Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 25 February 2026
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: Earli Ereditia with one Root Love where you Live News Talks.
- 0:09Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. It is six after five. Great
- 0:12Speaker 2: to have your company on this Wednesday. Why the health
- 0:14Speaker 2: data hacks will just keep on the coming? Gavin Gray
- 0:17Speaker 2: in the UK for us this morning. There's a booze
- 0:19Speaker 2: problem for Takaha Stadium or one in zed Stadium in
- 0:22Speaker 2: christ Church. And we have an update on melanoma drugs
- 0:25Speaker 2: for you this morning, which is good news from Farmak
- 0:30Speaker 2: the agenda hopefully good news from Farmac. Wednesday, the twenty
- 0:33Speaker 2: fifth of February, the rest of the world's marking the
- 0:35Speaker 2: fourth anniversary of the Russia Ukraine War. Heir Zelenski, Today.
- 0:39Speaker 3: We speak about stopping this war. I believe the stopping
- 0:42Speaker 3: put In today and preventing him from occupying Ukraine is
- 0:46Speaker 3: a victory for the whole world because Putting will not
- 0:50Speaker 3: stop at Ukraine.
- 0:51Speaker 2: And what does Rutter got to say?
- 0:52Speaker 4: The NATO Rowen needs ammunition today and every day until
- 0:57Speaker 4: the bloodshat stops continues to blunt Russia's aggression. And despite
- 1:04Speaker 4: put In spostering, Russia has failed to meet their ambitions
- 1:09Speaker 4: on the battlefield.
- 1:09Speaker 2: We're certainly giving money Winston Peters's eight million new assistants
- 1:13Speaker 2: plus sanctions for Russia. On the fourth anniversary, Savannah Guthrie,
- 1:18Speaker 2: the US news anchor, offering now one million US dollar
- 1:22Speaker 2: reward to find her mum.
- 1:23Speaker 5: Someone out there knows something that can bring her home.
- 1:29Speaker 6: Somebody knows and we are begging you to please come forward.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Now.
- 1:33Speaker 2: It's day twenty four now and reports you know the
- 1:36Speaker 2: doorbell footage of the masked guy that was at the
- 1:39Speaker 2: front door of Nancy's home. Apparently that was on two
- 1:43Speaker 2: separate days, so the person probably was watching the property
- 1:47Speaker 2: before the suspected abduction took place. Finally, this morning, one
- 1:59Speaker 2: of Disney channe most famous dads, Robert Carradine, is dying
- 2:02Speaker 2: at the age of seventy one, who is best known
- 2:04Speaker 2: for working alongside Hillary Duff as Lizzie McGuire's dad in
- 2:07Speaker 2: the Hits two thousands series. The actor, who lived with
- 2:11Speaker 2: bipolar disorder for nearly two decades, took his own.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Life on your Radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
- 2:21Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and One roof Love, where You Live
- 2:25Speaker 1: News Talks.
- 2:25Speaker 2: The'd Be nine two ninety two is the number to text.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Would love to hear from you this morning. Labor has
- 2:30Speaker 2: got ninety nine problems, and debt is definitely going to
- 2:33Speaker 2: be one of them. If you've been listening to Hipkins lately,
- 2:35Speaker 2: you've got thirteen billion at least, maybe a little more,
- 2:39Speaker 2: maybe a little I would say north of thirteen billion
- 2:42Speaker 2: dollars for the pay equity deals with the unions. He's
- 2:44Speaker 2: got it pay for that somehow. Doesn't know how the
- 2:47Speaker 2: twenty billion dollars roughly for your Harbor crossing? How's he
- 2:51Speaker 2: going to pay for that? He told us yesterday he's
- 2:54Speaker 2: going to keep the old bridge free. So who will
- 2:57Speaker 2: use the told one? How do you pay for the
- 3:00Speaker 2: new crossing without people using the told one? It doesn't
- 3:02Speaker 2: make any sense anyway. Doesn't really know how that's going
- 3:05Speaker 2: to work either. Hundreds of millions of dollars potentially is
- 3:09Speaker 2: the shortfall from his capital gains tax to pay for
- 3:12Speaker 2: your doctor's visits. Remember your billionaires are going to get
- 3:15Speaker 2: three free visits. Now, what happens if your house prices
- 3:18Speaker 2: stay stable as they are meant to, you may not
- 3:21Speaker 2: get the capital gains you want. There's a shortfall. Ladies
- 3:24Speaker 2: and gentlemen, we have a maths problem, don't we The
- 3:27Speaker 2: real problem really is that none of it seems to
- 3:30Speaker 2: have been thought about yet. He keeps saying so. Whenever
- 3:33Speaker 2: you asked him, he says that we haven't got that
- 3:35Speaker 2: far yet. Well, come on, that should concern us. Remember
- 3:39Speaker 2: Grant Robertson once said in the Wise Woods alongside James Shaw,
- 3:44Speaker 2: by the way from the Greens, that thirty percent debt
- 3:46Speaker 2: to GDP should be your max, that should be your cap.
- 3:49Speaker 2: That would be sensible. Well, Hipkins doesn't know about that yet.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Green's happy to go north of fifty percent. Look, national's
- 3:56Speaker 2: not great because we are still north of forty. But
- 4:00Speaker 2: at least they want to get it down. But if
- 4:02Speaker 2: you're a landlord this morning, look how I reckon they're
- 4:05Speaker 2: coming for you again. I asked them about this. You
- 4:07Speaker 2: know the interest deductibility. If you're a landlord, you will
- 4:10Speaker 2: know about it. I asked them about it yesterday. Landlords,
- 4:13Speaker 2: they should they expect that they will have to help
- 4:17Speaker 2: fund some of this. Will you take away the interest
- 4:19Speaker 2: deductibility as the previous government did that you were part of.
- 4:23Speaker 7: I've been listening to feedback from landlords about that and
- 4:27Speaker 7: removing one hundred percent of interest deductibility was I think
- 4:31Speaker 7: something that we're unlikely to do in that same way again.
- 4:34Speaker 7: But we will set that out again when we set
- 4:35Speaker 7: out our fiscool plan.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Ah, So look out. I mean that's as much of
- 4:40Speaker 2: a warning as you're going to get. I think there
- 4:42Speaker 2: are about one hundred and ninety thousand private landlords in
- 4:44Speaker 2: New Zealand. Most just owned one or two homes, so
- 4:47Speaker 2: mum and dad, investors, nest egg for retirement, all that
- 4:50Speaker 2: sort of stuff, and removing the interest deductibility put them
- 4:54Speaker 2: into serious stress. You remember this because a lot of
- 4:57Speaker 2: them were basically not covering themselves, couldn't make it work.
- 5:01Speaker 2: Voted for Actor National on that basis. Plus, when they
- 5:05Speaker 2: remove the interest deductibility, rents were going up. Since it's
- 5:09Speaker 2: been reinstated, rents are going down. So this is not
- 5:13Speaker 2: about making rents cheaper. Let's just be real about that.
- 5:17Speaker 2: It is not about making rents cheaper. We have proof
- 5:20Speaker 2: that it doesn't. It's about revenue to paper over some
- 5:23Speaker 2: cracks in their budget with a handy scapegoat that they
- 5:27Speaker 2: think the public hates. Bryan Bridge nine two ninety two
- 5:31Speaker 2: is the number to text. Five to eleven is the
- 5:33Speaker 2: time we'll talk kafarmac and this melanoma funding. Next Newstalk stb.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Views and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
- 5:41Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roofe Love Where
- 5:46Speaker 1: You Live.
- 5:46Speaker 2: News Talks B five thirteen. Good morning, Ryan, says Paul.
- 5:49Speaker 2: This is not necessarily a labor issue. This math problem
- 5:53Speaker 2: that you're talking about, it's just a government issue. Nicola
- 5:56Speaker 2: Willis seems to have the same one equating one plus
- 5:58Speaker 2: one equals three. It's a problem whenever any party gets
- 6:02Speaker 2: into power. I suppose you have a point there. It's
- 6:04Speaker 2: just degrees of you know, one is maybe a little
- 6:07Speaker 2: worse than the other, and that's it's the lesser of
- 6:10Speaker 2: two evils, maybe, isn't it. Hey very quickly on that
- 6:13Speaker 2: price of oil, we were talking about this yesterday, so
- 6:15Speaker 2: they now reached to seven month high. This is over
- 6:18Speaker 2: fares of US and Iran conflict. You basically, traders are
- 6:22Speaker 2: pricing in the risk of a disruption. They don't really
- 6:24Speaker 2: know what that might be yet, because we still haven't
- 6:26Speaker 2: even got to the point where anyone's firing any missiles.
- 6:29Speaker 2: US crude futures up to sixty seven twenty eight a
- 6:34Speaker 2: barrel Brent crude highest level since July at seventy two
- 6:38Speaker 2: fifty overnight that has just fallen back in the last
- 6:41Speaker 2: few minutes to seventy and fifty US cents and bread
- 6:46Speaker 2: Rich Farmac's looking at funding two new melanoma drugs though
- 6:50Speaker 2: benefit patients with late stage melanoma, saving the health system
- 6:53Speaker 2: around one thousand infusion hours a year. They are out
- 6:57Speaker 2: for consultation. Doctor Gareth Rivland is with usta coloncologist and
- 7:00Speaker 2: melanoma specialist. Good morning, very much, good to have you here.
- 7:06Speaker 2: What did these drugs do.
- 7:09Speaker 8: So over the last fifteen years or so, Not that
- 7:13Speaker 8: we don't want to take you back too far, but
- 7:16Speaker 8: there's been a real change in the way we treat melanomas.
- 7:18Speaker 8: So we don't use traditional chemotherapies. What we use are
- 7:20Speaker 8: these immunotherapy drugs where we try to get the patient's
- 7:24Speaker 8: own immune system to recognize the cancer cells and attack them.
- 7:28Speaker 8: And so these two drugs are in that group, and
- 7:33Speaker 8: one of them effectively unmasked the cancer to allow the
- 7:36Speaker 8: immune system to see it, and the other drug effectively
- 7:41Speaker 8: cuts the excem immune system if you like, to allow
- 7:43Speaker 8: it to run a lot harder, faster. Earlier in treatment.
- 7:48Speaker 8: And so these two medications have been around for a while,
- 7:51Speaker 8: but the real change for us now we can use
- 7:54Speaker 8: them before someone has surgery to allow the immune system
- 7:58Speaker 8: to see these cancer cells really early to kill them
- 8:00Speaker 8: off even before the surgeons get there.
- 8:03Speaker 2: And they must be used. Therefore, they must be used together.
- 8:06Speaker 2: You need to fund them both.
- 8:08Speaker 8: Yeah, well, this is where the state of the art is.
- 8:11Speaker 8: Really this is the best combination. So this is what
- 8:13Speaker 8: we'd say as the global gold standard treatment. So when
- 8:16Speaker 8: you use this combination, you can do two treatment cycles
- 8:20Speaker 8: before surgery, so that's six weeks of treatment and about
- 8:23Speaker 8: sixty percent of people will have the cancer completely killed.
- 8:26Speaker 9: Off before before surgery.
- 8:28Speaker 8: So this is quite a change and it really is
- 8:31Speaker 8: better than any other combination or any other single drug
- 8:34Speaker 8: that has been tested around the world.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Do they still need surgery?
- 8:39Speaker 8: Oh, well that's where we're going next, you know, that's
- 8:41Speaker 8: where the trials are heading at the moment. We need
- 8:44Speaker 8: the surgery to be able to tell how well the
- 8:46Speaker 8: treatments work. So, as I said, sixty percent of people
- 8:50Speaker 8: in these trials look like that have what we call
- 8:52Speaker 8: a complete pathologic response. That means that when the pathologists
- 8:56Speaker 8: look at the slides, there's no cancer cells left, but
- 9:00Speaker 8: it does leave forty percent who don't get that sort
- 9:02Speaker 8: of response, and we need that understanding of what's happened
- 9:06Speaker 8: on the microscopic level to decide what sort of treatment
- 9:09Speaker 8: they might need after surgery.
- 9:11Speaker 2: I had a look at this this morning. It looked
- 9:13Speaker 2: to me like these are being funded in Australia since
- 9:16Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Is that? I mean, it sounds like revolutionary here,
- 9:20Speaker 2: but is that true?
- 9:22Speaker 8: Well, the original trials where we were looking at doing
- 9:27Speaker 8: treatment around surgery was in twenty eighteen. The treatment prior
- 9:31Speaker 8: to surgery, where effectively you leave the tumor in place
- 9:34Speaker 8: to know what you're is allowing the immune system to
- 9:38Speaker 8: see these cancer cells really early. That's a later development.
- 9:42Speaker 8: They probably had that treatment in Australia only over the
- 9:44Speaker 8: last two or three years. And this combination, as I say,
- 9:48Speaker 8: which is the state of the art and was funded
- 9:51Speaker 8: in August last year in Australia, and in fact it
- 9:54Speaker 8: isn't funded in the UK or Canada. I think are
- 9:57Speaker 8: in the process of rolling it out, but it's not
- 9:58Speaker 8: quite there. Actually, we're a little ahead of the curve
- 10:01Speaker 8: on this one, which is unusual for farmac.
- 10:05Speaker 2: First first time I've ever heard any doctor tell me that, Gareth,
- 10:09Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning, doctor Gareth Rivilland who's
- 10:13Speaker 2: a medical oncologist and melanoma's specialist. Hopefully they get that funded.
- 10:16Speaker 2: As I say, consultation out ends in March five eighteen.
- 10:20Speaker 2: You're on News Talk ZB next will go to Takaha Stadium.
- 10:23Speaker 2: That's one in Zed Stadium in christ Church and their
- 10:26Speaker 2: booth problem for opening night.
- 10:29Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
- 10:32Speaker 1: analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
- 10:36Speaker 1: where You Live.
- 10:37Speaker 2: News Talks at B twenty after five, News Talks B
- 10:40Speaker 2: tray over in the UK Trade Minister Chris Brian and
- 10:43Speaker 2: the House of Commons having a crack at Andrew. This
- 10:45Speaker 2: is former Prince Andrew. Have a listen.
- 10:48Speaker 5: Colleagues and many civil servants have told me their own
- 10:51Speaker 5: stories of their interactions with mister mount Batten Windsor, and they.
- 10:55Speaker 2: All betray the same pattern.
- 10:58Speaker 5: A man on a constant self aggrandizing and self enriching hustle,
- 11:03Speaker 5: A rude, arrogant and entitled man who could not distinguish
- 11:07Speaker 5: between the public interest which he said he served at
- 11:10Speaker 5: his own private interest.
- 11:11Speaker 2: And he didn't stop there. The rest for you later.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Plus Kevin Gray out of the UK at quarter two
- 11:16Speaker 2: Bryan Bred another liquor licensing rule. Would we call it dumb?
- 11:19Speaker 2: Causing upset anyway? In christ Church for bar owners, the
- 11:22Speaker 2: brand new Takahau Stadium will host its first major sports match,
- 11:27Speaker 2: the Super Rugby Round weekend of April twenty four. Problem
- 11:31Speaker 2: the next day's ANZAC Day, so no alcohol allowed to
- 11:34Speaker 2: be served past midnight. Jeremy Stevens, Hospitality in z Candiby
- 11:38Speaker 2: branch president joins me this morning, morning, Jeremy, good morning,
- 11:42Speaker 2: how are you doing good? Thank you? So this is
- 11:44Speaker 2: not great for bar owners? Is it? Because midnight stroke
- 11:47Speaker 2: of midnight everyone has to go home?
- 11:49Speaker 6: Yes, it's very unfortunate. Obviously opening up this stadium is
- 11:53Speaker 6: a massive event for Zen, for us Yhich. It's been
- 11:55Speaker 6: fourteen years in the waiting. It's a massive investment from
- 11:59Speaker 6: the govern Council and taxpayers and having a Super Rugby
- 12:03Speaker 6: round in christ which is amazing. We'd have more people
- 12:05Speaker 6: here than we've seen in a very long time. And
- 12:09Speaker 6: as you just mentioned, yeah, there for the night at
- 12:11Speaker 6: the stadium, all the bars have to shit at midnight
- 12:14Speaker 6: because Ansak Day falls on Saturday this year.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Do you I mean the distrest Licensing Committee. I've had
- 12:20Speaker 2: a look at that. Their hands are tired here, aren't they.
