Midday Edition: 17 January 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 17 January 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 Friday, the seventeenth of January. No surprise
over the dropping in CEA Level one pass rate. Just
seventy percent of participants have achieved the qualification. That's a
twelve percent drop from last year. Education Minister Ericus Stanford
says it's partly due to the new twenty credit foundational

(00:26):
literacy and numeracy requirement. She's vowing to continue the crackdown
on education, particularly the basics at primary school. PPTA president
Chris Abercrombie says the results were expected as reforming education
is a long process.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Do you think about a five year.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Old Tamar school this here? You know they turned five
over the summer.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
They about stat school.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
We're not going to send them with Henry for nineteen years.
Turmoil inside Israel's government has the Gaza ceasefire agreement court
in Limbo. A cabinet vote to approve the deal is
scheduled for tomorrow after being pushed back a day. The
far right religious Zionism and Otsma Yah Hardit parties have

(01:06):
threatened to quit the coalition if Israel doesn't continue its
war the BBC's Joonah Fisher says this could leave Prime
Minister Benjamin nettan Yahoo with a minority administration.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
That's not to say that he wouldn't be able to
push ahead with the ceasefire agreement. Indeed, some of the
opposition parties have suggested that they might be willing to
help out to get the deal through.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
The Ministry of Justice says called the release of suppressed
details online a serious error, adding its working to understand
and resolve it. Documents with suppressed information, including identifying details
of rape and child abuse victims, were published online. Sophie
trigger has More.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Chief Executive Carl Craife says all family and criminal decisions
have been unpublished until an audit of about two thousand
judgments is complete, expected to take four weeks. He says
current processes will be reviewed to identify how the error
occurred and can be prevented. Crafa says open justice is
a fun da mental principle of the justice system, and
publishing court decisions helps give the public insight into judgments.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Two weeks since the discovery of a male oriental fruit
fly in Auckland, official say that's been it despite extensive
checks Michael Sergel has more.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
MPI has had more than one hundred and fifty staff
surveying hundreds of properties and traps. Specialists in its mobile
lab have cut up and examined more than two hundred
kilograms of fruit, finding no traces of larvae or eggs.
The movement of certain fruit and vegetables remains restricted in
parts of Pappatotoi and Mangody.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Police are investigating gun shots in Funga Rai late last
night and the discovery of a vehicle that appears to
have been shot up. It was found in the suburb
of Romanga with significant damage, following earlier reports of shots
on the sound of people arguing at a Headley Place address.
Police a warning of a heavy presence in the area. Today.

(02:55):
Parliament's Justice Select Committees, splitting into smaller groups, can hear
more voices on the Treaty Principal's Bill. The committee's planning
to hear eighty hours of submissions across four weeks. And
iconic and eccentric American film and television director David Lynch
has died aged seventy eight. To sport, Manchester United have

(03:16):
come from behind to secure their first Premier League football
win in a month, a three to one result against
bottom placed Southampton at Old Trafford. Golfers Ryan Fox and
Daniel Hillier are tied for ninth after shooting four underpass
sixty eighths in the opening round of the European Tours
do By Desert Classic, their three strokes off the lead.

(03:37):
I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
newstalk ZB newsroom.