Morning Report

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

National Party leader Christopher Luxon has concluded his party's conference with a tried-and-true political tactic: a full-throated promise to get young beneficiaries off welfare and into work.

It… Read more Audio

The Labour Party says the opposition National Party is "out of touch" after it released its new welfare plan during its national conference at the weekend.

National Party leader Christopher Luxon… Read more Audio