Morning Report for Wednesday 1 November 2023

8:54 AM.The coach of Australia's rugby team, the Wallabies, has resigned after a disastrous run at the World Cup in France.

Eddie Jones was appointed in January to much fanfare in Australia - only weeks… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Staff at Te Pūkenga are surprised, and some are unhappy the super-institute is pushing ahead with more changes.

It has just finished a major restructure that cost 200 jobs and now it is consulting on… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Councils want more certainty over what the change of government means for their water assets, and their finances.

To the delight of councils opposed to Three Waters, National has promised to start… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Australian firefighters are battling intense bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales, where the conditions are so severe they are focusing on saving lives, rather than properties.

Authorities… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.A Māori birthing unit recommended for Hawke's Bay is languishing in a queue of work Te Whatu Ora has picked up after District Health Boards were folded into the entity.

A birthing unit was… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.A Kāinga Ora tenant whose family has been threatened with a hammer by a neighbour, says her complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

Despite receiving more than 8,000 complaints in the past year, the… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The brother of the first identified victim of the Whakaari White Island eruption in 2019 says money spent on lawyers could have been better spent going into the community.

The island's owners… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.The Royal College of GPs' medical director says the latest statistics from Te Whatu Ora are grim, but they align with what he sees in practice.

The quarterly clinical performance data - released on… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.The mother of a tour guide who died in the Whakaari White island disaster wants assurances something similar could never happen again.

Avey Woods' son, Hayden Marshall-Inman, was one of the 22 people… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.A legal expert says he is expecting hefty fines and reparations for the firms involved in the Whakaari White Island case.

The Auckland District Court found Whakaari Management guilty on one of the… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.New Zealand's diplomatic response to war in Gaza is coming under increasing scrutiny from leading international law experts.

On Tuesday, Waikato Professor Al Gillispie stressed NZ should now be… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.The police are trying to get officers back on to the front line, after they were diverted to help courts facing a growing backlog of jury trials.

Police's own problems with lack of resources and… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.Property analysts say house prices are beginning to rise for the first time since March last year.

Values in Hamilton and Christchurch rose by more than 1 percent during October, but not all areas… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.A warning, this next story contains distressing details.

Officers rushing to the aid of victims of the Christchurch terror attacks have described police communications in chaos - even as they were… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.The Israeli Defence Force has confirmed it is responsible for a huge explosion at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza that has reportedly to have killed dozens and injured many more.

Photos… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Te Whatu Ora's clinical director says worsening performance data in the health sector can still be attributed to flow-on effects from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The number of patients waiting more than… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.Live animal exports by sea could be restarting soon. The National Party earlier this year promised to lift the ban that came into effect in April after the Labour government banned the lucrative… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Preventable hospital admissions for babies and preschoolers is up more than 30 percent since June 2022.

Nationwide admissions jumped 35 percent, the increase in parts of Auckland was as high as 66… Read more Audio