Morning Report for Friday 30 July 2021

6:17 AM.The Department of Conservation's being accused of using scare tactics and dodgy data in its bid to keep people away from dolphins in the Bay of Islands.

There have been 645 submissions on a planned… 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.New Zealand has been rated the best place on the planet to be if there is a cataclysmic collapse of society.

Researchers at the Global Sustainability Institute found this country would be better… Read more Audio

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

7:14 AM.Strikes are back on the table after nurses rejected the latest pay offer from district health boards.

About 30,000 nurses walked off the job in huge demonstrations around the country last month.

A… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.More than 16,000 people are booked for the country's first mass vaccination starting in Manukau this morning. 

The event will run throughout the weekend. 

Tāmaki Makaurau vaccination programme… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Mussel farms in Tasman Bay have suffered significant damage following the recent storm which battered the top of the South Island.

The clean up is estimated to take several weeks, with crop losses to… Read more Audio

7:33 AM.The daily number of new Covid-19 cases in the UK is falling, a statistic that has come as a surprise to many.

England lifted their Covid-19 restrictions on Tuesday last week, raising concerns among… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.A major new study shows a gulf of disagreement over how to make supply chains, such as those that feed supermarkets, safer from vehicle-related risks.

That is despite agreement that commercial… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Doctors are lining up in protest at the Government's silence over when they might be able to apply for residence.

More than 200 overseas-born medics and almost 1000 nurses are on work visas - and the… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.Nationally, rents have increased by 4.8  percent this year.

Southland and the West Coast are the best place to be a renter  for now - if you can find a house to rent that is.

New research finds rent… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.New Zealand's construction industry is eyeing the government's so-called 'immigration reset' as it struggles to cope with an unprecedented skills shortage.

A new report out from Civil Contractors New… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.New Zealand has the chance to win seven medals today at the Olympics, while one of the favourites to win gold were given a big scare last night in Tokyo. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The country's district health boards are surprised nurses have voted down the latest pay offer.

The Nurses Organisation says while the DHBs made promising moves on pay, the offer contained "too many… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.The government will give a long awaited apology to those targeted in the Dawn Raids at the Auckland Town Hall on Sunday. Manase Lua remembers being a child in Auckland, and the Dawn Raids' effect on… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Information provided by police and the courts may be wrongly pushing victims and perpetrators into reconcilliation talks.

Sometimes, it's only once the two parties have entered a restorative justice… Read more Audio

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

8:36 AM.A performance about the Waikeria Prison uprising has taken out this year's national school performing arts competition Showquest.

The event replaced Stage Challenge a few years ago with the main… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.The country's first mass vaccination is on in Auckland.

More than 16,000 people are booked, with the event running throughout the weekend.

Reporter Sarah Robson spoke to Corin Dann from Manukau. Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Aucklanders have been turning out in droves to support a Korean pancake store that's about to move from the central city after nearly two decades. Read more Audio

8:48 AM.The third annual Tairawhiti arts festival featuring Aotearoa's top artists and performers is set to spark the east coast alight.

The festival has been growing in numbers and performers since it began… Read more Audio