Midday Edition: 04 April 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 04 April 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 this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the fourth of April. Heavy downpours
and strong winds are causing havoc on land and Sea
West Auckland homes and Cuddy Cuddy are without power. Some
Rimawera homes were earlier in the dark, but power is
starting to be restored. There's also isolated outages in northmand Meanwhile,

(00:25):
Coastguard volunteers battled three meter swells and forty knock gusts
to rescue a stranded sailor anker it off Tyndal's Beach
in Auckland. This morning, Met Service meteorologist Tape Makubutane sees
a silver lining in the wet weather. The hope is
that those very dry areas have gotten some of the
reen that we've been looking for over the last few months.

(00:47):
Donald Trump is upbeat about what happens next Following his
sweeping tariff's announcement. The US President's been speaking for the
first time since rolling out tariffs of at least ten
percent on almost all imported goods. Trump says other countries
have been taking advantage of the US for far too
long and now want to see if they can make
new trade deals. He's standing by his view that the

(01:10):
tariffs will benefit America in the long term. We have
six or seven threellion dollars coming into our country. We've
never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom,
the stuff is going to boom, the country is going
to form. The Financial Markets Authority has filed civil proceedings
against insurer IAG for false and misleading representations to more

(01:31):
than two hundred and fifty thousand customers. The breaches relate
to failures to correctly priced premiums and to properly advertised discounts.
Jacob Jones reports the alleged breaches were self reported from IAG.
It covers policies from insurers ASBAMI, Westpac, BNZ and co Op.

(01:51):
The Authority says that alleged breaches resulted in overcharging of
about thirty five million dollars. The victims who were secretly
film by a sexual predator are shocked by how accessible
spy cameras are in New Zealand. Aucklander Micah Farler used
covert cameras to film twenty two women and girls, including

(02:11):
five children. He was jailed for four years yesterday. Angeline
Judge is the survivor who exposed her former friends offending.
She says people shouldn't be able to go on to
trade Me or Amazon to buy spy cameras. These are
a weapon that can be used to harm people sexually
and abuse them. An Auckland woman has been sentenced to

(02:34):
twelve months home detention for tax offenses involving more than
half a million dollars. Victoria Sabrina Callipper was charged with
aiding into betting a scaffolding company in making paye deductions
which weren't paid to inland revenue. She was also ordered
to pay thirteen thousand dollars in reparation at fifty dollars

(02:55):
a week. The country's latest mental health progress report has
been released, with the Minister deeming it a sign of
genuine progress. Accessing specialist mental health and addiction services within
three weeks has improved one point five percent, while accessing
primary services within one week has increased three point one percent.

(03:16):
To sport, the Crusaders have called on the calling technology
expertise of Hockey New Zealand as they try to win
away against the drewer in sweltering Fiji for the first
time in Super Rugby tomorrow, and Chelsea have survived twelve
minutes of added time to claim a one nil home
win over Tottenham, regaining fourth in football's Premier League. I'm

(03:39):
Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update at five pm from the news
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