Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 25 June 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickots on
- 0:04Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business
- 0:08Speaker 1: moving news talks.
- 0:10Speaker 2: There'd be best recording due welcome to the program. On
- 0:12Speaker 2: International Seafarer's Day, I'd like to say hello to the
- 0:15Speaker 2: ships at sea coming up in the next hour as
- 0:19Speaker 2: the right to silence being abused. We'll have that story
- 0:21Speaker 2: for you in five. Despite headwinds, they're still optimism amongst
- 0:24Speaker 2: the nation's chief financial officers will talk this. Winston Peters
- 0:28Speaker 2: is all over the shop on proposed health and safety
- 0:30Speaker 2: changes for businesses. So how does Sonia Rockhouse from the
- 0:33Speaker 2: Pike River survivors feel about the proposed changes? Or have
- 0:36Speaker 2: much became from the States? Correspondence from right around the
- 0:38Speaker 2: world news as it breaks. You can have your say
- 0:40Speaker 2: on the text. The number is ninety two ninety two.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Small charge applies.
- 0:45Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 0:46Speaker 2: It is seven minutes after five on Thursday, the fifth
- 0:49Speaker 2: of June, and Europe is hot, hot, hot, and it smells, smells, smells.
- 0:53Speaker 2: France's record heat waves causing more problems. About sixty eight
- 0:56Speaker 2: thousand homes of the West are without power and temperatures
- 0:59Speaker 2: are experts as high as forty three degrees today.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Had a rapid increase in terms of admissions in hospitals,
- 1:07Speaker 3: especially among the under forty year old since the weekend.
- 1:12Speaker 3: That's a number that just came out from the health authorities.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Here in France, the weather agencies are saying that we're
- 1:19Speaker 3: also hearing seventeen new parts of France are and now
- 1:24Speaker 3: into the red zone.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Yes, in fact, we have more than half of the
- 1:28Speaker 2: country under real heat of it to the UK, where
- 1:31Speaker 2: a demning report into the biggest hospital trusts have found
- 1:34Speaker 2: hundreds of mothers and babies died or suffered harm due
- 1:37Speaker 2: to systemic failures of maternity care. The review also found
- 1:41Speaker 2: a toxic culture, bullying and a persistent failure to listen
- 1:44Speaker 2: to appearance.
- 1:45Speaker 4: Their experiences occurred over more than a decade, and yet
- 1:50Speaker 4: the themes that run through those experiences, a failure to listen,
- 1:56Speaker 4: a failure to investigate, a failure to learn, and are
- 2:00Speaker 4: hauntingly consistent.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in the UK House of Commons is a bit
- 2:05Speaker 2: of a political style shippening.
- 2:07Speaker 5: I want to start by congratulating the Prime Minister. He's
- 2:10Speaker 5: the other party leader who won a by election last week.
- 2:14Speaker 5: Although I think I'm much happier with my new MP.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Mister speakers, she references the by election, not very pleased
- 2:22Speaker 1: with our.
- 2:23Speaker 3: New member of Parliament.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Could I congratulate that because in Makerfield they got two.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Only in Britain. Meanwhile, the Prime Ministerial spokesperson se as
- 2:36Speaker 2: Kiyostama intends on staying on as an MP. And finally
- 2:40Speaker 2: to the United States, where the President is facing pushback
- 2:43Speaker 2: over Iran. The US Senate has voted to require him
- 2:46Speaker 2: to either end the war or get congressional approval before
- 2:49Speaker 2: he does anything else.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Americans got worse than nothing from this war, were worse
- 2:54Speaker 1: off than before it started.
- 2:56Speaker 6: If this passes, the Ranians are going to simply stand
- 2:59Speaker 6: up and walk away from negotiations. They're going to say
- 3:02Speaker 6: this thing's over.
- 3:03Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 3:03Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 3:03Speaker 2: They're very skeptical about the ramp steel and the conflict
- 3:06Speaker 2: is now heading into its fifth month. It is ten
- 3:08Speaker 2: after five.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Hererett first Andrew Dickens on early edition with Spark for
- 3:14Speaker 1: business Technology that keeps Business Moving, News talks, b.
- 3:18Speaker 2: So on Grammar banning the streaming and coverage of one
- 3:20Speaker 2: A games by High School Top twenty. It's a website.
- 3:23Speaker 2: It seems to me to be a no brainer, purely
- 3:25Speaker 2: and simply the one A rugby is Grammar's intellectual property.
- 3:28Speaker 2: They spend an awful on fielding the team and staging
- 3:31Speaker 2: the events. It's not public property. It's not within the
- 3:34Speaker 2: rights of the guy running a website to take the images.
- 3:37Speaker 2: He's not just a social media content creator. He's got
- 3:40Speaker 2: his own website, he's got his own YouTube channel. By
- 3:43Speaker 2: the way, I went to his website yesterday and my
- 3:45Speaker 2: safety settings advised me not to visit it. They reckoned
- 3:48Speaker 2: it was a fishing site. Anyway, You've got to remember that.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty two, Principles from all twelve Auckland schools,
- 3:54Speaker 2: including Grammar, released a statement announcing that live TV broadcasts
- 3:58Speaker 2: would stop at live streaming with stuff, and players and
- 4:00Speaker 2: coaches would no longer give media interviews, and that applied
- 4:03Speaker 2: from the twenty twenty three season onwards, and that's still
- 4:06Speaker 2: happening right now. And the reason given was an unhealthy
- 4:09Speaker 2: level of scrutiny on schoolboy players by both the traditional
- 4:13Speaker 2: and also social media. And we've seen with recent ferrorries
- 4:16Speaker 2: around the platform and the BSA that this seems to
- 4:19Speaker 2: be this mindset that internet broadcasts are somehow different from
- 4:23Speaker 2: traditional broadcasting and media coverage. The host of the High
- 4:27Speaker 2: School Top two hundred said his focuses on the players
- 4:30Speaker 2: and he wants to cover Grammar because he thinks they're
- 4:32Speaker 2: the best team and it has the best player in
- 4:35Speaker 2: the country. That also seems to me to be an
- 4:37Speaker 2: unhealthy level of scrutiny. And while we're on Rugby Mowana Pacifica,
- 4:42Speaker 2: I'm very sad about the whole thing. But at the
- 4:44Speaker 2: same time, there are professional commercial team. Taxpayers need not
- 4:47Speaker 2: be any part of it.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
- 4:51Speaker 2: So it's eleven after five. It's Andrew Dickinson for Ryan.
