Afternoon Edition: 15 July 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 15 July 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 Raylen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fix for Tuesday, the fifteenth of July. Uncertainty whether a
formal government letter to the UN will echo views David
Seymour expressed in a now withdrawn letter he wrote objecting
to an official's letter expressing concern about his regulatory standards
bills impact on Mardy. The Prime Minister says that's the

(00:27):
Foreign Minister's job, and Seymour admits one government response should
be sent. Thank everyone agrees, including the Prime Minister. This
morning with what I said in the letter. Foreign Minister
Winston Peter says a government letter isn't yet crafted, so
we can't say what it will say.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm consulting with every other effective ministry, including my own,
and when that's done, we'll prepare our letter.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
A cousin of a murdered five year old Malachai Shubex,
says she tried ten times in three days to raise
the alarm about his caregiver, Mikaela Bowryebo, killed the boy
in twenty twenty one after months of abuse. A coronial
in quest is in its second day. Megan Cottis says
she was terrified when Malachai was handed to Barry Ball

(01:11):
when his mother was jailed and tried hard to alert authorities.
She described her lost cousin to the court, Melicai was.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
A really innocent child, like his mother.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
If he ask him to do something, he just does it.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
He was a very curing child.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Nelson Tasman are shifting towards flood recovery for the second
time in three weeks. Tasman Mayor Tim King has given
notice the region will begin moving out of a state
of emergency.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
The four week recovery period will begin on Thursday, unless
extended or ended before then. Tim King says the period
of transition from a state of emergency ensures continued supports
available for those who need it. Nelson Mayor Nick Smith
says their biggest impact is the closure of Rock's Road,
but he's hopeful that can open by the end of

(01:57):
this week.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
That was Courtney Winter reporting Labour's Tarmichemikoda by election candidate
isn't taking political slaps, lying down the September six by elections,
triggered by the death of the Taku taitash Camp narrowly
beat Labour's candidate in the election. Tapati Mahdi president John
Tamaheti has claimed Labour's penna. Hennaday's career could be in

(02:20):
trouble if he fails to win the seat again. Hennaday
says this is a two horse race.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, I not was to Tommy Hey lost three the
mayoralty and two races into this house, so you know,
I think it's a bit rich for that kind of comment.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
People selling homes are having to settle for less as
median house prices fall across the country. Prices in the
Capital are twenty five point six percent below four years ago,
and Auckland's more than twenty two percent lower. Canterbury's only
four point one percent down. One Roof's editor Owen Vaughan
says developers are putting properties on the market and then

(02:56):
quickly dropping prices when they realize the bar appetite is missing.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
For all that there has been a realignment and price fundamentally,
and I think that problem why you've seen kind of
no prices climbed down, but also why it's happening at
the time when sales are still there.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
To sport all black ZeVA Reese has declared himself ready
to return to the test arena He went off fifty
seven seconds into the opening Test against France under need
and due to head knock. Takte's general manager Kate Agnew
believes reducing the length of Netbull's A and Z Premiership
has increased demand for tickets and Paul Gallon and says

(03:34):
there's no need for a game plan because he'll be
too much for sunny Bill Williams and tomorrow night's boxing
bart in Sydney. That is your latest news fix. We'll
update again tomorrow morning from the news Talk ZB newsroom.