Morning Report for Tuesday 16 March 2021

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

8:58 AM.Oscar nominations have been announced overnight.

Sacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan, and Chloe Zhao are among the big names.

Included in this year's nominations is the movie Mulan, for best costume… Read more Audio

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

6:37 AM.Australia's deportation of a 15-year-old boy has sparked unified outrage across the political floor.

The teenager is now being held here in managed isolation, leaving Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.A professor in Human Nutrition and Medicine says the latest nationwide snapshot of diabetes has left him dumbstruck.

Each month, around 50 people lose a limb to the disease and New Zealand's current… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.The Syrian crisis has reached an unwelcome milestone, with 10 years having passed since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad's government first began in March of 2011.

Those protests… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.Sailing fans will be packing into Auckland's viaduct this afternoon to see Team New Zealand take a shot at hoisting the America's Cup.

The two races scheduled for this afternoon is all the team… Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Emirates Team New Zealand has broken the deadlock against Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in the America's Cup.

Monday's racing featured two wins from the home team, with Luna Rossa going from four minutes… Read more Audio

7:16 AM.The Green Party's foreign affairs spokesperson says Australia should be treated as a "rogue nation" that "persistently flouts human rights laws".

That's in response to Australia's move to deport a… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Half way through a year-long vaccination campaign to prevent another dangerous measles outbreak, only about 3 percent of young adults who need an injection have had one.

The government launched its… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The police are investigating whether they are biased against Māori. 

It's launched a long term research project with Waikato University and a criminal justice advocate looking at how the police can… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Software companies are unhappy they've been all but written out of the government's new Research and Development funding system, which begins in just over two weeks' time.

From 1 April a tax… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The number of New Zealanders with type 2 diabetes is expected to increase by 70 to 90 percent over the next 20 years if nothing is done to address the growing epidemic. 

A new report commissioned by… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The Australian Government has made history, with the first deportation of a minor to New Zealand.

News that a 15-year-old boy is in managed isolation after being deported has added to the outpouring… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Human and mechanical errors cost Luna Rossa race wins against Team New Zealand on day five of the America's Cup and they're confident they'll overcome the issues. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The deadlock has been broken and Team New Zealand only needs two more race wins to lift the America's Cup and that could happen today.

The defenders now lead the series 5-3 after a roller coaster… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.The deadlock has been broken and Team New Zealand only needs two more race wins to lift the America's Cup and that could happen today. The defenders now lead the series 5-3 after a roller coaster ride… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.The number of New Zealanders with type 2 diabetes is expected to increase by 70 to 90 percent over the next 20 years if nothing is done to address the growing epidemic. 

A new report commissioned by… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.The government is being urged to act against modern slavery, with 85 businesses and organisations signing a letter asking for a Modern Slavery Act to be considered.

The letter was signed by companies… Read more Audio

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

8:38 AM.Ten years have now passed since the start of the Syrian crisis.

March 2011 marked the start of protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, and the resulting crackdown by his government… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.How do officials in Wellington come to take a small farm off a struggling school in Taihape, when they said they wouldn't sell it if the children still used it?

The local MP, and the former principal… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.Details have emerged of a concerted effort by transport agency Waka Kotahi and Heritage New Zealand to sideline a hapū group  from consultation over the building of a passing lane on State Highway 3… Read more Audio