Midday Edition: 05 December 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 05 December 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 afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the fifth of December. No surprise
within Greenpeace says the government rejects Climate Change Commission recommendations.
It won't be including international aviation and shipping emissions in
our twenty fifty reduction target. Against advice, the Commission warned
climate change effects are hitting New Zealand sooner and more

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severely than expected. Greenpeace Executive Director Russell Norman says this
government has also rolled back helpful policies around electric vehicles
and agricultural emissions. So there is this problem where you've
put in some place and policies they've brought it down,
and then the current government's unwining that and we're going
to see a weakening of climate policy. Parties who negotiated

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and accepted Secondary Teachers Collective Agreement are vowing to revisit
what was missed. PPTA members have accepted the offer, which
includes a four point six percent pay increase over two years.
Public Service Commission head Sir Brian Roach says they traded
away having more days during holidays when teachers work in
the interest of reaching a settlement. He says they intend

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to raise it next time around. We didn't get everything
we wanted. The press statement from ppto makes it really
clear they are a little unhappy in a way. That's
not a bad outcome. Chris Luckson says New Zealand's economy
was on track to recovery until the day Donald Trump
announced his tariffs. GDP data due out later this month
is expected to show our economy has been growing again

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after what's been a tough time for Auckland and the
service and manufacturing sectors. The Prime Minister says the economy
was very much back on track late last year and
early this year, but he says everything changed after Trump's
tariff announcement on April two. Luckson says investors stopped spending
and consumer confidence went through the floor due to the uncertainty,

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and that created a negative sentiment loop. The Justice Minister
admits his Retail cre Rime Advisory group over caateed a meeting,
but is standing up for the team. Labour's asked at
scrutiny week in Parliament why the group lunch cost more
than three thousand dollars. MP Ginny Anderson also queried chair
Sonny Causial's billing almost two hundred and thirty thousand dollars

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of work, compared with another group member billing eight thousand dollars.
Paul Goldsmith says the group's working hard to push back
on crime. Yep. Everybody has a crack at Sunny Karshal
about something every month, but he's focused on doing that job.
The former owner of New Zealand's Wendy's fast food chains
failed to overturn an improvement notice relating to breaching the

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Holidays Act over six years. The Labor Inspectorate last year
issued the notice to Lendco formerly Wendco in z after
the union flag concerns. The Inspectorate had found Lendco didn't
pay staff correctly on public holidays and provide alternative holiday days.
For staff to get a paid day off, they had
to volunteer to work the day and hope they wouldn't

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be rostered the Employment Relations Authority rule that excluded staff
from paid public holidays to sport, New Zealand's fastest man
will now run for Australia. Australian Athletics have confirmed Eddie
Orsay in Kettia is officially eligible to wear Green and
Gold after successfully completing his transfer of allegiance. Veteran Springboks

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locke Eben Etzabeth has been banned for twelve weeks for
eye gouging Welsh flanker Alex Mann in South Africa's seventy
three nil win at the weekend, and Manchester United have
missed the chance to jump from ninth to fifth in
Football's Premier League, being held to a one all draw
at home by west Ham United. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's
your latest news fix. Will be back with the next

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update at five pm from the news Talk ZB newsroom