Morning Edition: 16 September 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 16 September 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 morning, I'm never ready, Manu and this is your morning.
New spitsper Tuesday sixteenth of September. In this update, Auckland's
eden Park stadium may soon be allowed to operate freely
without being bogged down by local event rules. Yesterday, the
government announced an investigation will be launched into rules that
may be holding the stadium back, like concert numbers and duration.

(00:27):
It will also look at rules around conferences, which are
currently capped at two thousand people. Eden Park's CEO, Nick
Sauntener says they want more of an ability to negotiate
for large scale events without a limit, whether it be
with conference organizers or concert promoters, to have the flexibility
that other stadiums around the globe also share. Fruit suppliers

(00:49):
are bracing for significant changes in the industry as what
Is ends its contract with Hawks Bay Growers. The company,
headquartered in Hastings, has told some local peach growers their
fruit is no longer needed. Our newsroom has spoken with
one supplier who's planning to pull out his peach trees
and replant them with apples after the next crop summer

(01:10):
fruit ends. Chief executive Dean Smith says the scale of
the change is unclear, but Wattes is certainly reducing its
output of hawks Bay canned peaches. More disruptions to schools
across the country as teachers continue strike action. PPTA members
voted to reject the government's latest payoffer and are engaging

(01:31):
in stankered action this week. It will affect different year
groups on different days, with Year eleven students affected today.
Finance Minister Nikola Willis says her son is one of
the students impacted today and she's surprised. Teachers never seem
to strike in the school holidays. We want to bargain
in good faith. You do that at the bargaining table.
You can't do that while you're striking. The Justice Minister's

(01:53):
confident in plans to change the enrollment deadline for elections.
Proposals would see people required to be enrolled thirteen days
before election day ending same day. Enrollment officials noted a
deadline of a month which was not selected would require
significant changes in behavior and could harm confidence in the
integrity of elections. Farmer confidence is at its second highest

(02:17):
level in the last decade. The latest Rabobank survey reveals
farmer's confidence in the broader agricultural economy is up to
forty six percent from forty four, with more than half
of Kiwi farmers expecting the economy's performance to improve in
the year ahead. Rabobank's CEO Todd Charterer says it's the
fourth quarter in a row where confidence has elevated. New

(02:41):
Zealand is spending less of their income on vehicle insurance
than they were a year ago. STATZNZ figures show vehicle
insurance premiums have risen one point seven percent in a year,
while wages and salaries rose two point eight that's a
start contrast to the year before, when premiums rose twenty
three point seven percent while wages and salaries only rose

(03:03):
five point five In sport, Jordie Beemish has won the
three thousand meters steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships, becoming
the first New Zealander to secure a victory on the
track in forty two years and twenty editions of the meet.
The country's six previous titles were in field events. Swede
Monto de Plantis has created a fourteenth consecutive pole vault

(03:26):
world record, clearing six point three zero meters. Black Camp's
cricket coach Rob Walter is backing better Finn Allen to
grow into an aw format player for New Zealand. I'm
never ready, Manu. That your latest newsfaks. We'll be back
with the next update at midday from the Newstalk ZB
news room