Afternoon Edition: 09 July 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Jody Gill and this is your afternoon
NEWSFACS for Tuesday, the ninth of July. And Advocacy Group
says government changes to the clean car scheme will drastically
impact the EV sector. Pollution targets for imported vehicles have
now been reduced to align with Australia. The Transport Minister
says advice shows current standards would lift the price of

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a new vehicle in twenty twenty seven by more than
five thousand dollars. Drive Electric Chair Kirston Corson says independent
research shows reducing targets will massively cut projected clean car numbers.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
If the clean car standard was going to be weakened,
that is going to be three hundred and fifty thousand
less evs on the road come twenty thirty.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Chris Luxon arrives in Washington, DC today, but it's unclear
whether he'll secure a meeting with US President Joe Biden.
The Prime Minister's attending the NATO summit and will also
have talks with top US US politicians and is planning
a sit down with Canada's Prime minister. Political editor Jason
Wall says Luxeon's unlikely to get the same with Biden,

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who has an election to focus on. But he says
Luxeon could get a pullar side.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Where they see each other on the sidelines of the
summit and just literally pull each other aside and have
a quick chat. But it's basically just sort of a hey,
how's you doing, how's your father sort of meeting Creed.
It doesn't really achieve anything.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Meanwhile, the White House is facing more questions over Joe
Biden's health. Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre is refusing to
confirm Whya Parkinson's expert visited the White House eight times
in eight months, or whether the expert met with the
President's doctor. Hold on a second, you should be able
to answer by this point. Wait no, no, no, no, no,
no no, wait a minute, and please a little respect here, please,

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Jean Pierre says, medical appointments for the White House's hundreds
of staff are confidential and clear.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
There's all of just by saying what he was doing
there and never was connected to the president.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yes, certainly, I am not going to the government wants
to make remote new home build inspections the default to
make construction quicker and easier. His senior political reporter Sophie Trigger.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Construction Minister Chris Panks says stats show it takes an
average of five hundred and sixty nine days to build
a house and costs have increased forty one percent since
twenty nineteen. He says, in person inspections currently the norm
can mean long delays as builders wait for an available
appointment and work must stop in the meantime.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Pinks's remote inspections will lower costs, reduce transport emissions and
ensure a better record keeping. In sport, the Highlanders have
gone back to the future in reappointing Jamie josephs head
coach and super rugby. Joseph returns to the Helm after
being the head of rugby this year, with incumbent Clark
Dermody staying on as assistant coach. Maya Ramsden will represent

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New Zealand in the fifteen hundred meters at the Paris Olympics.
The national record holder in Harvard NCUBH champion completes the
seventeen strong athletic squad, All White. Marco Rojas has signed
with the Phoenix for the A League football season. I'm
Jody Gill. That's your latest news. Fix. We'll be back

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with the next update tomorrow morning. From the news Talk
zb newsroom