Morning Report is a news and current affairs programme on Radio New Zealand National. It broadcasts nationwide every weekday morning for three hours and covers major national and international stories, as well as business, sport, Pacific and Māori news. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s website (note internationally sourced news packages may not necessarily appear in the rundown):
06:06
Sports News for 29 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'11"
06:11
Secondary principals react to govt plans
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The president of the Secondary Principals Association, Sandy Pasley, says small schools could benefit from a government plan to let a principal run more than one school.
Topics: education, law
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Tags: school operating rules
Duration: 2'36"
06:20
Pacific News for 29 July 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'26"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 29 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'05"
06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 29 July 2015
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The Māori Party is pushing for a Māori Focus Unit to be set up inside Mount Eden Prison as a way to rehabilitate the inmates and steer them away from fighting other prisoners; An oncologist is warning an increase in medicine costs under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement could divert attention away from providing more equitable access to medicines for Māori; Landcare research says they have seen a shift in Māori's attitudes with land toward a more commercial and strategic approach; The Māori media funding agency Te Māngai Pāho is boosting its funding for digital media to one-point-five million dollars in this financial year.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'28"
06:40
Tim Groser says TPPA finish line is in sight
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Talks aimed at wrapping up the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal begin today in Hawaii.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 4'21"
06:48
2degrees may find success harder - analyst
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An analyst says it'll be harder for 2degrees to succeed in broadband compared with the mobile phone market.
Topics: business
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Tags: 2degrees
Duration: 2'28"
06:50
Little chance of money for out-of-pocket investors
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The capital markets watchdog has ended its legal action against the directors of the failed finance firm Capital and Merchant Finance, saying there's little chance it will secure any money for out-of-pocket investors.
Topics: business
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Tags: Capital and Merchant Finance, FMA
Duration: 2'23"
06:53
Green Cross Health's share price spikes on special dividend
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Green Cross Health's share price has surged more than 4 percent after announcing a special dividend of 15 cents a share.
Topics: business
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Tags: Green Cross
Duration: 1'31"
06:55
Business NZ gives thumbs up to government reform plans
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Government plans to improve New Zealand's rules and regulations have been wholeheartedly supported by the business community.
Topics: business, politics
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Tags: business rules, Business NZ
Duration: 1'30"
06:56
Regional development plan needed - manufacturing group
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A manufacturers' lobby group says the Government's initiative to encourage more migrants to settle in the regions needs to be coupled with a coherent regional development plan.
Topics: business
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Tags: Manufacturers and Exporters Association
Duration: 1'55"
06:58
Morning markets for 29 July 2015
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Wall Street is up as investors eye earnings and merger news.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 58"
07:07
Sports News for 29 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'52"
07:11
Final TPP negotiations begin in Hawaii this morning
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Trade officials and ministers from the twelve countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks meet in Hawaii today to begin what's being billed as the last push to wrap up an agreement.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 5'31"
07:17
Blessie Gotingco's murder could have been prevented
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Corrections has been blamed for a series of botched decisions that led to the murder of Blessie Gotingco in May last year.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Tony Douglas Robertson, Corrections
Duration: 8'02"
07:25
Govt proposes major school changes
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A leaked document shows the Government is considering giving schools more power to vary their opening hours, and allowing one principal to run several schools.
Topics: education, law
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Tags: school operating rules
Duration: 2'27"
07:28
Government says it has public support for flag change
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The Government maintains it has public support for its referendum to change the flag, in response to calls from the opposition to scrap the upcoming referenda.
Topics: politics
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Tags: flag debate
Duration: 3'26"
07:37
Obama ends his tour to Africa
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The United States President, Barack Obama, has ended his Africa tour with a speech to regional leaders in which he said the continent's progress depended on democracy, freedom and human rights.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Barack Obama, USA
Duration: 4'42"
07:49
Maori voice their TPP-related claims on eve of negotiations
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Back now to the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations which are going down to the wire in Hawaii this week but many Maori are voicing their concerns over the trade deal.
Topics: politics, te ao Maori
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 5'37"
07:56
Black Monday on Chinese sharemarket causes commentator concern
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Chinese stocks endured another miserable day yesterday with investors seemingly not reassured by government moves to calm the market.
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Tags: China, stock market
Duration: 2'52"
08:07
Sports News for 29 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'59"
08:11
Smoke screen put up on ballooning medicine costs - TPP objector
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What's being billed as the final push to wrap up the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal gets under way today in Hawaii.
Topics: health
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 5'20"
08:16
TPPA and Canadian concerns about any agreement
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Continuing with TPP and Canadian concerns about any agreement that meant it had to dial back its tarriffs which run as high as 250 percent.
Topics: farming, rural
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Tags: TPP, Canada
Duration: 4'14"
08:21
Call to change law for preventive detention
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The Sensible Sentencing Trust is calling for a law change so preventive detention can be re-considered when an offender has reached the end of their sentence.
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: preventive detention
Duration: 5'39"
08:27
ACC refunds more than half a million in rego overcharges
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The Government has been forced to refund more than half a million dollars to motorists after overcharging them for their vehicle licenses.
Topics: transport
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Tags: ACC
Duration: 4'01"
08:31
Markets Update for 29 July 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'09"
08:39
TPPA from the Canadian angle
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For more on the Canadian angle to this story Steven Chase of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper is in Hawaii covering the talks.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP, Canada
Duration: 3'59"
08:43
Unused drug disposal a 'national disaster'
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The way the country disposes of unused drugs is being called a 'national disaster'.
Topics: health
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Tags: drug disposal. drugs
Duration: 3'20"
08:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 29 July 2015
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An oncologist is warning an increase in medicine costs under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement could divert the focus away from providing more equitable access to medicines for Māori; The Māori Party is pushing for a Māori Focus Unit to be set up inside Mount Eden Prison as a way to rehabilitate the inmates and steer them away from fighting other prisoners; Landcare research says they have seen a shift in Māori's attitudes with land toward a more commercial and strategic approach; The Māori media funding agency Te Māngai Pāho is boosting its funding for digital media to one-point-five million dollars in this financial year.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'20"
08:52
Mystery surrounding convention centre deepens
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The mystery surrounding the size and cost of the Christchurch Convention Centre has deepened, with the release of new figures to Radio New Zealand.
Topics: politics
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch convention centre
Duration: 3'27"
08:56
Christchurch ram raids
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Two young men suspected of using vehicles to ram raid petrol stations in Christchurch are on the run from police after one of them allegedly drove his vehicle at an officer.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: ram raids
Duration: 3'04"