Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 03 April 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickens
- 0:06Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof make your Property search simple,
- 0:11Speaker 1: US talks.
- 0:11Speaker 2: It'd be well goodbying to you and welcome to a
- 0:15Speaker 2: wet Thursday at New Zealand. This is earlier edition. What's
- 0:18Speaker 2: coming up in the next sixty minutes. Well, we'll finally
- 0:21Speaker 2: know the details of Trump's TARFF programs by nine o'clock
- 0:24Speaker 2: our time. So what is the buzz and what will
- 0:27Speaker 2: happen today? We'll have that story for you in five.
- 0:29Speaker 2: There's a clampdown coming on so called cowboy builders, so
- 0:32Speaker 2: how are we going to do that? We'll talk this
- 0:35Speaker 2: and ten we're going to discuss where the comedians are
- 0:38Speaker 2: the new truth tellers? And the program to improve psychological
- 0:42Speaker 2: care introduced five years ago, and the welfare budget has
- 0:45Speaker 2: come to an end, so how did that perform? And
- 0:47Speaker 2: more importantly, what's coming next? Minister Matt Doocy joins me.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Just before six. We'll have correspondence to right around the
- 0:55Speaker 2: world and the country at news as it breaks, and
- 0:57Speaker 2: you can have your say by sending me a text
- 1:00Speaker 2: and the text number is ninety two ninety two, and
- 1:01Speaker 2: a small charge applies it's seven after five.
- 1:06Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 1:07Speaker 2: It is Thursday, the third of April, and we are
- 1:10Speaker 2: just alan's away from Donald Trump's Liberation Day in the
- 1:13Speaker 2: United States. He's expected to announce the sweeping number of
- 1:16Speaker 2: tariffs to address what he calls unfair trade. US retailers
- 1:21Speaker 2: and consumers say they're nervous are waiting today's announcements.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Everyone from people who are buying cars are looking to
- 1:27Speaker 3: buy a car already started doing so early because they're
- 1:30Speaker 3: anticipating tariffs on automobiles coming into the United States. We
- 1:34Speaker 3: also know that the US Federal Reserve has already said
- 1:37Speaker 3: that there are some industries, namely lumberd that have preemptively
- 1:41Speaker 3: raised their prices in anticipation for whatever these tariffs will be.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Yas Damus is he rules nothing
- 1:50Speaker 2: out and he is preparing for all eventualities.
- 1:54Speaker 4: We're taking a calm, pragmatic approach and keeping our feet.
- 1:58Speaker 5: On the ground.
- 1:58Speaker 4: But it is important that moment like this that we
- 2:01Speaker 4: don't have to knee jerk.
- 2:02Speaker 6: Reactions, that we are actually.
- 2:04Speaker 7: Cool headed about this and that's why we won't rule
- 2:07Speaker 7: anything out.
- 2:08Speaker 2: And in case you forgot about it, there's some conflict
- 2:10Speaker 2: around the world, and we'll go to the Israel Gaza war.
- 2:13Speaker 2: At least nineteen Palestinians, including nine children, were killed in
- 2:17Speaker 2: a strike on a UN clinic sheltering displaced families in
- 2:21Speaker 2: the northern town of Jabalia. The Israeli military seed it
- 2:24Speaker 2: targeted hamas terrorists they reckon they were hiding there. Israel's
- 2:28Speaker 2: defense minister says it's expanding its military offensive and planning
- 2:32Speaker 2: to seize large areas of the Palestinian territory.
- 2:35Speaker 8: He's saying that large areas of Gaza will be seized
- 2:39Speaker 8: and added to what Israel calls it security zones, and
- 2:44Speaker 8: warned that this will involve large scale evacuations of the population.
- 2:49Speaker 8: Already we had seen this week. The UN says one
- 2:52Speaker 8: hundred and forty thousand people being told to.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Flee, and finally some said news for top gun fans
- 3:00Speaker 2: to Valkia Batman has died at the age of sixty five.
- 3:04Speaker 2: His daughter Mercedes told US media that Kilma died of
- 3:07Speaker 2: pneumonia in Los Angeles. She said her father had been
- 3:11Speaker 2: diagnosed with throat cancer in twenty fourteen, but later recovered
- 3:14Speaker 2: that the pneumonia got him and Van Kilma played fan
- 3:17Speaker 2: favorite iceman in the original Top Gun and reprise the
- 3:21Speaker 2: role for Top Gun. Maverick.
- 3:23Speaker 8: Yup with this one, Maverick, just to walk in the park.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Kazansky, you guys really are cowboys. What's your problem? Kazanski,
- 3:31Speaker 2: You're everyone's problem.
- 3:33Speaker 1: That's because every time you go.
- 3:34Speaker 9: Up in the air, you're unsafe.
- 3:36Speaker 8: I don't like you because you're dangerous.
- 3:38Speaker 10: That's right, nice man, I am dangerous.
- 3:44Speaker 2: You are still dangerous. You could be my wingman anytime.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Val Kilma Magnificent lips ten out to five.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines early edition. Andrew Dickens and
- 4:02Speaker 1: One Room, Make your Property search simple news.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Talk said the Goodbrding. I'm Andrew Dickens and for Ryan Bridge.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Have you ever wondered whether, in fact we're doing it
- 4:11Speaker 2: harder than we need to? I was really surprised yesterday
- 4:14Speaker 2: at the level of reaction to the decision not to
- 4:16Speaker 2: publicly fund the American Cup campaign. Many questioning that why
- 4:20Speaker 2: are we turning down a golden opportunity? Why are we
- 4:23Speaker 2: not taking the chance to stimulate the tourism and hospitality sector.
- 4:27Speaker 2: I know that Team New Zealand have always been either
- 4:29Speaker 2: overly glorified or overly vilified in this country. The haters
- 4:33Speaker 2: have never understood any public investment in what they call
- 4:36Speaker 2: a niche rich man sporting event, and that is partly true,
- 4:39Speaker 2: and they question whether we would have the sort of
- 4:41Speaker 2: economic benefit Barcelona claims more than two billion heroes. We are,
- 4:46Speaker 2: after all, at the end of the world, unlike Barcelona.
