Morning Edition: 01 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning, I never retimanu and this is your morning
news fix for Tuesday, first of July. In this update,
a defense lawyer wants to see evidence supporting new laws
for coward punchers. The governments announced specific offenses for striking
a distracted victim, which could carry a sentence of life
imprisonment if fatal. But Mari Dieberg case says the government

(00:27):
hasn't provided any data showing the current law isn't working.
She says the new laws are almost identical to the
current settings, just worse. Dieberg wants to know who will
determine the many definitions of the proposal. Fear's court staffer
taking the heat for delays exacerbated by rising parties representing themselves.

(00:48):
The percentage of active District court civil cases with self
representing litigants rose from fifty one point eight to seventy
four point two percent in the ten years to June
twenty twenty four. The Family Court Court of Appeal saw
smaller increases for civil cases. The Public Service Association says
staff bear the brunt by having to convey delays caused

(01:09):
by self representing litigants to other people seeking justice. They
often need to manage others who miss out on their
hearing and that often manifests itself into aggressive or very
emotional behavior. Changes to paid parental leaf come in today
alongside new requirements for those on the benefit. July first
marks a big day for political change, the government's deadline

(01:30):
for reversing speed limit reductions. As today, the maximum weekly
rate for paid parental leafs going up to seven hundred
and eighty eight dollars, and people on job seeker benefit
will have to reapply every twenty six weeks. Political reporter
Azaria Hall says previously job seeker benefits were required to
reapply with the Ministry for Social Development every year. That's

(01:51):
because they want people to keep in touch with MSD
in terms of what they're actually doing, how they're going
to find a job, and maybe if they need more support.
Calls for an exit interview for overseas trained doctors to
try to keep more of them on our shores. Figures
show they make up seventy percent of doctors registered here annually,

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but fewer than thirty percent remain in the country after
five years. Medical Council chair doctor Rachel Love says some
may have been here on the OE, but others may
feel they don't have opportunities here or their families cannot integrate.
She says this revolving door is very labor intensive for
their health system. You're training and getting someone in culturators

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who have been leaving and the next person comes in
and so we really need to focus on how do
we keep these doctors. Storm battered regions of the country
are in for another hammering from midweek. Med Service says
a weather system could build over the Tasman Sea, ready
to descend on the top of both the North and
South Island. It includes Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough, which experienced

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a deluge of rain last week. In sport, men's eight
and nine seeds hold Garuna and Danielle me for Death
had been ousted from the first round at Wimbledon. The
Mistakes have returned to the top of the A and
Z Premiership Netball table via a sixty seven forty seven
victory over the Stars in Auckland. David Harveli, Shannon Frazell,

(03:13):
Sean Stephenson and falal Fa Katava are in the Australian
New Zealand Invitational fifteen to face Rugby's lines in Adelaide
on July twelve, former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singing Doni
has applied to trademark the phrase captain call I'm never
ready Manu. And that your latest news FOKS. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from the news

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