Midday Edition: 15 April 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 15 April 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 Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Tuesday, the fifteenth of April. The government's
putting one hundred million dollars into school property. Education Minister
Ericus Stanford says the money's been found through cutting costs
by using repeatable designs. Stanford says that's driven the price
down about twenty eight percent.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We are building the same school slightly tweaked for this
site here to drive again those efficiencies and good value
for money so we can build more of these schools.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
And part of the funding will go towards building a
six hundred student primary school in West Auckland to open
in twenty twenty seven. Praise for the priority given to
consent in a draft sex education curriculum. Lessons on consent
would start in year two, and primary students will also
learn about puberty and boy body positivity. Other high school

(00:57):
topics include sexual violence and STIs rape prevention. Education Executive
Director Debbie Tohill says these are positive moves.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm really pleased to say here as a focus on
younger children, I don't think that we can begain consent education.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
To young Consultation closes on May nine Security report says
threats faced by a Green MP have a one in
four chance of being realized. Benjamin Doyle's been subjected to
online abuse and death threats after public after publicity over
their private Instagram account, Global Risk Consulting says there's a

(01:35):
fifteen to twenty five percent chance that Doyle could be
physically attacked. The heralds David Fisher says the biggest threat
is violence from vigilantes or radicalized people.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Investigating some of those threats, but the sheer scale of
them as such that it would be incredibly difficult to
hold accountable those that have made them.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
In the US, a Colorado officer can victed of killing
a christ Church born twenty two year old will spend
three years behind bars. Christian Glass was shot in twenty
twenty two by Sheriff's deputy Andrew Bwen. Emily Ancel reports.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Class had called nine one one during what appeared to
be a mental health crisis. Bwen was found guilty of
criminally negligent homicide. During sentencing, the judge said she believed
Bwen's family when they said he was good, but she
added he acted differently when in uniform with a gun.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
House sales are picking up as house prices continue to fall.
Latest Real Estate Institute data shows the number of homes
sold last month was twelve point eight percent higher than
the same month last year. It's putting the change down
to falling interest rates along with lower house prices. In
many parts of the country. The national median house price

(02:50):
has dropped another one point four percent in the past year.
Auckland and Wellington are continuing to see sharper declines, while
Canterbury's median prices fl Auckland police are investigating their discovery
of a cannabis grow house last night at a house
fire on Mount Eden's Allerton Road. Police say after the
blaze was out, evidence was found of cannabis cultivation. To

(03:14):
sport all Blacks wing mart Mark t Leah will play
in Japan next year. Former Warriors prop Jared Wairia Hargraves
will retire at the end of the English Super League season,
aged thirty six. Newcastle football manager Eddie Howe is recovering
from pneumonia. Jackson Page has become the first professional snooker

(03:36):
player to make a maximum one hundred and forty seven
break twice in one match as he attempts to qualify
for the World Championships. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the news Talk zb newsroom.