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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fixed for Tuesday, the nineteenth of May. The government's
proposing mass public service reform and signaling job cuts. Finance
Minister Nikola Willis is speaking on the future of the
sector this afternoon, with plans to reorganize ministries and increase
technology use. Prime Minister Chris Luxon says the workforce of
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forty five thousand and twenty seventeen climbed to sixty five
and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I suspect there will be job losses.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Over time, but really that's about us getting the right
organization designed, making sure we've got the technology applied and
we're delivering better service and we're a much more effective
and more efficient organization.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The Education ministers holding her cards close to her chest
until budget Day, not clarifying how she'll fund curriculum changes.
Ericus Stanford's announced a one hundred and thirty one million
dollar package that includes spending on workbooks, more maths, intervention teachers,
and additional testing. Stanford says she's reb prioritizing a small
proportion of money from within the sector that is.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Usual for me, I have reprioritized hundreds of millions in
the last two budgets out of back end waste and
put it into the hands of teachers and students in
the classroom. But I can tell you right now nobody
will notice.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
The government's logo now has English ahead of Toreo Maori.
Public Service Commission guidelines update the government's identity and logo
with New Zealand government coming before te Kawana Tanga or Alturoa.
It says the change gives effect to a Ministerial Decision
Act to ask the Public Service Minister in March why
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a change hadn't been made. Levin's forty bed Reeveden Rest
home is closing, blaming the aged care funding system, calling
it unsustainable. It's owned by nonprofit organization Enliven Central, which
says in the past eight years alone it's needed more
than three million dollars support to remain open. It claims
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that funding hasn't kept pace with r workforce and operating costs,
or the need to reinvest in tired infrastructure. An increase
in migrants could be a sign that economic conditions are improving.
Stats n Z data puts the population at five point
three six million at the end of March, rising more
than forty three thousand in the past year. Migration made
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up fifty six percent of total growth and the other
forty four percent coming from natural increase. Massi University sociologist
Paul Spoonley says when the economy sluggished sluggish, migrants don't move.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's a big risk migrating to another country, and you
don't want to do it when some of the key
indicators are not looking great. But it looks as though
we're coming out of that slump and the numbers are
picking up.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
In the US, three people are being shot dead at
a San Diego mosque, including a security guard. Two teens
believed to be the shooters were found dead nearby, and
a person's being caught drink driving more than twice the
legal limit at after school pickup. It's one of eight
drink driving cases in Toupur and South Wacotto in the
past ten days. Another driver in torpl was stopped by
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police at midday four times over the limit. To Sport
golfer Ryan Fox has had his place confirmed for the
one hundred and twenty sixth the US Open next month
due to a ranking in the world's top sixty NRL
league is sprooking in Aprica Dabra of a Magic Round
because of record broadcast and attendance figures. Pep Guardiola will
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reportedly end his ten year reign as Manchester City football
manager after their final Premier League game on Monday, and
New Zealand Rugby and Touch New Zealand are formally joining
forces in what is being tagged as a landmark partnership
between the organizations. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
(03:50):
from the news Talk ZB newsroom.
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