Morning Report for Tuesday 15 September 2020

6:12 AM.Horticulturalists say they won't be able to harvest crops, unless they can find about 60,000 people to fill jobs normally done by international workers.

Covid-19 restrictions means those workers… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.An increased age rating and a warning have been placed on a new Netflix documentary showing brief clips of the Christchurch mosque terror attacks.

The imagery comes from the mass murderer's own… Read more Audio

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

6:39 AM.Some Auckland businesses think a relatively rosy economic report from the government doesn't accurately reflect the dire situation in the central city.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the latest… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.An advocate for victims of abuse in religious institutions says the Dilworth school case is unusual because the accused have ended up in court.

Six men in their 60s and 70s with historical links to… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.In a bid to save his embattled presidency, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

The meeting between the two men is took place in the Black sea… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.Tenants are bracing themselves for a hike in living costs when a freeze on rent-increases comes to an end next week.

The Commerce Commission says property investors have been discussing raising rents… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Customer-starved Auckland businesses say they are bewildered by the government's upbeat economic analysis.

Treasury's latest measure of card spend and traffic volumes in the city suggest activity has… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.As election campaigns go, this one's been a bit strange already, delayed by Covd-19, the country's largest city still under restrictions which limits how campaigns can rally their voters.

Now the… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.NZ Rugby has confirmed quarantine details have changed to allow Wallabies to prepare in NZ. 

The All Blacks have tweeted to say Jacinda Ardern has confirmed Wallabies players will be allowed to… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.When Tamarind Taranaki abruptly abandoned the Tui Oil Field in December, it left taxpayers facing a bill of at least $155 million to plug the undersea wells.

Now a whistleblower inside the oil and… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.The government's decision to relax physical distancing rules on public transport has seen airlines promise to increase flights and release hundreds of thousands of cheap airfares to encourage domestic… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.Health authorities will today confirm if anyone who attended gym classes with a health worker who has tested positive for Covid-19.

The authorities have urged almost ninety close contacts who… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.A leading economist is questioning how high a price the country is paying for its Covid-19 elimination strategy.

Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern says Treasury figures out this week show the… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The former Phoenix captain Steven Taylor has been linked with a move to the Indian Super League following his shock departure from the Wellington football club. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Transport Agency documents about two state highway viaducts show a leading engineering firm warned of a "critical design risk".

It included possible failure of the structures.

But the agency says… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.While Covid-19 restrictions for Auckland have hogged the headlines, the city is also still required to watch what it's doing with its water.

Region-wide water restrictions have been in place since… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.A group of private tertiary institutions wants foreign students who study online from overseas to have the right to work permits in this country when they graduate.

Quality Tertiary Institutions says… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.The Prime Minister says the Wallabies rugby team will be allowed to train while they're quarantining in New Zealand.

The Wallabies coach had complained about the lack of preparation time for the two… Read more Audio

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

8:43 AM.Covid-19 is front and centre in the run up to this year's election, with politicians battling over how best to lead the country through the crisis.

It's not just Labour and National presenting its… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.The co-leader of the Advance NZ party Jami-Lee Ross is not going to stand in his Botany electorate this election.

He's just announced he will stand instead on his party's list. Ross won the Botany… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.To rugby league now - and the Warriors can start booking their flights home having spent nearly five months cooped up in quarantine to play out the NRL season in Australia.

They've still got two… Read more Audio

8:59 AM.A Far North District Councillor plans to speak only in Te Reo Māori at this month's council meeting.

It's Te Wiki o te Reo Maori at the moment, and also Mahuru Maori - Maori language month.

Moko… Read more Audio