28 Nov 2025

Morning Report Essentials for Friday 28 November 2025

From Morning Report, 10:00 am on 28 November 2025

Disgusted, disappointed and furious - those are words of Simone Bennett reacting to the government's announcement that the long-awaited National Erebus Memorial will be built in Christchurch; Tourism operators are preparing for what they hope will be a strong summer season, with early signs looking good; Public consultation on Auckland Council's proposed six-month trial of fortnightly kerbside rubbish collections shows 78% of submitters opposed the trial; Eighty-year-old Ken McLeod started in the meat industry in 1962, when he was only 16; We crossed the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.