Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 31 March 2025
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- 0:02Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the inside Andrew Dickens
- 0:06Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof make your property search
- 0:10Speaker 1: simple new stalks.
- 0:11Speaker 2: That'd be well, good morning, here we go again. The
- 0:15Speaker 2: grind is on. Here we go, Here we go, Here
- 0:17Speaker 2: we go. What are we talking about in the next hour? Well,
- 0:19Speaker 2: the government is cracking down on consultants. But will that
- 0:21Speaker 2: cripple our health sector? That story in five The Warriors
- 0:25Speaker 2: scrape home against the Tigers Andrew Ordison on Sport and
- 0:28Speaker 2: ten and the government setting its side on this supermarket sector.
- 0:31Speaker 2: So is this just words or will something actually happen
- 0:34Speaker 2: this time? Ernie Newman will join us just before six.
- 0:37Speaker 2: We'll have correspondence from right around New Zealand, Gavin Gray
- 0:40Speaker 2: out of the UK, and news as it breaks. You
- 0:42Speaker 2: can have your saying by using the text machine. Small
- 0:45Speaker 2: charge does apply. The number is ninety two ninety two.
- 0:48Speaker 2: It's seven after five.
- 0:51Speaker 3: The agenda, Well, it's Monday.
- 0:53Speaker 2: The thirty first of March, and rescue teams from around
- 0:55Speaker 2: the world are in me and Mah after a powerful
- 0:57Speaker 2: seven point seven magnitude earthquakes struck, killing seventeen hundred people
- 1:02Speaker 2: and Thailand. The death toll in Bangkok has risen to
- 1:04Speaker 2: eighteen with seventy six workers missing at a collapse high
- 1:08Speaker 2: rise under construction. Search and rescue efforts are underway in
- 1:11Speaker 2: both countries, as Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister says rescuers have
- 1:16Speaker 2: detected signs of life under the rubble at the collapse
- 1:20Speaker 2: building site.
- 1:21Speaker 4: He has had.
- 1:22Speaker 5: My mom was working on the twenty eight Flora.
- 1:24Speaker 6: There's still in all news on Madame antav. The rescue
- 1:27Speaker 6: team was too slow. I was here at four am.
- 1:30Speaker 6: No officials, no cranes, nothing. The crane didn't even start
- 1:34Speaker 6: work until nine am. If the victims were still alive,
- 1:37Speaker 6: bleeding under the rubble, how could they survive?
- 1:41Speaker 2: Vice President J. D. Vance and his wife Usha have
- 1:44Speaker 2: visited the US Patufic Space base in Greenland as President
- 1:49Speaker 2: Donald Trump continues to push for the US to take
- 1:52Speaker 2: over the Danish semi autonomous territory. Speaking to troops, Vance
- 1:56Speaker 2: says military force is not necessary for the US to
- 1:58Speaker 2: expand its presence in green Land and that locals will
- 2:01Speaker 2: want to choose to align with the US instead of Denmark.
- 2:05Speaker 7: Our message to Denmark is very simple. You have not
- 2:09Speaker 7: done a good job by the people of Greenland. You've
- 2:12Speaker 7: underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested
- 2:15Speaker 7: in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful land mass
- 2:20Speaker 7: filled with incredible people.
- 2:21Speaker 3: That has to change.
- 2:23Speaker 2: And the chair of the charity set up by Prince
- 2:26Speaker 2: Harry has accused him of harassment and bullying at scale
- 2:30Speaker 2: after he and several others quit the organization earlier this week.
- 2:34Speaker 2: The charity cent to Balle was established back in two
- 2:36Speaker 2: thousand and six in honor of Harry's mum, Princess Diana,
- 2:39Speaker 2: to help children at young people in Southern Africa, particularly
- 2:42Speaker 2: those with HIV and AIDS, and the chair of Santa Bali,
- 2:46Speaker 2: Sophie Chandalka, says the Duke of Sussex initiated the whole
- 2:50Speaker 2: thing by the unleashing of the Sussex pr machine.
- 2:55Speaker 5: Prince Harry authorized the release of a damaging piece of
- 2:59Speaker 5: news to the outside world without informing me, all my
- 3:04Speaker 5: country directors, all my executive director and can you imagine
- 3:09Speaker 5: what that attack has done for me, on me and
- 3:13Speaker 5: the five hundred and forty individuals in the center, body
- 3:17Speaker 5: organizations and their family. That is an example of harassment
- 3:21Speaker 5: and bullying at the scale.
- 3:23Speaker 2: That is surfing Gendelka. It is ten out to.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Five on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
- 3:31Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make your Property
- 3:34Speaker 1: search simple, News Talks it'd be.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Now, does anyone else find it ironic that just as
- 3:40Speaker 2: Chris Bishop is talking about how your property is your
- 3:42Speaker 2: property and you can do whatever you want with it
- 3:45Speaker 2: as long as you don't affect others, that another branch
- 3:48Speaker 2: of government is talking about taking property rights away. And
- 3:51Speaker 2: I'm talking about the supermarket sector where Nichola Willis is
- 3:54Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to break the power of
- 3:55Speaker 2: the duopoly. For Dance, Minister Nicola Willis is talking up
- 3:59Speaker 2: the breaking of the two big players. She is suggesting
- 4:03Speaker 2: that food Stuffs and Woolworths divest themselves of secondary brands
- 4:07Speaker 2: they have rightfully acquired through the years. Or she's saying
- 4:11Speaker 2: the wholesale and retail sections of the business could be separated. Meanwhile,
- 4:15Speaker 2: she's desperately hoping that the third player could step into
- 4:18Speaker 2: the game, despite the fact that if that was achievable,
- 4:21Speaker 2: it would have happened already now. Now, a lot of
- 4:23Speaker 2: what she's talking about effects are an awful lot of
- 4:25Speaker 2: people The supermarket model includes the big two, but also
- 4:29Speaker 2: each individual supermarket owner. Some of those owners own the properties,
- 4:33Speaker 2: others operate like a franchise holder. But all owners have
- 4:37Speaker 2: significant skin in the game, and they make a lot
- 4:39Speaker 2: of money, and they're not going to give up their
- 4:40Speaker 2: assets on the government say so. And if they want
- 4:44Speaker 2: to separate the smaller franchises, the supermarket chains have hoovered
- 4:48Speaker 2: up the four squares and the fresh choices and the supervalues.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Perhaps they shouldn't have let that happen in the first place.
- 4:55Speaker 2: And with all the retoric it seems the only real
- 4:58Speaker 2: tool that the government has is regular and now isn't
- 5:01Speaker 2: that already in place? The Grocery Commission. It needs more teeth.
- 5:05Speaker 2: It needs to monitor pricing actively, It needs to publish
- 5:09Speaker 2: recommended retail prices, and it needs to name and shame
- 5:12Speaker 2: the product lines where the supermarkets are taking the mickey.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Everything else is just nice words to make the impression
- 5:20Speaker 2: that someone somewhere is doing something. Twelve after five, I
- 5:25Speaker 2: just mentioned Jadie Vance and Greenland. Has anyone ever wondered
- 5:28Speaker 2: why Greenland is called Greenland? Because it's sure ain't green,
- 5:31Speaker 2: it's ice. It turns out there was a Norse explorer
- 5:35Speaker 2: called Eric the Red, who was exiled from Iceland and
- 5:38Speaker 2: explored the icy land to the northwest, and he found
- 5:41Speaker 2: a habitable area, and Eric settled there and he named
- 5:44Speaker 2: it Greenland. And he chose the name Greenland because he
- 5:48Speaker 2: thought it might sound appealing and it might encourage more
- 5:52Speaker 2: people to settle there. In reality, Greenland is not green
- 5:56Speaker 2: nor pleasant, but the name is stuck. And finally someone
- 5:59Speaker 2: is attracted to Greenland, and that's America. It's almost like
- 6:03Speaker 2: someone in the White House was looking at a map
- 6:05Speaker 2: and said, Hey, what's that big blob right there between
- 6:07Speaker 2: Russia and America. Gee, there's only two hundred thousand people there.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Let's have it.
- 6:13Speaker 8: Now.
- 6:13Speaker 2: It's fairly well known that under all the ice are
- 6:15Speaker 2: all the rare earth minerals needed these days for batteries
- 6:18Speaker 2: and evs and wind turbines, but so far they haven't
- 6:21Speaker 2: been exploited. Now there may be a reason for that.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Like it's not easy. The place is run by Denmark,
- 6:28Speaker 2: and no one complained about that either until now. But
- 6:31Speaker 2: then again, no one was raving about how good it
- 6:33Speaker 2: was either. But the Trump administration has come on and says,
- 6:37Speaker 2: you've got stuff we want. Come be subsumed by US. J. D.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Vans and his wife tour Greenland and spout a whole
- 6:43Speaker 2: lot of American imperialism. They don't talk partnerships, and they
- 6:46Speaker 2: questioned Greenland's sovereignty and self determination and history and sense
- 6:51Speaker 2: of self right out of the blue. No surprise when
- 6:55Speaker 2: you're seeing clips of people from Greenland, they're just a
- 6:57Speaker 2: bit surprised by the whole thing. People of Greenland only
- 7:01Speaker 2: really hear how useful they are to America and not
- 7:05Speaker 2: about how their future could be materially better. Now, all
- 7:08Speaker 2: of this could be a good idea, but the arrogance
- 7:12Speaker 2: of America makes it unpalatable.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Andrew dickens, it's.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes after five, So the war against consultants is happening.
- 7:21Speaker 2: They want to double the amount of money they save,
- 7:23Speaker 2: but it turns out that most of that money they
- 7:25Speaker 2: could save comes from one sector, the health sector. So
- 7:29Speaker 2: here's a question, why did the health sector become so
- 7:33Speaker 2: dependent on consultants? And if we break it, will it
- 7:37Speaker 2: break the entire system. So a man who knows about
- 7:41Speaker 2: this sort of thing, as the former Health New Zealand chair,
- 7:44Speaker 2: that's Rob Campbell, and he joins me next it's news
- 7:46Speaker 2: Talk tib.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on a fily edition with one roof to
- 7:52Speaker 1: make your property search simple, uth talg Zibby.
- 7:56Speaker 2: According to you it is sixteen out to five. See
- 7:58Speaker 2: that the Greenland Prime Minister has just said that the
- 8:00Speaker 2: United States will not get the island, So good luck
- 8:03Speaker 2: with that. Now, we got news today that nearly half
- 8:05Speaker 2: of the government's contractors and consultancy spending cuts that we
- 8:09Speaker 2: were harping on about last week will be coming from
- 8:12Speaker 2: Health New Zealand alone. So that is about two hundred
- 8:15Speaker 2: and four million dollars spent on contractors, consultants and locals.
- 8:19Speaker 2: And it's raised the question why aren't we spending that
- 8:23Speaker 2: employing full time staff and why do we end out
- 8:25Speaker 2: spending so much money on consultants and health in the
- 8:27Speaker 2: first place. So former Health New Zealand chair Rob Campbell
- 8:31Speaker 2: joins in. Now, Hello Rob, So why do we have
- 8:34Speaker 2: so many contractors and consultants and Health?
- 8:38Speaker 8: Well, there was a degree of what I call learned
- 8:41Speaker 8: helplessness in the management structures of health and of some
- 8:45Speaker 8: other parts of the public service which developed over the years.
- 8:49Speaker 8: Partly my people are harping on about the private sect
- 8:53Speaker 8: always being best about things, but also partly just a
- 8:56Speaker 8: crisis of confidence in the amount of money that was
- 8:59Speaker 8: coming in to health and the difficulty they were having
- 9:02Speaker 8: and finding answers to actually get a better outcome. So
- 9:07Speaker 8: over time and agree with what again learned helplessness develop.