- 4:49Speaker 2: But others, of course say the GST from the challenges
- 4:52Speaker 2: being based here would pay for the investment in itself,
- 4:54Speaker 2: and then in bound tourism would be the cream on top.
- 4:57Speaker 2: But the reason I'm mentioning yesterday's story is what it
- 5:01Speaker 2: says about our economy and the way we're approaching it
- 5:03Speaker 2: and the way the government is managing it. They have
- 5:06Speaker 2: a very simplistic fiscal policy that I think we all
- 5:08Speaker 2: understand these days. Reduce all the government spending and then
- 5:11Speaker 2: reduce the debt. What they've started to reduce the spending. However,
- 5:16Speaker 2: the debt keeps ballooning and the ripples of their austerity
- 5:21Speaker 2: are flowing through the entire economy. There have been warnings
- 5:24Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago that the wholesale cancellation of
- 5:28Speaker 2: government construction contracts has put the whole sector in a
- 5:32Speaker 2: very fragile situation. It's not good if you're in construction.
- 5:35Speaker 2: The troubles in the health sector in Nelson and Wanaka
- 5:37Speaker 2: highlighted this week, shows what sinking lids cause. And remember
- 5:42Speaker 2: that every public service cut affects three other jobs in
- 5:45Speaker 2: the economy downstream. So you can argue that the government's
- 5:49Speaker 2: position is making the recessionary environment linger longer than it
- 5:55Speaker 2: needs to. And remember that every job slashed and the
- 5:58Speaker 2: tough times is tax revenue lost, forcing the government to
- 6:02Speaker 2: borrow more. Christopher Luxon is a businessman, and he knows
- 6:06Speaker 2: that investment is still necessary even in tough times, or
- 6:09Speaker 2: else you go backwards, or when the good times return,
- 6:12Speaker 2: you find you well behind the game. Now, seventy five
- 6:15Speaker 2: million dollars, as pointed out by Mike Hosking to me yesterday,
- 6:18Speaker 2: seventy five million would be two million a month over
- 6:22Speaker 2: the duration of the America's Cup campaign. Can we not
- 6:25Speaker 2: afford that? If New Zealand can't afford that, then what
- 6:29Speaker 2: hope have we going forward? Are we doing it harder
- 6:33Speaker 2: than we need to? Thirteen minutes after five, this week's
- 6:37Speaker 2: must read, as Richard Preble's opinion piece on our proposed
- 6:39Speaker 2: four year terms. All parties have voted for it so far.
- 6:43Speaker 2: One aspect Richard doesn't like is the opposition having majorities
- 6:46Speaker 2: in select committees, which would turn them into kangaroo courts.
- 6:49Speaker 2: But his main beef is that it won't make governments
- 6:51Speaker 2: any more effective. He quotes Parkinson's law that says work
- 6:56Speaker 2: conforms to deadlines. In other words, governments will do just
- 6:59Speaker 2: as much work in three years as they would in four.
- 7:03Speaker 2: He reckons rather than making governments more effective in implementing
- 7:07Speaker 2: their programs, it will actually slow things down. And it's
- 7:12Speaker 2: easy on first glance to think about the four year
- 7:14Speaker 2: term and think it would make governments more confident in
- 7:18Speaker 2: enacting their beliefs. But then on closer inspection would they
- 7:21Speaker 2: Why would they? As well? Remember politicians are in it
- 7:24Speaker 2: for the power, but also for the job and the money,
- 7:27Speaker 2: which is why they want longer terms. And then Richard
- 7:30Speaker 2: finished by saying four years is great for a good government,
- 7:33Speaker 2: but terrible if there's a bad one. It was a
- 7:36Speaker 2: great piece. It was enough for me to reassess the
- 7:38Speaker 2: whole idea. You should read it. It's on the Herald
- 7:40Speaker 2: dot co dot NZ, the Andrew Dickens Liberation Day. It's
- 7:47Speaker 2: got to be the title of a blockbuster movie, hasn't it.
- 7:50Speaker 2: That is Today in America. We're there. Next this is
- 7:53Speaker 2: News Talks.
- 7:54Speaker 1: That Be News and Views You Trust To start your
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- 8:01Speaker 1: Make Your Property Search Simple?
- 8:03Speaker 11: Can you talk?
- 8:04Speaker 2: Sibby Grant has texted me thank you for your text.
- 8:07Speaker 2: Grut ninety two ninety two. Small charge applies and he
- 8:09Speaker 2: doesn't think the cup was ever going to be held
- 8:11Speaker 2: in New Zealand this time because there's more money overseas. Yeah,
- 8:14Speaker 2: that was just an example. My real question is are
- 8:17Speaker 2: we are we putting our head in the sand and
- 8:19Speaker 2: are we avoiding any investment that actually may pay off?
- 8:23Speaker 2: What do you think at ninety two ninety two, it
- 8:25Speaker 2: is seventeen minutes after five. All eyes on America today,
- 8:29Speaker 2: it's Liberation Day.
- 8:31Speaker 5: I think it's going to be something that's going to
- 8:32Speaker 5: bring a lot of wealth back to our country, tremendous
- 8:35Speaker 5: wealth back to our country.
- 8:36Speaker 12: Actually, the President has a brilliant team of advisors who
- 8:39Speaker 12: have been studying these issues for decades, and we are
- 8:43Speaker 12: focused on restoring the Golden Age of America.
- 8:47Speaker 2: All right. President Trump has set to start dishing out
- 8:49Speaker 2: a number of tariffs about nine o'clock our time, to
- 8:52Speaker 2: address what he calls unfair trade with other countries. US
- 8:55Speaker 2: retailers say that nervous the European Union threatens a robust
- 8:59Speaker 2: and calibrated response. So let's go to America. We're going
- 9:02Speaker 2: to the University of Iowa, and there there is an
- 9:05Speaker 2: economics professor by the name of Anne Villamil who joins me. Now,
- 9:08Speaker 2: good morning to you.
