Midday Edition: 22 October 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 22 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 after moon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your
midday news figs for Wednesday, the twenty second of October.
Possible threats to life as Met Service issues severe red
weather warnings for tomorrow with forecasts of damaging gusts. Extreme
wind predictions for christ Church and the Canterbury high Country
and Plains are for gusts topping one hundred and fifty

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kilometers an hour. Lakes and rivers in Canterbury can expect
up to two hundred and fifty millimeters of rain. A
Red wind warning covers Wellington and Widered Upper from eight
am tomorrow, where gale force northwesterlies could reach one hundred
and forty kilometers an hour. Met Service meteorologist Lewis Ferris
says conditions could be worse than yesterday. We're talking about

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higher risks of loss of life, which damage to infrastructure
that would be more wide bread than you would typically
see with the severe weather event. The speaker is calling
out to Party Maori for setting a print out of
a Parliament bill on fire outside Parliament. He is senior
political reporter Azaria Howe.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Debi Nadowa Packer and Takuta Ferris burned a copy of
the Marine and Coastal Area's Amendment Bill on the fore court,
protesting the changes.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
So we couldn't get down to the Tabutiwan I was
stuck here. In the report on You.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
The Whole Day, Speaker Jerry Browne says he's taking advice
on this and says it is quote the dumbest thing
you could possibly do, highly arrogant and unacceptably irresponsible.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Protesters have been burning printouts on beaches of the legislative
amendments passed in Parliament last night. A Queenstown street has
been cordoned off as police investigate a sudden death on
Kent Street, not thought at the stage to be suspicious.
Emergency services were called about seven thirty am and the
death will be referred to the coroner. And at the

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other end of the country, police are also looking into
an unexplained death on Fangnare's Bank Street, with a body
found before six am. Concerns current vaccination rates aren't sufficient
to protect communities from measles. The Public Health Service says
there's a high risk of a national outbreak, with four
unlinked cases confirmed in Auckland, Monawtu and Nelson. Public Health

(02:15):
Medicine specialist Sharon Syme says recent deaths in the UK,
the US and Canada are a stark reminder of the danger.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
We know that our childhood's vaccination rates are too low
to prevent measles spreading in our community, and although we're
making progress, we need to do better because we need
ninety five percent of people to be immune.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Achieving youth offending targets sooner than expected doesn't mean the
government will slow its efforts. The governments reached its goal
of a fifteen percent reduction in serious and persistent youth
offenders four years early. Children's Minister Karen Chaw puts it
down to awareness of tougher consequences, learnings from the Bootcamp
pilot and better agency coordination. Here in New Zealand has

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told the end ZX it expects to make a thirty
to fifty five million dollar first half loss before tax,
saying and expected a revenue uplift didn't eventuate. To Sport
defender Paris Mason has replaced shooter Amelia Walmsley and the
Silver Ferns for the second Netball Test against Australia in
Sydney Tonight. Arsenal, Manchester City and Newcastle have won their

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latest Champions League football matches. Rhes Walsh will debut at
fallback for Australia in Sunday's League test against England at
Wembley and the Fitzroy River there is closer to hosting
rowing and canoeing events at the Brisbane Olympics after passing
technical testing. A local senator described the waterway as flat
enough for Jesus to walk on. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's

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your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at five pm from the news Talk zb newsroom.