Morning Report Essentials for Monday 17 June

On today's episode, the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has flown solo to Japan, leaving his 52-person trade delegation behind in Papua New Guinea along with the faulty Defence Force Boeing 757 - our political reporter Anneke Smith is among the stranded business and media people in Port Moresby. Students who've paid tens-of-thousands of dollars to attend Space Camp won't be getting a refund from travel company Actura which says it's gone into liquidation. Russia rejects a proposal for peace with Ukraine. And handwriting 'checkpoints' for primary school students get us all talking.