- 9:08Speaker 10: Anne.
- 9:10Speaker 11: Good morning.
- 9:12Speaker 2: So what's the vibe like over there?
- 9:16Speaker 11: I think there is. I think lots of US don't
- 9:20Speaker 11: know what to expect. There's obviously lots of concern about
- 9:23Speaker 11: a trade war, but it's been on and off and
- 9:25Speaker 11: on again. So we're going to see what the announcements
- 9:30Speaker 11: are today. I think there have been reports that they're
- 9:33Speaker 11: still fine tuning.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Is there a realization of makes the American public that
- 9:37Speaker 2: an awful lot of stuff is suddenly going to cost
- 9:39Speaker 2: an awful lot more.
- 9:42Speaker 11: I think that that is starting to hit, particularly in Iowa.
- 9:46Speaker 11: In Iowa there is it's a very small state, but
- 9:51Speaker 11: it does a lot of agricultural exports and also John
- 9:55Speaker 11: Deere manufacturing exports, and people are I think very because
- 10:01Speaker 11: if you export. You care about other people's markets, So
- 10:04Speaker 11: it's going to be higher prices for us, but also
- 10:09Speaker 11: some tough times for our firms who export prison.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Trump says he's doing this for the American workers. So
- 10:16Speaker 2: what has been the representatives of the American workers reactions
- 10:19Speaker 2: side the unions?
- 10:24Speaker 11: It is interesting that I think that there's so much
- 10:26Speaker 11: uncertainty that, you know, economists are sort of uniformly concerned
- 10:31Speaker 11: about trade wars because we know how damaging they are,
- 10:36Speaker 11: but I think there is a lot of wait and see.
- 10:40Speaker 11: Right now, there are trade problems, there's no question about that.
- 10:45Speaker 11: The question is what's the most effective way to resolve
- 10:49Speaker 11: those problems? And so it's it's been surprising and concerning,
- 10:54Speaker 11: particularly in the United States with Canada. Canada is young
- 11:00Speaker 11: ally and neighbor and so there are concerns about things
- 11:06Speaker 11: like we get eighty percent of our aluminum from Canada,
- 11:11Speaker 11: and to raise those prices. That's an intermediate good that
- 11:15Speaker 11: our firms used to produce, and I think many of
- 11:19Speaker 11: our firms are concerned about that. But there's been so
- 11:22Speaker 11: much back and forth. Yet we're going to do something,
- 11:25Speaker 11: We're going to wait a month, We're going to do
- 11:27Speaker 11: something else. We're going to wait a month that not
- 11:30Speaker 11: that much has happened yet.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Yeah, sures, we're all wanting some Suresey, and we'll find
- 11:34Speaker 2: that out at nine o'clock this morning. Of course, the
- 11:36Speaker 2: rest of the world is still embracing globalism, but America
- 11:39Speaker 2: is now an outlier as it looks inward. Is your
- 11:41Speaker 2: American economy strong enough to stand alone?
- 11:46Speaker 11: Well, I certainly hope that we will continue being a
- 11:49Speaker 11: part of the trading community. The others' economy has been strong,
- 11:55Speaker 11: it probably could endure a lot of this pain. The
- 12:00Speaker 11: problem is this is just going to be pure pain,
- 12:03Speaker 11: and the President has not yet made a case for
- 12:06Speaker 11: why this is the most effective way to do this.
- 12:09Speaker 11: There are certainly bilateral issues with China. There are certainly
- 12:15Speaker 11: issues about defense sharing with Europe. Those issues are real,
- 12:21Speaker 11: but starting a trade war as a way to solve
- 12:24Speaker 11: them is certainly something that concerns most economists.
- 12:28Speaker 2: And Villamel, who is an economist professor at the University
- 12:31Speaker 2: of Iowa, and I thank you so much for your time.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Takes three Andrew, if we had four year terms, that
- 12:37Speaker 2: would mean labor would still be in power. Who doesn't
- 12:40Speaker 2: bear thinking about salesman. It takes it very good. Ever
- 12:42Speaker 2: being stung by a cowboy builder. Ever had a leaky
- 12:45Speaker 2: building because some guy just didn't know how to do things?
- 12:47Speaker 2: Ever paid a cashi and then had a building full
- 12:50Speaker 2: down on you? Well, this government wants to get stuck
- 12:53Speaker 2: into the cowboy builders. How I'll tell you more about
- 12:56Speaker 2: that in a moment.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Andrew dickens All avilion issue with one room, make your
- 13:01Speaker 1: property search simple, youth dog zibby.
- 13:04Speaker 2: All right, We've got a slew of new government changes
- 13:06Speaker 2: which will hold cowboy builders more responsible for poor quality work.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Minister Chris Pink hopes that strengthening the Licensed Building Practices
- 13:15Speaker 2: Registrar will ease concerned about plans so lect builders self certify.
- 13:20Speaker 8: So.
- 13:20Speaker 2: John Tucki is professor at the Auckard University of Technology.
- 13:23Speaker 2: He specializes in construction management. He's got up early for
- 13:26Speaker 2: us OLLO.
- 13:26Speaker 5: John morning.
- 13:28Speaker 2: This is an international problem that has been discussed for years.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Why hasn't it been sorted out before?
- 13:34Speaker 13: Because in times when the cost of building goes up,
- 13:39Speaker 13: then it just becomes very convenient to go for a
- 13:41Speaker 13: chief option, and that chief option is usually somebody who's
- 13:45Speaker 13: not going to necessarily do all the detail work that
- 13:47Speaker 13: you need and it looks shoddy accordingly.
- 13:50Speaker 2: Okay, so let's have a look at yesterday's announcement. And
- 13:53Speaker 2: remember we're kind of first in the world and this
- 13:55Speaker 2: sort of thing. Is it a step in the right
- 13:57Speaker 2: direction or is it window dressing?
