Morning Report for Wednesday 31 July 2019

6:00 AM.Australia is set to tighten visa rules and that could lead to more New Zealanders being deported, The Christchurch Call to Action is backed at a Five Eyes summit overnight, 180 victims and families of… Read more Audio

6:05 AM.Warriors hooker Issac Luke will miss three NRL games after failing to have his dangerous throw charge downgraded at the judiciary last night. Audio

6:10 AM.Snow has started to fall in parts of the South Island, with falls predicted to become heavy during the morning.

Some areas in South Canterbury, Mackenzie Country and Central Otago have snow and ice… Read more Audio

6:12 AM.One of the hundreds of protesters at Ihumātao says there should be more Māori land occupations.

Bob Rolleston is a kaumātua from Matakana Island in the Bay of Plenty.

He joined the protest in South… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Reigning New Zealand rally champion Hayden Paddon's dream return to the World Rally Championship turned into a nightmare when he and co-driver John Kennard crashed at high speed during a practice… Read more Audio

6:27 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:41 AM.A Māori law specialist says Oranga Tamariki is at a crisis point and there needs to be urgent institutional change to allow Māori to be in charge of their own whānau.

Hundreds of protesters rallied… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.180 survivors and families of those killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings will be travelling to Mecca this week, to take part in the Muslim traditional Hajj pilgrimage.

The trip is being paid… Read more Video, Audio

7:06 AM.New Zealand rally driver Hayden Paddon is optimistic of getting more drives on the world stage after he was cruelly ruled out of a return to the WRC this week. Audio

7:10 AM.New Zealand's anger over the deportation of its citizens from Australia could intensify soon, with the federal government set to introduce even tighter visa requirements.

It wants the right to cancel… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Susie Ferguson talks to Justice Minister Andrew Little, who is in London for a Five-Eyes security conference.

He is also the Minister who has been trying to get Australia to change its deportation… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.One hundred and eighty victims and bereaved from the March 15 mosque shootings will be taking a very special trip this week to the holiest place in Islam.

They will be travelling to Mecca for Hajj… Read more Video, Audio

7:25 AM.National Party leader Simon Bridges has accused the Prime Minister of failing in her duties by being in Tokelau instead of leading a government response to the Ihumātao land dispute calling her a… Read more Video, Audio

7:26 AM.Heavy snow is falling in the South Island, to the relief of skifields that have so far been having a very mild winter.

The MetService is forecasting heavy snowfalls until at least this afternoon.

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7:37 AM.Police are reporting a sharp drop in dairy robberies after the government dished out more than $2 million for extra security measures.

National set up a $1.8 million fund to cover half the cost of… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.The euthanasia debate is set to return to Parliament on Wednesday - with MPs facing a potentially prolonged and ugly showdown.

MPs are expected to thrash out the details of a proposed law change that… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.The 19-year-old man who killed three people and wounded a dozen more at a garlic festival in California before being shot dead by police was inspired by a 19th century racist manifesto written by a… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Baker Patrick Lam has been judged as the best pie-maker in New Zealand - making him king of the pies for the seventh time.

Matthew Theunissen went to the see the judges at work last week, having been… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.A Whanganui iwi leader says the city should be looking after Māori in the community before it starts to settle refugees.

The city was selected in February as a resettlement destination for refugees… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The All Blacks will trim their 39 man squad to 34 this morning of the two Bledisloe Cup tests against Australia, with five players facing the chop. Audio

8:10 AM.The Australian federal government is hoping to increase the number of people it can deport by tightening its visa requirements.

Under the proposed tweaks anyone charged with a crime that carries a… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Businesses around the City Rail Link expect little if anything from a proposed hardship fund to make up losses they've incurred being surrounded by a construction site.

Ongoing disruption from the… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Immigration New Zealand is set for another shake-up - hot on the heels of a restructure which left visa processing in disarray.

It aims to forge new relations with business and focus on fraud and… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.National Party stalwart Nathan Guy has announced his retirement, joining a growing list of MPs jumping ship at the next election.

The Ōtaki MP and Opposition agriculture spokesperson is following Amy… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Petone residents are calling for a moratorium on all water bottling consents until the certainty of the region's water supply becomes clearer.

There are two active consents to draw almost 950 million… Read more Audio