- 12:22Speaker 2: You basically need a law change from Parliament.
- 12:25Speaker 6: There are This is something we've been working on behind
- 12:27Speaker 6: the scenes for a few months now with council counselors
- 12:30Speaker 6: and the mayor who are all in support of trying
- 12:34Speaker 6: to make this work so then you can trade as usual.
- 12:38Speaker 6: The issue we have it keeps falling back on, is
- 12:40Speaker 6: it it is legislation. The hands are tied. We have
- 12:44Speaker 6: tried to look at could we do a blanket city
- 12:48Speaker 6: wide blanket special license to get across the line. That
- 12:52Speaker 6: appears that's not an option under the current law.
- 12:55Speaker 2: So your best hope is Karen Mcinolti's bill, isn't it
- 12:58Speaker 2: because these two members that hit this is his private
- 13:00Speaker 2: members bill two members days before then that hopefully it
- 13:04Speaker 2: could pass and but I mean fingers.
- 13:06Speaker 6: Crossed, it's yeah, I think that's very unlucky. It'll passing time.
- 13:10Speaker 6: But having that bill in place and getting to this
- 13:13Speaker 6: stage does prove that this this law is probably not
- 13:18Speaker 6: suitable for purpose anymore. It is quite chaic. It affects
- 13:21Speaker 6: us not Andy, not so much. But the biggest, biggest
- 13:26Speaker 6: effect is Easter having that Friday and Sunday, but bars
- 13:30Speaker 6: have to close at midnight on Thursday. You can't trade
- 13:33Speaker 6: Friday unless it's for the purpose of dining. Same on Sunday.
- 13:36Speaker 6: See bars have to shut up midnight on Saturday and
- 13:39Speaker 6: the public holiday and Monday means it's a very expensive
- 13:42Speaker 6: weekend to run hospitality time and a half every two
- 13:45Speaker 6: days and we are staff that are eager to work
- 13:48Speaker 6: those days, not forcing them to, but it's a massive
- 13:53Speaker 6: effect on our trade and mass effect on tourism.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Plus you got the lunch you're got to feed every
- 13:59Speaker 2: one to HIV and your appreciate your time this morning.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Jeremy Stephens Hospitality in Zed Canterbury Bryan Bridge by twenty
- 14:05Speaker 2: four are genuinely interested in how people feel about that,
- 14:08Speaker 2: because the ANZACs and the trenches probably weren't worrying about
- 14:11Speaker 2: a drink where they Do you think that we should
- 14:14Speaker 2: change the rules? Are you on board with Karen mcinnolty's bill.
- 14:18Speaker 2: It's probably going to pass by the sounds of it,
- 14:20Speaker 2: although not in time for the opening weekend in April
- 14:24Speaker 2: twenty four, after five News Talk SEB will have more
- 14:27Speaker 2: on that data breach for your health centers next.
- 14:29Speaker 1: The early edition for all the show podcast on iHeartRadio
- 14:33Speaker 1: how It by News Talks V.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Five twenty six News Talk said b this government has
- 14:39Speaker 2: made fast track a bit of a buzzword, and after
- 14:42Speaker 2: we get another massive hack of private information on Sunday,
- 14:46Speaker 2: it needs to put that buzzword into action, sharpen up
- 14:49Speaker 2: our privacy laws like yesterday, especially if we're talking about
- 14:53Speaker 2: your health information getting stolen then potentially posted online by
- 14:57Speaker 2: hackers for a ransom. The hackers, it seems to me,
- 15:01Speaker 2: are pretty much a mystery and never going to be caught.
- 15:04Speaker 2: That ship has sailed and we can, at least for
- 15:07Speaker 2: now put that in the too hard basket. But the
- 15:10Speaker 2: folks we can find, which we currently don't, by the way,
- 15:15Speaker 2: are the businesses asking for our information and not doing
- 15:18Speaker 2: enough to protect it in the first place. If ever,
- 15:21Speaker 2: there was a need for better regulation and harsher penalties,
- 15:25Speaker 2: it's with cases like this what should be your private data?
- 15:29Speaker 2: In New Zealand, Consumer says there is no express penalty
- 15:33Speaker 2: or fine for a breach. No fine. The Privacy Commissioner
- 15:39Speaker 2: has the powder issue a fine of wait for it,
- 15:41Speaker 2: ten grand, yeah, ten thousand dollars. And that's only if
- 15:45Speaker 2: a company doesn't report a breach or tries to hide
- 15:48Speaker 2: it the Aussies, they'll whack you with a fine of
- 15:50Speaker 2: up to fifty million Australian dollars. That makes ours look
- 15:54Speaker 2: like a bit of a slap with a wet bus ticket,
- 15:55Speaker 2: doesn't it. Companies should be scared to ask for your
- 16:00Speaker 2: private information because the risk of it being necked is
- 16:04Speaker 2: evidently quite high, isn't it. This is not a funny thing,
- 16:08Speaker 2: it's outrageous. In two months, we've had the largest ever
- 16:12Speaker 2: hack in our history through Manage my Health, and now
- 16:14Speaker 2: this many map. One last week, I went shopping it
- 16:18Speaker 2: Books myself some new clothes because I've basically worn through them.
