Morning Edition: 15 July 2026

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning. I'm Wendy Penrie. This is your morning News
fixed for Wednesday, the fifteenth of July, and this update.
Former Prime Minister Sir John Key wants to see Paul
Henry in Parliament, even if it won't be a National MP.
The broadcaster announced her run for Act as a List
candidate in November, hoping to become a minister if the
party forms part of the next government. Key, a friend

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of Henry, says Henry will bring enthusiasm, wit and will
make a fantastic MP. Winston Peters says there is nothing
wrong with being ready. After revelations, he wrote to key
we Rail asking it to explore options for another cook
straight faery. The letter from March was sent to just
weeks after the New Zealand First Leader issued a statement

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saying it would not make sense for the agency to
acquire an additional inter Islander fairy. Peters questioned the cost
of a potential additional fairy that was told leasing one
was not economically viable. National's newest Maori candidate is questioning
the party's decision to force local councils to hold referendums

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on Maori wards dying. A t K district councilor KORL Rokawa,
who's running in the party for tititaihoa Urdu, is set
to lose her council seat after the district voted to
remove its Maori ward. Rokawa says it should have been
up to local councils to decide whether they wanted a referendum.
Donald Trump says he's abandoned his threat to impose a

(01:30):
twenty percent fee on cargo passing through the Strait of
Hormuz after receiving calls from several countries. The US is
still planning to resume its blockade of Iran's ports. Oil
prices are spiking as both sides continue to trade strikes.
Former ACT Party president Tim Jego has admitted further sexual offending.

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Is peeded guilty to one charge of sexual violation by
lawful sexual connection and is due to be sentenced tomorrow.
Jago was sentenced to two and a half years per
after being found guilty in twenty twenty four of the
indecent assault of two teenage boys he mentored through a
sports club during the nineteen nineties. The first parents have

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been prosecuted under new truancy laws. Aimed at improving school
attendance and Eastern Bay a plenty couple with two teenagers
have pleaded guilty to failing to ensure their children were
enrolled in school. Open Justice reports the pear had previously
been warned by the Ministry of Education after the children
were removed from a school role in twenty twenty one

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and remained unenrolled for more than two years. An overseas
trained teacher says she's been shut out of New Zealand
classrooms despite more than twenty years experience. Tartanaki is A.
Katharine McVeigh can't gain full registration because she can't produce
her original South African teaching degree after multiple international moves.
The Teaching Council says missing the original document itself as

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a bearer isn't a barrier to registration, but McVeigh says
the experience has been devastating to sport. France and Spain
get The FIFA World Cup semi finals underway in Dallas
this morning. A first up loss for Brenda McCullum and
its reduced role as England white ball cricket coach, falling
to India by six wickets in their first One Day

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International and Episton defending a champion Tarde. Pergacha has extended
his Tour de France lead to more than three minutes
after racing Claire to win Stage ten. At a record
prize purse of thirty point five million dollars will be
on the line at Golf's Open Championship Major at Royal
birth Day starting tomorrow. I'm Wendy P. Tree. That's your

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latest news fix. We're back with the next update at
midday from the news Talk Zby newsroom.