Midday Edition: 11 August 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 11 August 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 midday
news fixed for Monday, the eleventh of August. There may
be no quick solution to the gas shortage that's faced
by manufacturer's major industrial gas users spoke with Resources Minister
Shane Jones on Friday. Fertilizer company Balance says it may
need to shelter its Taranaki plant for four months because

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of a lack of affordable gas. Prime Minister Chris lucks
And claims it's a downstream impact of Labour's oil and
gas span. It will take time to resolve. What they
can do at the moment is the gas that they have.
They've got to ration and reallocate and use and all
that sort of stuff. But that doesn't get you far.
A year out from next year's general election, campaign, Trail

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and a Taxpayer's Union Curier Pole projects a hung Parliament.
It gives the Left and the Right blocks sixty one
seats each. If the election will held today, Labour would
gain four seats and National loose for Itvictoria University's Lara
Greaves says people will be playing the blame game as
they decide their vote. It's almost not necessarily where the

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economy is. That is how people feel, and there are
evaluations of the economy and who calls what and who's
it fault for what. Sailing figure Peter Lester is being
remembered for his vast knowledge of the sport. He died
on Friday, aged seventy, a week after suffering a heart attack.
He saw through three America's Cup campaigns and then became
an expert commentator involved in the World Feed team for

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last year's America's Cup and Barcelona sports broadcasters Stephen mckaiver
says Leicester taught him sailing basics when he began covering
America's Cups in twenty twenty one. A really good teacher
to make a dumb dumb like me understand something that
I have come to love being involved with. Two men
have been arrested after simultaneous drug and firearms bus and

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fielding and manurewa following reports of illegal dealing. Police seized cannabis, meth,
five thousand dollars in cash, a pistol and ammunition and
took in men aged forty five and forty seven. Tasman
District Council is recycling concrete to take on the high
carbon emissions and waste in construction. The Tasman Alliance partnership

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with Darna, New Zealand has salvaged fifteen hundred tons of
crushed concrete aggregate otherwise destined for landfill. It is repurposing
it to restore transport links and storm damaged areas. Council
Transportation Manager J M McPherson says they've saved costs and
reduced ambitions. Waste concrete has already got a lot of

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embodied carbon in it, though the save all the emissions
associated with quarrying new rock is definitely beneficial. A meteor
rite that crashed into bits into a home in the
US in broad daylight in June is believed to be
millions of years older than Earth. BBC reports the object
exploded above Georgia and researchers have been looking at a

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fragment that perced a roof. It was likely formed four
point five six years ago, so it's roughly twenty million
years older than Earth. To sport now and the soon
to be completed Christ Stadium has been anointed as the
venue for the return of Super Rugby's Super Round on
Anzac weekend next year. A fourth NASCAR Cup Series win

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of the season for Shane Van Gisbergen at Watkins Glen,
adding to triumphs in Mexico City, Chicago and California. Golfer
Justin Rose has won on the third sudden death hole
against JJ Sporn at the latest USPGA two event in Memphis.
I'm Susie Nordquitzt and that's your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update at five pm from

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the News Talks air BNUS room.