- 4:53Speaker 2: Ryan's doing a photo shoot today, but he'll be back tomorrow.
- 4:57Speaker 2: Remember the Carhue twins back in two thousand and six,
- 5:01Speaker 2: Chris and Crewe, God rest their souls, and a family
- 5:05Speaker 2: that refused to speak. Eventually the father was tried. He
- 5:09Speaker 2: was acquitted at a later coroner's inquiry found the father's explanations implausible.
- 5:13Speaker 2: But you know, I remember this. It infuriated the nation.
- 5:16Speaker 2: It lit up the talkback lines. There may be a
- 5:19Speaker 2: right to remain silent, but there also needs to be
- 5:21Speaker 2: the responsibility of being open and honest. And the Kahui
- 5:25Speaker 2: twins Death's about a big old national reckoning about this
- 5:28Speaker 2: right to be silent. Well, there's another case in Northold
- 5:31Speaker 2: involving a hit and run accident where it's believed people
- 5:35Speaker 2: know what's happened, but they're not saying anything to the cops.
- 5:39Speaker 2: So is the right to silence being abused. We'll talk
- 5:42Speaker 2: about this in just a few moments time. It's News
- 5:44Speaker 2: Talks at B. It is a thirteen after.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Five, the Early Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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- 6:02Speaker 2: Be it's fite fourteen. So explerts are warning against weakening
- 6:06Speaker 2: the right to remain silent. It comes after a far
- 6:09Speaker 2: North hit and run death investigation has gone cold. People
- 6:12Speaker 2: believe they know people that know all about it, but
- 6:15Speaker 2: they're not talking. So despite believing the fact that people
- 6:19Speaker 2: know exactly what happened, they're invoking the right to silence.
- 6:22Speaker 2: So I'm joined now by Stephen Black, who is a
- 6:24Speaker 2: defense lawyer. Good morning to you, Good morning, So what
- 6:28Speaker 2: is more important the rights of victims to get justice?
- 6:31Speaker 2: Or the right of suspects not to incriminate themselves.
- 6:35Speaker 8: Well, it applies more broadly than simply to suspects, I think.
- 6:40Speaker 8: And the right of silence is a really important right
- 6:44Speaker 8: that's enshrined in our bit of rights, and it's existed
- 6:47Speaker 8: for many years, and it's designed to curb state power
- 6:51Speaker 8: from compelling people in the community to provide answers. And
- 6:55Speaker 8: there will be investigations where there is public outcry about
- 6:59Speaker 8: that because it hampers investigations, but in large part it
- 7:03Speaker 8: operates to protect citizens.
- 7:05Speaker 2: I think people can understand that in terms of the
- 7:07Speaker 2: rights of the accused and not being forced to speak
- 7:10Speaker 2: of you the accused. But if you're an eyewitness of
- 7:13Speaker 2: your if you're someone who knows what happened in the house,
- 7:15Speaker 2: say I'm talking about the car, who is beforehand, why
- 7:18Speaker 2: should they also have a right to silence?
- 7:21Speaker 8: But I guess it's difficult to break down at the
- 7:25Speaker 8: time whether someone's a going to be an accused or
- 7:29Speaker 8: whether they're going to be a suspect, or whether they're
- 7:31Speaker 8: simply being interviewed as a witness to something that they
- 7:34Speaker 8: have seen. So everyone's entitled to invoke the right to silence,
- 7:38Speaker 8: and you know that's that unfortunately has negative effects and
- 7:43Speaker 8: some investigations and the example you give is the Carhui
- 7:46Speaker 8: twins and that was where the investigation was hampered. But
- 7:50Speaker 8: you know, more broadly, the right to silence exists to
- 7:54Speaker 8: protect members of the community rather than to hamper Okay, investigating.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Other examples in other countries where the right to silence
- 8:00Speaker 2: isn't quite as robust as it is here.
- 8:03Speaker 8: Yes, in the UK there there is a right to silence,
- 8:08Speaker 8: but the prosecution they're able to comment adversely on a
- 8:14Speaker 8: defendant's failure to raise something when they were questioned during
- 8:18Speaker 8: the investigation.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Okay, And would you, as a lawyer always say to
- 8:21Speaker 2: someone if they are accused, or if you're in the
- 8:23Speaker 2: community around that that accused person, if you are a
- 8:26Speaker 2: person of interest, just stay storm.
- 8:30Speaker 8: Not necessarily. Not necessarily, there are certain circumstances in which
- 8:34Speaker 8: it's advantageous to provide a statement if you're a suspect
- 8:38Speaker 8: in my view, so it really depends on the facts,
- 8:40Speaker 8: to be honest.
- 8:41Speaker 2: All right, Stephen Lake, I thank you so very very
- 8:43Speaker 2: much New Storks Be but imagine just how frustrating it
- 8:46Speaker 2: is for the police who are trying to get to
- 8:47Speaker 2: the bottom of the story. They're trying to find justice
- 8:50Speaker 2: for the victim, and there are eyewitnesses to in this
- 8:54Speaker 2: case a hit and run who are just not talking,
- 8:56Speaker 2: and the police believe they know exactly what happened. It
- 8:59Speaker 2: must be so for us. I mentioned the car who
- 9:01Speaker 2: he twins before and suddenly I mean the textago and off.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Grant says, well, yeah, I can't tell you what Grant
- 9:06Speaker 2: would like to do to the people who killed the
- 9:08Speaker 2: car who he twins are the names Sonya has mentioned,
- 9:11Speaker 2: Ruthless Empire and the LaRue and Wellington, three people involved
- 9:15Speaker 2: in his death. Thank you so much for your text, John,
- 9:17Speaker 2: it is eighteen minutes after five. Well that was a
- 9:19Speaker 2: bit heavy, so I might just lighten things up by
- 9:22Speaker 2: saying Happy birthday to Tim Finn from Spidenz who today
- 9:25Speaker 2: is seventy four. And I know his birthday because of
- 9:27Speaker 2: the song haul Away. Do you know the song? It's
- 9:30Speaker 2: got the lyrics. I was born in Tiawa Mutu twenty
- 9:32Speaker 2: fifth of June nineteen fifty two, ten pounds of boy,
- 9:35Speaker 2: All the Way, All the Way, haul Away.
- 9:37Speaker 9: It's his birthday today.
- 9:38Speaker 2: He's seventy four. Happy birthday, Tim. Right Apparently our Chief
- 9:42Speaker 2: Financial officers are feeling a little bit of optimism, So
- 9:46Speaker 2: there has been a mood of the cfo's report come
- 9:49Speaker 2: out from Hunter Campbell. We'll talk about right where the
- 9:52Speaker 2: optimism is and how CFOs are feeling. Next, It's five
- 9:56Speaker 2: eighteen The Early.
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- 10:16Speaker 2: We're going the Right to Sailance and an interview with
- 10:18Speaker 2: Stephen Lack the lawyer. Right now, texts through from Hugh
- 10:21Speaker 2: who sees Andrew the right to silence came from UK law,
- 10:25Speaker 2: but even they had to change it to a better
- 10:28Speaker 2: version which allows for the right to silence but also
- 10:30Speaker 2: allows the prosecution to raise inferences from that refusal to
- 10:33Speaker 2: speak with the jury. And of course Stephen mentioned that
- 10:35Speaker 2: and Hugh recans that's a much better outcome in so way,
- 10:38Speaker 2: So maybe we do need to have some thoughts about
- 10:40Speaker 2: this right well, the Hunter Campbell mood of the cfo's
- 10:44Speaker 2: report is out. It's an annual thing and apparently over
- 10:47Speaker 2: half of the country's chief financial officers thinks growth is
- 10:50Speaker 2: still a reality in the next year, but eighty percent
- 10:54Speaker 2: of the CFOs say global uncertainty is costing their business
- 10:57Speaker 2: and three quarters have begun implementing AI and forty percent
- 11:01Speaker 2: of using the technology to replace human workers. So we
- 11:04Speaker 2: joined now from Haunt Camberon by the managing partner Lee Marshall.
- 11:07Speaker 10: Hello, good morning, Andrew.
- 11:09Speaker 2: So can I say they are cautiously optimistic? How would
- 11:13Speaker 2: you describe their mood?
- 11:15Speaker 10: Yeah, look, I was. I was really pleasantly surprised by
- 11:18Speaker 10: the positivity overall in the survey. To be fair, I
- 11:22Speaker 10: think the standout finding for me was that it was
- 11:25Speaker 10: really just how New Zealand businesses have done in the
- 11:27Speaker 10: last twelve months. So fifty seven percent of businesses have
- 11:30Speaker 10: either met or exceeded their revenue target, which is a
- 11:33Speaker 10: really big number. So were actually coming potentially a little
- 11:36Speaker 10: bit better than what a lot of people would would consider.
- 11:39Speaker 10: We saw a different sentiment come through when we asked
- 11:41Speaker 10: about the view of the outside world. The proportion of
- 11:46Speaker 10: CFOs expecting the global economy to decline more than doubles
- 11:51Speaker 10: from twenty one percent last year up to forty five
- 11:53Speaker 10: percent this year. So it's given us some caution around
- 11:57Speaker 10: what what are the things are in there that we
- 11:59Speaker 10: can't contry, But look, New Zealand businesses are getting on
- 12:02Speaker 10: with it outside outside of that, and I think we're
- 12:05Speaker 10: truckling along better than expected.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much for that. And of course
- 12:09Speaker 2: we're all waiting to find out what happened last quarter
- 12:11Speaker 2: and what the war has done to us. We are
- 12:13Speaker 2: now what five months in and we still haven't seen
- 12:16Speaker 2: that affect yet. So yeah, eighty percent of the CFOs
- 12:19Speaker 2: say it is costing, so we'll wait to see about that. Meanwhile,
- 12:22Speaker 2: the interesting figures are about AI. Were you surprised about
- 12:27Speaker 2: how many have already got on the AI train and
- 12:29Speaker 2: how are they leaping in for good business reasons or
- 12:31Speaker 2: is it just because the hype of AI, everyone talks
- 12:34Speaker 2: about I sort of makes it seem inevitable.
- 12:38Speaker 10: Yeah, unsurprisingly, AI was a really big talking point right
- 12:42Speaker 10: throughout the survey, and actually the story is a little
- 12:47Speaker 10: bit fractured for me. So we have seventy four percent
- 12:50Speaker 10: of businesses now saying that they've brought out AI across
- 12:53Speaker 10: business functions, big number. Three quarters of New Zealand businesses
- 12:56Speaker 10: and ninety four percent of CFOs see it as a
- 12:59Speaker 10: positive force of pus. So CFOs are actually they jumping
- 13:02Speaker 10: on the train and they're well and truly sort of
- 13:04Speaker 10: bang into it. But the structural impact is still catching up.
