Afternoon Edition: 16 June 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 16 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 Raelen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fix for Monday, the sixteenth of June. The Workplace Relations
Minister is tempering expectations around potential changes to sick leave.
This morning, the Prime Minister revealed Brook van Valden is
looking at altering the current ten day entitlement for full
time workers. In a statement, Van Walden says she'll reveal

(00:27):
more in the coming months, but officials are currently developing
pro rated sick leave, which was previously agreed to by cabinet.
But she says her office is not looking at reducing
sick leave from ten days to five. The Foreign Affairs
Minister says New Zealand wants diplomacy and de escalation in
the Middle East. Israel and ran have been engaged in

(00:49):
air strikes for several days. New Zealand's also recently joined
other countries and issuing travel bands against Israel's Ministers of
Finance and National Security Peter says the government was surprised
by Israel's first strikes, although not completely.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
There had been talk of that, but not in the
way the New zeal governors remotely involved in or aware of.
But our job is to keep our ears open paty
watching circumstances worldwide.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Australians have once again ranked a New Zealand Prime minister
as their most trusted world leader in a Lowey Institute
poll his senior political reporter, Sophie Trigger.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Nineteen percent reported having a lot of confidence in Chris
Luxen to do the right thing regarding world affairs, and
forty four percent said they had some confidence. Second is
French President Emmanuel Macron, with Australia's own leader, Anthony Albinizi
coming in third. Just inder Ardurn often topped the list
as Prime Minister, with Chris hipkins In joined first in
twenty twenty three with Ukraine's Vladimir Zelenski.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
The lowest on the list in North Korea is King
Jong in, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and China ses and Jingpeng.
Greyhound raising New Zealand to ancest the industry is working
in good faith. Activist groups Safe says the deaths of
three greyhounds last week shows the practice needs to end now.

(02:10):
The sport's ruling body is applied for a judicial review
of the government's decision to gradually close it down. Greyhouse
Racing Chief Executive Edward Rennell calls the deaths unfortunate, but
says only zero point four percent of every thousand greyhounds
race this year have died via euthanasia. The trio on

(02:31):
board a boat that capsized off the coast of South
Taranaki are thought to have all been wearing life jackets.
Two people died after the boat got into trouble yesterday
morning about two hundred meters off Partia. One is believed
to be a child. A third person was taken to
Hospital Pelissa. They've recovered the boats, which will be examined
as part of their investigation. For the first time, rock

(02:55):
star Lenny Kravitz is coming our way. He's performing at
Auckland Spark Arena on November fifteen to Sport and Scott
Dixon has finished fourth and the best of the New

(03:15):
Zealanders at the latest Indy Car Race under Lights at
the Saint Louis Grand Prix. Marcus Armstrong was ninth, while
Scott McLaughlin was forced to retire after being in the
podium mix early Betan qualifying finalists. The Hurricanes have confirmed
seven players, including first five Riley Warhepper, are leaving. The
franchise will number twenty five JJ Spawn is one Golf's

(03:40):
US Open rallying with a flurry of late birdies in
a rain sweat final round to finish at one under.
And that is your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update tomorrow morning from the news Talk
zeed Be newsroom