Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 11 December 2024

In today's episode, a network outage at Auckland Airport that caused massive queues and delays for some international flights has been resolved - but that hasn't allayed all travellers problems, New Zealand adults' skills in literacy and numeracy have rapidly declined over the past eight years, emergency services are attending the scene of a fire in adult entertainment venue Showgirls, in downtown Auckland and the eagerly-awaited government plan to replace the Cook Strait ferries will be announced on Wednesday.