Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 2nd September 2025

In today's episode, the global tech giant Amazon says it is finally launching its much-hyped Auckland data centres, four years after first announcing the plan; The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, has conceded the country's foreign buyers ban was making the country unattractive to foreign investors; More than 30,000 midwives, nurses and health care assistants have walked off the job on Tuesday, in what is the first of two full-day strikes happening right around Aotearoa this week; Thousands of mourners have arrived at Turangawaewae Marae for the beginning of Koroneihana, the celebration the coronation of the Maori Queen, Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po.