Morning Edition: 01 May 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 01 May 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 for Thursday, first of May. In this update,
surface flooding down trees and leaking roofs, lifting at keeping residents,
councils and emergency services busy in parts of the country.
Orange warnings are in effect for Canterbury and kai Korda

(00:24):
Coastal Marlborough, Wellington and wided Upper and Eastern Bank of Plenty.
In christ Church, several roads are flooded and emergency services
are being called to flooded homes and vehicles stuck in floodwaters.
Flooding is closed State Highway seventy five between Banks Peninsula's
Birdlings Flat and Little River. Fire and Emergency shift manager
Bleairt Walkland says it's still early days worth so the

(00:46):
weather is you to come. We do recommend the public
stand ordn't only travel if you need to.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
As daylight approaches, there'll be plenty of surface flooding, so
to surge any drivers to drive for the condition.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
And Tatanaki State Highway through Mountain Road will be closed
south of Inglewood for several hours following a crash. Three
heavy vehicles have collided, but there are no reports of
serious injuries. About five thousand senior doctors are on strike
until tomorrow after failing to reach an agreement with Health
New Zealand. The union says a payoffer on the table

(01:17):
will fail to attract any more doctors to fill our
workforce gaps and drive out those currently in the system.
Health New Zealand's postponed more than four thousand planned procedures,
but Chief Clinical Officer Richard Sullivan says robust processes are
in place to ensure life preserving cares still provided.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Burry These are intuitive qunits or the key parts of
our health system remain open and available.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Several hundred Auckland perioperative nurses and nearly a thousand home
support workers are also on strike today. The government's not
ruling out cuts to its annual five hundred and twenty
one dollar a year key We Save a contribution. Finance
Minister Nikola Willis says she's found billions in savings that'll
be redeployed to new spending in the twenty twenty five budget.

(02:01):
Lachlan Rennie has more.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Nikola Willis has ruled out changes to the winter Energy
payment and the emissions trading scheme. However, She's refusing to
rule out changing the annual qriy Saver contribution or nearly
four thousand dollars a year best at payments for parents fairs.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
New Zealanders are in for five years of being under
serviced across Cook Strait into Islanders, retiring at a teddy
when demolition begins of its decaying doc to add infrastructure
for two new fairies coming in twenty twenty nine. Rail
Action Collective founder Neil Robertson says it's the only rail
enabled ship they have and it takes up to eighty

(02:39):
percent of rail freight across the Strait. Mount Rope Who's
Fucker Papa Skifield will live on for at least the
next decade. Fucker Puppa Holdings is signed up to run
it until twenty thirty five. A two door deal was
signed early last year. It's taken multiple government bailouts years
of talks to reach this point since Rope Who Alpine
Lives folded in twenty twenty two. And in sport, more

(03:01):
allegations have been leveled at the Indian Panthers NBL basketball team.
A source within the Panthers organizations his players, coaches, and
operational staff on the team have not been fully paid
after nine NBL games. Vehicle manufacturer Toyota has signed a
multimillion dollar agreement to put its name on the back
of the All Blacks training kit, replacing Enios and Mark

(03:25):
Williams has claimed his Battle of the Former Champions against
John Higgins to advance to the semi finals of the
World Snooker Championship at the Crucible. I've never ready man.
Who an that your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update at midday from the News Dog
ZDB newsroom.