Morning Report

New Zealand makes an international commitment to consider a public register of who really owns and benefits from NZ companies. We ask Bill English why he's all but ruled out tax cuts and the cloud… Read more Audio

Retailers in Central Dunedin are launching a new business group tonight to push for more attention and spending on the city's main shopping strip. Audio

Addiction experts have told MPs a planned law change allowing drug addicts and alcoholics to be detained for up to eight weeks for treatment will not work without more funding. Audio

The Ministry of Immigration in Papua New Guinea says all asylum seekers detained on Manus Island are now free to come and go from the processing centre. Audio

It now seems certain Australia will pull the plug on the trans-Tasman netball competition in its current form. Audio

World leaders are arriving in the UK for tomorrow's anti-corruption summit, just days after Prime Minister David Cameron labelling Afghanistan and Nigeria 'fantastically corrupt.' Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

Listening to that is Roy Pilott -- a former editor at the Taranaki Daily News, which is owned by Fairfax. Audio

Digital start-ups, and small online-only media players appear poorly placed to step into any void created by a proposed merger of two New Zealand's industry heavyweights. Audio

Financial experts are divided over the Reserve Bank's suggestion that it might introduce debt-to-income ratio restrictions. Audio

A Flaxmere man working to reduce family violence says families and the community need to look to themselves, not government agencies, to solve problems in the Hastings suburb. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio