Morning Edition: 28 November 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 28 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 (00:05):
Good morning, I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Friday, twenty eighth of November. In
this update, a push to get more bike lanes as
the government eyes up moving escooters onto them from pathways.
ACC statistics showed there were more than two one hundred
claims for escooter related injuries in the first half of

(00:26):
this year. Payouts for escooter injuries this year are close
to surpassing fourteen million. Cycling Action spokesperson Patrick Morgan told
Ryan Bridge escooters are here to stay, so councils need
to build more bike lanes to meet demand. He says,
we don't need a bike lane on every street, just
on main thoroughfares where people want to go. Questions remain

(00:47):
over the cause of the deadly Hong Kong fire, which
has killed at least eighty three people. Another two hundred
and fifty remain missing. After the blaze ripped through seven
of eight tower blocks, Bamboo scaffold bilding in safety netting
were encasing the buildings, which were undergoing renovation. The exact
cause of the inferno has yet to be determined. Three

(01:08):
construction company executives have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
More than one point two million dollars was spent on
the government's curriculum road shows, which many principles refuse to attend.
Education Minister Ericus Stanford and international speakers led the four events,
with two hundred and twenty thousand spent just on their fees,

(01:29):
travel and accommodation. They aim to guide school leaders through
major changes. The Reserve bankers projecting house prices will start
steadily recovering next year. However, it doesn't see prices returning
to the twenty twenty one peak anytime soon. Its forward
projections have the totality house price index increasing consistently from

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next year, but prices are only expected to be in
line with incomes by late twenty twenty eight. House prices
are still projected to be about three percent below the
record high red to late twenty twenty one. It's tools
down again for more than seventeen thousand. Public health workers,
Allied health staff, nurses, policy and advisory workers are just

(02:10):
some of the Public Service Association members striking today for
four hours from one pm. Health in Z says plans
are in place to ensure hospital and community health service
delivery and firefighters are striking again today for better work
conditions and more resources to serve communities. Some two thousand
New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union members are walking off the

(02:32):
job from midday to one pm. Hope's families of the
Mount Erebis disaster will find peace in a new memorial
in christ Church. The national memorial will be built at
Craycroft Reserve in Cashmere, overlooking the city in Southern Alps.
It will honor the two hundred and fifty seven people
who died when an Air New Zealand flight crashed into

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Antarctica's Mount Erebis forty six years ago. Today in Sport,
golfer Ryan Fox has a shit ye of the clubhouse
lead after karting a four under pass sixty seven across
an incomplete opening round at the Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane.
Expect a larger scale Commonwealth Games if New Zealand hosts
the twenty thirty four edition. An expression of interest has

(03:16):
been made to bring the event back for the first
time since nineteen ninety. The International Judo Federation has reinstated
full national representation rights to Russian athletes at competitions. Despite
the war in Ukraine. I'm never Readymanu that your latest
news fix will be back with the next update of midday.
From the Newstalk ZBI Newsroom