Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 12 August 2025

In today's episode, Labour's had a bump in the latest political poll - up four points in the One News Verian poll - nipping at National's heels; New Zealand is fast becoming one of the last western democracies to recognise Palestine as a state, after Australia announced on Monday it would; The government is being urged to offer subsidies to get people to replace gas and inefficient heaters in homes; New Zealand's first Māori cardiologist says the country needs to face up to the ethnic divisions in cardiac health; More and more GPs are recommending parkrun to their patients to improve their health and wellbeing.