Afternoon Edition: 08 June 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 08 June 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 Newstalk's Edby newsroom. This is newsfects. In this update,
the Immigration Minister says new visas for parents of New
Zealand citizens will bring us close to world standards. The
Parent Boost visa will allow the parents of citizens multi
entry access for up to five years. There'll be health,
insurance and income requirements. Erica Stanford says these requirements will

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prevent further strain on public services but make New Zealand
an attractive place for migrants to come. Missus Stanford says
it will help New Zealand attract skilled migrants from around
the world. The National Guard has been deployed in Los
Angeles as anti immigration enforcement protests are uped across the city.
More than one hundred people have been arrested in ic
raids as part of President Donald Trump's extensive crackdown on

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illegal immigration. There's been mass protests in Los Angeles over
the last twenty four hours, with a National Guard trying
to disperse protesters with tear gas. Homeland Securities condemned the
protests and calling for the targeting of law enforcement officers
to end and for the mayor and governor to call
for it to stop. A New AI led underwater robot

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could change the way the mussel farming industry works. The
University of Canterbury created robot is able to navigate and
scan shellfish to give key data on quantity and size.
Professor Richard Greene says it'll expand farming without being expensive
and could be worth up to eighty million dollars a
year for the muscle industry alone. Professor green says the

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device is able to replace multimillion dollar boats and hours
of labour used checking farms manually. We're really behind the
eight ball and automating it, so this is an opportunity
to begin their automation process. Sir David Attenborough's received royal
praise for his latest film documentary Ocean. In his address
covering ocean protection in Monaco, Prince William has urged world

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leaders to save the world sees. His Highness recently appeared
in Sir David's film Ocean aboutecting marine life. Sky's chief
Royal correspondent, Jack Royston says it was Prince William's way
of bringing global attention to the project and aligns the
Prince's conservation ambitions with fans of Sir David. That's news

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in sport. All White's coach Darren Baisley believes the one
nil win over Ivory Coast was valuable preparation for the
World Cup next year. In more ways than one. The
Canadian shield win over the reigning African champions came largely
without usual skipper Chris Wood, who came on with only
ten minutes remaining. Baisley says it was a big season
for Wood, so they're balancing giving him the rest he

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needs and seeing some other options up front. With an
eye to the World Cup. A women's State of Origin
fixture could be headed to christ Church next year at
the soon to open one New Zealand Stadium. Sydney's Daily
Telegraph reports the NRLs seeking interest from Tourism New Zealand
to help stand up the event. South Sydney led the
Raiders twelve mill moments ago in the first half of

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their NRL game in Canberra. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan.
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