Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 04 June 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca
- 0:04Speaker 1: Rudgin on Early Edition with Spark for Business Technology that
- 0:08Speaker 1: keeps business moving News talks.
- 0:10Speaker 2: There'd be good morning, welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francisca
- 0:13Speaker 2: Budkins filling in for Ryan Bridge this morning. Good to
- 0:15Speaker 2: have you with us. You are most welcome to contact
- 0:17Speaker 2: me any time this morning. You can flict me a
- 0:19Speaker 2: text on ninety two ninety two or you could email
- 0:22Speaker 2: me at Francesca at Newstalk fib dot co dot MZ.
- 0:25Speaker 2: On the show today, four New Zealand MP's have been
- 0:27Speaker 2: banned from China for visiting Taiwan. Is this a big deal?
- 0:30Speaker 2: What does it say about our relationship with China? We
- 0:33Speaker 2: discussed whether three days bereavement leave is enough support for
- 0:36Speaker 2: grieving New Zealanders. And the government has a new idea
- 0:39Speaker 2: to stop at risk youth from reoffending. Get them into sport.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Sounds like more fun than a boot camp.
- 0:46Speaker 3: The agenda.
- 0:48Speaker 2: It's Thursday, the fourth of June. The Trump administration has
- 0:51Speaker 2: proposed a new twelve point five percent tariff on fifty
- 0:54Speaker 2: four countries, including New Zealand, for allegedly failing to take
- 0:57Speaker 2: action to prevent slavery. The tariff is the latest step
- 1:01Speaker 2: to replace the global tariffs struck down by the US
- 1:04Speaker 2: Supreme Court in February. Here's US Trade Representative jameson Greer, and.
- 1:08Speaker 4: We're investigating specific unfair training practices by different countries, and
- 1:13Speaker 4: we're covering a lot of countries over over seventy countries,
- 1:16Speaker 4: and so you will see over the next few weeks
- 1:18Speaker 4: we'll be releasing reports on our findings and if we
- 1:22Speaker 4: find unfair trading practices, structural access capacity, forced labor, things
- 1:26Speaker 4: like this, we'll put out proposals on how we think
- 1:29Speaker 4: we should fix it.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Benjamin Knyah, who has spoken about his reported explosive call
- 1:34Speaker 2: with Donald Trump earlier this week, nicking out, who said
- 1:37Speaker 2: he wouldn't go into specifics.
- 1:39Speaker 3: This is a crisis we should be in some other conversations,
- 1:42Speaker 3: but we've always found a way. We have so many agreements.
- 1:45Speaker 4: We agree on.
- 1:46Speaker 3: The main things.
- 1:47Speaker 4: We want to get.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Iran, the nuclear program in Iran finished. We want to
- 1:51Speaker 3: make sure that Iran doesn't pose a threat to is Will,
- 1:53Speaker 3: to the Middle East, to America, that it doesn't develop
- 1:57Speaker 3: nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. Not only
- 1:59Speaker 3: to his will, to every capital when you were put
- 2:01Speaker 3: to every studium the United States. So we have common goals.
- 2:04Speaker 3: Sometimes we have, as I'm the best of families, have
- 2:07Speaker 3: these tactical disagreements where you always find a way we
- 2:10Speaker 3: work them out.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Ukraine has carried out a strike on the outskirts of
- 2:13Speaker 2: Russia's Saint Petersburg, just as before the opening of a
- 2:16Speaker 2: major economic forum.
- 2:18Speaker 5: It's a pretty embarrassing picture when all these foreign visitors
- 2:22Speaker 5: are coming to Saint Petersburg. The Ukrainian military is saying
- 2:27Speaker 5: that it hits the oil terminal of Saint Petersburg, and
- 2:31Speaker 5: there's a lot of footage circulating online showing burning tanks
- 2:36Speaker 5: at the facility. There's also footage of apparently are Ukrainian
- 2:40Speaker 5: drone striking the nearby naval base at Kronstadt.
- 2:45Speaker 2: Eleven police officers and a police dog have been injured
- 2:48Speaker 2: in the UK during protest over police handling of the
- 2:51Speaker 2: Henry Noek case. Prime Minister Keirs Damus is there's no
- 2:54Speaker 2: justification for the violence.
- 2:56Speaker 6: The attacks directed towards police officers in Southampton last night.
- 3:00Speaker 6: We're disgraceful and completely unacceptable. This is a time for
- 3:06Speaker 6: serious work, not rage, and let me be clear. We
- 3:12Speaker 6: will ensure anyone found engaging in disorder means the full
- 3:16Speaker 6: force of the law, as we have done before.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with friend
- 3:24Speaker 1: Jesica Rudkin and Spark for Business technology that keeps business moving,
- 3:28Speaker 1: news talks, it'd be.
- 3:30Speaker 2: It's nine past five, so there's a new poll out,
- 3:32Speaker 2: Roy Morgan's poll. I know that we're going to be
- 3:34Speaker 2: inundated with poles for the next five months and there's
- 3:36Speaker 2: only so much attention we should give them. But this
- 3:38Speaker 2: poll was interesting for two reasons. One, it felt like
- 3:43Speaker 2: it reflects public sentiment a bit more. I think people
- 3:45Speaker 2: have been wondering how long can labor keep remaining steady
- 3:49Speaker 2: or going up in the polls by doing nothing in
- 3:51Speaker 2: this poll suggests suggests that time is up. Roy Morgan's
- 3:56Speaker 2: pole from May. This was undertaken before the budget show
- 3:59Speaker 2: support for Prime Minister Christopher Luckxin's National Lead Government has
- 4:02Speaker 2: surged in May, opening up the government's largest lead for
- 4:04Speaker 2: well over eighteen months since about September twenty twenty four.
- 4:08Speaker 2: So the National Lead Government is up four percent to
- 4:10Speaker 2: fifty one point five, opening a large lead over Labour
- 4:13Speaker 2: Greens to party Maori opposition down six point five percent
- 4:17Speaker 2: to forty one point five. The survey results would see
- 4:19Speaker 2: the National lead government winning sixty three seats. Labour led
- 4:22Speaker 2: parliamentary opposition would have about fifty seats, both down about
- 4:25Speaker 2: five so relatively steady few jobs lost. But the Prime Minister,
- 4:29Speaker 2: who did quietly fight for his leadership recently, will be
- 4:32Speaker 2: very pleased because support for National increase five percent to
- 4:35Speaker 2: thirty point five percent. Of that is movement in the
- 4:37Speaker 2: right direction. Support for New Zealand vers An Act was
- 4:40Speaker 2: both down abouto point five percent, a Labour plunged seven
- 4:43Speaker 2: point five to twenty six point five percent. Our support
- 4:45Speaker 2: for the Greens increased one point five percent to twelve
- 4:48Speaker 2: point five support for To Party Murray was down point
- 4:50Speaker 2: five to two point five percent. The other interesting result
- 4:54Speaker 2: is with the minor parties outside parliament. According to this poll,
- 4:57Speaker 2: the Opportunity Party would win its first seats in Parliament
- 5:00Speaker 2: with its support of six percent, which is up two
- 5:03Speaker 2: percent and is enough to secure the party seven seats.
- 5:06Speaker 2: So Top Top's new leader que Long Kwoilee Wong has
- 5:11Speaker 2: been out and about. She's been working very very hard,
- 5:13Speaker 2: so obviously that is paying off and it is worth
- 5:16Speaker 2: keeping an eye on them. It is eleven past five.
- 5:19Speaker 2: You're with early edition.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Francesca Rudkin on early edition, with spark for business technology
- 5:27Speaker 1: that keeps business moving US talks that.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Be just going back to these new tariffs that Trump
- 5:34Speaker 2: has proposed. This isn't the Sydney Morning Herald this morning. Now,
- 5:37Speaker 2: It is only a proposal. This is someone sitting in
- 5:39Speaker 2: a back room who's come up with the pearler of
- 5:40Speaker 2: an idea. But because of course, the current ten percent
- 5:43Speaker 2: tariffs are about to expire in July, and someone's going, Okay,
- 5:47Speaker 2: how can we keep these sort of these important tariffs
- 5:50Speaker 2: in place and on the go. So they've come up
- 5:53Speaker 2: with this idea and fifty four countries including China, Vietnam, Japan,
- 5:59Speaker 2: the United Kingdom and New Zealand have been are going
- 6:01Speaker 2: to be hit potentially with this twelve point five percent tariff,
- 6:05Speaker 2: which is not great. It's up a little bit, isn't it.
- 6:07Speaker 2: What we're currently playing. And it's due to the fact
- 6:11Speaker 2: that they've been doing this investigation and they've found that
- 6:13Speaker 2: countries like US, we're subjecting US producers to unfair competition
- 6:18Speaker 2: from forced labor goods and both export markets and the
- 6:21Speaker 2: US market, and by displacing foreign goods produced without forced
- 6:25Speaker 2: labor or forced labor inputs from their domestic market the
- 6:29Speaker 2: United States and other markets. Another point we have been
- 6:32Speaker 2: we haven't been strong enough about making sure that we
- 6:36Speaker 2: are not importing or making goods and things that require
- 6:40Speaker 2: that use slavery. So that's an interesting one. We will
- 6:44Speaker 2: keep an eye on that. I'm not quite too sure
- 6:47Speaker 2: where that is going to go, and I you know,
- 6:51Speaker 2: the Sydney Morning Herald of course makes the comment that
- 6:54Speaker 2: the government sources there are sort of scrambling to understand
- 6:57Speaker 2: the implications of this new proposed tariff at the moment
- 7:00Speaker 2: they were believing it wouldn't sit on top of the
- 7:02Speaker 2: existing ten percent tariff. It would be if imposed after
- 7:06Speaker 2: a consultation period, then that would mean that the tariffs
- 7:10Speaker 2: would move from a ten percent to a twelve point
- 7:12Speaker 2: five percent tariff, no doubt, no doubt. You know when
- 7:21Speaker 2: they can come to that, when I expire, this is
- 7:26Speaker 2: the word I'm trying to come up with. Okay, we
- 7:28Speaker 2: were the really interesting story on the front of the
- 7:31Speaker 2: New Zealand Herald. Four MP's from a cross party delegation
- 7:35Speaker 2: visited Taiwan in early May. It was ax Laura McClair, Nationals, Moore,
- 7:40Speaker 2: En Pooh Pugh, Labour's Duncan Webb and David Wilson from
- 7:44Speaker 2: New Zealand first and next thing, you know, they get
- 7:48Speaker 2: a little note saying that these parliamentarians have been banned
- 7:56Speaker 2: from heading to China because they visited Taiwan, so they
- 7:59Speaker 2: can't go to China, Hong or Macaw. So of course
- 8:02Speaker 2: the question there is is this a little bit unusual
- 8:05Speaker 2: or is this perfectly normal. It's a very good question.
- 8:12Speaker 2: We have been told that this is pretty normal for China,
- 8:18Speaker 2: that they banned EU parliamentarians for the same thing a
- 8:21Speaker 2: few years ago, and the EU banned Chinese visits for
- 8:24Speaker 2: eight years. You know, is it a good sign that
- 8:29Speaker 2: New Zealand is supportive of Taiwan? Your backbench MP's were
- 8:33Speaker 2: sent because ministers wouldn't be able to go. China is
- 8:37Speaker 2: going to do what China does. And look, I don't
- 8:40Speaker 2: know if this has any impact on our relationship with China.
- 8:44Speaker 2: I don't know whether you would call us an escalation
- 8:46Speaker 2: in any form. It sounds like it's pretty sort of
- 8:49Speaker 2: common thing to do. It will be interesting though, to
- 8:52Speaker 2: see whether Winston Peters responds to this, I'm sure that
- 8:57Speaker 2: there will be. Please explain. We'll see where else it
- 9:01Speaker 2: leads to. It is seventeen past five. You're with News
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- 9:06Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
- 9:09Speaker 1: ANALYSISS early edition with Francesca Rudkin and Spark for Business
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- 9:17Speaker 2: Nineteen past five. A Christ to your Mother is launching
- 9:20Speaker 2: a petition to expand the number of bereavement days employees get.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Shanna Hemmons's daughter died in twenty twenty three and she
- 9:27Speaker 2: had to take months off work to recover from the grief.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Under the Current Holidays Act, workers are entitled to three
- 9:33Speaker 2: days leave for the death of an immediate family member.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Sena wants that raised to ten. Shanna Hemmons is the
- 9:38Speaker 2: founder of Beyond three Days, who are launching the petition.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Good morning, Sheena, thanks so much for your time.
- 9:45Speaker 7: No, probably, good morning Francesca, thank you for having me.
- 9:48Speaker 2: Why does this need to change?
- 9:51Speaker 7: Well, firstly, it has been in New Zealand law for
- 9:56Speaker 7: over forty years, forty five from nineteen eighty one. Nothing
- 10:00Speaker 7: has changed in that time, and yet since then, all
- 10:05Speaker 7: the other statutory leave periods have increased, we have had
- 10:12Speaker 7: COVID times, we have had mossk aitecs, we have had
- 10:16Speaker 7: all kinds of things happen, and it's still three days.
- 10:20Speaker 7: And yet out of everything, bereavement is the one guaranteed
- 10:25Speaker 7: thing that we cannot avoid. People are going to die.
- 10:29Speaker 7: People in our close immediate families will at some point die.
- 10:35Speaker 7: And that sounds so negative and it sounds so dark,
- 10:40Speaker 7: but that's the truth, and so we need to actually
- 10:43Speaker 7: address this. And also the bereavement causes actual mental stress
- 10:52Speaker 7: and consequences that make it very difficult for people to
- 10:58Speaker 7: come back to work with it in three days. So
- 11:02Speaker 7: there are lots of reasons where why it needs to change.
- 11:06Speaker 2: So Sheena, how are people getting by at the moment
- 11:09Speaker 2: on three days? That's not even enough time for some
- 11:12Speaker 2: people to hold a funeral. Are they relying on holiday
- 11:16Speaker 2: leave or sick leave or just taking leave without pay?
- 11:19Speaker 7: Well, that's a very good question, and it's probably a
- 11:21Speaker 7: combination of all three. And you know, my attitude is
- 11:26Speaker 7: I'm a business owner. I've been a business owner for
- 11:29Speaker 7: twenty years. I've had small businesses, I owned a restaurant,
- 11:32Speaker 7: hospitality of Historically, you know you have lots of lots
- 11:35Speaker 7: of employees, and it's I get the fact that it's
- 11:41Speaker 7: a big stress potentially on a business, particularly a small business,
- 11:47Speaker 7: But to ask them to take holiday when someone close
- 11:52Speaker 7: to them has died when it's it's certainly not a
- 11:55Speaker 7: holiday in that period, but ask them to take sickly, which,
- 12:00Speaker 7: to be honest, I thought was illegal. I didn't think
- 12:02Speaker 7: you could take sick leave unless you were sick, and
- 12:05Speaker 7: being in grief is not being sick, it's totally different.
- 12:10Speaker 7: So the options, those are the two options at the moment,
- 12:13Speaker 7: all unpaid leave, and for many that is not a
- 12:18Speaker 7: fiscal option. So it means that at the worst time
- 12:22Speaker 7: of their lives, when they've lost a child or lost
- 12:25Speaker 7: a partner or a parent, they are being asked to
- 12:29Speaker 7: be under financial pressure. And that seems just inhuman And
- 12:34Speaker 7: I think they're recognizing that in other parts of the world,
- 12:38Speaker 7: and the laws are changing or have changed, and I
- 12:41Speaker 7: believe that this is now a time when we should
- 12:44Speaker 7: look at how we manage it here.
- 12:46Speaker 2: So how does our movement leave currently differ from others
- 12:49Speaker 2: around the world.
- 12:52Speaker 7: Well, it is only three days, and it is it's
- 12:56Speaker 7: a blank for everyone. Everybody has the same no matter
- 13:04Speaker 7: what the bereavement is, it's covered by immediate. The wording
- 13:08Speaker 7: is immediate family members. But it doesn't matter whether that
- 13:13Speaker 7: is a grandparent or if it's a child now a grandparent.
- 13:18Speaker 7: As much as it can be absolutely devastating for some people,
- 13:20Speaker 7: it is the natural order of things. But losing a child,
- 13:25Speaker 7: which is what happened to me, is devastating, it is
- 13:29Speaker 7: life changing, and losing a partner it can be very
- 13:33Speaker 7: much the same. So at the moment, it's heartwash. You
- 13:39Speaker 7: do just get three days. In a lot of other
- 13:41Speaker 7: countries they have a tiered system have they take into
- 13:45Speaker 7: account what the relationship is and they give more leave
- 13:51Speaker 7: for the loss of a child or a lot of
- 13:52Speaker 7: a partner. I believe in Canada, if you lose your
- 13:56Speaker 7: partner you get twenty days paid leave.
- 14:00Speaker 2: I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to
- 14:01Speaker 2: us through this this morning. Thank you very much. It
- 14:04Speaker 2: is twenty four past five. Keen to hear from you.
- 14:06Speaker 2: I don't think there is a New Zealander who wouldn't
- 14:07Speaker 2: agree that three days if you lost a child, three
- 14:10Speaker 2: days bereavement leave is ridiculous, right But I but you know,
- 14:15Speaker 2: as she also recognize the economy isn't great at the moment.
