Morning Edition: 17 February 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 17 February 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 never ready, MANU, and this is your
morning news Fix from Monday, seventeenth of February. In this update,
divided messaging from the government over teacher only days. Associate
Education Minister David Seymour, who's in charge of school attendance,
has promised a crack down on teacher only days during
school terms, but Education Minister Erica Stanford says four teacher

(00:27):
only days are planned this year to help schools implement
the new curriculum. She's told TV and Z Seymour doesn't
have the authority to make decrees about teacher only days
and he's overstepped the mark. I'm the Minister of Education
and when we are rolling out a new curriculum, we
have to have curriculum days. A leading politician for LGBTQ
Rights says he's seeing a worrying increase in hostilities towards

(00:51):
the community. Groups linked to Destiny Church disrupted Auckland Pride
parade with a hukka after storming a library drag event
in Tiata two Peninsula over the week end. Former Teata
two MP Chris Carter says church leader Brian Tommocke has
been treated far too leniently. He says the situation is
getting worse in the queer community must day vigilant.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
The election of Donald Trump and his targeting of the
trends community in the United States during the election campaign.
There's no doubt, given a great deal of encouragement to
Brian Jemmickey and his mob.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
A prediction that a new tourism campaign will give tourism
from Australia a shot in the arm. The Everyone Must
Go campaign will encourage oossies to take an off season
holiday in New Zealand. The five hundred thousand dollars campaign
will be funded through the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levee.
An increasing number of students are choosing to study at polytechs.

(01:41):
The National Polytech Tetpouking has more than forty thousand full
time students enrolled across its twenty providers this year. Jamie
Cunningham has more.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Domestic enrollments are up five percent on last year to
almost thirty seven thousand. The number of international students has
increased by seventeen percent from just over three thousand, two
hundred last year to three thousand to eight hundred. Health Studies,
Management and Commerce and engineering are the most popular courses

(02:10):
this year.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
A large scrub fire in North Canterbury has been left
in the hands of the landowner overnight, with fire crews
Duwbank on scene this morning. The blaze has burned through
forty hectares and smarking on Saturday afternoon between Hamner Springs
and Springs Junction. New Zealanders are being encouraged to vote
for their favorite creepy crawley twenty one insects of vine
to be this year's Bug of the Year in the

(02:34):
Entomological Society's annual competition. They include the gravel maggot, giant
ground snail and nioweavil. To pupa curator of Invertebrates Fell Servants,
is that the creatures are as unique to New Zealand
as Kiwi, kakapaul and tuitata.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Bony of our insects are spiders and so thought I
found absolutely nowhere else on the planet, and we're just
trying to make people aware of the things they might
see in that year or out.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
In Bush, voting closes at midnight, and in Sport, eighteen
year old Finn Malville Ives has won his maiden freeski
halfpipe World Cup in Calgary. Leaders Liverpool have beaten Wolverhampton
two to one in their Premier League football match at
Anfield to move to sixty points an advantage of seven.
The Wellington Phoenix women have endured a fourth straight one

(03:19):
goal A League defeat in Australia, beating two to one,
or rather beaten to one by the Perth Glory. And finally,
Rachenravendra remains endowed with a head injury ahead of the
Champions Trophy One Day International cricket tournament in Pakistan. I'm
never reaty Manu that your latest news fix will be
back with the next update of midday from the news
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