Morning Edition: 22 September 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 22 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 Newspeks for Monday, twenty second of September. In this update,
a patient advocate says small hospital infrastructure upgrades aren't the
long term answer. Health Minister Simeon Brown's announced a one
hundred million dollar investment for hospitals across the country in

(00:24):
twenty one local projects. They include more clinical space and
emergency departments, new transit lounges, and extra car parks. Patient
Voice Altered Or Chair Malcolm Mulholland says the government should
be focusing on bigger projects. I think we're going to
have to bite the bullet soon enough. Eventually look at
pumping some series cash into a hospital infrastructure. Health New

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Zealand's also allocating twenty million dollars to increasing frontline ed staff.
Almost thirteen thousand patients will have healthcare delayed this week
due to major strike action by senior doctors. About five
and a half thousand Association of salaried medical specialists will
walk off the job tomorrow and Wednesday. Health New Zealand

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is criticizing the union for walking away from negotiations, but
union boss Sarah Dalton says Health officials have been unable
to give accurate financial costings about its offer. Donald Trump
and JD. Vance are among those speaking at today's memorial
service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Tens of thousands have

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packed out the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. An
announcements expected soon on where the New Zealand will formally
recognize a Palestinian state. Australia, the UK and Canada are
the latest to announce their formal recognition of Palestine. Israeli
Prime Minister ben Yamanetta Yahoo says a Palestinian state will

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not happen, claiming it would be a huge reward to terrorism,
but British Prime Minister Sekiir Starmer says this is the
opposite of what her mass wants. He says her brutal
terror organization and the call for a two state solution
is the exact opposite of their hateful vision. A man's
facing court today for allegedly pointing a laser at planes

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near Wellington Airport. Air Traffic Control reported to police on
Saturday night that two planes, including one preparing to land,
were being targeted by a laser. Police say they figured
out the laser pointer was coming from Stokes Valley, leading
to the arrest of a man with a laser. A
thirty five year old man is set to appear in
the Hut Valley District Court today, chart with endangering transport

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as bon voyage for some. Kiwisa's cruise season kicks off today,
but the industry's future remains shaky. The first ship arrives
in Auckland today before more start docking country wide next
month through till May. The number of port calls have
dropped rapidly, down from more than nine hundred last season
to six hundred and sixty three this season. New Zealand

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Cruise Association CEO Jackie Lloyd says there's a lot of
nervousness in the air. In sport, Max Verstappen has won
Formula Ones Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but Liam Lawsom claimed a
career best fifth. The Panthers appeurring at the business end
of the NRL League season, thrashing the Bulldogs forty six
twenty six to advance to a preliminary final against the Broncos.

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The Silver Ferns have dismantled South Africa seventy seven to
fifty one in their opening netball test at Auckland. Gabby
Smither has claimed silver in the one hundred metres breaststroke
SB nine class at the Paris Swimming World Championships. I'm
never retty Manu and that your latest news fix will
be back with the next update at midday from the

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