Afternoon Edition: 04 December 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 04 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 afternoon. I'm Railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Thursday, the fourth of December. The governments rejected
Climate Change Commission recommendations to strengthen emissions targets. The Commission
suggested New Zealand should shoot for a ten percent reduction
on twenty seventeen levels of gross biogenic methane emissions by

(00:25):
twenty thirty. He is more from political reporter to Troy Mattic.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
The Commission said by twenty fifty that should have gone
down by at least thirty five to forty seven percent. Instead,
the government's opted to set a twenty fifty target of
fourteen to twenty four percent reduction. It also dismissed the
Commission's advice to keep louring emissions after twenty fifty.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Meanwhile, the scale of Ministry for the Environment cost savings
have been laid out. Agency leaders outline the recent financial
year to a Select committee today. Environment Secretary James Palmer
so spending decreased from two hundred and forty million dollars
to one hundred and eighty million, with two hundred and
seventy eight redundancies.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And our permanent workforce reduced from eight hundred and twenty
four down to six hundred and eighty six as off
three On October this.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Year, delight from the Retirement Commission over plans to make
retirement villages fairer. The Government's announced it will change the
retirement villages at two thousand and three, including making legal
documents clearer and requiring operators to be upfront about offers.
This illenture money's repaid no more than a year later

(01:36):
when someone moves out of a unit. If it stays empty,
interest on the money will be repaid after six months.
Commissioner Jane writes and says it's terrific. What the proposals
are doing is rebalancing the rights and obligations of residents
and the operators, so it's a good move. No verdict
yet for an ulstered departy Maudi MP, who's taken on

(01:58):
the party president Maria man Or Carpakinghi, has made a
bid in court hoping for an order to return her
place in the party and get rid of John Tomaheri.
Decisions been reserved. Cappaknhi says the party's co Papa is
important to her.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
They've been consistently attempts from others from my electorate, from
my napujitana, from Attai Toco to resolve it hasn't worked
out that way.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
A California doctor who supplied ketamine to friend star Matthew
Perry has been put behind bars for thirty months. The
fifty four year old died from an overdose in La
in twenty twenty three. Doctor Salvador Placensia was the first
person sentenced over his death. The BBC's Peter bow says
Perry had been trying to wean himself off drugs.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
This doctor encouraged him and indeed pasted him to some extent,
according to the prosecution, to buy.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
More drugs from him, to the tune of two thousand
dollars per Vile.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Jet is getting an Eagle helicopter to help police knuckle
down on local youth crime. In Sport, the stache has
intensified between those pushing for a revamped n ZED twenty
short format competition from twenty twenty seven and a consortium
in support of the New Zealand Cricket governing body further

(03:20):
weighing up options. Arsenal have restored a five point lead
in football's Premier League by beating Brentford to nil. Liverpool's
struggles have continued, slipping to a one all home draw
with Sunderland and Giant Kiwi's prop Nelson Asfa. Solomona will
begin his pro boxing Korea next month in Brisbane. That

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is your latest news fix and we'll be back with
another update for you tomorrow morning from the News Talk
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