Afternoon Edition: 25 July 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 25 July 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Raylen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Thursday, the twenty fifth of July. The Green
Party says new government child poverty targets will plunge thousands
more children into hardship. In the House, MP Ricardo Menendez
March has accused the Social Development Minister of setting weaker
targets to account for the impact of her punitive welfare policies,

(00:28):
such as sanctioning beneficiaries likely to affect children's well being.
Louise Upstein is also the minister responsible for child poverty
and she blames the watered down targets on the last government.
New intermediate targets have to account for the fact progress
reducing child poverty is miles behind what was forecast when
the last government originally established the targets. Shortages are causing

(00:52):
turmoil at the Rutthaduur Hospital are in z Reports Wards
are sending patients back to the ED because of a
lack of stuff. Elked letter also reveals the hospital risks
losing its teaching license because it hasn't enough doctors with
the right credentials. Health New Zealand is currently considering sending
rout ed doctors to help fill a shortage in Topoor Hospital.

(01:16):
Resident Doctors' Association's Deborah Powell says creating one problem to
fix another doesn't work. In order to cover we're calling
people in who should be having their time at home
and you know there's only so long that can last.
Peter Scott will remain Environment Canterbury's chair. Scott was investigated
and given a formal warning after revealing on newstalk z

(01:39):
EDB he had been running some farm irrigation without a consent.
He says. Lynz subsequently initiated the consent process. Emily Ansell
has more.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Local democracy reporting, says counselors discussed the issue in a
public excluded part of yesterday's regional Council meeting. Councilor Paul
Djay had called for Got to step down, but says
there was no vote. He says a report cleared Scott,
so it was resolved he'd resume his role.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The University of Otago professor says the Crown should accept
all recommendations in the Abuse and Care Report. The Royal
Commission of Inquiry estimates about two hundred thousand people were
mistreated in state and faith based institutions from nineteen fifty
to twenty nineteen. Its one hundred and thirty eight recommendations

(02:28):
include urgent redress, financial compensation and police investigations. Wellington Associate
Professor Tristram Ingham says the government needs to accept the
measures and start doing them. For the Crown to not
accept every single one of those one hundred and thirty
eight recommendations is for the better commission and the survivors.

(02:51):
Searchers have found a body off the coast of Fakatane
after a man fell off a boat near Fakadi White
Island about midnight in Sport. The Canadian Olympic Committee believes
there was no reason to suspend coach Bev Priestman. In
the wake of the Olympic drones scandal. Two New Zealand
trainings have been spired on by drones operated by Canadian

(03:12):
support staff members. France has been conditionally picked as the
host of the twenty thirty Winter Olympics, while Salt Lake
City has been formally awarded the twenty thirty four Games.
Japan's Hiroki Sakai is expected to be a team leader
when he joins Auckland FC ahead of their maiden season

(03:34):
in football's a league. I'm railing Ramsey and that is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update tomorrow morning from the News Talk sed B Newsroom.