Morning Report for Tuesday 20 April 2021

8:39 AM.There is an uproar in European football following the announcement that twelve elite clubs plan to form a breakaway European Super League.

The clubs - labelled by some the Dirty Dozen - unveiled… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.A woman who hasn't seen her husband in more than a year says changes to border exemptions need to be extended quickly.

The government has announced new rules to reunite migrant families kept apart by… Read more Audio

6:25 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

6:28 AM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Read more Audio

6:38 AM.A two-year investigation for RNZ has found the Exclusive Brethren Church is a major and secret client of controversial private investigators Thompson and Clark.

A privacy law specialist believes the… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.A year on from the government's $25 increase to benefits, some solo parents and people with disabilities or chronic illnesses say it's made very little difference to their budgets.

Auckland… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Staff at Queenstown Airport are working hard to make sure no cases of Covid-19 sneak through the border.

The first flight from Australia touched down at 2.30pm on Monday afternoon and four more are… Read more Audio

6:54 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The Exclusive Brethren Church has been using the discredited private investigators Thompson and Clark to spy on former members.

A two-year investigation for RNZ has found the church, described as… Read more Video, Audio

7:21 AM.Patients requesting euthanasia will be given unapproved, unregulated and "off label" medicines, sparking warnings of prolonged and distressing deaths.

People who choose to swallow or ingest the fatal… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.A review into Wellington's billion dollar highway Transmission Gully has found the project was flawed from the start.

An interim review into the 27-kilometre highway has found serious flaws at the… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.New research finds there's a high chance of the Alpine Fault rupturing in the next 50 years, with an earthquake measuring magnitude eight or higher.

The faultline - which runs up the spine of the… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.A breach at an MIQ facility in Fiji has seen Covid-19 slip into the community for the first time since March 2020.

That has seen the towns of Nadi and Lautoka plunged into lockdown, with restrictions… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has outlined her plan to reframe New Zealand's relationship China.

In a wide ranging speech at the New Zealand China Council, the minister said the country needs to… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.Glaring inequities for Maori hospitalised with life-threatening trauma have been unearthed by a new study. It's the first time the Health Quality and Safety Commission has examined whether critically… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.The 2021 Taite Music Prize will be awarded this evening at Auckland's Q Theatre with 10 of New Zealand's best albums released over the last 12 months vying for the prestigious award.

RNZ's Music 101… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic upset the Northern Mystics 64-60 in Auckland to open their ANZ Premiership netball campaign and defender Erena Mikaere is confident the Magic will be in finals… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A former member of the Exclusive Brethren in Britain, is calling on the Government to strip the church of its charitable status.

Lance Christie, who was "excluded" from the church four years ago, was… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Lance Christie, is a mild and polite type of critic. He quotes biblical scripture and insists on the goodness of the people still inside the Exclusive Brethren. He came to New Zealand looking for… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.The New Plymouth mayor has joined the chorus of local body politicians bemoaning Waka Kotahi's commitment to deliver road safety projects.

Neil Holdom says lives are being lost on State Highway 3… Read more Audio

8:34 AM.Proudly sitting on Labour's website is a list of achievements that includes its move to permanently increase main benefits by $25 a week.

But a year on from that top-up, Auckland University research… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.A lab worker somewhere in New Zealand is about to process the country's two millionth Covid-19 test.

It's a significant milestone for a usually quiet industry that has played a vital role in New… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Small business owners are being left in the dark about why their Instagram accounts are being disabled.

The social media app has become a popular - and easy - way to buy and sell products, but some… Read more Audio