14 Aug 2024

Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 14 August 2024

From Midday Report, 1:45 pm on 14 August 2024

On today's episode, an urgent hunt is on in Auckland to track down the recipients of food parcels containing lollies laced with potentially lethal amounts of methamphetamine, the newly-appointed Commissioner of Health New Zealand insists an internal briefing detailing widescale job cuts for frontline healthworkers is not part of any plan, the pilot who died in a helicopter crash in Cairns on Monday has been named as 23-year-old Blake Wilson from Palmerston North, and Fans have welcomed home a group of New Zealand's Olympic team at Auckland airport this morning, headlined by star kayaker Dame Lisa Carrington.