Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 20 March 2026

Transcript

Full Show Podcast: 20 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

0:01
Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
0:05
Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof love where you live
0:09
Speaker 1: news talks, it'd be good.
0:10
Speaker 2: Morning six after five, great to have your company, the
0:12
Speaker 2: White Time of Fuel. Boss joins us before six on
0:15
Speaker 2: regulations and red tape for getting oil into the country.
0:17
Speaker 2: Vincent's in the UK gas prices going through the roof
0:20
Speaker 2: their process, food, the numbers that won't shock you but
0:23
Speaker 2: should shock you. And we'll do GDP with ain.
0:25
Speaker 3: Z the agenda.
0:28
Speaker 2: It is Friday, the twentieth of March. Japan's Prime minister.
0:31
Speaker 2: This is Takei Ichi, the new one, currently addressing the
0:33
Speaker 2: media at the White House next to Trump.
0:35
Speaker 1: I firmly believe that it is only you Donald who
0:39
Speaker 1: can achieve peace across the world.
0:43
Speaker 2: More on that shortly. Meanwhile, gas prices in the UK
0:45
Speaker 2: you're heading north. Katar has been dragged into the mess again.
0:49
Speaker 2: This is an attack on their ras Luffin Energy complex
0:52
Speaker 2: could take three to five years to repair the damage.
0:56
Speaker 2: Here's their PM.
0:57
Speaker 4: This actact will have you which at pre cautions on
0:59
Speaker 4: our oil or energy supplies around the world. Such at
1:04
Speaker 4: DAG does not bring any benefit to any countra. However,
1:09
Speaker 4: it brings harms and damage to donations and impact them
1:13
Speaker 4: and affected them directly.
1:14
Speaker 2: Pete Higgs, if he's given a press conference, suits, don't worry.
1:17
Speaker 2: Everything's going to plan.
1:18
Speaker 5: Our objectives unchanged on target and on plan. Destroy missiles,
1:25
Speaker 5: launchers and Iran's defense industrial base so they cannot rebuild,
1:30
Speaker 5: destroy their navy, and Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
1:34
Speaker 2: Still no time prayed by the way on when it
1:36
Speaker 2: will end an inquiry. This is in the UK COVID response.
1:40
Speaker 2: NHS was on the brink of collapse during the pandemic.
1:43
Speaker 6: Staff had inadequate access to PPE and even those supplies
1:46
Speaker 6: may never have run out nationally, As the report says,
1:49
Speaker 6: this will have been called comfort to any docs or
1:51
Speaker 6: nurse using a bin bag instead of a gown, or
1:54
Speaker 6: being forced to reuse flimsy surgical masks in the face
1:56
Speaker 6: of a deadly disease.
1:57
Speaker 2: Finally, this warning, can we just have something nice? Please? Nicer?
2:05
Speaker 2: Annoying Sony pictures and pop mart are turning the massive
2:10
Speaker 2: le Boo Boo craze. If you've got kids or no kids,
2:12
Speaker 2: you'll know about le Boo Boo. They're turning it into
2:15
Speaker 2: a movie. Dolls have helped drive the company to a
2:17
Speaker 2: near sixty five billion dollar valuation. Paul King, the guy
2:21
Speaker 2: behind Wonka and Paddington. He's directing it. No release date
2:24
Speaker 2: at this point, but kids will be looking forward to.
2:26
Speaker 1: It, won't They get ahead of the headlines On early
2:30
Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live.
2:35
Speaker 2: News Talks, that'd be eight after five. People of the
2:37
Speaker 2: media reporting that the change of stance from our government
2:41
Speaker 2: on response to the oil shop. Has it changed or
2:45
Speaker 2: is it Nicola Well is just saying today exactly what
2:48
Speaker 2: she said earlier in the week. I think the latter.
2:50
Speaker 2: But here's a little sitrap for you. This is the
2:53
Speaker 2: cost to us so far of Trump's war in Iran.
2:57
Speaker 2: Petrol up fifty five cents on pre war. We are
3:00
Speaker 2: now averaging three dollars set seven a litter diesel up
3:04
Speaker 2: ninety cent since pre war. We're now averaging two dollars
3:07
Speaker 2: eighty two eliter. Let me know what it's like where
3:09
Speaker 2: you are this morning, nine two nine two. And mortgages.
3:13
Speaker 2: I spoke to a mortgage broker yesterday. He said, based
3:15
Speaker 2: on all the rate changes that have happened, the big
3:17
Speaker 2: three banks have moved, or three of the big banks
3:19
Speaker 2: have moved fifteen hundred bucks a year extra on your
3:22
Speaker 2: mortgage so far on pre war am Z prices up
3:27
Speaker 2: ten bucks for domestic, twenty for short haul, ninety for
3:30
Speaker 2: long haul d D, which is the it's like Uber
3:33
Speaker 2: a bit different. They're putting a surcharge on ubers monitoring that.
3:37
Speaker 2: Then you've got all your plastics, your packaging, your transport,
3:40
Speaker 2: your freight, all those things. TBC. We'll come out in
3:43
Speaker 2: the wash at some point. But the latest from overnight
3:46
Speaker 2: is the futures for natural gas over in Europe's skyrocketing.
3:51
Speaker 2: They are up twenty five percent at one point. But Kasar,
3:54
Speaker 2: so the Iranians have hit a cuta damage to an
3:58
Speaker 2: alien g aren't that they say could take three to
4:02
Speaker 2: five years to repair. So that's not great, and that's
4:05
Speaker 2: why gas has been going up. Oil had one hundred
4:08
Speaker 2: and nineteen dollars a barrel briefly. It's come back from
4:11
Speaker 2: there since then. And all the central banks, and remember
4:14
Speaker 2: we had the RBA this week basically saying we don't
4:17
Speaker 2: know what's going to happen, but they hiked rates anyway,
4:21
Speaker 2: European central banks basically saying we will hold for now, UK, Switzerland, Japan,
4:28
Speaker 2: along with the Fed yesterday, all holding their rates steady
4:31
Speaker 2: while they see what happens. You know, how long does
4:34
Speaker 2: it go on? How much do we Does it inflation
4:38
Speaker 2: or is it growth? What's it going to really smash hardest?
