1:30 pm today

Midday Report Essentials for Monday 17 March 2025

From Midday Report, 1:30 pm today

In today's episode, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has arrived in Washington DC, where he will meet with his US counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other officials, a fourteen-year-old boy has been found guilty of manslaughter, after the fatal stabbing of another teenager last year, Te Ara Ahunga Ora the Retirement Commission says default employer KiwiSaver contributions should be bumped up to 4 percent, and Airbnb hosts in Wellington are facing a four-fold rates rise, as the council weighs up moving these properties from residential to commercial rates.