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 9 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'32"
06:10
NYSE trading halted by computer technical glitch
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Trading on the New York Stock exchange has been halted for more than 2 and a half hours (as at 6am NZT) due to a computer glitch
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Tags: USA, stock markets
Duration: 37"
06:15
More on NYSE trading halted by computer technical glitch
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Trading on the New York Stock exchange has been halted for more than 2 and a half hours (as at 6am NZT) due to a computer glitch
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Tags: USA, stock markets
Duration: 3'53"
06:22
Pacific News for 9 July 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'34"
06:24
Morning Rural News for 9 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'08"
06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 9 July 2015
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A Māori health academic is calling for official recognition of electronic cigarettes, or vapourisers as a way to help Māori quit smoking; A doctor opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is warning that the controversial agreement could put the well-being of tangata whenua at risk; New research shows that food taxes and subsidies could improve diets and reduce deaths in Aotearoa, particularly among Māori.
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Duration: 3'07"
06:48
China market falls sharply
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Chinese stocks have continued to fall sharply, despite a raft of government measures to restore calm.
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Tags: China, stock markets
Duration: 1'06"
06:49
Govt books remain in surplus
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The Government's books are on track to return to surplus, but an economist warns the slowing economy means it may not last.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: surplus, government
Duration: 2'56"
06:52
TPP ministerial meeting set for late July in Hawaii
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The Trade Minister, Tim Groser, says he's still waiting for a serious offer on opening up the dairy markets of countries involved in the Pacific-wide trade talks
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Tags: TPPA
Duration: 2'44"
06:55
Energy Mad says it hopes to make first profit in 5 year
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The light bulb company, Energy Mad, says after shedding about ten jobs, and moving another ten more staff to an agency, it hopes to make it's first profit for five years.
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Tags: Energy Mad
Duration: 1'52"
06:58
Morning markets for 9 July 2015
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Wall Street is down as China suffers another heavy day of losses.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'06"
06:59
Business briefs
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There's been changes at Cavelier Corporation's board.
Topics: business
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Tags: Cavelier Corporation
Duration: 19"
07:07
Sports News for 9 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'24"
07:11
Fortunes and lives lost as Chinese market rout continues
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China's sharemarket rout gathered pace again yesterday after the eyewatering amounts of Government cash allocated to prop up stocks over the weekend failed to staunch the bleeding.
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Tags: China, stock market
Duration: 4'40"
07:16
NYSE trading halted by computer technical glitch
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Meanwhile trading on the New York Stock Exchange has just restarted after a computer glitch shut it down more than 3 hours.
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Tags: USA, stock exchange, stock markets
Duration: 3'58"
07:21
All Blacks on way home but will they make a return visit?
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The All Blacks fly home today from Samoa having won their test match against Manu Samoa 25-16.
Topics: sport
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Tags: All Blacks, Samoa
Duration: 4'28"
07:26
Calls for All Blacks to play in Tonga
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Sangster Saulala is a Tongan MP and former chairman of the Tonga Rugby Union.
Topics: sport
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Tags: All Blacks, Tonga
Duration: 1'53"
07:28
AC/DC drummer to ask for discharge without conviction today
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The AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd will ask for a discharge without conviction when he appears for sentencing in Tauranga today.
Topics: crime
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Phil Rudd
Duration: 2'04"
07:33
Fire damages Auckland's just-restored St James theatre
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The fire service will today begin investigating the cause of a fire at Auckland's historic St James theatre.
Topics: arts, history
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: St James theatre, fire
Duration: 2'03"
07:36
Warnings in place on the roads
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Warnings remain in place for drivers around the country as icy conditions continue to make driving treacherous.
Topics: transport, weather
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Tags: roads, black ice
Duration: 2'20"
07:38
Spiders and flies evade MPI
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MPI is encouraging the public to remain vigilant after a number of venomous spiders from Mexico were found in bunches of table grapes.
Topics: business
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Tags: biosecurity, MPI
Duration: 6'03"
07:44
Ruataniwha farmers not buying water because too expensive
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Farmers in the area of the proposed $600 million Ruataniwha water storage project in Hawke's Bay say they will not buy the water because it is too expensive and would make their farms unprofitable.
Topics: farming
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Ruataniwha Dam
Duration: 4'05"
07:48
HBRC confident of reaching water sales target for Ruataniwha
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Hawke's Bay Regional Council chairman Fenton Wilson has been listening in to that.
Topics: farming
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Ruataniwha Dam
Duration: 2'25"
07:51
Study shows food taxes and subsidies could save lives
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A new study says a 20 pct tax on unhealthy foods and subsidisies on healthy ones could prevent or postpone thousands of early deaths each year.
Topics: health
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Tags: tax on unhealthy foods, foods
Duration: 4'28"
07:55
Beware the killer selfie Russian police warn youth
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Beware the killer selfie is the message from police to Russian youth after a dozens of deaths related to self photography attempted while performing dangerous stunts.
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Tags: Russia, selfie
Duration: 3'27"
08:07
Sports News for 9 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'15"
08:11
New York Stock Exchange trading halted
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Investors on Wall Street started their day worrying about China and the 3 trillion dollars of value wiped off its stock market.
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Tags: USA, stock market
Duration: 3'11"
08:14
What will the impact on New Zealand be?
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The suspension of trading on the New York Stock exchange comes as stocks nose dive in China and Greece continues to haggle with European creditors over another economic rescue package.
