Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 11 August 2025

Transcript

Full Show Podcast: 11 August 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

0:01
Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
0:05
Speaker 1: earlier show with one roof Love where you Live News Talk,
0:09
Speaker 1: sa'd be good.
0:10
Speaker 2: Morning, Welcome to Monday, just gone six after five. Coming
0:13
Speaker 2: up on the show this morning, new visas to fill
0:16
Speaker 2: farming and agricultural jobs. Why not hire the two hundred
0:20
Speaker 2: thousand jobs seeker beneficiaries we've got sitting around the country.
0:24
Speaker 2: The Greens reckon they'll lead the next government. Nice to
0:27
Speaker 2: be ambitious, isn't it. Andrew Ordison on the passing of
0:30
Speaker 2: Peter Lester Gavin Gray in the UK for us this morning,
0:34
Speaker 2: This plan to try and get people free tickets to
0:37
Speaker 2: the Oasis concerts a fascinating one. We'll unpack that. It
0:41
Speaker 2: is seven after five.
0:44
Speaker 1: The Agenda, Monday.
0:45
Speaker 2: The eleventh of August. The world's been reacting to Nittanyahu's
0:48
Speaker 2: planning to take over Gaza City. There's been a UN
0:51
Speaker 2: Security Council meeting. The UK, France and others have warned
0:55
Speaker 2: it could bridge international law.
0:57
Speaker 3: We turned two in order to hey assure our security,
1:01
Speaker 3: remove Kamas there, enable the population to be free of it.
1:06
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, let's hear from the Europeans, no, we won't. Actually
1:15
Speaker 2: the Europeans a bit quiet at the moment, but they
1:18
Speaker 2: are getting behind and trying to support a plan to
1:23
Speaker 2: basically save Gaza City from Netan. Yahoo. We've got more
1:27
Speaker 2: details this morning on the medium between Trump and Putin.
1:30
Speaker 2: This is over Ukraine. They'll meet in Alaska Saturday, a
1:34
Speaker 2: time the White House has been deciding whether to invite
1:37
Speaker 2: Zelinsky as well. Meanwhile, again the Europeans, well, they reckon
1:41
Speaker 2: Zelensky must be.
1:42
Speaker 4: There, and all the partners share the same understanding of
1:47
Speaker 4: the need for a cease fire, for an end to
1:49
Speaker 4: the killings. Only one actor stands against this. His only
1:54
Speaker 4: card is the ability to kill, and he is trying
1:57
Speaker 4: to sell the cessation of killings at the highest possible.
2:01
Speaker 2: And it's the story that just keeps on giving. This
2:04
Speaker 2: is the Mushroom Keller lady. In Australia, the courts revealing
2:07
Speaker 2: that Aaron Patterson allegedly tried to poison her husband multiple times,
2:11
Speaker 2: even with cookies. She said that their daughter had baked.
2:15
Speaker 2: We've got the police interview video.
2:18
Speaker 5: You've described to the relationship with your Picks partner, Simon.
2:22
Speaker 6: I like to understand boy.
2:28
Speaker 7: Had his parents and his uncle and I be over
2:31
Speaker 7: for lunch because I've gotten other family.
2:34
Speaker 2: I think Simon hated and I still had a relationship
2:37
Speaker 2: with his parents.
2:39
Speaker 3: I love them.
2:42
Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
2:46
Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof love where you Live.
2:49
Speaker 2: News Talk said, be she's gone nine after five, News
2:51
Speaker 2: Talk said, b. This story out of Northland on as
2:53
Speaker 2: He'd be this morning, quite alarming. This is a spate
2:57
Speaker 2: of murders they've had up there, so things are so
2:59
Speaker 2: bad and it does paint quite a grim picture. But
3:03
Speaker 2: ninety extra police officers are being sent to Northland because
3:07
Speaker 2: crime's so out of control and they literally don't have
3:10
Speaker 2: enough police officers to man the streets themselves and to
3:14
Speaker 2: actually investigate all the crime that's going on. Police have
3:18
Speaker 2: said that this is a quote expensive, unsustainable and short
3:22
Speaker 2: term solution. They are on temporary five week rotations. Nine
3:28
Speaker 2: alleged homicides this year in Northland. Do you know what
3:33
Speaker 2: the interesting thing is? The EWI. The EWI is crying
3:36
Speaker 2: out for more police on the front line. They say
3:40
Speaker 2: the lack of police in Northland is dire, with FARO
3:44
Speaker 2: losing confidence that police would even respond or investigate to
3:48
Speaker 2: a reported crime. So here you've got people who are
3:50
Speaker 2: feeling vulnerable, wanting police and not confident that they'll come.
3:57
Speaker 2: Their big worry the EWI is child abuse investigations. They
4:01
Speaker 2: reckon that some child abuse investigations are being parked up
4:05
Speaker 2: because the officers are busy on homicides. And you contrast
4:12
Speaker 2: this with those numpties down in Wellington from the Green
4:15
Speaker 2: Party who say defund the police, and which is all
4:20
Speaker 2: very trendy, of course, but completely out to sea, completely
4:24
Speaker 2: out of touch with the real needs of poor communities
4:27
Speaker 2: in New Zealand, which who are crying out literally for
4:32
Speaker 2: police officers so that they may feel safe in their
4:35
Speaker 2: own homes. Go figure eleven. After five News Talkers Bryan Bridge,
4:40
Speaker 2: News Talks zib I also talk a little bit about
4:42
Speaker 2: Chippy and his debt ceiling, because that looks like it's
4:44
Speaker 2: on the move as well. This morning News Talks EDB.
4:47
Speaker 2: Coming up next, we've got Andrew Orderson with Sport and
4:50
Speaker 2: then we're to the Greens speaking of while an old
4:53
Speaker 2: Green who seems to think that they will that the
4:57
Speaker 2: Green Party will lead the next government. Believe it or not.
5:00
Speaker 2: News Talks, heb News.
5:02
Speaker 1: And Views you Trust. To start your day, It's early
5:06
Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof love Where you live,
5:10
Speaker 1: News talks ab.
5:11
Speaker 2: News talks here b has just gone thirteen minutes after
5:13
Speaker 2: five Ryan. I live in the Far North and the
5:16
Speaker 2: meth problem here is so bad. This is about the
5:20
Speaker 2: reason we have ninety police officers from around the country
5:23
Speaker 2: supporting Northland right now because they literally have too much
5:26
Speaker 2: crime on their hands. They've got nine alleged homicides this
5:30
Speaker 2: year alone. Ryan, it doesn't feel like a safe place
5:34
Speaker 2: to be. Very aggressive young people nowadays stealing and hurting people.
5:38
Speaker 2: Clearly they are just on drugs. They have a habit
5:40
Speaker 2: and they're trying to feed it. Isn't that sad? And
5:43
Speaker 2: you look at the numbers on meth in New Zealand
5:45
Speaker 2: and particularly in Northland. Actually I was talking to a
5:48
Speaker 2: guy out there a couple of weeks ago who said
5:50
Speaker 2: that with the water something that they get the wastewater testing,
5:55
Speaker 2: that's how you tell how much myth is being consumed
5:58
Speaker 2: in a place like Northland. And they said, well, actually,
6:01
Speaker 2: most people aren't on town water. They've got their own septic.
6:04
Speaker 2: You're not even reading half of what's up there, which
6:08
Speaker 2: is a scary thought, isn't it. Anyway? The reinforcements the
6:11
Speaker 2: cavalryes in there and ninety extra police officers are rotating
6:15
Speaker 2: in and out to help them with their crime problem.
6:17
Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes after five. Maybe the Greens will help with
6:20
Speaker 2: it too. The Greens want to lead the next government.
6:27
Speaker 8: We're not just here to leave the opposition.
6:31
Speaker 7: We are here because we want to leave the Lae comment.
6:37
Speaker 2: This is from their event at the weekend colead to
6:39
Speaker 2: Chloe's Fabrick admits they've quote got work to do with
6:43
Speaker 2: polling just under ten percent and labor in the early thirties,
6:46
Speaker 2: so how's this going to work? Cassin Dale Hunt is
6:49
Speaker 2: a former Green Party in p joins me this morning. Catherine,
6:52
Speaker 2: good morning. How are you?
6:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I'm gooc You're going to trying to be
7:00
Speaker 7: the next government.
7:01
Speaker 2: Do you think that's a little ambitious of them?
7:04
Speaker 7: I think politicians of smaller parties are required to talk
7:09
Speaker 7: like this. I also think there is a really strong
7:12
Speaker 7: need in this country this time to stop the incredible
7:15
Speaker 7: damage being done to communities and to the environment by
7:19
Speaker 7: the current government, and so leadership is required, and I
7:22
Speaker 7: think that the Greens and Party Mardi are going to
7:26
Speaker 7: need to be strong in order to push labor out
7:30
Speaker 7: of the center to actually do some very strong, brave
7:34
Speaker 7: and authentic work to get rid of this government and
7:39
Speaker 7: actually make a country that is it looks after its
7:42
Speaker 7: people and environment. Again, so you know, go for it,
7:45
Speaker 7: but you've got to go for it realistically by building
7:48
Speaker 7: relationships with the other small party on the left and
7:52
Speaker 7: making sure that there is a realistic and brave approach
7:57
Speaker 7: right now because people are looking for it.
8:00
Speaker 2: So you reckon, they need to better integrate themselves with
8:03
Speaker 2: T Party Maori and increase them and increase the bargaining gun.
8:08
Speaker 7: I think that those parties have tativity policies in common.
8:12
Speaker 7: I think they both care about the inequality gap. I
8:15
Speaker 7: think they both care about the state of the environment.
8:18
Speaker 7: So I think that they have to you know, parties
8:21
Speaker 7: have to compete for the version the current system. But
8:24
Speaker 7: there is also a really strong need for both those
8:26
Speaker 7: parties to build their vote so that they can negotiate
8:31
Speaker 7: strongly with labor so that we can have some genuine
8:33
Speaker 7: procreessive policy. I mean, for example, the Greens have got
8:36
Speaker 7: a very decent tax policy. Labor need to come up
8:39
Speaker 7: with some really strong policy.
8:41
Speaker 2: It's strong, it's a strong, it's an out there policy.
8:44
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's good.
8:46
Speaker 7: Well on your politics, I think there's the care of
8:49
Speaker 7: people through good taxes and ex What.
8:52
Speaker 2: Would be your for the Greens going into this, What
8:55
Speaker 2: is the bottom line? What's the one area that they
8:58
Speaker 2: should not compromise on.
9:02
Speaker 7: I don't really think like that, Ryan, but I think
9:04
Speaker 7: if you're going to talk about it, these two bottom lines.
9:07
Speaker 7: One is we have to do something about the gross
9:10
Speaker 7: inequality that this government is entrenching, and we have to
9:13
Speaker 7: do in all kinds of fronts. And we also have
9:16
Speaker 7: to protect our environments for future generations. And those are
9:20
Speaker 7: two things that absolutely as well as protected tededity or
9:24
Speaker 7: White Segney. There's a terrible attack right now on Marty
9:27
Speaker 7: by this government and on t TDT.
