Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 09 May 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge
- 0:06Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof make your property search simple.
- 0:11Speaker 2: News Talks, he'd b good morning, it is Friday, the
- 0:13Speaker 2: ninth of May, al kicking off this morning for your Friday.
- 0:16Speaker 2: We've got a new pope. We've got white smoke. Everyone's
- 0:19Speaker 2: excited about this. Don't know who it is yet. I
- 0:21Speaker 2: can tell you it will be a man. Rumors are
- 0:24Speaker 2: that it might be an Italian, someone we perhaps didn't expect.
- 0:28Speaker 2: We'll keep across that this morning. India and Pakistan added
- 0:30Speaker 2: again explosions in cashmir details on this new US UK
- 0:34Speaker 2: trade deal. We'll look at Luxeon's budget speeks closest to
- 0:38Speaker 2: six am as well, a little more cap X, a
- 0:40Speaker 2: little less op X, and we'll speak about NZR with
- 0:44Speaker 2: David Moffatt News Talks HEADB.
- 0:48Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 0:49Speaker 2: So this Trump Starmadale. First up, tariffs on UK steel
- 0:52Speaker 2: and aluminium are gone, which I'll be very happy about.
- 0:55Speaker 2: UK car tariffs cut from twenty five to ten percent.
- 0:59Speaker 3: In addition that you will reduce or eliminate numerous non
- 1:03Speaker 3: tariff barriers that unfairly discriminated against American products.
- 1:08Speaker 4: But this is now turning out.
- 1:09Speaker 1: I think really could be a great deal.
- 1:10Speaker 4: For both countries.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Certainly, Starmer's are happy, chappy.
- 1:14Speaker 5: We are the first country to secure such a deal
- 1:18Speaker 5: with the United States, and in an error of global
- 1:21Speaker 5: insecurity and instability, that is so important.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Twenty four hours and four rounds of voting, and we
- 1:28Speaker 2: have ourselves a new pope.
- 1:30Speaker 6: The crowd is cheering.
- 1:32Speaker 7: There is juvenation down below in Saint Peter's Square.
- 1:37Speaker 8: They have been waiting all day and.
- 1:38Speaker 2: There you hunt confirmation.
- 1:40Speaker 1: The fowls of Saint Peter are bringing out.
- 1:44Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Huge crowd's very excited. The Senior Cardinal will soon confirm
- 1:48Speaker 2: the decision that introduced the new pontiff by his chosen
- 1:50Speaker 2: papal name. It'll all be in Latin, so they will
- 1:53Speaker 2: bring you a translation. Finally, the King has paid special
- 1:56Speaker 2: tribute to the veterans of World War II as Britain
- 1:59Speaker 2: marks the eightieth anniversary of v Day. Here's a clip
- 2:02Speaker 2: from Winston Churchill's great grandson Alexander Churchill, who spoke at
- 2:07Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving service.
- 2:09Speaker 7: Let us pray for peace in Europe and across the
- 2:12Speaker 7: world in our time and for generations to come.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on the edition where the One Room make
- 2:22Speaker 1: your property search simple used dog ziby.
- 2:25Speaker 2: It was a bit cute, wasn't it. Eight minutes half
- 2:27Speaker 2: to five. They won't be happy to not peace around
- 2:29Speaker 2: the world today because there are fresh explosions reported. This
- 2:32Speaker 2: is in Jammu City in Kashmir. This is India administered Kashmir.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Basically India and Pakistan at it again overnight. Pakistan did
- 2:40Speaker 2: promise yesterday they would hit back, so it sounds like
- 2:42Speaker 2: they have done that. There are blasts and sirens. This
- 2:45Speaker 2: is all happening in the last couple of hours now.
- 2:48Speaker 2: The markets love a deal between the UK and the US.
- 2:52Speaker 2: It's not a free trade deal. Let's make that clear.
- 2:56Speaker 2: It's not a free trade deal. Is it a deal
- 2:58Speaker 2: even that's better than what they had six months ago? No,
- 3:03Speaker 2: it's basically, but it's better than yesterday, which is what
- 3:06Speaker 2: Starr is saying. It's a better deal than they had yesterday.
- 3:08Speaker 2: So they're happy and the markets are happy. Two stocks
- 3:10Speaker 2: up more than one percent after this announcement. So what
- 3:13Speaker 2: does it mean? The ten percent tariff stays, but there
- 3:17Speaker 2: are some exemptions that they've brought in. This is good
- 3:19Speaker 2: news for range Rover. A tariff cup from twenty five
- 3:22Speaker 2: to ten percent, but only on up to one hundred
- 3:25Speaker 2: thousand vehicles. The UK in return has promised to imput
- 3:29Speaker 2: more Boeing planes, so it's like a car plane swap.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Steel is the big deal for the UK, of course,
- 3:35Speaker 2: and you saw Starma today giving his speech out stump
- 3:38Speaker 2: speech outside Day or insider. Our factory was steel workers.
- 3:41Speaker 2: They were very happy those tariffs are gone. Workers are chairing.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Interesting Also on China, Besson is going to Switzerland to
- 3:50Speaker 2: meet with Chinese officials for talks on trade, which is
- 3:53Speaker 2: another reason the markets are happy this morning. And the
- 3:56Speaker 2: US farmers will get more of a look in with
- 3:59Speaker 2: this deal, potentially five billion dollars in added revenue for
- 4:05Speaker 2: them because of the deal that that Trump has done.
- 4:08Speaker 2: So yeah, not going to change the world, but certainly
- 4:10Speaker 2: not as bad as we were yesterday, which is good.
- 4:12Speaker 2: Ten after five News Talks MB will bring you the
- 4:14Speaker 2: new Pope when we get him and David Moffett next
- 4:17Speaker 2: on ZR.
- 4:18Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day Early
- 4:22Speaker 1: edition with Bryan Bridge and One Room Make Your Property
- 4:25Speaker 1: Search Symbol, News TALKSBOP.
- 4:28Speaker 2: After five News Talks MB, so we've got white smoke
- 4:30Speaker 2: from the Vatican and four rounds of voting means it
- 4:33Speaker 2: was a quick one. She was a quickie. And the
- 4:36Speaker 2: doors are opening apparently and St. Peter's Square are about
- 4:39Speaker 2: to meet. Our new pope will bring you that as
- 4:41Speaker 2: soon as we have it. So four rounds of voting
- 4:43Speaker 2: means it was quick faster than Francis. May he rest
- 4:46Speaker 2: in peace and that shows unity. Well, this is what
- 4:49Speaker 2: some of the cardinals have been saying, shows unity in
- 4:52Speaker 2: the Catholic Church. It has just gone thirteen minutes after five.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Brian Bridge John.
- 4:56Speaker 2: News talksb a record income for INZR, not enough though,
- 5:01Speaker 2: to save them from their third annual deficit in a row. Yesterday,
- 5:05Speaker 2: the chair David Kirkainfield nineteen and a half million dollar loss.
- 5:08Speaker 2: This is despite bringing in two hundred and eighty five
- 5:11Speaker 2: million and revenue. That's their highest ever income. David Moffatt
- 5:15Speaker 2: is the former n ZID Rugby CEO with me this morning, David,
- 5:18Speaker 2: good morning.
- 5:19Speaker 9: Good morning. This is an early one mate.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for being up with us. What do
- 5:24Speaker 2: you make What do you make of these numbers?
- 5:27Speaker 9: Well, I suppose they've got I got some decent amount
- 5:31Speaker 9: of cash in the bank. Three losses in a row.
- 5:35Speaker 9: I think I managed to a round about seventy five
- 5:39Speaker 9: million dollars and I can't. I was struggling just to
- 5:43Speaker 9: remember how much money they got from the Silver Lake deal.
- 5:48Speaker 9: I think it was close to three hundred million altogether.
- 5:52Speaker 9: So they've been burning cash, you know, at a rate
- 5:56Speaker 9: of knots, and one's got to wait and see whether
- 5:59Speaker 9: that'll stop. But what this is symptomatic of rugby around
- 6:04Speaker 9: the world, and it's professional rugby is now living in
- 6:09Speaker 9: quicksand no matter where you look in the world, it's
- 6:13Speaker 9: in real trouble. I mean recently you saw the Cardiff
- 6:17Speaker 9: Blues go into receivership and there's been taken over by
- 6:22Speaker 9: the Welsh Rugby Union. I'm not quite sure what they
- 6:25Speaker 9: will bring to the tape table. And then you just
- 6:29Speaker 9: see you've had well. Most of the Super rugby teams
- 6:35Speaker 9: are always perilously poised in their finances. Most recently the
- 6:41Speaker 9: Hurricanes apparently approached the ends at Our for a one
- 6:45Speaker 9: million dollar dailout and the games in real trouble financially.
- 6:50Speaker 2: What about how much they're paying the players. Do you
- 6:53Speaker 2: think that the salaries are too high or what are
- 6:55Speaker 2: they spending their money?
- 6:56Speaker 9: I think there are too many teams. To be perfectly
- 6:59Speaker 9: honest with you, and you know, here's here's some things
- 7:02Speaker 9: that I would do. But at New Zealand Rugby, I
- 7:05Speaker 9: would firstly, I would really cut the size of the administration.
- 7:12Speaker 9: You know, I don't know what it is now, but
- 7:13Speaker 9: it was about two hundred at one stage. We used
- 7:16Speaker 9: to do at different times, but at the beginning of
- 7:19Speaker 9: the professional rugby we had around about thirty three thirty
- 7:23Speaker 9: four when I was the chief executive and we did
- 7:25Speaker 9: a pretty good job. I thought, that's the first thing
- 7:28Speaker 9: and do. The second thing I would do would be
- 7:31Speaker 9: cut a professional team. There are too many teams in
- 7:35Speaker 9: New Zealand for the number of quality players that we have.
- 7:43Speaker 9: That would be a very difficult one, wouldn't it. You know,
- 7:46Speaker 9: But that's no different to any business who had to
- 7:48Speaker 9: make that. You've got to be vert, you've got to
- 7:51Speaker 9: be brutal. So yeah, I don't know, to be perfectly
- 7:56Speaker 9: honest with you, but it needs to happen. Australian needs
- 8:00Speaker 9: to cut another team. They can't afford four professional teams,
- 8:03Speaker 9: and so it goes. I mean, the English Premiership is
- 8:06Speaker 9: still in trouble financially and they've gone down from fourteen
- 8:10Speaker 9: to ten teams, but it's still in trouble. Nine out
- 8:15Speaker 9: of the ten teams make a loss every year and
- 8:17Speaker 9: it's not it's just not sustainable. You know, you can't
- 8:22Speaker 9: go on like that.
- 8:22Speaker 2: And not not whin your third year in the hole
- 8:25Speaker 2: for nineteen and a half million dollars. David, appreciate your
- 8:28Speaker 2: time this morning. David Moffatt, former n Z Rugby CEO.
- 8:31Speaker 2: It is sixteen after five News Talk ZBB.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
- 8:38Speaker 1: Bridge and one Roof, Make your Property search simple. News
- 8:42Speaker 1: Talk ZEDB. This is News Talks dB Breaking News.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Five nineteen on News Talk ZIB. And we have a
- 8:53Speaker 2: new pope. A senior cardinal has just announced the first
- 8:56Speaker 2: American Pope as Robert Francis.
- 8:59Speaker 10: Previstoma, Robertumfuma song de Romane Clezier, Cardinal Prebost, Cardinal Matrebos.
- 9:13Speaker 10: We see b No Maay named Posuita Leonema Decima, who
- 9:19Speaker 10: we called Leonem Dechimoon, the fourth leon Leonem Dutchimum.
- 9:25Speaker 11: Fourth.
- 9:26Speaker 10: Right.
- 9:26Speaker 2: We're going to get to Vincent mcavinie in just a second.
- 9:29Speaker 2: He is standing by for us our UK europe correspondent,
- 9:32Speaker 2: So very happy people clapping and cheering at St. Peters
- 9:35Speaker 2: Square at Vatican City. Right now, just gone twenty after.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Five, International correspondence with insign Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
- 9:43Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Vincent's with us now, Vincent, good morning. We have a pope.
- 9:48Speaker 2: I didn't quite catch his papal name.
- 9:50Speaker 9: What are we calling him?
- 9:52Speaker 12: No, we haven't had it come out yet. On the wise,
- 9:55Speaker 12: I think it was Leonem but his name before life
- 10:00Speaker 12: as a pope now was Robert Prevos. He will become
- 10:04Speaker 12: the very first ever American pope. He is a surprise contender.
- 10:08Speaker 12: He was in all of the shortlists for the position,
- 10:12Speaker 12: but he was not seen at all as a front runner.
- 10:16Speaker 12: He is only sixty nine years old, which is quite
- 10:19Speaker 12: young for the position. He served as the head of
- 10:22Speaker 12: Late Pope Francis's main advisory group on picking new bishops
- 10:27Speaker 12: and had sort of broad name recognition because of that,
- 10:32Speaker 12: and especially with the sort of large group of papal
- 10:34Speaker 12: electors which have made up this conclave over the past
- 10:38Speaker 12: few days. He was born in Chicago to a family
- 10:41Speaker 12: with Italian, French and Spanish roots. He trained in the
- 10:45Speaker 12: Vatican with the late Pope Francis and spent most of
- 10:48Speaker 12: his career working in Peru. He actually has joint Peruvian citizenship.
- 10:54Speaker 12: He's described as the least American American and someone who
- 10:59Speaker 12: was seen as a bit of a reformer.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Potentially Leo the fourteenth is his papal name. We're just
- 11:06Speaker 2: being told Leo the fourteenth is the new pope. Interesting
- 11:09Speaker 2: that he's an American. Trump will be happy with that.
- 11:12Speaker 2: But you mentioned he's a reformer in what way? I mean,
- 11:14Speaker 2: what direction do we know this will take? The Catholic Churchen.
- 11:19Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, obviously Donald Trump a you know, truth
- 11:22Speaker 12: doubt a picture of himself using AI as pope, but
- 11:26Speaker 12: that was pretty unlikely. But yeah, I think you will
- 11:28Speaker 12: be pretty delighted at something else that he can trumpet
- 11:30Speaker 12: as an achievement under his watch, getting the first American pope.
- 11:34Speaker 12: That had traditionally, of course, been a reluctance to have
- 11:37Speaker 12: an American pope, or indeed a pope from Russia. The
- 11:40Speaker 12: idea was that you didn't want to have a pope
- 11:42Speaker 12: from the superpower that those nations already played large enough
- 11:46Speaker 12: on the world stage, and of course China now as well,
- 11:48Speaker 12: that you wouldn't want someone from there. But that is
- 11:50Speaker 12: what this conclave has decided. He's being described as someone
- 11:56Speaker 12: who is not a showboat. He's been described by colleagues
- 11:59Speaker 12: as being very calm, extremely intelligent, and very compassionate. And
- 12:05Speaker 12: it sounds like he is looking to be progressive on
- 12:08Speaker 12: many social issues. Some see him as a centrist, but
- 12:12Speaker 12: he is apparently, according to these reports coming out now,
- 12:15Speaker 12: as someone who a lot of Catholics would see is
- 12:17Speaker 12: wanting to carry on the work that Pope Francis has
- 12:19Speaker 12: done over his time, which was sort of shifting the
- 12:22Speaker 12: church away from the sort of high church trapped in
- 12:26Speaker 12: very much sort of all nate traditions. And you know,
- 12:29Speaker 12: we know that Pope Francis, for instance, wore simple robes,
- 12:33Speaker 12: wanted things lived very simply, wanted things that were sort
- 12:36Speaker 12: of reaching out from the church, not being internal, wanting
- 12:40Speaker 12: to make sure of engage with the people that needed
- 12:42Speaker 12: the church most, the global poor, wanting to do more
- 12:45Speaker 12: work in the global South. And it sounds like this
- 12:48Speaker 12: new Pope is someone who wants to carry on that
- 12:52Speaker 12: work that Pope Francis started.
- 12:54Speaker 2: If you're just joining us, we heaven you, Pope. The
- 12:57Speaker 2: US Cardinal Robert Francis Privost has been revealed as Pope
- 13:01Speaker 2: Leo the fourteenth. Then we're talking to Vincent mcavini, who's
- 13:04Speaker 2: our UK europe correspondent. Also we should touch on this
- 13:08Speaker 2: UK US trade deal which has been announced this morning
- 13:11Speaker 2: as well. And it's not a deal that gets them
- 13:15Speaker 2: back to, you know, a great position, but it's a
- 13:17Speaker 2: better position than yesterday, I suppose.
- 13:20Speaker 12: Yeah, it's not as good as we had this time
- 13:22Speaker 12: last year, for instance, but it's better than we had
- 13:24Speaker 12: over the past couple of weeks. And whilst America is
- 13:27Speaker 12: calling it a trade deal, we here in the UK
- 13:30Speaker 12: are actually calling it just a tariff's deal because it
- 13:33Speaker 12: is not the sort of all around, all encompassing trade
- 13:37Speaker 12: deal that Brexiteers, for instance, have tried to claim that
- 13:40Speaker 12: the UK could get for the last decade or so.
