Morning Report for Tuesday 19 September 2023

8:52 AM.Climate scientists are blaming the ferocious gales that battered large parts of the country this week on the El Niño weather pattern joining forces with climate change in spring.

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8:48 AM.A Wellington homeowner awoken by a landslide crashing through her kitchen window a year ago is still battling to get her insurer to pay even a cent towards the huge costs of re-building a wrecked… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.The National Party's Hamilton-East candidate Ryan Hamilton has disavowed his decades-long opposition to fluoridation - but won't say when he changed his mind. 

After repeatedly ducking RNZ's requests… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Candidates from the National and Labour parties are disavowing comments made in the past on fluoride and vaccines.

National's Hamilton East candidate Ryan Hamilton says he no longer opposes the… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.TVNZ says lower than expected spending on advertising is forcing cuts to content production, programmes and operational spending.

Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch programme broke the story.

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8:23 AM.Queenstown residents are being told to boil their water, after at least eight cases of cryptosporidium - a parasite causing gastro-intestinal illness - have been confirmed in the area.

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8:19 AM.Queenstown residents are being told to boil their water, after at least eight cases of cryptosporidium - a parasite causing gastrointestinal illness - have been confirmed in the area.

The notice… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.The mental health system is broken and is making patients sicker than they were to begin with.

That's according to child psychiatrist and chair of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A 16-year-old has been arrested and charged murder in relation to a fatal assault at Albany bus station in North Auckland.

Police travelled to Hamilton Monday night and arrested the 16-year-old with… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.The Leader of the Labour Party is well known for leading the country through a crisis, but finding his way through a kitchen is a different story.

In RNZ's new political series, Grilled - the top… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.New Zealand First leader Winston Peters admits the state of the government's books has meant his party will have to pause and take stock of some of its tax policies.

He's criticising National and… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A new report from the senior doctors' union says people's dependency on private healthcare, to provide what public services can't, is rapidly increasing.

Evidence of this includes a Bay of Plenty iwi… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.The National Party's Hamilton-East candidate Ryan Hamilton is disavowing his decades-long opposition to fluoridation - but won't say when he changed his mind.

After repeatedly ducking RNZ's requests… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.Five Americans who'd been imprisoned in Iran have been freed and have landed in Doha, Qatar.

They were freed as part of a wider deal that includes the United States unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.A survivor of abuse at Dilworth School says until the head of the board fronts, nothing will change.

An independent inquiry released Monday has lifted the lid on seventy years of abuse and injustice.

7:22 AM.Police have arrested and charged a 16-year-old with murder in relation to a fatal assault at Albany bus station in North Auckland yesterday afternoon.

The Albany Bus Station was closed after the… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Police have arrested and charged a 16-year-old with murder in relation to a fatal assault at Albany bus station in North Auckland yesterday afternoon.

Detective Inspector Callum McNeill of Waitematā… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.It's crunch time for Chris Hipkins heading into the first leaders' debate of the election campaign.

Labour is languishing in the polls. Last week's Newshub Reid Research poll had Labour on 26.8… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.People whose homes were swept away by flooding in Libya's eastern city of Derna a week ago are faced the dilemma whether to stay and risk infection or flee.

Thousands of people were killed after two… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A man who witnessed the aftermath of the Albany Bus Station attack is questioning the safety of travelling on public transport in Auckland.

Police launched a homicide investigation and are still… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.The Government's proposed date for all rental campervans to become self-contained has been slammed as a "nightmare waiting to happen."

The Rental Vehicle Association says it's foolhardy for changes… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.Police are warning residents of Albany to expect an increased presence as they search for the offender after launching a homicide investigation.

A person died from their injuries following an… Read more Audio