Midday Report Essentials for Thursday 15 May 2025

Midday Report

In today's episode, the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden has refused to have regular meetings with the Council of Trade Unions and has ruled out undoing the Pay Equity Changes, Labour is defending not condemning a newspaper column about pay equity which used the c-word in reference to female ministers, a new report has revealed New Zealand has the highest suicide rate for children out of the world's wealthy countries, at a rate of almost three times higher than the average, the C-Word has taken up a lot of attention in the last 24 hours after the workplace relations minister Brooke van Velden enunciated in Parliaments debating chamber, and a year on from the New Caledonia deadly riots the country faces deep division over the territory's political future.