- 13:43Speaker 12: This is a deal which sort of removes that extra
- 13:46Speaker 12: twenty five percent on steel, aluminium and cars that America
- 13:51Speaker 12: had imposed. We've got that down to just ten percent,
- 13:55Speaker 12: so still you know a little chunk there. But they
- 13:57Speaker 12: are the cars that the UK makes and actually has
- 14:00Speaker 12: a surprisingly large car industry. Now they are the high
- 14:03Speaker 12: end cars, so you're Bentley's sort of rolled rooyces Aston Martins,
- 14:07Speaker 12: the kind of customer base that really having ten more
- 14:11Speaker 12: percent on it won't really mean too much of them,
- 14:13Speaker 12: to be honest, But some of those companies had for
- 14:16Speaker 12: the time stopped actually exporting into America and then for
- 14:20Speaker 12: everything else the end. But that's just only the first
- 14:24Speaker 12: one hundred thousand vehicles. Only one hundred and one thousand
- 14:29Speaker 12: are exported last year, so it means that we can't
- 14:31Speaker 12: really grow the market in America much. In return, the
- 14:34Speaker 12: UK government says it's removing the tariff on ethanol for
- 14:38Speaker 12: US goods and agrees sort of reciprocal markets access for
- 14:42Speaker 12: certain products, including beef, and that's going to be quite
- 14:44Speaker 12: controversial because the US uses things like hormones and antibiotics
- 14:48Speaker 12: which British farmers are not allowed to use on their beef.
- 14:52Speaker 12: Here we have sort of much higher standards when it
- 14:54Speaker 12: comes to agricultural products, and so there is a question
- 14:57Speaker 12: mark over that. Now what that means for our farming
- 15:00Speaker 12: stry here, whether there might even be a grassroots or
- 15:02Speaker 12: campaign to simply just not buy American agriculture products in
- 15:06Speaker 12: order to protect our farmers. And also because of that,
- 15:09Speaker 12: what's deemed a sort of more chemical quality produce really.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. Vincent Vincent mcavini, UK europe correspondent, just
- 15:18Speaker 2: gone twenty five minutes after five. I'm just looking at
- 15:21Speaker 2: some live pictures from Vatican, the Vatican balcony. The new Pope,
- 15:26Speaker 2: Leo the fourteenth has got tears and designs. Is He's
- 15:29Speaker 2: obviously been overwhelmed by the occasion. Forty thousand Catholics in St.
- 15:33Speaker 2: Peter's Square right now. We have a new pope. We've
- 15:36Speaker 2: had some white smoke. Four rounds of voting. Twenty six
- 15:39Speaker 2: minutes after five, the early.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio. How it by News
- 15:45Speaker 1: Talks It be.
- 15:47Speaker 2: News Talks B Twenty eight minutes after five. We have
- 15:49Speaker 2: a new pope. His name is Leo the fourteenth. He's
- 15:52Speaker 2: American and these are his first words.
- 15:55Speaker 6: This is the first preaching story of the resurrect the
- 16:00Speaker 6: good shepherd who has gave up, given up his life
- 16:04Speaker 6: for God. And I should also like the greeting off
- 16:08Speaker 6: peace to enter our hearts and your families and to
- 16:14Speaker 6: all those people wherever they are.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Surprises. American sixty nine years old, born in Chicago, got French,
- 16:23Speaker 2: Italian roots, Progressive or centrist or bit of both. But
- 16:27Speaker 2: certainly not one of the conservatives. So a little hint
- 16:30Speaker 2: where the Catholic Church is going to head in the
- 16:32Speaker 2: next couple of years. Here is Starma on that trade
- 16:34Speaker 2: deal we've been talking about this morning. He was very,
- 16:37Speaker 2: very excited, said I didn't want to do basically a
- 16:41Speaker 2: Hugh Grant in love actually and walk away from the
- 16:43Speaker 2: relationship with the US.
- 16:45Speaker 5: Instead, in recent years, an idea has taken hold that
- 16:49Speaker 5: you somehow show your strength by rejecting your allies, that
- 16:54Speaker 5: you shut the door, put the phone down, storm off.
- 16:58Speaker 5: I've had plenty of people urging me to do that
- 17:01Speaker 5: rather than stay in the world, in the room and
- 17:04Speaker 5: fight for the interests of our country. And I want
- 17:08Speaker 5: to be absolutely crystal clear that is not how this
- 17:12Speaker 5: government operates.
- 17:14Speaker 2: You're on News Talk CB. It is twenty nine minutes
- 17:16Speaker 2: after five. We will go to take you to the
- 17:19Speaker 2: Vatican to St. Peter's Square just before six this morning.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Also our reporters around the country and look at the
- 17:27Speaker 2: government's budget.
- 17:30Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 17:34Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Make your Property Search Simple
- 17:39Speaker 1: News Talk ZIB.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to your Friday, twenty four away from six,
- 17:50Speaker 2: we'll get to a Vedican We'll get to the Vetican city.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Just before six this morning, we've gotten Australian Catholic journalist
- 17:57Speaker 2: who is very excited by the fact we've got our
- 18:00Speaker 2: first American pope and Louis the fourteenth, that's his name.
- 18:04Speaker 2: We're also going to get to the New Zealand Initiative.
