Morning Report for Friday 7 December 2018

6:00 AM.Top stories this morning... Two thirds of the cars rechecked amid the warrant of fitness crisis have failed their re-inspection. China is demanding Canada immediately release the chief financial… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.Skipper Kane Williamson cracked an unbeaten century as New Zealand took a 198-run lead against Pakistan on day four of the third and deciding cricket test in Abu Dhabi. Audio

6:11 AM.A marketing expert says if Tip Top is sold to an overseas company there could be job cuts and product changes similar to what happened to Cadbury in Dunedin. On Thursday Fonterra announced it was… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Destiny Church says the Department of Corrections is breaching the Treaty of Waitangi by refusing to let it into prisons. About 2000 people crowded the front lawn of Parliament on Thursday afternoon… Read more Video, Audio

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

6:38 AM.Two thirds of the cars rechecked so far amid the warrant of fitness crisis have failed their re-inspection. About 750 vehicles have been checked - 465 failed and needed repairs. One man who… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Hundreds of members of Auckland Pride voted last night to keep their board. The Board, which runs the Pride festival and parade, had risked being dumped if they lost a no-confidence vote last night… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Schools and tertiary institutions are seeing no evidence the government's fee-free policy is encouraging school-leavers to enrol in tertiary study next year. They say the policy is failing to reach… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.A record unbeaten fifth wicket stand between skipper Kane Williamson and Henry Nicholls has put New Zealand in a commanding position heading into the final day of the third and deciding test against… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Two thirds of the cars rechecked so far amid the warrant of fitness crisis have failed their re-inspection. About 750 vehicles have been checked - 465 failed and needed repairs. This leaves another 19… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.China is demanding Canada immediately release the chief financial officer of tech giant, Huawei Technologies. Meng Wanzhou was detained in Vancouver at the weekend for possible extradition to the… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Global markets around the world have fallen following the arrest of Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou. For the latest from Wall Street, we can cross to New York and senior editor… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Hundreds of Auckland Pride Parade members have voted to keep its board, after it faced a vote of no confidence for banning uniformed police at next year's event. At a charged meeting in Auckland last… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.A marketing expert warns selling Tip Top isn't a smart financial move for Fonterra and could see a repeat of the Cadbury factory saga in Dunedin. Fonterra is looking at off-loading the popular… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Destiny Church says the Department of Corrections is breaching the Treaty of Waitangi by refusing to let it into prisons. About 2000 people crowded the front lawn of Parliament on Thursday afternoon… Read more Video, Audio

7:40 AM.Accusations have been flying this week that Parliament's Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, has been showing signs of political preference. The role of the Speaker is supposed to be strictly… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The Minister of Whānau Ora, Peeni Henare, says he'd be disappointed if a $600,000 dividend paid to the National Urban Māori Authority doesn't get spent on improving services. The Minister has been at… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.A more targeted approach to cleaning up plastic in the ocean could help to reduce seabird deaths. The idea from a New Zealand researcher comes amidst predictions there will be more plastic than fish… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.An errant piece of chewing gum provided the unlikely inspiration for pre-Christmas pampering at St Joseph's Church in New Plymouth on Thursday. A group of volunteers washed hair, painted nails and… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The Black Caps batting coach Craig McMillan is reluctant to rate Kane Williamson's latest century compared to the rest, but he says it was a special knock as New Zealand took control of the third and… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.A coroner has ruled that a young man under the care of mental health facility the Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre was able to take his own life due to deficiencies in the care he was provided. Nicky… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Hundreds of members of the organisation Auckland Pride have voted to keep the board in office, after it faced a no-confidence motion for banning uniformed police at next year's Pride Parade. At a… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Taxpayer and ratepayer contributions to the 2021 America's Cup now total almost $250 million. This after Auckland councillors voted on Thursday to stump up an extra $14.5 million. And earlier in the… Read more Audio

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

8:30 AM.The Waipareira Trust's chief executive John Tamihere says a $600,000 dividend paid out to urban Māori authorities by a Whānau Ora commissioning agency is not going into individuals' pockets. The… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Politicians believe a series of secret recordings being made public are more a sign of bad working relationships, than a worrying upward trend. Former staff of National MP Maggie Barry's are the… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Fonterra has signalled it might sell Tip Top as it's not willing to invest the amount needed to keep the company profitable - sparking concerns an overseas buyer might lap it up. The move has outraged… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.The Youth Court could be dealing with up to a thousand more young people when law changes come into force next year and 17-year-olds no longer appear in adult courts. Oranga Tamariki, which runs youth… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.The Sir Peter Jackson produced film 'Mortal Engines' has premiered in LA. The film is science fiction and set in a world many thousands of years in the future where earth's cities now roam the globe… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio