Morning Report for Friday 10 July 2020

6:18 AM.A New Zealand aid worker at the world's largest refugee camp is concerned there won't be enough beds at its make-shift clinics to cope with an expected surge in Covid-19 cases.

More than half a… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

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

6:43 AM.Business leaders in Southland are optimistic there will be jobs out their for smelter workers but not immediately. One thousand people will lose their jobs at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter when it… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Health officials in the US are increasingly blaming the country's poor response to the pandemic on an anti-science bias.

Experts like Anthony Fauci say people are ignoring the threat of Covid-19, and… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has been given the job of jointly leading an investigation into the response of the World Health Organization, and that of governments, to Covid-19.

She will share… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Southland industries are warning it'll be a long hard slog finding new jobs for smelter workers. One thousand people will lose their jobs at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter when it closes next year.

7:23 AM.Southland's Tiwai Point aluminium smelter looks set to close after Rio Tinto announced plans to wind down operations yesterday.

The smelter employs 1000 people and uses 13 percent of the country's… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.An intensive care doctor is outraged health officials are giving helicopter rescue trusts a daily list of Covid-19 patients, saying it's completely unnecessary.

The National MP Hamish Walker resigned… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.International law experts are warning the government's plan to review extradition and trade relationships with Hong Kong won't be taken lightly by China.

The review was prompted by a controversial… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.A Corrections officer who was spat in the face by a prisoner during the Covid-19 lockdown has spent months waiting to find out if he now has a serious disease.

Under the Corrections Act, any officer… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Changes to Wellington City Council housing policy could slash rents for half the council's tenants but may leave other marginally better off tenants picking up the tab.

The proposed changes have also… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.New Zealanders are taking advice to 'stay local' to heart this school holidays.

Spending analysis shows holidaymakers swapping Fiji and Rarotonga for Great Barrier Island and Waiheke are spending up… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.More than a thousand Southland locals are facing the loss of their jobs after Rio Tinto announced plans to wind down operations at the Tiwai Point smelter.

The smelter directly employs 1000 people… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the closure of the Tiwai Aluminium Smelter will be a blow to Southlanders but there are opportunities ahead.

That's sparked criticism from the National Party… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Tiwai Point Smelter is looking likely to close after its owner Rio Tinto annouced plans to wind down operations yesterday.

The smelter uses 13 percent of the country's electricity so how could that… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.The US supreme court this morning ruled that president Donald Trump is not immune to prosecution over his tax returns.

Seven judges to two agreed that a New York prosecutor can obtain President… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Dunedin students are being offered the opportunity to ditch takeaways and two minute noodles in favour of growing vegetables and composting waste.

In a new flatting initiative, twenty students will… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Businesses struggling under the economic downturn caused by the pandemic are calling for the wage subsidy to continue in some form after it ends in September.

The wage subsidy scheme has been… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.One of the world's rarest shorebirds, a shore plover, has been successfully bred at a Hawke's Bay sanctuary for the first time.

There is usually a delay in announcing the hatching of a chick because… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio

8:53 AM.The bitter rugby rivalry between Canterbury and Auckland has been re-ignited ahead of the Crusaders clash with the Blues in Christchurch tomorrow night.

The provincial bloodfeud, which dates back… Read more Audio