Holiday Breakfast

The media is now turning on itself in Britain's Huw Edwards scandal.

The BBC News at Ten presenter was named by his wife yesterday as the person at the centre of the fuss over paying a young person for explicit images.

Attention has now turned to The Sun's original reporting, and how the BBC is treating its staff members.

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey told Tim Dower that The Sun says it didn't name Edwards or say he committed a criminal act, but it was suggested there was a lot of wrongdoing.

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Retail NZ is giving the tick of approval to the ACT Party's latest policy for tougher penalties for attacks on workers.

The party wants judges to consider a person suffering violent crime at work as an aggravating factor to toughen up the sentence.

It would allow consideration of things like attacks on a person working alone, or someone who has an adjoining home.

Retail NZ's Aimie Hines, says it's encouraging.

She says the proposal is an important conversation to have, and retail workers have to feel supported by the justice system should they be victims of crime.

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A Hollywood shutdown could be imminent.

The Screen Actors Guild —representing 160-thousand television and movie actors in the US— are poised to strike alongside screenwriters who've been picketing for more than 70 days.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Tim Dower that it could be the first time in 60 years that the two professions are striking at the same time.

He says actors are suggesting this is a historic moment in film and television, where streaming services are cutting into payments and artificial intelligence is threatening jobs.

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Australia has similar nursing problems to ours.

The aged care sector across the Tasman is struggling, with a lot more people needing to go into care and not enough nursing staff available.

Australian Correspondent Murray Olds told Tim Dower that a report into the sector has found that there needs to be a registered nurse available 24 hours a day, in every facility.

But, he says the aged care providers association in Australia says there aren't enough registered nurses to meet those requirements.

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A New Zealand company is involved in an environmental awareness stunt at Australia's famous Bondi Beach.

A large poo-shaped plastic sculpture has been installed at the Sydney beach to highlight the amount of waste being dumped in the ocean.

The four-metre high piece represents the volume of plastic dumped in oceans every 30 seconds.

Better Packing Co co-founder Rebecca Percasky told Tim Dower that the theme of this World Environment Day is beat plastic pollution.

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Jo Brosnahan says that founding Leadership New Zealand is the highlight of her life.

She's been made a Dame Companion in this year's King's Birthday and Coronation Honours for services to governance and business.

Brosnahan founded Leadership New Zealand in 2003 and has been chair and director of a wide range of other organisations.

She says it's a special organisation with a growing network of people, and the things the leaders that come through it do are incredible.

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Most New Zealand employers expect to raise salaries this year.

The latest Salary Guide from Hays Recruitment shows about 95% of organisations intend on raising their workers’ pay, with most planning pay rises of more than three percent.

Hays Recruitment Regional Director Adam Edwards says inflation remains high, and businesses are becoming more transparent about pay.

He says the lack of skilled workers is also front of mind.

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China's Defence Minister is defending the decision to sail a warship across the path of an American ship transiting the Taiwan Strait.

The US Indo-Pacific Command says the Chinese ship overtook the American ship, and then veered across its bow in an unsafe manner.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Tim Dower that relations were poor before this, and seem even worse now.

The developments come as New Zealand signs a new defence cooperation agreement with Japan.

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David Seymour admits that his new plan to establish a "Ministry of Regulation" isn't an entirely new idea.

The plan —unveiled at the Act Party's AGM in Auckland yesterday— would see a ministry set up to specifically eliminate red tape from all sectors of government.

The Act Party leader says the Treasury and MBIE already assess regulations.

But, he told Tim Dower, their advice is often ignored by Government ministers, who fail to justify new and existing regulations.

He says the onus is on them to say why regulations should continue.

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New Zealand is cosying up to Japan — signing a new deal for greater military cooperation in the midst of rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.

Strategic analyst Paul Buchanan says that Defence Minister Andrew Little is making it clear that New Zealand's choosing a side when it comes to China.

He says he can only see deeper integration of New Zealand Defence Forces into the regional security schemes largely administered by the United States and Australia.

Meanwhile, China and the US are in a fresh war of words this morning, this time over a Chinese warship that sailed into the path of an American ship in the Taiwan Strait.

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