Morning Report for Monday 10 August 2020

8:52 AM.A Japanese diplomat in New Zealand says his country harbours no hatred at all towards the United States over atomic bombs dropped 75 years ago.

The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaskai on 6 August… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Researchers say a potential silver lining to Covid-19 is that appears to be helping some New Zealanders become better with money.

Many people have shown an improvement in their knowledge and… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Hundreds of thousands of dead animals risk being left uncollected on farms because of a collapse in the price of leather.

Farmers are being told they will have to pay to have the corpses collected -… Read more Audio

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

8:28 AM.Polytechnics and universities are warning an expected leap in domestic enrolments will not make up for the loss of foreign students due to the pandemic.

They are already talking about financial… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Another person has attempted to break into an isolation hotel, this time in Auckland.

The man tried to break in on Friday. It's the second attempt in a seven days, after an attempted break in to a… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.As New Zealand reached a significant milestone, 100 days without community transmission of Covid-19, across the Tasman Victoria recorded its deadliest day since the pandemic began.

On Sunday health… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The Green Party's policy to ramp up construction of social housing is being hailed by one community leader as a game changer but the National Party has dismissed it as just "wishful thinking" that it… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Election campaigning has begun in earnest now that Parliament has risen for the year.

Billboards have been put up, taken down, and put up again, politicans are debating in town halls and broadcast… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Fire engines were called this morning to an isolation hotel on the Terrace in Wellington.

Reporter Charlotte Cook is outside the Grand Mercure hotel. Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko is holding onto a four shot lead midway through the final round of the Marathon Classic in Ohio. Ko, who is 2 under par thru the first 9 holes today, is chasing her… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The Crusaders have won the inaugural Super Rugby Aotearoa with a come from behind victory against the Highlanders in Christchurch on Sunday.

They scored three unanswered tries in the last 20 minutes.

7:52 AM.Covid-19 has touched every continent on earth - apart from Antarctica.

Keeping the virus out is top of mind for Antarctica New Zealand, which has already reduced the size of the contingent it's… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Some New Zealand cancer patients are going without potentially life-saving treatment because of rising Covid-19 cases in Melbourne.

The patients have neuro-endocrine cancers, known as NETs, treatment… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.The Transport Agency faced with broken highways, has staked a billion dollars on a roadbuilding method that is unproven and is difficult to get right.

The technique is being rolled out in Waikato at… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.The Red Cross is giving out 40,000 dollars worth of food vouchers a day to foreigners stranded in New Zealand by Covid-19 and is warning the crisis is worsening daily.

Among those receiving help are… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Another person has attempted to break into an isolation hotel, this time in Auckland.

The man tried to break in on Friday. It's the second attempt in a seven days, after an attempted break in to a… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.The Provincial Growth Fund is bankrolling a horse-racing track in Christchurch to the tune of $10.5 million despite officials saying the project is ineligible because it is in a city not a province.

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7:17 AM.Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern isn't planning on doing a deal with the Green Party in the Auckland Central electorate.

High-profile Green MP Chloe Swarbrick is running to win in the seat and the… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.Green Party MP and Auckland Central candidate Chloe Swarbrick says she does not want a deal in the electorate and has not sought one out.

Swarbrick told Morning Report if she's going to win the seat… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.There will be no deal on the left in Auckland Central.

The Labour Party says it won't make way for the Green Party in the seat, which has been thrown wide open since National's Nikki Kaye announced… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The Crusaders captain Codie Taylor says they were keen to win the Super Rugby Aotearoa title in front of their fans. Read more Audio

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

6:52 AM.Brazil is now the second country in the world to have recorded more than 100,000 deaths from Covid-19. The United States has reported more than 162,000 deaths.

President Jair Bolsonaro, who has… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.The Transport Agency is defending a design it's rolling out on a billion dollars worth of roads, after its own reviewers found fault with the method.

The review says the design, called Hi-lab, is… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.World leaders have pledged "major" resources to help Lebanon's recovery at a virtual summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, following the devastating explosion in Beirut that left 300,000… Read more Audio

6:38 AM.Jacinda Ardern says it's impossible not to define the upcoming election as the "Covid election" with all parties focused on the best way to get New Zealand through - jobs, the economy and welfare… Read more Audio

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

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

6:18 AM.An iwi leader on the government's new tourism taskforce says there is an "untapped wealth" of Māori stories that should form the basis of a new tourism economy. 

The Tourism Futures Taskforce will… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.A Māori social housing provider says families renting in the Far North are living in third world conditions and a Green Party policy to build thousands more affordable homes a year is desperately… Read more Audio

6:08 AM.As the wage subsidy scheme starts to wind down, the Finance Minister Grant Robertson says he doesn't believe there'll be a massive spike in job losses as a result.

About 1.7 million employees have… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko says some soreness in her back won't hinder her as she pushes for her first LPGA Tour win in more than two years. Read more Audio