Morning Edition: 19 May 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 19 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 (00:06):
Good morning. I'm Neva ready Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Monday, nineteenth of May. In this update,
Hope's new urgent care services will take the load off
EDS and support growing communities. This year's budget will provide
one hundred and sixty four million dollars over four years,

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that's forty one million a year for expanding urgent and
after hours services. This includes identifying twenty four to seven
services in counties Monaco, Todunger fun at A Palms to
North and Dunedin fun at A Maya. Vince cocar Rulo
says Northland's had problems with the doctors and nurses shortage
while its population increases. I believe that the funding will

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actually help out with that and actually allow these places
to actually expand and grow so that we can actually
get the our community looked after a focus on getting
the most out of the resourcing available for our distance
learning score, which continues to see enrollments rise. Tek Kuda,
formerly known as the Correspondence School, had about thirty one
thousand students enrolled last year, thirty two percent more than

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twenty eighteen. Chief executive Terena Leonard says they could always
do more with extra resources. Jesez's a funding increase. We
at risk students kicked off a few years ago and
they're seeing the benefits of that. So being able to
have online counselors for our students, having additional tetuade support,
those things are we believe making a real difference to

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our students. Military leaders and veterans will gather in Auckland's
Devenport this week delving into past Mardy military service. The
military Veterans Whiteitangi Tribunal Culpaper inquiry was set up to
investigate historical claims of Mardy veterans and their family. It
looks into sacrifices they made, the way they were treated

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during and after service, and the obligations of the crowd
under the Treaty of Whiteitangi. The Regulatory Standards Bill being
labeled a direct attack on the ability to pass environmental protections.
Environmental organizations abandoned together to call on Prime Minister Christopher
Luxen to reject the bill, which goes before Cabinet today.

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Greenpeace Executive Director Russell Norman says it gives corporations or
businesses an expectation of compensation if they're negatively affected by
laws protecting the environment. He says, as soon as you
do that, it becomes far less likely the government will
want to introduce those laws if it means it has
to compensate corporations. A focus on peace from new Pope

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Leo the fourteenth during his inauguration mass, addressing thousands in
Saint Peter's Square. The Pope used as inaugural mass to
highlight concerns about the war in Ukraine, also warning against
marginalization of the poor and autocracy. The BBC's Bethany Bell
says there's been a lot of emotion in the square,
people telling me that they had come here because they

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felt it was an important occasion that they liked the
Pope's message of peace. In sport, Max Frishtuppen has sealed
his second Formula one one of the season for Red Bull.
Liam Lawson has finished fourteenth an NRL League Action South
Sydney and back into the top eight, beating West's twenty
two twelve Mwana Basifeker captain Ardi Savie has claimed the

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Super Rugby Pacific Player of the Year title after establishing
an unassailable lead and voting with two weeks left in
the regular season. Nottingham Forest remain in Champions League Football
contention after a two to one Premier League One over
West Ham. I'm never ready, Manu, and that's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
midday from the newstalk zb newsroom