- 14:00Speaker 13: No, just step in the right direction. I mean, if
- 14:03Speaker 13: we're going to go down the road.
- 14:04Speaker 10: Of self certification for building works, which is perfectly reasonable,
- 14:08Speaker 10: it's you know, we we assume a car is built
- 14:11Speaker 10: correctly as a for instance, you know, we don't get
- 14:13Speaker 10: a certification of an individual.
- 14:15Speaker 2: You know, Oh, John, we need to get a builder
- 14:21Speaker 2: in to fix up your phone, and John has fallen off,
- 14:24Speaker 2: so we'll leave this at some point. Of course, you've
- 14:28Speaker 2: probably experienced less than ideal construction work at some point
- 14:32Speaker 2: or another. So if a builder is offering a cashy,
- 14:36Speaker 2: John reckons that they're already untrustworthy. He warns against the
- 14:40Speaker 2: illusion of a good deal. He knows that things are
- 14:43Speaker 2: getting more expensive right now in New Zealand, so if
- 14:45Speaker 2: it looks too good to be true, it probably isn't true.
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- 15:02Speaker 2: Thank you for your text offering a cashi to fix
- 15:05Speaker 2: John Tuki's phone. Okay, the comedian Jimmy Barr, Jimmy Carr,
- 15:10Speaker 2: excuse me. Jimmy Carr is coming back to New Zealand
- 15:13Speaker 2: for a nationwide tour that culminates at Auchland Spark Arena.
- 15:17Speaker 2: These are big hauls he's playing and he can fill
- 15:19Speaker 2: them because he's that good. The show is called Jimmy
- 15:22Speaker 2: Carr Laughs funny, and he does. It's so true. That's
- 15:28Speaker 2: what makes that funny, and that is Jimmy's thing. It's
- 15:31Speaker 2: very easy to lump comedians like Jimmy and Ricky Gervas
- 15:34Speaker 2: and America's Bill Maher into a conservative label simply because
- 15:38Speaker 2: much of what they say is politically incorrect. But what
- 15:41Speaker 2: makes them funny is that it's true. They point out
- 15:45Speaker 2: the hilarity of our tribal positions, both left and right.
- 15:49Speaker 2: So at the moment, I'm reading Bill Maher's book, What
- 15:52Speaker 2: This Comedian Said will Shock You. It's a collection of
- 15:56Speaker 2: his best monologues over a year now. I used to
- 15:58Speaker 2: think he was quite right wing when I watched his show,
- 16:01Speaker 2: but that was because he was merciless against the Biden administration.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Now that Trump is in power, he's equally merciless. And
- 16:08Speaker 2: I like that. I like that he's telling the truth.
- 16:11Speaker 2: I like his pithy observation that conservatives govern without shame
- 16:16Speaker 2: and liberal shame without governing. That's true in America, that's
- 16:20Speaker 2: true here. Both sides are as bad as each other.
- 16:23Speaker 2: And he says that is why the world is so
- 16:25Speaker 2: full of people who want to break the shit up.
- 16:28Speaker 2: I like all these comedians because they bring logic to
- 16:32Speaker 2: the fight. They're neither left nor right. They just look
- 16:35Speaker 2: at what it is and laughs at it, unlike politicians
- 16:39Speaker 2: who will bring whatever might score them votes and the
- 16:42Speaker 2: media who will say anything that will get them clicks,
- 16:45Speaker 2: which pay the bills. Andrew Dickens five twenty nine. Michael
- 16:48Speaker 2: from Kohen Muhrama has sent me a text saying the
- 16:51Speaker 2: government spent millions on inviting investors from around the world
- 16:53Speaker 2: to an economic summit a few weeks ago to encourage investment,
- 16:57Speaker 2: but the government can't come up with two million dollars
- 16:59Speaker 2: a month to invest in an America's Cup defense that
- 17:01Speaker 2: will highlight New Zealand to the world show the world,
- 17:04Speaker 2: our ability to develop high technology bring millions of dollars
- 17:07Speaker 2: into the country. He finishes his text, which is long
- 17:11Speaker 2: fair to say, by saying show some leadership and invest
- 17:15Speaker 2: in this country. And that's his message to the government.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Right on the way. I've got a whole lot of
- 17:20Speaker 2: really good show business news, particularly if you're like adolescents
- 17:23Speaker 2: and White Lotus and John Wick and before Sex Matt
- 17:29Speaker 2: Doocy the Minister. As we come to the end of
- 17:32Speaker 2: the welfare budget's psychological campaign. This is news talk you'd
- 17:36Speaker 2: be I'm Andrew Dickens.
- 17:39Speaker 5: I worried about it.
- 17:41Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
- 17:43Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof make
- 17:48Speaker 1: your Property Search Simple Youth Talk sid be Men number.
- 17:58Speaker 7: Two of the.
- 18:01Speaker 2: Thursday. That is the disco Diva from Camden, London, UK
- 18:07Speaker 2: do a leaper who last night played the Spark Arena
- 18:10Speaker 2: in Auckland and we'll do it all over again on Friday.
- 18:14Speaker 2: I know that when she comes in tours she does
- 18:17Speaker 2: the cover version of a big hit from the country.
- 18:19Speaker 2: I know when she was in Australia she was doing
- 18:21Speaker 2: a disco version of Highway to Hell. I wouldn't go
- 18:24Speaker 2: last night. Obviously I wake up early. I could have
- 18:26Speaker 2: gone to the Six Pistols last night as well. So
- 18:28Speaker 2: if you did go, or if you know anyone who
- 18:30Speaker 2: did go, what New Zealand song did do? A leaper do?
