Charlotte Cook
Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 26 September 2024
On today's episode, parents could face prosecution if their child misses school 15 days in a year as part of the coalition's truancy crackdown, iwi affiliation data released today on the Maori… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 25 September 2024
On today's episode, a major new report into the massive power outage across most of Northland found it was entirely avoidable, 59 jobs at GNS Science will be cut, as part of the government's wider… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 24 September 2024
On today's episode, the Police Commissioner Andy Coster is leaving the force to head up the government's new Social Investment Agency, nearly 500 people have been killed in Lebanon, in the deadliest… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Monday 23 September 2024
On today's episode, a former New Zealand police negotiator says international negotiations are long and complex, top officials advised the Government it would cost $3 billion a year for New Zealand to… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 19 September 2024
On today's episode, RNZ business editor Gyles Beckford unpacks the latest GDP figures; the US responds to synchonised explosions in Lebanon; MPs debate last minute changes to the Government's gang… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday18 September 2024
On today's episode, employees of Oji Fibre Solutions' mill in Penrose will lose their jobs when the mill closes in December; new NIWA data shows New Zealand is likely to be hotter in the coming… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 12 September 2024
On today's episode, former Green Party MP Darleen Tana's lawyer says the party's co-leaders acted unlawfully when they ejected Tana from the party, an ACC researcher says a proposal to increase levies… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 11 September 2024
Review finds Hawke's Bay Regional Council lacked plan during Wairoa flood: South Wairarapa mayor on Maori wards: Supermarket workers served suspension notices for strike and Secondary students gather… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 10 September 2024
On today's episode, thousands of Woolworths supermarket workers have walked off the job for two hours to protest their wages and working conditions, a threatening email and video that was sent to an… Audio
Miss Universe Fiji pageant takes an ugly turn
A judge in this year's Miss Universe Fiji says the controversy around the winner has stolen what should have been an epic moment for the country. Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 5 September 2024
On today's episode, Kiingi Tuheitia's youngest child and only daughter has been named as the eighth Maori monarch in a ceremony at Tuurangawaewae marae. Tekau-maa-rua, the Kiingitanga advisory… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 4 September 2024
On today's episode, Woolworths is taking issue with the Commerce Commission over its claims supermarkets are making excess profits and increasing margins, the Commerce Commission says competition in… Audio
Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 3 September
On today's episode, fixing roads and building new ones will recieive the lion's share of a government investment of $32.9 billion dollars on transport over the next three years, more mourners are… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Monday 2 September 2024
On today's episode, the King's Council - Tekau Ma Rua will meet tomorrow with iwi leaders to discuss the criteria for selecting the next Maori monarch, New Zealand's detention watchdogs have sounded… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Friday 30 August 2024
On today's episode, mourners are preparing to gather outside the gates of Tuurangawaewae Marare to pay their respects to Kiingi Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero the seventh, the defence opens its case… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 29 August 2024
On today's episode, the Green Party has agreed to delay its meeting on whether to invoke the waka-jumping law to remove former MP Darleen Tana from Parliament, the drivers of petrol cars could start… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Wednesday 28 August 2024
On today's episode, main roads are closed as rivers and streams around the lower North Island rise, with rain hammering parts of the country, a commuter train on the Kapiti line was hit by rockfall… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Monday 26 August 2024
On today's episode, main roads are closed as rivers and streams around the lower North Island rise, with rain hammering parts of the country, a commuter train on the Kapiti line was hit by rockfall… Audio
Midday Report Essentials for Friday 23 August 2024
On today's episode, the union representing maritime pilots, masters and deck officers says any findings from the Marlborough harbourmaster about the grounding of the Aratere are premature until… Audio