Midday Edition: 26 June 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 26 June 2024, 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 fixed for Wednesday, the twenty sixth of June. Lauren
Dickison's husband says he forgives her for murdering their three
young daughters. The South African doctor was found guilty last
year of killing her girls in Timaru in September twenty
twenty one, shortly after moving to New Zealand. Her sentencings

(00:25):
underway in christ Church, with a number of victim impact
statements being read. In his victim impact statement, Graham Dickison
says his wife lost everything that he's lost and he
made the decision early on to forgive her. He says
she'll have to live with what she did for the
rest of her life and her punishment is already severe.

(00:46):
Rain's expected to ease today, but an Orange heavy rain
warning has been extended in parts of Hawks Bay and Tirafti.
A state of emergencies in place for Wairo due to
the river rising rapidly. One hundred and fifteen people have
been evacuated and a helicopters on standby for hard to
reach places and people. Mayor Craig Little says they expect

(01:08):
more evacuees.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
So there's a lot of water around homes that has
come through some of the homes, but most of them
it's sittings underneath the house. I think God has gone
a lot of homes.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Power has been shut off due to rising water levels,
putting substations at risk. A state of emergencies also in
place for part of Hastings due to rising lagoon levels,
where at least one hundred and forty homes in Homowana
have been evacuated. Meanwhile, the way Power River has risen
so high residents of Takaraka, northwest of Gismon, had to

(01:40):
self evacuate. In the early hours of this morning. Parts
of State Highway II and State Highway thirty five and
State Highway fifty one between Clive and Awa Tootl are closed.
There are multiple power outages from northern Hawks Bay, stretching
north towards East Cape. Police are working to identify a
person who's body was found by a member of the

(02:01):
public in Autane central Hawkes Bay yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, three
bodies have been located on the shore at the Mahia
Peninsula early this morning. The three haven't been formally identified,
but it's believed they are the three Gisbon fishermen who
failed to return on Monday. Former Health New Zealand chair

(02:22):
Rob Campbell is backing a petition for an independent patient
safety commissioner. The Health Consumer Advocate Alliance says they want
something that's proactive rather than reactive, in line with the
model in place in England. Campbell says, when you deal
with someone only on the basis of complaints, you often
get a skewed version of things.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Whereas a patient safety commissioner commissioner can really focus on
systemic issues, not just on individual event issues, and that
I think is something that will be welcomed by commissions
as well as patients.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
The petition closes today. Protesters have splatted fake blood inside
to Vent's house and Wellington. Photo show a red liquid
on the ground inside the building and on the front
desk in zed Me's Julia Gable is at the scene
and says protesters have been stationed outside the building near
Parliament with police on the scene. Wiki League's founder Julian

(03:15):
Assange has arrived in court in the Northern Mariana Islands
ahead of his expected guilty plea to Sport England have
advanced to the round of sixteen stage as top qualifier
from Group C at the European Football Championships despite a
goalless draw with Slovenia in Cologne. And former All Black
Shane Philpott has died aged at fifty eight. The utility

(03:37):
back made fourteen appearances for New Zealand, including two tests
at the nineteen ninety one World Cup. 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.