Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 19 March 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Andrew dickens on early edition with one roof make your
- 0:09Speaker 2: Property search simple, Used talks.
- 0:11Speaker 3: It'd be well, good morning to you. You're halfway there.
- 0:15Speaker 3: It's a Wednesday. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridge and
- 0:17Speaker 3: coming up over the next sixteen minutes. From a famine
- 0:21Speaker 3: of rental properties in the market, we now have a feast.
- 0:24Speaker 3: So what changed and will we ever see rents going down?
- 0:26Speaker 3: We'll have that story for you in five. The astronauts
- 0:29Speaker 3: stranded in space are on their way home, so what
- 0:31Speaker 3: have they been through. We're going to talk to a
- 0:33Speaker 3: former astronauts in ten minutes time, and the Putin Trump
- 0:37Speaker 3: talks which are going on as we speak. We'll bring
- 0:39Speaker 3: you the latest and we'll talk to your politics with
- 0:41Speaker 3: Robert Patman and we'll do that just before six. We'll
- 0:43Speaker 3: have correspondence from right around the world and New Zealand
- 0:46Speaker 3: at news as it breaks, and you can have your
- 0:48Speaker 3: say by texting me. The number of ninety two ninety
- 0:51Speaker 3: two or small charge does apply. It is now eight
- 0:54Speaker 3: minutes after five.
- 0:57Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 0:58Speaker 3: It's Wednesday, the nineteenth March, and the fragile karm of
- 1:01Speaker 3: a gaza has come to an abrupt end. More than
- 1:04Speaker 3: four hundred people have been killed and six hundred injured
- 1:08Speaker 3: in the Gaza strip after Israel launch strikes against what
- 1:11Speaker 3: it calls terror target. It ends the seas file that's
- 1:14Speaker 3: been placed in mid January, but Israel is pointing the
- 1:17Speaker 3: finger at Hamas.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Has reached a deadlock.
- 1:20Speaker 4: He said yes more than once concrete proposals made by
- 1:25Speaker 4: the American Special Envoy who extendacies fire.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Hamas said no, And the families of Israeli hostages are
- 1:33Speaker 3: fearing the worst.
- 1:34Speaker 5: I think it's disastrous because we have our kidnap people
- 1:40Speaker 5: sitting there and it kill only either there will be
- 1:45Speaker 5: heard directly or by Zahamas. It will not bring anything good.
- 1:51Speaker 3: And of course to the story that we're all waiting for.
- 1:55Speaker 3: In the entire world is waiting for details from Donald
- 1:57Speaker 3: Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin. It was understood that
- 2:00Speaker 3: the call was due to take place right now. Details
- 2:03Speaker 3: so far remains scarce, except for one fellaw who sees
- 2:06Speaker 3: it's going well. They're expected to talk a potential ceasefire
- 2:08Speaker 3: ideal in Ukraine. It appears nothing is off the table.
- 2:13Speaker 6: We don't know really what the parameters. The President Trump
- 2:17Speaker 6: says that the vast majority of core elements of this
- 2:20Speaker 6: agreement have been agreed, but we don't know what those are.
- 2:23Speaker 1: We don't know if that is true.
- 2:25Speaker 6: We don't know whether or not the Russians are prepared
- 2:27Speaker 6: to make any concessions.
- 2:29Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the government is putting ahead
- 2:32Speaker 3: of major welfare reforms. It includes narrowing the criteria for
- 2:36Speaker 3: the disability Benefit and changes to the job seeker Benefit.
- 2:39Speaker 3: It will save five million pounds by twenty thirty. Working Penson,
- 2:43Speaker 3: Secretary was very passionate about the whole thing in the
- 2:45Speaker 3: House of Commons.
- 2:46Speaker 7: The status quote is unacceptable, but it is not inevitable.
- 2:53Speaker 7: We were elected on a mandate for change, to end
- 2:56Speaker 7: the sticky plaster approach. We believe in the valley and
- 3:00Speaker 7: potential of every single person that we all have something
- 3:04Speaker 7: positive to contribute and can make a difference.
- 3:07Speaker 3: By the way, that's five billion, not five million. I apologize.
- 3:12Speaker 3: And finally, the last surviving Battle of Britain pilot John
- 3:15Speaker 3: Paddy Henningway has died at the age of one hundred
- 3:19Speaker 3: and five. He joined the Royal Air Force as a
- 3:22Speaker 3: teenager before World War II. He was awarded the Distinguished
- 3:25Speaker 3: Flying Cross. During the course of the war he was
- 3:27Speaker 3: shot down four times. And the amazing thing about that
- 3:30Speaker 3: golden generation is that Paddy just kept on going back.
- 3:35Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early Edition.
- 3:39Speaker 2: With Andrew Dickins and one roof Make Your Property Search Simple,
- 3:44Speaker 2: News Talk Sippy.
- 3:45Speaker 3: It's ten out to five. Good morning, good morning, and
- 3:47Speaker 3: thank you for joining me. Now, cops, I got to
- 3:50Speaker 3: stay on the beat. In the Auckland CBD, the government
- 3:53Speaker 3: will boost anti crime measures across Central Auckland with one
- 3:56Speaker 3: point three million dollars worth of funding as a result
- 3:59Speaker 3: of the Proceeds of Crime Fund. Now that Proceeds of
- 4:01Speaker 3: Crime Fund caven in two thousand and nine. It lets
- 4:05Speaker 3: the New Zealand Police seize money and assets that have
- 4:07Speaker 3: been obtained directly or indirectly from crimes and once all
- 4:11Speaker 3: the legal matters are addressed, the recover money is placed
- 4:14Speaker 3: in the Proceeds of Crime Fund to be spent. And
- 4:17Speaker 3: the whole thing was announced by the Auckland Minister Simmy
- 4:19Speaker 3: and Brown, Minister for Everything and Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee,
- 4:23Speaker 3: and it has been greeted wholeheartedly by retailers and residents.
- 4:27Speaker 3: It'll see the new Federal Streets station open twenty four
- 4:30Speaker 3: to seven. By the way, that station will open in
- 4:32Speaker 3: the middle of the year. And of course all of
- 4:34Speaker 3: this is a good thing. My question has always been
- 4:39Speaker 3: why did we stop doing this in the first place.
- 4:41Speaker 3: The cop on the beat is assigned to one in
- 4:43Speaker 3: all citizens and criminals, that the police are in control
- 4:47Speaker 3: of the streets, not the rat bags. For me, it's
- 4:50Speaker 3: the first thing the police should fund, not the last.
- 4:53Speaker 3: And that perception that it's not important is just reinforced
- 4:56Speaker 3: to me by the new funding coming from the Proceeds
- 4:58Speaker 3: of Crime fund and not the general budget. And another
- 5:01Speaker 3: question I have who thought that no cops on the
- 5:04Speaker 3: beat was a good idea in the first place. It's
- 5:06Speaker 3: tempting to blame Cuddle's Costa in the last government who
- 5:09Speaker 3: was soft on crime, but it's been going on far
- 5:13Speaker 3: longer than that. It's another example of public service being
- 5:16Speaker 3: told to cut budgets and then going and cutting the
- 5:19Speaker 3: good stuff instead of the bad. And one more thing
- 5:22Speaker 3: about the funding. This is not just a problem for Auckland.
- 5:26Speaker 3: It's nationwide. It's in all our cities and towns and
- 5:30Speaker 3: suburban shopping centers. What about them, Well, we're going to
- 5:33Speaker 3: wait to see if the budget which is forthcoming will
- 5:36Speaker 3: show a changed emphasis. It's twelve after five. We are
- 5:41Speaker 3: not the only country facing hard times. After the pandemic
- 5:43Speaker 3: caused an augy of government spending. Germany has had two
- 5:47Speaker 3: years of negative growth. So overnight a German spending package
- 5:52Speaker 3: was passed by the Bundestag. The proposed package includes spending
- 5:56Speaker 3: and debt brake reforms that needed a two thirds majority
- 5:59Speaker 3: they easily got. This is to give them a five
- 6:02Speaker 3: hundred billion euro fund for infrastructure and the ability to
- 6:07Speaker 3: borrow more. In fact, Germany's government is looking to borrow
- 6:11Speaker 3: and spend up to a trillion euro Obviously defense a
- 6:15Speaker 3: big part of it with all the Ukraine thing. Now
- 6:18Speaker 3: to get it over the line, the new chancellor Mets
- 6:21Speaker 3: agreed on a four hundred million euro fund to fight
- 6:23Speaker 3: climate change. So that's to appease the Greens. But at
- 6:26Speaker 3: a time when this country is embracing austerity and government restraint,
- 6:31Speaker 3: Germany is taking off the shackles, the world is still
- 6:35Speaker 3: borrowing and spending and that will have consequences for the
- 6:38Speaker 3: global economy and eventually US. And it's thirteen after five.
- 6:43Speaker 1: So Andrew Dicken, your talk.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Back question of the day is, if you're an investor
- 6:50Speaker 3: and landlord, are you back in the rental market because apparently,
- 6:55Speaker 3: all of a sudden there's a glut of rental properties
- 6:58Speaker 3: and in fact, you will not believe what landlords are
- 7:01Speaker 3: doing to get tenants. And we'll have that story next.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Here are news Talks at.
- 7:05Speaker 2: Big on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
- 7:11Speaker 2: with Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make your property
- 7:14Speaker 2: search simple Youth Talks at B.
- 7:17Speaker 3: It's sixteen after five, So this is the question, is
- 7:20Speaker 3: your rental property back online? And if so, why you
- 7:23Speaker 3: can text me on ninety two ninety two. Because it
- 7:26Speaker 3: wasn't long ago that people looking for a rental property
- 7:29Speaker 3: we're fighting off hundreds of other applicants to find a
- 7:31Speaker 3: home to rent. It was tough, but that tide has turned.
- 7:34Speaker 3: There are so many rentals available that some landlords are
- 7:37Speaker 3: offering incentives. Some are saying come and rent my place.
- 7:40Speaker 3: I'll give you a five hundred dollars grocery voucher. Others
- 7:43Speaker 3: are offering three weeks of rent to sign tenants up.
- 7:46Speaker 3: So how big is the gap between supply and demand. Why.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Serena Gibbon is from the Auckland Property Investors Association and Joints. So, now,
- 7:53Speaker 3: good morning to you, Serena.
- 7:55Speaker 8: Good morning Andrew.
- 7:56Speaker 9: How are you?
- 7:57Speaker 3: I'm good. So is this common as a landlord offering
- 8:00Speaker 3: incentives all over the place.
- 8:02Speaker 8: I wouldn't say it's terribly common.
- 8:04Speaker 10: I think the fact that we're starting to hear stories
- 8:07Speaker 10: of these incentives popping up around the marketplace just tells
- 8:11Speaker 10: us how out of line some landlords rent expectations are
- 8:15Speaker 10: in terms of the market.
- 8:17Speaker 3: So for those who do go for the sweetness, do
- 8:19Speaker 3: they work.
- 8:22Speaker 8: On a case by case basis?
- 8:23Speaker 10: I hope they work, But in general I think, look
- 8:26Speaker 10: at the end of the day, Andrew, if you put
- 8:28Speaker 10: a lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig, right,
- 8:30Speaker 10: So I think the better option for landlords is really
- 8:33Speaker 10: look at resetting their reta expectations. Also look at incentivizing
- 8:38Speaker 10: the tenants by upgrading their properties and lifting the property's standards.
