Afternoon Edition: 04 May 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk Savvy newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, two billion dollars has been set aside for
new helicopters and nine hundred and fifty seven million dollars
earmarked over four years for Defense force activities. It's the
first step in a twelve billion dollar investment plan for
defense spending to eventually reach two percent of GDP. Defense

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Minister Judith Collins says the Defense force needs the tools
to respond both domestically and globally when something happens. You
needed defense force as ready and equipped to do whatever
is asked of it, and it needs to be able
to do that immediately. Prime Minister Chris Luxon says New
Zealand's values include supporting the rules based system, but we
also can't just talk the values and the words. We

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actually need to back it up with defence assets and
security assets, and that's what we're doing. New Zealanders are
becoming increasingly anxious about storms and heavy rainfall. An IPSOS
survey for the insurance company IAG New Zealand found over
half of respondents recently experienced anxiety because of weather. Almost
half are specifically concerned about flooding. The so called trumps

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slump could soon play a role in our next election.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi has been re elected overnight
in a landslide victory. Canadian newcomer Mark Kharney was voted
into office earlier in the week. Former National Party Minister
Stephen Joyce says mister Karne and mister Albanesi's victories represent
a swing away from the more marga style of populist

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policies that can be driven by social media. Mister Joyce
expects to see a similar change in our next election.
What it does mean is that you actually have to
persuade the broad middle that these are the right moves.
It's not enough to persuade social media. Tensions arising between
India and Pakistan. Small arms firings been reported along the border.
Pakistan claims India's planning to launch military action. Pakistan test

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fired a ballistic missile today. India's announced a ban on
all Pakistan ships, imports and post. The cause is a
terrorist attack that killed at least twenty six tourists in
Indian Administered Cashmir last month. That's news in sport Moana,
Pasifica have the advantage over the Highlanders in their Super
Rugby game under Way and Dunedin moments ago. Early in

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the second half, Moana led twenty two fifteen Blues loose
forward Cameron Seuer far as cancers returned. The Blues say
the twenty seven year olds undergone surgery to resect another
tumor after the return of his sarcoma. The Wellington Phoenix
plan to send off a pair of defenders in their
A League regular season finale with Perth Glory in Wellington.

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Scott Wooten and Sam Sutton are playing their final games
in Phoenix colors, with the defensive duo link to the
Glory next season play just underway. Gulfer Ryan Fox has
mixed five birdies with four bogies for a one under
third round to be tied for fifty second at the
latest PGA Tour event in Texas. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan.

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