Midday Edition: 06 June 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 06 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 afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and missus your midday news
fix for Friday, the sixth of June. Sky City and
Fletcher could be heading to court over Auckland's International Convention Center.
The project is years behind scheduled, due in part to
a fire. In twenty nineteen, Sky City's announced its suing
Fletcher Building and Fletcher Construction, seeking three hundred and thirty

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million dollars in damages for losses from the ongoing delays.
Herald Property editor An Gibson told Herald Now, the litigation
is hardly a surprise. Coss over a billion dollars to build.
It was meant to be seven hundred and fifty million,
It was meant to be finished towards the end of
last decade, and what are we now? Twenty twenty five
Clara boundaries around Clunger Order tenant behavior could explain a

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six hundred percent surge in formal warnings. In the past
ten months, sixty three tenancies were terminated because of abusive, threatening,
or persistently disruptive behavior. Nearly fifteen hundred warnings have been
issued in the financial year to date. Chief Executive Matt
Crockett told Kerry Woodham behavior isn't worse. Rather, the previous

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framework wasn't as sharp and what we're seeing now with
this clearer boundaries and clearer follow through on it is
the vast majority of people that their behavior is changing.
Our pedestrian's been hit by a truck at Picketa south
of Kaikoda, closing State Highway I. Emergency services were called
to the stretch between Inland, Kaikoda and Rakanui Roads around

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nine twenty. The highway will be closed for some time.
A person's been found dead after a house fire in
Taranaki's whiter this morning, believed to be the sole occupant.
Emergency services were called to Brown Street at seven point thirty.
A witness has described the lock on an Auckland terrorist's
face as he attacked people with a knife as deranged

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and manic. Former paramedic Ross Tomlinson is giving evidence on
day three of the coronial inquest in to Ahamed some
Sudin's death shot by police after the stabbings at Newlynn
Countdown in twenty twenty one. Tomlinson says he first thought
the screams were from children or a domestic dispute. He
described yelling at some Sudin, who was chanting Ollahu Akbar

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as he stabbed his victims. Tomlinson says the police's actions
helped save his life after the attacker ignored their clear
commands to get on the ground. Snow is on the
way following cold temperatures nationwide. Ten to twenty centimeters of
snow is expected in central Otago and Inland Canterbury from

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midday to midnight. Police a warning motorists to take extreme
care as black ice forms on Sutland roads and snowfall
starts in Otago. Elon Musk could be risking at all
with his public feud with Donald Trump. The Tesla CEO's
cozy relationship with the US president appears shattered after Musk's

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posted scathing criticism of Trump's spending bill. The president says
he's disappointed. Mask has doubled down on social media, accusing
Trump of being named in the Epstein files and calling
for his impeachment. To sport, former South African white ball
mentor Rob Walter has been unveiled as the new black

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Caps coach to succeed Gary Stead. Two birdies from his
last three holes has lifted Ryan Fox to an opening
round four under pass sixty six at the Canadian Golf
at the Canadian Open on Golf's PGA Tour and former
Hurricanes winger se Lessie Rayasi has been named in Fiji's
national squad for next month's Test against Australia and Scotland.

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I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
Newstalk z B Newsroom.