Morning Edition: 23 September 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning, I never read I manu and this is
your morning news fixed for Tuesday, twenty third September, and
this update excitement over the government's decision to accelerate four
hundred and thirteen million dollars of investment in school property.
It'll enable maintenance to take place over the upcoming summer
holidays for providing a boost to the construction sector at

(00:26):
the same time. It includes improvements for all small and
rural schools and funding for essential infrastructure work. Albany Junior
High School board chair John Rutherford says their schools had
to deal with weather tightness issues for years. He says
it's a massive relief because the work they need is
really expensive and needed Cabinet approval. New Zealand could get

(00:49):
a harsh reaction from the US if it recognizes Palestine
as an independent state. Canada, the UK and Australia have
now formally recognized an independent state backlash from Israel. Winston
Peters is in New York for the UN General Assembly
and will reveal New Zealand's position later this week. International

(01:09):
education lecturer doctor Riti Shah says there's more concern around
backlash from the US rather than Israel, probably more around
the types of trade sanctions that we have seen the
current US administration imposed against governments that have kind of
stepped out of line from the US. Stancil, an employment
law expert, believes nothing will come from Health New Zealand's

(01:31):
latest actions in the year long clash with senior doctors.
Around six thousand members of the Association of Salaried Medical
Specialists won't be back at work until eleven fifty nine
tomorrow night. Yesterday, Health New Zealand asked the Employment Relations
Authority to fix the terms and conditions of a collective agreement.

(01:51):
Former Victoria University employment law professor Gordon Anderson says the
agencies indirectly accusing senior doctors of decep of conduct. He
says it implies they've been acting in bad faith, which
isn't a way to gain their trust. A tech expert
says there's good reason to be skeptical about digital identifications.

(02:12):
Digital Services Minister Judith Collins says driver licenses could soon
be available on our phones before the end of the year.
New South Wales has already rolled out as similar service.
Digital Identity New Zealand Executive Director Andy Higgs says it
has to be done in good faith. In places like
Estonia or China. You become a number. That's someone's telling

(02:34):
me about their trip to the Middle East the other day,
and they arrived and they got second and went to
the hospital, and the hospital already knew everything about them.
West Auckland Funeral Directors are laying to rest more than
seven hundred unclaimed urns containing human remains, some of which
have been stored for close to a century. Morrison's funerals
inherited several urns after the closure of other funeral homes

(02:57):
while looking after some from the nineteen thirties and forties.
It's asking for anyone who may have a loved one
whose ashes were never collected to get in touch the
funeral homes, asking for ashes to be claimed by December first.
In sport, former Formula One team principal Christian Horner has
officially left Red Ball after being ousted from his role

(03:18):
in July. He has reportedly received a one hundred and
eighty four million dollar settlement and can join another syndicate
from next season. For New Zealand crews the men's single
and double skulls and the Men's and women's coxler's four's
have advanced to the next round at Rowings World Championships
in Shanghai. Georgia Miller is in the running for women's

(03:39):
Rugby Player of the Year and Braxton Sorenson McGee is
in contention for the Breakthrough Award. I'm never ready, Manu
that your latest news fix will be back with the
next update at midday from the news Talk zb news room.