Morning Edition: 30 July 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 30 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 Rettimanu and this is your morning
News Fox for Wednesday, thirtieth of July. In this update,
hospital emergency departments will remain open today despite tens of
thousands of nurses walking off the job. Nurses across the
country are striking for twenty four hours from nine am,
citing unsafe staffing levels. Health New Zealand's postpone thousands of

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procedures and appointments. National Chief Medical Officer Dame Helenstokes Lampard
says people should expect delays in d and contact their
GP or health line for care where possible. She says
the service is already under pressure because we're in the
middle of winter with storms and staff sickness SAVERA, thunderstorm
watchers and orange rain warnings remain in effect across Bay

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of Plenty and Gisban region. In the far North, flooding
is affecting State Highway eleven between Kawakawa and Piheir and Belief.
A report into ways the enshure in sector can better
respond to extreme events couldn't have come at a better time.
A New Financial Markets Authority report on insurer's response to
the Auckland anniversary weekend floods. In cyclone, Gabrielle recommends improving

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six areas. These include identifying and treatment of vulnerable customers,
resourcing and business continuity. Those with mortgages of bank hopping
at record rates but not necessarily to get lower interest rates.
More than three and a half thousand holders, which nearly
two and a half billion dollars of debt between loan

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providers last month. It's the highest since records began in
twenty seventeen. Cautality Chief Property Economist Calvin Davidson says it
reflects a mix of factors, including short term loans, minimal
or no break fees and cash back incentives. Film might
be keen to do that to get a nice little
bonus if they switch, but also may be others who

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are something facing gash flow problems and are looking for
that cash to prop up their budget. A bill removing
the ban on new petroleum exploration permits beyond on shore
Tatanaki is set to face its third reading in Parliament.
The government hopes removing the ban will improve investor confidence
in our petroleum sector and increase the regulatory efficiency of

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the Crown Mineral's regime. The number of patched gang members
has surpassed the ten thousand mark. Individuals registered on the
National Gang List increased by seventy five percent between December
twenty seventeen and December twenty twenty three to more than
nine thousand. The latest figures showed there's been a seven
percent rise as of July eighth, topping ten thousand and

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nine people in total. Opioids are turning up more and
more in workplace drug tests. Tests by the Drunk Detection
Agency for the three months to June revealed three percent
were positive. Opioids made up nineteen percent of positive results,
with it up twenty five percent in East Auckland and
Bay of Plenty. CEO Glenn Dobson sea legal painkillers like

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tramadol are part of the issue. He says there are
clear instructions that you should not be operating heavy machinery
using it and should be declaring your use. In sport netball,
New Zealand have confirmed an A and Z Premiership broadcast
deal for next year with TV and Z and a
five test tour of England and Scotland for the Silver
Ferns in November. A shoulder injury has ruled New Zealand

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captain Tom Latham out of the first cricket Test against
Zimbabwe starting tonight in Bulaweo Mitchell Santana will become their
thirty second man to lead the side in the format.
Erica Fairweather has qualified third fastest for the final of
tonight's two hundred meters freestyle at the Swimming World Championships
in Singapore. I'm never retty Manu that your latest newsworks

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will be back with the next update at midday from
the newstalk ZB newsroom.