Morning Report

Recycled materials are being stockpiled around the country while authorities struggle to work out what to do with it all. Last year, China stopped taking 24 different types of waste. A report out… Read more Audio

An Australian immigration lawyer says the locking up of a New Zealand boy in an immigration centre is a new low for his country. The boy, aged under 18, is being held in a detention facility alongside… Read more Audio

Māori lawyers and academics say the Family Court is in crisis and should not be dealing with the care and protection of Maori children. The Government is set to review the Family Court because of huge… Read more Audio

A clinical psychologist says police shouldn't be surprised when teenage offenders flee from them in cars at high speed. Last week a 15-year-old boy being chased by officers in Palmerston North crashed… Read more Audio

Companies Budget Loans Limited and Evolution Finance, owned by Allan Hawkins and his son Wayne, have been fined $700,000 for what a judge called cynical and deliberate offending. Their companies… Read more Audio

Housing New Zealand and the Housing Minister Phil Twyford say no compensation will be given to tenants who were evicted based on discredited methamphetamine testing. On Tuesday, a report by the Prime… Read more Audio

It's been revealed Arkady Babchenko, a dissident Russian journalist, faked his own death with the help of Ukrainian police. He was reportedly shot twice in the back and reportedly he died in the… Read more Audio

He was reportedly shot twice in the back and reportedly he died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. But then he walked into a press conference about his death, fit and well. It turns out Arkady… Read more Audio

A Tauranga Hospital nurse committed suicide and left a note to his colleagues asking if they were happy now. He is one of two nurses who felt bullied at the hospital then killed themselves. A third… Read more Audio

The test future of Crusaders forward Pete Samu remains in limbo, as he still awaits clearance from the New Zealand Rugby Union to play for Australia. Audio

Cigna becomes third biggest life insurer in NZ after buying ANZ's OnePath. Finance regulators find no bank misbehaviour, yet, but see room for improvement. A crop of company earning reports, and the… Read more Audio

Justice Minister Andrew Little says Housing New Zealand should apologise to tenants it threw out of their homes based on bogus meth testing. The Prime Minister's chief science adviser, Sir Peter… Read more Audio