- 14:20Speaker 2: If you are a small business, how would you feel
- 14:22Speaker 2: if that was changed, if the law was changed up
- 14:25Speaker 2: to potentially ten days Bereavemently love to hear from your
- 14:28Speaker 2: ninety two. Ninety two is the number to text you're with.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Early edition.
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- 14:39Speaker 2: It is twenty six past five and podcast Earlier this week,
- 14:43Speaker 2: Former First Lady Michelle Obama had some wisdom for the
- 14:46Speaker 2: gen Z generation that they're age between fourteen and twenty
- 14:49Speaker 2: nine when it comes to employment in their work ethic,
- 14:52Speaker 2: She said she wants gen zs to understand that every experience,
- 14:55Speaker 2: the bad boss, the boring assistant job, the job you
- 14:58Speaker 2: weren't appreciated in, the one that didn't give you the
- 15:01Speaker 2: assignment you wanted when you wanted it, all of that
- 15:03Speaker 2: is teaching them to be resilient. Why is it important
- 15:06Speaker 2: to learn to endure a boring job, a bad boss,
- 15:09Speaker 2: or setbacks. While she believes gen Z's need the instant
- 15:12Speaker 2: gratification means that they're not getting the experiences they need
- 15:16Speaker 2: to develop the skills needed to be good leaders, she
- 15:19Speaker 2: feels young people today want to do what they want
- 15:21Speaker 2: to do or what they're good at, but that it's
- 15:23Speaker 2: just as valuable to learn to do something they don't
- 15:26Speaker 2: want to do and to do it well Now. I
- 15:28Speaker 2: think Michame Obama has a really good point. Sometimes in
- 15:30Speaker 2: a job, you just have to suck it up to
- 15:32Speaker 2: get the money and experience needed to help you to
- 15:34Speaker 2: get to where you want to be. But I'd argue
- 15:37Speaker 2: that many young people are working jobs they don't particularly enjoy.
- 15:41Speaker 2: With a seventeen and a nineteen year old, I see
- 15:43Speaker 2: it all around me, whether they're high school students earning
- 15:45Speaker 2: some spending cash, university students working part time to pay
- 15:49Speaker 2: for their education and living costs, those who have been
- 15:51Speaker 2: told by their parents learn or earn, or graduates taking
- 15:55Speaker 2: whatever job they can get. I also see a lot
- 15:57Speaker 2: of students with work experience applying constantly for jobs and
- 16:00Speaker 2: getting nowhere. So no, I don't see a lazy generation
- 16:04Speaker 2: afraid of doing a job they don't like. What we
- 16:07Speaker 2: do have, though, is a difficult youth market stats. New
- 16:09Speaker 2: Zealand figures show youth employment has risen substantially since twenty
- 16:13Speaker 2: twenty two. The share of young people not in work.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Educational training remains at its highest since the pandemic, at
- 16:19Speaker 2: fourteen point four percent. New Zealand's overall unemployment rate was
- 16:23Speaker 2: five point three percent in March, from the unusually low
- 16:26Speaker 2: rates seen during twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three,
- 16:29Speaker 2: and of course young workers are usually the first group
- 16:31Speaker 2: affected when hiring slows. We also know entry level and
- 16:36Speaker 2: graduate jobs appear harder to obtain because competition has increased,
- 16:40Speaker 2: Employers are hiring more cautiously, and if Reddit is anything
- 16:43Speaker 2: to go by, employers want graduates with one to three
- 16:46Speaker 2: years experience. Even for entry level jobs. I think you'll
- 16:49Speaker 2: find most young people are taking what they can get.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Scarcity of jobs mean being choosy is in an option,
- 16:55Speaker 2: and of course there will always be some who find
- 16:57Speaker 2: life easier sitting on the couch and taking a benefit.
- 17:00Speaker 2: There always has been. Maybe it's a slightly different approach
- 17:03Speaker 2: to work that irks the rest of us a little.
- 17:06Speaker 2: Gen zs typically put more importance on work life balance,
- 17:10Speaker 2: mental health meaning for work, and flexible working arrangements. This
- 17:14Speaker 2: can be frustrating for employers, but there are plenty of
- 17:16Speaker 2: middle aged workerholics who have belatedly realized there's real value
- 17:21Speaker 2: in work life balance. They're one step ahead of us
- 17:25Speaker 2: on some things.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Youth Talk said, be.
- 17:29Speaker 2: So can to hear your thoughts. You might be an
- 17:30Speaker 2: employer a parent. Are gen z more resistant to working
- 17:34Speaker 2: jobs they don't really want to do or you know,
- 17:37Speaker 2: if need requires it? Are they just getting on with
- 17:40Speaker 2: the job. You're most welcome to Text ninety two ninety
- 17:42Speaker 2: two your early edition waiting.
- 17:53Speaker 1: Hearritt first. Francesca Rudkin on early edition with spark for
- 17:57Speaker 1: business technology that keeps business moves, Thing news talks b.
- 18:03Speaker 2: How this is early edition on Newstalks ZV. I'm Franchester
- 18:13Speaker 2: Rudkin filling in for Bryan today. Thanks for being with us.
- 18:16Speaker 2: But at White Stripes to kick us off. Jack Black,
- 18:19Speaker 2: who of course is one half of the White Stripes duo.
- 18:23Speaker 2: He has just opened an show, his first art show.