- 8:42Speaker 10: So that's a more attractive option for someone to call
- 8:44Speaker 10: a home. And I think for tenants, given all of
- 8:46Speaker 10: these choices, you know, rather than being distracted by a
- 8:49Speaker 10: five hundred dollars food voucher. Research the landlord, go on
- 8:53Speaker 10: the Tennessee tribe, you know, find out what kind of
- 8:55Speaker 10: landlords are they going to be dealing with. Research the properties,
- 8:58Speaker 10: compare the options that are out, because it's a really
- 9:00Speaker 10: good time to take advantage of that competitive edge.
- 9:05Speaker 1: You know.
- 9:05Speaker 3: The problem though, of upgrading your property is that's even
- 9:08Speaker 3: more expensive than a five hundred dollars grocery voucher, so
- 9:11Speaker 3: it's hitting their margins.
- 9:13Speaker 10: Well, not all upgrades would by not all upgrades will
- 9:17Speaker 10: be backbreaking in terms of financial commitment. And if you
- 9:20Speaker 10: do it, if you do it smartly, it could be
- 9:23Speaker 10: incredibly cost efficient, attractive to the tenants, and also add
- 9:26Speaker 10: value to the property. So I wouldn't write that off
- 9:28Speaker 10: straight away. I guess what I'm trying to say is,
- 9:31Speaker 10: you know, landlords and tennants are bit off looking for
- 9:34Speaker 10: long term benefits rather than short term sweetness.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Okay, so when did we start to see a change
- 9:38Speaker 3: from the rental shortage that we got used to before
- 9:41Speaker 3: to and oversupply? Did the change in government bring back
- 9:44Speaker 3: the investors and the landlords? Are they more properties online?
- 9:48Speaker 10: I wouldn't peg it with the change of government. I would, however,
- 9:52Speaker 10: say that around about a year ago we started hearing
- 9:56Speaker 10: stories of probably seeing vacant for longer open homes being
- 10:00Speaker 10: you know, not really having a lot of people visiting.
- 10:02Speaker 10: So but I think that is really much in line
- 10:05Speaker 10: with the economy very lock stamp or whereas you know,
- 10:09Speaker 10: and exodus of the younger workforce from New Zealand to
- 10:12Speaker 10: the likes of Australia and the UK. You suddenly have
- 10:16Speaker 10: a bottoming out of tenant the tenant, a certain of
- 10:21Speaker 10: cord of tenants. But also you know, when I think
- 10:25Speaker 10: back to back in the post COVID days when we're
- 10:27Speaker 10: going around the country madly building infill terrace housings, you
- 10:31Speaker 10: know what we're hearing is a lot of those terrat
- 10:34Speaker 10: housings are sitting empty, either as properties for sale or
- 10:37Speaker 10: probably for rent.
- 10:38Speaker 3: I have one last question, hopefully you can answer quickly.
- 10:41Speaker 3: There's a truism that rents never go down, they just
- 10:44Speaker 3: don't go up so fast. Could this gut possibly see
- 10:47Speaker 3: a drop in rental prices?
- 10:49Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it definitely could see a dropping mental
- 10:51Speaker 10: prices in the short term.
- 10:52Speaker 8: Hope it doesn't last long of course.
- 10:55Speaker 3: And Serena given is from the orkand Property Investors Association,
- 10:58Speaker 3: And of course you say that. You know, I was
- 11:00Speaker 3: in the office the other day and we're talking about
- 11:02Speaker 3: these astronauts who are currently on their way home. They're
- 11:04Speaker 3: going to splash down about eleven o'clock this morning, and
- 11:07Speaker 3: they spent nine months in space when they thought they
- 11:10Speaker 3: were only going to be there for eight days. And
- 11:12Speaker 3: I thought that would be an amazing experience, but the
- 11:14Speaker 3: person I was talking to said that would be horrific.
- 11:18Speaker 3: So what we've found as a fellow who's actually been
- 11:20Speaker 3: in space for a very long time, and he's going
- 11:22Speaker 3: to talk to us next. It's five twenty News Talks,
- 11:24Speaker 3: ABO News.
- 11:25Speaker 1: And Views You Trust to start your day.
- 11:28Speaker 2: It's early edition with Andrew Dickens and one Roof Make
- 11:32Speaker 2: Your Property Search Simple.
- 11:34Speaker 1: News Talks It Be.
- 11:35Speaker 3: It's five twenty two. This is going to be a
- 11:37Speaker 3: movie one day, hasn't it. After nine months stranded in space,
- 11:41Speaker 3: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams will be back
- 11:44Speaker 3: on Earth today. Their stay on the International Space Station
- 11:48Speaker 3: was only supposed to last eight days, but their mission
- 11:51Speaker 3: had to be extended after the spacecraft they arrived on
- 11:53Speaker 3: experienced technical issues, so then it ended out being nine months,
- 11:57Speaker 3: we're expecting splash down just before eleven o'clock. I joined
- 12:00Speaker 3: now by retired NASA or astronaut Clayton Anderson. Clayton, good
- 12:05Speaker 3: morning to you, Clayton. Clayton Anderson from Houston, Texas. Good morning.
- 12:22Speaker 3: There we go. We're just having a few little difficulties
- 12:24Speaker 3: with the whole thing. So well, we'll talk to him
- 12:28Speaker 3: in just a few moments time now. So Clayton's been
- 12:30Speaker 3: up in the International Space Station for one hundred and
- 12:32Speaker 3: sixty six days, which is pretty awesome in the first place.
- 12:36Speaker 3: He did that in one stint. But the question I
- 12:38Speaker 3: have for him, how about nine months? And how about
- 12:40Speaker 3: when you actually went up there for just eight days?
- 12:42Speaker 3: How are you mentally prepared for it? And I have
- 12:44Speaker 3: another question for him as well. They went up on
- 12:46Speaker 3: a brand new Boeing star Liners spaceship, which once it
- 12:51Speaker 3: got there, they said, we can't use this anymore. So
- 12:53Speaker 3: where's that spaceship now? Is it still attached to the
- 12:56Speaker 3: International Space Station or did they jettison it space junk
- 13:00Speaker 3: and that's a problem, or is there any ability to
- 13:03Speaker 3: actually fix up the whole thing where the Clayton knows
- 13:06Speaker 3: or not? And where the Clayton will actually join us
- 13:08Speaker 3: as another thing. Clayton, I think we have you now.
- 13:10Speaker 11: Good morning too, well is it good morning, good night,
- 13:15Speaker 11: good day?
- 13:16Speaker 3: You're in New Zealand, whatever you like. You're in space, man,
- 13:19Speaker 3: every day was night and every night was day. So
- 13:21Speaker 3: you spend one hundred and sixty six days up there?
- 13:24Speaker 3: Could you have done nine months?
- 13:29Speaker 9: Good question. My wife and I talked toward the end
- 13:32Speaker 9: of my five months day because there was some uncertainty
- 13:35Speaker 9: going on and between the two of us, given her
- 13:39Speaker 9: role as the general down on earth with my family,
- 13:44Speaker 9: we figured we could go one or two months after
- 13:47Speaker 9: but if we had to go much longer than that,
- 13:49Speaker 9: it would start to strain everything.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Hell, what was the strain? I mean, you're up there,
- 13:54Speaker 3: you're having the world's most extraordinary experience. You'd know that
- 13:58Speaker 3: there's a risk of it all. So how does it
- 13:59Speaker 3: strain things?
- 14:02Speaker 9: Well, you know, if you think about Butch and Sonny,
- 14:04Speaker 9: since that's kind of the topic.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Of the day.
- 14:08Speaker 9: You know, when you don't know the end date, it
- 14:12Speaker 9: can make it harder, it could make it easy if
- 14:15Speaker 9: you don't focus on an end date, which is what
- 14:17Speaker 9: I did, right. I tried not to think about the
- 14:19Speaker 9: end because I didn't know when the end was coming.
- 14:22Speaker 9: That made it easier to deal with missing the wife,
- 14:25Speaker 9: missing the kids. But you know, I was counting on
- 14:28Speaker 9: my wife to do a lot for my family and
- 14:32Speaker 9: that you know, nobody talks about the toll of the
- 14:35Speaker 9: wife and the family down below. You know, she was
- 14:39Speaker 9: the mom, the dad, the driver, the coach, the nurse,
- 14:43Speaker 9: the she did everything. And she my wife was a
- 14:46Speaker 9: NASA employee. She cut her job down. She had to
- 14:50Speaker 9: have a signed agreement with NASA to allow her to
- 14:53Speaker 9: reduce her work week to thirty hours per week so
- 14:57Speaker 9: that she wouldn't get in trouble because she had so
- 14:59Speaker 9: much to do to take care of my kids at
- 15:01Speaker 9: the time. So you know, that's a big sacrifice for
- 15:04Speaker 9: the other half of your family.
- 15:06Speaker 3: It does kind of show that Butch and Sonny, if
- 15:09Speaker 3: they've got through it, well, have what it takes, the
- 15:11Speaker 3: right stuff. You might want to say. It's also, i mean,
- 15:14Speaker 3: apart from the Boeing ship breaking down, it's also in
- 15:17Speaker 3: my view, American exceptionalism because no one was expecting people
- 15:20Speaker 3: to be there for nine months, only eight days, and
- 15:22Speaker 3: yet you kept them supplied with food, You keep them
- 15:25Speaker 3: supplied with oxygen. It was quite a remarkable thing.
- 15:30Speaker 9: Well, you know, yes it was. But the supply process
- 15:35Speaker 9: was never affected by any of this. So supply ships
- 15:38Speaker 9: are typically cargo only things like a Russian progress that
- 15:43Speaker 9: come up and bring things on a regular basis. An
- 15:46Speaker 9: uncrewed dragon capsule can bring supplies lots of ways to
- 15:51Speaker 9: do it. That was never affected. So even though they
- 15:54Speaker 9: had two extra guests on board, it probably wasn't a
- 15:58Speaker 9: big deal for them to keep them supplied with food, water, oxygen,
- 16:01Speaker 9: and clothing. You know, it might have been a little
- 16:04Speaker 9: tough at first until the first cargo ship came up,
- 16:08Speaker 9: but I'm sure they were scrambling on the ground to
- 16:10Speaker 9: make sure that Sonny and Butch got some stuff of
- 16:12Speaker 9: theirs on that cargo ship to bring it up. So
- 16:16Speaker 9: you know, it's a process that's pretty well understood.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Clayton, Yes, exactly right, and they showed
- 16:23Speaker 3: the right stuff. And thank you to our listeners who
- 16:25Speaker 3: said the Bone capsule came back to Worth without astronauts
- 16:27Speaker 3: about three months after it reached.
- 16:31Speaker 2: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, how It
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- 16:37Speaker 3: Looks h B. It is five twenty nine. Winston Peters
- 16:40Speaker 3: meets with Mico Rubio at eight o'clock this morning our time.
- 16:43Speaker 3: How impressive has he been his foreign minister. He's diplomatic,
- 16:46Speaker 3: he knows the values of signals. I don't think it
- 16:48Speaker 3: was a coincidence that he announced the war against what
- 16:50Speaker 3: values in public service just before his trip. Marco's age
- 16:54Speaker 3: will look at that. He'll google Winston and they go, oh,
- 16:56Speaker 3: he's one of us. He has extraordinary energy for a
- 16:58Speaker 3: man of his age, considering he has lifetime devotion to
- 17:02Speaker 3: good drink and smokes. He's always overseas. That's the sign
- 17:05Speaker 3: of a good foreign minister. You should never see them.
- 17:07Speaker 3: They should always be overseas doing that job. All of
- 17:10Speaker 3: this stands in contradiction to his day to day contrarianism,
- 17:13Speaker 3: and he knows that rustles up his five percent threshold.