- 13:08Speaker 10: So only one in five have reporters a substantial structural
- 13:12Speaker 10: impact to their teams. And you are right what you
- 13:15Speaker 10: say for the three percent have said they plan to
- 13:18Speaker 10: cut headcounts at least in part because of AI. But
- 13:22Speaker 10: look for me, I think it's a real question of
- 13:24Speaker 10: sequencing some businesses, maybe making workforce decisions ahead of having
- 13:29Speaker 10: a clear picture of what AI can actually deliver for
- 13:32Speaker 10: them and then deciding what role they actually want to
- 13:35Speaker 10: play AI to play for their business. My concern, and
- 13:39Speaker 10: you touched on cost pressure, but my concern is that
- 13:42Speaker 10: that this is all happening at a time where cost
- 13:44Speaker 10: pressures are very prevalent for a lot of New Zealand businesses.
- 13:47Speaker 10: So I hope that AI and the hope that it
- 13:49Speaker 10: can gain efficiency for businesses isn't getting caught up in
- 13:53Speaker 10: the crosshairs of decision making here, and we don't start
- 13:56Speaker 10: reducing head counts because we think it's going to work.
- 13:59Speaker 10: It's going to be it's going to be really impactful
- 14:02Speaker 10: and thought through very well and strategic around how businesses
- 14:05Speaker 10: bring AI into their organizations.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Brigod Serf Lee Marshall. I thank your leads from Hunter Campbell.
- 14:09Speaker 2: That's the company that actually did the survey. What is
- 14:12Speaker 2: interesting about the CFOs, of course, if anyone is going
- 14:15Speaker 2: to be affected by AI, it's a chief financial officer
- 14:18Speaker 2: because of course that really helps out with your accounting.
- 14:20Speaker 2: So apparently a lot of them are concerned about what
- 14:23Speaker 2: their job might be going forward into the future. It's
- 14:26Speaker 2: five twenty five. This is news Talks there B. I'm
- 14:28Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens, New Stalks B five twenty seven. There was
- 14:32Speaker 2: if you're listening yesterday, there was a load of above
- 14:34Speaker 2: and talkback yesterday about the Conservation Amendment Bill, and it
- 14:36Speaker 2: brought to light three issues for me after listening to
- 14:40Speaker 2: a very generic piece of talkback. Firstly, how bad much
- 14:44Speaker 2: of our laws and that stems back to how it's
- 14:46Speaker 2: written in processed. Secondly, that many concerned organizations looking at you,
- 14:50Speaker 2: Forrest and Bird, they are not afraid to scaremonger and
- 14:53Speaker 2: exaggerate to win their way. And thirdly, how many New
- 14:56Speaker 2: Zealanders wily purely on social media to keep informed on
- 14:58Speaker 2: the issues of the day. So for those who were
- 15:00Speaker 2: spooked by the news that land in the conservation estate
- 15:03Speaker 2: could be swapped or sold, they only had to do
- 15:04Speaker 2: a bit of a Google search and they could find
- 15:06Speaker 2: a myriad of expert opinion. For instance, Science Monitor has
- 15:12Speaker 2: loads of opinion on it read all that for many
- 15:15Speaker 2: of the people they talked to, much of the new
- 15:17Speaker 2: law updates were sorely needed for a piece of legislation
- 15:20Speaker 2: that was forty years old. On Newsroom, one expert planner
- 15:24Speaker 2: pointed out the sales and swaps of conservation land already happens,
- 15:28Speaker 2: and all this amendment does is make the process less clunky.
- 15:32Speaker 2: He also wondered why the reality and the rhetoric was
- 15:35Speaker 2: so different, and that lies at the feet of groups
- 15:37Speaker 2: like Greenpeace and Forests and Bird who made the whole
- 15:39Speaker 2: story about sixty percent is going to be sold, which
- 15:42Speaker 2: is not true. All agree it's a badly written law
- 15:45Speaker 2: that's been rushed and is currently before a select committee
- 15:48Speaker 2: with a tight deadline of July. The second. The way
- 15:50Speaker 2: we rushed through our law was a complaint made last
- 15:52Speaker 2: week by Sir Jeffrey Palmer. And we're writing bad law
- 15:55Speaker 2: because it's also rushed. Others pointed out that it takes
- 15:59Speaker 2: power away from a minister, which was a check and balance.
- 16:01Speaker 2: That's a concern, But the whole thing amplified how so
- 16:06Speaker 2: many are getting the information from bias social media, and
- 16:09Speaker 2: how so many people do not realize the full story,
- 16:12Speaker 2: and how so much about law, as I said before,
- 16:14Speaker 2: is badly written. So word two of advice to the government,
- 16:18Speaker 2: and Tama Portaker about this piece of legislation, the Conservation
- 16:21Speaker 2: Amendment built, you have failed to explain this. People have
- 16:25Speaker 2: got the wrong end of the stick. They don't understand
- 16:28Speaker 2: the new ones. And perhaps you might want to take
- 16:29Speaker 2: your foot off the gas. We're going to America shortly
- 16:35Speaker 2: with Mitch mcamm because something, something remarkable happened, and it
- 16:40Speaker 2: happened in New York where the mayor Zola and Mandani
- 16:43Speaker 2: made a big bet at emerge victorious on Tuesday. He
- 16:47Speaker 2: is now undeniably the power boker in New York politics
- 16:50Speaker 2: because there were a whole lot of primary victories for
- 16:52Speaker 2: the Democrat parties and these are the people that he
- 16:55Speaker 2: actually hampicked, and he said, vote for those guys. And
- 16:58Speaker 2: it is shocked, of course Republicans who go oh okay,
- 17:01Speaker 2: so New York is a socialist city. It seems it
- 17:04Speaker 2: shocked Democrats because Ma'm Darmie is a lot more socialists
- 17:07Speaker 2: than most Democrats and they're going, oh okay, so the
- 17:10Speaker 2: left isn't a poise and chalice. It shows just how
- 17:13Speaker 2: much support there is for Mam Darmi one year into
- 17:16Speaker 2: the job shows you how smarty is politically and there
- 17:19Speaker 2: is a hunger for insurgency over incumbency. Don't think just
- 17:22Speaker 2: because you've got the job, to keep the job. So
- 17:24Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Mitch mccannon about this shortly,
- 17:26Speaker 2: go right around the country. It's early edition with News
- 17:28Speaker 2: Talks ZB.
- 17:31Speaker 11: Get out.
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- 17:56Speaker 5: That's been welcome.
- 17:59Speaker 2: I want to say hello once again to the ships
- 18:00Speaker 2: at sea on International Seafair's Day. Thank you so much
- 18:03Speaker 2: for taking our exports to the world and of course
- 18:07Speaker 2: bringing the food in and out and all over the place.
- 18:10Speaker 2: So I'm very happy to hear that snow is starting
- 18:13Speaker 2: to arrive today the South Island ski fields because they've
- 18:16Speaker 2: been freaking it out because the Australian school holidays are
- 18:19Speaker 2: starting this weekend. And what I've only just found out
- 18:21Speaker 2: is that we have Australian school holidays in Victoria and
- 18:24Speaker 2: Queensland start this weekend, but South Australia and Western Australia
- 18:28Speaker 2: and the Act don't start to the fourth of July,
- 18:31Speaker 2: and New South Wales doesn't start till the sixth of July,
- 18:33Speaker 2: and Tasmania doesn't start to the eleventh of July. I
- 18:36Speaker 2: had no idea. They're all over the show in Australia.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Of course, they've got the FIFA World Cup today, Pick
- 18:41Speaker 2: of the Games, Brazil versus Scotland, ten am, Miami. And
- 18:45Speaker 2: if you've seen any of the videos out of Boston
- 18:47Speaker 2: of the Tartan Army, the Scots have invaded Boston and
- 18:49Speaker 2: that whole seaboard, you'll know that the Scots supporters are
- 18:53Speaker 2: bonkers and they're good natured and there everything right about football.
- 18:58Speaker 2: And if they can't win the game, they certainly will
- 19:00Speaker 2: win the chance. That's what I'll be watching at ten
- 19:02Speaker 2: am this morning. And here's another thing. If you're going
- 19:04Speaker 2: to a World Cup match, don't take a backpack or
- 19:07Speaker 2: a purse because you'll find that you're not allowed in
- 19:10Speaker 2: and you have to have a clear bag. There is
- 19:12Speaker 2: a clear bag policy, so people are turning up to
- 19:14Speaker 2: games going, oh, clear bag. Oh, I've got my backpack.
- 19:17Speaker 2: So they scramble to get their belongings out of their
- 19:19Speaker 2: own bag and transferred into clear bags. And for that
- 19:22Speaker 2: most stadiums are surrounded by clear bag hawkers selling clear
- 19:27Speaker 2: bags around about twenty dollars US. There are people on
- 19:30Speaker 2: the grift all over this World Cup. Zib b. It's
- 19:35Speaker 2: twenty two after sex. It's time to go right around
- 19:36Speaker 2: the country first and did need and cut them? Proctor?
- 19:38Speaker 2: Good morning to you, morning, Andrew. How's your hospital going.
- 19:42Speaker 12: Oh, we've got a major milestone coming up for it.
- 19:45Speaker 12: The hospital's new medical imaging equipment will soon be installed
- 19:49Speaker 12: into the new outpatient building as it prepares for opening
- 19:52Speaker 12: later this year. It'll all happen during the early hours
- 19:55Speaker 12: of Monday, July sixth. We'll see the big MRI and
- 19:59Speaker 12: CT the scanner craned into the new facility through a
- 20:02Speaker 12: temporary opening in the buildings facade. There will also be
- 20:06Speaker 12: road closures around the hospital for most of July. Murderers
- 20:09Speaker 12: told to plan for delays around the construction site. Andrew
- 20:12Speaker 12: Holmes's project director, he's told us the arrival of this
- 20:15Speaker 12: complex high value equipment. It's a clear sign they're moving
- 20:18Speaker 12: from building the facility to preparing it for patients. They
- 20:21Speaker 12: started installing fixtures, furniture and other equipment. So no exact date, Andrew,
- 20:26Speaker 12: but opening later this year. The inpatient building set for
- 20:28Speaker 12: twenty thirty one.
- 20:29Speaker 2: Now, how chilly is your day to day?
- 20:32Speaker 12: Eight degrees is all we get today here with shells
- 20:34Speaker 12: developing but clearing to find spells this afternoon and a
- 20:37Speaker 12: strong solvester.
- 20:38Speaker 2: And I thank you. Clais. Yeah, it joins us from
- 20:40Speaker 2: Chrastia Shally Claire, good morning. So this new stadium of yours,
- 20:43Speaker 2: we all know it's on fire, but it's also making money.
- 20:46Speaker 7: Yeah, big time one.
- 20:47Speaker 13: Indeed, stadium had been forecast to generate fifty million dollars
- 20:50Speaker 13: in a year, but the numbers are in following the
- 20:53Speaker 13: first sixty days and it's already raked in twenty one
- 20:56Speaker 13: million dollars. They say this proves the venues exceeded the expectations.
- 21:01Speaker 13: There's been close to two hundred and eighty seven thousand
- 21:03Speaker 13: people go through the venue. Food vendors have had record
- 21:07Speaker 13: breaking paydays of one point six four million dollars in
- 21:10Speaker 13: total venues. Auto Tai chief executive Caroline Harvey Tier says
- 21:14Speaker 13: she's shared some of the pretty cool numbers to be honest.
