Morning Report for Tuesday 2 July 2019

6:00 AM.Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV series confirmed for NZ, Jacinda Ardern defends film rebate for Amazon, NZ mum keeps child in rare win in Australian courts. Audio

6:06 AM.Sarpreet Singh has made arguably the biggest move in New Zealand football history. Audio

6:09 AM.Pro-democracy protesters stormed the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong overnight after ramming glass panels with metal trolleys to get inside.

The escalation in tensions follows a morning of… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.The Defence Force wants to attract more diverse recruits.

Figures given to RNZ show that since 2003 the number of people in the military identifying as New Zealand European has risen. But the number… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.The Vatican reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession in what appears to be a response to moves in Australia to force them to do so in cases of sexual… Read more Audio

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

6:43 AM.Roading contractors want stiffer penalties for drivers who speed through roadworks.

Eleven people have died working in the construction sector this year.

Six of the deaths involved vehicles… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.The scaffolding's up and a builder's been chosen for strengthening work on Wellington's historic Museum Stand at the Basin Reserve.

The thousand-seater stand was closed to the public in 2012 after it… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.Two of the rising stars of men's tennis, the women's second seed and a five-time champion have all fallen by the wayside on day one of Wimbledon. Audio

7:16 AM.Amazon needed reassurance after the Christchurch terrorist attacks that New Zealand was still a safe place to film the make world's most expensive television series.

Industry sources say New Zealand… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.It has been confirmed that Amazon is going to film its new TV series on The Lord of the Rings in New Zealand.

Susie Ferguson asks Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about details around the 'Hobbit law'. 

7:37 AM.A New Zealand mother who was forced into hiding to escape her abusive Australian partner is now back home with her child after a rare win in the Australian courts.

The mother had fled the country for… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.The Defence Force is aiming to attract a more diverse range of people as current numbers suggest a large proportion still identify as white. Figures given to RNZ show a rise in the number of people… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Decaying hospital buildings, rising debt levels and inadequate disaster preparedness - the latest Controller and Auditor General's report into District Health Boards points to a multitude of problems.

7:48 AM.Physios, therapists, radiographers and other allied health staff in the lower South Island are overworked, under-resourced and struggling to deliver the work required.

That's according to the draft… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Another $300,000 has been allocated to clean up the Fox River, doubling the government funding for the effort.

A deluge in March washed out a closed landfill near Fox Glacier, leaving old garbage now… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.A potential changing of the guard in American tennis at Wimbledon. Audio

8:10 AM.A Jewish Community in the United States has donated about $1 million for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Following that attack, the local Muslim community raised money to support the… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Deficits, decaying hospital buildings and inadequate disaster preparedness are some of the problems identified in the latest Controller and Auditor General's report into District Health Boards.

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8:18 AM.Deficits, decaying hospital buildings and inadequate disaster preparedness are some of the problems identified in the latest Controller and Auditor General's report into District Health Boards.

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8:35 AM.A New Zealand mother who was forced into hiding to escape her abusive Australian partner is now back in this country with her child after a rare win in the Australian courts.

The mother had fled… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.The ANZ has told the Reserve Bank its proposal to make banks hold more capital will discourage productive investment and hurt economic growth.

And all four of the big banks say it would lead to… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.More than 1000 ambulance officers have secured pay increases and shift allowances from their employer St John. The FIRST Union members reached an agreement yesterday after campaigning for nearly a… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.High numbers of pregnant women and children are fleeing the wartorn city of Idlib in Northern Syria, where violence has surged in the past two months.

There have been reports of women being forced to… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Forest and Bird is calling on the government and councils to increase their 1080 predator control, saying rats are running riot through the nation's forest and tussock land.

The environmental group… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Young women in Northland are being encouraged to get into forestry.

The government, through the Provincial Growth Fund, is supporting a five-month pilot programme aimed at training rangatahi who are… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.That was some current and former politicians using a cornerstone of New Zealand vernacular, 'eh', in Parliament.

We're frequent users of 'eh', and new research has found it's used more by men than… Read more Audio