Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 30 July 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: early edition with ex pol insulation keeping Kimi Holmes warm
- 0:09Speaker 1: and dry. This winter news talks.
- 0:11Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. It is six after five. Great
- 0:13Speaker 2: to have your company on a Wednesday. Rob Campbell this
- 0:15Speaker 2: morning before six on the nurses strike, nets all kicking
- 0:18Speaker 2: off in a couple of hours time. We'll go to
- 0:20Speaker 2: the UK. Kirs Starmer's got an ultimatum for Israel on Palestine,
- 0:25Speaker 2: a new home for netball this morning. We'll tell you where, why,
- 0:28Speaker 2: when and will it mean the players are paid less?
- 0:32Speaker 2: Deals are plenty as well. If you're switching banks and
- 0:35Speaker 2: we've got some new numbers. There are records well highest
- 0:39Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen in terms of switching banks and trying
- 0:43Speaker 2: to get a deal at the moment. We'll talk to
- 0:45Speaker 2: totality about that shortly.
- 0:48Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 0:49Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the thirtieth of July. The UK Prime
- 0:52Speaker 2: Minister so Kirstarm has just finished an emergency UN meeting
- 0:56Speaker 2: on Gaza today.
- 0:58Speaker 3: As part of this process towards peace, I can confirm
- 1:02Speaker 3: the UK will recognize the State of Palestine by the
- 1:06Speaker 3: United Nations General Assembly in September unless the Israeli government
- 1:12Speaker 3: takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza,
- 1:17Speaker 3: agree to a cease fire and commit to a long
- 1:21Speaker 3: term sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a two state solution.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the question are they starving? Are they not starving
- 1:29Speaker 2: in Gaza? Trump says yes, Nitnya who still says no.
- 1:33Speaker 2: And you've got international journalists unable to freely report inside Gaza.
- 1:38Speaker 2: But the reporters now saying they can actually see the
- 1:41Speaker 2: starvation even from the year.
- 1:43Speaker 4: I've spent ten minutes looking at it with my own eyes,
- 1:48Speaker 4: and I can tell you that communities in the north
- 1:50Speaker 4: of Gaza that I.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Do well.
- 1:53Speaker 5: Are black. There's nothing left of them.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Israel still denies this.
- 1:58Speaker 5: There is a lay delay is the servation policies which
- 2:05Speaker 5: the international media is cooperating with.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Another assassination style shootings in New York City. Four people
- 2:14Speaker 2: have died and after this is after a gunment open
- 2:16Speaker 2: fire in a skyscraper in Manhattan, then shot himself. The
- 2:20Speaker 2: shooter with twenty seven years old Shane Timura, stormed into
- 2:24Speaker 2: the NFL headquarters, took the wrong lift, but still carried
- 2:27Speaker 2: out an attack. He left a note blaming the NFL
- 2:30Speaker 2: for a brain disease linked to head injuries, saying it
- 2:33Speaker 2: ruined his mind.
- 2:34Speaker 6: According to our law enforcement partners in Las Vegas, mister
- 2:38Speaker 6: Tremora has a documented mental health history. His motives are
- 2:42Speaker 6: still under investigation and we are working to understand why
- 2:46Speaker 6: he targeted this particular location.
- 2:50Speaker 2: If you're looking to have kids anytime soon, then you
- 2:52Speaker 2: might want to go to China to have them. This
- 2:54Speaker 2: is interesting why parents there are being offered nearly nine
- 2:59Speaker 2: hundred New Zealand dollars a year for each of their
- 3:01Speaker 2: children under the age of three. They hope to boost
- 3:03Speaker 2: the birth rates, which is surely a sign that the
- 3:05Speaker 2: one child policy was a bit of a flob.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
- 3:13Speaker 1: Ryan Branch and ex fole insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
- 3:17Speaker 1: and dry.
- 3:18Speaker 2: This winter news talks. He'd been nine after five. So
- 3:21Speaker 2: with this legislation for the voters, you know, going out
- 3:24Speaker 2: and casting doing your democratic duty. I see that the
- 3:29Speaker 2: past first reading on Tuesday afternoon in the house. Now,
- 3:34Speaker 2: I've been thinking about this for a couple of days
- 3:36Speaker 2: because I wasn't sure how I felt about it. But
- 3:39Speaker 2: now I know how I feel about it, I will
- 3:41Speaker 2: share it with you. If you are a lazy person
- 3:45Speaker 2: and you want to enroll on the same day that
- 3:47Speaker 2: you vote, that should be up to you. I don't
- 3:51Speaker 2: think you should be stopping people because society is filled
- 3:54Speaker 2: with It takes all sorts, doesn't it. Some of us
- 3:56Speaker 2: are really efficient onto it, we put stuff in our diaries.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Others are just lazy. Now, should you get paid the
- 4:04Speaker 2: doll just because you're a lazy person, No, because that's
- 4:08Speaker 2: everybody's money. But should you be able to if you're
- 4:12Speaker 2: lazy or forgetful or your moved household. There's a whole
- 4:14Speaker 2: bunch of reasons why you might need to enroll late,
- 4:18Speaker 2: but you shouldn't be excluded from democracy just because of
- 4:21Speaker 2: that reason. So I think this is a backward step.
- 4:24Speaker 2: And also, what's the cost? I mean you had? This
- 4:27Speaker 2: is what Paul Goldsmith had to say.
- 4:29Speaker 7: Said.
- 4:29Speaker 2: We had the Electoral Commission on the one hand with
- 4:31Speaker 2: a message saying get and rolled, get and rolled, and
- 4:34Speaker 2: they were funded with many millions of dollars to encourage
- 4:37Speaker 2: people to enroll, which is what the law says you
- 4:39Speaker 2: should do. But on the other hand they were also saying,
- 4:42Speaker 2: by the way, don't bother because you can just rock
- 4:44Speaker 2: up on election day and vote. Now, I think you
- 4:46Speaker 2: should be able to do both. You should be able
- 4:48Speaker 2: to do it early if you want to, or later
- 4:50Speaker 2: if you want to, and be lazy if you want to.
- 4:53Speaker 2: Because at the end of the day, the fact that
- 4:56Speaker 2: we live in a democracy is a great thing. But
- 4:59Speaker 2: we all need to be able to take part, whether
- 5:01Speaker 2: we're lazy or whether we're highly motivated individuals, because the
- 5:05Speaker 2: legitimacy of a democracy comes from everybody being involved. So
- 5:09Speaker 2: the more you try to share, And what is the cost?
- 5:12Speaker 2: What an extra week counting the votes? I mean, does
- 5:15Speaker 2: that going to will the sky fall in? I don't
- 5:19Speaker 2: think so. So I'm not really in favor of what
- 5:22Speaker 2: the government's trying to do. They're the prisoners. Well, I mean,
- 5:25Speaker 2: I'm not in prison, so that doesn't affect me. I'm
- 5:27Speaker 2: not really particularly concerned. But for late voting and for
- 5:33Speaker 2: you know, getting your enrollment done on time, I'm not
- 5:35Speaker 2: quite sure it's the right road to be going down. Personally.
- 5:38Speaker 2: Eleven minutes after five and ninety ninety two is the
- 5:41Speaker 2: number to text coming up next. If you're refinancing at
- 5:44Speaker 2: the moment your mortgage you are certainly not alone, highest
- 5:47Speaker 2: numbers since twenty seventeen doing this. So where are the deals?
- 5:50Speaker 2: Calvin Davidson from Totality next.
- 5:53Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 5:57Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and ex full into keeping Keey Holmes warm
- 6:01Speaker 1: and dry this winter news talk, said.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Be it is five fourteen news talks. He'd be, Andy,
- 6:06Speaker 2: says Ryan. I bet you turn up late to board
- 6:08Speaker 2: the plane as well. Seriously, it's not that hard to
- 6:10Speaker 2: enroll early, Andy, I no, I used to do that,
- 6:13Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I did used to be
- 6:15Speaker 2: late to board the plane. Well, not late. I never
- 6:17Speaker 2: held a plane up, but I would never want to
- 6:19Speaker 2: get there early and sit in frustrated anxiety for the
- 6:24Speaker 2: flight to be called and then for everyone to line
- 6:26Speaker 2: up and then to board. Not my thing, Andy, Okay,
- 6:29Speaker 2: not my thing. But in terms of voter I mean,
- 6:32Speaker 2: it's a very different thing catching a plane to participating
- 6:35Speaker 2: in democracy, and isn't it. And I think you should
- 6:38Speaker 2: be able to get away with being a little bit
- 6:40Speaker 2: lazy and the participation should trump the slow count in
- 6:47Speaker 2: my view. Fourteen after five, Ryan Bridge, record numbers of
- 6:51Speaker 2: US are refinancing our mortgages with a new bank At
- 6:53Speaker 2: the moment. Numbers from the Reserve Bank show more than
- 6:56Speaker 2: three and a half thousand mortgage holders switched in the
- 6:59Speaker 2: last year. This makes it the highest rate of refinancing
- 7:02Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen. Calvin Davidson's Totality, Chief Property Economist with
- 7:06Speaker 2: me this morning. Calvin, good morning, Good morning. So how
- 7:09Speaker 2: many are coming off fixed? You have all the mortgage holders,
- 7:12Speaker 2: how many are coming off our fixed and the next
- 7:14Speaker 2: we are.
- 7:16Speaker 8: Yeah, it's quite a lot.
- 7:17Speaker 4: So well, if you start with about ten to twelve
- 7:19Speaker 4: percent of the loans they are on fludging rates right now,
- 7:22Speaker 4: and then if you look at perhaps the next six months,
- 7:24Speaker 4: there's about another forty percent of debt that's on a
- 7:27Speaker 4: fix rate now but due to rollover.
- 7:28Speaker 7: In six months.
- 7:29Speaker 4: So by the end of the year we're going to
- 7:31Speaker 4: have fifty five percent of loans seeing a rate change.
- 7:35Speaker 4: And so yeah, there's there's quite a bit of flexibility
- 7:38Speaker 4: there at the moment, and that's the thing people have,
- 7:40Speaker 4: the flexibility. Cash backs are being offered, So thank switching
- 7:43Speaker 4: is looking pretty appealing to people at thelone.
- 7:45Speaker 2: Yeah, what are the deals that you've heard about people are.
- 7:48Speaker 4: Getting, Well, sometimes those are having a little bit behind
- 7:52Speaker 4: the scenes, but few anecdotes a bit of personal experience.
- 7:54Speaker 4: So I think it's reasonably common to get sort of
- 7:58Speaker 4: point seven point eight percent of the loan as a
- 8:00Speaker 4: cash back up to certain caps. So it can be
- 8:04Speaker 4: a decent chunk of money if you're looking at a
- 8:06Speaker 4: fairly large mortgage. So it considerly makes sense for people
- 8:08Speaker 4: who are potentially under cash flow stress for sure.
- 8:11Speaker 2: With fifty to fifty five percent, as you said, coming
- 8:13Speaker 2: off by year end. At what point do these lower
- 8:18Speaker 2: rates translate into higher prices for property?
- 8:22Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the market in general at the moment is
- 8:25Speaker 4: we're calling it conflicting forces. So yes, ordinarily expect that
- 8:29Speaker 4: impact of lower morgite rates to be pushing out house prices,
- 8:31Speaker 4: and there's just a leg at the moment. I think
- 8:33Speaker 4: that's reflecting the other side of the ledge of those
- 8:35Speaker 4: conflicting forces, things like the weak economy and labor market.
- 8:39Speaker 4: Even if people have kept their job, perhaps still not
- 8:42Speaker 4: feeling as secure as they were, and so I think
- 8:44Speaker 4: that's really holding things back. I think the second half
- 8:47Speaker 4: of you could still be predy sejured for the market
- 8:50Speaker 4: for those impacts of lower interest rates start to come
- 8:52Speaker 4: through early next year. But even then it's unlikely to
- 8:55Speaker 4: be a boom because there's still a lot of supply
- 8:58Speaker 4: out there, and affordability isn't an't great. It's better than
- 9:00Speaker 4: it was, but still not great. So I think we're
- 9:03Speaker 4: looking at a flatish market.
- 9:04Speaker 7: For a while.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Calvin, what about the loan to value ratio limits? Are they?
- 9:09Speaker 2: Are we getting close to? Are people getting close to
- 9:11Speaker 2: that yet? What's the situation with that and is that
- 9:13Speaker 2: potentially going to act as a ceiling on any future booms.
- 9:17Speaker 4: I think the OBVI is, yeah, that's sort of doing
- 9:20Speaker 4: this thing they're taking along. It's very tough as an
- 9:22Speaker 4: investor to get a loan if you don't have a
- 9:24Speaker 4: thirty percent deposit. Low deposit finance is more available for
- 9:28Speaker 4: owner occupiers, but even then the limits aren't really being tested.
- 9:32Speaker 4: I think the credit restraint that people are probably watching
- 9:35Speaker 4: more closely is the debt to income ratios. Now, they're
- 9:38Speaker 4: not necessarily doing too much either just yet, because test
- 9:41Speaker 4: rates inside the bank's still high enough that that's what's
- 9:44Speaker 4: kepting loan sizes. So those rates coming down is why
- 9:49Speaker 4: the MORGIT rates come down, and that's the point at
- 9:51Speaker 4: which those formal debt to income ratio rules.
- 9:54Speaker 7: Will start to kicking.
- 9:55Speaker 4: So I think that's the thing that probably limits the
- 9:57Speaker 4: market over the medium term. And yeah, cert sector to
- 10:00Speaker 4: Adam's net mix of I guess a cautious outlook.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Calvin appreciate that interesting stuff. Calvin Davidson, Totality Chief Property
- 10:07Speaker 2: Economists with us this morning eighteen minutes after five. If
- 10:10Speaker 2: you didn't catch the start of that interview, we're talking
- 10:12Speaker 2: about the fact that loads of us are refinancing at
- 10:15Speaker 2: the moment, and we're switching banks are record in ut
- 10:18Speaker 2: well since twenty seventeen, we've got the highest number of
- 10:21Speaker 2: Kiwi switching banks for their mortgage lending. So many people
- 10:26Speaker 2: are against the enrollment late enrollment to vault vote. I'll
- 10:29Speaker 2: get to some of those techs in a second. Also,
- 10:31Speaker 2: next we're going to talk about netball. It's got a
- 10:33Speaker 2: new home and will this new home mean less money
- 10:38Speaker 2: for our players? We'll ask that question next.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Brian Bridge on early edition with X bowl insulation, keeping
- 10:46Speaker 1: kiey hoes warm and try this winter news talks.
- 10:49Speaker 2: That'd be good tech from Barbe. We'll get to that
- 10:51Speaker 2: in a second. Twenty one after five. Now netball players
- 10:53Speaker 2: and fans alike can breathe a sigh of relief this morning,
- 10:56Speaker 2: the an Z Premiership has found a home for the
- 10:58Speaker 2: next few next year's season, this time it's going to
- 11:02Speaker 2: be free to air TV and Z. Steph Bond is
- 11:04Speaker 2: executive manager of the Netball Players Association, joining us this morning. Steph,
- 11:09Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. You must be relieved that there
- 11:12Speaker 2: is a deal.
- 11:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 11:15Speaker 8: I think we are excited that it's going to be
- 11:18Speaker 8: on TV next year and a free at your platform
- 11:22Speaker 8: is exciting for the sport.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Do you get more people watching on free to air
- 11:26Speaker 2: than on Sky?
- 11:29Speaker 8: Absolutely? I think especially for a sport like netball, when
- 11:33Speaker 8: where there's a huge amount of people playing it at
- 11:36Speaker 8: a community level, to have all those all those people
- 11:38Speaker 8: over to watch it on free to air will definitely
- 11:41Speaker 8: increase that as on the game.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Does it mean that they have settled for a lower
- 11:47Speaker 2: paying option with in terms of a broadcast partner.
- 11:51Speaker 8: Yeah, Look, we can't obviously answer that. You'll have to
- 11:54Speaker 8: ask that question. That is is just I think that
- 12:00Speaker 8: we have ideals the next year in terms of what
- 12:02Speaker 8: it looks like.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Now, do you know any details yet about what it
- 12:06Speaker 2: might mean for players?
- 12:08Speaker 8: Yeah, we're working through that at the moment, so we're
- 12:10Speaker 8: embargaining with it when you're done at the moment, So
- 12:12Speaker 8: that will now form part of the piece of what
- 12:15Speaker 8: it may look like next year in terms of payments
- 12:17Speaker 8: for players.
- 12:18Speaker 2: What is the worry that players have? Is it that
- 12:21Speaker 2: you go with TV ands and you get less money.
- 12:23Speaker 2: There's less you know, salary or less pay for netball players.
- 12:29Speaker 8: Yeah, we are obviously having to look at that right
- 12:32Speaker 8: now in terms of how it does in terms of
- 12:34Speaker 8: player payments. Over the last couple of weeks, players to
- 12:37Speaker 8: have a fairly good idea now of the picture for
- 12:40Speaker 8: next year. So it is really sitting down for each
- 12:43Speaker 8: individual player and looking at that and actually working out
- 12:45Speaker 8: with a play that will is the right option for
- 12:48Speaker 8: their next year.
- 12:50Speaker 2: So it could come down to can I survive doing
- 12:53Speaker 2: this or do I actually need to get another job?
- 12:57Speaker 8: Yeah, that is right. I think players will have to
- 12:59Speaker 8: look at it a little bit differently, especially for some players.
- 13:03Speaker 8: All of our players do already work at the same time,
- 13:05Speaker 8: so it may just been packing up a few extra hours.
