March 5, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 06 March 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the sixth of March. The government's
committing to lowering the age of bowel screening to forty five,
but hasn't put a time frame on when it'll achieve that.
The Minister of Health's announced the first step will be
rolling out availability to all kiwis from the ages of
fifty eight to seventy four. It's down from sixty. Health
(00:27):
Minister Simeon Brown says as access to Colonoscope's builds. There
will be further decisions to lower the age further. Today's
about setting the direction of where we're going. We want
a match Australia, but actually there are some resource and
constraints in the meantime. Maori and Pacifica, who started the
program at fifty under a pilot from the previous government,
will still be able to continue moves to train more
(00:50):
primary care nursing staff as being lauded as a good
start from next year and your training places for nurse
practitioners and primary care will go from sixty to one
hundred and twenty. Advanced education will also be funded for
up to one hundred and twenty primary Care Registered Nurses.
College of Nurses Executive director Kate Western says the sector
(01:11):
has also been vocal about wanting nurse practitioners' support to
parallel that of GPS. Actually in those first couple of
years as beginning practitioners that they are supported with ongoing
vocational learning confusion around the Reserve Bank governor's resignation. Adrianaw
has announced he's quitting two years and to his second
(01:32):
five year tenure. Neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister
are giving any details of why he's abruptly quit. New
Zealand Herald's Business editor at large, Liam Dan says it's
not what we expect of a central bank. They have
to project stability and you really want a long notice
period in an orderly handover is really what's expected. The
(01:53):
Education Minister is managing to get more bang for our
buck when building classrooms. Ericus Stanford says they've brought the
cost of each classroom down by more than three hundred
thousand dollars and are delivering thirty five percent more classrooms.
She says it means we have more to spend on
maintaining our schools. I'm going to have some announcements over
the next few weeks that we're able to now do
(02:15):
because of the fact that we've been so efficient. A
renewed push for the Commerce Commission to consider banning card
payment surcharges. Consumer New Zealand says while the Commission's considering
lowering interchange fees, there's no guarantee this will reduce charges
for consumers. It says a ban would be a simple
and effective solution. Acting Head of Research Jessica Walker says
(02:38):
they've received complaints about a lack of transparency and excessive
surcharges over the last couple of years. We've received hundreds
of complaints from people who have paid well above that
two percent threshold. We've had some complaints as high as
twenty percent. Cyclone Alfred's descent on Australia might have slowed,
but disaster preparations are going full steam ahead. The Category
(02:59):
two storms around three hundred kilometers east of Brisbane estimated
to make landfall tomorrow and into Saturday. Waves of seven
meters are expected to sport. Liverpool's solitary shot on target
by Harvey Elliott in the eighty seventh minute has secured
a one mill away victory over Paris San Germain in
(03:20):
the opening leg of their Round of sixteen Champions League
football tie. Governing body FIFA will pay a total prize
money of one point seventy five billion dollars to participants
in the Club World Cup, taking place in the United
States this year, featuring Auckland City and tennis player Lulu
Sun has won her opening match against world number thirty
(03:41):
seven Rebecca Schramkov in the Indian Worlds Tournament. I'm Malcolm Jordan.
That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the sixth of March. The government's
committing to lowering the age of bowel screening to forty five,
but hasn't put a time frame on when it'll achieve that.
The Minister of Health's announced the first step will be
rolling out availability to all kiwis from the ages of
fifty eight to seventy four. It's down from sixty. Health
(00:27):
Minister Simeon Brown says as access to Colonoscope's builds. There
will be further decisions to lower the age further. Today's
about setting the direction of where we're going. We want
a match Australia, but actually there are some resource and
constraints in the meantime. Maori and Pacifica, who started the
program at fifty under a pilot from the previous government,
will still be able to continue moves to train more
(00:50):
primary care nursing staff as being lauded as a good
start from next year and your training places for nurse
practitioners and primary care will go from sixty to one
hundred and twenty. Advanced education will also be funded for
up to one hundred and twenty primary Care Registered Nurses.
College of Nurses Executive director Kate Western says the sector
(01:11):
has also been vocal about wanting nurse practitioners' support to
parallel that of GPS. Actually in those first couple of
years as beginning practitioners that they are supported with ongoing
vocational learning confusion around the Reserve Bank governor's resignation. Adrianaw
has announced he's quitting two years and to his second
(01:32):
five year tenure. Neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister
are giving any details of why he's abruptly quit. New
Zealand Herald's Business editor at large, Liam Dan says it's
not what we expect of a central bank. They have
to project stability and you really want a long notice
period in an orderly handover is really what's expected. The
(01:53):
Education Minister is managing to get more bang for our
buck when building classrooms. Ericus Stanford says they've brought the
cost of each classroom down by more than three hundred
thousand dollars and are delivering thirty five percent more classrooms.
She says it means we have more to spend on
maintaining our schools. I'm going to have some announcements over
the next few weeks that we're able to now do
(02:15):
because of the fact that we've been so efficient. A
renewed push for the Commerce Commission to consider banning card
payment surcharges. Consumer New Zealand says while the Commission's considering
lowering interchange fees, there's no guarantee this will reduce charges
for consumers. It says a ban would be a simple
and effective solution. Acting Head of Research Jessica Walker says
(02:38):
they've received complaints about a lack of transparency and excessive
surcharges over the last couple of years. We've received hundreds
of complaints from people who have paid well above that
two percent threshold. We've had some complaints as high as
twenty percent. Cyclone Alfred's descent on Australia might have slowed,
but disaster preparations are going full steam ahead. The Category
(02:59):
two storms around three hundred kilometers east of Brisbane estimated
to make landfall tomorrow and into Saturday. Waves of seven
meters are expected to sport. Liverpool's solitary shot on target
by Harvey Elliott in the eighty seventh minute has secured
a one mill away victory over Paris San Germain in
(03:20):
the opening leg of their Round of sixteen Champions League
football tie. Governing body FIFA will pay a total prize
money of one point seventy five billion dollars to participants
in the Club World Cup, taking place in the United
States this year, featuring Auckland City and tennis player Lulu
Sun has won her opening match against world number thirty
(03:41):
seven Rebecca Schramkov in the Indian Worlds Tournament. I'm Malcolm Jordan.
That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
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