Afternoon Edition: 16 October 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 16 October 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 Railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Wednesday, the sixteenth of October. Inflation is falling,
but many unavoidable costs have been rising sharply. The inflation
rate is back within the Reserve Bank's target range for
the first time in more than three years, making more
OCR cuts almost inevitable. Overall consumer prices rose two point

(00:28):
two percent in the past year, but The Herald's Liam
Dan says there's no getting around rents, rates and insurance
leaping more than twelve percent. Non tradable inflation still running
at about four point nine percent. Tough for people with the rents,
and there's not much you can do about your rates
and insurance. Labour's Barbara Edmond says the cost of living
crisis is far from over. She says if the government

(00:50):
wants to claim credit for inflation coming down, it can
also own its consequences. They can also claim credit for
the fifty five thousand people that have gone overseas record
next migration for the higher and employment twenty two thousand
war on the unemployment benefit. Hatsouth's Member of Parliament says
Wellingtonians have quite a desire for the government to step
in with the city Council meyor Torri Farno, who has

(01:11):
a meeting with the local government minister tomorrow. The long
term plan needs revision because the council reversed its decision
to sell airport shares, leaving a funding hole. Chris Bishop
says people raising it with him have used a lot
of words chimozzle, shambles, debarcle, train wreck, you know, words.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
That effect and so any squears. Yeah, people swear. I
don't choose to swear because this is a family show.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
A constitutional law expert says it's unorthodox to claim the
Supreme Courts straying into Parliament's domain. Right wing think tank
the New Zealand Initiative says the Supreme Court is drifting
towards overstepping its role. Attager University law professor Edward Willis
says the Initiative is reacting to selectively reading court judgments.

(01:57):
He says its opinion isn't reflected in the view views
of those who think about constitutional matters in a considered way.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
While we might critique individual court decisions on occasion, because
we want to unpack the reasoning that the court has
a sort of critique on the systemic level is kind
of outside of the box.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
A Palmerston North farm has been banned from having animals
and fined after welfare issues for hundreds of sheep. Alistair
Donald Curry had been sentenced on six charges following prosecution
from MPI. The sixty five year old's one hundred and
eighteen sheep had fly strike and about seventy were distressed
and in pain. The government's changing Anzac Day laws so

(02:38):
the public holiday officially recognizes veterans from more recent wars.
Political editor Jason Walls has more.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
At present, the ANZAC law doesn't commemorate the contribution New
Zealand forces have made in conflicts after nineteen sixty six.
The government's changing that as according to Arts, Culture and
Heritage Minister Paul Goldsmith, it's time the law catches up
with public sentiment. The Anzac Day Amendment Bill is expected
to be introduced into the House before Anzac Day next

(03:07):
year and will pass in time for Anzac Day twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
In Sport, All Blacks fifteen forward Hoskin Sututu we'll miss
next month's Northern Hemisphere tour with a knee injury. A
host of football Ferns have shared their experiences in the
national team under former coach at Yitka klem Kova, describing
the tenure as exhausting. The players revealed there was a
strain between squad members and staff during and after last

(03:34):
year's World Cup. On home soil, carter temperatures and showers
in the forecast have created a selection conundrum for black
Caps Test captain Tom Latham ahead of the first Test
against India in Bengaluru. And that is your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the News Talk seed b newsroom.