- 13:09Speaker 8: But I think it will be a little bit different
- 13:13Speaker 8: in terms of potentially what it may look like next year.
- 13:15Speaker 8: But I think it will still work for the majority
- 13:17Speaker 8: of sas all.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Right, Steph, appreciate your time this morning, Steph Bond, executive
- 13:20Speaker 2: manager at New Zealand Netball Players Association. Time is twenty
- 13:24Speaker 2: three minutes half of five morning, Ryan says, Barb. If
- 13:28Speaker 2: you're too lazy to enroll to vote, then you're probably
- 13:31Speaker 2: too lazy to do any research, take any time to
- 13:35Speaker 2: really consider the different parties in the policies. We want
- 13:38Speaker 2: people who are engaged in the democratic process, and in
- 13:40Speaker 2: my opinion, enrolling in time is one indicator of that.
- 13:45Speaker 2: Good morning, Bob, lovely to have you texting the show.
- 13:48Speaker 2: I disagree with you. I think that might be your expectation, Barb,
- 13:53Speaker 2: of people that they are very prepared and on the
- 13:56Speaker 2: ball and crossing all the t's and dotting all the
- 13:58Speaker 2: eyes and getting there on time time. But people are busy.
- 14:02Speaker 2: People have a lot going on in their lives. They're
- 14:05Speaker 2: stuck in traffic, that battle through a cycle way, you know,
- 14:09Speaker 2: whatever it might be. Not everybody is the same, and
- 14:12Speaker 2: just because you don't share the same values as the
- 14:14Speaker 2: next person doesn't mean they shouldn't be voting. Now. The
- 14:18Speaker 2: question is how much extra time will it add to
- 14:23Speaker 2: account if we allow people to turn up and enroll
- 14:26Speaker 2: on the same day that they vote. Is it a
- 14:28Speaker 2: week and is a week worth stopping potentially up to
- 14:34Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people from voting. I don't think so.
- 14:36Speaker 2: I don't think it justifies it personally. Twenty four after five,
- 14:39Speaker 2: News Talks VB.
- 14:40Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio, Power
- 14:44Speaker 1: It by NEWSTALKSB News TALKSB.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Twenty six minutes after five, Brook van Valden's anti health
- 14:52Speaker 2: and safety crusades taken a rather bizarre twist, don't you
- 14:54Speaker 2: think the plot twist that no one saw coming? All
- 14:58Speaker 2: but weird. She's consulting the public on safe activities for
- 15:02Speaker 2: kids and what they're allowed to do on farms, like
- 15:05Speaker 2: I cad you not watering plants and collecting chicken eggs.
- 15:09Speaker 2: It's a bit of an odd strategy, but the strategy
- 15:11Speaker 2: seems to be there's a potential problem with the law here.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Anyone under fifteen is technically not allowed to work on
- 15:18Speaker 2: a working farm. You could get fine. You can find
- 15:20Speaker 2: up to fifty thousand dollars actually, so quite a lot
- 15:23Speaker 2: of money not to be scoffed at. But nobody's actually
- 15:26Speaker 2: been done for letting little Johnny pick up eggs. So
- 15:30Speaker 2: it's a potential problem, not an actual problem, and the
- 15:34Speaker 2: minister's strategy surely is just to point out how ridiculous
- 15:39Speaker 2: the law is in the first place. But her response
- 15:43Speaker 2: sounds a bit off. Remember this is a minister who
- 15:46Speaker 2: says we need to get away from over regulation, away
- 15:49Speaker 2: from consultation, away from the nonsense. Just get let Kiwis
- 15:52Speaker 2: get on with it, Let the businesses get on with it,
- 15:54Speaker 2: Let the families get on with it and run their
- 15:56Speaker 2: own lives. She's quoted as saying, we'll be consulting with
- 16:00Speaker 2: farmers in the agricultural sector on the safety thresholds for
- 16:04Speaker 2: light chores children can do on farms while ensuring safety
- 16:08Speaker 2: is not compromised. I mean, what on earth? All of
- 16:11Speaker 2: it gobbledygook. Sounds a bit unnecessary, All sounds a bit odd.
- 16:17Speaker 2: If there's a problem, then why not just change it?
- 16:20Speaker 2: Why consult up the wazoo through till September, then waste
- 16:23Speaker 2: time and money on officials and advice and blah blah blah.
- 16:26Speaker 2: If it's a problem, then just make it go away quickly,
- 16:31Speaker 2: Brian Bread, That would be the act thing to do,
- 16:34Speaker 2: wouldn't it. Twenty eight minutes after five News Talk said
- 16:37Speaker 2: b Now the Brits are joining the French and recognizing
- 16:42Speaker 2: a Palestinian state. Well, it's an ultimatum that Keir Starmer
- 16:46Speaker 2: has issued overnight and ultimatum to Israel. The UK will
- 16:50Speaker 2: do this, will recognize a Palestinian state at the General
- 16:54Speaker 2: Assembly meeting in September. French are going to do it too,
- 16:57Speaker 2: unless the Israelis agree to a bunch of conditions, including
- 17:01Speaker 2: a cease fire. One hundred and forty countries have recognized
- 17:04Speaker 2: a palace in the estates so far. Gavin Gray out
- 17:06Speaker 2: of the UK on that afternoons and we will check
- 17:09Speaker 2: in with our reporters around the country as well, including
- 17:13Speaker 2: Claire Schubert, who's got a good story out of christ
- 17:15Speaker 2: Church this morning, all to do with architecture. A lot
- 17:19Speaker 2: of building going on in christ Church, Isn't there a
- 17:21Speaker 2: lot of things happening in christ Church at the moment
- 17:24Speaker 2: our reporters, and then Gavin Gray half five News Talk
- 17:28Speaker 2: said be.
- 17:44Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
- 17:47Speaker 1: analysis earlier this with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl Insulation
- 17:52Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry this winter News Talks
- 17:55Speaker 1: at b.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Twenty four minutes away from the six News Talk said,
- 18:06Speaker 2: but we'll get to our reporters in just a second.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Gavin Gray out of the UK on Keir Starmer's threat
- 18:10Speaker 2: to Israel, which has happened overnight, also before six, the
- 18:14Speaker 2: nurses strike kicking off in just a couple of hours.
- 18:16Speaker 2: We'll get to Rob Campbell on that. Ryan. This is
- 18:19Speaker 2: from John. I was made to work in the ball
- 18:21Speaker 2: shed when I was ten. I now realize on reflection,
- 18:24Speaker 2: I was a victim of chrial slave labor. I can
- 18:28Speaker 2: hopefully sue someone if they change the laws. Here and John,
- 18:33Speaker 2: you're preaching to the choir here. Ryan, can all governments
- 18:35Speaker 2: and councils please just get the beep out of our lives?
- 18:37Speaker 2: Says Luke. It would be nice, wouldn't it. This is
- 18:41Speaker 2: on the lazy voters situation. Ryan, d cut you a deal.
- 18:44Speaker 2: A lazy, inconsiderate person's vote should be worth half a vote,
- 18:49Speaker 2: So two half wits equal one vote, reflecting the value
- 18:53Speaker 2: that they put on the electoral system, says Simon. Right
- 18:58Speaker 2: twenty three away from six, Bryan breedsue to our reporters
- 19:01Speaker 2: around the country, Rosy Leishman's and Dunedan Rosi, good morning,
- 19:05Speaker 2: good morning, households. There you could be looking at bigger
- 19:07Speaker 2: power bills.
- 19:09Speaker 4: I know.
- 19:09Speaker 6: So.
- 19:09Speaker 9: The Commerce Commission is seeking feedback on new revenue limits
- 19:13Speaker 9: for electricity lines company Aurora, which supplies power to Dunedin,
- 19:18Speaker 9: Central Opago and Queenstown Lakes. Its draft decision is to
- 19:21Speaker 9: allow Aurora to recover up to six hundred and sixty
- 19:25Speaker 9: three point seven million dollars over four years. Household electricity
- 19:30Speaker 9: bills could increase by around ten dollars a month next year,
- 19:34Speaker 9: followed by three dollar increases each year after feedback is
- 19:38Speaker 9: due by the end of next month.
- 19:39Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather at Rosie?
- 19:41Speaker 9: Cloudy periods and some southwesterlies today with the odd possibly
- 19:45Speaker 9: heavy shower becoming more frequent this afternoon and a high
- 19:48Speaker 9: of twelve degrees.
- 19:49Speaker 2: Nice one, Thanks Rosie. And clear than christ Church, Clear,
- 19:52Speaker 2: good morning to you.
- 19:53Speaker 10: Good morning.
- 19:54Speaker 2: Now Open christ Church? What is it and what do
- 19:56Speaker 2: they want from us?
- 19:57Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 19:58Speaker 10: Open christ Church is this festival It's been running for
- 20:00Speaker 10: several years now in christ Church. Effectively, what it does
- 20:03Speaker 10: is open up the doors of buildings that people may
- 20:06Speaker 10: or may not want to have a peek inside. Actually,
- 20:08Speaker 10: our building here at enzb Me and arm Street has
- 20:10Speaker 10: been in the open christ Church Festival. Before last year
- 20:13Speaker 10: we had Takaha Stadium that I went in and had
- 20:16Speaker 10: a look around of the stadium as part of Open
- 20:19Speaker 10: christ Church. Previously it's been some old buildings at Boys
- 20:22Speaker 10: High and things like the cathedral. Now the Open christ
- 20:25Speaker 10: Church team has put the call out to say, look
- 20:27Speaker 10: what buildings would you like to see behind the doors
- 20:30Speaker 10: of and they will consider them for next year's festival.
- 20:33Speaker 10: The key thing is the director, Jessica Halliday says, anyone
- 20:36Speaker 10: who does that needs to make sure that they actually
- 20:38Speaker 10: have permission to nominate the building from the owner or
- 20:41Speaker 10: kaitiaki or occupier. Obviously, without the permission to do so,
- 20:45Speaker 10: then they wouldn't know which nominations were serious or not.
- 20:48Speaker 10: But if you do have a building that you'd like
- 20:50Speaker 10: to see behind the doors of, you can nominate it
- 20:52Speaker 10: from now up until August twenty two.
- 20:54Speaker 2: I've not been to ended me off for some christ Church.
- 20:57Speaker 2: What's so great about why would people want to see
- 20:59Speaker 2: inside apart from to see you your lovely self?
- 21:02Speaker 7: Clear?
- 21:02Speaker 10: Of course, of course it is the old Ministry buildings
- 21:07Speaker 10: building here. It's a very historic building and obviously we've
- 21:10Speaker 10: gutted it and then put a radio station inside it.
- 21:12Speaker 10: So it's one of those interesting situations where it's a
- 21:15Speaker 10: very old building but looks very mod and cool inside.
- 21:17Speaker 10: So believe it or not, they came parading through.
- 21:19Speaker 2: There we go house you weather well, Claudy.
- 21:22Speaker 10: A bit of showers on the forecast today could be
- 21:24Speaker 10: a thunderstorm with HAILO bit later to southwesterlies and the
- 21:27Speaker 10: highest fourteenth.
- 21:28Speaker 2: All right, thank you Max and Wellington. Hey Max, good morning.
- 21:31Speaker 2: Have you got two for one drinks in the capital year.
- 21:34Speaker 5: We should be celebrating, but rather a bar's license has
- 21:37Speaker 5: been suspended for advertising two for one drinks, quite a
- 21:41Speaker 5: severe penalty for the residents. Bar on Courtney Place forced
- 21:45Speaker 5: to close for two days after promoting this happy hour
- 21:48Speaker 5: deal on a chalkboard that was inside the bar, but
- 21:51Speaker 5: which could still be seen from the footpath outside. The
- 21:56Speaker 5: rule being you can't do business in a way that's
- 21:59Speaker 5: seen from outside the business. And so the City Council
- 22:01Speaker 5: took the residence to the Alcohol Regulatory Licensing Authority and
- 22:05Speaker 5: it has to shut not just on a Monday or
- 22:07Speaker 5: a Tuesday, which is what you might think you would do,
- 22:11Speaker 5: would you have to close for two days? But by
- 22:13Speaker 5: rule apparently it has to close on a Wednesday and Thursday,
- 22:15Speaker 5: which will inevitably cost the residents thousands of dollars. The
- 22:19Speaker 5: bar's owner, he's run a foul of the council a
- 22:21Speaker 5: few times. In fact, he's complaining about how unnecessarily strict
- 22:25Speaker 5: anti business it can be. In this instance, though, he
- 22:29Speaker 5: is just going to lump it and abide by the ruling,
- 22:31Speaker 5: despite saying this was a minor breach.
- 22:33Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather showers today?
- 22:37Speaker 5: Northerlys fourteen the high central.
- 22:39Speaker 2: Right thinks Max Neighbors and aukl Nava, good morning, good morning,
- 22:42Speaker 2: that damn rain that.
- 22:44Speaker 11: Day, or you're firing an old cylinders? Is your comedy?
- 22:49Speaker 4: Yes?
- 22:50Speaker 2: Yes, Auckland's dams.
- 22:52Speaker 11: Expected to reach full capacity. This for the first time
- 22:56Speaker 11: Ryan in almost two years.
- 22:58Speaker 2: Wow.
- 22:58Speaker 11: So today's with the system to push Auckland's water supply
- 23:01Speaker 11: damps to about over one hundred percent. Now water care
- 23:06Speaker 11: head of water, water key head of water. Yeah, Sharon denks.
- 23:09Speaker 11: Now she says that look the stuff. They're going to
- 23:11Speaker 11: keep a close eye on this total storage levels as
- 23:14Speaker 11: the rain continues. But I can tell you that at
- 23:17Speaker 11: at four pm yesterday, the total storage for Auckland was
- 23:20Speaker 11: sitting at ninety nine point eight percent.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Ah, so surely they would have got there because it
- 23:24Speaker 2: rain cats and dogs last night.
- 23:26Speaker 11: Last night exactly and that wonder yep so expected to
- 23:29Speaker 11: reach one hundred percent sometime today. They're all very, very
- 23:31Speaker 11: excited because I remember over the last couple of years,
- 23:34Speaker 11: if there weren't any Auckland stories to run over winter
- 23:37Speaker 11: over the last two you know seasons, I'd say, what's
- 23:40Speaker 11: our damn level sitting at? It was always one you
- 23:42Speaker 11: knew you could you could read out because you know,
- 23:45Speaker 11: it was never over one hundred percent. Then I selt, right, well,
- 23:47Speaker 11: I'm going to have to find a new story now.
- 23:49Speaker 2: I always thought, you know, when they do the Savior water,
- 23:52Speaker 2: conserve your water, we want to, yes, I always thought
- 23:55Speaker 2: that they should to encourage Aucklanders to light the skytower
- 23:59Speaker 2: up with how full the day as also it'll be
- 24:01Speaker 2: a challenge for everybody to get the lights going all
- 24:03Speaker 2: the way to the top.
- 24:05Speaker 11: That would be quite cool. You know, that would be
- 24:07Speaker 11: very expensive though, wouldn't it was?
- 24:08Speaker 2: That probably rain on my parade? How's that weather?
- 24:13Speaker 7: Rain?
- 24:13Speaker 2: More rain, rain, easy in two showers.
- 24:16Speaker 11: Look, I've got to tell you though, the show is
- 24:18Speaker 11: becoming more frequent in the afternoon, possibly heavy and thunderya
- 24:21Speaker 11: and not my words, but you know this is what
- 24:23Speaker 11: met to s small hale. Small hale as opposed to
- 24:26Speaker 11: big hale seventeen is a high brilliance.
- 24:28Speaker 2: So it won't knock us over. Then, never think you
- 24:31Speaker 2: never ready made an orphan small hail and a bit
- 24:34Speaker 2: of rain. Seventeen away from six News Talks B, we'll
- 24:36Speaker 2: get to Gavin Gray out of the UK on Kers
- 24:38Speaker 2: Starmer and his threat to Israel.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Next International Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
- 24:44Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business quarter.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Effects on your Wednesday morning. We'll get to Rob Campbell
- 24:48Speaker 2: on the nurses strike in a second. Right now, Gavin
- 24:50Speaker 2: Gray are UK europe Correspondent, Gavin, welcome to the show.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Other run so Kirs Starmer's come out and basically join
- 24:57Speaker 2: the French saying to Israel, if you don't sort out
- 25:01Speaker 2: a ceasefire by September by this UN meeting, then we'll
- 25:04Speaker 2: recognize Palestinian state.
- 25:07Speaker 12: Yeah, this is quite a change of tactic here by
- 25:10Speaker 12: the British and buy indeed, Sirkir Starmer himself, who has
- 25:13Speaker 12: really shrugged off demands from his own MPs and others
- 25:16Speaker 12: saying the situation in Gaza is so bad now we
- 25:20Speaker 12: really need to demand a two state solution to this.
- 25:24Speaker 12: Just a few days ago, two hundred and twenty one
- 25:26Speaker 12: MPs from nine parties urged the recognition of a Palestinian state,
- 25:31Speaker 12: many of them from the Labor Government Sakir Starmer's own
- 25:35Speaker 12: Labor Party. So what they're saying is unless Israel meets
- 25:38Speaker 12: certain conditions, and those conditions are substantive steps to end
- 25:43Speaker 12: the appalling situation in Gaza, including a ceasefire and the
- 25:47Speaker 12: commitment of long term peace process talks, then the UK
- 25:52Speaker 12: will officially at the UN meeting, along with France, basically
- 25:56Speaker 12: recognize Palestinian state. So France was going to be the
- 26:00Speaker 12: first G seven country to do it. Now it's looking
- 26:03Speaker 12: like the first and second we'll do it at the
- 26:05Speaker 12: same time. This, as I said, is a huge U turn,
- 26:08Speaker 12: but amid huge pressure as well and terrible terrible headlines.
