Morning Report

Political Editor Brent Edwards looks at the cause and effect of recent and planned industrial action. Audio

An update on the industrial action at five Affco meat processing plants. Audio

Aged care workers from the country's largest rest home chain are getting ready to walk off the job today for the first in a series of planned strikes. The Service and Food Workers Union's… Read more Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

Builders say the new 'Build Right' regime should cut out the cowboys, while the owners of leaky homes say the scheme should have been in place 20-years ago. Audio

Opposition parties say some employers are getting tough on employees because they've been emboldened by looming changes to industrial law. Audio

A lawyer specialising in Treaty of Waitangi and Environmental matters says it's likely the Waitangi Tribunal will grant an urgent hearing for a freshwater claim; A Moriori leader says the Chatham… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The latest from the Pacific region. Audio

Swedish researchers have found that divorce could be in a woman's genes. A team of researchers from Stockholm's Karolinska Institute say they have identified a female gene that effects how women… Read more Audio

After millions of years buried in a hillside, then decades gathering dust in geological displays, the fossilised bones of a giant penguin have been pieced together to reveal a goliath of the bird… Read more Audio

Ngai Tahu is calling to be part of the environmental agency that's due to police New Zealand waters up to 200 nautical miles out from the coastline; The Ministry of Science and Innovation says it's… Read more Audio