29 Apr 2024

Morning Report Essentials for Monday 29 April

From Morning Report, 10:00 am on 29 April 2024

On today's episode, like it or not, a blanket cellphone ban is setting in at schools nationwide from today, year 9 student Flo Galvin shares her thoughts on the ban, police are investigating a robbery in an Auckland mall, Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn Young joins us, petrol has reached $3 a litre in some parts of the country, infometrics principal economist Brad Olsen discusses the price rise, the Wellington Phoenix face a nervous wait to see if they win the Premiers Plate, general manager David Dome joins us, and acclaimed poet and playwright and Author Sir Vincent O'Sullivan has died, he was 86, Publisher with Te Herenga Waka University Press Fergus Barrowman remembers his life.