Midday Report

The primary teachers' union says today's pay offer is a huge win for teachers whose workloads have increased dramatically in recent decades. Today, primary school teachers accepted the latest Ministry of Education collective agreement offer, putting an end to a lengthy negotiation campaign, including the largest education strike in the country's history. The settlement includes a six percent pay increase in July, with two further increases next year, and has more than doubled classroom release time. NZEI President Mark Potter speaks with Charlotte Cook

A man has appeared in the Kaikohe District court this morning over the killing of Linda Woods in her home last Thursday. The who is facing charges of manslaughter, burglary and aggravated assault is appealing the publication of his name. Meanwhile at least one hundred friends, family and community members have gathered for the funeral of 71-year-old Linda Woods this morning. RNZ reporter Emma Stanford is in Kaikohe, and speaks with Charlotte Cook.

Consumer says despite putting supermarkets on notice for dodgy specials and pricing tactics in March, it's still receiving a stream of complaints from the public. In March, the watchdog gave supermarkets the opportunity to correct their pricing and promotional practices after collecting 300 examples of what it calls "dodgy specials". That includes misleading multi-buy deals, specials that aren't specials, and a mismatch between a price on the shelf and at the checkout. Gemma Rasmussen is the head of research and advocacy at Consumer.

Police are going door to door through the small community of Kaikohe looking for the man involved in the fatal home invasion last week. 71-year-old Linda Woods was killed in what Police have described as a 'sexually motivated burglary'. The invader had taken his shoes and pants off in the process of the attack, which police have now been able to take DNA from - allowing them to compare samples. Charlotte Cook speaks with RNZ reporter Lucy Xia in Kaikohe.

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Senior Labour minister Michael Wood has apologised for failing to properly declare shares in Auckland Airport. Mr Wood, who is the minister of Transport, bought the shares when he was a teenager in the 1990s. He declared them to the Cabinet Office when he became a minister in 2020 but didn't declare them in the public register of MPs' assets and other interests until 2022. Mr Wood says he didn't declare the shares in his first year as a minister because he thought they had been sold. Charlotte Cook gets the latest from RNZ's political reporter Katie Scotcher.

A group campaigning to lower the voting age to 16 has been vindicated in the electoral system review. The sweeping review into the country's electoral system is recommending the voting age be lowered to 16, a 3.5 per cent party threshold, and a public referendum on a longer Parliamentary term. The interim report and recommendations will still to go through another round of public consultation before being handed to the Government in November. But the advocacy group 'Make it 16' have long been fighting for young people to have the right to vote. Most recently the Supreme Court ruled preventing 16 and 17 year olds from voting was unjustified age discrimination. Charlotte Cook speaks to the co-director of Make It 16, Sage Garrett.

Today is the last day of Samoan Language Week or Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa Samoan Language Week was the first Pacific Language Week to be established and is now in its 14th year. Celebrations have been taking place all week around the country to mark the event. Nafanuatele Lafitaga Mafaufau Peters is a manger with the Pacific Languages Unit and the Ministry of Pacific Peoples.