Afternoon Edition: 14 July 2026

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 14 July 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):
Good afternoon, I'm railing Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fix for Tuesday, the fourteenth of July. Winston Peters privately
asked Kiwi Rail to look at getting another inter island
of Faery, two weeks after saying it wouldn't make sense.
He's Senior political reporter Azariah Howell.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
A letter from March released under the Official Information Act
shows the Minister for Rail and instructed the provider to
look into the costs of an additional cook straight ferry
after concerns from freight companies. In a statement weeks before,
Peters rubbished the need for one.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Only one into island. A vessel is sailing currently with
ARTITEDI retired in two other's undergoing maintenance. Police ser blocked
tastings Russell Street South where a dog seriously injured one
person at about two thirty. The District Council Animal Control
team has been seen loading a dog in a van,
with police stopping traffic into the street. Tributes continued to

(00:59):
flow from friends of Kiwi actor Sam Neil, who died
suddenly in a Sydney hospital yesterday, aged seventy eight. He
starred an award winning films and TV in New Zealand
and abroad, including Jurassic Park, The Piano and Peaky Blinders.
Actor Alec Baldwin's reminisced about working with him in the

(01:19):
nineteen ninety The Hunt for October.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
That's one of the few movies I've ever done. W
I remember the whole movie.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh my god, my God, Sam Neil My love to
his family. I love to his family. Wow. Rest and peace.
And ABC journalist Laura Tingle has posted online writing sweet
Dreams Darling Sam, alongside a slide show of personal photos
together they dated between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one.

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Four sex abuse charges have been dropped against Australian radio
titan Alan Jones. The eighty five year olds pleading not
guilty to dozens of charges of indecent assault and sexual
touching between two thousand and three twenty twenty. He'll fight
the allegations in a four week hearing starting next month.
This week, the prosecution informed the court four charges of

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indecent assault have been withdrawn. It leaves six of an
original eleven complainants from the time the charges were laid
in twenty twenty four. Confidence is improving among businesses, but
they'll still need to hike prices. The latest ends at
Ier quarterly survey of business opinion shows a net twelve

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percent of businesses expect an economic upturn, but many have
reduced staff and investment and say thoure likely to have
to pass rising costs on to customers. Insidier Deputy Chief
Executive Christina Lewing says it varies across sectors, building sective
firms the fact that construction demand remains so weak they're

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actually cutting prices even as cost pressures are rising. The
tourism industry is gearing up to reach one hundred percent
of pre COVID visitor numbers. Tom men Zed believes we
can reach three point nine million international arrivals this year.
Stats and Z figures show May tourist arrivals were at
ninety three percent of May twenty nineteen two. Sport and

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the All Blacks are allaying an injury fair to Jordie
Barrett after he didn't train at North Harbour Stadium ahead
of Saturday's Test against Ireland. Attack coach Mike Bless as
he doesn't believe the second five's in any doubt with
what's been called a minor knee niggle. Dame Lydia Coe's
been confirmed to headline the return of the New Zealand

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women's golf open up the road from her childhood home
on Auckland's north Shore. Black Cabs bowling coach Jacob Orham
is applauding Mitch Satner's captaincy after their five wickets OD
I after the or over, I should say the West
Indies in Guyana. That is your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update tomorrow morning from the

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