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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
News FIGX for Tuesday, the first of July. A deal's
been struck on infrastructure upgrades for two new interrite under
ferries in twenty twenty nine. Minister for Rail Winston Peters
has announced an agreement with center Port, Port Marlboro and
KiwiRail on core infrastructure. Political reporter Azaria Halle has more.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
New wharfs will be built in Picton and the existing
wharf servicing the soon to retire UTA Teddy in Wellington
will be strengthened to suit the new cook Straight ferries
for the next three decades. Winston Peters calls it a
no nonsense approach. The government remains in talks with six
shipyards competing on price and quality.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And finance. Minister Nikola Willis says Ferry Holdings has been
set up instead of putting Kiwi Rail in charge.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
This is the entity responsible and focused on two things.
One getting the port infrastructure delivered in a timely and
affordable manner that we need to receive these new faeries
and two procuring the fairies internationally.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The Opposition leader is calling government boot camps a disaster.
A teenager has been kicked out of the government's military
style academies program for youth offenders after allegedly offending and
facing court. Labour's Chris Hopkins says the pilot program has
not been effective.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
If the number one goal is to reduce young people's reoffending,
boot camps aren't working.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The Finance Minister says changes to the Family Boost scheme
are on their way. The government previously said it would
announce changes to the childcare tax policy in June. It's
been admitted the number of families initially thought eligible was wrong.
Nikola Willis says there are two changes made by Cabinet
yesterday and they apply to fees incurred from today, with
(01:44):
claims able to be made from October.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The first is to increase the amount of rebate, which
will have the effect that people on lower middle incomes
with lower rates of fees will be able to get
a bigger rebate.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Willis says the second is to reduce the abatement rate,
so families earning more than one hundred and forty thousand
dollars will be able to claim a bit more. Less
than three quarters of students attended school on Term two's
last day the lowest this year. Jamie Cunningham reports the.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Ministry of Education figures show seven hundred and fifty nine
thousand pupils were supposed to be in class on Friday,
but about five hundred and thirty nine thousand showed up.
Attendance rates were consistently over eighty five percent for the
rest of the term. It's clear severe weather had an
impact for students in the Upper South Island, with just
(02:33):
twenty percent of Tasman pupils at school on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Positive signs on consumer areas, but some businesses are still
doing it tough. Latest Centrix data for May shows the
number of people behind on payments is down on last year.
For the fifth consecutive month. Company liquidations have risen twenty
seven percent year on year. Chief operating Officer Monica Lesi
says that's partly due to increased enforcement. A thirty one
(02:59):
year old's being charged with wounding with intent to cause
grievous bodily harm in relation to a homicide investigation in
South Auckland's or Tahohoo to Sport Warriors Reserve grade playmaker
Tanner Boyd views himself as a logical replacement of halfback
Luke Metcalf is ruled out for the NRL season with
a knee injury. Players, staff and spectators have absorbed the
(03:22):
hottest opening day on record at Wimbledon. Air temperatures on
court reached thirty two point three degrees, surpassing the two
thousand and one record of twenty nine point three. And
Nathan Lyon has ended his eraror as the Australian Test
cricket team songmaster, passing the mantle to Alex Carey, the
ninth Custodian. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
(03:45):
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the news Talk ZB newsroom.
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