Morning Report

More people have opted to get a flu jab this winter than ever before. Provisional figures for the last flu season indicate more than 1.3 million people were vaccinated this year. One hundred years ago… Read more Audio

A Porirua youth worker is questioning why key DHB mental health workers were unaware for months of a spate of sudden deaths. Joan Buchanan who runs the Spirit of Rangatahi programme says people's… Read more Audio

Karel Sroubek arrived in New Zealand in 2003 using a false passport under the name Jan Antolik. Since then he's set up seven companies and managed to buy a house largely with cash. He was associated… Read more Audio

National says the Immigration Minister should take the heat for making a botched decision, rather than throwing his officials under the bus. Iain Lees-Galloway has ordered an investigation into the… Read more Audio

The All Blacks coach Steve Hansen insists he isn't feeling any extra nerves ahead of tomorrow's test against Japan in Tokyo. Audio

Z Energy is expecting steady second half after apologising for what it calls disappointing underperformance in first half. BNZ confident nothing will cloud its outlook as it cracks $1 bn annual… Read more Audio

It's estimated that a quarter of young New Zealanders are having sex before they're 16 - the age of consent. More than 10,000 people aged 16 to 74 were surveyed in 2014 and 2015 about their sexual… Read more Audio

A company has been awarded a licence for what will be the largest cannabis farm in the country so far, with thousands of plants for medical research. The Ministry of Health has given the go-ahead to… Read more Audio

Should there be a mandatory quota for women on company boards? Earlier in the week an AUT study revealed only a quarter of board members on the country's 100 listed companies are women and while that… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

An early look at the day's business news, and a catch up on overnight action on global markets  Audio

All the attention, and the pressure, will be on the home town favourites for this weekend's Australian Supercars Supersprint event at Pukekohe. It's the second-to-last round in the championship and… Read more Audio