Afternoon Edition: 06 January 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 06 January 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks headby Newsroom, this is NEWSFACS and
this updation. New Zealand political leaders passed into present to
paying their final respects to Dame at Tatiana Tudia. Christopher Luxen,
Bill English, Nikola Willis and Chris Hipkins have been formally
welcomed onto fung erhum Ati south of wang NUIs this
afternoon for the third and final day of Dame Tariana's tonguey.

(00:30):
Peter Sharples has paid tribute to the friend and colleague
who he worked alongside to establish their party Mali in
two thousand and four. Maori Development Minister Tama Portuka has
also been speaking on behalf of the government. Dame at
Tariana will be buried tomorrow. Hope the US announcements around
warning labels on alcoholic drinks will reignite consumption conversations in

(00:51):
New Zealand. US Surgeon General Vivic Murphy wants alcoholic drinks
to carry a cancer warning label because consumers are unware
of the risks. Alcohol Health Watch director Andrew Galloway says
population based measures here are the most effective ways to
change people's awareness. He says there's room for better education,
which warning labels fit into things like price and availability

(01:14):
and restrictions on marketing. So some of the better measures
that we can look at, and these are things that
the Government have been presented with recommendations on in the past.
Lawyers and judges are bearing much of the brunt of
rising court room assaults. Open Justice reports four hundred and
fifty assaults have occurred in courtrooms since twenty nineteen. Men
he targeted towards council or other court personnel. Most recently,

(01:36):
two security guards were assaulted in the cargo, leaving one
with facial injuries. The Law Association's Samira to Gave says
slow processes and stressful proceedings leads to emotional outbursts. As
the fans lawyers, we often become the easiest target for
that frustration everybody sees, as as the villains, blaming us
for the delays or the decision we don't even control.

(01:57):
Calls for vigilance at train crossings. Log trains resume services
to New Plymouth today after an eighteen month hiatus. They'll
run between Wanganui and New Plymouth most days, and Port
Tartanaki will also be included. Kiebi Rowl says people should
expect trains at any time and a bay signage around tracks.
That's new zime Adam Cooper and Sports. Japan's Headeki Matsuyama

(02:21):
has broken the PGA too As seventy two whole scoring
record and winning the opening event of twenty twenty five
in Hawaii by three strokes. Matsuyama's thirty five under total
was one stroke better than the previous record said by
Australian Cameron Smith when he won the same tournament in
twenty twenty two. KB tennis star Aaron Ratliff has explained

(02:41):
how the cancer treatment of her doubles playing partner Gabby
Debrowski may actually have helped them achieve their meteoric heights
last year. The Canadians revealed she was diagnosed with breast
cancer in April, leading to two surgeries, but that didn't
stop them reaching the Wimbledon final and winning the WTA
finals debrass If you had radiation therapy two weeks before

(03:02):
the US Open, where they made the quarterfinals, Ralph says
it took their support from one another to a higher level,
and that's sport. For more news, listen to News Talk
Said Be Live on iHeartRadio