Morning Edition: 22 August 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 22 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 Friday, twenty second of August. And
this update hopes more defense spending will be targeted locally
after the government's two point seven billion dollar purchase of
new aircraft. It's buying two new Airbus A three twenty
one planes in a lease to buy plan, and five

(00:25):
Lockheed Martin Seahawk helicopters. The aircraft will replace the defense
forces aging seven five sevens and sea sprites. Defense consultant
and former Lieutenant Colonel Joshua and Neera says there's still
around nine billion dollars to spend as part of the
defense Capability Plan. I do hope that there's a lot
of strength placed on New Zealand industry that can be

(00:47):
part of this. We can't really afford to have all
of that month heading offshore. A rich lister wrongly accused
by artificial intelligence of being a child sex offender is
pushing for the real offended to be named. The defendant
was sentenced in Auckland District Court last week for possessing
and importing thousands of objectionable material files. He was placed

(01:09):
on the Child sex Offender register, but granted permanent name suppression.
A chatbot on X stated the platform founder Wainwright Junior,
was at the center of the case, which our newsroom
can confirm is false. Rights urged the man to come
forward with his identity and has written to X owner
Elon Musk requesting he improved the chatbot. A decision will

(01:31):
be made today on setting up an international police agency
base in the Pacific. INTERPOL pitched the idea to police
representatives from twenty two Pacific island nations at an annual
conference in White Tonguey yesterday. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says
a regional base would give us a stronger voice on
the world stage. First home buyers a holding one of
their strongest positions in the property market in twenty years.

(01:55):
Cotality figures for July show first home buyers account for
twenty seven percent of buying activity, well above their long
term average of up to twenty two percent. Little is
changed for owner occupiers and mortgage multiple property owners make
up a quarter of transactions, in line with historical norms.
Coatality Chief property economist Calvin Davidson says first home buyers

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are jumping on the lower property values and low deposit
lending from banks believe in the benefits of a modern,
accelerated land acquisition process. Parliaments pushed through changes to the
Public Works Act said to make it quicker for agencies
to acquire land. Landowners will now receive up to ninety
two thousand dollars in recognition and a premium if they

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sell early infrastructure. New Zealand Chief Executive Neck Legate says
the old system was cumbersome and costly. A hoppy paradise
for beer lovers as New Zealand's biggest beer festival begins
in the capital, beer Varna is welcoming more than twelve
thousand people to Wellington Sky Stadium across today and tomorrow.
Sixty five breweries from New Zealand, Oscustralia and South Korea

(03:01):
will set up shop around the stadium's concourse, pouring more
than three hundred and fifty bears add in Sport, Southland
had beaten Bay of plenty thirty twenty five in Rugby's
NPC at Rottadua to move to seventh on the ladder
when Corey Tall will debut and loose forward Fraser mcwright
will Campta in the Wallabies on Sunday in Cape Town

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as they attempt to win bank to bank tests. Away
against the spring Box in the same series were the
first time since nineteen sixty three the Rabbitos have trounced
the Dragons forty nil in leagu's NRL, and Nick Carrios
has pulled out of the US Tennis Open singles with
injury for a third successive year. I'm never retty Manu
and that your latest news fix will be back with

(03:42):
the next update at midday from the Newstalk ZB newsroom.