Morning Report for Wednesday 28 February 2018

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

6:00 AM.More contamination from toxic firefighting foam has been revealed, Simon Bridges says changes are coming to National's line-up but nothing too radical, and Warriors star knocks back an offer from the… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.It's been discovered that the very first airport tested for a toxic firefighting foam has been discovered to be using it illegally. More than 600 litres of foam in firetrucks and storage at Nelson… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.A quality bloke whose mind races like a Formula One car. That's how some Tauranga locals are describing their electorate MP and now National Party leader Simon Bridges. But other are also asking if… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Farmers frustrated at out-of-control rabbit numbers are relieved a new rabbit-killing virus is going to be released next month. It's hoped the new strain of calicivirus will kill between 40 and 80… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.A national state of emergency is expected to be declared in Papua New Guinea as the extent of the damage and deaths from this week's earthquake becomes apparent. So far thirty people are reported to… Read more Audio

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

7:11 AM.The government's new flagship regional development programme is funding a project connected to a businessman who has been referred to the Serious Fraud Office. And the Economic Development Minister… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Newly-released documents show banned toxic firefighting foam chemicals have contaminated a bay in Devonport and a Woodbourne well used until recently for drinking water. The revelations are in a… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.The National Party is set for a shake-up under its new leader - but Simon Bridges promises it won't be radical. The Tauranga MP took the top job yesterday. He's the first Maori MP to lead one of the… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.The West Coast's Tai Poutini Polytechnic is so deep in debt the government is having to give it a $33 million bailout. The polytech's also in theory owes the government $21 million for failing to… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.There is growing opposition in Kaipara to plans to build the country's biggest poultry farm in the region. Tegel Foods is seeking resource consents to raise more than one million chickens on what is… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Fighting has continued in Eastern Ghouta in Syria despite a five-hour truce ordered by Russia. So far no aid has been brought in no civilians have been allowed out. Emily Wither - a Reuters TV… Read more Audio

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

8:11 AM.National has a new leader, but Simon Bridges is not flagging any radical reforms within the party. He says the housing situation is a crisis for those who are affected by the housing shortage, but… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.Making synthetic fuel and food out of water, air and sunlight isn't just science fiction. A Harvard academic Daniel Nocera has found a way to make it happen and is in New Zealand explaining to the… Read more Audio