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 25 September 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'02"
06:10
DairyNZ warns farmers to look at costs of farming systems
A dairy industry body is warning farmers to take a hard look at their costs after a lower than expected milk price forecast.
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Duration: 3'40"
06:16
Pacific News for 25 September 2014
The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'28"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 25 September 2014
News from the rural and farming sector.
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Duration: 3'57"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 September 2014
The Northland chief executive of Ngai Takoto Runanga says iwi Maori are creating a new emerging economy and are becoming powerhouses in their own right as their Treaty claims are settled, but local councils need to learn - not fear them. A tribe, which for years has pushed for iwi representation on the New Plymouth District Council says its Mayor, Andrew Judd, is trying to strip away racial disharmony within local government. A marine scientist from the University of Otago has been given a-hundred-and-80-thousand dollars for a placement within Ngai Tahu to conduct surveys of marine species in customary protection areas. Meanwhile, new funding has been granted for four Maori science projects, including making Taranaki rivers cleaner and self-sustaining energy at Parihaka.
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Duration: 3'17"
06:38
Re-entry not a priority for cash-strapped coal miner
The Engineering, Printing, and Manufacturing Union says the government needs to make Solid Energy start the recovery of the Pike River men's bodies -- or take the job away from the company.
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Duration: 2'34"
06:50
Fonterra looks to next 2 dairy trade auctions for direction
Fonterra will be watching the next two global dairy trade auctions to see whether its forecast for the farmgate milk price is on track at 5-dollars-30 per kilo of milk solids.
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Duration: 3'39"
06:52
The lower milk payout will cut GDP a percentage point or more
Fonterra's latest downgrade in its forecast milk payout for the current year is likely to shave at least a percentage point off economic growth.
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Duration: 2'25"
06:54
Nuplex delights investors with the prospect of asset sales
Nuplex delighted investors yesterday with just the thought it might sell a couple of problem Australasian businesses.
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Duration: 1'51"
06:57
Fletchers to chalk up $19m of costs in copper company pull-out
Fletcher Building is to incur 19 million dollars of costs with the closure of its copper tube manufacturing business in Australia.
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Duration: 1'29"
06:58
Comvita secures supply chain to boost growth
The Manuka honey business, Comvita, says it wants to increase its supply of the coveted product.
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Duration: 1'31"
06:59
Morning markets for 25 September 2014
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 26"
07:06
Sports News for 25 September 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'23"
07:10
Rena owners "grossly exaggerating" cost of wreck removal
The Government appears to have dismissed independent advice the Rena could have been totally removed from the Astrolabe Reef.
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Duration: 5'06"
07:16
Dairy farmers begin to feel the pinch
Taranaki farmers are beginning to feeling the pinch as the sharp drop in Fonterra's payout to farmers starts to bite.
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Duration: 2'37"
07:18
Fonterra chief executive discusses annual results
Guyon Espiner talks to Theo Spierings.
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Duration: 5'04"
07:24
Labour voters who spurned party discuss potential leaders
Labour leader David Cunliffe is standing firm but several MPs are thought to be positioning themselves for a leadership contest.
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Duration: 4'08"
07:29
Militants behead Frenchman
Herve Gourdel was kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday in what the group said was a response to France's action against Islamic State militants in Iraq.
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Duration: 4'14"
07:36
Mines Rescue Trust surprised at Solid Energy's response
The chairman of the Mines Rescue Trust is surprised by Solid Energy's response to Worksafe's assessment that entry into the Pike River Mine is safe.
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Duration: 10'04"
07:45
Family friend overwhelmed by public response
A family friend is overwhelmed at the public response for support and donations for Lucy Knight; the mother of six who was seriously injured when she intervened in an attempted bag snatch on Tuesday.
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Duration: 2'19"
07:50
Islamic State focus of US attacks
American warplanes have pounded Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day as the US President Barack Obama vowed at the United Nations to keep up military pressure against them.
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Duration: 5'01"
07:57
NZTA to appeal Board of Inquiry's decision
The Transport Agency will appeal against the decision to decline resource consent for the controversial Basin Reserve Flyover in Wellington.
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Duration: 4'04"
08:07
Sports News for 25 September 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'59"
08:11
Australian Labor Party numbers man says Cunliffe must go
An Australian Labor Party power broker turned political commentator says David Cunliffe has got to go for the sake of the party's future.
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Duration: 4'53"
08:16
Fiji swears in new Cabinet replete with ex-military officers
The new Cabinet in the Fijian government has been sworn in and it includes seven former military officers.
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Duration: 3'20"
08:19
Dairy export earning could take a $5billion hit
Dairy export earnings look likely to take a five billion dollar hit and that will flow through past the farmgate and into the wider economy.
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Duration: 2'38"
08:23
"Extortionate" tactics of research publishers cost taxpayers millions
Universities and government research institutes say big overseas publishing companies are using extortionate tactics to get tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers money.
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Duration: 3'06"
08:27
NZ business out of pocket after a stamp deal turns sour
Sir Ron Brierley's love of stamps has seen him unwittingly caught up in a legal dispute over an Australian stamp collection worth more than 3 and half million dollars.
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Duration: 2'51"
08:30
Markets Update for 25 September 2014
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 57"
08:35
Ebola outbreak could get much worse
Global experts are issuing stark new warnings about the scale of West Africa's Ebola outbreak.
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Duration: 4'58"
08:45
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 September 2014
A tribe, which for years has pushed for iwi representation on the New Plymouth District Council says its Mayor, Andrew Judd, is trying to strip away racial disharmony within local government. The Northland chief executive of Ngai Takoto Runanga says iwi Māori are creating a new emerging economy and are becoming powerhouses in their own right as their Treaty claims are settled, but local councils need to learn - not fear them. New funding has been granted for four Māori science projects, including making Taranaki rivers cleaner and self-sustaining energy at Parihaka. A marine scientist from the University of Otago has been given one-hundred-and-80-thousand dollars for a placement within Ngai Tahu to conduct surveys of marine species in customary protection areas.
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Duration: 3'12"
08:48
Gay asylum seeks on Manus Island
There are claims that Australia may try to resettle gay asylum seekers they've detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea where homosexuality is illegal.
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Duration: 3'09"
08:51
Auckland Cricket goes hi-tech to help young players imrpove
Auckland Cricket's using state of the art technology as it looks to get an advantage when it comes to developing young talent.
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Duration: 2'45"
08:54
Plans for fishing museum and marine education centre for Nelson
Leaders in the fishing industry are backing a plan to develop a fishing museum and marine education centre in Nelson.
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Duration: 3'25"