Afternoon Edition: 08 September 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 08 September 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 Jody Gill and this is your afternoon
Newspas for Monday, the eighth of September. The children and
future of Tom Phillips are still missing. The Maricopa father
was shot dead by police in the early hours of
this morning following a burglary in Waikato's Peel Pew. He
and one of his children were riding a quad bike

(00:24):
which was stopped by police spikes. An approaching officer was
then shot multiple times, including in the head, and is
receiving surgery on his eye. A second officer arrived at
the scene and shot the gunman dead. Acting Deputy Commissioner
Jill Rogers says they believe as two other children are
unaccompanied and locating them tonight is a priority. We have

(00:47):
about three hours of daylight left. We have a number
of resources in the area. You can hear our Eagle helicopter.
We have specialist teams on the ground. Rogers says they
will search through the night. And Sportsman has been found
not guilty of injuring a baby in Dunedin. The high
profile figure was accused of causing thirteen rib fractures and

(01:08):
a broken collar bone to an infant in July twenty
twenty three. The jury spent four hours deliberating before coming
to a unanimous decision in Dunedin District Court today. Following
the verdict, the defendant embraced the infant's mother as they
both sobbed. Little emotion from triple murderer Aaron Patterson as

(01:28):
she was sentenced to life in prison with a non
parole period of thirty three years. The fifty year old
mother of two murdered her three in laws after lacing
their beef wellingtons with poisonous death cap mushrooms in twenty
twenty three. She's also been sentenced to twenty five years
for the attempted murder of the sole survivor of the
lunch Ian Wilkinson. ABC newsers Sasha Payne was at the sentencing.

(01:54):
She closed her eyes for a lot of it. When
Beer was speaking, she looked straight ahead. She didn't look
at anyone else. Very composed. The Coalition is unable to
form a government. On new polling numbers despite gains for National,
a Taxpayer's Union, Curier Pole places Labour on thirty three
point eight percent on National is slightly behind on thirty

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three point one. The Pole puts the Center left on
sixty one seats, just able to make a government. The
coalition would fall short its sixty seats. Secondary school teachers
say they're considering a revised offer from the government for
the settlement of their collective agreement. The PPTA says the
offer includes more money for pay. It says it spread

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unevenly across the teaching workforce and sits below inflation. Nearly
twenty thousand teachers have until Thursday to vote. In sport,
winger Caleb Clark and flanker Luke Jacobson have linked up
with the All Blacks and Wellington ahead of the second
Test against South Africa. Halfback Noah Hotham's fit for selection again,

(02:56):
O hooker George Bells being brought in as injury cover
for Cody t Taylor. Jarnick Sinner's acknowledge Carlos al Karrath
was the better man after the Spaniards for set victory
in the final at the US Tennis Open. Sharks halfback
Niko Hines has escaped with a fine for his hip
drop tackle against the Bulldogs in their final NRL regular

(03:19):
season game. I'm Jody Gillan's your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update tomorrow morning from the
news Talk z B Newsroom