Afternoon Edition: 22 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks headby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, torng As mayors defending hefty pay rises for
his counselors fifteen point six percent, taking their pay to
one hundred and sixty three thousand dollars a year. The
average torong A worker earns seventy five thousand dollars a year.
The taxpayers unions criticizing the move, saying councilors are part

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time workers, but Mayor Mah Drysdale says councilors work hard
and carry significant responsibilities. A gang expert says some early
concerns about the gang patch ban may not have come
to pass. It's a year since the law was changed
to give police increased powers to go after gangs, including
banning gang insignia in public. Officers have since seized one

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hundred and eighty two patches, more than six hundred insignia,
and one hundred and seventy eight firearms. University of Canterbury
sociologist Jared Gilbert says small communities were concerned it wouldn't work,
but that may not be the case.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
There were concerns that that would drive gangs underground make
their drug dealing activities perhaps hard of a spot. The
jury is still out on that. It's a little early
to tell.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski is expected to accept unfavorable terms
to end the war with Russia. The White House has
proposed a twenty eight point piece plan for an immediate
ceasefire between the two countries, which includes Ukraine handing over territory,
something that was previously ruled out. International law expert Professor
Alexander Gillespie says Ukraine lacks other options. There'll be no

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accountability for the crimes that have been committed, and the
only reason I'd accept it is because the war is
not possible to continue fighting at this pace. Destructive winds
are hammering remote communities in northern Australia with severe tropical
cyclone Fena, now a category three system. The storm's currently
one hundred and forty five kilometers northeast of Darwin and
expected to hit the city in the hours ahead. Supermarket,

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shops and public transport have all closed in Darwin today.
Sky News reports sustained winds one hundred and twenty kilometers
an hour, with gusts up to one hundred and eighty
kilometers an hour. That's news in sport. The last Australian
wicket fell in less than half an hour on day
two of the Ashes Test, a cricket series opener in Perth.
Resuming on one hundred and twenty three for nine, they

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were all out for one hundred and thirty two, still
trailing England's first innings of one hundred and seventy two
by forty runs. But England had begun their second innings
the same way they did the first. Zach Crawley gone
a pair of ducks for the opener and again dismissed
by mature Stark. The West Indies aren't fearing much better
with the bat in the final one day cricket match
against New Zealand. They were teatering on one hundred and

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fifty two for nine in the thirty fourth over moments
ago in Hamilton, scoring at under five runs an over.
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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