Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 20 August

On today's episode, the Government is accused of taking a wrecking ball to every Maori achievement and driving race relations back 50 years, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon joins us, co-author of a new study, Tim Chambers, has found that in New Zealand alcohol was responsible for more than 900 deaths, 1250 cancers, and almost 30,000 hospitalisations in 2018, ambulance workers are taking strike action on Tuesday morning for the first time ever, the six major power companies have made more than half-a-billion dollars in margins over the past six weeks, and a neighbour of a man fatally shot in East Auckland yesterday is terrified that the killer is still at large.