Morning Report

Iwi caught in the crossfire of the Crown's overlapping treaty claim process say a scathing Waitangi Tribunal report needs to be acted on.

The tribunal has found the Crown trampled on the mana of iwi who opposed the Pare Hauraki Treaty Settlement.

John Boynton has more.

The Climate Change Commission has named the members who will aim to help future governments achieve climate change commitments.

The commissioners are experts in the fields of climate science, adaptation, agriculture, economics, and the Maori-Crown relationship.

They are Judith Lawrence, Harry Clark, Catherine Leining, Professor James Renwick and Professor Nicola Shadbolt.

The former Reserve Bank deputy governor and Canterbury University vice-chancellor Rod Carr will chair the Commission.

Doctor Carr speaks to Susie Ferguson.

A brief update on the movements in the financial sector.

Documents obtained by RNZ show Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway knew eight months ago that delays in processing residency applications were about to blow out.

Applicants say they were never told they could be forced to wait more than a year for a decision.

Gill Bonnett reports

Police say the two bodies missing after the eruption on Whakaari/White Island may never be found but they're determined to keep searching.

They've confirmed the missing people are 40-year-old tour guide Hayden Marshall Inman and 17-year-old Australian tourist Winona Langford.

RNZ reporter Anusha Bradley is in Whakatāne.

The family of a man missing following the Whakaari/White Island eruption say police red tape and bureaucracy has thwarted another attempt to try and find his body.

Tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman died on the island, but his body, and that of 17-year-old Winona Langford, are believed to have been washed into the sea.

Hayden's brother, Mark Inman, says they went to the police with an idea on Monday morning to use nets to try to catch the bodies, but it took the police too long to act, and by then it was too late.

Netball and women's cricket are two of the big winners for 2020 funding from High Performance Sport New Zealand.

While many will remember Silver Ferns shooter Maria Folau for her signature long range shot, former Silver Ferns coach Wai Taumaunu says its Folau's courage she will remember most.

The 32-year-old 150 test veteran has hung up her bib having played her final tests in October's Constellation Cup series loss to Australia.

She made her Silver Ferns debut as an 18-year-old in 2005 but withdrew from the limelight over the past two years because of the public furor surrounding her husband, former Wallabies rugby star Israel Folau.

Maria Folau wouldn't be interviewed about her retirement.

Taumaunu who was coach of the Silver Ferns for four years from 2011 to 2015 told sports editor Stephen Hewson, Folau is undoubtedly one of the game's greats.

Of the country's 63 largest fishing boats, it's possible only one of them meets modern safety standards.

The findings are in a Transport Accident Investigation Commission report into a fire on the 48-year-old Dong Won 701 in Timaru last year, which says the vessel's age contributed to how quickly the fire spread.

RNZ fisheries reporter Conan Young has more.

Seven small electricity retailers have accused two of the country's biggest generators - Contact and Meridian - of price gouging by spilling water from their dams instead of using it to generate power.

They say that lets the two companies charge for more costly generation, earning them "excess profits" of more than $60 million in just the past month.

Electric Kiwi is one of the companies who have complained to the Electricity Authority, and its chief executive Luke Blincoe speaks to Corin Dann.

Neither Meridian nor Contact was willing to talk to Morning Report today, but in statements they say they disagree with the claims and spill water only when they have to.

Both say they would be happy to supply details of their operations to the Electricity Authority if requested.