- 18:27Speaker 2: It's taken place at Danien Hurst's Newport Street Gallery. Not
- 18:30Speaker 2: the best reviews for the artists. He's getting one out
- 18:33Speaker 2: of five stars, with one reviewer stating that as a
- 18:36Speaker 2: visual artist, White is a complete non starter. His art
- 18:39Speaker 2: is like a twelve year old visiting Take Modern for
- 18:42Speaker 2: the first time, So that's a bit rough. Isn't it
- 18:44Speaker 2: right still to come this? Yesterday we spoke about President
- 18:46Speaker 2: Trump's angry call with benmin Nick and Yahoo. Overnight he
- 18:51Speaker 2: has confirmed the call and that he called him a
- 18:53Speaker 2: few things, a few names, and that he's a little
- 18:56Speaker 2: bit perturbed about his constant fighting with Lebanons and more
- 18:58Speaker 2: on this shortly with our US correspondent. Also this hour,
- 19:01Speaker 2: we look at a new program funded by the government
- 19:04Speaker 2: that aims to help at risk youth from reoffending by
- 19:06Speaker 2: getting them into sport.
- 19:09Speaker 3: Right.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your feedback for your texts.
- 19:12Speaker 2: Should the employer really have to pay nothing stopping a
- 19:15Speaker 2: person taking annual leave? This is in regards to the
- 19:17Speaker 2: bereavement leave Frances. How are we going to say which
- 19:20Speaker 2: grief is worse? The current law is fine and not complicated.
- 19:23Speaker 2: We simply can't afford it, and grief is part of life. Yes,
- 19:26Speaker 2: using sick leave and your leave is justifiable. And also,
- 19:29Speaker 2: as a small business owner, more leave of any sort
- 19:32Speaker 2: will destroy the business. Right now, my employees enjoy more
- 19:34Speaker 2: leave than I can manage. So thank you for your feedback.
- 19:38Speaker 2: Keep the text coming. You can text on ninety two
- 19:40Speaker 2: ninety two.
- 19:41Speaker 1: It is news talk, said Bee.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Twenty two to six. Right, let's head around the country now,
- 19:50Speaker 2: and joining us from Dunedin is Claudia O'Neill. Good morning,
- 19:55Speaker 2: my now. How is Danedin's new mental health support service going?
- 19:59Speaker 8: So?
- 19:59Speaker 9: A new crisis recovery cafe has opened across two sites
- 20:03Speaker 9: in South Dunedin and Northeast Valley. It's the second facility
- 20:06Speaker 9: in the South Island to provide a one stop shop
- 20:09Speaker 9: for free wrap around help in a homey cafe style
- 20:12Speaker 9: setting rather than a clinical environment. The Mental Health Minister
- 20:15Speaker 9: says demand is high. Maducie says it's encouraging to know
- 20:19Speaker 9: people are getting referred from emergency departments to get non
- 20:22Speaker 9: clinical safe support. He says peer support can be scaled
- 20:25Speaker 9: up faster than the clinical workforce, meaning more people can
- 20:29Speaker 9: get help when they need it, and he wants to
- 20:30Speaker 9: see more open up around the country.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Okay, interesting and Denedin's weather.
- 20:34Speaker 9: It's light Northeastily's with a spot or two of rain.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Claudia. Joining us now in christ
- 20:40Speaker 2: Church Claire Sherwood. Good morning, Claire. What is the latest
- 20:43Speaker 2: with christ Church's red zone?
- 20:45Speaker 10: Good morning, Yes, it will be interesting to see if
- 20:47Speaker 10: the community responds it like they have at Pegasus, Francesca.
- 20:51Speaker 10: We've got local residents coming to here that to talk
- 20:53Speaker 10: about the future of some quake damage to land in
- 20:55Speaker 10: the Red Zone tonight. Christ Church City Council a few
- 20:57Speaker 10: weeks ago now identified more than ten here is across
- 21:01Speaker 10: eleven different sites in the red zone that it deems
- 21:04Speaker 10: could be suitable for redevelopment. This is where thousands of
- 21:07Speaker 10: people were forced from their homes due to land instability
- 21:10Speaker 10: issues after the earthquakes. Now, the Avon Or tarket Or
- 21:13Speaker 10: Network manager Hailey Gouletta says the land holds deep meaning
- 21:17Speaker 10: to the community and the community has to speak up
- 21:20Speaker 10: basically and voice concerns in this open discussion tonight and
- 21:23Speaker 10: deal with that delicately.
- 21:25Speaker 2: She says.
- 21:25Speaker 10: There'll be some speakers talking about other options aside from housing,
- 21:29Speaker 10: and she really hopes that this sort of coming together
- 21:31Speaker 10: of the community will put the residents at ease. Feedback
- 21:35Speaker 10: from this forum will then be presented to christ Church
- 21:37Speaker 10: City Council and the weather today, Claire, some low cloud
- 21:40Speaker 10: about this morning, a few spots of rain about mid day,
- 21:43Speaker 10: northeasteries picking up and nineteen degrees.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Claire, have a good day, and
- 21:47Speaker 2: joining us from Wellington now is Adam Cooper.
- 21:49Speaker 11: Good morning morning, Francesca.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Okay, so we are still talking about the Wellington region
- 21:54Speaker 2: and amalgamation.
- 21:56Speaker 11: Yeah, Wellington and Andrew Little gave his tentative support to
- 21:59Speaker 11: the idea of a mal alugamation in a speech to
- 22:01Speaker 11: regional leaders yesterday. It's triggered a fair bit of a
- 22:04Speaker 11: conversation around it again.
- 22:05Speaker 3: Now.
- 22:05Speaker 11: The mayors of Hut City and Potty Deo were both
- 22:07Speaker 11: there in the crowd. They agree it's time to have
- 22:09Speaker 11: a serious conversation too about merging the region's councils and
- 22:13Speaker 11: I guess for them it could mean not being mayors
- 22:15Speaker 11: of their particular areas, but they are still pretty supportive.
