Afternoon Edition: 17 February 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 17 February 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 Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Monday, the seventeenth of February. The Principal's Federation
says it's surprise by Education Minister Ericus Stanford saying rollout
of new literacy and mass curricula is going magnificently well.
The Federation says its concerned resources are only arriving for

(00:25):
students at their year level without catering for children at
different learning stages. President Leanne or Tinney says it's a
little premature to call it a success. In week four,
parents will thanks there, all their children will be instant experts,
saying that this government has provided the silver bullet. There
are no silver bullets. Ideologically blinked, historically ignorant and administratively blunt.

(00:51):
That's Tirunanga or Naitahu's view of the Treaty Principal's Bill.
The EWE that hosted Prime Minister Chris Luxan on White
Tangi Day is kmitting to Parliament's Justice Select Committee today. Kaifukahayer,
justin peeper tipa I should say, says the bill represents
an old and tired game he thought had been consigned

(01:11):
to history. This bill is nothing more than an attempt to
antagonize and exploit the tyranny of the majority. That is
the worst kind of politics. In this bill would make
the worst kind of law. UK Prime Minister Sir Kiah
Starmer says he'd put British troops into Ukraine to help
guarantee a peace deal. The US and Russian presidents are
holding talks on the wall with no other nations, and

(01:34):
an emergency EU summit begins in Paris tonight. Starmer says
lasting piece is essential to deterring future aggression by Vladimir Putin,
and while aware of the danger to his troops, he'll
do what it takes to guarantee Ukrainian security. Any deployment
would likely put EU troops at the Ukraine Russia border.

(01:54):
An Auckland man has been sentenced to community detention over
scanning COVID relief money. VIBARV. Kalshik applied for a small
business cash flow loan in twenty twenty in the name
of a person who left New Zealand years earlier. Read
Etherington has more.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
VIBARV. Kalshik used a similar process in another man's name
who left New Zealand in twenty seventeen Inland Revenues says
he was paid almost twenty four thousand dollars, spending it
on personal items and gambling. Kalshak's been ordered to repay
the entire loan by April.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
An icon of New Zealand's Rainbow community, says disruption of
Pride events in Auckland over the weekend comes down to
fear of the unknown destiny. Church linked groups aggressively interrupted
a children's science event hosted by Drag King at a
city library and then pushed into the pride parade in
pulsenby Dame Jewell's Top of Top Twins Fame says social

(02:52):
media is driving a lot of misinformation. She says drag
is hardly new.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Dregg has been around forever.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
It was accepted as part of a very important historical
part of New Zealand's entertainment. Just sport, William Byron has
won the sixty seventh edition of the Daytona five hundred
in the NASCAR Cup Series. Byron jumped from ninth to
first after a crash broke out on the final lap.
Roger twy Vasschek has revealed he's known since Christmas. He'd

(03:21):
be shifting from the centers to the wing for the Warriors.
In the NRL. Ludwig Uberg has won the latest USPGA
Golf PGA Tour Golf event, I should say at the
Tory Pines South Course in California this week. Has finished
on twelve under par after a six under final round.
And that is your latest news fix. We'll be back

(03:43):
with the next update tomorrow morning from the News Talk
z'd be news Room.