Midday Edition: 08 August 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 08 August 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 Jody Gill and this is your midday
NEWSFACS for Thursday, the eighth of August. Or Angatamariki will
now have to report quarterly on youth offending rates and
how frequently it visits children in care as part of
several new performance measures being required for reporting by the
Children's Minister. Senior political reporter Sophie trigger has More.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Garenshaw says she's told the agency to provide greater transparency
about its performance, calling current statistics of child deaths in
care and national disgrace. The agency will provide the percentage
of children in care visited in the past eight weeks
and the portion of reports of concern that are addressed
within forty eight hours. It also asks for the amount
of complaints handled in a way that meets OT's standards.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
The government says it's delivering a credible plan for communities
to fund and finance much needed investment and water infrastructure.
The Local Government Minister has unveiled changes to allow our
new council owned water companies to be able to access
cheaper borrowing. Organizations will be able to leverage up to
five hundred percent of their operating revenues through the Local

(01:10):
Government funding Agency. Minister Simon Brown says this will be
an enduring component of water service delivery.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
This is about providing local government with a certainty it
needs to deliver water services while minimizing costs on ray.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Pass hour if anyway. Council looks to have pinpointed a
probable source of lead contamination. Tokamadu residents just south of
Palmerston North have been urged to only use bottled water
after test found elevated levels of lead in the town's
drinking water supply. Community Infrastructure Group Manager Daniel Hayes as
the tap at the water treatment plant solely used for

(01:44):
testing is still at non compliant levels. He says safe
levels of now being found throughout the other pipes.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
We will works a.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Process in the commandays to do further testing to ensure
that we can do intric compliance over consecutive days.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
New research shows children are likely missing out on proper
nutrition as costs rise. An Auckland University researcher and GP
has found a family with two children living on the
benefit would be going backwards to the tune of more
than two hundred dollars if it brought low cost healthy food.
Doctor Joanna Strom says it's clearly hard for these families

(02:20):
to feed children healthily.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Low cost healthy foods have been increasing and increasing more
than the food price in depth.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Overall, the government's being urged to step in to save
New Zealand paper and pulp mills when Stones pulp and
timber mills now are looking to close due to high
power costs, with three hundred jobs on the line. Following this,
an Auckland paper recycling pulp mill has put forward a
proposal to close. First Union spokesperson Justin Wallace says government

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can't allow this work to be outsourced.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
We'll be sending product overseas and then brought back in
at a cheaper rate. But what will happen is and
in the case of this plant is seventy five families
will have a bread owner who won't have a job.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
In Sport, All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has made a
major change in midfield for the first Test against Argentina.
In Wellington, Anton Lennart Brown gets the nod at thirteen
outside Jordi Barrett with Rico Yoanni on the bench. In
the most difficult selection calls Boden Barrett beats Will Jordan
to play fullback. Sam Darry earns the first Test start

(03:24):
at locke Ethan Blackadder grabs the number six jersey and
TJ Paranara starts at half back. Olympic bronze and silver
medallist Lydia Coe will head into the second round of
the golf in Paris tied for twelfth, seven strokes off
the lead. I'm Jody Gill and that's your latest news fakes.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the News Talk zed B newsroom.