Midday Report for Wednesday 17 November 2021

12:44 PM.Retirees say their rights are coming second to the interests of companies running retirement villages.

Residents are today meeting at Parliament to petition the government for better rules governing… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.There are long lines for the barber, and baristas are flat out making flat whites, as Hamilton welcomes back customers.

Today marks the first day that all of Waikato are back at level two after six… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

12:26 PM.The All Blacks are preparing to be without first-five Beauden Barrett for the test against France. Audio

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:16 PM.A Pacific climate leader is warning the region's lowest-lying island states will be under water before countries hit their carbon zero targets, because the world's biggest emitters don't keep their… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.There's excitement, and a little bit of shellshock, among the thousands of children who today have returned to Auckland classrooms for the first time in three months.

There are rules; that groups… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.Vaccine passes are now live and the government's website has this morning been swamped with requests.

This signals, hopefully, a summer with greater freedoms for people who are vaccinated against… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.The government reinforces the importance of vaccination with the Auckland border rules set to ease. 

Vaccine passes go live. 

And Pacific leaders say their countries will still sink beneath the… Read more Audio