Morning Edition: 29 November 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 29 November 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 books for Friday, twenty ninth of November. In
this update, misinformation surrounding the COVID nineteen vaccine is noted
in New Zealand's Review at the Pandemic Response. The first
phase of the report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry
brings thirty nine recommendations. It finds government messaging was initially

(00:26):
effective but became more challenging as objectives shifted, and it
notes some vaccine requirements were too broad and continued too long.
Auckland University vankxinologist Helen Pertussus Harris says it did not
address how to tackle misinformation, whether there were any strategies
to address it, and what perhaps might be recommendations of

(00:46):
the future, et cetera. Meanwhile, Lessons from the COVID nineteen
pandemic around happiness and anxiety. A study in Today's New
Zealand Medical Journal looks at survey responses from thirty thousand
New Zealanders in December twenty twenty defined factors effecting mental
well being, and it reveals discrimination can contribute to feelings
of anxiety and trust in public services can influence happiness.

(01:10):
Why Cuttle councils are changing processes in response to elevated
arsenic levels in their drinking water. Reson samples in the
Wykattle River reveal Auckland supply is back within safe levels,
while Hamilton Waipa and the Weykartle District work fractionally above
the maximum amount. Wykartle District Council's waters manager Keith Martin

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says due to the results, now or Wahiir Treatment plant
will start injecting chloring before the waters treated. Drawing helps
bind the arm tended into an organic compound and from
the atrium plant can handle it. Australia has passed world
first laws banning under sixteens using social media. The ban
will come into force at the end of next year.

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The Australian governments argued it's needed to protect young people
from the harms of social media. The ABC reports the
vote who came last night as the government ran through
most of its legislative agenda on the final sitting day
of the year. Auckland's ferries are now back to their
full schedule, just in time for summer. The Auckland transport
services were scaled back in October last year after an

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industry wide crew shortage and weren't expected to be reinstated
until mid next year. At Public Transport Operations, Group Manager
Rachel Kara says that the operator full As three sixty
has been able to quickly upscale existing crew and train
new people. We understand that the last sort of twelve
months has been tough for some of our regular Fury customers,
so to have all services back up and running again

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in time summer is really awesome. An anonymous donation means
every high school in the country is having a book
on the Treaty of Whitanngi delivered. The book has been
written by lawyer and educator Roy Mutter Smail to guide
people through the founding document and in Spoil, the Breakers
have been humiliated one hundred and nine seventy one by

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the Hawks and Wollongong spoiling the much hyped A and
bl A bou of Center Taco Fall. England and New
Zealand have shared the honors on the opening day the
first cricket test at Christchurch. The black Caps are three
hundred and nineteen for eight. Kazumika Bori is the best
placed New Zealander after day one of golf's Australian Open
in Melbourne, and authorities have accepted world tennis number two

(03:17):
Iger s Fiontek's explanation after whose supplied sleep medication was
contaminated with a banned substance. I never ready man who
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