Morning Edition: 11 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 11 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 fixed for Wednesday, eleventh of June. In this update,
ten people have died in a high school shooting in
the Austrian city of Gratz, along with the former student
understood to be responsible. It's the deadliest such attank in
Austria since the World War II. Authorities believe the government

(00:25):
acted alone. Austrian Chancellor Christian Stoker says what's happened is
a horror that cannot be put into words. His words
translated by Sky News, this event hits us all as people,
as parents, as a society altogether. That this safe space
was hit by such a violent act makes us speechless.
Troops are continuing to be deployed to La to deal

(00:46):
with violent protests over immigration deportations. More than twenty one
hundred National Guard are now in the city. Donald Trump's
as a protesters are insurrectionists and animals, and claim some
are paying troublemakers and agitators. A renewed call for focus
and leadership if the country is to tackle ailing mental
health and addiction services. The latest Mental Health and Wellbeing

(01:09):
Commission report shows minimal progress in tackling deteriorating mental health
and addiction services over the last seven years. Commission Chief
Executive Karen Osborne says the report recommends the government's new
Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy reflects a collective sector effort.
We need that really strong sustained leadership over time to

(01:30):
achieve those shifts that need to be made. More questions
than answers on where a number of fifteen year olds
are heading after being allowed to drop out of school.
Preliminary Ministry of Education figures show thirteen hundred and seventy
sixteens left before turning sixteen last year, the highest number
since two thousand and seven. Secondary School Principals Association President

(01:52):
Louise Unadu says they need more data because if these
children aren't in further training or learning, where are they operations?
All of our young people to achieve success, to thrive,
how of that is leaving school with higher qualification levels.
A man who drowned in Wellington Harbor jumped into the
water at an estimated one hundred kilometers an hour. A

(02:15):
coroner's reviewed the death of thirty three year old Jarreth
Carhoun in January last year after leaping from a moored
thirty eight meter floating crane, the Hecky Tier Cahun waived
its spectators watching the nearby MONEU World Champs before jumping
from a height equivalent to a twelve story building. A
coroner's blamed the alcohol and methodist system and the water's coldness,

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and criticized the lack of waterfront safety measures. The public
sector is seeing more pay rises than the private sector.
Public Service Commission data shows twenty percent of public sector
employees got a pay rise in the March quarter, compared
to eleven percent of other workers. The education sector saw
the highest wage growth in the three months. Meanwhile, seventy

(02:56):
five percent of public sector employees saw their pay go
up in the year to March, compared to fifty six
percent of those working for a private company. In sport,
Manus Labushane, Usbin Kawaja and Cameron Green will form Australia's
top three in Cricket's World Test Championship final against South
Africa's starting tonight at Lord's Paramatta. Halfback Mitch Moses claims

(03:18):
leagues NRLs making up their own charges after the Judiciary
Panel banned Dylan Brown one match over a referee push.
He says his teammates actions were incidental. Ivon Romeo has
ridden to victory on stage three. The Criterion Do de
finade claim the Yellow leaders Jersey, I'm never retty Man,
who in theirs? Your latest news fix will be banked

(03:40):
with the next update at midday from the news Talk
zb newsroom