Morning Edition: 19 September 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 19 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 morning, I'm never Etti Manu and this is your
morning News Fox for Friday, nineteenth of September. In this update,
calls for the Reserve Bank to respond swiftly to the
latest shock drop in GDP our economies contracted zero point
nine percent in the June quarter. Care We Bank Chief
economist Jared Kerr says the OCR needs to be cut

(00:26):
from three percent to two point five percent as soon
as possible, and may need to go as low as
two percent. He says we should not be seeing another
large contraction after last year's severe recession. Kerr says the
Reserve Bank hasn't been doing its job and needs to
show leadership rather than simply following outdated data. Sir Roger

(00:47):
Douglas says Nicola Willis is no longer up to the job.
The former finance minister is calling for the current Finance
minister to resign. Douglas says Willis is sending New Zealand
bankrupt by failing to get to grips with ballooning for
skool deficits and public debt. He says she must stop fiddling.
While Roam burns, more jobs are being advertised, but job

(01:09):
seekers are still facing stiff competition for roles. Job website
Seeks reporting a four percent annual rise in job adds,
the first year on year increase in three years, but
applications per job have also increased to a new record high.
Seak Country manager Rob Clark says most roles are proving
easy to fill, but some are not still really competitive

(01:30):
if you're a job seeker, but we still see for
highly skilled roles a shortage of talent. The biggest growth
is in manufacturing, transport, logistics, trades and real estate. Fear
from victims as the number of people escaping electronic bail
grows by the hundreds, Vigers released a news dog zb
show cases of people absconding from bail involving ankle bracelets

(01:53):
rose from sixty four and twenty fifteen to eight hundred
and thirty two last year. As a proportion of interval
jews on electronic bail, it's an increase from five percent
to fourteen percent. The government's chief victims advisor, Ruth Money,
says bail is already a very emotional and anxiety inducing

(02:13):
time for victims. Donald Trump is on his way home
after a state visit to the United Kingdom after private talks.
Trump and Prime Minister Keirs Starmer held a press conference.
When asked about Starmer's plan to recognize a Palestinian state,
Trump said they disagreed on that score, and he says
they want the fighting to stop, but claims her masses

(02:34):
threatening to use hostages as human shields. Young readers are
continuing to pick timeless favorites from the bookshelves. JK. Rowlings
Harry Potter series returns to the number one spot, with
Dave Pilke's dog Man series and second Linley Dodd's classic.
Harry McCleary from Donaldson's Dairy fills third place in Woodkill's
Kid's Top fifty Books list for twenty twenty five. In sport,

(02:58):
Sidney McLaughlin LVRONY has set the fastest time in the
women's four hundred meters since nineteen eighty five, clocking forty
seven point seven eight seconds to win at the World Championships.
The Roosters have handed Victor Radley a ten match suspension
without pay and ordered him to make it thirty four
thousand dollars cancer research donation after his exposure for hunting

(03:20):
out illegal drugs. Jose Morenho is to coach Benfica, the
Portuguese football club where his managerial career began twenty five
years ago. I'm never reaty, Manuo, and then your latest newsser.
We'll be back with the next update at midday from
the newstalk ZB News Roupe.