Morning Report

The National Director of the Family First lobby group, Bob McCoskrie, says there could be plenty of support for a new Christian values party but it will depend on whether voters believe it could win… Read more Audio

A recycling plant in Invercargill, employing more than 80 workers with disabilites is set to lose a key contract and it likely will cost those workers their jobs. For the last eight years Southland… Read more Audio

The number of Māori employed by DHBs must double in the next 15 years if it's going to meet the needs of the country's most vulnerable people. That was the impetus for a student-tour of Wellington… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

Thanks to Donald Trump the phrase "fake news" is, for better or worse, forever embedded in our collective consciousness.

But fake news - false information which is spread deliberately to deceive… Read more Audio

In just a few hours some of the Pike River families will witness what they've spent years battling for - the re-entry into the mine. RNZ reporter Logan Church is in Greymouth. He talks to Susie… Read more Audio

The police haven't charged anyone with revealing the identity of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane. In the days after his first court appearance, top lawyers, judges and… Read more Audio

In other claims against the Crusaders, the South African men who have accused some Crusaders rugby players of threatening and homophobic behaviour have gone to the police in an attempt to get footage… Read more Audio

More claims of poor behaviour by Crusaders players have emerged in South Africa.

This morning RNZ has spoken to a woman who alleges a player who she later identified as All Black Richie Mounga spat… Read more Audio

The All Blacks coach Steve hansen is wanting more consistency from some referees after two New Zealand Super Rugby sides were stung on the penalty count in South Africa at the weekend. Audio

Almost 200 young offenders were held in police cells last year - for periods of more than 24 hours and, in some cases, up to seven days. With the youth court age increasing in July, a Nelson lawyer… Read more Audio

The number of clicks from people living in Australia on Immigration New Zealand websites jumped four-fold the day after Saturday's election result. RNZ immigration reporter Gill Bonnett talks through… Read more Audio