Morning Report for Thursday 14 December 2017

6:00 AM.Nearly two-thirds of MPs have voted in support of a bill that would legalise euthanasia. The Government says it will consider moves to rein in rapidly rising salaries for top public servants. It's… Read more Audio

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

6:09 AM.The former head of the Women's Refuge is backing a register to monitor all children to the age of five because she says it will save lives. Coroner Wallace Bain recommended it after the brutal killing… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.The Government has decided to go ahead with upgrading two navy frigates despite the cost blowing out by $265 million. It says the cost overrun is unacceptable but cancelling the upgrades would have… Read more Audio

6:39 AM.Matt Vickers, whose wife Lecretia Seales died while fighting in the courts for the right to end her life, is ecstatic legislation legalising euthanasia has passed its first reading. He was in… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Refining New Zealand is welcoming a government inquiry into the security of of the country's main fuel supply. The pipeline from the Marsden Refinery to Auckland was shut down for 10 days after a leak… Read more Audio

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

7:27 AM.It's been far from smooth sailing for the new government in its first eight weeks in office, but it appears to be largely on track to deliver its hundred day plan. Inexperienced ministers trying to… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.The Opportunities Party founder Gareth Morgan says the party will be back to contest the next general election, but with a new leader. The party, widely known as TOP won 2.4 percent of the vote in… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Roy Moore may have been beaten by Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama but he is refusing to concede. Mr Moore says he'll personally pay for a recount. US correspondent Gile Gibson joins us to explain the… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.More than a year after North Canterbury's 7.8 magnitude earthquake forced its closure, State Highway 1 north of Kaikoura will re-open to the public on Friday. Thousands of cars and trucks have been… Read more Audio

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

8:18 AM.State Highway 2 between Tauranga and Waihi is being called the most dangerous stretch of road in the country by the district's mayor. The Transport Agency has plans to improve the road but locals say… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Auckland primary schools fear they will have to use teacher aides in place of teachers next year and they want the government to pay for it. The city's principals have asked the Education Minister… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.The Hutt Valley's main hospital has 10-kilogram ceiling tiles that pose what the district health board says is the "risk of serious injury" in a major earthquake. The tiles are in corridors and foyers… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Maori children who left mainstream schooling say they became far more enthusisatic about learning once they were out of an environment that struck them as racist and condescending. Katrina Lemon is a… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.The navy will be without a tanker for at least two years when HMNZS Endeavour is decommissioned on Friday. The replacement ship, named Aotearoa, won't be in service until January 2020. Audio

8:56 AM.The royal premiere of the latest Star Wars movie has been held at Lond's Royal Albert Hall forty years since the first movie that spawned one of the most successful film franchises in history. Princes… Read more Audio