Afternoon Edition: 13 September 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 13 September 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 Jody Gill and this is your afternoon
newsfax for Friday, the thirteenth of September. New cancer drugs
could be funded for New Zealanders. FARMACS consulting on a
proposal to fund for new medications for lung cancer, breast
cancer RSV for children, and an inhaler for lung disease.
Director of Pharmaceuticals Geraldine mcgibbons says medications would be funded

(00:27):
from January first next year and would make a real difference.
We've been told by a clinical advisors that these medicines
would have a significant positive impact on people's health. Act's
leader has pushed back on criticisms a new government directive
as an attack on Maori. A just released Cabinet Office
at memos says all government departments have been order to
put need ahead of race in all matters. The government's

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also acting a policy to award eight percent of its
annual contracts to Maori businesses. David Seymour says New Zealand
as a country based on equal rights for everyone, regardless
of the background.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
If people want to frame that as attacking Maori, what
they're really saying is that Maria is somehow different and
won't succeed in a world will you start with equal right?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
A person has died on Mount ruapeihu hatho Hone. Saint
John says one ambulance and helicopter responded to an incident
at Turoa's skifield shortly before one o'clock yesterday. Local EWE
have placed a rahui over the ski area. The Department
of Conservation is asking visitors to respect the cultural practice
to allow for a quiet time to heal the mountain

(01:33):
until three pm on Sunday. More than a thousand ambulance
officers will strike again after rejecting a payoffer from Saint John.
They'll withdraw labour on the twenty seventh and thirtieth of
September for the first six hours of shifts across the country.
This follows a strike last month. First Union says the
offer included pay rises below inflation and failed to address

(01:54):
other concerns around pay parity with other health workers. The
roulette wheels and slot machines will row back to life
at Sky City's Auckland casino at midnight to night as
it reopens. Jacob Jones reports.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's been closed since midnight Sunday after a breach of
host responsibility which saw one gambler spend one million dollars
and nine hours uninterrupted at a slot machine. The company
says this was due to a technical era which has
now been fixed. The casino seven hundred strong workforce have
spent the week doing seminars around host responsibility and identifying

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financial crime.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
In sport, the one off cricket Test between Afghanistan and
the Black Caps in India has been abandoned without a
ball being bowled, just the eighth Test in history to
be abandoned entirely and first in twenty six years. A
blow for the Wellington Phoenix women's side, with international defender
Mikhaela Foster announcing she will not return for the upcoming

(02:52):
A League season. Meanwhile, there's a deafening silence from all
parties around the confirmed departure of Football Fern's coach at
Yitka Kmkover, who has now stood down permanently from the role.
I'm Jody Gill and that's your latest news Fakes. We'll
be back with the next update tomorrow morning from the
news Talk, said b Newsroom.