Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 30th September 2025

In today's episode, ten kiwi chicks being monitored in Makara, near Wellington, have grown to be big enough to fight off predators, an emergency consultant says targets for ED wait times help the whole hospital to get on board and help people move through faster, Donald Trump has repeated his threat to impose a one hundred percent tariff on foreign movies, police have found a machete which they believe could be related to the killing of PhD student Kyle Whorrall who died after an attack at an Auckland bus stop at Easter.