Morning Edition: 05 October 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talk Savy newsroom. This is Newsfax in
this up days day. Heavy rainwatch remains in place for Dunedin,
North Ontigo and Klutha until nine am, where the conditions
have improved overnight, but road closures and slips are continuing
to impact the region. Duneden Civil Defense Controller Sandy Graham
says there are more than forty road closures to be

(00:26):
assessed this morning. Overnight the evacuations enter at Forsyth Bard
Stadium looked after about thirty people. The Army has been
helping staff cordons around South Dunedin to stop people driving
through floodwaters on closed roads. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is
keen to get the country better at responding too serious
weather events. Christopher Larsen says it's about improving where needed.

(00:50):
What else can we do to strengthen NEMA for example,
and those are those are conversations that have been happening
just esh in recent weeks. Meanwhile, separately, emergency response teams
to be put to their paces in Wellington this weekend
for the first exercise of its kind in twenty years.
It's part of an operation named Exercise Poseidon, a thirty
six hour long large earthquake drill designed to see how

(01:12):
responders operate in the disaster situation. Google threatening to rep
all links to New Zealand news content from its search
engine over the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. The legislation,
due to pass later this year, would require the text
giant to pay news companies for their content. Auckland University
Media professor Gavin Allis says the government could play hardball

(01:33):
back or modify the bill, but he says he firmly
believes the only way to bring platforms like Google into
line is to tax them. Ultimately, we've got to find
a way of ensuring that the use of that material
flows back to the news organizations that pay to produce
and belief shifting the oversight of school property to a
new entity could set processes and buildings on a better path.

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It's being established after a recent ministerial inquiry found education
ministry management to be bureaucratic and efficient and unfocused. Secondary
Principles Association President Vaughan Quio says the Secretor has been
crying out for changes in the property space for quite
some time. He says it's a complicated beast and not
all schools are the same, but simple is probably best.

(02:18):
Queo says we need functional, warm, safe and sturdy and
sometimes extra earthquake measures. That's news in sport. Dame Farapama
has endorsed to Dame Patsy Ready's decision to stand down
as New Zealand Rugby chair. Ready's championed the Pilkington Review
into New Zealand Rugby's constitution and governance, which said the

(02:39):
governing body was not fit for purpose and stressed to
the need for a nine person independent board. Deputy chair
Palmer says Ready's move represents her skills and values. We're
going to miss his strong leadership, but I think she's
shined some strong leadership by sipping aside and allowing this
process to continue and still playing a key role in that.

(03:00):
Boxer Andre Mikhaylovitch Chans fallen short in his quest for
a boxing world title in Sydney. He was stopped in
the ninth round against IBF champion janebec Aleemhanila of Kazakhstan
and Team New Zealand will face any Ospiritannia in the
thirty seventh America's Company Barcelona. The British boat beat Luna
Rossa in the Challenger Series Final seven to four. That's sport.

(03:21):
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