Afternoon Edition: 29 May 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 29 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 raining Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fix for Thursday, the twenty ninth of May. Slashing certain
consenting laws allowing more quarries and mining and reducing farming
red tape. They feature in the proposed government reform of
the Resource Management Act. The Associate Environment Minister has described

(00:24):
current climate regulations as out of proportion to the environmental
risk consultations opened until July twenty seven. RIMA reform Minister
Chris Bishop says they want to make it easier to
build houses and boost density. Our planning rules make it
too hard to build houses and zone for housing. Aucklanders

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could be racing for cover in stormy weather this afternoon.
Aloon from the Tasmans bringing severe gales and thunderstorms to
the North Island. Wind warnings apply an Auckland from four
to eight pm. Gusts up to one hundred kilometers could
hit Auckland's Harbor Bridge, with lane closures possible and orange
weather alert then runs until midnight. Med Service meteorologist Matabilo

(01:10):
Margabutine says conditions will be changeable, possibility of some hell
as well as some marine whet. The Prime Minister says
it's not good enough. Mental health patients are regularly fleeing
emergency departments. A Middlemoor Hospital patient safety report reveals five
patients took off within thirty six days last winter, one

(01:32):
trying to self harm once outside the front door. EDIE
doctors and psychiatrists say they've become default facilities for people
in distress with a lack of community services. Chris Luckson
says the mental health workforce isn't as strong as it
should be. A third of the people going to ED
departments frankly shouldn't be in there. They can be serviced

(01:52):
in GP clinics out with urgent care that would free
up capacity. So long is fifty seven year old or two,
multip all will stay open and get an upgrade thanks
to an air six million dollar council commitment, work will
be carried out between twenty twenty seven and twenty thirty three.
A fifty meter outdoor training pool will also be developed

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at mart Manganui College. A christ Church family of five
has described the chaos after having to abandon their rental
home on discovering it was meth contaminated. Georgia and Dylan
Wagcorn had to leave most of their possessions behind in
the Parkland's house. They say meth testing should be mandatory

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in all New Zealand rentals. George's father, Matt Grime says
the landlord needs to be held to account. Finantial burden
is huge, but the emotional and that just the carnage
is causing. He's just washed his hands of it. That
hass aren't a little bit over, they're absolutely horrendous. Organ
donation New Zealand's encouraging KIWIS to make it clear what

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they want after death. An annual report shows seventy people
donated organs, providing more than two hundred life saving kidney, liver, lung,
heart and pancreas transplants last year. Donor coordinated team leader
Sue Garland says donating is often left unspoken. Potentially could
feel uncomfortable with that conversation. What we would encourage it

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to be just light in general as possible to sport.
Thirty two year old Patrick tuy Palotu is certain his
body can hold up to the riggers of three more
years in New Zealand rugby after re signing with the
Blues and All Blacks until twenty twenty eight Oklahoma City
has thundered into basketball's NBA Finals, rumbling over the Timberwolves

(03:37):
one twenty four to ninety four in Game five to
win the Western Conference for one, and the unbeaten Mystics
aren't sure if star shooter Danel Wallam will be over
a wrist injury and fit to tackle the Mainland Tactics
in Saturday's top of the table an Z Premiership contest.
That is your latest news fix. We'll have another one

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for you tomorrow morning from the News Talk ZIGB Newsroom
MHM