Afternoon Edition: 23 November 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 23 November 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):
From the news talks edby Newsroom This is NEWSFECS. In
this update, Infrastructure New Zealand says there's a gap in
our climate change response that a national entity needs to fill. Currently,
there are no formal nationwide standards or processes for recovery
and adaptation. Chief Executive Nicke Leggot says we're missing national
level leadership.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
There often leaves communities in different parts of the country
quite exposed when they've got to work out how they
recover post disaster.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
The financi experts advising New Zealander is to be careful
when using buy now pay latest schemes for Black Friday bargains,
debt consolidation. Enterprise Money sweet Spot is seeing early indications
of people using debt for Christmas shopping already. CEO Sasha
Lockley says many of their younger applicants are in debt
after maxing out on buy now, Pay later purchases.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
People are now having to face the hard reality that
bus by an ipaylata isn't intended to be debt. The
reality for young people is that it is debt that
will be hangover for next year.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Retiree advocates are raising the alarm over planned hikes to
electricity bills coming as a result of rising maintenance costs
Gray Powers. Gail Chamber says the prices will be unaffordable
for many retirees. Miss Chamber wants the companies to use
their revenue to cover these costs.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
The government needs to go to them and so you
cannot do this to people, especially to saying yours who
have earned the right to love their life and some
sort of comfort.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
New Zealand's newly crowned top Young baker is already preparing
for her next competition. Del Marie jansvan Rensburg from New
World Rodston has just won the Bread Baker Prize. She's
now getting ready to represent New Zealand at the Australian
LA Judge Awards. Miss Jans van Rensburg's advice to aspiring
competitors is you've got to have ambition.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You've got to get out into it yourself. I had
to message some previous men and see what they had
to say. No one's going to do the works for you.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's news. St Italy will be on a payback mission
when they play the All Blacks and tomorrow's Test match
in Turin, the Aziri had an embarrassing ninety six seventeen
lost to the All Blacks at last year's Rugby World Cup.
Former Italian test lock Dean Budd has been talking to
X teammates during the week and says re establishing respect

(02:18):
is high on their agenda. Leo Takahush is determined to
have New Zealand flying when the new sale GP season
starts in Dubai tonight. The Japanese born sailor will debut
for the Black Foils as their new flight controller, with
his main role to keep the boat flying on its foils.
But taka Hushi says that's easier said than done.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
The risk verse reward. If you fly the butt high,
it is more margin for air and you could lead
to a crash. But so if you fly the butt
high and you do it well, then you're going to
be going fast. So that's the kind of gray area
we're playing with.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Formula one driver Liam Lawson has been eighteenth fastest in
the third practice session for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more new listen to
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