10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Thursday 18 July

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, the Defence Force is freezing pay, cutting civilian jobs, and stopping some of its programmes - as it grapples with a budget shortfall of $130 million, fares for some Air New Zealand flights have surged by up to three hundred percent in the past five years according to Consumer NZ, but Air New Zealand vehemently disagrees, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has delivered a fifty percent cut to the excise tax rate on Heated Tobacco Products, and fog blanketed Auckland city, so we sent a reporter out into it.