Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 06 July 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:04Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving.
- 0:09Speaker 2: News Talks, they'd be good morning.
- 0:10Speaker 3: And welcome to a short week.
- 0:11Speaker 4: In a six a half to five you're on news Talks,
- 0:13Speaker 4: there'd be we'll speak to Nathan Guy top of the
- 0:15Speaker 4: r on the trade deals that National is gunning for,
- 0:17Speaker 4: Gavin to the UK for US, if Vicky Price brings
- 0:20Speaker 4: the business, and we'll look at that rather exciting game
- 0:22Speaker 4: of rugby on Saturday. The agenda is Monday, the sixth
- 0:27Speaker 4: of July, Mass of fireworks, big party in America as
- 0:29Speaker 4: they turned two hundred and fifty.
- 0:31Speaker 5: We rebuilt our military in my first term. We use
- 0:35Speaker 5: it a little bit in our actually I should say
- 0:37Speaker 5: third term, but I won't do that because I don't
- 0:39Speaker 5: want any controversy. But we use it and we've had
- 0:43Speaker 5: tremendous success. You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran.
- 0:47Speaker 5: We wiped it out, wiped out their military.
- 0:50Speaker 4: Speaking of roundas for a second, had the funeral for harmony,
- 0:53Speaker 4: although his body is going to Line State until next
- 0:56Speaker 4: Thursday and then he gets better.
- 0:59Speaker 6: I regret to a lot why I didn't come to
- 1:01Speaker 6: see the leader when he was alive. I should have
- 1:04Speaker 6: discovered him much earlier.
- 1:06Speaker 3: I learnt too late.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Now the guy who wants to be the Leader of
- 1:09Speaker 4: the UK, not Burnham but Farage, Well he's in a
- 1:12Speaker 4: bit of trouble excepting donations. This time he didn't declare
- 1:16Speaker 4: having his staff, his security and his housing paid for
- 1:20Speaker 4: by a convicted criminals. Some kind of crypto aristocrat. Reform
- 1:24Speaker 4: spokesman says there's nothing to see here.
- 1:27Speaker 7: George Cottrell is an old friend of Nigel Frag's. He
- 1:31Speaker 7: did give support to Nigel before he was a member
- 1:34Speaker 7: of parliament. He hasn't done so since he became a
- 1:38Speaker 7: member of parliament. No rules have been broken whatsoever.
- 1:42Speaker 4: Fair enough, they're all buddies, old chums. Finally to the
- 1:45Speaker 4: World Cup. Two games today eight am Brazil and Norway
- 1:49Speaker 4: and then mid day's England and Mexico. The poor old
- 1:52Speaker 4: English players have had a night of fireworks. They've had
- 1:57Speaker 4: mariachi bands, they've had singing, they've had all sorts outside
- 2:00Speaker 4: their hotel. Yeah, try to keep secret the location of
- 2:11Speaker 4: the hotel where the English players staying didn't work. They
- 2:15Speaker 4: got this.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Hear it first.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business Technology
- 2:23Speaker 1: that Keith's Business Moving News talks.
- 2:25Speaker 4: They'd be late to have your company this morning. So
- 2:27Speaker 4: Asb's quarterly economic forecast, you would have heard Neva in
- 2:30Speaker 4: the news. Things are looking up because the price of
- 2:33Speaker 4: will has basically gone through the float, well compared to
- 2:35Speaker 4: where it was, it's gone essentially gone back to where
- 2:38Speaker 4: it was. I filled up the car on Saturday, I
- 2:40Speaker 4: think it was two eighty nine was the special price
- 2:44Speaker 4: for ninety one, So that you go come right down
- 2:48Speaker 4: from where it was and falling, probably going to fall further,
- 2:51Speaker 4: all you know, fingers crossed and all hoping in the strait.
- 2:57Speaker 4: But what's happening on Wednesday this week is the reive
- 3:00Speaker 4: So that is good news. Yes, it looks like, you know,
- 3:02Speaker 4: prizes are starting to stabilize the economy and the rebound
- 3:06Speaker 4: thing can happen again. Wednesday we get an OCR decision,
- 3:09Speaker 4: and this one's going to be interesting because remember we
- 3:12Speaker 4: had a pause, well we continued the pause last time
- 3:15Speaker 4: that the fourth consecutive meeting where they held and the
- 3:20Speaker 4: bank economists on this one are now split. So what
- 3:22Speaker 4: happens on Wednesday will be quite interesting. So we're at
- 3:25Speaker 4: two point twenty five percent. We've been there since November
- 3:27Speaker 4: last year. And remember the last vote was the split one,
- 3:30Speaker 4: and you might think, well, if they were split, remember
- 3:32Speaker 4: it was the internals versus the externals, those who members
- 3:35Speaker 4: who are part of the Reserve Bank versus those who
- 3:38Speaker 4: come on board for the meetings, you might think, well,
- 3:41Speaker 4: because it was split, we will again, we will likely
- 3:44Speaker 4: see a hike. And that's what some half the bank
- 3:47Speaker 4: economists think will happen. Inflation is at three point one percent.
- 3:51Speaker 4: And the thing about the oil is important because it
- 3:54Speaker 4: means that inflation won't peak at the same level that
- 3:57Speaker 4: it probably was going to if oil keept going north. Right.
- 4:01Speaker 4: But what this is, and this is Sharon Zolder from Ains.
- 4:04Speaker 4: She's made this comment which is sort of the only
- 4:06Speaker 4: interesting thing I could see about it that last time
- 4:11Speaker 4: there was no hike, but they were quite hawkish in tone,
- 4:14Speaker 4: because there's what they do, and then there's what they say,
- 4:17Speaker 4: So no hike, but they were hawkish saying basically next
- 4:20Speaker 4: time or you know soon, we will do it. So
- 4:23Speaker 4: if they do that again and they say, well, no hike,
- 4:27Speaker 4: but we'll do it next time, and do you lose
- 4:29Speaker 4: a bit of credibility. That's the question.
- 4:31Speaker 2: News Talks EDB.
- 4:33Speaker 4: It's ten up for five. Coming up next, we'll talk
- 4:35Speaker 4: about Rugger Adam Cooper with US Live the Early edition Full.
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- 4:54Speaker 4: News Talks EDB five thirteen. Burn him over in the
- 4:56Speaker 4: UK soon to be British prime ministers being warned by
- 4:59Speaker 4: an old stallwart. It's Tony Blair.
- 5:02Speaker 5: You know.
- 5:02Speaker 4: Tony Blair has a think tank and he labour right.
- 5:05Speaker 4: Of three elections did he win. He's come out the
- 5:09Speaker 4: think tank has come out and said, hey, can you
- 5:11Speaker 4: just take it easy on tax? Because Burnham's done an
- 5:13Speaker 4: interview with the LBC over in London and suggested that
- 5:16Speaker 4: there was room to move on tax. And so Tony
- 5:20Speaker 4: Bleier's think tank has said you cannot tax your way
- 5:23Speaker 4: to prosperity. Well, this is a revelation, He's also said,
- 5:27Speaker 4: because he's potentially looking at capital gains tax. So at
- 5:30Speaker 4: the moment, if you pay a capital gains tax on
- 5:33Speaker 4: like a second home or on shares, you will pay
- 5:36Speaker 4: anywhere from eighteen to twenty four percent. Now, what Burnham
- 5:40Speaker 4: is apparently looking at doing is aligning the capital gains
- 5:43Speaker 4: tax rate with the three income tax bands twenty percent,
- 5:50Speaker 4: forty percent and forty five percent, So you would go
- 5:54Speaker 4: from paying up to twenty four percent to paying up
- 5:57Speaker 4: to forty five percent on your capital game. Now, this
- 6:01Speaker 4: is the line Britain was desperate for long term investment
- 6:04Speaker 4: in businesses and technologies entrepreneurs need. This is the Tony
- 6:07Speaker 4: Blair Foundation. Entrepreneurs apparently need an economy that rewards them
- 6:12Speaker 4: for taking risks and building businesses in Britain, So taxing
- 6:16Speaker 4: like that would be a very bad idea for the past.
- 6:20Speaker 4: So the AB's beat the French and christ Church Dave
- 6:23Speaker 4: Rennie was relieved, one of the debutantes apparently so nervously
- 6:26Speaker 4: spewed up in the changing rooms before the game. But
- 6:28Speaker 4: the real headline was excellent and compelling game of rugby
- 6:32Speaker 4: enjoyed by all who watched in christ Church. Adam Cooper,
- 6:35Speaker 4: host of All Sport, Breakfast and Wellington with Us this morning, Adam,
- 6:38Speaker 4: good morning morning, Ryan. Wasn't it great?
- 6:40Speaker 8: It was a great contest and I think you know
- 6:42Speaker 8: just you look at rugby at the moments in general.
- 6:44Speaker 8: We saw that game also from Australia and Sydney between
- 6:47Speaker 8: the Wallabies and Ireland. Of course, Ireland are coming here
- 6:49Speaker 8: to face All Blacks next week. You know, rugby at
- 6:52Speaker 8: the moment is really sort of developing into contests where
- 6:57Speaker 8: with fast, open play, quick ball speed, a lot of
- 7:00Speaker 8: which we saw from the All Blacks on Saturday night. Yes,
- 7:02Speaker 8: it wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily dominant by them, but
- 7:06Speaker 8: I think definitely encouraging signs of the intent this team
- 7:09Speaker 8: is playing with the opportunities they're creating and a real
- 7:12Speaker 8: fight I thought, both on attack and defense to eventually
- 7:15Speaker 8: get that win. But it was it was tight for
- 7:17Speaker 8: the best part of the whole game, wasn't it.
- 7:18Speaker 4: It was tight the first two minutes. It was a
- 7:21Speaker 4: nail biter. We had Love off and we had conceded
- 7:25Speaker 4: a try with and I think the first two minutes
- 7:27Speaker 4: and twenty five seconds, yeah, off on the back foot.
- 7:29Speaker 8: But I think it's how they responded to that, and
- 7:31Speaker 8: especially Ruben Love in his first start in that number
- 7:34Speaker 8: ten jersey for the All Blacks. You know the fact
- 7:36Speaker 8: that he was able to come back on almost immediately
- 7:39Speaker 8: after his ten minutes on the sideline, and almost if
- 7:43Speaker 8: anyone tuned into that game after he came back on,
- 7:46Speaker 8: you wouldn't have thought he was had been out of
- 7:48Speaker 8: the game for that ten minutes. He didn't let it
- 7:50Speaker 8: affect him. He sort of was able to hit the
- 7:52Speaker 8: reset button and I thought, create some good opportunities again.
- 7:55Speaker 8: And Dave Renny the coaches acknowledged in a lot of
- 7:57Speaker 8: perfect performance by Rubin Love at anything. But I think
- 8:00Speaker 8: he's done enough, certainly to get another chance at his
- 8:02Speaker 8: home ground, Wellington this weekend to take on Italy. I
- 8:05Speaker 8: don't think you can critique his performance in game one
- 8:08Speaker 8: of a new season too much at all.
- 8:10Speaker 4: And has Rennie said to the team just don't worry
- 8:13Speaker 4: about kicking it so much?
- 8:15Speaker 8: Well again, I think it's just down to what I
- 8:17Speaker 8: mentioned before about the type of rugby you need to
- 8:19Speaker 8: play now to beat teams.
- 8:21Speaker 9: The kicking game.
