Afternoon Edition: 04 September 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 04 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 Susie Nordquist and this is your afternoon
news fixed for Thursday, the fourth of September. A senior
Labour MP says an our deleted social media post by
a Tea Party Maori MP is racist. Maori Party MP
at Takuta Ferris posted a photo of labor volunteers of
different ethnicity sign waving ahead of the Tammocky Makoto by election.

(00:27):
He said Indians, Asians, Blacks and pakih are campaigning to
take a Maldi seat from Malory. Willie Jackson says the
post was unacceptable. He's basically saying that this is just
for Maldi and we don't want pacifica park here and
ethnic people there, so we'll certainly see that as being racist,
and I wouldn't disagree with that. Nurses aren't staying silent

(00:47):
on their unsafe work environments. Thousands across the country have
walked off the job for a second day in a
row to demand better pay and increased staffing environment Can
to be Counselor Greg Burrans is standing with the nurses
in christ Urge. He says nurses are a critical part
of the community. These are the people that we in
many cases sadly wind up when we were in their

(01:10):
greatest time of need, and they need us now. Confirmation
of requests to keep spending tight for this year's budget.
A large tranch of documents related to budget twenty twenty
five is being released, his senior political reporter Azaria Howe.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Associate Finance Minister Chris Bishop wrote to Minister of Finance
Nikola Willis in June last year as the budget was
being crafted, saying getting the books back in order requires
a sustained collective effort. Ministers confirmed a very high bar
would be applied for new spending and further enduring savings
would need to be found.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
And the letter confirmed most agencies other than critical frontline
services would not receive funding for cost pressures or new initiatives.
So Peter Jackson's Weta FX has reported a net loss
of more than sixty million dollars in its latest new report,
on the back of a eighty two million dollar loss
in twenty twenty four. It comes amid a company restructure

(02:07):
where one hundred staff are expected to lose their jobs.
The Wellington based film company, which has worked on movies
like King Kong, The Hobbit and Avatar did grow its
revenue to four hundred and seventy eight million dollars for
the twenty twenty five year compared with four hundred and
thirty million last year. Excitement is bubbling away as New

(02:28):
Zealand's first iicres store has revealed it will open in
early December. The Swedish Furniture Giants thirty four thousand square
meters store will host seven and a half thousand products,
as well as a restaurant with foods like its famous
Swedish meat balls. IKA Australia and New Zealand chief executive

(02:49):
Mellyard Vennon says the community has shown a desire to
tuck into what they have to offer ever since the
project announcement six years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
We have is so welcomed it comes to the people
they are connected with blas when it comes to the
applications we have seen so it has been possied all
the way through to sport. Now.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Halfback Kyle Preston is poised for a test debut off
the bench for the All Blacks against South Africa on
Saturday at Eden Park. The Crusader is backing up Finlay Christy,
who's been named to start with Cortez Ratima ruled out
due to a rib injury. Meanwhile, Wallaby's Lucy Harry Wilson

(03:29):
has recovered from a knee injury to lead Australia against Argentina.
I'm Susie Nordquist and that is your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning. From
the News Talks their Benus room.