Afternoon Edition: 22 October 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 22 October 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 ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Wednesday, the twenty second of October. A local
state of emergencies being declared for Canterbury a head of
tomorrow's severe weather after the National Emergency Management Agency activated
its National Coordinations Center. This afternoon. Minister Mark Mitchell signed

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the declaration. He says because Canterbury mayors aren't yet sworn
in after the elections. Mitchell says it will let local
civil defense access emergency powers for responses during the event.
The declaration follows rare red wind warnings being issued for Wellington,
Southern Wided, Upper and Canterbury tomorrow. Those affected are being

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worn to avoid travel and stay inside. Meanwhile, Cruise are
still battling fires fueled by high winds and hawks, bay
Otago and Caikoda, where buildings were raised. Herald reporter Jazzlin
Wales has been through a destroyed Kai Kuda property where
two houses are completely destroyed, small lag and storage container

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completely blow open under the pressure of the hate, leaving
belongings scattered everywhere. Health Minister Simmon Brown says more measles
cases are concerning and vaccination is our best defense. Three
new cases and Manawtu and Nelson were announced yesterday, with
the total current infections at four. The country has had

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a rash of cases in recent weeks. Health new Zealand's
warning of a potential national outbreak and investigating infection sites.
Brown says there's a risk of undetected transmission in the community.
A message very clearly across New Zealand is to get
children vaccinated. That is ultimately the best protection against measles. Tapati,
Mardi's co leader, is defending setting a copy of the

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Marine and Coastal Area's Amendment Bill on fire outside Parliament
with a fellow mp. PHE Speaker Jerry Brownlee is taking
advice after debbing Adiwa Paka and Takuta Ferris Litt the
just pasted bill, which makes it harder for Mardi to
claim customary title. The speaker called it the dumbest thing

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he could possibly do, highly arrogant and unacceptably irresponsible. But
the idea where Packer says it was to show parties
solidarity with opponents of the bill. She says the dumbest
thing that happened there was ax David Seymour driving a
car up Parliament steps without permission. The Education minister is

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taking a swing at a teacher's union, joining tomorrow's mass
strike and congratulating one that isn't. About one hundred thousand
people across health, education and the public service planned to
down tools tomorrow over pay and conditions. Rallies have been
canceled in areas faced with extreme weather forecasts. Ericas Stanford's

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applauding the Primary Principle's Collective Bargaining Union which accepted a
deal and isn't stre and that is why more and
more educators are joining their union day by day, because
they're stick of the NZDI to sport. Cantabrians are embracing
the NPC Final with fourteen thousand tickets already snacked up

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for Saturday season decider against Otago with less than two
thousand seats remaining. Play cab standout Ratch and Revendra is
Tough to have become the fourteenth recipient of the Player's Camp,
the annual prize voted on by New Zealand coaching staff
and players, and tournament's second seed Paul Cole has cruised

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into the last eight at the US Squash Open in Philadelphia.
That is your latest news fix. We'll be back with
the next up date tomorrow morning from the news Talk
ZB newsroom