Morning Edition: 19 December 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 19 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'm Wendy Petrie and this is your morning Newsfix.
Four Thursday, the nineteenth of December, and this update low
expectations for the New Zealand economy. With GDP figures coming
out today, Stats and Z will release the results for
the third quarter just before eleven o'clock today. The Reserve
Bank forecasts one point two percent contraction, while Westpac, ASB

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and A and Z are picking a point four percent
drop in Zaid Herald's Liam Dan says oh cr CUTZ
didn't have enough time to take effect. Businesses were struggling
with debt, consumers were struggling with high debt repayments. Some
sectors like manufacturing and construction were really slow. A North
Canterbury man has been fined six thousand dollars for deliberately

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driving through a black bill gull colony on his property.
Clive Gordon has been sentenced after taking a utility vehicle
and a fourteen ton digger through one thousand strong nesting
colony on his Belfast property in Nova Remember last year.
Department of Conpreservation mah Nui preparations manager Andy Thompson says
the abandoning of a colony this size is a significant

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blow for a species declining faster than they can breed.
He says they will respond very seriously to any future incidents.
Are locals recounting the moments a destructive seven point three
magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu. Early reports estimate more than a
dozen people have died and hundreds are injured. The airport's
only open to humanitarian assistance, and the port is out

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of action. There are concerns about the volume of fresh
drinking water, power and fuel available. Local journalist Dan McGarry
says the shaking was like nothing he's felt before. I
was almost knocked off my feet. I had to hold
on to the walls for support. I can imagine for
people on upper stories of buildings it must have been
absolutely terrifying. The freedom of the victims of crime from

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unwanted prisoner correspondents is being written into law remanaclas members
Bell has passed a third reading in the House with
strong cross party support. It makes it an offense for
inmates to directly contact or encourage others to contact someone
who doesn't want to be contacted. The takenine MP says
corrections must now take into account the interests of the

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victims when deciding what conditions to impose on offenders under
its supervision. She's sure some things instead of being a practice,
need to be set into law hospitality and that is disappointed.
Politicians voted against lifting easter trade restrictions. The bill was
voted down seventy four to forty nine yesterday. It sought

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to remove Good Friday and Easter Sunday as restricted trading days.
Head of Communications and Advocacy Sam McKinnon said they would
have liked to get it to the select committee stage
so the public could have a say. We think that
that wasn't an unreasonable expectation, so yeah, look, we're just
disappointed that it hasn't progressed further than it's first reading.
To Sport Now and Liam Lawson's march towards a full

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time drive with read Ball in Formula One has taken
another step forward. Sergio Perez has confirmed he's leaving Red
Bull after battling through twenty twenty four, opening the way
for the Kiwi driver to move into his seat. Central
Otago District Council of tabled the prospect of hosting a
supercars round at the Highlands motors Board Park in Cromwell

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from twenty twenty six and Indian all round a Ravi
chandan Ashwin has announced his immediate retirement from international cricket.
Him Wendy Petrick. That's your latest news facts. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from the News
Talk set B Newsroom