Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 25th September 2025

In today's episode, Health Minister Simeon Brown says new funding for Health New Zealand will expand access and reduce wait times; There's déjà vu on the streets of New York as New Zealand's foreign affairs minister was stopped from entering a Trump event for the second time; Chatbots may be useful when opening a bank account or solving a problem with your internet connection, but what about solving an argument with your partner?; If you don't know what the words 'rark', 'lux' or 'hapu' mean, you'll be able to look them up in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.