- 9:12Speaker 8: It's most unfortunately, it's good to see and that it
- 9:15Speaker 8: is being reversed, if that's what this tells us. So
- 9:19Speaker 8: I have no doubt that there was a lot of
- 9:21Speaker 8: room to improve costs there and get those cost re
- 9:25Speaker 8: erected towards the frontline of health. But not all most caught,
- 9:29Speaker 8: and not all consultants are the saying you look consultants
- 9:33Speaker 8: and contractors together. That combines both big consultancy company charging
- 9:39Speaker 8: millions and millions of dollars to do stuff at the
- 9:41Speaker 8: public service should and is able to do itself with
- 9:45Speaker 8: individual contractors, particularly it in places like that where that
- 9:48Speaker 8: has simply become the way that people work. So I
- 9:51Speaker 8: don't think it's helpful to lump those numbers to get
- 9:53Speaker 8: way on. It's helpful to the politicians who are claiming
- 9:56Speaker 8: to have made savings, but whether it's really made the
- 10:00Speaker 8: right savings in the right places will only time will tell.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing with all this learned helplessness, and
- 10:06Speaker 2: what a beautiful phrase that is. Rob If we cut
- 10:09Speaker 2: all that out, can health survive?
- 10:13Speaker 8: Look, it's only a very small part of health surviving
- 10:15Speaker 8: actually the cost part of it and the redirection of
- 10:19Speaker 8: those costs as part of it. But you know, you
- 10:22Speaker 8: could cut out a whole lot of costs that were
- 10:24Speaker 8: vital to health, and from outside in the reporting that
- 10:28Speaker 8: we get, it's really impossible to tell. I think it's
- 10:31Speaker 8: a mixture. I think some things that were clearly wasteful
- 10:33Speaker 8: have been chopped. I think that, particularly in the IT area,
- 10:37Speaker 8: some contractors and other advisors who have been cut are
- 10:41Speaker 8: not a particularly good idea at all. But you know,
- 10:45Speaker 8: you've got to start somewhere, and generally it's progress.
- 10:48Speaker 2: And if we cut the learned helplessness, could that money
- 10:52Speaker 2: that we save actually end up being prioritized for full
- 10:55Speaker 2: time stuff? And so there was no overall net saving,
- 11:00Speaker 2: no overall net saving.
- 11:01Speaker 8: And I think that's the right way to be thinking
- 11:03Speaker 8: about this. What we want is a bit of health service.
- 11:06Speaker 8: So what we're whether there's a saving or not, it's
- 11:09Speaker 8: not really the point. It's really whether the money is
- 11:12Speaker 8: being redirected more purposefully than it was in the past.
- 11:17Speaker 8: And you know, as I say, it's very hard to
- 11:18Speaker 8: tell from outside whether that is true or not. Some
- 11:21Speaker 8: of the results suggest that it's not. I'm concerned that
- 11:25Speaker 8: with a very narrow range of priorities being pushed on
- 11:28Speaker 8: to front AURA, it may well be that they're concentrating
- 11:32Speaker 8: on those specific targets rather than do overall improvement in
- 11:35Speaker 8: the machine. And that is the thing that we really need.
- 11:38Speaker 3: Rob.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Thank you for once again waking up early for us.
- 11:40Speaker 2: As Rob Campbell, former Chair of Health New Zealand. It
- 11:42Speaker 2: is now five twenty it's News Talk CB. The Warriors
- 11:45Speaker 2: scraped home twenty six twenty four. I'd say that because
- 11:48Speaker 2: I know I went to Bear before the end of
- 11:50Speaker 2: the match. They're thinking what's going to happen next? Well,
- 11:52Speaker 2: they've won three in a row. We'll talk about this
- 11:54Speaker 2: with Andrew Oldison in just a few moments time.
- 11:57Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
- 11:59Speaker 1: and elon this early edition with Andrew Dickens and one
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- 12:05Speaker 3: You've talk Siddy.
- 12:06Speaker 2: It's Monday, it's five twenty two. That's time to talk support.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Andrew Ordison good morning to you.
- 12:10Speaker 3: Greetings Andrew.
- 12:11Speaker 2: So I'm wing to be obviously, we get up early
- 12:14Speaker 2: and the Warriors scrape home twenty six to twenty four.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Not pretty, not decisive, but three in a row. Look,
- 12:19Speaker 2: I actually tune I should have been in bed, but
- 12:21Speaker 2: I kept watching. Well that's for my job, is it
- 12:26Speaker 2: for my sons? But I really enjoyed it. Actually, I
- 12:28Speaker 2: thought it.
- 12:29Speaker 9: Was gritty towards the end there, and they kept the
- 12:31Speaker 9: pressure on the Warriors and the final standards. Really, from
- 12:34Speaker 9: what I could see, I was a little bit dealt
- 12:38Speaker 9: with the try Liqua Helasima, who scored the decisive try
- 12:42Speaker 9: that took them to equal what level was at twenty
- 12:45Speaker 9: four all they eventually won twenty six twenty four. But
- 12:48Speaker 9: Helasima about fifteen minutes fifteen minutes, fifteen meters out from
- 12:52Speaker 9: the line, puts his finger to his lips and it
- 12:55Speaker 9: gives out thinking get the fall down, son, hit the
- 12:59Speaker 9: fall down, or at least get close to the sticks,
- 13:01Speaker 9: as Luke Metcalf pointed out afterwards. So I thought that
- 13:04Speaker 9: was yeah, he got there. That's the main thing. And
- 13:08Speaker 9: the two points are secure. Three in a row, three
- 13:10Speaker 9: in a row. But they've got outside back problems, haven't
- 13:12Speaker 9: they that's for sure. Yeah, so it's so Yeah, it's
- 13:14Speaker 9: difficulties in that regard, but none at least. I think
- 13:17Speaker 9: they'll take that against Wist Tigers.
- 13:19Speaker 2: There was one game so good that I watched it
- 13:21Speaker 2: twice because there was a replay on Sunday and that's
- 13:24Speaker 2: Wina Pacifica destroying the Crusaders. And as I saw in
- 13:28Speaker 2: some of the headlines, if they play like that, there
- 13:29Speaker 2: they are a challenger.
- 13:30Speaker 9: Oh this is what's so breaking and easy? And or
- 13:32Speaker 9: isn't it seeing Maana Pacifica deliver in that regard. I
- 13:35Speaker 9: mean we've seeing the Drawer do it in the past
- 13:37Speaker 9: as well, but that's the second one of the season,
- 13:39Speaker 9: Mowana and doing it against the Crusaders there at home,
- 13:42Speaker 9: that's a remarkable feat.
- 13:44Speaker 2: I mean, forget what they did against the Chiefs last week.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, they were yeah up there. They're very
- 13:49Speaker 2: good side.
- 13:50Speaker 9: And this is I suppose where the likes of well
- 13:53Speaker 9: obviously tam among about Arlie Savia coming into the mix there.
- 13:56Speaker 9: I think the leadership that he would bring uh in.
- 13:59Speaker 9: I guess the mar et cetera, I think is outstanding.
- 14:03Speaker 9: And that's that's exactly what the competition needs.
- 14:05Speaker 2: And we've got some sport happening as we speak. This
- 14:08Speaker 2: is starting one one minute after six. Ryan Fox fil
- 14:11Speaker 2: round to be precise.
- 14:12Speaker 9: Yeah, he'll tee off at the Houston Open, and yeah,
- 14:17Speaker 9: there'll mean. The significance of this is that if Fox
- 14:20Speaker 9: is to win, I think, I mean win preferably, but
- 14:23Speaker 9: if he's I think maybe even in the top Maxtel
- 14:26Speaker 9: would take some mechinations, but he would get or go
- 14:29Speaker 9: up the rankings enough to get into the Master's field.
- 14:32Speaker 9: So it's significant that regard. Yeah, there's only been eight
- 14:35Speaker 9: New Zealanders to win on the PGA Tour over the
- 14:37Speaker 9: course of history, and Fox hoping to become a Knight.
- 14:40Speaker 2: That's a fascinating for you.
- 14:42Speaker 9: Bob Charles has won six times, but there's there's no
- 14:45Speaker 9: seven others as well.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good stuff. I sport and with you all
- 14:50Speaker 2: morning long. We'll keep it up to date with Ryan
- 14:51Speaker 2: Fox as he plays.
- 14:52Speaker 1: The early edition full The Show podcast on iroart Radio
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- 14:57Speaker 3: It Me.
- 15:00Speaker 2: The Bears five twenty seven. Armandre Dickins in for Ryan Bridge.
- 15:02Speaker 2: While I spent all weekend waiting for more details about
- 15:05Speaker 2: the death by dog in the Bay of Plenty, and
- 15:08Speaker 2: it's a story that really upsets me. It upset me greatly.
- 15:11Speaker 2: We've heard about the victim. Apparently he was a cheeky,
- 15:14Speaker 2: cheery four year old kid. His family say he had
- 15:17Speaker 2: a little mischief in his smile, a little wild in
- 15:19Speaker 2: his heart, and a heart full of cuteness. We heard
- 15:24Speaker 2: a statement from them that something had happened, suggesting this
- 15:26Speaker 2: was in Mildy circles. For a while I thought, actually
- 15:29Speaker 2: it was an instant on the Mariah, but it was not.
- 15:31Speaker 2: We heard another person was injured, and presumably they were
- 15:33Speaker 2: trying to save the boy. On social media, I saw
- 15:36Speaker 2: claims that the boy may have rased the dogs, but
- 15:39Speaker 2: that's not the point. That's victim blaming.
- 15:41Speaker 8: Now.
- 15:41Speaker 2: The thing that always gets me about these stories is
- 15:43Speaker 2: that dogs should not kill people, But four people have
- 15:48Speaker 2: died at the teeth of dogs in the past five years.
- 15:52Speaker 2: Dogs are man's best friend. Dogs are a useful tool,
- 15:55Speaker 2: but dogs never kill humans the way robots are supposed
- 15:58Speaker 2: to be programmed to never humans. Even the dogs whose
- 16:02Speaker 2: jobs are to be security for humans should not kill
- 16:05Speaker 2: other humans, even if the humans are bad. The only
- 16:09Speaker 2: dogs who kill humans are dogs who are owned or
- 16:11Speaker 2: controlled by humans who do not know how to control
- 16:15Speaker 2: their dogs. And if they have dogs who are not controllable,
- 16:19Speaker 2: they are humans who don't realize the threat those dogs pose.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Therefore they should not be in charge of dogs. And
- 16:25Speaker 2: when these things happen, the concerns start raising rules and
- 16:28Speaker 2: regulations that the bad owners ignore, and the only thing
- 16:31Speaker 2: they do is irritate and criminalize the good owners. Any
- 16:35Speaker 2: dogs that kill that can be traced to an owner
- 16:40Speaker 2: to me says that that owner must face a custodi
- 16:43Speaker 2: or sentence. They're just as guilty as the dog because
- 16:47Speaker 2: your weapon just killed an innocent child. And I don't
- 16:50Speaker 2: know how you live with yourself, and don't you dare
- 16:52Speaker 2: defend the dog? Figs Rogers is well said, what a
- 16:56Speaker 2: horrific thing to happen, the prolonged suffering that little boy
- 16:59Speaker 2: must have gone through. I think I heard on the
- 17:00Speaker 2: news that the dogs had been picked up. Yes they have.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Investigations are underway, Rogers says. Unfortunately we hear many of
- 17:06Speaker 2: these instances. Dogs and low associo economic areas aren't registered
- 17:10Speaker 2: and the owners or owner won't come forward. Hopefully them
- 17:14Speaker 2: I won't close ranks and go silent on the ownership issue,
- 17:17Speaker 2: and I'm with you on that.
- 17:18Speaker 3: Roger.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Now on the way, I've got a warning for you.
- 17:21Speaker 2: If you're driving around Auckland, you might get a speeding
- 17:24Speaker 2: ticket that could be avoidable and I'll take you to Symphony.
- 17:27Speaker 2: This is in the edition on News Talks.
- 17:29Speaker 3: Here be all the things that you do.
- 17:44Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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- 18:07Speaker 10: Welcomebry to you.
- 18:07Speaker 2: Welcome to your Monday morning. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge.
- 18:12Speaker 2: If you're driving to work in Orkland, I have a
- 18:13Speaker 2: word of warning for you. There are unmarked traffic police
- 18:17Speaker 2: cars monitoring Hopetown Bridge in Auckland. Now, if you don't
- 18:20Speaker 2: know Hopetown Bridge, it's a beautiful little bridge crosses over
- 18:23Speaker 2: Spaghetti Junction. It's a great little link from the city
- 18:27Speaker 2: center to Ponserb. It's high quality. It's a lovely road
- 18:29Speaker 2: to sweep up and over. As you escape the CBD
- 18:32Speaker 2: you can see the bridge and all that sort of thing.
- 18:35Speaker 2: It's a lovely piece of road. It may surprise you
- 18:37Speaker 2: to learn that it has a thirty kilometer and hour
- 18:39Speaker 2: speed limit because they were worried that the speeding cars
- 18:42Speaker 2: were threatening the cyclists. Now, presumably this is one of
- 18:46Speaker 2: those roads that Simeon Brown once liberated from the lower
- 18:49Speaker 2: speed limit. He put a deadline on all of this
- 18:51Speaker 2: of July the first, But at the moment right now,
- 18:54Speaker 2: it's being very actively policed. Now does anyone else think
- 18:59Speaker 2: this is kosher?
- 19:00Speaker 5: Me?
- 19:01Speaker 2: The replacement of the speed signs have fallen on the
- 19:03Speaker 2: country's councils and regional authorities and it's not cheap. Therefore
- 19:06Speaker 2: they're not in a hurry. Gisbane District Council is challenging
- 19:09Speaker 2: the move legally because they don't want to pay the
- 19:12Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars which is the money it will
- 19:14Speaker 2: cost to make it happen. But surely, look, why do
- 19:17Speaker 2: I think it's not kosher? Surely it is cynical in
- 19:20Speaker 2: the extreme to be clipping the ticket on lower speed
- 19:22Speaker 2: limits when their future is in fact limited. So look Sibia,
- 19:26Speaker 2: And if you're not too busy right now, mate, and
- 19:28Speaker 2: I know it's not your job anymore, but could you
- 19:29Speaker 2: ask someone to have a word because clipping that ticket
- 19:35Speaker 2: is not fair and it's not nice. Now a very
- 19:37Speaker 2: big event in Auckland that apparently was absolutely brilliant and
- 19:40Speaker 2: so brilliant. I didn't go, and I wish I did.
- 19:43Speaker 2: I had the fomo and now I'm really getting a
- 19:45Speaker 2: big time. Forty thousand people packed into Auckland Domain over
- 19:48Speaker 2: the weekend for synthon Ye. So there was an orchestra,
- 19:52Speaker 2: and there was DJs, and there was dance beats. But
- 19:53Speaker 2: there were also sets from Dick Johnson, Lady six very
- 19:57Speaker 2: fine female vocalists and the dudes who sang bliss and
- 20:00Speaker 2: everybody loves a better bliss. When you remote forty thousand friends,
- 20:04Speaker 2: you've got a drink in the hand.
- 20:05Speaker 7: Now.
- 20:05Speaker 2: My producer Kinsey was there and here is a snippets
- 20:08Speaker 2: of what Summer Symphony sounded like. Everybody put your hands
- 20:18Speaker 2: in the air like you just don't care.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Got the meat.
- 20:27Speaker 2: So that's That's a fellow who apparently is quite big.
- 20:30Speaker 2: I've never heard of him before. His name is DJ Cyril.
- 20:33Speaker 2: DJ Cyril, eh, and well done to the organizers of
- 20:37Speaker 2: symphony and the council, because this has turned into an
- 20:40Speaker 2: Auckland classic. It is twenty one to six and it's
- 20:45Speaker 2: here he goes. It's it is time to go around
- 20:48Speaker 2: the country. Calum Proctor, good morning to you.
- 20:51Speaker 8: Morning, Andrew.
- 20:52Speaker 2: So we had a fatal weekend plane crash in Otago.
- 20:57Speaker 11: He one person killed, another critically injured when their aircraft
- 21:00Speaker 11: and counted trouble on Saturday afternoon near Lake Harweir. This
- 21:04Speaker 11: is by Wanaka. The peer were taking part in the
- 21:07Speaker 11: annual autom fly in for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
- 21:11Speaker 11: This was based out of Imaama Airfield. There were dozens
- 21:14Speaker 11: of other aviators there. The presidents of this association, Sue Cronfell,
- 21:19Speaker 11: She's told us, look, they're all shocked and deeply upset.
- 21:23Speaker 11: She says they can't speculate at what went wrong. That's
- 21:25Speaker 11: for police and aviation authorities to investigate and they will
- 21:29Speaker 11: assist in any way requested. How's Dunedin's weather mostly cloudy today,
- 21:34Speaker 11: rained possible this evening light wednes and eighteen today.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Clais here were joining me from chroastiach Heala Claire, good morning.
- 21:40Speaker 2: I remember going to chrast Huch at one point and
- 21:41Speaker 2: I'm just driving around the place and I'm seeing the cathedral.
- 21:44Speaker 2: But then I went round the corner and I saw
- 21:46Speaker 2: another cathedral and I went, oh, my goodness, it's even
- 21:48Speaker 2: more beautiful.
- 21:49Speaker 12: It is even more beautiful. Well it was, it was
- 21:52Speaker 12: even more beautiful. Andrew, this is the one on Barbados Street,
- 21:54Speaker 12: the Catholic Cathedral, and it was stunning. It was damage
- 21:58Speaker 12: actually in the first quake in twenty ten and was
- 22:01Speaker 12: closed since then. It did get demolished finally actually that
- 22:04Speaker 12: late twenty twenty. I was surprised how long that took
- 22:08Speaker 12: when I looked up the date. But we've been keeping
- 22:10Speaker 12: an eye on the progress of that. Last year we
- 22:13Speaker 12: had it confirmed that they planned to build on the
- 22:15Speaker 12: same site, so back on Barbados Street, and would retain
- 22:18Speaker 12: the same name, the Blessed Sacrament. Now, the Catholic Church
- 22:22Speaker 12: has revealed a number of New Zealand architects have been
- 22:25Speaker 12: invited to respond to a draft design brief. So the Bishop,
- 22:29Speaker 12: Michael Geeland believes those who have been contacted they've been
- 22:31Speaker 12: hand picked, have the experience and capacity required for a
- 22:35Speaker 12: project of the scale.
- 22:37Speaker 5: He says.
- 22:37Speaker 12: The chosen architect will then help to create the final
- 22:40Speaker 12: design brief, share that aspiration to build a cathedral which
- 22:44Speaker 12: they hope will be a beacon of hope for christ Church.
- 22:46Speaker 2: THEIG shoes to fill because that was a beautiful building.
- 22:50Speaker 2: How's your weather?
- 22:51Speaker 13: Cloudy today?
- 22:52Speaker 12: Some fine spells this afternoon, a northeasterlies and a high
- 22:54Speaker 12: of eighteen to Wellington.
- 22:56Speaker 2: We go, Max told, good morning, good morning. Is this
- 22:58Speaker 2: good news or is this bad news? Apparently we're being
- 23:01Speaker 2: undercharged at restaurants. Yeah.
- 23:04Speaker 10: We interviewed a high end restaurant owner names Asher Boot.
- 23:09Speaker 10: He closed his Thorndon restaurant Daisies over the weekend. He,
- 23:14Speaker 10: like a lot of others in the capitol, say it's
- 23:16Speaker 10: harder now more than ever to do business in Wellington,
- 23:18Speaker 10: cost of living, public sector cuts, endless road works, even
- 23:22Speaker 10: the lasting effects of the pandemic, he says. Anyway, he
- 23:25Speaker 10: said something that was quite curious to us, that there's
- 23:28Speaker 10: something of an inconvenient truth in hospitality that restaurants should
- 23:32Speaker 10: be operating at a much higher price point than they
- 23:35Speaker 10: currently do, i e. We're paying too little to eat out.
- 23:40Speaker 10: He believes it's a luxury we don't appreciate when we
- 23:42Speaker 10: order a thirty dollar pizza or thirty five dollars fetichinie.
- 23:45Speaker 3: They should be more expensive.
- 23:47Speaker 10: He owns another place in Thornton called Hillside that's much
- 23:50Speaker 10: more successful. And that's the approach, he says, they take.
- 23:53Speaker 10: It's unashamedly pricey, and it's been a success because if
- 23:57Speaker 10: it's good, people will come.
- 23:58Speaker 2: If it's good, people will come. That's a truism. How's
- 24:01Speaker 2: your weather?
- 24:03Speaker 10: The odd shower of Partley Cloudier high of twenty central.
- 24:06Speaker 2: And we have never watch a mine who joining us
- 24:08Speaker 2: from Walkanhalleren even good morning. So there's beefed up security
- 24:11Speaker 2: around Wayne Brown.
- 24:12Speaker 4: That's right around Brown's inner City apartment actually, So this
- 24:16Speaker 4: follows a recent onslaught in online threats. Now the vitriolic
- 24:20Speaker 4: social media comments directed at Auckland's mare they seem to
- 24:24Speaker 4: spite following the final official speedway race, and that was
- 24:27Speaker 4: at Western Springs nine days ago. So Brown says he's
- 24:30Speaker 4: received comments referring to his family telling him to be careful.
- 24:34Speaker 4: And this is after he posted that video explaining Auckland
- 24:37Speaker 4: Council's decision to move that event to Miika Ducker Park.
- 24:40Speaker 4: A person has also shown up at his door when
- 24:42Speaker 4: his wife was home, so I know it's terrible. So
- 24:45Speaker 4: the Council's now set up a security car outside Brown's
- 24:48Speaker 4: residence and CCTV camera is set to be installed this
- 24:51Speaker 4: week as well.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Okay, well, Wayne really took them one. I thought Wayne
- 24:54Speaker 2: was asking for trouble when he said only twelve thousand
- 24:56Speaker 2: people went to Speedway all year, when in fact that
- 24:59Speaker 2: was what they got each meeting. And you don't upset
- 25:03Speaker 2: a speedway guy because yeah they're big. Now, how's Orkin's weather?
- 25:06Speaker 5: Fine?
- 25:06Speaker 4: Apart from areas of morning cloud and high today's twenty four?
- 25:09Speaker 2: Oh no, thank you. Now it is sixteen minutes to
- 25:12Speaker 2: six and still to come. We'll talk to Ernie Newman
- 25:14Speaker 2: about Nicola Willis's attempts, the latest attempt to break up
- 25:17Speaker 2: the supermarket to wappoli and get better prices. Basically, that's
- 25:20Speaker 2: the end of it. We'll talk to him very shortly.
- 25:22Speaker 2: But next we know that AI is coming. We know
- 25:25Speaker 2: that AI is taking jobs. Gavin Gray has a story
- 25:28Speaker 2: about how AI is taking the jobs of models and
- 25:32Speaker 2: that's next on News.
- 25:33Speaker 1: Talks, a b international correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
- 25:41Speaker 2: Yes, this go to the UK. Gavin Gray joined us. Hello,
- 25:43Speaker 2: Gavin either angry so Prince Harry accused of bullying by
- 25:48Speaker 2: the boss of the charity he set up yes.
- 25:52Speaker 13: I think there'll be one or two people here. Rather
- 25:54Speaker 13: amused by these allegations with the old phrase what goes
- 25:58Speaker 13: around comes around. After of course all Prince Harry's allegations
- 26:01Speaker 13: about what happened with him and the royal family. So
- 26:05Speaker 13: he set up a charity called Center Ballet back in
- 26:07Speaker 13: two thousand and six Andrew. This was to help children
- 26:10Speaker 13: and young people in Southern Africa, particularly those affected by
- 26:13Speaker 13: HIV and AIDS. But last week he resigned and so
- 26:17Speaker 13: it seemed almost all the board why well, a new
- 26:20Speaker 13: chairperson called Dr Sophie Chandalca. She is a lawyer from Zimbabwe,
- 26:26Speaker 13: has obviously not been seeing eye to eye with the
- 26:28Speaker 13: board about the direction of the charity and where they
- 26:31Speaker 13: were going to raise funds. Harry resigned and now a
- 26:35Speaker 13: very explosive weekend television interview with doctor Chandalka and the
- 26:40Speaker 13: British TV company Sky has really set the catamounder pigeons.
- 26:44Speaker 13: She has accused him of harassment and bullying. She said
- 26:47Speaker 13: when he was in the room, people were afraid to
- 26:50Speaker 13: speak their truth and to give their opinion. And she
- 26:52Speaker 13: said that at one point she was said to the
- 26:55Speaker 13: Duke of Sussex initiated the campaign by what she called
- 26:58Speaker 13: the unleashing of the US six PR machine. She says
- 27:02Speaker 13: he's the number one reason why this Center Ballet charity
- 27:05Speaker 13: might have failed, and also is accusing him of and
- 27:10Speaker 13: Meghan accusing Prince Harry of trying to put out or
- 27:14Speaker 13: forcing her to put out a message of support for
- 27:16Speaker 13: Meghan when she unexpectedly attended one of the events. So
- 27:20Speaker 13: as you can imagine, plenty of people very keen to
- 27:22Speaker 13: hear more, although I'm sure no response yet from Prince Harry.
- 27:26Speaker 2: Now to the fashion label out of Sweden called h
- 27:29Speaker 2: and Em, we have it here as well, and it
- 27:31Speaker 2: appears they're using AI to take the jobs off models.
- 27:35Speaker 13: Yes, although they're saying well, actually we are going to
- 27:38Speaker 13: pay them as though they were doing the modeling job.
- 27:42Speaker 13: So it's a Swedish fashion giant. It also operates a
- 27:45Speaker 13: number of others ARCT caused Monkey other stores, and says
- 27:50Speaker 13: the four thousand stores worldwide across seventy five markets regularly
- 27:54Speaker 13: use humans as their models, but they are now to
- 27:58Speaker 13: start using AI art official intelligence doppelgangers in social media
- 28:02Speaker 13: posts and marketing. In other words, they won't need the models. However,
- 28:06Speaker 13: they said they are going to give only do it
- 28:10Speaker 13: with the permission of the models and come into a
- 28:13Speaker 13: contract about exactly how they can be used. Now. H
- 28:17Speaker 13: and M says the models will retain the rights over
- 28:19Speaker 13: their digital replicas, and their use by the company and
- 28:23Speaker 13: other brands for purposes like marketing, etc. Will have to
- 28:26Speaker 13: be agreed by those models. And you think, well, all
- 28:28Speaker 13: the models will be upset. Not a bit of it.
- 28:30Speaker 13: Some have said that's going to be good because it
- 28:32Speaker 13: means they won't have to travel halfway around the world
- 28:34Speaker 13: for a photo shoot. But Plenty is saying this is
- 28:37Speaker 13: a one way street.
- 28:38Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Well, I'm worried about the clothes. I don't want my clothes.
- 28:40Speaker 2: I want to see real clothes. I don't want to
- 28:42Speaker 2: see AI clothes because they're not real. But I thank
- 28:44Speaker 2: you so much. Gavin Gray from the UK It is
- 28:46Speaker 2: ten to six. So what's this an announcement of an announcement.
- 28:51Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 28:53Speaker 2: This is of course Nicola willis wanting to do something
- 28:56Speaker 2: about supermarkets, so so he's looking at a third entrant
- 28:59Speaker 2: into the growth sected to break up the duopoly. But
- 29:01Speaker 2: there's no third entrant in say it in a Cost
- 29:03Speaker 2: of Fortune she's also suggested maybe breaking up the groups,
- 29:06Speaker 2: and she's also suggested separating retail from wholesale, so she
- 29:11Speaker 2: set up a six week process requesting information from the
- 29:14Speaker 2: sector and grocery policy expert. Ernie Newman joins it, good
- 29:17Speaker 2: morning to you again, Ernie. Gooday, Ryan had stickens here.
- 29:21Speaker 2: I'm afraid, oh sorry, I'll beg your pardon. I don't
- 29:24Speaker 2: know Ryan's back in a couple of weeks. Don't you
- 29:26Speaker 2: worry about that? Is this whole thing words or will
- 29:28Speaker 2: something happen?
- 29:30Speaker 14: Well, I've had to eat my words to be quieulous,
- 29:32Speaker 14: because I was a bit skeptical going into the announcement yesterday.
- 29:36Speaker 14: But Ean and Nichola Willis has come through as a
- 29:39Speaker 14: minister on a mission, and I've been enormously impressed with
- 29:42Speaker 14: her language and her determination and the homework she's done.
- 29:46Speaker 14: You know, she's almost taking her political career on doing
- 29:49Speaker 14: something here. So I'm feeling a lot more optimistic than
- 29:52Speaker 14: I was twenty four hours ago.
- 29:54Speaker 2: But come on, honestly, if she tries to break up
- 29:56Speaker 2: a supermarket chain, if she tries to take the fresh
- 29:58Speaker 2: values off and make them an other hands, the supermarkets
- 30:02Speaker 2: who have got a lot of thing. They're going to
- 30:04Speaker 2: fight this tooth and nail.
- 30:06Speaker 14: Of course they will, just like Telecom did back in
- 30:08Speaker 14: the day. But you know Telecom. The Telecom breakup happened
- 30:13Speaker 14: largely because there was a lot of public anger about
- 30:16Speaker 14: their their their bullying behavior, and there was political agreement
- 30:21Speaker 14: that something needed to be done. But I think we're
- 30:23Speaker 14: on the trek here for you know, pretty much political
- 30:27Speaker 14: agreement to the main parties at least that this has
- 30:30Speaker 14: to be fixed and has to be fixed thoroughly.
- 30:34Speaker 2: Could so Also, the hunt for a third entrant? Is
- 30:39Speaker 2: that desperate because really it's going to cost so much money.
- 30:42Speaker 2: There's no property there. They're going to buy the property,
- 30:43Speaker 2: they're going to buy the chain for supply. Is that
- 30:47Speaker 2: a reality?
- 30:49Speaker 14: Well, I think it is not in not in the
- 30:51Speaker 14: present situation, because you know, you've got a you've got
- 30:54Speaker 14: a marketplace here that is populated by bullies and nobody
- 30:57Speaker 14: has done anything up until now. A really high them
- 31:00Speaker 14: to account. But I think now that we have the
- 31:03Speaker 14: determination from no one less than the Finance Minister and
- 31:06Speaker 14: her party to deal with this situation. You know, to
- 31:10Speaker 14: start up in New Zealand is not that huge with
- 31:13Speaker 14: a lot of big country, and I think if if
- 31:16Speaker 14: international operators can see, you know, a fear deal and
- 31:21Speaker 14: an even playing fuel when they get here. The amount
- 31:23Speaker 14: of money involved is not great. It also doesn't have
- 31:25Speaker 14: to be the international you know, we do have the
- 31:28Speaker 14: potential for something local.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Absolutely okay, Ernie, I thank you so much that we've
- 31:32Speaker 2: got six weeks to get more information and we'll find
- 31:35Speaker 2: out more. And it is now seven to six now
- 31:38Speaker 2: text through good morning with you. On the road cops
- 31:40Speaker 2: they're out in force while crime could be stopped. They
- 31:43Speaker 2: had two cop cars in a van with camera a
- 31:45Speaker 2: week before last between Constellation Drive and Silverdale. At the
- 31:48Speaker 2: same time my son got robbed just a few hundred
- 31:50Speaker 2: meters away. And where is that right? When we know
- 31:54Speaker 2: those limits are going down, are going up. It is
- 31:57Speaker 2: seven to six New Storks.
- 31:58Speaker 1: B get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew
- 32:03Speaker 1: Dickens and One Room Make your Property Search Simple, News Talks.
- 32:08Speaker 2: It'd be five to six. The latest ASP forecasts are
- 32:10Speaker 2: out and they're calling their recovery tippid. In fact, they're
- 32:13Speaker 2: using juicy a language than that. They've described our recovery
- 32:16Speaker 2: as a prius and not a ferrari. I'm sorry prius owners.
- 32:19Speaker 2: The good news is Reserve Bank is no longer cracking
- 32:22Speaker 2: the whip with interest rates. The bad news is just
- 32:24Speaker 2: about everything else in the world. And of course this is
- 32:25Speaker 2: a big week. Wednesday, Trump will announce tariffs and he's
- 32:30Speaker 2: already well today he's talking about a fifty percent tarithon oil.
- 32:32Speaker 2: That's going to affect us. So good luck and set
- 32:34Speaker 2: your Prius to sport mode. And Mike Hosking Joints, we
- 32:37Speaker 2: come wanting to.
- 32:37Speaker 15: An important thing about that, as they named the ferraris
- 32:40Speaker 15: of four to fifty eight and so that was the
- 32:43Speaker 15: pre turbo. So not only is it a ferrari, it's
- 32:45Speaker 15: one of the best ferraris.
- 32:47Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be nice to have a ferrari like that,
- 32:49Speaker 2: wouldn't it be nice? Anyway, Prime Minister's decided to change
- 32:54Speaker 2: days and he doesn't like Tuesdays and he's decided that
- 32:57Speaker 2: Monday's a bitter day but Mondays is his day for traveling.
- 32:59Speaker 3: And well, first.
- 33:01Speaker 15: Things he said that, he said last week he said,
- 33:03Speaker 15: tell you what I like to do is we'll change
- 33:05Speaker 15: it to Monday because then I can come in more
- 33:07Speaker 15: so when Parliament's not on. Yeah, exactly. So that's why
- 33:10Speaker 15: he's not coming in today. So he's changed the day
- 33:13Speaker 15: and we go fair enough so he can come in
- 33:14Speaker 15: more and he's not coming him coming in.
- 33:17Speaker 2: Hopefully he doesn't make it complete meal of at this time.
- 33:19Speaker 8: No, we won't.
- 33:19Speaker 15: But the fairy day today, which is interesting really yeah,
- 33:23Speaker 15: well think about it. But Peter said by the end
- 33:25Speaker 15: of March. It is indeed the end of March, so
- 33:27Speaker 15: today and Cabinet day, so presumably we'll find out what
- 33:31Speaker 15: sort of fairies they are, who were buying them from when,
- 33:34Speaker 15: when they're arriving, are they rail enabled, what war, what
- 33:37Speaker 15: sort of exactly, what sort of infrastructure is required with proofing?
- 33:41Speaker 15: Will it be less than four billion dollars, which presumably
- 33:43Speaker 15: it will, so we'll stand by for that today, and
- 33:45Speaker 15: of course we'll talk about the supermarkets.
- 33:46Speaker 2: It's very good stuff. And I thank you and my
- 33:48Speaker 2: thanks to producer Kenzie who went to symphony for me,
- 33:51Speaker 2: and I think we should have swapt positions. I'm Andrew Dickinson.
- 33:54Speaker 2: I'm back again next week. Sorry next week, I am actually,
- 33:58Speaker 2: but I'm also back tomorrow. We have a great and
- 34:00Speaker 2: productive day in your Prius's.
- 34:08Speaker 3: Good for more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
- 34:20Speaker 1: Listen live to news talks it be from five am weekdays,
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