Morning Edition: 22 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks had been newsroom. This is newsfacs
In this update a call for a Royal Commission of
inquiry over the Bondai shootings. Just over a week ago,
two gunmen opened fire at a Harnekas celebration, killing fifteen
and wounding dozens more. Yesterday the country observed a national
day of mourning with flags flown at half mast. New

(00:26):
South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies President David Ossip says
the community is in shock and deeply sad, but not
surprised as it feared and suspected this moment was coming
back here. Demand for sexual violence support is rising, but
falling fundings left one group appealing to the public help.
Auckland has launched an urgent holiday appeal calling for assistance

(00:49):
with record levels of child sexual abuse and rising digital harm.
Executive director Katherine McPhillips says the one point seven million
dollars the government has withdrawn from sexual violence support affects
their long term counseling service, which helped over one hundred
survivors annually. We will need to retail that service off

(01:10):
and that will mean in six months time we are
not able to see anybody who's not funded by a
sc Many Kiwi's plan to take their pets with them
on holiday this summer, but others are relying on family
or professional minders. PD Insurance Human Pet Bond has surveyed
more than eighteen hundred people on their plans. Michael Sergele

(01:31):
has the results.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Almost one in three plan to travel with their pet,
Almost one in five plan to leave them with family
and friends. Well, almost one in six will leave them
with pet sitters, catgories and kennels. Almost one and ten
are opting not to travel specifically because of their pet.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
British actor Kate Winslet is continuing her crusade to be
presented as she really looks the fifty year old, so
she now wants to play characters with a face that's
changing with age. The Academy Award winning star says she
realized as a young woman that magazine's Altera photos. She
says she didn't sign up for that. I'm Kay Gregory

(02:07):
and that's news. In the Sport, Caine Williamson and says
he's made no call around retirement as the third cricket
Test against the West Indies gets set to enter its
final day in Mount Monganui chasing four hundred and sixty
two for victory. The tourists are forty three without loss. Meanwhile,
Australian battlemanis Larbu Shane Airs heading back at pre series

(02:28):
criticism after retaining the Ashes with two tests against England
to spare. Phoenix football coach gian Carlo Italiano is keeping
his standards high despite a three to one triumph against
Central Coast Mariners at home. The wind helped lift Wellington
off the bottom of the A League table. Meanwhile, reports
out of England say Liverpool footballer Alexander Eazak sustained a

(02:50):
significant lower leg injury in their Premier League win over
Tottenham yesterday. That's Sport.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
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