Midday Edition: 28 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 28 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):
From the news talks had been newsroom, this is newsfacs.
In this update, NATO military chiefs are meeting in Latvia
to discuss strategies for countering Rustan drone warfare. With droned
sightings near Danish military bases. Drones have also been spotted
in the airspaces of Germany, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Romania.

(00:25):
German Interior Minister Alexander D. Brynt, whose words have been translated,
says the country is considering using military action against the drones.
It involves tracking downdrones, intercepting drones and shooting downdrones. These
are the basics we are talking about. Three quarters of
Kiwi say they're getting enough sleep, but only a third

(00:46):
feel the benefit. This year's Wallace Cotton Sleep survey finds
just thirty two percent of New Zealanders wake up feeling
well rested and refreshed, down six point five percent on
twenty twenty three. Just five percent rate their sleep as excellent.
Wallace Cotton's Julia Gardner says disruptions like daylight saving can
exacerbate the issue. A divide on whether or not Auckland

(01:10):
mayor Wayne Brown should be attending mayoral debates. Brown's been
accused of dodging them, although he did participate in a
gray Pal meet the candidate's event on the North Shore.
Opponent and current counselor Kieren Leone says it's not acceptable
he's not turning up.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I've been making myself accessible right across Auckland and that's
what Auckland does want.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
But Wayne Brown says voters have plenty of chances to
hear his views in the media and during council meetings.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Do I want to sit in a whole lot of cold,
half filled church halls listening to eleven people who've never
done any of their lives who want my job?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, I don't. The Banking of Wardsmorth says complaints around
hardship arising, but she's confident customers are getting the right outcomes.
The annual report shows a fifty five percent jump in complaints,
but ninety four percent of those didn't turn into formal investigations.
Banking on Birdsman and Sladdin says she's happy with the
results they've got for complainants. We supported over six thousand

(02:07):
Zealand bank customers and facilitators almost two million dollars in compensation.
That's news. In sport, a strange environment hasn't stopped Kiwi
cyclist Knee Fisher Black becoming the first New Zealand at
a podium at the Road World Championships, finishing second in
the Elite road race in Rwanda. It's the first time

(02:29):
the event has been held in Africa, and Fisher Black
says the build up was definitely out of the norm.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's very different from what we're used super In the end,
I know what to do when it comes to racing
and so I just have to turn on the race
brain and treat it like any other race. That's all
I tried to do anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
England has won the women's Rugby World Cut, with the
Black Ferns earning bronze. The All Blacks have three injury
concerns after retaining the Bledder's Low cut by beating Australia
at Eaton Park. Boden Barrett has an ac shoulder joint
in juryr Ethan DeGroot took ahead Knock and Caleb Clark
picked up an ankle injury. And the Breakers at the

(03:06):
bottom of Basketball's NBL after crashing a third straight loss.
That sports I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen to
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