Afternoon Edition: 29 August 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 29 August 2024, 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 Wendy Petrie and this is your afternoon
newsves for Thursday, the twenty ninth of August. A senior
New Zealand First Minister has earned a rebuke from the
Attorney General after again speaking critically about a senior member
of the judiciary. Shane Jones was today asked about earlier
calling a High Court judge of communist and doubled down.

(00:25):
This was a broad discussion that the creep of a
lot of these judicial decisions is beginning to show elements
of totalitarianism. Judith Collins was asked moments later about those
comments and struck a displeased tone. Peter to keep the
respect between the executive and judiciary, as is between Parliament

(00:46):
and the judiciary. I will be speaking to him further.
Long term support to help thousands of Kiwis manage their
type one diabetes, FARMAC will fund continuous glucose monitors, insulin
pumps and insulin pumpkin rensumables from October. Pharmaceutical Funding Manager
Adrian Martin says this is the first time the monitors
have been funded. We estimate that around twelve thousand people

(01:09):
access cgms in the first year of funding and that
that number will rise to about eighteen thousand after five
years positivity In Canterbury after wide scale arrests of common
Cero gang members and a crackdown on drug dealing, every
Patched member of the christ Church chapter has been arrested
as part of Operation Avon, with twenty one arrests in
total across Auckland and christ Church. Millions of dollars of

(01:33):
illicit drugs were seized. Detective Inspector Darren Thompson says this
level of crime doesn't go unnoticed and people in the
community say they're relieved. I think it will make a
very large tent. Certainly. Our intelligence said that this group
was responsible for the majority of Class A drugs coming
into the area. Hawk's By Regional Council has come under

(01:53):
fire for letting Patched gang members where Regalia in its
chambers despite an active banter unanimously to keep its mildy
wards yesterday, but photos afterwards posted on Facebook show gang
members celebrating. Local Government Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Justice
Minister David Seymour had both slammed the council for not

(02:14):
upholding the law. The council replied saying it acknowledges people's concerns,
but says it doesn't have the authority to exclude members
of the public. The offending photo and comment have since
been deleted. The Minister in charge of Disability issues says
a harsher approach to finding people taking advantage of disabled

(02:34):
car parks will deter selfish behavior. From October, the penalty
for abusing mobility parking increases from one hundred and fifty
dollars to seven hundred and fifty. Louise Upstin says a
significant lift will stop people taking parks away for those
who need them. So we've gone pretty hard and high,
which seems a very strong signal that arrogant, selfish kiwis

(02:57):
who don't need an accessible park shouldn't be pled. The
new black Caps bowling coach Jacob Orum claims his background
is a batting all round her at international level will
only help him in his role Oram takes over the
role vacated by Shane Jiginsen In November. Gogo golf is
reminiscing on one of her appearances in Auckland after her

(03:18):
second round victory at the US Tennis Open. The defending
champion has beaten Germany's Tiana Maria six four six Love
and the Phoenix Men have signed Japanese footballer Kazuki Nagasawa
on a two year A League deal. That's your latest
news to fix from the news Talk, said B Newsroom.