Morning Report

The Defence Minister says Cabinet will have to be convinced the training mission to Iraq continues to be in New Zealand's interests, and is sustainable, as they prepare to make decisions about its… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has spoken in Wellington about the time she began to realise that people were behind the data she worked with and how this changed her thinking… Read more Audio

Serena Williams meltdown at the US Tennis Open has cost her has $26,000. Audio

Strong link found between domestic abuse, suicide - study, 1080 operation suspended in Hunua Ranges, Serena Williams fined in US Open final - analysis, Govt decides on NZ's military role in Iraq… Read more Audio

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

The surfing world has gone where many sports have so far failed to and offered women and men equal prize money. The World Surf League will roll out equal pay at all elite tour events from next year -… Read more Audio

The government wants to know how much research money is going to women and Māori scientists. It says that's the first step in lifting participation and increasing diversity in the sector. The Ministry… Read more Audio

A lawyer for a prison guard says when inmates attacked his client it triggered flashbacks to another time prisoners assaulted him. Viju Devassy has been charged with attempting to pervert the course… Read more Audio

A US man forcibly separated by the Catholic Church from his parents as a toddler has, seven decades later, finally learned the truth about his father - by exhuming his body. Jim Graham of Seneca… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio