June 17, 2024 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 18 June 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Tuesday, the eighteenth of June. An unintended
southern stopover for passengers on a Virgin Australia flight to
Melbourne yesterday, a fire and one engine forced it to
make an emergency landing and in viicargo fought caused by
a bird strike. Queenstown Airport Chief Executive Glenn Soury told
(00:25):
RINZ the pilots may have used a route set aside
for planes to use in such circumstances.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And they are designed specifically to ensure that in the
event of an engine failure that the aircraft can operate
out of the mountainous terrain with mode officulty.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The airline says passengers will be flown to Brisbane this
afternoon and get a connecting flight to Melbourne tonight. Christopher
Luxen is being reunited with his business delegation in Tokyo
today after being forced to abandon them in Papu and
New Guinea. Political editor Jason Walls is traveling.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
With despite missing the vast majority of people he left
New Zealand with. Luxan pressed ahead with his program yesterday.
Today's focus is all about business the PMS signing a
launch agreement with rocket Lab before doing a supermarket visit
to browse Kiwi Brands. Tomorrow, he meets with Prime Minister
Fumyor Kashida for a bilateral meeting.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And Chris Luckson's business delegation includes rocket Lab founder Sir
Peter Beck. He says the company has many Japanese customers
and it's good to be visiting the country with the
Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The Japanese have a very large space program, so the
space agency is called JAKSA and they have very very
large projects and programs in Swing.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The Workplace Relations Minister denies proposed changes to the Holidays
Act will disproportionately affect women and minorities who are more
likely to work part time. Brook van Velden has told
a Select committee plans including pro rating sick leave to
reflect ours work will help employees.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Under what we have with the Holidays Act. There are
workers in News Island that are not being paid their
full entitlements, not because of fault of their employer, but
because the law is so complex.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Labour's leader continues to call the government tax cuts poorly timed.
Kicking in late July against officials advising to wait until October.
The government's pouring fourteen point seven billion dollars into it
and giving landlords a three billion dollar boost. Chris Hipkins
says it's funded by twelve billion dollars borrowing. He told
(02:28):
Kerry Woodham Mornings he agrees tax brackets need adjusting, but
not now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Doing it at a time when inflation is high and
when government revenue is declining because of a downturn in
the economy.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's the worst time to do it. Advocates worry more
granny flats will keep elderly's elderly people out of the community.
The coalitions proposing amendments to the Building Act and Resource
Management System people building structures up to sixty square meters
would only need an engineering report age concerns. Chief Executive
Karen Willings Jensen says they have concerns.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Imagining that being able to have someone come and live
with you on your land but not necessarily in your
house still might not be the best option for an
older person to sport.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Super rugby player Connor garden Baship has died aged at
twenty five. New Zealand have chased a seventy nine to
beat Papua New Guinea by seven wickets with seven point
four overs to spare in their dead rubber Group C
match at Crickets T twenty World Cup. An injury scare
for France after an opening one nil football win over
(03:33):
Austria at Euro twenty twenty four. Captain Killian Embarbe has
a suspected broken nose. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the news Talk ZB newsroom
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Tuesday, the eighteenth of June. An unintended
southern stopover for passengers on a Virgin Australia flight to
Melbourne yesterday, a fire and one engine forced it to
make an emergency landing and in viicargo fought caused by
a bird strike. Queenstown Airport Chief Executive Glenn Soury told
(00:25):
RINZ the pilots may have used a route set aside
for planes to use in such circumstances.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And they are designed specifically to ensure that in the
event of an engine failure that the aircraft can operate
out of the mountainous terrain with mode officulty.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The airline says passengers will be flown to Brisbane this
afternoon and get a connecting flight to Melbourne tonight. Christopher
Luxen is being reunited with his business delegation in Tokyo
today after being forced to abandon them in Papu and
New Guinea. Political editor Jason Walls is traveling.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
With despite missing the vast majority of people he left
New Zealand with. Luxan pressed ahead with his program yesterday.
Today's focus is all about business the PMS signing a
launch agreement with rocket Lab before doing a supermarket visit
to browse Kiwi Brands. Tomorrow, he meets with Prime Minister
Fumyor Kashida for a bilateral meeting.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And Chris Luckson's business delegation includes rocket Lab founder Sir
Peter Beck. He says the company has many Japanese customers
and it's good to be visiting the country with the
Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
The Japanese have a very large space program, so the
space agency is called JAKSA and they have very very
large projects and programs in Swing.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
The Workplace Relations Minister denies proposed changes to the Holidays
Act will disproportionately affect women and minorities who are more
likely to work part time. Brook van Velden has told
a Select committee plans including pro rating sick leave to
reflect ours work will help employees.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Under what we have with the Holidays Act. There are
workers in News Island that are not being paid their
full entitlements, not because of fault of their employer, but
because the law is so complex.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Labour's leader continues to call the government tax cuts poorly timed.
Kicking in late July against officials advising to wait until October.
The government's pouring fourteen point seven billion dollars into it
and giving landlords a three billion dollar boost. Chris Hipkins
says it's funded by twelve billion dollars borrowing. He told
(02:28):
Kerry Woodham Mornings he agrees tax brackets need adjusting, but
not now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Doing it at a time when inflation is high and
when government revenue is declining because of a downturn in
the economy.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's the worst time to do it. Advocates worry more
granny flats will keep elderly's elderly people out of the community.
The coalitions proposing amendments to the Building Act and Resource
Management System people building structures up to sixty square meters
would only need an engineering report age concerns. Chief Executive
Karen Willings Jensen says they have concerns.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Imagining that being able to have someone come and live
with you on your land but not necessarily in your
house still might not be the best option for an
older person to sport.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Super rugby player Connor garden Baship has died aged at
twenty five. New Zealand have chased a seventy nine to
beat Papua New Guinea by seven wickets with seven point
four overs to spare in their dead rubber Group C
match at Crickets T twenty World Cup. An injury scare
for France after an opening one nil football win over
(03:33):
Austria at Euro twenty twenty four. Captain Killian Embarbe has
a suspected broken nose. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the news Talk ZB newsroom
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