Midday Edition: 24 June 2025

The Midday 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 afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news Fix. Four Tuesday, the twenty fourth of June. Donald
Trump has announced Iran and Israel have agreed a total
ceasefire beginning at about four pm New Zealand time today.
Iran and Israel are yet to comment. Overnight, Iran attempted
to attack a US Air Force base and cutter in

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retaliation to US strikes on its nuclear sites. The attack
was intercepted, but it sent oil prices tumbling and disrupted
commercial flights. Kere We journalist in Doha, Perry Wilton, says
there was panic, but it was very brief. Things here
have calmed down almost immediately, and in terms of warnings,
we haven't seen anything else. Opposition leader Chris Hopkins says

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they're yet to see any details of the potential ceasefire,
but it's welcome news. The sooner they get back around
the table, the better for everyone in the world. And
he's asking the government to call out the US for
its strike on Iran. The Greens are suggesting the government's
investment in the gas industry could backfire. Legal advice they

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commissioned suggests the two hundred million dollar gas Investment Fund
breaches the International Agreement on Climate, Trade and Sustainability. CO
leader Chloe Swarbrick says the Prime Minister is currently swaning
around overseas trying to build trade relationships while undermining them
at home. The Government cannot speak out both sides of
its mouth on these issues when it comes to our

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international reputation and our relationships with trading partners. Fletcher Buildings
addressing investors today about the potential sale of parts of
its business business desks garf bray See shareholders may learn
what Fletcher plans to do next after receiving several inquiries
from prospective buyers. We may hear a little bit more
about how they plant to restructure the company and get

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a bit of value back and a bit of control there.
An Z says it's lifting its lending to small and
medium businesses. Reserve Bank figures show US soft filling across
all bank business lending. Since the pandemic and an Z
going backwards, the overall growth rate has slowed from six
percent and twenty thirteen to just one point five percent.

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A and Z chief executive Antnia Watson says they've signed
up a seven thousand customers in the first half of
this year to their how to Small Business support program
will You Start Ups and Reasonably New Businesses that was
part of the requirements for the Package. Act hasn't decided
whether it supports a bill from Minister Shane Jones requiring

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the largest ewe Lapui to accept a single treaty settlement
rather than multiple smaller deals. Minister for Rail Winston Peters
is criticizing Treasury's prediction that Kiwi Rail wouldn't make its
earnings goal. The state owned transport agency has now confirmed
it will meet the one hundred and ten million dollar

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surplus target. Jetstar's new route between Dunedin and the Gold
Coast starts today, with flights operating three times a week
from now on. It's the first trans Tasman service for
Dunedin since March twenty twenty. To Sport, All Blacks coach
Scott Robertson's given his endorsement to the Club World Cup,
which will potentially start in twenty twenty eight. Lulusn has

(03:17):
beaten top seed and defending champion Daria kazat Kena in
three sets at tennis's Eastbourne Open as part of her
Wimbledon build up. A new role for former black Caps
cricket mentor Gary Stead. He's been hired as an interim
in an interim capacity to support Otago while the search
continues for a new coach, and the International Olympic Committee

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presidency has officially passed from Thomas Bark to Kirsty Coventry.
I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at five pm from the
news Talk ZB newsroom.