Afternoon Edition: 17 December 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 17 December 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 Wednesday, the seventeenth of December. Disgraced former Deputy
Police Commissioner Jevin mcskimming has been sentenced to nine months
home detention for possessing objectionable materials. Jevin mcskimming Satin Court
wearing a blazer and untouched shirt, showing no emotion and

(00:25):
quietly nodding as Judge Tim Black laid down his sentence
to Bis Macintosh was there.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Crown lawyers say mc skimmings's behavior directly contributed to child
abuse issues. As colleagues worked to pick up the pieces,
Dozens filled the public gallery, some shaking their heads as
mcskimming was given a fifty percent discount to a starting
point of three years jail. Judge Black express concern mc
skimmings's previous position would make him subject to extreme violence

(00:52):
in prison.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Debate on superannuation is again heating up with disagreement between
coalition parts parties. AX David Seymour says New Zealand has
to bite the bullet on raising the age with people
living longer now. If we don't, it will be forced
on us.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
There'll be a big earthquake or a pandemic or some
sort of financial crisis in the future, and then they'll say, oh,
we can't afford it. We're going to have to make
the change suddenly, and then people be very upset.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
New Zealand First Winston Peter says, with a stronger economy,
superannuation would be affordable. You should look to your own
inability to run an economy rather than blame old people.
That's my answer. TV Shop, the company behind well known
cosmetics brand Finn Lizzie, has been convicted on thirteen charges
of misleading consumers after making up reviews. It encouraged staff

(01:41):
to post customer reviews and ask friends and family to
do the same and withheld low ratings. Horticulture Endz says
the hard work of our growers is coming to fruition
as the exports reach new highs. A new MPI report
predicts food and fiber export revenue will rise three percent
to sixty two billion dollars by the end of June.

(02:05):
It also forecasts a five percent lift in horticulture exports
to nine point two billion. Autend zaid chief executive Kate
Ross says products like Kiwi fruit and apples are largely
driving this growth.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We are sing a smallest across some of our smaller
crops that also continued bigger less across.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Those bigger crops as well, So we're very excited about
what the lawns and the phare for horticulture. A six
year investigation has forced a way per Data Trust to
make significant governance and structural changes. The West Auckland Social
Services provider, whose chief executive is Departhi Mahdi President John Tamaheri,

(02:42):
has narrowly avoided d registration after an internal affairs investigation.
The charity donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Tapati
Marii and Tamaheri's mayoral campaign in twenty nineteen. Tamaheri repaid
some funds in twenty twenty three. In the same year,
pay for key Waiparia leaders, including Tomaheti, rose seventy seven percent.

(03:07):
To Sport black Caps captain Tom Latham is positive talk
of the riches associated with this morning's Indian Premier League
auction aren't a distraction Ahead of tomorrow's third Test against
the West Indies. Snow Sports New Zealand is anticipating a
record medal haul at February's Winter Olympics and Milano Quotina,
given four Kiwi athletes have stood on the podium in

(03:30):
World Cup competition over the past fortnight. The men's ASB
tennis class that could yet welcome a two time champion,
with Roberto Roberto Bautista agout to receive a wild card
i f Gaiale Montfest makes the main draw. That is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next

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update tomorrow morning from the news Talk said B newsroom.