Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 21 May 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:06Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your Property search Simple.
- 0:11Speaker 2: US Talks.
- 0:11Speaker 3: It'd be good morning at A six a half to five.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Welcome to Wednesday. We've got your global dairy trade auction overnight.
- 0:17Speaker 2: We'll give you a number shortly.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Retail space Apparently we're short on retail space in New Zealand.
- 0:22Speaker 3: That's despite empty shops. When I go up to Main Street,
- 0:25Speaker 3: there's a lot of empty shops. So how can the
- 0:27Speaker 3: both of those things be true? Could you soon be
- 0:30Speaker 3: buying eggs at your supermarket? Z is looking into this.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Elon Musk's made some comments about political donations. Basically he's
- 0:38Speaker 3: pulling out and Brigitte Morton on to party Mardi. We'll
- 0:41Speaker 3: get to that before six o'clock here on News Talk
- 0:43Speaker 3: SEB The Agenda Wednesday, the twenty first of May, Gaza.
- 0:49Speaker 3: The UK now suspending trade talks with Israel and summoning
- 0:53Speaker 3: the ambassador.
- 0:55Speaker 1: We're horrified by the escalation from Israel.
- 0:59Speaker 4: We repeat our command for a ceasefire as the only
- 1:02Speaker 4: way to free the hostages.
- 1:04Speaker 3: The images, if you watch the news, are awful to
- 1:08Speaker 3: look at. I mean they are just awful. There is
- 1:10Speaker 3: real suffering going on, there no doubt about that. But
- 1:13Speaker 3: is Starma going to change it? We'll talk about that
- 1:16Speaker 3: in a second. The Kremlin, This is on Ukraine. Kremlin
- 1:19Speaker 3: stalling for time still. The spokesperson says, there are quote
- 1:23Speaker 3: no deadlines and there cannot be any.
- 1:25Speaker 5: Ukraine is once again being denied its wish of having
- 1:28Speaker 5: a ceasefire and then talks, and frankly we're just seeing
- 1:32Speaker 5: more and more dialogue without any concrete outcomes or consequences.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Finally, Netflix has swept in and saved Sicime Street. Apparently
- 1:47Speaker 3: I was at risk. I didn't know this. Trump pulled
- 1:49Speaker 3: funding for the public broadcasting service. Warner Brothers Discovery decided
- 1:53Speaker 3: not to renew its deal. Netflix will offer a news
- 1:56Speaker 3: season of the show and ninety hours of previous episodes
- 2:00Speaker 3: on their streaming service. So there you go, Happy Big Bird.
- 2:03Speaker 3: This morning, eight after five.
- 2:06Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
- 2:10Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One Roof. To make your Property search simple,
- 2:14Speaker 1: youth Talk said.
- 2:15Speaker 3: The Good Morning nine two ninety two is the number
- 2:18Speaker 3: to text. So Europe is trying to stop wars left,
- 2:20Speaker 3: right and center, but they're actually not very good at
- 2:22Speaker 3: doing that. Are they. Let's be honest, We've got and
- 2:26Speaker 3: by the way, starmer is sort of auditioning to be
- 2:29Speaker 3: the new Angler Mercle the know, the de facto leader
- 2:31Speaker 3: of Europe. But is anyone listening to Europe? Has anyone
- 2:35Speaker 3: listened to Europe in a while? Putin certainly hasn't. Yesterday
- 2:38Speaker 3: Boris Johnson, which was quite funny, came out and called
- 2:41Speaker 3: the UK the gimp of Europe because of its deal
- 2:45Speaker 3: which gave away their fisheries for another twelve years. Called
- 2:48Speaker 3: the UK the gimp of Europe. And that may be true,
- 2:50Speaker 3: but surely Europe is the gimp of the world. They're
- 2:54Speaker 3: not respected. They missed their own sanctions deadline with Russia,
- 2:58Speaker 3: which Putin ignored anyway by a week. They've now overnight
- 3:02Speaker 3: imposed more sanctions, but Putin will ignore them too. He
- 3:05Speaker 3: has the last thirteen rounds, what's a fourteenth? They failed
- 3:10Speaker 3: to invest in their military. They were free loading off
- 3:13Speaker 3: the Yanks for decades and now and Israel must be
- 3:17Speaker 3: shaking in its boots. Yes, people are starving and begging
- 3:21Speaker 3: for food in Gaza and Britain's standing there tissing. Is
- 3:26Speaker 3: that going to change the world? As Starman is pausing
- 3:29Speaker 3: trade talks with Israel. He's summoning the ambassador and Israel
- 3:33Speaker 3: has already come out and literally said, we don't care.
- 3:38Speaker 3: It's not going to change our position. Al Gillespie spoke
- 3:41Speaker 3: to him yesterday. He had an interesting point about, you know,
- 3:44Speaker 3: the only person in the world who can stop the
- 3:47Speaker 3: war in Ukraine is Hjingping. He's the one that is
- 3:51Speaker 3: supporting Russia by buying the oil that no one else
- 3:53Speaker 3: will take right and really when it comes to Gaza,
- 3:57Speaker 3: it's only Tehran and Washington that can stop the bombing
- 4:01Speaker 3: and the blockade. Another well meaning dog barking at every
- 4:06Speaker 3: passing car from Brussels or London or Paris probably not
- 4:09Speaker 3: going to change the world. Ryan Bridge shot up to
- 4:12Speaker 3: five and this is news talk. Zip. I'll give you
- 4:14Speaker 3: those Global dairy Trade auction numbers in a second, and
- 4:16Speaker 3: we will talk about z maybe going to sell you
- 4:20Speaker 3: some eggs. I actually think it's there are merits to
- 4:23Speaker 3: this idea, but some practical problems. We'll get to that next.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on Eily edition, Where's one roof? Make your
- 4:31Speaker 1: property search simple?
