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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news Fix four Wednesday, the twenty sixth of November. A
mother who murdered her children, aged eight and six, and
left their bodies and suitcases and a storage unit has
been sent to prison for life with non parole for
at least seventeen years. Hakyong Lee killed eight year old
at Una Joe and six year old at Me Nujoe
(00:27):
in twenty eighteen. Emily Ansaw reports.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Lee then left for Korea, and the children's remains were
only found four years later when she stopped paying the
lock up fees. Despite her insanity defense, a jury found
her guilty in September. Justice Vennings delivered the sentence in
Auckland this morning, and she'll be held as a special
patient for mental health treatment.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The government's confirmed billions of dollars of new spending to
upgrade defense for spaces. Four billion will go into work
at Devonport Naval Base. Another two point five billion dollars
did for fixing aged failure prone defense infrastructure. Defense Associate
Defense Minister Chris Pink says this spending is urgently needed.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Without edge of investments, some facilities could close training, maybe compromise,
operational capability could decline, can risks to personnel, Saysmwards.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Grow christ Church City Council has been selected to act
as a one stop consenting authority for large scale supermarket developments.
Jamie Cunningham reports.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Finance Minister Nichola Willis says it's the latest step in
the government plan to make New Zealand attractive for new operators.
She says developers previously had to navigate up to sixty
six different councils, processes and responses. Willis says the aim
is to boost competition and a sector dominated by Foodstuffs
and Woolworths. By letting new entrants deal with just one authority.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Hopes and international partnership will boost investment in our critical minerals.
New Zealand's joined the Minerals Security Partnership, a transnational alliance
working to ensure resilient and sustainable supply chains. Primary care
mental health workers at well South and Otago and Southland
are going on strike for seven days. It follows five
(02:11):
months of pay bargaining between the APEX Union and Well South.
Calls for FARMAC to expand access to life changing diabetes
monitoring technology which could save millions in healthcare costs. Continuous
glucose monitors, or cgms, have been funded for type one
diabetes since last October. New data from CGM producer Dexcom
(02:36):
finds lifetime use of the devices could prevent up to
seventy thousand diabetes related complications and save more than six
hundred million in medical costs. Diabetes New Zealand chief executive
Heather very Tod mike costing funding should be expanded.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Anyone who's insulin dependent would benefit from wearing these.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
At the moment, farmac are only funding for type one.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Hot and windy conditions in Canterbury, South Canterbury and Otago
have sparked a fire and emergency warning. Met Service has
issued an orange wind warning for Seville. Severe gale northwesterlies
tomorrow up to one hundred and twenty k's an hour
for the Canterbury high Country and plains to Sport. A
week after Cristiano Ronaldo met US President Donald Trump at
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the White House alongside Saudi Arabia's delegation, the forty year
old Portugal striker has avoided a ban despite a recent
red card for the start of next year's World Cup.
In Champions League action, Chelsea has beaten Barcelona three nil,
Marseille defeated Newcastle two to one, and by a Levercuzan
overcame Manchester City two nil. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your
(03:43):
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom
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