Afternoon Edition: 14 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 14 April 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 railing ramsay. This is your afternoon news.
Fixed for Monday, the fourteenth of April. A thirteen and
a half million dollar boost for tourism New Zealand and
a bit to attract more international visitors, he has political
reporter Azaria Howell.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Tourism and Hospitality Minister Louise Upstin says the funding will
target visitors from China, Australia, the US, India, Germany and
South Korea. She says there are encouraging signs from the
Everyone Must Go campaign launched in February aiming to pull
in Aussie travelers. Upstin says this investment should result in

(00:40):
more than twenty three thousand additional international visitors with more
spending in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
A flood mitigation project has the green light in hawks
May's Finanaki thanks to design changes and a funding boost.
Work had gone on Holt after costs for work after
cyclone Gabrielle blew out from eleven million to thirty four
million dollars. Demmika MacLean has more.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
A redesign reduced the cost to about twenty three million dollars.
The government's putting in another nine million, and Hawkes Bay
Regional Council another three to bridge the gap. It also
brings the community's post cyclone category two sea properties a
step closer to moving to Category one.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Downballs and gales are expected for the Upper North Island
Later this week, Meat Services issued a heavy rain watch
for Northland, Auckland, Great Barrier Island and the Corimandel Peninsula
from Wednesday morning until Friday. A strong wind watch also applies.
Meteorologist Lewis Ferris says there's a chance the weather could
be worse than expected. Does look like there will be

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further watchers issued, maybe warnings. These ones do have currently
a high chance of being upgraded to a warning. Consultation
has started on a new school sex education framework. The
government's rewriting the Relationships and Sexuality education curriculum for the
first time nearly twenty years. Jamie Cunningham reports m.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
ZED First leader Winston Peters called previous guidelines woke and
out of touch. The draft has been developed by experts
and focuses on consent with little mention of gender. It's
also informed by sex education and countries like Australia, England
and Singapore.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Consultations open until May nine global uncertainties, helping key we
save money at the gas pump. Fuel price tracking app
gas Buy claims petrol and diesel dropped about four percent
in the past month. AA policy advisor Terry Collins says
crude oil prices have been extremely volatile as the US

(02:43):
President keeps changing tariff settings.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
It's just a few days ago it was under sixty
dollars and we didn't see natural But then what happens
is I think that he made an announcement of the
tops or the semiconductors and don't immediately bear cap again.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
To sport, a weight off the shoulders and a green
jack get on to them. For Rory McElroy. After a
career defining victory, the Northern Irish Golf has completed a
Korea Grand Slam, clinching the Masters with a playoff when
over Justin Rose. Silver Fans netball coach named Nolin Toda
wants another three or four tests added to their twenty

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twenty five schedule. New Zealand will play South Africa and
Australia across seven matches this year. The Breakers have signed
All Blacks guard Taylor Britt on a two year deal
to that is it actually I've done the sport and
that is your latest news fix. We'll be back with
the next update tomorrow morning from the news Talk said

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B newsroom.