Morning Edition: 03 August 2026

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 03 August 2026, 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 (00:05):
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu and this is your
morning news fix for Monday, third of August. And this
update shocking is a reaction of a former work and
income boss to New Zealand First's latest policy announcement. The
party's campaigning on five thousand dollars annual payments per year
per child for the first three years of life. It

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would apply to families with at least one citizen parent
and would apply to a couple's first three children. Christine
Rankins says it would be a very tempting offer for
people who shouldn't be encouraged to have more children. Forty
five thousand dollars is one hell of a lot of
money if you're on a benefit and can you actually
support those children long term? Probably not, And New Zealand

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First is recycling Another candidate, Ron Mark, will be running
for the party in White and Upper He served as
an MP for the party from nineteen ninety six to
two thousand and eight and then again from twin fourteen
to twenty twenty. An educator's view that restraining troubled students
isn't the best solution. The Act parties backing teachers who

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physically remove disruptive kids and will amend the Lord to
clarify what measures are reasonable. List candidate Paul Henry says
we're falling behind other countries and discipline reaction run you
or to high school Principal Bruce Kearney says he, like
many others, couldn't restrain an older, stronger student. We have
alternatives for that. We clear up the room, We call

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in the police if we have to call in the police,
but I think that's the teacher's job to get involved
in anything physical. One business advocate is pushing back against
comments made by the National Party leader Christopher Luxen told
a Rotzidoor business function on Friday to be adult. Responding
to a question about the city's struggling economy, He says
they had a parent child mentality, saying he didn't wait

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for the government when he was the New Zealand CEO.
Rotzadoor Business Chamber of President Paul Ingram says many businesses
are resilient and innovative. He says the ones which relied
on handouts went out of business long ago. The Coronial
in quest into the death of Pauline Hannah, the wife
of Philip Polkinghorn, starts in Auckland today. Coroner Tania Titaha

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is leading this first phase, focusing on the twenty four
hours before and immediate aftermath of the sixty three year
old's unexplained death. In twenty twenty one, more than ten
thousand households have now paid a pet bond to keep
a pet in their rental home, and follows a law
changed last December preventing landlords from refusing to allow pets

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unless they have reasonable grounds to do so. Latest PD
Insurance polling of pet owners who rent has found about
eight point five percent have paid a bond of more
than one thousand dollars, but eighty three percent haven't paid
any bond at all. The Property Investors Federation says many
landlords allow pets, but some feel they've lost control of

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who or what is in their property. In sport, the
Silver Ferns are Commonwealth Games Netball champions, beating Jamaica fifty
six forty eight in the Glasgow Final. Sydney Andrews has
won gold in the seventy eight kg judo class. The
Eels have beaten the Tigers sixteen thirteen to wrap round

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twenty two in NRL League. Matt Payne has won the
latest Supercars race in Perth and Southland have earned a
home NBL Basketball Final next Sunday against Wellington and in
the Cargo with the fifty four or rather eighty four
seventy four win over Canterbury. I'm never reatymnoo. That your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update

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at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom.