Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 25 March 2025
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- 0:02Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens
- 0:06Speaker 1: on Early Edition with one roof make your property search simple,
- 0:11Speaker 1: use talks.
- 0:11Speaker 2: It'd be welcome morning, and thank you so much for
- 0:14Speaker 2: choosing us. I'm Andrew Dickens and welcome into Early Edition
- 0:18Speaker 2: and coming up over the next sixty minutes, the government
- 0:21Speaker 2: has finally grasped the nettle of the Resource Management Act.
- 0:25Speaker 2: We're going to work you through the changes with fed pharmacists.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Before six the All Whites are off to the World Cup.
- 0:32Speaker 2: We'll have Jason Pine in ten minutes time on a
- 0:34Speaker 2: joyous night at Eden Park and on Langha Tamariki. The
- 0:38Speaker 2: agency that cannot do its job. A horrific report finally
- 0:42Speaker 2: makes it into the public domain after eleven months and
- 0:44Speaker 2: it's not pretty reading. We're going to talk about this
- 0:46Speaker 2: with Save the Children in about five minutes time. We'll
- 0:48Speaker 2: have correspondence from around the world and right around New
- 0:51Speaker 2: Zealand and use as it breaks and you can have
- 0:54Speaker 2: your say too by using the text. The number is
- 0:56Speaker 2: ninety two to ninety two. A small charge applies. Good
- 0:58Speaker 2: onring to you. It is seven after.
- 1:02Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 1:03Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, the twenty fifth of March, US negotiators are
- 1:07Speaker 2: meeting a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia as part of
- 1:11Speaker 2: Trump's push for a swift end to the war in Ukraine.
- 1:13Speaker 2: It comes as the Ukraine reports Russian strikes head a hospital, homes,
- 1:18Speaker 2: and children's institutions in Sumi, entering twenty eight people, including
- 1:22Speaker 2: four children. Meanwhile, Russia military says they intercepted twenty eight
- 1:27Speaker 2: Ukrainian drones.
- 1:29Speaker 3: These are very technical talks. I think the Americans, who
- 1:34Speaker 3: had initially been very upbeat, very optimistic about it, have
- 1:37Speaker 3: had to scale back their expectations about just what can
- 1:40Speaker 3: be achieved.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Here to Turkey now, where the Turkish government says more
- 1:45Speaker 2: than a thousand people have been arrested in five days
- 1:47Speaker 2: of protests around the country. Protests began when Istanbul's mayor
- 1:51Speaker 2: Ekrem Imaghu, an opponent to of President Iduwan, was detained
- 1:56Speaker 2: on corruption charges. Imamagu, who's also been matter from his
- 2:00Speaker 2: post as mayor, says these charges, surprise, surprise, are politically motivated.
- 2:05Speaker 4: If you're urging, I'm dear in mining our society to
- 2:09Speaker 4: protest this injustice made towards mister Imomolus, towards Turkish democracy.
- 2:15Speaker 4: It was our party and it's about the future of society.
- 2:20Speaker 2: And British American influencer Andrew Tait and his brother Tristan
- 2:24Speaker 2: have appeared at a police station after returning to Romania
- 2:26Speaker 2: from the United States. The brothers registered with the authorities
- 2:31Speaker 2: in the capital for Kures. That was a legal formality
- 2:34Speaker 2: to demonstrate their compliance with the ongoing criminal investigation. Now
- 2:37Speaker 2: they're under investigation for forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking,
- 2:42Speaker 2: trafficking of miners and money you're ordering. And Andrew also
- 2:46Speaker 2: faces allegations of rape and sex with a minor, and
- 2:48Speaker 2: the pair, of course deny all accusations.
- 2:51Speaker 5: I think we've all realized by now everyone with a
- 2:53Speaker 5: brain knows this case is going nowhere. This case will
- 2:55Speaker 5: be over sooner or later. Anyone with a brain can
- 2:57Speaker 5: understand that. So it's just a matter of paperwork and administration.
- 3:00Speaker 5: And now we can talk about how it's unfair. They've
- 3:02Speaker 5: just tried to destroy my life for three years. But
- 3:05Speaker 5: God puts us through things to test us, and I
- 3:07Speaker 5: believe that God put me through this to test me,
- 3:10Speaker 5: and I think I've done a flawless, fantastic job of
- 3:13Speaker 5: persevering that's using to be browbeaten.
- 3:16Speaker 2: That's and taking us to ten minutes after five.
- 3:19Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day in
- 3:22Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickens and one Room to make
- 3:25Speaker 1: your Property search simple, You talk siy.
- 3:29Speaker 2: So the fact that the government is going to reform
- 3:31Speaker 2: the Resource Management Act should not be underestimated. I've been
- 3:34Speaker 2: doing this job a long time, and I've seen governments
- 3:37Speaker 2: of every color and kreg grumbling about this legislation for
- 3:39Speaker 2: decades now, saying they're going to do something about it,
- 3:42Speaker 2: and never doing a thing. And when they got down
- 3:44Speaker 2: to wrestling the monster, it quickly got moved into the
- 3:46Speaker 2: too hard basket. This Act has been a classic example
- 3:50Speaker 2: of mission creep, with bureaucrats and councils and governments taking
- 3:54Speaker 2: on limits to development nwilly nilly, leaving us with a
- 3:59Speaker 2: mess of rules regulations, and the only fans of it
- 4:01Speaker 2: have been the lawyers and the consulting engineers who have
- 4:04Speaker 2: been on a gravy train that frankly dwarfs the EI one.
- 4:07Speaker 2: But finally a government has grasped the tiger by the
- 4:10Speaker 2: tail and is doing something about it. And of course
- 4:13Speaker 2: it's not going to happen overnight, and remember it will
- 4:16Speaker 2: not be immune from challenge. But here's the thing all
- 4:19Speaker 2: political parties should support the certainly the main ones why
- 4:23Speaker 2: it brings us into line with most OECD countries. It
- 4:26Speaker 2: simplifies things, it makes it understandable, and a lot of
- 4:29Speaker 2: the new legislation resembles Labour's proposal last electoral cycle. Like
- 4:35Speaker 2: Labour's approach, it includes two new pieces of legislation. We
- 4:39Speaker 2: will now have a Natural Environment Act and a Planning Act. However,
- 4:44Speaker 2: how it goes further than the Labour thing is it
- 4:47Speaker 2: preserves property rights better. In other words, if you've been
- 4:50Speaker 2: doing stuff on your land, you retain the right to
- 4:52Speaker 2: keep on doing it, and if your neighbor wants to
- 4:54Speaker 2: do stuff that impinges on your property rights, they can't.
- 4:57Speaker 2: It should also be noted that David Parker from la
- 5:00Speaker 2: A first mooted fast track consenting, which is a separate thing.
- 5:04Speaker 2: But on the RMA and fast track, Labor shouldn't complain.
- 5:07Speaker 2: If they do start bleeding, realize it's because they're jealous
- 5:11Speaker 2: that National got it over the line when they didn't.
- 5:14Speaker 2: In fact, many governments will be jealous. This one's finally
- 5:17Speaker 2: done something, so bring on the new tomorrow. Remember, it's
- 5:20Speaker 2: going to take years to happen, but at least it
- 5:23Speaker 2: started to happen. It's twelve minutes out to five. I'll
- 5:26Speaker 2: be reading substack and Malcolm Turnbull, the former Prime Minister
- 5:29Speaker 2: of Australia, is on substack, and lately he's been writing
- 5:33Speaker 2: about Orcus, the defense packed between Australia, the United States
- 5:38Speaker 2: and Britain, a pact that we've been encouraged to join
- 5:42Speaker 2: as an auxiliary partner. We're already kind of in there
- 5:45Speaker 2: in a way with five eyes, but not he's reminding
- 5:48Speaker 2: this is Malcolm Turnbull is reminding Australians that the heart
- 5:51Speaker 2: of the deal is Australia buying submarines. Of course he
- 5:56Speaker 2: was the Prime minister. He's seeing the deal when he
- 5:58Speaker 2: was in power, and he sees the kicker is the
- 6:01Speaker 2: subs only get built if America doesn't need any. Guess
- 6:06Speaker 2: what at this moment, America is eleven submarine short right now,
- 6:11Speaker 2: and construction is years away and takes years. So well,
- 6:16Speaker 2: Assie will ever get at subs. And with the Trump
- 6:19Speaker 2: administration now in power, there's no telling when the subs
- 6:22Speaker 2: might come for Australia. In fact, there's no telling if
- 6:25Speaker 2: the Orcus Pact will continue to be a thing in
- 6:28Speaker 2: the New America. So my read on all of this,
- 6:31Speaker 2: and thank you Malcolm Turnbull for writing on this, is
- 6:34Speaker 2: that New Zealand should just keep on sharing the intelligence,
- 6:38Speaker 2: but on Orcus, we need to wait until the future
- 6:40Speaker 2: is more clear before any further involvements. So look, it
- 6:45Speaker 2: took eleven months to get a report out of orang
- 6:49Speaker 2: A Tamoiki, and when we finally got it out of them,
- 6:53Speaker 2: out of their clawed hands, the report details grievous privacy breaches.
- 6:58Speaker 2: So what is going wrong this time with OT? We're
- 7:02Speaker 2: going to talk to save the children next here on
- 7:05Speaker 2: News Talk SETB.
- 7:06Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 7:11Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make Your Property Search
- 7:14Speaker 1: Simple Youth Talk z b oh good.
- 7:17Speaker 2: They added sixteen after five already, so alan A Tamariki
- 7:21Speaker 2: they have still not fixed systems that led to privacy
- 7:24Speaker 2: breach is so serious that in at least one case,
- 7:27Speaker 2: the breach led to a woman being physically abused. A
- 7:31Speaker 2: recently made public review of OT's approach to privacy found
- 7:35Speaker 2: the organization has just been too casual with sensitive data
- 7:38Speaker 2: In one case, there was a social worker who gave
- 7:41Speaker 2: the address of a child and their mother to the
- 7:43Speaker 2: child's father. The father was on bail at the time,
- 7:48Speaker 2: and he was on bail for rape charges. He should
- 7:51Speaker 2: never know that stuff. Jackie Saldy is with the child
- 7:53Speaker 2: rights advocacy and research director at Saved the Children and
- 7:56Speaker 2: joins you now, good morning to dear Jackie. Then Andrew,
- 8:00Speaker 2: why can't this agency ever get it together?
- 8:04Speaker 6: Well, the privacy breaches that you've described are incredibly serious
- 8:10Speaker 6: and unacceptable by any measure, and we're very concerned that
- 8:14Speaker 6: there are continued examples and that the report that has
- 8:19Speaker 6: been made public does describe a plan that has been
- 8:21Speaker 6: put together, but we'd like to understand more about how
- 8:25Speaker 6: that plan is progressing and the way that it will
- 8:28Speaker 6: support children and filo to greater safety within the auto
- 8:32Speaker 6: A tammidety system. The report shows that the breaches absolutely
- 8:36Speaker 6: fail to uphold children's rights to privacy and protection under
- 8:40Speaker 6: the Convention of the Rights of the Child, and unfortunately,
- 8:43Speaker 6: children's privacy can be seen as a secondary or secondary
- 8:47Speaker 6: rights with the discretion of adults, when in fact children
- 8:50Speaker 6: are clearly accorded their rights to privacy if they should
- 8:52Speaker 6: be understood, respected and are held across the order a
- 8:55Speaker 6: Tamodhi system.
- 8:56Speaker 2: You say they have a plan, but they won't tell
- 8:58Speaker 2: us about the plan. Do they even want to? I mean,
- 9:00Speaker 2: this review was completed eleven months ago and the media
- 9:03Speaker 2: has been pestering for it's released the whole time through
- 9:05Speaker 2: the Official Information Act. They to me just don't seem
- 9:08Speaker 2: to want to be accountable.
- 9:11Speaker 7: Well, I guess it's a difficult situation.
- 9:14Speaker 6: We're sensitive information is being shared publicly. And one of
- 9:18Speaker 6: the problems when these sorts of issues and I guess
- 9:24Speaker 6: misconduct or greatest breach has come to light, is it
- 9:27Speaker 6: takes away public trust in government agencies such as ud Tamodeki.
- 9:31Speaker 6: And this is incredibly important because if the public don't
- 9:35Speaker 6: have trust in Auto Tamidiki, there's a struggle to for
- 9:39Speaker 6: it to work effectively, and that is to receive complaints
- 9:41Speaker 6: of concern and the trust that they'll be acted on
- 9:44Speaker 6: appropriately and that children and finna will be protected in
- 9:47Speaker 6: their system. So it's really important. It cannot be underestimated
- 9:51Speaker 6: how critical it is that they step up and really
- 9:53Speaker 6: communicate how what they're doing to rep by these issues
- 9:57Speaker 6: and make the changes we want to.
- 9:59Speaker 2: See whether they've even got our trust at all. I mean,
- 10:01Speaker 2: there's been review after review, there's been report after report,
- 10:04Speaker 2: there's been outrage after outrage and changes and plans, and
- 10:08Speaker 2: we don't get to hear about it. Do you think
- 10:11Speaker 2: they'll ever get around to it.
- 10:13Speaker 6: Well, it's essential that they do, because they are the
- 10:15Speaker 6: government agency that is tasked with one of the most
- 10:18Speaker 6: critical areas, and child protection the most critical area in
- 10:21Speaker 6: child protection. They are absolutely tasked with upholding the safety,
- 10:26Speaker 6: the rights of protection and the futures of children and
- 10:29Speaker 6: families are incredibly fragile in fun of the situations. We
- 10:32Speaker 6: need this agency to do well, to function effectively and
- 10:35Speaker 6: to protect our twinforms.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Jackie Sally, I thank you so much for your advocacy.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Jackie's from Save the Children and a child rights advocacy
- 10:42Speaker 2: and research director. And I've had a text already Andrew. Yes,
- 10:45Speaker 2: of course OT can do better, but we always blame
- 10:48Speaker 2: just them. We wouldn't need this growing service who are overworked,
- 10:51Speaker 2: if people care for their families, and if New Zealand
- 10:55Speaker 2: didn't have such appalling child abuse statistics. And this is
- 10:58Speaker 2: all true, but we also an agency that can help
- 11:01Speaker 2: the kids and this one doesn't seem to be able
- 11:04Speaker 2: to It's five nineteen. We watched the football last night
- 11:08Speaker 2: and not White Lotus. We're into the World Cup. Jason
- 11:11Speaker 2: Pine was the caller. He's joining me.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Next News and Views, you Trust to Starne your Day.
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- 11:23Speaker 2: They'd be five twenty two. Here we go, Here we go,
- 11:26Speaker 2: Here we go. We're off to the World Cup. Twenty
- 11:27Speaker 2: twenty six. We won three mil over New Caledonia. And
- 11:30Speaker 2: of course the man making the call for the Telly
- 11:32Speaker 2: and also works here on news Talks, here be as
- 11:35Speaker 2: Jason Pine. Congratulations Jason. I thought you played very well.
- 11:40Speaker 8: Look, I'm not sure I had any direct influence on
- 11:44Speaker 8: the game, Andrew, but it's lovely to be here with you.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Tough first half. The New Caledonians were well organized.
- 11:50Speaker 8: They certainly were. Yeah, they came out and made it
- 11:52Speaker 8: very difficult for New Zealand in the first half. And look,
- 11:56Speaker 8: I think a lot of people turned up there last
- 11:57Speaker 8: night and tuned in thinking this is going to be
- 12:00Speaker 8: fairly straightforward, and it didn't take long for those illusions
- 12:04Speaker 8: to be dispelled. I thought New Colodoni were well worth
- 12:07Speaker 8: it and played really well in the first half. Frustrated
- 12:09Speaker 8: New Zealand. You know, any chances they had were repelled
- 12:13Speaker 8: by their excellent goalkeeper Rocky nccaine. And at half time
- 12:16Speaker 8: when they wandered off or New Zealand wanted off, it
- 12:19Speaker 8: was with frustration New Caledonia almost celebrating at half time
- 12:23Speaker 8: the fact that it was still nil all. But in
- 12:25Speaker 8: New Zealand grow into the game in the second half
- 12:26Speaker 8: and did what had to be done. Well.
- 12:28Speaker 2: Of course, we lost Chris Woods and we worry about it,
- 12:30Speaker 2: but that's the thing for Nottingham, for est to worry about.
- 12:33Speaker 2: But here's the thing what I liked about it. In
- 12:35Speaker 2: the second half. We changed stuff a bit. We brought
- 12:37Speaker 2: in Francis Devrees. We've got a whole lot more direct
- 12:39Speaker 2: and suddenly so we changed and we got around the
- 12:42Speaker 2: blanket defense. And that's a good sign for a good team.
- 12:45Speaker 8: Oh look absolutely, yeah. You can't just have one plan,
- 12:48Speaker 8: can you. And Plan A was Chris Wood obviously, and
- 12:52Speaker 8: that you know, for the first time in a long
- 12:54Speaker 8: time didn't work and as you say, he went off injured.
