Morning Edition: 24 April 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 24 April 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 NEWSFLEX for Thursday, twenty fourth of April. In this update,
banks are stepping up their game and tackling scams. The
Banking Associations revealed five measures it plans to roll out
over the next seven months, providing a basis for compensation.
These include pre transaction warnings, sharing scammer account information and

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providing a twenty four to seven reporting channel. Chief Executive
Roger Beaumont says global best practice points to prevention as
the best strategy and he says this is about keeping
customers safe and is confident having the measures in place
will reduce the number of scams customers are exposed to.
Suggestions New Zealand First leader Winston Peters wants to have

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his cake and eat it too. After his claims a
bias at rin Z. He suggested that RINZ could face
funding cuts. After a contentious interview, Victoria University Media communication
professor Peter Thompson says he seems to be dog whistling
to a certain type of voter who distrusts the media.
He says an opposition Peters claim the media was pandering

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to the government and now that he is part of
the government, he's apparently unable to exert that kind of control,
so you can't have it both ways. An emotional conclusion
to a coronial inquest into the death of Olympic cyclist
Olivia Podmore. The inquest resumed for its final week in
the christ Church District Court on Tuesday. Podmore died the

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day after the Tokyo Olympics finished, an event she was
not selected for. Her mother, Ninkah Middleton, says the process
has taken an emotional toll, but she says she feels
like they've done her daughter proud. A prediction that increased
speed limits will only bring death and serious injuries, The
Transport Agency will increase speed limits on forty three state

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highway sections after it launched consultation. Living Streets altiet Or
President Tim Jones says they will continue to advocate for
lower limits on highways and inner city streets. Is even
the benefits touted by the government aren't accurate. The government
likes to use economic arguments for increasing speeds, so we're
also saying even the economic case for doing it doesn't work.

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Transport advocates are celebrating a newly met Northland Expressway. It'll
go from Walkworth east of State Highway one and over
the Brinduan Hills to the east of the current route,
then through fangad Ai. The Branduban Hills have been subject
to ongoing enclosures since twenty twenty three severe weather events.
Transporting New z Energy of Executive Don Classi says they've

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been calling for this for decades. Small deliver more resilient
saifer and efficient connection between North and Auckland, and it
can unlock billions of dollars in economic potential in sport.
New Zealand Cricket have joined forces with the US Company
to launch a new franchise in North America's Major League Cricket,
a competition that has a value of at least two

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hundred million dollars. Ronnie O'Sullivan has made a mockery of
his recent period of inactivity by reeling off three centuries
and five frames to take a ten to four win
over Ali Carta in the first round of the World
Snooker Championships in Sheffield. And finally, former Warrior and kiwis
win Ken Moulmulu has been released from the Gold Coast Titans,

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effective immediately. I never ready Manu, and that your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at midday.
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