Afternoon Edition: 07 August 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 07 August 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 Wendy P. Tree and this is your
afternoon news fixed for Thursday, the seventh of August. Reassuring
words from the government is Donald Trump's higher tariffs officially
take effect. New Zealand's among countries facing fifteen percent from today.
Some a subject to still higher levees, but others like
Australia and the UK are staying on ten percent. Finance

(00:25):
Minister Nicola Willis says our exporters will be resilient in
our economy still in good shape.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let's not overdo how bad the Trump tariffs are going
to be for New Zealand unless it knock our confidence.
The fundamentals in the economy are good.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
The Education Minister says it's not unusual to find mistakes
in school workbooks. New ministry funded maths resource books have
eighteen identified errors, including incorrect sums and a mistake in
Today or Maori. The mistakes have been signaled to schools
and corrected. Eric of Stanford says the odd era turns
up here and there. The point is that we listen.

(01:00):
We went out to schools and said when you find anything,
we will be immediately onto it with very responsive and
receptive and we make those changes straight away, but just
got on those kids were picking them up. Primary Teachers
Union NZDI says a Ministry of Education collective agreement offer
is insulting and has turned it down. It says members
overwhelmingly say no to accepting an annual one percent rise

(01:22):
for the next three years. Negotiation team lead Liam Rutherford
says the offer essentially expected teachers to take a cut,
coming on the heels of the government scrapping pay equity claims.
Rutherford says Primary Teachers will hold union meetings and other
education member groups this month to decide next steps. Hope's
electric vehicle drivers will get a level playing field. The

(01:45):
government is looking to transition from charging fuel taxes to
applying electronic road user charges on all vehicles. The goal
is lifting revenue, spreading taxes more fairly across road users,
including evs drive electric board Chairston Cousen says as talk
of basing it on weight, she says evs tend to
be heavier, so they wouldn't like that to be the

(02:07):
only criteria. Looking at a missions profile of each vehicle
we feel would be a great place to start. The
Ministry of Youth Development is putting one point five million
dollars into Youth Business enterprise funding eleven community based providers.
It says it will benefit more than five thousand young kiwis.

(02:28):
Rosy Leishman has more.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Three funds will support programs targeting different levels of enterprise
experience for those age twelve to twenty four. Youth Minister
James Meagher says this will help young people see themselves
not just as job seekers, but as change makers. He
says it's an investment in ensuring the next generation can
develop the entrepreneurial and workplace skills to grow New Zealand's economy.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Two Sport and Crusaders coach Rob Penny believes Richie Muanga
can get back into the All Blacks without being a
regular a Super Rugby starter. The thirty one year old
will be All Blacks eligible again from October next year
after signing an eighteen month deal starting in July. Naomi
Osaka hitting form just as tennis finals Grand Slam of

(03:13):
twenty twenty five approaches, advancing to the final of the
National Bank Open in Montreal, and former Kangaroos and Storm
Rugby League captain Cameron Smith's been inducted into the Sport
Australia Hall of Fame. I'm Wendy Pattern. That's your latter's
news fix. We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning.
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