Morning Report

Counselling and trauma services in Christchurch are slashed. A school and a children's hospital are hit in airstrikes in northern Syria and a man dies and a second is rescued in a boating tragedy off… Read more Audio

Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. Audio

The Australian government says it will no longer conduct annual Anzac commemoration services at Lone Pine, the scene of a rare victory for Australian troops during the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign. Audio

We talk to Duane Major, who started the campaign to buy the Abel Tasman beach just over three weeks ago. Audio

The Prime Minister John Key says the government may make a modest contribution to the campaign to buy an Abel Tasman beach if there is a shortfall. Audio

The Vice Chancellor Of Victoria University Grant Guildford, is calling on politicians to abandon their myopic focus on the cost of mitigating climate change. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

More than half of the over 900 asylum seekers - who fled from places such as Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka - have now had their refugee status confirmed by PNG Immigration. Audio

How strictly America should apply immigration controls and how to deal with the estimated 11-million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. are questions all of the Presidential candidates are being… Read more Audio

A new report says plans to extend Wellington Airport's runway by at least 300 metres do not make economic sense. Audio

Two days after the Auditor General announced she would investigate the Government's controversial Saudi sheep deal, the government agency in charge was told all further spending on the project was… Read more Audio

The GeoNet website says there have been three moderate aftershocks, measuring magnitude 3.6, 3.5 and 3.9, and one strong aftershock measuring 4.2 at 6.30 last night. Audio