Morning Report for Tuesday 21 March 2017

6:00 AM.A judge has told Child Youth and Family it put a Wellington toddler at unacceptable further risk by giving misleading information about her father to the Family Court. An 'extraordinary week' in… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:09 AM.Productivity Commision has launched a new report into the structure of teritary education in NZ, and how it can be improved. Recommendations include abolishing University Entrance and reintroducing… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.Tamaki Redevelopment Company is selling its tenancy arm, Tamaki Housing Association, which manages nearly 3-thousand homes. The homes themselves will remain owned by the Tamaki Redevelopment Company. Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

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

6:45 AM.Northland mayor John Carter wants his council, rather than Wellington bureaucrats, to take control of Kaikohe's future, as Laura Tupou reports. Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

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

7:17 AM.Tamaki Redevelopment Company is selling its tenancy arm, Tamaki Housing Association, which manages almost 3,000 homes. Local housing providers say they want it but they worry they could miss out to a… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.Students of the future won't need UE to do a degree, but they will find themselves paying interest on student loans, and higher fees for courses that lead to highly-paid jobs, as our education… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Norway has toppled Denmark as the happiest place on earth, says the World Happiness Report. Audio

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

8:10 AM.A judge has told Child Youth and Family it put a Wellington toddler at unacceptable further risk by giving misleading information about her father to the Family Court. Audio

8:14 AM.Security analyst Paul Buchanan predicts huge fallout from FBI revelations, with the possibility key Trump aides could face criminal investigation. Audio

8:20 AM.Opposition parties say a similar government group has already looked at the matter, and it came up empty - and it won't be any different this time, as Demelza Leslie reports. Audio

8:24 AM.Felix Geiringer was the lead lawyer for the Maori Council in the Waitangi Tribunal water rights case back in 2012. He discusses The Government's idea of taxing water. Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:37 AM.Rain in North Canterbury has been welcomed by farmers, but they say after three years of drought the 60 millimetres that fell last week does not mean they're out of the woods, as Maja Burry reports. Audio

8:40 AM.One of the country's leading family planning doctors says a drug linked to birth defects was definitely marketed and prescribed as a pregnancy test in New Zealand. Audio

8:47 AM.Thirty-five politicians are part of a group that commissioned the report "Net Zero in New Zealand", setting out the way forward for New Zealand to acheive zero emissions by 2050, as our political… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Community Housing advocate asks why the Tamaki Redevelopment Company is in such a hurry to sell off the arm which manages almost 3,000 tenancies, just a year after it was set up. Scott Figenshow says… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.The woman known as the Forces' Sweetheart has turned 100 today. Dame Vera Lynn is an entertainer whose songs and radio programme helped British soldiers and civilians keep calm and carry on during… Read more Audio