Morning Report

Some school principals are calling for more and consistent support when students are excluded. They say the way students are dealt with after being suspended will leave already at-risk students worse off.

The Education Act is being reviewed, and despite discussions about the need for better support, as it stands school principals will have 10 days to find another school for suspended students, before the case gets passed on to the Secretary for Education.

That's worrying principals who say, if it is enforced, it will lead to a poorer outcome for both students and schools.

Deidre Shea is a principal, and the president of the Secondary Principals Association.

Nurturing men's parenting skills while they're prison can reduce the chances of them reoffending when they get out.

Nearly a third of men released from prison end up back inside after a just year and a Monash University researcher says teaching inmates how to be good fathers and keeping them connected to their children should be made a key priority for The Department of Corrections.

Insight's Teresa Cowie has been inside Northland Prison where special efforts are being made to bring father and child together.

A brief update on the movements in the financial sector.

Two hundred jobs could be axed from a regional healthcare provider.

Healthcare NZ provides home care and support to vulnerable people and also runs community houses for people with disabilities.

But a new proposal would see its services centralised in Auckland and many of its admin staff and service managers lose their jobs.

Melissa Wooley from the Public Service Association, the union representing the workers, speaks to Susie Ferguson.

The coronavirus outbreak is putting the squeeze on New Zealand firms doing business with China.  

How big a squeeze nobody knows.

Hamish Cardwell reports.

Simon Bridges has promised a truthful advertising campaign by National in this year's election campaign but it appears the definition of truth might depend on the eye of the beholder.

The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a complaint that a National social media ad is misleading, even though it uses a bar graph that's not accurate.

The ad compared petrol prices under National to prices under Labour, and the graph is not to scale, making the rise under Labour appear bigger than it actually was.

But because the figures in the ad were accurate, the authority decided in a majority decision that while the ad was "mischievous", it did not mislead.

Complainant Dylan Reeve is not happy.

A spokesperson for National says the party was always confident its Facebook posts were not misleading.

Chief executive of the Advertising Standards Authority, Hilary Souter, speaks to Corin Dann.

The Ministry of Health is telling anyone travelling from China to New Zealand to isolate themselves for 14 days after arriving in the country.

However, no cases of the virus have been confirmed in New Zealand yet. Professor Michael Baker is an Epidemiologist at the University of Otago.

He speaks to Susie Ferguson.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic was full of respect for Swiss legend Roger Federer is was obviously not at his best in their Australian Open semi-final last night.

The Race Relations Commissioner has accused a Hamilton bar of cashing-in on the Coronavirus crisis.

The House on Hood Bar advertised discount corona beers for as long as the Cornoavirus outbreak lasts, but after outcry changed the promotion to for the rest of summer.

It still jokes about the virus in the adveritising though, with a quip "there are worse things that you can catch in Hamilton".

Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon speaks to Corin Dann about the ad.

A Hamilton bar has been accused of cashing-in on a crisis by the Race Relations Commissioner.

The House on Hood Bar advertised discount Corona beers for as long as the Coronavirus outbreak lasts.

They've since taken down the advert and limited the discounted beer until the end of summer. 

They've got a new ad saying; "There are worse things you can catch in Hamilton."

John Laurenson owns House on Hood and told Morning Report producer Jeremy Wilkinson there were some aspects of the marketing he regretted, but for the most part it had been received well.