Morning Report for Tuesday 21 March 2023

8:57 AM.A driver licensing network is calling for cross party support to make driving education available in all high schools.

Only five percent of students leave high school with a full license, and The… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Beef and sheep farmers in Tai Rāwhiti fear they'll have paddocks full of starving animals this winter, because there's no safe way to get them off the paddocks or to the meatworks. 

Federated Farmers… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Parts of the Clutha district are without power after the storm overnight.

Water supply is also affected.

Clutha District Mayor Bryan Cadogan spoke to Corin Dann.
  Read more Audio

8:45 AM.An Australian tax incentive threatens to stunt the growth of New Zealand's lucrative video game industry.

Earning more than $400 million dollars a year, the sector has stalled as some of Aotearoa's… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.Wellington company Wētā FX were back in the winners circle last week, winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for their work on Avatar: The Way of Water.

For company director Joe Letteri, it was a… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.The Black Caps huffed and puffed and eventually blew down the Sri Lankan batting order on Monday, recording an innings and 58 run win at the Basin Reserve.

New Zealand did so amidst a typically windy… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.The Police Association is encouraged by the appointment of Ginny Andersen as Police Minister.

It had hoped for a more senior minister to take the role, and for the new minister to be fully engaged in… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.Humanity has been given a final warning to act swiftly on climate change in the latest IPCC report.

The world's leading climate scienctists have released the final report until 2030.

It says this… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.A significant thaw in the so-called public servant pay freeze is imminent. 

The Public Service Commission is putting out its new guidance as early as next week.

RNZ's Phil Pennington has obtained a… Read more Audio

7:58 AM.The Black Caps have made it three in a row after they battered visiting Sri Lanka by an innings and 58 runs in the second match of their test series at the Basin Reserve.

Sri Lanka were hoping to… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Heavy rain and high winds have hit the bottom of the South Island and temperatures in the deep south are down to around 10 degrees. 

There are reports of snow on the Crown Ranges.

MetService… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Rally organisers for controversial British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull say any neo-nazis turning up at rallies in Auckland and Wellington this weekend will be told to leave. 

… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Governments have agreed that the next decade will be critical in preventing irreversible climate change.

That's a key outcome of the last IPCC report until 2030 - one which condensed decades of… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.A lobbying firm who's NZ arm was previously headed up by the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Andrew Kirton, worked for alcohol companies in their fight for major changes to a container return scheme… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The Prime Minister is confident his Chief of Staff cut ties with his lobbying firm before taking up his new role.

Andrew Kirton headed the New Zealand arm of an Australian lobbying firm whose clients… Read more Audio

6:51 AM.Rallies featuring the controversial British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, will go ahead in Auckland and Wellington this weekend if she's not stopped at the border.

Her entry into New… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Rallies featuring the controversial British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, will go ahead in Auckland and Wellington this weekend if she's not stopped at the border.

Her entry into New… Read more Audio

6:21 AM.The MetService has 19 severe weather warnings in place this morning

Periods of heavy rain and strong to gale northwesterlies are forecast for central and southern parts of the country. 

A FENZ… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.We're at the tip of the tipping point: that's the warning from the UN as the IPCC releases it's final report until 2030.

The report summarises decades of research, providing a scientific underpinning… Read more Audio