Morning Report

Animal rights activists in Australia are horrified at Bali's dog meat trade and the fact unsuspecting tourists are being duped into thinking they're eating something other dog meat. Animals Australia… Read more Audio

In a break from tradition, the Ombudsman has ruled that the Ministry for Primary Industries no longer has to reveal the locations where swamp kauri is being extracted. That's in contrast to what's… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The chief executive of Oranga Tamariki, Grainne Moss, says money is on the way to improve the way the state cares for children who cannot live with their birth families. Audio

The Green Party has announced it will give the the refugee quota a big boost - raising it to 5,000 within the next six years, if it's elected into government in September. Audio

A fifth robot is to be sent down into the Pike River Mine, through boreholes that are yet to be drilled, to try to look for signs of bodies of the 29 men who died in the mine, or for the cause of the… Read more Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Waikato is Warren Gatland's home province and the Chiefs rugby team his former employer. Sport Waikato's Chief Executive Matthew Cooper says there's a good atmosphere in Waikato. Audio

Britain's Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has described the first day of talks about the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union as "very productive" and says that a deal is "eminently… Read more Audio

The Government's $18 million, two-year Healthy Homes programme for insulating the country's housing appears to be a hard sell. Fewer than 4,000 homes have been insulated under the scheme; it was hoped… Read more Audio

Foster parents say they're still waiting for change from the new Ministry, Oranga Tamariki, and are increasingly sceptical that the desperately needed support is ever going to arrive. Audio