- 12:56Speaker 8: So they changed it up Francis to Brees as you say,
- 12:59Speaker 8: came on cost of Barbe I think made an excellent
- 13:01Speaker 8: impact off the bench and Elie just you know, barbarusas
- 13:05Speaker 8: and just both on the score sheet. So yeah, they
- 13:08Speaker 8: It is the sign of a good team that if
- 13:10Speaker 8: things aren't going the way you would hope that they
- 13:13Speaker 8: would that you you know, that you try something else
- 13:16Speaker 8: and you get success that way. And that's what happened
- 13:18Speaker 8: last night.
- 13:18Speaker 2: So we're after the big game, but for the third
- 13:21Speaker 2: time ever, but this time with this supposed golden generation
- 13:25Speaker 2: of players. Should we hope that they get to the
- 13:27Speaker 2: knockout stage?
- 13:29Speaker 8: Well, absolutely, I think that'll be the aim. There's no
- 13:31Speaker 8: way that this team will want to go just to participate.
- 13:34Speaker 8: That that has to now be the base level that
- 13:36Speaker 8: when we get to the World Cup next year, it's
- 13:38Speaker 8: not just to make up the numbers. It's not just
- 13:40Speaker 8: to play three games and then pack the bags and
- 13:42Speaker 8: head home. It's that they have realistic ambitions of getting
- 13:46Speaker 8: out of their group and into the knockout stages. It
- 13:48Speaker 8: is a very good All Whites team, you know, notwithstanding
- 13:51Speaker 8: the fact they couldn't break down New Caledonia for large
- 13:54Speaker 8: periods of last night. This is as good in all
- 13:56Speaker 8: whites team as I've seen, and look they will be
- 14:01Speaker 8: off to the Big Dance next year with the full
- 14:04Speaker 8: intention of getting out of the group.
- 14:06Speaker 2: And something's changed about football. In a shocking development, my
- 14:09Speaker 2: partner chose to watch the game instead of wait loads
- 14:11Speaker 2: this last night. It'll be interesting to see the ratings,
- 14:16Speaker 2: but obviously you know football's on the rise.
- 14:19Speaker 8: Well of those Yeah, free to wear last night, which
- 14:21Speaker 8: helps obviously, but no, well, when people like your partner
- 14:24Speaker 8: are choosing, are choosing football over over her regular viewing habits.
- 14:29Speaker 8: And look, good crowd there last night from Monday night
- 14:32Speaker 8: over twenty five thousand Auckland FC. You and I have
- 14:35Speaker 8: talked about that a lot in the past as well,
- 14:37Speaker 8: and the Phoenix have been around for some time now,
- 14:39Speaker 8: good players all around the world. It will only get
- 14:42Speaker 8: bigger when we go to the World Cup next year.
- 14:44Speaker 8: So yeah, pretty healthy time for the round ball code
- 14:47Speaker 8: in our country.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Pack your bags, Jason, looks like you're going to America.
- 14:50Speaker 6: We are.
- 14:51Speaker 8: We certainly pitching to the bosses Andrew get your support.
- 14:54Speaker 2: That'll be helpful, No problem, no problem, I'll carry your
- 14:56Speaker 2: bags for you. Jason Plant, football commentator, and news storks.
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- 15:09Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. It is five twenty seven.
- 15:11Speaker 2: So it's no secret to anyone that we don't have
- 15:13Speaker 2: enough doctors in this country. Recent policy moves to attract
- 15:17Speaker 2: more qualified overseas doctors have been eagerly received, as have
- 15:20Speaker 2: directives to increase the number of doctors we train locally,
- 15:24Speaker 2: and the government's decision to fund another fifty medical school
- 15:27Speaker 2: places from next year, which will increase the cap to
- 15:30Speaker 2: six hundred and thirty nine first year students, was well
- 15:32Speaker 2: received too. But here's my question, what is the point
- 15:35Speaker 2: of training more doctors if we don't have jobs for them.
- 15:38Speaker 2: Medical Council data shows that thirty percent of medical graduates
- 15:43Speaker 2: leave the country within ten years. They leave because Health
- 15:46Speaker 2: New Zealand do not fund enough jobs. The jobs they
- 15:48Speaker 2: do fund a lowly play paid and future prospects are
- 15:51Speaker 2: limited except for a talent of few. They get paid
- 15:54Speaker 2: better overseas and they can pay off this student loan faster.
- 15:57Speaker 2: And it all starts in day one after they've trade.
- 16:01Speaker 2: Each year, Health New Zealand fails to fund internships for
- 16:05Speaker 2: twenty five to thirty graduates, forcing them to look overseas.
- 16:09Speaker 2: They've done everything, but there's absolutely no job there for them.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Some sure, we're overseas students, but they've spent seven years here.
- 16:16Speaker 2: They'd like to say if the prospects look good, but
- 16:18Speaker 2: the prospects aren't. Now we've trained these guys, and all
- 16:22Speaker 2: tertiary education is partially subsidized by you and I the taxpayer.
- 16:25Speaker 2: What is the point of spending taxpayers money training doctors
- 16:29Speaker 2: if to save taxpayers money we don't offer them a
- 16:32Speaker 2: career path after their studies. And so how about this
- 16:35Speaker 2: for a radical idea. The government now wants to fund
- 16:38Speaker 2: training for six hundred and thirty nine doctors next year,
- 16:41Speaker 2: why not also fund six hundred and thirty nine internships,
- 16:46Speaker 2: and if any of them don't want to stay, we
- 16:48Speaker 2: use that excess funding to pay the guys who do
- 16:50Speaker 2: want to stay a little bit more. Because to fund
- 16:54Speaker 2: training of doctors and then refuse to fund their jobs
- 16:57Speaker 2: after they've graduated to me as wasteful spending. And we
- 17:02Speaker 2: all know how this government feels about wasteful Spending Dickens.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Elton John. He is seventy eight years old today,
- 17:10Speaker 2: three hundred million albums, one hundred million songs singles, Rock
- 17:13Speaker 2: and roll Hall of Famer. I say this because he's
- 17:16Speaker 2: been not well. He's had prostate cancer, a hit replacement.
