Christchurch Foundation will be shared out among the victims of the mosque shootings has now been decided.

Donations ranged from… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The $155 million bill to decommission an oil field off the coast of Taranaki may end up being covered by taxpayers.

Tamarind Taranaki, which owns the Tui Field, went into voluntary receivership… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Russia is complaining that a recommendation to ban them from the Olympics is part of a wider campaign to 'undermine Russia'.

The country could be banned from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics - having also… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.The mistral, the sirocco, the Fremantle doctor, all names for winds that evoke the places where they blow.

But in one of the windiest cities in the world, Wellington, it's just the wind.

Historian… Read more Audio

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

8:38 AM.Academics and the vaping industry say the Government urgently needs to bring in e-cigarette regulations.

The Government says the process is taking longer than it would like but it has to get it… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.The Crown has set out its final argument against murder-accused Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha.

The 32-year-old denies killing 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush in February last year.

RNZ Otago-Southland… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.The chair of the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority says repeated efforts to meet with the protesters occupying Ōwairaka have been rebuffed.

Those objecting to plans to remove 345 exotic trees… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.A special character school in Christchurch that gives Māori students a second chance wants a bigger school - but also wants it to be the heart of a new community.

Te Pā o Rākaihautū, a pā wānanga in… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Two Kākāpō are being flown home to Whenua Hou Island on Wednesday morning, having survived the threat of a deadly fungal disease.

The birds have been at Auckland zoo after a rampant aspergillosis… Read more Audio