- 8:21Speaker 8: I think it's fair to say has it necessarily worked
- 8:24Speaker 8: for a lot of teams in world rugby of late,
- 8:26Speaker 8: and it was quite encouraging I thought to see that
- 8:29Speaker 8: the lack of kicks coming from the All Blacks for territory,
- 8:31Speaker 8: they relied on their quick play. They're attacking line speed
- 8:35Speaker 8: a lot more, which I think definitely gave them some
- 8:38Speaker 8: great opportunities. I mean, you look at the way that
- 8:39Speaker 8: cam Royguard can find gaps, pull off dummies, dart through
- 8:43Speaker 8: defenders and things like that. That's clearly a sign of
- 8:46Speaker 8: how this All Blacks team feel that they are going
- 8:48Speaker 8: to win games and be competitive with many teams this year.
- 8:52Speaker 8: So yeah, encouraging and I think from a viewership perspective,
- 8:54Speaker 8: the lack of kicking was certainly welcomed.
- 8:56Speaker 4: On Saturday, Adam Cooper five to seven teams they'd be
- 8:59Speaker 4: I am so Donald Tesss. This is the Prime minister
- 9:02Speaker 4: over in Poland. He has said we are preparing. Don't panic,
- 9:06Speaker 4: but we are preparing for the Russians coming at us
- 9:09Speaker 4: in the next months. Now that's kind of loosely defined,
- 9:13Speaker 4: but you might have seen over the weekend there's a
- 9:15Speaker 4: couple of stories, one published by the Telegraph in the
- 9:17Speaker 4: UK and it's citing people spies out of Washington who
- 9:24Speaker 4: reckon that the Russians are planning to test NATO's resolve
- 9:28Speaker 4: by just dipping their toe over the line into the water.
- 9:32Speaker 4: In Poland, as opposed to Ukraine, they will either target missiles,
- 9:38Speaker 4: drones even potentially send soldiers over the water into This
- 9:42Speaker 4: is a NATO state we're talking about, so head infrastructure,
- 9:45Speaker 4: maybe with some missiles, maybe fire some drones, just test
- 9:49Speaker 4: the waters and see how they react and see what
- 9:52Speaker 4: impact it has on Ukraine if they were to give
- 9:55Speaker 4: it a try. So this is what the Americans are
- 9:57Speaker 4: telling the Polish and the Polish of them if we're
- 10:00Speaker 4: preparing for There is a big summit, NATO summit in
- 10:03Speaker 4: Turkey this week, by the way, and Chris Pink is
- 10:06Speaker 4: our guy going there because of the window four. That's
- 10:08Speaker 4: Australia Career, Japan and US. So Chris Pink will be
- 10:11Speaker 4: there for that. Eighteen minutes after five News Talk said
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- 10:31Speaker 4: Great to have your company this morning. Flip me a text.
- 10:34Speaker 4: Nine two nine two is the number. It was raining well,
- 10:37Speaker 4: I mean for about an hour it was bucketing down
- 10:40Speaker 4: in Auckland last night and you know what, we actually
- 10:43Speaker 4: got me out of bed to the point where I
- 10:45Speaker 4: got out and had to look out the window and
- 10:47Speaker 4: turn the light on just to see if it was
- 10:49Speaker 4: I don't know if the house was floating. You know,
- 10:51Speaker 4: it was quite heavy and in Dunedin apparently you have
- 10:54Speaker 4: had a lot of rain overnight as well. Flicked me
- 10:56Speaker 4: and texted we know how it's going. Nine two nine
- 10:58Speaker 4: twenty one.
- 10:59Speaker 2: After five Bryan Bridge.
- 11:01Speaker 4: Becky Price with the Business Vicky, good morning.
- 11:04Speaker 6: Good morning. I'm talking to you from England, of course,
- 11:06Speaker 6: where we're having a heat wave.
- 11:07Speaker 4: Yeah, how hot is it were you are?
- 11:11Speaker 6: Well, it's over thirty degrees and that is considered very
- 11:14Speaker 6: very hot in London and that's where we are. Maybe
- 11:16Speaker 6: possibly thirty two to thirty four.
- 11:18Speaker 4: But yes, and you don't second.
- 11:20Speaker 6: Round or third round.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Yeah, and you don't have any ear CONDI you vecky.
- 11:25Speaker 6: Nope, no, other houses weren't built for that. It was
- 11:27Speaker 6: never anticipated it would be so hot.
- 11:29Speaker 8: So there we go.
- 11:30Speaker 6: Yes, everyone is complaining, but I think it's wonderful.
- 11:33Speaker 4: Well, I mean some people, though, I suppose you're included.
- 11:36Speaker 4: Good on you. I wish you will the best for that.
- 11:39Speaker 4: Now tell us how is Andy Burnham. We've spoken a
- 11:41Speaker 4: lot about him in the last few weeks and he's
- 11:43Speaker 4: made a lot of promises, devolution being one of them.
- 11:46Speaker 4: How is it all going to be financed?
- 11:49Speaker 6: It's a very good question. Of course, we are likely
- 11:51Speaker 6: to have him as our Prime minister in the UK
- 11:53Speaker 6: or by the twentieth of July, which is actually quite rapid.
- 11:58Speaker 6: The question is what is he going to do after
- 12:00Speaker 6: and we have the summer coming and the holidays, but
- 12:03Speaker 6: there is an awful lot of work that needs to
- 12:05Speaker 6: be done to see you know how businesses and others
- 12:08Speaker 6: are going to be satisfied that the extra spending he
- 12:11Speaker 6: needs to do and his promise is going to be
- 12:13Speaker 6: involved in doesn't simply get funded by just raising taxes,
- 12:18Speaker 6: and that's going to be a serious series concern that
- 12:20Speaker 6: everyone has. Look at defense, that's one of the major
- 12:23Speaker 6: areas that requires extra attention. We've just headed Defense Investment
- 12:28Speaker 6: Plan which has been published by the current Prime Ministers
- 12:32Speaker 6: O Kistama. It still has a gap of five billion
- 12:35Speaker 6: that needs to be found five billion pounds and even
- 12:39Speaker 6: the ten billion that's been found extra for the next
- 12:42Speaker 6: three years comes from cutting capital spending in other areas.
- 12:47Speaker 6: They're all screaming whether it's the Health Service, We're not
- 12:50Speaker 6: going to be improving hospitals. Whether it's the Education Department,
- 12:54Speaker 6: we're not going to be improving schools. So there's a
- 12:57Speaker 6: lot of concern as to where some of the money
- 12:59Speaker 6: will come from and whether the rest of the stuff
- 13:02Speaker 6: that Andy Burnham may want to do, including changing the
- 13:06Speaker 6: structure between London and the rest and allowing an awful
- 13:10Speaker 6: lot more development happening elsewhere, is going to have enough
- 13:13Speaker 6: money allocated to it.
- 13:14Speaker 4: Now. The inflation issue in Europe is actually quite a
- 13:18Speaker 4: sharp drop from May to June for the Euro Area.
- 13:24Speaker 6: Yes, it's a real surprise because the inflation has gone
- 13:28Speaker 6: down to two point eight percent. I mean that's quite
- 13:29Speaker 6: close to the target, which is two percent. So we've
- 13:32Speaker 6: seen inflation come down from slightly over three to two
- 13:36Speaker 6: point eight. It was not expected. And the interesting thing
- 13:38Speaker 6: is when you look at some of the details. I mean,
- 13:40Speaker 6: there's no doubt that energy is still an issue. So
- 13:43Speaker 6: it's rising, So prices of energy are higher than the
- 13:46Speaker 6: way a year ago, but there are nearly nine percent
- 13:49Speaker 6: higher than ten percent that was the case in the
- 13:51Speaker 6: previous month. But where the declines are happening is in inflation.
- 13:55Speaker 6: It's not so much that prices are necessarily falling. But
- 13:58Speaker 6: where the declines inflation are happening have been in areas
- 14:01Speaker 6: like food, which is again not expected. We've seen that
- 14:05Speaker 6: happen in the UK else as well, and industrial goods.
- 14:09Speaker 6: So companies are just not passing costs through even though
- 14:13Speaker 6: obviously the costs have increased. And you also see that
- 14:16Speaker 6: a little bit in the service sector, where again you've
- 14:18Speaker 6: seen a slow down in inflation. So people are understanding.
- 14:22Speaker 6: I think that the consumer is stretched and stressed and
- 14:27Speaker 6: therefore are being very very careful as to you know,
- 14:29Speaker 6: piling on extra prices on their goods, because otherwise the
- 14:34Speaker 6: consumer is going to gone strike. And I think that's
- 14:36Speaker 6: what they're fearing.
- 14:37Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. You appreciate that. Updoate Vicky Price. Our business
- 14:40Speaker 4: Corresponding twenty four after five silence is run and there's
- 14:44Speaker 4: a mother of all thunderstorms at Mount Monganery at the moment.
- 14:46Speaker 4: Another s is the heat wave. What a scam over
- 14:48Speaker 4: in Europe. I was over there recently and I can
- 14:51Speaker 4: tell you it's not a scam and the problem is
- 14:53Speaker 4: so much concrete and there's no like heat needs to
- 14:56Speaker 4: go somewhere to dissipate and there's just concrete upon con
- 15:00Speaker 4: create upon cobblestone. It doesn't there's no where for it
- 15:02Speaker 4: to escape. It's a it's a hell on earth. Don't go.
- 15:07Speaker 4: It's my advolved. Don't go on peak season anyway, that
- 15:09Speaker 4: would be worse. Hey, national's on a bit of a
- 15:12Speaker 4: trade blitz. Will speak to Nathan Guy, a former minister,
- 15:14Speaker 4: about that. Just before six this morning, you're on news Talk,
- 15:16Speaker 4: said B five twenty seven. News Talk said, be a
- 15:19Speaker 4: big weekend of events. We had a wedding, we had
- 15:22Speaker 4: a funeral, and we had a massive anniversary bash. Congratulations
- 15:25Speaker 4: to America, to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, to Iranians
- 15:29Speaker 4: who lived under and were persecuted by the Ayatola, and
- 15:32Speaker 4: Rugby in that order. If eighteen forty is the start
- 15:36Speaker 4: line of our democracy, and I know some don't think
- 15:38Speaker 4: it is, America is not actually that much older, all
- 15:41Speaker 4: growing up than us. And speaking of that, Trump's speech
- 15:45Speaker 4: describing the declaration of independence as the single greatest achievement
- 15:50Speaker 4: in human history was perhaps a little over the top,
- 15:53Speaker 4: not unlike Trump, but also not to be scoffed at entirely.
- 15:57Speaker 4: They enjoy many freedoms as we do that most of
- 15:59Speaker 4: the the world just does not, and we forget about this. Elections, protest,
- 16:04Speaker 4: assembly speech. Yes, these are tested from time to time,
- 16:07Speaker 4: but you cannot deny the fact that America is one
- 16:10Speaker 4: of the most liberal and freely expressive states in the
- 16:12Speaker 4: world and in all of human history. Freedom house tracks democracies,
- 16:17Speaker 4: they reckon. Just twenty one percent of the world's population
- 16:21Speaker 4: today actually live in a free society and a democracy,
- 16:27Speaker 4: and it's been tracking down for decades because you have
- 16:29Speaker 4: military cups, you have conflicts, you have power grabs. In Africa,
- 16:33Speaker 4: nine countries have had successful coups since twenty nineteen, since
- 16:37Speaker 4: COVID crazy. We don't know how good we've got it
- 16:40Speaker 4: until it's gone, and that's the problem. And two hundred
- 16:43Speaker 4: and fifty years without one is worth celebrating without saying
- 16:46Speaker 4: it's been perfect. No country is. Freedom feels good when
- 16:49Speaker 4: you can enjoy it, as Taytay and Travis clearly did
- 16:52Speaker 4: on the weekend. Congratulations to them. Here we enjoy rugby
- 16:56Speaker 4: and we beat the French and in around the weekend's
- 16:59Speaker 4: pictures showed morning and tears for the eye are told.
