Morning Edition: 03 December 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 03 December 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 never read imanu and this is your
morning news fix for Wednesday, third of December. In this update,
a victim's advocate says a wider inquiry into police culture
would do little to change public perception. Police Commissioner Richard
Chambers is hoping to reach eighty percent public trusting confidence
in police. In March, before most details of the mix

(00:26):
skimming scandal were revealed, that figure was at sixty nine percent.
The complainant in the case is now calling for a
wider review of police culture, but Advocate Clear Buckley says
that the money would be better spent better resourcing the IPCA.
She says they could also set up a victim's commissioner office.
A Canterbury principle says school leaders have been pushed around

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like a football by successive governments and it's driving them
out and droves. Almost nine hundred and seventy principles quit
in the past three years, one in five within their
first year cut or saw them mostly followed by Canterbury.
Darfield High School principal Anti England told Ryan Bridge it's
a high pressure time compounding by change enforced by the government.

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He says, when it's going well, it's an amazing job,
but when it's bad, you're visible to everybody. A coroner
has decided against opening an inquiry into the death of
a thirteen year old christ Church schoolgirl who fell and
hit her head on a school ice skating trip. Kaimney
Highly hit Taka wasn't wearing an optional helmet when she

(01:31):
fell and fatally hit her head on ice at the
Alpine Ice Sports Center last year. Alpine Ice has since
made helmet's mandatory and the school has overhauled risk management
and safety processes. Coroner Alie Cunningham says a work safe
investigation found no breaches of laws and concluded no further
action was needed. The girl's mother has told The Herald

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the family's angry because they want those responsible to face consequences,
but the coroner said as the family agrees through their
lawyers that an inquest was not necessary. A view the
tourism sectors reaping the rewards and focusing on getting Ossie
tourists to hop over the ditch. MB's International Visitor Survey
results reveal for the year to September, travelers spent twelve

(02:15):
point three billion dollars here, a five point three percent
increase from last year, Australia was the biggest market, with
visitor arrivals reaching nearly one point five million. Fresh science
reveals that healthy's skin truly comes from the inside out.
Otago University researchers ate two Kiwi fruit a day for
eight weeks and discovered that getting vitaminc to the skin

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through what we eat creates more collagen than through creams
and products. Auckland's Hot Pink cycle Way, the Light Path,
is celebrating ten years today. The cycle path was built
on an unused motorway off ramp to encourage people to
get active. Last year, almost a quarter of a million
cycling trips were recorded on the pathway. And in sport,

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Red Bull Racing has confirmed Liam Lawson will retain his
racing Ball's Formula one seat for twenty twenty six and
be joined by debut teenager avidland Blood. The football Ferns
have closed out the year with un till two nil
lost to Australia in Adelaide, New Zealand a two hundred
and thirty one for nine after a rain disrupted opening

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day of the first cricket Test against the West Indies
and christ Church, where only seventy overs were possible. World
number twelve Kaspar rude Is returning to the ASB Tennis
Classic in January. I'm never reaty Manu that your latest
news fix will be back with the next update of
midday from the newstalk ZB Newsroupe