Morning Report Essentials for Friday 14 June

On today's episode, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has announced a hiring freeze on non-frontline staff, we talk to the executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, Sarah Dalton. The Chinese Premier Li Qiang is in the country, Otago University associate professor Nicholas Khoo gives his thoughts on the visit, political journalists Anneke Smith and Claire Trevett cover the MP allowance debate in our weekly political panel, and Kerry-Anne Walsh gives us all the latest news from Australia.