Midday Edition: 15 October 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 15 October 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 Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday news.
Figs for Wednesday, the fifteenth of October. Israel's limiting the
flow of aid to Palestinian civilians because of the hermaster
lay in delivering dead hostages, with only eight so far,
the ceasefire agreement required all twenty eight bodies be returned
within a seventy two hour window. Hamas says the scale

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of destruction is creating challenges to retrieving them from the rubble.
CNN's Nada Bashir says aid organizations had hoped to get
more access. There are fears now that this reduction in aid,
as the Israeli officials have notified the UN, could prove
to make things a lot more difficult in the garden strip.
Tapati Maori's president has addressed at tensions, saying the party

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doesn't put heads on platters. Toxic culture. Claims by Eru
Kapakingi were followed by the party releasing documents accusing him
of threatening parliamentary staffers. They also show his recently demoted
whip MP Mariamno Kappa Kingey was warned about risking budget overspend.
John Tomaheady told the Bradbury Group podcast Their Tea Kunger

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is telling their truth.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Copper King and his famer have to determine whether they're
in the movement for self advancement and if they are,
don't do it at the expensive movement, so they'll work
their way through there.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
About fifty razine factory workers held a strike outside the
company's Lower Heart office this morning. They're demanding the living
wage for employees they say can't afford the basics. A
two team leader Finodwaya Kunliff says hundreds of other industry
employers are accredited living wage members. He says razines highly profitable.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
There's plenty of money to go around in order to
both increase the value of the worker's wage but also
increase their workforce.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
It's not in either or. Hospitality rules are coming under
the microscope. The Government's announced a wide ranging review of
rules governing everything from bars to restaurants to market stalls.
Regulation Minister David Seymour says existing rules change frequently and
are inconsistently applied. He says hospital business as he talks
to are wasting time and money following impractical.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Rules a need to have three exits.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Even I had two exits that were actually vehicle with
a shared seating space.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
If you have bought a drink from one, you can't
then buy a drink from the other.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Police Association President Chris Carhill is about to deliver his
final address after his month after this month, announcing he's
stepping down. Three people are put their hands up to
take over and one will be elected today at the
ninety f Annual Association conference in Wellington. Jordan Dunn has more.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Chris Carhill is commending recent changes, including more visible policing
and increased powers to tackle gangs, but he says the
most pressing police issue is mental health, with more than
half of members reporting working while mentally stressed or traumatized.
Car Hill's calling on politicians to make the hard decisions
and urging them to take steps to protect officers from

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permanent harm.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
To sport. The All Whites have concluded their European football
tour with a one all draw against Norway in Oslo.
Irish captain Kaylin Doris remains doubtful to face the All
Blacks in Chicago on November two, as he returns from
a shoulder injury. Fullback Hugo Keenan has already been sidelined
for the fixture eighty eight fort Maxi Lucky featuring America's

(03:27):
Cup Great Brad Butterworth as tactician, has won the Sydney
to Auckland Ocean Race in a record time of two days,
twenty hours and twenty seven minutes and seven seconds. I'm
Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update at five pm from the news
Talk ZB newsroom.