Morning Report for Friday 15 March 2019

6:00 AM.School students take to the streets to demand action on climate change, James Shaw returns to parliament after yesterday's attack in a Wellington street, and The government rules out a state-owned… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.World Rugby has tweaked the schedule for the proposed global league and says the competition would guarantee billions of dollars in investment. Audio

6:15 AM.Wellington's community sector says proposed supported living apartments in the capital are long overdue. On Thursday, it was announced the council and the government will partner to build up to 300… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.A woman who needed financial help from Work and Income to cover the cost of her brother's funeral says the grant needs to be increased for families who are struggling. The Funeral Directors… Read more Audio

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

6:40 AM.The man charged with attacking the Greens' co-leader James Shaw is set to appear in Wellington District Court today - while Mr Shaw himself is due to return to work. The Climate Change Minister was… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.British MPs have voted against holding a second Brexit referendum. The vote is just one of many happening on Friday (NZ time). Olly Barratt is our correspondent in London. He talks to Susie Ferguson.

6:47 AM.The head of a taskforce proposing a major overhaul of the school system is aghast at schools' plans for a campaign against the suggested reforms. Bali Haque from the Tomorrow's Schools Review… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.School students across the country are striking today to demand action on climate change. In Wellington, students will march from Civic Square to Parliament. In Christchurch, they'll meet for a rally… Read more Video, Audio

7:15 AM.James Shaw returns to work today after yesterday's attack in a Wellington street. The Climate Change Minister and Greens' co-leader was assaulted near the Botanic Gardens when he was on his way to… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.The Government says a state-owned insurance company is still a long, long away - but it is something ministers will have to keep a close eye on. Wellingtonians are contemplating a tougher time getting… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.A group of high-profile secondary schools is preparing a campaign against what they describe as radically aggressive plans to change the school system. The schools are launching an alliance to combat… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.WARNING: graphic descriptions. The searing memory 18 year old Syrian refugee Radwan Loulou has of the Syrian war is the smell of burning corpses. It's eight years today since the war broke out and… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.It's been called the next space race - and New Zealand could be a contender. Growing worldwide interest in space tourism is creating market opportunities that some in this country are keen to exploit… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Thousands of students are expected to strike over climate change today, in a move which is not supported by the Secondary Principals' Association. President Michael Williams says many principals have… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.A New Zealand air accident investigator is warning that pilots not being kept in the loop is contributing to air crashes. Boeing has grounded its entire fleet of 737 Max aircraft after last weekend's… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Jack Whetton - the son of former All Blacks captain Gary Whetton - will make his debut for the Highlanders in tomorrow night's southern derby against the Crusaders in Dunedin. Audio

8:10 AM.A report into the police's approach to pursuing fleeing drivers will be made public at midday today. It's the eighth such review in the last two decades, however its the first joint review by police… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.For the first time, Oranga Tamariki has laid bare just how much harm and abuse is being done to children in its care. The Ministry for Children has released its first two safety of children in care… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.After months of political wrangling and days of drama in the British parliament - MPs have voted to delay Brexit. They've voted to request the European Union for an extension to Article 50 until June… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Winston Peters is describing the state of the insurance market in Wellington as 'chickens coming home to roost'. IAG, which owns State, AMI and NZI, is taking on fewer new customers in the Wellington… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.New Zealand is sending 43 firefighters to help battle wildfires still raging in the Australian state of Victoria. Dozens of fires started by lightning strikes have been burning since the end of… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Green Party co-leader James Shaw was attacked near the Botanic Gardens in Wellington while he walked to work on Thursday morning. A man has since been charged with the attack. A professor of politics… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The prefab industry says it's at a critical tipping point, as it waits for the Government's promised building reforms to get underway. Industry leaders have just met in a bid to solve the problems… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.After a five year push to get rheumatic fever rates in New Zealand down, they are on the rise again. Last year 188 people - mostly children - had their first bout of rheumatic fever. The illness has… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The world's biggest Pacific Island dance festival has kicked off in Auckland. More than 12,000 secondary school students, from 66 schools, will take to the stage before the Festival wraps up on… Read more Video, Audio

8:53 AM.A small army of contractors and volunteers has been busy in Taranaki this week setting up the WOMAD world music festival, which kicks off in New Plymouth this evening. Our Taranaki-Whanganui reporter… Read more Video, Audio

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