December 11, 2024 • 4 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 12 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Raylen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news Fix.
Four Thursday, the twelfth of December. Associate Immigration Minister Chris
pink has granted US conservative commentator Candice Owens a visa
to enter New Zealand. Immigration New Zealand denied her initial
application on the ground she'd been stopped from entering Australia.
(00:25):
It's Immigration Minister Tony Burke said at the time Owens
had the capacity to incite discord. Chris pink Is used
his discretion after Owen's requested ministerial intervention. His office says
the decision was made after considering representations to him, including
the importance of free speech. Fire and Emergency says three
(00:46):
houses have been evacuated as a precaution as a thirty
hectare fire rampages out of control south of christ Church.
Grass fires broke out a long State Highway one near
Burnham about one thirty, closing a section of the road.
A shed has been destroyed. Twenty two trucks, tankers, support
vehicles and five helicopters are there. The acc Minister says
(01:10):
the scheme must do better as rehabilitation rates decline and
costs go up. Matt Doocey's announced an independent review of ACC,
concerned its performance has been declining for a decade. He
says the Earners and Business levee has had to be
hiked by up to five percent a year for three
years to meet the scheme's rising costs. Do CCS understands
(01:33):
it will make times harder for some families.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A SEC increases in their levee cannot be used as
a default setting.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They need to lift their performance, and that's why we're
initiating the independent review.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Police want to hear from people who may have witnessed
concerning behavior before a Hut Valley homicide. A man died
near nine Aye seventh Street on Tuesday after being shot.
He's understood to be thirty nine year old Former Rebels
president albert I Nooka Azariah Howell reports.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Police a hunting a man in his thirties of a
large build with full facial tattoos. They're asking for sightings
of a black two thousand and eight Mercedes on nearby
streets and footage from street facing CCTV or dash cams.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Winston Peters may be attempting to walk back seemingly dismissing
the government's quarterly plans. The Deputy Prime Minister said this
to media outlet the platform yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I don't have you know, the sort of dashboard
crap that I see other people perform on and a
fifty point plan or one hundred point plan or a
quarter year plan.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And today Peter's told reporters that wasn't a reference to
Chris Luxon's quarterly action plans.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
In the government with Labour SGA seventeen to twenty, when
they had dashboards every month. The night of myself, this
is ridiculous. It's all sort of the kind of presentation
hype you put out there when you haven't got substance.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
In New Zealand's one step closer to flying its first
electric aircraft around the country, a year ahead of schedule.
Thomas Rice has more.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
The National Carriers is a battery electric aircraft will take
to the year in a technical demonstrator program from mid
twenty twenty five. It'll be based in Hamilton and Wellington,
and a battery electric plane will begin operations for commercial
cargo services between Wellington and Blenham in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
To Sport Blackcap's batter Will Young is embracing a likely
return to the top of the order for Saturday's third
cricket Test against England and Hamilton amid the absence of
opener Devon Conway. Papa and New Guinea will have an
NRL team from twenty twenty eight, becoming the first non
Australian based club since the Warriors in nineteen ninety five.
(03:43):
Football Ferns interim coach Michael Maine has expressed his desire
to keep the role on a permanent basis, pointing to
his long association with New Zealand football. And that is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update tomorrow morning from the news Talk z B newsroom.
Good afternoon. I'm Raylen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news Fix.
Four Thursday, the twelfth of December. Associate Immigration Minister Chris
pink has granted US conservative commentator Candice Owens a visa
to enter New Zealand. Immigration New Zealand denied her initial
application on the ground she'd been stopped from entering Australia.
(00:25):
It's Immigration Minister Tony Burke said at the time Owens
had the capacity to incite discord. Chris pink Is used
his discretion after Owen's requested ministerial intervention. His office says
the decision was made after considering representations to him, including
the importance of free speech. Fire and Emergency says three
(00:46):
houses have been evacuated as a precaution as a thirty
hectare fire rampages out of control south of christ Church.
Grass fires broke out a long State Highway one near
Burnham about one thirty, closing a section of the road.
A shed has been destroyed. Twenty two trucks, tankers, support
vehicles and five helicopters are there. The acc Minister says
(01:10):
the scheme must do better as rehabilitation rates decline and
costs go up. Matt Doocey's announced an independent review of ACC,
concerned its performance has been declining for a decade. He
says the Earners and Business levee has had to be
hiked by up to five percent a year for three
years to meet the scheme's rising costs. Do CCS understands
(01:33):
it will make times harder for some families.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
A SEC increases in their levee cannot be used as
a default setting.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
They need to lift their performance, and that's why we're
initiating the independent review.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Police want to hear from people who may have witnessed
concerning behavior before a Hut Valley homicide. A man died
near nine Aye seventh Street on Tuesday after being shot.
He's understood to be thirty nine year old Former Rebels
president albert I Nooka Azariah Howell reports.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Police a hunting a man in his thirties of a
large build with full facial tattoos. They're asking for sightings
of a black two thousand and eight Mercedes on nearby
streets and footage from street facing CCTV or dash cams.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Winston Peters may be attempting to walk back seemingly dismissing
the government's quarterly plans. The Deputy Prime Minister said this
to media outlet the platform yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I don't have you know, the sort of dashboard
crap that I see other people perform on and a
fifty point plan or one hundred point plan or a
quarter year plan.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And today Peter's told reporters that wasn't a reference to
Chris Luxon's quarterly action plans.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
In the government with Labour SGA seventeen to twenty, when
they had dashboards every month. The night of myself, this
is ridiculous. It's all sort of the kind of presentation
hype you put out there when you haven't got substance.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
In New Zealand's one step closer to flying its first
electric aircraft around the country, a year ahead of schedule.
Thomas Rice has more.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
The National Carriers is a battery electric aircraft will take
to the year in a technical demonstrator program from mid
twenty twenty five. It'll be based in Hamilton and Wellington,
and a battery electric plane will begin operations for commercial
cargo services between Wellington and Blenham in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
To Sport Blackcap's batter Will Young is embracing a likely
return to the top of the order for Saturday's third
cricket Test against England and Hamilton amid the absence of
opener Devon Conway. Papa and New Guinea will have an
NRL team from twenty twenty eight, becoming the first non
Australian based club since the Warriors in nineteen ninety five.
(03:43):
Football Ferns interim coach Michael Maine has expressed his desire
to keep the role on a permanent basis, pointing to
his long association with New Zealand football. And that is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update tomorrow morning from the news Talk z B newsroom.
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