Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 09 September 2025
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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 roof Love where You Live
- 0:09Speaker 1: News Talk Sai'd be.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Good morning on the show.
- 0:11Speaker 3: The private investigator who's been hunting Tom Phillips for years,
- 0:14Speaker 3: well after Australia on the Mushroom Killer. Rental prices lowest
- 0:19Speaker 3: in two years and the teacher pay.
- 0:21Speaker 2: The minimum wage comparison that will surprise her.
- 0:26Speaker 3: The agenda It is Tuesday the nineteen September to Jerusalem.
- 0:29Speaker 3: Palestinian gunman opening fire and start shooting at Israeli's at
- 0:32Speaker 3: a bus stop.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Six dead.
- 0:34Speaker 3: The idea of says the shooters were then shot by
- 0:36Speaker 3: an off Judy soldier.
- 0:38Speaker 4: These murders, these attacks on all fronts, do not deter us.
- 0:43Speaker 4: They only increased our distermination to complete the missions we
- 0:47Speaker 4: have taken upon ourselves in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria everywhere.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Mushroom Lady, she's going to be in jail until at
- 0:56Speaker 3: least the age of eighty two for killing her family
- 0:58Speaker 3: with Beeth Wellington.
- 1:00Speaker 5: Only did you cut short three lives and cause lasting
- 1:03Speaker 5: damage to Ian Wilkinson's health, thereby devastating the extended Patterson
- 1:08Speaker 5: and Wilkinson families. You inflicted untold suffering on your own children,
- 1:14Speaker 5: whom you robbed of their beloved grandparents.
- 1:17Speaker 3: And to France we go now, whereas bye bye Bayrou
- 1:20Speaker 3: The French are chewing through leaders quicker than you can
- 1:22Speaker 3: get through a beget. This is Macron's centrist guy lost
- 1:25Speaker 3: the confidence vote just two minutes ago. Government on the
- 1:29Speaker 3: brink of collapse. Dick crisis continues, his BUYERU trying to
- 1:33Speaker 3: save himself.
- 1:34Speaker 6: I believe in our in the different diffront of powers
- 1:38Speaker 6: and the strength of our institutions. This is why I'm masking.
- 1:43Speaker 6: This says why, in the face of our democratic situation
- 1:48Speaker 6: and the help of our nation, I asked that we
- 1:51Speaker 6: found within ourselves the shared conviction to find an agreement
- 1:56Speaker 6: here and is through.
- 1:59Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 2:03Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live news Talks.
- 2:07Speaker 3: They'd be flip me in Texas Morning Love, hearing from
- 2:10Speaker 3: you nine to nine to two, lipens.
- 2:12Speaker 2: That's hard right.
- 2:12Speaker 3: She's up out of her seat, she's up in arms,
- 2:14Speaker 3: she's beating the drum for new elections over in France.
- 2:18Speaker 3: Goodness me, could they get through anyway? I think he's
- 2:21Speaker 3: been through five prime ministers now in two years, Macron,
- 2:25Speaker 3: because remember they stitched together a government from all the
- 2:28Speaker 3: strange bedfellows on the left to keep the far right
- 2:30Speaker 3: out after the last elections, which were during the camp
- 2:33Speaker 3: the Olympics. Remember we were watching the Olympics and they
- 2:36Speaker 3: sort of put it all on hold and then they
- 2:38Speaker 3: went back. Wasn't that long ago, was it? Anyway, the
- 2:42Speaker 3: debt crisis continues. A friend of mine is French, and
- 2:45Speaker 3: she tells me about the enormous expenditure that goes on
- 2:49Speaker 3: to things you just wouldn't dream of here. I mean,
- 2:51Speaker 3: you think our health system costs a lot. Go live
- 2:54Speaker 3: in France. They have almost like an uber So if
- 2:57Speaker 3: you get sick and you need to go to the hospital,
- 3:01Speaker 3: normally you if it's an emergency, you call an ambulance.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Otherwise you drive yourself, you take public transport. They have
- 3:06Speaker 3: basically a dedicated uber service that gets anyone who's broken
- 3:10Speaker 3: a fingernail, pays for them, The state pays for them
- 3:13Speaker 3: to go. This thing cost has blown out from something
- 3:16Speaker 3: like a couple one hundred million to something like eight
- 3:18Speaker 3: billion dollars, and they wonder why they're in debt. Family
- 3:23Speaker 3: member of mine was over there last week. Got a
- 3:25Speaker 3: tooth problem when in as a foreigner. When in, how
- 3:28Speaker 3: much does it cost? Twenty three euros? So good luck everybody.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Now I want to talk to you about Wellington. So
- 3:37Speaker 3: Wellington Region getting new electric trains, eighteen of them.
- 3:44Speaker 7: They will be eighteen five car battery electric multiple units,
- 3:50Speaker 7: same saying, but different to the ones that you're standing
- 3:52Speaker 7: next to. They will bed in the route between here
- 3:56Speaker 7: and Masterton or the wider Upper service, and they will
- 3:59Speaker 7: consid the service between here and Thalmerston North.
- 4:02Speaker 3: All right, good, great. The other ones are from the seventies.
- 4:05Speaker 3: They need to be replaced. But oh, Captain Chippy's not
- 4:08Speaker 3: happy about all this.
- 4:10Speaker 8: It's a re announcement of a re announcement of a
- 4:12Speaker 8: re announcement. The trains have been on the way for
- 4:14Speaker 8: the Lower North Island for quite some time now. I
- 4:17Speaker 8: think Chris Bishops re announced them about four times already,
- 4:20Speaker 8: probably because he hasn't really got much new to announce
- 4:23Speaker 8: of his own work.
- 4:24Speaker 3: Okay, what he's not telling you is that back in
- 4:26Speaker 3: September of twenty twenty three, when Labor was in power
- 4:29Speaker 3: and Chippy was driving the train, there was a problem.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Here's what he didn't tell you.
- 4:35Speaker 3: They had a wait for it cost blowout fifty million
- 4:39Speaker 3: dollars to get the tracks sorted before the trains came.
- 4:42Speaker 3: They had a wait for it delay four years. They
- 4:46Speaker 3: had a wait for it funding shortfull, no guarantee who
- 4:49Speaker 3: would pay for that. The original price was seventy eight million,
- 4:52Speaker 3: the new price one hundred and twenty eight million dollars.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Sounds a little bit like the ferries, doesn't it, Or
- 4:57Speaker 3: the Tahara and Auckland thing with a ghost train where
- 4:59Speaker 3: nobody used it. At least this time, hopefully, it looks
- 5:03Speaker 3: like we're going to get the job done. Eleven after
- 5:05Speaker 3: five news talks, here'd be teacher, pay the minimum wage.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Next views and views you trust to start your day.
- 5:13Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Bryan Bridge and one route
- 5:16Speaker 1: love where you live?
- 5:17Speaker 2: Five news talks'd be bive.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Thirteen on news talks, he'd be with Tom Phillips. Can
- 5:21Speaker 3: you blame police for not finding him for four years?
- 5:25Speaker 3: How is it that a man can go missing with
- 5:27Speaker 3: three children in bush, in a small place like New
- 5:31Speaker 3: Zealand and not be found. There'll be criticism of the police,
- 5:34Speaker 3: I bet, but I think you've got to go easy
- 5:36Speaker 3: on them, because look, I mean even in Australia, you've
- 5:39Speaker 3: got that sovereign citizen guy on the run. He's killed
- 5:42Speaker 3: two Victorian police officers. He's on the run. Sure, it's
- 5:44Speaker 3: only been weeks, not years. But if a person knows
- 5:48Speaker 3: the terrain, knows the bush like the back of his hand,
- 5:51Speaker 3: he has an advantage. This guy is bush hardened. I mean, yes,
- 5:58Speaker 3: you can, you can pick around the edges at the
- 6:00Speaker 3: police response, but I don't think is there a police
- 6:03Speaker 3: force in the world that would have come here and
- 6:05Speaker 3: found Tom Phillips.
- 6:06Speaker 2: That is the question.
- 6:07Speaker 3: Fourteen after five newspapers Rambridge, do the secondary teachers have
- 6:11Speaker 3: a leg to stand on? That's the question the union
- 6:13Speaker 3: are telling their members they should vote down the government's
- 6:16Speaker 3: new payoffer. This is after the Ministry doubled the previous
- 6:19Speaker 3: one two point five percent in the first year two
- 6:22Speaker 3: percent in the next lighton Watson's senior lecture of Mass
- 6:25Speaker 3: and Stats at Canterbury Unions with me this morning late
- 6:27Speaker 3: and good.
- 6:27Speaker 9: Morning, good morning worry. Thanks for having me on.
- 6:30Speaker 3: So you don't think this is enough. You've done a
- 6:32Speaker 3: comparison to the minimum wage as a benchmark what is
- 6:35Speaker 3: the difference.
- 6:37Speaker 9: So teacher salaries have kind of plummeted relative to the
- 6:41Speaker 9: minimum wage and I guess, maybe more importantly to the
- 6:43Speaker 9: median wage over the past twenty five years. In nineteen
- 6:47Speaker 9: ninety nine, beginning teachers paid thirty three thousand dollars and
- 6:51Speaker 9: nowadays they're paid sixty four thousand dollars, which seems like
- 6:54Speaker 9: like a great increase. But if a beginning teachers paid
- 6:59Speaker 9: the same amount now as they were in nineteenninety nine
- 7:02Speaker 9: relative to the minimum wage, that the earning of one
- 7:04Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars, and if they're paid the same as
- 7:07Speaker 9: they were relative to the median wage offer have kept
- 7:09Speaker 9: up with median wage inflation, then they're be getting paid
- 7:12Speaker 9: eighty one thousand dollars or about seventeen thousand dollars more
- 7:15Speaker 9: than they're currently paid.
- 7:16Speaker 3: Okay, so you reckon they should be getting at least
- 7:18Speaker 3: seventeen grand more than they're currently being paid. Would this
- 7:21Speaker 3: new offer not do there?
- 7:24Speaker 9: This new offer is an increase of two point five
- 7:27Speaker 9: to two point seventy five percent, depending on where they
- 7:29Speaker 9: sit on the salary scale, which equates to about thirteen
- 7:34Speaker 9: hundred or two thousand, five hundred dollars depending off the
- 7:36Speaker 9: bottom or the top of the salary scale, and over
- 7:39Speaker 9: the last twenty five years they're decreased relative to the
- 7:42Speaker 9: meeting wage. Sofer, if teacher salaries had kept out with
- 7:45Speaker 9: the average wage inflation, then they should be earning seventeen
- 7:48Speaker 9: thousand dollars. And I'm not really making adjudgment here, I'm
- 7:51Speaker 9: just giving you the numbers that seventeen thousand dollars is
- 7:53Speaker 9: a lot more than thirteen hundred.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Yeah, understand So with the minimum wage comparison, is everybody
- 7:59Speaker 3: not in everyone who's working right now?
- 8:01Speaker 2: Have they not?
- 8:02Speaker 3: Also because the minimum wages shot up, I mean we're
- 8:04Speaker 3: going up twenty two percent in the last two in
- 8:06Speaker 3: the last three years.
- 8:07Speaker 2: Alone of the labor government.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Has everyone not fallen behind and in relative terms to
- 8:12Speaker 3: the minimum wage because it's been ramped up so rapidly.
- 8:16Speaker 9: Yeah, So all about twenty five years, minimum wagees increased
- 8:20Speaker 9: by factor of three, whereas teacher salaries have only increased
- 8:24Speaker 9: by factor of two. But I guess the difference is
- 8:26Speaker 9: the medium wages increased by factor of two point five,
- 8:28Speaker 9: And so that's really that. You know, you can make
- 8:31Speaker 9: arguments about the minimum wage should be higher than it
- 8:33Speaker 9: was of seven dollars twenty five years ago. And I
- 8:36Speaker 9: don't think people are going to argue with that. But
- 8:38Speaker 9: I think there's the difference between teacher salaries and what
- 8:42Speaker 9: the average worker, the average wage. Inflation has been and
- 8:45Speaker 9: teacher salaries have not kept up.
- 8:46Speaker 2: What about other comparable industries.
- 8:50Speaker 9: So with this work looking at teacher salaries, I also
- 8:53Speaker 9: looked at a bunch of kind of healthcare professions and
- 8:56Speaker 9: there's been similar similar kind of elusion of income across
- 9:01Speaker 9: a read of other housecal professions as well as education.
- 9:05Speaker 3: It's a it's always a state funded organization, state funded
- 9:09Speaker 3: industries that seem to have this problem, isn't it.
- 9:12Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 9:13Speaker 9: Yeah, And you know, I don't lead the government from
- 9:15Speaker 9: making decisions about where to put their money.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we should privatize everything. Then that might keep up.
- 9:23Speaker 9: I think there might be some other issues associated with privatization.
- 9:26Speaker 3: Laton, appreciate your time this morning, Laton Watson Senior Lecture
- 9:29Speaker 3: of Mass and Stats, Canterbury, Unique time at seventeen after five.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Where's the cheapest rent in the country?
- 9:34Speaker 2: Next?
- 9:35Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
- 9:38Speaker 1: analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route love
- 9:42Speaker 1: where you live? News talks'd be.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Whose talks would be? We will get to Tom Phillips.
- 9:47Speaker 3: We're speaking to a private investigator who's been tracking this
- 9:50Speaker 3: guy for the last few years. That is just before
- 9:52Speaker 3: six this morning. Ryan, good to have you back, says Clive. Clive,
- 9:56Speaker 3: thank you Ryan. Not only about finding him, he was
- 9:59Speaker 3: also so irrationally, so irrational. This is Tom Phillips. How
- 10:04Speaker 3: could they not have come across this campsite if, in
- 10:06Speaker 3: fact it was two kilometers away from where they were
- 10:08Speaker 3: standing at the press conference yesterday.
- 10:10Speaker 2: It's a good question.
- 10:11Speaker 3: And someone says, you know, why didn't they find this
- 10:13Speaker 3: campsite a year ago? Well, they weren't just in one campsite.
- 10:17Speaker 3: They were moving around the whole era. It's a massive area.
- 10:21Speaker 3: There's a lot of farmland, there's a lot of dense bush,
- 10:24Speaker 3: massive area. They weren't just in one place for the
- 10:27Speaker 3: last four years they were on the run. New data
- 10:32Speaker 3: shows rents down three percent nationwide to the lowest point
- 10:35Speaker 3: since twenty twenty three. New listings while You're drowning in
- 10:37Speaker 3: them up sixteen percent nationwide, and Wellington have more than doubled.
- 10:41Speaker 3: Nick Tuffley, ASBTV conins with us.
- 10:42Speaker 2: This morning, Nick, Good morning, Good morning. So basics supply
- 10:46Speaker 2: and demand.
- 10:48Speaker 10: Very much an economics lesson in that we've got not
- 10:52Speaker 10: just more listing sort have come through onto the market,
- 10:55Speaker 10: but when you also look in the background, we've gone
- 10:57Speaker 10: from a few years ago we had that really strong
- 11:00Speaker 10: net immigration, rental growth really strong. Now that net immigration
- 11:04Speaker 10: has faded to a whisper and you've got a lot
- 11:09Speaker 10: of supply, a lot of building activity that's still brought
- 11:12Speaker 10: new houses onto the market as well.
- 11:14Speaker 2: What's bucking this trend which areas well.
- 11:18Speaker 10: I think in general what you're seeing is when you're
- 11:20Speaker 10: looking at provincial New Zealand, that's where rents have tended
- 11:24Speaker 10: to hold up or increase. In this particular data, there's
- 11:28Speaker 10: been a couple of areas that have done pretty well,
- 11:31Speaker 10: like Southland and West Coast. Now a couple of caveats
- 11:36Speaker 10: areas when you get into a small region you get
- 11:38Speaker 10: a little bit of noise and a bit of bouncing around,
- 11:41Speaker 10: But those ones you've seen some strong rental growth coming through.
- 11:45Speaker 10: But just be aware when you've only got a few
- 11:47Speaker 10: properties on the market and you're comparing to a year ago,
- 11:50Speaker 10: it could be a very different could be a mention
- 11:52Speaker 10: this time could have been at a louthouse last year
- 11:56Speaker 10: that you're comparing to.
- 11:57Speaker 3: Does this have a snowball effect and potentially impact house
- 12:00Speaker 3: prices When you yield started roading for your rental owners,
- 12:03Speaker 3: for your landlords, then the property values start dropping too,
- 12:06Speaker 3: and perhaps they're more inclined to sell.
- 12:09Speaker 10: It can at the margin. I think what we've got
- 12:11Speaker 10: to remember is that what teams to drive rents over
- 12:14Speaker 10: a long time. There are a lot more linked to
- 12:16Speaker 10: income in terms of what can people actually pay in
- 12:20Speaker 10: less to prices. But it'd be fair to say when
- 12:23Speaker 10: you're looking at a landlord at the moment your income, yes,
- 12:26Speaker 10: that's down, but also think about your costs as well.
- 12:29Speaker 10: For your biggest cost, which is your mortgage, has been
- 12:31Speaker 10: reducing a little bit, but in the background you've still
- 12:34Speaker 10: got a lot of outgoings like your your rates and
- 12:36Speaker 10: your insurance that are still creeping up.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Nick Toughly, a spechief economist on Rent's good to have
- 12:41Speaker 3: you here this morning, twenty two minutes after five interesting
- 12:44Speaker 3: piece from interest dot Co yesterday. You want the cheapest
- 12:47Speaker 3: interest rate in town, go to Masterton. Yeah, I know,
- 12:52Speaker 3: a bit random, but Masterton's where you're heading the wided
- 12:55Speaker 3: upper building society has beaten all the big banks. The
- 12:59Speaker 3: springs on four point five nine percent for two years
- 13:04Speaker 3: is what they're offering you. Four point five nine percent
- 13:06Speaker 3: for two years, first time in twenty years they reckon.
- 13:09Speaker 3: A non bank has had the lowest rate for what
- 13:11Speaker 3: is a popular fixed term one we all like taking.
- 13:14Speaker 3: Almost everyone else is on four point seven five percent.
- 13:17Speaker 3: So there's a sixteen basis point out advantage to your
- 13:21Speaker 3: winded up a building society. However, if you look at
- 13:25Speaker 3: the fine print of what the big banks are offering,
- 13:28Speaker 3: you will probably also get a cash back of three
- 13:30Speaker 3: and a half thousand dollars, which brings you back to
- 13:33Speaker 3: about the same So.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Worth doing your homework as always.
- 13:36Speaker 3: Twenty three after five, I have some thoughts on Tom Phillips.
- 13:39Speaker 3: I'll share them with you next.
- 13:40Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio pow it
- 13:44Speaker 1: by News Talks.
- 13:45Speaker 3: AB News Talks their b It is five twenty five.
- 13:50Speaker 3: It's brutal, but Tom Phillips brought this whole thing on himself. Yes,
- 13:55Speaker 3: he was killed, and that is a very hard and
- 13:57Speaker 3: sad fact.
- 13:58Speaker 2: That his kids are going to have to live with
- 14:00Speaker 2: for the rest of their lives. Their dad is dead, but.
- 14:03Speaker 3: He shot a cop and innocent local constable who was
- 14:07Speaker 3: just trying to do his job. Tom Phillips also deprived
- 14:10Speaker 3: his children of their mum, of any professional medical attention,
- 14:14Speaker 3: of any formal education for four years. Ember was five
- 14:19Speaker 3: when they were taken. Bush hasn't been to school since
- 14:22Speaker 3: she's now nine. The kids were essentially used as helpers
- 14:26Speaker 3: as dad carried out bank robberies, burglaries, breakings. These are
- 14:30Speaker 3: not the actions of a father who wants the best
- 14:33Speaker 3: for his kid. Any parent who loves their child knows
- 14:37Speaker 3: you do not put them in harm's way. Much will
- 14:40Speaker 3: be made of the custody situation in the coming days,
- 14:43Speaker 3: but the fact is we don't know much detail about
- 14:45Speaker 3: this and likely never will. Well, the full story won't
- 14:48Speaker 3: come out. When he went Bush the second time, Tom
- 14:52Speaker 3: was in breach of a custody order. That's about all
- 14:55Speaker 3: we know because family court cases are wrapped up in
- 14:59Speaker 3: suppression Fort Knox in this country to protect the kids.
- 15:03Speaker 3: But whatever happened before court, whatever happened in court, no
- 15:08Speaker 3: matter how unfair or unjust a case may be, If
- 15:11Speaker 3: you take the law into your own hands, run away
- 15:14Speaker 3: with your own kids, deprive them of an education and
- 15:17Speaker 3: contact with society for four years. Then the outcomes are
- 15:20Speaker 3: yours to own and yours alone. The outcomes are bittersweet.
- 15:26Speaker 3: In this case, a father is dead, a police constable
- 15:30Speaker 3: is in hospital, lucky to be alive, and three children
- 15:34Speaker 3: have survived, at least physically, a dangerous situation.
- 15:38Speaker 2: They should never have been put in in the first place.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Branbridge.
- 15:44Speaker 3: Right, it is five twenty seven on Newstaloks. You've been
- 15:47Speaker 3: nine two ninety two is the number to text. We
- 15:49Speaker 3: are going to speak just before six this morning to
- 15:51Speaker 3: a private investigator who's been following and tracking Tom Phillips
- 15:55Speaker 3: for the past few years. Right, let's get some numbers
- 15:59Speaker 3: for you. Let's take a look at rates, because I
- 16:03Speaker 3: know how much you love talking about rates from local authorities.
- 16:06Speaker 3: We had numbers out yesterday. Over the past year rates
- 16:10Speaker 3: income was up thirteen point two percent nationally. Thank you
- 16:15Speaker 3: Wayne Brown, thank you Tory Farno, thank you every council
- 16:19Speaker 3: across the well most councils across the country, so up
- 16:23Speaker 3: over thirteen point two percent over the last year, which
- 16:26Speaker 3: is about the average for the past four quarters. There
- 16:30Speaker 3: has never been such a surge in the thirty three
- 16:33Speaker 3: year history of the quarterly data that was released yesterday.
- 16:36Speaker 2: So if you feel like your rates bill's gone up.
- 16:38Speaker 3: You're not wrong. Interesting what's happening in Argentina? Harvio Melay.
- 16:42Speaker 3: This is the madman with the chainsaw. Where's the sunglasses inside?
- 16:46Speaker 3: The Trump of South America, they call him. So he
- 16:49Speaker 3: gets in, he's liberty and as the day is long,
- 16:53Speaker 3: hacks government spending, Inflation falls, axes and tire government departments.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Growth increases. Good, right, But he's just underperformed in a
- 17:02Speaker 3: local election in Bonis Series. In fact, he got and
- 17:05Speaker 3: that's half of the population of Argentina is in Buenos Aires.
- 17:08Speaker 3: So in these local elections he gets thirty four percent,
- 17:11Speaker 3: his party, the lefties forty seven percent. So there's pushback
- 17:16Speaker 3: against some of his policies. He's in a bit of
- 17:19Speaker 3: political trouble. Says he'll do a reset. They've got congressional
- 17:22Speaker 3: elections there in October where he's hoping to get more seats,
- 17:25Speaker 3: but that might be an uphill battle.
- 17:27Speaker 2: News Talk said, b we can.
- 17:30Speaker 9: Fly away, stealing America decision lived now living died this way.
- 17:43Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
- 17:45Speaker 1: edition with Ryan bridge and one roofe love where you live?
- 17:50Speaker 1: News Talk said b Again.
- 18:02Speaker 11: Good morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six
- 18:04Speaker 11: year on news Talk, said Brian. The kids probably had
- 18:08Speaker 11: a better life with dad in the bush. This is
- 18:10Speaker 11: the kind of division that you're seeing come through on
- 18:12Speaker 11: the text machine.
- 18:13Speaker 2: This is from Jim.
- 18:14Speaker 3: I'll wait to see the evidence of the great harm
- 18:17Speaker 3: that's been done to them. It'd be a bloody dream.
- 18:19Speaker 3: I reckon to be in the bush gym. I mean, honestly,
- 18:22Speaker 3: do you want to be running around where the guy
- 18:24Speaker 3: who is carrying weapons and shooting cops? I don't think
- 18:27Speaker 3: that is good for a child. Georgie says Ryan. The
- 18:29Speaker 3: risk of the children was massive. Sure the camp might
- 18:33Speaker 3: have been two kilometers away, but apparently the bush was
- 18:35Speaker 3: so rugged it took them ages to get there, and
- 18:37Speaker 3: it did. There is no good outcome if people are
- 18:40Speaker 3: prepared to use weapons on people, especially police officers. Twenty
- 18:44Speaker 3: three away from six Now, a very quick update on
- 18:46Speaker 3: the housing situation. We've done the rents this morning. Let's
- 18:49Speaker 3: do your values. This is a starter out from QV
- 18:52Speaker 3: for the August quarter. Average home values down point eight
- 18:56Speaker 3: zero point eight percent for the quarter. This is nationally.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Auckland you wore down one point four percent, Gisbone you
- 19:04Speaker 3: are down one point four, Hastings you are up one
- 19:08Speaker 3: point seven percent, bucking the trend there. Wellington down and
- 19:10Speaker 3: I won't be surprising two point four percent, Nelson down
- 19:13Speaker 3: three point two percent, and in Vcagol you are up
- 19:17Speaker 3: slightly point four. It is twenty three to six. Ryan
- 19:22Speaker 3: jieshwar reporters around the country. Before six we will get
- 19:25Speaker 3: to a private investigator on Tom Phillips and we're live
- 19:27Speaker 3: to Australia Cullen Proctors and to need and Collum. Good morning, morning, Ryan,
- 19:31Speaker 3: A fresh chapter for a small Otago town.
