Afternoon Edition: 02 November 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 02 November 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):
From the news Talks EDB newsroom. This is NEWSFACS in
this update confidence from the Health Minister when it comes
to staffing one hundred and forty new hospital beds. The
government's announced new wards for middlemore Waycuto, Wellington and Nelson
hospitals will open next year, in addition to a new
Hawks Bay ward announced earlier this year. Simeon Brown says
around three hundred and fifty extra staff will be needed

(00:27):
and says the funding has been approved to hire them.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Ultimately they'll go through a process. They'll be able to
start planning now to do that. We're confident they'll be
able to be able to deliver the additional staffing required
within those timeframes.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
A warning of mounting consequences from the growing number of
New Zealanders experiencing food insecurity, many a foregoing food to
pay for rent, power and fuel, according to a support group.
Food Network CEO Gavin Finley says the number currently on
food support because of inflation as concerning and the other
living costs need to be brought down to address it.

(01:02):
The Prime Minister's trip to Malaysia and South Koreas being
praised as a success. Chris Luckson attended the Assian and
APEX summits this week, meeting other leaders to strengthen relations
and improve trade. On his visit, mister Luxon secured comprehensive
strategic partnerships and met US President Donald Trump. Geopolitical analyst
Jeffrey Miller says those are concrete winds for New Zealand's profile.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Donald Trump wasn't actually an APEX for very long, and
yet Christopher Luckxon got a team minute meeting with and
got invited to a dinner hosted by the Korean President
that will be very, very valuable going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Frustration is rising as vandal's increasingly target Department of Conservation signs,
the iconic green and Yellow Science are being riddled with
bullet holes driven into keyed so information can't be read
or signs removed altogether. Figures revealed there are nine hundred
and two signs flagged for replacement or repair in the
South Island alone. Strategic Asset Manager Kushler Tappa says the

(01:59):
damage is disting. MS Tapper says there are significant costs
fixing the signs and it's also a safety issue. That's news.
In sport, All Blacks playmaker Boden Barrett will speak to
the defense of Tiger Burn after the Irish lock was
given a red card in Chicago. Burn's shoulder hit Barrett
early in the All Blacks twenty six thirteen win, with

(02:20):
the decision upgraded from a yellow card to a twenty
minute red card following review. Barrett caught the ball close
to the defensive line and accept the second rower couldn't
do a lot.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'd cheted to him up a game and I just said, like,
I had to say sorry because even then, intentially I
try and put a high shot on. It just happened
that way, and I knew that I had a shot
to the head. I couldn't hide from that.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
A boost for the Black CAP's T twenty side fast
bowler Kyle Jamison returns from a side strain injury for
the five match T twenty series against the West Indies.
That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
news talks. It'd be live on I Heart Radio.