Midday Edition: 10 December 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 10 December 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 afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Tuesday, the tenth of December. State Highway
five will be closed today between Rotorua and Waimungu for
investigations after a horror crash last night. Four people have
died and two have been hospitalized after the crash just
before eight pm. It follows a bad weekend on the roads,

(00:25):
with five people killed in crashes in topor, Tai Hapei
and Canterbury. The Rotorua Daily Posts Ben Fraser says he
saw some emotional responses at the crash cordon.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Follow there cave people visibly upset, had parked at the
cordon and began walking down the highway towards the crash scene.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Mixed messages surrounding Health New Zealand's nurse staffing system. Nurses
are walking off the job and rolling strikes across the country.
The Nurses Organization cites in adequate staffing and low pay
and concern about staffing system changes, but Northern Deputy Chief
Executive Mark Shephard claims the union spreading misinformation about h

(01:05):
n z's pause of the system. He says they're simply
working to improve methodology for more consistency.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It is shortly The work will be completed at the
early new year and will resume planning for FTE requirements
for the new financial year.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
A Gloria Vale Lever hopes letting bn Z close its
accounts with the Christian community could bring its end. The
Court of Appeals rejected an injunction that had obliged B
and Z to do business with the sect. Lever Pearl
Valor told Newstalks edb's Canterbury Mornings the government should finally
step in, but she's speculating Gloria Veil could be donating

(01:42):
to parties.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Like I'm wondering how they've vans so protected for the
last fifty years.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Meanwhile, Lever's representative, lawyer Brian Henry, says Gloria Vale's assets
are likely worth sixty five million dollars, not the forty
five million it claims.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
This is a very wealthy community. In the morning, these
families properly if you put in a manager who then does.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
The right scene In New Zealand's boss says too many
of their flights are being canceled, the airlines facing another
two to three years of disruption waiting for new aircraft
and the completion of maintenance on existing ones. It's also
making small cuts to its domestic and regional schedule next year.
Chief Executive Greg Fororan told Heather Duplicy Allen flight cancelations

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are his biggest concern.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
We've got to get on top of that until we're
working really really hard to do it, to get everything
that we can so we get this thing operating well.
Most times we do, but when we don't apologize for them.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
A Rainbow Charity says it's up to parents if they
want to poor children out of sex education classes, but
they shouldn't be able to dictate what's taught. An Education
Review Office reports found inconsistent teaching of the subject across schools.
It recommends a national standardized curriculum and an end to
consultation with parents inside out. Managing Director Tabby Besley says

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parents should instead just be informed on what's being taught.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
That will help reduce the worries and misinformation, disinformation and
the fears that don't know what's being taught, but not
give parents that say or control over what the school
does end up teaching.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
To sport, the All Blacks will put their fifty match
unbeaten record at Eden Park to the Ultimate Test next year.
That match is the highlight of the home calendar, with
the All Blacks to meet World champions South Africa in
Auckland on September six. Supercars champion Will Brown will join
the castrole Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship grid for three

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events in Topor. Hampton, Downs and Highlands and West ham
have won the Dance of the Desperate against Wolves two
to one in football's English Premier League. I'm Malcolm Jordan.
That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at five pm from the news Talk ZB newsroom.