Afternoon Edition: 30 November 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 30 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the News Talks Edvy Newsroom. This is NEWSFECS in
this update belief Labour's low interest loan policy around family
GP practices is a step in the right direction. Labour's
campaigning on offering up to fifty loans a year to
doctors and nurse practitioners helping them set up new practices
or buy into existing ones. They'd be interest free for

(00:24):
the first two years. The Royal College of GP's medical Director,
Doctor Luke Bradford, says the policy is part of rebuilding
primary care.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
We need to train more woters. We know that there's
been some steps by a current government to do that,
but in order to attract those into training, we need
to make the profession that are rewarding more easily accessible.
We need to show people that they've got a place
in business.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
A record number of volunteers turned out to fill over
thirty five thousand Christmas boxes across the country. The charity,
which delivers food and festive cheer to families in need,
is in its twenty fifth year. Yesterday, fifteen hundred volunteers
turned out for the East Tamaki workshop in Hooding. Prime
Minister Chris Luxon, Community Response head Rebecca Soe says the

(01:04):
need from communities is dire.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
The financial classes has been unremitting for our vulnerable families
and so many of them are not going to be
able to celebrate the way Christmas is designed to be.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
The freshwater gold clam is posing a distinct biosecurity challenge
in some North Island waterways. It's currently breeding season for
the invasive clams, which can each produce seventy thousand larvae
in a season. They spread long distances in currents and
compete for food without declining native fresh water muscles. Earth
Sciences New Zealand scientists doctor debrah Hofstra says the clams

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can even pose a threat to water infrastructure, latching onto
pipes and growing big, eventually clogging and ruining the pipe.
Waterway users are being reminded to follow clean check dry procedures,
and the government's launched a strategy to remove callerpers seaweed
whilst researching its impacts and looking at national surveillance Biosecurity.

(01:59):
Minister Andrew High calls the fast growing invasive caleerper Brachipus
seaweed a pest that's news in sport history. For skier
Alice Robinson after winning the latest Giant Slalom World Cup
event in Colorado. The twenty three year old was victorious
zero point nine six seconds as she collected her fifth
career World Cup win. That's the most by a female

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skier from outside Europe and North America. Alice Robinson's reacted
to the accolade.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I didn't know that, but wow, yeah, that is pretty cool.
I mean, it's always really special for me to represent
New Zealand, especially at a sport like ski racing that's
so dominated by North America and Europe. So I'm really
proud of that.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Supercars championship leader Brock Feene is inching closer to a
maiden season title after securing pole position for this afternoon
season finale in Adelaide. Racing begins at quarter to six.
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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