Midday Edition: 04 May 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks had been Newsroom this is newsfacs.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update, celebrations from Australia's Labor Party. Following an
historical election clean sweep, Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has been
re elected to the top job, leading his party to
an even larger majority than before. Albanesi says Australian people
have voted for the Australian values of fairness, aspiration, opportunity

(00:28):
and kindness. In this time of global uncertainty, Australians have
chosen optimism and determination. Labour holds eighty five seats, with
the opposite in trailing with thirty six as the last
votes were counted. The state of emergency in christ Church
and Banks Peninsula is now being reassessed to rental. Rain

(00:50):
drenched parts of Canterbury causing flooding, slips and road closures
midweek this week, Emily Ansel reports.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Christ Church City Council says four roads are still closed
in the city due to the managed release of water
from stormwater basins. Most roads and Banks Peninsula will be
open next week. Council is still asking I could all
residents to limit their wastewater use until the main is fixed.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
A memorial for an American student killed at an Auckland
bus stop is planned for today to raise money for
his family. Thirty three year old PhD student Car Warrel
died after being attacked in Meadow Bank on Easter weekend.
A sixteen year old has been charged with murder and
a thirty two year old charge with being an accessory
after the fact to murder. Herald reporter Isaac Davidson says

(01:40):
a service will start at three pm at Meadow Restaurant
on Saint John's Road. The crimes had a bit of
a a set on people and this is just a
way of giving their a remembrance of Carl Worrel. The
service includes a silent auction. A New Zealand organization's funding
prosthetics for more than twenty thousand children amputees in Gaza.

(02:01):
The Federal Islamic Association is working with UNISEEF to print
the prosthetic limbs. They cost about one sixth the price
of traditional prosthetics. That's news. In Sport, the Hurricanes are
holding their breath over the health of winger keneat Naholo
following their thirty five seventeen super Rugby went over the

(02:21):
Chiefs in Wellington. The blockbusting winger left the field just
seven minutes in with what looks to be a serious
knee injury. Coach Clark laid Law is given a foreboding assessment.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, it's non contact, you know, aescl comes to mind,
doesn't that. So we've got no idea. We'll just have
to dust ourselves off in the madis. We'll get a
look up at the start that we can take it
from there.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Coach Steve Carriker is hopeful Auckland FC won't meet their
bogie team in the A League Grand Final. The Black
Knights have ended the regular season with a full two
loss to Western United, becoming the only team to beat
them twice in their short history. Max vestafan And sists
his brilliant pole position for the Miami Grand Prix is
proof that becoming a father for the first I'm during

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the week will not slow him down that sports. I'm
Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen to News Talk said
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