Morning Edition: 26 September 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 26 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 ready, Manu and this is your
morning news fix for Friday, twenty sixth of September and
this update. Wellington City Council is investigating after hundreds of
confidential documents ended up in the hands of a man
who bought an old meural desk at the city's dump.
The documents include termination agreements, as sexual harassment claim and

(00:27):
staff paid details dating between nineteen eighty eight and the
early two thousands. The man trying to contact the council
and claimed officials didn't take much notice. Harold reporter Ethan
Minera says the council originally did not believe it to
be true.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
They told us when we first contacted the myth that
it looked like a bit of social media mischief. When
we presented them with the evidence after obtaining the documents,
that now launched formal investigation and notified the Privacy Commissioner.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Kiwis of retirement age may soon find themselves sitting on
a jury despite currently being exempt. Currently, though sixty five
or over can ask to be excused from jury service
permanently without reason. But a Select committee has recommended a
bill from National's Carl Bates pass into law, which would
raise the age of exemption to seventy two. The bill

(01:16):
will return to Parliament for a second reading. New polling
suggests Kewey's are in favor of major changes to the
electricity market. The Curier poll, commissioned by the Auckland Business
Chamber and Octopus Energy found forty nine percent of Kiwei's
support splitting gent Taylor's retail and generation arms. Sixty two
percent want the government to underwrite new generation projects. Chamber

(01:40):
CEO and former Energy Minister Simon Bridges says things have
changed drastically since he was in the role and the
government needs to act fast. Making better use of eden
Park could see it make a bigger contribution to Auckland's GDP,
and independent reports found the park boosted Auckland's GDP by
thirty seven million dollars in the twenty twenty three twenty

(02:02):
four year. It argues that if eden Park made use
of its twelfth concert limit, that figure could almost travel
till one hundred and seven million dollars. Kiwis are calling
for more government protection from global catastrophes. An Otaga University
study reveals two thirds of New Zealanders want the government

(02:22):
to develop strategies to deal with catastrophic disasters like nuclear war,
bioengineered diseases or rogue. Artificial intelligence professor Nick Wilson says
we must make use of New Zealand's unique positioning in
a far flung part of the world. The nationals Aresay's
Antac Day poppies will no longer be made in New Zealand,

(02:44):
switching to UK paper based ones from next year that
be made by volunteers in christ Church. For years. However,
the purpose built machine is nearing its end of life.
The Veterans Organization says the plastic based poppies were also
causing issues for caretakers it's semi trees and memorials as
they became caught up in lawnmowers. It says it looked

(03:04):
for a New Zealand manufacturer, but no option could be
found that wouldn't result in a significant increase in the
cost of production. In sport gold for the men's pair
of Oliver Walsh and Ben Taylor at the Rowing World
Championships in Shanghai, a first step at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Cycle Wallaby's coach Joe Schmidt has questioned any doom and

(03:26):
gloom or Black's verdicts as they prepare for tomorrow's opening
Bledislow Cup rugby test at Eden Park, saying people forget
they were in the contest against spring Box until the
hour mark and third placed Hawks Bay have beaten twelfth
ranked Auckland forty five twenty eight to open round nine
of rugby's NPC. I'm never reaty maanho when then your

(03:46):
latest news foks. We'll be back with the next update
at midday from the newstalk ZB News Rope.