Morning Report Essentials for Thursday 11 July

In the show today, New Zealand first leader and Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters is demanding more answers about the grounding of the Interislander Aratere ferry, Leaked documents about the Cook Strait ferry grounding show a crew member pushed the wrong button, accidently triggered the auto pilot and sending the Aratere onto the wrong course, the cost of bricks and mortar for building a new single storey house has dropped for the first time in at least 12 years, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has been severely reprimanded by the Chief Ombudsman and forced to apologise for trying to keep information about tobacco and vaping policy secret, the Olympics are just under two weeks away and a new bilingual sporting resource will help people cheering along in te reo.