4:42
Speaker 2: That's the question they're weighing up this morning, eleven after five,
4:45
Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, as our reserve bank will be in a
4:47
Speaker 2: couple of weeks time too. Right next, we're getting to
4:50
Speaker 2: yesterday's GDP number and what it means for us going
4:53
Speaker 2: forward with A and Z News Talk ZB on your.
4:56
Speaker 1: Radio and on Lane on iHeartRadio edition with Ryan Bridge
5:02
Speaker 1: and one roof Love where you live news Talks.
5:05
Speaker 2: I'd be great to have your company this Friday morning
5:08
Speaker 2: at Jordan's just filled up in Tartanaki three dollars twenty
5:10
Speaker 2: five for ninety one. You'd rather be in Wellington Tenacory Road.
5:14
Speaker 2: Why turmul this morning? Ninety one's two dollars ninety four?
5:18
Speaker 2: According to another text, there you go by the way.
5:21
Speaker 2: We have enough. I've said this all week, but we
5:23
Speaker 2: have enough fuel. No one needs to go panic by.
5:26
Speaker 2: But it is just interesting to hear what people are
5:28
Speaker 2: paying in the difference across the country, isn't it it's
5:30
Speaker 2: seteen after five. Ryan Bridge quarterboard GDP was zero point
5:34
Speaker 2: two percent growth. That's good, but lower than expected. And
5:38
Speaker 2: this was all pre war, of course. Matt Gault is
5:40
Speaker 2: ams ED senior economists, Mat good morning, Good morning. So
5:43
Speaker 2: we're still growing, so that's good.
5:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it's good to see a small amount of growth.
5:49
Speaker 7: And if you look across the wider set of indicators
5:52
Speaker 7: across the second half of twenty twenty five, it did
5:55
Speaker 7: look late. There was a modest recovery getting going. But
5:59
Speaker 7: over all the data yesterday was a bit disappointing to
6:02
Speaker 7: not see more growth there, given there were some pretty
6:06
Speaker 7: decent tailwinds last year like lower and rest rates and
6:09
Speaker 7: high high prices for meat and dairy farmers.
6:12
Speaker 2: Also, where the growth coming from rental hiring real estate
6:15
Speaker 2: services the largest contributors. That does that sound like momentum.
6:21
Speaker 7: Yeah, we didn't see a whole heap of momentum there.
6:24
Speaker 7: There was a bit of growth in some service industries
6:27
Speaker 7: like rental hiring, in real estates and other areas, but
6:32
Speaker 7: not a whole lot of growth, and a lot of
6:34
Speaker 7: the more domestically oriented part of the economy. Parts of
6:37
Speaker 7: the economy like construction and manufacturing was disappointing as well.
6:43
Speaker 7: So yeah, a few parts of the economy growing, but
6:45
Speaker 7: it wasn't really firing.
6:47
Speaker 2: How careful. We've obviously now moved on to very quickly
6:50
Speaker 2: to what's going on over in the Middle East. Scope
6:53
Speaker 2: to delay o CR hikes, you know, given that this
6:56
Speaker 2: number was less than what the Reserve Bank was picking
6:59
Speaker 2: had percent, right, we've got point two. Does that give
7:02
Speaker 2: them more scope to delay hikes?
7:05
Speaker 7: It does, we'd say yes. So the Reserve Bank, we
7:10
Speaker 7: thought would already be reasonably cautious about this oil price
7:14
Speaker 7: shot compared to a lot of other central banks overseas,
7:18
Speaker 7: just given that the New Zealand economy is not coming
7:21
Speaker 7: from an especially strong starting point. So definitely inflation will
7:25
Speaker 7: rise with oil prices going up as much as they have,
7:29
Speaker 7: But the real concern for the Reserve Bank will be
7:32
Speaker 7: whether that's increase in oil prices spills over into generalized
7:37
Speaker 7: inflation things like wages and other prices. And with the
7:42
Speaker 7: economy in a relatively weak states, we think they'll be
7:45
Speaker 7: less worried about that than places like Australia, where the
7:50
Speaker 7: economy is firing more strongly.
7:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hotter than most parts of the country right now.
7:56
Speaker 2: How careful does the government here need to be, Matt
8:00
Speaker 2: about fiscal stimulus because it's so tempting and the Italians
8:03
Speaker 2: overnight have gone for it, George, and Maloney has got
8:06
Speaker 2: a constitutional referendum this weekend, so she's cutting fuel excise
8:10
Speaker 2: because she's got political agendas. How careful do they need
8:13
Speaker 2: to be with fiscal stimulus given the inflation projection and
8:17
Speaker 2: possibility from the war.
8:19
Speaker 7: There was certainly a lot learned from the COVID nineteen
8:22
Speaker 7: pandemic about fiscal stimulus, where lots of countries around the
8:28
Speaker 7: world really use fiscal similar stimulus heavily to respond to
8:33
Speaker 7: the pandemic, and it did contribute to inflation around the world.
8:38
Speaker 7: So the government's well, they are already showing signs of
8:40
Speaker 7: being quite cautious about that. They're talking about the school
8:43
Speaker 7: support being targeted and temporary and quite narrow. And that's
8:51
Speaker 7: what you'd want to see when inflation is coming from
8:54
Speaker 7: a not very comfortable starting point and going higher. Sensible
9:01
Speaker 7: that they're being cautious not to push inflation higher with
9:05
Speaker 7: the fiscal response.
9:06
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Matt. Matt gult ain Z,
9:08
Speaker 2: Senior Economists it is seventeen after five morning, Ryan Diesel
9:13
Speaker 2: Z and christ Church. Currently two ninety nine per Lisa.
9:15
Speaker 2: I drive a truck to Pickton and back. Daily refill
9:18
Speaker 2: is nearly eleven hundred dollars now, so you're paying more, dear, text,
9:23
Speaker 2: you're paying more than the average because you go on
9:26
Speaker 2: the gas pipp and you can see the average is
9:27
Speaker 2: about two dollars eighty two for diesel across the country.
9:31
Speaker 2: Enjoy your drive, be safe, right very quickly. This is
9:34
Speaker 2: Scott Besson, the Treasury Sectary in the US. He says
9:38
Speaker 2: they are looking now at lifting sanctions on irainy and oil.
9:41
Speaker 2: I know you, Thank god, it was bad enough we
9:43
Speaker 2: were thinking about the Russians. Well, now we're thinking about
9:45
Speaker 2: Iranian oil. It's Iranian oil that's already at sea they reckon.
9:48
Speaker 2: There's one hundred and forty million barrels of it out there,
9:51
Speaker 2: and that is about ten days to two weeks of
9:53
Speaker 2: supply that they had been pushing out and would have
9:56
Speaker 2: all gone, probably to China. The US is also saying
10:00
Speaker 2: we could release more strategic reserves. Japan, he says, might
10:04
Speaker 2: do the same, and there is that meeting going on
10:07
Speaker 2: right now between take Ichi and Trump at the White
10:10
Speaker 2: House eighteen after five, News Talk ZB. We'll look at
10:13
Speaker 2: the import of something else entirely next, and that is
10:16
Speaker 2: ultra processed foods. The number that shouldn't shock you but
10:20
Speaker 2: will shock you. But well, basically you know what's happening.
10:23
Speaker 2: We're all eating ourselves to death.
10:26
Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
10:29
Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roof Love where
10:33
Speaker 1: you Live.
10:34
Speaker 2: News TALKSB TALKSB has just gone twenty after five. So
10:37
Speaker 2: the UK and a bunch of European countries France, Germany, Italy,
10:41
Speaker 2: the Netherlands and Japan, they have all come out with
10:44
Speaker 2: a joint statement on the straight of hor moves, the
10:46
Speaker 2: state of hor moves. Of course we care a lot
10:47
Speaker 2: about because it affects the oil that goes to the
10:49
Speaker 2: refineries that we buy it from. Here's what Trump had
10:52
Speaker 2: to say is with the Japanese PM at the White House, we'll.
10:57
Speaker 8: We'll be speaking about it today. We've had tremendous support
11:01
Speaker 8: and relationship with Japan and everything. And I believe that
11:05
Speaker 8: based on a statements who were given to us yesterday
11:09
Speaker 8: the day before yesterday having to do with Japan, they
11:13
Speaker 8: are really stepping up to the plant. Yes, unlike NATO.
11:18
Speaker 2: What exactly does that mean? We are yet to know.
11:20
Speaker 1: Brian Bridge a.
11:22
Speaker 2: New study into unhealthy eating in nineteen ninety. Here's a
11:26
Speaker 2: number for you. We imported sixteen kilograms of ultra process
11:30
Speaker 2: foods per person per year twenty twenty three, one hundred
11:34
Speaker 2: and four kilograms. Niki Heart Nutrition us with us this morning. NICKI,
11:38
Speaker 2: good morning, Hi Ryan.
11:40
Speaker 9: Isn't it biggers belief?
11:42
Speaker 10: Really?
11:42
Speaker 9: Doesn't it?
11:42
Speaker 2: It does? What are we talking about? Fizzy drinks and stuff?
11:46
Speaker 9: We're talking ultra processed foods that you probably don't even
11:50
Speaker 9: think that you're eating. That's ultra process So it's high
11:54
Speaker 9: unhealthy sets and sugar and salty food No. Big manufacturers
11:59
Speaker 9: are paying bills of dollars to make you want to
12:01
Speaker 9: eat efforts. So you know, it's really hard out there
12:04
Speaker 9: for people to make healthy choices when you're being bombarded.
12:07
Speaker 2: When you say I won't necessarily know I'm eating it,
12:11
Speaker 2: give me an example, because I know a can of
12:13
Speaker 2: Coke's not going to be good for me.
12:15
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it's canned foods that we bring in. It's
12:20
Speaker 9: packets of biscuits and crackers that you think, oh well,
12:23
Speaker 9: they've got a health claim on them. But they're disguising
12:26
Speaker 9: their product because what they're doing is they're making you
12:29
Speaker 9: want it by mouthfield. They've spent millions of dollars making
12:33
Speaker 9: you like the product that you want it more and more.
12:36
Speaker 9: So they upsize it and they market it to you
12:40
Speaker 9: with pretty colors so that kids are looking at it.
12:44
Speaker 9: They do it all by stealth, they absolutely do.
12:46
Speaker 2: But we don't just have stomachs, we have brains. Surely
12:49
Speaker 2: we can, you know, we can distinguish between a chicken
12:53
Speaker 2: nugget and a piece of chicken.
12:55
Speaker 9: Yeah, but don't forget that this is being marketed to
12:59
Speaker 9: a lot of vunerable all communities. They put it in
13:04
Speaker 9: a way that children get to see it so that
13:07
Speaker 9: they come to you wanting It's it's really there's a
13:12
Speaker 9: lot of money and time goes into this that makes
13:15
Speaker 9: these children want it. Our races, our mates a childhood
13:19
Speaker 9: obesity are going through the roof. And you know, I
13:21
Speaker 9: find it kind of paradoxical that big farm we've got
13:25
Speaker 9: big food manufacturing spending billions on this, and then we've
13:29
Speaker 9: got big farmers spending billions on dollar dollars on GLP
13:33
Speaker 9: one injections. So we've got some on some side making
13:37
Speaker 9: huge amounts of money making us want and eat foods
13:40
Speaker 9: to make us un healthy. And then we've got the
13:42
Speaker 9: other side selling us injections to make us lose weight.
