Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 01 April 2026
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: earlier this show with one Root Love where You Live
- 0:09Speaker 1: News Talks, it'd be good morning.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Six after five Coming up, Winston's off to the Cooks
- 0:12Speaker 2: to meet with Mark Brown Gavins in the UK. For US,
- 0:15Speaker 2: Simon Bridges on business confidence or lack thereof plus two
- 0:18Speaker 2: million one point six million, one point four million houses
- 0:21Speaker 2: in Auckland. Does this number changing actually change anything for
- 0:25Speaker 2: us the agenda when say, the first of April, Trump's
- 0:29Speaker 2: throwing his toys out of the cot not unlike him
- 0:32Speaker 2: telling the UK and Europe go get your own oil
- 0:34Speaker 2: from the Strait of Hill Moves.
- 0:35Speaker 3: And I think the President was clear this morning. It
- 0:37Speaker 3: is truth that there are countries around the world who
- 0:41Speaker 3: ought be prepared to step up on this critical wide
- 0:44Speaker 3: away as well.
- 0:44Speaker 2: It's not just the United States Navy.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big,
- 0:48Speaker 3: bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things
- 0:51Speaker 3: like that as well. So he's pointing out this is
- 0:53Speaker 3: an international waterway that we use less than most, in
- 0:55Speaker 3: fact dramatically less than most. So the world I pay
- 0:58Speaker 3: attention to be prepared to stand go get your own oil.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Higg saith. That was him speaking, by the way, he
- 1:03Speaker 2: says they've got b fifty two bombers in the year now.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Things are going to change in the coming days.
- 1:07Speaker 4: If Aram was willing to relinquish material they have and
- 1:10Speaker 4: ambitions they have, open this great.
- 1:13Speaker 5: That's the goal.
- 1:14Speaker 4: We don't want to have to do more militarily than
- 1:16Speaker 4: we have to. But I didn't mean it flippantly when
- 1:19Speaker 4: I said, in the meantime, we'll negotiate with bombs. Our
- 1:21Speaker 4: job is to ensure that we compel Ran to realize
- 1:24Speaker 4: that this new regime, this regime in charge, is in
- 1:27Speaker 4: a better place if they make that.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all a bit awkward for Charles and Commilla
- 1:31Speaker 2: to go meet with Trump and go have a state
- 1:34Speaker 2: visit in America, but that's exactly what's going to happen.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Buckingham Palace is confirmed will be the end of the month.
- 1:39Speaker 6: Even as President Trump throws more insults towards the UK
- 1:43Speaker 6: this morning, I think the Palace and the government really
- 1:46Speaker 6: looking to try to draw a line under this. He
- 1:49Speaker 6: will go in late April. That will have all the
- 1:52Speaker 6: pomp and ceremony, the banqueting, the Guards of Honor, it's
- 1:55Speaker 6: thought that he will speak to both Houses of Congress.
- 1:59Speaker 2: To Australia. Go to the Australian Radio Network. The hits
- 2:02Speaker 2: keep coming for them, Jackie O Henderson now suing the
- 2:05Speaker 2: network claiming she has owed more than ninety two million
- 2:08Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars for being unlawfully sacked.
- 2:11Speaker 7: The bad thing is that they were. They succumbed to
- 2:14Speaker 7: the demands of these two and now they realize that
- 2:18Speaker 7: they've paid way over the odds. They even had invoked
- 2:22Speaker 7: on their license that a censor had to be in
- 2:25Speaker 7: the channel with them listening to the show. So isn't
- 2:29Speaker 7: it on the censor and on ARN?
- 2:34Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
- 2:37Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Live News Talks, that'd be good morning, just gone eight
- 2:42Speaker 2: minutes after five seven months out from election and as
- 2:46Speaker 2: per all roads lead to Winston, he'll be kingmaker again,
- 2:49Speaker 2: mark my words. This may be his best and last
- 2:52Speaker 2: hope though of crowning himself Prime Minister. There are three
- 2:56Speaker 2: reasons why this is entirely possible and not entirely unreasonable. One,
- 3:01Speaker 2: he will likely head into negotiations with more support than
- 3:04Speaker 2: therefore more swag than in twenty twenty three and his
- 3:07Speaker 2: dream polling scenario on his Zealand first could control almost
- 3:10Speaker 2: a quarter of Cabinet two. Luxon has shown he is
- 3:14Speaker 2: more than happy to let others take the lead on
- 3:16Speaker 2: big issues and crises. He refers to Winston on most
- 3:19Speaker 2: things foreign affairs anyway, to Nicola and Marta Shane on
- 3:23Speaker 2: fuel at present three. He's technically done it before when
- 3:26Speaker 2: Jacinda Adourne went on matt leave. Remember that Winston stepped
- 3:30Speaker 2: up to the plate. The WORL didn't come to a
- 3:32Speaker 2: halting crash. Luxon often talks up sensible European MMP systems
- 3:37Speaker 2: that allow for different ways of doing things. Peters has
- 3:40Speaker 2: ruled out working with Hipkins, but not Labour. Luxon has
- 3:44Speaker 2: said the biggest threat to this country's future prospects and
- 3:47Speaker 2: prosperity is a Labour Green government. If he could stop
- 3:51Speaker 2: that by giving Parliament's most experienced member the hot seat
- 3:55Speaker 2: for a year or half a term. Why wouldn't he
- 4:00Speaker 2: current Polling Act has a say in this as well,
- 4:02Speaker 2: of course, because they would need another three way deal
- 4:05Speaker 2: basically to get it done, another threesome to get across
- 4:07Speaker 2: the line. Act inherently has less power, a bit like
- 4:10Speaker 2: the Greens to labor because they refuse a marriage with
- 4:13Speaker 2: their opponents. But the same rule applies to seymore as
- 4:16Speaker 2: it does to Luxen. If you don't want lefties in
- 4:18Speaker 2: the treasury benches, then why wouldn't you let Winston have
- 4:22Speaker 2: a turn in the top chair?
