Morning Report

How widespread are human trafficking and slavery in New Zealand?

The first person in New Zealand to be convicted of both crimes will be sentenced in Napier later today.

Over more than two decades… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

The former National MP Jami-Lee Ross is joining his Advance New Zealand party with the conspiracy theory-driven New Zealand Public Party.

The Botany MP will co-lead the new party with the Public… Read more Audio

The leader of the opposition, Judith Collins, is dismissing last night's Newshub Reid Research poll which put her party at 25.1 percent.

Labour is on 60.9 and on that number it would be able to… Read more Audio

The Leader of the Opposition, Judith Collins, is dismissing last night's Newshub Reid Research poll which put her party at 25.1 percent.

Labour is on 60.9 and on that number it would be able to… Read more Audio

The Hurricanes have lost Ngani Laumape for the rest of the Super Rugby Aotearoa season to a forearm injury he picked up in Saturday's upset win over the Crusaders in Christchurch. Read more Audio

Staff at fifteen Otago schools have reported more than 200 verbal and physical attacks in a five week survey. Teachers, principals and teacher aides say they were punched, slapped, kicked and sworn… Read more Audio

The government says its proposed "pumped storage battery" at Lake Onslow in Central Otago could mean New Zealand would be among the few countries in the world with a fully renewable electricity… Read more Audio

There are just 100 days left now until America's Presidential election on 3 November.

President Trump has been spending the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey, battered by a series of polls that… Read more Audio

Green Party co-leader James Shaw is backing his co-leader Marama Davidson's statement that tax is love.

Davidson made the statement after the release of the party's policy platform over the weekend… Read more Audio

The first person ever to be convicted of both human trafficking and slavery in New Zealand will be sentenced in Napier today.

For nearly two decades, Joseph Auga Matamata brought people from Samoa… Read more Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand could be doing more on infant mortality.

Speaking to Susie Ferguson after the release of the RNZ Podcast The Unthinkable, Ardern said she wants more… Read more Audio