Midday Edition: 02 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 02 September 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 Jody Gill and this is your midday
Newspax for Tuesday, the second of September. Amazon's confirmed its
New Zealand based data centers have already been built in
are going live today. The tech giant made the announcement
at an event in central Auckland. Jordan Dunn was there.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Amazon Web Services is investing seven point five billion dollars
into the centres, which are expected to create over one
thousand jobs. It says it's the largest non private tech
investment in New Zealand history. The company says the center's
run on fully renewable energy and can withstand a power outage,
flooding and even volcanic eruptions.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Major christ Church retail chain Smith's City has been placed
in voluntary administration. Founded in nineteen eighteen, the company has
faced increasing financial pressures and despite closing some stores and
dance sizing measures, declining sales and meant trading can't continue.
As of this morning, all stores and the online shop
have been temporarily closed for business so administrators can carry

(01:05):
out an urgent assessment. Thousands of nurses are walking off
the job and onto the picket line for the first
of two full day strikes this week, among them christ
Church's Debbie Handysides Up Valleys Nathan Clark and Hawk's Bay's
Noreene McCullen. Over half of the sixteen hospital boards throughout

(01:29):
New Zealand every day a short staff.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
We've got to look at how many appointments or procedures
actually get canceled because there aren't enough staff there and
no one's actually been able to produce those I gures.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
We've had twenty eight plus days plus other days meeting
with different people into fer Aura.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
We want to get a resolution for this and I
don't want anyone to be in any vote about that.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Health New Zealand says the action will be disruptive, but
care will still be provided to those who need it.
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters is insisting the foreign
buyer's ban remains in place. New rules mean active investor
plus visa holders can now buy or build one home
in New Zealand if it's worth at least five million dollars.
They'll still need to invest another five million separately to qualify.

(02:11):
Peter says ninety nine percent of the market still denied
to them, so a foreign buyers ban is still in effect.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well we want a policy that actually accesses the interests
of the investor in Venizum market, accesses their funds, but
also gives them a right to Olivia ACT.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Is calling for New Zealand to pull out of the
Paris Climate Agreement unless we get what it calls more
realistic targets. Leader David Seymour claims overdoing climate policy will backfire.
Seymour claims net zero targets have been set without regard
for the real cost of firms, farms and families, and
suggests it could force farmers off their land and out

(02:50):
of the country. In sport, boxer Joseph Parker is set
to headline London's O two Arena against undefeated local prospect
Fabio Wood on October twenty five. Liverpool have paid a
British football record transfer fee of two hundred and eighty
six million dollars for Newcastle striker Alexandra Eazak on a

(03:13):
six year deal. The Wellington Phoenix intend to appeal the
decision over their own mission from the inaugural Oceania Professional
League next year, and Craigwincmillan has accepted a full time
role as White Ferns, assistant cricket coach. I'm Jody gil
that's you latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at five pm from the news Talk said

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B Newsroom.