Afternoons TV Critic Claire Chitham reviews what's good on the smaller screen. This week she looks at: Rivals - Season 2 - Disney+ Under Salt Marsh - TVNZ+

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Our Australia correspondent Brad Foster joins Jesse to share the latest on the shark attack that took place over the weekend at Sydney's Coogee Beach.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

This Sunday, the 21st of June, is the shortest day of 2026. And this year, Eat New Zealand is encouraging Kiwis to mark it with what they're calling "The Shortest Meal" The challenge - which on the face of it sounds simple -is to eat one meal made entirely from New Zealand grown ingredients. Eat NZ Chief Executive Angela Clifford joins Jesse to tell us more about it.

Nauru the world's smallest republic - is located in the Pacific, just over four thousand kilometres northeast of Auckland - and it could soon have a new name. Last month the island's Parliament unanimously backed a name change proposal and soon locals will get a chance to have their say in a national referendum. Here to tell us more about it is Steven Ratuva, the Pro-Vice Chancellor Pacific and Director of the MacMillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury.

Here on Afternoons we're all about celebrating people doing great things. And our next guest fits that bill brilliantly. A Hawkes Bay man is using his 3D printer to manufacture colourful custom wheelchairs to get kids with mobility issues moving. It gets better - he's paying for the whole thing himself. Louwrens Burger chats to Jesse.

We're going to start the show talking about milk .. more specifically gene edited milk .. and whether you would be happy buying, and drinking it. over recent years scientists have been exploring whether gene editing can deliver dairy cattle better able to cope with warmer temperatures while producing fewer methane emissions. Which all might sound great in the lab - but will shoppers want it? Here to discuss this issue Jesse is joined by Damien Mather, senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Otago.

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Welcome to Midday Report essentials. In this episode: The US and Iran have signed a peace deal. Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will open and the US blockade will lift. We heard from our correspondent in Washington DC - Lauren Tomasi. Back here, the battle is just starting over fiscal holes - National takes issue with Labour's costings, but, fiscal discipline stance isn't helping according to a new poll. We spoke with RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch. Finally, is the AI apocalypse coming for your job? AI expert Professor Alistair Knott joined us to talk about the future of work.