- 18:32Speaker 2: You can text me ninety two ninety two Now a
- 18:35Speaker 2: little bit of show business news because it's a Thursday
- 18:37Speaker 2: and why night and it's raining and you want some
- 18:38Speaker 2: fun news. In just three weeks, Ado Lessons has become
- 18:41Speaker 2: Netflix's most popular series of all time. The limited series
- 18:45Speaker 2: has amassed another thirty point four million views last year,
- 18:49Speaker 2: putting it near ninety seven million since its deboo, and
- 18:54Speaker 2: they believe that numbers got to climb as people hear
- 18:58Speaker 2: about it, discover it, and go to watch it. I
- 19:00Speaker 2: was going to watch episode two last night, but the
- 19:02Speaker 2: family got together and thought about our day and how
- 19:04Speaker 2: tough it'd been, and frankly, we were not in the
- 19:06Speaker 2: right emotional space for it. Look, it's a good watch,
- 19:09Speaker 2: but it's a very tough watch and you have to
- 19:10Speaker 2: pick your time. Meanwhile, for White Lotus fans, we've found
- 19:14Speaker 2: out now that the final will be ninety minutes long
- 19:17Speaker 2: and directed by Mike White. And finally, if you like
- 19:20Speaker 2: seeing a lot of people being shot. Kianu Reeves will
- 19:23Speaker 2: be back with John Wick. Chapter five has been announced
- 19:26Speaker 2: that is in development. He will start in it, he
- 19:30Speaker 2: will produce it. Kanu Reeves is getting a bit older,
- 19:33Speaker 2: so how the gun food works for him, I don't know.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Remember John Work Chapter four took an over four hundred
- 19:38Speaker 2: and forty million dollars at the worldwide box office, each
- 19:42Speaker 2: of the first four films accomplishing the rare feet of
- 19:44Speaker 2: out performing its predecessor. So John Wick five has started
- 19:49Speaker 2: and will come here soon. It is now twenty one
- 19:52Speaker 2: to six and it's time to go right around the
- 19:56Speaker 2: country and welcome into the program from Otago Callum broc
- 19:59Speaker 2: to Halla Callum.
- 20:00Speaker 14: Good morning Andrew.
- 20:01Speaker 2: What's happening to Dunedin City Council's Chief Executive today?
- 20:05Speaker 14: This is Sandy Graham. She's set to have her future
- 20:08Speaker 14: decided today. A bit of a controversial figure here in Duneda.
- 20:12Speaker 14: Lately her conduct in the position has been under question.
- 20:15Speaker 14: The council meets today with the agenda including an end
- 20:19Speaker 14: of term review for the Chief Executive, so she could
- 20:22Speaker 14: have her contract extended by up to two years, or
- 20:25Speaker 14: the council may decide to run a recruitment process. Look,
- 20:28Speaker 14: she's been in the Ros since twenty twenty, but her
- 20:30Speaker 14: tenure has been marred by a few incidents. The odt
- 20:33Speaker 14: here reporting she insulted the mere Jules Radick and other
- 20:36Speaker 14: city councilors, but later apologized are you wet yet?
- 20:40Speaker 2: Here we are.
- 20:41Speaker 14: We've got occasional rain and more of it this morning,
- 20:43Speaker 14: but should clear this afternoon for us strong nor easterlies
- 20:46Speaker 14: as well for Dunedin the heighth today twenty We've.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Got to crazy. It is Cras Sherwood. Good morning to you.
- 20:50Speaker 12: Good morning.
- 20:51Speaker 2: A recognition for a well known High Court judge.
- 20:54Speaker 12: Yes, well, a former judge is Sir Graham Pankhurst as
- 20:57Speaker 12: receiving an honorary Doctor of Law from Canterbury University, almost
- 21:02Speaker 12: sixty years after he originally graduated there. Now many people
- 21:06Speaker 12: might know the name Graham Pancurs from his time presiding
- 21:09Speaker 12: over some of the country's most famous legal trials, some
- 21:13Speaker 12: that I remember well would be pancursed hearing the retrial
- 21:16Speaker 12: of David Bain in two thousand and nine. He was
- 21:18Speaker 12: also appointed the year after that to head the Royal
- 21:21Speaker 12: Commission into the Pike River Mind disaster.
- 21:24Speaker 6: Now all up.
- 21:24Speaker 12: Pancurst served as a High Court judge for eighteen years
- 21:28Speaker 12: before he officially retired in twenty fourteen. He is dedicating
- 21:32Speaker 12: this honor to his family.
- 21:33Speaker 2: And how's your weather?
- 21:35Speaker 12: Rain here as well, but should clear late Tonight's Augustine
- 21:38Speaker 12: northeasteries rising to gale and exposed places this afternoon the
- 21:42Speaker 12: high eighteen and.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Too Wellington would go. Max told good morning to you,
- 21:46Speaker 2: good morning. What is the latest on the couple who
- 21:48Speaker 2: were found dead? And rosneyth Yeah, So we have the
- 21:51Speaker 2: news Monday morning of two people found dad at that home.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Police that they'd gone to the property thanks to worried
- 21:57Speaker 2: relatives who had sounded the alarm there and have been
- 22:00Speaker 2: family members for longer than usual.
- 22:02Speaker 15: Two people found dead. We went to the scene, spoke
- 22:05Speaker 15: to neighbors, learned that a British couple lived there. A
- 22:09Speaker 15: neighbor seemed to think they were tourists, lived there with
- 22:11Speaker 15: their landlord. Lovely people, they said, dream neighbors. He worked
- 22:15Speaker 15: in science, She had been a teacher and they had
- 22:17Speaker 15: adult teach adult children. Sorry, living in New Zealand. He
- 22:20Speaker 15: apparently had been working here. She moving between here and
- 22:23Speaker 15: the UK, And we now understand that The case is
- 22:26Speaker 15: a suspected murder suicide. Post mortems were completed yesterday. Police
- 22:32Speaker 15: have said they're not looking for anyone else. Very tragic
- 22:36Speaker 15: circumstances in a beautiful harbourside suburb on the hill.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather?
- 22:41Speaker 15: Overcasts some rain later are high of twenty one.
