September 17, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 18 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the eighteenth of September. New Zealand's
economy is back in contraction. Latest data just out from
stats n Z shows GDP fol zero point nine percent
in the three months to June. With more Business reporter
Michael sergle.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This latest fall follows six months of growth after six
months of contraction. Economists had been forecasting a drop in
the June quarter, but they don't expect us to ender
technical recession this year, with growth expected in the September quarter.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
More people want a capital gains tax if the family
home is excluded. An rin Z read Research poll has
found forty two point six percent of people support a
CGT excluding the family home, but if the family homes included,
support dips to ten point nine percent. A China expert
says the person at the center of diplomatic friction was
(00:57):
likely on a warning list. This week, the Chinese embassy
issued a public warning to its citizens, claiming a Chinese
visitor was interrogated by spies at New Zealand's border. Foreign
Minister Winston Peters says the warning shouldn't be seen as
a frosting of relations. Canterbury University professor and Marie Brady
says the person interrogated would have been accused of espionage.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Sas would have responded with a counter intelligence operation. They
have disrupted the activities of this agent. They've made it
clear we know what you're doing and we don't approve.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Three police officers are dead and two others are in
a critical condition after a shooting in rural Pennsylvania. Authority
say the shooting erupted in York County. It's about one
hundred and eighty five kilometers west of Philadelphia. Police say
the suspect in the shooting has also died and there
is no longer a threat to the public. Colonel Christopher
Paris says information is scarce, but says the officers were
(01:54):
serving a warrant. A mental health expert has found double
murderer Hused Hakyung Lee was insane when she killed her
two children in twenty eighteen. It's the first defense witness
to be called in her Auckland trial at the High Court.
Forty five year old Lee except she caused her kid's
deaths and put the bodies in a storage unit where
(02:16):
they stayed for four years, but she claimed she was
insane and suicidal following her husband's death. Forensic psychiatrist doctor
Yvette Kelly says Lee was not aware her actions were
morally wrong. Her thoughts were such at the time that
she thought the act was the right thing to do
by her children, so that was secondary to her major
(02:36):
depressive disorder. We mean business, that's the rallying cry from
Minister for Rail Winston Peters about a third rail mainline
in Auckland. Peters, alongside Transport Minister Chris Bishop and Auckland
Mayor Wayne Brown, have opened the line in South Auckland
this morning. It connects Witty and Middlemore station, costing three
hundred and twenty eight million dollars mister Peters. Minister Peters
(02:59):
says that this has been a long time coming.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Honestly, we've got what it takes.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
What we have spent so many years marking around with
planning and delays and not getting on with what ordinary
people need to sport. Two time Olympic one hundred meters
medalist of Fred Curley is the first track athlete to
openly commit to next May's Enhanced Games in Las Vegas.
The event permits competitors to take banned drugs under medical supervision.
(03:25):
Rowa Emma Twiggs in hospital with dingy fever contracted after
a family holiday in Rara, Tonga. And Rhese Murray, who
has backed up as double Ton with another century for
New Zealand Day on their cricket tour of South Africa.
He made one hundred and thirty five in the drawn
second first class match against their counterparts in Benoni. I'm
Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
(03:46):
with the next update at five pm from the newstalk
ZB newsroom.
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the eighteenth of September. New Zealand's
economy is back in contraction. Latest data just out from
stats n Z shows GDP fol zero point nine percent
in the three months to June. With more Business reporter
Michael sergle.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This latest fall follows six months of growth after six
months of contraction. Economists had been forecasting a drop in
the June quarter, but they don't expect us to ender
technical recession this year, with growth expected in the September quarter.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
More people want a capital gains tax if the family
home is excluded. An rin Z read Research poll has
found forty two point six percent of people support a
CGT excluding the family home, but if the family homes included,
support dips to ten point nine percent. A China expert
says the person at the center of diplomatic friction was
(00:57):
likely on a warning list. This week, the Chinese embassy
issued a public warning to its citizens, claiming a Chinese
visitor was interrogated by spies at New Zealand's border. Foreign
Minister Winston Peters says the warning shouldn't be seen as
a frosting of relations. Canterbury University professor and Marie Brady
says the person interrogated would have been accused of espionage.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Sas would have responded with a counter intelligence operation. They
have disrupted the activities of this agent. They've made it
clear we know what you're doing and we don't approve.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Three police officers are dead and two others are in
a critical condition after a shooting in rural Pennsylvania. Authority
say the shooting erupted in York County. It's about one
hundred and eighty five kilometers west of Philadelphia. Police say
the suspect in the shooting has also died and there
is no longer a threat to the public. Colonel Christopher
Paris says information is scarce, but says the officers were
(01:54):
serving a warrant. A mental health expert has found double
murderer Hused Hakyung Lee was insane when she killed her
two children in twenty eighteen. It's the first defense witness
to be called in her Auckland trial at the High Court.
Forty five year old Lee except she caused her kid's
deaths and put the bodies in a storage unit where
(02:16):
they stayed for four years, but she claimed she was
insane and suicidal following her husband's death. Forensic psychiatrist doctor
Yvette Kelly says Lee was not aware her actions were
morally wrong. Her thoughts were such at the time that
she thought the act was the right thing to do
by her children, so that was secondary to her major
(02:36):
depressive disorder. We mean business, that's the rallying cry from
Minister for Rail Winston Peters about a third rail mainline
in Auckland. Peters, alongside Transport Minister Chris Bishop and Auckland
Mayor Wayne Brown, have opened the line in South Auckland
this morning. It connects Witty and Middlemore station, costing three
hundred and twenty eight million dollars mister Peters. Minister Peters
(02:59):
says that this has been a long time coming.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Honestly, we've got what it takes.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
What we have spent so many years marking around with
planning and delays and not getting on with what ordinary
people need to sport. Two time Olympic one hundred meters
medalist of Fred Curley is the first track athlete to
openly commit to next May's Enhanced Games in Las Vegas.
The event permits competitors to take banned drugs under medical supervision.
(03:25):
Rowa Emma Twiggs in hospital with dingy fever contracted after
a family holiday in Rara, Tonga. And Rhese Murray, who
has backed up as double Ton with another century for
New Zealand Day on their cricket tour of South Africa.
He made one hundred and thirty five in the drawn
second first class match against their counterparts in Benoni. I'm
Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
(03:46):
with the next update at five pm from the newstalk
ZB newsroom.
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