Morning Edition: 25 September 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 25 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 never ready Manu and this is your
morning news fix for Thursday, twenty fifth of September. And
this update. The incoming Reserve Bank governor won't rule out
more engineered recessions. Sweden's Anna Bremen is promising more consultation,
transparency and stability when she takes over the role. In December,

(00:25):
former governor Adrian Or was open about the central Bank
deliberately causing a recession to combat steep inflation. Bremen says
that she'd like to avoid economic shocks, but the central
Bank needs to remain focused on price stability. Police have
kept more than fifty eight million dollars out of the
hands of organized crime following a massive raid on cannabis

(00:48):
growhouses across Auckland. Over a month, Operation Beryl busted one
hundred and twenty properties, seizing more than ten tons of
the drug and eleven thousand illicit plants. Police say they
arrested thirty people, most of which were Vietnamese nationals. A
warning government debt will blow out to two hundred percent

(01:09):
of GDP unless policies change. Treasury's long term fiscal statement
contains numerous alarms and highlights the challenge of responding to
an aging population. The report shows fiscal pressures will accelerate
in coming decades, largely driven by healthcare costs and superannuation
to respond to an aging population. The FBI is investigating

(01:33):
a fatal shooting at an immigration facility in Dallas, Texas.
FBI Director Cash Pattel says anti ICE messaging was found
on bullets at the scene. The FBI says it was
a coordinated attack and another example of targeted violence in
the country. Senator Ted Cruz says it's the third shooting

(01:53):
in Texas directed towards immigration or customs officers, a warning
the country's not ready for rapid increase in dementia cases.
Auckland University research commission by Alzheimer's n Z reveals around
five hundred people every week developed the neurological condition one
hundred and seventy thousand kiwis we'll live with it. By

(02:17):
twenty fifty. It's day two of jury deliberations to decide
the fate of the man who lit the fatal Loafer's
Lodge blaze. The fifty year old, whose name is suppressed,
faces five counts of murder and one of arson in
the High Court in Wellington over the twenty twenty three fire.
There's no dispute he lit the fire, but his lawyers

(02:38):
say he is not guilty by reason of insanity. The
Crown says he knew lighting the fire was wrong and
he did so because he did not like living at
Loafer's Lunch. The Holiday in Express is saying goodbye to
blaring alarms in the morning and hello to the smoky
scent of bacon. From October, guests across New Zealand and

(02:59):
Australia will have the chance to trial a new diffuser
style centered alarm clock wednesdaying at the hotel chain. There
will be three wake up aromas to choose from bacon,
coffee or blueberry muffin. Holiday in Express Australia general manager
Rob Faihe says they want to get guests up and
out of bed. In Sport, the Silver Ferns have won

(03:21):
Netwar's Tiny Jamison Trophy, beating South Africa seventy fifty eight
in the second match of the three Test series at Napier.
Did take an unassailable two nil lead for all White
Clayton Lewis has escaped conviction for football corruption as part
of an alleged a league spot fixing operation in conjunction
with South American crime syndicates. He has been sentenced to

(03:44):
two years of community service in Sydney. Single sculler Logan
Ulrich is through to the semi finals at the Rowing
World Championships in Shanghai. I'm never reaty, Manu. Then your
latest news fix will be back with the next update
at midday from the news Talk ZB news room.