Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 19 February 2025
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- 0:02Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the inside Andrew Dickens
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- 0:11Speaker 2: It'd be as goodboding to you and welcome to your Wednesday.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Thank you for choosing this program. My name is Andrew Dickins.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Coming up over the next sixty minutes, it's interest rate
- 0:20Speaker 2: day today? What should the Reserve Bank do? Your thoughts
- 0:23Speaker 2: you can text me ninety two ninety two. I'll have
- 0:25Speaker 2: my thoughts at a moment and in fifteen minutes time
- 0:28Speaker 2: we'll talk to Sharon Zohner from the A n Z
- 0:31Speaker 2: The Big World story the US and Russia meat in
- 0:34Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia to discuss Ukraine. What happened. We're going to
- 0:37Speaker 2: talk to Marco Rubio's former chief of staff in about
- 0:39Speaker 2: five minutes. Lydia Coe is our top sports person. But
- 0:43Speaker 2: who's the new talent coming through? And the misuse of
- 0:46Speaker 2: census and COVID data. We'll talk to the man representing
- 0:49Speaker 2: the Mariahs at the center of the storm. Yes, you
- 0:51Speaker 2: can text me ninety two ninety two. It's small charge applies.
- 0:53Speaker 2: You can email me Dickens at Newstalk tob dot co
- 0:56Speaker 2: dot NZ it's seven after five Wednesday, the nineteenth of February.
- 1:03Speaker 2: The big story. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking
- 1:07Speaker 2: with Russia in Saudi Arabia, says the crucial meeting was
- 1:12Speaker 2: the first step of a long and difficult journey, but
- 1:14Speaker 2: an important one. The high level talks went on for
- 1:17Speaker 2: about four hours in Saudi Arabia and they agreed to
- 1:20Speaker 2: appoint teams to continue negotiating to end the war. Russian
- 1:24Speaker 2: Foreign Minister Sir Gey Levrov also says they will appoint
- 1:27Speaker 2: ambassadors to each other's countries as soon as possible.
- 1:30Speaker 3: The first agreement is not the most complicated. One is
- 1:34Speaker 3: to ensure the speediest possible appointments of ambassadors to remove
- 1:40Speaker 3: the barriers that for many years, first of all, the
- 1:44Speaker 3: Biden administration in the last four years erected in between
- 1:52Speaker 3: our diplomatic missions and.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Mico Rubio stressed the fact that nobody's being sidelines in
- 1:59Speaker 2: these negotiations. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski has been meeting
- 2:04Speaker 2: with Turkey's president in Turkey's capital, Anchora. He says today
- 2:07Speaker 2: the pair discussed the global processes in great detail that
- 2:11Speaker 2: could lead to the end of.
- 2:12Speaker 3: This war, Ukraine and in the broadest sense, Europe, Turkey
- 2:17Speaker 3: and Great Britain must be involved in the talks and
- 2:20Speaker 3: in working out the necessary security guarantees together with America
- 2:25Speaker 3: that concern our destiny in our part of the world.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Now to the Middle East and atop Hamas leader says
- 2:33Speaker 2: the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on
- 2:37Speaker 2: the weekend and the bodies of four others in the
- 2:40Speaker 2: coming days. It includes the remains of the two youngest
- 2:43Speaker 2: hostages who for many Israelis have embodied the captive's plight
- 2:48Speaker 2: in Gaza.
- 2:49Speaker 4: Those b Bus boys have become really iconic symbols across
- 2:54Speaker 4: Israel of the brutality of the Hamas attack on the
- 2:57Speaker 4: seventh of October. They are on euro rules. They are
- 3:01Speaker 4: very much seen as symbolic off the seventh of October attack.
- 3:05Speaker 2: These young boys are the Ol Bibas and Kafie Bibas.
- 3:09Speaker 2: And finally, Pot Francis has begun his fifth day in
- 3:12Speaker 2: hospital for what doctors have described as a complex respiratory infection.
- 3:16Speaker 2: He will not take part of this weekend's Holy Year events.
- 3:19Speaker 2: The pontiff, who's eighty eight years old, has been suffering
- 3:22Speaker 2: from respiratory infection for more than a week. He was
- 3:24Speaker 2: admitted to Rome's Gamelli Hospital. On Friday Local time, It's
- 3:29Speaker 2: ten out of five.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
- 3:35Speaker 1: and One Room, Make your Property search simple, news talks.
- 3:39Speaker 2: It'd be now. The question I have for you and
- 3:41Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank is do you think inflation's under control?
- 3:45Speaker 2: Because in many ways it isn't. Last Friday, stats New
- 3:48Speaker 2: Zealand announced that food prices across New Zealand rose by
- 3:51Speaker 2: one point nine percent in January, and the proportion of
- 3:55Speaker 2: the prices in the food basket that we measure that
- 3:58Speaker 2: increase by more than five percent was the highest in
- 4:01Speaker 2: five years. That's twenty percent of them. And you know
- 4:04Speaker 2: this because you pay this. The average price for a
- 4:06Speaker 2: two liter bottle of milk was four dollars fifty four
- 4:09Speaker 2: in January this year. Last year it was three dollars
- 4:12Speaker 2: ninety three. Imported foods up as well. The average price
- 4:15Speaker 2: of a block of chocolate five dollars seventy two in
- 4:18Speaker 2: January twenty twenty five, four dollars ninety in January twenty
- 4:21Speaker 2: twenty four. We've got increased taxes and xis causing price rises.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Alcohol and tobacco went out two point four percent in January. Meanwhile,
- 4:29Speaker 2: the non tradable aspect of inflation remains baked in. In
- 4:32Speaker 2: the past weeks we've had headlines of higher insurance premiums
- 4:36Speaker 2: and RPE rises. Add to that the global instability that
- 4:39Speaker 2: we've reported on, the unexpected rise in inflation in America
- 4:43Speaker 2: and China continuing to be in a relative doldrum. Gosh,
- 4:46Speaker 2: what a belong this. You're left with a scenario that
- 4:49Speaker 2: inflation has not left us, or in fact not left
- 4:51Speaker 2: the world. In fact, you could argue it's back as
- 4:54Speaker 2: strong as ever. So what would you do about interest
- 4:58Speaker 2: rates today? If you're the bank governor? There's a very
- 5:02Speaker 2: there's a very real argument that they should stay put
- 5:06Speaker 2: and certainly not go down. But what is Sharon's on
- 5:09Speaker 2: to think? We'll talk to her shortly. It's twelve after five.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens and Wayne Brown's up for another stince as
- 5:15Speaker 2: mayor of Auckland. So if I have one judgment on
- 5:17Speaker 2: his performance in his first term, might say this, he
- 5:20Speaker 2: wasn't as bad as many expected, but nor was he
- 5:23Speaker 2: as good as he likes to tell everyone. His flood
- 5:26Speaker 2: performance was poor, but he's been learning on the job.
- 5:29Speaker 2: He's come to see the logic of the improved rail service.
- 5:32Speaker 2: He claims not to know what's happening with the city's streets,
- 5:35Speaker 2: even though plans a public record, but he also realizes
- 5:38Speaker 2: that waging a holy war against roade works and particularly
- 5:41Speaker 2: roecones is a vote winner. He is the best choice
- 5:46Speaker 2: I think we have. The only other candidate better qualified
- 5:49Speaker 2: might be Deasi Simpson. But now that Wayne has the
- 5:52Speaker 2: bit between his teeth, she might think better to quit
- 5:54Speaker 2: the race. Otherwise she will split the sender right vote
- 5:57Speaker 2: Paula Bennett and Simon Bridges. Sorry, guys, you're gonna to
- 6:00Speaker 2: wait for another time. Meanwhile, the left, who is going
- 6:03Speaker 2: to compete against Wayne from the left? I have no idea.
- 6:05Speaker 2: The left needs to think long and hard about who
- 6:09Speaker 2: they think might want to have a crack and who
- 6:11Speaker 2: might be able to beat the center right. Because at
- 6:13Speaker 2: the moment, it's a one horse race for the Auckland
- 6:17Speaker 2: mayor and that horse is called Wayne, and it's thirteen
- 6:20Speaker 2: after five. So Matt Tarrell is the former chief of
- 6:24Speaker 2: staff from Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is doing the first
- 6:27Speaker 2: steps towards ensuring a piece in Saudi Arabia. Now, so
- 6:31Speaker 2: we've managed to track Matt down and we'll talk to
- 6:33Speaker 2: him in just a moment and try and figure out
- 6:36Speaker 2: exactly what happened in that four hour meeting. It is
- 6:38Speaker 2: now thirteen after five.
- 6:40Speaker 1: News and Views You Trust to start your day. Its
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- 6:47Speaker 1: Property Surge, Simple News Talk.
- 6:49Speaker 2: Sibby, Welcome on in. It's a quarter after five. So
- 6:53Speaker 2: the United States and Russia are going to appoint teams
- 6:55Speaker 2: to negotiate ending the Ukraine War. You wear. Secretary of
- 6:59Speaker 2: State Marco Rubio has finished up a for our meeting
- 7:02Speaker 2: with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia. Sergey Leverov, Russia's foreign minister,
- 7:07Speaker 2: says Russia and the United States have agreed to corect
- 7:11Speaker 2: to create conditions to restore cooperation in full between the
- 7:15Speaker 2: two nations.
- 7:16Speaker 3: We did not just listen to each other, but we
- 7:19Speaker 3: heard each other. I have every reason to believe that
- 7:23Speaker 3: the American side understands our position.
- 7:28Speaker 2: So what might have happened in that meeting. Marco Rubio's
- 7:30Speaker 2: former chief of staff is a fellow by the name
- 7:32Speaker 2: of Matt Terrell. He's in Milwaukee, and Matt joins me.
- 7:35Speaker 5: Now, Hello, Matt, Hey, grig bere with you.
- 7:38Speaker 2: What do you think happened in that for our meeting.
- 7:41Speaker 5: Well, we'll see what comes out of the reporting on it.
- 7:43Speaker 5: You know, what I can tell you is that it
- 7:44Speaker 5: appears to be a first step in terms of negotiations here,
- 7:48Speaker 5: particularly particularly with Russia. And so the bottom line here is,
- 7:51Speaker 5: you know, it's a first step.
- 7:53Speaker 2: Yes, Marco Rubio says, the peace is a verb, not
- 7:55Speaker 2: a noun, and it's all about incremental steps.
- 7:59Speaker 5: That's all right. Look, at the end of the day,
- 8:01Speaker 5: actually speak louder than words and support and have meetings
- 8:03Speaker 5: the support and have dialogue and discussions. But the end
- 8:05Speaker 5: of the day comes down to action, and you get
- 8:07Speaker 5: to see action on the side of putin that to
- 8:10Speaker 5: see action among other actors here, particularly it relates to
- 8:14Speaker 5: Russia and deciding what happens here. But obviously Ukrain will
- 8:17Speaker 5: be at that table as well. You know what President
- 8:19Speaker 5: Trump spoke just a few days ago with Villainsky, And
- 8:23Speaker 5: you know the bottom line here. Steve Woodkoff and others
- 8:26Speaker 5: on the foreign policy team of President Trump's team have
- 8:28Speaker 5: been discussions with Ukraine officials and Russia officials now and
- 8:32Speaker 5: it appears in Saudi Arabia, So you know, at the
- 8:35Speaker 5: end of the day it's going to come down in
- 8:36Speaker 5: what the actions are and clearly, well to see what
- 8:38Speaker 5: that all means the main book, because the discussions about
- 8:41Speaker 5: land and discussions about whether or not Ukraine would be
- 8:43Speaker 5: able to join NATO, those are all things that are
- 8:45Speaker 5: going to be discussed here, negotiated, Those are many of
- 8:48Speaker 5: the key things that I think are going to be
- 8:50Speaker 5: certainly on the table. But then of the day, you know, look,
- 8:54Speaker 5: this war needs to end. That President Trump campaign down
- 8:57Speaker 5: any campaign on any this war to negotiation, not to
- 9:00Speaker 5: putting boots on the ground. So right now it comes
- 9:02Speaker 5: down to with these discussions, hugging the discussions unfold. Again.
- 9:05Speaker 5: What occurred here over the past few hours is just
- 9:08Speaker 5: the first step. But you don't get to finalization negotiations
- 9:11Speaker 5: without starting negotiations and hopefuls what we're seeing here in
- 9:14Speaker 5: terms of a peaceful resolution and negotiate resolution here that
- 9:18Speaker 5: won't require more bloodshed.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Well, when do you think the United States will talk
- 9:22Speaker 2: to the Ukrainian side, because they have to be part
- 9:25Speaker 2: of the negotiations in the end.
- 9:28Speaker 5: Well, it's viral that they are and they have been.
- 9:30Speaker 5: I mean, look, you saw Secretary of Rubio and others
- 9:34Speaker 5: clearly state that, you know, the United States and President
- 9:37Speaker 5: Trump have been in discussions and jaws with Zelenski, and
- 9:41Speaker 5: so look at the end of the dating and support
- 9:43Speaker 5: and recognize that they are at the table here clearly.
- 9:46Speaker 5: Obviously you're seeing other voices here among Europe voice their
- 9:49Speaker 5: their thoughts on this. But look, the reality is it's
- 9:53Speaker 5: going to come down to having they have both leaders,
- 9:56Speaker 5: both put and Angelinski at the table here among other
- 9:59Speaker 5: key keep players here to help bring this war to
- 10:02Speaker 5: an end. But I think you know, and it's a
- 10:04Speaker 5: repetitive you're redundant on this point, but really I think
- 10:07Speaker 5: the key goal here in Saudi Arabia was to at
- 10:09Speaker 5: least get Putin and his team, if you will, to
- 10:13Speaker 5: the table. Now you can't start negotiations, so you actually
- 10:16Speaker 5: get these key players to the table. And that was
- 10:19Speaker 5: the first step here. It's not the only step. I
- 10:22Speaker 5: think there's many more steps of course, are going to
- 10:23Speaker 5: be needed here. But again, the goal here is to
- 10:26Speaker 5: end the saying. You know, there's been reports, I don't
- 10:28Speaker 5: know how accurate these are or not the reports that
- 10:30Speaker 5: you know, the Russian military has lost over one hundred
- 10:33Speaker 5: and fifty thousand soldiers and obviously their economy is taking
- 10:36Speaker 5: a hit by much of the recording with saying you know,
- 10:38Speaker 5: I think at the end of the day, this is
- 10:40Speaker 5: something that in addition to you know, the lives sally
- 10:43Speaker 5: lost in the Ukraine side, you know, this is something
- 10:45Speaker 5: I need to come to an end present some campaign
- 10:47Speaker 5: down that and that's something he wants to deliver on
- 10:49Speaker 5: I think soon here.
- 10:51Speaker 2: And you've been micro Rubio's chief of staff. Is he
- 10:53Speaker 2: good at this sort of stuff?
- 10:56Speaker 5: Well, I worked with more on his twenty fifteen campaign
- 10:59Speaker 5: and when he was running for president in twenty sixteen,
- 11:02Speaker 5: he was able. When I recognize the least and many
- 11:05Speaker 5: of those who work with him recognized, was his ability
- 11:08Speaker 5: to dive deep into the foreign policy issues that don't
- 11:11Speaker 5: always get the headlines. So, look, he has a very
- 11:13Speaker 5: clearnerstanding of history. I think is a very clear understanding
- 11:16Speaker 5: of the key challenges that we are facing when it
- 11:18Speaker 5: comes to your question of negotiation. Look, this is someone
- 11:21Speaker 5: who has been at this during his time in the
- 11:24Speaker 5: Senapal Relations Committee, the Senate Intel Committee. He's not new
- 11:27Speaker 5: to the foreign policy challenges that we're facing, not just
- 11:30Speaker 5: as a country but as a world. I think this
- 11:32Speaker 5: is somebody who's got charisma and ability to negotiate, but
- 11:35Speaker 5: it's gonna be him and others obviously at the table here.
- 11:38Speaker 5: But then they it's going to come down to I
- 11:39Speaker 5: think President Trump. You know, I think there's only one
- 11:41Speaker 5: world leader right now who can really bring this thing
- 11:43Speaker 5: to an end. I think that that's President Trump. I
- 11:45Speaker 5: think it's wondering why he won the last election in
- 11:48Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, because Americans want to see this war
- 11:50Speaker 5: coming to end, as the people around the world.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Matt Terrell, I thank you for your time.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Matt Terrell is Maco Rubio's former chief of Stuff and
- 11:58Speaker 2: This is News. It's five twenty Sharon Zoon is joining
- 12:01Speaker 2: us next to talk about what the Reserve Bank should
- 12:04Speaker 2: do today. It's interest rate Day.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Andrew dickens all Afili edition with one roof to make
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- 12:15Speaker 2: It's five twenty three. The Reserve Bank, what are they
- 12:18Speaker 2: going to do today? They're expected to cut the OCEA
- 12:20Speaker 2: by fifty basis points to three point seventy five percent.
- 12:24Speaker 2: It's locked in, they say, as a near certainty, but
- 12:26Speaker 2: of course we never know until it actually happens. In
- 12:28Speaker 2: the A and Za Tief economists, Sharon Zooner joins me,
- 12:31Speaker 2: good morning, Sharon, good morning. What's going to happen?
- 12:35Speaker 6: We're also in the camp that says our cup fifty
- 12:38Speaker 6: they stick called it really, really unusually clearly in November,
- 12:41Speaker 6: which was brave because it was a three month gap
- 12:43Speaker 6: until the actual decision. But as it happens, the data
- 12:46Speaker 6: has fallen what most peop would consider in line with
- 12:50Speaker 6: therefore cuss a few under zanovs, but overall not challenging
- 12:53Speaker 6: their narratives. So you're seeing quite a strong consensus amongst
- 12:56Speaker 6: both economists and market participants at our cup fifty today.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Well, there's a who we're around saying don't cut it
- 13:01Speaker 2: or just do zero point twenty five because food prices
- 13:04Speaker 2: are rising in January, non tradable inflations, baked in American
- 13:07Speaker 2: inflations ticking up. Is the possibility of a global trade war.
- 13:10Speaker 2: We've got global instability affecting supply chains. There's some very
- 13:14Speaker 2: real arguments to ty hoe.
- 13:16Speaker 5: There are some very.
- 13:18Speaker 6: Real arguments to be cautious about the medium term outlook.
- 13:21Speaker 6: But basically, what happens to that domestic sticky inflation that
- 13:25Speaker 6: the Reserve Bank really cares about depends on where the
- 13:27Speaker 6: economy was that sort of six months ago, really, and
- 13:30Speaker 6: six months ago the economy was in a pretty dark place.
- 13:33Speaker 6: So it's reasonably it's reason for the Reserve Bank to
- 13:37Speaker 6: expect that domestic inslation to continue to fall, and they
- 13:40Speaker 6: don't want to overdo things, don't want to cause unnecessary pain,
- 13:43Speaker 6: but also don't want to cause inflation to go out
- 13:45Speaker 6: at the bottom of the band. So that's like they're
- 13:47Speaker 6: comfortable cutting now, but they have suggested that they will
- 13:51Speaker 6: start to move more cautiously as they get closer to neutral.
- 13:54Speaker 6: So that's where it does to get interesting. Sidney five,
- 13:58Speaker 6: which is where they'd be after a fifty point cut,
- 14:00Speaker 6: Is that closer to neutral? All the next most the
- 14:03Speaker 6: twenty five or fifty? There is some debate on that point.
- 14:06Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, how low could they go? You're quite right.
- 14:09Speaker 2: The debate is between some people saying three point five,
- 14:11Speaker 2: that'll be about it. Some people have said, well could
- 14:14Speaker 2: go as lot as three, what do you think?
- 14:16Speaker 6: Yeah, and some people are saying lowd than that. I
- 14:18Speaker 6: don't think the Reserve Bank will necessarily feel the need
- 14:22Speaker 6: to be dogmatic about exactly where the OCR finishes up today.
