Afternoon Edition: 27 July 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 27 July 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):
From the news Talk's Eddy Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, New Zealand, along with Canada and Australia, has
now joined growing international calls for a cease firing Gaza.
The conflict killed more than thirty nine thousand Palestinians and
created a humanitarian disaster. In a joint statement, the Prime
Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand say the situation

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is catastrophic and cannot continue. Sky News reports the leaders
all support the United States cease fire deal. They want
civilian protection to be the priority and are calling for
an increase in aid assistance throughout Gaza. Conversations are starting
within the Green Party to decide whether to impose waker
jumping laws on now independent MP Darleene Tanna. The party

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has been holding its AGM in christ Church this afternoon.
Miss Tana returned to the House as an independent MP,
despite calls for her resignation following a report on her
knowledge of alleged migrant exploitation at her Husbandan's business. Green
Party co leader Chloe Swarbrick now says Ms Tana is
not fit to be a member of Parliament. We've said
that the best way to have this conversation in a

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deliberative way is to start and define what a process
looks like. From this afternoon, a shooting in Auckland has
left one person in hospital in a serious condition. Another
two people were arrested and a firearms been seized after
a large number of people became involved in the suburb
of Glen Eden at about eight last night. Acting Detective
Senior Sergeant Matt Bartlett is asking for camera footage to

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be shared with police to help their inquiries. Hopes a
breakthrough in Parkinson's research could drastically improve the diagnosing process.
Until recently, diagnoses for Parkinson's could be made only post
mortem or in an invasive procedure. However, three hundred thousand
dollars funding to New Zealand researchers could mean that's changed.

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University of Canterbury psychology professor John darrymple Alford says there
is a much more low impact way. What we're planning
to do is to actually identifying the abnormalcy and indeed
many other things just simply in people's tears. That's news.
In sport, the All Blacks are sweating on the fitness
of Captain Scott Barrett, who's in doubt for the Rugby
Championship opener against Argentina because of a finger injury. Barrett

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was hurt in the win over Fiji in San Diego
and has had surgery. The Olympic Wave rolls on quite literally,
with the surfing starting in Tahiti tomorrow morning. Kiwi's Billy
Steerman and Safi Vetti are showing no fear as they
prepare to tackle one of the world's most dangerous breaks.
Sterman says it's important to block out the fearsome translation

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of Tiahupohol. A lot of people get hurt out there.
There's a lot of history. Mind the wave itself. The
name of the way is actually Wall of Scots, so
you know that they're putting it in your head times
that's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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