Morning Edition: 21 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk sat By newsroom. This is NEWSFACS
in this update. Frustration over protest is linked to Brian
Tummocky and Destiny Church confronting and disrupting a cultural parade.
Video shows a group named the True Patriots of NZ
performing a harke and confronting those in a Sikh parade
in South Auckland yesterday. The group was wearing T shirts

(00:24):
saying keep inzed in Z and Kiwi's first chairperson of
NZED Seek Youth, jug Big Singh Chahal says seeks are
Kiwi's Two Australians have been asked to observe a minute's
silence at six forty seven pm this evening Australian time.
A week on from the Bondai terror attack to gunman
opened fire at Jewish Hannaka celebrations in Sydney last Sunday,

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killing fifteen people. More than forty people were rushed to hospital.
Today has been declared a National Day of reflection across
the Tasman. The US Justice Department has been accused of
breaking the law for staggering in the so called Epstein File.
It's published hundreds of thousands of documents and images related
to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Despite yesterday's deadline,

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the Department says it will release the rest in coming weeks,
and growing financial pressure appears to be stretching both those
in debt and the services helping them. A new Debt
Managers report found financial mentors support an average of forty
people a month, with nearly half saying the workload is
too heavy. Commercial General Manager Isaac Manase says debts are
getting harder to resolve due to cost of living pressures

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and housing affordability.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's also showing that the availability of financial mental resources
are understrained and therefore the support that's needed for these
people is actually diminishing.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's news. Sport and Manchester City has provisionally gone top
of Football's Premier League after easing to a three nil
home win over West Ham and Irling Harland double moved
City one point ahead of Arsenal, who have a game
in hand against mid table Everton tomorrow. Chelsea has come
from too nil down at halftime to a tool draw
with host Newcastle and more toil from Jacob Duffy to

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give New Zealand the advantage after day three of the
third cricket Tests against the wes INDs at Mount Monganui.
The pace bowler has figures of two for seventy nine
from thirty one overs split across six spells. The tourists
are three hundred and eighty one for six, a deficit
of one hundred and ninety four. That's sport. I'm Diana Vesich.

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