Morning Report

Chinese surveillance cameras remain in wide use in New Zealand despite renewed controversy about them overseas.

A new move has begun by 60 lawmakers in the UK to ban sales of world-leading Hikvision… Read more Audio

The Green Party says sanctions against beneficaries do not encourage young people out of work back into employment.

A new approach from the National Party involves helping those who have been on the… Read more Audio

National's proposal for allocating job coaches to beneficiaries aged under twenty-five has found an upbeat response in at least one of the organisations that helps young people find their career… Read more Audio

The National Party is starting the new week with a new party president. Sylvia Wood, an employment relations specialist, was elected to the position yesterday at the annual conference in Christchurch.

All Blacks coach Ian Foster called it, quote, "our best performance of the year". The under fire coach was referring to New Zealand's 26-points-to-10 defeat at the hands of the Springboks in Mbombela… Read more Audio

New Zealand's mixed squash duo of Joelle King and Paul Coll won gold at about 25 to 7 this morning.

They beat their English opponents in a one-sided final with Coll and King needing little more than… Read more Audio

Cyclist Aaron Gate has won the men's road race in Birmingham to become the first New Zealander to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.

Gate also won three track cycling golds: in the… Read more Audio

New Zealand has won two gold medals on a historic morning at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham making it a record haul of 19 golds now.

Cyclist Aaron Gate became the first New Zealander to secure… Read more Audio

RNZ's political editor, Jane Patterson, was at the National Party conference this weekend.

The party unveiled its new welfare policy at the conference, a promise to get young beneficiaries into work.

A National Government will take what it says is a new approach to reducing benefit dependency among young people.

The National Party are particularly keen to do something about the 13,000 under… Read more Audio