13:46
Speaker 9: But big food industry cause.
13:48
Speaker 2: So it's crazy, but we're we I mean, we have brains,
13:51
Speaker 2: but we do it. You know, like the Wendy's goes
13:54
Speaker 2: in the belt goes out the way GOV goes in
13:56
Speaker 2: the belt comes back and does it actually matter what
14:00
Speaker 2: we eat? You know, if we have waygover in, our
14:02
Speaker 2: problem solved.
14:03
Speaker 9: Nikki, oh no, because like these are those are creating
14:07
Speaker 9: highly commn like non communicable diseases, you know, like it's
14:12
Speaker 9: hurting our people. I just think we need to be
14:16
Speaker 9: better at our regulations. We need to you know. I
14:19
Speaker 9: just don't like the idea that in communities where people
14:25
Speaker 9: are vulnerable, big food industry goes in and they will
14:29
Speaker 9: color the side of a dairy in bright colors so
14:33
Speaker 9: that children go in and buy these drinks and packets
14:37
Speaker 9: of food because it looks pretty.
14:40
Speaker 11: It's got a big tough on it.
14:42
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Thanks for being with me,
14:44
Speaker 2: Nicky Heart Nutrition US. There's your warning before you go,
14:47
Speaker 2: stuff you face with breakfast. It is twenty five minutes
14:50
Speaker 2: after five that Rob Bob's is ryan basic rule of thumb.
14:53
Speaker 2: If it tastes good, it's bad for you, not bad.
14:56
Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on I Have Read
15:00
Speaker 1: Palate by News.
15:01
Speaker 2: Talks IB News Talks b It is twenty seven minutes
15:05
Speaker 2: after five. Is Joe Kent this week's voice of reason?
15:08
Speaker 2: Is he the guy speaking truth in the fog of war?
15:12
Speaker 12: But there was no intelligence that said, hey, on whatevery day.
15:15
Speaker 12: It was March first, the Iranians are going to launch
15:18
Speaker 12: this big sneak attack. They're going to do some kind
15:19
Speaker 12: of a nine eleven Pearl Harbor, et cetera. They're going
15:22
Speaker 12: to attack one of our bases. There was none of
15:24
Speaker 12: that intelligence.
15:25
Speaker 2: So he's going to sit down Attacker Carlson on his
15:27
Speaker 2: podcasts with Listen.
15:28
Speaker 12: The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which
15:32
Speaker 12: we knew would set off a series of events, meaning
15:35
Speaker 12: the Iranians would retaliate.
15:37
Speaker 2: Now he's a mega guy. He was a Trump guy,
15:40
Speaker 2: but this week he turned his back on the President.
15:42
Speaker 2: He quit his job as America's top counter tourism terrorism official.
15:46
Speaker 2: I should say he was a soldier, He served in Iraq,
15:51
Speaker 2: his wife was killed in a suicide bombing in Syria.
15:54
Speaker 2: He's no snowflake. He just doesn't want the US getting
15:57
Speaker 2: bogged down in wars that he thinks they can't. It's
16:01
Speaker 2: one thing to bomb the hell out of a country,
16:03
Speaker 2: but when the dust settles and the troops go home
16:05
Speaker 2: and the victory banners have been unfurled, then what and
16:08
Speaker 2: Iraq a power vacuum? An isis so? In calling this
16:13
Speaker 2: out in quitting, is Joe Kent a hero or a
16:17
Speaker 2: traitor to America? The FBI is now investigating him. That's
16:21
Speaker 2: not unusual. Look at Jerome Powell, the spending on the
16:23
Speaker 2: building of the FED chair, John Bolton, right down to
16:26
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel, remember that investigated by the US TV regulated
16:31
Speaker 2: for criticizing Trump. Only time will tell whether there was
16:35
Speaker 2: a pressing need for starting this war that we're all
16:39
Speaker 2: paying for now. But history tells us it won't end
16:42
Speaker 2: just because the US President says so. Bryan Bridge, twenty
16:47
Speaker 2: nine minutes after five nine two ninety two is the
16:50
Speaker 2: number to text now for everyone texting in about the
16:52
Speaker 2: price of fuel? Are we being ripped off at the pump.
16:54
Speaker 2: The answer is no, the fuel companies are ripping us off.
16:58
Speaker 2: So the refined product costs including shipping was up sixty
17:01
Speaker 2: five cents a liter on pre war sixty eight percent increase.
17:07
Speaker 2: The average retail price was up fifty five cents or
17:10
Speaker 2: twenty one percent. So what the ComCom has said, and
17:14
Speaker 2: I spoke to them the other day, they said that
17:16
Speaker 2: the fuel companies are basically getting a tick. And the
17:19
Speaker 2: price that you're paying at the pump today is not
17:21
Speaker 2: the price they paid for it. It's the price they
17:24
Speaker 2: will replace it at that really matters. We're on News
17:28
Speaker 2: talks 'B. Great to have your company Friday morning. We'll
17:30
Speaker 2: speak to our reporters. We'll get to Vincent in the
17:33
Speaker 2: UK and why Tom or fuel Boss all before six.
17:40
Speaker 3: Smptertween the news you need this morning and the in
17:47
Speaker 3: depth analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route
17:51
Speaker 3: Love where you lift News TALKSTB.
