Morning Edition: 02 July 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 02 July 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 Wednesday, second of July. In this update,
our newsroom can reveal the civil engineer who murdered and
dismembered his former partner in Auckland has been granted parole.
In twenty ten, Bradford James Joseph Callahan killed Carmen Thomas

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and buried her remains in the Waintukta Rangers. Two years later,
he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non
parole period of thirteen years and eight months. He appeared
before the parole board three weeks ago and is due
to be released early this month. A defense lawyer says
removing jury trials would breach centuries of constitutional law. Victim

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advocates of pushing for sexual violence trials to be judge alone,
arguing the move would protect survivors, but Marie Daiberg KC
says the right to trial by jury is enshrined and
guaranteed in the Bill of Rights Act. She says the
law's history goes back to the signing of the Magna
Carta in twelve fifteen. Dieberg questions what is so special

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about sexual violence accusations? To be worthy of such monumental change.
The US Senate has needed the casting vote of the
Vice President to pass Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Senate
Republicans narrowly approved the President's giant tax and spending cuts
package today after a day's long grind to secure the
support of key holdouts. The vote was fifty to fifty

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before j d Vance making the tie breaking vote. The
Maritime Union believes the government's choice to reuse into islander
infrastructure could backfire. Winston Peter says an agreements being reached
on the infrastructure needed in Wellington and Picton to accommodate
two new ferries from twenty twenty nine. The plans prioritize
reusing components such as passenger facilities and walkways. Union spokesperson

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Victor Billow says in the long run, there's a danger
it ends up costing as much as a whole new build.
In ZTA has now fully taken over road safety camera
operation from the police. The agency is now solely responsible
for the around one hundred and fifty speed and red
light cameras INZTA plans to expand it to around two
hundred cameras by twenty twenty seven, The police will no

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longer operate mobile safety camera vans, but will continue to
issue speeding fines for offenses they detect. The biggest drop
in dairy price is so far this year. At this
morning's Global Dairy Trade Auction, overall prices are down four
point one percent, the price of whole milk powder down
five point one percent. It's the end of the road
for the Jaffer sweetmaker RJS has confirmed they will stop

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manufacturing Jaffers after declining sales. The chocolate balls covered with
a hard orange shell have been on our shelves since
nineteen thirty one. Brand strategist Jill Brinston says sales are
king bottom liners. If people aren't buying enough of these things,
then it becomes a cultural relic instead of something that's
relevant for chaste right now. In sport, a grim day

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for the men's and women's third seeds at Wimbledon. Arthur
Rinderknash has stunned Alexander Zverev and Jessica Pegoula has been
ousted by ELIZABETHA Cochuretto. Wellington have secured top seeding for
the National Basketball League playoffs after beating Canterbury ninety eighty four.
ESPN reports NBA MVP Shaye Gilgis Alexander has agreed to

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a four year, four hundred and sixty eight million dollar
contract extension with the champion Oklahoma City Thunder, the richest
annual salary in league history. I'm Neveraretti Manu and that's
to latest news. Fox will be back with the next
update at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom