Morning Report for Monday 6 July 2020

6:06 AM.Valteri Bottas has won an incident-packed first race of the new Formula One season in Austria, as teammate Lewis Hamilton was demoted to fourth following a five-second time penalty. Read more Audio

6:08 AM.The great English institution - the pub - awoke from hibernation yesterday, after the UK government allowed places that offer hospitality, including pubs and restaurants to reopen.

More than 44,000… Read more Audio

6:24 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:28 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:39 AM.Anyone found responsible for deliberately leaking highly sensitive information about 18 people quarantined with Covid-19 could face criminal charges.

RNZ and two other media outlets have reported… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A couple stranded in New Zealand say a lack of clear decision-making about reopening Tonga's border has left them and thousands of others in limbo.

Kate Woodward, who is British, and her partner Will… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Defendants are facing long and stressful waits for jury trials due to a huge court backlog caused by Covid-19.

The Chief Justice was forced to suspend jury trials in March as the country braced… Read more Audio

6:52 AM.Forest and Bird says the government's pledge to clean up the country's waterways is putting the environment at the heart of its recovery to Covid-19.

The Labour Party says the $162 million package… Read more Audio

6:54 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:06 AM.Valtteri Bottas has won an incident-packed first race of the new Formula One season in Austria, as teammate Lewis Hamilton was demoted from to second to fourth following a five-second time penalty. Read more Audio

7:11 AM.The hunt is on to find the person responsible for a massive Covid-19 privacy breach, with the government promising to leave no stone unturned.

The investigation - into the leak of highly sensitive… Read more Audio

7:13 AM."Useless, biased and misleading."

That is how the parents of a Rotorua toddler left brain damaged after choking at a childcare centre, sum up WorkSafe's investigation and its handling of their… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Donald Trump has vowed to defeat the "radical left" and protect American history in his 4 July speech.

Striking a combative tone in two speeches commemorating Independence Day, Trump said he would… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says work is being done on measures that could affect New Zealand's border controls, such as technology and new kinds of testing, but they won't be opened until its safe.

7:39 AM.There are calls to expand a family support programme that has stopped nearly 150 children from going into state care.

Mana Whanau runs in Auckland and Porirua, where it provides intensive support for… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.A Kiwi epidemiologist is warning New Zealand must learn from Melbourne's handling of quarantine hotels before it is too late.

Professor Tony Blakely is concerned that the governments use of hotels… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Defendants and lawyers face months of stressful delays as courts grapple with a mounting jury trial backlog caused by Covid-19.

The Chief Justice was forced to suspend hearings in March as the… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Thirteen was an unlucky number for Rocket lab after it's thirteenth launch effort went massively awry.

It is still unclear why the rocket carrying seven satellites was lost four minutes after take… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Valterri Bottas survived reliability worries to win an incident-packed Austrian Grand Prix as Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton finished fourth after a penalty. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Business leaders are wanting to see more from Labour in the lead up to the election on top of its promise to extend interest free loans to small businesses.

Labour held its election year congress in… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.An advocate small business says that Labour's plan to extend a loan scheme misses the mark.

The plan, announced yesterday at the Labour congress, would extend the progamme which offers small and… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.A log-carrier ship headed for China is stranded at the entrance to Tauranga Harbour.

The Singaporean-registered Funing lost engine power around 12.30am, and is now anchored on the shallow, sandy… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Wellington's earthquake prone Central Library could be on its way to becoming a listed heritage building.

The building has been sitting empty since it was closed last year. Now worries that it might… Read more Video, Audio

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

8:37 AM.More than 135,000 Auckland children are overdue for a dental appointment after lockdown made existing delays even worse.

Dentists worry that is going to leave a lot of children with increasingly… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A woman who climbed a fence to escape an isolation facility will appear in court.

The 43-year-old has returned to quarantine at Auckland's Pullman Hotel after police arrested her on Saturday night.

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8:45 AM.A law professor is adamant a current law which prevents family carers from complaining to the courts about their pay and conditions is unconstitutional.

Parliament's health committee will today… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.The Environmental Defence Society is filing declaration proceedings to remove harmful chemicals from the Mataura paper mill.

Ouvea premix - a bi-product of aluminium recycling - is currently stored… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Less than 10 years after a kiwi kohanga project was established at Rotokare Scenic Reserve in Taranaki, it's been so successful it's begun relocating the national bird - en masse - outside of the… Read more Audio