Morning Edition: 10 December 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning, I never ready Manu and this is your
morning News of Expert, Tuesday tenth of December. In this update,
a banking expert believes more investment into Kiwibank will make
it a serious contender, but not enough to upset the
status quo. The government's announced its intentions to find investors
to deliver the bank up to five hundred million dollars
to drive competition. Messi University Business School. The associate professor,

(00:28):
Clear Matthew see, she's not totally convinced of the lasting
difference it'll make. Just can't be that they come in
and do what the other banks are doing for them
to shake things up, and they've got to come in
and do something different. A leading unions condemning the government's
plans to reintroduce paid deductions for partial strikes. It became
illegal in twenty eighteen for employers to dock partly striking

(00:48):
workers pay unless they're suspended or issued a lockout notice.
The Workplan's Relations Minister says since this decision, there's been
disruptions for the public and the employer's outfit. Council of
Trade Union's acting president Rachael Macintosh says pay docking won't work.
If partial strike action is going to be punished, then
it's much more likely that working people will take full

(01:08):
strike action and then the disruption will be much worse.
The Prime Ministers maintaining his silence on the cog Straight
ferry replacements, signaling an update before the end of the year.
The government canceled the contracts of two new Into Islander
ships at the end of last year, citing costs and blowouts,
and are yet to announce the alternative. Christopher Luxen refused
to say if it had been discussed in yesterday's cabinet meeting.

(01:31):
We we'll talk about fairies before the end of the
year as we've committed to time. But Labour leader Chris
Hipkins claims he understands the government's going to buy two
smaller fairies which will cost more than those that were canceled.
Nicola Willis canceled the order for new fairies without having
a viable replacement in place, and ultimately that's now going
to cost the country more money. Deir Party Mardy could

(01:52):
be eyeing up a seventh Mardy seat in Parliament's next election.
The latest one used variant poll shows National and Labour
holding steady on thirty seven and twenty nine percent. Departi
Maudi shot up three percentage points to seven percent, overtaking
New Zealand first by one percent. News talks'd B political
editor Jason Wall says it's unsurprising given the parties mobilized

(02:15):
tens of thousands opposing the Treaty Principles Bill didn't see
hkois ce party Mary of being able to get between
three and a half thousand and four thousand people onto
the Mahdi Rold confirmation Bertfluth spread to a fourth barn
of an Otago egg farm in Moida Key. The culling
of two hundred thousand chickens is nearing an end at

(02:35):
the Mainland Poultry owned farm, which remains under strict biosecurity lockdown.
MPI Deputy Director General Stewan Anderson says test results confirmed
the viruses spread, which wasn't unexpected. In Sport, Australian batter
Travis Head and Indian quick Mohammed Sarach have been found
guilty of breaching Cricket's Code of Conduct for the verbal

(02:55):
spat in the second test in Adelaide, South Africa claimed
Sri Lanka's last five wickets for nineteen runs to win
the Second Cricket Test by one hundred and nine runs
in Gibera. Baseball outfielder Juan Soto has signed what's believed
to be the richest contract in professional sports. The former
Yankee has joined crosstown rivals the New York Mets on

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a fifteen year, seven hundred and sixty five million US
dollar deal. I'm never ready mind who event your latest newsweeks.
We'll be back with the next update at midday from
the Newsdalk ZB newsroom.