Afternoon Edition: 24 July 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 24 July 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 railing Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Wednesday, the twenty fourth of July. The historic
abuse and neglect of New Zealanders in the care of
the state and faith institutions has been branded a national disgrace.
Survivors have marched to Parliament this afternoon carrying a banner
with ribbons bearing the names of those who endured abuse.

(00:35):
The final Royal Commission of Inquiry report, nearly six years
in the making, has just been released. Children, young people
and adults were exposed to extreme physical, emotional and sexual abuse,
severe exploitation and neglect. His political reporter Demelza Jackson.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
And estimated two hundred thousand people between nineteen fifty and
twenty nineteen out of six hundred and fifty five thousand
in care were abused. The report says survivors lost life, enjoyment,
education and employment opportunities at a social cost estimated as
up to two hundred and seventeen billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
The report calls for sweeping in significant apologies from the Crown,
the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious bodies.
Prime Minister Chris Luxon has thanked the survivors for their strength,
courage and confronting honesty in coming forward.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I cannot take away your pain, but I can tell
you this Today you are heard and you are believed.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
A public apology will be made at Parliament in November.
Luxon has formally acknowledged for the first time young people
at Lake Alice Hospital were tortured.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Patients at Lake Alice were given electric shocks without anesthetic,
as well as painful and immobilizing herald to hide injections
not administered for medical reasons.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Minister overseeing the Crown response, Ericus Stanford, says stories in
the report give a jolt of reality.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
The kinds of unimaginable, despicable horror, an abuse and neglect
and care that we always believed happened in other countries
happened here at scale, and they destroyed lives.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
To other news Hawks Bay Regional Council says challenges lie
ahead on managing and planning for floods are Reviews found
major failings in planning for events like Cyclone Gabrielle. It
found flood risk was underestimated, with new housing built and
at risk places and historic large floods not included in analysis.

(02:29):
Council chair hene Y ormspecks as it shines a light
on what improvements are needed for me.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
What's very striking is that the way that we have
done things in the past is not fit for purpose
for the future.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
In Auckland, businessman's dwe in court today accused of importing
one hundred and thirty three vehicles with falsified documents. Customs
allege of thirty six year old man imported vehicles with
understated odometer readings and other false information. He's charged with
knowingly importing prohibit goods. In sport, long serving All Whites

(03:03):
coach Ricky Herbert has slammed Canada's drone filming tactics on
a football ferns training at the Paris Olympics, saying a
resort to spying is unfathomable. New Zealand, who has been
forecast to drop five places from Tokyo and finish eighteenth
on the medal table at the Olympic Games in Paris,
with the United States expected to be top dog for

(03:26):
an eight successive time, and Warriors captain Mitch Barnett admits
losing goalkicking center Adam Pompey with a knee injury for
four to six weeks is another major blow as the
war's bid to salvage a top eight NRL finish. I'm
Raylan Ramsey. That is your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update tomorrow morning from the news

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