Afternoon Edition: 24 August 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 24 August 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 Sadby newsroom. This is newsfecs. In
this update, a woman is assisting police inquiries after a
council worker found a dead baby in Auckland's Albert Park
this morning. Detective Senior Sergeant Ash Matthews says the woman
is believed to be the baby's mother. Mister Matthews says
a scene examinations underway and a post mortem examination will

(00:24):
be carried out. The Prime Minister says it's incredibly concerning
to see a famine in Gaza while Israel gears up
for further military action. A United Nations backed monitors confirmed
parts of Gaza are experiencing a man made famine. The
Hamas backed health ministry says sixty one people have died
from air strikes and starvation in the past twenty four hours.

(00:45):
Chris Luxon says the government still calling for the immediate
release of hostages and for Israel to allow unhindered aid
into Gaza. What we don't want to see is what
we have seen, which is Israel moving into Gaza City.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Ninety to ninety four percent of Gaza's is absolutely destroyed.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
A justice advocacy group wants to see a minimum eight
year jail term for coward punchers. In June, Justice Minister
Paul Goldsmith announced specific offenses for striking a distracted victim,
but Sensible Sentencing Trust says that's more of a rebrand
of manslaughter than anything. Spokesperson Louise Parson says in some
cases offenders get only twelve months home detention for manslaughter.

(01:24):
Only murder and driving drunk carry minimum sentences. An economics
professor says New Zealand Post is one of many courier
services pausing some shipping to the United States because of
trade tariffs. On its website, New Zealand Post says it's
suspending a number of services to the United States and
its territories from next week until further notice. While former

(01:46):
processes around the new United States tariffs are being finalized.
All package services will be suspended. Customers can still send letters.
University of Otago's professor Murat Angore says no one has
much idea yea how the tariffs will be practically implemented.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
The reason that all the post offices and parcel companies
are pressing pause not just the removing the exemptions, but
all this ambiguity.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's news in sport. Black Fern's coach Allan Bunting recognizes
the quality of opposition in their World Cup opener in
the morning, the defending champions play thirteenth ranked Spain in York.
They last played Spain at the nineteen ninety eight World
Cup Group stage New Zealand, winning forty six to three.
Bunting's calling for consistency from his players want to be

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strong across the ball, right you said, peace kicking game
the Tech Council Paul Range off in the area. You know,
we want to be strong across the board. Kickoffs at
four point thirty in the morning. NASCAR driver Shane van
Gisbergen came sixteenth in the Cup Series regular season finale
at Daytona. Van Gisbergen qualified six for the season playoffs
with the first round of sixteen races at Darlington next Monday.

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