- 4:24Speaker 8: Ryan Bridge?
- 4:26Speaker 2: Nine two is the number to text, do you want
- 4:29Speaker 2: some useless information? This is from a University of Auckland study,
- 4:33Speaker 2: and the things that they study just sometimes baffle the mind.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Teenagers with stronger maths skills are more likely to go
- 4:40Speaker 2: on to higher education and earn better incomes as adults.
- 4:44Speaker 2: New research shows, so like, go to school and life
- 4:49Speaker 2: will be better for you. Eleven up to five News
- 4:52Speaker 2: talks there we'll talk about that number and housing in
- 4:55Speaker 2: Auckland next.
- 4:57Speaker 1: On your radio and online on Iheard Radio early edition
- 5:01Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and one Roote Love where you Live
- 5:05Speaker 1: news talks, they'd been.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Five point thirteen. Yesterday we were talking about elbow splashing
- 5:09Speaker 2: the cash, making it rain with the fuel excise cuts
- 5:12Speaker 2: and inflation steaming towards five percent because of the war
- 5:15Speaker 2: over there. Well, yesterday's surprise surprise, the markets are now
- 5:19Speaker 2: pricing in from just one hike priced in yesterday or
- 5:23Speaker 2: the day before, I should say, by yesterday afternoon, markets
- 5:27Speaker 2: were pricing in three twenty five basis point hikes over there.
- 5:30Speaker 2: That would take their rates to four point eight five
- 5:33Speaker 2: percent this year. So interesting, isn't it. What's happening with
- 5:37Speaker 2: inflation and what can happen when you throw more fuel
- 5:40Speaker 2: on the fire. Although if you look at the federal budget,
- 5:44Speaker 2: very interesting little note from Westpac on this reported by
- 5:46Speaker 2: Interest dot Co. Actually for the federal budget on the
- 5:50Speaker 2: revenue side, the war is good for them, I mean
- 5:53Speaker 2: if you're a mining country. So basically they're saying higher
- 5:56Speaker 2: than assumed commodity prices expected to deliver the federal bus
- 6:00Speaker 2: a windfall of almost sixty billion dollars over the five
- 6:03Speaker 2: years to financial year thirty twenty billion of that is
- 6:08Speaker 2: basically coal and alling g prices up and the run
- 6:11Speaker 2: up in gold prices, while they get an extra nineteen
- 6:14Speaker 2: billion bucks over five years for that. That's what happens
- 6:19Speaker 2: when you dig and drill. Fourteen after five Ryan business
- 6:22Speaker 2: confidence has been punched in the guts down from fifty
- 6:25Speaker 2: nine to thirty three off the cliff. Basically, the latest
- 6:27Speaker 2: ANZ survey show's confidence has been hit sixty percent, expecting
- 6:31Speaker 2: to lift prices in the next three months. So all
- 6:33Speaker 2: signs point towards growth down, inflation up. Simon bridges with
- 6:37Speaker 2: us all come, Business Chamber CEO Morning Simon, Hey, morning Ryan. Yeah,
- 6:41Speaker 2: not great? Is it?
- 6:43Speaker 9: No? Not good? Not great? But I suppose not surprising.
- 6:46Speaker 9: I mean, I suppose that the thing is this. It's
- 6:49Speaker 9: no one in New Zealand's fault, right, what has happened
- 6:51Speaker 9: in the Middle East and.
- 6:54Speaker 2: More broadly, But.
- 6:55Speaker 9: It is incredibly frustrating and it's a sense of deja vu.
- 6:59Speaker 9: You know, here we go again, because you know, what
- 7:02Speaker 9: we're seeing is what we sort of saw, even albeit
- 7:05Speaker 9: probably worse, potentially significantly worse than last year, right where
- 7:10Speaker 9: we had this nascent recovery. Things felt like they're going okay,
- 7:13Speaker 9: and then we had Liberation Day and Trump tariffs and
- 7:16Speaker 9: that not the stuffing out of the economy, and this
- 7:18Speaker 9: time around actually we had it was actually it wasn't perfect.
- 7:22Speaker 9: You could talk to different businesses and get different view
- 7:25Speaker 9: and different circumstances. But studs, yeah, actually things were slowly
- 7:31Speaker 9: surely a bit of a sort of a tortoise raised
- 7:33Speaker 9: on a ear race getting getting better, but then the
- 7:37Speaker 9: war and I think, you know, look what I'm hearing
- 7:40Speaker 9: and seeing backs up the survey. And remember actually this
- 7:42Speaker 9: survey was in the very early days of the war,
- 7:45Speaker 9: so I think, you know, we'd say the numbers would
- 7:47Speaker 9: be rather worse as things kind of lock at a
- 7:49Speaker 9: bit more now. But what I'm seeing is hotels, for example,
- 7:54Speaker 9: a couple of hotels telling me they had their best
- 7:55Speaker 9: month ever in February. Well, you know, that's that's that's
- 7:59Speaker 9: not going to continue. I wouldn't have wouldn't have thought,
- 8:02Speaker 9: and and you know, other sectors as well, kind of
- 8:05Speaker 9: saying you know, actually we're feeling a fair bit better.
- 8:07Speaker 9: We could see numbers going in the right direction, but
- 8:11Speaker 9: you know, discretionary spending, it seems again anecdot totally right now,
- 8:16Speaker 9: going back in people's pockets as they say, well, we
- 8:19Speaker 9: don't know what's going to happen in decision making deferred
- 8:22Speaker 9: across both you know, consumers and businesses at a at
- 8:27Speaker 9: a level. So yeah, it's not good, not surprising, very frustrating,
- 8:33Speaker 9: deja va and inducing.
- 8:34Speaker 2: What do we do to make sure because there's going
- 8:36Speaker 2: to be more shocks like this in the years to come.
- 8:38Speaker 2: We've had two now in the space of well, what
- 8:41Speaker 2: we had the tariffs last year, we've got the oil
- 8:43Speaker 2: this year, we had COVID not long ago. You know,
- 8:46Speaker 2: long term, what do we need to do because we
- 8:48Speaker 2: need trade, we need an open world, we need globalization.
- 8:50Speaker 2: But then at the same time it bites in the ass.
- 8:54Speaker 9: Well, you know, I wish I had good advice. I mean,
- 8:56Speaker 9: it all gets a bit trite, isn't it. But I
- 8:58Speaker 9: think in the end it is a little bit of
- 9:00Speaker 9: to kind of keep calm and carry on. I'm not
- 9:02Speaker 9: saying people should be reckless and you know, do big, big,
- 9:07Speaker 9: bold things they kind of you know, weren't sure about
- 9:09Speaker 9: in any events. But I do think we control the
- 9:12Speaker 9: things we control. We keep moving, you know. I think
- 9:17Speaker 9: at levels, you know, you can, you know, you get
- 9:21Speaker 9: into twenty seven, twenty eight, we can look beyond this
- 9:24Speaker 9: and look past us at some levels. And you know,
- 9:27Speaker 9: we see that from our Reserve Bank governor. I think
- 9:29Speaker 9: she looks to be taking precisely the right approach actually,
- 9:32Speaker 9: which is not knee jerk, not kind of jumping around.
- 9:35Speaker 9: I hope we see that from the government's level. I
- 9:37Speaker 9: don't think it's time to kind of slash and burn
- 9:41Speaker 9: or decide to do things you know that are radically
- 9:43Speaker 9: different from what they've what they've been doing.
- 9:46Speaker 2: So Imon appreciate your time this morning. Simon Bridges, Aukland
- 9:48Speaker 2: Business Chamber of CEO. It's eighteen after five. We'll talk
- 9:51Speaker 2: about that housing number in Auckland whether it actually matters.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Next, Views and Views you Trust to start your day.
- 9:58Speaker 1: It's early edition with Bryan Bridge and one Rooge Love
- 10:02Speaker 1: Where you Live, News.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Talks adb by twenty right. We've done the doom and gloom.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Let's do the good news. The four point two billion
- 10:08Speaker 2: dollar sale of the mainland brands to Luck. The lease
- 10:11Speaker 2: the French has now been settled, so that means the
- 10:13Speaker 2: money is coming to your bank accounts if you're a
- 10:16Speaker 2: dairy farmer three point two billion, because I remember they're
- 10:18Speaker 2: holding a billion back three point two billion and payouts
- 10:21Speaker 2: will come in the next fortnight. Congratulations, well earned, well done.
- 10:25Speaker 2: By the way, Westpac has also increased their current payout
- 10:28Speaker 2: forecast for the season to nine eighty and that is
- 10:32Speaker 2: more than fon Terror's interim forecast. It's also above at
- 10:36Speaker 2: the moment all other main dairy analysts. Bridge Government's reducing
- 10:40Speaker 2: the housing density plan yet again. First they said two
- 10:43Speaker 2: million new homes in Auckland, then lowered that to one
- 10:46Speaker 2: point six. Now Bishop says one point four. Richard Hill's
- 10:49Speaker 2: Auckland City councilor hey, Richard, how are you cured it?
- 10:52Speaker 5: How's it going good?
- 10:53Speaker 2: Does it actually matter this number? Does it actually mean anything?
- 10:58Speaker 5: I mean, the overall number, no matter what it is,
- 11:01Speaker 5: is a capacity target. So it's if every single person
- 11:05Speaker 5: develops their property to the fullest height and size possible,
- 11:10Speaker 5: like everyone, So kind of it's not It's always been
- 11:14Speaker 5: a theoretical figure anyway. But the one point four was
- 11:19Speaker 5: a surprise. I think the day before we were expecting
- 11:22Speaker 5: one point six, as we we've been working on the
- 11:25Speaker 5: last six weeks, and then it changed to one point four.
- 11:28Speaker 5: But here's the complicated bit that everyone won't understand. But
- 11:31Speaker 5: the National Policy Statement for Urban Development, which is a
- 11:34Speaker 5: legal requirement and that's the apps earning around stations and
- 11:38Speaker 5: town centers and all that sort of thing, will require
- 11:43Speaker 5: us to get to about one point six anyway, So
- 11:46Speaker 5: the one point four is really a moot point because
- 11:49Speaker 5: to do all the things that we legally have to
- 11:51Speaker 5: do across the city it gets us to about one
- 11:54Speaker 5: point six. We're just slightly under.
- 11:58Speaker 2: So ins at the one point foward doesn't mean much.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Let's not read too much into it.
- 12:03Speaker 5: What was just politics?
- 12:04Speaker 2: I think where yeah, where does the does it change
- 12:08Speaker 2: where you zone where you allow high rises to go?
- 12:14Speaker 5: The number that changed? Not really, it means that we're not,
- 12:19Speaker 5: you know, I guess pushing to put it that little
- 12:23Speaker 5: bit further, maybe with a bit of additional height around
- 12:27Speaker 5: the place, but really we're still going to be zoning.
- 12:31Speaker 10: You know.
- 12:31Speaker 5: Where this came from was that that mdrs three stories
- 12:35Speaker 5: on every single property. We've already moved to a situation
- 12:38Speaker 5: where it makes a bit more sense around where infrastructure
- 12:41Speaker 5: is and where jobs are and things like that. This again,
- 12:45Speaker 5: we asked for the flexibility, but we didn't ask for
- 12:48Speaker 5: a solid number. But now now it's largely the same
- 12:53Speaker 5: as it was a couple of days ago, because because
- 12:55Speaker 5: we have to get to around one point six anyway.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Right, okay, sounds like a bit of a waste of time.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Is do you have maps? David Seamore says, you guys
- 13:02Speaker 2: have got maps? Have you been shown any maps of
- 13:04Speaker 2: where the houses will actually end up?
- 13:07Speaker 5: So we don't This is the confusion as well. There's
- 13:12Speaker 5: never a system where we just put in a number
- 13:16Speaker 5: and then a map spits out the other end. The
- 13:18Speaker 5: way it works is we put all the different controls in,
- 13:21Speaker 5: so you know, six stories around centers and ten stories
- 13:25Speaker 5: around translations, and move it around here, etc. And then
- 13:28Speaker 5: you put all that data into the system and all
- 13:34Speaker 5: the controls change the shape of the map. We haven't
- 13:36Speaker 5: done that work. I've been working six weeks with councilors
- 13:39Speaker 5: everyone to get them to understand the one point six
- 13:43Speaker 5: and say here are the options how you could do it,
- 13:45Speaker 5: where you might remove it from. Then it has to
- 13:47Speaker 5: go into like a whole modeling system because every part
- 13:50Speaker 5: of the city is different. So some areas have sections
- 13:54Speaker 5: that are like six hundred square meters and then other
- 13:56Speaker 5: parts of the city about eight or nine hundred. So
- 13:59Speaker 5: every time you move some of the zoning, then that
- 14:03Speaker 5: means something quite different in each part of the city.
- 14:05Speaker 5: So it's not just as simple as clicking a switch
- 14:08Speaker 5: or pressing a button as some people think, which changes
- 14:11Speaker 5: the maps. So there's no map, there's no magical maps
- 14:14Speaker 5: that we've got anywhere.
- 14:15Speaker 2: Richard Hell's all can council I appreciate your time. It
- 14:18Speaker 2: is twenty four after five. Hegseth to come back fro
- 14:22Speaker 2: him just a second. He has shared an image on
- 14:24Speaker 2: his social media He went for a visit, a secret
- 14:26Speaker 2: mission to visit the troops in the Middle East over
- 14:29Speaker 2: the weekend, and he's captioned this photo of him standing
- 14:33Speaker 2: in camouflage year talking to all the troops. I witnessed warriors,
- 14:37Speaker 2: a brotherhood of men and women, warriors all God, how like,
- 14:43Speaker 2: how much bravado can you get out of one man?
- 14:46Speaker 2: By the way, the name of their operation Epic Fury.
- 14:50Speaker 2: And then they had the bombers going after four dough
- 14:53Speaker 2: that was Midnight Hammer. And yesterday I was reading about
- 14:57Speaker 2: the operation against the Hoothies. And last year five that
- 15:01Speaker 2: was Operation rough Rider. All very cowboy, isn't it. Twenty
- 15:05Speaker 2: five after five News Talks FB the early.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Edition Full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by Newstalks FB.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Twenty seven after five, Remember the outrage over the bureaucrats
- 15:17Speaker 2: working from home. Government comes in and says, pack your lunch,
- 15:20Speaker 2: go back to work. Problems. It's not happening. As you'll
- 15:23Speaker 2: know from listening to this show, ACC is already staged
- 15:26Speaker 2: to back down on that. Now MB is doing the same,
- 15:29Speaker 2: and to her credit Flirfitt Simon's the PSA union has
- 15:32Speaker 2: lawyered up and successfully argued the workers collective contracts allowed
- 15:37Speaker 2: them to work from home, so they should keep it.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Now the policy to restrict working from home is heading
- 15:43Speaker 2: for the bin. According to MB, some ACC staff only
- 15:46Speaker 2: have to be in the office two days a week,
- 15:47Speaker 2: the equivalent of a weekend at the office. Days off
- 15:51Speaker 2: or at home are usually Fridays and Mondays. Quite convenient
- 15:54Speaker 2: for them, isn't it. This is all in spite of
- 15:56Speaker 2: the fact that management at ACC said staff are less
- 16:00Speaker 2: reductive and it's a culture killer. Now, I don't blame
- 16:03Speaker 2: the workers here, all the union. They're exercising their rights.
- 16:06Speaker 2: They won at fair and square. They didn't even have
- 16:08Speaker 2: to get to the Employment Relations Authority, So good on them.
- 16:11Speaker 2: But for anyone who runs a business in the private
- 16:13Speaker 2: sector or works in one, this sort of stuff makes
- 16:16Speaker 2: your blood boil, doesn't it. If it's good enough for us,
- 16:20Speaker 2: why not them? Do they really work as much or
- 16:23Speaker 2: efficiently at home? And why was this cause written into
- 16:26Speaker 2: their collective contracts in the first place. Surely once they expire,
- 16:31Speaker 2: the next offer of work might just require workers to
- 16:35Speaker 2: actually turn up for work. Spray and Bridge News Talk ZB.
- 16:40Speaker 2: It is twenty eight minutes after five now Celendi on
- 16:44Speaker 2: who doesn't love Celendion. She is announcing in the last
- 16:48Speaker 2: twenty four hours she's doing a ten night residency and
- 16:52Speaker 2: Paris in September and October. And you'll remember she'd amazing
- 16:57Speaker 2: performance at the opening ceremony. She was still slanning atop
- 17:00Speaker 2: the Eiffel Tower doing this and so she's announced she's
- 17:12Speaker 2: doing this is four years after that diagnosis of stiff
- 17:15Speaker 2: person syndrome, which is basically muscle spasms. She's announced she's
- 17:19Speaker 2: heading back to Paris. She'll do ten nights. Wouldn't it
- 17:23Speaker 2: be lovely to be there to see her? News TALKSB
- 17:26Speaker 2: We're live to the UK.