- 18:07Speaker 2: This is on Luxon announcing yesterday more capital expenditure in
- 18:10Speaker 2: the budget, after Nicola Willis, of course said there'd be
- 18:12Speaker 2: less operational expenditure in the budget. Just gone twenty three
- 18:15Speaker 2: minutes away from six Bridge. Outrage in the House, Chaos
- 18:19Speaker 2: in the House for a second day in a row,
- 18:21Speaker 2: this over the pay equity Bill. The question for National
- 18:23Speaker 2: is whether this outrage in Parliament will translate to outrage
- 18:27Speaker 2: at the ballot box. Sure, there is a new legal
- 18:31Speaker 2: framework that's been set up with higher thresholds for pay
- 18:33Speaker 2: equity claims, but Labour is doing its darndest to create
- 18:37Speaker 2: the impression that there's not and if that impression sticks,
- 18:41Speaker 2: it could, I stress could be a problem for National.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Dutton was emasculated at the poll's last Saturday, in part
- 18:47Speaker 2: because he wasn't well liked by women. The red landslide
- 18:50Speaker 2: sweepers Heartland handed Elbow the wind and cost him his
- 18:53Speaker 2: own seat. In Brisbane's northern suburbs, and across Queensland, young
- 18:57Speaker 2: voters and women broke for Elbow. So the question for
- 19:00Speaker 2: National is whether it's just created a problem for twenty
- 19:03Speaker 2: twenty six. Will women give Luxen a swift kick in
- 19:08Speaker 2: the gonads next year? That's the question. The bill does
- 19:11Speaker 2: create a risk of them doing so, especially the fact
- 19:14Speaker 2: it's ran through under urgency. To counter that, you've got
- 19:18Speaker 2: to sell the changes right now in the fog of war.
- 19:21Speaker 2: They're not getting the cut through the critics, your jan Tinetti's.
- 19:24Speaker 2: They're winning the pr game. But when the dust settles,
- 19:28Speaker 2: they need to explain with specific examples, which of those
- 19:31Speaker 2: thirty three deals in the pipeline or deals done thus
- 19:35Speaker 2: far were bad or rotten and why this is not
- 19:39Speaker 2: to say all women vote the same or even together
- 19:42Speaker 2: in a block. Life is not one big sister hit
- 19:44Speaker 2: hood of the Traveling Pants. After all, women didn't show
- 19:47Speaker 2: up for Kamala Harris last November, and the States remember
- 19:50Speaker 2: that even though MSNBC was basically saying Trump would remove
- 19:53Speaker 2: your womb, women ditched labor after Jacinda left the building
- 19:58Speaker 2: and the NATS picked them up. This pay equity bill
- 20:01Speaker 2: is a risk to that support, A bit of a gamble,
- 20:04Speaker 2: not one that can't be overcome. But you've got to
- 20:07Speaker 2: sell your story. Twenty one minutes away from six Now
- 20:12Speaker 2: News Talks there be we'll go to our reporters around
- 20:13Speaker 2: the country. Colum Proctor in Dunedan Culum, Good morning morning. Right,
- 20:17Speaker 2: you've got a new push from South the Needen residents
- 20:20Speaker 2: over the storm water.
- 20:22Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 20:22Speaker 13: The council here have been hearing from groups about its
- 20:25Speaker 13: adoption of the local Water Done Well reforms this week,
- 20:28Speaker 13: and one group that's particularly angry is the Surrey Street
- 20:31Speaker 13: Flood Action Group. They say they're continually flooded with sewage
- 20:33Speaker 13: and want the council to fix the problem. The group
- 20:36Speaker 13: says the council has hurt the same complaints here for
- 20:38Speaker 13: thirty years. Millions of dollars have gone into investigations, but
- 20:42Speaker 13: nothing's been done. They say engineered solutions to their problems
- 20:46Speaker 13: have even been designed yet ignored. And now they say
- 20:49Speaker 13: more money is being wasted on the South to Need
- 20:51Speaker 13: and Futures program, which is looking into climb its adaptation
- 20:55Speaker 13: in the area.
- 20:55Speaker 2: How's your weather, Colum.
- 20:58Speaker 13: Rain today, easing to showers this afternoon, but otherwise fine
- 21:00Speaker 13: south Westeries and fifteen today brilliant.
- 21:02Speaker 2: Thank you Calum. Somebody who's text and saying I accidentally
- 21:05Speaker 2: said Louis it is Leo. Forgive me just then Leo
- 21:08Speaker 2: the fourteenth, the new Pope cleassue in christ Church with
- 21:11Speaker 2: us clear. Good morning, Good morning. A caution in Canterbury
- 21:14Speaker 2: ahead of this rainfall that's coming yes well.
- 21:17Speaker 7: Banks Peninsula's state of emergency was extended yesterday. It's been
- 21:21Speaker 7: in place for a week already due to last week's
- 21:24Speaker 7: record rain and the flooding that came with it. Now
- 21:27Speaker 7: much of the country, as we know, is expecting heavy
- 21:29Speaker 7: rain today. The South Island will get the brunt of
- 21:32Speaker 7: that this morning before it starts to move north. Christ
- 21:35Speaker 7: Church City Council Controller halland Brunt says this rain, the
- 21:39Speaker 7: real concern is that this rain may impact a one
- 21:41Speaker 7: hundred meter crack and some slips around Kadola's Lighthouse Road.
- 21:46Speaker 7: She says, there is the potential we'll see even more
- 21:49Speaker 7: slips forming.
- 21:50Speaker 11: The land there.
- 21:50Speaker 7: Remains very saturated as is the state of emergency. Situation
- 21:54Speaker 7: is going to be assisted again on Saturday.
- 21:57Speaker 2: All right, let's hope things stay pretty well. It's dry
- 22:00Speaker 2: as possible.
- 22:00Speaker 4: Clear.
- 22:00Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Max Toll, I'm willing to Max.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.
- 22:04Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:04Speaker 2: Good financial year for Wellington Airport. Glad you held on
- 22:07Speaker 2: to those years.
- 22:09Speaker 8: Nearly twenty six million dollars in profit.
- 22:11Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:11Speaker 8: Good for the City Council, despite at the same time
- 22:15Speaker 8: passenger domestic numbers slumping. Total yearly passengers on domestic routes
- 22:20Speaker 8: down one hundred and forty thousand on the year prior.
