Morning Edition: 14 December 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 14 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):
On the news talks had been newsroom, this is newsfacs.
In this update, police will be examining a rural property
in Abuatati near wan Anui National Park today where two
people were found dead yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Claudier O'Neil reports Please launched a homicide investigation after discovering
the pair yesterday afternoon. Post mortem informal identification procedures will
be carried out in the coming days. There's also expected
to be a heightened police presence in the area. Anyone
with information about the deaths is urged to contact police.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And police is still searching for a young person who
escaped from a youth justice facility in Canterbury yesterday morning.
Ud Angatamariki says they're working with police to try find
the young person. Reassurance students shouldn't give up on trying
for a summer job despite a strong competition. Fifty thousand
applications were submitted through Student Job Search in Nova, but

(01:00):
that's a record for this financial year and a thirteen
percent increase on the year before. The number of job
vacancies rose fifteen percent in the same period. Student Job
Search CEO Louise Savaka says the future is, however, looking
more positive. What we really need to see is the
economy continuing to strengthen, and then the employment market will
bounce back and there'll be more jobs than we can

(01:22):
probably handle. The most generous areas in New Zealand for
Give Little donations have been revealed in a new report
which show kiwis gave thirty one point six million to
fundraisers this financial year. Gisban locals were the most generous,
giving one hundred and eight dollars on average per donation.
Northland was second, with residents donating an average of one

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hundred dollars each time Give a Little. Chief Executive Life
and Chapman says they're highly sympathetic to the challenges many
KIWI households have been dealing with this year, but she
says the report captured a picture of nationwide giving to
nearly every conceivable cause. That's news. It's a sport. And
Chelsea has beat in Everton two nil in Football's Premier League.

(02:06):
The win, which lifts them back into fourth on the ladder,
was the first and five matches across all competitions. I Meanwhile,
Liverpool leads to a tunial win over Brighton with Mohammed
Salah making his return for the defending champions. The Egyptian
striker didn't travel with the Liverpool squad to Italy for
their latest Champions League match earlier this week, having slammed
the club in an earlier interview. Kibi cruiserweight boxer David

(02:28):
Nikai has collected a unanimous decision victory of a Chinese opponent,
Wusatu Lang, across ten rounds in rural Queensland, and the
Breakers have suffered a ninety two to eighty defeat away
to the Southeast Melbourne Phoenix, ending the New Zealand club's
three game winning streak in Basketball's NBL. That is Sport.
I'm Diana Vesich. For more news, listen to News Talk

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