Morning Edition: 24 July 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 24 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 fix for Thursday, twenty fourth of July. In
this update, Sport New Zealand is abandoning its guidelines outlining
how transgender athletes can be included in community sport. It
follows a government directive they don't align with the coalition agreement.

(00:24):
It comes as New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters threatens
funding cuts with sporting codes that promote policies relating to
gender which compromise fair competition. In a statement released this morning,
Sport Nschief Executive Railing Castle says the government has ordered
the Crown Entity to scrap the guidelines. The International Court
of Justice says rule that countries failing to meet their

(00:46):
climate obligations could be sued by other countries. The case
was taken to the Court by a group of Pacific
Island law students. The Court says nations must comply with
stringent obligations placed on them by climate treaties, including the
twenty fifteen Paris Agreement. Judge Yugi Wisauur says it's something
that every nation needs to take seriously. The duty to

(01:09):
corporate is a central obligation under the climate change treaties
and other environmental treaties. A person has died and a
child has been hospitalized with burns after a new Plymouth
house fire last night. Fire and Emergency says people kept
running back to the fire at a property on Ordunger Street.
It says the home was well involved when crews arrived

(01:31):
just before eleven pm last night. Rents are falling for
the first time in more than fifteen years. New cotality
analysis of MB data shows the national median rent drop
zero point three percent in the year to May. Cotality
says that isn't a big drop, but it is the
first drop at all since late two thousand and nine.

(01:51):
Sky City has now introduced carded play at all their casinos.
Anyone wanting to gamble will need to get a card
by showing photo ID. Sky City says that the cards
will allow them to better monitor gameplay and encourage safer
gambling behaviors. Last year, the Auckland Casino closed its doors
for five days voluntarily after it was investigated by the

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Department of Internal Affairs for failing host obligations. Bookings for docks, huts,
campsites and great walks raked in more than thirteen million
dollars over summer. Almost six hundred and seventy thousand bed
nights were booked between December and February, up twelve percent
on the summer before. Doc says nearly sixty thousand people
embarked on a Great Walk and sixty percent of those

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were New Zealanders. It says international visitor numbers were back
to ninety three percent of pre COVID figures over summer.
Center recruitment teams and gearing up early, expecting a huge
Christmas rush this year to jingle and Mingle events run
by talent agencies Seen to Believe are being held in
Auckland today and christ Church tomorrow. They'll allow old and

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new centers to share tips and hone their skills and
preparation for recruitment. In sport, a late crash due to
wet weather has marred the finish to the one hundred
and sixty kilometer flat stage seventeen on Cyclings Tour de France.
Jonathan Miland won and continues to wear the top sprinters
green Jersey. Yarnick Sinner has reappointed his former fitness coach

(03:19):
Mverto Ferrara, whose pharmaceutical advice resulted in the world tennis
number one getting a three month drunk band. This year,
India a two hundred and sixty four for four it
stumps on the opening day of the fourth cricket Test
in their five match series against England at Manchester. I'm
never retty, Manu. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update of midday from the newstalk

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ZB newsroup.