Morning Edition: 30 August 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 30 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 morning. I'm Nevaretti Manu and this is your morning
US Fix for Friday, thirtieth of August. In this update,
the Mardi King has died. King E Too hey Tia
has died at the age of sixty nine, just days
after the eighteenth anniversary of his coronation. The Office of
the King E Tunga has issued a statement saying he

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died peacefully yesterday afternoon while in recovery from heart surgery.
It says the death of King E Too hay Tia
is a moment of great sadness for followers of Te
king E Tunga Martyrdom and the entire nation. Two Haitia
is expected to lie in state at Tudungawawai Madai for
several days before being taken to his final resting place
at Topiti Mountain. Anz's latest report shows business as are

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feeling more optimistic for the future than they have in years.
The monthly update shows business confidence is as its highest
in a decade, rising twenty three points to fifty onexpect
activity jumped to a seven year high, increasing twenty one
points to thirty seven. However, actual business activity rose only
one point to negative twenty one. Chief economist Sharon zollness,

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as many businesses are seeing the light at the end
of the tunnel. We'll have to wait and see whether
this has just turned up the unfounded hope or whether
it sustained and actually starts impacting business decisions about employment
and investments. For example, a sudden shift to user pays
on our roads. Petrol cars could be hit with road
user charges as early as twenty twenty seven under the

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government's Revenue Action Plan. It's also exploring tolling for all
new roads, including the Roads of National Significance. AA Policy
director Martin Glynn says the timing is a surprise given
how many cars are on our roads, and as ays
the tolls could come as as shock to communities where
projects like the Munuwatu Gorge are already well underway. In
an ideal world, consultation on APPROJEYT would take place before

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construction and tolling it will be done at the same time.
An underground Wellington car park, closed for four years due
to earthquake risk, will soon reopen despite no work being
done on the building. In twenty twenty, the Council closed
the car park at Frankett's Park for both parking and
weekend markets, despite parking use still being deemed safe. Now
the Council's decided, based off updated government guidelines, it can

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reopen again for parking and it's confirmed no strengthening or
remediation work has been carried out and none is planned.
Hawks Bay Regional Council says posting photos of patched gang
members at a meeting probably wasn't a good move. The
council is facing backlash from some quarters for allowing the
members into the council chamber when it voted to keep
mardy Ward's Minister Simeon Brown and David Seymore are frustrated

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over the current patch band not being enforced, and Hawks
Bay Regional Council cheer Henny y Ormsby told Ryan Bridge
it's learnt. Its lesson for next time would hollow a
policy that looked that you're asking. Most members believe jackets
from the car not accept a roll to bring in
the building. In sport, a crane failure has left Tea
New Zealand assessing damage to the AC seventy five boat

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after the opening day of the America's Cup Challenger series
off the coast of Barcelona. Nicole Murray has launched New
Zealand's Paralympic campaign in Paris, finishing fifth in the C
four five five hundred meter time trial. All Black's coach
Scott Robertson insists a tight call would have ensued between
Sam Cain and Dalton PAPALII for Sunday's test against the
spring box if the latter had been fit. I'm never ready, Mardo.

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When that your latest news fix, We'll be back with
the next update at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom.