Afternoon Edition: 21 December 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 21 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):
From the news Talk's ed the newsroom this is newsfecs
in this outdated Harnaker candle has been lit in Auckland's
Artair Square and the names of Bondai attack victims read.
As part of a march against anti Semitism, over two
hundred people gathered and marched down Queen Street this afternoon,
carrying New Zealand and Israeli flags in response to last

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Sunday's deadly attacks. Reporter David Williams says speakers condemned the
shooting and praised the heroic actions of a Muslim man
who stepped in, and one speaker a tribute to the
man who wrestled one of the guns of the attackers
and that drew deports and cheers. Speakers also criticized the government,
academics and the media. The crowd has now reached Britomart

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Square and it is a day of remembrance across Australia today.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanisi has declared today a national day
of mourning. Flags are flying at half mast and the
nation will observe a minute's silence at eight forty seven
heaven tonight our time. A nature group is asking the
public to help protect a rare bird species on Farewell Spit.

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The first fluttering sheerwater have started returning home to breed
after years at sea. They were translocated by Health Post
Nature Trust to Golden Bay. The Trust, Lucy Butler, says
they're trying to build a four kilometer coast to coast
predator defense to promote more life on the sandspit. It's
got national and international significance for a range of native

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species he and arturo, and also migratory species like the Godwit.
A fake police officer has been arrested in Auckland after
accidentally trying to pull over a real police The thirty
eight year old man followed an unmarked County's Monaco police
vehicle last night while driving a station wagon equipped with
flashing red and blue lights. Inspector Kerry Watso says officers

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were perplexed before quickly realizing it was not police official.
When the impersonator realized his mistake, he tried to leave,
but was arrested a short distance away. He was over
twice the the alcohol limit and is due in the
Monaco District Court on Christmas Eve. That's news in sport
Warriors halfback Luke metcar Fames to stay connected to the

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group during his rehabilitation. The number seven is recovering from
a serious knee injury sustained in June and is expected
to miss the first quarter of next year's NRL season.
Metcalf says it is important he's still present for team
meetings and talking to players and coaches. Actually something that
you have to actively work at because otherwise it's real
easy to come into your rehabit and you're done before

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those other boys are sort of around. So yeah, and
I'll lock to talk. So I'll lock to be around
the boys and have conversations. Alpine skier Alice Robinson's finished
twenty first in the downhill at the latest round of
the World Cup in France. Robinson can tests the Super
G later tonight, coming off her first World Cup win
in that discipline at the previous round in Switzerland. That's sport.

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