Afternoon Edition: 18 May 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 18 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):
From the News Talks Heavy newsroom. This is NEWSFECS. In
this update, communities across New Zealand are said to benefit
from a boost in urgent care. Budget twenty twenty five
on Thursday will invest one hundred and sixty four million
dollars for urgent care across New Zealand. The Prime Minister
says people in rural areas should not have to be
worried about what will happen late at night if their

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child gets sick or they're injured. Chris Luxon says it
will bring great benefits for the rest of the health
system if.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We can actually get people treated closer to home. Obviously
take their pressure out of the ed. Obviously, the cost
when you send someone into an d its probably closer
to about eight hundred dollars, when they use an ambulance
about one thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Two people are reported dead and as many as twenty
are injured after a Mexican Navy ship collided with the
Brooklyn Bridge. Three people are in critical condition. The Mexican
Navy announced on x the damage involved a training ship.
The status of personnel and material elsewhere is under review
by naval and local authority. Former Assistant Secretary of Homeland
Security Juliet Kayum told CNN the investigation should be quick.

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The bridgeton come down, so in this way there's not
a whole bunch of sort oversight of the primary focus
of investigation is going to be the ship wins for
MOTAT at the Museum's and Heritage Global Awards in London.
MOTAT has won the International Exhibition of the Year, the
museum world equivalent of an oscar for their Science and
Technology Center. This is the second year in a row

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MOTATS won on the same stage, taking out Best Use
of Digital Media category in twenty twenty four. Head of
Exhibition Simon Gould says they're thrilled to be acknowledged. Mister
Gould says it's a great honour just to be shortlisted
alongside the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo and Seattle's Museum
of Pop Culture. A Select committee's currently considering a bill

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that would allow councils to introduce congestion charges on trucks
at peak times. Transporting New Zealand Boss Dom Cullasey says
they're asking to be exempt from any future chargers. He
told the committee congestion charging is about increasing productivity. Mister
Cullsey says freight cost would likely rise if trucks were
forced to pay. That's news In sport, Warriors co captain

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Mitch Barnett is firming for New South Wales State of
Origin selection, with reports he's been told not to jump
on a plane back home with the team. Sydney's Daily
Telegraph reports while the rest of the Warrior's squad headed
home after the win over the Dolphins in Brisbane yesterday,
Barnett headed for Sydney. Brisbane's Courier Mail reports Warrior's team
mate Kirk Capewell's been overlooked for Queensland and flew back

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to New Zealand this morning. The Northern Stars led the
Mainland Tactics fifteen fourteen moments ago at the end of
the first quarter of the A and Z Netball Premiership
game in Auckland. Everton's Premier League side farewells Goodson Park
tonight against Southampton, bringing down the curtain on more than
one hundred and thirty years at the ground. That's sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to New Talk

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