- 17:02Speaker 4: But the truth is it's harder to see. Without a
- 17:06Speaker 4: clearer lens that democracy provides, many in Iran and expats
- 17:11Speaker 4: around the world would have seen his funeral not as
- 17:14Speaker 4: a sad event but cause for celebration. Ryan Bridge twenty
- 17:19Speaker 4: nine after five News Talks FB. So we'll get to
- 17:21Speaker 4: Nathan Guy on trades. Nats want to do more deals.
- 17:26Speaker 4: They're coming off the back of Iran obviously up the
- 17:28Speaker 4: back of India, forgive me slight correction, so they're very
- 17:33Speaker 4: happy with that. Progress looking good and they've got targets
- 17:36Speaker 4: in their sites. Nathan Guy on that. Plus we're live
- 17:39Speaker 4: to London News Talk Set B.
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- 18:15Speaker 4: You're on News Talks there'd be welcome to your Monday morning.
- 18:17Speaker 4: Great to have your company coming up on the program
- 18:19Speaker 4: and speak to Nathan Guy. Because the Nats are on
- 18:21Speaker 4: a bit of a blitz. Luxon wants FDAs with Brazil
- 18:23Speaker 4: and Argentina. We'll speak to the former minister about that.
- 18:26Speaker 4: We'll also head to the UK for the latest elbow
- 18:29Speaker 4: I crossed the Tasman's in a bit of trouble. Well,
- 18:32Speaker 4: he's trying to do relatable content and the podcast is
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- 18:38Speaker 4: the politicians will go on podcasts and they will. The
- 18:41Speaker 4: podcasts are a bit more friendly and jovial perhaps than
- 18:44Speaker 4: your mainstream media interviews are, and sometimes they can be
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- 19:14Speaker 11: of them bove all right.
- 19:16Speaker 6: It's a triplet.
- 19:19Speaker 4: That is a comment from Anthony Albanezi. In case you
- 19:23Speaker 4: missed it, that's the Australian Prime Minister saying that he
- 19:27Speaker 4: would shag to use their words, shag Mary and Date,
- 19:31Speaker 4: Kylie Minogue, Bryan Breed. Seems you probably didn't want to
- 19:35Speaker 4: know anyway, he's getting fat from both sides for it.
- 19:37Speaker 4: Calum Procter and Dnedin for us this morning, Callum, how's
- 19:40Speaker 4: the weather been overnight? Morning?
- 19:43Speaker 8: Ryan?
- 19:43Speaker 10: You have been a wet night here.
- 19:45Speaker 12: A rare red heavy rain warning remains in force for
- 19:48Speaker 12: Danita until tenn in this morning. The heavy or the
- 19:52Speaker 12: rain's been add it's heavy a certainly in the last
- 19:54Speaker 12: couple of hours. Dunedin Civil Defense Bunker was activated yesterday
- 19:59Speaker 12: afternoon and sandbags were made available to residents here and
- 20:02Speaker 12: in Moscle. A number of roads are closed, more and
- 20:05Speaker 12: more closing by the minute, a lot of them in Moscule,
- 20:08Speaker 12: and evacuation is seen to Rhyme's been open there some
- 20:10Speaker 12: residents making use of that. South Dunedin flood protection barriers
- 20:14Speaker 12: have been installed in parts of Southdneda ar coping at
- 20:18Speaker 12: this stage. We're told of some small slips already on
- 20:21Speaker 12: Otago Peninsula. Caution advised there and locals just being on
- 20:26Speaker 12: to stay at home this morning completely and avoid unnecessary travel.
- 20:29Speaker 5: Ryan.
- 20:30Speaker 12: We're also hearing that this is affecting North Otago badly,
- 20:33Speaker 12: the rain in the last half hour.
- 20:35Speaker 10: A state of emergency declared.
- 20:37Speaker 12: In the WAITUCKI district with a welfare evacuations send to
- 20:40Speaker 12: set up in Amaro as well.
- 20:42Speaker 4: Okay, good tonight and what did it sound like on
- 20:44Speaker 4: the roof Callum?
- 20:46Speaker 12: Yes, nasty and just heavier and heavier as the night
- 20:50Speaker 12: went on and as I say, just in the last
- 20:52Speaker 12: hour as forecast the rain has been at its peak,
- 20:55Speaker 12: so authorities concerned here. The met Service stough says things
- 20:59Speaker 12: will improve for Otago through the day as it moves
- 21:02Speaker 12: north onto Marlbreton, Canterbury.
- 21:04Speaker 4: All right, good stuff, Colum, take care, that's clem into
- 21:07Speaker 4: need and clear and christ Itch morning, Claire, good morning.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Why is the marathon they're getting a makeover?
- 21:12Speaker 11: Yeah, Chrishchitch Marathon is super popular and has been rising
- 21:15Speaker 11: in popularity with the increase and the popularity around running.
- 21:19Speaker 11: This has prompted some significant changes for the Garden Cities
- 21:23Speaker 11: famously flat and fast course. The forty two point two
- 21:26Speaker 11: kilometer race, which was previously run over four laps of
- 21:30Speaker 11: the CBD, is going to switch to be a two
- 21:32Speaker 11: lap course from April, extending further east into the Red
- 21:36Speaker 11: Zone area and turning that into a racetrack. It comes
- 21:39Speaker 11: as participants have more than doubled over the past three years,
- 21:43Speaker 11: Marathon director Chris Cox says the course was simply too congested.