- 19:35Speaker 12: Yeah, beautiful part of the world.
- 19:36Speaker 2: This is Toho in the Ida Valley.
- 19:40Speaker 12: Almost the whole main street of this town is up
- 19:43Speaker 12: for sale thanks to five simultaneous retirements. It means that
- 19:47Speaker 12: three homes and otahuh To Bed and Breakfasts and accommodation park,
- 19:52Speaker 12: are the historic pub there and the oldest operating general
- 19:55Speaker 12: store in New Zealand are all up for sale at
- 19:58Speaker 12: the same time. Ali says they're wanting to hand the
- 20:01Speaker 12: reins over to the next generation and this is a
- 20:04Speaker 12: wonderful opportunity to be a part of a thriving community
- 20:07Speaker 12: population less than one hundred. She says she'd like to
- 20:10Speaker 12: see more young families and business owners take.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Up the offer. How much how much are we paying?
- 20:15Speaker 2: Do we know? A good question?
- 20:17Speaker 12: PGG you right, so and I think it's handling, handling
- 20:19Speaker 12: the finances. But great opportunity for some New Zealanders.
- 20:23Speaker 2: You get in there.
- 20:24Speaker 12: How's the weather there, Colum, cloudy periods today, possible light
- 20:28Speaker 12: afternoon shower northerlyas and fifteen.
- 20:30Speaker 2: All right, thank you clears than christ Church? Clear, good morning, good.
- 20:35Speaker 3: This is the good news story out of christ Church
- 20:37Speaker 3: in a way, but the reason not a great one.
- 20:40Speaker 13: Clear, Yeah, that's exactly right. Look, ten air purifiers have
- 20:44Speaker 13: been gifted to a school down here. This is by
- 20:47Speaker 13: the asper Asthma and Respiratory Foundation that they're donating these
- 20:50Speaker 13: air scrubbers to Tepa O La Kaihotu, which is a
- 20:54Speaker 13: kuda or school in Lindwood. This is you know, seems
- 20:58Speaker 13: a good thing, but it isn't. After some health and
- 21:00Speaker 13: safety reports identified multiple issues with their seventy year old buildings,
- 21:04Speaker 13: including rotting walls, mold growth, and multiple leaks, the ASPAC
- 21:09Speaker 13: and Respiratory Foundation chief executive let teacher Harding says kids
- 21:13Speaker 13: simply can't learn, teachers cannot teach in these kinds of environments.
- 21:18Speaker 13: She says it's not ideal, but it is a temporary
- 21:20Speaker 13: fix for a school that needs better infrastructure investment and
- 21:23Speaker 13: a chance for the government to take stock of our
- 21:25Speaker 13: learning environment, especially as they transition from open planned classrooms.
- 21:30Speaker 2: How's your weather clear?
- 21:32Speaker 8: Fine?
- 21:32Speaker 13: A bit of high cloud expected this evening Norberis.
- 21:34Speaker 3: And a high sixteen last one max is in Wellington
- 21:37Speaker 3: max the housing stump still the most pronounced in the country.
- 21:40Speaker 2: We're just given numbers on that.
- 21:42Speaker 14: Actually, yeah, yeah, let me expand a bit on how
- 21:45Speaker 14: bad it is in Wellington. And look, our peak a
- 21:47Speaker 14: few years ago was just nuts, so the decline was
- 21:50Speaker 14: always going to be greater here. But there does seem
- 21:52Speaker 14: to be such little confidence in the region's market right now.
- 21:55Speaker 14: And this latest qv data has the whole country down
- 21:58Speaker 14: over three months by close twelve percent, but Wellington City
- 22:01Speaker 14: down two and a half percent. That's roughly double the
- 22:04Speaker 14: fallen christ Church Auckland. We are a pretty astonishing thirty
- 22:08Speaker 14: percent down on what that market peak was in early
- 22:12Speaker 14: twenty twenty two. For an average in the city of
- 22:15Speaker 14: one point four to four million to now barely a million.
- 22:18Speaker 14: Lower hut also massively down. Apparently the better well maintained
- 22:22Speaker 14: homes are doing okay, but you can pick up the
- 22:25Speaker 14: cheaper homes for cheaper basically essentially at the former rentals
- 22:29Speaker 14: as well. I'm not sure these are the ones that'll
- 22:31Speaker 14: be worth five million dollars to a foreign investor. This
- 22:33Speaker 14: is spreading to wide Appa as well apparently, which is
- 22:36Speaker 14: also struggling now. Carterton apparently one of the worst town's
- 22:40Speaker 14: regions in the country as well.