- 14:26Speaker 6: But their last forecast suggested the OCI would go down
- 14:29Speaker 6: to about three, and I guess the market's probably assuming
- 14:33Speaker 6: that they'll show something similar today. If they show it
- 14:36Speaker 6: going there only slowly, you could see some disappointment from
- 14:39Speaker 6: the market. In which tests you could actually see it
- 14:42Speaker 6: will bump up and illustrates and exchange rates even though
- 14:44Speaker 6: they're cutting. On the other hand, if the market thinks
- 14:48Speaker 6: they sound like they're going to cut faster, you could
- 14:50Speaker 6: still see reaction. So even though they're cutting, the actual
- 14:54Speaker 6: reaction on the day will depend on what they say,
- 14:57Speaker 6: their tone, their forecasts compared to what the market is.
- 15:00Speaker 7: Well.
- 15:00Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to what they have to say and
- 15:02Speaker 2: what they have to say about our economy right now. Sharon,
- 15:04Speaker 2: it's always great that you wake up for us, and
- 15:06Speaker 2: I thank you. Sharon's owner is the A and Z
- 15:08Speaker 2: Chiefs Economy Chief Economists And it's now five twenty five
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- 19:14Speaker 2: I used to compete in the high jump when I
- 19:16Speaker 2: was a kid at school. I got as high as
- 19:18Speaker 2: six foot five. I jumped six foot five, three inches
- 19:21Speaker 2: taller than me. But in all that time, I never
- 19:24Speaker 2: ever thought I'd ever see a New Zealander as the
- 19:26Speaker 2: best high jumper in the world. But here we have it.
- 19:29Speaker 2: He's a nice bloke and he's going to be on
- 19:31Speaker 2: with Mike Hosking this morning. I feel for Chris Wood,
- 19:34Speaker 2: who's doing remarkable things in football, but he was up
- 19:37Speaker 2: against it. It's an Olympic year, so maybe next year
- 19:39Speaker 2: for Chris. But football got its recognition with the Best
- 19:42Speaker 2: Emerging Talent award. And this is what I love about
- 19:44Speaker 2: this thing. You start hearing about people doing amazing things
- 19:47Speaker 2: around the place that you never heard before. This is
- 19:49Speaker 2: a young man called Tyler Binden. He was born in
- 19:51Speaker 2: New Zealand, but he moved to California when he was
- 19:54Speaker 2: twelve because his mum got a gig coaching the UCLA
- 19:57Speaker 2: football team, so he spent his teams in America. He
- 20:00Speaker 2: represented USA as a teen. He played against Argentina for USA,
- 20:05Speaker 2: but now his allegiance is back with his home country.
- 20:08Speaker 2: He plays with the All Whites and he's been signed
- 20:10Speaker 2: by the same Premier League team that Chris Wood plays for,
- 20:14Speaker 2: Nottingham Forest, and they play in the English Premier League.
- 20:17Speaker 2: Tyler Binden superstar in the making, Tyler and soccer in
- 20:20Speaker 2: general is on fire right now. It's twenty one to six.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens, let's go.
- 20:27Speaker 2: Let's go right around the country. Callen Proctor from Dunedin.
- 20:29Speaker 2: Good morning to you morning, Andrew, but not a good night.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Very wet.
- 20:34Speaker 9: He's been wet, yes, right around Otago. In fact, torential
- 20:37Speaker 9: rain causing flash flooding in parts of the region. I
- 20:42Speaker 9: mean good news for topping up our southern lakes, but
- 20:44Speaker 9: for areas like Millis Flat, Beaumonton and Lawrence, there's been
- 20:48Speaker 9: extensive surface flooding. Police asking motorists to avoid State Highway
- 20:52Speaker 9: eight that's between Miller's Flat and Ray's junction. Video supplied
- 20:56Speaker 9: to our newsroom show the road and undated the previous
- 21:00Speaker 9: dry creek off the kloof the river breaching its banks.
- 21:03Speaker 9: There's been general flood warnings issued for the rand Furley
- 21:06Speaker 9: and Patior communities. The Central Otago District Council saying there's
- 21:11Speaker 9: been so much water it's been lifting manhole covers. So
- 21:14Speaker 9: hopefully those conditions ease today. However, more rain is forecast.
- 21:19Speaker 9: What is the forecast? You will possibly heavy and thundery
- 21:22Speaker 9: shellers around Otago this afternoon. South easterly is developing Dunedin's
- 21:26Speaker 9: heighs today twenty one.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Remember your umbrella and I thank you. And Claire Sherwood
- 21:29Speaker 2: joins us fro christ Church tellaclaire. Hello, So what's going
- 21:32Speaker 2: to happen with christ Church's Red Zone?
- 21:34Speaker 10: Yes, well, hard to believe Andrew that this weekend will
- 21:37Speaker 10: mark fourteen years since that area of christ Church became
- 21:40Speaker 10: known as the red Zone and that twenty eleven earthquake. Now,
- 21:43Speaker 10: city councilors today will decide whether they'll push ahead with
- 21:46Speaker 10: a new governance plan for the area that's known as
- 21:49Speaker 10: the Avon River Corridor.
- 21:51Speaker 11: It would at first.
- 21:52Speaker 10: See an interim committee created to take care of that area.
