Morning Report for Wednesday 4 April 2018

6:00 AM.Aluminium cladding system failed safety audit - leaked report, Auckland drivers face tax hike under transport funding changes, Experts warned Gov not to touch waste-to-energy scheme, Paralympian… Read more Audio

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

6:10 AM.The New Zealand Commonwealth Games team is hoping they have contained the mumps outbreak in the Women's Sevens rugby team and that it won't spread throughout the team. Ruby Tui was diagnosed with the… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.Aucklanders who might be baulking at the prospect of a double tax hike to help fix the city's traffic jams are being urged to think again. The Government is looking at a raising fuel taxes by nine to… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.Activity centres for children at risk of dropping out of the school system are warning their students have more complex problems than in the past. They say more students are coming to them with mental… Read more 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

6:42 AM.The first person has been sentenced in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into U.S President Donald Trump's campaign ties to Russia. The 33-year-old Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan was… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A new report says New Zealand could save 30 billion dollars by 2050 if it takes earlier action to meet commitments to limit global warming to less than two degrees. Climate Change Minister and… Read more Audio

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

7:15 AM.Auckland drivers face a double tax hike under sweeping changes to transport funding proposed by the Government. It's looking at raising fuel taxes by between nine to 12 cents a litre to help fund… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.The Government announced hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for a proposed waste-to-energy scheme two days after experts advised it was a lemon. The Environment Ministry warned the Provincial… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Sophie Pascoe will make history today when she becomes the first para athlete to lead the New Zealand team out at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on the Gold Coast. The 25-year-old was named… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.Tail-ender Ish Sodhi hit a gutsy half century as the Black Caps fought a defiant rearguard action to hold on for a draw in the second test and secure a first series win over England since 1999… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Hundreds of people remain in evacuation centres as the clean-up after Cyclone Josie continues in Fiji. The western half of the main island Viti Levu was worst hit by widespread flooding. Schools… Read more Audio

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

8:10 AM.The system used in New Zealand to approve aluminium composite panels for highrises has failed a critical safety audit, but the government officials who commissioned the report from an expert in… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.Parliament has changed the law so New Zealand men with historical homosexual convictions can have them wiped from their criminal records. Consensual sex between men aged 16 and over was decriminalised… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Special centres for at-risk students are seeing a spike in children with mental health problems such as anxiety and self-harming. Activity centre directors meeting in Wellington this week say… Read more Audio

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

8:41 AM.Police are responding to reports of a gunman on the loose at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno in California. Witnesses in the area said they saw dozens of firefighters and police officers… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Fresh details of a deadly theme park ride accident at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast have been revealed in a court hearing. New Zealand-born Cindy Low was among the four people who died when the Thunder… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Beaches, theme parks and schoolies week is what the Gold Coast is renowned for. And today, it officially become the host of the 21st Commonwealth Games, with the opening ceremony being held tonight… Read more Audio