Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 11 February 2025

In today’s episode, new polling suggests half the country thinks the Government is going in the wrong direction and that the economy will continue to deteriorate, US President Donald Trump has just announced 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminium imported into the US, whether retirees should be able to leave the country for long period of time while receiving the pension has become a hot topic this week, and a Haast man got the surprise of his life on Sunday when he caught a giant marlin, while fishing near Jackson Bay.