Morning Edition: 14 October 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 14 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 (00:05):
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning Newswix for Tuesday, fourteenth of October. In this update,
Donald Trump says today is an incredible day for the world.
His US broken peace deal has seen all twenty living
Israeli hostages freed in exchange for almost two thousand Palestinian

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prisoners and detainees. Trump and other world leaders have also
signed a Gaza peace plan at a summit in Egypt.
He says the deal will avert a third World War. Mister,
three thousand years to get to this point, can you
believe it? And it's going to hold up to It's
going to hold up. Significant cost savings are on the

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way for the government over changes it's making to the
Kiwisaver scheme. Forecasts suggest the government will save two point
four to six seven billion dollars over a four year period.
The government's halved its maximum payment per dollar contribution and
removed it for a certain income threshold. As employee and
employer contribution rates are set to gradually rise. A spokesman

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for Finance Minister Nikola Willis says higher savings are expected
for Quwisaver investors due to the increases in employer and
employee contributions. A better pictures being painted for teachers as
the government's move towards structured literacy seies results. After twenty
weeks at school, fifty eight percent of students are at

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or above phonics expectations, compared to thirty six percent in
term one. More than forty percent of students exceeded expectations
in term three, more than double the rate in Term one.
Founder of professional learning provider Learning Matters, Carla McNeil says
this is a good start and they'll hopefully soon see

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results in other areas like spelling. She says it's important
to grow this picture further of what's going on in literacy.
It's thought that reaching pre COVID tourism levels is looking
promising this summer. Visitor arrivals reach ninety two percent of
pre pandemic numbers for August. That's up on July's eighty
seven percent. Board of Airline Representatives Executive Director Kath O'Brien

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told Ryan Bridge, our connections have taken longer to restore
because we're located so far from the rest of the world.
Looking ahead to this summer, airlines they're expecting to see
eight point two percent increased capacity against last summer, so
a lot more sleeps in the sky and so the
opportunity is there to hit our pre COVID numbers. Concerns
nearly a third of New Zealand computers could be vulnerable

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to cyber attacks from today with the expiring of support
for Windows ten. Microsoft's telling customers to update their devices
for Window eleven or pay to extend the support, which
includes free security updates for another year. Consumer NZ estimates
around thirty percent of New Zealand computers still run the
operating system. Product test writer Nick Galling it's hard to

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predict the short term impact of the support expiring, and
he says there'll be no middleman between the user and viruses,
so an attack could happen within days or months. In sport,
scott Holly Davidson will become the first woman to referee
in All Blacks Test when they play Wales in the
final match of their Grand Slam tour on November twenty

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second at Cardiff. Playmaker Karen Forren supports a pushword kiwis
to feature in league state of origin just like Sarmons
and Tongans. Australian Test cricket captain Pat Cummins concedes he's
unlikely to play next month's Ashes opener against England starting
on November twenty first in Perth, due to his backstress fracture.
I'm never ready, Manu. That's your latest. Newsworks will be

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back with the next update at midday from the news
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