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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday news.
Figs for Friday, d twenty third of May investments to
bump up the education workforce thanks to a two point
five billion dollar budget boost the focus on training and
development initiatives. Education Minister Erica Stanford says by twenty twenty
eight will have more than sixteen hundred additional full time
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teaching and learning support roles. Stanford says the quality of
teachers is the most important part of a child's education.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This really is about parents and children and making sure
that they are confident that they have more excellent teachers
in front of our kids, because that's how we're going
to raise achievement in this country.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Confirmation around the scale of government cuts finding money to
use elsewhere. Budget twenty twenty five includes twenty one billion
dollars of cost savings, thirteen billion of that from the
controversial change to pay equity law raising claim thresholds. Prime
Minister Chris lux and to Kerry Woodham, these are difficult choices,
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but there's no way they could afford that.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Half of those savings came out of pay equity. The
other half actually came out of one hundred and fifteen
initiatives that we're actually saying, this is money that's not
being well spent for the taxpayer. Let's go take that
money and put it into frontline services.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And the Finance Minister says introducing twelve month prescriptions will
help Kiwis with high healthcare needs. The budget includes ninety
one million dollars to let doctors issue prescriptions for up
to a year where clinically appropriate and safe. Most medicines
are currently prescribed for a maximum three months. Nikola Willis
says those repeat GP visit costs can be costly and inconvenient.
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By having this twelvemonth policy, we think more people will
be able to get their medicine in a reliable way,
with less cost and less hassle. Meanwhile, an oil and
gas lobby group is celebrating two hundred million dollars in
the budget for gas fields development. Resource Minister Shane Jones
announced it it'll be used to co invest with developers
of new sites. Energy Resources are TROA Chief executive John
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Carnegie says it's the right move.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
This will tilt the economic signals back towards neutral and
in doing so, tilt investment confidence back towards investing two.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Other news in Australia, four people have died in flooding
in New South Wales, now declared a natural disaster. More
than fifty thousand Australians are under evacuation warnings, with people
stranded on roofs. Rain's forecast to continue and thousands of
emergency workers are carrying out rescues. Sky News as Jim
Callanan says, one person still missing now. It comes as
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the Seas issue one hundred and forty different notices.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Out there for the public to heat.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Thirty four of those are now at emergency level. Meridian
Energies finished building at New Zealand's first large scale grid
battery storage system in Northland's Ruakaka, enough to power sixty
thousand homes for two hours. Work begins on a neighboring
solar farm in August. To sport, supercars will race in
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the North and South Islands as part of a New
Zealand double header from next season. Christ Church's Ruapuna Raceway
joins the calendar and dopau's agreement extends until twenty twenty eight.
Michael Mayne will coach the Football Ferns to the twenty
twenty seven World Cup. He's the team's first New Zealand
born coach in twenty one years and America's Cup. Squabbling
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has emerged between challenger of record Athena Racing and defender's
Team New Zealand over picking Naples as the twenty twenty
seven regatta hostven venue. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the news Talk zb newsroom.
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