- 21:56Speaker 10: That would be made up of three EWI and three
- 21:58Speaker 10: council represented. It would then later become a council controlled
- 22:02Speaker 10: charitable trust now the AVON or TARCTO Network Manager Hailey
- 22:06Speaker 10: Gulietta she believes, you know, it's a good idea, but
- 22:09Speaker 10: she does want to see one of those council voices
- 22:12Speaker 10: be from within that community on the east side of
- 22:14Speaker 10: Christchurch rather than just any elected official. She says she
- 22:18Speaker 10: will be advocating for the elected members at the very
- 22:21Speaker 10: least to come from that side of christ Church or
- 22:24Speaker 10: Central in order to have a best read.
- 22:27Speaker 11: On what happens with that area.
- 22:29Speaker 2: All right, so how's your weather partly glady?
- 22:31Speaker 10: We could see a charer L two this afternoon. Some
- 22:33Speaker 10: could be heavy northwesterlies and a high of twenty eight.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Max told joins us from Wellington. Hellimax, good morning, You're
- 22:39Speaker 2: getting another massive wind farm.
- 22:42Speaker 12: Well yeah, I mean look white it up. It is
- 22:44Speaker 12: a little further north but near enough to drive to.
- 22:48Speaker 12: These plans for a wind farm have been in question.
- 22:51Speaker 12: Some locals have been kicking up a fuss. They don't
- 22:53Speaker 12: like the proximity to some of their homes within two
- 22:56Speaker 12: kilometers in some instances. But the plan is Miuradian Energy
- 23:01Speaker 12: wants to build a wind farm of more than twenty
- 23:05Speaker 12: turbines at Mount Montroe, that's just south of Ekeatahuna. It
- 23:09Speaker 12: would provide enough power to generate powerful more than forty
- 23:13Speaker 12: thousand homes in Northern Wide and appa to generate about
- 23:18Speaker 12: three hundred giga what hours of renewable energy every year.
- 23:22Speaker 12: And so the Environment Environment Court has granted a resource consent,
- 23:26Speaker 12: but there is likely to be a legal challenge now
- 23:28Speaker 12: in the High Court.
- 23:29Speaker 2: All right, how's your with it? I hope it's windy?
- 23:32Speaker 12: Oh well a little windy, yes, cloudy as well with
- 23:34Speaker 12: a little drizzle. Twenty two the High Central very good.
- 23:37Speaker 2: Never written amount of jointing now from Auckland.
- 23:39Speaker 11: Andrew, what's going on? It's like the tropics in here.
- 23:42Speaker 11: Have you not turned on the aircorn? It's flip and
- 23:44Speaker 11: warm man.
- 23:45Speaker 2: No I said it to twenty four, but it was
- 23:48Speaker 2: it was on nineteen. So it's only been on twenty
- 23:51Speaker 2: four for a half an hour.
- 23:52Speaker 11: Oh you wait till the host comes in. You are
- 23:54Speaker 11: so going to get it. Nineteen is a really good teamp. No, oh,
- 23:57Speaker 11: it's too, I can barely speak.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Okay, right, carry on, okay, let's talk fireworks.
- 24:06Speaker 11: Yes, Now, what I can tell you is that Auckland
- 24:08Speaker 11: Council seeking advice. Now this is on how to reduce
- 24:11Speaker 11: the nuisance and danger being caused by fireworks. So there's
- 24:14Speaker 11: been a report and that has been seen by the
- 24:16Speaker 11: news room and here at newstak ZB and the council
- 24:20Speaker 11: can continue, which is good news, to advocate the central
- 24:22Speaker 11: government for a nationwide ban. This is on the private sales.
- 24:26Speaker 11: So it says that the council can also tighten existing
- 24:29Speaker 11: by laws, you know, possibly raising that bar that must
- 24:32Speaker 11: be met when applying for a trading license. So both
- 24:34Speaker 11: of those options are now going to be considered by
- 24:37Speaker 11: the counselors. What will happen is that that final decision
- 24:41Speaker 11: will be resting on the Regulatory Community Safety Committee.
- 24:44Speaker 8: Oh right, I got.
- 24:45Speaker 11: Those words out.
- 24:47Speaker 2: Okay, how's the weather fine?
- 24:50Speaker 11: Hot, hot, muggy here and the ZIBI main studio cloud
- 24:53Speaker 11: developing in the afternoon charts of a shower twenty six
- 24:55Speaker 11: is the high outside in Auckland?
- 24:56Speaker 2: Cow, did you get a jacket on?
- 24:57Speaker 7: Go too?
- 24:58Speaker 11: Because when I got back into the news right and on.
- 25:02Speaker 2: The way out. Could you turn down the air condition?
- 25:04Speaker 11: No, I'm going to wait till it comes in here.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all good, it's all good. Thank you so much. Right,
- 25:08Speaker 2: I've just got a text from Graham, and I'm pretty
- 25:10Speaker 2: sure I know Graham because I think I might have
- 25:11Speaker 2: coached his kids.
