Morning Report for Friday 4 June 2021

6:12 AM.Far North iwi Ngāti Wai says the local council is undermining their treaty rights with a proposal that could restrict how they can use their land. 

Proposed changes to the District Plan would see up… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Teachers are hopeful the incoming compulsory New Zealand history curriculum will help close woeful gaps in young people's knowledge of this country's past.

Close to 5000 submissions were made on the… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.The person who recorded the row between outgoing National MP Nick Smith and a staffer no longer works at Parliament.

After 30 years, Smith abruptly threw in the towel on his political career on… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.The head of the Irish health service has said that the "devastating impact" of a ransomware cyberattack on Irish hospitals "cannot be overstated".

That attack came just days before the one that left… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.New Zealanders stuck in Melbourne are breathing a sigh of relief that the end of their extended holiday in Covid-19 lockdown is in sight.

The Government has pushed out the travel pause with Victoria… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.New Zealanders will soon be able to fly home from Melbourne without having to quarantine, after a pause to the travel bubble between Aotearoa and Victoria.

People will be able to fly back from… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.The managers of Auckland's Jet Park Hotel say turning their business into the country's main quarantine facility was nothing short of terrifying.

They've succeeded in keeping more than 900 Covid-19… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.A priest providing pastoral care to refugees stuck in Papua New Guinea says New Zealand's offer to accept them would "almost solve the problem".

Talks over New Zealand's pledge to take 150 refugees… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The long weekend is almost here, and many will be making travel plans to get the most out of their extra day off.

But with much of Canterbury ravaged by floodwaters, motorists are being warned to… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Iwi and Hapū in Te Tai Tokerau are stunned by proposals which could restrict how they use their land and plan to march on the Far North District Council next week.  

Up to 40 percent of land in the… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.The family of a man who died in a Hawera police station will be grappling this morning with the verdict in the trial over his death.

A jury has found three Taranaki police officers not guilty of the… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.Teachers backing the new compulsory New Zealand history curriculum say it will help close woeful gaps in young people's knowledge of this country's past.

Consultation on the draft curriculum ended… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.The Black Caps opening batter Devon Conway became just the seventh cricketer to score a double century on debut overnight - but England managed to fight back on the second day of the opening Test at… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.The woman at the centre of one of the battles over who can form a government in Samoa says the experience has been bizarre.

After April's election, a deadlock was created after the electoral… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.In the last five years, around 80 people nominated for the New Zealand Honours list got the nod from their own partner.

The latest Honours list in the biannual tradition is revealed this Queen's… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Devon Conway has become just the seventh player in test cricket history to score a double century on debut, continuing the remarkable start to his international career. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.A state of emergency will continue for a week in Canterbury's worst-hit flood areas.

It will remain in place in Ashburton, Selwyn and Waimakariri districts but will be lifted elsewhere across the… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.There is a burst water main in Wellington at the intersection of Wellington Rd and Kilbirnie Crescent, and residents are being told to avoid the area if possible.

The intersection is a major traffic… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.The Transport Minister has confirmed the government will build a second Auckland harbour bridge exclusively for cyclists and walkers.

Michael Wood says the standalone structure will be built as part… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Samoa's outgoing Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and Prime Minister elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa met on Thursday afternoon as part of secretly held negotiations about the transition to a new… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:37 AM.From Wednesday next week, New Zealanders stranded in Melbourne by the region's lockdown will be able to catch flights back to Aotearoa and not have to quarantine.

They will, however, need a negative… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.New Caledonia will return to the polls in December for the third independence referendum in as many years.

Politicians from the Pacific territory have been in Paris for the past week, and the 12… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.It's taken eight years, but Australia looks like it might finally be ready to send some of its asylum seekers to New Zealand.

Australia's Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews is working with New… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The Canterbury storm brought destruction to the South Island - but also a fresh dump of snow.

Yesterday ski enthusiasts rushed to the Hanmer Springs Ski Area - the first skifield to open for the… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio