Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 15 December 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickots on
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- 0:13Speaker 2: Welcome morning to you and welcome to the week, and
- 0:14Speaker 2: welcome to the program coming up over the next hour.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Everything that we can find and everything that we know
- 0:20Speaker 2: about the Bondai Beach Horror. At the Avatar premiere, James
- 0:25Speaker 2: Cameron says the business model of movies has now broken
- 0:27Speaker 2: and our government needs to intervene. So is he right
- 0:29Speaker 2: that story? In five the Phoenix have a Horror weekend,
- 0:33Speaker 2: Ryan Fox wins his own event, Alice Robinson's on, Elliot
- 0:37Speaker 2: Smith on Sport and ten King Charles is on the Men.
- 0:40Speaker 2: So where are we with cancer screening and roadside drug
- 0:43Speaker 2: testing starts today? So what can we expect? Well, I
- 0:46Speaker 2: have Gavin Gray out of the UK and correspondence to
- 0:48Speaker 2: Right around New Zealand and news as it breaks and
- 0:50Speaker 2: you can have your say on the text and the
- 0:52Speaker 2: number is ninety two. Ninety two are small charge applies.
- 0:55Speaker 2: It's seven up to five. The agenda the fifteenth of December,
- 1:03Speaker 2: starting with the breaking news at a Bondai Beach overnight.
- 1:05Speaker 2: At least twelve people are dead and twenty nine injured,
- 1:07Speaker 2: including two police officers, after a mass shooting at a
- 1:11Speaker 2: hunker event. There were bullets all around me.
- 1:15Speaker 3: All I can do is screaming, where is my family,
- 1:18Speaker 3: Where's my little girl?
- 1:19Speaker 2: Where's my little girl?
- 1:20Speaker 4: I saw her dancing for a second and.
- 1:22Speaker 5: She was gone.
- 1:22Speaker 6: Actually had a police officer drag me out.
- 1:25Speaker 5: He was shot in the in the head.
- 1:28Speaker 2: One gunman is dead, another is injured and in police custody.
- 1:32Speaker 2: New South Wales Police and Anthony Albanizi have declared a
- 1:35Speaker 2: terrorist attack.
- 1:36Speaker 7: An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian,
- 1:41Speaker 7: and every Australian tonight will be like me, devastated on
- 1:46Speaker 7: this attack on our way of.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Life, or as a former Prime minister might have said,
- 1:52Speaker 2: they are us. An incredible video has been circling the
- 1:55Speaker 2: Internet of a man sneaking up on one of the
- 1:57Speaker 2: gunmen and taking his firearm off.
- 2:00Speaker 8: It's the most unbelievable scene I've ever seen, a man
- 2:04Speaker 8: walking up to a gunman who had fired on the
- 2:07Speaker 8: community and single handedly disarming him.
- 2:10Speaker 7: Black man is a genuine hero.
- 2:13Speaker 2: He's a local fruit shop owner and of Arabic descent. Meanwhile,
- 2:19Speaker 2: keeping with the guns back in the United States, a
- 2:21Speaker 2: person of interest has been detained after the shooting at
- 2:23Speaker 2: Brown University of the weekend, where two people were killed
- 2:26Speaker 2: and nine injured when gunfire erupted on campus in Rhode Island.
- 2:30Speaker 9: We have two priorities right now as a community, one
- 2:33Speaker 9: to bring the individual responsible to justice, and two to
- 2:37Speaker 9: pray for the full recovery of those affected. The Brown
- 2:40Speaker 9: community's hard is breaking in Providence as hard as breaking
- 2:42Speaker 9: along with it.
- 2:43Speaker 2: And finally, to the movies. And John Sena has taken
- 2:46Speaker 2: his final bow in the WWE. He's a wrestler who
- 2:50Speaker 2: became a movie star. His last match in Washington will
- 2:53Speaker 2: end a twenty four year career and Samentsa's status is
- 2:56Speaker 2: one of wrestling's biggest names.
- 2:58Speaker 10: Nine Tina has popped out.
- 3:03Speaker 11: Nineteen thousand fans.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Shut It is now nine minutes after five on.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with Andrew
- 3:17Speaker 1: Dickens and Are the Supercenter Explore r these accessories and
- 3:21Speaker 1: servicing allan one the news talk sa'd be.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I have my thoughts on Bondai in fifteen minutes. So
- 3:26Speaker 2: the good news over the weekend was at King Charles
- 3:28Speaker 2: as well and getting better. He broadcasts to the UK
- 3:31Speaker 2: and the world that is cancer that appeared two years
- 3:34Speaker 2: ago is now under control and his treatments are reducing.
- 3:37Speaker 2: His public discussion represented a notable shift in Royal protocol
- 3:41Speaker 2: because normally they don't talk about their health issues that
- 3:43Speaker 2: kept private. He made the broadcast to raise attention about
- 3:46Speaker 2: cancer screening. The Stand Up to Cancer campaign is on
- 3:49Speaker 2: right now in the UK, and Charles urged millions to
- 3:52Speaker 2: take up available screenings for the disease and said his
- 3:55Speaker 2: good news was down to early diagnosis, successful care and
- 3:58Speaker 2: following doctor's orders. And good on him. I say you
- 4:02Speaker 2: may know that back in twenty nineteen I had a
- 4:04Speaker 2: small dose of the cancer in my prostate, found because
- 4:07Speaker 2: I started screening my blood through PSA tests in my forties.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Now I have no prostate and no cancer and I
- 4:14Speaker 2: will never have prostate cancer in my life, unlike an
- 4:16Speaker 2: old mate of mine who didn't find it and died
- 4:19Speaker 2: painfully after it spread to his bones and fused his spines. Now,
- 4:23Speaker 2: apparently there are many people in Britain who don't take
- 4:25Speaker 2: advantage of screening programs. Same here I have many friends
- 4:30Speaker 2: in their sixties who have never tested their prostates, never
- 4:33Speaker 2: had a colonoscopy, never done the Bowl cancer test. That
- 4:36Speaker 2: is free, and unless you have good insurance, you know
- 4:39Speaker 2: it can get pretty expensive. Not that King Charles ever
- 4:42Speaker 2: had to worry about that. So look, here we go
- 4:44Speaker 2: about screening. A month ago, I noticed a lump on
- 4:46Speaker 2: my tongue. I just lost a mate to aesophageal cancer.
- 4:49Speaker 2: After noticing a lump, so I told my doctor. She
- 4:52Speaker 2: decided to refer me to an oral surgeon to have
- 4:54Speaker 2: a look. So I got myself an appointment. The appointments
- 4:57Speaker 2: in April next year. Apparently there's not enough oral surgeons,
- 5:02Speaker 2: and the surgeon I'm going to is only available one
- 5:04Speaker 2: day a week because she's so busy with existing patients.
- 5:07Speaker 2: And I joked with the receptionist, Oh, it will be
- 5:09Speaker 2: good to know what I'm dying of when I finally
- 5:11Speaker 2: get to see the person who could have diagnose what
- 5:14Speaker 2: I am dying of. King Charles said it all. Early
- 5:18Speaker 2: screening saves lives, and it also saves money over the
- 5:22Speaker 2: long term. But we underinvest in screening because, as Ruth
- 5:27Speaker 2: Richardson will tell you, we can't spend more money, even
- 5:30Speaker 2: if it makes sense, youth Talk said b twelve after five.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Wellington was on fire over the weekend with the Australasian
- 5:38Speaker 2: premiere of the new Avatar movie. Everyone was looking fabulous,
- 5:42Speaker 2: the day was fabulous. It was a great day. And
- 5:44Speaker 2: James Cameron was there, of course local resident lives in
- 5:46Speaker 2: the Wira Rapper And unfortunately he came out and said
- 5:49Speaker 2: the entire model of movie making is broken. So what
- 5:54Speaker 2: did he mean by that and what does that mean
- 5:56Speaker 2: for the industry and what can we do about it?
- 5:59Speaker 2: That story is right here on news Talks AB.
- 6:02Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on early edition with r V Supercenter explore
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- 6:10Speaker 2: ITV Yes is fourteen minutes out of five. Wellington was
- 6:14Speaker 2: so very very glamorous over the weekend, recalling the glamort
- 6:16Speaker 2: that we had with the Lord of the Rings premie year,
- 6:19Speaker 2: it was Avatar this time, fire and ash and James
- 6:22Speaker 2: Cameron was there talking to all the journalists and all
- 6:25Speaker 2: the people on the red carpet, and in his conversations
- 6:28Speaker 2: he gave a few warnings about the state of the
- 6:34Speaker 2: movie business in this world right now and how it
- 6:37Speaker 2: affects New Zealand.
- 6:38Speaker 12: The theatrical marketplace is reduced by about a third. Big
- 6:41Speaker 12: films like Avatar aren't getting Greenland. I can't even tell
- 6:44Speaker 12: you that there will be another Avatar film. That business
- 6:47Speaker 12: model may have collapsed.
- 6:49Speaker 2: Amazing, eh, he says. New Zealand has big challenges ahead
- 6:52Speaker 2: and the government needs to step in to better compete
- 6:54Speaker 2: with countries like the UK and Australia with more financially
- 6:57Speaker 2: viable rebate schemes. So John mackay is the chair of
- 7:00Speaker 2: Screen Music and Sound Guild and joins me now going
- 7:03Speaker 2: into your John good morning. It was a bit scary that, yes, but.
- 7:09Speaker 13: I think it's just signaling the big sea change that's
- 7:13Speaker 13: really happened in film financing in the film world over
- 7:16Speaker 13: the last fifteen years.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Is that because we've all moved to streaming and not
- 7:19Speaker 2: gone to the cinema.
- 7:21Speaker 13: Yes, Like in twenty ten, the then CEO of Warner
- 7:27Speaker 13: Brothers called Netflix basically the Albanian Army taking on the world.
- 7:31Speaker 13: Of the Albanian Army has taken on the world and won.
- 7:34Speaker 2: Yeah, And the news that they were having a crack
- 7:36Speaker 2: at Warner Brothers Discovery is showing that they do have
- 7:40Speaker 2: the strength in the field, didn't they.
- 7:42Speaker 13: Well, exactly, you know, so yeah, the landscape for I
- 7:46Speaker 13: think what what James Cameron is really saying is that
- 7:50Speaker 13: to get the budgets of the level of an Avatar
- 7:52Speaker 13: is pretty hard without a bigger theatrical market.
- 7:57Speaker 2: So he also made calls that the government should do STUF.
- 8:00Speaker 2: So what should they do.
- 8:03Speaker 13: Well, basically we have the rebate scheme which was tinkered
- 8:08Speaker 13: with recently, but effectively it was just opening up their
- 8:11Speaker 13: criteria to a lower budget film, So nothing really for
- 8:15Speaker 13: a film of the level of Avatar. And let's not
- 8:18Speaker 13: forget this film, you know, employs over three thousand people.
- 8:22Speaker 13: It's a massive undertaking. So I think he's after a
- 8:26Speaker 13: rebake hike. Basically, the percentage to go up higher to match,
- 8:30Speaker 13: for example, Australia is that's thirty percent, thirty to forty
- 8:33Speaker 13: percent you can get out of Australia whereas we're twenty five,
- 8:37Speaker 13: you know, for international production.
- 8:39Speaker 2: But there are some people who ideologically oppose this because
- 8:42Speaker 2: they call it corporate welfare.
- 8:45Speaker 13: Yeah, well we've always had this argument, but it's the
- 8:47Speaker 13: way that film financing and film works, you know, you know,
- 8:51Speaker 13: we can't really change the system. And the other thing
- 8:55Speaker 13: to really understand is that it's on money they spend
- 8:58Speaker 13: to you. We only get the rebate on what has
- 9:00Speaker 13: actually spent in New Zealand. So if they don't come,
- 9:04Speaker 13: you know, we don't pay it the money, you know,
- 9:06Speaker 13: So in effect, the incentive is a marketing tool.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Okay, but this is this just shifting the you know,
- 9:16Speaker 2: the chairs on the Dick chairs on the Titanic, you know,
- 9:19Speaker 2: is the model? Will the model collapse worldwide? Are we
- 9:23Speaker 2: all going to sit at home and not in the theater.
- 9:26Speaker 13: Well, there's also signs that the Netflix and the streamers
- 9:30Speaker 13: are actually buying theaters and will actually stream the movies
- 9:33Speaker 13: to theaters. So if you really wanted the great cinema experience,
- 9:37Speaker 13: you know, you have to be in a theater. You
- 9:40Speaker 13: know you're going to get the best picture, best sound,
- 9:43Speaker 13: the communal experience of cinema cannot be you know, beaten
- 9:48Speaker 13: them in my view.
- 9:49Speaker 2: John McKay well said, and I thank you very much.
- 9:51Speaker 2: John is the chair of the Screen Music and Sound Guild.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Now just ask yourself, when did you last go to
- 9:56Speaker 2: the movies? What was that? What was that Leonardo DiCaprio
- 10:02Speaker 2: film that just came out done by Paul Anderson. That
- 10:05Speaker 2: looked amazing, got incredible views. I kept meaning to go,
- 10:07Speaker 2: but I never got round to actually leaving the house
- 10:09Speaker 2: to go to it and to pay the money to
- 10:11Speaker 2: go to a theater because and I know how I
- 10:14Speaker 2: rationalized this in my own head, because I said, well,
- 10:16Speaker 2: it'll turn up streaming eventually. I don't have to see
- 10:18Speaker 2: it now. I'll see it eventually, thinking that that's still
- 10:21Speaker 2: supporting the industry. But is it? It is nineteen minutes
- 10:25Speaker 2: after five. Alice Robinson the skier won a race last
- 10:28Speaker 2: night in sama Ritz and she didn't just win it,
- 10:30Speaker 2: she won it by a lot. This is amazing. As
- 10:33Speaker 2: the Olympics come around the corner. More on this at
- 10:34Speaker 2: a moment with Elliot Smith.
- 10:37Speaker 1: The news you Need this morning and the in depth
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- 10:47Speaker 1: News talk sa'd be five twenty one.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Elliot Smith, good morning, good morning.
- 10:50Speaker 8: Now.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Look, I know I'm a skier, you are, and I've
- 10:52Speaker 2: been watching Alice Robinson for a long time and all
- 10:54Speaker 2: that sort of thing, but I cannot under state what
- 10:58Speaker 2: she did last night because this is this underdog key.
- 11:00Speaker 2: We have very little funding up against millionaires and millionaire
- 11:03Speaker 2: teams and she's on top of the world and she
- 11:06Speaker 2: won that by an awful lot.
- 11:08Speaker 4: She did absolutely. I went back and watched the run
- 11:11Speaker 4: when I got in this morning, and she had the
- 11:13Speaker 4: jets on big time through that and the commentators couldn't
- 11:17Speaker 4: believe how quickly she went. She had a bit of
- 11:19Speaker 4: a wake. She one of those ones you post the
- 11:21Speaker 4: quickest time and then you're gonna wait for everyone else
- 11:23Speaker 4: to cycle through, and you've got the Lindsay Vonn's of
- 11:25Speaker 4: the world and a couple of other a few other
- 11:28Speaker 4: great skiers coming through. But her time held up and
- 11:31Speaker 4: she won by zero point zero eight seconds. In the end,
- 11:34Speaker 4: the French arrival got very very close to taking over.
- 11:36Speaker 4: But as an incredible run from Alice Robinson. You think
- 11:38Speaker 4: about the results that she's had in recent times. We're
- 11:41Speaker 4: on the doorstep of the Milan Courtina Winter Olympics in
- 11:44Speaker 4: a couple of months time. She's finding some pretty good form.
- 11:47Speaker 4: At the time there was their first super g win
- 11:49Speaker 4: overnight as well, discipline that she hasn't always been comfortable with.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Now you know I'm sorry to Zoe, and I'm sorry
- 11:55Speaker 2: to Nico Portius, and I'm sorry to Luca and all
- 11:57Speaker 2: that sort of thing. That Alice Robinson is our best
- 12:00Speaker 2: because what she's done is incredible and she's only got
- 12:03Speaker 2: and Lindsey Vaughn.
- 12:04Speaker 4: I mean you look at that at the start of
- 12:06Speaker 4: the weekend, ye forty one. Yeah, and she finished fourth
- 12:09Speaker 4: in that race as well.
- 12:10Speaker 2: And hadn't raced for five years. Yeah, it's just amazing,
- 12:13Speaker 2: which shows you you only get better as you get older,
- 12:15Speaker 2: which I could say about the black Caps as well,
- 12:17Speaker 2: because it seems that you have to be thirty to
- 12:18Speaker 2: get into that side.
- 12:19Speaker 4: That's the age limit or the age the entry fee.
- 12:22Speaker 4: It's like social media in Australia. You've you must be
- 12:25Speaker 4: thirty to have a Black Caps appearance. You look at
- 12:28Speaker 4: Michael Ray and what he was able to do, you know,
- 12:31Speaker 4: Blair Tech and I think is over thirty now as well.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Now they call back in AJS Patel for the Third Test,
- 12:36Speaker 4: which starts on Thursday. That news is coming out in
- 12:38Speaker 4: the last twenty minutes or so. He's in his late thirties.
- 12:41Speaker 4: So and Tom Blundell, who's come back in for Mitchey
- 12:44Speaker 4: they've decided twenty five year old keeping. Thanks very much.
- 12:46Speaker 4: One test. But Tom Blundle's back from his fitness issues,
- 12:50Speaker 4: so he's back in for the third and final test
- 12:52Speaker 4: of the summer of the series this week and starts
- 12:56Speaker 4: Thursday in Bay Oval. But the Black CAP's very very
- 12:59Speaker 4: good performance. Tidy thought they probably didn't rise to any
- 13:01Speaker 4: great heights necessarily, you know. Jacob Duffy bold well, and
- 13:05Speaker 4: so did techn them before he got injured, Michael Ray
- 13:07Speaker 4: as well. But they weren't, you know, absolutely tearing the
- 13:10Speaker 4: place apart. But they just performed and very very tidily
- 13:13Speaker 4: got the job done.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Consistent, and they're like rust they just eat you away.
- 13:17Speaker 4: That's right, And now I can try and wrap the
- 13:19Speaker 4: series and from Thursday.
- 13:20Speaker 2: And poor Yeah, the Phoenix, I mean I watched the
- 13:26Speaker 2: first half and then shift drifted away, came back three one.
- 13:30Speaker 4: That's kind of what the Phoenix did as well. They
- 13:31Speaker 4: just played the first half, drifted away, and all of
- 13:34Speaker 4: a sudden it was three to one. It was in
- 13:35Speaker 4: the battle of about twelve minutes after halftime. They were
- 13:38Speaker 4: down three nil. After they went into the Shed's Neil
- 13:40Speaker 4: All and there has to be some serious questions now
- 13:42Speaker 4: I think I asked the Joe Carlo with Taliano the
- 13:44Speaker 4: record is very poor, the second to last on the ladder,
- 13:48Speaker 4: or if they don't have the resources of an Auckland
- 13:49Speaker 4: f C. We all know that, but you need to
- 13:52Speaker 4: get better out of you.
- 13:52Speaker 2: And the Jets were last. The Jets were the last
- 13:54Speaker 2: team and they threshed.
- 13:56Speaker 4: They thrashed them sort of questions might be asked this
- 13:58Speaker 4: week if the next.
- 13:59Speaker 2: You thank you very much. It is now five twenty.
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- 14:08Speaker 2: Talks b It's five twenty six. If you've just woken up,
- 14:12Speaker 2: Twelve people dead at Bondai Beach after Bondai Now seems
- 14:18Speaker 2: obvious that anti Semitism is out the gate, particularly in
- 14:22Speaker 2: Australia with a large population who hail from the Middle East,
- 14:24Speaker 2: but increasingly so in this country and increasingly so around
- 14:27Speaker 2: the world. And I don't think the genie is going
- 14:29Speaker 2: to be put back into the bottle anytime soon. The
- 14:32Speaker 2: conflict in Gaza, starting with a Hamas attack on the
- 14:35Speaker 2: music festival in October twenty twenty three, has only intensified
- 14:38Speaker 2: the conflict between faiths, and of course we don't want
- 14:42Speaker 2: a victim blame. But Israel's reaction to the original attack
- 14:45Speaker 2: has not calm the situation, but in fact further radicalize Muslims.
- 14:50Speaker 2: And I've presented talkback on the Gaza situation over the
- 14:53Speaker 2: past two years. I was always at pains to separate
- 14:56Speaker 2: the Israeli state from the Jewish faith, but that has
- 14:59Speaker 2: been impossible to do for both sides, and not helped
- 15:03Speaker 2: by Netanyahoo, who goes out of his way to make
- 15:05Speaker 2: sure you know the faith is the state and the
- 15:07Speaker 2: state is the faith. Any talk of the Garsen bloodshed
- 15:11Speaker 2: by Israel is always pulled back and sheeted home to
- 15:15Speaker 2: October seventh, twenty twenty three in the moves by Hamas,
- 15:19Speaker 2: and any talk about the Hamas atrocity is always linked
- 15:22Speaker 2: back to the Israeli countermoves. Any criticism of Israel's actions
- 15:27Speaker 2: is always branded anti Semitism by supporters of Israel. Both
- 15:33Speaker 2: sides now locked in a deadly dance with no middle
- 15:36Speaker 2: ground of peace, a dance that has been there since
- 15:39Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight, but today is more furious than ever.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Blessed are the peacemakers, they say, but where are they?
- 15:48Speaker 2: One reported blessing is that the Australian hero who disarmed
- 15:52Speaker 2: a Bondai attacker was himself an Arab, a local fruit
- 15:55Speaker 2: shop owner, hopefully showing that the killers are not indicative
- 15:58Speaker 2: of all Muslims, and hopefully that might ease the wave
- 16:03Speaker 2: of Islamophobia that is almost inevitable. But I don't think so.
- 16:09Speaker 14: News Talk said.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Be five twenty eight. I'm just looking at Sky News
- 16:12Speaker 2: and the ticker, you know, they had the ticker, the
- 16:14Speaker 2: thing that goes across the screen while they're talking, and
- 16:17Speaker 2: it just went Australia will never be the same again.
- 16:21Speaker 2: I noted that Anthony Albanese's comment seems quite reminiscent of
- 16:25Speaker 2: what de Sindra Dourna after the Mosk attack. They are
- 16:28Speaker 2: us The attack on the Hanneker revelers was an attack
- 16:34Speaker 2: on all Australian, said the Prime Minister, and it's been
- 16:38Speaker 2: noticed around the world. Gavin Gray from the UK is
- 16:42Speaker 2: about ten minutes away in there. UK police are tightening
- 16:45Speaker 2: security around synagogues who are all of course around the
- 16:48Speaker 2: world celebrating Haneker and this is because of what happened
- 16:51Speaker 2: in Australia. Of course, the UK PM says the attack
- 16:54Speaker 2: targeting the Jewish community is sickening. We all know it's sickening.
- 16:58Speaker 2: It is sickening. Have more on this as the morning
- 17:01Speaker 2: goes on, including with Heather d Allen. And of course
- 17:05Speaker 2: it's Monday, so the Prime Minister will be on as well.
- 17:07Speaker 2: He's been well briefed and he's been talking to Anthony Albanesi,
- 17:09Speaker 2: so all of that, all of that still to come.
- 17:13Speaker 2: This morning. Someone says said, I can't believe your support
- 17:17Speaker 2: for Palestine. How did I support Palestine?
- 17:21Speaker 4: There we go.
- 17:22Speaker 2: We are in two sides and nobody can say anything
- 17:25Speaker 2: without being shut down, so to speak. There was a
- 17:27Speaker 2: terrible choice of words. News and sport is on the way.
- 17:32Speaker 2: They were right around the country. This is news Talk
- 17:34Speaker 2: there B. I'm Andrew Dickens.
- 17:35Speaker 1: This is Early Edition, the first word on the news
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- 18:08Speaker 2: Welcome to the Olivia Dean Show to you Early Edition
- 18:12Speaker 2: with Andrew Dickenson. Ryan's doing drive, Heather's coming in with breakfast.
- 18:16Speaker 2: This is Olivia Dean singing. Kenzie and I both adore
- 18:19Speaker 2: Olivia she's so good anyway, She's coming next year in
- 18:23Speaker 2: concert now. Of course. Earlier we reported on what happened
- 18:27Speaker 2: over the weekend in Wellington with the Avatar premier yere
- 18:31Speaker 2: in the comments of James Cameron, who says the model
- 18:33Speaker 2: for making movies is completely broken. Theater attendances are down
- 18:37Speaker 2: at third Being able to fund big movies like Avatar
- 18:41Speaker 2: has become impossible in James's opinion, and he says the
- 18:45Speaker 2: government should step in with more rebates and stuff.
- 18:47Speaker 12: You've got to think globally on this because it's that
- 18:50Speaker 12: capital influx that is the tide that raises all ships.
- 18:53Speaker 2: So we talked to John mackay about this earlier about
- 18:56Speaker 2: increasing rebates, and it's fair to say it's not popular.
- 19:00Speaker 2: And someone said, can I get a rebate for my
- 19:02Speaker 2: business please, which, of course is the thing. That's why
- 19:05Speaker 2: there were critics of the rebac because it say it's
- 19:07Speaker 2: corporate welfare. If the business is dying. The business is dying,
- 19:09Speaker 2: you can't artificially keep it alive. Another textas says James
- 19:13Speaker 2: Cameron is talking through his pocket. There are far too
- 19:15Speaker 2: many movies made, most of them are dross. Besides, virtually
- 19:18Speaker 2: all industries in this country are down by a third
- 19:20Speaker 2: at least, whether it's movies or whatever, over the last
- 19:23Speaker 2: five years. So yeah, here we go. That debate will
- 19:27Speaker 2: continue with the Heather to Alan Breakfast Show and oh look,
- 19:31Speaker 2: speaking of birthday's, Happy birthday to Dick van Dyke, who
- 19:34Speaker 2: over the weekend turned one hundred, and he said one
- 19:37Speaker 2: hundred is not enough. I want more. So we've got
- 19:40Speaker 2: the Dick van Dyke Show. Back in the sixties, he
- 19:43Speaker 2: was a Mary Poppins Tu Tity bang Bang. He's won
- 19:45Speaker 2: Emmys and Tony's and Grammys. He can dance, he can sing,
- 19:48Speaker 2: he can act. He's in the Television Hall of Fame.
- 19:50Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety five and at the beginning of the
- 19:52Speaker 2: year there was actually a bookie who was running a
- 19:53Speaker 2: book on which celebrity is most likely to die? And
- 19:57Speaker 2: number two Phil Collins, who's not well, and at number
- 20:01Speaker 2: one they put Dick van Nike. Well, here we go.
- 20:04Speaker 2: It is the fifteenth of December and Dick's still here.
- 20:09Speaker 1: News Talk said.
- 20:11Speaker 2: It's twenty one to sex. So when around the country
- 20:13Speaker 2: we go, can'm Proctor joins us from Otago. Hey, come morning, Andrew.
- 20:19Speaker 2: So there's a small town in South and it's got
- 20:21Speaker 2: a tradition, and that tradition is ending after one hundred
- 20:24Speaker 2: and sixteen years, So what's the town, what's the tradition?
- 20:27Speaker 11: This is the Tuatapari Sports Day, which many North Islanders
- 20:31Speaker 11: may never heard of. But this has been a huge,
- 20:33Speaker 11: annual and very popular family event every New Year's Day,
- 20:37Speaker 11: and this coming one will be the last one ever.
- 20:40Speaker 11: It's gradually shrunk over time andrew losing attractions like Claybird's shooting, cycling,
- 20:44Speaker 11: highland dancing and the pipe band, and also too, which
- 20:47Speaker 11: doesn't help. The Rivetson Racing Club now has races on
- 20:49Speaker 11: the same day. Organizers of the event of told Local
- 20:53Speaker 11: Democracy Reporting the events largely run by older people and
- 20:55Speaker 11: the younger ones aren't interested in stepping up, so they
- 20:59Speaker 11: say it's just a sign of it times.
- 21:00Speaker 2: What's not to love about caber tossing a how's your weathers.
- 21:05Speaker 11: Sir, Wet and windy for the south today, rain from
- 21:08Speaker 11: late afternoon for dneed and strong northerlyies changed southerly later
- 21:11Speaker 11: at the heights today twenty three.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Thank you so very much. Claire Sherwood from Canterbury, good
- 21:15Speaker 2: morning to you. Good morning, Canterbury is on fire.
- 21:18Speaker 6: Economically, yes, well, we've long talked about how well things
- 21:22Speaker 6: are going down here with all about infrastructure, but now
- 21:25Speaker 6: it turns out that our economy is matching that and
- 21:27Speaker 6: people are feeling really good about that. Asb's call to
- 21:31Speaker 6: three Economic school Board shows Cantabrian consumers are feeling more
- 21:34Speaker 6: confident than the national average. That's driven by strong population growth,
- 21:39Speaker 6: robust employment prospects and a heavy dairy presence here. Chief
- 21:43Speaker 6: economist for ASB, Nick Toughly says the regions evidently the
- 21:47Speaker 6: place to be. He says it's not surprising given it's
- 21:49Speaker 6: the second time Canterbury has been first in the leader
- 21:52Speaker 6: board this year and has been in the top three
- 21:54Speaker 6: five times over the past few years. Toughly says the
- 21:57Speaker 6: region looks to remain in a good heart heading into.
- 22:00Speaker 2: The new year and hous it's weather high.
- 22:04Speaker 6: Cloud increasing today. There is the chance of a shower,
- 22:06Speaker 6: but not until tonight nor the least will be strong
- 22:08Speaker 6: this afternoon. Warman though twenty seven, Thank you.
- 22:11Speaker 2: So much, clear bring on the rain up and down
- 22:13Speaker 2: the country. Maxt Toll from Wellington, good morning to here.
- 22:16Speaker 2: Good morning, So were you and Courtney place? Were you
- 22:18Speaker 2: in the theater. Did you indulge in the premiere?
- 22:22Speaker 8: You know.
- 22:24Speaker 14: It's going to be impossible to say this without sounding
- 22:26Speaker 14: a little big headed. I was invited to a media
- 22:28Speaker 14: exclusive screening on Thursday night and actually got to interview
- 22:33Speaker 14: mister Cameron myself over the weekend. He did say the
- 22:37Speaker 14: same regarding the business model of Hollywood being a little broken.
- 22:40Speaker 14: But at the same time I probably got more of
- 22:42Speaker 14: the sense that he was still committed to Wellington, still
- 22:44Speaker 14: committed to wetter to making movies in New Zealand, to
- 22:47Speaker 14: making movies full stop. The Capital is where he spends
- 22:50Speaker 14: most of his time now he has a home in Roseneath.
- 22:53Speaker 14: He's raising a family there. He does want the rebate
- 22:57Speaker 14: scheme boosted. He wants better pathways, training, etc. People going
- 23:00Speaker 14: into the creative arts. But while he was a little
- 23:03Speaker 14: down buzz on the future of big blockbusters like Avatar,
- 23:07Speaker 14: but if it doesn't rake in billions of dollars, which
- 23:09Speaker 14: it is still expected to do, he says there are
- 23:11Speaker 14: other movies he'd like to make. And again he's firmly
- 23:13Speaker 14: committed to New Zealand, to Wellington. He has his citizenship now,
- 23:16Speaker 14: so regardless, I don't think this is him giving up,
- 23:19Speaker 14: but rather sounding the alarm a little Saturday Night itself. Yeah, incredible,
- 23:23Speaker 14: just like the halcyon Days of the Hobbit, Lord of
- 23:25Speaker 14: the Rings. If this does go on to gross over
- 23:27Speaker 14: two billion dollars like the last couple, it would make
- 23:30Speaker 14: James Cameron, surpassing Steven Spielberg the most successful movie director
- 23:34Speaker 14: of all time.
- 23:35Speaker 2: Max, you're the only man I know who's actually seen
- 23:37Speaker 2: the movie. Is any good?
- 23:39Speaker 14: If you like the first two, you'll like this one.
- 23:42Speaker 2: That's a very difperpendent medical answer.
- 23:44Speaker 14: Once you read the like cloudy period SAMPATCHI drizzle stronger
- 23:48Speaker 14: norther least twenty one high good stuff.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Willy Pittrick joins me right now from Ukland goodcrding Wendy
- 23:52Speaker 2: in that. So we've got jail time for a five
- 23:54Speaker 2: h one deportee.
- 23:55Speaker 15: Yes, five oh one. De Porty sent us to prison.
- 23:58Speaker 15: The two separate violent attacks on Auckland bus drivers. In
- 24:01Speaker 15: December twenty twenty three, car Leo left a driver in
- 24:04Speaker 15: Ponsonby with a broken tooth and fractionedized socket after forcing
- 24:08Speaker 15: his way onto a bus. Four months later, he carried
- 24:11Speaker 15: out the second attack on the same suburb punching and
- 24:13Speaker 15: kicking a female bus driver. He was arrested again after
- 24:16Speaker 15: another six months for burglary and obstructing police, before his
- 24:20Speaker 15: final arrest in March for possessing methan fhetamine. The judge
- 24:23Speaker 15: has sentenced him to two years in prison after discounts
- 24:26Speaker 15: for guilty please upbringing and mental health issues.
- 24:30Speaker 2: I hear that Auckland beaches are absolutely packed over the
- 24:33Speaker 2: course of the weekend. So what's the forecast for today?
- 24:35Speaker 15: I am not surprised because it is warm, isn't it.
- 24:37Speaker 15: We've got another four fine day today. There are going
- 24:40Speaker 15: to be a few cloudier periods around with the chance
- 24:42Speaker 15: of an isolated shower, northeasterlies and heading for a twenty
- 24:45Speaker 15: four degree high.
- 24:46Speaker 2: And I thank you very much as it's now seventeen
- 24:48Speaker 2: to six and not a lot of people supporting James Cameron.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Stew says that James Cameron has to realize we are
- 24:53Speaker 2: a country of five million. We can promote ourselves in
- 24:56Speaker 2: many ways, but our ability to pay people to come
- 24:59Speaker 2: here limited. He is here and didn't come here for
- 25:02Speaker 2: the money or did he ask ste The Bondai attack
- 25:07Speaker 2: twelve dead, including one which is one of the attackers.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Some outlets will say eleven are dead because they're following
- 25:14Speaker 2: an American tradition of not naming the attacker. It's horrific
- 25:20Speaker 2: and reverberating around the world and the UK security has
- 25:23Speaker 2: now been tightened around synagogues and they'll be tightened around
- 25:27Speaker 2: synagogues worldwide because Hanneker has just started. So we'll talk
- 25:30Speaker 2: to you about this with Gavin Gray in just a
- 25:31Speaker 2: few moments time. Plus why did someone give a red
- 25:34Speaker 2: post box to King.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Charles International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, Peace of
- 25:41Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
- 25:44Speaker 2: Drug roadside testing for drugs starts today more than that
- 25:49Speaker 2: in just five minutes time. But first, Kevin Gray from
- 25:51Speaker 2: the UK abudy to you hi there, And so it's
- 25:55Speaker 2: reverberating around the world. The Bondai attack means that tightened
- 25:59Speaker 2: security is occurring in the UK around synagogues.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Indeed, yes, so the police saying that they are putting
- 26:05Speaker 3: on extra security. It is, of course the first day
- 26:09Speaker 3: of Hannaka and there'll be lots and lots of events
- 26:12Speaker 3: taking place over the next few days. The UK's Jewish
- 26:16Speaker 3: Leadership Council has called on the police and government to
- 26:19Speaker 3: protect events celebrating Hannekah beginning around about now and lasting
- 26:24Speaker 3: for eight days here in the UK. Of course, you'll
- 26:26Speaker 3: remember Andrew. In October, two people were killed in an
- 26:29Speaker 3: attack at a synagogue in Manchester on Jong Kippaul, that's
- 26:33Speaker 3: the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar. So the
- 26:35Speaker 3: Sydney attack absolutely resonating here. King Charles has said he's
- 26:41Speaker 3: appalled and saddened, and he said to his heart's go
- 26:45Speaker 3: out to everyone who's been affected so much. The Prime
- 26:48Speaker 3: Minister here has said it was absolutely shocking and scandalous
- 26:52Speaker 3: this particular event. We now know, incidentally, that a London
- 26:57Speaker 3: born rabbi is among those who's been killed in the attack.
- 27:00Speaker 3: He's a forty one year old father of five, described
- 27:02Speaker 3: by his family as vivacious, energetic, full of life and
- 27:05Speaker 3: very warm and an outgoing cousin his name an outgoing person. Rather,
- 27:10Speaker 3: he was described by that as his cousin and his name,
- 27:13Speaker 3: Rabbi Zaman Lewis said, Rabbi Eli Schlangak will be severely
- 27:17Speaker 3: missed by his family.
- 27:19Speaker 2: So our corresponders of Australia had been warning about the
- 27:22Speaker 2: rising tide of anti Semitism in Australia for quite some time,
- 27:26Speaker 2: but here in New Zealand we haven't felt the same
- 27:27Speaker 2: sort of thing. What's the feeling. What's the level of
- 27:32Speaker 2: anti Semitism in the UK in your opinion?
- 27:35Speaker 3: Well, we have had these ongoing protests almost every weekend
- 27:40Speaker 3: by a group called Palestine Action. We've been reporting on that.
- 27:43Speaker 3: Of course, they are trying to raise the profile of
- 27:47Speaker 3: what's happening in Gaza. The problem is the government has
- 27:50Speaker 3: prescribed them as a terrorist organization, so everyone who's holding
- 27:54Speaker 3: up a plaquard support in them can be in prison.
- 27:56Speaker 3: That's led to an even deepening divide. But at the
- 27:59Speaker 3: same time that they are holding protest so too to
- 28:02Speaker 3: some Jewish groups, And sadly, you know that there is
- 28:06Speaker 3: this fear they are saying of life in the UK
- 28:09Speaker 3: that they have never had before.
- 28:11Speaker 2: All right, sad days indeed, and I thank you Gavin Gray.
- 28:14Speaker 2: Out of the UK. It's eleven to six back home
- 28:18Speaker 2: and roadside drug testing starts from today. The pilot program
- 28:21Speaker 2: kicks off in Wellington, with the aim of it going
- 28:23Speaker 2: countrywide mid next year so officers can do random roadside
- 28:28Speaker 2: saliva tests. They're screening for cannabis, meth MDMA and cocaine MDMA.
- 28:35Speaker 2: By the way, ecstasy known as by some people. Steve
- 28:38Speaker 2: what is the Police Association president? And he joins me, now,
- 28:41Speaker 2: come on to you, Steve, what are you ready to go?
- 28:45Speaker 10: Ready to go?
- 28:47Speaker 2: How does it work?
- 28:49Speaker 10: Look? Quite simply, it's a four stage process. The first
- 28:53Speaker 10: step in the process is taking a swarm from the
- 28:56Speaker 10: top of the tongue that'll either give you a positive
- 28:59Speaker 10: result or result from there. If it's a positive result,
- 29:02Speaker 10: you move on to stage two, where again another strip's
- 29:06Speaker 10: placed underneath your tongue. It is a sample strip. So
- 29:09Speaker 10: that sample strip is held and then you complete a
- 29:12Speaker 10: third test again it swallowed the tongue, and if that
- 29:15Speaker 10: is positive, the sample test gets sent away for analysis
- 29:18Speaker 10: at ESR and it has to be matched against a
- 29:21Speaker 10: prescribed limit for the drug, and if you're above that
- 29:26Speaker 10: prescribed limit, you'll be issued with an inferenceement noticed.
- 29:28Speaker 2: So it's a much longer process than with drink testing
- 29:31Speaker 2: drink drive testing, which we're at home with it, and
- 29:34Speaker 2: we understand as well, will it be as effective and
- 29:37Speaker 2: will there be false positives and all those sort of
- 29:40Speaker 2: concerns that people have had beforehand, It.
- 29:43Speaker 10: Will be an effective measure. What we've got to bear
- 29:45Speaker 10: in mind is that thirty three percent of all for
- 29:47Speaker 10: atal crasis between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three involved drugs,
- 29:53Speaker 10: So this is a welcome measure. It's not going to
- 29:56Speaker 10: be as long or prescribed as perhaps you know, a
- 30:00Speaker 10: four step process. As I outline, those steps are quite
- 30:04Speaker 10: quick to work through, but it certainly will take a
- 30:06Speaker 10: little bit longer than the alcohol testing currently does.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Okay, will this mean more work for officers?
