Morning Edition: 15 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning, I'm never Reti Manu and this is your
morning Newspeaks for Wednesday, fifteenth of October. In this update,
things have gone from bad to words for Tea Parti Maudi.
The parties released documents accusing a strange former staffer Edu
Kappa Kinghi of threatening parliamentary staffers. The documents show his mother,
recently demoted whip MP Maria Menal Kappa Kinghi was warned

(00:29):
about risking overspending her office budget. Massi University politics professor
Richard Shaw says it follows a rough couple of weeks
for the party. Will you imagine that this is really
testing relationships within that caucus and within the wide organizational
wing of party. Mahdi as well. MPs will have to
adhere to a stricter enforcing of parliamentary regulations. The House

(00:51):
Speakers announced a crackdown after the latest incident saw at
Tea Party Mahdi MP or any capers made in speech
went over time. Ery Brownly says he will look at
attendance records, dress standards and leave provisions. Political commentator Liam
Here told Ryan Bridge Brownly doesn't have a lot of tools,
but he can enforce existing rules. More strictly, what's contributed

(01:14):
to the chaos has been not so much any particular
drop stemmers, but the accumulation of small breaches has sort
of led to this right down of order in the rules.
Evidence new maths and English curriculums are working in primary schools,
but there's room for improvement. The Education Review Offers has
found teachers are seeing more engaged students and three quarters

(01:35):
appearance report progress since the start of the year. It
follows new data showing more new entrants exceeding phonics expectations
and Deputy chiebe Executive roacherodas is it more supports needed
for teaching complex maths alongside other areas. The second area
is we need to help teachers to catch up students
and extend them. And finally, more and isolated schools. Finally,

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the change is harder, so we're calling for more support
than them. A freeing up of when ads can play
on radio and TV. Broadcasters will soon be able to
play ads on Sunday mornings, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and
Easter Sunday. After the bill passed its third reading last night,
it could add an estimated six million dollars of revenue
to the industry a year. Massi University marketing professor Bodo

(02:18):
Lang says there won't be a drastic increase, but advertisers
who opt for newspaper and magazine ads might switch over.
This certainly will be advertisers who wish to explore that
Sunday morning slot. Several key Central North Island highways are
still affected after yesterday's severe weather. Slips have been blocking
State Highway three from Moco to Peel Peel, State Highway

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four and forty three north and east of Tomadanui, and
State Highway thirty one to Kafea. Flooding has been impacting
State Highway thirty between Tikuitti and Bennie Dale and in Sport.
The New Zealand Tri Lanka Women's World Cup cricket fixture
has been washed out in Colombo, leaving the White Ferns
on the table with three points. Warriors teammates Chance Nicole

(03:04):
Klukstar and Roger tuvasa Sek will go head to head
at fall back in Sunday's Pacific Championship match between the
Kiwis and Samour and Auckland. Former silverperon Mark Foster has
backed Gail Parutta's call to resign as a national team
selector in protest at the treatment of Dame no Ling Todoa,
who remained stood down as coach. I'm never Rettimanu. That

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your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom