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 3 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'33"
06:11
Groser says US and Japan likely to make TPP work
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The Minister of Trade, Tim Groser, says dairy was always going to be a sticking point for New Zealand in Trans Pacific Partnership talks. Trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries have failed to clinch the regional free trade agreement following four days of talks in Hawaii.
Topics: economy
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 3'24"
06:14
Wreckage prompts Reunion locals to comb island for plane debris
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Another piece of wreckage has washed up on the shores of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, prompting locals to comb the small island for signs of plane debris. One object discovered south of the city of St Denis was thought to have been part of a door, but Malaysia's Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman says it was just a domestic ladder. Part of a wing came ashore, which has been sent to France for identification, but Malaysia's already confirming that it WAS part of Boeing triple-seven. It's led to the widespread belief that it belongs to MH370, the Malaysian airliner that disappeared last year with 239 people on board.
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Tags: MH370
Duration: 4'24"
06:20
Pacific News for 3 August 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'56"
06:23
Morning Rural News for 3 August 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural
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Duration: 4'03"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 August 2015
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Fonterra has been fined over $170,000 for polluting the Rangitāiki River, which the regional council says is a significant taonga for iwi; A new report highlights agricultural opportunities for Maori in the Manawatu and Whanganui region; The out-going Chief Executive of Ngai Tahu Property is in no doubt that the value and influence of the iwi owned company will continue after he leaves the position at the end of the year; An iwi-led initiative to improve the well-being of communities in the Ruapehu district is being hailed a success with the generation of nearly 40 jobs.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'40"
06:41
Opposition parties fear what NZ will give up for TPP
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Opposition parties are voicing fears about how far the Government is prepared to compromise in order to be part of a renegotiated Trans Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries have failed to clinch the regional free trade agreement after four days of talks in Hawaii.
Topics: economy
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 3'05"
06:44
Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter's future
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Analysts are still convinced the owner of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter will keep it open when the future of the plant is revealed.
Topics: business
Regions: Southland
Tags: Tiwai Point aluminium smelter
Duration: 1'55"
06:51
More change for business expected - Talley
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The head of one of New Zealand's largest food companies predicts more change for business over the next five years than it's seen in the past twenty five years. The joint managing director of the Nelson based Talley's group, Sir Peter Talley, opened the Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce annual business leaders conference, Aspire.
Topics: business, food
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Duration: 2'25"
06:53
Labour market data expected to point to low wage inflation
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Some economists are picking robust jobs growth and weak pay rises once again when the latest figures on the historical state of the labour market are released.
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Duration: 2'00"
06:55
Economist calls for the Government to have a back-up plan
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A sharp fall in confidence in the construction sector has one economist reiterating his call for the Government to have a back-up plan in place in case the economy takes a turn for the worse.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'14"
06:58
Jim Parker in Australia
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Across the Tasman, and questions are being asked about Australia's new free trade agreement with China and its implications for workers.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 54"
07:06
Sports News for 3 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'01"
07:08
Park under police guard after officers shot & killed a man
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A central Auckland park remains under police guard after officers shot and killed a man last night.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 2'20"
07:14
Tim Groser prepared to do TPP battle for NZ dairy industry
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Trade Minister Tim Groser has vowed to continue fighting for New Zealand's biggest export industry - dairy. Guyon Espiner asked Prime Miniser John Key if New Zealand could be forced to sign up to a TPP that includes a dud deal for dairy.
Topics: economy
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Tags: TPP, dairy
Duration: 5'01"
07:19
Economics correspondent Patrick O'Meara with the TPP fallout
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Trans-Pacific parternship talks between the 12 countries involved have broken down. Dairy, cars and intellectual property were the three main stumbling blocks.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 3'31"
07:23
Mass doping allegations rock athletics
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Global athletics is in chaos after the leaking of thousands of blood tests. The information was leaked to Britain's Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD. The news organisations showed the data to two experts, who concluded distance running was in the same state as cycling had been when Lance Armstrong won the seven Tour de France victories of which he has since been stripped. What it shows is endurance runners, suspected of doping, won a third of Olympic and world championship medals between 2001-2012.
Topics: sport
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Tags: doping
Duration: 4'09"
07:37
Decision due on aluminium smelter
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New Zealand should know the future of Southland's aluminium smelter shortly. The company running the firm has long complained about the costs of doing business at the plant, chiefly the price it pays for its electricity and the cost of transmitting that electricity to its factory. However despite these complaints, the company is not thought likely to shut down, even though it could.
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Regions: Southland
Tags: Tiwai Point aluminium smelter
Duration: 4'53"
07:42
Receiver investigating potential privacy breach
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The receiver for the defunct counselling service Relationships Aotearoa says he will investigate how a journalist was able to get access to thousands of clients' confidential files left in an abandoned Christchurch office. In a blogpost yesterday, freelance writer Beck Eleven posted photographs of dozens of boxes containing what she said were sensitive client files including details of sexual assaults and family violence.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Relationships Aotearoa, privacy breach
Duration: 4'44"
07:44
Anti-family violence advocates would back criminal charge for domestic abuse
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Anti-family violence advocates say they'd support a specific criminal charge for domestic abuse, but it's not a silver bullet. The Justice Minister, Amy Adams, will release a discussion document this week, arguing in favour of dedicated family violence charges.
Topics: crime
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Tags: domestic violence
Duration: 6'02"
07:48
More trouble at Maori boarding school Hato Petera
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There are fresh concerns about the future of Auckland's last remaining Maori boarding school, Hato Petera College on the north shore. In the past week the school has suffered a suspension followed by the resignation of three hostel managers. Recently the Catholic Church, which owns the land and the whanau trust board, which looks after the property arm, re-signed the school lease, but the offer of 25 years has been reduced to just five.
Topics: te ao Maori, education
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Hato Petera College
Duration: 3'04"
07:54
Under fire Aust speaker resigns & sparks review of expenses
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The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is promising a root and branch review of parliamentary entitlements after the embattled speaker Bronwyn Bishop resigned. The big-spending Ms Bishop has been under-fire since splurging thousands of dollars on a helicopter for what is otherwise an hour-long drive between Melbourne and Geelong.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, Liberal Party
Duration: 3'19"
07:58
British TV personality and singer Cilla Black dies at 72
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The British singer and TV personality, Cilla Black, has died of natural causes at her home in Spain at the age of 72.
Topics: music, arts
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Tags: television, Cilla Black
Duration: 3'10"
08:06
Sports News for 3 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'04"
08:11
Update on fatal shooting in central Auckland
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A police press conference into the fatal shooting of a man at a central Auckland park has just finished with more details emerging about the circumstances that led to his death. The victim has been named by police as 21-year-old Slovakian David Cerven.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: polive
Duration: 2'39"
08:14
'Treasure hunt spirit' on Reunion island after more debris found
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More metallic debris is being collected on the beaches of Reunion Island. One object discovered south of the city of St Denis was thought to have been part of a door, but Malaysia's Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman says it was just a domestic ladder not from flight MH370.
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Tags: MH370
Duration: 3'57"
08:18
Parents call on NZ Govt to push Myanmar to release son
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The father of a New Zealander imprisoned in Myanmar for insulting religion by posting a picture of Buddha in headphones on Facebook says the Government is refusing to advocate on his behalf. Nearly 7000 prisoners were granted a presidential pardon ahead of a national holiday in Myanmar, but former Wellington man Philip Blackwood missed out.
Topics: technology, crime, spiritual practices
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Tags: Myanmar
Duration: 3'42"
08:22
Dairy industry keen to get fast resolution to stalled TPP talks
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New Zealand is continuing to push Canada for access to its dairy market. Canada's reluctance to open its domestic market to dairy imports was one of the stumbling blocks that stalled the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks.
Topics: economy
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Tags: TPP, Canada
Duration: 3'13"
08:26
Canada holdout blamed for TPP's dairy impasse
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Since the talks collapsed, the Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper has called general elections in October. That is expected to make significant climbdowns on Canada's dairy tariffs politically difficult.
Topics: economy
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Tags: TPP, Canada
Duration: 3'00"
08:28
Judge says change needed to make protection orders effective
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Fourteen women, six men and ten children are killed by a member of their family every year on average, and now the Government is considering making family violence a stand-alone offence. The concept of separate charge for family violence was first suggested three years ago by the then-chief Family Court judge, Peter Boshier, who is now also a Law Commissioner.
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: domestic violence
Duration: 3'56"
08:32
Markets Update for 3 August 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'02"
08:38
Peters defends comment about Corrections Minister's race
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New Zealand First wrapped up its annual conference with its leader Winston Peters once again courting controversy with comments about race.
Topics: politics
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Tags: NZ First
Duration: 5'11"
08:43
Serious dog bites are on the rise
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Young children, Maori and Pacific Islanders and poor people are most at risk of being attacked by dogs, according to a new study. Nearly 100,000 dog bites were recorded in the past 10 years with an average of two people a day needing hospital treatment.
Topics: te ao Maori, Pacific
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Tags: dogs
Duration: 3'17"
08:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 3 August 2015
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A new report highlights agricultural opportunities for Maori in the Manawatu and Whanganui region; Fonterra has been fined over 170-thousand dollars for polluting the Rangitaiki River, which the regional council says is a significant taonga for iwi; An iwi-led initiative to improve the well-being of communities in the Ruapehu district is being hailed a success with the generation of nearly 40 jobs; The out-going Chief Executive of Ngai Tahu Property is in no doubt that the value and influence of the iwi owned company will continue after he leaves the position at the end of the year.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'20"
08:52
Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter to remain open
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The aluminium smelter in Southland will now stay open. The smelter is a critical part of the Southland economy.
Topics: economy
Regions: Southland
Tags: Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter
Duration: 5'09"
08:56
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says that recently resigned speaker Bronwyn Bishop is a victim of the entitlement system; and not much coverage of the TPP in Australian press.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, Labor Party, TPP
Duration: 3'12"