- 21:46Speaker 11: Faster athletes were getting caught behind slower runners as they
- 21:49Speaker 11: continued to increase their laps. He says, with more than
- 21:52Speaker 11: ten thousand runners expected for twenty twenty seven, they just
- 21:55Speaker 11: had to do something.
- 21:56Speaker 5: He says.
- 21:57Speaker 11: The extension will take half and full marathon runners across
- 22:00Speaker 11: Fitzgerald av into the red Zone, down to curz Reach
- 22:02Speaker 11: where our rowers have their regattas, and then back along
- 22:05Speaker 11: the river in order to link back with the old course.
- 22:08Speaker 6: That people will know.
- 22:09Speaker 4: Okay, how's your weather.
- 22:11Speaker 11: The rain has started here, will be heavier from this afternoon.
- 22:14Speaker 11: As Callum said, southwesterly is becoming strong. Southeasterly is at
- 22:17Speaker 11: the high eleven degrees, cleared to be morning to best.
- 22:20Speaker 4: Morning, Ryan, you've got numbers from the council on the
- 22:23Speaker 4: nude library.
- 22:25Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, after all the issues with opening ceremonies
- 22:28Speaker 9: and library websites, we've got some pretty good news here.
- 22:30Speaker 9: The revamped Central Library, which reopens this or in March
- 22:35Speaker 9: sorry after more than six years back, has officially welcomed
- 22:37Speaker 9: five hundred thousand people.
- 22:39Speaker 3: Through its doors.
- 22:40Speaker 9: Some more figures for you. Over two hundred and twenty
- 22:43Speaker 9: thousand books have been issued, two three hundred meeting rooms booked,
- 22:47Speaker 9: and almost thirty thousand people using those creative spaces in
- 22:50Speaker 9: the first three months alone. The cafe on the inside
- 22:53Speaker 9: as well, where they say they can't keep up with business,
- 22:56Speaker 9: serving over eight hundred flat whites every week. The owner
- 22:59Speaker 9: of the caf, Sam Huy, says it's been madness and
- 23:02Speaker 9: they've broken their coffee grinders twice trying to keep up,
- 23:05Speaker 9: and their cheese scones when they're flying off the cabinet
- 23:07Speaker 9: so fast that they've started baking twice a day.
- 23:11Speaker 4: Nice. So did so five hundred thousand people in six months?
- 23:15Speaker 9: Oh yes, in the first since March, so that's five months.
- 23:19Speaker 4: Yeah, okay? And then how much was the website again?
- 23:22Speaker 4: Six hundred thousand dollars six hundred thousand okay, So if
- 23:25Speaker 4: we charged a dollar ahead, we still wouldn't be we
- 23:28Speaker 4: still wouldn't be baking even and it's free, but they've
- 23:31Speaker 4: still got money for cheese scones, which is lovely.
- 23:33Speaker 9: How's the weather, well, mostly cloudy's strong southerlies this morning,
- 23:37Speaker 9: rain and saw for us this afternoon and twelve degrees
- 23:40Speaker 9: to high and Wellington's on.
- 23:41Speaker 4: Today's thank you and Neva's an all good morning, Nebers.
- 23:43Speaker 13: I'm just thinking, wow, it's probably you know, we need
- 23:47Speaker 13: to get down there just for a coffee and a
- 23:49Speaker 13: scow twice a day on the scone and the old grinder.
- 23:53Speaker 13: The coffee grinders just like being broken.
- 23:56Speaker 4: Well they might be old, much like the median barriers
- 23:59Speaker 4: on the augn highighway network.
- 24:00Speaker 13: Oh yes, now look deemed inadequate by coroner investigating a
- 24:05Speaker 13: horrific triple fatal crash. These old barriers. Now they are
- 24:10Speaker 13: going to be replaced by safer and more modern ones,
- 24:13Speaker 13: but they will remain in other parts of the country,
- 24:16Speaker 13: and they will only be replaced when they can no
- 24:19Speaker 13: longer be repaired and just as funding allows. So back
- 24:24Speaker 13: in August twenty twenty four, you'll remember that a truck
- 24:26Speaker 13: blew attired then plowed through the barrier. This is on
- 24:29Speaker 13: State Highway one between Bombay and Ruma Rama, before slamming
- 24:33Speaker 13: into a van as it was heading to Auckland. It
- 24:36Speaker 13: killed three men and caused a coroner to recommend the
- 24:39Speaker 13: removal of all barriers around the country.
- 24:41Speaker 4: Right, how's our weather?
- 24:43Speaker 13: Yeah, Well, much like the rest of the country really
- 24:45Speaker 13: showers heavy, becoming isolated though this morning Gustine Nordley's and
- 24:49Speaker 13: Auckland is a higher fifteen today.
- 24:50Speaker 4: Big dump rain last night, yes, and thunder thunder, callever thunder.
- 24:56Speaker 13: Normally I seep through that, but I was awake.
- 25:00Speaker 4: She was clapping hard and did you stay awake or
- 25:02Speaker 4: did you go back to staw I stayed awake. No,
- 25:05Speaker 4: that was it this game.
- 25:06Speaker 13: I thought you looked a bit tired to excuse you.
- 25:11Speaker 4: Thank you never. It is seventeen minutes away, I think
- 25:14Speaker 4: seventeen minutes away from six coming up next. So Harry
- 25:17Speaker 4: is going to the UK, but he's leaving the missus
- 25:19Speaker 4: and kids in America. And it's all again to do
- 25:23Speaker 4: with the security. Gavin Grays in the UK News Talk
- 25:26Speaker 4: to b It is fourteen minutes away from six to
- 25:27Speaker 4: Winston Peters. You might have seen it the Weekly one
- 25:29Speaker 4: New Zealand first, but Winston Peters fronted the conference. This
- 25:33Speaker 4: was about only citizens. Only New Zealand citizens should be
- 25:37Speaker 4: able to vote in national elections and in local ones
- 25:41Speaker 4: as well. Now the rules are because I thought, I
- 25:43Speaker 4: wonder how many people actually vote. Non citizens vote in
- 25:47Speaker 4: our elections the rules are to vote here, you have
- 25:51Speaker 4: to be a permanent resident who's lived in the country
- 25:55Speaker 4: continuously for at least twelve months in order to enroll
- 25:59Speaker 4: and then vote. And how many people is that well,
- 26:03Speaker 4: depends varies. In twenty four there were four hundred and
- 26:07Speaker 4: seventy six thousand resident visa holders who'd spent one day
- 26:13Speaker 4: in New Zealand, so you know, you kind of got
- 26:15Speaker 4: to take a stab in the dark a little bit.
- 26:16Speaker 4: Seven hundred thousand holders of permanent resident visas in New Zealand,
- 26:21Speaker 4: so it's not an insignificant number. Now, how many of
- 26:24Speaker 4: them actually vote, we don't know, because the Electoral Commission
- 26:28Speaker 4: doesn't actually ask or track whether you are a citizen
- 26:32Speaker 4: or a non citizen when you go to cast your vote.
- 26:35Speaker 4: So it's will it change the earth? We don't actually know.
- 26:39Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
- 26:43Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
- 26:45Speaker 4: But in just six Gavin Gray are UK, you're a correspondent.
- 26:48Speaker 4: So Harry's coming, but Meghan is not, and the kids
- 26:51Speaker 4: are staying back in the States too. Gavin, Yeah, that's
- 26:54Speaker 4: the elitist.
- 26:55Speaker 14: This has been the on off saga of Prince Harry's
- 26:58Speaker 14: visit back to the UK with a chance for King
- 27:01Speaker 14: Charles to meet his two grandchildren for the first time
- 27:04Speaker 14: in four years. The two children at age seven and five,
- 27:09Speaker 14: and he's not seen them in person since twenty twenty two.
- 27:12Speaker 14: So it looks like Harry is coming over and this
- 27:16Speaker 14: is for the countdown to the Invictus Games for injured
- 27:19Speaker 14: ex servicemen and women to take part in the sort
- 27:22Speaker 14: of Olympics as they are sometimes called for them, and
- 27:26Speaker 14: he's trying to raise awareness and attention for that. However,
- 27:30Speaker 14: the original thing was that he was going to come
- 27:32Speaker 14: over with Meghan and the two children, but it looks
- 27:35Speaker 14: like Meghan, Archie and Lilibet are going to stay in
- 27:38Speaker 14: California at least for the first bit of the visit,
- 27:41Speaker 14: which is interesting because it's not a total bahan. At
- 27:44Speaker 14: the moment, it's said that they may be coming to
- 27:47Speaker 14: another bit in Birmingham. Why it's all down to a
- 27:49Speaker 14: row about security. Prince Harry has been given accommodation at
- 27:53Speaker 14: a role residence, which of course will be secure. However
- 27:57Speaker 14: they are not giving him an extra detail when he's
- 28:00Speaker 14: out and about and they say, look, he's not a
- 28:01Speaker 14: working royal. We've received no intelligence of any threats. Harry
- 28:05Speaker 14: says differently. He says he cannot see a situation where
- 28:08Speaker 14: he is safe with his wife if he does not
- 28:10Speaker 14: have extra security. The UK said, well, you can bring
- 28:13Speaker 14: your own security, and at which point I think the
- 28:15Speaker 14: negotiations fell flat. But certainly there's talk about this all
- 28:19Speaker 14: being a bit of a psychodrama.
- 28:20Speaker 4: What alava? The palava continues. Now one am your time,
- 28:26Speaker 4: the Mexicans are playing the English as a World Cup
- 28:29Speaker 4: football big game. Are you going to be able to
- 28:31Speaker 4: go to the pub?
- 28:32Speaker 14: Given well, in six hours time the big kick off
- 28:36Speaker 14: six hours ten minutes, you can go to the pub.
- 28:39Speaker 14: I will not, however, be going to the pub, as
- 28:41Speaker 14: I've got work early the next morning, but plenty of
- 28:44Speaker 14: people will be. The government originally said no, there won't
- 28:48Speaker 14: be any extension to opening hours, which is normally finishing
- 28:51Speaker 14: at eleven pm. However they backtracked on that and said, actually, yes,
- 28:56Speaker 14: now the pubs can open until five am on Monday
- 28:59Speaker 14: morning our time. Now that means of course that there
- 29:02Speaker 14: will be plenty of people getting up for work late,
- 29:06Speaker 14: not going into work, potentially calling in for a sickie.
- 29:09Speaker 14: So many employers are not that impressed with the late
- 29:12Speaker 14: change of heart because they've not been given time to
- 29:14Speaker 14: sort of prepare their rosters or schedules. The police are
- 29:17Speaker 14: said to be pretty sad dissatisfied because again they're now
- 29:20Speaker 14: having to draft people in on overtime in order to
- 29:23Speaker 14: be available should any trouble kickoff. And it is a
- 29:27Speaker 14: sad thing of course, round that with an increase in
- 29:30Speaker 14: alcohol there comes an increase in violent crime. So that's
- 29:34Speaker 14: why the police and council officials are slightly nervy about this,
- 29:38Speaker 14: because many say they just don't have the pans in
- 29:40Speaker 14: plans in place to actually look after people until five am.