Topics: economy, business
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Tags: USA, China, Greece
Duration: 3'45"
08:18
Census highlights a new working poor in NZ
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Social service agencies say census data has highlighted the new working poor - those who can't afford to put a roof over their heads.
Topics: economy, life and society
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Tags: census data
Duration: 3'23"
08:22
Dishonest immigration advisers face "no consequences"
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Rogue immigration advisers, who defrauded vulnerable clients of thousands of dollars, have not paid a cent of the hundreds of thousands of dollars they were ordered to repay.
Topics: crime
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Tags: immigration advisers
Duration: 3'56"
08:29
Markets Update for 9 July 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'05"
08:36
Property market picks up in north as Aucklanders quit the city
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The property market in Northland has sprung back to life for the first time since the global financial crisis.
Topics: business
Regions: Northland
Tags: property market
Duration: 3'27"
08:38
Mixed reaction to ECan election plan
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Cantabrians will have to wait another four years before being able to elect a full regional council.
Topics: politics
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Canterbury Regional Council
Duration: 2'55"
08:41
All Blacks spread word about healthy eating in Samoa
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The All Blacks leave Samoa today, with a test win under their belt as well as a lot of good will from the Samoan people.
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Tags: All Blacks, Samoa
Duration: 2'45"
08:44
Te Manu Korihi News for 9 July 2015
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A Māori health academic is calling for official recognition of electronic cigarettes, or vapourisers as a way to help Māori quit smoking; New research shows that food taxes and subsidies could improve diets and reduce deaths in Aotearoa, particularly among Māori; A doctor opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is warning that the controversial agreement could put the well-being of tangata whenua at risk.
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Duration: 3'13"
08:48
Turnbull has sly dig at Abbott over terror laws
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Malcolm Turnbull, the former Australian Liberal Party leader who was rolled by Tony Abbott, has warned against over reacting to the threat posed by Islamic State.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'39"
08:51
171-year-old Nelson family farm weathering dairy ups and downs
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The slump in dairy prices is forcing one Nelson farming family to find new ways to make their farm pay after 171 years on the land.
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Tracy Neal, Nelson Reporter - tracy.neal@radionz.co.nz
A Nelson farm owned by the same family for 171 years is still going strong - and that's despite the slump in dairy prices.
Jeremy Cooper (left), Nikki Cooper and Richard Raine are striving to keep Nelson's Oaklands farm in the family.
Photo: RNZ / Tracy Neal
The Raine family have owned Oaklands farm since 1844 and began milking cows there in the 1930s, but they reckon weather and urban growth are bigger threats to its future. They have become the oldest family in New Zealand to receive a Century Farms Award, which recognises families who have worked the same land for a century or more.
The farm is now run by Richard's eldest son Julian Raine and his wife Cathy, who live on a neighbouring house on the property. The farm currently milks 200 cows year-round and is run as part of an integrated farm business alongside other farms and horticultural interests in the Nelson region.
Julian Raine said about 20 percent of milk produced was sold direct to the public under the Oaklands farm brand, while the majority went to Fonterra.
Oaklands homestead
Photo: RNZ / Tracy Neal
Oaklands milk is sold via vending machines at various locations around Nelson, and is also used in a growing number of city cafes.
Richard's eldest daughter Nikki and her husband Jeremy Cooper, who met while he was a young farm hand at Oaklands, recalled simpler times, including when the cows all had names.
"We used to have the most beautiful cow, called Ruru. We sat on her back while she was being milked and when she got old Dad retired her rather than send her to the Works," Nikki said.
Oaklands was forged by John Waring Saxton - Richard Raine's ancestor, and has survived wars and depressions, and a list of natural disasters closer to home, including floods and earthquakes.
John Saxton brought the Baltic pine homestead with him in prefabricated form from England in the early 1840s. He originally built it on another site he owned in Nelson before shifting it to Oaklands in 1845. It is the focal point of the farm and park-like gardens which feature large heritage trees, and rows of massive oak trees.
Nikki Cooper said previous generations survived by living frugally, through good and bad times. Her memories growing up there are of riding horses with her sister, friends coming around after school and many family occasions.
"Oaklands became very ingrained in our lives - so much so I never moved far from it," she said.
A more immediate challenge is holding off suburban growth on either side of the farm. The 500 hectare property straddles the boundary of two local authorities, the Nelson and Tasman councils. The farm's green buffer is being squeezed from all sides by suburban sprawl creeping closer to its boundaries.
"We're hanging in there, with houses all around us," Richard Raine said.
However, he is more concerned about the impact of weather on the farm than city growth and shifting dairy prices. In recent years, storm force winds have torn down heritage trees and heavy rains have taken their toll.
Richard, who is now 80, said the extremes had become more frequent, and that he had seen worse weather in the last decade than in his lifetime.
The Raines are determined to keep Oaklands alive, but they said it was going to take some lateral thinking. Two pieces of the farm's front have already been sliced off and used to develop the region's large multi-purpose sports complex, Saxton Field.
For Richard, there is too much tied up in the property to think about what might be, including the input of his wife Jill who has tended the house and 12 acre garden for decades and who is now in special care.
He said the farm was everything to him.
Topics: farming, history
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: Oaklands farm
Duration: 4'26"
08:55
New research on spine-tailed devil rays
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New research has found a summer visitor to New Zealand's waters - the spine-tailed devil ray - spend winters in the tropics and are fantastic divers.
Topics: science
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Tags: spine-tailed devil ray
Duration: 3'57"