17:57
Speaker 2: Twenty four away from the six News talks 'B coming
17:59
Speaker 2: up the full six. We'll talk to White, some will
18:01
Speaker 2: Fuel about what they want, what red tape and regulations
18:03
Speaker 2: they want. Cart will also go to Vincent and the
18:05
Speaker 2: UK kept you across these situation the middle East and
18:08
Speaker 2: abroad this morning. Of course, as we always do, this
18:11
Speaker 2: is an interesting one. South Australia is going to the
18:13
Speaker 2: polls on Saturday. And this is a real warning for
18:17
Speaker 2: any of your big parties, any of you made your
18:19
Speaker 2: mainstream legacy parties as close for a Bok likes to
18:22
Speaker 2: call them your legacy parties like Labor and National or
18:25
Speaker 2: in Australia Liberals. So there's a poll come out, New
18:29
Speaker 2: News Poll poll. So election is Saturday, and it's got
18:33
Speaker 2: one nation that's Pauline Hanson. They're Lot one nation, sitting
18:37
Speaker 2: on twenty two percent and the Liberals sixteen percent. This
18:41
Speaker 2: is days out from the election. And everyone thought, oh,
18:44
Speaker 2: it's sort of a you know that far out, her
18:48
Speaker 2: support will fall closer to the actual polling. It hasn't.
18:52
Speaker 2: Labor's on forty percent. So the vote on the writer's
18:55
Speaker 2: split and Labor is going to romp home. Basically is
18:58
Speaker 2: the lesson from this and the lesson for everybody else's grievance.
19:02
Speaker 2: Politics are a real thing. Crying Bridge Talks B twenty
19:07
Speaker 2: three to two. Now let's go to Emily ansel Need
19:09
Speaker 2: and Emily, good morning, good morning. What's this about? An
19:11
Speaker 2: Otago Lab and food safety.
19:14
Speaker 13: Yes, well, that lab is looking to change food safety culture.
19:18
Speaker 13: The Food Safety Culture Lab is a research group focused
19:21
Speaker 13: on how human behaviors in the food industry can lead
19:24
Speaker 13: to illnesses. It will investigate how people navigate safety systems,
19:29
Speaker 13: balance pressures, and deal with uncertainty and respond to risk.
19:33
Speaker 13: Co leader Professor Miranda Eurosis says while the industry has
19:37
Speaker 13: strict safety policies, staff don't always adhere to them, with
19:41
Speaker 13: people usually getting sick when someone hasn't followed the rules.
19:44
Speaker 13: She says, the Lab aims to develop and test different
19:47
Speaker 13: interventions to improve food safety culture.
19:50
Speaker 2: Very good, how's the weather find?
19:52
Speaker 13: Apart from some early morning cloud and northeasterly is developing
19:55
Speaker 13: for a time in the afternoon and evening with a
19:57
Speaker 13: high of seventeen degrees.
19:59
Speaker 2: Wonderful, Emily, Thank you clears in christ this morning. Clear,
20:01
Speaker 2: good morning, you're feeling pretty good about your city council there?
20:05
Speaker 14: Well, yes I am, but so to our residents. We
20:08
Speaker 14: have the latest residence satisfaction survey here and it looks
20:12
Speaker 14: like things have hit a seven year high for christ Church.
20:14
Speaker 14: The annual residence survey shows sixty percent of ratepayers are
20:18
Speaker 14: satisfied that's up seven percent on last year. It's still
20:22
Speaker 14: a fair way from the pre earthquake levels, where satisfaction
20:26
Speaker 14: was about seventy nine percent, but we see a huge
20:29
Speaker 14: improvement on the forty two percent that we recorded in
20:32
Speaker 14: twenty twenty two. Dissatisfaction is mostly tied to road conditions,
20:37
Speaker 14: followed by storm water management and council's work around climate emissions.
20:41
Speaker 14: There is also a perception, though that council may not
20:44
Speaker 14: be heeding residents priorities for spending. Mayor Film Major says.
20:48
Speaker 14: He acknowledges there's still a lot of work to do,
20:51
Speaker 14: but this does suggest improvements made since twenty twenty two
20:54
Speaker 14: have been steadily helping.
20:56
Speaker 2: All Right, how's your weather?
20:58
Speaker 14: It should be cloudy today, but it drizzle about clearing
21:00
Speaker 14: in the afternoon. Morning and afternoon easterlies and a high eighteen.
21:04
Speaker 2: Nice, frank, clear, Thank you, Max, Good morning, Good morning,
21:07
Speaker 2: A sheered spice At the new council, he calls us
21:09
Speaker 2: ruffling a few feathers there.
21:11
Speaker 15: Yeah, some elected members apparently unhappy with their new fit
21:17
Speaker 15: out at these this new waterfront headquarters that the council
21:20
Speaker 15: is moving into that have taken far too long to
21:22
Speaker 15: prepare At great cost to the ratepair. Mayor Andrew Little
21:26
Speaker 15: says the design has a lost opportunity yet too late
21:28
Speaker 15: to change. But apparently it's all right for some senior
21:31
Speaker 15: council offices. They've given themselves the building's top floor with
21:34
Speaker 15: its panoramic views of the harbor. The councilors and the
21:39
Speaker 15: mayor Deputy mayor were given a tour of this Data
21:41
Speaker 15: com Jervis Key site, and a few weren't happy the
21:45
Speaker 15: size of their offices, this shared lounge where they all
21:49
Speaker 15: have to get along. The Mayor's office. Discontent to brewing
21:52
Speaker 15: behind the scenes. Apparently you can read the story in
21:55
Speaker 15: the Herald. All decided long ago, though nothing they can
21:58
Speaker 15: do about it. They're moving from the terrace twelve one
22:00
Speaker 15: hundred staff in total. I imagine most will only come
22:02
Speaker 15: in a day or two a week. More than two
22:04
Speaker 15: hundred million dollars for a twenty five year lease.