- 22:43Speaker 2: Neighbor rich Man, who joins me from Auckland.
- 22:46Speaker 4: Good morning, the rain is here.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Yes, I know, but the irony is water restrictions are
- 22:51Speaker 2: coming in winter.
- 22:52Speaker 4: Possibly you've got it right, that's correct, d Andrew. So
- 22:55Speaker 4: look the winter water restrictions they're looking more likely for
- 22:57Speaker 4: us here in Auckland. It's the Dame now they're experiencing
- 23:01Speaker 4: their driest March in fifteen years.
- 23:04Speaker 6: So the total water.
- 23:05Speaker 4: Supply dam storage it's currently sitting at around fifty nine
- 23:09Speaker 4: percent now, that's down from a historical average of almost
- 23:12Speaker 4: seventy five percent for this time of year. So water key,
- 23:16Speaker 4: head of water that Sharon Danks. She says, Look, the
- 23:18Speaker 4: city is preparing for drought. Mandatory restrictions could be imposed
- 23:22Speaker 4: in June. So obviously the restrictions will depend on the
- 23:26Speaker 4: rainfall and if people, you know, help by just reducing
- 23:29Speaker 4: that demand.
- 23:30Speaker 5: George showers.
- 23:30Speaker 2: How's the weather today?
- 23:31Speaker 4: Scattered rain, that's the good news on this one. You're
- 23:34Speaker 4: quite right, becoming widespread from late afternoon rain rain rain
- 23:36Speaker 4: twenty two the high here in Auckland.
- 23:37Speaker 2: And I thank you Neiva. It is now eighteen minutes
- 23:40Speaker 2: to six text through ninety two to ninety two, Grant says, Andrew,
- 23:42Speaker 2: is your wife's EES scooter part of the police the
- 23:46Speaker 2: ones found by the police. Yeah, I got quite excited
- 23:50Speaker 2: about that story too, And no they are not. But
- 23:52Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll give you an update on
- 23:54Speaker 2: Helen's ES scooter tomorrow because we've had developments with the police,
- 24:00Speaker 2: the insurance and also with the people who sell East scooters.
- 24:03Speaker 2: I'll tell you that story tomorrow. I asked the question
- 24:05Speaker 2: what to do a leaper sing from a New Zealand
- 24:07Speaker 2: artist last night in her concerts Bark Arena, and I've
- 24:09Speaker 2: been told by a text as she did Royals by Lord,
- 24:14Speaker 2: which is the same song that Bruce Springsteen did when
- 24:17Speaker 2: he last came here. As well, there are more songs
- 24:20Speaker 2: other than Royals by Lord that she could have done.
- 24:23Speaker 2: She could have done Icy Read by spied Ends. That
- 24:25Speaker 2: would have been an interesting mash up but there we go.
- 24:27Speaker 2: She's playing again on Friday. Now on the way, do
- 24:30Speaker 2: you remember the Access and Choice program that was set
- 24:33Speaker 2: up in twenty nineteen. This was part of the well
- 24:35Speaker 2: Being budget and it was about psychological care for mild
- 24:38Speaker 2: to moderate cases. Well, it got some funding. The five
- 24:42Speaker 2: years is up. How did it go and what's happening next?
- 24:45Speaker 2: We'll be talking to Matt Doocy, the Minister for Mental
- 24:47Speaker 2: Health on this before six. But next to America we
- 24:50Speaker 2: go and Elon Musk's time at DOGE might be coming
- 24:54Speaker 2: to an end. Mitch mccanna's next.
- 24:58Speaker 1: International correspondent, Squidd ends at Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
- 25:02Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Fourteen to six, Dimandrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge and to
- 25:07Speaker 2: America we go, Mitch we can, Good morning, Good morning,
- 25:10Speaker 2: how are you, Andrew? I'm well.
- 25:11Speaker 9: Elon Musth's time a Doze could be coming to an end. Yeah,
- 25:15Speaker 9: this is a big story and it's only come out
- 25:17Speaker 9: very recently this morning.
- 25:18Speaker 5: Now.
- 25:19Speaker 9: Tesla stock has suffered brutal blows already this year. In
- 25:23Speaker 9: the first four months of the year, or first three
- 25:25Speaker 9: months of the year rather, its stock has been down
- 25:28Speaker 9: thirty six percent, right, and this morning, the company announced
- 25:32Speaker 9: that sales or deliveries of its vehicles were down around
- 25:36Speaker 9: thirteen percent in the last quarter as well, so bad
- 25:39Speaker 9: news for Tesla. It was also down around one and
- 25:42Speaker 9: a half percent this morning. Now there's a new report
- 25:44Speaker 9: that's come out saying that Donald Trump has told some
- 25:47Speaker 9: of his cabinet secretaries and top officials that Elon Musk's
- 25:50Speaker 9: time might be coming to an end at the White
- 25:52Speaker 9: House simply because he's done the job he needs to
- 25:55Speaker 9: do and he needs to go back to his other companies.
- 25:58Speaker 9: The quote that's running on this from Donald Trump is
- 26:01Speaker 9: that he said there will be a point at which
- 26:03Speaker 9: the secretaries will be able to do this work, and
- 26:06Speaker 9: that Elon Musk has a big company to run.
- 26:08Speaker 5: Now.
- 26:08Speaker 9: As a result of that story coming out this morning,
- 26:11Speaker 9: Tesla's stock is up nearly five percent. So if there
- 26:14Speaker 9: was ever a question whether Tesla's brutal few months has
- 26:18Speaker 9: been based on him involved with the White House, I
- 26:20Speaker 9: think we have our answer.
- 26:21Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, And of course the other side will say
- 26:23Speaker 2: boycott's and vandalism work, but we don't want to hear
- 26:25Speaker 2: that sort of thing. Now, we've been talking about Liberation
- 26:28Speaker 2: Day now for a couple of days and now it's
- 26:30Speaker 2: coming nine o'clock out time, so that's in about three
- 26:32Speaker 2: hours time. We've already talked about this this hour. What's
- 26:34Speaker 2: your take on it?
