Morning Report for Friday 15 September 2017

6:09 AM.There's been a lot of talk about Jacinda Ardern mobilising young people to vote, but looking at the statistics so far, it doesn't seem to have happened. Audio

6:20 AM.The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has opened. LBC's Vincent McAviney reports from the site of the devastation which still stands as a harrowing spectre of the disaster. Audio

6:40 AM.The National Government's claim that a threat of legal action prompted its controversial eleven million dollar sheep farm deal with a Saudi Arabian businessman is in tatters. Labour's David Parker… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.The All Blacks are bracing for their biggest challenge of the Rugby Championship so far, taking on the resurgent Springboks in tomorrow night's top of the table clash in Albany. Audio

6:47 AM.After twenty years in space, the NASA Cassini spacecraft was deliberately set on a path so that it will burn-up and disintegrate after it dives into Saturn's atmosphere. Audio

7:10 AM.With just one week of campaigning left the RNZ's latest Poll of Polls shows the two major parties in a virtual dead heat. Read more Audio

7:16 AM.Labour has announced it will not make first-term tax changes from working group recommendations after facing attacks from National over its plan. 

But Labour's finance spokesperson Grant Robertson… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Iwi are warning the National Party to back off its election promise made yesterday to sell state-owned farms to young farmers. Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Hundreds of thousands of refugees are pouring over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh as the Rohingya refugee crisis continues. Red Cross aid worker Corinne Ambler says it's "wall to wall human… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Green Party leader James Shaw has had a tumultuous election campaign, with the resignations of co-leader Metiria Turei, David Clendon and Kennedy Graham.

Jacinda Ardern's takeover of Labour… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.National and Labour are locked in a dead heat in RNZ's poll of polls with a week to go in the tightest election race in a decade. Audio

8:20 AM.Kaikōura has just welcomed the first freight train to the town since November's seven-point-eight magnitude quake. It arrived from Picton at 8am today. RNZ reporter Maja Burry joins us from the… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Bill English was put on the spot at a Gisborne Fruit packing plant yesterday when packhouse worker Robin Lane took on the National Party leader. Robin Lane told the National leader low-wage workers… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.KiwiRail is doubling its drug testing regime from next month. It comes after a railway official who tested positive for methamphetamine put workers at risk on the main trunk line. Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Iwi and officials from across the country gathered yesterday to honour the one hundred year anniversary of the Maori Parliament. Audio

8:35 AM.Labour has changed its plan to introduce new taxes from working group recommendations in its potential first term after attacks from National. How did everyday people react? RNZ's Jacob McSweeney took… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Advances in the cars we drive is expected to slash the number of road deaths and serious injuries in years to come. But improvements in what we drive on will also reduce the road toll. Audio