9:29
Speaker 3: So those are.
9:29
Speaker 7: Three things they have to be done. They can be done,
9:33
Speaker 7: but you actually have to be brave to do them
9:35
Speaker 7: and show some leadership.
9:37
Speaker 2: Catherine, appreciate your time this morning, Captain Dallah Hunty, former
9:39
Speaker 2: Green Party MP. It is eighteen minutes after five. We'll
9:42
Speaker 2: get to Andrew Orison's Sport next.
9:45
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier this year with one route Love
9:49
Speaker 1: where you live News talks.
9:50
Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Happy Monday, Della Hunty is delusional.
9:54
Speaker 2: You can imagine the text we're getting after speaking to
9:56
Speaker 2: Katain and Dellah Hunty from the Greens this morning. Vie
9:58
Speaker 2: and I'm so sick of the left bloe leading on
10:00
Speaker 2: about in the quality when they spent six years spending
10:03
Speaker 2: all of the money and an equality got worse, says Mike.
10:08
Speaker 2: It is twenty minutes after five, but it's get to
10:11
Speaker 2: Andrew Ortison's sport Andrew, good morning, Greeting's Ryan. Here's some
10:15
Speaker 2: very sad news. We'll talk about the Warriors. That sad news,
10:17
Speaker 2: but some very different type of sad news, different type
10:20
Speaker 2: of sad news about the passing of Peter Leicster.
10:23
Speaker 9: Yeah, genuinely sad news. And that Pete Lester is such
10:26
Speaker 9: a yachting great member of the of the yachting fraternity
10:30
Speaker 9: over so many years, I mean, was an excellent sailor
10:33
Speaker 9: in his own right over the years Admiral's Cup, one
10:37
Speaker 9: time Cup, America's Cup, but the intender's attention to the
10:41
Speaker 9: the world of commentary, et cetera and in the media,
10:44
Speaker 9: and was just such an engaging voice to listen to
10:48
Speaker 9: on the America's Cup coverage over so many editions.
10:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing voice and Olympic and by all accounts, great
10:53
Speaker 2: guy behind the mic, great guy in person.
10:56
Speaker 5: Yeah.
10:56
Speaker 9: I had the pleasure of meeting Peter or probably two
10:59
Speaker 9: or three times a very sports journalists dinners and functions, ceremonies,
11:03
Speaker 9: et cetera. And he was very down to worth and
11:08
Speaker 9: and very much as you heard him on air. So no,
11:11
Speaker 9: just to you reflect on that said news this morning,
11:14
Speaker 9: because he was just such a part of that coverage
11:17
Speaker 9: for so many years and had such a successful career
11:19
Speaker 9: in the yachting lace. Now the Warriors Warriors, I think,
11:24
Speaker 9: looking shaky, But then this is the ride we go
11:28
Speaker 9: on every year with the Warriors, isn't it.
11:29
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're they're Yeah.
11:31
Speaker 9: Top four ambitions are looking a bit dicey for starters,
11:36
Speaker 9: especially with Penrith coming back into the reckoning what four
11:38
Speaker 9: rounds to go? They're clinging on.
11:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, take a bit of a miracle to get anywhere meaningful.
11:47
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know. The Warriors are capable of turning
11:49
Speaker 9: things around. It doesn't take much, true, And this is well,
11:53
Speaker 9: we're in for an interesting four weeks, are we, with
11:54
Speaker 9: the four rounds together season well plus presumably playoffs. We'll
11:58
Speaker 9: see there are only four points out away from being
12:00
Speaker 9: ninth now anyway, okay, it.
12:04
Speaker 2: Was looming more than to the top four.
12:06
Speaker 10: I was looking at that over the weekend.
12:09
Speaker 2: Black Caps.
12:10
Speaker 9: Yeah, I thought there was a promising display. Actually in
12:13
Speaker 9: Zimbabwe they introduced some new talent. I mean it wasn't
12:16
Speaker 9: the I suppose the greatest of a memorable fixture or
12:21
Speaker 9: series over the course of time, but just the introduction
12:24
Speaker 9: of some of those players into the reckoning. Of course,
12:26
Speaker 9: a number of players out injured in the way for
12:29
Speaker 9: various reasons, but they would have got quite a lot
12:31
Speaker 9: out of that, particularly with the I mean the pace
12:34
Speaker 9: bowling for starters, with Zach Falkes coming into the reckoning,
12:37
Speaker 9: Matt Fisher, Jacob Duffy all performing credibly, Matt Henry leading
12:41
Speaker 9: the way with the board. Of course, the batter is
12:43
Speaker 9: all performed in that second test Ryan, So yeah, it
12:48
Speaker 9: was a solid showing and they did all they needed
12:50
Speaker 9: to do and then convincing victories on both occasions.
12:53
Speaker 2: All right, very good. Meanwhile, cyclist Corbyn Strong, this is
12:56
Speaker 2: the Kiwi who's in Norway winning the Arctic Race.
12:59
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's worthy of reflections when he's up
13:01
Speaker 9: against some strong opposition four stage race, the Arctic Race
13:05
Speaker 9: of Norway, and Strong has come up. Trump's really he's
13:08
Speaker 9: done superbly well, and he's ended up in what they
13:11
Speaker 9: call the Midnight Sun Jersey, so up in sort of
13:15
Speaker 9: reindeer Santa Claus type country up there, Northern Lights Territory,
13:19
Speaker 9: Ryan and Corbyn. Strong has delivered over the course of
13:23
Speaker 9: those stages. So he's been triumphant this morning, brilliant.
13:26
Speaker 2: Lovely to hear that, and lovely to see you, Andrew,
13:29
Speaker 2: thank you so right. Likewise, Andrew Allison was spot this morning,
13:31
Speaker 2: twenty three minutes after five year old News Talks. He'd
13:34
Speaker 2: be the text machines going but bonkers at the moment
13:37
Speaker 2: with feedback on the Greens. We'll get to some of
13:40
Speaker 2: that shortly. Also, we'll talk about the meeting that's happening
13:44
Speaker 2: Putin and Trump. Well, that's great, but what about Zelensky
13:48
Speaker 2: All going to go down in Alaska Friday local time,
13:51
Speaker 2: Saturday our time. We'll talk about that next.
13:54
Speaker 1: The early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
13:58
Speaker 1: by News Talks Evy News Talks.
14:01
Speaker 2: There'd be twenty six minutes after five. You've got to
14:03
Speaker 2: feel for Vodimir Zelenski. On weeks like this, Saturday is
14:08
Speaker 2: the big day Friday their times Saturday hours. Pusan will
14:11
Speaker 2: fly to Alaska and meet with Trump for a cup
14:14
Speaker 2: of tea in a biscuit. Lovely, they will hash out
14:17
Speaker 2: the terms of a ceasefire for what the Russians are
14:20
Speaker 2: calling the Ukraine crisis, rather than a bloody war that
14:24
Speaker 2: they started. The body count is astonishing. It's as astonishing
14:28
Speaker 2: as the fact that there is a war raging in
14:30
Speaker 2: Europe and twenty twenty five one million Russian soldiers have
14:35
Speaker 2: been killed or injured four hundred thousand for the Ukrainian side,
14:39
Speaker 2: including sixty to one hundred thousand dead. The Russians now
14:44
Speaker 2: occupy about twenty percent of Ukraine. And the guy responsible
14:49
Speaker 2: for this hell fire is not being dragged by some
14:53
Speaker 2: soldiers into an international criminal court to face charges. No,
14:56
Speaker 2: he's about to be welcomed, wined and dined by the
14:59
Speaker 2: most powerful man in the world to discuss the terms
15:03
Speaker 2: for a ceasefire, which includes keeping land that is not
15:05
Speaker 2: entitle too. If we put ourselves in Ukrainian shoes for
15:10
Speaker 2: just a second, if war was to return to the
15:13
Speaker 2: Pacific theater, it would be like Washington and Beijing meeting
15:17
Speaker 2: to decide that China can keep and occupy all of
15:20
Speaker 2: the land north of Auckland simply because they took it,
15:24
Speaker 2: and you meant to sit back and be grateful that
15:27
Speaker 2: at least the fighting will stop. Ukrainians certainly aren't ready
15:31
Speaker 2: to roll over on territory. The Europeans are huddling around
15:35
Speaker 2: Zelenski now to give them some moral support, but they
15:38
Speaker 2: need more than cuddles and handshakes to bandage over what
15:43
Speaker 2: must feel like an insult to their country and to
15:46
Speaker 2: their sovereignty. Two global superpowers meeting far far away in
15:51
Speaker 2: Alaska and deciding the fate of their nation brands gone
15:57
Speaker 2: twenty eight minutes after five Interesting story this morning. Did
16:01
Speaker 2: you know Freddy Mercury had a secret love child? Well
16:05
Speaker 2: that's the rumor. So there's a new book coming out.
16:08
Speaker 2: This is by Leslie Ann Jones, a tell All, and
16:11
Speaker 2: she claims, which is apparently something his in a circle
16:14
Speaker 2: is known about for a while, but who would know.
16:17
Speaker 2: She claims that Freddy Mercury, he of Queen fame, had
16:22
Speaker 2: a secret daughter. And there's a quote from this daughter
16:27
Speaker 2: who's living as an adult forty eight years old in Europe. Somewhere.
16:31
Speaker 2: Freddie Mercury was and is my father. We had a
16:35
Speaker 2: very close and loving relationship from the moment I was
16:37
Speaker 2: born and throughout the final fifteen years of his life.
16:40
Speaker 2: He adored me and was devoted to me. Little known
16:44
Speaker 2: about this woman other than she is a medical professional
16:48
Speaker 2: working somewhere in Europe, and she claims that Freddy Mercury
16:53
Speaker 2: gave her seventeen journals that cover the final years of
16:57
Speaker 2: his life. The closest thing to an autoboroiography, she says,
17:01
Speaker 2: from Freddie Mercury, we won't know, will be until she
17:05
Speaker 2: comes forward with the journals. Until then you can read
17:08
Speaker 2: all about it in this new book that's coming out.
17:11
Speaker 2: Twenty nine minutes after five News Talk said B. We'll
17:13
Speaker 2: get to our reporters and then to Gavin Gray in
17:17
Speaker 2: the UK.
17:31
Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
17:33
Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roote love
17:38
Speaker 1: where you Live. News Talk said B were.
17:45
Speaker 7: Down sad.
17:52
Speaker 2: Good morning it is when you pour away from the
17:53
Speaker 2: six News Talk, said B. Coming up before six o'clock.
17:56
Speaker 2: The Europeans are rallying around Zelenski. This is ahead of that
17:59
Speaker 2: big Trump hoot meeting in Alaska. On Saturday, We're live
18:02
Speaker 2: to London and New Visits for Farmers will have details
18:04
Speaker 2: for you on that Chloe Swarbrough potentially been the finance minister.
18:09
Speaker 2: You might have heard that in the news, Ryan, the
18:13
Speaker 2: day of the Greens and to party Marty take power.
18:15
Speaker 2: We'll see a rapid decline as we head into third
18:18
Speaker 2: world status. Ryan. Let's give Chloe the checkbook. What could
18:21
Speaker 2: possibly go wrong? Ryan? Hearing your news that Chloe wants
18:24
Speaker 2: to hold the finance portfolio gives me a good laugh.
18:28
Speaker 2: Nothing like a good joke to start the week. Ryan,
18:30
Speaker 2: it'd be a nightmare. Don't let it happen. Well, I mean,
18:33
Speaker 2: that's not up to me, that's up to the people
18:34
Speaker 2: of this country. However, I would just make one note
18:37
Speaker 2: that I would trust my dog as finance minister before
18:40
Speaker 2: I trust Chloe Swarbrook. She sleeps most of the time,
18:43
Speaker 2: does Fanny does a lot of sleeping, lot of resting,
18:47
Speaker 2: And crucially she cannot sign or write any checks. So
18:52
Speaker 2: to be a very cheap time, it's Finance Minister twenty
18:54
Speaker 2: three minutes after sorry, twenty three minutes away.
18:57
Speaker 1: From six, Ryan Bridge.
18:59
Speaker 2: Let's get to our reporters around the country. Colum Proctor
19:01
Speaker 2: and Dunedan Cullum. Good morning morning. Right now, police on
19:04
Speaker 2: the hunt there for the shooter of a sea lion.
19:08
Speaker 11: Yeah, this is senseless act of cruelty. Police calling on
19:11
Speaker 11: the public actually to help them find the culprits behind this.
19:14
Speaker 11: The shooting of endangered sea lions over the weekend. Three
19:17
Speaker 11: in fact were shot at the mouth of the Waititucky
19:19
Speaker 11: River near Omaru on Saturday. Two of them were killed
19:23
Speaker 11: sadly third had to be euthanized. One or the third
19:26
Speaker 11: had to be euthanized at the scene. So police working
19:29
Speaker 11: closely with the Department of Conservation here and they also
19:33
Speaker 11: are asking anyone with any information to get in contact.
19:36
Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather.
19:38
Speaker 11: Mostly cloudy with a few showers for our Monday southwesterlies
19:41
Speaker 11: and ten today.
19:42
Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thank you, clais In Christ your take clear. Good morning,
19:45
Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Now we've got this revolt going
19:48
Speaker 2: over the rural police changes.
19:50
Speaker 12: I know this is what we were all about last week,
19:52
Speaker 12: as you will recall, and very late on Friday, in fact,
19:55
Speaker 12: just as we were logging out for the week, police
19:57
Speaker 12: announced that they had made a U turn on the
20:00
Speaker 12: public consultation around rural policing restructures and they will in
20:04
Speaker 12: fact take public feedback until August eighteen. Of course, they
20:09
Speaker 12: say that this is a departure from normal process, but
20:11
Speaker 12: it comes following a week of public outcry. You know
20:15
Speaker 12: that there were those community halls packed with hundreds of people.
20:18
Speaker 12: Talkback lines were certainly chokers with feedback here on news
20:21
Speaker 12: Talk said b Federated Farmers is one group that was
20:24
Speaker 12: very vocal about not only the proposal but the process
20:27
Speaker 12: being followed. Provincial President Carl Dean says it's simply a
20:31
Speaker 12: flawed process. Police changing their minds, he says, is just
20:34
Speaker 12: a lip service. He says they've been forced into this
20:37
Speaker 12: public consultation, which should have been what they did from
20:39
Speaker 12: the beginning. He says the short turnaround indicates to him
20:43
Speaker 12: that this is not proper consultation. That said people should
20:46
Speaker 12: have their say up until August eighteenth. Okay, and weather
20:50
Speaker 12: cloudy with a few showers again today, southerly's and a
20:53
Speaker 12: high of nine.
20:54
Speaker 2: Nice one. Thanks Claire Lachland, Rennie Wellington Lachland, good morning.
20:57
Speaker 10: Warning.
20:57
Speaker 2: Ran A coroner's highlighted the risk to elderly people and
21:01
Speaker 2: the dangers that they face in house fires.
21:04
Speaker 7: Yes.
21:04
Speaker 10: So this all comes as ninety four year old Margaret
21:06
Speaker 10: Gill died in hospital in December after a fire started
21:10
Speaker 10: in a blend Him home while she was cooking. Now,
21:12
Speaker 10: the coroner's report into her death out this morning, states
21:15
Speaker 10: fifty five percent of fire deaths in the past five
21:18
Speaker 10: years are people aged sixty five or over, many living alone.
21:22
Speaker 10: Fire emergencies urging those with elderly family members to ensure
21:25
Speaker 10: smoke alarms are working and escape plans in place. Free
21:29
Speaker 10: home safety visits are also offered to ensure elderly people
21:32
Speaker 10: have the best chance of survival in the event of
21:34
Speaker 10: a house fire.
21:35
Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather in Wellington this morning, Lockland.
21:37
Speaker 10: Yes, there's a few occasional showers, some strong southerlies which
21:40
Speaker 10: will ease in the morning, and a high of nine.
21:42
Speaker 2: Degrees brilliant, Thanks mate. Michael Sergele is in Auckland and
21:46
Speaker 2: there's a well are we going to get any merrial debates?
21:49
Speaker 2: That's the question this morning, Michael.
21:51
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the big question. Will Wayne Brown commit to
21:54
Speaker 8: taking part in mail debates for Auckland's upcoming elections councilor
21:57
Speaker 8: kre and leone one of the eleven people standing against
22:00
Speaker 8: on for the job since she wants to see some
22:02
Speaker 8: debates scheduled. I've been asking the Auckland mayor whether he'll
22:05
Speaker 8: take part.
22:06
Speaker 9: I realised the chance to debate the ministers, the chance
22:10
Speaker 9: to debate issues.
22:12
Speaker 6: I've heard of most of those people.
22:13
Speaker 10: I'm open to talk and answer questions from anybody of
22:18
Speaker 10: the sensible question.
22:20
Speaker 8: And so the big question is, yeah, will he want
22:23
Speaker 8: to take part? The Auckland mayor actually won the last
22:26
Speaker 8: election pretty decisively despite not being present for some of
22:29
Speaker 8: the debates. It's important to note that a lot of
22:31
Speaker 8: the debates don't really engage a lot of a lot
22:34
Speaker 8: of the voting public. Voting opens in just over four weeks.
22:37
Speaker 2: Fascinating. He's not going to I mean, he's going to
22:39
Speaker 2: win anyway, isn't he. That's the thing that doesn't need
22:41
Speaker 2: to debate. How's the weather, Michael.
22:43
Speaker 8: Mainly find with morning frosts and shattered places. Fourteeners a
22:46
Speaker 8: high today, brilliant, thank you. It is nineteen minutes away
22:49
Speaker 8: from Sex. We had a fire alarm here this morning.
22:51
Speaker 2: It ends in me and just the Liam was talking
22:57
Speaker 2: about elderly people and fires and things, and I was
23:02
Speaker 2: a bit worried about the hosk actually because you know
23:05
Speaker 2: the fire alarm goes off. You know he's getting on
23:08
Speaker 2: in his years, so I thought I'd better stay with
23:11
Speaker 2: stick with him, stick around him, and just look after
23:13
Speaker 2: him should there be any issues getting him out of
23:15
Speaker 2: the building. But the fire alarm goes off. It's half
23:19
Speaker 2: an hour will showtime. What do you do? Do You
23:21
Speaker 2: stop all your prep and stop yourself getting ready and
23:23
Speaker 2: go outside in the freezing cold. Note I stayed at
23:28
Speaker 2: my desk, but I probably only did that because Mike
23:31
Speaker 2: was staying at his desk and if anyone was going
23:33
Speaker 2: to get in trouble, it would be him, not me.
23:36
Speaker 2: It's eighteen minutes away from six News Talks B. We'll
23:38
Speaker 2: get to our UK correspondent Gavin Gray is going to
23:41
Speaker 2: join us. Talk about the Europeans who are kind of
23:43
Speaker 2: huddling around, gathering around and supporting ze Lenz. Get ahead
23:48
Speaker 2: of this meeting between Putin and Trump on the weekend
23:50
Speaker 2: and we will talk new visas for farmers, all the
23:53
Speaker 2: details and what they're about. That's straight ahead News Talks
23:57
Speaker 2: be good news for Milford. I've just taken out the
24:01
Speaker 2: Consumer New Zealand People's Choice Award. Keew saver it for
24:04
Speaker 2: their Milford Kewsaver plan and that makes it wait for
24:07
Speaker 2: this eight years on the trot. Now there's also morning
24:10
Speaker 2: Star's latest independent survey. You can find that at Morningstar
24:13
Speaker 2: dot com dot au. This will tell you that Milford
24:16
Speaker 2: has had the number one performing key Wesaver funds for growth,
24:20
Speaker 2: balanced and conservative for the past ten years. This is
24:25
Speaker 2: for returns, which is the important part. All of this
24:28
Speaker 2: is down to Milford's expert team and their active approach
24:31
Speaker 2: to investing. So why wouldn't you make the switch to
24:33
Speaker 2: Milford for your key we saver account. You can do
24:35
Speaker 2: it today, quick and easy. Just go online. You need
24:38
Speaker 2: your photo ID, your IRD number. You'll do it in
24:40
Speaker 2: less than five minutes. Past performance is not a reliable
24:43
Speaker 2: indicator of future performance Milford Funds Limited. As the issue
24:46
Speaker 2: of the Milford Keewsaver Plan, please read the Milford Kewsaver
24:49
Speaker 2: Plan Product disposure Statement at Milford Asset dot com and
24:53
Speaker 2: don't forget before investing. You may wish to seek financial advice.
24:56
Speaker 2: For more information on Milford's advice services and to see
24:58
Speaker 2: the financial Advice provided Scottish statement, place vis at milfdesa
25:01
Speaker 2: dot com slash desh.
25:03
Speaker 1: Advice International correspondence with insin Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
25:08
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
25:10
Speaker 2: Kevin dray UK. You're a correspondent, Gevin, Welcome to the show.
25:13
Speaker 2: You've got the Europeans getting behind Zelensky a hit of
25:17
Speaker 2: this big meeting on Saturday Friday local time.
