Midday Edition: 25 July 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 25 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 afternoon. I'm Susie Nordquist. This is your midday news
fix for Thursday, the twenty fifth of July. A child
abuse survivor says leaders of institutions where abuse happened need
to step aside. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse
in Care estimates two hundred thousand of about six hundred
and fifty five thousand people in care were abused between

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nineteen fifty and twenty nineteen. Abuse and neglect world was widespread,
and state and faith based institutions survivors network of those
abused by priests. A national leader, Christopher Longhurst told news
talk Zebiz Cantery warnings those in power need to be
empowering survivors. The only people who can be trusted to

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leave that change, in my view, are survivors who have
been through who are in a safe space today, who
are stronger because of it. And one survivor says there
are some people who need to hang their heads in shame.
Keith Wiffin, who suffered abuse at a state owned boys home,
says historically their stories have been silenced or covered up

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by high ranking officials, but he says that has finally changed.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Survivors carried themselves with great dignity, and that was very
uplifting to be amongst so many of them in the
public gallery.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
A lack of education could be contributing to the record
number of young New Zealanders with hearing loss. Recent figures
show one in five Kiwis under nineteen are diagnosed with
hearing loss. Twenty percent of year nine students report tenatus
or hear ringing in the airs, which without education can
be overlooked. National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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Chief Executive Natasha Galado says, up until their foundation launched
a program within schools, there were no resources. There have
been no program or anything available. There's a misconception that
hearing loss can only affect older people. Lately, not a
kay belief that gang tension is no higher than normal

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at a Targo prison Following recent attacks on staff, the
Department of Corrections has confirmed a prisoner struck a staff
member on the head at the facility on Monday. Jamie
Cunningham reports it's.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
The third attack on an Otago prison officer since April.
General manager Dave Millis says the perpetrators were from the
same gang, but there's no evidence to suggest that assaults
are linked. He says gang tensions are constantly monitored and
Corrections has invested in tools to keep their staff safe.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
The government is open to a partial sell off of
Kiwi Bank. The state owned bank is expanding but needs
a lot more capital to be able to challenge the
Big four Australian owned banks. The heralds Jane at Tipschranee
has been speaking to the shareholding ministers. She says they
are not wedded to keeping Kiwi Bank and complete government ownership,

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but that doesn't mean they will rush out and sell
it to foreign investors. In sport, the later NBA basketball
broadcasting rights deal has been confirmed. Whialt Disney's ESPN, Comcast
owned NBC Universal and Amazon have clinched the spoils in
an eleven year contract valued at one hundred and thirty

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billion dollars. Aukland FC have signed Japanese international Hiroki Sarkai
for their maiden season in Football's A League, and New
Zealand football boss Andrew Pragnell is calling for FIFA to
take urgent action against the Canadian women's team after staff
members used an illegal drone at their training sessions. I'm
Susie Nordquist, and that's your latest news fix. We will

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be back with a next update at five pm from
the news Talks e B newsroom.