Morning Edition: 24 October 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 24 October 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 never readimanu and this is your morning
news Fox for Friday, twenty fourth of October. In this update,
people in weather affected regions are being urged to reassess
their long weekend plans. Why Mukadedi Andrakaya River levels remain high,
with residents in Kadaki and Pines Beach and North and

(00:24):
South Rakaia huts being urged to voluntarily evacuate overnight. Gray
Mountain Kluther are facing water shortages and thousands of people
in several regions remain without power. There are extensive highway
closures across the South Island, and Canterbury Police District Commander
Tony Hill says people should reconsider travel.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
If you've made plans to travel to holiday destinations, please
check first to make sure those locations are open to you.
There's a lot of work that needs to be done
to get some of those roads open.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Health officials are looking into why Nelson Hospital's emergency rat
failed to kick in yesterday. The hospital was left relying
on a backup battery to keep critical systems running when
power went out across the Upper South Island during the
wild weather. Health Minister Simeon Brown has ordered an investigation
into what happened. He's also asked Health New Zealand to

(01:17):
do an audit of backup generation at all hospitals across
the country. Auckland's Tamaki Drive has reopened after Wednesday night's
fatal crash between a bus and a car. The bus
driver died and another person was seriously injured. Fire and
Emergency New Zealand's confirmed the fire started in the engine
of the petrol vehicle then spread to the bus. A

(01:40):
new report claims New Zealand spends too much money on
hospital care and not enough on drugs. The findings from
Medicines in z and the Institute of Economic Research found
the country spends the least on pharmaceuticals of any in
the OBCD. The report says the answer isn't more funding,
but greater consideration on where existing health funding is allocated.

(02:03):
ACTS pleased its members bill to ban deep fake pawn
has been pulled from the biscuit tin. Deep fakes a
hyperrealistic AI generated photos and videos of people, often appairing
real ACTMP Laura McClure's bill seeks to define explicit deep
fakes as an intimate visual recording under the harmful Digital

(02:23):
Communications Act leader David Seymour hopes to see it pass.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I legalized euthanasia on Private Members Bill Day, and maybe
Laura McClure is about to make a big difference for
a lot of young people there too.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Health professionals are raising the alarm over how easy it
is to obtain certain products online despite being banned due
to health risks. A New Zealand Medical Journal case report
states a thirteen year old boy required major surgery and
lost part of his bow after ingesting eighty to one
hundred small neodymium magnets. The magnets have been prohibited since

(02:59):
two fourteen. Report co author doctor Bnora Leka Mullagay says
they're concerned these magnets are so accessible and so cheaply
available on TIMU. In Sport, Warriors halfback Luke Metcalf stamped
out reports of him talking to other NRL League clubs.
He's re signed until the end of the twenty twenty
eighth season. The Breakers have turned an eighteen point halftime

(03:22):
lead into a seventh ambl basketball loss from nine, defeated
eighty four to eighty three by the Bullets. Spring rain
has thwarted the third of six scheduled black Caps T
twenty internationals this month. The latest dockey chapter occurred against
England and Auckland, with the visitors securing the rematch series
one nil. I'm never ready, Manu that your latest news

(03:43):
fix will be back with the next update at midday
from the newstalk ZB newsroup.