Afternoon Edition: 01 June 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 01 June 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):
From the News Talks Edvy newsroom. This is newsfacs In
this update, attentions turning to cracking down on boy races
as violent gatherings plant fear in communities. Two police officers
were injured along with five bystanders in Palmerston North and
Levin on Friday, including a young woman whose legs were
run over. Ten people out of the one thousand strong

(00:25):
crowd have been arrested. Mayor Bernie Wanden says its unfortunate
many communities across the country are forced to put up
with this behavior. There's been a big drop in women's
representation in the government's new science leadership roles. The governments
appointed the boards of the three new public research organizations
that replaced several Crown Research institutes. The National Council of

(00:46):
Women highlights the previous boards collectively had a roughly fifty
to fifty gender split, but that's now an eighty twenty split,
not favoring women. Wellington Branch president Alisha Amoheir says it's
representative of this government stance on gender equity.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
We don't even have a Minister for women in cabinet.
But we've also seen the removal of diversity, equity and
inclusion initiatives.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Associate Housing Minister Tama Portiker says the number of warnings
for Cayanger Auto residents has increased more than six hundred
percent this financial year compared to the last. Jordan Dunn reports.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
It equates to one thousand, four hundred and sixty three
warnings so far. There's also been sixty three tenancies terminated
in the past ten months because of abusive, threatening, or
persistently disruptive behavior. In April, our newsroom revealed overall King
of Order tenancy terminations had more than doubled in the
year to March to two hundred and ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Auckland's Northern Club has proposed to spending members charged with
criminal offenses or declared bankrupt Our Newsroom understands Philip Pulkinghorn,
who was acquitted over the murder of his wife Pauline Hannah,
was blackballed from the Northern Club last November. A new
clause has been discussed at the Northern Club's annual meeting
regarding members charged with the criminal offense or bankruptcy proceedings.

(02:04):
That's news in Sport. The state of Indiana's celebrating the
end of a twenty five year drought. In the NBA's
Eastern Conference Finals, the Pacers have beaten the New York
Next one hundred and twenty five to one hundred and
eight in Game six to win their series four to
two and head into the NBA Finals. The PACER's longest
serving member, center Miles Turner, told ESPN of his relief.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I've spent a third of my life here.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's crazy, you know. I've really grown up here with y'all.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
It's so validating just to get this in this fashion
twenty five years later, and I'm just excited for what's next. Man.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
We got four more.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
The first season of Fantasy Super Rugby Pacifics officially ended
with more than seventy thousand players and four and a
half million transfers during the season. More on a PACIFICA
captain Ardie Savia was the most selected player that sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to News talksb
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