Morning Edition: 19 June 2025

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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 Thursday, nineteenth of June. In this update,
US President Donald Trump says his patients with Iran has
already run out. Israel says its air force is striking
military targets in Tehran, while Iran Supreme Leader Ayatola Ali

(00:24):
Hamane declares his country will not surrender. Trump is refusing
to give away whether he's made a decision on US
military intervention as the Iran and Israel conflict continues. You
don't know that I'm going to even do it. You
don't know. I may do it, I may not do it.
I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. I
can tell you this that Iran's got a lot of
trouble and the government's exploring options for evacuation flights for

(00:46):
ken we stuck in Israel, and Iran in fact has
contacted airlines in the region and is coordinating with its
Australian counterpart. Foreign Minister Winston Peter says the reopening of
airspace could take weeks, so citizens should do everything they
can to leave the region now. The traditional census as
we know it is coming to an end. Stats n

(01:07):
Z is moving to a system using government collected ADMIN data,
saying the current five yearly census is financially unsustainable. Censors
style questions will still be asked in much smaller annual
surveys looking at a small fraction of the population. Auckland
University of Technology professor Riemavitha Nathan told Ryan Bridge, the

(01:28):
price of census is eye watering. We can use that
been data now to do an annual censors and that's
much more useful than waiting for five years to find
out what's happening. Improved economic activity has propped up optimism
for the country's books. Figures are due to be revealed
in the coming hours showing the country's GDP data for

(01:49):
the first quarter of the year. Economists in the Reserve
Bank are expecting a zero point seven percent growth. HEROLD
Business Editor at Large Liam Dan says it's slightly high
than predictions earlier in the year. That's been lifted by
stronger than expected activity in the manufacturing sector and all
that activity in the agricultural sector due to high dairy

(02:10):
prices and a really great season. A record number of
Kiwi teachers are working past retirement age, more than eight
thousand teachers were over sixty five last year, about ten
percent of the total workforce. Eight hundred and thirty three
are more than seventy five years old. It's a significant
jump on a decade ago when about four thousand, seven

(02:31):
hundred teachers were past retirement age seven percent of the workforce.
It's a big day for Christchurch's local alcohol policy. The
City Council will today decide whether to progress with their
draft plan, which includes banning retail sales after nine pm
and freezing new licenses in low income communities. It's heard

(02:51):
more than four hundred submissions on the matter. Mayor Phil
Major says there's an alcohol related harm problem in the city.
He says forty people in day go through accident emergency
on alcohol related things. In sport, Queensland have won a
State of Origin League Thriller twenty six twenty four over
New South Wales and Perth to level the series one all.

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Two times Wimbledon tennis champion Patrick Evitev has been handed
a wildcard to the tournament after being ranked too low
for direct entry. In her return from a maternity break,
Footballer Costa Barbarusas has confirmed a move to the Western
Sydney Wanderers for a season. The banning of cowbells continues
to dominate the build up to the Crusader's Chief Super

(03:33):
Rugby Final in christ Church. I'm never retty Manu and
that's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update of midday from the news Talk zb newsroom.