Morning Report for Friday 20 November 2020

6:17 AM.The chairman of an independent board facilitating Māori interests in Auckland Council says the supercity has led to greater engagement with Maori, but there is still more to do.

This month marks 10… 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

6:45 AM.A debt-ridden Auckland society is being accused of refusing membership applications to disabled people who might questions its plans.

It's widely speculated that the Laura Fergusson Trust will sell… Read more Audio

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

7:14 AM.A culture of secrecy, fabrication and deceit has been blamed for the actions of elite Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.

A long-running probe found "credible information" supporting allegations of… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.An former Wellington man acquitted of Terri King's murder has now a suspect in a torture chamber case in the Netherlands.

William Jan H Haanstra, 43, has been named as one of nine arrested after… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.There's confusion in Samoa this morning over whether the country has its first case of Covid-19 or not.

The man in question arrived in Apia last Friday from Auckland, and tested negative at the… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.Thursday's Pike River anniversary saw expressions of grief but also determination to see somebody held accountable for what happened at the mine a decade ago.

There were services on the West Coast… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.Schools around the country are paying tens of thousands of dollars to private consultants to completely change the way they teach reading.

The so-called "structured literacy" approach is backed by 30… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.The Chinese government has responded aggressively to criticism by Five Eyes that it is trying to silence political opposition in Hong Kong.

The intelligence grouping of countries which includes New… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Portable cabins could be used to house hundreds of people left homeless by flooding and slips in Napier.

Around 100 homes were left uninhabitable after last Monday's storm, leaving 173 people living… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Donald Trump's lawyers continue to claim the presidential election was influenced by systematic, organised corruption across the country.

So far, the Trump campaign has filed dozens of lawsuits and… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The defending champion Black Ferns have been drawn to play Wales, Australia and the winner of the final qualifying tournament in their pool at next year's World Cup in New Zealand. Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Investigative journalist Jon Stephenson, says New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan would not have acted in the same way as elite Australian soldiers.

A  four and a half year investigation which was… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.The government's proposed "reset" on tourism - focussing on attracting high net worth visitors - continues to stir up reaction in the industry.

The Youth Hostels Association has published an open… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Team New Zealand has unveiled the boat it will use to defend the 36th America's Cup in just over 100 days' time.

The second generation AC75 rolled out into public view at the team's base in… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Michael Jordan may have finished playing professional basketball almost two decades ago but the shoes that bear his name continue to attract attention.

Overnight over 100 people queued outside… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.A group of medical experts say the way diabetes is treated in New Zealand is racist - but a solution at hand.

The co-authors of an editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal, published today, are… Read more Audio

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

8:40 AM.A New Zealand trade specialist is welcoming Chinese president Xi Jinping statements about his desire to open trade doors with the world.

Addressing Apec leaders yesterday Xi promised he will cut… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.A charitable foundation in the name of the New Zealand police officer, Matt Ratana, who was killed in a London police station two months ago is being launched today in the UK.

It's been set up by his… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Twelve teams will converge on New Zealand for the 2021 Rugby World Cup and this morning they learned who they'll play first up.

The pool draw was made at Auckland's SkyCity Theatre, where the hosts… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Following an unpleasant encounter on a Wellington bus earlier in the week, advocates for blind and low-vision people are calling for improved awareness and understanding of what life is like for the… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.The new women's domestic cricket season gets under this weekend, the second year provincial women players have been contracted.

One of those players is a 17-year old Palmerston North schoolgirl… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio

8:58 AM.There's been another development in the story regarding New York's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree "sparse" appearance, which some had called an appropriate tribute to a year to forget.

The tree… Read more Audio