- 21:17Speaker 13: She says they've sold about three thousand kilograms of local beef,
- 21:21Speaker 13: six hundred and fifty slow cooked Canterbury lamb shoulders, and
- 21:25Speaker 13: more than three and a half thousand liters of sauce.
- 21:28Speaker 13: That's enough tomato sauce to fill a hydro therapy pool,
- 21:31Speaker 13: which she says might be disgusting to imagine, but it's
- 21:33Speaker 13: pretty impressive.
- 21:35Speaker 6: Overall.
- 21:35Speaker 13: She says that there is a real sense of pride
- 21:38Speaker 13: and positivity permeating through the city that Christchurch simply hasn't
- 21:42Speaker 13: had for a very long time.
- 21:43Speaker 2: I'm impressed somebody knew the capacity of a hydrotherapy pool,
- 21:46Speaker 2: but that's something I don't know off the top of
- 21:47Speaker 2: my head anyway.
- 21:48Speaker 6: How's your weather?
- 21:49Speaker 13: Mainly fine at first, shower was developing from about midday,
- 21:53Speaker 13: strong southerlyes and only eight degrees here too.
- 21:56Speaker 2: To Wellington, we go to Bias Macintosh Cambody to you,
- 21:58Speaker 2: Caday Andrew. So there is a bit of a argibardie
- 22:02Speaker 2: about gender neutral toilet's happening in your town.
- 22:05Speaker 9: Yes, this follows a heated debate at Council yesterday. So
- 22:09Speaker 9: under its new Rainbow Action Plan, in any significant upgrade
- 22:13Speaker 9: or new build of pools and recreation centers, toilets and
- 22:16Speaker 9: changing rooms become all gender where feasible. So this has
- 22:20Speaker 9: led to a fourteen hundred plus strong petition asking Council
- 22:24Speaker 9: to reinstate public single sex changing rooms and toilets and
- 22:27Speaker 9: council facilities and to abandon the gender neutral policy. This
- 22:32Speaker 9: led to a divided discussion and the petition was then
- 22:35Speaker 9: accepted by councilor Carltiefan Barker, who says council should be
- 22:38Speaker 9: a shame for being slow to do so. He says
- 22:40Speaker 9: council should listen to all views, whether people agree with
- 22:43Speaker 9: him or not. The acceptance for them had to go
- 22:46Speaker 9: to a council vote which passed ten votes to seven.
- 22:49Speaker 9: So we'll have to see where this one goes, all right,
- 22:51Speaker 9: how's willing?
- 22:52Speaker 10: This weather?
- 22:53Speaker 9: Very wet start this morning, a heavy rain with gail
- 22:56Speaker 9: southerlyas gussing from one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour
- 22:59Speaker 9: from this evening eleven hour high today.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Very good stuff and neither ret man who joins me
- 23:04Speaker 2: now from Auckland, Helen, Greetings, Andrew Orkan's got norovirus?
- 23:08Speaker 12: Well?
- 23:09Speaker 7: Yes, look, public health officials are investigating this potential source
- 23:13Speaker 7: of nourovice virus outbreak in South Auckland. Now, this has
- 23:16Speaker 7: happened after multiple people they visited a popular buffet restaurant
- 23:20Speaker 7: they became violently sick. Fifteen people reported symptoms of the
- 23:24Speaker 7: virus and you know those symptoms we all know, vomiting
- 23:27Speaker 7: diarrhea after visiting Monaco's Valentine's restaurant. This happened two weeks ago,
- 23:32Speaker 7: so the National Public Health Service carried out cleanliness checks
- 23:36Speaker 7: last week, investigating still the possible source.
- 23:40Speaker 5: Of the outbreak.
- 23:41Speaker 7: Valentine's is saying too now all that it's served more
- 23:44Speaker 7: than a thousand other customers since the outbreak and has
- 23:47Speaker 7: said no complaints of food poisoning. And this is including
- 23:49Speaker 7: from staff who also eat from the buffet, so those
- 23:52Speaker 7: inquiries are still ongoing.
- 23:54Speaker 9: Of course.
- 23:54Speaker 1: How's the weather.
- 23:55Speaker 7: A few showers turning to periods of rain in the afternoon.
- 23:57Speaker 7: Possibly heavy rather seventeen is the hig in Auckland.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Now, getting reaction to my comments
- 24:02Speaker 2: about the Conservation Amendment Bill, someone says, put your name
- 24:06Speaker 2: to us. By the way, if you're going to call
- 24:07Speaker 2: me your name, stop lying Andrew, you unpatriotic sack of
- 24:10Speaker 2: and then he does an emoji that looks like, well,
- 24:12Speaker 2: you know, I'm a sack of.
- 24:15Speaker 5: You know what.
- 24:16Speaker 2: Read the wording of the bill. It's out now I
- 24:18Speaker 2: have and Tama has even said there will be a
- 24:21Speaker 2: sell off of land. I know there already is. You've
- 24:26Speaker 2: always been able to sell off the land the conservation
- 24:28Speaker 2: has always been and they have in multiple cases. All
- 24:31Speaker 2: this does is actually tidy up a forty year old
- 24:34Speaker 2: rule which was very clunky. This and my text sources.
- 24:37Speaker 2: It will also allow Shane Jones to give mining companies
- 24:40Speaker 2: the right to mine. Well, no, not unless he is
- 24:43Speaker 2: the minister. Actually it's not even the minister he can apply.
- 24:46Speaker 2: There's all sorts of checks and balances in there.
- 24:48Speaker 5: Men.
