Afternoon Edition: 06 March 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 06 March 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Rayleen Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Thursday, the sixth of March. Mayor Tori Farno's
calling on Wellington Water's chair to resign Ethan Minera has more.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Farno's written to the region's Water Committee on behalf of
her council saying it has no confidence in Cheer Nick
Leggett and Leanne Southey, who's responsible for audit and risk.
It follows a report finding the organization isn't getting value
for money. The meres criticized heavy spending on contractors while
pipes are still in a poor condition. Legate said this

(00:37):
week head resigned if the region's meors asked him too,
but so far only Farno and Upper Huts Wayne Guppy
have done so.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
The committee will meet on Monday. Labour's leader says comments
by Phil Goff that led him to being sacked as
UK High Commissioner were more political than expected of a diplomat.
The Foreign Minister stepped in after Goff. A former Labor
leader and Cabinet minister question Donald Trump's understanding of history.
Winston Peter says that's ultimately made his position as High

(01:06):
Commissioner untenable. Chris Sipkins says he doesn't believe Gough's words
were wise.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think Winston Peters is entitled to make it clear
to feel Gough that he thinks he went too far
and overstepped whether that reaches the threshold for a dismissal Ultimately,
that's a call for Winston Peters to make.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
A Mardi Cancer Expert Group is accusing the government of
intentional institutionalized racism. It's lowering free bald screening eligibility to
fifty eight using funds set aside by the last government
for targeting Mardy and Pasifica who died disproportionately from the disease.
This government predicts this plan will save one hundred and

(01:44):
seventy six more lives over twenty five years than the
earlier plan. But hey a hudu. More Wise, Doctor George
Laking says this won't reach their community.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Because bell cancer is happening at a younger age for
Mary and pacific That is the reason why the screening
program should be accessible at a younger age for Marin Pacific.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
A view the context of the economic shock from COVID
is being forgotten from Adrian Or's legacy. The Reserve Bank
governor announced his quitting yesterday. Political editor Jason Wall says
we are still none the wiser on what prompted his departure.
He says Ow has faced a lot of criticism, but
he was fully in step with global practice.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
These were unprecedented economic events. Now Or acted, I would
argue in a way that anybody else in his position
would have done. In fact, pretty much every central bank
around the world did similar things as Adrian Or did.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Two pet owners have been prosecuted for not getting urgent
care for a severely ill dog. Baba Girl was euthanized
last year with an untreated skin disease, malnutrition and chronic pain.
Her owners were sentenced in Auckland District Court yesterday. They
must pay a thousand dollars veterinary costs and can't own
dogs for five years. To sport and Tom Bruce has

(03:03):
registered the highest first class score in New Zealand in
more than seventy years, making a whapping three hundred and
forty five for Central Districts in their four day Cricket
Plunket Shield game against Auckland. Mwana PACIFICA coach Tana Umanga
has explained issues with floodlights is one reason they've withdrawn
from their trip to Nukuwa Lofa in Tonga later this month.

(03:27):
Local hope Olli Dunbar's run has come to an end
in the second round of the New Zealand Squash Open,
and christ Church are classed in straight games by third
seed Yin Yao Ing of Malaysia. That is your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update tomorrow
morning from the news Talk ZEDB news room.