Afternoon Edition: 12 June 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 12 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 railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Thursday, the twelfth of June. A poll has
Labour taking the lead from National but still unable to
form a government. He is Political editor Jason Walls.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
A Taxpayer's union funded courier poll shows Labours up one
and a half points to almost thirty five percent, while
Nationals dropped a point, now sitting at thirty three and
a half. Meanwhile, all the minor parties have lost support.
Actors down half a point to nine, the Greens were
down one percentage points to eight point two, and New
Zealand First took a one point three percentage point hit

(00:39):
to just over six percent. Tipati Mardi meanwhile is down
half a point to three point three.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Council of Trade Unions has told the world about
New Zealand's pay equity fight. Secretary Melissa ansel Bridges is
in Switzerland at the International Labor Organization Conference. She's informed
the one hundred and eighty seven members states about the
recent blow to pay equity claims. An zil Bridges says
she's highlighted how the government's abandoned legislation seen as world

(01:09):
leading for balancing out inequities. She's told the conference the
CTU won't rest until women's work is properly valued, with
workers everywhere paid fairly regardless of gender. Labour's leader says
the party will deliver its agriculture policies early next year.
Chris Sipkins says they're reviewing a lot of previous policy

(01:30):
while tracking new government announcements. He also says Labour won't
scrape any sensible government work Itpkins says they're taking a
good look at whether agriculture should be in the emission's
trading scheme. There's a lot of active discussion around methane,
whether methane should be treated differently to carbon. We're following
the science there pretty closely and we've had a lot
of discussion with the farming community about that. A coroner's

(01:52):
report suggests the death of a twenty month boy eight
years ago in Manawatu was an accident. Lorenzo Oh Miranda
collapsed and died in Palmerston North a while after suffering
a head injury in an unnoticed fall. A childcare Lachlan
Rennie has more.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
A work safe investigation into the preschool since that toddler
was sitting with others, including a teacher, at a small table,
and a short time later was found crying and on
his back. Staff comforted him but saying nothing indicated an
injury and he kept playing. Later that afternoon, work Safe
concluded that the daycare should have told parents about a
potential fall, but it didn't commit any offenses.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister is confident Orcis will go ahead.
The US has announced a snap review of the Trilateral
Security Pact with Australia and the UK to ensure it
meets its America First agenda. Its conditions include Australia getting
nuclear powered submarines. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Miles told ABC

(02:52):
News they focused on seeing orchist through.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's the way in which we get the capability. If
we keep chopping and changing, we need to fundamentally understand
that that is not a decision to change, that is
a decision not to do it.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
To sport, a new South Wales Star five eighth Mitch
Moses has been ruled out of State of origin two
with a calf strain, being replaced by Jerome Lewy for
next Wednesday's clash with Queensland in Perth long serve In
New Zealand netball coach Dame Nolin Todoua believes the standard
of the A and ZID Premiership is a step up
on previous years, but she's urged the teams to be

(03:30):
more consistent. The Indiana Pacers have beaten Oklahoma City Thunder
one sixteen one oh seven to lead basketball's best of
seven NBA Finals series two to one. That is your
latest news fix. We'll have another update for you tomorrow
morning from the newstalk zed B news room.