Morning Report for Friday 7 May 2021

6:10 AM.The Social Development Minister says police may not collect specific data on crime in and around emergency housing, but are aware of local hotspots.

Neither the police nor MSD is actively monitoring… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.Greenpeace is urging the Government to take rapid action to reduce climate pollution from methane, through lower stocking rates and other measures.

The environmental group says the latest advice from… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.A top epidemiologist is warning the International Olympic Committee will kill people by going ahead with staging the Tokyo Games.

Otago Univeristy's Professor Michael Baker says while safety… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Fiji is facing what may the "worst case scenario" for the country, as Covid-19 spreads undetected in the community.

An infected 53-year-old man died in hospital on Thursday. The hospital has since… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Flights to New Zealand from New South Wales have been placed on hold for 48 hours from midnight last night, as authorities investigate fresh Covid-19 cases in Sydney.

About 6000 people who have… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Kiwis in India are feeling hopeless about their chances to escape pandemic-ravaged India, as they watch New Zealand's cricketers jump on a private jet out of the country this morning.

The Indian… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.The nightime wanderings of three-year Axle from Tolaga Bay may have shocked and amazed but his family's back story is highlighting the more commonplace crisis of homelessness.

Before moving to the… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The government doesn't know if crime is increasing in and around emergency housing because the police aren't collecting that information.

RNZs been told numerous stories of people victimised while… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.While public servants are getting a pay freeze, much more highly paid contractors and consultants are not.

The directive from the government for a three-year salary freeze does not apply to thousands… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.It will be months before senior students at Hutt Valley High School are back in the classroom fulltime after being forced out because of toxic mould.

The Education Ministry fronted up to some angry… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.Super Rugby Aotearoa will come to a dramatic conclusion tomorrow evening as the top-seeds Crusaders take on second-placed Chiefs.

The final is being played at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.Travellers to New Zealand will soon be able to book managed isolation six months in advance.

The two-week hotel stays have been compulsory for more than a year but so far managed isolation and… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.India has reported it's highest-ever 24 hour surge in Covid-19 cases and a record-high daily death toll. In the past 30 days, the country has recorded 8.3 million cases.

So far, the virus has killed… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Iwi leaders say the Māori Health Authority is being used as a political football. 

National is piling on the pressure, saying the government is creating a separatist system. 

The Māori Party say… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.It's been an intense week for the government, which has dismayed public servants by putting their pay on ice for another three years.

Added to that, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she has… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.The European Union has said it is ready to discuss any proposal about getting more vaccines out to the world, after the United States said it wants to see a temporarily lift on patent protections for… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.A woman who was raped by a welfare home staff member and who became pregnant has outlined her ordeal before the inquiry into abuse in care.

Neta Kerepeti was 13 when placed in the Bollard Girls' Home… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Talks between the UK and New Zealand over a Free Trade Agreement are ramping up.

The UK is New Zealand's sixth largest trading partner, with two-way trade worth nearly $6 billion in 2019.

… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Fonterra is planning a major revamp of its financial structure, and wants farmers to have a direct say over what that looks like.

The dairy giant announced an overhaul of its capital structure on… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Pakiri locals are fighting to keep their sand as a resource consent hearing enters its third day north of Auckland today.

Sand mining company Kaipara Limited wants to take another two million cubic… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A 25-year-old woman has given birth to nine babies - two more than doctors had detected during scans.

Malian woman Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. She was flown there by Mali's… Read more Audio