Morning Report for Monday 5 July 2021

6:12 AM.The Australia-NZ bubble is set to partially reopen on Monday, with quarantine-free travel allowed from three states - Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania - and the ACT.

Brett O'Riley, the CEO of… 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

6:38 AM.More information should emerge this morning as to how many New Zealand organisations are caught up in a global ransomware attack.

The attack on the IT management software provider Kaseya VSA has… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Universities are nervous about changes that will boost research funding for Māori and Pasifika academics ahead of their Pakeha colleagues. 

The $315 million a year Performance Based Research Fund… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Authorities are pausing search and rescue operations at the partially-collapsed building in Surfside, Florida to prepare for the likely demolition of what remains of the Champlain Towers.

At least 24… Read more Audio

6:52 AM.The heat dome may have gone but lightning strikes have continued to spark dozens more wildfires in western Canada.

Emergency services say they there are now trying to control more than 170 fires… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.A shipment of 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine has arrived in the country - two days ahead of schedule - and will be distributed among District Health Boards from today.

The shipment, which is the… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.The full impact of the global ransomware attack on New Zealand organisations will become more apparent this morning.

Some service providers in New Zealand that use Kaseya VSA management software may… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The country's District Health Boards are refusing to release reviews done of their cyber security systems weeks after Waikato DHB was struck by ransomware attackers.

They blanket refused Official… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.Labour MP Louisa Wall is accusing China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations in China.

The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Nearly nine million Australians are now able to travel to New Zealand quarantine-free again, with the partial lifting of the nationwide suspension on the travel bubble.

As of this morning, those in… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Hospitals are receiving patients dead on arrival in Fiji, as people fail to get timely treatment for Covid-19.

Sunday saw another record infection rate, with 522 cases, and three deaths.

Fiji's… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.A group of Wellington flatmates have received a nasty shock, after discovering they're trapped in a lease because their landlord is biding time before getting the property up to the Healthy Home… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.The All Blacks opened their 2021 campaign with a record equaling 102-nil win over Tonga at Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday night, with the one-sided result shining a spotlight on the struggles faced by… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.A tiny wrestling club in South Taranaki is nurturing future champions on an unusual piece of Olympic memorabilia that it uses on a weekly basis.

The Alton Olympic Wrestling Club used… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.South Island ski fields are hoping for a blizzard of Australiains as the travel bubble cautiously reopens this week.

Quarantine-free travel from Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Schools and businesses are discovering this morning whether they've been affected by a worldwide ransomware attack.

On Saturday, it struck Miami-based IT company Kaseya, and infiltrated companies… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Humanitarian organisations are welcoming a unilateral ceasefire in the Ethiopian region of Tigray but say hundreds of thousands of people remain in dire need.

It follows nearly eight months of… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.The Department of Internal Affairs admits it had to let pokie machine operators break department rules for almost 20 years, because its own regulations contradicted the law.

Emails released to RNZ… Read more Audio

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

8:36 AM.In New South Wales, only a third of staff at an aged care facility where two workers have tested positive for Covid-19, have been vaccinated.

Three elderly residents have also tested positive.

The… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.England are heading to the semi-finals of the European Championships at Wembley for the first time in 25 years after a 4-0 win over Ukraine in Rome at the weekend.

It's a surreal time for football… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.At Christchurch Women's Hospital, when a support person stays with a new mum and baby -  they have to sleep on the floor.  

Charity the Māia Health Foundation wants to change that - launching a… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.The Environmental Protection Authority has given the logging industry a new extension which allows it to keep releasing a highly toxic gas into the air.

In 2010, the EPA said timber exporters had 10… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.The annual Garden Bird Survey has ended, with researchers preparing to tally the results.  

The citizen science project asks people to take note of which birds visit their gardens, and they're added… Read more Audio