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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Monday, twenty sixth of August. In
this update, worry that proposed changes to the Fast Track
Approvals Bill don't fix its fundamental issues. Cabinets recommending major
changes to the Environment Committee. If approved, an independent expert
panel would make the final decisions on projects, as opposed
(00:26):
to ministers. Infrastructure. Minister Chris Bishop would be solely responsible
for referring projects to the panel. Three point fifty old
tied Or campaigner Adam Curry says this partial backdown is welcome,
but there are things that still need addressing.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
A great way to look good like it looks like,
you know, the minister's not making the function.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We're giving it to an expert body. For the expert
body has to make decisions on a very specific set
of criteria, being not really given in the power to
make decisons at all.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
A colleague of the man killed at an Auckland tennis
club says the victim was out for his daily walk
to search for insects and plants when he was attacked.
Side investigations being launched after a person died at Blockhouse
Bayed tennis club on Saturday, Thomas Rice has more.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Police are still seeking an offender involved in the incident,
who they believe left the area on foot. Gary Andrew
from the Faux River Catchment Trust says he sat next
to the man at work in an office underneath the
tennis club. He says the victim was a keen entomologist
who wouldn't hurt a fly.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Calls for action to ensure New Zealanders know the true
cost of sending money overseas. Money transfer provider wise surveyed
more than one thousand people and found nearly a third
of those who have transferred money overseas have little understanding
of the fees involved, a belief New Zealand may put
feelers out on potentially joining Orcus pillar two. At the
(01:46):
Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Week in Tonga, Foreign Minister Winston
Peters and Minister for Pacific People's Shane Retti are attending
the first half of the week, with the Prime Minister
attending the second half. It brings together leaders from eighteen
Pacific countries. Otago University International Relations professor Robert Patman says
some nations are concerned about ucus potential to trigger nuclear escalation.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
New Zealand will be taking foundings indirectly about how Pacific
island states might feel if New Zealans to take the
step to join Pillar two of ORCUS.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Falkland Transports beefed up its turn up and go transit
routes across the city. It's been growing the frequent transit network,
consisting of routes that run at least every fifteen minutes
seven am to seven pm, seven days a week, since
around twenty sixteen. Head of Public Transport, Planning and Development,
Pete Moth says almost half the Auckland population and now
within walking distance of one. Frustration over the lack of
(02:42):
an approved mpox vaccine as the World Health Organization declares
a global public health emergency for this second time in
two years. An unapproved JAB is available under certain conditions,
while Medsafe is working with Health New Zealand to gain
extra information required before decide if it can be approved.
In sport, Lydia Coe has won a third golf major.
(03:06):
She has triumphed by one stroke after finishing at seven
hinder par at Saint Andrew's Amara du Plantis has eclipsed
his own pole vault world record again. He's cleared six
point two six meters, one centimeter more than the marquee
set at the Paris Olympics. Team New Zealand has won
the America's Cup preliminary regatta off the coast of Barcelona,
(03:28):
beating Lunarossa by thirty four seconds in the final. And
Lando Norris has won the Dutch Grand Prix, the second
victory of his Formula One career. I'm neva ready, Manu.
That your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at midday from the news Dog ZBE newsroom
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Monday, twenty sixth of August. In
this update, worry that proposed changes to the Fast Track
Approvals Bill don't fix its fundamental issues. Cabinets recommending major
changes to the Environment Committee. If approved, an independent expert
panel would make the final decisions on projects, as opposed
(00:26):
to ministers. Infrastructure. Minister Chris Bishop would be solely responsible
for referring projects to the panel. Three point fifty old
tied Or campaigner Adam Curry says this partial backdown is welcome,
but there are things that still need addressing.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
A great way to look good like it looks like,
you know, the minister's not making the function.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We're giving it to an expert body. For the expert
body has to make decisions on a very specific set
of criteria, being not really given in the power to
make decisons at all.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
A colleague of the man killed at an Auckland tennis
club says the victim was out for his daily walk
to search for insects and plants when he was attacked.
Side investigations being launched after a person died at Blockhouse
Bayed tennis club on Saturday, Thomas Rice has more.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Police are still seeking an offender involved in the incident,
who they believe left the area on foot. Gary Andrew
from the Faux River Catchment Trust says he sat next
to the man at work in an office underneath the
tennis club. He says the victim was a keen entomologist
who wouldn't hurt a fly.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Calls for action to ensure New Zealanders know the true
cost of sending money overseas. Money transfer provider wise surveyed
more than one thousand people and found nearly a third
of those who have transferred money overseas have little understanding
of the fees involved, a belief New Zealand may put
feelers out on potentially joining Orcus pillar two. At the
(01:46):
Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Week in Tonga, Foreign Minister Winston
Peters and Minister for Pacific People's Shane Retti are attending
the first half of the week, with the Prime Minister
attending the second half. It brings together leaders from eighteen
Pacific countries. Otago University International Relations professor Robert Patman says
some nations are concerned about ucus potential to trigger nuclear escalation.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
New Zealand will be taking foundings indirectly about how Pacific
island states might feel if New Zealans to take the
step to join Pillar two of ORCUS.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Falkland Transports beefed up its turn up and go transit
routes across the city. It's been growing the frequent transit network,
consisting of routes that run at least every fifteen minutes
seven am to seven pm, seven days a week, since
around twenty sixteen. Head of Public Transport, Planning and Development,
Pete Moth says almost half the Auckland population and now
within walking distance of one. Frustration over the lack of
(02:42):
an approved mpox vaccine as the World Health Organization declares
a global public health emergency for this second time in
two years. An unapproved JAB is available under certain conditions,
while Medsafe is working with Health New Zealand to gain
extra information required before decide if it can be approved.
In sport, Lydia Coe has won a third golf major.
(03:06):
She has triumphed by one stroke after finishing at seven
hinder par at Saint Andrew's Amara du Plantis has eclipsed
his own pole vault world record again. He's cleared six
point two six meters, one centimeter more than the marquee
set at the Paris Olympics. Team New Zealand has won
the America's Cup preliminary regatta off the coast of Barcelona,
(03:28):
beating Lunarossa by thirty four seconds in the final. And
Lando Norris has won the Dutch Grand Prix, the second
victory of his Formula One career. I'm neva ready, Manu.
That your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at midday from the news Dog ZBE newsroom
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