Afternoon Edition: 09 December 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 09 December 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 Monday, the ninth of December. A poll shows
Labor and National have taken a sizeable hit in favor
of act Anti Party Mardy. The just release Taxpayer's Union
funded Courier poll shows the major impact of the anti
Treaty Principals Bill Hikoy on support for the major parties.

(00:27):
Political editor Jason Walls has more.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
National were hit hard, dropping four and a half points
to just above thirty four percent. Labour dropped the same
amounts now setting a whisker under twenty seven. Meanwhile, Actors
up four and a half points to thirteen and TI
Party Marty jumped three points to five and a half
and z First were down a point, now polling slightly
lower than Tea Party Mardy for the first time in

(00:50):
the poll's history.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Leader David Seymour says his parties bump in the poll
shows support for his Treaty Principles.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Bill, even with the really tough economic circumstance as we face.
There's a group of New Zealanders who want a strong
stand on equal rights for each of us and an
equal right to have a say on what our treaty means.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
A finding staff at an Otago residential care provider acted abusively,
breaching a dementia patient's rights. The elderly man moved into
I own A home and hospital in twenty nineteen, needing
significant help. Claudia O'Neill has more.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
After caregivers reported two incidents of aggression, The man's family
installed a hidden camera in his room, puzzled by the
change in his behavior. Footage found caregivers acting abusively, including
shouting and not giving adequate assistance.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Age Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper says two staffers breached the
code by not acting respectfully. A third didn't intervene or
report the behavior. Hamilton's Frankton School has come out of
lockdown after reports of firearm was seen on nearby Massey Street.
Armed police have taken a man into custody. The government
appear to about to pressure from the gas industry and

(02:03):
will pull a legislative u turn on its Crown Minerals Bill.
Business Desk reports lobbyists of pushback against changes made to
legislation undoing the ban on oil and gas exploration. Political
reporter de Melsa Jackson has more.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Ministers introduced the amendment in an effort to reduce the
risk of enormous costs associated with decommissioning exhausted gas fields,
but a technical drafting error instead increased the liability faced
by companies for decommissioning, particularly when a field is sold.
The bill had been on track to pass last month,
but is now expected to return to Parliament in February

(02:39):
to be fixed.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Markatoo Pies has been saved from closure for the second
time in five years. The may of Plenty business went
into liquidation last month. It's been bought by catering company
Montana Group, which is placing the brand into a new
joint venture entity and licensed back to the production business
Markatu to Pook Award Council La Grant Dally says the

(03:01):
business avoiding closure again shows it's well established.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
The business must have always had value and for not
just Montana but other organizations looking at purchasing it.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
In Sport, Devon Conway will miss New Zealand's third cricket
Test against England and Hamilton starting Saturday due to what
coach Gary Stead says is the pending birth of his
first child. Mark Chapman comes into the squad and Will
Young looks at for elevation to the eleven White Fans.
Cricket coach Ben Sawyer has been reappointed through to the

(03:36):
end of twenty twenty six on the back of the
T twenty World Cup triumph and seven time Formula One
champion Lewis Hamilton is reflecting as a farewells Mercedes after
twelve years. I'm Raileian Ramsey. That is your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the news Talk, said Ben Newsroom.