10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 14th August

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, the government has told Te Arawhiti - the office for Maori Crown relations - to concentrate on Treaty Settlements and Taku-tai Moana applications. Labour leader Chris Hipkins joins us, Lollies with a potentially lethal dose of meth have been distributed in food parcels from the Auckland City Mission, we hear from New Zealand Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm, calls are mounting for the official cash rate to be cut on Wednesday, but ANZ chief economist Sharon Zollner thinks it won't and shouldn't be, and a Wellington Girls' College prefect joins us to discuss a planned protest on the fields of Parliament after finding out 13 classrooms at the school are earthquake prone.