Afternoon Edition: 16 September 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 16 September 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 Wendy patreeon This is your Afternoon News.
Fixed four Tuesday, the sixteenth of September. New Zealanders will
no longer be able to look to adopt children from
overseas and bring them home from this week. The government's
Adopt and Amendment Bills being introduced under urgency and will
suspend recognition of unsafe international adoptions to prevent harm. It

(00:26):
also restricts the Family Court from granting adoptions where adoptive
parent or child are overseas. Associate Minister Justice Nicole McKee
says the changes are not retrospective.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
No adoptions are being stopped from today that are already
currently in place, so if there's an application already in
or something happening in the Family Court, they will continue.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Greens have visited a group of religious leaders who
have chained themselves to Nicola Willis's electorate office. The clergy
members spent the night at the Wellington office in Johnsonville,
calling for food, the sanctions on Israel and more action
on the war in Gaza. Willis has declined an invitation
to meet them. Green Party co leader Madam and Davidson
met with the activists this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Who are there with incredible peace and good heart are
calling for humanity. They are trying to use whatever platform
they can to ask the government to do the right thing.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Falling interest rates are yet to flow through to the
housing market. New data from the Real Estate Institute show
the market's remain sluggish, as Business reporter Michael Sergel.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
The Institute's house price index, used by the Reserve Bank
to track the housing market, has increased zero point four
percent in the past year, but the national median house
price has dropped zero point five percent, driven by falling prices.
In Auckland, house sales are down three point seven percent.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
What IS has explained its decision to suddenly end contracts
with local peach suppliers. Hastings based company says it's seen
a steady decline in demand for New Zealand grown canned
peaches over recent yearsand has more.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
What he says, consumers are choosing cheaper imported alternatives, and
it says it's had to adjust the volumes it takes
from local orchards as a result. What he says, any
decision which affects local growers is never made lightly and
it's still proud of the quality and taste of locally
grown fruit.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Our new Youth Arts Festival is taking over parts of
central Auckland. The Young is made up of twenty shows.
Aunklin Live creator producer rosy Strati says the Sea the
city will welcome some incredible installations in time for the
school holidays.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
We know how amazing arts and creativity experiences are for
the holistic health of our young one and we also
are just FAIRCE advocates for being able to access high quality,
age specific arts experiences.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Two sport and Olympic champion Hamish Kur is an action
late tonight at the Athletics World Championship in the high
jump final, looking to follow on from Jordi Beamish's steeplechase victory.
Australia have named uncapped duo ash Irvin and Hannah Monday
in their squad for the next month's Constellation Cup series
against the Silver Ferns. Both are expected to get game

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time against South Africa beforehand, and NRL boss Andrew Abdo
is defending the unprecedented decision that will give one of
the Grand finalists in extra two days to prepare. I'm
Wendy Petrie. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update tomorrow morning. From the news Talk

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