Morning Report for Monday 16 August 2021

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:20 AM.Whangarei Maori say the benefits reaped from the Marsden Point oil refinery are drying up.

Hundreds of jobs are set to go next year when the refinery changes to an import terminal. The speed of… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:50 AM.An expert says an increase in families living in poverty has contributed to a rise in the number of babies dying of cot death.

Māori and Pasifika babies are more likely to die of what's now known as… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.There have still been no arrests after three teenagers were stabbed at a Christchurch party, with one losing their life.

Sixteen-year-old Zion Purukamu died from his injuries while the other two… Read more Audio

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

7:13 AM.The Taliban are close to retaking full control of Afghanistan, almost two decades after being ousted by a US-led military coalition.

Emboldened by the withdrawal of the US troops, they now control… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Cabinet will decide today whether New Zealand can evacuate fewer than 40 Afghanistan nationals who supported our military efforts there.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Corin Dann the Ministry… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.There have still been no arrests after three teenagers were stabbed at a Christchurch party, with one losing their life.

Sixteen-year-old Zion Purukamu died from his injuries while the other two… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Recovery efforts are ongoing following a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Saturday.

More than 700 have died in the tragedy, and almost 300 are injured. Now Haiti is also bracing for a tropical… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Insurgent Taliban forces have taken control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.

New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson, who was in Afghanistan when US forces invaded 20 years ago and has closely… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.For the second consecutive year, there has been a rise in cot death.

The number of fatalities is now 30 percent higher than in 2017 - the same year a government programme was launched to reduce the… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Highly confidential meetings where Pharmac ranks the funding priority of potentially life saving medicines are open to its entire staff including admin workers with no medical experience.

Pharmac… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.High-intensity audits have helped to turn around struggling schools where other efforts have failed.

The Education Review Office says it is rolling out the so-called Turnaround Schools reviews after… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Sailing through the 15 islands of the Cooks, across two million square kilometres of ocean, with only the stars, wind and ocean currents to guide them.

That's the journey a crew of young Cook… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has warmed up for the final major of the year with share of second place at the Scottish Open. Read more Audio

8:14 AM.There's chaos in the afghan capital Kabul. The Government has collapsed and Taliban fighters are on the brink of taking over the city.

The Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country.

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8:22 AM.Afghanistan's government has collapsed and Taliban fighters are on the brink of taking over the city.

President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country, There are reports of shooting in several parts of… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the government is in talks about the possibility of Covid-19 vaccination booster shots for the country - but they are continuing to get updated advice on whether… Read more Audio

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

8:36 AM.The company that manages the Christchurch holiday home at the centre of a fatal stabbing of a teenager is warning those in the rental business to be vigilant.

Sixteen-year-old Zion Purukamu died in… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Records were broken at Eden Park as the All Blacks defeated the Wallabies to secure the Bledisloe Cup trophy for another year.

Not only was the All Blacks 57-22 winning scoreline one for the history… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.New South Wales is clamping down on its stay-at-home orders, with new measures like a five-kilometre curb on travel from home, and increased penalities for violating the rules.

The entire state has… Read more Audio

8:50 AM."The pipis taste like petrol."

That's how a Northland kuia sums up the tainted benefits from the oil refinery at Marsden Pt, benefits that the Iwi says are now evaporating.

Phil Pennington reports.

8:55 AM.New research shows the potential for a booming seaweed sector in New Zealand is tied up in red tape and resource consents.

The report from the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge found that… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.A woolly mammoth named Kik, who roamed Alaska 17,000 years ago, walked far enough in its 28 years of life to circle the globe nearly twice.

Scientists have come to this conclusion through an analysis… Read more Audio