Afternoon Edition: 05 January 2026

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 05 January 2026, 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 (00:02):
From the news Talk Zebby newsroom. This is newsfex. In
this update, the Health Minister is swiping away union accusations
that the government is at fault for a major health
data breach, saying they're playing politics. Manage my health. New
Zealand's largest personal health portal has confirmed unauthorized access to
its systems. Private data of more than one hundred thousand

(00:25):
New Zealanders is possibly at risk. The PSA says the
government needs to look at itself and how job cuts
of impacted data protection. But Minister Simeon Brown says now
is not the time, but.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
There's time for it later on if that's what they
want to have, But at the moment, we're trying to respond.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Celebration and apprehension at the Venezuelan border in the aftermath
of President Nicholas Maduro's capture the US forcibly took him
in a military operation over the weekend, The BBC Sumisomacanda
says Venezuelans have been seen celebrating near the border with
columb Others say they're returning to Venezuela because of the

(01:03):
political change.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
That being said, you definitely sense the tension, you know,
coming into the airport and crossing through Columbia to come
to Kukuta. We saw the television screens really blaring with
the headlines of what will happen to Venezuela.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Police are calling on the public to help identify people
involved in a mass brawl on Auckland's Kananga Haafe Road
on the twenty eighth of December. Police are investigating three
serious assaults, with one person already arrested. They want help
identifying two people. One male was seen wearing black pants,
a blue and black hunting and fishing jacket and a

(01:37):
black cap with white writing. The second was wearing a
white shirt and a beige hat. And one person is
in a serious condition after a truck crash north of Auckland.
Emergency services were called to Jackson Way off East Coast
Road in Stillwater just after three where a person was
trapped after an incident involving a truck and a wall.

(01:58):
Motorists are being asked to avoid the area. I'm kay
Gregory and that's news in sport Kiwi bowl a row
and where it is closing in on the men's singles
title at the National Champs in christ Church. The Belfast
Club Rappers leading Australian international Nathan Black seventeen to nine
after sixteen ends of the final. First to twenty one

(02:20):
will win. Seventh seeded Wong shi U has piped unseeded
American Katherine McNally in three sets in the first round
of the ASB Tennis Classic in Auckland. In the NFL,
the Denver Broncos of bucked a recent trend, clinching the
American Conference number one seed for the first time in
a decade to earn a first round by in home

(02:40):
field advantage until the Super Bowl. The Seattle Seahawks of
the number one seed in the National Football Conference, and
England batter Joe Route has brought up one hundred and
fifty on day two of the Final Ashes Test against
Australia in Sydney. That's Sport. For more news, listen to
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