Afternoon Edition: 23 March 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 23 March 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):
From the news talk said the newsroom, this is newsfecs.
In this update, Winston Peters describes protesters at his State
of the Nation's speech as anti democratic and fascist. The
New Zealand first leader gave a one hour address today,
interrupted around half a dozen times by demonstrators. Mister Peters
told reporters it was a demonstration against freedom of speech

(00:24):
and lawful assembly.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
They could have called their own meeting, paid for, did
the advertising and got their point away.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But no, no, they thought they'd disrupted ours. That is fascism.
Asked later if protesters gave him something to push back on,
mister Peters said, that was right.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I say, it's like Elvis, You've come to the right place.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
There's been a serious single vehicle crash in Kluther's Owaka.
Emergency services were sent to the incident on Owacker Valley
Road shortly before three this afternoon. The road is closed
and the Serious Crash Unit will examine the scene. Calls
to give Kyang Order more power to evict unruly tenor.
A tenant has been allowed to stay in their Hangare

(01:03):
property despite twenty five complaints of antisocial behavior, six formal
warnings and an alleged shooting Open Justice reports. The Tenancy
Tribunal denied the eviction based on the complaints being anonymous
and a lack of evidence. ACT Housing spokesperson Cameron Luxton
says the threshold for evidence is not fit for the
current situation.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
As part of a functioning community to accept people in TAPPII,
we need to make sure that the settings are right.
The Tendency Tribunal settings on having evidence clearly aren't right.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
The psychological scars of fourteen years of civil war have
left their mark on Syria's children. World Vision says millions
of children have grown up knowing nothing but conflict and
now carry deep trauma with only limited access to mental
health support. Global uncertainty surrounding AID is casting further doubt,
with the crisis response plan already heavily underfunded. World Visions

(01:55):
Belinda Robb says we need to invest in children's well
being to break the cycle of pover.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
If we don't, we're going to rest losing a generation
of children through this trauma, and we need them to
be thriving in order to build the future. Therea that
we want to see.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's news In Sport. The white ferns are chasing two
hundred and five to beat Australia in their second T
twenty cricket game at Mount Manganui, Australia posting two hundred
and four for three. The pressure is on Liam Lawson
in tonight's Chinese Grand Prix as he starts the fifty
six lap race from the back of the grid. His
introduction at Red Bull Racing has been a struggle, with

(02:30):
limited time in the car and technical problems in Australia.
Last week. Former Red Bull driver Mark Webber says Lawson
needs to finish in the points otherwise the drums will
keep beating.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Liam A replaced so Joe because they needed those extra
points and start to contribute to the Constructor's championship because
that's a huge for the teams. They need to consistent drivers,
so that's where the pressure can mount. So long as
he's contributing to the points in a healthy fashion, then
he will be under no pressure.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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