- 25:12Speaker 7: Anyway.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Graham says, Andrewid's football, not soccer. I know. I say
- 25:16Speaker 2: football all the time and people go no, no, no,
- 25:18Speaker 2: But it's soccer, you know the old debate. I said
- 25:21Speaker 2: soccer once, So that was very clear. Tyler Binden is
- 25:24Speaker 2: a great footballer. It's also quite good at soccer. What
- 25:28Speaker 2: does a mummy smell like? Yes, Gavin Gray is on
- 25:32Speaker 2: the way with that detail and also more details about
- 25:35Speaker 2: the US Russia discussions in Saudi Arabia. It is now
- 25:38Speaker 2: sixteen to five.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of
- 25:44Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
- 25:48Speaker 2: It is thirteen to six. Keavin Gray out of the UK.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Good morning, Gavin, Either Andrew Pope francis not well five
- 25:55Speaker 2: days now in hospital.
- 25:57Speaker 8: Yeah, and just been announced that every engagement right through
- 26:01Speaker 8: until the weekend, including the weekend, has been canceled. The
- 26:05Speaker 8: eighty eight year old was admitted into Rome's Jamelli Hospital
- 26:09Speaker 8: on Friday to undergo treatment and tests for bronchitis. We're
- 26:13Speaker 8: now being told he's got a polymicrobial infection of his
- 26:17Speaker 8: respiratory tract. What that basically means is he's had to
- 26:20Speaker 8: now have a change in the treatment that he was
- 26:23Speaker 8: originally prescribed. He's described as in a stable condition, he
- 26:27Speaker 8: does not have a fever, but nevertheless, this course is
- 26:30Speaker 8: very worrying.
- 26:31Speaker 5: He has a.
- 26:32Speaker 8: History of illness, particularly to do with his lungs, including
- 26:37Speaker 8: just at the age of twenty one he actually had
- 26:39Speaker 8: part of one of his lungs removed, having suffered from
- 26:42Speaker 8: health issues for many years, and in March of twenty
- 26:46Speaker 8: twenty three he spent three nights in hospital with bronchitis,
- 26:49Speaker 8: and in June that year underwent a three hour operation
- 26:52Speaker 8: to repair an abdominal hernia. So afraid, some bad news.
- 26:56Speaker 8: Plenty of well wishers though at Saint Peter's Basilica, plenty
- 27:00Speaker 8: of weld wishes throughout the Vatican. But yeah, pretty worrying
- 27:05Speaker 8: days for the Pope.
- 27:06Speaker 2: Very unfortunate timing because this is the wholy year, the anniversary,
- 27:10Speaker 2: the big Old celebrations, and he's missing out and he
- 27:13Speaker 2: will be missed. And finally, your textpayer's money has been
- 27:17Speaker 2: spent on researchers figuring out what a mummy smells like.
- 27:19Speaker 2: And when I say mummy, I mean an Egyptian mummy.
- 27:23Speaker 8: Yes, fascinating this Apparently when you open up one of
- 27:27Speaker 8: these mummies, even five thousand years on, they actually smell
- 27:32Speaker 8: quite nice, I believe it, or not a pleasant smell
- 27:34Speaker 8: according to scientists, and that is due to the use
- 27:37Speaker 8: of resins and oils like pine cedar and juniper. So
- 27:41Speaker 8: this was a team from University College London looking at
- 27:44Speaker 8: basically collaborating and conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum
- 27:49Speaker 8: in Cairo. They had a look at nine mummified bodies
- 27:54Speaker 8: and the smell has always been something that has fascinated
- 27:57Speaker 8: researchers because, as I mentioned, it's actually not pleasant. It
- 28:00Speaker 8: is not the smell of decay, and the smell is
- 28:04Speaker 8: a very key consideration for ancient Egyptians, it would appear,
- 28:08Speaker 8: particularly when it came to the mammification process. Even though
- 28:11Speaker 8: five thousand years on, of course things have changed, but
- 28:15Speaker 8: it was said that the smells that and the oils
- 28:18Speaker 8: that we used are really really rather pleasant This is
- 28:21Speaker 8: a seems to be a bizarre thing to investigate and research,
- 28:25Speaker 8: but nevertheless really interesting that something all those years on
- 28:28Speaker 8: can actually smell quite good.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Kevin, I thank you. It is now ten to six
- 28:33Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens, all right, it's a very damning inquiry, wasn't it?
- 28:39Speaker 2: And it found that public service agencies shared Kiwi's personal
- 28:42Speaker 2: information with third party agencies. Now, this inquiry followed alegations
- 28:47Speaker 2: that census and COVID vaccination data collected at Manya Dewa,
- 28:50Speaker 2: Malai was used to target Maldi voters and the tammy
- 28:53Speaker 2: caem cod o elliterate. So the report says STATS New
- 28:56Speaker 2: Zealand had insufficient safeguards in place to protect the personal data.
- 29:00Speaker 2: You know this is serious because the boss of Stats
- 29:02Speaker 2: in New Zealand, the big Boss, fell on his sword immediately.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Health New Zealand and the Ministry of Health were also
- 29:07Speaker 2: criticized for their roles in sharing the data. Now, Alan
- 29:10Speaker 2: Holds is an employment advocate who represented six Malai workers
- 29:14Speaker 2: and one MSD in the inquiry and joints me.
- 29:16Speaker 7: Now, hello allan morning, Andrew.
- 29:20Speaker 2: So what does this outcame mean for say, the whistleblowers.
