10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 24 July

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, we hear from Labour leader Chris Hipkins after his party has accused the Government of "political spin" by appointing a commissioner to head health agency Te Whatu Ora, a large contingent of survivors of abuse in state care are expected in Wellington today to see the final Royal Commission of Inquiry report tabled in Parliament, we talk to a survivor and a lawyer, Transport Minister Simeon Brown is promising to speed up work on a new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangarei, and the director of public policy group Monopoly Watch, Tex Edwards, is warning any move by The Warehouse further into the supermarket business could be used by the existing duoploy to argue against increased regulation of the sector.