Morning Edition: 10 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 10 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 (00:06):
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu and this is your
morning news fix for Tuesday, tenth of June. And this update.
Experts are urging the government to take immediate action against
corruption from organized crime. An independent advisory panel says New
Zealand is naive to the threat of corruption and must
act to protect its reputation. In a new report to

(00:28):
Customs and Associate Police Minister Casey Costello, it lays out
several recommendations. It includes establishing a central Authority to investigate corruption,
modernizing laws, longer prison sentences, and stronger vetting of employees
in high risk industries. The government's pumping more funding into
tourism marketing, with a goal of generating an extra three

(00:50):
hundred million dollars in spending. Minister Louise Upstins announced a
thirteen point five million dollar injection into tourism New Zealand,
targeting Australia, the UI in China. It's expected to bring
an extra seventy two thousand visitors overcoming years. Wrought to
do a, Mayor Tanya Tapsul told Ryan Bridge the spending
goals easily achievable. Chinese visitors their average spend is six

(01:14):
thousand dollars when they do come here. That's why they
are a target market for US. Are very high spended.
More people are dipping into their carew WE saver accounts
for financial hardship reasons. Inland, revenue figures show more than
forty four thousand people withdrew money between July twenty twenty
four and April twenty twenty five. That's compared to about

(01:35):
thirty two thousand in the previous financial year. Financial mentor
David Varies says while it should be a last resort,
about half the people he talks to want to do
a KIWI saver hardship withdrawal deportation. Protests in Los Angeles
are dispersing after three days of violent unrest. City and
state leaders are accusing Donald Trump of deliberately inflaming tensions

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after he deployed the National Guard to fired tear gas
and rubber bullets at demonstrators. At least fifty six people
have been arrested. Australian Channel nine journalist Lauren to Marsi
was caught in the crossfire shot with a rubber bullet
on air firing rubber bullets at protesters. What a tamasi

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was not seriously hurt, a renewed call for people to
vaccinate as the cold weather brings forward a range of
infectious diseases. The national rate for acute respiratory illness infections
climbed to twenty one per one hundred thousand people in
the week ending June first. Vaccinologist doctor Helen Petusus Harris
says flu COVID nineteen and hooping cough are all in

(02:43):
the air right now. She says numa cocal is also
one to watch for. It gets very chumming with the
influenza virus, so influenza viruses can actually predispose people getting
very ill, for example, with severe pneumonias and things. From today,
Aucklanders can begin chick out their council property valuations. New
capital values are being issued this week for six hundred

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and thirty thousand properties across the region. On average, home
values drop nine percent from cvs released in twenty twenty one.
In Sport, Canterbury have beaten Paramatta thirty twelve and Leagues
NRL to return to the top of the ladder. The
Magic have defeated the Stars seventy one fifty four to
complete round five of Netbule's A and Z Premiership. Usman

(03:28):
Kowaja believes Manus Labushane can don the pads first in
Australia's World Test Championship cricket final, starting tomorrow against South
Africa at Lords, despite one's claiming he had opening itis.
I'm never reatty Manu and that your latest news fiks.
We'll be back with the next update at midday from
the Newstalalk ZB newsroom.