Morning Report for Thursday 21 April 2022

8:52 AM.The disease myrtle rust has been found on Chatham Islands, where, unusually, it's expected to do more good than harm. Myrtle rust affects plants in the Myrtaceae family, including iconic New Zealand… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Identifying the seismic frequency pattern that occurs in the days leading up to a volcanic eruption could mean a break through in forecasting eruptions and preventing loss of life.

Ground breaking… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Hundreds of young people will be out on the weekend helping to clean graves of returned servicemen in readiness for Anzac Day.

The work is being done on behalf of the New Zealand Remembrance Army, a… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Questions are being asked about whether 30 hectares of native forest really needs to be felled to make way for a long-awaited bypass in northern Taranaki.

Details of another route for the State… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Queenstown residents have woken up to a violent thunderstorm which has knocked out power across the region.

Local lines company Aurora says residents across Queenstown, Glenorchy, Frankton were… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Queenstown residents have woken up to a violent thunderstorm which has knocked out power across the region.

Local lines company Aurora says residents across Queenstown, Glenorchy, Frankton are… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Volcanic unrest rumbling around Mount Ruapehu is now into its fourth week.

The heightened unrest tremor levels remain elevated, which is the longest period of tremors recorded over the past 20 years.

8:14 AM.New Zealand and Australia have reacted with frustration to the news that Solomon Islands has gone ahead and signed a security agreement with China.

The possibility of such a deal had led to concerns… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Solomon Islands has swapped close regional ties with New Zealand and Australia for a security agreement with China.

China says it will cooperate with Honiara on maintaining social order, protecting… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.There is mounting frustration that a long-awaited new bridge connecting two central North Island districts can't yet be used.

The new Mangaweka Bridge over the Rangitīkei River is scheduled to open… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Tairāwhiti has had a constant hammering of bad weather - with at least five storms in the past year shutting off roads and cutting off communities.

The area's been hit by serious storms once a month… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The union movement says National's suggestion that Labour Day is scrapped as a public holiday, shows the party is out of touch with working people.

Leader Christopher Luxon told us on Wednesday… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now one step closer to being handed over to the US, after an extradition order was approved by a British court.

The order is now in the hands of the UK home… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.Netflix has hinted it will crack down on households sharing passwords as it seeks to sign up new members following a sharp fall in subscribers.

The number of households using the streaming service… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.The Covid-19 booster vaccine campaign appears all but over, as demand dries up and the rate of booster coverage has actually started to decline.

There are 980,000 people who are eligible for a… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.A Māori Party leader believes the justice system has no sympathy for the family of a Taranaki man shot dead by police.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says Kaoss Price's whānau is under extreme duress, and… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.China's flexing of its muscles in the Indo-Pacific will loom large when the Prime Minister sits down with her Japanese counterpart in Tokyo this evening.

Jacinda Ardern flew from Singapore to Japan… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Cash-strapped households won't be surprised when inflation figures released later this morning show the biggest annual rise in more than 30 years.

Economists are predicting about a 7 percent lift for… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.Former UN officials have warned the Secretary General that if he does not step up efforts to mediate peace in Ukraine, the UN could be doomed. 

In their letter to António Guterres the group of 200… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.The latest inflation figures will be released later this morning, and it's widely expected to have hit a 30-year high of as much as 7.4 percent.

Corin Dann spoke to ANZ economist Finn Robinson, who… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.From next month recreational fishers will face daily catch limits on all types of finfish. 

There are more than a thousand species in New Zealand, but only 43 of these have been subject to limits.

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