October 29, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 30 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the thirtieth of October. Microsoft say
they're on top of their global outage which has been
disrupting websites worldwide, including our police and Parliament. Outage tracker
down detector showed thousands of reports of issues with a
number of websites globally. BBC's reporting problems at Heathrow, Minecraft,
(00:28):
British supermarket Asata and Starbucks in the United States. New
Zealand Herald Technology editor Chris Keel says it seems like
an update went haywire.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Now they've done the good old it crowd turn it
off and on again. But it's such a huge global system,
they say, it or take about four hours for all
the fixes to flow through.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Police are out in force in rural Parema Remo, northwest
of Auckland after discovering a grow house. Officers responded yesterday
morning to reports of a person had been threatened with
a firearm and a significant cannabis crop inside a house
on the property. Detective Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie says they're
now forensically examining the site. She says they stayed overnight
(01:10):
at the address, which has extensive grounds and a number
of dwellings. More criticism against the government's tough leash on
employers hiring migrant workers. Immigration Minister Ericus Stanford says employers
will be stripped of the chance to recruit migrants if
they're not looking to hire New Zealanders. First Association for
(01:30):
Migration and Investment Board director to Bias two Hill says
we should instead open migration with the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The huge workforces, the strongbacks desire to work. We've got
an open border with Cook Islands and it doesn't crash
our economy. It helps both countries and greater skill levels
in both countries helps money go back for development there.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Canterbury is New Zealand's fastest growing region in provisional stats
and Z figures growth overall has slowed, but Canterbury leads
the pack with growth of one point one percent in June,
and Auckland is next on one percent. It's thought it
could take twelve months to clean up some farms in
wind batted Southland. Southland and Kluther remain under a state
(02:11):
of emergency, where more than five and a half thousand
are still without power Kluther District Councils added one hundred
thousand dollars to its Meror Relief Fund for recovery efforts.
South and Federated Farmer's President Castle Rabba says it's nearly
one hundred and seventy hours since power went out, so
they've moved into recovery mode.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fatigue is definitely setting in for people, especially these people
that still don't have full drid electricity into their homes.
They have no hot water cylinder, no heat pump, no oven. Obviously,
people were trying to do the cleanup. Amongst all of
this as well.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A push to expand a successful pilot trialing pharmacist coaches
for type two diabetes patients. Research on the county's Monaco
Health program run during COVID confirms that blood sugar levels
reduced for eighty five percent of participants, most sustaining them
movements months later to Sport a sixth loss in seven
(03:05):
football matches for Liverpool. They have been ousted from the
League Cup via a three mil home defeat to Crystal
Palace in the fourth round. South Africa have reached the
decider of the Women's Cricket World Cup, beating England by
one hundred and twenty five runs in their semi final,
and eighteen year old basketball prospect Jackson Kiss has finalized
(03:26):
his United States college future by committing to Iowa State.
I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
newstalk zb newsroom
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the thirtieth of October. Microsoft say
they're on top of their global outage which has been
disrupting websites worldwide, including our police and Parliament. Outage tracker
down detector showed thousands of reports of issues with a
number of websites globally. BBC's reporting problems at Heathrow, Minecraft,
(00:28):
British supermarket Asata and Starbucks in the United States. New
Zealand Herald Technology editor Chris Keel says it seems like
an update went haywire.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Now they've done the good old it crowd turn it
off and on again. But it's such a huge global system,
they say, it or take about four hours for all
the fixes to flow through.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Police are out in force in rural Parema Remo, northwest
of Auckland after discovering a grow house. Officers responded yesterday
morning to reports of a person had been threatened with
a firearm and a significant cannabis crop inside a house
on the property. Detective Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie says they're
now forensically examining the site. She says they stayed overnight
(01:10):
at the address, which has extensive grounds and a number
of dwellings. More criticism against the government's tough leash on
employers hiring migrant workers. Immigration Minister Ericus Stanford says employers
will be stripped of the chance to recruit migrants if
they're not looking to hire New Zealanders. First Association for
(01:30):
Migration and Investment Board director to Bias two Hill says
we should instead open migration with the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The huge workforces, the strongbacks desire to work. We've got
an open border with Cook Islands and it doesn't crash
our economy. It helps both countries and greater skill levels
in both countries helps money go back for development there.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Canterbury is New Zealand's fastest growing region in provisional stats
and Z figures growth overall has slowed, but Canterbury leads
the pack with growth of one point one percent in June,
and Auckland is next on one percent. It's thought it
could take twelve months to clean up some farms in
wind batted Southland. Southland and Kluther remain under a state
(02:11):
of emergency, where more than five and a half thousand
are still without power Kluther District Councils added one hundred
thousand dollars to its Meror Relief Fund for recovery efforts.
South and Federated Farmer's President Castle Rabba says it's nearly
one hundred and seventy hours since power went out, so
they've moved into recovery mode.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fatigue is definitely setting in for people, especially these people
that still don't have full drid electricity into their homes.
They have no hot water cylinder, no heat pump, no oven. Obviously,
people were trying to do the cleanup. Amongst all of
this as well.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A push to expand a successful pilot trialing pharmacist coaches
for type two diabetes patients. Research on the county's Monaco
Health program run during COVID confirms that blood sugar levels
reduced for eighty five percent of participants, most sustaining them
movements months later to Sport a sixth loss in seven
(03:05):
football matches for Liverpool. They have been ousted from the
League Cup via a three mil home defeat to Crystal
Palace in the fourth round. South Africa have reached the
decider of the Women's Cricket World Cup, beating England by
one hundred and twenty five runs in their semi final,
and eighteen year old basketball prospect Jackson Kiss has finalized
(03:26):
his United States college future by committing to Iowa State.
I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
newstalk zb newsroom
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