Morning Edition: 18 July 2026

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the news Talk Zebby newsroom. This is Newsfax in
this update, the new leader of the Labour Party in
Britain is making ground on its path to Prime Minister.
Andy Burnham has given his first speech as the party's
leader and is finalizing his cabinet ahead of becoming PM
on Monday. He promises to lead a government that confidently
lays a new path forward. It will take us to

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a contrary where life is more affordable and all people
on places are lifted from where they are now. The
Biosecurity Minister says the government is working closely with the
poultry industry. Following a second case of bird flu. A
single cahoo or swamp harrier hawk found near Carterton has
tested positive for the H five N one strain. MPI

(00:48):
says it will be providing one on one support and
advice to poultry and egg operations in parts of the
Lower North Island. Minister Andrew Hoggart says about thirteen egg
producers and the wider Upper have been contact just to
check are they confident thereby security measures they've got, Do
they need any advice or any assistance? So those are
the key things we're doing. A feeling keeping the inter

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island of ferry service in public hands provides certainty for
workers and customers. Yesterday, Rail Minister Winston Peters announced the
two new ships will be named Cooper and Cook and
will start playing Cook straight in twenty twenty nine. Kiwi
Rail will have a thirty year contract to run them.
Although Peter says Coalition conversations circled around privatization rail and

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Maritime Transport, Union General Secretary Todd Volster says it's a
future focused decision having brand new ferries that are Kiwi
Rale run operator to governor owned. We think that's the
best option, hope'es. The new Youth Scrabble Championship will entice
more young people to play the game. Fifteen of the
country's best young scrabble players will compete for the national

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title at an inaugural tournament in Auckland's Mount Albert today.
The top three will head to Brisbane for a trans
Tasman competition in September. That's News two Sports and Lucas
Herbert admits he played most of his second round at
Golf's Open Championship with history on his mind. The Australians
equalled the lowest round in the one hundred and sixty

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six year history of men's major tournaments, conting an eight
under pass sixty two to take a two shot buffer
at Royal Birkdale. Warriors bound wing Will Warbroock has suffered
a serious r chilles injury playing for the Storm in
their fourteen six loss to the Roosters in League's NRL
Crinulla pipped Newcastle twenty to eighteen. Cricket legend Sir Garfield

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Sobers has died at the age of eighty nine. The
West Indies great played ninety three Tests and was named
one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the twentieth century. And
Swiss cyclist malro Schmid has bagged his first Tour to
France stage win. He's won the sprint from a sizeable
breakaway group on the two hundred and five kilometer thirteenth

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stage in Belforte. That's sport. I'm Carlia Strong. For more news,
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