Morning Report

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expelled two MPs from his party's caucus, after they accused him of meddling in a criminal case involving an major engineering firm. Jody Wilson-Raybould and… Read more Audio

The organisation Human Rights Watch says the Brunei government's new penal code introduced today is barbaric, archaic and poses grave threats to basic rights, especially for the most vulnerable. The… Read more Audio

Auckland Council continues to struggle to process building consents on time but it's hoping a hiring binge will allow it to handle a flood of applications. In the year to February the Council issued a… Read more Audio

An elderly man sexually attacked as a boy by the head of a leading Catholic college in Upper Hutt says it's good the rector's photo has been taken down - but the school should speak up about why it… Read more Audio

Thousands of New Zealanders believe there's more to the mosque terror attacks in Christchurch than we've been told. About five percent of the nation are estimated to be hard core conspiracy theorists… Read more Audio

The Maori Council is questioning why so many Māori children end up in care and get abused, and is calling on not only the government, but whānau to find answers. The council says tamariki are… Read more Audio

New Zealand Rugby League has again lost leading players to its Pacific neighbours. Audio

A cloud-based computing business in New Plymouth is being applauded for changing its name from Naki Cloud to Our Cloud. Many Taranaki Māori find the abbreviation at best irritating and at worst… Read more Audio

The convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubek was earmarked for deportation less than a year after he arrived but officials didn't take action because they thought he'd already left the country. Documents… Read more Audio

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has met with the opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, today in a bid to find a joint plan to end the deadlock over Brexit before the April 12 deadline. Our… Read more Audio

Canterbury's regional council - Environment Canterbury - is unhappy that an effort to ensure Māori representation has failed. The council has two Ngāi Tahu representatives, but under existing… Read more Audio