Afternoon Edition: 27 June 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 27 June 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 railing Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
for Friday, the twenty seventh of June. Marlborough, Nelson and
Tasman remain under a local state of emergency and much
of the central North Island is subject to weather warnings
or watchers. Sixty households in Marlborough's Spring Creek have been
evacuated and been told not to go back tonight because

(00:27):
the Waidal River is running high. People in the lower
Terrace of Renwick are also being warned to prepare to evacuate.
Teams will be door knocking. Almost forty Auckland airport flights
have been canceled all delayed because of the stormy weather.
Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell has been in Blenham. He's
been briefed on the tornado in Auckland's West Harbor. The

(00:50):
tornados are very hard to predict. They just sort of
turn up. It's random. But of course they're capable of
causing quite a bit of heavoc and chaos. Would they do.
Shane Jones has launched another broad side attack on Otago's
Regional Council. The Regional Development Minister's been on a war
path against the body since it expressed concern at Oceanya
Gold's bed to expand its mining operation in the mccrayes

(01:13):
Jones has already labeled the Council the Kremlin of the
South Island and KGB Zalotz, and he wasn't holding back
when speaking to the country today.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
The Otago Regional Council is obviously the pollup bureau.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
It is peopled by antagonistic, angry, smelly, hippie greeny sort
of characters. A law expert suspects to Party Mardi will
campaign hard to retain Tha Mchemikodo m P Taku Taitash
Kemp died yesterday. Her death will lead to a by
election in her electorate. Kemp won the seat in twenty

(01:46):
twenty three by just forty two votes over Labour's Penahir Nade.
Otigo University law expert Andrew Gettis says it'll likely be
another tightly contested vote. The other complicating factor or a
different factor this time, of course, is good to be
the sympathy factor.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I suspect partimorrow will run very strongly in a kind
of legacy argument.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
A lawyers say is using loud and repetitive sounds against
protesters has been deemed illegal by the UN. A young
girl is taking excuse me. A young girl is taking
former Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard to court over
music being blasted during the twenty twenty two anti mandate

(02:25):
protest at Parliament. She was eleven at the time and
says it caused mental anguish, humiliation and dehumanization. Her lawyer, Tuticlee,
believes it's the first time the technique's being used on children.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
At the time, there was obviously a lot of divisiveness
about the COVID response, and perhaps people looked at what
was happening in a different way at the time, But
blasting somebody with music is actually a military style torture technique.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
The girl is seeking forty thousand dollars in damages. A
warning about pills being sold in fake blister packs on
the black market. High Alert says they're dug checking partners
came across pills being sold in incorrect blister packs. In
one case, a blister pack which claimed to contain xanax
actually had tramadol. High Alert says, if and doubt get

(03:12):
drugs checked to Sport and Devin Conway's dumping headler A dumping,
I should say, headlines the new Black Camps coach's initial squad,
with Rob Walter picking fellow batter Bevan Jacobs to make
his debut, though Jacobs say is unlikely to step into
Conway's opening role. Another accolade for twenty twenty Halberg Awards

(03:34):
Sportsman of the Year israel ardess Sonya, the former middleweight
world champs, been inducted into the UFC's Hall of Fame.
Last year's New Zealand NBL Most Valuable Player, Lachlan Olbrick,
has been taken in the NBA Draft as the fifty
fifth overall pick by the Chicago Bulls. That is your

(03:55):
latest news fix and we'll be back with the next
update tomorrow morning. From the News Talks, there'd be news room, yeah,