Afternoon Edition: 30 May 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 30 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 Rayleen Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Friday, the thirtieth of May. David Seymour slamming
a challenge of a charity boxing match from a prominent
Marty rights activist as primitive and immature behavior. Toy two
to teddy Et protest leader Eru Karpakinghi posted on social

(00:24):
media saying or slamming, I should say Seymour's suggestion his
mother to party mariy MP Maria men No Kapakinghi was
an idiot with their opposition to the regulatory standards bill.
Cappa Kinghi posted saying it got personal. This is just
part and parcel of this normalized behavior of stepping on wah,

(00:45):
attacking and making them feel less than an act. MP
is fighting to make it illegal for people to produce
and publish AI generated explicit content without the consent of
those in it. Laura McClure said, is currently it's too
easy to make deep fake images of people in Parliament
needs to act to make the practice a crime. She's

(01:07):
pushing for MPs on both sides of the House to
support her bill. It's basically adding a few words and
legislation we already have to just close the loophole and
make sure that we don't see any more victims of
this kind of abuse. Residents in Dargaville are either with
our water or being asked to conserve it. The Kaipitta
District Council is repairing a number of major water main

(01:28):
brakes which earlier today dropped reservoir levels critically. Low water
is being tanked in from other areas, with supply expected
fully resumed at around six tonight. Mayor Craig Jepson is
thanking residents for doing their bits on the course of
signs concerned. We know absolutely Young Mail of the Woods
with US Community correction staff are preparing for industrial action

(01:52):
over low pay and ballooning workloads. The Department of Corrections workers,
which includes probation officers and electronic monitoring staff, manage twenty
six thousand people outside of prison. The Public Service Association
says probation officers were subject to a five year long
pay equity claim before the government made rush changes to

(02:14):
the process. Auckland War Memorial Museum will partially reopen next
week after three weeks of closure. It was forced to
shut its doors for assessment and cleaning after asbestos was
detected in the original part of the building. The museum
says it's been given clearance to reopen two thirds of
the building on Tuesday. Chief Executive David Reeves says it's

(02:36):
been losing nineteen thousand dollars a day. We are lucky
this time of the year is generally but quieter and
we are between two touring exhibitions, so that was going
to be a quiet time anyway. Wet weather and blustery
winds are expected to continue for parts of the country.
Meet Service has warnings and watches in plays for the
Chantham Islands, the Canterbury High Country, the bottom of the

(02:57):
country and the North Islands East Coast. Met Service forecaster
Lewis Ferris says drivers should be careful if he watches
around and as to all that risk of further snowfall
on some of those alpine passes around the South Island.
Today to sport, thirty nine year old silver Ferns great
Casey Kupor is coming out of retirement to play an
Australia's Super Netball as injury cover for the Greater Western

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Sydney Giants. The seven month dispute between the Black Caps
and New Zealand Cricket over the player's name, image and
likeness rights is over and national men's coach Gary Stead
is leaving after his contract expired. The New York nexts
Of forced game six in the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals,
with the commanding one eleven to ninety four home court

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win over the Indiana Paces. That is your latest news fix.
We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning from the
news Talk zb newsroom