22:06
Speaker 2: Oh just stop at max. So would you do they
22:10
Speaker 2: say which counselors are unhappy? Or is it more known?
22:13
Speaker 2: This is all?
22:14
Speaker 15: This is all on background, fed to the reporter. Discontent,
22:18
Speaker 15: et cetera, et cetera. All sort of deep throat stuff.
22:22
Speaker 2: No one likes the sheared office space no one likes
22:25
Speaker 2: when no one, no one likes an office period. Did
22:27
Speaker 2: you just get on with it, don't you? Honestly? How's
22:31
Speaker 2: you wear the max? Yeah?
22:32
Speaker 15: Mainly fine with Southerly seventeen.
22:35
Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Neva. Good morning, greetings. We've got
22:38
Speaker 2: pollution on Auckland's roads and it's actually causing some harm.
22:41
Speaker 16: That's right now. Look at this Auckland University report that's
22:45
Speaker 16: just come out as saying that about four thousand hospital
22:47
Speaker 16: admissions could be avoided if the city had cleaner air.
22:52
Speaker 16: Public health professor Alista Woodwood he's come out, he is,
22:54
Speaker 16: he's these tiny gas particles from petro and diesel, they
22:58
Speaker 16: make their way into el blow stream and the risk
23:01
Speaker 16: is higher, he's saying for those predisposed to respiratory disease
23:05
Speaker 16: like older people and then also children with asthma. And
23:08
Speaker 16: he's saying that the air pollution just irritates the air ways,
23:11
Speaker 16: as we know, but if children already have a tendency
23:14
Speaker 16: to wheeze, then it can be serious. So he's also saying,
23:17
Speaker 16: you know, what are the solutions then, well, he wants
23:20
Speaker 16: to see fewer and cleaner cars. Is they all want
23:22
Speaker 16: two more options and people who want to travel in
23:24
Speaker 16: other ways. But the way the picturel's hitting Mike, it
23:27
Speaker 16: is wish maybe.
23:27
Speaker 2: People will we bike. How's our weather? Even?
23:31
Speaker 16: Find another hot one a high of twenty four here
23:33
Speaker 16: in Auckland and it's going to be like that for
23:35
Speaker 16: the whole weekend as well.
23:36
Speaker 2: Fantastic. If I could give you the option of not
23:38
Speaker 2: being in a shared off of space, would you take it?
23:43
Speaker 2: You quite enjoy actually being around other people, don't you
23:46
Speaker 2: what you mean?
23:46
Speaker 14: You're throwing that by fact?
23:47
Speaker 16: Yeah, I do, but you do too.
23:49
Speaker 2: To I do too. But I think the benefit we
23:51
Speaker 2: have is we get to come into a studio on
23:52
Speaker 2: our own every now and then. Yes, you need some
23:54
Speaker 2: alone time.
23:55
Speaker 16: Yes, And I've got to admit too because when we
23:57
Speaker 16: come in the morning, it's quite a small team. And
23:59
Speaker 16: then by the time we leave, the bulk of the
24:02
Speaker 16: newsroom come in and I'm kind of quite.
24:03
Speaker 2: Glad that that we leave it, that we leave it.
24:06
Speaker 2: I've got to say that walking into a shopping mall
24:08
Speaker 2: at that point too much. Eighteen away from six thinks
24:12
Speaker 2: Neva back next with a UK correspondent and we'll talk
24:16
Speaker 2: to what it's on or fuel as well, what exactly
24:18
Speaker 2: do they want to see change to get more fuel
24:21
Speaker 2: into the country news talks b Now, when most of
24:24
Speaker 2: us think of Fiji, we tend to recall lovely, sun
24:27
Speaker 2: filled family holidays with the kids, romantic getaways with the
24:30
Speaker 2: other half. Maybe, and there's nothing wrong with that. Thousands
24:32
Speaker 2: of us have done it and very much enjoyed ourselves.
24:35
Speaker 2: What doesn't necessarily come to mind often, though, is this
24:38
Speaker 2: idea of absolute luxury. Well, here's an update for you.
24:42
Speaker 2: Here's breaking news. Fiji does luxury just as luxuriously as
24:47
Speaker 2: anywhere else in the world. Think overwater burets, elevated dining experiences,
24:52
Speaker 2: personalized wellness retreats, secluded luxury experiences. They recharge your batteries
24:57
Speaker 2: like nothing else on earth will. In Fiji, you can
25:00
Speaker 2: have it all, from luxurious island to Ireland. Let's start
25:03
Speaker 2: with Vomel named number one best luxury Fiji resort for families. Then,
25:08
Speaker 2: of course there is Tokuriki named Fiji's best adults only resort.
25:12
Speaker 2: And you can't go past Nanuku Resort, a five hundred
25:15
Speaker 2: acre coastal Fiji estate. This is where Hollywood starts to go.
25:19
Speaker 2: Think Hilary Swank Neil Patrick Harris, they've all stayed there,
25:22
Speaker 2: they've all raved about it. List goes on. So if
25:24
Speaker 2: you're looking for luxury with a distinctly welcoming vibe, head
25:27
Speaker 2: to Fiji, where happiness and luxury comes naturally.
25:32
Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of mind
25:36
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
25:39
Speaker 2: News talk to b It is forteen minutes away from six.
25:41
Speaker 2: It's got Vincent mcavinie. In the UK. Price of gas
25:44
Speaker 2: has gone through the roof overnight. Vincent.
25:47
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right. Oil this morning trading above one hundred
25:51
Speaker 10: and ten dollars per barrel, almost doubling of course since
25:54
Speaker 10: this war began, and the price of natural gas as well,
25:57
Speaker 10: spiking more than twenty percent. That is our. Israel overnight
26:02
Speaker 10: attacked huge Iranian oil and gas facilities, the South PAS facility.
