Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 28 January 2026
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: earlier this show with one root Love where you Live,
- 0:09Speaker 1: news talks, it'd be good Morning's.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Gone six, half to five. Great to have your company
- 0:12Speaker 2: coming up. One review or two reviews from Mount Long
- 0:15Speaker 2: ANDUI will look at this new FTA signed overnight between
- 0:18Speaker 2: the EU and India. New Zealand posts counterclosures and act
- 0:22Speaker 2: wants to get rid of the BSA. The agenda Good Morning, Wednesday,
- 0:27Speaker 2: the twenty eighth of January. We've had a bit of
- 0:29Speaker 2: a change in tone, bit of a backdown from the
- 0:31Speaker 2: White House on the Minneapolis shooting.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Nobody in the White House, including President Trump, wants to
- 0:37Speaker 3: see people getting hurt or killed in America's streets. This
- 0:41Speaker 3: includes Renee Good, Alex Pretty, the brave men and women
- 0:45Speaker 3: of federal law enforcement, and the many Americans who have
- 0:49Speaker 3: been victimized at the hands of illegal alien criminals.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Now, the Border Patrol is the agency that's come under
- 0:56Speaker 2: the most fire, and the chief there, Gregory Bavino, where
- 0:59Speaker 2: he's getting the ported himself. He will leave the state.
- 1:03Speaker 2: A federal judge is also ordered that the acting ICE
- 1:05Speaker 2: Director will appear in court Milania. Trump now weighing it.
- 1:09Speaker 4: We need to unif Hi, I'm calling for unity. I
- 1:12Speaker 4: know my husband, the President, had a great call yesterday
- 1:18Speaker 4: with the governor and the mayor and they're working together
- 1:22Speaker 4: to make it peaceful.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Right to this pre trade deal, massive deal signed overnight
- 1:26Speaker 2: between the EU and India and the mother of all deals,
- 1:30Speaker 2: they are calling it. Here's the EU President Ursula vonder Lane,
- 1:32Speaker 2: very happy.
- 1:33Speaker 4: We're not only making our economy stronger, we're also delivering
- 1:36Speaker 4: security for our people in an increasingly insecure world.
- 1:41Speaker 2: She's talking about America there. Of course, it took them
- 1:43Speaker 2: two decades on and off to get this deal done.
- 1:46Speaker 4: This is not just a trade agreement, it is a
- 1:50Speaker 4: new blueprint for shared prosperity.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Meanwhile, to the tennis Cocoa, Goff has called for more
- 1:57Speaker 2: privacy for players after she was captured small her racket
- 2:00Speaker 2: at the Ossie Open.
- 2:01Speaker 5: Pretty frustrated with her performance to say the least.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Here obviously she had some problems with.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Her racket and she's taken it out on said racket
- 2:11Speaker 1: right now.
- 2:11Speaker 5: She didn't expect that, did she out?
- 2:14Speaker 2: Yeah, she didn't know she was being filmed. And do
- 2:16Speaker 2: we need to see them warming up before every game
- 2:18Speaker 2: of tennis. Don't we just want to see them play
- 2:20Speaker 2: it when the ball's in action? Eight after five on.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with Ryan
- 2:29Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News Talks.
- 2:33Speaker 6: I'd been great to.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Have your company this morning. Nine two ninety two is
- 2:36Speaker 2: the number to text. Always love to hear from you.
- 2:39Speaker 2: I was thinking yesterday I used to work for an
- 2:41Speaker 2: American company here in New Zealand that gave me free
- 2:44Speaker 2: health insurance. Man, it was good. I never had private
- 2:47Speaker 2: health insurance before this. It never actually really came in
- 2:50Speaker 2: handy to me because you basically had to have cancer
- 2:53Speaker 2: or some kind of surgery to get anything paid out.
- 2:57Speaker 2: So in that sense, I guess I was very lucky.
- 2:59Speaker 2: But now that I pay for it myself, boy is
- 3:02Speaker 2: it getting expensive? And you start weighing up do I
- 3:05Speaker 2: actually need this right now? Prices are on some policies,
- 3:09Speaker 2: prices are up around twenty percent over the past year.
- 3:11Speaker 2: And there's these awful stories that you see and read
- 3:14Speaker 2: about people who've been paying in for ages for years
- 3:18Speaker 2: and then they get cancer or something comes up and
- 3:21Speaker 2: they can't afford to keep the payments going. There was
- 3:23Speaker 2: a woman on the news last night, stage four cancer.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Very sad story, and she just couldn't justify the cost
- 3:31Speaker 2: because the price has gone up so much.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Now.
- 3:33Speaker 2: The irony of this is what the private insurers are
- 3:35Speaker 2: saying about it. They are blaming, at least in part,
- 3:39Speaker 2: blaming the public system for the increases and our premiums.
- 3:43Speaker 2: What they reckon the public system so broken, the wait
- 3:46Speaker 2: times for specialists is so bad that more people are
- 3:50Speaker 2: going private, more people are getting health insurance, and more
- 3:54Speaker 2: people getting health insurance means more people claiming, which means
- 3:57Speaker 2: more payouts, which the insurers are clear recouping in premiumhkes.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Evidently the resources are basically shared between the public and
- 4:07Speaker 2: the private. The system's under too much pressure, is what
- 4:09Speaker 2: they're saying. And also there's the cost, And this is
- 4:12Speaker 2: all you hear about with health, isn't it just it's
- 4:14Speaker 2: like a bottomless pit. And they made that point as well.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Apparently medical inflation, the cost of providing it all is
- 4:22Speaker 2: up from seven to fifteen percent last year. You got
- 4:24Speaker 2: your new medicines to pay for, you've got your staff shortages,
- 4:27Speaker 2: et cetera, which is all a bit crazy because if
- 4:31Speaker 2: the public system takes too long and the private system
- 4:34Speaker 2: is too expensive. Don't we have the worst of both worlds?
- 4:38Speaker 2: Bridge ten after five on Newstalk CBS. So next this
- 4:42Speaker 2: act MP Laura McClure, who has a member's bill, pop
- 4:46Speaker 2: that in the ballot. Thank you to unleash the mainstream
- 4:50Speaker 2: media and unshackle it from the BSA.
- 4:52Speaker 1: That's next, Views and Views you Trust to start your day.
- 4:56Speaker 1: It's early Ediship with Bryan Bridge and Root Love where
- 5:01Speaker 1: you Live News Talks.
- 5:02Speaker 2: That'd be five thirteen. You know the New Zealand cabin
- 5:04Speaker 2: crew that were threatening to go on strike and then
- 5:06Speaker 2: it seemed like they were get well, they got back
- 5:08Speaker 2: around the table and it seemed like things might come
- 5:10Speaker 2: to a reasonable conclusion. Well, the international cabin crew have
- 5:14Speaker 2: voted to strike. So there were two notices issued yesterday.
- 5:19Speaker 2: We found out about them last night. This is the
- 5:21Speaker 2: Flight Attendants Association and its international cabin crew. Basically negotiations
- 5:27Speaker 2: went no where. Union reckons. The pay increase that they
- 5:30Speaker 2: are offering will see them get just the living wage,
- 5:33Speaker 2: which is in itself a union sort of number. It's
- 5:36Speaker 2: about twenty nine dollars an hour. So the flights, well,
- 5:39Speaker 2: there are days I should say that will be affected
- 5:41Speaker 2: February eleven to thirteen, and you can check the aircraft
- 5:45Speaker 2: online that will be by the way in New Zealand.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Says the offer has a base salary increase of between
- 5:51Speaker 2: four and six and a half percent. Ran Bridge, I
- 5:55Speaker 2: hope you're not flying that day, fourteen after five. Now
- 5:57Speaker 2: the old what counts as media debate is bad. The
- 6:00Speaker 2: Broadcasting Standard Authority, the BSA says the rule book stuck
- 6:03Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine. It wants the law change to
- 6:06Speaker 2: keep up with digital only content. This is your podcast
- 6:09Speaker 2: stuff on the internet. Acting p Laura McClure has lodged
- 6:13Speaker 2: a member's bill back in November last year to abolish
- 6:15Speaker 2: the BSA altogether and joins me, now, Laura, good morning,
- 6:20Speaker 2: Good morning rain. So you want to get rid of
- 6:23Speaker 2: the BSA altogether, and they are saying they want more power.
- 6:27Speaker 2: Why do you think that, you know, broadcasters like this
- 6:30Speaker 2: one shouldn't be covered by a BSA. Yeah.
- 6:34Speaker 7: Look, I think times were different back in the nineteen eighties.
- 6:38Speaker 7: For example, you know, we only had radio and television
- 6:41Speaker 7: and things have moved on and the BSA. We're right
- 6:45Speaker 7: about two things. One, you know, the revenue is declining,
- 6:48Speaker 7: and to the world has changed significantly. We have quite
- 6:53Speaker 7: a lot of other mechanisms and oversight, and I don't
- 6:57Speaker 7: believe that the BSA is relevant anymore.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Do you think it's fear on traditional broadcasters to have
- 7:03Speaker 2: to follow these rules and others?
- 7:04Speaker 7: Not? Absolutely. I think it's completely unfair in a changing
- 7:09Speaker 7: world where people are consuming media and all kinds of
- 7:12Speaker 7: different places, that traditional broadcasters are paying an awful amount
- 7:16Speaker 7: of levies for quite frankly a service. I don't think
- 7:19Speaker 7: that they need more.
- 7:20Speaker 2: How do you make sure that people have some kind
- 7:23Speaker 2: of news that they can sort of loosely trust. And
- 7:26Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I know, there aren't many who trust
- 7:30Speaker 2: mainstream media outlets anymore anyway, But you know what I'm saying, Like,
- 7:34Speaker 2: when something big happens, you go to a trusted source.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Do you not need some regulation for that?
- 7:41Speaker 8: Oh?
- 7:42Speaker 7: Look absolutely? I mean we already have the Media Council,
- 7:46Speaker 7: which all of our big name media are signed into,
- 7:50Speaker 7: where you know, people can look to and make complaints
- 7:53Speaker 7: if you see things that are abjectionable or illegal. We
- 7:56Speaker 7: have the Classifications Office who report tod IA if it's online.
- 8:00Speaker 7: We have neat safe advertising standards already. That is an
- 8:03Speaker 7: awful lot out there when it comes to regulation and
- 8:06Speaker 7: bureaucracy already, and given the fact that people are consuming
- 8:11Speaker 7: media in all kinds of different places, really it really
- 8:15Speaker 7: is unfair for mainstream media to have to adhere or
- 8:20Speaker 7: comply to essentially paying levies. I mean, they have nearly
- 8:23Speaker 7: any any complaints realistically, but I do think there is.
- 8:27Speaker 7: It is important for people who have oversight and trust
- 8:29Speaker 7: and accountability, and I think that we've got enough dere
- 8:32Speaker 7: all right, Laura.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning. Laura McLure, who's the ACTMP,
- 8:35Speaker 2: wants to get rid of the BSA fives make our
- 8:38Speaker 2: jobs a lot easier. I suppose wouldn't that we wouldn't
- 8:40Speaker 2: have as many hoops to jump through and things to
- 8:42Speaker 2: worry about. Nine two ninety is the number just gone.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Sixteen minutes half at five. Get to some of your
- 8:48Speaker 2: texts when we return, The news.
- 8:51Speaker 1: You Need this morning and the in depth analysis early
- 8:54Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Root Love Where You
- 8:58Speaker 1: Live News Talks at bt BE.
- 9:00Speaker 2: It is nineteen after five and he says, Ryan, you're
- 9:02Speaker 2: young and fit and healthy, so just self insure, just
- 9:05Speaker 2: put ten percent of your say of your salary away
- 9:09Speaker 2: and don't pay the health insurance premiums. She says, we're
- 9:12Speaker 2: sixty seven and seventy retired. Our premiums are now nine
- 9:15Speaker 2: hundred and twenty four dollars a month. So when we
- 9:18Speaker 2: need the cover, we actually can't afford this anymore. Yeah,
- 9:21Speaker 2: that's a really good point, isn't it. Goodness mess, She says,
- 9:24Speaker 2: we would have paid more than one hundred and fifty
- 9:26Speaker 2: k over the years into this and now when you
- 9:29Speaker 2: you know, when you get to the age where you
- 9:30Speaker 2: might need to start drawing down, you can't afford it anymore.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Nineteen minutes after five, Ryan, the seven Post is dumping
- 9:37Speaker 2: twenty percent of its urban postal counters. This is small
- 9:40Speaker 2: businesses that are connected to these shops. They are going
- 9:43Speaker 2: to hurt. They're really worried about how they'll make up
- 9:45Speaker 2: the lost revenue. One of those businesses is Marsden Books
- 9:48Speaker 2: in Karori, where the owner is Briany Hogg and Brian's
- 9:51Speaker 2: with me this morning. Good morning, Briani, Good morning Ryan.
- 9:55Speaker 2: So how much did these counters make you? How much
- 9:57Speaker 2: business do they bring.
- 9:58Speaker 9: In in terms of revenue? It's not a lot. The
- 10:03Speaker 9: margins are pretty low. But for us as a small
- 10:06Speaker 9: bookshop and you know, a suburban area. It's all about
- 10:09Speaker 9: the people that it brings them to the store. You know,
- 10:12Speaker 9: people would come in to do their posting and while
- 10:14Speaker 9: they're in there, they'll buy a car, then they'll buy
- 10:15Speaker 9: a book and they'll have a chat, and you know,
- 10:18Speaker 9: we build a relationship with these people. And yeah, we're
- 10:21Speaker 9: really really disappointed that was lost that.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Do you know what sort of impact it might have
- 10:25Speaker 2: on your bottom line?
- 10:27Speaker 9: It's going to be pretty significant. It is a large
- 10:30Speaker 9: portion of our revenue, you know. So now we're going
- 10:34Speaker 9: to have to think about ways that we pivot, ways
- 10:37Speaker 9: that we change in the way we do business. And
- 10:40Speaker 9: you know, it's been a pretty exhausting couple of years
- 10:42Speaker 9: to be a small business owner. You know, I'm sure
- 10:45Speaker 9: these people out there there just don't have the energy
- 10:47Speaker 9: to do that sort of pivot anymore. So, yeah, it's
- 10:50Speaker 9: going to be really really significant, not just on me,
- 10:52Speaker 9: but on all the other one hundred and forty one
- 10:55Speaker 9: outlets that got closed.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Yestinay, where's the next closest one to you?
- 11:00Speaker 9: So we're in Karori and Wellington, which is New Zealand's
- 11:04Speaker 9: largest suburb. There's about eighteen thousand people that living Karwori.
- 11:08Speaker 9: So there's actually there was two outlets in Karori, of
- 11:12Speaker 9: which we were one. The closest one to us is
- 11:15Speaker 9: not too far away, but unfortunately New Zealand Posts made
- 11:19Speaker 9: the decision to remove our postal services and concentrate it
- 11:23Speaker 9: on the other outlet and Crori, which is actually in
- 11:25Speaker 9: the petrol station, which is a bit of a weird fit.
- 11:30Speaker 9: And also, you know, there's a lot of concerns about
- 11:31Speaker 9: health and safety, elderly people crossing four courts, you know,
- 11:35Speaker 9: that sort of thing. So that's the thing that we're
- 11:37Speaker 9: really quite devastated about to our customers.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Yeah, this one does seem a bit curious to me.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Did they say why or you know, what was the
- 11:45Speaker 2: criteria for which one they pecked?
- 11:48Speaker 9: We have no idea. We've got no feedback about that. Unfortunately.
- 11:54Speaker 9: I imagine it was something to do with the bottom line,
- 11:56Speaker 9: which I understand is important. But you know, for us,
- 11:59Speaker 9: the thing that's boughten is that community spirit and that
- 12:02Speaker 9: social connection which we went above and beyond to our
- 12:05Speaker 9: customers to provide. We had great relationships with our post customers.
- 12:09Speaker 9: I'm just not sure they're going to get that same
- 12:11Speaker 9: level of service at a petrol station.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Briani, appreciate your time this morning. All I can say
- 12:16Speaker 2: is best of luck. You know, you've been in business
- 12:20Speaker 2: a long time and I'm sure you will have the
- 12:23Speaker 2: resilience and you will pivot. As you say, Appreciate your
- 12:26Speaker 2: time this morning, Briani. Hog who's Marsden Book's carory owner?
- 12:29Speaker 2: Just lost along with as you said, one hundred and
- 12:32Speaker 2: twenty one others just lost the contract for you know,
- 12:35Speaker 2: you would have been into a store and seen the
- 12:37Speaker 2: little counter, the little New Zealand post counter. Yeah, they're
- 12:41Speaker 2: getting rid of a whole bunch of those. Nine two
- 12:43Speaker 2: is the numbers text. I mean, and their argument is
- 12:46Speaker 2: people aren't sending letters anymore, so there's not as much demand,
- 12:49Speaker 2: so you've got to get rid of them, and you've
- 12:50Speaker 2: got to keep your costs under control. I mean, it's
- 12:53Speaker 2: not untrue, is it? Twenty three after five The early.
