Afternoon Edition: 19 January 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 19 January 2025, 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 Talk's edby Newsroom. This is NEWSFECS. In
this update, Simeon Brown's being put in charge of the
health system. As a result of today's cabinet reshuffle, Shane
Retty has lost the Health portfolio and has been knocked
out of his fourth place spot on the National Party list.
Doctrretti picks up the universities, Science, Innovation, Technology and statistics portfolios.

(00:26):
Prime Minister Chris Luckson says he's not lost confidence in Doctorretti.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's going to do a great job on universities in
the science sector and that's a very important job for us.
But what we need as the skills that Simeon Brown brings,
which is delivery and execution.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Mister Brown's new role sees Transport move to Chris Bishop
and Energy and Local Government moved to Simon Watts. Nikola
Willis says she's delighted to add economic growth to her responsibilities.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
This new portfolio is about delivering changes across government to
unleash innovation, investment, job creation and growth in the New
Zealand economy.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
A scrub fires broken out again on Auckland's buying Aty Mountain.
Three crews and a water tanker are at the scene
of the blaze, which began about quarter past three this
afternoon on the mountain's ridge. Fire in Emergency New Zealand
says it's working to contain the thirty by thirty meter blaze.
Fire crews had left the mountain this morning after extinguishing
a three hecta air blaze at the same place overnight.

(01:22):
Optimism in the South Island's Golden Bay, where a second
refloat attempt is underway for a pod of stranded whales.
Thirty of the whales are stranded. Three have already died.
Efforts to refloat the whales were not successful last night
because of low tide. There are some two hundred locals
and holiday makers at the beach helping. TikTok may not

(01:44):
be going dark in the United States for long, following
a potential promise from incoming President Donald Trump. The president
ellect says he'll most likely allow a ninety day extension
when he takes office, but adds he has not yet
made a final decision on the matter. TikTok is warning
its one hundred and seventy million United States users that
it's about to shut down temporarily. That's News in sport.

(02:09):
The first quarter finalist that the Australian Tennis Open has
been found, with women's top seed Arena Sablenka cruising into
the last eight with a straight sets win over Mera Andreva.
In straight sets, Sublenka beat her seventeen year old opponent
six to one, six two in just over an hour.
Despite the easy nature of her win, Sablenka felt otherwise.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
She's so young, but so much you're in playing such
a great tennis sits. It's always stop violence against her
and I'm super happy, of course, to get through this
difficult match in straight sets.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
In the NFL playoffs, the Kansas City Chiefs have booked
their place in the AFC Conference Championship. They've had a
twenty three to fourteen win over the Houston Texans in
the divisional round. Tight end Travis Kelcey led the way
with one hundred and seventeen receiving yards and a touchdown.
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfiller. For more news, listen to

(03:03):
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