- 17:19Speaker 2: His eyes are playing up on them now. So every
- 17:22Speaker 2: year with Elton is a good year. Now at a
- 17:25Speaker 2: moment we're talking about the invasion of fire rands in Australia.
- 17:28Speaker 2: You've got an earlier edition with news Talks b Hi, Fellow.
- 17:34Speaker 9: Gravev Hell then.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on a filly edition with one roof, make
- 17:42Speaker 1: your property Surge, simple youth talk zibby.
- 17:57Speaker 2: Hey, good morning and welcome to your Tuesday. Mandre Dickinson
- 18:00Speaker 2: for why I'm bridge from here for a couple more
- 18:02Speaker 2: weeks until Heather comes back. Text throughout ninety two to
- 18:06Speaker 2: ninety two. Text wanted me to ask Jason about the
- 18:09Speaker 2: aucand Stadium being proposed for Western Springs for AUCANDFC. Well,
- 18:12Speaker 2: it wasn't the right time all the right place. But
- 18:14Speaker 2: I have to say against those plans and the popularity
- 18:16Speaker 2: of football right now, I don't think it's big enough.
- 18:18Speaker 2: We will by the way find out what Auck's doing
- 18:20Speaker 2: about at Stadium lay later on this week, either a
- 18:23Speaker 2: new one or a revamp of for Eeden Park. Got
- 18:26Speaker 2: a bulletin of drug and booze news for you right now.
- 18:28Speaker 2: Police have released the annual wastewater drug testing results and
- 18:31Speaker 2: it is grim there was an unprecedented ninety six percent
- 18:37Speaker 2: spike in meth consumption. That's called it one hundred percent?
- 18:39Speaker 2: Shall we in one year? That's a hell of a spike.
- 18:42Speaker 2: At a time when the government wants to say it's
- 18:44Speaker 2: not soft on crime and that it's war on gangs
- 18:46Speaker 2: is successful, it appears that if you're a gang drug dealer,
- 18:50Speaker 2: it's bonus time.
- 18:51Speaker 8: Now.
- 18:52Speaker 2: I'm not going to go out there and say the
- 18:53Speaker 2: patch band has failed, That's what Chris Hipkins said yesterday.
- 18:56Speaker 2: But what I will say is the patch band falls
- 18:58Speaker 2: around the edges of the gangs. And the Prime Minister
- 19:00Speaker 2: rightfully has asked Mark Mitchell to strike at the very
- 19:03Speaker 2: heart of gangs along with Paul Goldsmith, and we can't
- 19:06Speaker 2: wait for that. The estimated social cost of myth in
- 19:08Speaker 2: New Zealand one point five billion dollars meanwhile to the UK,
- 19:13Speaker 2: and the average price of a pint in England is
- 19:15Speaker 2: about to exceed five quid. This first time you have
- 19:18Speaker 2: a five quid for a pint. Everywhere a public can
- 19:21Speaker 2: say it's never been more expensive to run a pub,
- 19:23Speaker 2: so prices go up. This is because Keir starm has
- 19:26Speaker 2: brought an increases to the minimum waves as a rise
- 19:28Speaker 2: of national insurance rates and so it's all much more expensive.
- 19:32Speaker 2: That's if you can even find a pub in England.
- 19:34Speaker 2: The number of pubs in England has had a record low,
- 19:36Speaker 2: falling below thirty nine thousand for the first time last year.
- 19:40Speaker 2: The problem was COVID left many with crippling debt problems
- 19:42Speaker 2: and all this is striking a blow at the heart
- 19:44Speaker 2: of British life and people are not happy. You do
- 19:47Speaker 2: not get between a palm and his beer. Andrew Dickens
- 19:53Speaker 2: twenty three to six. We're going around the country Caluen
- 19:55Speaker 2: Proctor from duned and good morning morning Andrew, and right
- 19:58Speaker 2: pay is there are being asked their views on public transport.
- 20:02Speaker 10: Yeah, consultations underway on the draft Otago Regional Public Transport Plan.
- 20:06Speaker 10: It opened yesterday. This focus is on improving passenger experiences,
- 20:11Speaker 10: promoting sustainable transport choices and planning bus routes. The Regional
- 20:15Speaker 10: Council is also seeking feedback on proposals to increase the
- 20:19Speaker 10: flat fear here from two dollars to two dollars fifty
- 20:23Speaker 10: and introduce zones for those fears. The Transport Committee co
- 20:26Speaker 10: chairs Andrew Noon. He says they need to manage new
- 20:28Speaker 10: government expectations requiring an increase in revenue and this consultation
- 20:34Speaker 10: closes on May the twelfth.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Don't complain if you don't have your day. What's the
- 20:37Speaker 2: weather like in Dunedin?
- 20:39Speaker 10: Chance for shower this morning, becoming fine this afternoon, the
- 20:42Speaker 10: high seventeenth and I.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire Sure it joins us fro Christus. Good
- 20:45Speaker 2: morning to you, Claire, Good morning. The mayor wants to
- 20:47Speaker 2: get people inside to Kaha.
- 20:49Speaker 11: Well basically that's that's what pil Major wants to do.
- 20:52Speaker 11: He wants everyone in there, but also wants it to
- 20:54Speaker 11: be an opportunity to help charities at the same time.
- 20:57Speaker 11: So I shared last week that one New Zealand Stadium
- 20:59Speaker 11: Actica as one of the fifty one sites that are
- 21:02Speaker 11: going to open to the public at the Open christ
- 21:05Speaker 11: Church Festival, which is over a weekend in May. Now
- 21:08Speaker 11: the Catchers though that only twenty locals will get that opportunity.
- 21:12Speaker 11: Those names will be drawn out of a ballot, with
- 21:14Speaker 11: more than five hundred people applying to have one of
- 21:18Speaker 11: those spots within the first couple of hours. The mayor
- 21:20Speaker 11: film major says it's really cool that people can see
- 21:23Speaker 11: things they normally wouldn't get the chance to. So he'd
- 21:25Speaker 11: like to see more locals getting that opportunity. Inside Takaha
- 21:29Speaker 11: with a can of food as an entry fee.
- 21:31Speaker 2: Oh come, can't wait. Now, how's your weather?
- 21:34Speaker 11: Some low cloud lifting this morning to become cloudy, northeasterlies
- 21:38Speaker 11: easing and a high of eighteen.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Max told joins us now from Wellington. Hellimax, good morning,
- 21:42Speaker 2: So all the talk is about the redrawing of electoral boundaries.
- 21:46Speaker 12: Yeah, interesting announcement happening in Wellington later this morning. An
- 21:49Speaker 12: independent commission will announce what electorate could be abolished. Population
- 21:54Speaker 12: changes mean one voting area has to get the chop
- 21:57Speaker 12: in the North Island, likely to be or any that
- 22:00Speaker 12: Auckland or Wellington. The South Island's population has grown, so
- 22:03Speaker 12: it must be in the North Island. Wellington Central has
- 22:06Speaker 12: been suggested by some here, Orongai or how do you
- 22:10Speaker 12: bas Otago University professor Andrew Geddy's predicts Auckland will lose
- 22:15Speaker 12: an electorate and it could impact David Seymour's home turf.
- 22:18Speaker 12: EPSOM sits in the middle of the electorates in question.
- 22:22Speaker 12: He thinks EPSOM is the most likely to get the
- 22:24Speaker 12: chop right now.
- 22:26Speaker 2: And of course then that brings about allegations of jerry mandering,
- 22:29Speaker 2: but that's for another day. What's Wellington's weather like?
- 22:32Speaker 12: Cloudy period?
- 22:33Speaker 2: Is today?
- 22:33Speaker 12: Light winds twenty the high central.
- 22:35Speaker 2: And Niva Rittaman who joins us from Auckland. Hello, Neva, Greetings,
- 22:39Speaker 2: it's Stadium Idol, it's Stadium Survivor. It's the Battle of
- 22:42Speaker 2: the stadiums and we're still waiting to find out what's
- 22:45Speaker 2: going to happen in Auckland.
- 22:46Speaker 13: Correct, there's a waiting game. And this is the option
- 22:48Speaker 13: about Auckland Council staff what they're recommending for a national stadium.
- 22:52Speaker 13: So what we do know the council has already reached
- 22:55Speaker 13: a short list of two options. Okay, one is going
- 22:58Speaker 13: to see that Eden Park upgraded with the roofs. The
- 23:00Speaker 13: other would see the new building precinct developed near Spark Arena.
- 23:04Speaker 13: Now that would have hotels, apartments, bars, restaurants and a
- 23:07Speaker 13: fifty thousand seat stadium. So the staff are due to
- 23:11Speaker 13: make a recommendation, so hopefully there'll be today. Then the
- 23:14Speaker 13: councilors they choose an option on Thursday.
- 23:18Speaker 2: And of course is controversy because they went to some
- 23:20Speaker 2: gigs that eat in part.
- 23:21Speaker 13: Yes, correct, and of.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Course the construction industry is gagging for a good piece
- 23:26Speaker 2: of work that will wait to say.
- 23:26Speaker 13: So hopefully yes, So it should happen by the end
- 23:28Speaker 13: of this week. Well no, what's talking is were the
- 23:30Speaker 13: fine fine, fine, no rain? Unfortunately twenty five is are
- 23:34Speaker 13: high here in Auckland.
- 23:35Speaker 2: I am very good. I thank you Neva Retamanu and
- 23:37Speaker 2: this is news stork set B. We've got Don and
- 23:38Speaker 2: Demayo from Australia in a few moments time, all about
- 23:41Speaker 2: the budget and also the attack of fire ants in Queensland,
- 23:44Speaker 2: which gives me the creeps right there just reading the headline.
- 23:47Speaker 2: And before this hour is out, we're talking to Federated
- 23:49Speaker 2: farmers about the changes to the Resource Management Act that
- 23:53Speaker 2: the government has said will happen. They said this yesterday.
- 23:56Speaker 2: As I understand it, the farmers are pretty happy. It
- 23:58Speaker 2: is our seventeen to sex this.
- 24:01Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
- 24:05Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Why too. It's a quarter to six and we're off
- 24:09Speaker 2: to Australia. Done and Tamaya. Good morning to you, Good
- 24:12Speaker 2: morning to you. We are counting down to the federal budget.
- 24:15Speaker 2: What's been happening.
- 24:16Speaker 9: Oh yes, we're down to the next few hours and
- 24:18Speaker 9: then it's it's skiing handed down by the Federal Treasurer
- 24:22Speaker 9: Jim Chalmers. It's his fourth budget tonight. It's particularly important,
- 24:26Speaker 9: as you can imagine, because of the looming federal election.
- 24:29Speaker 9: Of course, we don't know the date yet of the election,
- 24:32Speaker 9: but it can't be later than May seventeen. But a
- 24:35Speaker 9: budget can certainly influence voters. Some things we know already
- 24:39Speaker 9: one point two billion dollars for the cleanup bill post
- 24:42Speaker 9: x cyclone. Alfred. I've also had the PM hinting that
- 24:46Speaker 9: there could be support for the local steel and aluminium
- 24:48Speaker 9: industry facing those twenty five percent tariffs imposed by the US.
