Afternoon Edition: 28 December 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 28 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 Edvy newsroom. This is NEWSFECS in
this update. The low holiday road death tolls good news
so far, but a road safety advocates hesitant to celebrate
early for this Christmas New Year period. The road death
toll is still zero four days in, but there's more
than a week to go. It ended at fifteen last
year and twenty two the year before. AA Chief Policy

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and Advocacy Manager Simon Douglas says it's pleasing to see
people safe on the road, but there are still many
journeys ahead. It says it's the riskiest time of the
year to drive and motorist should treat every trip with caution.
Prosecution awaits any fisher's caught breaking set net rules. That's
the warning from Fisheries New Zealand as they cracked down
on non compliance. Acting Regional manager Suasi Laal says poor

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netting practices put our marine environment at risk through.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Means by one fish species through lost abandoned nets, continuing
to catch fesh or even on occasion accidentally catching seabas
marine mammals.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Voters are now casting their ballots in me and Mah
as civil war rages on the three phase general election
is the country's first in five years. The military government
says the election will restore a multi party democratic system.
Critics say the election has been designed to add a
facade of legitimacy to military rule, with those in power
widely expected to keep hold of it. The second and

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third voting phases will be in January, after which final
results are expected. Live bands are back in the mix
for summer festival lineups. Christ Church festivals like Lakes Festival
and Electric Avenue are leaning more heavily into live acts
this season, adding bands alongside electronic artists and DJs. Lakes

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Festival director Mitch Ryder says they want to offer all
kinds of music rather than just D and B and techno.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Bear the authenticity of live band. You're seeing each instrument
being by it in front of you as opposed to
it DJA and the certain times the day where it
just really so to have any rock and all list
for shares as opposed to electronica.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's news. In sport history for Sparks Battle Laura Harris
during her side six wicket victory over the Canterbury Magicians
in their women's T twenty Super Smash match in Alexandra
Harris equaled the women's T twenty cricket world record for
the quickest half century, reaching fifty in fifteen balls as
the Sparks chased down Canterbury's one hundred and forty six

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target with thirty one balls to spare. Harris shares her
simple batting philosophy.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Honestly, it's just watch the ball and hit it where
it should go. You know, it's not not obvious that
I'm trying to hit as many boundaries as i can
and change the game in that way. So you just
got to enjoy days like today when it comes off.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
All White striker Chris Wood may be sidelined indefinitely after
his knee surgery. Wood has battled an injury since his
last match for Nottingham Forest in mid October. That's sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to news talks.
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