Morning Report for Friday 13 September 2019

6:17 AM.Emails show the mayor of Lower Hutt was told in February that bad plumbing in a retirement complex was 'life-threatening'. All 96 apartments, worth up to 700 thousand dollars each, at the Masonic… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.Apple's cut price digital streaming service is aiming to undercut the already flooded streaming market, Corin Dann spoke to tech website journalist Ashley Carman about Apple's staretgy Audio

7:11 AM.About 25 women made widows by the Christchurch mosque attacks, many with young children, have been left with no other family to support them in New Zealand. The scale of the problem is revealed in… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.The Labour Party has faced a battering this week over its handling of sexual assault accusations levelled at a Labour Party staffer. and the storm surrounding Labour is showing no sign of abating even… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Auckland secondary school principals are backing the government's plan to ban sweet vape flavours. They say it will help curb an epidemic of vaping among teenagers at some schools. The government is… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.Emails show the mayor of Lower Hutt was told in February that bad plumbing in a retirement complex was 'life-threatening'. All 96 apartments, worth up to 700 thousand dollars each, at the Masonic… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.On the same day the government committed to teaching New Zealand history in schools, it has apologised for what has been described as the final shots of the New Zealand Wars. The first reading of the… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.A teenager giving evidence at Dimetrius Pairama's murder trial has been accused of lying to protect herself. Miss Pairama's body was found in a steel drum at the back of a derelict state house in… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Tributes are flowing for Tongan prime minister and long-time democracy campaigner, 'Akilisi Pohiva, who died yesterday. Jenny Salesa, New Zealand's first Tongan-born Cabinet Minister, joins us. Audio

7:55 AM.What better time than during Maori language week to have our top senior students battle it out in the national Maori speech competitions. Four victors have just emerged from the Nga Manu Korero… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.A Young Labour member who has volunteered for the party for years says he feels sick about the way sexual assault allegations have been handled. He says he's reconsidering whether he even wants to… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Muslim community advocate Guled Mire reflects on the Christchurch mosque attacks, six months on. He says we have to keep the energy and aroha going, as for many people caught up in the atrocities they… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.It's a place that Aucklanders tell out-of-towners is a must-see attraction in their city. But like other outlying parts of the region, Piha locals are feeling increasingly disconnected from the people… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.No one was safe and no topic taboo as the three candidates for Queenstown Lakes' mayoralty last night shared their visions for the district. The Queenstown Chamber of Commerce mayoral debate in… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Sociologist Joanna Kidman says it will be 'extremely important' to involve iwi in establishing the curriculum when New Zealand history becomes a compulsory subject in schools. She says history is "not… Read more Audio

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

8:39 AM.A nine-year-old is among 15 people being dealt with by Queensland police as they investigate the bush fires blazing in the state. At least ten fires are thought to have been lit deliberately. Most of… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.More than a third of the exposed sewerage pipes criss-crossing New Plymouth streams and rivers have flunked a risk assessment and pose a threat of discharging raw sewage into the waterways, killing… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Some Canterbury farmers are dismissing the government's plan to clean up the country's waterways as a pipe-dream. Regional councils across the country are organising meetings to debate the best ways… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Some over-70s who have enjoyed free skiing on Mount Ruapehu for years are upset they missed out this year after the operator changed the rules without warning. Skiiers over the age of 70 are entitled… Read more Audio