Midday Edition: 14 August 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 14 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. This is your midday news
fix for Thursday, the fourteenth of August. Neighbors of a
Kind of Order property and Christ Churcher's Brindoir are asking
why police fired shots last night. The officers had and
killed a woman and critically injured a man at him
Mount Clyde Road about eleven pm. They say they were

(00:25):
responding to reports a man was armed with a knife
and threatening to hurt himself and his partner. Rosie Leechman
reports the.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Woman was killed after reportedly picking up the knife and
threatening police. A sources told our newsroom police had been
at the property often recently. Neighbors say they knew the
couple well and would see them walking their dogs in
the area daily. They're asking why a taser was not.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Deployed, and neighbors of the pair say they're in shock.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, Why did they shoot them? Why?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Why they shoot to kill the public servicemen. Minister is
blasting the Secondary Teachers' Union for calling a strike. PPTA
members will downtalls next Wednesday, rejecting a three percent pay
increase over three years. Minister Judith Collins says it seems
the union spends more time on marketing with a minimal

(01:17):
attempt at negotiating.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
So obviously all just a stunt.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
They even put an offer back, they just go well
then putting it to our people who are on stripe
lay Belita. Chris Hopkins says he's already answered all the
COVID Inquiry Commissioner's questions and doesn't need to appear publicly.
He and Dame Desinda r. Durn, Grant Robertson and Aisheverl
have declined open hearings Itkin says his lawyers raised issues

(01:41):
around a pairing, including setting a president and possible abuse.
He says there's no point in going over it again.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
The Second Row Commission themselves have said that we've answered
every single question that they put to them, and.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
They have no further information that they wanted to have.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Drug dealers on Facebook Marketplace are allegedly using emojis to
target children. Criminals selling drugs and firearms are using code
words on social media, and police believe they are deliberately
aiming to ripe in the young. Makes sense. Advocate Joe
Robertson says New Zealand does the bare minimum on regulating
social media.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
We do need at least something which says, hey, platforms,
if you know that something harmful is occurring, you need
to do something about that. We currently work within a
voluntary system where we just hope that they're going to
do the right thing.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Federated Farmers believes farmers will be feeling disappointed and betrayed
after a report to Parliament on banning carbon forestry. It
claims the Environment Select Committee's recommendations indicate there is no
need to stop converting productive farmland. The Mission Trading scheme
currently bans whole farm conversions for land not used for

(02:50):
beef and sheep farming. Fed Farmers Forestry spokesperson Richard Dawkins
says this report leaves beef and sheep farms still at risk.
People need to realize without the productive sheep and beef industry,
we have less to export income as a country and
our imports costs more to Sportner and Penrith League coach
Ivan Cleary has caught on the NRL to soften the

(03:12):
rule around tackling attacking players in the air head off
tonight's match against Melbourne in Sydney. Tom Dundon, the owner
of NHL Ice Hockey's Carolina Hurricanes has agreed to buy
basketball's Portland Trailblazers from the estate of Microsoft co founder
Paul Allen for about six point seven billion dollars. I'm

(03:32):
Susie Nordquist, and that is your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update at five pm from
the News Talks air Venues room.