Midday Edition: 07 March 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 07 March 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 afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and the is your midday
news fix for Friday, the seventh of March. Confirmation a
Health New Zealand board will return in July and the
commissioner role will become a thing of the past. He
is Political reporter Azaria Howell.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Leicester Levy was appointed commissioner by the previous minister as
the health organization's forecast deficit rose. Health Minister Simeon Brown
says he will bring back a board. He says he
expects Commissioner Levy's work will be finished by July, concluding
a year's tenure. Meanwhile, Labour Health spokesperson Aisha Verral is

(00:39):
calling for the opposition to have a say in nominating
a board member.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Chris Hopkins is highlighting a focus on jobs, health and
home at his State of the Nation address in Auckland.
The Labour leader says schools and hospitals desperately need investment,
our homes are unaffordable and everyday expenses too high. Claudia
o'negola is.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
There, Papkins across the Tasman and seen an economy with
high savings rates, large domestic pools of capital, research and development,
incentives and a tax system that encourages investment in local businesses,
in new jobs, not just houses. Hipkins says we can
expect labor to move New Zealand in the same economic direction.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Meanwhile, Hopkins has also announced a revamped labor lineup. Senior
political reporter Sophie Trigger runs through the reshuffle.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Among the biggest changes, educations gone from former principal Jantinnetti
to Willow gene Prime to Neetti taking up workplace relations.
Labour Deputy Carmel Seppouloni hands over social development to Willie
Jackson and picks up Auckland issues. And new economic team's
being unveiled with roles created in jobs and incomes, and
infrastructure and public investment.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Donald Trump is pressing pause on some tariffs for now.
At least, He's confirmed tariffs on some Canadian and Mexican
goods will be suspended until next month, but the US
president is indicating further exempts are unlikely. Trump says he
won't be swayed by market reaction as he focuses on
America's best interests.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm not even looking at the market because long term,
the United States will be very strong with what's happening here.
These are countries and companies foreign companies that have been
ripping us.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Off condemnation from people venturing into the ocean. As Cyclone
Alfred creeps towards Australia's east coast. The storms expected to
make landfall tomorrow morning, hitting southern Queensland and northern New
South Wales. Heavy rain and strong winds are lashing the area,
cutting power to tens of thousands of homes and putting

(02:37):
more than twenty thousand dwellings under evacuation orders. The Queensland
Premiere has told the ABC that one man had gone
out on a jet ski and he had to be
rescued to Sport. Super Rugby is investigating claims the Fijian
drewer had to pile into the back of a truck
after transport arrangements to an Auckland hotel fell through on

(03:00):
their trip to play the Hurricanes in Napier. The world's
best of female tennis players are set to receive up
to twelve months maternity leave for the first time. The
program is fully funded by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
and White Fern merely curs become the sixth cricketer to
bag a five wicket haul in India's WPL during Mumbai's

(03:24):
six wicket victory over the Warriors. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at five pm from the newstalk zb newsroom.