Afternoon Edition: 06 May 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 06 May 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 railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Tuesday, the sixth of May. The government's begun
reading legislation. It's pushing through under urgency, which has passed
its first reading to raise the threshold for claims of
sex based pay discrimination. It's pausing unresolved claims which will

(00:24):
affect many workers and save significant government cost. Speaking to
media with other female cabinet ministers, Finance Minister Nicola Willis
says funds will be provided for future claims. She says
changing the pay equity regime is about principles, not cost savings.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
What this is about is ensuring that we are clear,
transparent and fear to ensure that we're those claims are made.
They relate to gender based discrimination.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Protesting outside parliament. CTU Secretary Melissa ansel Bridges says this
will put hundreds of thousands with claims in process back
to square one. She said this is clearly about this
month's budget.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Because the legislation is complicated or has mudded the waters,
as brookvan Valden would have us believed.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
That is an excellent lie.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Public sector watchdog, the Auditor General is putting government school
lunches under the microscope. The inquiry into the cut price
Ministry of Education program will probe the planning contracts, nutritional
value and procurement. Political reporter Azariah Howell has more a two.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Year contract with the School Lunch Collective reportedly cost eighty
five million dollars a year. Lunches have been criticized for
quality and timeliness issues in contractor LaBelle Group, a part
of the school Lunch Collective, went into liquidation during term one.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
A plume of thick black smokers rising above Dunedin as
Crewe's battle a large commercial farm building blaze at Blackhead.
It broke out to staff to three. Five trucks and
two tankers are attending. A man's appeared in caught after
a shot was fired at a person in Masterton's Ministry
of Social Development office yesterday. No one was hurt. A

(02:07):
twenty five year old man arrested nearby has faced charges
of conducting a dangerous act with intent and illegal firearm possession.
AI is impacting law exams at Victoria University of Wellington.
The university has confirmed students in two upcoming exams won't
be able to use laptops and will have to handwright

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their answers. Courtney Winter reports.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Professor Briany James says supervising exams on laptops has become
increasingly difficult given AI tools embedded in computers. She says
there will view exam results from this trimester to ensure
they're in line with previous years and to confirm students
unsignificantly impacted. The university hopes it will have another solution

(02:51):
in time for end of year exams.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Vandals and four wheel drives of modown thirty eight Pohutakawa
along naps Marine Parade, gifted to the community over the
past five years. Local Democracy reports barriers protecting the native
trees were removed overnight Saturday and the plants run over.
Maya Kirsten Wise says it's heartbreaking, but the trees will

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be replaced to sport and more cumings and goings than
Shortland Street and the Warrior's medical Room. This week head
of Facing the Dragons when Delanwadenez A Lesniak is expected
to be back, along with second row at Jacob Laban
and possibly co Captain James Fisher, Harris but Roccoberry, Ali
Leathaua and Ed Corsi are expected to be sidelined All

(03:37):
Blacks and Hurricanes prop Passi Leo Torsi has re signed
until twenty twenty eight, and Blues midfielder Bryce Heim has
announced his retirement from all rugby. That is your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update tomorrow
morning from the news Talk z'd be Newsroom.