Morning Report

Hundreds of people in Christchurch have spent a second night without power after this week's Canterbury snowstorm. Audio

The Prime Minister has been defending the Government's backdown on education policies to reporters in Hamburg. Audio

With the Government backing down on its education changes, attention is turning to how the Government will handle another of its more controversial policies, the partial sale of some state owned… Read more Audio

The massacre in Syria of at least 78 people, many of them women and children, has outraged normally measured diplomats at the United Nations. Audio

Political editor Brent Edwards discusses the back down. Audio

The Education Minister, Hekia Parata, says the policy was a trade-off from the outset, but it was a trade-off parents couldn't accept. Audio

School principals say they are delighted with the government's backdown on staffing ratios that would have increased class sizes at schools around the country. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

The Government's backdown on larger class sizes has prompted calls for the Prime Minister to remove Hekia Parata from the education portfolio. Audio

A Hauraki iwi is considering seeking an urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing over plans to return fourteen Auckland mountains to a group of tribes; A welfare support group in Auckland is against a… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The latest from the Pacific region. Audio