Afternoon Edition: 27 November 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 27 November 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Raelinge Ramsay. This is your afternoon news Fix.
Four Thursday, the twenty seventh of November. Shock in Hong Kong,
as firefighters continue to fight an inferno at a block
of seven apartment buildings that fled into life last night.
At least forty four people are dead, two hundred and
seventy nine are unaccounted for. Firefighters have contained fires and

(00:27):
four buildings, and police have arrested three construction company executives,
saying they suspect gross negligence. Cee An Senior China reporter
Simone McCarthy says the blaze is unusual for Hong Kong.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hong Kong is one of the most densely packed cities
in the world, but it is that has a really
high sense of safety standards and so it's very rare
to see this.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
And firefighters are responding to multiple vegetation fires across Otago.
In Southland, as high winds take hold nine truck and
two helicopters. Nine truck that is and two helicopters. A
battling of blaze continuing to spread through a forestry block
near Southland's Methoda, forcing a section of State Highway ninety
six to close. Another twelve trucks and two helicopters are

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finding a paddock Finir Belle Kluther, and there are other
fires in Goodwood, wataks A, Papacyo and white Stone. Government
agencies could be under the microscope and a public inquiry
into the safeguards for the well being of the children
of fugitive Tom Phillips. He kept them with them on
the run for nearly four years in wakat Or Bushland,

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ending when police shot him dead in September. Just as
Simon Moore, Casey will look at whether care services took
all practicable care. Attorney General Judith Collins says it will
answer many questions.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I expect that it's going to be the thick end
of possibly up to you for several millions, but I
also know that this is something that we need to
get done.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
The Australian State of Victoria will be formally apologizing to
Indigenous people for colonization next month. The symbolic action will
be delivered by State Premier just sent to Allen acknowledging
ongoing harm and injustices and land being taken without consent.
Sky News reporter Jack Nihoff says it comes after a

(02:18):
First Nation's Justice Commission report recommended one hundred actions. Among them,
it is calling on the state to quote guarantee, uphold
and enhance First Nations people's inherent rights to country. The
Police Watchdog report finds three Wellington officers acted justifiably in
self defense against a man in Kindala this year. The

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IPCA were called to a family harm incident where a
man with a large knife was chasing a woman and
a baby in the street. To be as Macintosh reports.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
The offender was tasered twice by two officers. After the
first tasering was ineffective, the man fell and hits his
head on the road. The report finds police gave the
man appropriate care before he was taken to hospital. Please
accept the report's findings and say it stopped a dangerous
situation evolving into something much worse.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
To sport and Kazuma Kabori's rollercoaster opening round at Gulf's
Australian PGA Championship has been underlined by a hole in one.
The Cantabrian nailed the ace at the par three seventeenth
Black Ape's spin bowler ish sody as it is made
in first class century hitting one hundred and eighth for
Canterbury on day two of their Plunket Shield clash with

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Otago and for the condemnation of England's dismal batting display
in the first Ashes Cricket Test against Australia. The Perth
has been given the Perth Wicket, I should say, has
been given the highest rating available via the global governing's
Bodies system. That is your latest news fix. We'll have

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another update for you tomorrow morning from the news Talk
ZB newsroom.