Morning Edition: 03 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 03 June 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):
Good morning, I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Tuesday, third of June. In this update,
significant changes at work Safe as it moves from an
enforcement focus and launches the road Cone Hotline. The agency
will now engage early to support risk management, starting with
today's opening of a tip line for excessive road cone

(00:27):
usage Parallax Traffic Control Training. Chief Executive Dave Tilton told
Ryan Bridge there are good elements to this announcement.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The collaborative intents very much agree with the connection there
between work Safe and councils and ZITA when it comes
to rolling out the risk based approach, but.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Tilton says there are incompatible components to the hotline itself.
Certainty over the safety of partially reopening the Auckland War
Memorial Museum after the discovery of asbestos. Two thirds of
the building will be accessible to the public from today
after three weeks of full closure. It is meant to
nearly half a million dollar loss of revenue. Chief Executive

(01:07):
David Reeves says it has conducted air monitoring tests for
most of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
So far, every single one of those tests has been
at a low level. That means we're confident that we're
in good shape.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
A coronial inquest begins today after almost four years since
a terror attack at an Auckland supermarket. Ahamed Samsudin stabbed
six people with a knife at Newland Countdown in September
twenty twenty one before being shot dead by police. He
had been released from prison months earlier and was under
surveillance by police at the time. A second round of

(01:41):
peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have entered in Istanbul
without a major breakthrough. There was only an agreement between
the two to swap more prisoners of war. The talks
lasted just over an hour, with Ukraine and Russia agreeing
to exchange all sick and badly wounded prisoners of war
as well as those aged under twenty five. Fresh evidence

(02:02):
for coordinated long term action on dementia. New research using
New Zealand health survey data has found if you have depression,
your risk of developing dementia is increased by forty percent.
People who rate their psychological distress as high or very
high have almost twice the risk compared to those who
rate their distress as low. Auckland University senior lecturer at

(02:24):
TUMAU says we need to be looking after people from childhood.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
There a long term consequences of developing depression and anxiety,
so the focus really needs to be not so much
on treating those that have it that's important, but actually
preventing them getting it in the first place.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Frustration in a growing christ Church suburb as the prospect
of a high school is overlooked by the government. It's
announced a one hundred and sixty one million dollar investment
into Canterbury schools, including a new primary school for Horsewell.
The Mills Road. Land is that empty since it was
brought by the ministry in two thousand and five. Local
counselor Andre Moore sayes the Ministry should be future proofing

(03:01):
education in christ Church's southwest with a high school for
the area, and he says there are thousands war homes
to come while new developments are getting fast tracked, so
securing land would do no harm. In Sport, local wildcard
Lowest Boisson is toasting her success with an upset fourth
round victory over third seat Jessica Pegoula at the French

(03:21):
Tennis Open. She came into the tournament ranked three hundred
and sixty first in the world The Warriors are rallying
around co captain Mitch Barnette after the prop season ending
knee injury in the NRL League win over the Rabbito's
in Sydney. Magic goal shoot savior Tiohey has slotted fifty
six goals from sixty one attempts in the side seventy

(03:42):
two to fifty one win over the Stars in Netwall's
A and Z Premiership. I'm never attimanu and that your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at midday from the news Talk ZB newsroom