22 Dec 2022

Top Stories for Thursday 22 December 2022

From Morning Report, 7:00 am on 22 December 2022

Good morning, New Zealand. You're listening to Morning Report on RNZ National. I'm Gyles Beckford ko Charlotte Cook ahau It's Rapare - Thursday December the 15th (wrong 22nd) Anei nga kaupapa mo tenei haora.. Top stories this morning... A new national payment system for public transport could open the way for more tolls and congestion charges for motorists too. Tweaks to the Agricultural Emissions Pricing Plan upsets climate change activists. FijiFirst's Frank Bainimarama is refusing to concede the election, after being passed over to form a coalition government. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has landed in the US in his first trip abroad since Russia's invasion. And lights, camera, action.. Hawke's Bay gets a flashy new film studio.