10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 17 July

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, the Government's draft emissions reduction plan has been released this morning, laying out how it will meet greenhouse gas limits on the way to reaching net-zero carbon emisisons by 2050, Associate Health Minister David Seymour wants more investment in cancer drugs and immunisation, and a role for patients in decision-making and has told Pharmac to stop making Te Tiriti o Waitangi a focus, but that the agency still needs to apply a needs-based criteria, and the Treasury and the Ministry of Transport actively encouraged the incoming government to scrap the iReX ferry project,both having secretly mistrusted KiwiRail's data for years.