- 22:18Speaker 11: Councils across the country, of course, have just ten weeks
- 22:20Speaker 11: to submit proposals to the government or risk being forced
- 22:23Speaker 11: into some form of amalgamation. Hut mayor Ken Laban commends
- 22:27Speaker 11: Little for taking the lead on it, while Potty do
- 22:29Speaker 11: is at Itita Baker says she hopes Wellingtonians understand the
- 22:32Speaker 11: tough situation councils are in and the change is inevitable.
- 22:36Speaker 11: The squeaky wheel and all this could be Upper Hut,
- 22:38Speaker 11: though Mayor Perry's ie was noticeably absent from the audience
- 22:41Speaker 11: in Little's speech yesterday. She has been cautious about supporting
- 22:44Speaker 11: amalgamation in the past, but as adamant she'll support whatever
- 22:47Speaker 11: the consensus is from her Upper Hut constituents.
- 22:50Speaker 2: And Wellington's weather today.
- 22:52Speaker 11: Adam mostly cloudy today, a few showers. Xana, Hi have sixteen.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Neither Ritty Mano was in the
- 22:57Speaker 2: Auckland studio. Good morning, Good morning for each So we're
- 23:00Speaker 2: going to get the road cones out.
- 23:02Speaker 12: Yes again bye. We have never been inside. Actually I've
- 23:06Speaker 12: always been out.
- 23:07Speaker 2: So we're going to get quite a few out for
- 23:09Speaker 2: the number. I think you're right.
- 23:11Speaker 12: One of Alkin's most notorious intersections in line for a
- 23:14Speaker 12: makeover to address gridlock. Where is it? Devenport so Ats
- 23:18Speaker 12: proposing you know, a series of changes. This is to
- 23:21Speaker 12: Lake Road. Everyone knows Devenport's Lake Road. It's always been
- 23:26Speaker 12: one of those spots. A So it includes a morning
- 23:29Speaker 12: clearway between Bayswater Avenue and Egremont Street from seven am
- 23:34Speaker 12: to nine am. So this will provide more space for vehicles.
- 23:37Speaker 12: Heating to Takapuna to merge safely. These changes, they'll also
- 23:42Speaker 12: convert and this is for Greenland Williamson. F you know,
- 23:44Speaker 12: converting that zebra crossing. I think people will know that
- 23:47Speaker 12: one quite well into a signal operated crosswalk instead. So
- 23:52Speaker 12: what I can tell you is that consultation is open
- 23:54Speaker 12: now and it's going to close until June twenty first.
- 23:56Speaker 2: So have you say have you say you've got something
- 23:59Speaker 2: to say?
- 23:59Speaker 1: Say it?
- 24:00Speaker 12: Yes?
- 24:00Speaker 2: Opens with it today.
- 24:01Speaker 12: Well it's some cloudy showers in the afternoon, a high
- 24:04Speaker 12: of twenty, which is really great because it is warmer
- 24:06Speaker 12: outside than in this studio. Stop it go on about
- 24:10Speaker 12: this every day.
- 24:11Speaker 2: I'd just like to say best of luck for tonight.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Tonight is the Radio and Podcast Awards, and Neva is
- 24:17Speaker 2: I mean Neva's just this is your zilliance. No time
- 24:21Speaker 2: that you have been a finalist, but best of one.
- 24:24Speaker 12: I'm very very grateful to be your finalist.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think you're going to no, no, look
- 24:30Speaker 2: or look no, we're not going to go there.
- 24:31Speaker 12: We're not going to know you were going tonight. Here
- 24:33Speaker 12: you've got your dress or sorted and go.
- 24:34Speaker 2: I haven't, but I will pull something out of the
- 24:36Speaker 2: cupboard and pop along briefly before I go home and
- 24:39Speaker 2: go to bed really nearly to turn up tomorrow morning. Ah,
- 24:41Speaker 2: what right do you party afterwards?
- 24:43Speaker 3: No?
- 24:44Speaker 12: Okay, I usually, you know, just leave and I go
- 24:46Speaker 12: straight out and then straight into the bed by about
- 24:50Speaker 12: eight thirty five pm.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Gosh, I'm hoping I'm in bed before that. That's freaking
- 24:54Speaker 2: me out. Okay, it'll be interesting show tomorrow. I look
- 24:57Speaker 2: for saying the best of luck tonight. You up. Nixts
- 25:00Speaker 2: were off the UIs. Kady Fisher is.
- 25:01Speaker 1: With US International Correspondence with ins andn Eye Insurance Peace
- 25:07Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
- 25:10Speaker 2: It has time to hear the UIs and Kate Fisher
- 25:12Speaker 2: joins me. Now, good morning, Kate, Good morning. So President
- 25:16Speaker 2: Trump has confumed he did have a bit of an
- 25:18Speaker 2: angry call with Nick Nyahoo. Yeah.
- 25:21Speaker 13: This was on a podcast recording that's been released today,
- 25:25Speaker 13: and he did say I will not use the terms
- 25:28Speaker 13: but an expletive crazy. He said he did call the
- 25:32Speaker 13: Israeli leader that in a phone call, and he said
- 25:35Speaker 13: that he was a little bit perturbed about Israel's continued
- 25:39Speaker 13: fighting with Lebanon, but he acknowledged that they do get
- 25:44Speaker 13: on well. He gets on well with his Israeli counterpart,
- 25:46Speaker 13: calling them both wartime leaders. And then Benjamin Ettannier, who
- 25:51Speaker 13: has responded and said in an interview on CNBC that
- 25:56Speaker 13: sometimes he and Donald Trump have what he describes as
- 25:59Speaker 13: tactical disagreements, but that they have common goals and do
- 26:03Speaker 13: agree on the main things. But I think this shows
- 26:06Speaker 13: just how difficult the situation is because Donald Trump wants
- 26:09Speaker 13: to see a diplomatic end to this conflict with Iran,
- 26:13Speaker 13: but Israeli leadered Benjamin ettan Yahoo isn't so keen on
- 26:17Speaker 13: that and is pushing for more military action, and that
- 26:20Speaker 13: could mean there's a difficulty in how this all ends.
- 26:23Speaker 2: Kate primaries and several states are underway. What are the
- 26:27Speaker 2: big takeaways? What do we know so far?
- 26:30Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I think one of the most interesting things
- 26:32Speaker 13: is that one of Donald Trump's endorsed candidates did not win.
- 26:37Speaker 13: So far this election season, his endorsement has helped end
- 26:42Speaker 13: the careers of two Senators John Cornyn of Texas, Bill
- 26:46Speaker 13: Cassidy of Louisiana, and a popular Kentucky representative, Thomas Massey
- 26:50Speaker 13: because he has supported other candidates, but in this election
- 26:55Speaker 13: for governor of Iowa for the primary, sorry, Donald Trump
- 27:00Speaker 13: backed Randy Feinstra and he was beaten by Zach larn
- 27:04Speaker 13: And that is the first time in this election season
- 27:07Speaker 13: that a Senate, a governor, or a house race that
- 27:11Speaker 13: Donald Trump has intervened in has gone against his wishes,
- 27:15Speaker 13: which does perhaps suggest there is still some pushback within
- 27:19Speaker 13: his Republican voting base who doesn't always agree with everything
- 27:23Speaker 13: he said, because he has kind of sailed to victory
- 27:26Speaker 13: in these other races so far.
- 27:27Speaker 2: Kate Fisher, thank you so much for your time this
- 27:29Speaker 2: morning News Talk, Sibby. It is eleven to six. The
- 27:34Speaker 2: Sports Minister wants to use sport to stop you three offending.
- 27:37Speaker 2: He's putting eight million towards a community program which would
- 27:40Speaker 2: see at risk youth put into sport and physical activity.
- 27:44Speaker 2: Mac Mitchell is a sports minister and the police Minister,
- 27:46Speaker 2: and he joins me, now, thanks so much for your
- 27:48Speaker 2: time this morning. Mac, Good morning, Good morning.
- 27:50Speaker 8: Francis. Can know you're welcome.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Is it because you are both sports minister and police minister?
- 27:54Speaker 2: You can see this connection between young people and the
- 27:57Speaker 2: need for sport.
- 27:58Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I've always been a huge believer. Even
- 28:01Speaker 8: when I had my own plasing career, I was heavily
- 28:04Speaker 8: involved in Blue Light and I can just see what
- 28:06Speaker 8: a positive impact sport has on young people. And of
- 28:10Speaker 8: course a lot of our youth offenders missing out, they
- 28:15Speaker 8: haven't got access to sport or recreation for whatever reason.
- 28:19Speaker 8: And so I saw a big opportunity when I became
- 28:21Speaker 8: sports a sport and rec minister to put some money
- 28:23Speaker 8: into trying to reach those kids and get them into
- 28:26Speaker 8: sport newsatus a way of getting them on the right path.
- 28:29Speaker 2: Mark who is the sport? Is it for less at
- 28:32Speaker 2: risk kids than those that might go to boot camp?
- 28:37Speaker 8: Yes, it is, but it's the whole range, it's a
- 28:39Speaker 8: whole range of kids. So this is even funding the
- 28:41Speaker 8: program inside our youth justice facilities to actually get our
- 28:45Speaker 8: kids active, get them involved in sport, get good role
- 28:48Speaker 8: models and mentors around them, get them learning how to
- 28:52Speaker 8: work as a team. There's no downside, it's just all
- 28:56Speaker 8: positive upside. If you get kids and engaged in sport
- 28:58Speaker 8: and get them physically active.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Sound a little bit more fun than a boot camp?
- 29:03Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 29:03Speaker 8: Well, the youth military academies were designed around the l SV,
- 29:06Speaker 8: which involves a lot of physical activity. And the funny
- 29:08Speaker 8: thing is the first youth military camp that we actually
- 29:13Speaker 8: delivered through orang A Tamariki. The kids on that were
- 29:16Speaker 8: asking for more of it. They wanted to get out
- 29:18Speaker 8: and do more team building, they wanted to get out
- 29:20Speaker 8: and do more physical exercise. So it just goes to
- 29:23Speaker 8: show how we know what a positive impact it does
- 29:25Speaker 8: have on them.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Are there already programs like this in action? Are they
- 29:29Speaker 2: seeing good results and that's why you want to back them?
- 29:31Speaker 8: Yeah, totally. So that's exactly what we've done, is we're
- 29:35Speaker 8: identifying trusted community organizations that have got approving capability with
- 29:39Speaker 8: strong local connections, and we're using we're funding them and
- 29:42Speaker 8: I've visited one of them yesterday in South Akland. They're
- 29:45Speaker 8: doing an outstanding job and getting great results. And those
- 29:49Speaker 8: are the sort of organizations that we're funding around the country.
- 29:52Speaker 8: Champions Initiative, Billy Graham with Boxing, Blue Light, the Rise Program,
- 29:58Speaker 8: Live for More, and Towering It. So programs that are
- 30:01Speaker 8: really that have been around for a while can deliver results.
- 30:04Speaker 8: We're giving them additional funding so they can get rich
- 30:06Speaker 8: more kids.
- 30:07Speaker 2: So what does success look like? Is it as simple
- 30:09Speaker 2: as we're keeping them out of the justice system.
- 30:12Speaker 8: Yeah, that's I mean, that's the obviously We had a
- 30:15Speaker 8: target when we came in government to reduce youth file
- 30:18Speaker 8: and offending by fifteen percent by twenty thirty. We're well
- 30:20Speaker 8: on track to achieve that. We don't want our kids
- 30:23Speaker 8: going into the youth justice system because often that's a
- 30:26Speaker 8: fast track into the adult system. So I just want
- 30:29Speaker 8: to get the best role models and mentors we can
- 30:32Speaker 8: around them, get them engaged in sports. Sport can be
- 30:35Speaker 8: you can transform lives, and we want to show that
- 30:38Speaker 8: we believe in them and that we want to invest
- 30:40Speaker 8: in them, and that we want to as young people.