- 22:23Speaker 8: The big money spinner international visitors, though that's up about
- 22:26Speaker 8: sixty thousand. One notable example, the Brisbane routes, a thirty
- 22:29Speaker 8: seven percent increase in seats to Brisbane, frustrating for many
- 22:33Speaker 8: here in New Zealand, though Airport Chief Executive Matt Clark
- 22:36Speaker 8: says fleet available availability issues to blame for those falling
- 22:40Speaker 8: domestic numbers expected to remain a challenge for the next
- 22:44Speaker 8: year or so. Personally, something I've experienced myself. I'm sure
- 22:47Speaker 8: many people are listening to have had flights canceled at
- 22:49Speaker 8: late notice. My last five flights down to Timroud to
- 22:52Speaker 8: visit my parents, three of which were canceled very late
- 22:55Speaker 8: notice by Air New Zealand. Not whether the fleet, the
- 22:57Speaker 8: planes they're getting old engine issues and New Zealand's coffers
- 23:01Speaker 8: aren't as fillsome. Domestic travelers bearing the brunt.
- 23:04Speaker 2: Yeah, including yourself. Hey, how's your weather?
- 23:07Speaker 4: Max?
- 23:08Speaker 9: What uh?
- 23:09Speaker 8: Some heavy rain today? Seventeen the high Central brilliant.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Thank you Nevers and Aukland never good morning, good morning,
- 23:14Speaker 2: very exciting we have a new hope. But very exciting
- 23:17Speaker 2: also that one Aucklander has won a succulent prize for
- 23:19Speaker 2: giving their views on Auckland's annual budget.
- 23:21Speaker 11: They have a succulent prize. You're quite right. So in
- 23:24Speaker 11: a YouTube video now, this was on his personal channel
- 23:27Speaker 11: Auckland Me and Wayne Brown said lots of people like
- 23:29Speaker 11: to complain, but not many were interested in submitting. So
- 23:32Speaker 11: Wayne Brown he promised the succulent Chinese meal to one
- 23:36Speaker 11: lucky person who gave their feedback. Now the prize it
- 23:38Speaker 11: references a viral video. This was of an Australian man
- 23:41Speaker 11: being arrested outside a Chinese restaurant in nineteen ninety one.
- 23:44Speaker 11: If you're thinking, why was it a succulent meal? So
- 23:47Speaker 11: the winner was randomly selected earlier this week they will
- 23:50Speaker 11: receive their prize shortly and it's a one hundred and
- 23:52Speaker 11: fifty dollarsoutcher. This is for a Cantonese restaurant in Kingsland.
- 23:55Speaker 11: It's quite well known in Kingsland. Well, it's been open
- 23:58Speaker 11: for like two or three decades in Auckland and loads
- 24:01Speaker 11: of media people, you know, it's been quite popular. I thought, oh,
- 24:04Speaker 11: what's that one? Pretty good?
- 24:05Speaker 2: Yeah, Wayne to have spent a bit of time there,
- 24:07Speaker 2: wouldn't they all? Oh, yeah, how's our weather today?
- 24:10Speaker 11: Ray rain, rain showers by afternoon twenty one's a high Brigham.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Thank you, Neva, Happy Friday. Everybody just walking out basically cheering.
- 24:19Speaker 2: She's as excited as they are at Saint Peter's Square
- 24:22Speaker 2: this morning because we've got a new pope, Leo the fourteenth.
- 24:25Speaker 2: You're on news talks here Be, just gone seventeen minutes
- 24:27Speaker 2: away from six. We will get to Vatican, to the
- 24:29Speaker 2: Vatican before six o'clock. We'll also talk about Luxon and
- 24:34Speaker 2: their capital spend, which has got to be a good thing,
- 24:36Speaker 2: doesn't it. News Talks here Be. It is fourteen minutes
- 24:39Speaker 2: away from six. So we've got a new pope. His
- 24:40Speaker 2: name is Leo the Well he's American and he's Leo
- 24:43Speaker 2: the fourteenth, apparently going to bridge the gap between the
- 24:46Speaker 2: Conservatives and the Church and those more progressive members that
- 24:50Speaker 2: have been pushing for change in the continuation of Francis's legacy.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Mark O'Connor is our man in the Vatican. We're going
- 24:56Speaker 2: to get to him in just a second. He's hung
- 24:58Speaker 2: out with this new Pope's mean a bit of time
- 25:00Speaker 2: with him, so we'll talk to him in a sect.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Just gone fourteen to two now. Now, the Prime Minister
- 25:05Speaker 2: yesterday you'll know this, announced an extra almost half billion
- 25:08Speaker 2: bucks in capital spending in the upcoming budget. The net
- 25:10Speaker 2: capital allowance is now four billion. That's up from three
- 25:13Speaker 2: point six billion that they signaled in the budget policy statement. Health, education, defense, transport.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Those will be the focuses for them. That'll be the
- 25:21Speaker 2: focus for them. Oliver Hartwich, New Zealand Initiative Executive Director,
- 25:24Speaker 2: with me this morning.
- 25:24Speaker 4: Oliver, A good morning, good morning.
- 25:27Speaker 2: What did you make of this?
- 25:30Speaker 4: Well, I think it's a relatively minor announcement because okay,
- 25:33Speaker 4: capital spending was up by ten or eleven, but really
- 25:37Speaker 4: we're only talking about less than five million dollars precisely
- 25:42Speaker 4: and then the grand scheme of things that's actually a
- 25:45Speaker 4: drop in the government's ortion.
- 25:47Speaker 2: You have advocated quite strongly for changing up our assets
- 25:51Speaker 2: and the ownership of our assets. This obviously does nothing
- 25:54Speaker 2: to deal with that. But what do you think we
- 25:56Speaker 2: should get rid of?
