Morning Report for Friday 30 November 2018

6:00 AM.Twenty trucking firms face being shut down over safety failures. The Health Minister wants to let more people use medicinal cannabis, some say he should go further and* Huawei says it hasn't been told… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The Tall Blacks can clinch their place at next year's basketball World Cup this weekend following a 95-69 win over Jordan in Christchurch last night. Audio

6:15 AM.A long-time sufferer of chronic pain says she relies on cannabis, but the Government still won't let her use it legally. The Health Minister David Clark's extending his medicinal cannabis legislation… Read more Audio

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

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

6:40 AM.An unknown number of trucks are on the roads operated by companies that are on the verge of being shut down for safety reasons. Twenty truck companies have been warned they could lose their licences… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.The West Coast is set to benefit from a major cash injection from the Provincial Growth Fund. The government has announced a $140 million package focused largely on tourism and economic development… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.The usually all-business G20 summit in Argentina is likely to be overshadowed by a range of sensitive diplomatic situations - many of them involving President Donald Trump. The G20 makes up 19 of the… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Investors using the beleaguered Halifax group to trade markets told to sit tight as administrators try to unravel its affairs. Varying outlooks for software companies Gentrack and Orion. Business… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The Tall Blacks can clinch their place at next year's basketball World Cup this weekend following a 95-69 win over Jordan in Christchurch last night. Audio

7:10 AM.The country's largest road safety investigation has turned its attention to 20 trucking companies which could be forced out of business by Christmas. Twenty-five truck drivers have also been put on… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.More people will be able to use cannabis to alleviate pain without fear of prosecution, but a long-time sufferer of chronic pain says the Government is still not going far enogh. The Health Minister… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.One person is dead and another person has been injured by an avalanche on Aoraki Mt Cook. A third member of the climbing group was uninjured. Mid and South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.The Chinese tech company Huawei is seeking an urgent meeting with the government over the blocking of Spark's bid to use Huawei to develop its 5G network. The government's spy agency the GCSB says… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.Dairy companies around the world have joined forces in an attempt to protect the World Trade Organisation. The United States under President Trump has been blocking the appointment of new judges to… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in a New York court about a Trump real estate project in Moscow and the extent of the president's involvement in… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The Czech drug dealer Karel Sroubek, is pleading for what he calls a fair hearing of his case, without the politics. After weeks of controversy the Immigration Minister has overturned his own decision… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.It's being suggested grants from the government's Provinical Growth Fund might violate world trade rules that block state subsidies for agriculture. Such subsidies were phased out by the fourth Labour… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Now this next story is likely to get you talking - or perhaps yelling - and that's the news that vocal fry is on the rise in New Zealand. The speech phenomenon - where the voice drops almost to a… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The Tall Blacks coach Paul Henare says their growing depth could throw up some selection dramas at next year's basketball World Cup, but he's happy to have the problem. Audio

8:10 AM.Twenty trucking companies have been warned they stand to lose their licences to operate, as the country's biggest-ever road safety investigation expands. Twenty-five truck drivers have also been put… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.A two-time America's Cup winner is rumoured to be heading a Dutch sailing syndicate's last minute bid to take part in Auckland. Yacht clubs have until the end of the day to apply to take part in 2021… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.Secret intelligence reports given to Australian officials outlined a case in which Chinese espionage services used Huawei's staff to get access codes to infiltrate a foreign network. On Wednesday the… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.It's being suggested grants from the government's Provincial Growth Fund might violate world trade rules that block state subsidies for agriculture. Such subsidies were phased out by the fourth Labour… Read more Audio

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

8:36 AM.NCEA and Scholarship exams are finishing for 2018, ending three-and-a-half weeks of study and stress for 140,000 teenagers. The last exams are level 1 Te Reo Māori, Art History and Classical Studies… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A programme run by destiny church called "Man Up" wants the Government to let them mentor prisoners. Man Up is a programme trying to help men get out of the cycle of abuse, and deal with dysfunctional… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The whitebaiting season finishes on Friday and whitebaiters are worried they could be facing tougher regulations next season. All but one of the five species, whose juveniles make up the whitebait… Read more Video, Audio

8:52 AM.It's shaping up to be a big weekend - and a fraught one - as Ngāpuhi people wrestle with a new mandate proposal. There are 22 hui scheduled for hapū to vote on the plan to negotiate their Treaty… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A grassroots Christmas card movement is hoping to send 100,000 handmade cards to people who are alone this holiday season. Hannah Rodgers started Sending Love last year after she and her son Jayden… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio