Afternoon Edition: 03 September 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 03 September 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 Susie north Twist. This is your afternoon
News fixed for Wednesday, the third of September. Our question
mark over one of the disability support changes revealed today.
The government scraped the purchasing rules, giving flexible funding users
freedom to choose what support services they need within a budget.
It is also introducing a single assessment process for personal

(00:27):
support plans to tackle the postcode lottery disability connect Mike
Potter says it will be difficult for one assessment to
cover all disabilities.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Even if you do that, the assess is all human.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
There's always going to be human element on it, and
I don't know how you're going to be able to
mane that completely consistently. The government is loosening rules for
New Zealand food exporters in its latest slash of red tape.
Lachlan Rennie has more.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
From Maybe this month. KII exporters won't need to apply
for special exemptions from our own rules if the products
meet the requirements of the important country. Food Safety Minister
Andrew Hoggard says it eliminates a process that drove up costs,
created delays and sometimes meant missed opportunities. He says the
new rules cut paperwork and give more certainty a view.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
China's huge military parade was aimed at challenging the Western
international order. Kem John Un and Vladimir Putin joined Chinese
President Shijingping for the commemorations marking the eightieth anniversary of
the end of World War II. Australian Strategic Policy Institutes
David Rowe told Sky News China delivered a message to

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developing nations. We are the center of the modern international order,
so you should be aligning yourself with us, not with
that crazy guy over there in the Oval Office. A
raft of new parental controls are coming to chat gpt
after a teen's death was allegedly linked to the chatbot.
BBC reports open ai is bringing in stronger protections within

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the next month, including giving parents a notification if the
platform thinks their child is an acute distress. Open Ai
says chat gpt users must be at least thirteen years
old and have parental permission if they're under eighteen. Google's
had a huge legal win avoiding a court order to
sell off Chrome or Android. BBC reports the tech giant

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was sued by the US Department of Justice. In twenty
twenty over its control of about ninety percent of the
online search market. A US federal judge as rule the
tech giant doesn't have to sell, but has to share
data with rivals to help open up competition and online search.
Parliament's former speaker says leaving the Paris Climate Agreement is

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a bad idea. Act wants the government to withdraw unless
targets are made easier for farmers, but Prime Minister Chris
Luxen has said no. Lockwood Smith has returned to farming
and agrees with David Seymour that methane emissions are treated unfairly,
but he says pulling out won't help our cause the
way we can have influencers through being involved in inside

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and using sound sites to influence decision making. To sport Now,
Springboks coach Razi Arrasma says it's a nervous weekend the
lead up to Saturday's test against the All Blacks at
Eden Park, with both teams under real pressure to improve
on their one win, one lost Rugby Championship record. Future
New Zealand football generations will benefit from the shock injury

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and forced retirement of Auckland FC goalkeeper Scott Morris with
the twenty four year old Keene to coach at youngsters.
I'm Susie Nordquist and that is your latest news fix.
We will be back with the next update tomorrow morning
from the News talksi BNUS room.