Morning Report for Friday 14 May 2021

6:14 AM.The Teaching Council is urging teachers to confront racism with a campaign it says some might find scary.

The Unteach Racism programme aims to help teachers identify racism and address it.

It says… 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

6:37 AM.Health officials are being asked to approve charter flights out of India for New Zealanders desperate to come home.

Journalist Venkat Raman of Auckland-based Indian Newslink told reporter Harry Lock… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.In India, fully-vaccinated doctors are becoming infected again - causing concerns about the Covid-19 variant's strength.

The country's Covid-19 death toll crossed quarter of a million this week, and… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Unions and economists are joining in a call to overhaul the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme.

They say fruit and vegetable pickers from the Pacific Islands suffer high costs and poor pay and are… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.A message in a bottle has arrived at Ninety Mile Beach after months in the ocean.

Contact details inside have connected the Awanui community with a Greek seafarer who has never been to New Zealand.

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7:09 AM.Health officials are being asked to approve a repatriation flight for stranded New Zealanders in India, which organisers believe could start bringing people home by the end of the month.

India's… Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Pressure is piling on the Government to reunite migrant families in who have been separated by Covid-19.

MPs yesterday took part in a heated and emotional debate at Parliament and challenged… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.People affected by the border closure marched on Parliament on Thursday to call for help as the shut border leaves families separated and migrants in NZ fearful for what would happen if their visa… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.The government has no plans to facilitate private charter flights organised by travel agents to get New Zealanders stranded in India back to this country.

Travel agencies are reported to be trying to… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.In Jerusalem, intense conflict has continued overnight with attacks and casualties mounting.

Israel has killed at least eighty three Palestinians, and in Israel, seven have died as a result of… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.The Police and security guards have been at a Waikato boarding school overnight after it was evacuated due to a bomb threat.

About 500 students and staff left St Peter's school in Cambridge after… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The Serious Fraud Office is accusing six people of making donations to the Labour Party on the behalf of another donor, whose identity they tried to conceal.

There are 12 charges in total - with each… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.There have been stories of families living in motels overrun with crime and violence and taxpayers paying out millions of dollars for substandard accommodation.

The government is moving to clean up… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The government is moving to clean up problems with emergency accommodation - at first in Rotorua where demand is greatest - a year after ministers were warned emergency housing was posing a risk to… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.All-rounder Daryl Mitchell and wicketkeeper/batsman Glenn Phillips have been offered national contracts for the first time by New Zealand Cricket, while spinner Ajaz Patel was left out of the 20-man… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.In the United States, fully-vaccinated people are now no longer required to wear masks or practice physical distancing indoors or outdoors - except under certain circumstances.

The director of the US… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.A New Zealand tech specialist says international regulation of social media companies is needed to reduce extremist online content.

On Saturday global leaders and tech companies will meet virtually… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.The head of Auckland City Mission says is unacceptable that so many kiwi families can't put food on the table and benefits must rise substantially for that to change.

The latest child poverty… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Wellington Mayor Andy Foster has been told to make a written apology after being found trying to influence a councillor's vote on the future of land at Shelly Bay.

An investigation into the… Read more Audio

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

8:36 AM.Christchurch's plan to have 20,000 people living in the city centre within the next few years looks increasingly set to fail.

Official figures from last year show the Central Business District's… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A proposal to roof the Whanganui Velodrome has dominated the city's long-term plan hearings this week.

The council wants to put a basic roof over the track for about $20 million, but many submitters… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.New Zealand domination, or genuinely competitive Australian teams?

That's the big question surrounding Super Rugby trans-Tasman, which gets underway this weekend.

Following the completion of… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.New Zealand domination, or genuinely competitive Australian teams?

That's the big question surrounding Super Rugby Trans Tasman, which gets underway tonight in Dunedin, where the Highlanders will… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.New Zealand's Pacific language weeks are underway and begins with Rotuman - the language of a Fijian dependency about 650 kilometres northwest of the Fijian capital Suva.

While there are only 2,000… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio