June 2, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news facts for Tuesday, the third of June. Defense Minister
Judith Collins says Donald Trump's proposed at Golden Dome is
about defense, not attack. Collins is endorsing the project, which
seeks to create a network of satellites spanning the whole
country to detect and intercept incoming missiles. She told Herald
(00:26):
Now the US is simply responding to militaries around the
world increasing their capabilities.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We've got all sorts of things happening at the moment,
and they have to wait around for someone to give
them permission to keep building up their militaries. They're doing
it anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And defense spending is a top talking point for our
other Five Eyes partners as well. The UK's unveiled and
overhaul of its defense program overnight that will see spending
lift to three percent of GDP. Australia is gradually increasing
its spending to two point three three percent, but Prime
Minister Anthony Albinezi is rejecting a new US demand to
(01:02):
increase spending to three point five percent. What you should
do in defense has decide what you need, your capability
and then provide for it. That's what my government's doing.
Our government says the US is comfortable with New Zealand's
defense spending target of two percent of GDP. Our body
has been found next to a car that caught fire
(01:23):
in Auckland's Moody Wire this morning. Fire crews extinguished the
fire on jack Butt Lane and the scenes being examined.
The government's ordered Work Safe to shift its focus from
enforcement to reducing major risks. Workplace Relations Minister Brook van
Velden told Mike Costing businesses shouldn't have to sweat the
small stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We've had a culture of over compliance, trying to get
all of the paperwork done, rather than focusing on do
I actually do anything that could cause death or serious injury.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Research shows adults ever diagnosed with a mental health disorder
are signal evocantly more likely to develop dementia. The study,
using New Zealand Health Survey data, finds having had depression
increased the risk by forty percent and anxiety increased at
thirty percent. Auckland University lecturer Etu Mau says they also
(02:16):
looked more generally at impacts of psychological distress and.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What we've shown there is that people that rate their
distress as high or very high have almost double the
risk of developing dementia compared to people who rate their
distresses low.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
A road safety advocate once serious action over boy races.
Five bystanders and two police officers were injured at gatherings
in Levin and Palmeister North on Friday night. Ten people
face charges. They include an eighteen year old man due
in court today accused of hitting four young people with
this car. Advocate Greg Murphy says there's only one way
(02:51):
to stop them actually followed through with some decent numbers
on crushing cars and one strike system. David Seymour is
promising to repent and to act as Deputy Prime Minister
as he replaces Winston Peters in a job shared term
to sport. Max Verstappen has finally issued a veiled apology
(03:11):
for crashing against George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell has called time on a one
hundred and forty nine match one day international career, stretching
back to twenty twelve, so he can focus on next
year's T twenty World Cup and expect marquee performances from
England's footballers at a training camp in Spain. Manager Thomas
(03:33):
Tookele has pitched the idea of practicing in heated tents
to replicate the conditions they could experience at next year's
World Cup. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news facts for Tuesday, the third of June. Defense Minister
Judith Collins says Donald Trump's proposed at Golden Dome is
about defense, not attack. Collins is endorsing the project, which
seeks to create a network of satellites spanning the whole
country to detect and intercept incoming missiles. She told Herald
(00:26):
Now the US is simply responding to militaries around the
world increasing their capabilities.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We've got all sorts of things happening at the moment,
and they have to wait around for someone to give
them permission to keep building up their militaries. They're doing
it anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And defense spending is a top talking point for our
other Five Eyes partners as well. The UK's unveiled and
overhaul of its defense program overnight that will see spending
lift to three percent of GDP. Australia is gradually increasing
its spending to two point three three percent, but Prime
Minister Anthony Albinezi is rejecting a new US demand to
(01:02):
increase spending to three point five percent. What you should
do in defense has decide what you need, your capability
and then provide for it. That's what my government's doing.
Our government says the US is comfortable with New Zealand's
defense spending target of two percent of GDP. Our body
has been found next to a car that caught fire
(01:23):
in Auckland's Moody Wire this morning. Fire crews extinguished the
fire on jack Butt Lane and the scenes being examined.
The government's ordered Work Safe to shift its focus from
enforcement to reducing major risks. Workplace Relations Minister Brook van
Velden told Mike Costing businesses shouldn't have to sweat the
small stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We've had a culture of over compliance, trying to get
all of the paperwork done, rather than focusing on do
I actually do anything that could cause death or serious injury.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Research shows adults ever diagnosed with a mental health disorder
are signal evocantly more likely to develop dementia. The study,
using New Zealand Health Survey data, finds having had depression
increased the risk by forty percent and anxiety increased at
thirty percent. Auckland University lecturer Etu Mau says they also
(02:16):
looked more generally at impacts of psychological distress and.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
What we've shown there is that people that rate their
distress as high or very high have almost double the
risk of developing dementia compared to people who rate their
distresses low.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
A road safety advocate once serious action over boy races.
Five bystanders and two police officers were injured at gatherings
in Levin and Palmeister North on Friday night. Ten people
face charges. They include an eighteen year old man due
in court today accused of hitting four young people with
this car. Advocate Greg Murphy says there's only one way
(02:51):
to stop them actually followed through with some decent numbers
on crushing cars and one strike system. David Seymour is
promising to repent and to act as Deputy Prime Minister
as he replaces Winston Peters in a job shared term
to sport. Max Verstappen has finally issued a veiled apology
(03:11):
for crashing against George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Australian cricketer Glenn Maxwell has called time on a one
hundred and forty nine match one day international career, stretching
back to twenty twelve, so he can focus on next
year's T twenty World Cup and expect marquee performances from
England's footballers at a training camp in Spain. Manager Thomas
(03:33):
Tookele has pitched the idea of practicing in heated tents
to replicate the conditions they could experience at next year's
World Cup. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
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