Morning Report for Monday 29 May 2023

8:45 AM.Strongmen from across the world were in West Auckland on Saturday for the Iron Hand - New Zealand Open arm wrestling tournament.

Teams from Uzbekistan and Australia competed against New Zealand's… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The Chiefs have sewn up the top spot on the ladder with one weekend to spare, beating the top ranked Australian side, the Brumbies, 31-21 in Canberra.

They've only lost one game all year.

RNZ sport… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.The World Champion Black Ferns have a big year ahead.

There are more top-level tests on home soil than ever before, and the players will have to get used to a new coaching staff.

The team had their… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.The Auckland Stars overcame a four-goal halftime deficit to beat the Central Pulse in their elimination final in Porirua last night, making the ANZ Premiership final.

The Pulse lead 29-25 at the… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.The country's ethnic business leaders say they want to be included in mainstream business networks.

More than 100 leaders and two MPs attended the first business forum for the ethnic community, held… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.A construction expert says the National Party needs to invest in infrastructure to be able to deliver on their housing plans.

Yesterday, National announced its Going for Housing Growth Plan to… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Electioneering is now in full swing, with both major parties running attack lines about the prospect of the other running the country, come October.

Labour held its election year congress in… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.The National Party has withdrawn from a bipartisan housing policy it helped draft.

The Medium Density Residential Standards were viewed by some as a gamechanger in helping the country address its… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.A teenager, who has spent his entire life in care, says the system is failing the mental health needs of vulnerable rangatahi.

A recent Mental Health Wellbeing Commission report found a quarter of 12… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.President Biden and the Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement in principle on a new government debt limit, after weeks of bitter negotiations.

Joe Biden said the deal was… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed victory in the country's historic run off presidential election.

Official results has him winning 52% of the vote.

Our Turkish… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Papers show the government has been dragging its heels when it comes to making phone and internet networks more disaster proof.

At one stage it was told to survey vulnerable bridges, but within three… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.A cyber security firm says hackers are selling thousands of staff and student logins, passwords and access to school and tertiary institution IT systems.

Cyber Sentience says it found evidence of… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Hundreds of Labour Party supporters gathered in Wellington this weekend for the party's election year congress.

It was a chance for Labour's base to get to know the new leader - but the party spent… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.Auckland's Council is in talks with the government about moving some roads to safer ground amid the threat of flooding and climate change.

The government has committed $6-billion over four years into… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.The worst is over for the Far North region, although a significant rain band has moved south.

MetService communications meteorologist John Law spoke to Craig McCulloch. Read more Audio

6:41 AM.A cyber security firm says hackers are claiming they have access to IT systems at hundreds of New Zealand schools and tertiary institutes as well as stolen personal data from thousands of staff and… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.Queenstown's winter workforce is already arriving, but the big question is where will they live?

The tourist resort is in the midst of a rental crisis and with large numbers of transient workers on… Read more Audio

6:11 AM.Turkey's incumbent President is claiming victory in the country's historic run off presidential election, with almost all votes counted.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan failed to get 50% of the votes required… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.The Far North coped another burst of heavy rain overnight. MetService placed a weather alert for the region - the eighth this year.

Kaikohe and the Whangarei Heads were on the receiving end of the… Read more Audio