Morning Report for Tuesday 12 May 2020

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

6:23 AM.New Zealanders have relished the chance to re-claim their takeaway flat whites, but at what cost to the environment?

Alert Level 4 is estimated to have saved more than 20 million coffee cups going to… Read more Audio

6:36 AM.New Zealanders have a new date to count down to and the promise of more freedom on the horizon.

Come Thursday, the country will drop out of Alert Level 3 and into Level 2.

It triggers a major… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Not all the Alert Level 2 details are ironed out yet, but skifields are preparing for opening.

Bridget Legnavsky, general manager of the South Island's Cardrona and Treble Cone skifields, is… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Trade Me is reporting a spike in people between the ages of 18 to 29 browsing house listings, putting it down to low interest rates and the temporary scrapping of the loan to value ratio, in the wake… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:08 AM.The Government has confirmed the country will be easing into Alert Level 2 from Thursday meaning retailers and public spaces will largely be able to reopen as long as physical distancing measures are… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Social services fear some of their funding sources are about to dry up, just as more people need help amid the fallout from Covid-19.

Since the Alert Level 4 lockdown, foodbanks across the country… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Alert Level 2 is officially on the way, seven weeks after New Zealand entered Alert Level 4.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the reopening yesterday, with the move staggered to allow extra… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.For the first time in years, more people in their 20s are eyeing up the housing market.

TradeMe has reported a spike people between the ages of 18 to 29 browsing listings, putting it down to low… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Watering holes will have to wait another week before pulling pints - with Cabinet reasoning bars pose the biggest risks for spreading coronavirus - as Jacinda Ardern spelled out yesterday.

Under the… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.Yesterday's announcement was disappointing news for the live music scene.

Under the Level 2 rules there should be no more than 100 in the venue and bars can't reopen until a week after the rest of… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Under Level 2, domestic travel will once again be allowed, including for tourism.

That's very welcome news for Rotorua, where tourism is the city's largest employer.

Steve Chadwick is the mayor of… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Churches and other places of worship will be able to open their doors on Thursday.

A limit of 10 people for on gatherings outside of the home has quashed hopes for a return to the traditional Sunday… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Rules that allow us to burst bubbles, but only in groups of up to 10 people, will mean very little for mourners hoping to attend a funeral or tangi.

Under Alert Level 3, services were already subject… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.The owner of the media company Stuff appears to have been taken by surprise by an announcement from NZME that it plans to buy it for just one-dollar.

NZME said it asked the government and the… Read more Audio

8:08 AM.About a million children and teachers have the go-ahead to return to school after more than seven weeks away.

Now schools and early childhood education centres have to figure out how to fully re-open… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.A lack of new international blockbusters will affect how many cinemas open later this week.

Mark Christensen, spokesperson for the New Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association, says major film… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.While arts organisations welcome the news of Alert Level 2, the realities mean many are still hamstrung.

With 90 members of the Symphony Orchestra on stage, that would mean to not go over the… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Thousands of people will return to work and school over the coming weeks.

But with physical distancing requirements in place, the capacity of trains and buses will be drastically limited.

In… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Theatre companies will struggle to reopen during Alert Level 2.

Restrictions on audience numbers undermines the financial viability of shows.

Jonathan Bielski is chief executive of the Auckland… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:36 AM.A law change is desperately needed to stop non-Māori artists using Māori faces and traditional facial tattoos in their work. 

That's the view of a specialist in Indigenous cultural property, Aroha… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Donald Trump's plans to encourage Americans to return to work have been complicated by a Covid-19 outbreak in his own workplace.

The West Wing of the White House has been penetrated by coronavirus… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The prime minister advised couples hoping to tie the knot soon to wait a while.

Alert level 2 allows them to go ahead, but with a limit on gatherings of no more than 10 people.

Paula Bevege is a… Read more Audio