Morning Edition: 05 December 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 05 December 2025, 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 Fox for Friday, fifth of December. In this update,
eighty percent of trained secondary teachers will have a base
salary of more than one hundred thousand dollars from late
next month. PEPTA members have voted to accept a collective
agreement offer from the government. The settlement includes a four

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point six percent pay increase over two years, increased allowance
for teachers with greater responsibilities, and a million dollar a
year fund for professional development. In New Zealand says conversations
with the ETTU union are progressing well ahead of another
potential strike date. Short haul crews have threatened to strike

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on December eighteenth if a settlement can't be reached. Vias
the government's shakeup of retirement village rules will damage some
in the sector. Amendments to the Retirement Villages at two
thousand and three aimed to ease the experience of elderly
people in their families. Changes include ensuring money on a
unit is paid back within a year after a resident leaves.

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The Retirement Villages Association Executive director Michelle Palmer says this
could significantly jeopardize some operators financially. One climate expert says
the government has missed an opportunity for momentum. Yesterday, the
Coalition rejected all three recommendations made to it by the
Climate Change Commission. It means it won't be including international

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aviation and shipping emissions in its twenty to fifty reduction target.
Massi University professor Robert McLaughlin says those industries currently make
up nine percent of our total emissions. He says including
them and the targets wouldn't have made an immediate difference,
but would have set the wheels in motion. Brian Tarmackee
has been denied permission to lead a protest over the

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Auckland Harbor Bridge for a second time. His traffic management
plan for the Jenu Every thirty first protest did not
meet the strict NZTA criteria. Police say they will not
support an unauthorized march. A newly released report into road
safety reveals the extent of the impacts crashes have on
our communities. It's being revealed at the annual Road Safety

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Forum in Auckland. Put together by the charity Break. The
report shows road crashes other main cause of serious injuries
in New Zealand. Accounting for two thirds of them. Author
Kirsty Wilde says one in six New Zealanders will experience
a moderate or severe transport injury in their lifetime. A
Victoria University lecturer has courted controversy after an online post

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in which she said she didn't respond to emails from
students who used the greeting Hey. In a now deleted post,
doctor Suey Ashley Park said she can't stand emails with
that greeting and pleaded for more formality. Victoria University of
Wellington says, so long as correspondence isn't ill mannered, than
an informal term can be acceptable. In sport, the chairman

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of a proposed franchise style T twenty competition funded by
foreign investment is surprised the local cricket community isn't embracing
the concept. New Zealand are four hundred and seventeen for four,
a lead of four hundred and eighty one after the
third day of the opening cricket Test against the West
Indies and christ Church. Joe Root's fortieth Test cricket century

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but first on Australian soil, has carried England through to
three hundred and twenty five for nine at stumps on
day one of the second ashes tests in Brisbane. Golfer
Ryan Fox is in a three way share of the
lead after the opening round of the Australian Open. I'm
Neveraretti Manu that your latest news fix will be back
with the next update at midday from the newstalk ZB

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news room.