Morning Report

An early morning sports news update.

The first Education Review Office reports with colour-coded tables to depict schools' performance has done little to allay principals' fears. The tables use green, orange and red boxes to signify excellence, doing well, working toward or needing improvement in fourteen areas including reading and writing, and teaching. Some principals have been worried the tables are too simplistic. Education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.

Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins.

If re-elected, National says it will modernise New Zealand's sexual consent laws to make it clear consent requires an explicit yes, rather than the absence of no. Currently, the Crimes Act gives examples of what consent is not, without defining what it is. Advocate Layba Zubair spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Update from NEMA following Te Anau quake; Louise Upston discusses rising Jobseeker numbers; Professor Jemma Geoghegan on bird flu's arrival in NZ; Retail NZ chief questions Move-On Bill; Jeremy Smith on Napier's Winter Deco Weekend

We crossed the Tasman to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Richard Willingham from ABC in Tasmania.

Several thousand are expected to make it to the art deco capital of New Zealand, and some of them have already been walking the town in full deco garb. Winter Deco Weekend in Napier will be facing. Napier Art Deco Trust's General Manager, Jeremy Smith.

What might have been the last official raceday at Avondale Racecourse in Auckland took place on Wednesday. A crowd of locals and some from further afield showed up for what to send off the storied racetrack in style. Erin Johnson reports.

Economists say things are looking up for the economy provided geopolitical events don't derail us again. Both Infometrics and HSBC are predicting a better second half of this year and 2027. Money correspondent Susan Edmunds spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

1 News Sports Editor Abby Wilson and All Black and Manu Samoa player, Lima Sopoaga join Morning Report for this week's sports panel.