- 29:25Speaker 7: Vindication and I guess what it means is that the
- 29:30Speaker 7: abuse that they've suffered, probably for eighteen months has been vindicated.
- 29:36Speaker 7: I think the real sad part about the entire story
- 29:41Speaker 7: is that the whistleblowers were telling the truth the entire time,
- 29:45Speaker 7: and without their bravery. And I'm talking about bravery because
- 29:49Speaker 7: all of them are faced retaliation and in different ways
- 29:54Speaker 7: abused in public, discredited publicly. I've been discredited publicly on
- 30:02Speaker 7: multiple occasions for actually standing up and telling the truth.
- 30:06Speaker 7: And without the whistle blowers, we wouldn't have this report.
- 30:10Speaker 7: And I think it's a bit disappointing that the Prime
- 30:15Speaker 7: Minister and the people involved haven't said thank you, brave
- 30:19Speaker 7: whistle browers for bringing this evidence to us in a
- 30:24Speaker 7: format that we could understand now.
- 30:27Speaker 2: Okay, but surely surely there was some wise we want
- 30:30Speaker 2: We'll want more, because while this inquiry says it should
- 30:34Speaker 2: not have been released, it doesn't actually say what the
- 30:36Speaker 2: information was then released to do. So it seems incomplete
- 30:40Speaker 2: in terms of the total misuse of it. There's a
- 30:43Speaker 2: lot that is unfocused.
- 30:46Speaker 7: I think it's pretty clear the report, and I've read
- 30:49Speaker 7: the sixty eight page report, it sees that information was
- 30:56Speaker 7: shared private information of New zeal Is a complete census
- 31:02Speaker 7: form was shared with people that it shouldn't have been
- 31:05Speaker 7: shared with and it is a complete breach of privacy.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Yes, so how contentious does that Tommikimikoto result seem now
- 31:13Speaker 2: to you?
- 31:16Speaker 7: I think a number of us have believed for some
- 31:20Speaker 7: time that if it wasn't for the data being accessed
- 31:26Speaker 7: by dupay Mary, that the would be a different person
- 31:30Speaker 7: in Parliament right now in that seat.
- 31:34Speaker 2: How much distress is this causing?
- 31:38Speaker 7: I think all it's doing is is proving what a
- 31:44Speaker 7: lot of people have thought for a long time about
- 31:48Speaker 7: some of the processes that have operated, that there isn't
- 31:52Speaker 7: the confidence in the public service. And I say that
- 31:58Speaker 7: because this particular cases only the tip of the ice speak.
- 32:02Speaker 7: We have so many more whistle blower cases within the
- 32:07Speaker 7: public service of serious wrongdoing and that's that's what we're
- 32:10Speaker 7: talking about. And the report this is only the initial
- 32:16Speaker 7: stage where they're actually saying what the Public Service investigator found.
- 32:23Speaker 2: A thank you for your work, thank you for your time.
- 32:25Speaker 2: This morning, that's Alan Wholesey represented the whistleblowers.
- 32:28Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
- 32:32Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and one room. Make your property
- 32:35Speaker 1: surgent symbol.
- 32:37Speaker 2: You talk Nike asking you're very good with the English language.
- 32:40Speaker 2: Is it football or soccer football? Thank you?
- 32:43Speaker 13: No worries Brian Wroach this morning, and having read the
- 32:46Speaker 13: report yesterday, there's so many reports still to come, the
- 32:49Speaker 13: main one being or the criminal one potentially being the
- 32:52Speaker 13: one as to what the Murray party did or didn't
- 32:54Speaker 13: do with them. You know, say that he's sure that
- 32:58Speaker 13: another person should be in the in the time chem Well,
- 33:00Speaker 13: that's I mean, that's that's the thing. That's a parliament,
- 33:02Speaker 13: the parliament of the country potentially is not made up
- 33:05Speaker 13: correctly and so you know that that goes to everything
- 33:08Speaker 13: we believe in. But yesterday's report, I mean, how many
- 33:11Speaker 13: reports have you read over the years about the public
- 33:13Speaker 13: service being useless? And you know the government, the labor
- 33:15Speaker 13: governments stacked them to the gunnals, gave them all pay rises.
- 33:18Speaker 2: You know you did you hear the comparison of the
- 33:20Speaker 2: number of agencies we have compared to Ireland to slit
- 33:22Speaker 2: here fifteen there? How to blow them up, get rid
- 33:25Speaker 2: of them?
- 33:25Speaker 13: And for all of the angsting that was going on
- 33:27Speaker 13: last year about people losing their job and losing their
- 33:29Speaker 13: job's hard work. We've all lost our job. But I mean,
- 33:31Speaker 13: when you look at this report and how incompetent they are,
- 33:35Speaker 13: it's unbelievad anyway, So he's all the program opod.
- 33:38Speaker 2: Or good and I thank you, and I thank Kenzy,
- 33:39Speaker 2: my producer Libby who helped. And I'm Andrew Dickin. See
- 33:42Speaker 2: you again tomorrow. Have a great Wednesday.
- 33:51Speaker 5: Her Heal.
- 34:00Speaker 1: For more fam earlier edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
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