July 24, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 25 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the twenty fifth of July. The
government's redesigning the country's passport to put English text before terreo.
The current passport says uru fenoa al terroa prior to
the words New Zealand passport confirmation comes as New Zealand
First Leader Winston Peters questions why the term al terroa
(00:25):
is used on official government documents and is sent in Parliament.
Minister of Internal Affairs Brook van Walden says the government's
stance as English first, but not English only.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
While the security upgraders are underway and the new design
of the new passport will have English first, we need
to get through the backlog of those older passports first.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Unprecedented discussions between a high ranking US Justice official and
Gillan Maxwell, CNN reports Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met
with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice in her Florida prison, where she's
serving a twenty year sentence for child sex trafficking and
abuse offenses. Intelligence analyst at John Miller says a meeting
(01:05):
like this is unheard of, speculating they could have discussed
others involved in the scheme or what she'd be willing
to say publicly on President Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Nobody who's in jail does anything for nothing, so if
she's going to cooperate with the government as a sentenced
prisoner and her lawyer arranged this, there has to be
something in return.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Meta still hasn't removed advertisements of class A drugs on
Facebook marketplace, despite multiple complaints. In a single day, our
newsroom found fifty six different ads for various substances being
promoted over the North Island. An anonymous bay of plenty
man says he's made hundreds of reports to Meta notifying
it of the accounts. Massy University Public health researcher Robin
(01:49):
van Dersanden says social media company struggle to keep up
with the vast amount of content on their sites. Labour
is pushing back on adjustments to the electoral row process.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith wants to stop election day enrollment,
restrict prisoner voters, and ban free food and entertainment offered
(02:10):
near booths. Labor Justice spokesperson Duncan Web says the food
and entertainment changes will provide good clarification, but regarding late enrollments,
he says there were two electorates worth of people who
enrolled on the day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
For whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Busy people working, people looking after kids, and I think
that those hundred and ten thousand people actually have as
much right to have a say and who runs a
country as anyone else. Serious allegations of bullying towards teachers
is being alleged at one Aca school. At a Wonaca school,
the Otago Daily Times reports that bullying, harassment and unsettling
(02:46):
behavior by mount aspiring students has led to the school
bringing in outside help to deal with the issue. Teachers
have allegedly been subjected to derogatory language by students some
of its sexual and incidents where students have rounded teachers
making them feel unsafe. New Zealand is slipping down the
rankings when providing care to people at the end of
(03:07):
their lives, falling from third in the world ten years
ago to twelfth place currently to Sport All Blacks locked
Sam Dowry is expected to return from shoulder surgery for
Canterbury in their NPC season opener against Wellington next weekend.
The black Caps twentieth Test match at Lord's are as
part of a three Test tour of England next year.
(03:30):
The series opens at the Home of Cricket on June four,
before matches at the Oval and Nottingham and New Zealand's
fairy Tale Run and the women's water polo at the
World University Games has ended at the semi final stage.
They've been pipped by hosts Germany nine to eight. 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.
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the twenty fifth of July. The
government's redesigning the country's passport to put English text before terreo.
The current passport says uru fenoa al terroa prior to
the words New Zealand passport confirmation comes as New Zealand
First Leader Winston Peters questions why the term al terroa
(00:25):
is used on official government documents and is sent in Parliament.
Minister of Internal Affairs Brook van Walden says the government's
stance as English first, but not English only.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
While the security upgraders are underway and the new design
of the new passport will have English first, we need
to get through the backlog of those older passports first.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Unprecedented discussions between a high ranking US Justice official and
Gillan Maxwell, CNN reports Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met
with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice in her Florida prison, where she's
serving a twenty year sentence for child sex trafficking and
abuse offenses. Intelligence analyst at John Miller says a meeting
(01:05):
like this is unheard of, speculating they could have discussed
others involved in the scheme or what she'd be willing
to say publicly on President Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Nobody who's in jail does anything for nothing, so if
she's going to cooperate with the government as a sentenced
prisoner and her lawyer arranged this, there has to be
something in return.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Meta still hasn't removed advertisements of class A drugs on
Facebook marketplace, despite multiple complaints. In a single day, our
newsroom found fifty six different ads for various substances being
promoted over the North Island. An anonymous bay of plenty
man says he's made hundreds of reports to Meta notifying
it of the accounts. Massy University Public health researcher Robin
(01:49):
van Dersanden says social media company struggle to keep up
with the vast amount of content on their sites. Labour
is pushing back on adjustments to the electoral row process.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith wants to stop election day enrollment,
restrict prisoner voters, and ban free food and entertainment offered
(02:10):
near booths. Labor Justice spokesperson Duncan Web says the food
and entertainment changes will provide good clarification, but regarding late enrollments,
he says there were two electorates worth of people who
enrolled on the day.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
For whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Busy people working, people looking after kids, and I think
that those hundred and ten thousand people actually have as
much right to have a say and who runs a
country as anyone else. Serious allegations of bullying towards teachers
is being alleged at one Aca school. At a Wonaca school,
the Otago Daily Times reports that bullying, harassment and unsettling
(02:46):
behavior by mount aspiring students has led to the school
bringing in outside help to deal with the issue. Teachers
have allegedly been subjected to derogatory language by students some
of its sexual and incidents where students have rounded teachers
making them feel unsafe. New Zealand is slipping down the
rankings when providing care to people at the end of
(03:07):
their lives, falling from third in the world ten years
ago to twelfth place currently to Sport All Blacks locked
Sam Dowry is expected to return from shoulder surgery for
Canterbury in their NPC season opener against Wellington next weekend.
The black Caps twentieth Test match at Lord's are as
part of a three Test tour of England next year.
(03:30):
The series opens at the Home of Cricket on June four,
before matches at the Oval and Nottingham and New Zealand's
fairy Tale Run and the women's water polo at the
World University Games has ended at the semi final stage.
They've been pipped by hosts Germany nine to eight. 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.
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