10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Monday 20 January 2025

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, Dr Shane Reti has lost his health portfolio in a major cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Simeon Brown will take over as Health Minister, Israel says three hostages - who have been held by Hamas in Gaza for 15 months - have been released back into Israeli territory hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, 2025 will be the last time Jim Beam Homegrown is held in Wellington, with the event set to move cities next year, and sixteen-year-old Alexis Owen from Dunedin has upset the defending champion and an Olympian to claim the New Zealand Open men's surfing title at Stent Road beach in Taranaki on Sunday.