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 24 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'22"
06:14
KiwiRail and Solid Energy at loggerheads over West Coast coal cartage
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KiwiRail and Solid Energy are at loggerheads over the price the miner pays to cart coal from the West Coast.
Topics: transport
Regions: West Coast
Tags: mining
Duration: 2'38"
06:20
Pacific News for 24 August 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'49"
06:24
Morning Rural News for 24 August 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'10"
06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 24 August 2015
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Ngati Ranginui is considering whether it can purchase a larger cut of the state houses earmarked for sale in Tauranga; Researchers say malnutrition in older Maori is less likely to happen if an holistic Maori worldview is acknowledged; A team of young Maori paddlers, Nga Tauira Maori, are in training now for the world's longest and most challenging outrigger canoe race in Hawaii next month; A Ngai Te Rangi poet hopes to see the world through the eyes of other native people when he attends an indigenous writers programme in Canada.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'19"
06:40
Labour calls for meeting over controversial health and safety bill
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The Labour Party leader says the Government's health and safety reform bill is a total mess and it needs a cross-party consensus to get it back on track.
Topics: politics, health
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Duration: 2'35"
06:44
Treaty Minister awaits detail of Kiingitanga claim
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The Treaty Negotiations Minister says he's yet to receive any details of a claim by Waikato Tainui detailing its interests in Auckland.
Topics: politics, te ao Maori
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Tags: Treaty of Waitangi
Duration: 2'28"
06:48
Stock markets take a hammering
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Stock markets have taken a hammering as weak manufacturing figures from China underpinned fears of a global economic slowdown.
Topics: business
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Tags: stock markets
Duration: 1'26"
06:50
Video game developers make warning
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New Zealand video game developers have warned the country's booming industry will stagnate without support from the Government.
Topics: business
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Tags: gaming, video games
Duration: 2'00"
06:52
NZ should refine regulation of electric line firms - expert
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A visiting expert on natural monopolies says Britain is refining the way it regulates electric lines companies and New Zealand should too.
Topics: business
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Tags: power companies
Duration: 1'55"
06:54
Spark says demand for digital services will drive profit growth
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Spark's boss is convinced the phone and broadband provider is now in the right shape to prosper.
Topics: business
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Tags: telecommunications, Spark
Duration: 1'45"
06:56
Sky TV delivers best ever result despite customer numbers down
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Meanwhile, Sky Network Television's shares have fallen nearly 4-and-a-half percent as it lost customers.
Topics: business
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Tags: Sky TV
Duration: 1'34"
06:57
The week ahead
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In corporate news, the earnings season continues.
Topics: business
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Duration: 57"
06:58
Jim Parker in Australia
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To Australia, and its national airline, Qantas, is showing signs of a long-awaited revival, as Jim Parker reports.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 58"
06:59
Morning markets for 24 August 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'03"
07:06
Sports News for 24 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'07"
07:11
Fresh calls to examine Malcolm Rewa's role in the murder of Susan Burdett
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A private investigator is calling for the police to re-launch its inquiry into Malcolm Rewa's role in the murder of Auckland woman Susan Burdett, as witnesses come forward with fresh evidence.
Topics: law, crime
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Duration: 4'59"
07:17
Officer at Mt Eden prison suspended over fight
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An officer at the privately run Mt Eden remand prison has been suspended, after a security camera recorded him fighting with a prisoner.
Topics: law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Mt Eden prison
Duration: 4'27"
07:22
Search on for missing plane with 2 people on board
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An aerial search has resumed this morning for a single engine plane missing with two people on board.
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Duration: 2'45"
07:24
Death toll in UK airshow crash likely to rise
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Police near Brighton in southern England expect the death toll from an airshow crash to keep climbing.
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Tags: England, plane crash
Duration: 3'41"
07:37
King's claim comes as surprise to Auckland tribes
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An Auckland iwi Leader says the city of Auckland has already been settled as far as Treaty claims are concerned.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Treaty of Waitangi
Duration: 4'31"
07:39
Work and Income forced to pay for beneficiary's $3000 tread climber
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Work and Income has been forced to pay part of the cost of a three-thousand dollar piece of exercise equipment a beneficiary bought off a late night TV commercial.
Topics: health
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Tags: Work and Income
Duration: 3'11"
07:44
KiwiRail, Solid Energy at loggerheads over West Coast coal cartage
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KiwiRail and Solid Energy are at loggerheads over the price the miner pays to cart coal from the West Coast.
Topics: transport
Regions: West Coast
Tags: mining
Duration: 3'01"
07:50
New Zealand markets react after world markets fall
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All eyes will be on world stock markets today after Wall Street and Europe's main markets tumbled more than three percent on Friday.
Topics: business
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Tags: stock market
Duration: 3'23"
07:52
Hundreds of refugees still flooding into Macedonia
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Hundreds of migrants are still arriving in Macedonia after authorities partially opened the border with Greece.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Greece, Macedonia
Duration: 4'32"
07:56
NZ skittles South Africa for 204 runs
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Martin Guptill's unbeaten century has helped New Zealand to an eight-wicket win against South Africa overnight.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket, Black Caps
Duration: 3'53"
08:06
Sports News for 24 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'13"
08:11
One in eight women suffer depression in pregnancy: study
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A study published today suggests that one in eight women in this country suffers from depression during pregnancy.
Topics: health
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Tags: depression
Duration: 3'03"
08:14
Lawyer says fresh evidence probably isn't good enough
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There are fresh calls to examine Malcolm Rewa's role in the murder of Susan Burdett, after new evidence has come to light.
Topics: law, crime
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Duration: 4'32"
08:19
Corrections Union denies allegations of officer violence
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The prison officers' union says a review underway into private prison manager Serco will do little to fix the problems at Mount Eden remand prison.
Topics: law, crime
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Tags: Mt Eden priosn
Duration: 4'05"
08:24
Suspect in attempted train attack denies terrorist links
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The three Americans who overpowered a heavily armed man on a high speed train between Amsterdam and Paris have held a news conference at the American embassy in the French capital.
Topics: crime
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Duration: 6'10"
08:29
400 pigs burnt to death in Waikato fire
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Four hundred pigs have died in a fire at a Waikato piggery.
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Duration: 3'21"
08:32
Markets Update for 24 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: 1'11"
08:38
Aviation journalist on airshow crash
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Investigations will be held into why a vintage fighter plane crashed into a road while performing at a British airshow.
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Tags: plane crash, England, aviation
Duration: 3'45"
08:43
Talks to defuse tension between South, North Korea continue
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Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea have negotiated overnight in emergency talks to try to defuse mounting tension on their border.
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Tags: North Korea, South Korea
Duration: 3'35"
08:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 24 August 2015
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Ngati Ranginui is considering whether it can purchase a larger cut of the state houses earmarked for sale in Tauranga; Researchers say malnutrition in older Maori is less likely to happen if an holistic Maori worldview is acknowledged; A team of young Maori paddlers, Nga Tauira Maori, are in training now for the world's longest and most challenging outrigger canoe race in Hawaii next month; A Ngai Te Rangi poet hopes to see the world through the eyes of other native people when he attends an indigenous writers programme in Canada.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'42"
08:51
Tui discovered with lead poisoning for the first time ever
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For the first time ever, tui have been found with lead poisoning.
Topics: environment
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Tags: birds, native birds, tui
Duration: 2'31"
08:54
Fewer young Aucklanders train to become priests or nuns
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Just one young Catholic woman and 17 young Catholic men in Auckland are training to be able to profess their vows.
Topics: spiritual practices
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Tags: religion
Duration: 3'55"
08:58
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'19"