- 26:36Speaker 9: Yeah, this is going to be an interesting one, and
- 26:38Speaker 9: I think one of the biggest things we're looking at
- 26:39Speaker 9: is what's going to happen, because there have simply been
- 26:42Speaker 9: no leaks that have really come from the White House
- 26:44Speaker 9: giving a clear indication of what's going to happen here
- 26:48Speaker 9: and which countries are going to be affected. Donald Trump
- 26:50Speaker 9: has given some hint that he might be going easier
- 26:54Speaker 9: than he was first going to. There's a lot of
- 26:56Speaker 9: volatility in the US stock market at the moment. Donald
- 26:58Speaker 9: Trump is someone that watches the markets very closely, and
- 27:02Speaker 9: it's interesting to know this is going to happen at
- 27:04Speaker 9: four o'clock local time here on the East Coast, which
- 27:07Speaker 9: is actually when the markets closed, so that would have
- 27:09Speaker 9: been done on purpose, I can imagine. But really I
- 27:12Speaker 9: think it's interesting to note that we have had no leaks.
- 27:15Speaker 9: It's very unknown what's going to happen at the stage
- 27:17Speaker 9: and who's going to be affected.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Hey, match, I thank you so very very much. And
- 27:21Speaker 2: of course, as soon as it happens, you will hear
- 27:22Speaker 2: about it right here on News talalksz B. It is
- 27:24Speaker 2: twelve minutes to six Drew Dickens. So cast your mind
- 27:30Speaker 2: back to the last government, remember the Access and Choice
- 27:33Speaker 2: program that was set up in twenty nineteen, where the
- 27:35Speaker 2: report has now been released on how it's going. It's
- 27:38Speaker 2: been five years, it's found obviously we've still got stuff
- 27:40Speaker 2: to work on. It was set up back in twenty
- 27:42Speaker 2: nineteen as part of the so called well Being budget.
- 27:45Speaker 2: It was allocated six hundred and sixty four million dollars
- 27:48Speaker 2: for five years and then two hundred and nine million
- 27:51Speaker 2: per anim after that. So the Minister for Mental Health
- 27:53Speaker 2: is now in charge of the whole thing is Matt
- 27:55Speaker 2: Doocy and he joins me. Now good oneing to you
- 27:57Speaker 2: Matt only Andrew, can you qualify the differences between now
- 28:01Speaker 2: and five years ago after the introduction of this program?
- 28:04Speaker 2: Are we better?
- 28:05Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 28:06Speaker 7: I think when you look at the data from the
- 28:08Speaker 7: report released today from the Mental Health Commission, we've seen
- 28:12Speaker 7: a significant rollout of the Access and Choice program within
- 28:15Speaker 7: GP practices across the country where there is disappointment has
- 28:20Speaker 7: significantly missed its target. It's only delivered to about two
- 28:24Speaker 7: thirds of the three hundred and twenty five thousand people
- 28:27Speaker 7: that the goal.
- 28:29Speaker 5: Was to serve. I've always been of the view that part.
- 28:32Speaker 7: Of the issue we've seen in mental health is we've
- 28:34Speaker 7: always talked lofty goals, but we've done very poorly an implementation.
- 28:40Speaker 7: And that's why this government was keen to have its
- 28:42Speaker 7: first mental health minister. So we're focused on ensuring that
- 28:46Speaker 7: that service has rolled out properly and according to its target.
- 28:49Speaker 2: Well, we'll just look at that. So the goal was
- 28:51Speaker 2: to have psychological health services available to seventy percent of
- 28:54Speaker 2: those enrolled with general practices, so you had sixty eight percent.
- 28:58Speaker 2: So the services are pretty much there into the targets.
- 29:01Speaker 2: But you hope to hit a goal of three hundred
- 29:02Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand people getting the services a year.
- 29:05Speaker 2: You hit two hundred and seven thousand, which is why
- 29:07Speaker 2: you say two thirds. So where's the problem of education
- 29:10Speaker 2: and people are not realizing that the services are there
- 29:12Speaker 2: to be used.
- 29:14Speaker 5: I think that's partly true, Andrew.
- 29:16Speaker 7: When you look at the annual Health Survey people reporting
- 29:19Speaker 7: um mental health needs, a third of them are reporting
- 29:23Speaker 7: that they didn't know where to go.
- 29:25Speaker 5: But I think there's another thing happening here.
- 29:27Speaker 7: It's a run utilization of the access and Choice workforce.
- 29:31Speaker 7: In opposition, I was supportive of the model, but also
- 29:35Speaker 7: critical it does have an achilles heel where the warm
- 29:39Speaker 7: handover and a GP practice is a good model for
- 29:42Speaker 7: ensuring someone gets that timely support, but it does mean
- 29:46Speaker 7: at times and some practices that workforce is sitting there underutilized.
- 29:51Speaker 7: So look, I'll welcome the report from the Mental Health Commission.
- 29:54Speaker 7: I talked with him when I first came in that
- 29:56Speaker 7: we needed to do the five year review looking for
- 30:00Speaker 7: I think part of the solution is going to be
- 30:03Speaker 7: digitizing the accessant Choice program, shifting online so that'll able
- 30:08Speaker 7: the staff to have high utilization rates and see more people.
- 30:11Speaker 2: And it may have something to do with the fact
- 30:13Speaker 2: that GPS are so wildly overworked.
- 30:16Speaker 7: Well, this is a step service. It's actually funded directly
- 30:19Speaker 7: from the government.
- 30:20Speaker 2: No, but it goes through the GPS. They then have
- 30:22Speaker 2: to refer they've got a fifteen minute when theow but
- 30:24Speaker 2: there we go, look, hey what not?
- 30:25Speaker 7: That's not necessarily true, Andrew, and that actually came out
- 30:28Speaker 7: in the report. What they're core calling this variation in
- 30:32Speaker 7: the service and the pathways.
