Afternoon Edition: 07 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 07 April 2025, 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 Rayleen Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Monday, the seventh of April. A new multi
billion dollar defense spend up. The government's unveiled its Longer
Way to Defense Capability plan, including twelve billion dollars spending
over four years. Political editor Jason Wall says this includes
a mammoth nine billion dollars of new spending.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Currently, the equivalent of roughly one point two percent of
GDP is spent on defense. Today's plan takes that figure
up to two percent by twenty thirty two. The new
plan includes funding for enhanced strike capabilities, javelin anti tank
missile upgrades, a new maritime helicopters. Defense Minister Judith Collins
says the world has become inherently more dangerous and the

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new funding is critical for small countries like New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The breakdown prone seven to five sevens used to ferry
the Prime Minister on international trips are being replaced. Between
six hundred thousand and a billion dollars will go into
new aircraft in coming years. Potential ramifications from attack ads
style to look a lot like a Green Party billboard.
The Sensible Sentencing Trust boards include official candidate. Photos of

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MP's Chloe Swaalbreck and Tamitha Paul and the tagline defund
the Police Vote Green. He's political reporter Azaria Howell.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis says ads appearing to
encourage voting for a particular party can only be run
if authorized by its secretary. He says, arguably this counts
as an electoral Act breach punishable by finds up to
ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
An Australian football club says a man hospitalized after an
assault at Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium is a traveling fan.
Police are considering charges for a forty six year old
man arrested after an assault as Saturday's Auckland the FC's
A League MAC against Western Sydney Wanderers. Eight people were
evicted from the game and two arrested. An Australian national

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has had surgery for facial injuries. The Warrior says it's
liaising with authorities to review the matter and giving the
affected individual full support. An Auckland business owner has been
sentenced to four years in prison for these A violations,
exploiting workers and corruption. The Sarmuan national bribed employees at

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the Immigration New Zealand Sarmour office to help illegally recruit
overseas laborers. Jordan Dunn reports.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
The defendant, who has interim name suppression, would regularly make
employees work more than forty hours a week and paid
one hundred dollars a day. They've pleaded guilty to eleven
charges for offenses that took place between twenty fourteen and
twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
A woman who was told lip filler would improve her
gummy smile needed hospital treatment for damage caused by blocked
blood vessel. Donnebecka McLain has more.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Open Justice reports the cosmetic nurse who did the procedure
and October twenty twenty breached part of the Health Consumer's Code.
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Vanessa Cardwell says the nurse
failed to recognize and act on a condition known as
vascular occlusion. The nurse was recommended to provide a written
apology to the client, and she's had extra training to sport.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
An announcement over the future of Black Camp's coach Gary
Stead will be made this week as his contract ticks
closer to expiring. His current airl ends in June, the
New Zealand men's side have no matches shettled until two
tests in July in Zimbabwe, mountain biker Sammy Maxwell's become
the first New Zealand woman to win a World Cup

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cross country race, claiming honors at the latest event in
Brazil two thousand and nine Masters champion and called crib
Caberrero has tuned up for his return to Augusta with
his first professional win since leaving jail. And that is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update tomorrow morning. For the from the News Talk sed

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