- 17:16Speaker 3: But when he is in a foreign minister position, that's
- 17:19Speaker 3: the real Winston. He's just good at the former lawyer
- 17:22Speaker 3: who likes the game and is doing good stuff. We'll
- 17:26Speaker 3: have the details of what he talks to with Marco
- 17:28Speaker 3: after eleven. Today News Talk sibby.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Andrew Dickens on a early edition with one roof, make
- 17:36Speaker 2: your property Search, Simple, Youth Talk, Zibby, Oh, that's.
- 17:51Speaker 3: Lady Gaga and Telephone and her new album Mayhem just
- 17:55Speaker 3: debuted at number one on the Billboard two hundred chart
- 17:58Speaker 3: Bigger Sales week of twenty twenty five Female artist. She's
- 18:00Speaker 3: not over. That's fantastic news.
- 18:03Speaker 4: Now on the.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Astronauts, thank you Phil for your text. Ninety two. Ninety
- 18:05Speaker 3: two is the number. Phil says, these astronauts should be
- 18:08Speaker 3: coming back to a decent payday. The first three hours
- 18:11Speaker 3: at time and a half and then after that double time.
- 18:13Speaker 3: Can you imagine it? Though it's nine months of overtime
- 18:16Speaker 3: in space, I'll be h I'll be working overtime. My
- 18:19Speaker 3: thoughts about Winston Peters being in his element, Thank you
- 18:23Speaker 3: to your text. Winstom Peters does a phenomenal job as
- 18:26Speaker 3: Foreign Minister, possibly the best foreign minister we've ever had.
- 18:29Speaker 3: Kudos to him. I agree, and Michelle reckons that he's
- 18:33Speaker 3: the right person for the right time and she could
- 18:35Speaker 3: not imagine Nanaia Mahuta doing the business at the moment,
- 18:38Speaker 3: So thank you. Now, we love our pies and the
- 18:42Speaker 3: Baker's New Zealand PI Awards are just starting the search
- 18:45Speaker 3: for our best and they've released a fascinating fact. With
- 18:49Speaker 3: a population of sixty nine point five million, the British
- 18:53Speaker 3: Pie Awards attract nine hundred entries from a population, as
- 18:58Speaker 3: you say, just about seventy million, whereas the Bakeels New
- 19:01Speaker 3: Zealand Supreme Pie Awards attract five hundred and sixty entries
- 19:06Speaker 3: and we have only five point twenty five million. We
- 19:09Speaker 3: love our pies. We eat one hundred million a year
- 19:13Speaker 3: and we're good at making them. So the other day
- 19:15Speaker 3: I'm wandering around my town center and there was a
- 19:17Speaker 3: visiting Canadian school rugby team. I said, hello, boys, what
- 19:21Speaker 3: you doing here? And they said, we've come to be
- 19:22Speaker 3: thrashed by a New Zealand school team. And I'm like, okay,
- 19:25Speaker 3: And what was the whole bakery thing? And they were
- 19:28Speaker 3: going in and out for the pies. It was the
- 19:30Speaker 3: first time they ever had a New Zealand pie and
- 19:31Speaker 3: they adored it. There was one fellow who'd had four,
- 19:34Speaker 3: He had four. It was just I love these pies.
- 19:37Speaker 3: They were walking around the town said that they were
- 19:38Speaker 3: in the supermarket eating pies, loving New Zealand. So there
- 19:41Speaker 3: we go. Entries for the Bacel's New Zealand Pire awards
- 19:45Speaker 3: open on April twenty eighth. They close on June twenty sixth.
- 19:48Speaker 3: The judging day got Tommy Ape already July twenty four.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Awards night July twenty nine, and this year's theme is
- 19:55Speaker 3: the seventies. It's twenty one to six. Andrew dickens, let's
- 19:59Speaker 3: go around the nation. Callum Proctor joins you fromdunedan Halle.
- 20:02Speaker 3: Callum morning, Andrew. We've talked already this week about South
- 20:05Speaker 3: Dunedin at floods. So there's war plans.
- 20:09Speaker 12: Yeah, Well, look, the Council's taking a step forward to
- 20:12Speaker 12: consult with all the parties involved here. Residents will soon
- 20:16Speaker 12: be able to have their say on how to protect
- 20:19Speaker 12: the city's southern suburbs from flooding over the next seventy
- 20:23Speaker 12: five years. The Council voted in favor of allowing engagement
- 20:27Speaker 12: to begin with stakeholders and affected communities. Seven plans for
- 20:31Speaker 12: climate adaptation costing up to seven billion dollars have been
- 20:34Speaker 12: proposed after those two reports found that half of South
- 20:37Speaker 12: Dunedin's buildings remain at risk of rainfall flooding. Mayor Jills
- 20:41Speaker 12: Raddick says residents wants improvements so they can continue to
- 20:44Speaker 12: live there, so he says. The council's responsible for starting
- 20:47Speaker 12: that process.
- 20:48Speaker 3: Now, okay, how's your weather?
- 20:50Speaker 12: It's partly cloudy here today, southeasteries and nineteen.
- 20:53Speaker 3: Good stuff, clais here, it joins you from Crastia Tale Claire,
- 20:56Speaker 3: good morning. So Sybby and Brown Todd councils to reverse
- 20:58Speaker 3: speed limits. Now your council is talking about it.
- 21:01Speaker 13: Yes, so chrish Church City Council is going to consider
- 21:03Speaker 13: whether to reverse these thirty kilometers per hour limits. They
- 21:07Speaker 13: are meant to return to their original speeds by July
- 21:10Speaker 13: in order to comply with Simeon Brown's new Land transport rules. Interestingly,
- 21:15Speaker 13: for us here in Christchurch, three of the seven are
- 21:17Speaker 13: outside schools. That obviously has meant some reaction. Those roads
- 21:22Speaker 13: will move to have variable thirty kilometers per hour limits,
- 21:25Speaker 13: which would only be in place during those drop off
- 21:28Speaker 13: and pick up times. Council will vote whether to approve
- 21:31Speaker 13: those changes today. It will cost rate payers almost one
- 21:35Speaker 13: hundred thousand dollars after we spent thirty thousand putting them
- 21:38Speaker 13: in place last year.
- 21:39Speaker 3: How's you wear the credit?
- 21:40Speaker 1: Claire?
- 21:41Speaker 13: Pretty miserable rain easing this morning. Clearing a bit later
- 21:44Speaker 13: fresh south westerlies and a high of seventeen.
- 21:47Speaker 3: Max told joins Us from Willington Helenax, good morning. We
- 21:50Speaker 3: had a burgary the other day and it resulted it
- 21:52Speaker 3: in death.
- 21:53Speaker 4: Yeah, quite a terrifying story. In the Peninsula suburb of
- 21:56Speaker 4: Merrimand this week, two adults awoke to when in true
- 22:00Speaker 4: in their home in the early hours of the morning
- 22:02Speaker 4: on Monday. There was a scuffle. Luckily neither were badly heard.
- 22:07Speaker 4: One was heard, but with minor injuries. The intruder fled.
- 22:11Speaker 4: The couple called police a short time later. Officers on
- 22:14Speaker 4: the hunt found another man by his car on a
- 22:17Speaker 4: footpath in Mirramark, quite badly heard and he has now
- 22:21Speaker 4: died in hospital. Police are calling the break in a burglary.
- 22:24Speaker 4: The two incidents likely to be linked. Description of the
- 22:27Speaker 4: suspect as a man wearing a white cap, shorts and
- 22:30Speaker 4: gum boots. There's obviously fear that this guy may have
- 22:33Speaker 4: been prowling in the area in the weeks prior. There
- 22:35Speaker 4: may have possibly been some unreported thefts. Police appealing for
- 22:39Speaker 4: any information they can get.
- 22:40Speaker 3: Really and I thank you. And what's the weather.
- 22:43Speaker 4: It's going to be wet some rain through the day.
- 22:45Speaker 4: Fresh southerly. He's keeping things cool. Sixteen the High Central.
- 22:49Speaker 3: Thank you never written man who joins us from Walkinhall
- 22:51Speaker 3: and Neva. Good morning, so Tiertitudes and Shot. They're not
- 22:54Speaker 3: going to have a supermarket for a year.
- 22:56Speaker 14: Correct, Well, what's happening is it willwords This is on
- 22:59Speaker 14: tier to Deo peninsu. It will shut its doors in April.
- 23:02Speaker 14: Food Stuff's planning a new world in its place after refurbishments.
- 23:06Speaker 14: As you say, this closure of the supermarket is going
- 23:08Speaker 14: to leave about fifteen thousand residents without a nearby supermarket
- 23:12Speaker 14: for over a year. So some of the shoppers now
- 23:15Speaker 14: they've told our newsrooms this is going to be tough
- 23:17Speaker 14: for people, especially the elderly, with the next nearest supermarket
- 23:20Speaker 14: about two point six kilometers away. Shane Henderson, he's one
- 23:24Speaker 14: of the councilor's Ziaway Tukety councilor. He says, look, this
- 23:27Speaker 14: is going to cause a bit of inconvenience for residents
- 23:29Speaker 14: and you know those who are not used to using online,
- 23:32Speaker 14: we'll probably have to use that.
- 23:33Speaker 3: Yeah, this is interesting because food Stuff's taking over Woolworths
- 23:36Speaker 3: their site. You know, this is grocery churin which is
- 23:39Speaker 3: quite a good thing. How's Awkin's weather?
- 23:41Speaker 14: Showers turning to rain, possibly heavy for a time. This
- 23:43Speaker 14: afternoon twenty one is the high here in Auckland.
- 23:45Speaker 3: But we are heading for a nice enough weekend after
- 23:48Speaker 3: this weather scuds through, and I hope so because I
- 23:50Speaker 3: will be gone tomorrow and Friday. I'm on a three
- 23:53Speaker 3: day tramp in the coramand or the Pahe Coastal Track.
- 23:57Speaker 3: I'm wondering around the top round Port Jackson and I'm
- 24:00Speaker 3: hoping for some because I don't like tramping. This is
- 24:04Speaker 3: the wife's idea. This is a walk ruined, but I'm
- 24:07Speaker 3: doing it and I'm hoping for good weather. It's seventeen
- 24:10Speaker 3: to six. Germany is spending and borrowing more, but the
- 24:13Speaker 3: UK is cutting benefits. Gavin Gray joins.
- 24:16Speaker 2: Usnakes international correspondence with Ends and eye insurance, peace of
- 24:21Speaker 2: mind for New Zealand business.
- 24:25Speaker 3: It's fourteen to six. Robert Petman on the geopolitical situation
- 24:28Speaker 3: in a few months time. But first Gavin Gray out
- 24:30Speaker 3: of the UK head Gavin either Andrew. So the government's
- 24:33Speaker 3: outlined five billion pounds of cuts to benefits. That's going
- 24:37Speaker 3: to create a reaction.
- 24:40Speaker 15: It does sound like a terrific amount of money, isn't
- 24:42Speaker 15: it about eleven billion New Zealand dollars But actually it's
- 24:45Speaker 15: a drop in the ocean of the bill at the moment.
- 24:48Speaker 15: So health and disability related benefits have ballooned in recent years.
- 24:53Speaker 15: They currently stand at one hundred and forty billion New
- 24:57Speaker 15: Zealand dollars a year. So those are people who say
- 25:00Speaker 15: they're too sick to work, either physically and or mentally.
- 25:03Speaker 15: But the projections are, with the figures rising as fast
- 25:06Speaker 15: as they am, that will grow to two hundred and
- 25:09Speaker 15: twenty billion within the next five years. This government has
- 25:14Speaker 15: now announced some cuts, but the cuts only equate to
- 25:16Speaker 15: about eleven billion New Zealand dollars a year. Opposition MP's
- 25:20Speaker 15: are saying, well, that's not enough. Others are saying it's
- 25:23Speaker 15: too much. Charities, Trade Union some of the government's own
- 25:27Speaker 15: MPs were among those to condemn the cuts. They say
- 25:30Speaker 15: the money should come from the wealthy and more or
- 25:34Speaker 15: the same should go to those who are too ill
- 25:36Speaker 15: to work, and that we're picking on the sort of
- 25:38Speaker 15: low hanging fruit the ones who can't answer back is
- 25:41Speaker 15: the argument. This has been difficult for the government, but well,
- 25:44Speaker 15: let's see how it goes, and I dare say some
- 25:47Speaker 15: of the economists will be hoping more cuts are on
- 25:49Speaker 15: the way.
- 25:49Speaker 3: Absolutely difficult to be a labor person at this time
- 25:52Speaker 3: in these economies. Now there's a key international treaty that
- 25:56Speaker 3: bens antipersonnel land mindes, but Poland and the Bolt States
- 26:00Speaker 3: have announced plans to withdraw. They're worried about Russia. They
- 26:04Speaker 3: want to be able to use their minds.
- 26:06Speaker 15: Yeah, this is more knock on, a ripple effect from
- 26:10Speaker 15: the invasion of Ukraine. So the Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia
- 26:15Speaker 15: and Lithuania, they are along with Poland in the NATO Alliance,
- 26:19Speaker 15: and all of them share borders with Russia. And they
- 26:22Speaker 15: basically have made it clear that they simply don't believe
- 26:26Speaker 15: that Vladimir Putin is satisfied with going into Ukraine. They
- 26:29Speaker 15: fear that their countries on that border will be the
- 26:33Speaker 15: next Now they are all currently signatories of something called
- 26:36Speaker 15: the Ottawa Treaty, and it's also known as the mine
- 26:40Speaker 15: ban Treaty. It came into effect at the end of
- 26:42Speaker 15: the last millennium nineteen ninety seven, and it really its
- 26:46Speaker 15: aim is to ban anti personnel minds, those aimed at
- 26:49Speaker 15: humans around the world. It's been signed by more than
- 26:52Speaker 15: one hundred and sixty countries, but China, India, Russia, Pakistan
- 26:56Speaker 15: and the US have never signed up to it. The
- 27:00Speaker 15: Baltic States are saying, actually, do you know what things
- 27:02Speaker 15: are changing? Security has deteriorated, things, risks have significantly increased,
- 27:08Speaker 15: So we're we're drawing from this treaty now awful weapons.
- 27:12Speaker 3: Gavin Gray, I, thank you new schalkz B. It's eleven
- 27:15Speaker 3: to six, So the phone call that the world has
- 27:19Speaker 3: been waiting for has taken place, in acted just for this.
- 27:22Speaker 3: We have no details about what was discussed, if anything
- 27:25Speaker 3: was agreed, We know nothing at this point. But we
- 27:28Speaker 3: do know that Donald Trump, the United States President, put
- 27:31Speaker 3: forward his cease fireplay and for Ukraine to his Russian
- 27:34Speaker 3: counterpart of Vladimir Putin, and up until this point, Trump
- 27:37Speaker 3: has been very bullish about getting a deal, but Putin
- 27:40Speaker 3: has also said he has quote serious questions going into
- 27:44Speaker 3: the discussion. So to talk about this add more, I'm
- 27:46Speaker 3: joined by Otaga University International Relations professor Robert Patman. Hello,
- 27:50Speaker 3: Robert Oh, Hello, Robert, Hello, good morning, How are you
- 27:58Speaker 3: very good? All right? He's Trump been just a little
- 28:01Speaker 3: bit too bullish and confidence, thinking that Putin would just
- 28:04Speaker 3: roll over.
- 28:05Speaker 11: On his positive and certainly contrasts with that of Marco
- 28:08Speaker 11: Rubio and also other officials in the administration have been
- 28:12Speaker 11: much more mentioned. Mister Trump said had very positive expectations
- 28:17Speaker 11: of the phone call. We'll just have to see whether
- 28:19Speaker 11: those expectations translate into concrete results.
- 28:24Speaker 3: Yes, he easily intimidated Ukraine, but Letimia Putin's another thing altogether.
- 28:31Speaker 11: Well, he hasn't really put much pressure on mister Putin.
- 28:34Speaker 11: All the concessions have been from the victim of an invasion,
- 28:37Speaker 11: which is Ukraine, and he's already preemptively given away bold
- 28:42Speaker 11: in concessions to mister Putin. He said that he doesn't
- 28:46Speaker 11: envisage Ukraine joining NATO, which was a key demand of Russia.
- 28:50Speaker 11: And he also says that Ukraine will have to make
- 28:53Speaker 11: territorial concessions, it will have to give up some of
- 28:56Speaker 11: the land stolen by Russia.
- 28:57Speaker 3: All right, Well, Donald Trump always said this could be
- 29:00Speaker 3: resolved in wigs.
- 29:02Speaker 11: Well, that's clearly not true. And the other thing here
- 29:05Speaker 11: is mister Trump may not be in a position to
- 29:07Speaker 11: deliver any peace even if he gets agreement with mister
- 29:09Speaker 11: Putin because ultimately it's the victim of the invasion Ukraine
- 29:13Speaker 11: that must agree to this, and they're adamant that, you know,
- 29:17Speaker 11: they've lost too many people as a result of Russia's
- 29:19Speaker 11: incursion and invasion to settle for anything less than the
- 29:24Speaker 11: principles that everyone in national relations recognizes where she's full
- 29:28Speaker 11: territory integrity and restoration of state sovereignty.
