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Business news for 5 August 2024

The Government is bringing forward the rollout of a new maths curriculum, saying it's to ensure children do not continue to fall through the cracks. Labour's spokesperson for education, and ex teacher, Jan Tinetti spoke to Corin Dann.

An update on what's happening in the sports world with Nathan Rarere.

News from the rural farming sector.

Latest news from Radio New Zealand's business team.

A resident of Christchurch's Port Hills wants councillors to keep pushing for rule changes so they can stop pine trees being replanted in the fire-prone area. Anna Sargent reports.

The National Party's membership base rallied in Auckland this weekend - clearly relishing being back in government after last year's election. Political reporter Anneke Smith was there.

A weekend that started on a high has finished in a slump, with kiwi athletes missing medals in shot put, swimming, and the 100 metre sprint.

The Mystics have won back to back ANZ Premiership netball titles with last-gasp goal from Grace Nweke giving them a 54-53 win over the Pulse in Wellington.

Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors secure New Zealand's second gold medal of the Paris Games in a stunning hour at the rowing.

On today's episode, New Zealand's rowers went on a medal rush last night at the Nautical Stadium just outside Paris, we hear from Nathan Rarere as well as all of the medal winners, we also hear from Virginia Spoors, whose daughter's Lucy and Phoebe were among the medals, we also have our weekly political panel with RNZ political editor Jo Moir and Stuff's political reporter Glenn McConnell, and we cross the Tasman for our Friday chat with Kerry-Anne Walsh.

We cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.

Listen to our weekly political panel.

A Northland-based cancer specialist says fancy new drugs and the so-called "faster treatment times" won't do any good to his patients, who are missing out on the basics now. Ruth Hill has the story.

We're now a week into the Paris Olympics, with just over a week to go. We've covered off a huge number of stories from the Games, but there are some we might have missed, and some we thought you might want to hear about. Ben Strang is hosting RNZ's Paris Essentials Olympic podcast and he spoke to Morning Report.

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The spying scandal with Team Canada's Olympic football team continues to unfold. Sports reporter Rick Westhead spoke to Corin Dann.

It was a wonderful night of racing at the rowing for New Zealand on Thursday night, claiming three medals in the space of an hour. Nathan Rarere spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The wait for an Olympic swimming medal continues for New Zealand with Lewis Clareburt failing to qualify for the 200m individual medley final in Paris.

More developers are offering financial sweeteners to prospective buyers of new build homes, in the current sluggish real estate market. Katie Fitzgerald reports.