Midday Edition: 29 July 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 29 July 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 Fix four Tuesday, the twenty ninth of July, the
Prime Minister is calling out the Nurses union as nationwide
strikes loom. More than thirty six thousand nurses, midwives and
healthcare assistants are set to walk off the job for
twenty four hours from nine am tomorrow. Life preserving services
will continue to be provided. Nurses Organization members are rejecting

(00:28):
Health New Zealand's eleven percent pay increase for graduate nurses
over safety concerns and staffing issues. Chris Luxen's disappointed with
the decision to strike.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I really want to see the unions get round the
table and continue negotiation. And there's a huge number of
people that are going to be inconvenience who won't get
their elective surgeries. They'll either be postponed or canceled and
that's not right.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Throwing in a CV and cover letter in response to
a job ad may not cut it anymore. As young
people face high unemployment rates, Stats n Z data shows
jobs for by fifteen to nineteen year olds dropped ten
percent in the last year, representing over twelve thousand rolls.
The overall drop nationally is one point two percent. Youth

(01:10):
Inspire Chief executive zeenab Ali says the tactical approach to
training youth has been forced to change.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
In the last six months. Have one hundred percent relied
on job opportunities through our relationship through with our small
medium business partners.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Heavy rain is battering many parts of the country. Orange
rain warnings are in effect for much of Nelson, Tasman
and Marlborough, along with Auckland, the Corimandor Bay of Plenty,
Central North Island Mountains and Westland. More than two thousand
properties in Northland and hundreds of properties in the Central
North Island are without power. Nelson Tasman has activated its

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emergency Operations Center and met services. Heather Keats says the
place of most concern is Tasman East and south of Motaweko.
Care A is still a high chance. Have you been
upgraded to a warning? With heavy rains frutill nine pm tonight.
A person's in custody after someone was stabbed in South
Auckland's Monaco last night. Police were called to Monaco Station

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Road about eight fifteen pm and offices were seen around
the bus station into the evening. The victim was taken
to Middlemoor Hospital in a serious condition. The government's been
slammed as out of touch as it quietly increases payment
for governance board members. A Cabinet document reveals public sector
board chairs annual fees could now reach more than one

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hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Contradicting statements out of the
US and Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza, Benjamin
nettan Yahoo says there's no starvation, but Donald Trump says
there is, and he plans to set up food centers.
We enable humanitarian throughout the duration of the war to
enter Guza, otherwise there would be no guzzens. Some of

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those kids are at real starvation. Stuff I see it
and to sport. Jerome Hughes are set to play out
as NRL League career at Melbourne after signing a four
year contract extension until the end of the twenty thirty season,
when he'll be thirty five. Ali Wallaston has finished a
third on the third stage of Cyclings Tour de France.

(03:18):
Lulu Sung has rediscovered some tennis form with a first
round win at the latest WTA event in Montreal, and
two time Olympian Andrew Newstub is returning to NPC rugby
for the first time since the COVID pandemic, amid uncertainty
around the viability of the World seven circuit. I'm Malcolm Jordan.
That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the

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next update at five pm from the news Talk zb newsroom.