Morning Edition: 19 August 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 19 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):
Bird Morning. I'm Wendy Petrie and this is your morning
NEWSFACS for Monday, the nineteenth of August, and this update
to fear political lobbying may be impacting health policy and
undermining trust and decision making. A report from the Helen
Clark Foundation calls for stronger regulations around lobbying and donations.
A number of politicians have returned to political life after

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exiting Parliament in the form of lobbying or pr Health
Coalition Alterirora agrees more regulations needed. Public Health Infrastructure Committee
co chair David Galla says decisions could be swayed towards
private and commercial interests. A Transport minister is revealing more
about roadside drug testing as a government looks to pass

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the legislation as part of a one point three billion
dollar crackdown on drink and drug driving over three years.
Samon Brown is hoping three point three million breath tests
will be conducted in a year, along with fifty thousand
oral drugs greens when it comes into place. He says
drug tests won't be used as evidence in the first instance.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
They have a high accuracy rate, but they're not one
hundred percent and so it will require tests be done
twice and it will be requiring if someone has two
positives after then an evidentiary test to be undertaken.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Meanwhile, police are still working to identify those involved in
the ramming of four police vehicles in Waitcuttle. Officers were
called to a large gathering of cars and people and
Hotroltiu around two fifteen am yesterday. The crowd dispersed, moving
on to converge near the base on Hamilton's northern edge.
Inspactor Neil Faukner says one vehicle allegedly reversed its speed

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towards a police car, which staff was standing in front of.
He says they're looking to locate a white flat deck
ute and speak with two people. The future of christ
to A Church Cathedral rebuild could be decided today. The
government isn't stepping in to help plug a one hundred
and fourteen million dollar funding hole, meaning the site will
probably be mothballed. Janie Cuma has more.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement chair Mark Stewart says the board
will explore all of the options at today's meeting and
any announcements will be made in due course. Meanwhile, the
City Council's paused payment of its seven million dollar project
grant at the Reinstatement Group's request until a decisions made.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Staying in central christ Church, the businessman behind an ambitious
hospitality project to revitalize Cathedral Square is facing liquidation after
failing to meet a funding hurdle. Local businessman Darren Rainberg
planned to open The Grand in the old post office
building in twenty twenty one. He used crowd funding to
raise a lot of money in return for company shares.

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He's written to shareholders saying his own home will be sold,
with a move into voluntary liquidation likely. On Wednesday. Two
Sport now in Manchester City have opened their Premier League
Football titled Defense with a two nil win at Chelsea
Lydia Co's finished ninth at the LGP LPGA's Scottish Golf
Open after a two over par final round saw the

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Olympic champion finish a five under par for the weekend.
Dan Atkinson's golden point field goal has given the Sharks
a nineteen eighteen NRL win over Newcastle All but ending
the night's final hopes. Why Cuts All have inflicted a
third straight NPC rugby defeat on County's Monaco after a
twenty six twenty win in POKIKOI. I'm Wendy Pintree. That's

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your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at midday from the News Talks ADB Newsroom