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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk said be Newsroom, this is NEWSFECS.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update. A decision on the fate of former
Green MP Darlene Tana will be over a month away.
Green Party co leader Chloe Swarbrick says the party will
hold a meeting on September first to decide whether to
invoke the party hopping rule. She and fellow co leader
Madama Davidson have written to Tana reiterating their request for
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her to stand down.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
They have acted in a way that has distorted and
is likely to continue to distort, the proportionality a political
party representation in Parliament.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
But Swarbricks says they won't write to the Speaker seeking
remove the removal of Tana until they have the clear
support of the party membership.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Any decision to use the party hopping provisions of the
Electoral Act will require in depth discussions not only by
our caucus but by the broader Green Party.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Darlene Tana has twenty one working days to respond to
the matters raised in the letter. Tan arrived back in
Parliament this week as an independent MP. Meanwhile, disgraced MP
gora Is Gudeman's court documents have been revealed, including her
AFFI David and letters of support she received. The former
Green MP was convicted for shoplifting last month after stealing
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nearly nine thousand dollars worth of items from high end stores.
Thomas Rice has more.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Numerous letters of support have been revealed, including from former
Green's MP Denise Roche and former Criminal Bar Association president
Anthony Boscher, as well as Gudeman's ten page effidavit explaining
her actions in her own words. It noted her traumatic
background as a refugee, her mental health, and the media
fallout over the case.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Police continue to crack down on boy races in Wellington.
Officers have been targeting boy racer groups across the Hart
Valley and Portidua following an unruly car meet in Levin
last month which saw some police attacked with rocks and bottles.
Last night saw seventy fines issues, twenty vehicles removed from
the road when one spiked with the driver then arrested
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for failing to stop in Sport. The pressure is on
the Canterbury Rams to go back to back in basketballs
and bl That's the view of Auckland to atata Ford
Tom Vodanovich. Ahead of this afternoon's Grand final in christ Church.
I think then coming off a championship last season and
then a big streak this year.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I mean, I think they're feeling it as well.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think they probably didn't want to see us in
the final, the pressure, but I'm going to put it
on them anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We're coming and ready to go.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Tip off is at two point thirty. New Zealand Football
remain unhappy despite the punishments handed out to the Canadian
women's team in the wake of drone gate at the
Paris Olympics. FIFA have docked Canada six points, while head
coach Bev Priestman and two other staff have been banned
for one year after they used drones to spy on
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Kiwei t rainings ahead of Thursday's two to one win
for Canada. In a statement, and z F says they're
pleased to see swift action, but insist the issue remains
that Canada likely had an unfair sporting advantage.
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