- 16:23Speaker 2: So went out to buy just a couple of T
- 16:25Speaker 2: shirts and shorts, and I was asked for my name
- 16:27Speaker 2: and email address and my postal address, not that I
- 16:31Speaker 2: was sending the clothes to myself. I walked out the
- 16:34Speaker 2: shop with them in a bag. Why because they want
- 16:37Speaker 2: you on a mailing list. Probably I didn't have to
- 16:39Speaker 2: provide this data, but if I did, I would get
- 16:43Speaker 2: ten percent off the clothes I paid the full price,
- 16:46Speaker 2: but I couldn't leave with a receipt unless I hand
- 16:49Speaker 2: it over my email. Now that annoys me, and they
- 16:53Speaker 2: should be scared to ask for it. Businesses want our
- 16:55Speaker 2: information because they can sell us more stuff for share
- 16:59Speaker 2: it with a third party, whatever, But it should be
- 17:02Speaker 2: either illegal to ask for it. It should actually be
- 17:05Speaker 2: illegal to ask for it unless the law requires it.
- 17:07Speaker 2: And if the data they do have get stolen, that
- 17:11Speaker 2: should be their problem under the law. The fines ought
- 17:14Speaker 2: to reflect how serious the breach is. With health well
- 17:17Speaker 2: that ought to be millions. Surely they should be scared,
- 17:22Speaker 2: like with health and safety laws, to even ask for it.
- 17:25Speaker 2: It's not like this problem has suddenly sailed into port.
- 17:28Speaker 2: That's why the legislation should be fast tracked. It should
- 17:31Speaker 2: be bipartisan and it should be tough as nails. Otherwise
- 17:35Speaker 2: we can all look forward to another data breach coming
- 17:37Speaker 2: to a town near you soon. News Talk said B
- 17:43Speaker 2: We're live to the UK next.
- 17:48Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
- 17:51Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you live?
- 17:56Speaker 1: News Talk said B twenty.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Four away from sixties Topsy'd be coming up well Hester
- 18:08Speaker 2: Gavin Graham the UK in a few minutes time. We'll
- 18:10Speaker 2: talk about your health data break. Another day, another health
- 18:12Speaker 2: data breach as well. Ryan, good morning. This is on
- 18:15Speaker 2: the issue to Kaha Stadium and the booze over Anzac weekend. Ryan,
- 18:21Speaker 2: why don't they just open the place on a different night,
- 18:23Speaker 2: away from Anzac Day. That would make more sense than
- 18:25Speaker 2: changing the alcohol laws. Kirsten says, sorry, but the alcohol
- 18:29Speaker 2: rules affect very few days a year, so I can't
- 18:32Speaker 2: see the issue. Why is it so hard for us
- 18:35Speaker 2: to remember and pay respect to the Anzac memory? Another
- 18:38Speaker 2: here said from Nick morning Neck. The Anzac's fought for freedom.
- 18:42Speaker 2: The banning of drinking past midnight is not freedom. Very good, Nick,
- 18:47Speaker 2: thank you for that. Hey, very quickly. Trump's going to
- 18:49Speaker 2: give a State of the Union address today. It'll happened
- 18:51Speaker 2: later today our time. A CNN poll out this morning
- 18:54Speaker 2: not great for him. Approval with independence and you need
- 18:57Speaker 2: the independence to win at a new low twenty six percent.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Only thirty two percent of the public generally think he
- 19:04Speaker 2: has his priorities in the right order, sixty one percent
- 19:09Speaker 2: moving the country in the wrong direction. So this speech
- 19:12Speaker 2: has a lot hanging on it. Brian Bred our reporters,
- 19:15Speaker 2: We start with Claire and christ Church clear, good morning,
- 19:17Speaker 2: good morning. You've got fraud at this rugby club and
- 19:21Speaker 2: the person who was allegedly responsible for it fleeing overseas.
- 19:25Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 19:26Speaker 10: Nikola Flint's become a name very well known around christ
- 19:28Speaker 10: Church circles for some time now. She allegedly defrauded the
- 19:33Speaker 10: christ Church Football Club by more than one hundred thousand
- 19:35Speaker 10: dollars with false invoices and the likes. Then there was
- 19:39Speaker 10: this terrible situation where it was emerged that she had
- 19:42Speaker 10: faked a terminal cancer diagnosis. She had used medical documents
- 19:47Speaker 10: that she appeared to have docted herself on word using
- 19:50Speaker 10: Google searches for logos and the like. She is accused
- 19:54Speaker 10: of tricking A and Z her employer into paying more
- 19:57Speaker 10: than eighty thousand dollars for her medical retirement. Forty nine
- 20:00Speaker 10: year old was under investigation here in christ Church by police,
- 20:03Speaker 10: but she fled to the UK before the charges were
- 20:06Speaker 10: laid and was a no show in court here. She
- 20:09Speaker 10: has just yesterday been arrested living in Wales. Flint's friend
- 20:13Speaker 10: Joe Scott has told The Heralds a Moment in Crime
- 20:16Speaker 10: podcast that she thinks police should have sort of investigated
- 20:19Speaker 10: the emotional manipulation much earlier. She says the only reason
- 20:23Speaker 10: she can see that someone would fake something like cancer
- 20:26Speaker 10: would be to manipulate others, and that should be a crime.
- 20:29Speaker 10: Scott believes that Flint did have some sort of health scare,
- 20:33Speaker 10: but it's likely that the lying began after that. There
- 20:35Speaker 10: are still some questions around whether Flint will be returned
- 20:38Speaker 10: to christ Church to face the charges that have been
- 20:41Speaker 10: laid against her.
- 20:42Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
- 20:42Speaker 10: Claire should be fine today. Gusty northeasterlies and twenty one degrees.
- 20:47Speaker 2: Thank you. We're apologies. We can't seem to raise Dunedin
- 20:50Speaker 2: at the moment. We'll go to Max toll and Wellington. Max.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Good morning, morning Andrew little were we raising him?
