Afternoon Edition: 23 July 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 23 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 Rayleen Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Wednesday, the twenty third of July. The government's
asking for advice after a disturbing June Homelessness Insights report.
It collates data from councils and community services and shows
rough sleepings worsened countrywide. Contributors express concern about the state

(00:25):
of social housing and mental health services, saying clients are
increasingly despairing. Associate Housing Minister Tama Portaka says he's committed
to finding a solution.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I take ministerra responsibility for receiving that report and also
for taking action to address it, as I did with
Emergency Housing to address that target.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
The Police Minister admits the battled headwinds trying to reach
the government's police recruitment target. A briefing to the government
shows they now expect to reach the figure by August
next year, far from the original November twenty twenty five
deadline and overshooting the rever June target. Mark Mitchell says
police are working as hard as they can. We want

(01:04):
to reach it as quick as we can, but we've
been really clear that we're not going to compromise on
standards the Foreign Ministers confirm major changes around the foreign
buyers ban are coming before Christmas. Ahead of the election,
National campaigned on scraping the ban. It wanted to replace
it with a threshold where property can be sold to
an overseas buyer if it's above a certain price. The

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policy was canned after opposition from Winston Peters, who's now
having second thoughts. The foreign ban will remain. We're talking
about investors of bringing billings of this economy, but I
would imagine by the end at twenty five, police are
still searching for a trio who ran away from an
Auckland community based a youth remand home this month. Two

(01:48):
we're on remand the other was under a care and
protection custody order. An Ordanga Tarbariqi spokesperson says they continue
to work closely with police to locate them. The traditional
care model at Nelson Hospital is no longer fit for purpose.
A Health New Zealand review has revealed a list of
challenges for the hospital, from recruiting delays to aging infrastructure.

(02:13):
Senior staff raise concerns this year that inadequate staffing was
endangering patients' lives. Health end Z National Chief Medical Officer,
Dame Helenstokes Lampard says there need to be more junior
doctors as it's no longer suitable for care to be
delivered primarily by seniors. US the population has got larger
as it is an increasingly aging population with complex medical needs.

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The patterns of the way we deliver care just have
to evolve. Communication confusion in Tasman with another threat to
one one one calls three weeks after they went out.
During this state of emergency, Korus was intending to replace
the damaged fiber optic cable and Golden Bay tomorrow, briefly
cutting service. Now. Tasman Mayor Tim King says Chorus will

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continue with the temporary cable for two weeks after a
forecast of more bad weather.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Give people more time to prepare for the short disruption
of an hour in the middle of the nights when
they cut the old cable over to the new cable,
where there will be no communication to Sport.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Anton Lennart Brown says it was a straightforward decision to
resign with New Zealand Rugby. The All Blacks Chiefs and
wycut Or Midfielder has agreed terms until the end of
twenty twenty eight. England cricket captain Ben Stokes is hailing
the immediate impact of former All Blacks mental skills coach
Gilbert Andoka in their environment, and Australia have gone to

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nil up in their five match T twenty series against
the West Indies after winning Game two by eight wickets
in Kingston. That is your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update tomorrow morning from the news
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