Midday Report

On today's episode with Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, The government's revealed its plan to shake up retirement village repayment rules. Both operators and residents are criticising the plan. Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka, and Di Sinclair from the Retirement Village residents Association join Midday Report. It's Friday so we wrap another big week in Politics with Paddy Gower.

Patrick Gower joins Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira to discuss the biggest political stories of the week.

News from the rural farming sector.

The Retirement Village Residents' Association responds to the government's law change announcement. Di Sinclair, its national vice president and complaints coordinator spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

The Government is overhauling retirement village rules to ensure residents and families get their money back faster when a unit is vacated. Currently those repayments are taking nine months to two years, with one case of a resident waiting three and a half years for payment. Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

Brad Olsen discusses latest GDP figures; Food supplier responds to National's supermarket policy; Kingi Rakete-Tane discusses Maori language week events

An update on the latest news and results from RNZ's sports team

Ko tenei te wiki o te reo Maori, it's Maori language week, and small Northland town of Kaikohe saw hundreds of people hikoi through the streets to celebrate it. Reo champion Kingi Rakete-Tane organised the event in Kaikohe and spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

The latest news from the United States with Nine News reporter Lauren Tomasi in Washington DC.

The latest news from RNZ's business team.

An update on the latest news from RNZ's rural team.

Daniel Shields, owner of Barry's Bay cheese, Naked Kitchen and Cool and Fresh chilled distribution spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

The latest data on New Zealand's economic growth came out this morning. Brad Olsen, Principal Economist at Infometrics spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

Arena Williams discusses Labour's new price gouging policy; National announces plan to split Pak'nSave from New World; Retail NZ responds to new wage freeze policy from ACT.

An update on the latest news and results from RNZ's sports team.

The ACT party is proposing a three-year freeze on the adult minimum wage, and a new 60 percent training wage for under-20s, saying small businesses need immediate relief from rising costs. Retail NZ Chief Executive, Carolyn Young spoke to Guyon Espiner.

An update on the latest news from RNZ's rural team.

The latest news from RNZ's business team.

Labour is promising to make price gouging illegal, if elected in November.

Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis says together with Woolworths, this would mean New Zealand would have three major nationwide grocery chains which would drive down grocery prices.

On today's episode the world is on edge over the risk posed by AI... I spoke to Senior Lecturer in artificial intelligence - Dr Andrew Lensen. AI expert Mark Lawrence has written a costed AI policy and today he's sent it to political parties to adopt. RNZ In Depth reporter Farah Hancock told Guyon Espiner about the high rollers in the political donations game.

An update on the latest news and results from RNZ's sports team.

Mark Lawrence is an AI educator and consultant. He's drafted an AI policy for New Zealand, which he says will cost about $300 million over three years.

The latest news from the United States with Nine News reporter Lauren Tomasi in Washington DC.

News from the rural farming sector.