Afternoon Edition: 11 October 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 11 October 2024, 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 Friday, the eleventh of October. A loss of
ground for National and leader Chris Luxen in the latest
political survey. This month's Taxpayers Union Courier poll shows National
is down four point one points on September, falling to
a little under thirty five percent. Lachlan Rennie has more.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
The poll has Labour up three point six points to
thirty percent. Christopher Luxen is down five points in the
preferred prime minister stakes on twenty seven point seven percent,
and Labour's Chris Hipkins is up four point three to
almost seventeen percent.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
And for the minor parties, the Greens are on ten
point four, Actors up to nine point seven. New Zealand
first seven point six to Party Marti has fallen to
three percent. The East Asia Summit has begun in Laos.
It's the culmination of the Prime Minister's thirty six hours
on the ground, which is packed with meetings, speeches and

(01:03):
a gala dinner. Senior political reporter Sophie Trigger is with
Chris Lusen.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
A forum that brings together both Asian partners and superpowers
like China Russia and the US. The summit's a key
event for Luxen, and he says regional securities high on
the agenda. Luxan squeezing the most out of every last
sweltering second here in Laos, making time for meetings with
Thailand and the Philippines before its wheels off home to
New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And Luson today spoke with India's Prime Minister Nourendra Modi,
who has invited him to India in the new year.
Luxon says our country's relationship is moving in the right
direction and they discuss trade and other ways to work together.
The PSA says data on public service workers is sobering.
Annual data shows record high sick leave, the average worker

(01:51):
taking more than ten days off a year. The PSA
says they expect this to rise as restructuring streets continues.
Secretary Kerry Davies says the amount spent on redundancies is shocking.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Visaging on fifty million dollars, which is a lot of
money that should be being paid into service delivery, not
into paying out redundancies.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Sea Lords attributing a decrease in non board seal deaths
to successful capture mitigation The Deep Sea Fishing Company's data
shows forty nine seals were captured on vessels in the
twenty twenty three to twenty four fishing year. That's down
from sixty eight and seventy eight in the two years before.
Resources manager Charles Heathey says they changed fishing times and

(02:38):
altered nets to keep seals out. He says the growing
fur seal population has proven difficult for skippers.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
It is and harder to avoid them, but we're just
going to keep trying different ways.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
To do it.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Hope a satellite bag mobile network will be rolled out
as next year begins. SpaceX has allegeless I'm going to
say that again. SpaceX has legislative permissions for One New
Zealand to field test the satellite to mobile service to
provide texting and messaging from places currently without coverage. One

(03:12):
New Zealand's Jason Paris says they'll test the system over
the next ten weeks.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
The planners in early twenty twenty five that all New
Zealanders will be will be able to access it. We
certainly planned on having it earlier and if we can
get it before Christmas, we will.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
In Sport, Sean Johnson's un retirement has been welcomed by
New Zealand rugby league and luminaries, including Sir Graham Lowe,
after the veteran former Warriors halfback answered an SOS call
from New Kiwi's coach Stacy Jones. NBA basketballer Stephen Adams
is the latest to invest in Auckland FC eight days

(03:50):
out from the club's debut match and Football's A League
and Tarmoti Allison has moved on from the Crusaders staff
in Super Rugby Pacific to join the All Blacks in
a permanent assistant coach's role. I'm Rayling Ramsay. That is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update to morrow morning from the news Talk ZB news room.