Morning Report for Thursday 15 October 2015

8:56 AM.The quick-fire shuffle of consumers from one product to another, and then to a third, appears to be a growing habit. Audio

8:54 AM.New figures show a boom in the number of home-based early childhood services being set up in Auckland. Audio

8:50 AM.The Crown is trying to block submissions made by Maori Land Court Judges from being used in a Waitangi Tribunal hearing against its review of Maori land laws; The Turakina Maori Girls' College Old… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The ACT Party leader, David Seymour, has accused the Labour Party of trying to target him with a private member's bill. Audio

8:40 AM.Family First is looking at its legal options, after the Film and Literature review board voted yesterday four-to-one to remove all restrictions on Ted Dawe's book "Into The River". Audio

8:35 AM.Police in Jerusalem have shot dead two Palestinians in separate stabbing attacks on Israelis. The BBC's Jonny Dymond in Jerusalem is reporting from Jerusalem. Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:27 AM.The National Government and its Finance Minister Bill English yesterday made good on their 2011 promise to bring the Crown's finances back into the black this year. Audio

8:25 AM.Australia's Human Rights Commission will soon hear a case arguing that New Zealand detainees awaiting deportation deserve better treatment. Audio

8:20 AM.Morning Report speaks to a New Zealand born man currently detained on Christmas Island. Audio

8:15 AM.Allan Campbell is Chair of the Opihi Catchment Environment Protection Society. Audio

8:10 AM.As we have been reporting this morning police have been called in after the discovery of DDT and arsenic granules on the Opuha riverbed in South Canterbury. Simon Gibb is the vice president of the… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:57 AM.The fight is not over for a Christian lobby group wanting to stop people under 18 reading a previously banned book. Audio

7:50 AM.The Finance Minister Bill English has achieved a goal he set himself in 2011 - to return the Crown accounts to surplus. Audio

7:38 AM.The former Black Cap Lou Vincent has told the jury in Chris Cairns' perjury trial the former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming cornered him in a bar and told him he knew he and Cairns were "dirty". Audio

7:35 AM.A major international study published in Nature today, shows only the most ambitious effort to slow climate change will stop Antarctica's ice cap from melting. Audio

7:22 AM.A new study shows children with several rotten teeth are almost twice as likely to get rheumatic fever. Audio

7:18 AM.The Government repeatedly ignored the advice and concerns of officials and used data it was told could be "highly misleading" when it brought in new health and safety rules. Audio

7:16 AM.Australia's policy has already resulted in a massive increase in the numbers arriving back in this country. Auckland based prisoners' aid charity PARS Incorporated says it is struggling to keep up… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Nearly two hundred New Zealanders are in detention centres pending a decision on deportation, and Mr Key has said about a thousand could be in line to be sent home. The Labour MP Kelvin Davis says he… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.Police have been called in after DDT and arsenic granules were discovered on a section of the Opuha riverbed in South Canterbury. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:58 AM.The Dow Jones index is about half a percent lower after retailer Wal-Mart put oiut a weak forecast which has spooked investors. Audio

6:57 AM.A corporate governance consultant says a large number of directors of small companies don't have the skills they need to adequately do the job. Audio

6:55 AM.The online trading website, Trade Me, says the number of auctions on the site is improving and it is confident about the general growth outlook for the business. Audio

6:53 AM.The recent rebound in international dairy prices has now been overshadowed by Fonterra's credit downgrade. Audio

6:51 AM.And credit rating agency Standard and Poor's says there's no prospect of a lift to New Zealand's double-A rating any time soon even with an unexpected surplus. Audio

6:48 AM.The government's achievement of a long awaited budget surplus is expected to be short lived as a slowing economy, and uncertain global environment combine to dent the outlook. Audio

6:46 AM.The first steps towards a free trade agreement with the European Union have been taken, and it's come from Europe. Audio

6:33 AM.Violence has once again broken out near in Jerusalem, Israel, where police have shot and killed a man dressed in combat fatigues and armed with a knife. Audio

6:27 AM.The Turakina Maori Girls' College Old Girls Association says the interim decision that the kura should close has come as a surprise; The rate of hospitalisation as a result of assault or attempted… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:19 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio

6:14 AM.El Nino is already starting to bite in the South Island, wDennis Bush King is the Environment and Planning Manager for the Tasman District Council. Water restrictions are being considered in the… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.School librarians around the country will be returning banned book "Into The River" to their shelves this morning. The School Librarian Association's President, Miriam Tuohy, is welcoming the… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Banned book back on shelves, Tasman already feeling the heat, Violence breaks out near Jerusalem, Timaru water supply safe despite discovery of granules of DDT, Labour MP crosses the ditch to advocate… Read more Audio