Afternoon Edition: 23 October 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 23 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 Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
for Wednesday, the twenty third of October. Unions have come
out in force against government workplace policies, with protests today
across the entire country. His Et two Union's Rachel Macintosh rallying.
The thousands gathered at Auckland's Altier Square and Wellington. The

(00:30):
protest was taken to Parliament. PSA Assistant Secretary flur Fitsimons
spoke to the crowd decrying the plight of public service employees. Shameful.
They have dismissed thousands of public servants that work in
officers around here and all over New Zealand. One person
has serious injuries after an alleged assault on a bus

(00:52):
in Auckland's Ornihunger hutthor Horneer. Saint John's has one ambulance
and three rapid response units attended. More than fifty five
fighters are battling and out of controlled hedge fire in
North Canterbury on the Lungy Orders at Flaxton Road. Crews
called about two thirty found about two hundred metres of
hedge well involved in flames and a hay barn a

(01:14):
light two helicopters with monsoon buckets are assisting and one
properties been evacuated. Multiple roads are closed. A drone briefly
forced air fire fighting operations to pause as firefighters slow
the advance of a massive ye cuttle blaze in fung
A marine nor wetland near Madame Merde. The drone was

(01:35):
quickly grounded, letting a helicopters and a fixed wing aircraft
resume aerial work. The blazer's perimeter has grown to fifteen
kilometers with more than a thousand hectares of environmentally sensitive
land scorched. Incident controller Marked Tinworth says the air crew
have slowed the blaze and ground crews have put in

(01:55):
a containment line, stopping some of the fire gaps. In
Ministry of Education information on student performance before NCEA level,
an Order to General report recommends better collection of progress
reports on primary and intermediate students. It found the gaps
make it harder to identify and tackle inequities. Auditor Li

(02:17):
Anaka says that pleased. The Ministry broadly agrees with the report.
Although the Ministry has plans to address some information gaps,
we think it needs to do more and we hope
that our recommendations will support the Ministry's work in the future.
Frustration as research into terrorism is shut down. Our n
Z reports the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

(02:39):
has written to have Fenua toady Kuda, saying funding will end.
It was set up after the christ Church Mosk attacks.
Muslim Community spokesperson abdurra Zak says this puts vulnerable communities
at Resk. This was a world beata. This was a
center of excellence which other countries talked about as the
model to sport. Canterbury opener Chad Bows has recorded the

(03:03):
fastest domestic cricket double century in the world against Otago
at Hagleyoval in the Ford Trophy. He's reached two hundred
in just one hundred and three balls. Billy Proctor has
spent his six test absence learning off his team mates
as he prepares to return its center for the All
Blacks against Japan and Yokohama on Saturday. The Boston Celtics

(03:27):
have begun their NBA title defense in commanding fashion, thrashing
the New York Next one thirty two to one O
nine in the season opener. I'm Raylan Ramsay that is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update tomorrow morning. From the News Talks ed B newsroom