Morning Report for Wednesday 22 May 2019

6:00 AM.We have a leaked report which details critical earthquake faults in a new high rise building in Christchurch. A review finds bullies in Parliament but doesn't say who they are. And a Muslim community… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The Highlanders assistant coach Glenn Delaney will leave the Super Rugby side at the end of the season to take up an assistant coaching role with the Welsh rugby club Scarlets in 2020. Audio

6:10 AM.The head of the Police Association is defending the pursuit policy for young fleeing drivers, as youth advocates continue to call for its suspension and more research. The debate has re-emerged after… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.A family in Wellington have just discovered they've got a long-lost relative who served in Gallipoli but who has been lying in an unmarked grave in Porirua. Corporal Willie Snelgrove died of Spanish… Read more Audio

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

6:38 AM.All Blacks Richie Mo'unga and George Bridge are free to play for the Crusaders this weekend while an investigation is carried out into their alleged offensive behaviour while in South Africa. New… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Secondary school principals are the latest group of school staff to lodge a pay claim with the Education Ministry. They're after a 15 percent pay rise, another week of annual leave and $1000 a year to… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

7:06 AM.The Blues assistant coach Tom Coventry says the Super Rugby sides' players are public figures who are expected to behave as such. Audio

7:10 AM.A new office building in central Christchurch has multiple flaws in its earthquake design that the city council was warned about almost two years ago. Construction of the seven-storey building above… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Party leaders are powerless to act on accounts of serious sexual assaults at Parliament, the details of which are being kept secret. The claims were outlined in an independent report into bullying and… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.All Blacks Richie Mo'unga and George Bridge are free to play for the Crusaders this weekend while an investigation is carried out into their alleged offensive behaviour while in South Africa.

New… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Party leaders are powerless to act on accounts of serious sexual assaults at Parliament, the details of which are being kept secret.

The claims were outlined in an independent report into bullying… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.A Muslim community advocate is welcoming the terrorism charge being laid against the man accused of the Christchurch attacks. Brenton Tarrant now faces 51 charges of murder, 40 of attempted murder… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.After multiple obstacles and delays, the first steps in a $36 million plan to explore the 2.3 kilometre-long entry tunnel at the Pike River Mine have been taken. Families of victims were emotional… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Paramedics are worried they won't see any of the 21-million-dollar funding boost for ambulance services in their paypackets. Those working for St John Ambulance have been striking in frustration over… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Does having abortion in the Crimes Act make women who have abortions feel like criminals? National MP Alfred Ngaro says absolutely not, and that's why he doesn't want to see the laws in this country… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Assistant coach Tom Coventry says they have a variety of ways of preventing post-match off-field incidents at the Blues, including putting the onus on senior players to set curfews for the whole… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Confusion reigns over the future of Huawei phones in New Zealand.

Google has announced it will limit the software services it provides Huawei after a White House order last week that restricted the… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.The government is facing yet another big pay demand from school staff, with secondary principals tabling a claim for a 15 percent pay rise and six weeks annual leave. The Post Primary Teachers… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.Loud calls for reform are sounding after the release of a scathing report on bullying and harassment at Parliament. The report makes 85 recommendations for change, but how hard will it be to change… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Andrea Black is the national media spokesperson for the Rape Crisis organisation. She talks to Susie Ferguson. Audio

8:29 AM.Legal experts are concerned charging the man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks with terrorism is risky, and will give him a platform to espouse white supremacist views.

The terrorism charge… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.The long-held view has been that the world's seas will rise by just under a metre by 2100, but new research suggests it could be double that because of accelerating melting in Greenland and… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Five government ministers have missed the deadline for releasing their ministerial diaries, including Greens co-leader James Shaw, whose party led the charge to 'shine a light' on government. RNZ… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Tributes have been pouring in for Niki Lauda, the battle-scarred three times Formula One champion whose comeback from a near fatal fiery crash made him an enduring sporting legend.

The Austrian died… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.For just over a century, Corporal Willie Snelgrove has been buried at a Porirua cemetery, north of Wellington, after dying of Spanish flu in December 1918.

But his grave has never had a headstone, so… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.A rare painting of Captain Cook's second voyage to the Pacific has been bought by Te Papa.

The painting by William Hodges entitled 'Waterfall in Dusky Bay with Māori Canoe' has been held in a private… Read more Audio