26:08
Speaker 10: Iran responded in turn by attacking facilities in other nations,
26:13
Speaker 10: including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. This escalation is really damaging
26:20
Speaker 10: for the global economy. Even Donald Trump has come out
26:23
Speaker 10: said he did not know Israel was going to do this,
26:26
Speaker 10: that they won't do this again, and called on Iran
26:29
Speaker 10: not to respond this as well as the Pentagon asks
26:34
Speaker 10: him for some two hundred billion dollars for a war chest.
26:39
Speaker 10: That is a huge amount of money. To give you
26:41
Speaker 10: some perspective, we think the US has only given Ukraine
26:44
Speaker 10: about sort of fifty billion dollars over the past four
26:48
Speaker 10: years for its resistance to Russia. So it is clear
26:52
Speaker 10: that the US is trying to de escalate things slightly.
26:58
Speaker 10: But Donald Trump currently giving a press conference in which
27:00
Speaker 10: it's unclear what the objectives are and when this conflict
27:03
Speaker 10: might be over.
27:04
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Now, just finally on the straight of horn, Muz,
27:08
Speaker 2: there's been a joint statement issued by Japan bunch of
27:12
Speaker 2: European countries, including the UK. From what I can see,
27:14
Speaker 2: it's all a bit of nothing. What do you make
27:16
Speaker 2: of it? Yeah, that's right.
27:18
Speaker 10: The Japanese Prime Minister, has we said, is right now
27:20
Speaker 10: sitting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, and it
27:23
Speaker 10: is slightly awkward, as it always is with these sort
27:26
Speaker 10: of pool sprays that he does. He's made joke about
27:29
Speaker 10: Pearl Harbor at one point, but he has put the
27:32
Speaker 10: As you mentioned, Japan and other allies, including the UK,
27:35
Speaker 10: in Italy and France have put out a joint statement
27:39
Speaker 10: really criticizing the attack on civilian infrastructure and calling for
27:43
Speaker 10: it to stop and for the threats to end in
27:46
Speaker 10: the stretch of Hormus, saying that freedom of navigation in
27:49
Speaker 10: international waters is a fundamental principle, that the effect of
27:54
Speaker 10: Iran's actions are being felt by people, particularly vulnerable people,
27:57
Speaker 10: right around the world, and the group expressing its readiness
28:01
Speaker 10: to contribute appropriate efforts to secure this passage should they
28:07
Speaker 10: be needed. But this comes, you know, as I say,
28:09
Speaker 10: those huge shocks in energy prices and the disruption of
28:14
Speaker 10: the flows as well. We might not be feeling it
28:17
Speaker 10: just quite yet, but in the coming weeks and months,
28:20
Speaker 10: it's thought that these economies will really struggle, particularly you know,
28:25
Speaker 10: the US, maybe not so given its energy independence. In
28:28
Speaker 10: kind of course they are having you know, petrol prices rise.
28:31
Speaker 10: But to give an example here, the UK had an
28:33
Speaker 10: interest rate meeting today in which it was expected that
28:37
Speaker 10: the rates would be cut once again, as they've gradually been,
28:41
Speaker 10: but they've been held steady, and the odds of an
28:43
Speaker 10: increase at the next meeting in June have been massively
28:47
Speaker 10: increased to about sixty to seventy percent.
28:49
Speaker 2: Now vin to make of any UK europe correspondent to you,
28:52
Speaker 2: interestingly that they've decided to hold along with Switzerland, a
28:55
Speaker 2: whole bunch of other central banks doing the same. That
28:57
Speaker 2: basically White and Sea is what they're doing. So two
29:00
Speaker 2: rate hikes, as Vincent mentioned one, but the market's now
29:03
Speaker 2: pricing in two rate hikes in the UK by September,
29:08
Speaker 2: Ryan Rich, So the government another press conference yesterday on
29:11
Speaker 2: the whale situation.
29:13
Speaker 17: What we are working with fuel and por design is
29:15
Speaker 17: to say, if you weren't able to source refined products
29:18
Speaker 17: from your usual sources, how many more options would be
29:22
Speaker 17: on the table if we relax some specifications. And which
29:25
Speaker 17: specifications would you like to relax?
29:27
Speaker 2: Let's ask why toll More, Boss Simon params with US
29:30
Speaker 2: Live this morning. Simon, good morning, Good morning Ryan. What
29:34
Speaker 2: specifications would you like relaxed?
29:37
Speaker 11: Well, if there's any, probably the easiest is the solfur
29:40
Speaker 11: content sort of part per million. I think overall by
29:44
Speaker 11: relaxing the standards it broadens the market for purchases and
29:47
Speaker 11: different markets. So you know, as an example, at the moment,
29:50
Speaker 11: we're at ten parts per million for sulfur. The US
29:54
Speaker 11: for their ultra low diesel is at fifteen parts per million,
29:56
Speaker 11: so and Australia's just relaxed for sixty days to to
30:00
Speaker 11: fifty parts per million. So it's about broad in the
30:03
Speaker 11: market to allow purchases to be made from different refineries
30:06
Speaker 11: across the region.
30:07
Speaker 2: Is it dootier? Is it worse for your car? What's
30:10
Speaker 2: the problem?
30:11
Speaker 11: Well, remember that probably petrol was that fifty parts ten
30:15
Speaker 11: million back in twenty eighteen, and diesel change from fifty
30:18
Speaker 11: to to ten parts ten million back in two thousand
30:21
Speaker 11: and nine. So it's not a sort of material change,
30:24
Speaker 11: you know. It's not like the good old days in
30:26
Speaker 11: the nineties when we're burning leaded and it's like over
30:29
Speaker 11: three thousand parts a million. You know, this is still
30:31
Speaker 11: clean product. But I think more than anything, it just
30:34
Speaker 11: helps us through, helps us with supply in the near term.
30:37
Speaker 2: Does it help with price?
30:40
Speaker 11: Not really when you look at the crack spreads, it's
30:42
Speaker 11: only one or two dollars a barrel difference. But I
30:45
Speaker 11: think at the moment, it's really about ensuring that we've
30:47
Speaker 11: got enough supply in the short and long term.
30:50
Speaker 2: Do you think we will? Are you confident, you know,
30:53
Speaker 2: listening to what the government's saying, hearing about all the meetings,
30:56
Speaker 2: are you confident we will have enough supply or is
30:58
Speaker 2: it just too agree to say, Well, I'm.
31:01
Speaker 11: Just looking at the numbers that are coming out that
31:03
Speaker 11: are getting published. Right, the last supply updates showed that
31:06
Speaker 11: we had forty nine days. I thought that was a
31:08
Speaker 11: good news story. You know, went from fifty two to
31:10
Speaker 11: forty nine, and that's not a material change, and it
31:14
Speaker 11: was probably down because of the demand that was pulled
31:17
Speaker 11: forward over the last couple of weeks of the conflict
31:19
Speaker 11: as people built up their tanks and you know, brought
31:23
Speaker 11: a lot more products. So there's probably two days in
31:25
Speaker 11: that itself. So I think at this stage we look
31:27
Speaker 11: like we're in good shape. There's still being no sign
31:30
Speaker 11: of cargo's being canceled or ship's being turned around, which
31:32
Speaker 11: which won't happen. So I think the government's doing the
31:35
Speaker 11: right thing. And especially on the diplomatic front. I think
31:38
Speaker 11: Singapore Career, you know, all those back channels, that's where
31:41
Speaker 11: that's where the dark arts really need to happen.
31:43
Speaker 2: Simon, appreciate your time this morning, Simon Parham White torm
31:46
Speaker 2: More Group CEO eight to six News Talks. There'd be
31:49
Speaker 2: Mike's with us next.
31:51
Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day Early
31:53
Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one route love where you live.
31:58
Speaker 2: News talks 'd bid it is six minutes away from
32:01
Speaker 2: six two hundred billion dollars. That is how much they
32:04
Speaker 2: want extra for the war and higgsith overnight saying basically
32:08
Speaker 2: it's a very expensive thing to do.
32:10
Speaker 18: As far as two hundred billion dollars, I think that
32:13
Speaker 18: number could move. Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys.
32:20
Speaker 18: So we're going back to Congress and are folks there
32:22
Speaker 18: to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done,
32:26
Speaker 18: for what we may have to do in the future,
32:29
Speaker 18: ensure that our ammunition is everything's refilled, and not just refilled,
32:33
Speaker 18: but above and beyond.
32:35
Speaker 2: So what they're asking for is now more than what
32:36
Speaker 2: they've spent already on the war. Gives an idea of
32:38
Speaker 2: how long the whole thing might run for it is
32:40
Speaker 2: five to two Bryant Bridge, Mike, Greetings, what are you
32:44
Speaker 2: most excited about this weekend?
32:46
Speaker 19: Well, obviously jury can so I've got four of them
32:49
Speaker 19: lined up and I'll need to get out there nice
32:51
Speaker 19: and nearly so that'll be a bit of Saturday fun.
32:53
Speaker 2: For the ranch. You've got to make sure the ranch
32:55
Speaker 2: has stopped.
32:55
Speaker 19: To go barrels at the ranch. So many, so many barrels.
32:59
Speaker 2: In d You know, when the end of the world comes,
33:03
Speaker 2: I know where you'll be.
33:05
Speaker 19: What is there a tipping point for you on petrol personally?
33:10
Speaker 2: Well? How long is a piece of strength? Will?
33:15
Speaker 17: Yeah?
33:15
Speaker 2: I mean like, would I start restricting money?
33:18
Speaker 19: Have you amended your behavior innuation?
33:20
Speaker 3: No?
33:20
Speaker 2: I haven't. No, No, But do you have a tipping point?
33:24
Speaker 2: Have you thought about it?
33:25
Speaker 17: No?
33:25
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about what you think? Would it get
33:26
Speaker 2: so bad? Have you thought about the EV yet?
33:29
Speaker 17: No?
33:30
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about the EV because it's all come
33:32
Speaker 2: down again. Of course it will. I'm just I'm just
33:35
Speaker 2: going to go out and buy anything. I'm just what
33:37
Speaker 2: people are, of course. But are they yes, well, yes,
33:40
Speaker 2: are they? We're looking at No? No, No.
33:42
Speaker 19: We had b y D sold last weekend eighty and
33:46
Speaker 19: on a normal weekend they'd sell twenty five.
33:47
Speaker 2: Okay, but that's if you're in the market for a car, right.
33:50
Speaker 2: I think there's a bit of that you would lean
33:52
Speaker 2: towards that I tend to agree. It's one of those.
33:54
Speaker 19: It's one of those interesting tipping points. Because yesterday at
33:57
Speaker 19: said that taking public transport was half the price of
34:00
Speaker 19: driving to work.
34:01
Speaker 4: Now.
34:01
Speaker 19: So, in theory, it's never been a better time to
34:03
Speaker 19: sell an eb and it's never been a better time
34:05
Speaker 19: to promote public treads on a bus in theory, So
34:09
Speaker 19: is it going to stick or do in three or
34:11
Speaker 19: four weeks time and this will be over?
34:12
Speaker 2: What do we just? What's your price? There is none?
34:16
Speaker 2: I'm it's never endless fuel for Mike Hosking. Nikola wellis
34:24
Speaker 2: with us later on. Have a good day, run see
34:26
Speaker 2: you Monday.
34:30
Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
34:33
Speaker 1: to News Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
34:36
Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.