Morning Report for Wednesday 28 July 2021

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.Today the much-anticipated rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine to the general population kicks off.

But the government is being told to come clean about when people can really expect to get their shot.

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6:45 AM.The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is winning plaudits for its work in hobbling the online work of violent extremists.

The US-based organisation was founded by Facebook, Microsoft… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.The long-awaited rollout of Covid-19 vaccines to the general population starts today, but the government is being told to come clean about when people can really expect to get their shot.

The first… Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Police killer Eli Epiha will be sentenced in October for shooting two officers - one fatally - in Auckland last June.

Epiha had already admitted murdering constable Matthew Hunt and yesterday a jury… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says New Zealand's style of policing, whcih does not involve general arming, is what makes officers on the ground safer.

It comes after calls for adding more… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The National Party has raised the possibility New Zealand could have avoided the Suhayra Aden situation if it had adopted Australia's law that strips terror suspects of citizenship.

Aden, who has… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Staff at Te Arawhiti, the Office for Māori Crown Relations, are leaving the agency at high rates, with multiple former Māori staff accusing it of racism. 

In 2020 almost on in three people who joined… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.New Zealand's southernmost Covid-19 vaccine clinic gets underway today on Rakiura-Stewart Island.

Large numbers of the community came forward to be tested following a Covid-19 scare last month, and… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Four police officers who faced attacks and racial slurs as they defended the US Capitol Building in the January riot there have given graphic testimony before the House of Representatives.

It was the… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.We have a winner in this year's Supreme Pie Awards.

Auckland baker Sopheap Long of Euro Patisserie in Torbay last night took out the 24th Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Award with what's described as a… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.A leading family doctor backs extending Covid-19 vaccinations to group 4 at this time even before group 3 has been fully immunised.

From today, New Zealanders in group 4 are able to book to receive… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.The hospitality sector is hoping the Bledisloe Cup will still be a success - despite almost no Austrailians being let into the country.

The trans-Tasman bubble is on pause for eight weeks as… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The jury in the trial of police killer Eli Epiha, found him guilty of the attempted murder of Constable David Goldfinch after deliberating for ten hours 

Epiha had admitted murdering Constable… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Teachers say learning te reo and tikanga Māori is making them better teachers. 

A hundred-million-dollar programme, launched this month, aims to  teach the language to forty-thousand early childhood… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.A newly discovered painting by Frances Hodgkins was sold last night in Auckland for $260,000.

The 115-year-old work was among the main attractions at a keenly watched art auction, which also included… Read more Audio

8:32 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:38 AM.There are still security problems at a youth justice residence in Auckland where two young people escaped through a window and went on the run last year.

The Office of the Children's Commissioner has… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.The country's southernmost Covid-19 vaccine clinic has opened on Rakiura-Stewart Island.

Reporter Tim Brown is there. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.How Samoan culture struggles with the shame of abuse has been outlined to the inquiry into abuse in care.

The Royal Commission is this week focusing on how abuse has damaged Pacific people living in… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Fiordland locals hope a masterplan being unveiled for their region today doesn't just become all talk and no action.

The Milford Opportunities Project was started back in 2017 to provide a future… Read more Audio