Morning Report is a news and current affairs programme on Radio New Zealand National. It broadcasts nationwide every weekday morning for three hours and covers major national and international stories, as well as business, sport, Pacific and Māori news. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s website (note internationally sourced news packages may not necessarily appear in the rundown):
06:06
Sports News for 6 August 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'56"
06:16
Pacific News for 6 August 2014
The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'51"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 6 August 2014
News from the rural and farming sector.
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Duration: 4'06"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 6 August 2014
A Ngati Hine leader has told the Waitangi Tribunal the Crown has opened old wounds - and enmities - in its drive to settle the Ngapuhi claim; A Senior Lecturer says more research is needed into why tangata whenua aren't going in to hospices; Tainui Group Holdings says it's pleased with an interim decision to allow it to build a large freight, commercial and residential development at Ruakura on the outskirts of the city; King Tuheitia and the Hamilton City Council are to meet to discuss the gifting of a sculpture of the first Maori King, Potatau Te Wherowhero.
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Duration: 3'35"
06:41
British Airways suspends Liberia & Sierra Leone flights
British Airways has suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone because of the Ebola outbreak. The carrier operates a direct flight four times a week from London to Sierra Leone and onto Liberia.
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Duration: 1'55"
06:44
Builders frustrated with consents despite claims of improvement
Builders in Christchurch say the sooner the city council can issue building consents the better. The Building and Construction Minister, Nick Smith, says he expects that will happen by Christmas.
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Duration: 2'44"
06:49
Dairy prices
Dairy prices have plunged 8.4% in the international auction, and that means prices have dropped 41% in the Global Dairy Price index since February.
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Duration: 41"
06:50
Briscoe's online sales now exceed those of its largest store
Briscoe Group's online sales are now greater than through its largest bricks-and-mortar store and they're growing at a rate well into double digits.
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Duration: 2'31"
06:52
Mark Weldon is charged with restoring MediaWorks' profitability
MediaWorks new chief executive is clearly being charged with restoring the company's profitability sufficiently so that its banker owners can sell and get their money back.
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Duration: 2'21"
06:54
Goodman Property Assets to sell about $100m in assets yearly
New Zealand's largest property trust is going to sell-off about $100-million a year in assets so it can reinvest in new, and ongoing, property developments.
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Duration: 1'43"
06:56
Barfoot & Thompson's Auckland house listings/sales fell in July
Although sales of houses by Auckland's largest real estate agent fell in July, sales of houses for less than $500-thousand were still strong.
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Duration: 2'08"
06:58
Morning markets
A rundown of the markets.
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Duration: 1'14"
07:06
Sports News for 6 August 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'04"
07:11
Big slump for dairy prices overnight
Global dairy prices dropped significantly again overnight, falling 8.5% in the Global Dairy Trade auction.
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Duration: 6'36"
07:19
Labour says no deal with Internet Mana
The Mana Party leader, Hone Harawira, says Labour will have no choice but to talk to them after the election if the Internet-Mana Alliance gets more than 5% of the vote.
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Duration: 5'53"
07:22
Crown sums up in SCF case
The High Court in Timaru has been told three former South Canterbury Finance directors facilitated the improper way the company was being run by its chairman, the late Allan Hubbard.
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Duration: 3'08"
07:24
Bainimarama campaigns in Auckland this weekend
Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama is making an electioneering trip to New Zealand, his first visit since his military coup in 2006.
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Duration: 2'57"
07:26
Foreign minister on visiting Fiji prime minister
Foreign Minister, Murray McCully comments on Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama's electioneering trip to New Zealand.
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Duration: 6'44"
07:36
Hawera in mourning over death of local woman
The small community of Hawera is still reeling from the death of local woman Christine Fairweather. The 57-year-old grandmother was hit by a car after stopping late on Saturday night to remove metal fence frames that had been placed across the road.
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Duration: 2'45"
07:41
Gaza truce holds as Israel withdraws
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have been returning home from UN shelters on the first day of a 72-hour ceasefire agreed by Israel and Palestinian militant groups.
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Duration: 4'58"
07:45
Afghan soldier attack on UK army camp kills US general
An American major-general has been shot dead by an Afghan soldier at a military facility near Kabul. Using a machine gun in the attack, the soldier also wounded a British and a German General, and more than a dozen other foreign and Afghan troops.
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Duration: 4'30"
07:53
Man sentenced over fake free range eggs
A farmer who falsely labelled his eggs as free-range has been sentenced to 12 months home detention. John Garnett, of Forest Hill Farm in Northland, pleaded guilty to selling cage eggs as free range or barn laid eggs.
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Duration: 3'14"
07:56
Whanganui River Iwi to co-manage their ancestral river
The longest litigation case in New Zealand's history was settled when Whanganui River Iwi signed a Treaty Settlement with the Crown.
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Duration: 3'35"
08:06
Sports News for 6 August 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'59"
08:11
Green Party leader on proposed Student Green Card
The Prime Minister John Key has rubbished a Green Party promise of a Green Card that will give free public transport to every tertiary students. Students at university, polytechnics, and private training establishments and those going through apprenticeships would be eligible for the Card.
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Duration: 6'11"
08:18
Business sector puts forward election policy wishlist
Business leaders have set out their wish list for the elections, saying policies that boost competitiveness are what they most want to see. They also want to see better performance from the education sector, saying it's hard to find staff with the right skills in areas like technology, IT and engineering.
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Duration: 5'19"
08:26
Leaked docs show Health Ministry's programme in strife
Official documents leaked to Radio New Zealand News show the cost of one of the Health Ministry's programmes under its flagship cost-cutting initiative, Health Benefits Limited, has ballooned from $89 million to at least $115 million.
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Duration: 3'22"
08:30
Markets Update for 6 August 2014
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 1'17"
08:37
Top health appointment put off until after the election
A long international search for a new head of the Health Ministry is to be further delayed, until after the election. The State Services Commission began advertising for a new Director-General of Health in late August.
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Duration: 3'20"
08:41
Man jailed for 17 years for abuse of family
A man who repeatedly raped his wife and subjected his family to what a Judge described as a 'domestic reign of terror' has been jailed for 17 years.
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Duration: 3'23"
08:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 6 August 2014
A Ngati Hine leader has told the Waitangi Tribunal the Crown has opened old wounds - and enmities - in its drive to settle the Ngapuhi claim; King Tuheitia and the Hamilton City Council are to meet this Friday to discuss the gifting of a sculpture of the first Maori King, Potatau Te Wherowhero. A Senior Lecturer says more research is needed into why tangata whenua aren't going in to hospices; Tainui Group Holdings says it's pleased with an interim decision to allow it to build a large freight, commercial and residential development at Ruakura on the outskirts of the city.
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Duration: 3'29"
08:49
Innovative Iwi goes hi-tech for Waitangi Tribunal hearing
More now on Ngati Hine people and its presenting of historic grievances to the Waitangi Tribunal in the tiny settlement of Pipiwai - west of Whangarei.
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Duration: 3'21"
08:53
More than 200 scientists criticise National Science Challenges
The vast majority of scientists surveyed by the New Zealand Association of Scientists are continuing to be critical of the government's 133.5 million dollar National Science Challenges programme.
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Duration: 2'59"
08:54
A thousand people attend forum on child poverty
More than a thousand people packed out a Wellington church last night for a forum on child poverty. Representatives from the major political parties told the crowd how they were making poverty a priority this election.
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Duration: 2'09"