Midday Edition: 13 August 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 13 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 fix for Wednesday, the thirteenth of August. Former Prime
Minister Helen Clark says we must act to end the
catastrophe in Gaza. Having witnessed aid being blocked firsthand, She's
visited the Rougher border crossing as a member of nonprofit
peace organization The Elders, alongside former Irish President Mary Robinson.

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Both say not only as a human caused famine unfolding
in Gaza, but also a genocide. Clark says it was
shocking to see the crossing completely silent, with Israeli authorities
blocking food, tense and medical aid. We know that a
significant proportion of manifested trucks are turned away with vital
supplies back here now. And Chloe Swarbrick is confident she'll

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return to Parliament without an apology today after she was
kicked out over the words she used asking MPs to
support further sanctions on Israel. The Green's co leader said,
if we find six of sixty eight government MPs with
a spine, we can stand on the right side of history.
On Gaza. Speaker Jerry Bradley told her to leave later,

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saying she can return if she apologizes. It's all Brick
says she doesn't feel that's needed. I'm engaging directly with
the Speaker's office. I think that he will come to
understand that the punishment that he's dished out is completely
contrary to the reality. Journalists say they're still passionate about
their career, despite job in security and burnout The old heat.
A media wellbeing survey questioned almost two hundred people in

(01:37):
the industry in May and June. Media Chaplains in New
Zealand says people say their work still has meaning, but
they're not optimistic about its future. Founder Frank Ritchie told
Harold Nails Ryan Bridge strong media is good for everyone.
If you don't have healthy media, you don't have healthy news,
you don't have healthy storytelling. And as our media shrinks

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and his jobs get lost, that means less people telling
them stories that are important to New Zealanders. The police
Commissioner Hope's work will begin on a second police college
wing for Auckland early next year. At Auckland Campus, opened
last month as an alternative to their Pottydoer facility, forty
recruits will graduate in coming months. Richard Chambers says it

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gives aspiring officers more flexibility on training. When I asked
them the question on day one, how many of you
are here because we've given you the opportunity to train
here in Auckland, most of them put their hand up,
have you? Spark selling their controlling share of its data
center business was necessary. Australian owned Pacific Equity Partners is
taking seventy five percent of the business for about half

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a billion dollars. Spark will move its data center assets
and operations into a new standalone company. Devin Fund's management's
Greg Smith says the Dell helps with some issues. The
company was facing their debt levels on protecting the dividend
and the reality is building up these data centers is expensive,
so they we're going to need to spend a billion

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dollars on the data center rollout to Sport Now and
double Olympic one hundred meters medalist Fred Curley has been
provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for whereabouts failures
on his drug testing program. Golfer Ryan Fox needs to
finish in a two way tie for twenty ninth All
Better this week in Maryland as the top fifty ranked

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players prepared to drop to the top thirty for the
season ending PGA two event the following week in Georgia.
I'm Susie Nordquist and that is your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the News TALKSIBNUS room.