- 26:11Speaker 12: Sixty thousand now killed in Gaza, it's been estimated during
- 26:15Speaker 12: the Israeli action there, the UN Agency saying famine is
- 26:19Speaker 12: now playing out on a wide scale. Israel says no
- 26:21Speaker 12: starvation and of the UK's latest move. Israel says it
- 26:25Speaker 12: rejects the statement it's rewarding hammers for the October twenty
- 26:28Speaker 12: twenty three attack, and also says that the British move
- 26:31Speaker 12: Harm's efforts for a ceasefar.
- 26:33Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Trump's wrapping up his trip to Scotland. We golf
- 26:36Speaker 2: truck yes on his.
- 26:37Speaker 12: Way on his way back home after four days here
- 26:40Speaker 12: in the UK in what I can only describe as
- 26:42Speaker 12: a sort of private trip and a business trip, but
- 26:46Speaker 12: funded by the American taxpayer. The visiting of two golf
- 26:50Speaker 12: course is okay. The long discussion of course with the
- 26:53Speaker 12: UK Prime Minister Sir Clear Starmer, the announcement of the
- 26:56Speaker 12: trade deal with the EU, and today a conversation it
- 27:00Speaker 12: was said to be up to about fifteen to twenty
- 27:02Speaker 12: minutes with John Swinney, the First Minister of Scotland. The
- 27:06Speaker 12: main thing was discussing whiskey tariffs. John Swinney is desperate
- 27:09Speaker 12: that this business, worth one point nine billion New Zealand
- 27:14Speaker 12: dollars last year, is going to be hit by the
- 27:17Speaker 12: ten percent tariffs that Donald Trump has imposed. Donald Trump
- 27:21Speaker 12: said he didn't realize that tariffs were going to affect
- 27:24Speaker 12: the industry so much, so maybe just maybe John Swinney's
- 27:27Speaker 12: words might get the tax break for the whiskey industry,
- 27:31Speaker 12: but I wouldn't hold your breath. Donald Trump apparently not
- 27:33Speaker 12: a big whiskey fan.
- 27:35Speaker 2: No, doesn't drink at all. Appreciate that. Gavin Graykay, your correspondent.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Time now is twelve minutes.
- 27:40Speaker 1: To six rand Bridge, nine am.
- 27:42Speaker 2: Thirty six thousand nurses go on strike. It's a twenty
- 27:45Speaker 2: four hour strike. Pay staffing levels, big sticking points and
- 27:48Speaker 2: negotiations Health New Zealand rickens more than four and a
- 27:51Speaker 2: half thousand plan procedures and specialist appointments will have to
- 27:54Speaker 2: be postponed.
- 27:55Speaker 11: We'll be running at a very light levelness and the
- 27:57Speaker 11: sort of calvi you'd expect on a bank holiday Christmas Day.
- 28:00Speaker 11: So the minimum to provide safe care, that's what we
- 28:03Speaker 11: aim to do.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Rob Campbell is the former. I don't know what I
- 28:07Speaker 2: was expecting from the accent, but no, it wasn't that
- 28:11Speaker 2: Rob Campbell's former healthyciens here, Hey Rob.
- 28:14Speaker 7: Good morning Ryan. Now, don't don't you be racist or
- 28:17Speaker 7: anything about that?
- 28:18Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's just a lovely Welsh accent for
- 28:21Speaker 2: a Wednesday morning. But probably the tone doesn't match the
- 28:25Speaker 2: way that nurses are feeling. I would imagine, can you
- 28:28Speaker 2: tell me, because I've asked the union and I've asked
- 28:30Speaker 2: Health New Zealand, do we have a shortage of how
- 28:33Speaker 2: many nurses are we short in our hospitals? Right now?
- 28:37Speaker 7: I can't give you a number, but there's no question
- 28:39Speaker 7: that there's a shortage. On Health New Zealand's own safe
- 28:43Speaker 7: staffing levels numbers, there are any number of shifts, some
- 28:46Speaker 7: say up to half which are not properly staffed, so
- 28:50Speaker 7: there's no question there is a shortage of nurses available
- 28:54Speaker 7: in our public hospitals. There are nurses available to fill
- 28:58Speaker 7: those jobs in many cases, but Health News is shall
- 29:02Speaker 7: we say, quite slow to take up many of those opportunities,
- 29:07Speaker 7: so they are running with staffing levels below those which
- 29:10Speaker 7: are ideal, or even ones to which they've previously agreed.
- 29:14Speaker 2: How much of this do you think can be solved
- 29:15Speaker 2: by increasing the salaries, the wages.
- 29:20Speaker 7: All of the salaries are important to the people, to
- 29:23Speaker 7: the men and women involved as nurses. But actually I
- 29:26Speaker 7: think the bigger issue is one of trust. There's been
- 29:31Speaker 7: a complete breakdown of trust between nurses and many other
- 29:34Speaker 7: health professionals, and the leadership and political and administrative of
- 29:38Speaker 7: the health system. And I think that people don't simply
- 29:42Speaker 7: trust general assurances anymore. They want to see rules which
- 29:46Speaker 7: are enforceable so that their working conditions are safe and
- 29:50Speaker 7: capable of being met. So pay is part of it.
- 29:53Speaker 7: But I don't think simply increasing the payoff or will
- 29:55Speaker 7: solve the problem. This has to be solved face to
- 29:58Speaker 7: face with the nurses and the people that they're working for.
- 30:03Speaker 2: They strike off. I mean, it doesn't matter who's empower
- 30:05Speaker 2: they strike. You know, what do you say to people
- 30:08Speaker 2: who will say, well, you know, you just after more money.
- 30:10Speaker 2: I'm not getting paid more. I mean one percent is
- 30:12Speaker 2: better than no percent.
- 30:14Speaker 7: Well, it looks as if you're on the board of
- 30:16Speaker 7: Health US and you might be in for a bit
- 30:18Speaker 7: of an increase from yesterday's announcement by the government. But
- 30:21Speaker 7: this is not particularly about this current government. There have
- 30:24Speaker 7: been successive governments that have not been dealing with the
- 30:27Speaker 7: issue of how the health workforce is properly treated and
- 30:31Speaker 7: involved in their own workplace. You know, we rely on
- 30:34Speaker 7: these people, the men and women who are nurses. We
- 30:37Speaker 7: rely on them when we're at our most vulnerable, and
- 30:39Speaker 7: it's not reasonable that we take advantage of them in
- 30:42Speaker 7: the ways that we currently do. So somehow that trust
- 30:45Speaker 7: has to be re established and that's going to be
- 30:48Speaker 7: a process that takes quite some time in my opinion,
- 30:51Speaker 7: but some steps have to be made by giving assurances
- 30:54Speaker 7: about these safe staffing levels and meeting at least a
- 30:57Speaker 7: wage increase which covers the red and appears to be
- 31:01Speaker 7: the main trust of the nurse's pay demon.
- 31:03Speaker 2: Rob appreciate that. This morning. Rob Campbell, former Health ends
- 31:06Speaker 2: in Cheer, it is eight minutes away from six Probably
- 31:09Speaker 2: would have got a lot more money had he been
- 31:13Speaker 2: in power under this government. Just coming up to eight
- 31:16Speaker 2: minutes away from six now, and we'll give you the
- 31:19Speaker 2: gang the latest numbers on how many gang members on
- 31:22Speaker 2: the National gang List from police.
- 31:24Speaker 1: Next the first word on the News of the Day
- 31:28Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and x fol Insulation keeping
- 31:32Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talks a'd
- 31:35Speaker 1: be It is.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Six minutes away from six now. The national gang list,
- 31:39Speaker 2: this is the one the police put together in twenty
- 31:41Speaker 2: twenty three at the election. Remember it was a huge deal.
- 31:44Speaker 2: During the election campaign we had nine two hundred odd
- 31:48Speaker 2: on the list and now we have more than ten thousand.
- 31:51Speaker 2: First time it's cracked ten thousand. It's an increase of
- 31:54Speaker 2: seven hundred gang members and associates. You can argue until
- 31:58Speaker 2: the cows come home about how accurate the day is,
- 32:00Speaker 2: but you got you had one party using it. Now
- 32:03Speaker 2: you've got another part of using it. And Labor's basically
- 32:06Speaker 2: using this all day long. However, the inconvenient part for
- 32:11Speaker 2: Labor is the fact that it went up four thousand
- 32:14Speaker 2: over the six years they were in power. It's five
- 32:16Speaker 2: to six. Mike's in the studio, Good morning, Mike Morning.
- 32:20Speaker 13: That's Mitchell's argument that the increase has slowed down now
- 32:23Speaker 13: more and more importantly, apart from obsessing about numbers, surely
- 32:26Speaker 13: the crime connections, the key isn't it is crime going
- 32:29Speaker 13: up exponentially because you have more gang members or are
- 32:32Speaker 13: they just joining for brotherhood and to play twister at not.
- 32:36Speaker 2: Better at stats. But the thing is that they haven't
- 32:39Speaker 2: proved themselves on crime yet. I don't think. I think
- 32:42Speaker 2: ye see that if you look at the numbers they've
- 32:45Speaker 2: got down, it's it's margin of era stuff. So ye,
- 32:48Speaker 2: I would would a gang list going up still.
- 32:52Speaker 13: Depicted by the gangs, and that's so it's it's perception,
- 32:55Speaker 13: and it's downtown. The story of the weekend is a
- 32:57Speaker 13: little bit of crime and down Auckland. Downtown Aukland spiked,
- 33:01Speaker 13: so they're jumping on that. But I think the perception,
- 33:03Speaker 13: which is half the battle, as opposed to the numbers,
- 33:05Speaker 13: is do you feel safe? Do you see the same
- 33:07Speaker 13: sort of trouble around the streets? Are the toyoti erras
- 33:10Speaker 13: is being driven into the dairy doors the way they
- 33:12Speaker 13: used to be? And the answers, no, wasn't it, Well
- 33:14Speaker 13: if you haven't seen evidence stats.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Of it, Yeah, but we don't.
- 33:18Speaker 13: We don't won't run those things on evidence. What what
- 33:20Speaker 13: you do run on crimes out of control?
- 33:24Speaker 7: Is it prove it?
- 33:25Speaker 2: Do you feel safer? Yes, I do prove it. I
- 33:28Speaker 2: think you can safely say that the police have sort
- 33:31Speaker 2: of hardened up a bit, correct, you know.
- 33:32Speaker 13: And I think it's like it's like the health thing
- 33:35Speaker 13: you were talking about a moment ago. I mean, do
- 33:36Speaker 13: you feel that the health system is better? Do you
- 33:39Speaker 13: feel more confident in the health system? And that's a
- 33:42Speaker 13: bit of a no at the moment, that's a that's
- 33:43Speaker 13: a sort of a back and forward kind of we're
- 33:46Speaker 13: doing more, paying more.
- 33:47Speaker 2: Unless you've got a cataract you just had done via
- 33:49Speaker 2: the private system, and then you're.
- 33:51Speaker 13: Probably that's and that's part of the argument, isn't it then?
- 33:54Speaker 13: And I think Siman's right on that if you're if
- 33:56Speaker 13: you're in there getting your operation, you couldn't care less
- 33:59Speaker 13: where it's done, could you at the end of the
- 34:01Speaker 13: day anyway, all of.
- 34:01Speaker 2: That more after six o'clock. Very good, looking forward to it,
- 34:05Speaker 2: Mike with the next I'll be back tomorrow. Have a
- 34:07Speaker 2: great day everyone.
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