Morning Report for Tuesday 7 July 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

6:38 AM.The National Party says growing demand for public housing shows that the government has failed to deliver on its promises.

There are now almost 18,000 eligible households waiting for a state or… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.A lawyer who worked for Worksafe is scathing about the agency's investigations into deaths and injury saying he now urges victims not to rely on them.

Kevin Patterson says says the regulator's board… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.A Kiwi motor racing champion is struggling to understand why his wife is repeatedly being denied permission to enter the country.

Rod Millen and his American wife, Shelly Campbell, run a succesful… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The unending debate over whether the Mona Lisa is a universal masterpiece, or just sort of okay, can resume in earnest today, as the Louvre museum in Paris reopens for the first time in fourth months.

7:37 AM.A successful programme to get young people jobs will be rolled out across 23 of New Zealand's regions.

Last month, a pilot in four areas teamed local businesses with rangatahi left unemployed by… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.While regional councils celebrate millions of dollars in funding for local freshwater restoration projects, scientists are not holding their breath.

The government says the 23 projects across the… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.New Zealand's biggest news site Stuff is suspending all of its activity on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram until further notice.

Its part of a global boycott of Facebook which argues the social… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.New Zealand is to take part in an international survey looking at the psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic and how different government responses to Covid-19 have affected citizens.

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7:58 AM.International tourists might now be a rare sight, but visitors are still flowing through the doors of Gisborne's Tairāwhiti Museum.

The institution has seen an increase of 160 percent in non-local… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The border between Victoria and New South Wales will close at midnight tonight.

It comes as Victoria recorded its highest ever number of Covid cases in one day - 127.

ABC journalist Casey Briggs… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.The Minister of Immigration is under increasing pressure to decide what to do about thousands of temporary work visas which will expire over the next few months.

At least 3000 low paid temporary… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.The RSA have resorted to holding services outside the National War Memorial due to the concerns the Carillon tower will collapse during an earthquake.

As RNZ has been reporting, engineering reports… Read more Audio

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

8:38 AM.Head scans in Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI machines should become more comfortable thanks to work being done by Wellington researchers.

MRI technology requires patients to lie still for an… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Auckland water blasting businesses are up in arms over the region's water restrictions, saying the restrictions have killed business.

Under the current restrictions, commercial users cannot use an… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Air New Zealand has put a hold on the number of people returning home, while it and the Government work to increase the capacity at managed isolation facilities.

The Minister in charge of managed… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.Labour is promising new rules for the conversion of farmland into forestry if elected in September. The move is a response to concerns about forestry planting on productive farmland.

Some argue… Read more Audio