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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
newsfix for Monday, the twenty fourth of November. The Prime
Minister isn't giving much away about expected upcoming major RIMA
and local government announcements. A policy proposing ways to cap
council rates will go to cabinet before Christmas under Minister
Simon Watts. He's also expected to unveil plans for some
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degree of council amalgamation. Chris Luckson says they're imagining a
future world where forty percent of consents won't be needed.
I think we need radical simplification ultimately to get rid
of the bureaucracy so that we can get things done
and built a belief that National's first election promise is
off course. Chris Luckson's pledging to progressively lift workers and
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employers default Kiwi Saver contribution to six percent each by
twenty thirty two. Small Business Voice Managing director Max Whitehead
says National seems to forget that Kiwi sav comes from earnings.
He says ninety seven percent of our businesses are small,
many shutting down. The focus shouldn't be on key, we say,
A and proportions of earnings. We need to get their
(01:10):
learnings up. We need to get our productivity out. Auckland
politicians and organizations are calling for a compassionate approach not
punitive to the city's housing crisis. An open letter is
criticizing the government's proposed ban on homeless people and the CBD.
It pushes for the return of emergency housing, funding for
outreach services, and more public housing. Waitamata local board chair
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Alexandra Bonham says our current approach wastes human potential.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Every day there's one member of their Streetfano, who was
in the Paralympics, one goal. There are others who are poets,
others who have worked in film, others who've just had
a couple of awful things happen to them.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The US Secretary of State is hailing progress in discussions
hoping to end war in Ukraine. European leaders are criticizing
a proposed a tw twenty eight point plan backed by
Russia that includes Ukraine seeding territory and reducing its military.
In Geneva, Marco Rubio says negotiators have made tremendous progress.
We arrived here today with one goal, and the goal
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was to take what those twenty eight points and try
to narrow the ones that were open items, and we
have achieved that today in a very substantial way. Kiwi
shoppers are being urged to consider shopping local this Black
Friday week. Data from accounting software platform Zero suggests eleven
billion could be injected into small businesses each year if
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consumers diverted just ten percent of their spending away from
big retailers. Zero country manager Bridget Snelling says local retailers
have lots of good deals on offer.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
From Black Friday through to Boxing Day.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Retailers are feeling the pressure to discount you have items
on sales into a track. Purchasing applications are now open
for the new business investor. VISA investors can put a
million dollars in an existing business a three year residence pathway,
or two million dollars for a one year fast track.
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says opening the door for overseas
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buyers means local jobs can be protected. To sport, golfer
Geno Tittercun has won the LPGA's season ending Tour championship
in Florida, earning seven point one million dollars. Dame Lydia
Coe finished in a share of forty first. Italy have
claimed a third consecutive Davis Cup tennis title, beating Spain
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in the final at Bologna. Christ Church has been called
in as a host city for the League World Cup
next October. In November and Premier League football leaders Arsenal
have beaten Tottenham Hotspur for one at home. I'm Malcolm Jordan.
That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
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