- 24:52Speaker 9: There could be some help to reduce student debt. There's
- 24:55Speaker 9: going to be extra childcare funding, some bill subsidies, because
- 24:58Speaker 9: we know all about the pressures of the cost of
- 25:01Speaker 9: living education boost for Queensland. There's also women's health services
- 25:07Speaker 9: funding boosts and interestingly I thought we hear that Labour's
- 25:11Speaker 9: going to make its biggest defense spending increase since World
- 25:15Speaker 9: War II, bringing forward one billion dollars in defense spending.
- 25:20Speaker 9: And that's obviously to boost our military capability.
- 25:23Speaker 2: You need to set the military on those fire ants
- 25:25Speaker 2: in Queensland.
- 25:27Speaker 9: Oh, Dearie May. The Queensland government has announced extra funding
- 25:30Speaker 9: to help tackle invasive fire ants. Would you believe this
- 25:34Speaker 9: month alone, sixty people have reported extreme reactions to fire
- 25:40Speaker 9: ant stings and twenty three people had to be hospitalized.
- 25:45Speaker 9: And well, we're hearing that residence of Queensland they're effectively
- 25:49Speaker 9: under assault from these fire ants on farms in backyards
- 25:52Speaker 9: and we know that six months ago the previous government said,
- 25:55Speaker 9: well people had to take responsibility for controlling the pets.
- 25:58Speaker 9: Well now with her from the current government, they're going
- 26:01Speaker 9: to spend an extra twenty four million dollars over the
- 26:04Speaker 9: next two years to try to control them. That makes
- 26:07Speaker 9: it sixty one million dollars to try to take care
- 26:11Speaker 9: of these fire ants, which can travel five kilometers in
- 26:14Speaker 9: one single flight, They damage crops, they eat seeds, and
- 26:17Speaker 9: of course there's painful stings that sadly can lead to
- 26:22Speaker 9: allergic reactions and the for axis even and possibly death
- 26:26Speaker 9: in some cases. So they're saying that if they don't
- 26:30Speaker 9: take care of this situation, the cost of the economy
- 26:33Speaker 9: could be billions of dollars over the next several years.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Evil little biggers here those bites. I mean, that's why
- 26:38Speaker 2: they call fire ants. It's stings like fire. And I
- 26:40Speaker 2: thank you, Donald Demio. It is now twelve to six
- 26:43Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens. Finally a government has decided and has actually
- 26:47Speaker 2: come about to reform the Resource Management Act. In fact,
- 26:50Speaker 2: the Resorts Management Act is gone. It's going to be
- 26:52Speaker 2: replaced by a Planning Act and a Natural Environment Act
- 26:56Speaker 2: by the next election. Analysis of the new system estimates
- 26:59Speaker 2: a forty five percent improvement in admin and compliance costs. Like,
- 27:02Speaker 2: the whole thing is a whole lot more simple. And
- 27:04Speaker 2: Mark Hooper is the RMA reform spokesperson at BEB Farmers
- 27:08Speaker 2: and joins me. Now, hallo, Mark, good morning. So finally
- 27:13Speaker 2: this brings us into line with other OECD countries.
- 27:16Speaker 7: Yes it does. It's good news. Really, I mean, it's
- 27:21Speaker 7: sometimes hard to get excited about RMA. But this is
- 27:25Speaker 7: great that we're seeing the government do what they said
- 27:28Speaker 7: they were going to do. They've entered now into phase
- 27:30Speaker 7: three of RMA reform by presenting at least at this stage,
- 27:36Speaker 7: the early outline of what a new RMA legislation might
- 27:41Speaker 7: look like and better add Farmers I guess, along with
- 27:45Speaker 7: quite a lot of other organizations, have been advocating for
- 27:49Speaker 7: significant RMA reform for probably twenty years or so, So
- 27:53Speaker 7: in that sense, it's an exciting development for New Zealand,
- 27:56Speaker 7: I think, and the opportunity to do things differently to
- 27:59Speaker 7: what we have done over recent decades and see some
- 28:02Speaker 7: real change.
- 28:03Speaker 2: And it's bipartisans support because a lot of it is
- 28:05Speaker 2: quite similar to Labour's proposal last electoral term. But the
- 28:08Speaker 2: important thing about National's proposal is the maintenance of property rights.
- 28:12Speaker 2: So talk us through that.
- 28:15Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's right. So that there's similarities, I guess
- 28:18Speaker 7: to what the previous government brought through, but there's significant
- 28:23Speaker 7: differences as well. And as you say, one of those
- 28:25Speaker 7: big ones is around the principle of property rights and
- 28:31Speaker 7: it's something that takes a little bit of understanding, but
- 28:36Speaker 7: basically it's around managing what we call externalities. So another way,
- 28:42Speaker 7: if an effect doesn't impose anything upon a third party
- 28:48Speaker 7: or outside of your property, then you should be able
- 28:51Speaker 7: to manage what happens in your property. So that's the
- 28:54Speaker 7: principle of property rights and being able to enjoy and
- 29:00Speaker 7: do within a set of national limits whatever it is
- 29:04Speaker 7: that you want to be able to do.
- 29:06Speaker 2: But the flip side of that, of course, if your
- 29:08Speaker 2: neighbor decides to do something that impinges on your property rights,
- 29:11Speaker 2: you've got the chance to come back at them.
- 29:14Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so absolutely, So obviously there's still limits and
- 29:18Speaker 7: constraints there. There's both the Planning Act, as you mentioned,
- 29:22Speaker 7: and the Natural Environment Act. So the Planning Act will
- 29:25Speaker 7: have certain limitations on it. The Natural Environment Act will
- 29:28Speaker 7: be based around the set of national standards, and so
- 29:31Speaker 7: in the farming I'm seen, for example, those national standards
- 29:33Speaker 7: to probably be based around a farm plan system which
- 29:37Speaker 7: has been developed simultaneously, and so that will provide that
- 29:41Speaker 7: kind of guidance in terms of what is allowable.
