Morning Report for Friday 6 May 2022

8:53 AM.Duck hunters across the country are getting ready to take to the maimais on Saturday, which marks this season's duck shooting Opening Weekend.

Fish and Game council chair and duck hunter Ray Grubbs… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.Dangling high above a busy highway near Queenstown, geotech abseliers are drilling into an unstable 10,000 tonne block of rock to stop it from falling onto the road.

They are installing stabilising… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.New Zealand's chief censor, David Shanks, is stepping down from the job today after five years.

It's a confronting job for anyone, and he's likely to be remembered as the man who banned the video of… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Time for a sports flashback. It's five months ago, the second cricket test between India against New Zealand in Mumbai.

Of course it was Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel taking all 10 wickets in an… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Some immigrants are applying for refugee status because they've tested positive for HIV in New Zealand and are worried the government will kick them out.

Immigration rules mean people with HIV… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Proposed law changes aim to remove the handbrake on the slow management of national parks and conservation land.

The Department of Conservation manages more than 4600 active concessions and receives… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Emergency department staff at Christchurch Hospital are still being punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed by patients, despite efforts to stem the violence and aggression.

Recorded rates… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.The Department of Conservation's Great Walks bookings have opened this week - but many were full within just a couple of minutes.

Huts and campsites at the Kepler, Milford and Tongariro Northern… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.An independent review into the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Christchurch has found the school fosters a toxic learning environment where sexual harassment, bullying and harmful behaviour was… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Ruapehu Civil Defence officials have spent part of this week working on plan if there is an eruption.

The central plateau volcano had its strongest tremors in two decades and plumes of steam were… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.Auckland Council has endorsed the business case for a $306 million dollar plan to construct cycleways in the city.

It means construction will now be sped up, but the topic is still proving divisive… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Nearly 15 million people around the world are believed to have died either directly, or indirectly, from Covid-19 - an estimate that's nearly triple the official death toll.

That figure from the… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The Dow has fallen 1000 points and The Nasdaq has lost nearly 5 percent in the worst day of the year for US stock markets.

It comes after a rally yesterday that has overnight been erased and some.

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7:22 AM.A Bay of Plenty regional councillor says he has been racially abused relentlessly for wearing moko mataora - a Māori facial tattoo.

Stacey Te Pohue Rose received a blessing from a kaumātua and… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Ukraine says Russian forces have launched an all-out assault on the steelworks in Mariupol to try to eliminate those defending the plant.

Another group of evacuees have arrived in Zaporizhzhia -… Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Wait till the pain is so bad that you can't sleep - then you might get on the public health waiting list.

That's the advice from GPs to patients who contacted RNZ to tell stories of living in… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Emergency department staff at Christchurch Hospital are continuing to be punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed by patients, despite efforts to stem violence and aggression by patients.

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6:50 AM.Many New Zealanders will be familiar with that tune - from the rural television Sunday staple - "A Dog's Show".

The sheepdog trial programme which ran for 15 years until the early 1990s was hosted by… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The country's consumer watchdog is skeptical about a move by supermarket chain Countdown to freeze the price of some products.

From Monday, Countdown will freeze the price of more than 500 essential… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.Some of DOC's great walks booked out this week in just a matter of minutes.

Huts and campsites on the Kepler, Milford and the Tongariro Northern Circuit are all booked out for January.

Anecdotally… Read more Audio