Top Stories for Thursday 6 April 2023

It's Rapare, Thursday April the 6th Anei nga kaupapa mo tenei haora.. Top stories this morning... The Reserve Bank's surprise 50 basis points rate hike baffles some economists. Former Prime MInister Jacinda Ardern bows out of Parliament delivering her valedictory speech last night. Health officials are urgently trying to sequence a strain of whooping cough they say is unusually deadly. In the US, Donald Trump's court appearance reinvigorates his Presidential campaign And the Stratford Shakespeare Festival gets underway in Taranaki