Morning Edition: 25 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 25 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 ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Wednesday, twenty fifth of June. In
this update, a shaky ceasefire remains in the Middle East
following Israeli claims Iran violated the deal. Israel claims it
intercepted two missiles less than two hours after the ceasefire
came into force, which Iran denies. The US presidents warned

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Israel against any further action, saying it would be a
major escalation. American columnist Henry Olsen told Ryan Bridge Donald
Trump's received praise for his involvement at least broker in
a ceasefire and friending what every administration going back thirty
years has said is an unacceptable threat that Iran holds
nuclear weapon. Trump's touchdown in the Netherlands for the NATO

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summit concern over an increasing number of children bringing weapons
to school. Figures released under the Official Information Act show
five hundred and twenty six six students were stood down, suspended,
or excluded for using or having a weapon at school
last year. It's an eighty percent rise on twenty eighteen.
Secondary Principles Association President Louise Anaudou says one weapon in

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a school is too many, but she's seen a few
in her career. She says, in the vast majority of cases,
children have no intent to use the weapon, but regardless,
the matter needs to be treated seriously. A constant fall
in the number of job bands available has finally stabilized.
According to see Kenz's employment report, job bands fell eight

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percent on last year, the slowest rate of decline since
twenty twenty two. At the same time, applications per job
ad have peaked again, rising two percent, hitting the highest
on record. SEEK Country manager Rob Clark says jaw bands
for April were up one percent and May down two percent.
Says last year declines were more regular, so we've hit

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a flat period. Search finds within the next decade, New
Zealand agriculture will begin its largest ever inter generational transfer
of wealth. Rabobank's report finds more than half of all
New Zealand farm and orchard owners will reach the age
of sixty five in the next ten years. At current

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land values, it's estimated to represent the transition of more
than one hundred and fifty billion dollars in farming assets. However,
it warns only a third of farmers have a formal
succession plan and thirty nine percent report having no children
seriously interested in farming. It's being suggested there are tens
of thousands of people in the community with undiagnosed ADHD.

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From February, GPS and nurse practitioners will be able to
prescribe treatment from the outset without a specialist recommendation. Specialist
appointment wait times can take months. Primary Care Clinical Chief
Adviser doctor Anna Skinner says data suggests a significant underdiagnosis
issue and hopes these changes will address this. She says

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untreated ADHD causes harm and they estimate around sixty thousand
with the disorder and not diagnosed. In sport, England have
completed their second highest fourth innings run chase in the
final session of the opening cricket Test against India at Headingly.
The hosts won by five wickets after hauling in three
hundred and seventy one. France rugby coach Fabian Gualtier has

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selected seventeen uncapped players in his initial squad of thirty
seven for the three Test tour of New Zealand. Silverfern's
vice captain Kate Heavenan admits the A and Z premiership's
uncertain future