Morning Report for Thursday 3 September 2020

6:06 AM.The eighth seeded Croatian, Petra Martic, has advanced to the third round at the US Tennis Open with a straight sets win over Ukranian Kateryna Bondarenko. Read more Audio

6:17 AM.Auckland secondary school principals want an urgent decision on whether their students will get more help to pass NCEA.

The government made changes to the qualification following the national… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.A Wellington city councillor is furious at Kiwirail's attempts to relocate its new ferry terminal into downtown Wellington.

Kiwirail has rejected calls to put the new Cook Strait ferry terminal at… Read more Audio

6:36 AM.New and better better emergency and acute care of children at Christchurch Hospital is not going to happen because there's no money to hire people to staff its new facilities.

The acting clinical… Read more Audio

6:38 AM.Thousands of general practice nurses are expected to go on strike today as they bid for equal pay with hospital colleagues.

DHB nurses won a pay rise in 2018 following industrial action, but primary… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.Five years after the deadly terrorist attack of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a trial of fourteen accused suspects has begun in Paris.

The magazine has chosen to reprint the controversial… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.A Māori academic who has come forward alleging casual and structural racism within Waikato University says her concerns have been met with resounding silence from the university's leaders.

Professor… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Commuters in the capital are frustrated at long waits for buses this week as mass masking became mandatory.

Buses are streaming by not able to pick everyone up because of strict physical distancing… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.New services for better emergency and acute care of children at Christchurch Hospital will not open because there's no money to staff them.

The Canterbury DHB is struggling with a $180 million… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.UNICEF's annual report card gives New Zealand is failing when it comes to the welfare of children.

Vivien Maidaborn is UNICEF's Executive Director.

She speaks to Corin Dann. Read more Audio

7:21 AM.A Maui campervan workshop and van storage building is on fire near the airport in south Auckland.

Fire and Emergency says crews were called to the fire on Richard Pearse Drive shortly after 5 this… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.A Maui campervan workshop and van storage building is on fire near the airport in south Auckland.

Fire and Emergency says crews were called to the fire on Richard Pearse Drive shortly after 5am this… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The German government says it now has "unequivocal proof" that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

Navalny was airlifted to Berlin for treatment… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.The German government says it now has "unequivocal proof" that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

Mr Navalny was airlifted to Berlin for treatment… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Thousands of general practice nurses are expected to go on strike today as they bid for equal pay with hospital colleagues.

More than 3000 nurses and administrative staff from the Nurses Organisation… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.A Supreme Court decision allowing a continuing appeal for a person who has died has set the legal world alight. The court has granted the appeal of child sex offender Peter Ellis despite his death.

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7:51 AM.The New Zealand stock exchange and other institutions will be hoping to finish the week with no further disruption from cyberattacks.

A spate of distributed denial of service attacks have affected… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Memes have the power to spread political messages extremely easily, and there's a worry they could play a part in eroding confidence in democracy. Read more Audio

8:06 AM.New Zealand's Marcus Daniell and his Austrian partner Philipp Oswald have upset the 7th seeds to reach the second round of the doubles at the US Tennis Open in New York. Read more Audio

8:08 AM.A large fire ripping through the Auckland headquarters of Maui campervans has now been contained.

Fire and Emergency says firefighters were called to the blaze on Richard Pearse Drive in Mangere… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Children will miss out on specialised medical services they were to get for the first time in Canterbury and the District Health Board's health funding woes are to blame.

The district health board… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.Australia is officially in a recession after the figures from its June quarter revealed GDP has shrunk by a record 7 percent.

The grim numbers are a direct result of Covid-19 and were widely expected… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Fewer patients die and less ICU support is needed when patients with Covid-19 are given corticosteroids.

That's according to new research published today by the Journal of the American Medical… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.New Zealand Cricket has shown faith in its men's head coach Gary Stead by extending his contract for a further three years.

Stead helped steer the Black Caps to the final of last year's World Cup -… Read more Audio

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

8:40 AM.Teenagers are warning the pandemic has ruined the school year and more NCEA changes are needed to help the most disadvantaged.

Their comments come as the Education Review Office reports a third of… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Billions of dollars have been wiped off the events calendar thanks to the mass cancellation of conferences and conventions.

In a normal year there are more than five-thousand business events… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Yachties fear Kiwrail's two new mammoth Cook Strait ferries will spell the end of racing in Wellington's inner harbour.

To accommodate the new ships, Kiwirail wants to move its Interislander terminal… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now Hollywood producers.

Harry and Meghan have signed a multiyear deal with Netflix which will pay them to make documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted… Read more Audio