December 12, 2024 • 3 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 13 December 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Friday, the thirteenth of December. One person is
in a critical condition and what emergency services call a
critical incident on the Coromandel Peninsula. Blake Benny has more.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Police have closed the three or nine Road, a twenty
two kilometer gravel stretch between the towns of Coramandel and
Fittynga to Auckland. Westpac Rescue helicopters are there alongside police
in Saint John. One person has been airlifted to Auckland
City Hospital. The public is asked to avoid the area.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
A further three hundred rolls are set to be axed
at Health New Zealand. Jamie Cunningham reports.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The PSA says the already stretched health service will be
put under more pressure by the latest proposal, which follows
fifteen hundred rolls already announced to go. Three of the
four proposals today are around two hundred rolls in the
new Planning, Funding and Outcomes business unit. The fourth proposal
is to acts ninety two roles from the Procurement, Supply
(01:04):
Chain and Health Technology Management business units.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The Transport Minister says the government has clearly signaled the
need for tolled roads. Simmy and Brown's announced three new
roads will be told in the North Island or Turkey
to north of live In Takeitimu, north Link and PenLink.
This comes with policy changes to support the regime, including
enabling tolling of an entire corridor, adding in existing roads.
(01:30):
Brown says New Zealand desperately needs infrastructure and roading is critical.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
As we see around the world modern reliable infrastructure, particularly roading.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We use tolls to help pay for that and bring
for that infrastructure and that's what this government's agree to.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's thought the record high number of migrants exiting the
country is reflective of economic indicators. Stats and Z figures
show more than one hundred and thirty one thousand people
left in the year to October, a thirty two percent
increase on last year. Migrant arrivals also drop twenty eight
eight percent to just under one hundred and seventy thousand people.
(02:04):
Massi University sociologist Paul Spoonley says people don't want to
move to a country with growing unemployment.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The other thing, of course, is that we are losing
people to Australia australiaoxism more than we do in terms
of salary and a benefits.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The next phase is underway in a redevelopment of far
at Ay Hospital. Health Minister Shane that Etty put a
shovel to the ground on the new child Health Center today.
Rette says the thirty five million dollar unit replaces the
existing children's clinic with a modern, fit for purpose facility.
Construction will begin in January. It's expected to be completed
(02:40):
mid twenty twenty six. To Sport and Tim Sathi will
play his one hundred and seventh and final cricket Test
tomorrow for New Zealand against England. The Black Camps won't
reveal they're playing eleven until the morning of the third
dead rubber match at Hamilton, although one End of seven
Park has been named after the veteran Page spowler. Scott
(03:01):
McLaughlin and Jane van Gisbergen will be teammates for next
month's twenty four Hours of Daytona endurance race and Kiwi
triathlete Hannah Berry's stoke to welcome the multi sport world
to her own backyard ahead of the Ironman seventy point
three World Championships in topour, I'm railing Ramsey. That is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
(03:23):
update tomorrow morning from the news Talk sed B newsroom.
Good afternoon. I'm railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Friday, the thirteenth of December. One person is
in a critical condition and what emergency services call a
critical incident on the Coromandel Peninsula. Blake Benny has more.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Police have closed the three or nine Road, a twenty
two kilometer gravel stretch between the towns of Coramandel and
Fittynga to Auckland. Westpac Rescue helicopters are there alongside police
in Saint John. One person has been airlifted to Auckland
City Hospital. The public is asked to avoid the area.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
A further three hundred rolls are set to be axed
at Health New Zealand. Jamie Cunningham reports.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The PSA says the already stretched health service will be
put under more pressure by the latest proposal, which follows
fifteen hundred rolls already announced to go. Three of the
four proposals today are around two hundred rolls in the
new Planning, Funding and Outcomes business unit. The fourth proposal
is to acts ninety two roles from the Procurement, Supply
(01:04):
Chain and Health Technology Management business units.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The Transport Minister says the government has clearly signaled the
need for tolled roads. Simmy and Brown's announced three new
roads will be told in the North Island or Turkey
to north of live In Takeitimu, north Link and PenLink.
This comes with policy changes to support the regime, including
enabling tolling of an entire corridor, adding in existing roads.
(01:30):
Brown says New Zealand desperately needs infrastructure and roading is critical.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
As we see around the world modern reliable infrastructure, particularly roading.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We use tolls to help pay for that and bring
for that infrastructure and that's what this government's agree to.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's thought the record high number of migrants exiting the
country is reflective of economic indicators. Stats and Z figures
show more than one hundred and thirty one thousand people
left in the year to October, a thirty two percent
increase on last year. Migrant arrivals also drop twenty eight
eight percent to just under one hundred and seventy thousand people.
(02:04):
Massi University sociologist Paul Spoonley says people don't want to
move to a country with growing unemployment.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The other thing, of course, is that we are losing
people to Australia australiaoxism more than we do in terms
of salary and a benefits.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The next phase is underway in a redevelopment of far
at Ay Hospital. Health Minister Shane that Etty put a
shovel to the ground on the new child Health Center today.
Rette says the thirty five million dollar unit replaces the
existing children's clinic with a modern, fit for purpose facility.
Construction will begin in January. It's expected to be completed
(02:40):
mid twenty twenty six. To Sport and Tim Sathi will
play his one hundred and seventh and final cricket Test
tomorrow for New Zealand against England. The Black Camps won't
reveal they're playing eleven until the morning of the third
dead rubber match at Hamilton, although one End of seven
Park has been named after the veteran Page spowler. Scott
(03:01):
McLaughlin and Jane van Gisbergen will be teammates for next
month's twenty four Hours of Daytona endurance race and Kiwi
triathlete Hannah Berry's stoke to welcome the multi sport world
to her own backyard ahead of the Ironman seventy point
three World Championships in topour, I'm railing Ramsey. That is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
(03:23):
update tomorrow morning from the news Talk sed B newsroom.
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