Midday Edition: 05 July 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 05 July 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):
No the news talks head by newsroom this is newsfacs.
In this update, a heavy rain watch is in place
for Hawks Bay's wide or as days of wet weather
appear to come to an end. Communities in the Upper
South Island and Taranaki are turning to recovery after a
week of Deluga's State Highway forty five between Stratford and
Tomer and Nui and State Highway seven is closed between

(00:26):
Hamner Springs and Springs Junction. An independent report on the
Northland Expressway is sowing dubt over the project's future. The
n z Ieer has previously estimated the four lane highway
would eventually boost national GDP by one point two billion
dollars a year, but researcher Simon Chapfall claims the company

(00:47):
was under some incentive to reach conclusions supporting the project.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
The foundations on which this decision are built are insufficient
to bear at the load of what's literally going to
be terms of billions.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
NZIER says it rejects the claims and so it was
never under any pressure to reach a particular finding. Home
based care workers say the practice is unsustainable. In a
bid for the government to step in The Home and
Community Health Association says its attempts to secure more funding
were extinguished when the government tossed out its pay equity claim,

(01:22):
but it argues hospitals get all the attention while the
important roles in the background go ignored. Chief executive Lisa
Foster says the practice can't continue in its current form.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
If you are visiting three different clients for different clients
in a day, you're traveling. All of that adds up
to cost, and that cost is on the support worker,
but also on the employer of support worker.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Concerns innovation could be stifled if prices for standards get
too high. Standards and Dead has confirmed it's increasing the
price of all standards by twelve point five percent. Engineering
New Zealand chief executive Richard Templar says the standard system
is crucial to everyday lives, from products used daily to
complex infrastructure. He says the government needs to urgently overhaul

(02:07):
the system. That's news. In sport, former international lockey And
Jones has urged the All Blacks to be ruthless in
tonight's first test against France and Dunedin. A depleted French
team will field eight debutantes and Jones believes the All
Blacks need to make the tourists pay for sending a
weekend squad. They come to our land and to our

(02:27):
stadiums and to our suddy we cannot give them a chance.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
We've absolutely got to make a statement.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Let's put on our put on a show, and let's
put on some points.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Premier League Football outfits in Nottingham Forest has loan twenty
year old All Whites defender Tyler Bindon to Sheffield United
for the season in the UK's second tier Football Championship.
Binden sees he'll be striving to impress the Blades, faithful
with his steal in defense and compotent on the ball.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I like the am calm, but it'll be up to
the United fans to decide whether that's true or not.
I think that's my main at the end of the day,
to keep clean sheets and throw it up from the
back and stay calm and composed on the ball.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
That sports. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen to
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