Morning Edition: 20 August 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 20 August 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 Retimanu and this is your morning
news Fox for Wednesday, twentieth of August and this update.
Unionized secondary school teachers are route in force today striking
over failed pay negotiations. Thousands of Post Primary Teachers Association
members will pickt outside dozens of schools and mp officers

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after rejecting a three percent pay increase over three years.
Government ministers suggest the deal was reasonable in the current
economic climate. PPTA president Chris Avah Crombie says the offer
was the lowest innner generation and did not meet teachers expectations.
A case for expanding ACC's approach to mental injuries to

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combat a build up of post traumatic stress and emergency responders,
police ambulance officers, and firefighters are repeatedly exposed to traumatic events,
making them more vulnerable to PTSD. Many first responders turned
to support through ACC, but often face difficulties with claims.
ACC Service Operations head Phil Riley says claims are accepted

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for a work related mental injury if it's caused by
a single, sudden work event. Workers are not covered for
injuries developed over time or if they're not exposed to
the trauma directly. Rural ratepayers are on the war path
against Auckland Council after being blindsided by steep rate rises.
Council officers are scrambling to contain the anger with an

(01:30):
online session plan with rural sections of the super city tomorrow.
One councilor is calling for a cap on rate hikes.
In the past fortnight, our newsroom has reported complaints of
staggering rate increases. They include a seventy two percent jump
on a family home in Orderwa which was rezoned for
new housing that cannot be developed for several years. A

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Rodney rate shock action Facebook page set up ten days ago,
has already attracted eight hundred and fifty members. The cut
to the official cash rate may not mean further immediate
cuts to interest rates. The Reserve Bank's tip to cut
the ocr again at two pm. Economists expect another twenty
five basis point cut from three point twenty five percent

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to three percent. Concerns around how new tweaks for our
electricity sector will be rolled out. Electricity generators must now
follow new rules obliging them to sell energy to everyone
at the same rate. Octopus Energy Chief operating officer Margaret
Cooney told Ryan Bridge the idea at the moment is

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to put the changes in as principles. We need more
than just principles, We need some robust rules to ensure
that discrimination doesn't keep happening, because ultimately that really damages competition.
Donald Trump's ruled out US boots on the ground in
Ukraine and has given no specifics about the security guarantees

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he promised under any peace steal. The US President met
with Ukraine's President Voladi Muzelenski and several European leaders yesterday.
The White House now says Putins promised to hold a
meeting with Zelenski and plans a well underway. Trump says
he hopes Putin will move forward on ending the war
in Ukraine, but admits the Kremlin leader may not want

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to make a deal at all. In sport, the Wellington
Phoenix have been ousted for nil by Heidelberg United and
the quarter finals of Football's Australia Cup. Spring box coach
Razia Rasmus has made ten changes to his starting fifteen
for the second Rugby Championship test against Australia and Cape
Town on Sunday morning, marking a knee jerk reaction to

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a first home defeat to the Wallabies in fourteen years
awarding from POLSE Chief Executive and Hey that the A
and Z Premiership Netball talent Paul Risks dwindling as eligibility
exemptions increase. I'm never attimanu, and that your latest news
fix will be back with the next update at midday
from the Newstalk ZB Newsroom