Midday Edition: 01 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 01 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 K Gregory and this is your midday
news fix for Monday, the first of September. Jetstar has
been fined more than two million dollars for misleading nearly
one hundred thousand customers about their compensation rights. The airline
faced twenty charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act during
proceedings at Auckland's District Court. Lachlan Rennie reports.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Judge Brook Gibson said the breaches were in relation to
compensation for flight cancelations and delays. Jetstar claimed the COVID
nineteen pandemic caused it to lay of experienced workers and
replaced them with inexperienced staff who provided the wrong advice
to passengers. Nearly one hundred thousand customers were affected.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's understood an announcement will be made this week on
the foreign buyers ban. The issues been widely signaled by
the government after announcing more visas aimed at boosting the
economy and overseas investment into New Zealand. Prime Minister Chris
Luckson says an announcement is imminent.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I mean you've got a situation where as you know,
we went to a policy saying we actually wanted to
unwind the foreign by vant. You've got equally a position
from New Zealand First, which is that they didn't want
any of that.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
The Foreign Buyers van was introduced in twenty eighteen when
Labor and New Zealand First were in a coalition. The
Meningitis Foundation is welcoming farmacs expanded Menager cockle vaccine access.
The Menager cocklebe vaccine is now funded for all under
five years old, which could protect up to seventy seven
thousand additional New Zealand children from the disease. A major

(01:37):
West Auckland plant nursery is facing its worst nightmare after
much of its operation was destroyed in a weekend fire.
The blaze broke out on Saturday night at Van Leah
Nurseries in Cumu, ripping through seven thousand square meters of sheds.
Owner Harry Van Lea says this is one of the
worst things that can happen to a business owner.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Can you prepare for events where you could lose part
of your business or equipment, But nothing is quite as
guraging as a fire that takes out so much at once.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Vintage car owners have been handed a win by the
government from today, vehicles forty years and older will need
just a yearly warrant a fitness check, not one every
six months. The Federation of Motoring Club's president Gary Jackson
says there are a number of factors which mean the
cars aren't any riskier than average.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
These vehicles are exceptionally well maintained, that owners have great
pride and responsibility to maintain those standards, and they do
very little milet.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Board games are making a comeback, with more people reaching
for the dice and cards. The global market now has
an estimated value of more than thirty one billion dollars
and is expected to grow a further five billion by
twenty twenty nine. Board Game Convention WELLYCN organizer CD Doyle
says classics like Monopoly, Scrabble and Ludo remain popular, but

(02:58):
more players are leaning to Ward's modern games. She says
those games are less luck based and more strategy based
than offer a lot more interaction between players. On to sports,
Scott McLaughlin's finished the best of the New Zealanders in
third at the latest IndyCar event in Tennessee. Return Home
in Netball's a and zed Premiership for shooter Hannah Glenn.

(03:19):
She signed with the Tactics after two seasons with the Mystics,
and the NRL League is bracing for a hush in
Sydney with the possibility of no playoff matches in the
game's biggest city during the opening week of the finals.
I'm Kay Gregory and that's your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update at five pm from
the News Talks EDB newsroom.