Afternoon Edition: 21 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 21 April 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):
From the news Talk's edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs. In
this update, a person has died in a serious crash
involving two cars on State Highway three and Taranakinia Urdunui.
Emergency services were sent to the scene between Farddy Cody
and Mungamyo Roads at about two thirty this afternoon. Two
other people have serious injuries. Two more have moderate injuries.

(00:25):
State Highway three is closed between Mungamyo Road and Pakaruhi Road.
The Easter holiday road death toll is now three. The
Prime Ministers in the UK this week for a meeting
with whose British counterpart, Sirkia Starma. He'll then travel to
Gillipili for ANZAC Day. Trade is set to feature heavily
in Chris Luxen's chat with Sirkia, with our Prime Minister
hitting the phones to world leaders this month, following Donald

(00:48):
Trump's tariff's announcement, disabled people are being actively excluded from
health research. A review looking at thousands of clinical trials
has found about thirty five percent excluded disabled people which
no ethical or scientific reason. Otarga University disability expert Rachelle
Martin says there's a perception it's too hard to accommodate

(01:08):
disabled people, but Miss Martin says excluding them makes the
findings of that research less relevant when used in health settings.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
What ends up happening is that these trials are being
done that don't include disabled people in them, and so
they're not actually representive of their population.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Innovative technology extracts enough energy from Auckland food waste to
heat of five hectare glasshouse growing tomatoes. Leftover energy is
fed into the national gas grid, remaining materials being transformed
into fertilizer. Auckland Council Waste manager Justine Daves says it's
a chance to create change that.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Reversed for something negative and changes it into a resource
that's really powerful.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Public library use is surging, with one point four million
of US now active members. Public Libraries New Zealand executive
director Bernie Hawk says libraries players central role in creating equality.
We're proud of the contribution at public libraries.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Make to local communities.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
That's news. In sport, a road win for the Golden
State Warriors to start their bid in basketball's NBA Playoffs.
They've beaten the Houston Rockets ninety five to eighty five
in game one of their Western Conference Around one series.
Hurricane CEO Avon Lee remains upbeat about their chances of
making the Super Rugby Pacific playoffs. The Wellington based team

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sits seventh in the standings. They're three wins, five losses
and a draw, putting them three points behind the sixth
placed Waratahs. We've lost those five games by an average
of six points. They're obviously frustrated that we haven't done better,
but you know, we've got a lot of face in
the people we have. We've got some obviously huge games
coming up. Coach Benji Marshall says attitude is key for

(02:46):
the Tigers as they arrive for tonight's NRL game with
Paramatta after a drama filled week. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan.
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