Afternoon Edition: 20 September 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 20 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):
From the news Talk's Edvy newsroom. This is newsfects in
this update. Thousands of people across the nation took to
the streets this morning fighting the government's changes to the
pay equity system, changes passed through urgency in May, raising
the threshold to lodge claims and putting unresolved claims on pores.
More than twenty events have been held from Fagar Day

(00:25):
to Invericago today, with a turnout of more than ten
thousand people in total. New Zealand Council of Trade Union's
Vice president Rachel Macintosh says affected people like teachers, support
workers and nurses gathered in strength. Yes, people are angry,
but also people are hopeful and people have a vision
at how things could be better. More than twenty products
from the New Zealand snack brand Tasty have been pulled

(00:47):
from shelves over fears they could contain pieces of metal.
Some of the affected bars, nuts and snackballs had already
been exported to Australia, Fiji, India and Singapore. New Zealand
Food Safety says there are no known injuries, but consumers
should dispose of the products or return them for a refund.
Mpi's Food recall page has a full list of the

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affected Tasty batchers and flavors. United States President Donald Trump
says he and Chinese Premiershijin Ping have approved a deal
on the future of TikTok in the United States. The
social media app was previously told it had to sell
its US operations or risk being shut down. The band's
been delayed four times by President Trump since it was

(01:28):
first announced in January. The President says he and Premier
Gee agreed in a phone call today to keep TikTok operating,
and they've pledged to meet in just over a month
in South Korea. I found his word to be very good,
Presidency at Analogtop. We talked for almost two hours. Despite this,
China has yet to confirm that a deal has been
struck on TikTok's US future. PI Here in the Bay

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of Islands has had double the number of searchers from
school holidaymakers this year on one online travel site. However, Queenstown,
Auckland and christ Church topped them trending searcheress for domestic
spots on booking dot Com. New Zealand area manager Melissa
Ellison says New Zealanders are eager to make the most
of the longer daylight hours. That's news in Sport. Wellington

(02:13):
and Counties Monaco have kept their NPC quarterfinals hopes alive
with commanding winds. The Lions have beaten Southland seventy five
nineteen in Poriua, having led forty two to five at
half time, to move into eighth on the live ladder.
In Pukekohe Counties, Monaco beat Auckland forty nine twenty eight
in the Battle of the Bombays, with returning All Blacks

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half back Camroy Guard getting just over half an hour
of action off the bench. Way Cuto's finished top of
the Fara Palmer Cup regular season standings with the sixty
seventeen winover Hawks Bay. Canterbury's finished second following a forty
six twelve winover Bay of plenty Wycuto will play Monower
two next week in the Semis, and Canterbury will meet Auckland.

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