- 30:13Speaker 10: Look at it as an extra step that is more
- 30:16Speaker 10: work for officers. But what we've got to remember is
- 30:19Speaker 10: that we want to get everyone home safe. So every
- 30:23Speaker 10: officer out there is all about safety within the community
- 30:26Speaker 10: and this is another tool in which to utilize in
- 30:28Speaker 10: order to get those people home safe on the road.
- 30:31Speaker 2: And speaking which, when it came to the testing and
- 30:34Speaker 2: getting people home safe, there was some debate about whether
- 30:38Speaker 2: impairment is being effectively measured. In other words, some people
- 30:45Speaker 2: some people are impaired, even though they might not actually
- 30:47Speaker 2: trigger over the test. It hasn't been progressed on knowing
- 30:50Speaker 2: whether the test will show impairment.
- 30:54Speaker 10: Look, the test in itself will not show impairment, but
- 30:57Speaker 10: what police have in their toolkit is testing. That is
- 31:02Speaker 10: another test outside of the oral fluid testing which people
- 31:07Speaker 10: will have to go through a number of steps, and
- 31:10Speaker 10: does show impairment for drugs. So it's really important to
- 31:13Speaker 10: sort of distinguish between the two and that there is
- 31:16Speaker 10: a process in order to determine a pairment when it
- 31:18Speaker 10: comes to drugs.
- 31:20Speaker 2: And should people who are on heavy prescriptions be concerned, No.
- 31:25Speaker 10: I don't think so. In reality, there are methods in
- 31:30Speaker 10: there that if you are on prescribe drugs and you
- 31:32Speaker 10: do go over that prescribed limit, once your test has
- 31:37Speaker 10: been sent away and analyzed, there is a statutory defense
- 31:40Speaker 10: for those that are on medical drugs to write away
- 31:44Speaker 10: to police and explain that.
- 31:46Speaker 2: All right, very good stuff, Steve. What a lot of
- 31:48Speaker 2: work has been done beforehand. It'll be a lot of
- 31:50Speaker 2: work going forward. But I thank you very much, Steve.
- 31:51Speaker 2: What is the Police Association president? And that's that thing
- 31:54Speaker 2: about impairment. You might be on a prescribed drug, it
- 31:58Speaker 2: may be saving your life and it may exceed the
- 32:01Speaker 2: limits that are down in the statutes. However, you may
- 32:05Speaker 2: not in fact be impaired to drive. So that's the
- 32:07Speaker 2: legal test. And eventually, as he said, they're going to
- 32:10Speaker 2: go and check it out further. So if you are
- 32:12Speaker 2: on a heavy prescription, don't be concerned, but be concerned
- 32:16Speaker 2: if you know your prescription impairs you. In that case,
- 32:20Speaker 2: don't drive.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
- 32:27Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and are the Supercenter explore are these accessories
- 32:31Speaker 1: and servicing all in one news talks.
- 32:33Speaker 10: That'd be Yeah.
- 32:34Speaker 2: That whole impairment debate is particularly around marijuana, which can
- 32:37Speaker 2: stain your system a long time, but you're not impaired,
- 32:41Speaker 2: as anyone who's been through some marijuana saliva testing at
- 32:44Speaker 2: work will have found. They show usage in the last
- 32:46Speaker 2: few hours, but not necessarily show whether you are impaired
- 32:49Speaker 2: or not. So you have some difficulties there, but we'll
- 32:53Speaker 2: get better and better. Heatherdwen Hello, I bumped into Barry
- 32:56Speaker 2: yesterday and he was walking the boy. The boy was
- 33:00Speaker 2: the stroller and I thought, great, that's weight training.
- 33:02Speaker 5: I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable, but that
- 33:04Speaker 5: baby is in fact a girl.
- 33:06Speaker 2: He said that was a boy. Well, no, I've not
- 33:08Speaker 2: met you. I've not met you, and he said, no,
- 33:10Speaker 2: that's the boy and I went, no, hold on, that's
- 33:12Speaker 2: I mean, was four year old or a one year old. Well,
- 33:15Speaker 2: it looked to me, Well, I didn't like it looked
- 33:17Speaker 2: somewhere in between.
- 33:19Speaker 5: Did you see the right Personry was all in black.
- 33:23Speaker 2: He was pushing the stroller. That will be and I thought, no,
- 33:27Speaker 2: the boy is four, so he wouldn't be in the stroller.
- 33:29Speaker 2: That'll be the girl. And I went, hello, I've never
- 33:31Speaker 2: met you before, and he said, that's the bokeh whatever, anyway.
- 33:36Speaker 5: I mean, look, I mean, I'm like, I'm sorry, unleast
- 33:39Speaker 5: I have been living in an alternative universe for the
- 33:42Speaker 5: last eleven months.
- 33:43Speaker 2: That baby is a girl.
- 33:44Speaker 5: Girl.
- 33:46Speaker 2: Well, I think the fact that we're talking here is
- 33:49Speaker 2: Barry here.
- 33:51Speaker 5: Can I just tell you, though, isn't it a delight
- 33:53Speaker 5: how early on in a child's life you can see
- 33:55Speaker 5: what their little personality is? Because that one is trouble man?
- 33:59Speaker 5: My mumbled, a little walker, you know, the little walkers.
- 34:01Speaker 5: They get in and they scoot themselves around. She scoots
- 34:03Speaker 5: as fast as she came to the plant, shoves it
- 34:05Speaker 5: in her mouth and laughs at me and runs off
- 34:07Speaker 5: in it.
- 34:07Speaker 2: Well, I went hello, and she wasn't freaked out at all.
- 34:10Speaker 2: She liked anyway, you've got a heavy show to come. Yeah,
- 34:13Speaker 2: it's a lot of time you're dealing with Bond. Absolutely,
- 34:15Speaker 2: thank you. See you tomorrow.
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