Morning Report

Top stories this morning: Housing New Zealand begins paying out compensation to state-house tenants who were booted out of their homes. The parents of Sophie Elliott welcome a new law making… Read more Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

A grassroots Christmas card movement is hoping to send 100,000 handmade cards to people who are alone this holiday season. Hannah Rodgers started Sending Love last year after she and her son Jayden… Read more Audio

It's shaping up to be a big weekend - and a fraught one - as Ngāpuhi people wrestle with a new mandate proposal. There are 22 hui scheduled for hapū to vote on the plan to negotiate their Treaty… Read more Audio

The whitebaiting season finishes on Friday and whitebaiters are worried they could be facing tougher regulations next season. All but one of the five species, whose juveniles make up the whitebait… Read more Video, Audio

A programme run by destiny church called "Man Up" wants the Government to let them mentor prisoners. Man Up is a programme trying to help men get out of the cycle of abuse, and deal with dysfunctional… Read more Audio

NCEA and Scholarship exams are finishing for 2018, ending three-and-a-half weeks of study and stress for 140,000 teenagers. The last exams are level 1 Te Reo Māori, Art History and Classical Studies… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

It's being suggested grants from the government's Provincial Growth Fund might violate world trade rules that block state subsidies for agriculture. Such subsidies were phased out by the fourth Labour… Read more Audio

Secret intelligence reports given to Australian officials outlined a case in which Chinese espionage services used Huawei's staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network. On Wednesday the… Read more Audio

A two-time America's Cup winner is rumoured to be heading a Dutch sailing syndicate's last minute bid to take part in Auckland. Yacht clubs have until the end of the day to apply to take part in 2021… Read more Audio

Twenty trucking companies have been warned they stand to lose their licences to operate, as the country's biggest-ever road safety investigation expands. Twenty-five truck drivers have also been put… Read more Audio