Morning Report for Wednesday 2 September 2020

6:05 AM.Next year's Hamilton leg of the world rugby sevens circuit has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more Audio

6:10 AM.The National Party says the Government has been too slow to roll out bluetooth technology for contact tracing.

It wants answers on how the relationship between one of the original backers for… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:24 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Some of the mosque shooting victims want Australia to pick up the massive bill for incarcerating Brenton Tarrant.

This as the 29-year-old Australian, who was last week sentenced to life in prison… Read more Audio

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

7:06 AM.Black Caps captain Kane Williamson admits to some nerves about the Covid-19 risk on the eve of his departure for the Indian Premier League. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The President has visited the Wisconsin city of Kenosha after days of protests following the shooting of an unarmed African American man by a police officer.

The White House says the visit would be… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Donald Trump is on the ground in Kenosha, despite local politicians asking him not to come.

Washington DC correspondent Simon Marks speaks to Corin Dann. Read more Audio

7:20 AM.The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant be officially labelled a "terrorist entity".

That means the mass murderer is now featured on a list of 20… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.James Shaw has spent the best part of the last week floating out to sea while his own party and ministerial colleagues watched from the safety of the shore.

After trying to get support from his… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.National Party leader Judith Collins says she's surprised Green Party leader James Shaw didn't resign during a press conference on Tuesday, where he apologised for his role in pushing for funding for… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A private Green School in Taranaki has found itself at the centre of a political battle after being granted $11.7 million dollars through the government's shovel-ready projects fund.

Green Party… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.Snow and rain have helped, but it could take months to fully extinguish a scrub fire in the Mackenzie District.

Property owners who were evacuated were able to return home yesterday. The blaze near… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.A Māori specialist in artificial intelligence says it's only a matter of time before a Māori or Pasifika person is wrongfully arrested because of a false match on facial recognition software.

Police… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The former world women's tennis number six Carla Suarez Navarro says she has been diagnosed with early stage Hodgkin lymphoma. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The National Party wants all people flying into the country are tested for Covid-19 before they embark, but at least five of the people who tested positive for Covid-19 in managed isolation yesterday… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Firefighters are calling for a inquiry into sexual assault and harassment within the fire service.

The call comes after the chief executive of the volunteers union, the United Fire Brigades'… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.The New Zealand stock exchange suffered trading halts last week, as five days of distributed denial-of-service attacks took its website offline.

Other websites - including RNZ's - as well as Stuff… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Groups working to house pacific families fear millions of dollars in funding could be wasted if the government doesn't involve their expertise.

Nearly one in five pacific people in New Zealand live… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Levin is the location of the latest pop-up community testing centre, the mid-central DHB organising a day of tests for anyone and everyone.

It comes as the Ministry of Health looks to continue high… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.After almost six months without a match, Black Caps captain Kane Williamson heads off for the Indian Premier League tomorrow.

He's one of six Kiwi cricketers set to feature in the tournament, which… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:38 AM.The Tahr Foundation says it's disappointed with the Department of Conservation's decision to press ahead with the majority of its planned tahr cull.

Hunting has not been enough to stop tahr numbers… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Beneficiaries are going to be encouraged to do more volunteering, but the government's been warned it needs to ensure this doesn't turn into a 'work for the dole' scheme.

Social Development Minister… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.A tour of a plant treating oil and gas drilling waste in North Taranaki meant to soothe nieghbours concerns about foul smells and environmental damage has ended up reinforcing their worst fears.

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8:52 AM.Plans to build a multi-use ferry terminal in Wellington are in jeopardy, following Kiwirail's insistence it wants to move into the central city beside rival Bluebridge, but won't share facilities with… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.A Tasmanian tiger pelt has been found in a drawer in a Wairarapa taxidermy museum, where it has lain for decades.

David Thurrowgood from Applied Conservation Science in Tasmania was instrumental in… Read more Audio