- 25:59Speaker 4: Well, I think i'll be We've got a few stay
- 26:01Speaker 4: owned companies, especially in energy for example, but also the
- 26:04Speaker 4: government owns a huge chunk of air New Zealand. That
- 26:07Speaker 4: is where you could start quite easily if you want
- 26:09Speaker 4: to sell state owned assets. But altogether we have a
- 26:13Speaker 4: huge state portfolio of assets that deserves a bigger discussion.
- 26:17Speaker 4: For example, kind of aura, how much should the government
- 26:19Speaker 4: be invested there? The question is actually what to do
- 26:22Speaker 4: with that, And we think one of the ways to
- 26:25Speaker 4: deal with state owned assets is actually to go into
- 26:27Speaker 4: a process of so called asset recycling where the government
- 26:31Speaker 4: sells some of the assets to have some more room
- 26:34Speaker 4: for a malouver when it comes to investing in new
- 26:37Speaker 4: state owned assets.
- 26:39Speaker 2: And just finally on the business front, were they're going
- 26:42Speaker 2: to keep the research and development tax incentive, there is
- 26:45Speaker 2: talk that potentially they will look at doing more incentives
- 26:49Speaker 2: for business to invest to buy you know, manufacturing particular
- 26:52Speaker 2: to buy new equipment. Do you think that's a good idea?
- 26:55Speaker 2: Do you think that's worthwhile?
- 26:57Speaker 4: Well, the way I read the attention of the I
- 27:00Speaker 4: and D text credit is actually that it provides some
- 27:03Speaker 4: certainty for businesses already investing under that scheme. I mean
- 27:06Speaker 4: that was introduced by Labor in twenty nineteen. To be clear,
- 27:10Speaker 4: Luxton didn't change it. He didn't extend the iron D credit.
- 27:13Speaker 4: He basically keeps it where it is. So I think
- 27:15Speaker 4: that's more pragmatic solution.
- 27:16Speaker 2: All right, Thanks you, Tom Oliver. I appreciate Oliver. Heartwatch
- 27:19Speaker 2: New Zealand Initiative executive director, just gone twelve away from
- 27:22Speaker 2: six Ryan Bridge. So, Mike O'Connor is the Australian Catholic journalist.
- 27:26Speaker 2: With us from the Vatican. We have a new Pope,
- 27:28Speaker 2: Leo the fourteenth. He is American, sixty nine years old,
- 27:31Speaker 2: born in Chicago, French Italian roots, thought to be a
- 27:35Speaker 2: bridge between the progressives and the conservatives. Mark joins us
- 27:39Speaker 2: now from the Vatican.
- 27:40Speaker 3: Marc, good morning, good morning, yes, or good evening here
- 27:44Speaker 3: almost good evening. Oh it's a great it's a great evening,
- 27:48Speaker 3: an amazing atmosphere and an amazing choice. I couldn't be happier.
- 27:53Speaker 3: I you know, I had an hour with him on
- 27:54Speaker 3: April or fifteens in Ntingham's, Australia, and probably that's not
- 27:59Speaker 3: gonna happen now. But you know, he's a man who
- 28:02Speaker 3: is rooted in being with ordinary people. He worked in
- 28:05Speaker 3: Peru as a priest for fifteen years and then as
- 28:09Speaker 3: a bishop in you know, amongst poor people. He's actually
- 28:12Speaker 3: also not only an American, he's also a Peruvian citizen.
- 28:16Speaker 3: He speaks perfect Spanish, speaks he's a linguist, and he
- 28:19Speaker 3: was also the Superior General of the Augustinian Fathers in
- 28:23Speaker 3: Rome for several years, so he's an international person. And
- 28:25Speaker 3: of course he speaks perfect Ittarian as as you might
- 28:27Speaker 3: have seen it on the balconies a few minutes ago.
- 28:30Speaker 3: So yeah, And the first words he said were peace,
- 28:34Speaker 3: peace in this world of Gaza and conflict and the
- 28:39Speaker 3: conflict that's this in Ukraine. And he's going to be
- 28:43Speaker 3: the peace. And he's taken the name Leah the thirteenth,
- 28:47Speaker 3: So Leah the fourteenth deliberately because Leah the thirteenth was
- 28:50Speaker 3: the great pope of social justice teaching in the church
- 28:53Speaker 3: and of reaching out to marginalized, the first great pope
- 28:57Speaker 3: who really took the side of the working class with
- 28:59Speaker 3: these great instiight, m nevaram. So yeah, I'm excited. I
- 29:02Speaker 3: think it's fantastic. Apart from the fact that, you know,
- 29:05Speaker 3: I had a lovely hour with him. He's a very charming,
- 29:07Speaker 3: quiet he's not, you know, the charismatic figure of Pope Francis.
- 29:10Speaker 3: You're never going to get another Pope Francis. He's quite unique,
- 29:13Speaker 3: but he's just lovely, warm, caring human being who tried,
- 29:17Speaker 3: who was going to try and build bridges, and he's
- 29:19Speaker 3: very much in the spirit of Pope Francis. They've certainly
- 29:22Speaker 3: gone for continuity of continuing the vision and the mission
- 29:26Speaker 3: of Pope Francis. We were a little bit worried, some
- 29:27Speaker 3: of us that you know, there were there were voices saying,
- 29:30Speaker 3: you know, let's go back to the past, that the
- 29:34Speaker 3: new Pope Leah of the fourteenth will take us with
- 29:38Speaker 3: great joy and hope into the future. And he's well
- 29:40Speaker 3: loved and well trusted also in the Roman Curia by
- 29:43Speaker 3: many many people. So yeah, I think it's you know,
- 29:47Speaker 3: I'm I have to say, I'm ecstatic, I think, and
- 29:50Speaker 3: what does it mean beyond my wildest dreams.
- 29:53Speaker 2: Mark, what does it mean? What does it mean the
- 29:55Speaker 2: fact it took it there's only four rounds quicker than Francis.
