26 May 2025

Midday Report Essentials for Monday 26 May 2025

From Midday Report, 1:45 pm on 26 May 2025

In today's episode, firefighters are responding to a large number of flooding incidents in central Nelson following heavy rainfall, former National MP Marilyn Waring has gathered female former MPs to hold their own select committee on the government's pay equity changes, the government says part of its funding boost for bootcamps will go into rehabilitative support for young people in the programme, and the US President Donald Trump says he wants the "names and countries" of every international student enrolled at Harvard University.