Morning Report for Tuesday 6 November 2018

6:00 AM.Bank review underestimates pressure on sales staff - worker, Finance Minister discusses bank review, Calls for clean slates for former prisoners, PM Jacinda Ardern uncertain about drug smuggler's… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.England rugby league forward George Burgess has been summoned to appear at a disciplinary hearing over an alleged eye-poking incident during his side's second Test victory over New Zealand in… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is demanding MPs stop stalling and ban smoking in cars carrying children. A petition presented to Parliament four years ago to outlaw the practice was backed by… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.The government is working with Auckland Council, iwi, local government and community groups to find a site for the National Erebus Memorial in Auckland. From today, the Ministry of Culture and… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.An early look at the day's business news, and a catch up on overnight market action. Audio

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

6:40 AM.The chief executive of the country's largest bank, ANZ, thinks regulation overseeing banks' behaviour is needed. A Reserve Bank and Financial Markets Authority review of the country's 11 largest… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.However New Zealand looks highly unlikely to secure a better deal for dairy exporters as part of an improved free trade agreement with China. Under the current agreement, New Zealand's dairy products… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Banking inquiry finds no scandals or skeletons, but says indifference, ignorance, and complacency at top levels must change. Westpac says business better than confidence surveys. Trustpower expects… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.Former Australia captain Mark Taylor has resigned from Cricket Australia's board of directors, with the fallout from a scathing review into the governing body's culture claiming another victim. Audio

7:10 AM.A senior banker says the public would hide their money under mattresses if they knew how banks really behaved. A Reserve Bank and Financial Markets Authority review of New Zealand's 11 largest lenders… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.The government is "not happy" with problems revealed in a banking sector inquiry released today despite it being cleared of any serious misconduct. Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi said banks… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.People who have been in prison are lobbying to have their criminal records wiped if they keep out of trouble for seven years. They say employers turn them down because of their convictions, and it's… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she has no confidence in the decision to grant residency to the convicted Czech drug smuggler Karel Sroubek. And she wants the review fast-tracked. But can the… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.Firefighters say Monday night was the busiest Guy Fawkes night since 2012. Fire and Emergency responded to just over 100 calls. Pete Gallagher is Fire and Emergency's national advisor for fire risk… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.The New Zealand jockey-turned-trainer Lance O'Sullivan says qualifying for the Melbourne Cup will become increasingly difficult for New Zealand horses in the future. There are two New Zealand bred… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Twenty-four horses will compete in today's Melbourne Cup. There are two New Zealand-bred horses in the 2018 race - Who Shot The Barman and Zacada. It's a national public holiday in the state of… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.A ranger has been recognised for his services to conservation just weeks after he was killed in a helicopter crash shortly after take-off near Wanaka Airport. Scott Theobold, a Department of… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.They have made their arguments, now the people get to decide, as long as they actually get to the ballot box. Voter turnout could be the determining factor in tomorrow's US midterm elections. In… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Former captain Mark Taylor has urged everybody involved in Australian cricket to hit reset then rebuild together, and says a woman should take the place he's vacated on Cricket Australia's board. Audio

8:10 AM.First Union says removing sales targets for bank staff is a good start - but more needs to be done to police the sector. The Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank published the findings of… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.The Green Building Council is calling for more to be done to stop construction waste going to the dump as the building boom ramps up. Auckland Council estimates up to 600,000 tonnes of building and… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.The Children's Commissioner wants to stub out smoking in cars when children are inside. The idea was last floated in 2014 but the previous government ignored advice to introduce a ban on the grounds… Read more Audio

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

8:38 AM.A New Zealand family living in Brisbane has been told it will cost them 70 thousand dollars a year to send their three-year-old autistic daughter to preschool. That's under changes to disability… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Some councils around New Zealand are doing away with Guy Fawkes altogether for other more home-grown celebrations such as Matariki. With no let up in fireworks sales will the call for a ban, or public… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Three million dollars is being earmarked for a memorial to remember the victims of the country's worst ever aircraft crash, the Mt Erebus disaster. From today, architects and designers will be able to… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.At 5pm on Tuesday, 24 horses will line up for the 158th running of the Melbourne Cup. One person watching that race will be Patrick Bartley, racing writer for The Age. He talks to Kim Hill. Audio

8:46 AM.As proposals to decriminalise abortion are underway, a group of women who have had abortions took out newspaper advertisements urging Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to be cautious about reform. The ads… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A senior nurses' union official has spoken out about a storm of anger, bitterness and abuse against its officials by some union members during recent pay talks. Nurses voted in early August to accept… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.A South Taranaki cottage has been named the best bach in New Zealand. Voters in the Bookabach competition picked a beachside hideaway in Opunake as the people's choice this year. Fox Cottage was built… Read more Audio