- 20:56Speaker 1: Well?
- 20:57Speaker 11: Okay, so Leaver's Aschevell. She the Labor Parties Wellington Issues spokesperson.
- 21:03Speaker 11: She quite rightly called out Wellington Water here in the
- 21:05Speaker 11: studio for not answering questions about more point, for refusing
- 21:09Speaker 11: to respond to media queries, for only posting updates on
- 21:12Speaker 11: its own terms, updates that don't really answer actually anything
- 21:16Speaker 11: at all. And so we do understand that decision was
- 21:20Speaker 11: actually meyor Andrew Little's call clearly fancying himself as something
- 21:24Speaker 11: of a disaster or crisis response manager. I can tell
- 21:28Speaker 11: you as soon as more point happened and ad went
- 21:30Speaker 11: up advertising for a crisis strategic communications manager to work
- 21:34Speaker 11: with Wellington Water or something of that. Ilk veryl says
- 21:38Speaker 11: most Wellingtonians feel like we don't have enough information, We're
- 21:42Speaker 11: not getting the answers we want. But this is what
- 21:45Speaker 11: tends to happen, isn't it, And working in communications becomes
- 21:48Speaker 11: something of an oxymoron. Andrew Little doesn't think Veryl's comments
- 21:52Speaker 11: are there and says stuff is getting out there and
- 21:55Speaker 11: no crisis response is perfect. This review is going to
- 21:58Speaker 11: take months. We're not getting answers to our questions and
- 22:01Speaker 11: in the meantime it's we, the Wellingtonians who suffer.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Absolutely And the answer is about as clear as your
- 22:08Speaker 2: water max. How exactly your weather today?
- 22:11Speaker 11: Yeah, well it's fine today with northerleast twenty two the Hey,
- 22:14Speaker 11: all right, have a good.
- 22:15Speaker 2: Day, good morning, never good morning. What's this about students
- 22:19Speaker 2: and discounts?
- 22:20Speaker 12: Yes, now, look there's the student groups asking for increased
- 22:24Speaker 12: discounts to public transport. Now this is months after the
- 22:27Speaker 12: tertiary discount was doubled. So this was doubled from twenty
- 22:30Speaker 12: to forty percent late last year. So the Auckland University
- 22:34Speaker 12: Students Association now they made a presentation to Auckland Council
- 22:37Speaker 12: about its ideas around public transport. Now the president that's
- 22:41Speaker 12: namesh Milan Sing. He says that the cost of public
- 22:44Speaker 12: transport's making it very difficult for many of them to
- 22:46Speaker 12: get to classes. So he's ultimately wanting it to be free.
- 22:50Speaker 12: Of course they want it to be free, but would
- 22:52Speaker 12: advocate for a fifty cent ride model like they do
- 22:55Speaker 12: in Queensland. So when he put this forward to the council,
- 22:59Speaker 12: apparently they proposed alternative funding ideas, even discussed the idea
- 23:04Speaker 12: of central government footing part of the bill to ensure
- 23:06Speaker 12: that the policy stays.
- 23:08Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, So.
- 23:08Speaker 12: Let's see what happens there. At least they had some ideas.
- 23:11Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean are they ideas or they just
- 23:13Speaker 2: ask putting their handout and asking for free things. How's
- 23:17Speaker 2: that weather? Fine?
- 23:18Speaker 12: Apart from some afternoon cloud twenty six twenty six is
- 23:21Speaker 12: the high today here in Auckland.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Back up and the hate thanks Neva. It is nineteen
- 23:25Speaker 2: minutes away. From six FedEx. I told you yesterday that
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- 23:34Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, well it started FedEx yesterday
- 23:38Speaker 2: while overnight they are suing the US government. Haven't said
- 23:41Speaker 2: how much yet, but I can tell you that the
- 23:43Speaker 2: total kitty, the total amount of levies that the Trump
- 23:46Speaker 2: administration has taken as one hundred and seventy five billion
- 23:50Speaker 2: US dollars. So FedEx wants a cut, they want a
- 23:55Speaker 2: full refund, thank you very much for all the illegal
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- 24:01Speaker 2: are the job of Congress, not the job of the
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- 25:25Speaker 2: Let's go back to the Trade Minister in the UK,
- 25:26Speaker 2: Chris Bryant having a real crack at the former Prince Andrew.
- 25:29Speaker 5: I remember him coming to visit the secredets in Tona Pandi.
- 25:33Speaker 5: They were absolutely delighted and excited to meet a member
- 25:36Speaker 5: of the royal family. But he insisted on coming by
- 25:39Speaker 5: helicopter Uni like his mother who came twice to the
- 25:43Speaker 5: Ronda and always came by car. He left early and
- 25:48Speaker 5: he showed next to note interest in the young people.
- 25:51Speaker 5: That is, of course, mister speaker, not a crime, nor
- 25:54Speaker 5: is arrogance. Fortunately.
- 25:56Speaker 2: I suppose let's go to Gavin Gray at UK Chorus
- 26:00Speaker 2: Bond and Kevin, good morning.
- 26:02Speaker 13: Hi there, Ryan, yep. It's certainly been one of those days.