- 30:42Speaker 8: We want them to embrace all the opportunities that our
- 30:44Speaker 8: country has instead of making bad decisions and ending up
- 30:47Speaker 8: in the youth justice system.
- 30:49Speaker 2: So if this is successful, could you put more money
- 30:51Speaker 2: into it in the future.
- 30:53Speaker 8: Yes, I've got eight million dollars put towards it now.
- 30:56Speaker 8: Two point two million has already gone out with these
- 30:58Speaker 8: five programs, and yes, I'd like to put more money
- 31:01Speaker 8: towards it absolutely.
- 31:02Speaker 3: Now.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Look one I've got you can I just quickly talk
- 31:04Speaker 2: to you about Mina PACIFICA. Would you support it being
- 31:08Speaker 2: brought by a private group if it meant it moved
- 31:10Speaker 2: to Hawaii?
- 31:12Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean at the end of the day. I'd
- 31:13Speaker 8: love to see more on a pacifica continue as a
- 31:16Speaker 8: Pacific based franchise. But but the real give it is
- 31:21Speaker 8: we'd already put five million dollars of tax PAS money
- 31:24Speaker 8: into it. There's two point seven of that we're probably
- 31:27Speaker 8: going to have to write off and I'm waiting for
- 31:29Speaker 8: advice back from sport Reef in terms of whether we
- 31:31Speaker 8: can recover that. We're probably too far down the list
- 31:33Speaker 8: in terms of creditors. But I just I don't support
- 31:38Speaker 8: putting more tax PAS money into it. If there's a
- 31:41Speaker 8: private option that can come forward to forward to support
- 31:45Speaker 8: and own a professional franchise supporting franchise, that would be great.
- 31:49Speaker 8: I just don't think it's the right use of TAXPARS
- 31:51Speaker 8: money at the moment.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Mark Mitchell, thank you very much for your time this morning.
- 31:54Speaker 2: Appreciate it. It is seven to six.
- 31:59Speaker 1: The third Word on the News of the Day earlier
- 32:02Speaker 1: edition with Frank Jesca Rudkin and Spark for Business Technology
- 32:06Speaker 1: that keeps Business Moving News talks that'd be thank.
- 32:08Speaker 2: If you're text this morning on the gen Z's Morning
- 32:11Speaker 2: Francesca Michelle Obama nail, did I have a team which
- 32:13Speaker 2: contains around twenty gen z's. With a few exception, this
- 32:16Speaker 2: group's worth eqpic and productivity is well down compared to
- 32:19Speaker 2: our older staff. Think for your text or so in
- 32:22Speaker 2: regards to breevements. Sorry, I don't believe we should be
- 32:24Speaker 2: burdening employers with having to play employees employees even more
- 32:27Speaker 2: paid days off. They're paid enough already ten days sickly
- 32:31Speaker 2: stat day's MARTITIQI know wonder This country is on its knees.
- 32:34Speaker 2: Everyone has their hand out. Enough is enough And I
- 32:36Speaker 2: am not an employer. Please do head toy Alan, good morning.
- 32:40Speaker 2: Do you know what the problem is? You tell me
- 32:43Speaker 2: gentle parenting? Oh no, didn't we do this too? Yes,
- 32:46Speaker 2: gentle parents are right for so much. Yes, But actually
- 32:50Speaker 2: I tend to disagree because I look around and parents
- 32:53Speaker 2: of my generation say that their kids earn or learn
- 32:56Speaker 2: like there's no sitting around. No, I don't like this job. Actually,
- 33:00Speaker 2: I look around my saying though my Obama is saying
- 33:04Speaker 2: different things, and their mates they're all doing jobs they
- 33:06Speaker 2: don't like, they're all working, supporting them talking about well,
- 33:10Speaker 2: I think she's just talking about in general. Well, we've
- 33:13Speaker 2: got two problems here. We've got a terrible youth job
- 33:16Speaker 2: market at the moment and graduate job market at the moment.
- 33:18Speaker 2: So that's why it looks like everyone's kind of sitting
- 33:20Speaker 2: on the bets. But I think she's talking about their
- 33:24Speaker 2: attitude to work, like they they've got a work life balance.
- 33:29Speaker 2: But I know a lot of middle aged people here
- 33:31Speaker 2: who finally went, what have I been doing? And there's
- 33:35Speaker 2: something to that. There is something to it. It's everything.
- 33:38Speaker 2: The flip sidnes are the same coin, right, But I'm
- 33:41Speaker 2: not going to let young people be sort of all
- 33:43Speaker 2: thrown into one basket and told that they're a bit
- 33:46Speaker 2: lazy and they're precious that they're not. I see kids
- 33:50Speaker 2: around me all the time who are awesome and are
- 33:53Speaker 2: working really hard. You're making things happen. You've obviously got
- 33:56Speaker 2: a nice click of people around you know. I think
- 33:58Speaker 2: a young group don't put up with the bs that
- 34:00Speaker 2: we did. Yeah, right, but sometimes you have to put
- 34:03Speaker 2: up Now it works work our office, We have lots
- 34:06Speaker 2: of young people, don't we, who work really really hard. Yes,
- 34:10Speaker 2: and they're here to get on and do well. And
- 34:13Speaker 2: yes we're not talking about that. We've just had another
- 34:16Speaker 2: tariff slept on us by the state, so we're going
- 34:18Speaker 2: to talk about this after seven. I'll give everybody the
- 34:20Speaker 2: details as soon as I possibly can. Fantastic, Thank you
- 34:22Speaker 2: so much, Enjoy your day. We'll be back tomorrow at five.
- 34:25Speaker 12: Got just.
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