Afternoon Edition: 22 October 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 22 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 Raylen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fix for Tuesday, the twenty second of October. Simmy and
Brown says he's spoken to Wellington's mayor about his moves
on her city council, the local government minister's appointing a
Crown Observer, saying their role will be to help the
council work through its finances and resolve its long term plan.

(00:26):
Toy Farno says she accepts the decision and won't be resigning.
Brown says he had a constructive chat with Farno. We
had a pleasant conversation. We spoke about our intention. Ultimately,
she now has the opportunity over the next ten days
her and a council to respond there. Senior political correspondent
says the observer will report back to the local government

(00:46):
minister and if they have to take any further intervention
then they will do based on what the observer is
taking in. Firefighters continue to fight a massive fine air
medi media in Waikato, burning through four hundred and seventy
seven hectares of swamp lands across a ten kilometer perimeter.
It includes the Fanga marin Or wetlands, a helicopters, two

(01:10):
planes and forty personnel are battling the blaze that broke
art yesterday. Incident Commander Mark Tinworth says fire is continuing
to spread but isn't currently threatening any properties. Minister Andrew
Bailey says an interaction during a business visit that sparked
a complaint was brief and lighthearted, but he sees it

(01:30):
was wrong. A workers claimed Bailey told him to go home,
take some wine and f off and made the loser
sign on his forehead. Bailey's apologized and says he only
realized he had caused defense after the complaint and if
I had, I would have tried to deal with immediately
because there was no intent, and you know, I'm not
the type of person that walks around trying to say

(01:51):
horrible things to people. The Patu Mari says the government
needs to keep its hands off Ihumato. The Crown bought
the land in twenty two to end protests over development.
Under the proviso, some Mardi housing is built. Official documents
reveal the Mardi Development Minister has told the steering group
deciding the land's future it could be dissolved and e

(02:14):
we involved in the group says consensus can't be reached.
The party Mardi co leeder debin Ari Wapaka says intervention
should be minimal. This government has put an overreach in
kopoper Mali, so I think it's really important that IML
Tau and all those that are part of it actually
able to design what their future looks like. The Green
Party says it's excited to welcome new MP Benjamin Doyle.

(02:36):
He's the eighteenth member on the party list and will
join parliament now the speaker has today ousted Darlene Tana.
Doyle is a former high school teacher who worked most
recently as a co proper Mahdi researcher at Waikato University.
Green Party chief muster A Rikardo Menendez March says they'll
be a welcome member of the team. Really excited for

(02:58):
the contributions that Benjamin will make, particularly with their background
and education and the current work around public health. To sport,
fullback Reubin Love and loose forward Peter Lacai have both
been named to Debu off the bench and the All
Blacks team to face Japan on Saturday in Yokohama. Patrick
Tuypalutu has been named captain Sam Cain and Anton Lennart

(03:20):
Brown vice captains. Rugby seven's, hockey and T twenty cricket
have been acts from the twenty twenty six Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow, but netball has survived and Kane Williamson has
been ruled out of the black Caps Second Test against
India in Pune starting Thursday due to a groin injury.

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And that is your afternoon news Fix. Will be back
with the next update tomorrow morning from the News Talks
EDB Newsroom.