Afternoon Edition: 22 September 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 22 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 Adam Cooper and this is your afternoon
news fix for Monday, September. The twenty second schools across
the country are said to benefit from an accelerated investment
in school property. Education Minister Erica Stanford has unveiled a
four hundred and thirteen million dollar package for maintenance and
improvements which enables work to take place over the upcoming

(00:25):
school holidays. She says it'll benefit every single school so
that children are learning in warm, safe and dry environments.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It'll help lift achievement by giving students and teaches the
basic conditions they need to succeed.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Stanford says the work will also provide builders and tradees
with a significant boost. The Crown and Defense sam wrapped
up their closing remarks in the Auckland murder trial of
Hakyong Lee. A forty five year old is charged with
murdering her two children in twenty eighteen and leaving them
in suitcases in a storage unit. Lee accept she caused

(00:59):
their deaths mounted and insanity. Defense, acting as her stand
by Council Criminal defense loyal Lorraine Smith, says the irrational
decision was driven by the fact she'd lost her faith
her father, her husband and contact with other family.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
She was a fragile woman who needed support and now
they have all gone. She descended into madness.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
New Zealand has fallen behind its Five Eyes partners in
delaying its stance on Palestinian status. Canada, the UK and
Australia have recognized an independent state today, coppying backlash from Israel.
Whinston Peters is in New York for the UN General
Assembly and will reveal New Zealand's position later this week.
GEO political analyst Jeffrey Miller says New Zealand clearly doesn't

(01:45):
want to be out in front.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
New Zealand I think is keen to be a fast
follower rather than the leader on this issue.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
That seems to be the position that Winston Peters and
the cabinet has come to. A kai tire woman's been
sentenced for her role in an Internet national website hosting scam,
Open Justice reports Kimberly Dowell was working for web Neetic
Trends Technologies in twenty twenty three and instructed to open
four bank accounts in her name. When clients paid, she

(02:13):
was to keep ten to twelve percent and transfer the
remainder Jessica Swan has more.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Four victims received phone calls from strangers posing as employees
of legitimate web hosting companies. They were then scammed over
different website fees and sent fake invoices requesting payment to
Dow's accounts. She was found guilty of ten charges relating
to money laundering and receiving property.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Kiwi Rail says it's on the home stretch with work
to prepare for Auckland's city rail link. School holiday upgrades
means there's disruption on the Southern and Western lines, with
services being replaced by buses. Kibei Rail Chief Metro and
Capital Program Officer Dave Gordon says there is light at
the end of the tunnel. This Holoy period. You've got
at late workend coming up in Christmas and then we're

(02:57):
really finishing with very very disruptive work and sport a
major boost for the All Blacks ahead of Saturday's Letterslow
Cup Test against the Wallabies and Auckland. With four players
off the injury list, Cam roy Gard and fellow halfback
coll tes At Artsimber joined hooker Cody Taylor and Lokpatrick
toy polottu A being available for selection. Breakers basketball coach
Patterday Copenhan is concerned about the fitness of his team

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after losing both Opening A and bl fixed guests and
McLaren Formula One boss Andrea Steller as worries Red Bull
rival Max verst Staff and is making a late charge
to snatch the Driver's championship from his team. I'm Adam
Cooper and that's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update tomorrow morning. From the News Talks,
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