Morning Edition: 13 December 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 13 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 morning, I never ready Manu, and this is your
morning Newswix for Friday, thirteenth of December. In this update,
a decision to charge the Bumbling kwe G Hardy is
being described as an unprecedented legal move. Mark John Taylor
has been charged under anti terror law after allegedly traveling
overseas to participate in terrorist organization. Isol police believe he's

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still in Syria. Massi University emeritus professor of sociology Paul
Spoonley told the Front Page podcast He's not aware of
anybody ever being charged while overseas. I think it probably
anticipates that person traveling on a New Zealand passport or
coming back to New Zealand. So I think it's a
peremptory move, but it is a very unusual move. The

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country's second most powerful cop is on leave pending separate investigations.
Deputy Commissioner Jevin mcskimming is being investigated by the Independent
Police Conduct Authority and the New Zealand Police. The nature
of the allegations can't be reported. Mcskimming was one of
the two final candidates to replace Andrew Costa as the
Police Commissioner, but lost out to Richard Chambers. Fire crews

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have spent the night monitoring for flare ups from a
vegetation fire near Burnham in Canterbury. The blaze is burnt
through thirty hectares of Selwyn riverbed and farmland alongside State
Highway I. Initial inquiries have linked the fire to a
vehicle tire blowout, but that's yet to be confirmed. Fire
and Emergency Incident Commander Dave Berry says some people living

(01:30):
nearby were asked to evacuate yesterday afternoon but allowed back
home last night just because it was going so fastened
down through the river ed we evacuated three houses. Those
people were now back. A man accused of murdering elderly
christchurchwoman Francis Ann Phelps is due to appear in court today.
The man who was interim name suppression, was arrested and
accused of killing Phelps three days before she was found

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in her Mount Pleasant home in early October. The government's
making changes aimed at strengthening capital markets. It'll make it
easier for Kiwi Saver funds to be invested in unlisted
assets like infrastructure projects or businesses. There will also be
adjustments to reduce the costs and barriers based by companies
listed on the ENZIDEX. Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew

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Bailey says they're doing it because New Zealand firms need
finance capital to grow and improve productivity. These reforms are
about helping those companies get better access the capital and
debt markets. Restorations finally on the way for Wellington's iconic
Oriental Bay band rotunder the Circular Waterfront. Landmark is quake
prone and heritage listed and has sat derelict for over

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a decade. New plans include a restaurant and bar, a
spa on the bottom floor and a public rooftop lookout.
Work will start next year and its plan to open
in twenty twenty seven. To sport Now, Blackfern seven's youngster
Georgia Miller has been crowned New Zealand's Best rugby Player,
awarded the Calvin ar Tremain Memorial Gong at the New
Zealand Rugby Awards. A body has been found in the

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search for former England rugby player Tom Voice, who died
when his car was swept into a flood swollen river
during the UK storm Dura. The Breakers are in free fall,
crashing to a fifth straight defeat in the Australian Basketball
League with a one hundred and seventy six defeat to
the Tasmania jack Jumpers on Auckland's north shore. I'm never
ready man. Who E then your latest news fix. We'll

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be back with the next update at midday from the
news doorg zb newsroom