Afternoon Edition: 04 January 2026

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 04 January 2026, 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 (00:02):
From the news Talk Zebby newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is NEWSFX.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
In this update, former dined in there and current Councilor
Jules Raddick has died after a heart attack yesterday. Dunedin
City Council says mister Radick died just before one this afternoon,
surrounded by his family. Jacob Jones reports.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Raddick was elected a councilor in twenty nineteen before defeating
Aaron Hawkins in twenty twenty two. He lost the mariorty
last year, but was elected as a counselor. Current Mayor
Sophie Barker says she's shocked and saddened by his sudden
passing and says he was a dedicated member of council
who she admired for his service.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
State Highway won in South Auckland's Takanini is down to
one lane northbound after a truck carrying a small house
collided with an overbridge. This happened between the Papacuda on
ramp and the Bunnaroo at Takanini off ramp just before
half past three this afternoon. All southbound lanes are open.
There is some confidence Kiwi kids are getting the swimming

(00:58):
lessons they need. Even though fewer schools now have pools,
Around fourteen hundred schools around the country have a pool,
twenty five percent fewer than had them twenty years ago.
School Boards control their funding water safety, and ZED helps
cover maintenance. Intervention lead Estejne says support is vital to
ensure kids learn to swim, whether that's keeping school pools

(01:19):
open or sending students to pools nearby.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Pools costs a lot to run, and the maintenance and
operating costs may not be realistic for many, and it's
ongoing cost, especially if it have been existing since a
nineteen thirsty.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
The GP practices whose patients were affected by a cyber
security breach that managed by Health have now been identified.
The online health portal reported unauthorized access to its systems
during the week, but says the incident has now been contained.
Health end ZED has established an incident management team and
is working with GPS to assess the impact on patients

(01:55):
and their practices. It expects Manage My Health to have
a time frame for notifying those patients who've been affected
by Tuesday. That's news In Sport, Joe Root and Harry
Brook have steadied the ship with a one hundred one
partnership midway through day one of the fifth and final
cricket Tests in Sydney. The pair came together in England

(02:15):
having won the toss and chosen to bat. Had been
reduced to fifty seven for three, but a short time
ago they moved the score on to one hundred and
eighty four for three. Australian cricket great Damian Martin is
progressing well in his recovery after being placed in an
induced coma amid a battle with meningitis. The fifty four
year old right hand batter, who played sixty seven Tests

(02:37):
for Australia fair illed suddenly late last month and was
rushed to a Gold Coast hospital where he remains. The
Breakers are underway in their game with the Perth Wildcats
in their NBL basketball clash. It began at Auckland's Spark
Arena moments ago. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news,
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