Morning Report

Pressure is mounting on Immigration New Zealand to deny entry to a controversial Canadian pair set to give a talk in Auckland next month. Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux are best known for their… Read more Audio

Law firm Russell McVeagh had a culture of excessive drinking when sexual misconduct allegations arose in 2015 and 2016, an independent review has found. Dame Margaret Bazley, who led the review… Read more Audio

Groping, excessive drinking, sexual misconduct, bullying - a catalogue of "disgraceful incidents". That's from Dame Margaret Bazley and her scathing review of the law firm Russel McVeagh - published… Read more Audio

The Canterbury shot-putter Tom Walsh has won his event at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting and in doing so has taken the lead in the season standings. Audio

The softening outlook for the NZ dollar. Freeing up tome with smart technology. The clock ticks down to the U.S.-China tariffs deadline. And the latest from the world financial markets. Audio

Questions around the government's relationship with Russell McVeagh have been renewed, following the release of a highly critical review of the law firm on Thursday. The report, by Dame Margaret… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The New Zealand Biosecurity Institute says it was not consulted when a list of trees was published for the billion tree programme. The list was produced to encourage ordinary New Zealanders to help… Read more Audio

A mother who had her children removed from her care has spoken about the unfairness of a law that meant her baby was in line to be taken when he was born, despite her circumstances changing… Read more Audio

The UK government has given its first formal response to the new nerve agent poisonings near Salisbury in the south-west of England. British home secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed to parliament the… Read more Audio

New Zealander Michael Venus and his partner, Raven Klaasen, are just two games away from reaching the second round of Wimbledon. The pair were two sets and a break up on Australians Lleyton Hewitt and… Read more Audio