- 26:05Speaker 13: Andrew Man Batan Windsor described as rude, arrogant and entitled
- 26:09Speaker 13: in the Commons, and in the last half hour MPs
- 26:12Speaker 13: have now back to motion calling for the release of
- 26:15Speaker 13: all the documents on how Andrew Maunt Batman Winsor was
- 26:18Speaker 13: appointed as a UK Trade Envoy, of course when he
- 26:22Speaker 13: was Prince Andrew. And this is particularly interesting because it's
- 26:26Speaker 13: been reported that there are documents which say that Lord
- 26:30Speaker 13: Peter Mandelson, who used to be the UK Ambassador to
- 26:33Speaker 13: America until the Epstein files got him sacked, there are
- 26:37Speaker 13: suggestions that he another friend of Epstein, also was weighing
- 26:43Speaker 13: in saying, oh no, Andrew's a really good trade envoy.
- 26:46Speaker 13: You need to keep him when questions were being asked
- 26:49Speaker 13: about how useful he was as a trade end boy.
- 26:51Speaker 13: So two friends of Epstein, Prince Andrews he was and
- 26:55Speaker 13: now Lord Manilson, both arrested, both accused of misconduct and
- 27:00Speaker 13: public office, and both now arrested but released, and they
- 27:05Speaker 13: are effectively now awaiting further investigations about what's going on.
- 27:10Speaker 2: So Mandelssohn potentially backing up Andrew in the face of
- 27:13Speaker 2: a becklash. What about those charges you mentioned that both
- 27:17Speaker 2: being arrested obviously, But have we had any any update
- 27:20Speaker 2: on charges.
- 27:22Speaker 13: No, not at the moment. And indeed the police are
- 27:24Speaker 13: still searching Andrew Mountbatten's Windsor's former home in Windsor. It
- 27:29Speaker 13: is such a large place and that's like day four,
- 27:33Speaker 13: day five of that investigation. But the arrest of Lord
- 27:36Speaker 13: Peter Mandelsson yesterday, a man twice who had to resign
- 27:40Speaker 13: from cabinet over different scandals, the man who propelled an
- 27:44Speaker 13: unknown Tony Blair not just to the leader of the
- 27:47Speaker 13: Labor Party but to the Prime Minister. Lord Mandelson has
- 27:51Speaker 13: once again found himself in the news. He went back
- 27:54Speaker 13: home at two am after police released him from that arrest.
- 27:57Speaker 13: But yeah, both men Andrew and Lord Peter Mandelson still
- 28:02Speaker 13: under investigation for this misconduct in public office, which basically
- 28:06Speaker 13: means that they are alleged to have given information that
- 28:09Speaker 13: was private and confidential from the government to Jeffrey Epstein.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Kevin gray are UK Europe corresponding eleven away from six
- 28:16Speaker 2: ra Bridge nurses at aged care facilities going back to
- 28:20Speaker 2: the old school, paper based prescriptions for medicines after this
- 28:23Speaker 2: latest data breach. MADI map is used by sixty percent
- 28:27Speaker 2: of care facilities that was hacked. Patients details would change
- 28:30Speaker 2: some from a life to dead for goodness sakes, and
- 28:33Speaker 2: this is only just after the Manage My Health ransom hack.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Rob Campbell, former health ENZ share with me this morning, Rob,
- 28:39Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 28:40Speaker 9: Good morning.
- 28:41Speaker 2: Right, A general question for you do you trust after
- 28:44Speaker 2: all of these hacks? Do you trust the data with
- 28:48Speaker 2: the health agencies?
- 28:51Speaker 9: Not completely, But that's more I think caution and wisdom
- 28:54Speaker 9: than just risky behavior. People don't have a lot of
- 28:58Speaker 9: choice about this, and you know there are lots of
- 29:01Speaker 9: points of vulnerability in the data systems in the health sector,
- 29:06Speaker 9: but no, I don't think there's a cause to immediately
- 29:10Speaker 9: distrust all the data.
- 29:12Speaker 2: Is there a difference between the private operators who seem
- 29:15Speaker 2: to be getting hacked and the public. When you helped
- 29:18Speaker 2: New Zealand, did they have more robust systems?
- 29:23Speaker 9: Some were, some weren't. There were issues. It's like a
- 29:26Speaker 9: lot of things in our society. This has been known
- 29:30Speaker 9: about for some time. The vulnerabilities are not new. The
- 29:33Speaker 9: warnings have been issued. Some people have responded to the warnings,
- 29:37Speaker 9: some people haven't. Some have responded adequately, some haven't. We're
- 29:41Speaker 9: finding some points of vulnerability now in the health system
- 29:44Speaker 9: that are very concerning, but should indeed have been addressed
- 29:48Speaker 9: much earlier, because, as I say, the knowledge that we
- 29:52Speaker 9: had vulnerabilities is not new.
- 29:54Speaker 2: Why do you think they haven't been fixed?
- 29:57Speaker 9: Well, I think it's like again a lot of other
- 29:59Speaker 9: vulnerabilities in our society. It's expensive, it can be complex.
- 30:02Speaker 9: It's not headline grabbing stuff. So it's the sort of
- 30:05Speaker 9: thing that people do put off. And there is no
- 30:08Speaker 9: absolute data security assurance that you can give, so it's
- 30:12Speaker 9: a matter of constant vigilance. It's a matter of cost,
- 30:14Speaker 9: and you know, people do make tradeoffs in these things,
- 30:18Speaker 9: particularly systems and operators that are under pressure do make tradeoffs,
- 30:23Speaker 9: and sometimes those tradeoffs payoffs. Sometimes they don't, and we're
- 30:26Speaker 9: finding too many, certainly in the health system that don't.
