Afternoon Edition: 18 November 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 18 November 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 Rayning Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Monday, the eighteenth of November. David Seymour says
he's in two minds about talking to Treaty Principal's Bill
protesters outside Parliament tomorrow. A hikoy joined by tens of
thousands has marched through major cities and towns in the
North Island in the past week, with more coming from

(00:25):
christ Church. Large green barricades are in place and security
staff for coordinating with police. The ATH leader created the
bill and says he'll wait to see if the organizers
extend and invite. I think if I sort of walk
out there and they don't want to give me a
touch to speak and so on, then you know, you
sort of wonder what you're doing there.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
But certainly I welcome the opportunity and principle.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Discussion of top level key we cyclist Olivia Podmore's treatment
by Cycling New Zealand. Her friend Jessica Massey worked for
Sea and Z from twenty eleven to twenty twenty one
and is the first witness call in a coronial inquest.
Cultural and structural issues that the Cycling Body were revealed
after Podmore's death. The Herald's time delay says massive detailed

(01:11):
negative impacts on Podmore's mental health and her own. She
spoke a lot about the toxic culture within Cycling New
Zealand and all different aspects of Olivia's experience within that
institution around a lack of confidentiality. Health New Zealand's being
accused of getting the balance wrong between contractors and permanent staff.
The agency spent nearly eighty five million dollars more on

(01:34):
contractors and consultants annually to June than the year before.
Health New Zealand says contractors helped maintain services with a
shortage of clinical workers. Salaried Medical Specialists Association executive director
Sarah Dalton says it should be putting that money into recruitment.
Health system continues to rely too heavily on locom to

(01:55):
run hospitals. It means staffing remains fragile, and it means
it's really A security guard reportedly stabbed at a supermarket
in Auckland's New Linn last night is being given support.
Three youths are in custody. Lynn Mall owner Kiwi Property
says the guards sustained a minor life wound. The individuals

(02:15):
were trespassed and it's now with police. A woman needed
a skin graft and spent a week in hospital after
getting a third degree burn at a beauty clinic. Danika
MacLean has more.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
During the thermal shock lipolsis treatment, the machine overheated, burning
her abdomen. Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Vanessa Cardwell's found
systemic issues, including an insufficient first aid response. She was
also critical of the clinic's risk management, noting as staff
member was burned in a previous incident. She's made a
number of recommendations for preventing similar incidents.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Search efforts are continuing for a Defense Force member who
fell in the One or Two River walking his dog
on Saturday. The NZDF Police and the Dive Squad have
been searching near Palmerston North Ahemate Reserve in Sport. A
former black Cap, Doug Bracewell, has served a one month
sanction after testing positive for cocaine following a Central Districts

(03:12):
versus Wellington T twenty match back in January. Meanwhile, black
CAP's batter Came Williamson, is deeming himself fit ed of
his return to Plunket chield action for Northern Districts again
or against Auckland in Hamilton and an NBA basketball The
Cleveland Cavaliers have downed the Charlotte Hornets one twenty eight
to one fourteen, becoming the fourth team in history to

(03:34):
start the season with fifteen straight wins. I'm Raylen Ramsay.
That is your latest news fix. We'll be back with
the next update tomorrow morning from the news Talk said
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