- 22:42Speaker 2: Yeah, for a lot of reasons. Oh Cadlan, Hey, are
- 22:46Speaker 2: you a rental or an owner?
- 22:48Speaker 15: Max?
- 22:48Speaker 2: I'm still a renter because the rental.
- 22:51Speaker 3: Market they have doubled the listings in the past year
- 22:55Speaker 3: that it's not data out this morning as well.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Have you noticed that rents are coming down? Well?
- 23:01Speaker 14: I have noticed in the past few years that it
- 23:03Speaker 14: is also harder to find tenants for landlords. Landlords seem
- 23:10Speaker 14: to be really struggling. But then you know, for someone
- 23:13Speaker 14: in my position, I could afford to buy a townhouse tomorrow,
- 23:15Speaker 14: but who would want to buy a flat and apartment?
- 23:19Speaker 14: It doesn't seem like a good investment, not as many
- 23:21Speaker 14: townhouses popping up as saying christ Church, which just seems
- 23:24Speaker 14: to be full of townhouses. And I suppose I'm symptomatic
- 23:28Speaker 14: of the problem where I just don't have any confidence
- 23:30Speaker 14: in buying right now.
- 23:31Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting. How's your weather?
- 23:34Speaker 14: A little cloud around, stronger norther least thirteen the high central.
- 23:37Speaker 3: Respue Cheers Max Neighbors and Auckland Hay Neighborreetings, We've got
- 23:40Speaker 3: a traffic management company in liquidation.
- 23:43Speaker 16: Yes, now, this big Auckland traffic management company called Absolute
- 23:48Speaker 16: Traffic Solutions based in Witty being liquidated over a one
- 23:52Speaker 16: point one million dollars the old and the revenue debt,
- 23:55Speaker 16: costing eighty five people their jobs. Dig Be Noise.
- 23:59Speaker 10: What a great name.
- 24:00Speaker 16: Anyway, he's saying about sixty staff. They have since been
- 24:03Speaker 16: re employed. This is on short term contracts. He's going
- 24:06Speaker 16: to sell the business. Employees owed about four hundred and
- 24:09Speaker 16: fifty thousand dollars. Just another one, isn't it of you know,
- 24:12Speaker 16: the latest one. So this Absolute Traffic Solutions, you know
- 24:15Speaker 16: they do everything from traffic management and hiring all those
- 24:20Speaker 16: you know, while equipment hire really an emergency response.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Stop ghost signs.
- 24:25Speaker 3: It's very sad. And whenever anyone loses their jobs. It
- 24:28Speaker 3: is very sad news. But there will be people who
- 24:30Speaker 3: will celebrate this as some sort of victory against road comes.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 24:34Speaker 16: That's the first thing I saw.
- 24:35Speaker 2: When I saw this, I thought, oh gosh, how's our weather?
- 24:38Speaker 16: Okay, cloudy isolated Charles from afternoon fifteen is the high
- 24:41Speaker 16: here in Auckland.
- 24:42Speaker 3: Brilliant Neva, Thank you. It is seventeen away from six.
- 24:45Speaker 3: You're listening to News Talk ZVB a private investigator on
- 24:48Speaker 3: Tom Phillips. Before six. We're live in Australia. Aaron Patterson
- 24:51Speaker 3: will be eighty two before she is allowed out of
- 24:54Speaker 3: prison over the mushroom deaths.
- 24:57Speaker 1: International correspondence with endsit Eye Insurance, peace of mind for
- 25:01Speaker 1: New Zealand business.
- 25:03Speaker 3: He talks a bit as fourteen away from sex. We'll
- 25:05Speaker 3: get to a private investigator on Tom Phillips in just
- 25:08Speaker 3: a second. First we are going to Donaldamao, Australia correspondent.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Here is the Beef Wellington survivor, Ian Wilkinson speaking outside
- 25:16Speaker 3: court after the mushroom lady is she's become known. Aaron
- 25:20Speaker 3: Patterson gets thirty three years.
- 25:23Speaker 17: They made a professional efficient, had effective investigation into what
- 25:29Speaker 17: happened at the lunch. They brought to light the truth
- 25:33Speaker 17: of what happened with the death of free, good people.
- 25:37Speaker 17: We're grateful for their skills that brought this truth to light.
- 25:41Speaker 2: Donald Demayo is an Australia correspondent. Donna, what's the reaction
- 25:44Speaker 2: being to that sentence, Well, of.