- 29:58Speaker 3: Well, it means, yeah, it means that they that they
- 30:01Speaker 3: came pretty quickly into the decision that he was the
- 30:03Speaker 3: right man. He was elected more quickly than than Cardinal
- 30:06Speaker 3: Ratzinger was elected, you know, Pope Benedict. You know, it
- 30:11Speaker 3: was very, very quick. We were all surprised. I was
- 30:14Speaker 3: in the Vatican Press office when when it happened, and
- 30:16Speaker 3: you know, and then there was this enormous roar at
- 30:18Speaker 3: the crowd, and then when his name came through that
- 30:21Speaker 3: you know that it was that it was Robert Prevost,
- 30:24Speaker 3: et cetera. I mean, like it's just extraordinary. I know
- 30:27Speaker 3: I'm sounding a little bit of a little bit emotional
- 30:30Speaker 3: of the moment, sorry, but like it's it is, you know,
- 30:32Speaker 3: something that those of us who really loved Pope Francis
- 30:35Speaker 3: were a bit worried that somebody might appear who might,
- 30:38Speaker 3: you know, sort of slow things down a bit. But
- 30:40Speaker 3: this guy, he's moderate, he's calm, he's you know, he's
- 30:45Speaker 3: a person of prayer, but he's also a person who's
- 30:47Speaker 3: quite determined, you know, to continue the vision of the
- 30:50Speaker 3: Church reforming itself and reaching out to the world and
- 30:53Speaker 3: to the poor and to the suffering. But you know,
- 30:55Speaker 3: it was sonignant and the very first words that he
- 30:58Speaker 3: said were peaces. He will, you know, in this world
- 31:01Speaker 3: at the moment, with your Gaza and your crame, we
- 31:04Speaker 3: desperately need peacemakers and he you know, you know, he's
- 31:08Speaker 3: going to be an ausentic, credible voice that will get
- 31:11Speaker 3: hope to many people. I think Mark really including a
- 31:14Speaker 3: lot of non Catholics.
- 31:15Speaker 2: I really appreciate your time, and there's nothing wrong with
- 31:18Speaker 2: been a little bit emotional. In fact, I think Pope
- 31:20Speaker 2: Leo was a little bit emotional standing on the balcony
- 31:23Speaker 2: of the Vatican earlier this morning. Thanks very much for
- 31:26Speaker 2: your time. That's Mark O'Connor, Australian Catholic journalists with us.
- 31:29Speaker 2: You're on News Talks HEB eight minutes away from six
- 31:32Speaker 2: on your Friday morning, and Mike is here with.
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- 31:45Speaker 2: Five away from six. News TALKSB we've got a new Pope,
- 31:48Speaker 2: Leo the fourteenth. He's American, spent most of his life
- 31:52Speaker 2: in Peru, and Mike is with you next, he's in
- 31:54Speaker 2: the studio. Mike, good morning.
- 31:55Speaker 14: It's funny. It's a funny thing, isn't it, Because most
- 31:57Speaker 14: of the world, of course isn't Catholic, so therefore has
- 32:00Speaker 14: limited interest and you know nothing of this person, and
- 32:03Speaker 14: after today you will know nothing really more of him
- 32:06Speaker 14: unless he says something particularly controversial.
- 32:08Speaker 2: Which he probably will sounds like he won't.
- 32:10Speaker 14: And in thirty years perhaps he will die.
- 32:14Speaker 2: We'll do it all again, and we'll do it all again,
- 32:15Speaker 2: but at least you know. I mean, we've had what
- 32:18Speaker 2: twelve years of the last Pope of post Francis before
- 32:21Speaker 2: he passed away, So I mean, this guy's sixty nine,
- 32:23Speaker 2: as you say, should have a good innings. He'll go well.
- 32:26Speaker 14: But it's a fat I was saying to somebody earlier
- 32:28Speaker 14: on because they were getting excited about that. But it's
- 32:30Speaker 14: the genius of what the Roman Catholic Church did think
- 32:33Speaker 14: about the chimney, right. So if you had got, just
- 32:36Speaker 14: in the modern era, a press release, would you have
- 32:39Speaker 14: jumped up and down in the newsroom and gone, oh.
- 32:42Speaker 2: Like people that because the genius a smoke. It's the
- 32:45Speaker 2: smoke they used to use straw apparently, and now it's
- 32:48Speaker 2: all chemicals. Yeah, exactly, So if this guy talks about
- 32:50Speaker 2: climate change, I'll be laughing all the way to them.
- 32:53Speaker 14: You know, Well, there's a certain irony and that is yeah,
- 32:55Speaker 14: but I mean short of this, and that's one of
- 32:58Speaker 14: those stories where there's literally nothing to say once you've
- 33:00Speaker 14: got his name, his age.
- 33:02Speaker 2: Clearly the Peru scoop. So he's been well, what's left. Well,
- 33:09Speaker 2: we spoke to a guy who spent an hour with
- 33:12Speaker 2: him this we had him on.
- 33:13Speaker 14: The other guy is a very nice guy, very enthusiastic.
- 33:17Speaker 14: But that's what I'm saying. Guys like him live for this.
- 33:20Speaker 14: The rest of us are going. I mean, you know,
- 33:22Speaker 14: you and I when we get together, I'm coming around
- 33:24Speaker 14: to your place tonight for a drink. We're not going
- 33:26Speaker 14: to talk about this, aren't we.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Well, we talk about the trade deal between the US
- 33:29Speaker 2: and the UK.
- 33:30Speaker 14: We'll talk a little bit about that, and we'll talk
- 33:32Speaker 14: a little bit about the rugby because Mike Robinson's on
- 33:34Speaker 14: this morning, and they make more money good, but they
- 33:38Speaker 14: still lose.
- 33:38Speaker 2: Get rid of some teams and pay the players less easy.
- 33:42Speaker 14: Okay, have a good see you tonight, see you to.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Night, mate, have a great one. Everyone's see on Monday.
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