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November 28, 2025 2 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 29 November 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the newstalks at the newsroom. This is newsfecs in
this update. Drones adjoining the fight against bovine tuberculosis. Government
Disease Eradication Agency OSPREY is trialing the use of thermal
imaging drones to monitor the location and density of possum populations.
The main source of the disease. Trials are underway in
the hills of Central Otago, where normal possum trapping is difficult.

(00:27):
Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says these drones make control more
efficient and cost effective and could be what's needed to
eradicate bovine tb Travelers overseas can expect significant flight delays
and disruptions, with thousands of air bus planes needing new
software manufacture air buses carrying out updates on most day
three twenties after finding flight control problems could be linked

(00:50):
to solar radiation. About six thousand planes need work done
see ann. Transportation analyst Mary Schiavo says flights will be
pushed back as the United States Federal Aviation Administrations ordered
repairs immediately. It's a technical term. It means you have
to do that repair before you can fly that plane.
Again in New Zealand's confidence it'll be business as usual

(01:11):
by tomorrow because its aircraft have been cleared to continue
operating but do need software updates by one tomorrow afternoon.
A change in New Zealand's alcohol consumptions being tied to
brewery innovation stats n Z data reveal mid to low
strength beers surged to one hundred and five million liters
in volume this year, up from seventy six million the
previous year. Higher strength beers dropped from nearly two hundred

(01:35):
million liters to one hundred and sixty eight million. Brewers
Association executive director Dylan Firth says some credit goes to
the sector which has adapted to shifting drinking habits. They
can really produce some full flavor products at the lower
percentage rates or with the low carbohydrate and low sugar
and stuff like that. State Highway six on the West
Coast is open again. It closed early this morning when

(01:56):
a truck broke down at the gates of Hearst. That's news.
In sport, Brock Feeney has claimed a record eighteenth pole
position to tighten his grip on a maiden Supercars Championship
in Adelaide, rookie Aaron Cameron will start race two from second,
with New Zealand's Ryan Wood third on the grid. The
race begins at ten to six. Wellington Phoenix defender man

(02:18):
Dracer James reckons they're inconsistent high defensive lines to be expected.
The Canadian internationals fully fit after a quad injury picked
up earlier this month. Breakdowns in the Knicks high line
have cost them wins in the past three A League rounds,
but James says they're just teething problems. It'sus communication and
understanding when you have to do it and when you
don't have to do it. So, like anything new, even

(02:40):
though you communicate, you know you're gonna get your ups
and dout. The Phoenix are just getting underway against Adelaide
in Wellington. That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news,
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