Midday Edition: 15 December 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 15 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
No the news talks heavy newsroom. This is NEWSFACS.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update, the government is set in abear the
latest state of the books. Treasury will set out its
forecast for the economy and the government's finances for the
next four and a half years in its half year
Economic and Fiscal Update on Tuesday. Herald political reporter Jamie
Ensaw says it will reveal whether surplus has been pushed

(00:28):
out another year.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
The other piece of information we'll be looking for is
what is called the operational allowance. This is the level
of new money the government is committing to spending over
the coming years. It's expected to be two point four
billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
The government has unveiled the second Action Plan for the
National Strategy of Preventing Family and Sexual Violence. A central
focus of the plan is improving multi agency responses to
violent incidents to help ensure responses that suit local conditions.
Prevention of Family and Sexual vis Violence Minister Karen Shaw
says the plan will improve the protection of young people,

(01:04):
strength and workforces, take action on sexual violence, and expand
primary prevention hopes. A recent uptick in economic activity for
SME manufacturers can continue well into next year. A new
Unleashed Software Reporter has found purchasing activity rose by an
average of six point two percent in the third quarter

(01:26):
of this year, the first rise since twenty twenty two.
The best performing sectors with the beverage sector followed by
the building and construction industry. Content manager Greg Rowan says
the booster and activity shows businesses are feeling more confident
in upcoming sales.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
When people are buying goods but also raw materials is
quite a longle time before that gets turned into new
products and then sold, so actually we're anticipating strong future
sales revenue.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Don't be fooled by the dry hot weather. Tomorrow is
likely to bring a blast from the past. Northland, Auckland,
Great Barrier Island and Corimantal Peninsula are in line for
heavy rain from the morning with thunderstorms and localized downpours.
The Bay of Plenty catches the rain band later in
the morning, while the Great District and Paparoa Rangers have
a heavy rainfall watch from six pm tonight. That's news

(02:21):
in sports. Mitch Satner and Willow Raurcus salvaging some last
minute runs for the black Caps on the second day
of the third cricket Test against England and Hamilton moments ago.
The hosts were three hundred and thirty one for nine
Olympic Triathlon silver medals. Teydan Wild has placed second at
the Toepor seventy point three iron Man World Championship event

(02:41):
with a time of three hours, thirty three minutes and
twenty two seconds. The KIWI was overtaken by Belgian winner
Yellaheens with three kilometers to go on the run, eventually
finishing one minute thirteen seconds behind. Wild has reacted to
his first Iron Man.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
I went out there. It was naive, but I really
wanted to give it a go, and you know, I
did the training and I felt like I rode appropriately.
I know these roads in the back of my hand,
and I know that as soon as we hit View
Road there's potential of opening again.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Compatriot Carl Smith has placed four, a further four and
a half minutes back that sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For
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