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6:00 Top Stories for Tuesday 15 August 2017 6:06 Sports News for 15 August 2017 6:08 Morrinsville gunman still on run after failed siege 6:11 At least 2000 new social homes a year needed for next decade 6:19 Twenty dead in Papua New Guinea amid election bloodbath 6:20 Early Business News for 15 August 2017 6:22 Morning Rural News for 15 August 2017 6:44 How did Australia's deputy PM get NZ citizenship? Peter Dunne explains 6:46 Mental Health Foundation welcomes boost to sector's funding 6:49 Business News for 15 August 2017 7:06 Sports News for 15 August 2017 7:11 Morrinsville gunman remains on loose after police siege 7:13 Australia PM hopes deputy will stay in role 7:18 Many 'unwitting' NZ citizens may be out there - law expert 7:22 Fleeing Desert Rd men likely 'hypothermic' - police 7:25 Mental health faces 'crisis' without pay rises - Union 7:27 Coleman 'prepared to discuss' suicide target with Cabinet 7:40 Labour 'not involved' in Australian deputy PM's NZ citizenship 7:50 At least 2000 more social houses needed annually - Salvation Army 7:53 Trump makes 'carefully worded' statement after Charlottesville violence 8:06 Sports News for 15 August 2017 8:10 New mental health funding 'smoke and mirrors' - PSA 8:16 Planning urgently needed to deal with NZ population growth - economists 8:20 Auckland affordable housing build stalled 8:24 US fascist rhetoric 'didn't start with Trump' - politics researcher 8:29 Markets Update for 15 August 2017 8:38 Queenstown council intervenes after house prices fail to cool 8:42 Steel supplier dodges Commerce Commission prosecution 8:50 Sikhs welcoming law change on carrying traditional dagger 8:56 Big Ben's bongs to fall silent for four years.
From: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20170815