Morning Edition: 28 August 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 28 August 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 eighth of August. And
this update, a market competition expert says the government's latest
announcement is just one step in a marathon process. Yesterday,
Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis revealed an express pathway for
new players to enter the supermarket sector. She's blaming restrictive

(00:27):
zoning and consent policies for turning away companies trying to
establish a New Zealand. But Monopoly Watch research director TECHS
Edwards says that the larger problem is with competition law
and distribution power. This is just part of the process
is to go through and tease out if there's anybody
who could consider and get a business case to work
to build two hundred news stores, three hundred new stores

(00:48):
and go scale quite quickly. Confirmation, the Reserve Bank chair
warned Treasury of risks if it released details of Adrian
Or's resignation. Chair Neil quickly says that dis closing details
of meetings between Or and Treasury when Or was the
Bank's governor would destroy the goodwill of both organizations. He
expressed shock the Treasury created detailed minutes of the meeting

(01:13):
without disclosing it to the bank that could be released publicly,
but Finance Minister Nicola Willis believes wherever possible, public institutions
should be transparent. A shooting in America's Minneapolis has left
two children dead and seventeen other people injured. Police say
of those injured, fourteen children and two are in a
critical condition. The attack reportedly happened at Annunciation Catholic School

(01:37):
during morning mass, where the gunman shot through the church
windows before turning a gun on himself. He was armed
with a rifle, shotgun and pistol. Wellington commuters can expect
more disruption on the Beleaga Transmission Gully as work's done
to patch up a street to the highway. The Transport
Agency is planning to resurface several kilometres of the road

(01:58):
north of Puttidua, likely meaning lane closures during the day
and full closures at night. The works forecast from roughly
October till March. It comes just three and a half
years after the one point twenty five billion dollar highway
belatedly opened, and relates to a legal battle with one
of the roads builders over unfinished work and quality issues.

(02:19):
NZTA Regional manager Mark Owen says part of the road
is deteriorated faster than expected and concedes it's frustrating the
lack of a quality standard for professional development could be
letting our teachers down. A new report from the Education
Review Office has found half of teachers don't know how
to use what they've learned in their classroom. Deputy Chief

(02:41):
Executive Ruth Shinoda says professional development drives student achievement and
we need to make it easier for school leaders to
choose good quality developments. It's becoming more affordable again for
New Zealanders to get onto the property ladder. Cotality Ends's
new report finds the national value to income ratio reached
its lowest points since mid twenty nineteen in the June

(03:03):
quarter at seven point five. The time required to save
for a deposit has fallen two ten years from almost
fourteen and twenty twenty one. In sport, doctor Doug King,
a professor of neuroscience at aut claims professional rugby's concussion
standown period needs extending from twelve to twenty eight days.
United States captain Keegan Bradley has decided the best way

(03:27):
to reclaim Golf's Ryder Cup against Europe from September twenty
six to twenty eight at New York's bed Page. Black
is to opt against, including himself. Twenty twenty one champion
Emma Radicanu has advanced to the third round of the
US Tennis Open in straight sets. I'm never ready, Manu
that your latest news fix will be back with the
next update at midday from the newstalk ZB News Roupe.