- 17:28Speaker 8: Next The News you Need this morning and the in
- 17:45Speaker 8: depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route
- 17:50Speaker 8: Love where you live News Talks.
- 17:51Speaker 2: B for away from six year old news Talks. It'd
- 18:01Speaker 2: be great to have your company on a Wednesday morning.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll head to the UK. They're sending more
- 18:05Speaker 2: troops to the Middle East and Mark Brown Winston Peter's
- 18:08Speaker 2: meeting in the Cooks today. We'll get you across that
- 18:10Speaker 2: as well. Loads of texts coming in on working from
- 18:13Speaker 2: home because last night there was a story published basically
- 18:17Speaker 2: MB has caved. They are bending over and taking it
- 18:21Speaker 2: from the unions because it was going to go to
- 18:23Speaker 2: the employment relations authorready hasn't quite got that far. But
- 18:26Speaker 2: basically the working from home things stays. Ryan, I'm a
- 18:29Speaker 2: public servant manager. This is from Dave Morning Dave, working
- 18:33Speaker 2: from home has killed at the workplace culture. We've started
- 18:36Speaker 2: something that can't be returned to pre COVID times. Another
- 18:40Speaker 2: unintended consequence, Ryan, This one says, there is zero evidence,
- 18:45Speaker 2: Morning Zane, zero evidence that working from home is less productive.
- 18:48Speaker 2: You have no idea what you're talking about, idiot, Really
- 18:52Speaker 2: is there no evidence? I mean, look around you. And
- 18:54Speaker 2: it's not just about productivity. It's also about as Dave
- 18:58Speaker 2: points out about cults. How do you think about young
- 19:02Speaker 2: people who, well, if they can get a job, get
- 19:05Speaker 2: into the workforce and then work from home. Never see
- 19:07Speaker 2: their colleagues, never see how other people's jobs are done,
- 19:11Speaker 2: interact with them, talk by the photocopy machine, find out
- 19:15Speaker 2: what's going on around the business. So many things, so
- 19:19Speaker 2: many benefits from being in one place, that i'd zaying
- 19:23Speaker 2: I think you're wrong twenty three away from six Ryan Bridge.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Shadow reporters around the country will start with Callum and Dunedin. Callum,
- 19:29Speaker 2: good morning morning, right, hey, what's the latest on this
- 19:32Speaker 2: big twenty twenty four murder case in Dunedin.
- 19:35Speaker 11: Oh well, this is the Danita man found guilty of
- 19:38Speaker 11: murder due to be sentenced today Ryan and the sentencing
- 19:41Speaker 11: will come a day after his wife admitted disposing of
- 19:45Speaker 11: evidence in this case. This is thirty five year old Rajinda.
- 19:49Speaker 11: He was convicted back in December of killing Gurdjit Singh's
- 19:53Speaker 11: body was found outside a broken window at his home
- 19:56Speaker 11: here in the Dunedin suburb of Liberton Back Out, Liberton
- 19:59Speaker 11: Back and Ga Nuary twenty twenty four. The Crown says
- 20:02Speaker 11: the attack was planned and motivated by resentment after Singing
- 20:06Speaker 11: married a woman who'd rejected Reginda. So that's sentencing today
- 20:10Speaker 11: Reginda's wife. Meanwhile, Guprit Krr admitted yesterday to discarding her
- 20:15Speaker 11: husband's shoes that were later found to contain glass, linking
- 20:18Speaker 11: them to the scene.
- 20:19Speaker 2: How's your weather. It's good day today, fine light wins
- 20:22Speaker 2: and eighteen nice one Callum, Thank you clear asan christch morning.
- 20:26Speaker 12: Claire, good morning.
- 20:27Speaker 2: What's the story with the new stadium? Another story with
- 20:30Speaker 2: the new stadium, I should say, but it could drive
- 20:32Speaker 2: societal change.
- 20:34Speaker 13: Yeah, yes, Well we know that the Garden City holds
- 20:36Speaker 13: the unofficial and very unfortunate title as the violence capital
- 20:40Speaker 13: of New Zealand. Now there's growing evidence internationally that violence
- 20:44Speaker 13: rates do spike during major events like you know, big
- 20:46Speaker 13: sporting matches, et cetera. In Australia where violence rates increase
- 20:50Speaker 13: up to forty percent on nights like the State of
- 20:53Speaker 13: Origin for example, the Chief of the Family Court will
- 20:56Speaker 13: allstgrin launch day anti violence campaign recently features actor Hugh
- 21:02Speaker 13: Jackman as well as comedians and some of the big
- 21:04Speaker 13: sports stars, and it's played on the big screens at
- 21:07Speaker 13: the Australian Stadium's Ahead of Events now venues. Auto TAHI
- 21:10Speaker 13: Chief executive Caroline Harvey Tia says she's open to one
- 21:13Speaker 13: in zed stadium being used as something similar. She says
- 21:17Speaker 13: she's really keen to start working with those who will
- 21:19Speaker 13: hire the stadium in order to work with introducing some
- 21:22Speaker 13: additional education. She says, if they can benefit the community
- 21:26Speaker 13: with a societal issue like this, she believes they absolutely should.
- 21:30Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
- 21:31Speaker 14: Clown breaking up this morning?
- 21:33Speaker 13: Northeasterly is developing this afternoon and a high of seventeen nice.
- 21:36Speaker 2: One clear, Thank you Max and Wellington morning. Max morning.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Bluebridge racing under the pump to get the repairs done
- 21:41Speaker 2: to get across the strait.
- 21:43Speaker 12: Yeah, this is something that doesn't happen very often. Bluebridge's
- 21:46Speaker 12: Connemara Ferry is currently detained at its birth in Wellington
- 21:50Speaker 12: by Maritime New Zealand. It's very well used for freight
- 21:54Speaker 12: for sailings four times a day typically it crosses the strait.
- 21:57Speaker 12: Hasn't sailed since March twenty one. Attack call fault of
- 22:00Speaker 12: some description was discovered around then and clearly Maritime's not
- 22:04Speaker 12: happy with the work or lack of work that's been
- 22:07Speaker 12: done to remedy it. Bluebridge wants to get back on
- 22:09Speaker 12: the water Wednesday, but it hasn't clearly got the right
- 22:12Speaker 12: sign off yet at Maritime. It's causing a lot of
- 22:15Speaker 12: disruption in the meantime. Crossings are still being canceled one
- 22:18Speaker 12: by one, but it's up to Bluebridge to pass that inspection.
- 22:21Speaker 12: We don't know exactly what the fault is that's not
- 22:23Speaker 12: been made public, but we can't afford to have a
- 22:25Speaker 12: ferry like this offline for a couple of weeks.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Now you can't.
- 22:28Speaker 12: How's your weather, little cloud with light as southerly seventeen,
- 22:32Speaker 12: thank you very much.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Neiva's an Auckland morning, never good morning, Western Springs, Yes
- 22:37Speaker 2: changing now.
- 22:38Speaker 14: Auckland Council's preferred option for Western Springs is the upgraded
- 22:42Speaker 14: sports and the concert venue. So the Auckland councilor is
- 22:46Speaker 14: a passed fifteen votes to six. You can't please everyone, though,
- 22:51Speaker 14: ken here because it's a blow for those who wanted
- 22:53Speaker 14: to explore options like returning speedway to the site. And
- 22:56Speaker 14: this is Counselor Mike Lee, who supports the speedway and
- 22:59Speaker 14: claims his being problems with the consultation process. He says
- 23:02Speaker 14: that the meeting was an opportunity to set that right,
- 23:05Speaker 14: but council didn't.
- 23:07Speaker 2: Because they had the big option taken away from them anyway,
- 23:10Speaker 2: those billionaires pulled out. How's our weather?
- 23:13Speaker 14: Isolated chows clearing this afternoon? Fine spells today's high twenty one.
- 23:17Speaker 2: Brilliant neither thank you, good to see as always nineteen
- 23:19Speaker 2: away from six ran. It's like the opposite, but everything
- 23:23Speaker 2: that we do, Australia does the opposite. Everything Australia does,
- 23:26Speaker 2: we do the opposite. Happened with the fuel excise. We're
- 23:29Speaker 2: not cutting that, they'll be cutting that. And now it's
- 23:32Speaker 2: happening with the surcharges on debit cards and credit cards.
- 23:35Speaker 2: So the Aussies have moved. They're getting rid of them.
- 23:38Speaker 2: They are banning surcharges. They're also lowering the caps on
- 23:42Speaker 2: interchange fees, which is the other bug bear. So they're
- 23:45Speaker 2: doing this and it will save they reckon customers and
- 23:48Speaker 2: businesses about one point eight billion dollars each year. Of course,
- 23:51Speaker 2: ours is currently sitting on pause until after the election.
- 23:55Speaker 2: Should something then change eighteen to six, we're live to
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- 25:14Speaker 2: In the UK sending more troops to the Middle East,
- 25:16Speaker 2: Gavin Gray, here's the details, Gavin, Welcome.
- 25:19Speaker 10: Hi though, Ryan, Yes, extra troops along with the further
- 25:22Speaker 10: air defense systems again to be deployed in the Middle
- 25:25Speaker 10: East in what the government says will be a help
- 25:28Speaker 10: with defensive action against Iranian strikes now where the Defense
- 25:31Speaker 10: Secretary has been touring Gulf nations and saying the extra
- 25:35Speaker 10: air defense teams and systems will be deployed to Saudi
- 25:37Speaker 10: Arabia barring Qwaight, and there will be an extension of
- 25:42Speaker 10: the use of the typhoon jets in Kata that have
- 25:44Speaker 10: already been stationed there. The Prime Minister has really reiterated
- 25:48Speaker 10: his position that the UK is not going to get
- 25:50Speaker 10: dragged into this war, but will continue to defend its
- 25:53Speaker 10: interests and allies in the region. So these systems pretty
- 25:57Speaker 10: high take lots of trying really effectively trying to shoot
- 26:00Speaker 10: down anything that might be fired in the direction of
- 26:02Speaker 10: those countries. And it comes as Donald Trump once again
- 26:06Speaker 10: criticizes the UK, saying all those countries that can't get
- 26:09Speaker 10: jet fuel because the straight of horror moves like the
- 26:11Speaker 10: United Kingdom which refused to get involved in the decapitation
- 26:15Speaker 10: of Iran. He says, I have a suggestion for you.
- 26:17Speaker 10: Number one, buy from the US week plenty number two,
- 26:20Speaker 10: build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait and
- 26:23Speaker 10: just take it. You'll have to start learning how to
- 26:25Speaker 10: fight for yourself. That would tend to suggest we're about
- 26:28Speaker 10: to see America basically pull out of the action that
- 26:31Speaker 10: they've started and potentially just say about the straight of
- 26:34Speaker 10: horror moves, well, we don't use it, so you're going
- 26:36Speaker 10: to have to do something with it yourself.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Yeah, get your own oil how he put it. Hey,
- 26:40Speaker 2: what's happened? That's fasciaying because we have problems with rhyming
- 26:43Speaker 2: strade dogs doing terrible damage to humans here in New Zealand.
- 26:47Speaker 2: What's the gail sentence for this guy whose dog attected
- 26:50Speaker 2: as his mother in law?
- 26:51Speaker 10: Yeah, this is a really sad case. So a man
- 26:54Speaker 10: has been jailed for ten years and three months. We
- 26:56Speaker 10: need exl bully dog, which is this type of attack
- 26:59Speaker 10: dog mauled his mother in law to death. Now, The
- 27:02Speaker 10: court heard that the pet, named Bear had not been
- 27:07Speaker 10: walked in the four weeks before the attack. The sixty
- 27:11Speaker 10: eight year old mother in law was looking after two
- 27:13Speaker 10: adult dogs, eight puppies and a child while her son
- 27:17Speaker 10: in law, Warren, an amateur rapper who was thirty four
- 27:22Speaker 10: years sorry forty one years, was filming a music video
- 27:25Speaker 10: in London. The court heard that he was the first
- 27:29Speaker 10: person to be charged with excel bully offenses after new
- 27:32Speaker 10: laws came into force. The grand that the mother in
- 27:36Speaker 10: law was just one point six meters tall and had
- 27:41Speaker 10: restricted movement due to her hip replacement, arthritis and a limp.
- 27:45Speaker 10: The court also heard that the owner had tried to
- 27:48Speaker 10: take them out for a walk and would admitted in
- 27:51Speaker 10: one message that quote, the animals are too much for me. Well,
- 27:54Speaker 10: there was certainly too much for the grandma, the mother
- 27:57Speaker 10: in law, who apparently just tried to break them up
- 28:00Speaker 10: with a broom and that's when it's thought the dog's attack.
- 28:02Speaker 10: So big legislation coming into an action. But it's taken
- 28:06Speaker 10: some two years to get this farther court.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to do the same ten years. Sounds
- 28:10Speaker 2: like about right. Appreciate your time this morning, Gavin Gray
- 28:14Speaker 2: are UK. You're corresponding to eleven away from six Bryan B. Winston,
- 28:18Speaker 2: Peter's Foreign Affairs heading to the Cooks this week for
- 28:20Speaker 2: the first time since twenty twenty four, hoping to get
- 28:23Speaker 2: their Prime Minister Mark Brown back on our side. They
- 28:25Speaker 2: met at Winston's house for a cup of tea a
- 28:27Speaker 2: few weeks back. Phil GoF, former Foreign Affairs Minister with
- 28:29Speaker 2: us this morning. Feel good morning, Yeah, good morning Ryan.
- 28:32Speaker 2: So what should be the goal here?
- 28:36Speaker 15: Well, I think the goal will be to try to
- 28:37Speaker 15: get the relationship to back on track. It shouldn't be
- 28:41Speaker 15: too hard. Supposedly, this is a country of seventeen thousand people.
- 28:47Speaker 15: They have ninety four thousand compatriots, people of Cook Island
- 28:51Speaker 15: descent living in New Zealand. They get nearly half of
- 28:54Speaker 15: their aid from New Zealand and they carry a New
- 28:56Speaker 15: Zealand passport.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Now, you know, I.
- 28:59Speaker 15: Think the Cooks are at fault and the problem that
- 29:01Speaker 15: occurred over the strategic partnership with China. They were bound
- 29:06Speaker 15: under a two thousand and one agreement to give due
- 29:09Speaker 15: notice to New Zealand and consult on it. What's their status.
- 29:12Speaker 5: They're a self.
- 29:13Speaker 15: Government country and free association with New Zealand. That means
- 29:16Speaker 15: that they do their own thing except in areas like
- 29:19Speaker 15: defense and foreign affairs. And I think that the danger
- 29:23Speaker 15: is that a micro state like the Cooks a very
- 29:25Speaker 15: small country, they can get seduced by any scamster or
- 29:28Speaker 15: any country that comes along. And that's the challenge that
- 29:32Speaker 15: New Zealand has long had with the Cook Islands. But
- 29:35Speaker 15: we all wondered whether you know, with a breakdown of
- 29:36Speaker 15: the relationship, whether Winston Peter's had a Plan B.
- 29:40Speaker 5: I think the Plan B.
- 29:41Speaker 15: Will be to rely on the fact that Mark Brown
- 29:43Speaker 15: is going to election this November and it's really unpopular
- 29:47Speaker 15: in the Cook Islands to think that they might lose
- 29:50Speaker 15: their access to the New Zealand passport, one of their
- 29:53Speaker 15: most prized possessions. So Peters should have the cards on
- 29:56Speaker 15: this one.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Plus, there is the issue of the funding that's been
- 30:01Speaker 2: cut right that we're kind of turning the tap off. Yeah.
- 30:04Speaker 15: Here Supposedly we give the Cooks in total about two
- 30:08Speaker 15: hundred million over three years and Peters has cut that
- 30:13Speaker 15: by thirty million, and he's cut it selectively to areas
- 30:18Speaker 15: that will influence the running of government rather than the
- 30:20Speaker 15: provision of things like health and education.
- 30:24Speaker 5: You know.
- 30:25Speaker 15: The difficulty is, of course, if you're competing with China.
- 30:28Speaker 15: China's vastly bigger, vastly more resources in New Zealand. They
- 30:32Speaker 15: could come along and outbud New Zealand anytime. But do
- 30:36Speaker 15: Cook Islanders really want to have their primary relationship with
- 30:40Speaker 15: China rather than the country that they have blood ties with,
- 30:44Speaker 15: that they have so much in common with. And the
- 30:46Speaker 15: answer is Most Cook Islanders really value the opportunity to
- 30:49Speaker 15: be able to live in the Cooks but come to
- 30:51Speaker 15: New Zealand visit family in New Zealand when they want to.
- 30:55Speaker 15: The Trump card is always well, you can say to
- 30:58Speaker 15: the Cook Islands it look, you can be an independent
- 31:00Speaker 15: country if you like. That's your sovereign right. You do
- 31:02Speaker 15: it by referendum. But by the way, if you do that,
- 31:05Speaker 15: of course you won't have a New Zealand passport, which
- 31:07Speaker 15: is totally appropriate. So the Trump card is held by Peters.
- 31:12Speaker 15: Hopefully there'll be an improvement in the relationship. It's stagnated
- 31:16Speaker 15: for really rather too long.
- 31:18Speaker 2: Bill GoF, former Foreign Affairs Minister, appreciate your time this morning.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Eight to six News Talks hedb Mike next.
- 31:24Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the day Early
- 31:26Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love Where you
- 31:30Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
- 31:31Speaker 2: He'd be six to six News Talks. He'd be Ryan
- 31:34Speaker 2: on working from home. Let's see how the bureaucrats like
- 31:37Speaker 2: it when they get robbed or beaten up in their
- 31:39Speaker 2: local policeman decides that he's going to work from home today,
- 31:42Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Having a heart attack. Doctors and
- 31:45Speaker 2: nurses working from home. Sorry. Lance is having none of it.
- 31:49Speaker 2: This morning, Mike, Good morning morning. Did you see that
- 31:51Speaker 2: decision from well, not even yeah, it's not a decision.
- 31:54Speaker 16: They back down. But to be fair, I don't know
- 31:57Speaker 16: the problem is the collective contract.
- 31:59Speaker 2: Yes, can't argue with the contracts. The deal is a
- 32:02Speaker 2: deal and the union's just doing what a union does.
- 32:04Speaker 16: And so I think they'll wait till the end of
- 32:05Speaker 16: the collective contract and that this lot is still in power,
- 32:08Speaker 16: then they'll say there's no more. It's the same goes
- 32:10Speaker 16: with the morrification of all the various departments and stuff
- 32:13Speaker 16: like that. You know, it's all in the collective contract.
- 32:15Speaker 16: We talked to the Trade minister this morning. He was
- 32:17Speaker 16: he wanted them. We wanted him yesterday with the FTA thing,
- 32:19Speaker 16: but he was on his way back from Cameroon. I'm
- 32:22Speaker 16: not sure. I'm not sure where you go? Where would
- 32:24Speaker 16: you go through? Probably Singapore? I guess Cameroon to Singapore.
- 32:27Speaker 16: Is there were a linked there.
- 32:28Speaker 2: But so he why did it take him a month
- 32:30Speaker 2: to write back to Chippy. That's what I want to know.
- 32:33Speaker 16: That's what I want to find out. What I want
- 32:34Speaker 16: to find out is, first of all, we don't see
- 32:36Speaker 16: the text. Second of all the problems they see, I
- 32:39Speaker 16: don't even know what the problems are that Labor's got.
- 32:42Speaker 2: At the moment, visas and when you have a student visas.
- 32:45Speaker 16: So that's the New Zealand first problem as well, whether
- 32:48Speaker 16: they're going to keep going. You know, what are they
- 32:49Speaker 16: going to do about it? I mean, this is like
- 32:51Speaker 16: a major, major deal.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Then, and the question is whether you just go ahead
- 32:55Speaker 2: and say sign it, even if you haven't got Parliament
- 32:58Speaker 2: on board, and hope that labor falls into which they
- 33:00Speaker 2: shouldn't do. They would have to.
- 33:01Speaker 16: Well, they did China and therection architects of all that
- 33:05Speaker 16: sort of stuff. So anyway, we've got that on the program.
- 33:07Speaker 16: And Chris, the Chris Buship thing. I know, no one
- 33:10Speaker 16: in the rest of the country gives a monkey no
- 33:12Speaker 16: because no one cares. But how is it a guy
- 33:15Speaker 16: not even Auckland is here. Yeah, exactly, because I don't
- 33:18Speaker 16: think it's going to happen. But I mean, how's it
- 33:20Speaker 16: a guy who's so good at what he does generally
- 33:23Speaker 16: has balls this up so spectacularly and can't see what
- 33:26Speaker 16: a mess he's making of.
- 33:27Speaker 2: It because he's from the heart.
- 33:29Speaker 16: Do you think that's what it is.
- 33:30Speaker 2: I think it is. You don't get soet here, you
- 33:33Speaker 2: don't get well.
- 33:34Speaker 16: When you say sensitive. There's a report coming on you know,
- 33:38Speaker 16: the view shafts, and there's a report coming on that.
- 33:41Speaker 16: And he's got this idea that you just build everywhere.
- 33:43Speaker 17: Yes, And he's got clearly no idea how in love
- 33:47Speaker 17: if he went downtown Auckland said hey, guys, I've got
- 33:49Speaker 17: this report and what you should do a stick a
- 33:51Speaker 17: high rise in front and bringing Toto. He's got clearly
- 33:53Speaker 17: no idea how that would be received, and no one's obviously,
- 33:57Speaker 17: And there is a Minister of Auckland. And I would
- 33:59Speaker 17: have thought Sumian would have gone, hey, Chris, can.
- 34:01Speaker 2: You well they aren't he hop hints for three becktowns
- 34:04Speaker 2: and in the space of three months.
- 34:06Speaker 16: Anyway, all of that more very good, have a.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Great day of run see tomorrow if you got a drink,
- 34:13Speaker 2: better reason as if we made it here, then we.
- 34:17Speaker 8: Made it.
- 34:21Speaker 2: For more.
- 34:22Speaker 1: From early edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live to news Talks.
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