- 30:29Speaker 9: So there are vulnerabilities at the point of the individual user,
- 30:32Speaker 9: the individual company or business that they're using in, but
- 30:36Speaker 9: across the health sector as a whole. I think there
- 30:39Speaker 9: are issues about governance from both the Ministry of Health
- 30:42Speaker 9: and Health New Zealand as to what level of attention
- 30:45Speaker 9: is required of people who are spending public funds or
- 30:48Speaker 9: providing public services, even if they may be private operators.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Rob appreciate that. Thank you. Rob Campbell, former health Ended
- 30:54Speaker 2: Shared Time is nine away from six Bryans Health inded
- 30:58Speaker 2: by the way basically washing their hands of saying it's
- 31:00Speaker 2: a private company and it's their responsibility to fix. If
- 31:03Speaker 2: you weren't listening earlier. The fine in New Zealand for
- 31:06Speaker 2: a private company having a breach like this is maximum
- 31:11Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars and that's not even forgetting the data stolen.
- 31:14Speaker 2: That's if they don't tell us about it or try
- 31:17Speaker 2: and cover it up. News Talk said b.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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- 31:28Speaker 2: It's the six News Talk, said b Mike in the studio.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Good morning Mike. Great to see you Ryan and to
- 31:33Speaker 2: see you great. Yeah, what's in your show today?
- 31:36Speaker 14: Well, I'm going to do the medi map thing.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Ah, you and I don't know how because I don't
- 31:40Speaker 2: mean to sound bored.
- 31:41Speaker 14: No, I'm looking on board with I say, Look, I
- 31:44Speaker 14: don't have anything in my medical past that I'd be
- 31:47Speaker 14: bothered about it because I was involved in the manage
- 31:50Speaker 14: my health thing. Well you got you know, I wasn't
- 31:53Speaker 14: as apparently I managed my I was with managed my
- 31:55Speaker 14: health and they had to write to me to tell
- 31:57Speaker 14: me I wasn't one of the unlucky people. But at
- 31:59Speaker 14: the time, I thought, do I care if I am?
- 32:01Speaker 14: And I came to the conclusion I didn't. You know, really,
- 32:04Speaker 14: I couldn't kill less? Yeah, grubby details. You know, it's
- 32:08Speaker 14: one of those ethereal things. Where's it actually going?
- 32:11Speaker 2: Well? The dark were did a dark web? Yeah, but
- 32:13Speaker 2: someone like you make you don't want people knowing where
- 32:16Speaker 2: you've had a rational I don't mean I don't I
- 32:17Speaker 2: couldn't care less.
- 32:18Speaker 14: Really, No, it doesn't, it doesn't. I mean if I
- 32:21Speaker 14: had something I don't know, I suppose embarrassing in my past.
- 32:25Speaker 14: I guess, you know, I can understand some people, you know,
- 32:28Speaker 14: medtal health issues.
- 32:29Speaker 2: I guess for some people would be in a genuine issue.
- 32:31Speaker 14: But I came to the conclusion that, you know, if
- 32:33Speaker 14: it all got blown out, I couldn't care less.
- 32:35Speaker 2: There was a woman's funny you say, mental health of
- 32:37Speaker 2: woman in Finland and there, you know, the electronic record
- 32:41Speaker 2: keeping for the shrinks got hacked. She had been abused,
- 32:45Speaker 2: she'd had the alcohol problem, stuff, she hadn't told her family.
- 32:48Speaker 2: All that got put on the.
- 32:49Speaker 14: Into those scenarios, of course, But the point being, now,
- 32:53Speaker 14: are we at a point where you know, because of
- 32:55Speaker 14: course they've gone back to bits of paper, you know,
- 32:58Speaker 14: and so how oh the irony and whether you've got
- 33:02Speaker 14: some sort of activism here, and because you've got it's
- 33:04Speaker 14: not really ransom this time around. It's Charlie Kirk and politicians'
- 33:08Speaker 14: names and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, we'll talk
- 33:10Speaker 14: about that. Mitch Barnette, you upset about that. No, Mitch
- 33:13Speaker 14: Barnett is the I can tell you don't know what
- 33:15Speaker 14: I'm talking about. Mitch Barnett is the co captain of
- 33:17Speaker 14: the Warriors and the Warriors a rugby Warriors are a rugby
- 33:22Speaker 14: league team. I'm glad you figured out when I don't
- 33:27Speaker 14: know what about I'm just going to now play game.
- 33:30Speaker 2: I'm going to bring do this every day anyway. Don't
- 33:33Speaker 2: pretend that this is not one of your games, Mike. Okay,
- 33:36Speaker 2: you're coming here. You're throwing some random if one name.
- 33:39Speaker 14: And I'm absolutely anyway, Mitch Barnett, we haven't even kicked off,
- 33:46Speaker 14: by the way, you realize the season.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Was chatting to Shawn Johnson yesterday.
- 33:50Speaker 14: Actually, Neil is he a likable guy.
- 33:53Speaker 2: He's lovely. Yeah, I agree, got a second season for
- 33:56Speaker 2: his show apparently too. Well, that's good.
- 33:58Speaker 14: He's got a major part in this season's coverage, this
- 34:02Speaker 14: kind of coverage of the day.
- 34:03Speaker 2: And so anyway, did he know who you were? Yes,
- 34:06Speaker 2: he's all good, because that's embarrassing. I should have had
- 34:09Speaker 2: to ask who he was though, of course exactly.
- 34:11Speaker 14: Anyway, Mitch Barnett's going home. So we've lost them before
- 34:14Speaker 14: the start of the season, all right, look forward to.
- 34:16Speaker 2: That, Mike. Next News Talks ZMB.
- 34:20Speaker 1: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
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