25:21
Speaker 5: Yes, but the question is Ryan, do the European leaders
25:24
Speaker 5: have any influence or any sway And I have to
25:27
Speaker 5: say it's not looking very likely. They're concerned, of course
25:31
Speaker 5: about their own security Ukraine on the border and therefore
25:34
Speaker 5: want to be part of the negotiations. But Donald Trump,
25:37
Speaker 5: at the moment saying he's meeting Vladimir Putin, said his
25:40
Speaker 5: mind would be open to the Ukrainian president lot of
25:43
Speaker 5: Mizzelensky being there. But it's apparent now that the Russian
25:46
Speaker 5: leader is pretty keen for it just to be Donald
25:49
Speaker 5: Trump and lot of Merzayinski, of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
25:54
Speaker 5: Now that leads the prospect that we might suddenly have
25:57
Speaker 5: an announcement of a deal which neither the U Ukrainians
26:00
Speaker 5: have accepted nor the Europeans being aware of. There is
26:04
Speaker 5: a rumor that the White House is trying to sway
26:06
Speaker 5: the European allies to accept an agreement that would mean
26:10
Speaker 5: Russia takes control of the entire Donbas region in eastern
26:14
Speaker 5: Ukraine and keeps the Crimean Peninsula. In other words, they
26:18
Speaker 5: get to keep a lot of what they invaded in
26:21
Speaker 5: the east of Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which of
26:24
Speaker 5: course they took as well. A few years ago European
26:27
Speaker 5: leaders saying international boarders must not be changed by force.
26:32
Speaker 5: So I suppose they're kind of alluding to that. But yeah,
26:35
Speaker 5: it's going to be grow interested to see what happens
26:37
Speaker 5: at this meeting. But europe trying to get a seat
26:39
Speaker 5: at the trad will trying to get a voice heard
26:41
Speaker 5: at the debate.
26:43
Speaker 2: Tell us about that Wimbley stadium, this plot, would we
26:46
Speaker 2: call it a plot to get Oasis pains into the
26:49
Speaker 2: concert without actually buying proper tickets.
26:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Oasis have moved to Scotland currently on their tour,
26:55
Speaker 5: been performing this weekend and there again on Tuesday night.
26:59
Speaker 5: But it's the cos at Wembley last week which are
27:01
Speaker 5: now under scrutiny, and that is because it is reported
27:05
Speaker 5: that up to two hundred people were asked for about
27:08
Speaker 5: seven hundred and fifty New Zealand dollars each to be
27:11
Speaker 5: sneaked in to one of the gigs via disabled entrance.
27:15
Speaker 5: Now two concertgoers are reporting that the large group potentially
27:20
Speaker 5: some two groups of twenty or thirty people in total,
27:25
Speaker 5: were able to use the same ticket to get into
27:28
Speaker 5: the stadium, where they were then handed wristbands giving them
27:32
Speaker 5: access to the VIP area at the front of the stage.
27:35
Speaker 5: So yeah, they were said to have quite a few
27:38
Speaker 5: groups of twenty, maybe ten groups of twenty making the
27:42
Speaker 5: two hundred that had alluded to earlier, and that once
27:45
Speaker 5: they got through a couple of the initial ticket inspections,
27:48
Speaker 5: they were then shown to the front with zero security searches,
27:52
Speaker 5: they claim. A spokesperson for Wembley Stadium says entering Wembley
27:56
Speaker 5: Stadium with out a ticket is a serious offense. We're
27:59
Speaker 5: investing in these allegations and if substantiated, we will refer
28:03
Speaker 5: our evidence to the police. So this, of course security
28:08
Speaker 5: very important, but also people sneaking in without paying or
28:11
Speaker 5: paying one or two alleged security guards, well, those are
28:15
Speaker 5: very serious accusations that are going to have to work
28:18
Speaker 5: through this investigation.
28:19
Speaker 2: Goodness May Devin thank you for that. Gavin Gray are
28:21
Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent just going to eleven minutes away from
28:24
Speaker 2: Sex that's in Bridge rich sneaking across the channel, sneaking
28:29
Speaker 2: into Wembley. The Brits have got a problem with porous,
28:33
Speaker 2: leaky borders, don't they. Let's talk about visas. Two new
28:37
Speaker 2: work visas are on the way aimed at supporting sectors
28:40
Speaker 2: like agriculture, forestry, your tourism operators. The Global Workforce Visa,
28:45
Speaker 2: this is your first one, brings in specialized workers for
28:48
Speaker 2: up to three years. This is allowing them to come
28:50
Speaker 2: and go basically as they please, though there are some
28:52
Speaker 2: time limits.
28:53
Speaker 7: Well.
28:53
Speaker 2: The Peak Seasonal visa is for short term agre and
28:57
Speaker 2: equaculture jobs and is up for up to seven I
29:00
Speaker 2: should say Kyle Dean is fed Farmer's dairy chair with
29:02
Speaker 2: us this morning, cow, good morning, good morning, right, yeah,
29:06
Speaker 2: good to heap you on. Why are these needed?
29:11
Speaker 7: So?
29:12
Speaker 3: A lot of this is about I think we can
29:15
Speaker 3: all agree that when you have a new staff member
29:17
Speaker 3: it takes a bit of time and at the cost
29:19
Speaker 3: in a business to get them up to speed. And
29:23
Speaker 3: a lot of this is about the fact that, especially
29:25
Speaker 3: in our contracting and in our meat processing, the area
29:29
Speaker 3: we have very specialized jobs that these guys that should
29:33
Speaker 3: travel around the world for contracting. For example, for harvest
29:37
Speaker 3: season for philograss harvest, they normally travel between the southern
29:42
Speaker 3: and the northern hemisphere. So it's quite useful for those
29:46
Speaker 3: contractors to have the same person sharp three years in
29:49
Speaker 3: a row now potentially without having any issues, for them
29:54
Speaker 3: to do their work, then be able to go home,
29:56
Speaker 3: do their work at the other end of the other
29:58
Speaker 3: end of the globe, and then come back in the
30:00
Speaker 3: following season.
