Afternoon Edition: 26 May 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 26 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
fixed for Monday, the twenty sixth of May. The Finance
Minister's shrugging off Green Party accusations her budget has a
three quarter billion dollar hole. Chloe Swarbricks pointed out the
lack of explicit funding to cover increasing civil servants. Can
we save a contribution over time to four percent? Nikola

(00:27):
Willis says they're still calculating that figure, but it'll be
in next year's budget.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
We will now be working with individual government agencies to
identify what potential costs they could face in order to
meet these new key we saver requirements.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Meanwhile, Willis says a people's committee won't change the fact
pay equity laws have already passed. The legislation raising the
bar for claims and canceling many under way passed under
urgency this month, meaning it didn't go through consultation. Former
National MP Maryland Wearing has for parliamentarians will examine the

(01:03):
legislation as done in parliament under usual conditions. Will It
says they're free to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Still are free to share their views on it and
to have debate, but the government has already made up
its mind on this issue.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Farmers are sounding the alarm warning the sheep industry is collapsing.
Numbers have declined from seventy million just over forty years
ago to twenty five million today. Farmers say carbon farming
is the main factor reducing productive farmland. Federated Farmers Meat
and woolchair Toby Williams says the industry needs support now.

(01:37):
It's up to the government to make some changes, otherwise
we run the rest of not having a sheep industry anymore.
Greyhound New Zealand claims the government's greyhound racing ban broke
fundamental laws. The Racing Minister renounced plans in November to
wind down the sport, giving the industry twenty months to transition.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Lachlan Rennie reports CEO Warodvnlysies your applying for a judicial
review to expose inadequate informing, preparing and consulting by the government.
He says laws impacting livelihoods must be extremely well articulated
and evidenced. The organizations also applying for a court order
to stop the Crown working on the ban during the

(02:19):
judicial review.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
A person has life threatening injuries after a three vehicle
crash on State Highway one at tai Haape in Manawatu
huang Nui. Nelson will have a temporary inpatient unit as
its new hospital in patient builder is brought forward two
years to twenty twenty nine. It comes under the budget
twenty twenty five Health Package. Within the next year, a

(02:42):
temporary transportable site will be up. Health Minister Simeon Brown
admits there aren't enough beds now.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
This will ensure that there's beds going into the future,
but also having this modular unit put in place even
sooner will mean we can grow that capacity in the
short term.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
To Sportman to fit again. Billy Doctor feels he's getting
back to his best just as the Hurricanes head for
the Super Rugby playoffs. The two test all blacksmith Field
has played five games since returning from an r Kelly's injury.
Racing Balls team boss Laurent mckezy is lavishing praise on
Liam Lawson after he produced the best result of his

(03:20):
Formula one career and the next have rallied from twenty
points down to beat the Pacers one six to one
hundred in Game three of the Eastern Conference Finals. In
Basketball's NBA, that is your latest news Fix. We'll be
back with the next update tomorrow morning. From the news
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