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October 1, 2025 3 mins
The Morning Edition of News Fix for 02 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 (00:12):
Good morning, I never read I Manu and this is
your morning news books for Thursday, second of October. In
this update, the government's energy reforms are coming under fire
for not going far enough. Changes include allowing Crown controlled
gent tailors more government capital for projects, plans for a
new gas import terminal, and giving the Electricity Authority more power.

(00:35):
Employers of Manufacturers Association's Alan McDonald says it's thoroughly underwhelming.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's nothing really in the short term that offers any
kind of assistance for those people already in that spiral
where they're looking at tough decisions to close or downsize
and all that sort of thing, if it's driven by
electricity pricing.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Consumer endz and CEO John Duffy says he's not sure
this is even a plan.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I feel like this is people kind of clambering around
on the dark klnograsshold or something to come up with
solutions that might be sellable to the public. With an
election year coming.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Up, Donald Trump is threatening irreversible mass layoffs in the
US federal government amidst the ongoing shutdown. Republicans and Democrats
are blaming each other for being unable to agree on
a last minute funding bill. The government's unveiling a new
loan scheme in the hope of having more social houses built.
It's promising to guarantee eighty percent of loans provided to

(01:29):
eligible community housing providers by participating banks. Prison staff say
record high assaults will only be stopped with more staff
and more prison beds. In the last financial year, Corrections
recorded more than fifteen hundred prisoner on prisoner assaults and
more than a thousand prisoner on staff assaults. They're the

(01:50):
highest figures on record. A significant increase in the number
of people being prescribed to painkiller tramadol. FARMAC data shows
more than two hundred and seventy thousand people were given
the drug last year, an increase of fourteen percent since
twenty nineteen. Tramadol's commonly prescribed before or after surgery and
can prove addictive after prolonged use. Farm Max's new chief executive,

(02:14):
Natalie McMurtry, says the drug buying agencies model drew her
to the job. In an exclusive first interview with our newsroom,
she says she was particularly drawn to Farmac's independence from government.
It's good for the integrity of the process because you
try to keep it consistent and as a great public service,
not necessarily influenced by the politics of the day, but

(02:35):
evidence Kerry, author and broadcaster Nigel Latters being hailed as
an inspiration to gut cancer patients. The fifty eight year
old clinical psychologist has died from stomach cancer a year
after being diagnosed. Later became a passionate advocate for the
Gut Cancer Foundation. Foundation CEO Liam Willis says he faced
his diagnosis with incredible positivity and he says latter was

(02:59):
a realist, but his positivity and resilience in the face
of setbacks was an inspiration to others on a similar journey.
In sport, twin defeats to Australia for New Zealand's men's
and women's cricketers. The White Fans have been dismissed with
two hundred and thirty seven to lose by eighty nine
runs in their fifty over World Cup match at Indoor

(03:19):
despite one hundred and eleven from Sophie Divine, and the
Black Cabs have lost by six wickets. At the opening
Chapel Hadley t twenty match at Mount Monganui, the visitors
reached one hundred and eighty two with twenty one balls
to spare. Rooster skipper James Tedesco has earned a second
Deli m medal for the nral's best player. I'm never ready,

(03:40):
Manu that your latest news fix will be back with
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