Morning Edition: 17 July 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 17 July 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 News Fox for Thursday, seventeenth of July. In this update,
not everyone's happy the government's discarding open plane classrooms. It's
pulling the plug on open plan classrooms introduced by John
Key's government in twenty eleven. Education Minister Erica Stanford says

(00:24):
all new builds will have more traditional layouts. Auckland's may
wrote primary school principle Linda Stewart says you wouldn't hear
a lot of noise in their open classrooms.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
You would see teachers and learning assistance working alongside children
in different parts of the building. You would see other
children involved in independent activities.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The role of local governments in the spotlight. Heading into
the second day of the Local Government New Zealand Conference
in christ Church. The government's banning councils from making plan
changes before the new IRIM planning system comes into force,
and is also moving to force councils to focus on
core services and may move to camp future rates increases.
Local Government New Zealand President and selwyn Or Sam Broughton

(01:10):
says we need to ask whether we want local government
to have actual power or just a branch of central government.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Really the most overcentralized country in the OECD, Ninety three
percent of public money spent by Wellington, seven percent by
local councils.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
The Bible, the Quran, and the Torah make up books
planned to be shredded by the National Library. More than
five hundred thousand books are proposed to be disposed of
in what the government expects will save a million dollars
a year in storage costs. Azariah Hell has more.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
The National Library wants a greater focus on New Zealand
authors and local publications, but that means many texts written
overseas are bound for the shredder. The list of books
seen by Newstalk ZB includes the Bible, Kudan, Torah, Book
of Mormon, and numerous translations and histories of various religions.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Ordung A Tamadeki's going to avoid disclosing the scale of
any reoffending too early in youth boot camps being planned
for next year. The agencies lamenting the harm caused when
it initially confirmed several of the ten teenage participants in
its pilot program had reoffended. Tens of thousands of Kiwis
are expected to face flood damage to their homes within

(02:22):
the next generation. Latest projections commissioned by the Environment Ministry
suggests storm damage Nelson and Tasman will be particularly hardest hit.
Up to fourteen and a half thousand homes in flood
zones worth close to thirteen billion dollars are projected to
face damage from an extreme flooding event in the next
thirty five years. Minister Judith Collins won't be in Parliament

(02:45):
today after suffering a nasty bout of vertigo on Tuesday night.
Collins was rushed to Wellington Hospital in an ambulance but
has since returned home. She believed several flights over the
weekend contributed the sensation. In sport, Paul Gallop has declared
his professional sporting career over after beating Sonny Bill Williams
by split decision and they're boxing bout at Sydney. Tim

(03:09):
Robinson and deputant Bevan Jacobs have compiled an unbeaten one
hundred and three run sixth wicket stand to help secure
in New Zealand a twenty one run victory over South
Africa in the T twenty Triceras cricket match at Hirari
Jonas Abrahenson has won a flat stage eleven of cycling's
Tour de France and Toulouse despite breaking his collar bone

(03:30):
four weeks ago. I'm never retty, Manu, and that's your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at midday from news Talk zb News Roup