- 24:48Speaker 2: Trish comes back, here's the thing about commercial development of
- 24:52Speaker 2: conservation land, and she correctly points out, with the exception
- 24:55Speaker 2: of card Drona and a few others, nearly every ski
- 24:58Speaker 2: Field in New Zealand is on conservation land. And that's
- 25:02Speaker 2: true for like a Papaturo all than the Tongariro National Park,
- 25:05Speaker 2: the remarkables, all those areas. You know, what I heard
- 25:08Speaker 2: yesterday was people going they're going to sell off the
- 25:10Speaker 2: Tarra Rua Rangers. Well come on, really, so all right,
- 25:17Speaker 2: it is sixteen to six. We're off to the United
- 25:19Speaker 2: States of America in a few mothers time. We're going
- 25:21Speaker 2: to talk about Marca Rubio selling the deal in the
- 25:23Speaker 2: Middle East and the extraordinary results in the New York Primaries,
- 25:26Speaker 2: which shows that Mam Dami is a real player. It's
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- 26:41Speaker 2: All right, to your America we go match McCann. Good
- 26:43Speaker 2: morning to you, Hi, Andrew, How are you good. Marco
- 26:46Speaker 2: Rubio's on the road through Middle East.
- 26:49Speaker 6: Yes, that's right. He's got the task of trying to
- 26:51Speaker 6: convince America's Middle Eastern partners like the UAE, bar Rain
- 26:54Speaker 6: and Q eight that this EMU they've signed with the
- 26:57Speaker 6: RUN doesn't leave them more vulnerable. These are countries who
- 27:00Speaker 6: have already been targeted in recent months by Iran or
- 27:03Speaker 6: its proxies, and so the question they have is does
- 27:06Speaker 6: this EMOU really stop the funding of groups like Hamas
- 27:09Speaker 6: and his BLA. Now Marco Rubio is telling them yes,
- 27:12Speaker 6: it does. The MoU points to the war ending on
- 27:15Speaker 6: all fronts, which covers proxies. But there's a big problem
- 27:18Speaker 6: here with what's going on. Andrew. On one hand, the
- 27:20Speaker 6: United States is now saying that a run will allow
- 27:23Speaker 6: nuclear inspectors into the country. Ran Siers, hold on, we
- 27:27Speaker 6: never said that. So that's one of these many issues
- 27:29Speaker 6: they've got to work out in the next sixty days.
- 27:32Speaker 2: All right, I remean, While we had some New York
- 27:33Speaker 2: primaries and looks like man Dami is a real player there.
- 27:36Speaker 2: All three of the candidates he backed won their races,
- 27:38Speaker 2: which has shocked Republicans, but it's also shocked the Democrats.
- 27:41Speaker 6: Yes, it has its primary season here in the US,
- 27:44Speaker 6: and that is when parties choose who's going to appear
- 27:46Speaker 6: on the ballot for them in November for seats in
- 27:48Speaker 6: Congress and in the Senate, and in New York. If
- 27:50Speaker 6: you win the Democratic primary, that usually means you've already
- 27:53Speaker 6: booked your ticket to Washington Democrats usually win here. The
- 27:56Speaker 6: big story, as you mentioned from last night, is that
- 27:59Speaker 6: all three candidates endorsed by the mayors are on Maumdani one.
- 28:03Speaker 6: And that's significant because in many cases the House Democratic
- 28:06Speaker 6: leader in Washington, HARKing Jeffries, endorsed the incumbents who lost.
- 28:10Speaker 6: So there's this rivalry between Mumdani now and Washington establishment Democrats.
- 28:16Speaker 6: And one of the interesting aspects is here of the
- 28:18Speaker 6: candidates that won was Israel. These candidates do not want
- 28:21Speaker 6: more money going to Israel, which reflects I think a
- 28:24Speaker 6: broader shift was starting to see among American voters as well.
- 28:27Speaker 6: So mum Dani showing he has a lot of power
- 28:29Speaker 6: here in New York.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Good stuff. Mitt mcame out of the United States of America.
- 28:32Speaker 2: By the way, Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Shares a SpaceX company fell back from their record highs,
- 28:39Speaker 2: I mean last week on earlier this week, actually one
- 28:42Speaker 2: point one trillion is what he was worth. Now he's
- 28:44Speaker 2: worth only nine hundred and fifty six billion dollars. It's
- 28:48Speaker 2: ten to six US dogs'd be. There was a bit
- 28:51Speaker 2: of a bit of a scrap over the Health and
- 28:52Speaker 2: Safety reform over the last day or so. Brook van
- 28:55Speaker 2: Velden's accused Winston Peters of last minute politicking. New Zealand
- 28:59Speaker 2: first threatened to win hold support for the bill, and
- 29:02Speaker 2: then Winston called it a dead bill. The sticking point
- 29:05Speaker 2: is proposed changes to parts of the post Pike River
- 29:07Speaker 2: health and safety rules and amid pressure from a victim's family.
- 29:11Speaker 2: So we're joined by Sonya Rockhouse. It's my great pleasure
- 29:14Speaker 2: to welcome you to the program Pike with a campaigner, Hello, Sonya, Hello.
- 29:19Speaker 12: How are you good?
- 29:20Speaker 2: How are you feeling about this? To and fro of
- 29:22Speaker 2: Winston Peters and all this politicking.
- 29:26Speaker 5: A little bit disappointed, to be fair, because the day
- 29:31Speaker 5: before he didn't agree with the bill under its present form,
- 29:40Speaker 5: and so we sort of went away thinking, you know,
- 29:44Speaker 5: feeling quite positive. And then the retort was a little
- 29:48Speaker 5: bit different. And he even did an interview that night
- 29:52Speaker 5: that we listened to it, and you know, it made
- 29:55Speaker 5: us feel even more positive. And then the next day
- 30:00Speaker 5: must have happened overnight and that his rhetoric had sort
- 30:03Speaker 5: of changed a little bit.