- 29:31Speaker 3: What did you make of the fact that the Baltic
- 29:33Speaker 3: states want land minds back.
- 29:34Speaker 11: There's rising tension, yes, well, you see many countries in
- 29:40Speaker 11: europe An increasing in Germany as well, believe that Ukraine
- 29:43Speaker 11: is not This war is not just about Ukraine. It's
- 29:46Speaker 11: about stopping mister Putin from his expansionist vision of Russian
- 29:51Speaker 11: sphere of influence in Europe. And many countries fear that
- 29:54Speaker 11: if mister Trump hands mister Putin part of Ukraine as
- 29:58Speaker 11: part of a peace deal, then that will have ramifications
- 30:02Speaker 11: for other countries. Many are convinced, as your commentation just said,
- 30:06Speaker 11: that mister Booty won't stop with Ukraine.
- 30:09Speaker 3: All right, to the other issue, Wins Peters is meeting
- 30:12Speaker 3: Marco Rubio in about ten minutes time to talk stuff.
- 30:15Speaker 3: But I suppose he's really going to be talking tariffs
- 30:17Speaker 3: rather than peace.
- 30:20Speaker 11: Yes, and obviously we'll be looking to get some sort
- 30:23Speaker 11: of exemption from the tariffs that are being are going
- 30:26Speaker 11: to be announced i think in early April, against most
- 30:29Speaker 11: countries that export to the United States. I'm not confident
- 30:32Speaker 11: we will get an exemption because Australia wishes closest to
- 30:37Speaker 11: the United States than ourselves. It's already been indicated to them.
- 30:40Speaker 11: They won't be getting an exemption on Australian exports like
- 30:45Speaker 11: an Aminimum steel, and that could have been greeted by
- 30:49Speaker 11: considerable disappointment by the Australian government. The other thing here
- 30:53Speaker 11: is even if we do get an exemption, the resulting
- 30:56Speaker 11: trade war that's breaking out will affect New Zealand. We
- 30:58Speaker 11: trade more than one hundred country around the world, so
- 31:01Speaker 11: we may get some bilateral relief, but we'll probably have
- 31:04Speaker 11: some reverses on the multilateral front.
- 31:06Speaker 3: Okay, And of course we're worried. Winston's very worried about
- 31:09Speaker 3: security in the Pacific, So will he push that or.
- 31:13Speaker 11: Yes, Well, I think mister Peters, to his credit, has
- 31:17Speaker 11: consistently argued the US should be more engaged in the Pacific,
- 31:19Speaker 11: and that message finally seemed to register with the Biden administration,
- 31:24Speaker 11: who stepped up their engagement in the region. However, the
- 31:27Speaker 11: Trump administration with their disestablishment of USIAID and also their
- 31:33Speaker 11: withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord. Remember, for most Pacific
- 31:36Speaker 11: island nation states, climate changes their number one national security concern.
- 31:41Speaker 11: Those issues raised questions about how committed is the Trump
- 31:45Speaker 11: administration to the fate and the well being of the
- 31:48Speaker 11: Pacific island nations, and that in turn means that China
- 31:52Speaker 11: may have much greater scope to extend its influence than
- 31:56Speaker 11: previously yep sorgo.
- 31:57Speaker 3: What a great time to be an international relations professor
- 32:00Speaker 3: Robert Patman. I thank you for your time. It is
- 32:01Speaker 3: now seven minutes to six.
- 32:03Speaker 2: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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- 32:14Speaker 3: text here. Apparently the astruts were never stranded. There was
- 32:17Speaker 3: always a Dragon capsule part at the Year Space Station.
- 32:20Speaker 3: They don't get any overtime because as of September they're
- 32:22Speaker 3: becoming part of the normal Crewe nine rotation at the
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- 32:31Speaker 3: was always a dragon capsule dot there for super Emogencison.
- 32:35Speaker 3: In fact, earlier this week there were six capsules there.
- 32:37Speaker 3: So now to manage it very well. So no, they're
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- 32:42Speaker 3: us might have been thinking of. It is four to
- 32:45Speaker 3: six and myke Hoskin joins me good morning. To be interesting,
- 32:47Speaker 3: I suppose when they get back, whether they are physically different, altered,
- 32:52Speaker 3: altered more than nine days, because I mean, you know
- 32:56Speaker 3: what I mean, it's I talked to An and he says, well, here,
- 33:00Speaker 3: there's an awful lot in your head. That's it about
- 33:02Speaker 3: the head? Really, of course it is. I think I'd
- 33:03Speaker 3: freak out. Yeah, well I wouldn't. I wouldn't pass the
- 33:06Speaker 3: test if I said you want to be national and
- 33:07Speaker 3: I'd say, first of all, but once you're there and
- 33:09Speaker 3: it's stuck, you might as well make the best of
- 33:10Speaker 3: a bad thing. It's not like, you know, yeah, would
- 33:14Speaker 3: you go to Mars? Of course not?
- 33:16Speaker 4: I would?
- 33:17Speaker 3: Would you?
- 33:17Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 33:18Speaker 10: For what?
- 33:18Speaker 3: Well, once you go, you can't come back, you know, well,
- 33:20Speaker 3: you know, because it's there, it's there, billery line. But
- 33:23Speaker 3: what if you get there and you go bus it's
- 33:26Speaker 3: a dusty old What are you talking today? And Peter's
- 33:30Speaker 3: posters meeting, we'll talk about the barriers wars on he's
- 33:33Speaker 3: on your post meeting at the moment. But posters meeting
- 33:37Speaker 3: you'll have a word to us and and the walls
- 33:39Speaker 3: of course. Pretty good. I'm away for a couple of
- 33:42Speaker 3: days doing a tramp not my idea. Thank you to
- 33:45Speaker 3: producer Michael.
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