Midday Edition: 14 July 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 14 July 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 Monday, the fourteenth of July. The Prime
Minister's confident the government is helping stop the brain drain
to Australia. Stats n Z data shows decade high numbers
of kiwis shifted across the Tasman in the year to
December twenty twenty four thirty thousand people. Chris Luckson told
Heather Duplaic Allen people leave thinking they'll earn more somewhere else,

(00:28):
So incomes need to get better here.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
As our job is to make sure that if you're
going to work hard, you can get ahead. If you
actually can walk the streets and feel safe in your community,
actually you feel like the education system for your kids
is going to be get setting them up well as
you appearance in any healthcare support they can get access
to it.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Meanwhile, Nationals open to Act's idea of fast tracking new
supermarket operators to increase competition. David Seymour is proposing a
law change to speed up consents for anyone wanting to
build ten or more supermarkets. Prime Minister Christopher Luckson says
the government will consider all options to get more operators here.
Minor shareholders of Duval Property Group have had an attempted

(01:06):
negligence case against the Financial Markets Authority scrapped before it's heard.
A group of twenty five alleged the regulator breached a
duty of care in the lead up to interim receiverships
and statutory management for Duval last year. Business Desks at
garth Bray, says Justice Greg Blanchard granted an FMA application

(01:28):
to strike out proceedings, believing that no duty of care
to prove. He said, when I look at the law,
there's nothing in there that says they're meant to go
and specifically look after particular groups of investors.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
They're there to keep the track of the market.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
A coronial in quest has begun into the death of
Auckland five year old Malachi Subesh. Malachi died in Starship
Hospital in twenty twenty one after months of abuse by
his carer. Coroner Anderson has laid out key issues to
be addressed in the hearing, including whether mandatory reporting would
have made a difference. The aim is to form recommendations

(02:01):
to help prevent deaths in similar circumstances. The boy's mother,
Jasmine Cotter is expected to give evidence today and his
cousin Meghan Cotter. Hundreds of homes are being assessed for
damage in Nelson, Tasman as it recovers from the latest
extreme weather. Many roads and schools remain closed. Powers still
out to dozens of homes, and some areas are under

(02:24):
boiled water and conserve water notices. Local Federated Farmers Provincial
president Kerry Irvine told gold Sport the road to recovery
will be long.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
By a father worst I've ever say. We're talking one
on one hundred years. Personally, I think as record breaking.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
The US President is backtracking on halting supplying weapons to
Ukraine as Russian attacks rampantly increase. Donald Trump is hinting
he'll make a major statement on the conflict early this week.
US correspondent Richard Arnold says Trump will highlight his upset
with the Kremlin. He told heither do play c Allen.

(03:00):
Ukraine's running short on anti missile systems, and a new
deal is being worked on. To sport Yarnick Sinner has
beaten Carlos Alcarrath across four sets in the Wimbledon Tennis
singles men's final. Shane Van Gisbergen has secured his third
consecutive NASCAR road wind, this time in California. Marcus Armstrong

(03:23):
has recorded his best IndyCar finish at an Oval, finishing
third behind series leader Alex Plow and Scott Dixon in Iowa.
New Zealand have finished runners up at Football's at Softball's
World Cup in Canada, and mountain biker Samara Maxwell has
won the latest World Cup cross country event by nine

(03:44):
seconds in Andorra. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the News Talk ZB newsroom