- 12:57Speaker 1: Edition Full the Show podcast Todd Radio Power by News
- 13:01Speaker 1: Talks V.
- 13:03Speaker 2: News talksb It is twenty five after five New Zealand
- 13:07Speaker 2: is going to sign this free trade deal with India.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Surely the massive boost that we got and we still
- 13:12Speaker 2: enjoy to this day. From Helen Clark and Phil Goff
- 13:15Speaker 2: signing the China FDA is still very much fresh in mind,
- 13:18Speaker 2: as it should be. Hipkins sounds pretty upbeat about it.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Are just a few questions that they're asking, but he
- 13:24Speaker 2: says Caucus is going to look at it and make
- 13:26Speaker 2: a decision. Of course, it'll need to support, It'll need
- 13:30Speaker 2: the support of labor, It'll need the support from across
- 13:33Speaker 2: the aisle because New Zealand first isn't keen on it. Now.
- 13:37Speaker 2: The Europeans have just done a massive deal with Deli overnight.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Vonder Lane is there in India getting the red carpet
- 13:42Speaker 2: treatment from Mody. Combined they make up twenty five percent
- 13:47Speaker 2: of the world's GDP, massive and the market size two
- 13:51Speaker 2: billion people. They've been negotiating this for years and years,
- 13:55Speaker 2: like decades. Finally have a deal, in part because of
- 13:58Speaker 2: Trump's tariffs He's still got five percent on India, but
- 14:01Speaker 2: also because India has managed to secure protections for it's
- 14:05Speaker 2: what they call sensitive industries, dairy. They say they have
- 14:10Speaker 2: prudently safeguarded sensitive sectors, including dairy. Now, we generally treat
- 14:15Speaker 2: trade as a bipart as an issue in New Zealand,
- 14:18Speaker 2: and there's little reason to think this deal will be
- 14:20Speaker 2: any different, barring any major red flags with the details.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Of course, many of the details we actually don't know
- 14:26Speaker 2: yet as the public, but the opposition is being briefed on.
- 14:30Speaker 2: If that checks out, it's probably going to just be
- 14:33Speaker 2: a rubber stamping exercise. You would have thought, after all,
- 14:36Speaker 2: we are like the world's FTA cheerleaders. Basically, any international
- 14:40Speaker 2: conference or meeting we go to, we run around with
- 14:42Speaker 2: a clipboard trying to sign people up. Come on, please
- 14:44Speaker 2: do a deal. So much so we actually have now
- 14:47Speaker 2: a check this morning. Seventy percent of our global trade
- 14:50Speaker 2: is covered by FTAs, and I think it's reasonable to
- 14:54Speaker 2: only expect that will increase, perhaps easier once Trump leaves
- 14:59Speaker 2: office too, Brian Bridge, if he leaves office, of course,
- 15:03Speaker 2: twenty seven minutes after five. Now, let's say from Mark Rutter,
- 15:06Speaker 2: this is the NATO boss. He's come out and said
- 15:09Speaker 2: something that shouldn't need to be said. But apparently people
- 15:13Speaker 2: think that Europe would be able to defend itself without
- 15:16Speaker 2: the Americans. If anyone thinks here again, that's a European
- 15:19Speaker 2: Union or a Europe's or Hall can defend itself as
- 15:22Speaker 2: out of us. Keep on dreaming you cunt, we cunt,
- 15:25Speaker 2: we need each other. Yeah, it's true, and that's why
- 15:28Speaker 2: Trump has so much power and leverage. Speaking of you know,
- 15:32Speaker 2: the Peace Board for Gaza, actually the charter for it
- 15:36Speaker 2: doesn't mention anything rarely about Gaza at all. It meant
- 15:39Speaker 2: talks about peace a lot. But there are reasons to
- 15:42Speaker 2: be highly skeptical of this. This is the board that
- 15:46Speaker 2: Luxon has been invited to join. The Australians have been
- 15:50Speaker 2: invited to join. They're still deciding, like us, still haven't
- 15:53Speaker 2: made a decision. We might hear more about that in
- 15:55Speaker 2: the next few days. But it's basically a Trump's person
- 16:02Speaker 2: of little un This is what people are worried about,
- 16:05Speaker 2: and that he could stay on as sort of like
- 16:07Speaker 2: the chairman of this board even after he's no longer president,
- 16:11Speaker 2: Like it's to do with him rather than the president.
- 16:14Speaker 2: So it's I don't know. People say it sounds a
- 16:16Speaker 2: little bit fishy. We're still deciding, have yet to make
- 16:19Speaker 2: up our minds. Starmer has said no, Macron has said no.
- 16:23Speaker 2: So keep you abreast of that when Winston and co.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Finally make a decision. Apparently they have a week to
- 16:29Speaker 2: do so. Also, you might have heard yesterday Chris Bishop
- 16:32Speaker 2: was talking about housing intensification. This U tune that's apparently
- 16:36Speaker 2: going to come well, he's calling it now tweaks and finessing,
- 16:41Speaker 2: and says it's going to be a very practical, pragmatic,
- 16:45Speaker 2: sensible solution housing intensification. Of course, all the people with
- 16:48Speaker 2: the nice villas in the leafy streets in the cities
- 16:51Speaker 2: are saying, don't do this near my house please. You
- 16:53Speaker 2: can do it on the do it near the CRL,
- 16:56Speaker 2: near the stops for the CRL, but don't do it
- 16:59Speaker 2: next to my house. So he says he's going to
- 17:01Speaker 2: come out with something, And actually Chris Bishop is going
- 17:03Speaker 2: to be on with Mike this morning after seven, so
- 17:05Speaker 2: you can tune in and look at that and have
- 17:08Speaker 2: us have us see what. He'll give you a little
- 17:10Speaker 2: sneak peek, I think a little pracie of what's coming
- 17:12Speaker 2: hasn't been through a cabinet just yet, so you know,
- 17:15Speaker 2: still got to get that past Uncle Winston, don't we
- 17:17Speaker 2: five twenty nine News Talks, aid b. We'll get to
- 17:20Speaker 2: our reporters around the country next and we're in the
- 17:22Speaker 2: UK with Mike pess.
- 17:42Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the Day Early
- 17:45Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where You Live,
- 17:50Speaker 1: News Talks d B. You'll conta.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six on your Wednesday morning coming
- 17:58Speaker 2: up at four six one review, two reviews from out
- 18:00Speaker 2: long ANDU we will look at that, plus we'll get
- 18:02Speaker 2: to a correspondent on this new massive trade deal between
- 18:04Speaker 2: the EU and India. Just on Trump and this whatever
- 18:08Speaker 2: you backtrack, you turn softening in Minneapolis, whatever you want
- 18:12Speaker 2: to call it, the reason for it is the Poles.
- 18:16Speaker 2: Have you seen the polls? So this has got midterms
- 18:18Speaker 2: to worry about at the end of the year. Of course,
- 18:20Speaker 2: now another bad pole on immigration, and remember immigration was
- 18:25Speaker 2: still is one of his most popular policy planks, right,
- 18:30Speaker 2: but the tactics are now turning people off. And this
- 18:33Speaker 2: latest poll from Ruyter's zipsos fifty three percent of American's
- 18:37Speaker 2: pole disapprove of the policy, thirty nine percent approve. And
- 18:41Speaker 2: you think, well, there's still forty percent of people who
- 18:43Speaker 2: like what's going on, even though you know the pictures,
- 18:45Speaker 2: we've all seen, the videos, we've all seen. However, that
- 18:48Speaker 2: approved number is down from forty one percent, and the
- 18:53Speaker 2: approval versus disapproval rating has actually switched flipped on its
- 18:58Speaker 2: head since inauguration day. So basically there used to be
- 19:01Speaker 2: fifty percent of people who approved, there are now fifty
- 19:04Speaker 2: three percent who disapprove of what he's doing, and not
- 19:07Speaker 2: what he's doing, but how it's been done. Twenty three
- 19:10Speaker 2: to six play and Bridge Rich, Let's go to our
- 19:13Speaker 2: reporter's color Procter and Ed and Cullhum. Good morning morning. Right,
- 19:16Speaker 2: you've got an update on the Albatross colony at Otago
- 19:19Speaker 2: for US year.
- 19:20Speaker 10: Significant milestone here for Albatross Colony. The one thousandth chick
- 19:24Speaker 10: has been hatched at the colony since it began in
- 19:28Speaker 10: nineteen thirty eight. Staff have been working around the clock
- 19:31Speaker 10: for the past couple of weeks here with chicks breaking
- 19:33Speaker 10: out of their eggs every day. Docs is their success
- 19:36Speaker 10: rate with these chicks has been going up over the years.
- 19:39Speaker 10: The first five hundred chicks came in the seventy years
- 19:43Speaker 10: to two thousand and seven, and so it's taken less
- 19:45Speaker 10: than two decades to double that number. And you can
- 19:48Speaker 10: watch them twenty four to seven on that Royal Cam
- 19:51Speaker 10: live stream.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Can't wait to get there.
- 19:53Speaker 10: How's the weather good for the Albatross today? Fine morning,
- 19:57Speaker 10: Cloud evening cloud not two windy twenty one.
- 20:00Speaker 2: The high cheers Callum Clears and christ you take Claire,
- 20:02Speaker 2: good morning. Tell us about the high school dropping intermediate
- 20:06Speaker 2: year levels.
- 20:07Speaker 11: Yeah, this is Saint Thomas of Canterbury College, a Catholic
- 20:10Speaker 11: school located in Saltburn here in christ Church. They for
- 20:14Speaker 11: the first time this year will have an increased role.
- 20:16Speaker 11: That's six hundred and eighty five students up from a
- 20:19Speaker 11: normal six hundred and fifteen. But the way they've done
- 20:22Speaker 11: that is actually my offering education to less year levels.
- 20:26Speaker 11: The Ministry of Education did approve this eleven percent increase
- 20:30Speaker 11: in the school's maximum role last year on the condition
- 20:33Speaker 11: that it would only teach from years nine up. Principal
- 20:36Speaker 11: Steve Hart says the change will be a significant change
- 20:39Speaker 11: for the school. A lot of primary schools feed boys
- 20:42Speaker 11: into Saint Thomas's obviously from year seven onwards. He says,
- 20:45Speaker 11: though to be able to offer more curriculum options for
- 20:47Speaker 11: the senior school is really important. Staff only spread across
- 20:51Speaker 11: seven years five years rather than seven for example. He
- 20:54Speaker 11: does anticipate they're likely to need another role increase in
- 20:57Speaker 11: the future, but says he acknowledges that that will not
- 20:59Speaker 11: be easy to secure.
- 21:01Speaker 2: All right, how's you with her?
- 21:03Speaker 1: Morning?
- 21:03Speaker 11: Cloud should clear to find northeasterlyes developing and the high
- 21:06Speaker 11: will be twenty two.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Thanks clear Mix and Wellington Morning mechs. Morning. So the
- 21:10Speaker 2: job market, you've got an update on just how much
- 21:12Speaker 2: it's shrunk.
- 21:14Speaker 6: Yeah, this is the premise of Ethan Monia's analysis in
- 21:17Speaker 6: The Herald. Last year Torri Fano was running the capital.
- 21:20Speaker 6: Now she's running four Australia, joining thousands seeking better opportunities
- 21:25Speaker 6: in a record wave. Look, there are still jobs in
- 21:27Speaker 6: the public sector here in Wellington. Apparently things are improving
- 21:30Speaker 6: as well, and certainly have been on last year, or
- 21:33Speaker 6: are improving, hiring a bit more gradual and incremental over
- 21:37Speaker 6: the past six months. Unfortunately that momentum though maybe stymied
- 21:41Speaker 6: a little by the election this year. The public sector
- 21:43Speaker 6: has always historically gotten a bit skiddish in the few
- 21:46Speaker 6: months before the election, as agencies departments wait to see
- 21:49Speaker 6: what direction they may be shunted in a bit of
- 21:52Speaker 6: a hiring freeze. Apparently it's graduates finding it the hardest
- 21:56Speaker 6: in Wellington the moment. But also, you know, it's not
- 21:58Speaker 6: just the public sector. Professional services hit really badly as well. Consulting,
- 22:03Speaker 6: accounting advisory roles have also seen large cuts in the
- 22:07Speaker 6: past twelve months. We have been arguably the hardest hit.
- 22:11Speaker 6: Wellington's employment rate rather is down two point eight percent
- 22:15Speaker 6: in two years, nationally down zero point seven But look
- 22:18Speaker 6: job ads, a rising migration. It's normal in a tough market.
- 22:22Speaker 6: I think twenty twenty six. The two words we're going
- 22:23Speaker 6: to keep hearing a cautious optimism. But perhaps that hasn't
- 22:27Speaker 6: filtered through to Tory. Perhaps employers are put off for
- 22:30Speaker 6: a different reason there.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Do you know? Do you know did Ethan find out
- 22:34Speaker 2: whether what she's doing in Melbourne or overseas?
- 22:36Speaker 6: So she got I'm not sure she's even left yet.
- 22:38Speaker 6: I think, like a lot of things, she says it
- 22:40Speaker 6: is just talk, but we'll see. Okay, here's here with
- 22:45Speaker 6: her mostly find Southerly's about twenty one the high thank you.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Neivas are not good, hid nev.
- 22:50Speaker 5: She might never got your stay hiding away under a
- 22:54Speaker 5: rock and Willie I feel a yeah, no true, yeah.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Anyway, in Park delivering some strong financial.
- 23:01Speaker 5: Yeah, great news here. So look, Eden Park reporting a
- 23:04Speaker 5: net operating profit of four point eight six million dollars.
- 23:07Speaker 5: This is in the year to October, and it's up
- 23:09Speaker 5: from about three point sixty eight million the year prior.
- 23:13Speaker 5: Chief executive next Sortener. He's obviously very happy about this,
- 23:16Speaker 5: he says. Look, the result reflects eden Park's diverse calendar
- 23:20Speaker 5: of events, the operational discipline, the contributions from a growing
- 23:24Speaker 5: number of commercial partners. Also two with this financial year
- 23:28Speaker 5: saw the stadium hit heaps of milestones and you know,
- 23:31Speaker 5: like with the music and the sports and obviously hosting
- 23:34Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty thousand Coreplay fans. That was at
- 23:37Speaker 5: three sold out concerts.
- 23:38Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a great time.
- 23:39Speaker 1: Oh were you there?
- 23:40Speaker 2: No, but just people whom friends who were He yes,
- 23:42Speaker 2: say I'm not really a Coldplay person, so I didn't go.
- 23:45Speaker 2: It was at that concert you could, I think, stomp
- 23:49Speaker 2: on the ground or ride a bike or something and
- 23:51Speaker 2: light up there. All of the lights were people powered.
- 23:55Speaker 2: What had like sort of a climate initiative.
- 23:57Speaker 5: Oh I dare hear about that one?
- 23:58Speaker 2: Hey, what's the word been doing?
- 24:00Speaker 12: It's gotta be.
- 24:00Speaker 5: Fine, fine, fine, fine. Apart from pitches of Morning Cloud,
- 24:03Speaker 5: No rain Yay twenty five is a high.
- 24:05Speaker 2: Brilliant Thank you Davis text in and said Ryan, I
- 24:08Speaker 2: received a text from one of the mount cafes within
- 24:10Speaker 2: the cordon. Because we've been talking all week about those
- 24:12Speaker 2: cafes that are inside the cordon not being able to
- 24:15Speaker 2: open its peak time. You know that missing out on money.
- 24:19Speaker 2: It's said this text that they will be open from
- 24:22Speaker 2: seven o'clock this morning, so maybe something's actually being done.
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- 25:32Speaker 2: New trade deal has been announced to India and the EU.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Mike Pierces Our UK europe correspondent Mike pretty big, pretty massive,
- 25:39Speaker 2: the market and the number of people.
- 25:43Speaker 12: Yes, indeed, in fact, this is being dubbed as the
- 25:45Speaker 12: biggest and most historic trade deal ever. It will make
- 25:48Speaker 12: it much easier for the nations of India and the
- 25:51Speaker 12: EU to buy and sell goods from one another. That's
- 25:53Speaker 12: the whole point of it. Really significant because they've been
- 25:56Speaker 12: talking about this, believe it or not, on and off
- 25:58Speaker 12: for twenty years. It will allow free trade of goods
- 26:00Speaker 12: between twenty seven European states in India. They account for
- 26:03Speaker 12: almost twenty five percent of global trade and a market
- 26:06Speaker 12: of wait for it, two billion people. EUO President Von
- 26:11Speaker 12: de Lyon was at a media briefing in Delhi. Prime
- 26:13Speaker 12: Minister Modi called the pack historic. He said it's the
- 26:16Speaker 12: biggest India had ever agreed. In fact, just about everything
- 26:20Speaker 12: from tee to car's, wine, electrics, chemicals and much more.
- 26:24Speaker 12: We'll see tariff's cut and trade made much easier now.
- 26:27Speaker 12: The deal comes as both India and the EU, of
- 26:29Speaker 12: course contend with economic pressure from the United States and
- 26:32Speaker 12: Donald Trump and his tariffs. Now, in the past seven months,
- 26:36Speaker 12: India has signed major trade agreements with the UK and
- 26:39Speaker 12: New Zealand. We in the UK are not part of
- 26:41Speaker 12: this deal because, of course we voted to leave the
- 26:44Speaker 12: European Union and go it alone.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Now very quickly, the kids on their phones and social media,
- 26:50Speaker 2: no one likes it. The Aussies have moved and most
- 26:52Speaker 2: of Europe now looks like they're going to follow soon.
- 26:55Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 26:55Speaker 12: Absolutely. And in the UK, I think we're also going
- 26:58Speaker 12: to see a mobile phone banners. While France has become
- 27:01Speaker 12: the second country in Europe to announce a ban, following
- 27:03Speaker 12: the UK last week, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Norwaygias some of
- 27:08Speaker 12: the others. As you say, Australia was the first to
- 27:10Speaker 12: bring that ban in under sixteen year olds. Last month,
- 27:13Speaker 12: France says it will be for under fifteen year olds.
- 27:15Speaker 12: Social media companies will have to make sure the person's age. Meanwhile,
- 27:19Speaker 12: in the UK's I say the government has told all
- 27:21Speaker 12: schools they must ban mobile phones from students. It says
- 27:24Speaker 12: teachers should not be seen using them as well. Those
- 27:27Speaker 12: behind the band say phones are distracting in class, but
- 27:30Speaker 12: I'd say they're vital for parents who need to communicate
- 27:33Speaker 12: with their children during the day. Some very mixed opinions.
- 27:36Speaker 2: It certainly is all right, Mike, appreciate that it might
- 27:38Speaker 2: be our UK europe correspondent.
- 27:39Speaker 1: It is twelve to six Ryan Bridge, So.
- 27:42Speaker 2: The government's launching an inquiry, its own inquiry and the
- 27:44Speaker 2: events leading up to the landslide at the mount.
- 27:47Speaker 8: It's potentially an inherent conflict are between the council and
- 27:50Speaker 8: the councilor and campground and importantly the families to zoom answers.
- 27:53Speaker 2: Mahir Drysdown says the council is still going to go
- 27:55Speaker 2: ahead with its own.
- 27:56Speaker 6: Might be looking to have those answers in a maximum
- 27:59Speaker 6: of sex months, which I think will be well before
- 28:02Speaker 6: any other investigation or inquiries concluded.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Joining me now Bryseley's political commentator Bryce, Good.
- 28:07Speaker 1: Morning, morning Ryan.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Do we need two like when it's not two for
- 28:12Speaker 2: the price of one, presumably? Do we need to or
- 28:14Speaker 2: would just the government one suffice?
- 28:17Speaker 8: Oh, look, I think it's you know, this is such
- 28:20Speaker 8: an important issue that we probably do need different inquiries
- 28:24Speaker 8: coming from different angles. The council one will probably be
- 28:27Speaker 8: quite limited in a sense it can't look at all
- 28:30Speaker 8: the different issues that a government inquiry could look at,
- 28:32Speaker 8: but it's still given the scale of things, I think
- 28:36Speaker 8: the family, the public do need lots of things answered.
- 28:39Speaker 8: They have to be careful not to duplicate themselves. But no,
- 28:42Speaker 8: I don't think there's any harm in having more than
- 28:43Speaker 8: one inquiry.
- 28:45Speaker 2: What would a government one actually look at? That would
- 28:47Speaker 2: be different?
- 28:49Speaker 8: Well, of course the government one can look more at
- 28:52Speaker 8: what the police did, what the fire sayss did or
- 28:55Speaker 8: didn't do. Issues of council resourcing, it can probably take
- 29:03Speaker 8: a more sort of bird's eye view of everything involved here,
- 29:06Speaker 8: connecting up all the systems failures, whereas the council view
- 29:10Speaker 8: might just look at it from a real council perspective.
- 29:13Speaker 8: Whereas there's things that can be learned here for the
- 29:16Speaker 8: rest of the country, possibly from what his tragedy. And
- 29:21Speaker 8: you know, the way landslips are going to be part
- 29:25Speaker 8: of New Zealand's future, you know, we do have to
- 29:28Speaker 8: make changes throughout the whole country, not just in Tarra. Yeah.
- 29:33Speaker 2: Well this is the problem though, isn't it like this?
- 29:35Speaker 2: There was warnings about landslides in this area, slips going
- 29:40Speaker 2: back to the seventies and earlier even There will be
- 29:43Speaker 2: whole swathes of the country and especially up north Corimandel
- 29:47Speaker 2: that are at risk of this stuff. And do we
- 29:49Speaker 2: just abandon them? Are people ready for that? You know?
- 29:53Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 29:53Speaker 8: I mean New Zealand hasn't really taken seriously the volatility
- 29:58Speaker 8: of our soils enough. You know, we're pretty big on earthquakes.
- 30:03Speaker 8: We're becoming more sensitive to the risks of out tsunamis.
- 30:07Speaker 8: But you know, landslapes are actually the biggest killer in
- 30:10Speaker 8: New zealand And because they impact property as well, you know,
- 30:14Speaker 8: and with increasing extreme weather we need to know where
- 30:19Speaker 8: to build, we then where not to build, how to
- 30:22Speaker 8: have a proper emergency response to when these situations arise.
