Midday Report

The latest news from Australia with correspondent Amanda Copp in Canberra.

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

The latest news from RNZ's business team.

The National Party is to run on a platform of No New Taxes - ruling out a plan for a bed tax articulated only weeks ago. Guyon spoke with Auckland Councillor Richard Hills.

Labour has unveiled its election slogan today: Better Starts Now. It comes as National launches a massive attack on Labour over tax and a new RNZ poll has both major parties languishing around 30 percent and relying on Opportunity to form government. Guyon spoke to Labour leader Chris Hipkins.

More than half the vineyards in Gisborne are being ripped up, after New Zealand's largest wine producer cut its supply of grapes from the region, GisVin general manager Hamish Jackson told Guyon Espiner the local sector faces a loss of about $19.5m. Plenty of doom and gloom out there on the economic front. But BNZ has just put out numbers saying we may have hit peak misery. BNZ's chief economist M...

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

Education Minister Erica Stanford has announced $31 million to correct what she called the "failed experiment" of open-plan classrooms at 90 schools. But the New Zealand Institute of Architects is challenging the Ministers' claim. Guyon Espiner talks to the Institute's president James Blackburne.

Paddy Gower wraps the week in politics.

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

The latest news from RNZ's business team.

Plenty of doom and gloom out there on the economic front. But BNZ has just put out numbers saying we may have hit peak misery. BNZ's chief economist Mike Jones talks to Guyon Espiner.

More than half the vineyards in Gisborne are being ripped up, after New Zealand's largest wine producer cut its supply of grapes from the region, GisVin general manager Hamish Jackson told Guyon Espiner the local sector faces a loss of about $19.5m.

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

Drug companies say an experimental cancer vaccine has prevented the return and spread of cancer in high-risk melanoma patients. Dr Gareth Rivalland was New Zealand's principal investigator in the trial. Marama Davidson discusses the Green Party policy on school lunches. And New York local newspaper editor Mark Frost on why print is not dead.

The Chronicle newspaper is an independent publication in Glens Falls New York. More than 3,000 newspapers have ceased publication in the United States in the last 20 years, but, The Chronicle is still making headlines, with 20,000 print copies delivered to readers each week. Editor and delivery man Mark Frost told Guyon Espiner how it has persisted.

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

An update on the latest news from RNZ rural team.

The latest news from RNZ's business team.

The Green Party wants to bring back the school lunch programme to what it was, then expand it to more schools. It's currently at an average cost of $3.58 per lunch. They want to increase it to $6.50, which they estimate would cost $600m a year by 2030. Co-leader Marama Davidson spoke to Guyon Espiner.

A deeply compelling innovation has cancer specialists buzzing. An experimental mRNA cancer vaccine which has allowed people with high-risk melanoma to live longer, cancer-free, according to drug companies Moderna and Merck. Medical Oncologist and Melanoma NZ Spokesperson Gareth Rivalland has been leading this from the New Zealand end joined Guyon Espiner to discuss.

Education Minister Erica Stanford speaks with Guyon Espiner about the government's $31 million plan to convert modern learning environments into traditional classrooms. Major General John Howard, a retired military leader and former Chief of Defence Intelligence for the NZDF, was also Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration at the US Defense Intelligence Agency. He speaks with Guyon Espiner a...

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

The latest Housing Affordability Report from Cotality has just come out, showing the ratio between house values and household incomes is back to where it was in 2015. Cotality chief economist Kelvin Davidson joins Guyon to discuss.

The latest news from Australia with correspondent Amanda Copp in Canberra.