- 29:46Speaker 2: You're sent through some notes last night and I saw
- 29:48Speaker 2: that one of the first thing you said, it's good,
- 29:50Speaker 2: but it's not perfect. So given that these things are
- 29:53Speaker 2: slow evolutions, what else would you and fed farmers like
- 29:56Speaker 2: to see.
- 29:58Speaker 7: Well, I think one of the things that in terms
- 30:00Speaker 7: of the good category that we're very excited about is,
- 30:06Speaker 7: and I guess because this has been a major concern
- 30:08Speaker 7: for our members of some time, is what's known as
- 30:12Speaker 7: regulatory takings. The regulatory taking is when a regulatory framework
- 30:18Speaker 7: is imposed upon your land, and that might be in
- 30:21Speaker 7: the form of an outstanding natural landscape, Outstanding Natural Features
- 30:28Speaker 7: SNA's things like that. So these restrict what you can do.
- 30:34Speaker 7: These go against that principle that we're just talking about
- 30:37Speaker 7: and being able to enjoy property rights, and so they
- 30:40Speaker 7: are in effect of regulatory taking, and what we're advocating for,
- 30:43Speaker 7: and what seems to be indicating here is that there
- 30:46Speaker 7: would be some sort of compensation associated with that. If
- 30:49Speaker 7: there is a public benefit, then the public should be
- 30:52Speaker 7: able to compensate in some way for that imposition on
- 30:57Speaker 7: private property rights. That's a good step forward. We'll see
- 31:01Speaker 7: how that develops and what the detail around that is,
- 31:03Speaker 7: but that's something good, I guess in terms of the
- 31:05Speaker 7: things that we would want to keep an eye on.
- 31:08Speaker 7: This talk of a shift of having one planned per region,
- 31:12Speaker 7: and we don't want to see local voice lost, but
- 31:16Speaker 7: we think that there's there's you know, probably a good
- 31:21Speaker 7: line that's been developed there in terms of proposing that
- 31:24Speaker 7: each individual district prepare its own plan. But the big
- 31:28Speaker 7: game is remembered that to have to try and have
- 31:31Speaker 7: less consents. But that also then means that we move
- 31:35Speaker 7: to a system where there's more focus on compliance and enforcement,
- 31:40Speaker 7: and so that's something again that you would have to
- 31:42Speaker 7: see a bit of a transition as to how that
- 31:44Speaker 7: would work. So that would be something to look out for.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Good south Mark Hooper, Federator Farmer's Roma Reform. Thank you
- 31:50Speaker 2: for your time today. It is seven to six The.
- 31:52Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
- 31:55Speaker 1: earlier edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room Make your
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- 32:01Speaker 2: With all this good news stuff for farmers, more good
- 32:04Speaker 2: news for farmers. The fon Terra shareholders fun just broke
- 32:06Speaker 2: through the six dollars a share barrier for the first
- 32:08Speaker 2: time in seven years, well on the back of buoyant
- 32:10Speaker 2: dairy prices. But a word of warning, we're still waiting
- 32:13Speaker 2: to see the effects of any possible tariffs from America.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Apparently we should know more about April the second, But
- 32:17Speaker 2: there you go. Things are looking good. Another good news
- 32:20Speaker 2: story and Mike Huskins here again, good morning.
- 32:22Speaker 14: We're talking about that this morning, actually beef and lamb,
- 32:24Speaker 14: because it's been building in Australia. But my suspicion is
- 32:28Speaker 14: I think I'm right in saying that the Australians don't
- 32:30Speaker 14: allow beef in from America because of the additives. And
- 32:33Speaker 14: I'm not sure. And the other point, of course is
- 32:35Speaker 14: if you make a lot of your own beef, which
- 32:37Speaker 14: we do, do you actually need to import anything. So
- 32:40Speaker 14: so we have a look at that this morning.
- 32:41Speaker 2: There's also that forty five billion dollars sort of imbalance.
- 32:45Speaker 14: And that's what they may look at because there's a
- 32:48Speaker 14: massive imbalance here as well. It's because, yeah, because we're
- 32:50Speaker 14: very good at beef, obviously, and if you look at
- 32:53Speaker 14: those figures, we've never sold more beef to the Americans.
- 32:56Speaker 14: They love it, which is all fine, but then they'll
- 32:58Speaker 14: look at the numbers, just pure maths and go, hold on,
- 33:00Speaker 14: how can you not buying us? And the answer is obvious,
- 33:02Speaker 14: but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll understand any of that.
- 33:05Speaker 14: So we look at that for the KRENGA happy Road
- 33:07Speaker 14: story on the building in this So this is where
- 33:10Speaker 14: all so Chris Bishop went off the other day and
- 33:12Speaker 14: it was a Fair and Hay designed and if you
- 33:14Speaker 14: don't know anything about design, Fair and Hay are geniuses
- 33:17Speaker 14: and there it's impossible for them all would exactly. It's
- 33:22Speaker 14: a beautiful So that's what's wrong obviously if you can't.
- 33:26Speaker 14: And then there was the wind farm the other day
- 33:28Speaker 14: in Southland.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Can I go back to the building though the commissioner said, oh,
- 33:31Speaker 2: it's about the historical precinct there that used to be
- 33:34Speaker 2: a rebel sport. It's not historical there.
- 33:37Speaker 14: So my great hope, I think our great hope is
- 33:39Speaker 14: that whatever they're going to do actually allows that stuff
- 33:42Speaker 14: to get on. And the wind farm the other day
- 33:44Speaker 14: in Southland that under fast track got turned down, can
- 33:48Speaker 14: just go back to that building that's Jimmy Kirkpatrick's flannel
- 33:50Speaker 14: great projects to go.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Anyway, we're looking at that
- 33:54Speaker 2: more days to producer, can see you tomorrow.
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