Midday Edition: 27 June 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 27 June 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 twenty seventh of June. Authorities
in the Upper South Island are hopeful the worst of
the intense rainfall has passed. A local state of emergency
has been declared for Nelson and Tasman, while Marlborough's remains
in place. Peak rates of up to twenty millimeters an

(00:24):
hour are expected for the wider area around the middle
of the day. Nelson Mayor Nick Smith says heavy rainfall
in the early morning has resulted in extensive flooding.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
The greatest damages in the lower stretches of the Moderwaker
River areas like Waiti and the Wye near plains. There
has been one evacuation in Nelson, but Tesman has had
the greatest.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Runt emergency management. Minister Mark Mitchell is worth civil defense
staff in Blenham and severe weather has also been battering Auckland.
Emergency services have been responding to a partial collapse of
a building on Blockhouse Bay Road in Avondale. Surface flooding,
downed power lines, fallen trees and damaged buildings are also

(01:06):
affecting other parts of the city and a tree has
fallen onto a house in Mangade. An orange heavy rain
warning has been issued for Bay of Plenty and Gisbon District.
One person has died and another is critically injured after
a car allegedly shoved another off the road in Auckland's
Monaraywa early this morning. The car hit a tree, killing

(01:28):
its passenger and leaving the driver in a critical condition.
Herald reporter Rachel Mayers says the other driver was arrested
at the scene and police have launched an investigation.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
They've also going to do an independent conduct authority as
a standard with the procedure.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
New Zealand First MP Tanya Unkovich has quit parliament. The
back bench New Zealand First MP was elected in twenty
twenty three and will depart just eighteen months into the job.
Political editor Jason Walls has made a short statement.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Unkovich said she believes she could be of more service
to News YAE the Islanders through various avenues in the
private sector, such as coaching and consultancy. She says it
has always been her quote deepest desire to serve mankind
and her work as an MP has been an absolute privilege.
She expressed her sincere gratitude to the New Zealand First Caucus,

(02:17):
its MPs and to Winston Peters.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
A former Speaker of the House, is being taken to
the High Court for musical torture during the twenty twenty
two anti mandate protest. A girl from Northland, who was
eleven at the time, says Mallard weaponized songs like Disney's
Let It Go, causing mental anguish, humiliation and dehumanization. Her lawyer,
Tutor Clee, says blasting someone with music is a military

(02:43):
style torture technique.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's actually a case that this is the first time
that this military style technique was intentionally used on children.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
The girl is seeking forty thousand dollars in damages. A
South Island skifield will officially take the title of New
Zealand's largest ski resort this weekend. Kadrona alpine resort near Warnica,
has expanded to include Soho Basin, adding another or an
extra one hundred and fifty hectares of new terrain to sport.

(03:11):
Forty year old at Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a new
two season contract with Al Nassa, extending his stay with
the Saudi Football club on a deal reportedly worth three
hundred and eighty million dollars a year. Details of Tottenham's
lawsuit against Inios syndicate the club is seeking more than
twenty five million dollars from the petrochemical company for a

(03:32):
contract breach. And Australia are ninety two for four in
their second innings. It's a lead of eighty two over
the West Indies at stumps on the second day of
the opening cricket Test at Barbados. 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