Morning Edition: 10 December 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 10 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 (00:04):
Good morning, I'm never ready MANU and this is your morning.
Newspaks for Wednesday, tenth of December and this update. The
Public Transport Users Association says police should be allocating officers
to patrol buses with a man due to appear in
court today over two senseless attacks in East Auckland. One
man died after suffering a stab wound on a glen

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and This bus on Monday night and another's in a
serious but stable condition. Police tracked down and arrested a
thirty six year old man in the CBD yesterday. Association
national coordinator John Reeves says silence from Auckland transport isn't
acceptable After this, he says it's about time it got
together with the government and police and set up a

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dedicated public transport policing team. The number of people to
be consulted for consents and permits under the government's alternative
to the RIMA is likely to fall. The Act will
be replaced by Planning Law and an environment Law, which
will be phased in by twenty twenty nine. One of
the changes will be removing the right for people to

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be consulted on consents that don't directly affect them infrastructure.
New Zealand Chief Executive Nick Leggett says that's a positive change,
and he says that the current rim system allowed for
the stop and block culture that New Zealand is often
guilty of. Many will be watching the government to see
whether it will take further action against people caring for
severely disabled family members. A landmark Supreme Court ruling has

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confirmed family careers are entitled to be paid, a decision
the government fought against due to its financial impact. Employment
lawyer Joe Williams says the ruling settles the legal position
at the added cost of holiday pay creates a significant
new liability for the Ministry of Health. He says one
option for the government is to legislate over the top

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of this. Police are maintaining an increased presence in hot
Offeneris Foxton Beach after the deaths of two people in
a house fire yesterday. The victims will be formally on
identified in coming days. Hord Offenawa Mayor Bernie Wanden says
the loss of life is already distressing and for it
to happen in this way is truly tragic. A ten

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year rahus been put in place on the burnt land
at Tornadedo National Park, caused by the second fire in
a month. It's now fully contained with three ground crews,
one tanker and one helicopter the fire ground today. This
new rahui is on top of one imposed on the
nearly three thousand hectares already burned in November. Legal experts

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doubt its likely New Zealand will follow Australia's lead on
banning social media for under sixteens. Canterbury University senior law
lecturer Cassandra Muchway says we don't have the kind of
legal architecture Australia does, like a regulator with enforcement powers.
She says a standalone ban here would create a false

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sense of safety and young people would move to less
moderated platforms and riskier apps where harm might be worse
and harder to trace. Wicket Keeper Mitchell Hay will make
his Test cricket debut today in the second match between
New Zealand and the West Indies at Wellington. Here We
rower Emma Twigg has been nominated for Women's Crew of

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the Year at the World Rowing Awards after her switch
to coastal sprint rowing. Red Bull and Helmut Marco have
confirmed reports the Formula one outfit's longtime advisor is to
leave the team. Marco departs Red Bull after more than
twenty years, having been one of the key figures in
the team, along with spearheading the junior program. I'm never

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ready man who And that's your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update at midday from the
newstalk ZB newsroom.