Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 6 August 2025

In today's episode, an overhaul of the rules will allow greater catch limits when fish are abundant and stop on-board camera footage from being made public; Unemployment is tipped to reach a nine-year high on Wednesday; A leaked Cabinet paper shows the government was planning to restrict the hours bottle stores and supermarkets could sell alcohol. But the documents obtained by RNZ show it has backed away from those plans to focus on making business easier for the alcohol industry; A blind woman on the Supported Living Payment says she's struggling to use what she describes as the Ministry of Social Development's "impossible system"; A building course for high school kids in Opotiki is giving hard-to-reach students career options they might never have had otherwise.