- 29:45Speaker 4: All right, sounds like a little kickoff the nice has
- 29:48Speaker 4: always given. Gray are UK europe correspondent. It is ten
- 29:50Speaker 4: to six essions on a bit of a trade blitz
- 29:53Speaker 4: after getting the Indie FTA across the line, the wanting
- 29:56Speaker 4: to cut deals with seven new countries including Brazil, Niger, Area,
- 30:00Speaker 4: Argentina and more. Nathan Guys Meat Industry Association, Independent Share
- 30:04Speaker 4: and Special Agricultural Envoy joins us this morning. Nathan, good morning,
- 30:08Speaker 4: good morning, right, So after India, who's top of your list?
- 30:10Speaker 4: Who do we want one with?
- 30:13Speaker 10: I think out of the list that were announced yesterday.
- 30:16Speaker 10: Probably Bangladesh is pretty much ready to go. They are
- 30:21Speaker 10: very engage with US. It's a very big dairy market
- 30:24Speaker 10: about three hundred and fifty million at the moment for
- 30:27Speaker 10: Fontier and others, so I think that might be first
- 30:30Speaker 10: cab off the rank wouldn't surprise me. If North America,
- 30:33Speaker 10: our North African countries like Nigeria are also quite warmed
- 30:39Speaker 10: up as well. Switzerland's an interesting one, very high value market,
- 30:44Speaker 10: but small at the moment, so that they decided with
- 30:49Speaker 10: others not to join the EU, so they stand alone.
- 30:53Speaker 10: Also with Iceland and lets Line in Norway, they've set
- 30:57Speaker 10: up a little EU Free Trade Association and so they're
- 31:00Speaker 10: keen to go in. Switzerland's part of that, so I
- 31:04Speaker 10: think that'll be interesting. And then if we look across
- 31:08Speaker 10: to South America, some massive economies over there, Brazil, Argentina
- 31:13Speaker 10: and Uruuguay big beef producers, quite strong and dairy, so
- 31:18Speaker 10: they are likely to be interested in services and agri tech.
- 31:22Speaker 4: Good thing about this is that it's largely bipartisan free trade,
- 31:26Speaker 4: isn't it.
- 31:28Speaker 10: Yes, Well, we saw that little delay with the Labor
- 31:33Speaker 10: Party on the India FDA. Fortunately over time they decided
- 31:38Speaker 10: it was significant for the New Zealand economy and for
- 31:43Speaker 10: New Zealanders as a whole. We need to remind ourselves,
- 31:47Speaker 10: Ryan that these free trade agreements actually benefit every household
- 31:50Speaker 10: in New Zealand. They are significant. And I think what
- 31:54Speaker 10: this plan has done was announced yesterday to the National Party.
- 31:58Speaker 10: It's got a clear plan of action now will targeted
- 32:02Speaker 10: approach twenty three trade missions over the next term, which
- 32:07Speaker 10: is exciting for business. So I just think now there's
- 32:10Speaker 10: going to be a real crystallizing of minds, a focus
- 32:13Speaker 10: in government with m fat MPI and New Zealand Trade
- 32:18Speaker 10: Ederprize to work concernedly together on these opportunities.
- 32:23Speaker 4: Good stuff, Nathan, appreciate your time this morning, Nathan guy
- 32:26Speaker 4: who is meeting through your association course former minister as well.
- 32:29Speaker 4: It is seven to six. You're on News talksb.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spunk for Business Technology
- 32:37Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
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- 32:40Speaker 4: It is five away from six. You're on News Talk
- 32:42Speaker 4: B and Mike's in the studio. Morning Mike, how'd the
- 32:45Speaker 4: father in law go very, very tired? He's tired, he's
- 32:49Speaker 4: shifting soil weekend time job completed job completed, A very
- 32:54Speaker 4: good job and well done.
- 32:55Speaker 3: Better job than you would have done.
- 32:56Speaker 4: Absolutely, I would have done it because I would have
- 32:58Speaker 4: done nothing.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Fantastic. Did you give them something nice?
- 33:02Speaker 4: Did you?
- 33:02Speaker 1: No?
- 33:03Speaker 15: No, well, no, not yet, but you will now I
- 33:07Speaker 15: will not now, will you because I've asked publicly?
- 33:10Speaker 4: No, I always. Do you know that there's a nice
- 33:12Speaker 4: meal shouted all this game?
- 33:13Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good. So it was a big job in
- 33:16Speaker 3: the past.
- 33:16Speaker 4: It was a big job. A lot of mud. There's
- 33:18Speaker 4: a lot of mud at the house. And I must
- 33:19Speaker 4: say that when the thunder clap this morning at one
- 33:22Speaker 4: thirty and the rain started falling, I did open the
- 33:24Speaker 4: window thinking, oh my gosh, And so you haven't seen
- 33:26Speaker 4: it because it's dark and you're dark going home to
- 33:28Speaker 4: the lights on.
- 33:29Speaker 3: Lord knows what.
- 33:30Speaker 4: But the last No, that's fine, it's okay. But it
- 33:32Speaker 4: was a lot of work, like they work very hard.
- 33:34Speaker 3: That's good. And did you look on with a cup
- 33:37Speaker 3: of team just gave my work? That looks hard?
- 33:38Speaker 4: Can I get you anything?
- 33:41Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so pleased. Christa luxe and Prime minister. This morning,
- 33:44Speaker 3: John Hart see the rugby, watched the rugby? I did, Yeah,
- 33:47Speaker 3: fantastic game. It was a good game. Otherwise a game.
- 33:50Speaker 3: I'm not into the negativity about OZ.
- 33:52Speaker 15: But close, I thought was a fast close game is
- 33:54Speaker 15: a good game. And if you haven't seen the racing,
- 33:56Speaker 15: by the way, go how much the f one. It's
- 33:58Speaker 15: very very good race, really veryous British, the British, so
- 34:02Speaker 15: many wet, busy morning, very good.
- 34:04Speaker 10: Get out of it, don't get out of it.
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