Morning Report

Women's health advocates are asking the Counties Manukau district health board to clarify what it considers to be a "non-urgent" health issue. The DHB says it can't guarantee treatment for people with… Read more Audio

The Advertising Standards Authority has had 58 complaints about advertisements for vaping products in the past year. A proposed amendment to the Smokefree Environment Act is due to go before… Read more Audio

An expert on China's global political influence is questioning the reasons behind a $150,000 donation to the National Party in 2016. National received the donation from a New Zealand company, owned by… Read more Audio

Has he or hasn't he.... a phone call by Liam Squire to Steve Hansen has been the most talked about player-coach discussion in rugby circles over the past week. Audio

It's every badly behaved student's dream, and every school's nightmare. Hundreds of school reports from South Wellington Intermediate school have been lost in the post. Principal Traci Liddall spoke… Read more Audio

Big tobacco companies have been stepping up advertising for their vaping products. Local e-cigarette businesses and anti-smoking groups say the aggressive marketing campaigns are a bid to maximize… Read more Audio

A blowout in waiting times at the Transport Agency is jeopardising garages' business and commercial drivers' livelihoods. Operators  say they are losing customers, and even the sale of entire… Read more Audio

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has ruled out accepting a G7 offer of aid to fight fires in the Amazon rainforest unless he gets an apology from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Mr Bolsonaro… Read more Audio

New Zealand's spy agencies say they know of troubling foreign donations across the political spectrum. The agencies have told MPs they support greater transparency around political donations, but warn… Read more Audio

Health officials are being accused of "calculated neglect" and dismissing debilitating gynaecological conditions as "women's problems", as South Auckland women are denied care. Many women in the… Read more Audio

Workplace Relations Minister Iain Lees-Galloway will today introduce a bill to Parliament that restores the authority's independence in determining the payscale for MPs. He spoke to Susie Ferguson… Read more Audio

MPs will vote today on a new way to set their pay - it looks a lot like the old way and neither the Greens nor Act is happy about it. Since 2015 the Remuneration Authority has been required to use a… Read more Audio