- 4:33Speaker 3: Youth dog Zivvy, Good morning, just gone twelve after five.
- 4:35Speaker 3: Your Global Dairy Trade auction numbers from overnight. The prices
- 4:38Speaker 3: were down the index down point nine percent. That's a
- 4:41Speaker 3: dip after three pretty strong results. Whole milk powdered down
- 4:44Speaker 3: one percent, skim milk powdered down point seven percent. That's
- 4:47Speaker 3: the stuff we really care about. I mean, we care
- 4:49Speaker 3: about most of it, but that's the stuff we really
- 4:51Speaker 3: care about. It's fourteen percent of the total value of
- 4:54Speaker 3: our exports as powder, a butter down one and a half,
- 4:58Speaker 3: chedder down nine p point two percent, lactosets down thirteen
- 5:04Speaker 3: point two percent, and big drops. The mozzarella really the
- 5:06Speaker 3: only bright spot, and we sell a bunch of that
- 5:08Speaker 3: to the Chinese. Sixty percent of our mozzarella goes to
- 5:10Speaker 3: the Chinese. That's up point seven Despite all of this,
- 5:14Speaker 3: despite the fact that it's a softer one, it's been
- 5:17Speaker 3: a cracker dairy season. Ten days left to run, Forecasters
- 5:20Speaker 3: for record payouts, supplies being tight, bidding's been hot. A
- 5:24Speaker 3: and Z forecasting ten dollars per kilogram of milk solids
- 5:27Speaker 3: for this season and actually predicting the same for next
- 5:30Speaker 3: season as well. That is good for us, well, it's
- 5:33Speaker 3: good for not just for dairy farmers, but it's good
- 5:35Speaker 3: for the rest of us too. Isn't it good for
- 5:36Speaker 3: your tax take, good for your health system, good for everyone?
- 5:40Speaker 3: Fourteen after five rand shedding eggs from the petrol station
- 5:45Speaker 3: might be the new normal of z energy gets its way.
- 5:48Speaker 3: They're planning to roll out grocery offerings to all of
- 5:50Speaker 3: the are two hundred petrol stations around the country. They
- 5:53Speaker 3: say this isn't to compete with the big supermarket chains,
- 5:56Speaker 3: but instead just top up what they've already got available.
- 5:59Speaker 3: Text Wards is monopoly Watch. Spokesperson with us this morning texts,
- 6:02Speaker 3: good morning.
- 6:03Speaker 6: Good morning, Ryan.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Do you think this is a smart move from them?
- 6:07Speaker 3: Because I think about my dairy and dairies all around
- 6:10Speaker 3: New Zealand where you know you've got parking problems now
- 6:14Speaker 3: because of cycle. There are whole bunch of reasons why
- 6:16Speaker 3: dairies aren't as hot as they used to be. This
- 6:18Speaker 3: might be a good solution if you just want a
- 6:21Speaker 3: couple of things to pick up.
- 6:25Speaker 6: I don't think it's a real significant move, Ryan. The
- 6:30Speaker 6: problem with that is at the supermarket competition economics review,
- 6:37Speaker 6: the dynamic of their monopoly and supermarkets is you need
- 6:41Speaker 6: what we call like for light competition, So to have
- 6:44Speaker 6: any impact on price, sustainability or nutrition. Competition you need
- 6:50Speaker 6: like for light shops. This looks like a desperate tent
- 6:55Speaker 6: by the supermarket operators and by the fuel industry to
- 6:58Speaker 6: pretend that the whole cell regime worked. Ironically, the fuel
- 7:03Speaker 6: industry had the same competition problem and it had a
- 7:06Speaker 6: market to study actually before supermarkets, and they had the
- 7:12Speaker 6: Fuel Industry Act of twenty twenty. So sure it might
- 7:17Speaker 6: be a great place to buy some eggs and some bread,
- 7:20Speaker 6: but it's not going to solve the big planger and
- 7:24Speaker 6: the economy called competition in the super market.
- 7:27Speaker 3: But to be fair, they're not saying it is either
- 7:28Speaker 3: they're just saying or we sell a bunch of stuff
- 7:30Speaker 3: at the moment, we'll sell a bunch of more stuff,
- 7:32Speaker 3: maybe some pressure projects.
- 7:35Speaker 6: It makes yeah, makes makes perfect sense because if you
- 7:38Speaker 6: think about it in twenty years time, the that the
- 7:42Speaker 6: fuel distributors are going to have a problem as people
- 7:45Speaker 6: swap into electric cars, so then they're not going to
- 7:48Speaker 6: have so much traffic through But actually, if you do
- 7:51Speaker 6: a deeper dive into the announcement, a lot of it
- 7:54Speaker 6: is about the fuel industry trying to be goody two
- 7:56Speaker 6: shoes with the Commerce Commission and pretend that their wholesale
- 8:01Speaker 6: regime is working, and that the wholesale regime that was
- 8:06Speaker 6: suggested might work in supermarkets could also work. But this
- 8:10Speaker 6: just isn't the case because the industries are quite different,
- 8:14Speaker 6: and it's quite a dangerous move to have the fuel
- 8:17Speaker 6: industry if you're an industry analyst, and this is a
- 8:20Speaker 6: boten response, right, so apologize to doing it so early
- 8:23Speaker 6: in the morning. But but if you're the fuel industry,
- 8:27Speaker 6: you're trying to persuade the regulators that it isn't a
- 8:30Speaker 6: competition problem in the fuel industry because they have a
- 8:34Speaker 6: they have a wholesale regime where you have to.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Have Yeah, but what they do with selling eggs.
- 8:40Speaker 6: Well, what it's got to do with selling eggs is
- 8:43Speaker 6: that they think it's a solution, that it's that's similar
- 8:46Speaker 6: to it, that that.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Are It is a long boat for the first thing
- 8:57Speaker 3: in the morning.
- 8:57Speaker 7: Ryan.
- 8:58Speaker 6: But what we what the industry structures trying to do
- 9:01Speaker 6: is say, hey, we could have the wholesale regime similar
- 9:05Speaker 6: to what we had in the fuel industry, and now
- 9:08Speaker 6: we don't need to break up the supermarkets because we're
- 9:10Speaker 6: going to do just what the fuel industry.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Did I don't know text. I think a long bow
- 9:14Speaker 3: not just for Wednesday morning, but just a long bow
- 9:16Speaker 3: is a long bow. But I appreciate you coming on
- 9:19Speaker 3: the show. It is seventeen after five. News Talk said
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- 9:30Speaker 3: News Talk said be Aiden, and Dunedan says, this is
- 9:33Speaker 3: about the global dairy trade action. Good for the farmers,
- 9:37Speaker 3: but not great for my weekly shop. Price of cheese
- 9:39Speaker 3: and butter is increasingly unaffordable, perhaps at a supermarket dairy
- 9:44Speaker 3: prices report to the end of the Global Dairy Price
- 9:46Speaker 3: Report that you bring us every second Wednesday. Yeah, not
- 9:49Speaker 3: about it's two sides. It's two sides of the coin. Right,
- 9:52Speaker 3: You've got the prices that we get, which you know,
- 9:56Speaker 3: even on the whole milk powder alone ten billion dollars
- 9:59Speaker 3: an x spots, that's fourteen percent of the total value
- 10:02Speaker 3: of our exports. That's massive for us. So the higher
- 10:05Speaker 3: the prices, the international prices, the better off we are
- 10:08Speaker 3: as a country. But individually, when you go to the supermarket,
- 10:11Speaker 3: it hurts, isn't it. So yeah, Ad, and you are
- 10:14Speaker 3: not wrong. But I guess what would you rather? Would
- 10:17Speaker 3: you rather the price was low, and we had fewer jobs,
- 10:21Speaker 3: and we had less tax take and less money for
- 10:24Speaker 3: health and less money for education. The list goes on
- 10:27Speaker 3: twenty half to five. News talks are being crying Bridge right.
- 10:32Speaker 3: So it seems that keywis Apparently we still favor the
- 10:34Speaker 3: old fashioned in person shopping experience. There's a new report
- 10:37Speaker 3: from the consultancy JLLL saying we need nearly two hundred
- 10:41Speaker 3: and fifty thousand square meters of new retail space in
- 10:45Speaker 3: the next five years to keep up with demand. Which
- 10:48Speaker 3: when when I go down Main Street and I look
- 10:50Speaker 3: at shops, even in nice areas, these shops boarded up,
- 10:54Speaker 3: shops with rent signed four leaks on the side of
- 10:56Speaker 3: them an Mary Johnson retailings with me this morning, Amory,
- 10:59Speaker 3: good morning, or in it? So how does this work?
- 11:03Speaker 3: Because you do see shops that are sitting empty. Are
- 11:05Speaker 3: we talking about we need new retail space in a
- 11:07Speaker 3: particular area or a particular type.
- 11:11Speaker 8: Look, It's really good to see some positive prospects for
- 11:15Speaker 8: retail I've got to say things have been tough for
- 11:17Speaker 8: a long time for our retailers. But I guess the
- 11:21Speaker 8: thing is that we've been through these cycles before. We
- 11:24Speaker 8: know that eventually the cycle is going to end and
- 11:28Speaker 8: retail will pack up. So my read of this report
- 11:31Speaker 8: is that it's looking towards the future, to the medium
- 11:34Speaker 8: term when there will be demand for retail and retail space,
- 11:39Speaker 8: and so we need to be ahead of that curve.
- 11:42Speaker 3: What about the online situation? Does this take into account
- 11:46Speaker 3: because it's obviously looking at population growth and saying you've
- 11:48Speaker 3: got X number of people you need amount of retail space.
- 11:51Speaker 3: Does it take into account how much shopping New Zealand
- 11:55Speaker 3: is culturally, how much we do online?
- 11:59Speaker 8: Yeah, we know certainly from our own research, and this
- 12:05Speaker 8: reflects This report reflects that that bricks and water stores
- 12:08Speaker 8: are still way more popular. People might do their research
- 12:11Speaker 8: online before they go to do their shop, but the
- 12:15Speaker 8: majority of key we still prefer to actually go into
- 12:18Speaker 8: a shop to buy the goods that they're looking for,
- 12:22Speaker 8: and we seem to be a little bit different from
- 12:26Speaker 8: the rest of the world on that. But it's hard
- 12:29Speaker 8: to see that trend changing significantly.
- 12:33Speaker 3: I can probably count on one hand how many things
- 12:35Speaker 3: I've bought online in my entire lifetime. Like, I just
- 12:38Speaker 3: don't Yeah, I just don't do it, and you need
- 12:40Speaker 3: to especially close. You need to try them on, don't you.
- 12:44Speaker 8: Well yeah, I was just going to say, especially for
- 12:46Speaker 8: things like clothes and some of those big purchases as well,
- 12:50Speaker 8: you like to touch them and see them before you
- 12:53Speaker 8: actually buy.
- 12:55Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Emory, Well, let's hope that this rings
- 12:58Speaker 3: true and that we get some more Well, well, first
- 13:00Speaker 3: of all, that retail gets a bit of a reprieve
- 13:03Speaker 3: because I know trading is still flat, and also that
- 13:06Speaker 3: we get some more retail spaces. Well. Twenty three minutes
- 13:08Speaker 3: after five, you're on news Talks THEREB. Yeah, I think
- 13:11Speaker 3: I could probably count, literally count on one hand how
- 13:15Speaker 3: many items are clothing, How many items period I've bought online,
- 13:18Speaker 3: especially clothing. And you know, if you you know, during
- 13:21Speaker 3: winter you put on a little bit of weight, and
- 13:24Speaker 3: then in summer you ideally lose a little bit of weight.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Coming into summer, it gets very hard to try and
- 13:29Speaker 3: decide what size you are. You know, you need to
- 13:31Speaker 3: actually try them on, get them round you. Twenty four
- 13:35Speaker 3: after five the.
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- 13:41Speaker 3: Talks IV News Talks THEREB twenty six minutes after five
- 13:45Speaker 3: three strikes for Old Chippy in the last seven days.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Politics is all about perception, as everyone keeps saying, and
- 13:52Speaker 3: the perception of his last time on the ninth four
- 13:55Speaker 3: was bad for three reasons. Crime they were too soft, spending,
- 13:59Speaker 3: too much waste and debt, too much of that with
- 14:02Speaker 3: nothing to show for it. All of this fed into
- 14:03Speaker 3: the cost of living crisis right Basically, labor was too
- 14:06Speaker 3: loose on the purse strings and the gangs too harsh
- 14:09Speaker 3: on business and middle New Zealand. Yesterday, Hipkins stood up
- 14:13Speaker 3: in Parliament argued for shortest sentences. For some MPs, this
- 14:18Speaker 3: is the gun gesture gate, the Hucker sideshow, whatever you
- 14:21Speaker 3: want to call it. Arguing for a reduced sentence from
- 14:24Speaker 3: twenty one days to one was probably ill advised, no
- 14:28Speaker 3: matter where you sit on the actual debate. Politically, for Chippy,
- 14:31Speaker 3: in the eyes of your average voter, it was a
- 14:33Speaker 3: bad move. Arguing for a ninety five percent discount on
- 14:38Speaker 3: sentencing just plays into a narrative they ought to avoid,
- 14:42Speaker 3: like the plague that was strike three. Strike two came
- 14:46Speaker 3: earlier in the day. On debt, he refused to commit
- 14:49Speaker 3: to the debt selling of fifty percent of GDP. It's
- 14:52Speaker 3: the sacred threshold that Treasury warns we just shouldn't cross.
- 14:56Speaker 3: It's the same threshold even Grant Robertson said we shouldn't
- 15:00Speaker 3: the same threshold even Barbed from accounts said we shouldn't
- 15:03Speaker 3: cross a day earlier. So now national can run around
- 15:07Speaker 3: until the election's screaming debt monster till they're blue in
- 15:10Speaker 3: the face, and they won't be wrong until he commits otherwise.
- 15:14Speaker 3: Strike one, of course, came courtesy of the Greens last week,
- 15:18Speaker 3: the Mad Hatter alternative budget. The plans so toxic it
- 15:23Speaker 3: had killed growth like round up on your weeds. Chippy
- 15:26Speaker 3: first said he hadn't read it, which no one believed.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Then he said he'd read it and wouldn't rule anything out,
- 15:31Speaker 3: so he might allow some or all of the roundup
- 15:34Speaker 3: to be sprayed on our economic prosperity. Then he says
- 15:38Speaker 3: some of the stuff was bad, some of it was okay,
- 15:41Speaker 3: but still not committing to anything. Obviously, this is going
- 15:44Speaker 3: to be the high tide mark on a Green Party
- 15:47Speaker 3: negotiation position post election, and most of it will never
- 15:51Speaker 3: see the light of day and actually happen. And the
- 15:54Speaker 3: same way the Privileges Committee thing is not that big
- 15:57Speaker 3: of a deal to most voters and doesn't reflect their
- 16:00Speaker 3: crime and justice policies. But if politics is about perception
- 16:06Speaker 3: and perception is reality, it's three own goals in a week,
- 16:12Speaker 3: three strikes for Chippy.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Rich.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Twenty eight minutes after five, Y're on news Talks. He'd
- 16:17Speaker 3: be Gavin Gray out of the UK for US. Just
- 16:20Speaker 3: after the news We'll get to our reporters as well,
- 16:23Speaker 3: their UK suspending trade talks with Israel. Will that change
- 16:26Speaker 3: the dial very quickly? This is also from the UK
- 16:29Speaker 3: the oil industry. This is from the knock me Down
- 16:32Speaker 3: scandal of the Morning File, and this is on the Guardian.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost
- 16:43Speaker 3: its image, according to a new report, shock horror. Isn't
- 16:47Speaker 3: that why all corporates fund charities to make themselves look good?
- 16:51Speaker 3: Isn't it one big exercise in pr I don't think
- 16:55Speaker 3: it's the scandal of the cent key, but anyway, it's
- 16:57Speaker 3: on the front page of the Guardian this morning. You're
- 17:00Speaker 3: on News Talks b twenty nine after five, you're so brah?
- 17:17Speaker 3: Are you soak up my brain?
- 17:19Speaker 9: Shit to.
- 17:31Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day. Early
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- 17:40Speaker 3: News Talk Zippy, Good morning. It is twenty four away
- 17:49Speaker 3: from six year on news Talks b We'll get to
- 17:51Speaker 3: our reporters around the country in just a second. The
- 17:53Speaker 3: frump page of the Herald this morning is all about
- 17:55Speaker 3: the emergency departments giving If you're waiting in line in
- 17:58Speaker 3: an emergency department, they'll go you a bouch and say
- 18:01Speaker 3: go to an after hours clinic. It'll be free. We're
- 18:04Speaker 3: spending one point seven million dollars on there anyway, never
- 18:07Speaker 3: or bring us up speed on that story. Plus we'll
- 18:10Speaker 3: get to christ Church earthquake Warriores with the council offices there,
- 18:14Speaker 3: which you just thought that would have got those sorts
- 18:17Speaker 3: of it after twenty eleven. Also this morning, we're going
- 18:20Speaker 3: to go to Gavin Gray in the UK. We'll get
- 18:21Speaker 3: to him shortly because Dama's playing hardball, attempting to play
- 18:26Speaker 3: hardball with Israeli. Veragaza twenty three minutes away from six
- 18:30Speaker 3: Ryan Bred. Just start with Cullum Procter and to Need
- 18:32Speaker 3: and Calum Good morning morning. Right now, Targo's environment getting
- 18:37Speaker 3: some protection.
- 18:40Speaker 10: Yeah, applications for the tiger Regional Council's annual Eco fund
- 18:44Speaker 10: have been almost three times over subscribed, and that's for
- 18:47Speaker 10: the third year in a row. Sixty nine groups have
- 18:49Speaker 10: applied for project funding across Otago, asking for a total
- 18:54Speaker 10: of nearly three million dollars, but just over a million available.
- 18:57Speaker 10: Just the twenty eight projects have made the short list.
- 19:00Speaker 10: The Regional councils saying these projects will include weed and
- 19:03Speaker 10: pest control across the region, native species protection and water quality.
- 19:07Speaker 2: They say that the high.
- 19:08Speaker 10: Demand reflects an increasing community awareness. All right, how's your
- 19:12Speaker 10: weather find today? Westerlies for a time and seventeen.
- 19:15Speaker 3: Chairs, Collum Claars and Christs Claire, good morning, good morning.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Now the council offices worry about earthquakes.
- 19:22Speaker 11: Yes, so this is the big new looking council building.
- 19:26Speaker 11: It's located in the city there on Worcester Boulevard. A
- 19:29Speaker 11: lot of people, interestingly, over the last few hours when
- 19:31Speaker 11: I've been hearing from them and seeing posts online, They're going,
- 19:34Speaker 11: how could this be possible? It's a post quake build. No,
- 19:37Speaker 11: this building was actually moved into in twenty ten, so
- 19:41Speaker 11: just before the earthquakes. Council relocated to this building. That said,
- 19:45Speaker 11: it is really large and nice and modern, and you
- 19:46Speaker 11: would think that it would be quake safe. However, engineers
- 19:50Speaker 11: have identified that there's some seismic performance issues with an
- 19:53Speaker 11: annex on the side of the building. So yesterday they
- 19:56Speaker 11: announced a snap evacuation of hundreds I think up to
- 19:59Speaker 11: four hundred staff members, including all of the elected members
- 20:03Speaker 11: and the mayor. Film major had to get out the
- 20:06Speaker 11: immediate impacts already being felt. They've had to can today's
- 20:09Speaker 11: council meeting, where the trolley saga that we're hearing about
- 20:12Speaker 11: in the news was going to be discussed, and at
- 20:15Speaker 11: the moment they're saying it could be up to three
- 20:17Speaker 11: weeks before engineers have assessed the seismic performance of the annex.
- 20:22Speaker 11: The chief executive of council says this is a precautionary
- 20:25Speaker 11: approach that they're taking, but safety of staff is paramount.
- 20:28Speaker 3: So is that. So the potential is what that the
- 20:31Speaker 3: annex could pull the rest of the building down with
- 20:33Speaker 3: it or what well.
- 20:35Speaker 11: I haven't heard any more about the assessment itself, but
- 20:37Speaker 11: that's what we're thinking. I was speaking with my reporters
- 20:40Speaker 11: this morning. I mean, is it a case of just
- 20:41Speaker 11: being able to remove the annex we're not sure. Hopefully
- 20:44Speaker 11: we'll get an update.
- 20:44Speaker 3: Today all the annex. Yeah, and save the rest of it,
- 20:48Speaker 3: just can it? Hey there you go? Hey, what's just
- 20:51Speaker 3: on the trolleys? Really quickly? What's the situation?
- 20:55Speaker 11: So the council is discussing what to do about abandoned
- 20:59Speaker 11: trolley apparently thousands of them being abandoned around christ Church
- 21:03Speaker 11: in recent years and costing a lot of money. Some
- 21:05Speaker 11: counselors saying, don't worry about it, leave it to the supermarkets.
- 21:08Speaker 11: It's their problem and we've got bigger fish to fry.
- 21:11Speaker 11: So that's one of our counselors. We've got the news today.
- 21:14Speaker 11: Others saying that we need to step in. Council staff
- 21:16Speaker 11: should be going and collecting them.
- 21:19Speaker 3: Not their job. Not their job. People just need to
- 21:21Speaker 3: be more responsible. But as you say, because the supermarkets
- 21:24Speaker 3: own them, they should have GPS trackers on them clear
- 21:27Speaker 3: like lime scooters and they can go around and pick
- 21:29Speaker 3: them up at night. There's your solution. Bowl the annex
- 21:33Speaker 3: and pick up your own trolleys.
- 21:35Speaker 11: Save the world.
- 21:36Speaker 3: Look at us, hey quick clear? How should weather.
- 21:39Speaker 11: Frosty again this morning? Should clear to find northeasterlies and thirteen.
- 21:43Speaker 3: Thank you Maxis and Wellington max good morning, Good morning.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Now the guy who was heckling Winston Peter's at the
- 21:48Speaker 3: train station yesterday, he's getting a telling off.
- 21:51Speaker 7: Yeah, as hecklers go, it was a little bit tame
- 21:54Speaker 7: yesterday at the Wellington Central rail station. You've got Winston
- 21:57Speaker 7: Peters standing there announcing funding for and a guy who
- 22:01Speaker 7: looked like he really should no better stance going at him,
- 22:03Speaker 7: has a crack at his age, just suggests he stand
- 22:06Speaker 7: up for Maui. They tell each other to naf off.
- 22:09Speaker 7: Some stronger terms are used. Moron the B word, not
- 22:12Speaker 7: the one you're thinking of beginning ball ending lux but
- 22:15Speaker 7: in a classic thing before you speak situation. You've since
- 22:17Speaker 7: had this middle aged guy's boss engineering consultant Tonkin and
- 22:22Speaker 7: Taylor have to apologize and say it's investigating the incident.
- 22:27Speaker 7: The Herald had this story exclusively yesterday. I'm not quite
- 22:30Speaker 7: sure if Tonkin and Taylor released a press release proactively
- 22:33Speaker 7: or more likely the guy was caught on video, someone
- 22:36Speaker 7: recognized him and went to the firm for comment. Tonkin
- 22:39Speaker 7: and Taylor apologizing for the disruption, bad behavior from one
- 22:42Speaker 7: of its employees not in line with its code of conduct.
- 22:45Speaker 7: A little ironically had just arrived on a train. More
- 22:49Speaker 7: than six hundred million dollars in funding in the budget
- 22:52Speaker 7: for train, significant portion to Metro Rail here in Wellington.
- 22:56Speaker 3: You took one look at that guy and you went, noob.
- 22:59Speaker 7: You know, he just look like one as well physically.
- 23:06Speaker 7: How's the weather mask party? Cloudy today? Southerley's fifteen the
- 23:10Speaker 7: High Central.
- 23:10Speaker 3: Maybe good morning, Judgey, Judgey, I love it now some alterneds.
- 23:16Speaker 3: We talked about this yesterday with swimming Brown actually, but
- 23:19Speaker 3: we've got numbers now on how much it's happening where
- 23:21Speaker 3: they give a voucher to people waiting in line.
- 23:23Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right. This is for the urgent care clinic
- 23:26Speaker 12: consultations and sometimes costing about two hundred dollars. So these
- 23:30Speaker 12: figures that have come out, this is all under the
- 23:32Speaker 12: Official Information Act, showing why Tuckety hospitals sending away around
- 23:36Speaker 12: twenty five patients a day with these vouchers, obviously likely
- 23:40Speaker 12: due to the long waiting lists. The White Matar Health
- 23:43Speaker 12: District's total vouchure spend we know now jump from a
- 23:47Speaker 12: million dollars this was in twenty twenty two to one
- 23:50Speaker 12: point eight million dollars last year. So Australasian College for
- 23:53Speaker 12: Emergency Medicines that are doctor Kate Allen. She says that
- 23:57Speaker 12: the vouchers obviously relieve the pressure on EDS. But you
- 24:00Speaker 12: know she did say too their patients they can decline
- 24:02Speaker 12: them if they prefer Yeah, I would want to do that.
- 24:06Speaker 2: I'll just get them.
- 24:07Speaker 3: Well, yeah, saved them for next time. It's not like
- 24:12Speaker 3: a supermarket or volucher. How's the revenue morning cloud?
- 24:17Speaker 12: Fine? Whether eighteen is a high here in all clad we.
- 24:19Speaker 3: Didn't have a great one. It is seventeen minutes away
- 24:21Speaker 3: from six year On news talks, Heir b bridget Morton,
- 24:24Speaker 3: the political commentator on the Taparty Marti situation. That's just
- 24:27Speaker 3: before six Gavin Gray and the UK next news talks here, B,
- 24:31Speaker 3: it's just gone quarter to six. You know when Grant
- 24:33Speaker 3: Robertson wanted to get one hundred million dollars a year
- 24:36Speaker 3: from big tech, this is American based technology companies your
- 24:40Speaker 3: Googles and your facebooks and all that stuff making money here.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Wanted to put three percent tax on not their profit
- 24:47Speaker 3: but their revenue because they're not paying enough tax here anyway,
- 24:50Speaker 3: the government, this government and Simon wats the revenue Minister
- 24:54Speaker 3: has just ripped that up and thrown it in the bill.
- 24:57Speaker 3: The Digital Services Tax Bill is now officially out of
- 25:01Speaker 3: the order paper in the bin. No one wants to
- 25:04Speaker 3: take on Trump and risk some kind of backfire. It's
- 25:08Speaker 3: fourteen away from six.
- 25:10Speaker 1: International correspondence with ins and Eye insurance, peace of mind
- 25:14Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
- 25:16Speaker 3: Devin Gray Are UK, you're a correspondent, Gavin, Welcome to
- 25:19Speaker 3: the program. Suspension of trade talks with Israel from the UK,
- 25:23Speaker 3: but also summoning of an ambassador.
- 25:26Speaker 13: Yeah, things certainly taking big steps today, Ryan here with
- 25:31Speaker 13: the UK suspending those trade talks, summoning the country's ambassador,
- 25:36Speaker 13: imposing fresh sanctions on West Bank settlers, and these Foreign
- 25:40Speaker 13: Secretary here described in the military escalation in Gaza as
- 25:43Speaker 13: morally unjustifiable. These were pretty rarely seens of the Houses
- 25:47Speaker 13: of Parliament, but the move follows warnings of starvation among
- 25:51Speaker 13: the people of Gaza. With this new military operation that
- 25:55Speaker 13: started over the weekend. There were some pretty fiery exchanges,
- 25:58Speaker 13: as I mentioned, with the also the opposition party suggesting
- 26:02Speaker 13: the actions will be welcomed by Hamas, but also some
- 26:05Speaker 13: angry calls from the government to go much much further, However,
- 26:09Speaker 13: this hasn't gone down well as you can imagine with Israel.
- 26:12Speaker 13: They say that they will not be diverted from their
- 26:15Speaker 13: path of defending their existence, but global experts warming of
- 26:19Speaker 13: this looming famine. Meanwhile, the UK and France and Canada
- 26:25Speaker 13: all issuing a joint statement effectively condemning what they're calling
- 26:29Speaker 13: the egregious Israel sees the egregious Israel action in Gaza,
- 26:37Speaker 13: and again Nettayahu Benjamin Ettno to the leader of Israel,
- 26:41Speaker 13: getting a very very furious response to that, just saying
- 26:44Speaker 13: that they are offering a huge prize for the genocidal
- 26:47Speaker 13: attack on Israel.
- 26:48Speaker 3: October the seventh, This British athlete who's run across Australia.
- 26:53Speaker 3: How quickly did he do it?
- 26:55Speaker 13: Right?
- 26:55Speaker 3: Now?
- 26:55Speaker 13: Look, I know you know you like the odd run.
- 26:57Speaker 13: I like going for the odd run. But this guy
- 27:00Speaker 13: exceptional thirty one year old Britain called William Googe. He
- 27:03Speaker 13: ran three thousand, eight hundred kilometers in thirty five days,
- 27:08Speaker 13: an average of more than one hundred kilometers a day.
- 27:11Speaker 13: That's two and a half marathons in the day. He
- 27:14Speaker 13: ran from Codslow Beach in Perth on the fifteenth of
- 27:18Speaker 13: April and finished at Australia's iconic Bondi Beach in Sydney
- 27:23Speaker 13: with his father by his side. Originally from Bedfordshire, that's
- 27:26Speaker 13: north of London, he started running marathons after his mother
- 27:29Speaker 13: died from cancer seven years ago, and then he began
- 27:32Speaker 13: raising money for cancer charities. This particular trip raising money
- 27:36Speaker 13: for the UK, US and Australia cancer charities. This record
- 27:40Speaker 13: yet to be verified gathered Guinness Book of Records, but
- 27:43Speaker 13: it has not days off. Let me repeat he did
- 27:45Speaker 13: it in thirty five days. The previous or existing record
- 27:49Speaker 13: is thirty nine days.
- 27:50Speaker 3: Quite extraordinary, A lovely story, a lovely way to finish.
- 27:54Speaker 3: Thank you very much for that. Kevin Gray are UK
- 27:56Speaker 3: europe Correspondent. I always think when people run for ages
- 27:59Speaker 3: and forever in a day, I think one day you're
- 28:02Speaker 3: going to need new hips and new knees and we're
- 28:04Speaker 3: probably going to have to pay for that. Do you
- 28:06Speaker 3: ever think that when people are running past you?
- 28:08Speaker 5: I do.
- 28:09Speaker 3: It is eleven minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. A
- 28:12Speaker 3: political master stroke was it from National Yesterday to adjourn
- 28:15Speaker 3: the debate to move the privileges debate to the June
- 28:17Speaker 3: the fifth focus goes back on the budget for budget week,
- 28:20Speaker 3: the hype and the steam goes out of the issue
- 28:22Speaker 3: or are they risks to doing this? Bridget Morton, political
- 28:25Speaker 3: commentator with me this morning, Bridget good morning, Good morning.
- 28:28Speaker 3: The Multi party described this as psychological warfare. What do
- 28:32Speaker 3: you reckon?
- 28:34Speaker 9: I think it's just actually knowing the standing orders and
- 28:36Speaker 9: knowing how to use parliament and clearly National did that
- 28:39Speaker 9: yesterday and they're also able to therefore take the moral
- 28:42Speaker 9: hyground that actually about to say this allowed those to
- 28:45Speaker 9: parting Maori MP to be there for the budget and
- 28:49Speaker 9: actually that that's one of the most important things that
- 28:51Speaker 9: needs to happen in the parliamentary calendar and they're going
- 28:54Speaker 9: to be there to have their vote in these days.
- 28:56Speaker 3: And yet Chris Hopkins and Labor voted against it. How
- 28:59Speaker 3: does make them look?
- 29:02Speaker 8: Well?
- 29:02Speaker 9: I think to them they were in a tricky position
- 29:04Speaker 9: because they don't agree with the extent of the punishment
- 29:08Speaker 9: being handed out. And I do think Hipkins did give
- 29:10Speaker 9: a powerful speech in the House yesterday and just about
- 29:13Speaker 9: the extent of the punishment. But it was clear from
- 29:17Speaker 9: National jumping up that Hipkins had not anticipated that this
- 29:22Speaker 9: might happen and I suspect perhaps that the actually had
- 29:25Speaker 9: more time to contemplate it. They may have actually agreed
- 29:28Speaker 9: with the government and had that.
- 29:30Speaker 3: Delay is Hopkins and I might be going out on it.
- 29:33Speaker 3: This might be a long bow. But you know, he's
- 29:35Speaker 3: arguing because he wants to go from twenty one days
- 29:37Speaker 3: down to one day for that's a like ninety five
- 29:40Speaker 3: percent reduction in sentence. You know, does he risk playing
- 29:45Speaker 3: into that soft on crime thing?
- 29:49Speaker 9: Well, don't think it's necessarily soft in crime, but it
- 29:52Speaker 9: does make him look like he's not willing to stand
- 29:54Speaker 9: up to party Maori. And at the moment, should they
- 29:58Speaker 9: want to be back in government, they would need to
- 30:00Speaker 9: park them old as a coalition partner. And it doesn't
- 30:03Speaker 9: necessarily demonstrate that he would be a strong leader if
- 30:06Speaker 9: he's willing for that kind of behavior which was egregious
- 30:10Speaker 9: as happened in Parliament during the Treaty Principles buill debate
- 30:13Speaker 9: to happen without any significant pushback, and one day is
- 30:17Speaker 9: a very small punishment for what they did.
- 30:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, but also act when a little bit
- 30:23Speaker 3: far asking about in terms of imprisonment.
- 30:27Speaker 9: Yes, absolutely, I think that was frankly just a bit silly.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Yeah, well, totally silly, in a waste of everyone's time. Bridget,
- 30:33Speaker 3: thank you very much. We'll probably talk to you after
- 30:35Speaker 3: the budget. Bridget Morton, political commentator here on news Talk
- 30:38Speaker 3: said B nine to six.
- 30:42Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
- 30:45Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof make your Property Search Simple News
- 30:50Speaker 1: Talk ZIB six.
- 30:51Speaker 3: To six on news Talk sib Sparks chares were up
- 30:53Speaker 3: yesterday to nearly three percent. Actually this after some speculation
- 30:57Speaker 3: out of Australia in a media column, a market gossip
- 31:01Speaker 3: you could call it, but about two private equity firms
- 31:04Speaker 3: potentially wanting to have an interest in buying some shares
- 31:09Speaker 3: it's dull listed and selling. At the moment. There are
- 31:12Speaker 3: data assets wanting apparently eight hundred million dollars. They've got
- 31:15Speaker 3: debt one point seven billion, a lot of debt for Spark.
- 31:18Speaker 3: So the talk is that if they don't get what
- 31:20Speaker 3: they want for the asset sales, then they might need
- 31:24Speaker 3: to raise them capital and that might mean that it's cheaper,
- 31:27Speaker 3: and then these private equity firms would swoop in. I
- 31:29Speaker 3: guess that's the theory. Someone says, Ryan. People who don't
- 31:33Speaker 3: run also need new knees. And hips that we have
- 31:36Speaker 3: to pay for. Yeah, that's true. But if you run,
- 31:40Speaker 3: the more you run, the more damage you do to
- 31:43Speaker 3: your joints. Don't you six to six ray for it morning? Mike.
- 31:48Speaker 3: You're a runner.
- 31:49Speaker 2: I was until I wasn't.
- 31:51Speaker 3: Did you need new hips? No?
- 31:52Speaker 2: I don't. It's a nice cycle for that very reason.
- 31:55Speaker 4: Funnily enough, Oprah said to me many years ago, the
- 31:58Speaker 4: best exercise you can do is walk, and that's been
- 32:01Speaker 4: proven scientifically, so people think by running it's an extension
- 32:04Speaker 4: of walking. If you want to preserve yourself, cycling and
- 32:07Speaker 4: walking at.
- 32:07Speaker 3: The keys, well, I swim because for the same reason, example,
- 32:10Speaker 3: on your joints, and you can do it until you're
- 32:12Speaker 3: dragged out of the pool after a cardiac.
- 32:15Speaker 5: See.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Let me ask you firstly, what are these lights doing on?
- 32:17Speaker 2: What's going on?
- 32:18Speaker 3: I was asked to turn the lights on this morning
- 32:21Speaker 3: by our colleagues over at Herald.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Why and why are you listening to the heralds? Don't
- 32:27Speaker 2: you know?
- 32:27Speaker 4: There's a cost of living crisis here and lights of
- 32:29Speaker 4: the size cost a lot of money.
- 32:31Speaker 3: I'm not so consumed with paying the power bill here.
- 32:34Speaker 3: But no I listened to them because I'm partly employed
- 32:37Speaker 3: by them?
- 32:37Speaker 4: Are you how that might be a mistake on your part,
- 32:39Speaker 4: But I'll talk to you about that another day. The
- 32:42Speaker 4: Tonkin and Taylor.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Yes, the guy so the guy?
- 32:45Speaker 4: So are you allowed on your way to work to
- 32:50Speaker 4: have a go at Winston because he didn't do anything,
- 32:52Speaker 4: I mean just he had.
- 32:53Speaker 3: A pop bollocks, that's hardly. He didn't threaten him, he
- 32:58Speaker 3: had his land out.
- 32:59Speaker 4: Did he gave himself away? But if you're Tonking to Taylor,
- 33:02Speaker 4: if you run Tonkin and Taylor and you look at this,
- 33:05Speaker 4: are you going, oh jeez, what's this guy doing? Is
- 33:08Speaker 4: he a problem previously? Is this the sort of thing
- 33:10Speaker 4: he does? I'm just talking about the investigation they're going
- 33:12Speaker 4: to launch into him. Is it sackable offense?
- 33:14Speaker 2: What do you do?
- 33:15Speaker 7: What do you say?
- 33:16Speaker 3: Because you're your own person outside of work, it would
- 33:18Speaker 3: be the argument. And did he punction anyone?
- 33:20Speaker 2: No, he didn't break the laws. He was a bit
- 33:23Speaker 2: of a pratt.
- 33:24Speaker 3: If he was wearing a warehouse uniform and worked at
- 33:26Speaker 3: the warehouse and you knew that, then you would probably
- 33:29Speaker 3: say he.
- 33:30Speaker 4: Was Yeah, but he was wearing a Tonquin and Taylor.
- 33:32Speaker 4: Hence we're talking about it on radio program. So I'm saying,
- 33:35Speaker 4: so he identified himself. So is it a breach of
- 33:37Speaker 4: the company? And do you when does your relationship with
- 33:40Speaker 4: the company's start and stop?
- 33:42Speaker 3: Well, ours never stops.
- 33:43Speaker 4: Of course, it doesn't stop, Ryan, And that's why we
- 33:46Speaker 4: don't go out at night and make fools of ourselves.
- 33:48Speaker 3: Do you know what I thought when I saw him?
- 33:49Speaker 3: I thought I'd hate to work with that guy. Have
- 33:55Speaker 3: a good day, SA tomorrow.
- 34:01Speaker 1: For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
- 34:04Speaker 1: to Newstalk STB from five am weekdays, or follow the
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