- 30:33Speaker 5: So people don't.
- 30:35Speaker 7: Actually need to see the GP to be referred to
- 30:37Speaker 7: the service. That is happening in some services, So addressing
- 30:41Speaker 7: the variation, people can be seen straight by the service
- 30:44Speaker 7: without going through the GPS.
- 30:45Speaker 2: And that's good and that's good, and that requires education
- 30:48Speaker 2: and those people who are suffering need to know that
- 30:50Speaker 2: it's there. But of course that's suffering. Hey, so what's next?
- 30:53Speaker 2: You know, the first change of funding the six hundred
- 30:55Speaker 2: and sixty four million dollars fully committed, fully spent. Then
- 30:57Speaker 2: they said there was going to be two hundred and
- 30:59Speaker 2: nine million dollars a year available going forward. Is that
- 31:02Speaker 2: still available?
- 31:03Speaker 5: Yes, that funding is still available.
- 31:05Speaker 7: It's part of the Protected Ring Fence for Mental health
- 31:08Speaker 7: and addiction.
- 31:09Speaker 5: Funding this year will spend two point six billion. So
- 31:13Speaker 5: what I want to see is.
- 31:14Speaker 7: That program rolled out further. We want to hit its
- 31:17Speaker 7: target of seeing three hundred and twenty five thousand people.
- 31:20Speaker 7: Not only that, one of my first targets I've set
- 31:23Speaker 7: five targets for mental health, first time in New Zealand
- 31:26Speaker 7: would have mental health targets is for people to be
- 31:28Speaker 7: seen within one week of the service.
- 31:31Speaker 5: So I want more people to be seen and seen
- 31:33Speaker 5: quicker Matt, good.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Luck and I thank you so much for your time
- 31:36Speaker 2: today Matt Doucy, who is the Minister for Mental Health.
- 31:39Speaker 2: The report says that the psychological distress in this country
- 31:44Speaker 2: has increased markedly over the past five years, and they
- 31:47Speaker 2: urge that the program needs to be sustained. They want
- 31:50Speaker 2: more enhanced productivity, extended coverage and improved data collection.
- 31:56Speaker 5: Use it.
- 31:57Speaker 2: It's there to be used and taxpayers invested in it
- 32:00Speaker 2: for you. It is seven to six.
- 32:03Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
- 32:06Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room, Make your Property
- 32:10Speaker 1: search and simple.
- 32:11Speaker 2: You talk zippy by the word from Lee Andrew. Why
- 32:14Speaker 2: did the Malori Party get away with so much and
- 32:15Speaker 2: keep resetting the rules to suit them. I don't believe
- 32:17Speaker 2: any other party would be able to do the same
- 32:19Speaker 2: mate as a stunt, and that's what the Malori Party
- 32:22Speaker 2: seem to like to do. They like to do sunts.
- 32:24Speaker 2: I don't think they have any interesting actually governing and
- 32:26Speaker 2: that is a problem for Labor if they ever want
- 32:28Speaker 2: to make a coalition with them, which I think was
- 32:30Speaker 2: the subject of Mike Hoskis.
- 32:32Speaker 6: Indeed it was and got proven yesterday mentioned them. I
- 32:35Speaker 6: wandered on to a Mariah and said, oh, what do
- 32:38Speaker 6: you mean of these silly little rules with your si?
- 32:40Speaker 6: Imagine if I said that I'm going to sit on
- 32:42Speaker 6: a table exactly, and that woman over there can say
- 32:44Speaker 6: whatever she likes. I mean, because there's silly little rules.
- 32:47Speaker 6: I mean, that's the problem. And it is a problem
- 32:48Speaker 6: for labor, isn't it. I mean, explain that to me,
- 32:51Speaker 6: and the Greens are just as bad. Explain that to me.
- 32:53Speaker 6: How you're going to run the country with that lot?
- 32:55Speaker 6: And that's the that's the major.
- 32:57Speaker 2: But is this privilege committee or powerful or because he
- 33:00Speaker 2: was technically technically yes, it is, but no, if it
- 33:05Speaker 2: doesn't work, you know, in reality it doesn't work.
- 33:07Speaker 5: Does work?
- 33:08Speaker 6: Private schools, by the way, we're looking at private schools
- 33:09Speaker 6: on Liberation Day obviously, but private schools this morning they're
- 33:12Speaker 6: closing a number of schools around the country are closing
- 33:15Speaker 6: their roles until twenty twenty seven.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Wow, they're making you do videos.
- 33:19Speaker 6: Do you want to come to our school, give us
- 33:20Speaker 6: a video, show us your home, family life, tell us
- 33:23Speaker 6: what you're about. That's so it's a your jumper city
- 33:26Speaker 6: and references and exactly. And that's before we'll charge your
- 33:28Speaker 6: twenty five to thirty five thousand dollars a year to
- 33:30Speaker 6: come here. So there's something going on there in terms
- 33:32Speaker 6: of why would you want to do that. In the answers,
- 33:34Speaker 6: you know you're not getting what you want to the
- 33:36Speaker 6: public system obviously, So we'll have a look at that.
- 33:38Speaker 6: And obviously nine o'clock this morning. And what it all means,
- 33:41Speaker 6: by the way, elon the rumor is just moments ago
- 33:43Speaker 6: the stock has lifted.
- 33:45Speaker 2: It's lift of five per and he's on his way
- 33:47Speaker 2: out of dosee.
- 33:48Speaker 6: So he's worked out the prices too high. Yeah, well yes,
- 33:51Speaker 6: and that's before you get to yesterday at Wisconsin. Things
- 33:53Speaker 6: that you lost.
- 33:54Speaker 2: We can just talked about it. Yes, either all of that,
- 33:57Speaker 2: It's going to be a great show. Always says I'm
- 33:59Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens. Thanks to producer Kenzie's jue Leaper back again
- 34:02Speaker 2: on Friday. I'm back again tomorrow, Have a great day.
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