Midday Edition: 02 November 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 02 November 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):
No, the news talks had been newsroom. This is newsfacs.
In this update, Ameasel's ammenization Week is rolling out next
week as cases climb around the country. The national tally
is now at sixteen, with fifteen in the North Island
and one in the South Island. More than ten thousand
doses of the MMR vaccine have been delivered since last month,

(00:26):
but Auckland University Public health professor Colin to Kotonga says
there needs to be a strong focus on Mari and
Pacifica communities. He says their vaccination figures need to be
boosted to improve health outcomes. Five of the country's busiest
hospitals are in line for a total of one hundred
and forty new beds next year as part of the

(00:46):
government's fast Track Hospital Wards program. The new wards will
be at Middlemore, wy Cato, Wellington, Nelson Hawks Bay hospitals
and are expected to be up and running during the
second half of the year. Danika McLean has.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
More Minister Simeon Brown says planning is underway to ensure
the workforce is in place when the wards open. He
says the rapid build wards will be constructed off site
and installed on hospital grounds, enabling faster, more cost effective delivery.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
A view practicality needs to be the priority for the
government's new AI curriculum. Consultancy firm e Wise report shows
only twenty eight percent of New Zealanders believe the benefits
of the new technology aren't weigh the risks. AI education
for years zero to ten is coming by twenty twenty seven,
with new specialist subjects for years eleven to thirteen following

(01:37):
the next year. Regional Chief Technology Officer Katherine Boichuk says
the goal shouldn't just be to teach technical skill.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's also about building the confidence and trust needed to
use AI effectively, but also.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Critique the outputs of AI effectively. Some farmers are paying
as much as sixty thousand dollars for irrigation and effluent consents.
That's according to Federated Farmers, who are calling for the
government to step in and renew existing consents before an
RIMA replacement comes into force. Vice president Colin Hurst says
consent lengths of shrinking and costing farmers too much. That's news.

(02:14):
In sport, a second half blitz has bowered the All
Blacks to a twenty six thirteen win over Ireland in Chicago.
The bench impact was immense. Down ten seven at halftime,
three tries in the last twenty minutes helped the Abs
start their Grand Slam tour with an emphatic win. England's
cleaned up against the Wallabies twenty five seven, South Africa's

(02:35):
truants Japan sixty one to seven, and the All Blacks
fifteen have beaten the bar bars thirty three. Nineteen. Black
Caps batting Herokine Williamson has retired from T twenty internationals.
New Zealand's all time leading run scorer says he's open
minded about his ODI and Test future, but his immediate
focus is on preparing for the three Test series against

(02:57):
the West Indies, which starts in christ Church on December two.
Arsenal has a handy seven point lead at the top
of the English Premier League after a two zerl win
at Burnley. That's Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
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