Morning Edition: 30 October 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 30 October 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 never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Wednesday, thirtieth of October. In this update,
chronic school absence at secondary school has doubled in the
last decade and almost tripled in primary school. An Education
Review Office report found this term too, one in ten
students were chronically absent, with more than eighty thousand missing

(00:26):
more than three weeks of the term. It says the
current system is failing to put under attendance Service Practice
lead Adam de Court told Ryan Bridge they often can't
find the absent students.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It takes a lot of collaboration with other agencies to
find those students. It's definitely not a waste of time
because those kids need to support the most. But we
just need systems that are a bit more efficient.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Construction Minister says the industry has been calling for
an overhaul of the consent system for years. The government
is planning reforms which will allow trades people to consent
their own work for basic housing, for going inspections. Minister
Chris Penk says they've been talking with stakeholders about these
changes for about twelve months. He says, with a couple
more months of consultation Cabinet will be in a position

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to make decisions early next year and legislate as needed.
The organization Rural Women is stunned by proposed changes to
NZ Post services, believing post is essential. The proposed changes
would mean delivery frequency in rural areas would go up
from five times a week to three. The minimum number
of postal outlets will also drop from eight hundred and

(01:29):
eighty to five hundred. Rural Women CEO Marie Fitzpatrick says
postal services are essential for rural communities that don't always
have access to broadband. Rural connectivity in terms of brutal
boardband and other things like that mean that it's harder
to do things online, such as paying your bills or
other things like that. Evidence is set to resume at

(01:50):
the murder trial of ting Hun Chao in the High
Court at christ Church. He is charged with killing christ
Church real estate agent Yanfeng Bao in July twenty twenty three. Today,
Choo sat with his eyes closed in the dock during
evidence from his former boss, three police staff and a
hardware shopkeeper. The jury was shown a video of an
Asian man in the store gesturing to buy a spade

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on the day Bow disappeared. Chow later started speaking loudly
to his lawyers and court was adjourned early. The teenage
boy accused of murdering three young girls entertainer Swift themed
dance class in England is now facing a terror charge.
The eighteen year old arrested over the attack in Southport
in July as being charged with producing the poison ricin

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and possessing a military study of an Al Qaeda training manual.
Donald Trump says he aims to save America. The former
president spoken to supporters in Florida, with only a week
to go until the election. Trump continued his attack on
his opponent, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's going to be saving it from the incredible destruction
that's been caused by crooker Joe Biden and Carmala and In.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Sport, India have won the final One Day International cricket
match of the three game series by six wickets over
the White Ferns, taking the rubber two to one. The
hosts chased two hundred and thirty three with thirty four
balls to spare in a Metabad. England have handed Ben
Spencer a first Test start at halfback for Sunday's Test
against the All Blacks at Twickenham. And an international flavor

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has been added to New Zealand's domestican domestic basketball legs.
The South Auckland based Indian Panthers have been granted a
license from twenty twenty five. I'm never ready, Manu. That
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at midday from the Newstalk ZB newsroom.