Morning Edition: 17 January 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 17 January 2025, 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 Petre and this is your morning
news fix for Friday, the seventeenth of January. And this update,
almost a third of fully enrolled NCAA Level one students
failed the qualification last year. New figures out today showed
just seventy percent of participants achieved the qualification, compared to
eighty two percent in the previous year. Education Minister Ericus

(00:26):
Stanford says one driving factor of the decline is the
new twenty credit foundational literacy and numerousy corequisite requirement. She
says the other key driver is the changing demographics of
the student's taking part. Results for other NCAA levels remained steady,
with seventy three percent passing Level two and sixty eight
percent passing Level three. The Ministry of Justice has been

(00:49):
encouraged to check its systems and apologize after a website
privacy breach. Thousands of rulings with suppressed details, including child's
sexual abuse cases, were public on the ministry's website. All
family and criminal decisions have been taken down while a
four week audit of the rulings is completed. Sexual Violence
Campaign and Louise Nicholas says children and other vulnerable people

(01:12):
could be seriously affected by the breach.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
They have to check, recheck, triple check, quadruple check that
this system is up to date so that this type
of thing can not ever happen again.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
The Human Rights Commission has received a small number of
complaints over a christ Church music event using racially teed
ticket pricing. Collective Brown Town Auto Tahi is marketing its
event waves Sunday session as an afternoon of reckless abandonment
under the summer sun. The group says its ticketing structure
was designed to remove barriers for Maldi and Pacific peoples.

(01:47):
Eighty hours of hearings are said to take place on
the Treaty Principals Bill. The Justice Select Committee met yesterday
confirming hearings will take place later this month. Political reporter
Azariah Howell has more.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
An influx of submissions caused the deadline to be extended
after Parliament's website crashed on what was due to be
the final day for feedback. There were no further issues
with the website after it reopened. The Justice Committees splitting
into two subgroups for the majority of the planned eighty
hours of submissions so it can hear from more people.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
The US is confident the Gaza ceasefire will go ahead,
despite Israel pushing back a cabinet vote on the deal.
Within hours of reaching the agreement, Israeli forces reportedly killed
seventy seven people in Gaza City, including twenty one children.
Is Israel accuses Hamasa backtracking on parts of the deal, with
how Mars says it's committed. US Secretary of State Anthony

(02:44):
Blincoln says this is a moment of tremendous relief for
both sides. It's also a moment of historic possibility for
the region and well beyond. It's going to take tremendous effort,
political courage, compromise to realize that possibility. To sport now
and learn a tea and has beaten fifth seed Daniil
Medvedev in a four hour and forty eight minute, five

(03:07):
second round thriller to complete the fifth day at the
Australian Tennis Open. Sam n Ingo has shot a career
best at twenty nine points to help the Breakers to
eighty five seventy five, anbl basketball win over the jack Jumpers,
snapping a four game losing streak, and the Olympics Paralympics
cricket and netball feature in the Halberg Awards a favorite

(03:29):
sporting vote, moment voting options. They close on February eighteen.
That's your latest news fix. We're back with the next
update at midday from the news Talk said B newsroom.