Midday Report Essentials for Friday 6 December 2024

In today's episode, a large scrub fire in Canterbury has now doubled in size to nearly a thousand hectares, testing at a small free range chicken farm near Dunedin has not detected bird flu, Whakaata Maori, formerly Maori Television, has axed 27 jobs, and announced it will cancel its daily TV news bulletin Te Ao Maori News from next week Friday, Hussein Al-Umari was posthumously awarded one of just three Bravery Stars for confronting the gunman during the 2019 Al Noor Mosque massacre - saving the lives of other worshippers but losing his life in the process.