Morning Report for Friday 26 May 2023

8:45 AM.The OCR hike and latest poll as the election approaches are major talking points this week.

Questions remain for National's tax plan and use of AI marketing images, and Labour's conference kicks off… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.The Central Pulse host the Northern Stars this weekend in the elimination final of the ANZ Premiership.

The winners will move on to next week's final against the Auckland Mystics.

RNZ's netball… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis has entered the race for the presidential election, and will likely go up against former US president Donald Trump.

The first 20 minutes of his clunky… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.How can artificial intelligence be monitored heading into October's election? And who should monitor fake news and augmented images?

The questions come after the National Party has admitted to using… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.The investigation into the Alan Hall miscarriage of justice case has exonerated crown lawyers of any wrong doing.

The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton and… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Labour says this year's Budget was simply "not the time" to overhaul Working for Families - but it has promised to spell out its plan before the election.

The Government put the multi-billion dollar… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.More than 120 firefighters and 30 trucks were sent to Surrey Hills in Sydney at about 6pm NZT, when flames erupted from within the multi-storey former hat factory.

It sparked chaotic scenes in the… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Ill treatment of a kiwi at Miami Zoo sparked outrage this week, now the Department of Conservation is investigating practices at a private sanctuary on New Zealand soil.

The Cape Sanctuary in Hawke's… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.Orthopaedic surgeons are offering to replace some private patients with public ones which could provide relief for 2000 people waiting for operations.

However, clinicians say at least 500 people… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.35 years after the Wairoa River burst its banks during Cyclone Bola - and three months after the same thing happened in Cyclone Gabrielle - plans are finally being laid to safeguard the community… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.A $33 million dollar budget hole is pressing Victoria University to consider axing up to 260 of its staff.

Vice-chancellor Nic Smith has told employees that up to 110 academic jobs and 150 general… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.National and Act could form the next government, according to the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll.

The National Party is up three points to 37%, while Labour is down one point to 35%.

With Act… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Documents released to RNZ show the government turned down an offer by Spark to invest millions in network resilience.

The offer came in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle - when phone and internet… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.An independent report has cleared Crown Law of any wrongdoing despite it failing to act on evidence of Alan Hall's innocence four years ago.

The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.One of the women targeted by the brothers convicted of rape and drink-spiking at Christchurch bar Mama Hooch says she is relieved the pair's identities have been revealed.

Danny and Roberto Jaz were… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.A group of researchers are calling for a serious increase to water infrastructure funding if the network is to survive the intensifying impacts of climate change.

A new report assessing damage from… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.Plans to extend 20 hours of free early childhood care to two-year-olds has been met with stark opposition by the early childhood sector.

A coalition of groups says the policy is unworkable and could… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.A new report warns urgent action is needed in New Zealand's aviation industry to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Aotearoa ranks sixth in the world for it's per-capita… Read more Audio