Morning Edition: 01 July 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 01 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 (00:06):
Good morning, I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Monday, first of July. In this update,
more costs in the health system as we roll into July.
The five dollar prescription co payment returns from today for
everyone between the age of fourteen and sixty five who
doesn't have a Community Services card. Funding arrangements for COVID

(00:28):
nineteen related services are also moving to a business's usual approach.
Health Minister Shane Retti's is that means COVID related visits
to the GP will no longer be free for everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're now normalizing like we would with flu visits, so
still at no charge to a GP for under fourteens,
but otherwise just as it would be for flu or
other respiratory illness. Is how they'll be managed at general practice.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Free rats are available until the end of September, and
jabs remain free for those who are eligible. Also from today,
the brideline test for residential property is restored to two years.
The Auckland regional fuel tanks ends, while paid parental leave increases,
and the government ECE subsidy kicks in a difficult weekend
for Joe Biden following the fallout from his shaky debating performance.

(01:13):
There have been calls with the President to stand down
after going head to head against former President Donald Trump.
The US is weeks away from each party finalizing its candidate. Washington,
editor at The Spectator and b Athy told Mike Cosking
speculation over Biden's mental and physical health was dismissed in
the twenty twenty campaign.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
And now four years later, members of the Democratic Party
in Biden's own campaign are starting to admit what people
have been saying for four years.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
More than nine hundred infringement notices have been dished out
to anti social road users over the long weekend. Police
responded to boy racer gatherings in Wellington, Canterbury Bay have
plenty in Munawood two, with the Eagle helicopter deployed. In
the Lower North Island. Just over fifty vehicles were impounded
or seized, while more than a dozen people were arrested

(02:01):
across the main centers as officers cracked down on street races.
More than one hundred and twenty vehicles were also pink
or greensticket, which orders an unsafe or non complied vehicle
off the road until issues are fixed. The organizer of
a feral cat killing competition is unapologetic after hunters bagged
a big haul. The North Canterbury hunting competition ended yesterday,

(02:24):
having been open for the past two months. Organizer Matt
Bailey says around three hundred and seventy feral cats were killed,
with one hunter banking sixty five on one property. He
says a lot was done to make sure it was
only feral cats and hunters cross he as.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, rolls and place you're talking with. Farmers and hunters
have been known as all their lives. They know what
a feral animals and they're at the back of farmser
in the native bush, so responsible care owner should have
nothing to worry about.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
The numbers are in Kiwi's back. The Prime Minister getting
a new plane. New polling data from Talbot Mills shows
fifty two percent of people think the government should buy
new defense force planes to replace the old ones. This
is almost double the twenty eight percent of those who
don't think it's a good idea. And in sport, George
Russell has won Formula Ones Austrian Grand Prix after Max

(03:11):
Freshtarpen and Lando Norris clashed wheels and punctured late an
NRL League, the Cowboys have beaten the Panthers and the
Roosters have defeated Wests. Today Pagachia has taken the Yellow
Jersey two stages and to cyclings Tour de France. Former
Wallabies captain Michael Hooper has retired from rugby after missing
selection for the seventh team at the Paris Olympics, and

(03:33):
Canterbury's winning streak has stretched to fifteen games in NBL basketball.
I'm never ready, Manu, that your latest newspeks. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from the newstalk
ZB newsroom.