Morning Report for Friday 24 July 2020

6:20 AM.Principals and teachers are unhappy the government has made minimal changes to their ability to physically restrain violent students.

They say after three years of debate about the problem, they were… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.The Opportunities Party, which launched its election campaign last night with a key policy of installing a universal basic income.

It proposes to give adults $13,000 dollars a year and $2000 dollars… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. 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

6:37 AM.A New Zealander living in London says she's been forced to overstay her visa, after having her flight back home cancelled three times.

The UK Government issued visa extensions to all overseas… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.In the US, President Trump will send hundreds of federal agents to Chicago in an effort to stamp out rising crime.

Gun violence has spiked in the US city with over 400 murders this year alone.

The… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Imagine being stuck on the other side of the world, where flights home cost $3000, and with just a week until your visa is set to expire, you've heard nothing on whether it can be extended again.

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7:14 AM.National Party foreign affairs spokesperson Simon Bridges says the Foreign Minister Winston Peters needs to talk directly to the UK government to ask for extensions for New Zealanders whose visas are… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.New Zealand has the lowest death rate from the Covid-19 pandemic in the developed world.

A new comparative analysis looked at the death rates among the 37 members of the OECD.

New Zealand, which has… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Last night MPs passed the pay equity law that makes it easier for women to be paid the same as men even if they work in different industries.

Employers are already required to pay employees in the… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.The Parliamentary rugby team celebrate their 25th anniversary this week, with the side taking on an invitational Centurions XV in Wainuiomata on Saturday.

Some rather famous faces are lining up on… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.The Race Relations Commissioner is urging a Maori woman who was told by a landlord he didn't want 'her sort' in his property to file a complaint to the Human Rights Commission.

Te Iwi Kemp applied… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.One person has died and two people have been hospitalised with listeria in Tauranga, prompting a warning to pregnant women and others at risk.

Public health authorities say the person who died had an… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The Minister for Climate Change says Kiwibank's decision to stop doing business with companies dealing in fossil fuels is the right one.

That runs contrary to the opinion of the associate State Owned… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.The Mayor of Portland, Oregon has been tear-gassed at a protest where he called for federal forces to leave the US city.

Federal officers were deployed by President Donald Trump earlier this month in… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.All Black and Hurricanes loosie Ardie Savea has thrown his support behind the proposal to include a Pacific Islands team in a revamped Super Rugby competition next year. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is jetting down to Invercargill this morning to hold a "Save Tiwai" rally in the city.

Peters declared his intention to fight the closure of the Tiwai Point… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Teachers are disappointed and frustrated with minimal changes the government has made to their right to physically restrain students.

They say after years of debate Parliament has passed amendments… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.A huge backlog of court cases should start to clear by early next year with the government spending $50 million on more judges, staff and resources.

Nearly 50,000 cases were adjourned in the District… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Māori trying to switch electoral rolls ahead of the election are frustrated they won't be able to do so until 2024. 

It's led to renewed calls from the Electoral Commission to allow Māori to switch… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Southland Museum is ramping up its pest control after a rat broke into an enclosure and ate one of the museum's resident tuatara.

The rogue rat scaled a two-metre pipe and climbed through an air vent… Read more Audio

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

8:39 AM.An Auckland pizza shop owner who uncovered what's known in the retail industry as "chargeback or refund fraud" wants more businesses to be on alert for the scam.

Scammers target customers buying… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.New Zealand citizens living overseas say they feel unwelcome to return home as the question of charging for quarantine remains unanswered.

On a new facebook group called 'Team of Six Million', Kiwis… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Seismic data collected from around the world - including New Zealand - has found that the world was half as loud during lockdown.

The measuring of seismic waves is usually focused on detecting… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.A new tropical cyclone warning system hopes to give Pacific Islands months more time to prepare for big weather events.

The new system will be able to predict tropical cyclones for individual… Read more Audio