Morning Edition: 24 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 24 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 Reatimanu and this is your morning
news fix for Tuesday, twenty fourth of June. In this update,
Iran's confirmed it's launched an attack on US spaces in
both Cutter and Iraq, flares of visible over Cutter's capital Doha,
following threats Iran would retaliate against Yui's strikes on its

(00:25):
nuclear sites. The attack came shortly after Kuta closed its
airspace as a precaution amid threats from Iran. Our Jazia's
Osama bin Javid says multiple missiles were launched, and he
says a majority were intercepted and no explosions have been
visible apart from one scene in the sky. New Zealand
First is drafting a single Napuhi Treaty of White Tungi

(00:47):
Settlement Claim Treaty negotiations. Minister Paul Goldsmith has confirmed the
government would prefer a single commercial settlement with the EWEI,
but is open to smaller groupings. It's after debate over
a clause in an initial deed for East Coast ewe
Deefarno r Apanui, stating the EWI and Crown agreed to
disagree on who held sovereignty news even First MP Shane

(01:10):
Jones says any bill he creates will state there's no
separate Napuhewi sovereignty. A growing gap between insurance prices in
Wellington and other parts of the country later as data
from insurance comparison website Quashed shows the average Wellington home
insurance quote is now fifty four percent more than in

(01:31):
Auckland and forty percent more than in Canterbury. Add On
contents and car insurance, Wellingtonian's been quoted fifty eight percent
more than in Auckland and forty three percent more than
in christ Church. Quash chief executive Justin Limm says the
average Wellington household is now paying about forty percent more
than the average Kiwi household jeff Philia, Pocket and Wellington,

(01:52):
where premiums continue to go up, insurers are charging more
for areas they demail not riskier. The uptake of New
Zealand's Golden visa schemes exceeding expectations. Since April Immigration New
Zealand's received one hundred and eighty nine active investor plus
applications a vis which makes it easier to gain residency
via investment. Immigration Minister Ericus Stanford says there were just

(02:16):
one hundred and sixteen applications over more than two and
a half years under previous settings. Immigration lawyer Mark Williams
says factors such as significant global events have aligned in
our favor and he says the response has been huge
and he's never seen demand like it. The governments announced
a funding boost for GPS after reaching an agreement with
the sector. Health Minister Simeon Browns confirmed the thirteen point

(02:39):
sixty nine percent funding uplift, bringing the total funding increase
for GP clinics this financial year to one hundred and
seventy five million. International flights are touching down in Dunedin
once again, the first of Jetstar's direct flights between Dunedin
and the Gold Coast Lands this afternoon. The new service,
which flies three times a week, is the first international

(03:00):
route for the city since twenty twenty. In Sport, the
steel have won a mid table A and Z Premiership
netball scramble fifty eight to fifty seven against the Poulse
in Wellington. Elijah Dunn slotted the match winning goal in
the final play of the game. Basketballer Parker Jackson Cartwright
has signed a two year extension with the New Zealand

(03:21):
breakers until the end of the twenty twenty six to
twenty seven campaign. England are twenty one without loss in
pursuit of three hundred and seventy one to beat India
at stumps on the fourth day of the opening cricket
Test at Headingley. I'm never ready, Manu, and that your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at midday from the newstalk ZB News route