Midday Edition: 10 June 2025

The Midday 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 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fakes for Tuesday, the tenth of June. Compromised police officers,
immigration officials and private sector employees could be allowing corruption
at our borders. An independent Advisory Panel on Transnational Crime
says New Zealand's susceptibility to organized crime has grown. It

(00:25):
urges the government to create a central authority to manage threats.
Group chair Steve Simon says large scale drug and illegal
tobacco importations rely heavily on insiders. It is by far
the vast majority of those cases. Organized crime could not
work in New Zealand without the benefit of crypt inside.
It fallout from the cost of living crisis with record

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high KEI we saver hardship withdrawals Inland. Revenue figures show
more than forty four thousand people withdrew money in the
ten months from last July to this April. For the
entire past financial year, about thirty two thousand withdrew for hardship.
Public trust at General Corporate Trustee Services Manager David Cullenan
told Herald Now unemployment is at its highest since the

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middle of COVID. The mortgage areas we're seeing the highest
levels in eight years of people unable to pay their mortgages.
The Education Minister says several factors are at play in
making teaching an increasingly attractive career option. New figures released
to News TALKSB show the teaching workforce increased two point
five percent last year. That's the largest annual increase since

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records began back in two thousand and nine. Ericus Stanford
told Mike Costing the government's doing several things to attract
and retain teachers. All of the incredible resources, all of
this amazing well eading, professional learning and development, on site
training programs, We're paying teacher fees. There's a number of things.
Labour's leader is open to possible emissions trading scheme changes.

(01:54):
Chris Hepkins says the party's reviewing whether to include agriculture
in the ETS, as well as the rest of his
party's twenty twenty six election policy platform. He says he'll
be listening to farmers at this week's field days at
Hamilton's Mystery Creek. Hipkins says no decisions have yet been made.
We need to make sure that we're reducing our carbon emissions.
Those are conversations we continue to head. We're not committed

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to a particular way of doing that. At this point,
a tourism boss is asking whether enough flights enter New
Zealand to achieve a government target of lifting visitor numbers
by seventy two thousand incoming years. It's boosting Tourism New
Zealand funding by thirteen point five million dollars over the
coming years. A yacht carrying aid for Gaza, crewed by

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activists including Sweden's Greta Tunberg, has docked in Israel's port
of Ashdod after being intercepted by Israeli military off Egypt.
Acclaimed British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth has died, aged eighty six.
The former journalist and pilot wrote more than twenty five books,
selling seventy five million hoppies worldwide. His most famed work

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from nineteen seventy one, The Day of the Jackal, was
written in just thirty five days. To Sport James O'Connors
Crusader's tenure looks over after this Super Rugby season. He's
reportedly signed with Lester. Daniel Vittori headlines the latest additions
to the international Cricket Council Hall of Fame after an

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induction ceremony at London's Abbey Roads Studios. Brentford football manager
Thomas Frank has emerged as the leading contender to replace
Ange posta Cooglu at Tottenham. And the perils of the
Oakmount Course rough drawing on players adorning on players arriving
for golf's US Open, especially after the region's wettest spring

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on record. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the news Talk zb newsroom.