Morning Report

Gun clubs are glad the new government is rolling back parts of the Arms Act which they say added unpayable costs and unnecessary red tape to volunteers' workloads. The Labour government tightened… Read more Audio

With New Zealand's worst ever results in the OECD's PISA tests, high truancy rates and National's coalition agreements - the new education minister has her work cut out for her. The government has… Read more Audio

New high-powered electric scooters some of which can go nearly one hundred kilometers an hour are now being sold in New Zealand, but there's a problem. They are too powerful and too fast to be safely… Read more Audio

The Retirement Commissioner is joining budget advisors in raising alarm over the steep rise in people withdrawing money from Kiwisaver as they struggle with rising prices and paying the mortgage… Read more Audio

A leading New Zealand expert in international affairs says it is imperative the government keeps calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Professor Robert Patman, the University of Otago's director of… Read more Audio

An OECD survey shows Kiwi 15-year-olds are more likely to say their classes are disrupted by bad behaviour and distractions than teens in any other of 37 developed nations. Is that because New Zealand… Read more Audio

The weekend's southerly blast felt like Aotearoa could be in line for a snowy Christmas. Temperatures dropped to 10 degrees celsius in the capital yesterday, with downpours and blustery gales. Heavy… Read more Audio

Australia is expected to significantly drop the number of migrants it allows into the country, due to the pressure it's putting on housing and infrastructure. In the last year, Australia's net… Read more Audio

The Waitangi Tribunal has recommended that Crown land in much of Northland should be returned to Māori in a landmark report dealing with grievances suffered by the region's biggest iwi, Ngāpuhi. A… Read more Audio