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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and missus short midday news
fix for Thursday, the twenty eighth of November. The outgoing
COVID inquiry chair is handing over the next phase. The
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the pandemic Response's first phase
is being presented to the Government today, although not publicly
released yet. Professor Tony Blakely says about eighty percent of
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the works done and a team chaired by Grant Illingworth
will complete the last aspects, so you.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
May find some stuff we haven't found on things like
members which I'll be looking at more debt, but also
they'll be looking at the vaccine harm and safety, which
for many citizens is particularly important.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Results on water samples from the Wacotta River and water
treatment plants are expected today. Auckland's Water Care and Hamilton
City Council have reported slightly elevated arsenic levels in recent
treated water samples. There's no immediate risk to health and
the water is safe to think. Regional Council Science Manager
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Mike Scarsbrook says they'll know more once the tests come back.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
If the samples we took yesterday already show levels going
back to near normal for him. We might conclude that
it was a spike that came through, and we'll be
looking to understand why that spike occurred.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Health New Zealand's digital services are likely to bear the
brunt of the latest proposed job losses. The Public Service
Association says HGMZ plans to acts about fifteen hundred rolls,
roughly half already vacant. The union claims more than a
thousand of those jobs are in data and digital team.
Digital Health Association chief executive are Real Jensen is asking
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why such crucial jobs are being labeled as back office
aid productivity.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They aid clinicians to do their jobs properly. They allow
patients to take control of their health and wellbeing by
seeing their health records.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
A scathing critique of the Reserve Bank governor from a
former finance Adrian Or yesterday slashed the official cash rate
to four point twenty five percent. The rate was one
point seven five percent when Or took office in twenty eighteen,
plunged too point two five percent to twenty twenty before
rising sharply to five point five last year. Stephen Joyce
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claims the economy still being impacted by labor Minister Grant
Robertson and the policy of the governor he appointed.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Frankly, I would say a heavy footed governor who went
really hard early, then went really hard up now coming
out of the way, and for a lot of balance sheets,
it's just been too bloody hat.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Meanwhile, the Finance Minister says it's too early to know
what effect the Trump administration will have on New Zealand.
The President elects announced he'll tax Canada and Mexico twenty
five percent and put an additional ten percent tariff on China,
but Nikola Willis says we don't yet know how the
campaign pledged to tax up to twenty percent on all
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goods into America will settle the role of.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Our diplomats diseases, to put out our best foot forward,
to make sure we maintain a really good trading position
for our exporters to sport.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
A return to rugby coaching in New Zealand for Brad Moore.
He's replaced to Tomothy Ellison as an assistant at the Crusaders,
a job he previously held for four seasons. Liverpool's return
to the top of the Champions League Football Ladder after
a two nel home win over Real Madrid. Meanwhile, Manchester
United great Rude van Nistelroy appears set to become the
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new manager of Premier League strugglers Leicester City. Jamaica have
recorded consecutive netball wins over England to claim their four
Test series two to one in Kingston. I'm Malcolm Jordan.
That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
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