Morning Report for Wednesday 21 December 2022

8:54 AM.Hundreds of thousands - millions by some estimates - of Argentines have packed into the streets of Buenos Aires to celebrate the country's football World Cup win. 

The Argentinan football team… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.It will be Christmas in Karachi for the Black Caps on Wednesday for a tour of Pakistan under new test captain Tim Southee. Normally they'd be gearing up for a Boxing Day test and other home summer… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.With more than 2.2 million parcels to deliver this week, NZ Post is flat stick.

But it's not just this week keeping the postal service busy - they're forecasting to have delivered about 15m items… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Aerospace entrepreneurs are pushing ahead with airtaxis for the Brisbane Olympics, reusable rockets and tree-spotting drones.

That's despite their growing frustration with red tape, which spilled… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Forget house prices, let's talk partridges. The cost of putting on a Christmas spread and buying gifts for your true love has soared in recent years thanks to inflation.

Fifteen years ago we… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.A rise in students being stood down from school last year was driven by smoking and vaping, according to figures from the Ministry of Education.

Almost 3000 more students were stood down last year… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.Smoking and vaping drove a jump in the number of school children punished with stand-downs last year.

Education Ministry figures show schools made nearly 21,000 stand-downs covering almost 16,000… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Elton John's new twist on an old favourite has grabbed the top spot of Recorded Music New Zealand's end-of-year singles chart.

The top album is from a newer UK favourite, with Harry Styles' third… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.The government is coughing up an extra $86 million to help fix a section of State Highway 1 through the Mangamuka Gorge in the Far North, much to the relief of residents.

The $100 million project… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.A 501 former serious drug dealer deported from Australia has won his case in the High Court, arguing he shouldn't be told where to live or give police his fingerprints.

The man went to the High Court… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Beds and operating theatres have been cut from the design of a new hospital in Dunedin, because of increasing building costs.

Te Whatu Ora says an extra $200 million is needed to deal with cost… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Police and retailers in the Waikato are pulling out all the stops to respond to an increasingly violent crime wave.

Four young people have so far been arrested following three burglaries, a home… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.The prosecution lawyers involved in the wrongful conviction of Alan Hall may now become the subject of a police investigation.

Alan Hall was wrongly jailed for more than two decades, after evidence… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Almost 10,000 people are expected to attend a memorial service in Brisbane today for the slain police constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold. The two officers were shot and killed in a deadly… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.Surgical waiting lists are getting worse in some parts of the country, despite major moves by the government to try to shrink them.

A Planned Care Taskforce was set up this year to try to cut the… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.There were Jubilant scenes in Suva overnight as Fiji's king-maker party Sodelpa announced it will form a coalition with People's Alliance, or PA, and the National Federation Party, also known as the… Read more Audio