Morning Edition: 02 July 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 02 July 2024, 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.
Newspexer Tuesday, second of July. In this update, a former
US Acting Solicitor General is calling the US Supreme Court's
decision involving Donald Trump scary. The court has ruled sixty
three that former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity from

(00:25):
prosecuting for official acts while in office, but not unofficial acts.
The Chief Justice says not everything a president does is official,
but Neil Kittyal is pushing back, telling CNN everything the
president does is presumed an official act.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
He pressured the Justice Department to throw out the election
results in ampun their integrity, and the Supreme Court says
that is clearly an official act.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The Police Minister says he's starting to see change when
it comes to crime, but there's a long way to go.
The government's committed to part using four pieces of law
and order legislation in the next quarter. It includes allowing
police to ban gang patches, confiscate firearms, more efficiency in
the courts, and more rehabilitation for on remand prisoners. Minister

(01:13):
Mark Mitchell told Mike Costking their plans are a combination
of new law and how police are policing my leader
expectation that was delivered and due to he's immediately in
terms of how the police are policing the gangs, the
gang convoys, their tongues, how were get on top of
the boy races. At three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars,
payout is being described as a kick in the guns

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for taxpayers. King Order's chief executive Andrew McKenzie will be
stepping down at the end of October with a payment
worth six months of his base salary. A reviews found
the state housing provider needs significant savings to be financially viable.
Taxpayers Union spokesperson Jordan Williams says this golden goodbye is disappointing.
The amount is totally unjustified six months pay for resigning.

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This would be a flap in the face to taxpayers.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
It tough right now.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Andrew McKenzie's role has been reduced with an agreement to
treat it as a redundancy. Financial uncertainty continues to loom
over New Zealanders. Cine TRIX's latest credit indict report shows
a number of people behind on credit payments increased by
sixteen thousand in May. This is largely driven by Talco
and mortgagey payments. However, the number of those more than

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ninety days behind on their payments are unchanged year on year.
Talks of amalgamation of Fort Wellington councils could help the
region deal with its water issues. The mayors of Upper
hut Hut City and Putty to a keen to merge
council starting early discussions on joining together with Wellington City
Local Government news Even President Sam Broughton says given the

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region's challenges, it's only natural they would want to work together.
Councils across the country at the moment to look in
at ways to deliver services cheaper for their communities, so
no surprised that councils within a particular read thon are
having these conversations. But Wellington Mayor Tori Farno see she
has bigger fish to fry, like water and transport issues.
And In sport, France have advanced to the quarter finals

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at football's Euro twenty four Tournament one nill Over, Belgium.
Tennis player Lulu Soon has advanced to the second round
of the Wimbledon singles drawer. She's ousted eight seed Kin
Wenjing in three sets. Members of the Afghanistan women's cricket team,
which disbanded when the Taliban returned to power three years ago,
want to reform as a refugee outfit based in Australia.

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Eritrean Biiam Gurmai has become the first black African rider
to win a stage on Cyclings Tour de France. I'm
never ready, man. Who in? That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at midday from
the newstalk ZBE newsroom.