Midday Edition: 02 July 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 02 July 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
newss for Tuesday, the second of July. Somewhat of a
lifeline for New Zealand media from the government. It's tweaking
the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill to lift the ban
on TV advertising on Sunday mornings and certain public holidays.
Political editor Jason Walls has more.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Changes to the bill will also allow a forty percent
screen production rebate to apply to Shortland Street, meaning it's
highly likely the show will continue on. The bill also
attempts to force the likes of Google and Facebook to
pay for the news content that they use from local
media companies to drive their own profits.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Meanwhile, AX David Seymour has triggered the Coalition agreed to
Disagree clause over the bill, saying they won't vote for
the legislation.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
We work together in coalition on ninety nine percent of issues, but.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
There's somewhere we just don't have the same view. I
actually thanks disagreement is healthy relationship. AXE opposition means National
and New Zealand First will need Labour's support to pass
the bill. Labour Media spokesman Willie Jackson says they're taking
the time to look at the government's amendments but support
the intent of the bill. A man has pleaded not

(01:16):
guilty to a charge of murdering a Tekawiti baby. New
Zealand Herald's Open Justice reports. The twenty two year old
denies murdering ten month old Mustafa Ali last month. The
baby died in hospital from blunt force injuries police allege
were non accidental. The man was accompanied by an interpreter
and stayed calm throughout the hearing. A three week trial

(01:38):
date has been set for February twenty twenty six. Waio
As mayor says the town can't afford the clean up
bill from last week's flooding, expected to top forty million dollars.
More than one hundred properties were significantly damaged in a
district still recovering from last year's cyclone. Gabrielle Mayor Craig
Little says ratepayers were already facing a twenty percent rates height.

(02:02):
One hundred and thirty thousand dollars is one percent rated grease,
just to give an idea of the costs a huge
for us. We don't have a big rating base and
we don't want a big debt. The latest Nzier quarterly
survey of business opinion shows business confidence deteriorated more in
the June quarter. A net thirty five percent of firms

(02:23):
expect worsening economic conditions in coming months, compared to a
quarter feeling pessimistic in the previous quarter. Political reporter Sophie
Trigger has more.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Businesses are tightening their belts, with a net thirty five
percent planning to reduce building investment and a quarter having
cut staff in the past three months, and their key
concern is continuing to shift towards demand. In net sixty
one percent reporting lack of sales as their primary business constraint,
a jump from forty two percent a year ago.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Category four Hurricane Beryl has made landfall in the Caribbean's
Windward Islands. It's an unusually strong and early storm for
the Atlantic season, which runs from June to November. To
Sport Porsche Woodman, Whitcliffe will retire from rugby after the
Paris Olympics, having been a member of the seven side
since twenty twelve and the fifteen since twenty thirteen. France

(03:16):
will meet Portugal in the quarterfinals of the European Football Championships,
and New Zealand will be represented by Tim and Janelle
Price and Clark Johnston in eventing at the Paris Olympics.
Badminton winner Caroline Powell will go as a traveling reserve.
I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the

(03:38):
newstalk ZB newsroom