Afternoon Edition: 03 July 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 03 July 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 Raylene Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Thursday, the third of July. The Prime Minister
has given himself another report card and says the government
has big things in the works. His last quarter Action
Plan had thirty eight priorities thirty six completed. The third
quarter plan has twenty eight, including repealing the oil and

(00:26):
gas ban, announcing plans to improve supermarket competition, and a
ban on prisoner voting. Chris Luckson says the Public Service
and as ministers are focused on the task at hand
that we.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Can actually rebuild and grow the economy, to lower the
cost of living, make sure we restore or in order,
and obviously deliver better public services, particularly in health and education.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Tadanaki's bearing the branch of severe weather moving over the
North Island, with a severe storm warning still in place.
Civil Defense says the area is experiencing a large amount
of surface flooding. There's relief in Moldeborough after less rains
fallen and forecast, although slips are causing issues. It is
still in a state of emergency. Alongside Nelson and Tasman,

(01:09):
Marlborough Mayor Nadine Taylor says as slip is closed North
Bank Road, isolating residents. There are ninety seven properties beyond
that around two hundred and fifty people, so that's a
significant slip. The Justice Ministry has been told to more
aggressively collect fines. The Coalitions announced another law and order policy,
this time to modernize business trees. Pass law. Proposals include

(01:32):
doubling maximum fines, barring people from multiple sites and lifting
the maximum trespass to three years. Paul Goldsmith says they've
budgeted to pull in a lot more money. I think
New Zealand has been too soft and too smack over
the last few years in terms of collecting fines, and
that whole attitude is changing. Labour could lend its support

(01:53):
to the Finance Minister's desire to have publicly funded costing
of election policies act in New Zealand. First rejected to
Nicola Willis's proposal for a unit to check out the
financials of party claims and proposals up to ten months
pre election. Labour's Barbara Edmonds has a member's bill for
the same thing. Party Associate Finance spokesperson Deborah Russell says

(02:16):
they'd be happy to back Willis so it just depends
on whether or not she's got the courage to reach
across the aisle and work with us to get it done.
A Queenstown landlord's been fined more than one hundred thousand
dollars for running an unlawful boarding house. The district council
warned James Truong in twenty twenty to stop the operation
or apply for permission. Jacob Jones has more.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
A complaint was laid in twenty twenty three in mb
found twenty two people living in the five bedroom house,
two converted garages and a shed. Tenancy breaches include healthy
home standards, interference with tenant electricity, invalid rent increases and
tenant harassment. Truon must also refund forty percent of the

(02:58):
rent paid mostly from tenants on working holiday visas.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Woolworths has mistakenly promised fifteen dollar vultures to half a
million loyalty program members. Members get vultures for every two
thousand points racked up, but at Walworth's yesterday email the
offer to non qualifying users, It's sent to follow up
email rescinding them and blamed it on human error to
sport and or Black's coach Scott Robinson is pleased with

(03:25):
the balance. His first test team of the year has
struck between competing now and building for the future. British
Boxertize and Fury is being tipped to come out of
retirement next year, with a Saudi Arabian powerbroker teeing up
the Gypsy King for a third crack at unbeaten Alexander Usik.
Hayden Padden's hopeful motorsports governing body will shortly change a

(03:48):
rule preventing privateers from owning a World Rally Championship team
so he can build and enter a car in global
rally events. That is your latest news fix. They'll be
another update tomorrow morning from the news Talk seed Be
newsroom