Afternoon Edition: 15 December 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 15 December 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 Railan Ramsey and this is your afternoon
news fix for Monday, the fifteenth of December. Prime Minister
Chris Luksen says there will be an increased police presence
around our Jewish sites following yesterday's terror attack in Sydney.
Authorities say the attack, which killed fifteen people, was targeted

(00:24):
at Jewish Australians celebrating the first day of Hanuka in Bondai.
More than forty people were rushed to hospital with injuries.
One of the gunmen, who has been named by Australian
media as fifty year old Assanted Akram, was also killed.
The other suspect, his twenty four year old son, Navid Akram,
is in hospital. Chris Luksen says New Zealand and Australia

(00:47):
of family and we're both hurting.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I reached out to Promeister Anthony Albanezi last night to
tell him that New Zealander's thoughts are with all Australians
and to offer our support, and he was thankful for that.
We stand ready to work with the Australian authorities should
they need our help.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
MASSI University security expert John Battersby says these types of
attacks can be hard to foil.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
When we have sole actors or individual perpetrators or very
small groups.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
These people leave very small.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Planning equipments and they are very difficult to detect.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
More than twenty one million dollars worth of cocaines being
seized at the Port of Todonga in a week. On Thursday,
customs officers discovered sixteen one kilogram bricks of the drug
in a refrigerated container on board a vessel from Perdu.
It follows forty five kilograms of cocaine being seized at
the port a week earlier. Met Service says the worst

(01:40):
weather is yet to come on aur Raqui Mountcook with
two climbers overdue. Search and Rescue and Department of Conservation
crews are working together to find the pair in winds
of up to one hundred and twenty kilometers in our
met Services meteorologist Delvin Linden says heavy rain is developing.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
We do have for their weather watch.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
And warning about that. It's not unusual for this. Some
year we do have these frontal systems come through and
certainly being out and about in these conditions as particularly hazardous.
The Motor Trade Association is concerned about the government's plan
changes to the Warrant of Fitness regime. Under the changes,
a first WAFT would last four years. After that, like
vehicles aged four to ten years would only need a

(02:22):
WAFF every two years. MTA Chief Executive Lee Marshall says
it means brakes and tires will be on the road
for much longer without being checked.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
That is a concern not just for road safety, but
also as a cost of living measure potentially allows problems
to just get worse.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
The Prime Minister's confirmed Hell announced the election date at
the start of next year, a tradition John Key started
in twenty eleven, but Chris Luxon poured cold water on
the idea he might reshuffle his cabinet at the same time.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I have a different approach from former leaders that I
will reshuffle my team whenever I feel it needs one.
I don't feel incumbent to do one just for the
sake of the new year.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Two. Sport and Black Caps pace bowler Blared Tickner has
revealed he's already in the gym rehabbing the shoulder he
dislocated in the second Test against the Windys and wants
to defy expectations of a six to twelve week recovery.
Coach Brendan McCullum asserts wholesale changes to the batting order
is not the way for England to bounce back into

(03:26):
Ash's contention against Australia in New Zealand's Johnny Tata is
welcoming an eight day break before his second round match
at the World Darts Championships in London so he can
process his surprise opening win. That is your latest news
fix and we'll be back with the next update tomorrow

(03:46):
morning from the News Talk ZEDB newsroom.