- 30:05Speaker 2: He came down and said it was dead in the water.
- 30:06Speaker 2: He must have got a little bit of the pressure
- 30:08Speaker 2: but now he's also saying if he if he gets
- 30:10Speaker 2: into the next government, he'll reverse the bill. Do you
- 30:12Speaker 2: trust if you think he says.
- 30:16Speaker 5: Well, you know, we sort of have to really, we don't.
- 30:22Speaker 5: You know, when when Parker of A first happened, he's
- 30:25Speaker 5: the one that stuck his head up and said that,
- 30:28Speaker 5: you know, it would be his bottom line to help
- 30:31Speaker 5: us and get back into the drift, should have if
- 30:35Speaker 5: it was safe to do so. So he has shown
- 30:38Speaker 5: us that he can, you know, he can follow through
- 30:42Speaker 5: with what he says. But I think that he's been
- 30:47Speaker 5: tapped on the shoulder by somebody and and said, you.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Know, okay, that's Winston's let's not worry about that right now.
- 30:55Speaker 2: Brook van Velden said on Tuesday that consultation with the
- 30:57Speaker 2: unions and businesses and workers revealed they open whelmingly felt
- 31:00Speaker 2: the law as it stands is too complicated and needs simplifying.
- 31:04Speaker 2: And she said, no, this is not going to cause
- 31:05Speaker 2: widespread accidents, but you're against it.
- 31:07Speaker 10: Why because it will?
- 31:11Speaker 5: I mean even acc has said that, you know, if
- 31:16Speaker 5: this happens, then it's possible that another Pike River could happen,
- 31:20Speaker 5: and we don't want that in any way. Shape or form.
- 31:25Speaker 5: So it means that small businesses the rules for them
- 31:28Speaker 5: are going to be different for the rules to big business.
- 31:32Speaker 5: So if a small business has to go on to
- 31:34Speaker 5: the site of where a big business is, there are
- 31:37Speaker 5: different rules for different different people. So it's going to
- 31:42Speaker 5: complicate it more. Number one and number two, she didn't
- 31:45Speaker 5: when she was talking in the Select Committee. She never
- 31:48Speaker 5: once mentioned the workers. It was all about business and
- 31:51Speaker 5: how stress they were about having to adhere to the
- 31:55Speaker 5: health and safety laws. And you know, as far as
- 31:59Speaker 5: Enner in I are concerned, if they're doing the right thing,
- 32:01Speaker 5: they've got nothing to stress about.
- 32:03Speaker 2: Good said, good said, well said, and good to hear
- 32:06Speaker 2: from you. And I thank you so much for your
- 32:07Speaker 2: time today, Sonya Rockouts Pike River campaigner. It is seven
- 32:11Speaker 2: minutes to.
- 32:11Speaker 1: Six News and views you trust to start your day.
- 32:16Speaker 1: It's early edition with Andrew Dickens and Spark for Business
- 32:20Speaker 1: Technology that keeps business moving, News talks there.
- 32:23Speaker 2: Be By the way, it's Global Beatles Day today because today,
- 32:27Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty seven, the Beatles were on that Telly
- 32:29Speaker 2: program where they sang all You Need Is Love and
- 32:31Speaker 2: it was the first ever live global television link to
- 32:33Speaker 2: twenty six countries and all when all you need is love,
- 32:36Speaker 2: So all you need is love. It's Global Beatles Day
- 32:38Speaker 2: and Mike Hoskin joins me. Nowing.
- 32:40Speaker 11: I saw a podcast yesterday with McJagger and Ronnie Wood
- 32:43Speaker 11: and Paul McCartney is on the lotus.
- 32:47Speaker 2: Paul is their bass player. And it's funny because everyone
- 32:49Speaker 2: thought that Meck and Paul, you know, you.
- 32:52Speaker 11: Never mutual respect. And the interesting thing what I didn't
- 32:55Speaker 11: realize is Ronnie Wood's house, the Wick, the famous Wick
- 32:58Speaker 11: was Enrichment, which I was in just the other day,
- 33:01Speaker 11: very uninspired by Richmond. I had no idea why I
- 33:04Speaker 11: was living there. But apparently the house is no no.
- 33:07Speaker 2: Look, we talked about this before I lived in Q
- 33:09Speaker 2: and I like Richmond. It's green, and it's it's close
- 33:11Speaker 2: enough to yeah, yeah yeah. If you go, if you
- 33:14Speaker 2: go the other way towards Kingston, you'll actually find a
- 33:16Speaker 2: whole lot of big old country estates and it's a
- 33:18Speaker 2: little bit of countryside in the city.
- 33:20Speaker 11: Peak towns End bought the house from them and kept
- 33:23Speaker 11: the studio. Anyway, that's what I want, estress, That's what
- 33:26Speaker 11: I what I watched yesterday. The Muana Pacific thing will
- 33:29Speaker 11: deal with this morning briefly. That's over. It was always
- 33:31Speaker 11: going to be over, and presumably there's a lesson there
- 33:34Speaker 11: for the NRL who were trying to fund the peak.
- 33:36Speaker 2: The big thing is ten sides. It's going to make
- 33:38Speaker 2: for a very awkward competition at in the first place,
- 33:41Speaker 2: because there's no real competition.
- 33:42Speaker 11: I mean, isn't that the real problem anyway? That and
- 33:44Speaker 11: the the aforementioned brook band build an issue that she
- 33:47Speaker 11: suddenly yeah got with Winston Peace.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, and I thank you for
- 33:51Speaker 2: your time. Ryan is back tomorrow my thanks to producer
- 33:54Speaker 2: Kensey set up Sam. My name is Andrew Dickins. Have
- 33:57Speaker 2: a great day.
- 34:01Speaker 1: For more familiar edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live to
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