30:02
Speaker 2: You will have people asking why don't we get some
30:05
Speaker 2: of the two hundred thousand odd jobs that could beneficiaries
30:08
Speaker 2: into jobs like this albeit temporary jobs not happening.
30:14
Speaker 3: No, I suppose, like I said, the highly skilled jobs. So,
30:18
Speaker 3: and they're only seasonal, so you can have someone trained
30:21
Speaker 3: up if they want to travel to the normal numbers
30:23
Speaker 3: of six months of the year. There's nothing stopping those people. Now, yeah,
30:29
Speaker 3: learning the trade new zone. But then they could have
30:31
Speaker 3: realized that, yeah, literally, these things to move around the
30:35
Speaker 3: whole whole world. So you know there are things like
30:39
Speaker 3: wine making in here that again we only have wine
30:41
Speaker 3: harvest for two to three months of the year.
30:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So it's a time limited thing that they
30:48
Speaker 2: are requiring one season of previous relevant experience for the
30:52
Speaker 2: peak seasonal visa. Is that an issue or does that
30:55
Speaker 2: sound right to you?
30:58
Speaker 3: That sounds right to me. I mean again, there's these
31:00
Speaker 3: are places that normally these people have experience in the
31:03
Speaker 3: Northern Hemisphere doing that season or work. So I think
31:07
Speaker 3: that's just saying all right, we'll normally be able to
31:09
Speaker 3: get them in for one year, and normally they might
31:12
Speaker 3: come in on working holiday visit. But this makes it
31:14
Speaker 3: a lot clearer that they're here for this purpose and
31:18
Speaker 3: they can be better tracked in the future.
31:20
Speaker 2: Interesting, Carl, appreciate your trying this morning, Carl dene fed
31:23
Speaker 2: Farmer's dairy Chair. Time is eight to six News Talk.
31:26
Speaker 1: Said B the first Word on the News of the
31:29
Speaker 1: Day Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roofe Love
31:34
Speaker 1: Where you Live News.
31:35
Speaker 2: Talk sid B New TALKSB just gone six minutes away
31:37
Speaker 2: from six. Did you see the video of Winston Peters
31:40
Speaker 2: last week basically saying no to a high vis when
31:44
Speaker 2: going underground to look at the new CRL train system
31:47
Speaker 2: in Auckland. He says too many of us just blindly
31:50
Speaker 2: follow health and safety rules at the moment and until
31:53
Speaker 2: somebody stops asks the question and says, nart bugger off.
31:57
Speaker 2: This will can this madness will continue. What do we
32:00
Speaker 2: think of that? Mike is here now, Hey, Mike, good morning.
32:03
Speaker 2: What did you see the video? I did?
32:05
Speaker 6: I didn't know. I watched the whole thing several times.
32:07
Speaker 6: And the funny thing about it was where he was wrong.
32:10
Speaker 6: He said, I'm trying to save money, and the guy goes, what,
32:13
Speaker 6: we already had these things anyway, so don't.
32:15
Speaker 2: Worry about it.
32:15
Speaker 6: But the point he made was when he asked the question,
32:18
Speaker 6: what literally is this for the point? And he said,
32:21
Speaker 6: if we have an accident in the tunnel, we can
32:23
Speaker 6: see you. And I'm thinking and at that point, what
32:27
Speaker 6: a stupid thing? So we can see you to do what?
32:29
Speaker 2: Yeah? And do we all have to when we ride
32:31
Speaker 2: the trains, which you of course won't. But when I
32:34
Speaker 2: ride the train in the city rail link, do I
32:36
Speaker 2: have to wear a hivers too?
32:37
Speaker 6: No, you do not, because it's open to the public
32:40
Speaker 6: and it's been cleared for safety. But the point being
32:42
Speaker 6: it was what was interesting is he actually put it on.
32:45
Speaker 6: By the end of the video, you notice and he
32:47
Speaker 6: didn't put a zip up anyway the point. But it's
32:49
Speaker 6: one of those things that everybody just, oh, come on, Winston,
32:52
Speaker 6: we're all doing it. And so it's that funny thing,
32:55
Speaker 6: isn't it When everyone does it doesn't make it right,
32:58
Speaker 6: just means everyone's folded.
32:59
Speaker 2: Yes, and you've got to put yeah.
33:01
Speaker 6: But you didn't wear a hard hat though that.
33:03
Speaker 2: Was the word which would probably would be the more
33:05
Speaker 2: important thing.
33:05
Speaker 6: What I got out of that which was disappointing is
33:08
Speaker 6: they all got so fizzed up by it, and the
33:11
Speaker 6: reality is you forget the thing. It started at two billion,
33:13
Speaker 6: it's going to end up at six plus. It's so late,
33:17
Speaker 6: it's so hopeless, and it goes around in a little
33:19
Speaker 6: and it goes around around circle and they are talking
33:21
Speaker 6: it up like it is literally going to transform the world,
33:25
Speaker 6: when all it is is just a train.
33:27
Speaker 2: A little train. How you've got the PM on this
33:29
Speaker 2: morning and you ask them to stop saying get the
33:32
Speaker 2: barnacles off the boat.
33:33
Speaker 6: There's too many barnicles, too much barnacle talking, isn't there
33:36
Speaker 6: We need gripped up, frictionless barnacles.
33:39
Speaker 2: Up the boat? Makes you WinCE?
33:41
Speaker 6: Does no, She'll do it on your behalf.
33:43
Speaker 2: Thank you? All right? Mike is here with your next
33:44
Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybody. See tomorrow.
34:00
Speaker 1: For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
34:04
Speaker 1: to Newstalk STB from five am weekdays, or follow the
34:07
Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio