Afternoon Edition: 29 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 29 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 Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Tuesday. For twenty ninth of April, an independent
review of FARMAK is recommending major changes The drug buying
agencies release the executive summary of the report, which finds
its operations and decision processes not fit for purpose. Emily
Ansel has more.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Author Debbie Francis found agency wide shifts are needed to
achieve government and stakeholder expectations around meeting growing health needs.
Francis sees farmac's vague mission is often displaced by a
cost management focus, and a new vision is needed. The
summary states end to end change will be key as

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opposed to incremental adjustments.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Assurances tradees won't get away with slip ups under government
changes letting them sign off their own work. The self
certification legislation aims to speed up and simplify key we
home builds. Construction analyst Mike Blackburn says the scheme will
reduce the council workload and ease the overburdened consent system.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Government is looking at making it easier for those quality builders,
those professional organizations who do a great job at building houses.
There will be increased penalties for those who make mistakes.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Police urgently want to hear from a female motorist who
witnessed reckless driving before a fatal crash near among A,
Keno and Waikatu on Monday last week. She reported following
a black Toyota RAV four just before three pm heading
towards Tudange on State Highway forty seven, cutting corners and
crossing the center line. Its driver has pleaded guilty to

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careless driving over the crash. Interference worth Canada by the
US President could have helped sweep the Liberals back into power.
Canadian media are calling a victory for Mark Carney's party
within hours of polls closing over Peer Poliev's Conservatives, the
new US administration's tariffs, and Donald Trump's repeated suggestions he'd

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like to take over Canada. The BBC's John Sudworth says
there's been a lot of commentary on Polyef's association with
Trump that made it very, very difficult for their Polyev
to suddenly do what he needed to do to distance
himself from the US president. New Zealand's pharmaceutical advertising sector
has been declared open for business. The government says it

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will reform laws prohibiting advertising medicines not approved by medsafe
at trade shows and conferences. Business en ZIR Chief executive
Catherine rich says removing medsafe's nonsensical ruling is fantastic. She
says it'll have positive flow ons for venues, tourism and
health professionals.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's just sharing information about what's new and interesting. No
other country takes this perspective and that's why we continually
lose out with conferences to Sidney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the
rest of the world.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
In sport, two Tests or black Billy proc has re
signed with the Hurricanes in New Zealand rugby through to
the end of twenty twenty seven. Warriors coach Andrew Webster
has voice concern over increased bunker intervention following a spike
in the high tackle related sinbinnings. In round eight of
the NRL, eighteen players were sinnbind fifteen of them for

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contact to the ball carrier's head. The Cleveland Cavaliers have
swept the Miami Heat four nil in their best of
seven NBA Eastern Conference playoff series. That is your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update tomorrow
morning from the News Talk ZB newsroom,