{"id":40490,"date":"2025-09-24T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40490\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:30:11","slug":"five-big-things-that-happened-today-wednesday-september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40490\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Big Things That Happened Today: Wednesday, September 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Reserve Bank Governor announced, Christopher Luxon responds to low ranking in business survey, and more NZ words join the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>New Reserve Bank Governor announced<\/p>\n<p>Dr Anna Breman has been named as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank.<\/p>\n<p>She had previously served as a deputy Governor of Sweden\u2019s Riksbank &#8211; its central bank \u2013 since 2019. Breman will be the first woman to hold the role<\/p>\n<p>And the new Reserve Bank boss has a heck of a job on her hands, writes 1News business correspondent Jason Walls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/24\/analysis-new-reserve-bank-boss-needs-to-rebuild-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Luxon responds to 15th-place ranking by business leaders<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has shrugged off being lowly ranked by big business leaders and says he isn&#8217;t worried by chatter about his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The PM and his Finance Minister, Nicola Willis, were ranked 15th and 13th respectively in the annual Mood of the Boardroom survey, released today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/24\/luxon-responds-to-15th-place-ranking-by-business-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s been said about the Holidays Act overhaul<\/p>\n<p>The Government yesterday announced a sweeping overhaul of employment leave legislation, including changes to how annual and sick leave is calculated.<\/p>\n<p>Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden announced on Tuesday that the Holidays Act would be repealed and replaced with a new Employment Leave Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/24\/whats-been-said-about-the-holidays-act-overhaul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch: Dame Jacinda Ardern wows US talk show host Jon Stewart with sweet NZ treat<\/p>\n<p>The former New Zealand Prime Minister was on the show to promote her memoir and upcoming HBO documentary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/news\/news-clips-str-336uxp9cyevt2vsu5ji46ofp3rj-1758651932804\/dame-jacinda-ardern-wows-us-talk-show-host-jon-stewart-with-sweet-nz-treat-in-depth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ONE &#8216;SWEET AS&#8217; VOCAB<\/p>\n<p>Eleven words with a New Zealand or te reo M\u0101ori origin have been included in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Executive editor Danica Salazar said the update included a &#8220;variety of colloquial expressions characteristic of New Zealand English&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/24\/oed-says-sweet-as-to-kiwi-slang-as-nz-words-join-the-dictionary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Reserve Bank Governor announced, Christopher Luxon responds to low ranking in business survey, and more NZ words&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,1124,6256,36640,36641,36642,36643,9637,266,581,18558,36644,3958,30831,8307,20053,2193,2648,111,43,139,36645,69,36646,36647,36648,36649,7806,36650,21145],"class_list":["post-40490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-australia","tag-authority","tag-brown","tag-coat-of-arms","tag-copy-space","tag-courthouse","tag-emu","tag-glass","tag-government","tag-horizontal","tag-identity","tag-insignia","tag-judge","tag-kangaroo","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-lion","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-no-people","tag-nz","tag-official-building","tag-patriotism","tag-public-building","tag-reflection","tag-sign","tag-sydney-australia","tag-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}