- 30:28Speaker 8: So yeah, I think it is appropriate that we look
- 30:32Speaker 8: at everything involved here.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Bri Ice, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Nine
- 30:35Speaker 2: away from six Brice with his political commentator on the
- 30:38Speaker 2: two inquiries that we'll be getting for the landslide at
- 30:42Speaker 2: the Mount News talks thereb Miken with you next.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
- 30:48Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof love where you live news
- 30:52Speaker 1: talks that'd.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Be seven minutes away from six. Lots of texts have
- 30:56Speaker 2: come in from I'm assuming from Kori after we had
- 30:59Speaker 2: Brian on from Marsden Books, who has a New Zealand
- 31:03Speaker 2: Pope had a New Zealand host counter there that is
- 31:06Speaker 2: going going to the petrol station. This one says Ryan
- 31:09Speaker 2: Briandy and his staff of excellent knowledgeable service. I cannot
- 31:12Speaker 2: say the same with the crowd who have been awarded
- 31:14Speaker 2: the contract. Can't understand the logic.
- 31:17Speaker 8: Right.
- 31:18Speaker 2: Mike is here with you next, Mike, good morning, good morning.
- 31:20Speaker 13: You want to confess or not?
- 31:22Speaker 2: Okay? This morning that I thought we were having a
- 31:25Speaker 2: bit of a technical issue. I couldn't hear McKenzie, the
- 31:27Speaker 2: producer who will shout things on my air occasionally like
- 31:31Speaker 2: hurry up. Well anyway, the tech guy's just come in
- 31:34Speaker 2: and I hadn't plugged my headphones in properly.
- 31:38Speaker 13: It's just a small hole, right, just put it in there.
- 31:42Speaker 2: I mean, I checked it. I'm sure I checked it.
- 31:46Speaker 13: One of the things that the tech department hate hearing
- 31:48Speaker 13: is people like you going, I'm sure checked it, lying, Yeah, exactly,
- 31:52Speaker 13: a special call out for you for him, by the way,
- 31:55Speaker 13: So he comes in and he comes in from west Auckland,
- 31:58Speaker 13: So it takes about an hour fifteen to get here.
- 32:01Speaker 2: And I've genuinely never felt so stupid at work. And
- 32:05Speaker 2: of course, just as he's coming in and saying that
- 32:08Speaker 2: Mike Watson ran on his face. Oh, I've got something
- 32:13Speaker 2: over him.
- 32:13Speaker 13: Exactly two bits of video. Have you seen two bits
- 32:16Speaker 13: of video? The two best bits of video in the
- 32:18Speaker 13: world this morning?
- 32:19Speaker 7: Yes?
- 32:19Speaker 13: One Cocoa GoF? Have you seen so you see Cocoa GoF?
- 32:23Speaker 13: She now wants more privacy.
- 32:24Speaker 2: I think she deserves it. Oh do we need to
- 32:27Speaker 2: see them stretching and limbering up? You know we're there
- 32:30Speaker 2: to watch the ball on the court. Yeah, but when
- 32:32Speaker 2: when you lose?
- 32:32Speaker 13: I mean, I don't know what a problem with privacy is,
- 32:34Speaker 13: even on a smash racket. Smash a racket, who cares?
- 32:36Speaker 13: What's the matter? She can't do it in the changing
- 32:38Speaker 13: room because apparently you get fined, which I have no
- 32:41Speaker 13: idea why that is.
- 32:42Speaker 2: Doesn't make sense, So I me, it's your racket. But
- 32:44Speaker 2: she says that's the only place that they have real
- 32:46Speaker 2: privacy now is in the changing room. Everything else is
- 32:48Speaker 2: on camera. Well I guess so.
- 32:50Speaker 13: But I mean, if I don't think any less of
- 32:52Speaker 13: her because she smashed a record size, it's not like
- 32:54Speaker 13: she's doing something. You're going, well, that's a bit embarrassing,
- 32:56Speaker 13: isn't no?
- 32:57Speaker 8: True?
- 32:57Speaker 2: But I suppose it's just like kids and stuff.
- 33:00Speaker 13: Second piece of video. Were you watching the news TV
- 33:03Speaker 13: one's news last night?
- 33:04Speaker 7: Yes?
- 33:04Speaker 13: Did you see the shot of Chloe Swarbrick.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Oh no, in the house eight minutes eight minutes past six.
- 33:11Speaker 13: Seymour's giving a speech and they cut to Chloe Swarbrock.
- 33:14Speaker 2: I was making dinner. I was listening.
- 33:16Speaker 13: Honestly, Go look at it and see whether they did
- 33:20Speaker 13: that deliberately. Ask yourself, what does that say about Chloe Swarbrick?
- 33:25Speaker 2: What is the facial? Do you have to see it
- 33:28Speaker 2: to believe it? So we're all going to have to.
- 33:29Speaker 13: We're going to have to do it because this is
- 33:31Speaker 13: going meme, it's going viral and it's going off.
- 33:35Speaker 2: Believe me.
- 33:36Speaker 13: Now, if it was a natural progression of shots, so
- 33:38Speaker 13: in other words, Seymour says something cut to Chloe, that's
- 33:41Speaker 13: just her look, then there's nothing you can do about that.
- 33:44Speaker 13: But if they've spliced or sliced that in she.
- 33:47Speaker 2: Has got she can say. It's probably a legal case.
- 33:50Speaker 13: It is the most astonishing thing you've ever really, I'm
- 33:53Speaker 13: going to have it.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Really is well worth it, you know, out of interest,
- 33:56Speaker 2: I have both of them on together out of Parliament, on.
- 33:59Speaker 13: On on your show. Well we'll ask her about after
- 34:02Speaker 13: I was in ripable about it because it's a it's
- 34:05Speaker 13: a weird thing. Anyway, have a great show, take everything
- 34:08Speaker 13: out and leave the technical department a line.
- 34:13Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
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