- 25:47Speaker 18: Course everyone wanted to know what would happen with Aaron
- 25:50Speaker 18: Patterson after that ten week trial, and we know that
- 25:54Speaker 18: huge crowds were at the court inside and outside. Many
- 25:57Speaker 18: people tried to get a snap or a glimpse as
- 26:00Speaker 18: the prison van left yesterday afternoon. Interestingly, we've noted that
- 26:05Speaker 18: Simon Patterson, the estranged husband, did not attend their sentencing hearing,
- 26:11Speaker 18: as we know he was the last minute withdrawal from
- 26:12Speaker 18: that fatal lunch. He has not spoken to the media
- 26:15Speaker 18: and word is now that he's planning a podcast, so
- 26:20Speaker 18: stay tuned for that. We also, of course heard from
- 26:22Speaker 18: the judge who said that Eron's failure to exhibit any
- 26:26Speaker 18: remorse pause salt into the victim's wounds, and the judge
- 26:31Speaker 18: also said she not only cut short three lives, she
- 26:33Speaker 18: inflicted untold suffering on her own children. Whom she robbed
- 26:39Speaker 18: of their beloved grandparents. Another thing that Ian Wilkinson, the
- 26:42Speaker 18: survivor said in that statement is that he said, I'd
- 26:47Speaker 18: like to encourage everybody to be kind to each other.
- 26:51Speaker 18: We know now that the non prop period is thirty
- 26:54Speaker 18: three years, and we do believe that Erin will be
- 26:57Speaker 18: in solitary confinement for most of those years. As we mentioned,
- 27:02Speaker 18: you know, the judge are noting that she's shown no remorse,
- 27:06Speaker 18: but also he said only she knows why she committed
- 27:10Speaker 18: these crimes.
- 27:11Speaker 3: Donna, thanks to that update. Donnod to my our Australia correspondent.
- 27:14Speaker 3: It is twelve minutes away.
- 27:15Speaker 1: From six Bryan Bridge.
- 27:17Speaker 3: Tom Phillips is dead, the three kids are safe. The
- 27:20Speaker 3: a cop who was shot, expected to survive. They were
- 27:23Speaker 3: found in the campground about two k's from the quad
- 27:26Speaker 3: bike shootout location.
- 27:27Speaker 2: Bush was rough and rugged, and.
- 27:29Speaker 19: I can tell you with great relief this evening that
- 27:33Speaker 19: soon after four thirty today we've located Tom phillips remaining children.
- 27:39Speaker 19: They've been found in a camp site not far from here,
- 27:44Speaker 19: further up the Tioga Road. I can confirm that the
- 27:47Speaker 19: children are well and uninjured.
- 27:50Speaker 3: Chris Budge is a private investigator who was looking for
- 27:52Speaker 3: Tom Phillips with us this morning.
- 27:54Speaker 2: Chris, good morning, Good morning.
- 27:56Speaker 15: Certainly an exciting but sad day.
- 27:58Speaker 2: What did you make of the low location.
- 28:02Speaker 15: That's within within the thought pattern? Everybody thought the sort
- 28:06Speaker 15: of sort of halfway between the triangle of Osrahanng and
- 28:10Speaker 15: Maricoppa and the dairy where he's been seen more than once.
- 28:14Speaker 15: So it's certainly within the area. It'd be interesting to
- 28:17Speaker 15: see what comes out around camp site, you know, it
- 28:21Speaker 15: was it was it structured exactly what was there and
- 28:24Speaker 15: that that's what the police were going through on their
- 28:26Speaker 15: forensic examination.
- 28:28Speaker 3: What sort of square kilometers area are we talking about
- 28:31Speaker 3: that we thought he was in?
- 28:34Speaker 15: Well, overall, it's kind of thought it was round about
- 28:36Speaker 15: a sixty kilometer square area going all the way up
- 28:40Speaker 15: to calf here at the north and probably the dairy
- 28:43Speaker 15: area where he's seeing to the south, and that area
- 28:46Speaker 15: there is it has some very rugged parts that country
- 28:50Speaker 15: road gravel roads, as we saw in the media last night.
- 28:54Speaker 15: So certainly there are isolated little communities and also buildings
- 28:58Speaker 15: are certainly plenty of farts, so it is an area
- 29:02Speaker 15: that is quite hard to look through, which is obviously
- 29:05Speaker 15: why the police were been able to locate them over
- 29:06Speaker 15: the last few years.
- 29:07Speaker 3: What about the heat seeking thing, This idea that you
- 29:09Speaker 3: can get choppers up, you can get drones up and
- 29:11Speaker 3: they will give you thermal imaging and you should be
- 29:13Speaker 3: able to find them.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Were they in a cave?
- 29:16Speaker 15: No, No, Thermal imaging is actually quite easy to hide behind.
- 29:20Speaker 15: I do go out hunting and you could have an
- 29:23Speaker 15: animal or a person hiding behind a solid tree trunk
- 29:26Speaker 15: or under a level of a foliage and the thermals
- 29:30Speaker 15: will not come out. So it's not one hundred percent guarantee.
- 29:35Speaker 15: You would have to have them in a semi open
- 29:37Speaker 15: or under a light foliage to be able to be
- 29:40Speaker 15: able to spot them. So it's one method of investigation,
- 29:43Speaker 15: but it's not absolute.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Some people say that Tom Phillips is a hero, that
- 29:47Speaker 3: he has done you did the right thing, that there
- 29:49Speaker 3: was a custody, a disput et cetera.
- 29:51Speaker 2: What do you say to those people.
- 29:53Speaker 15: I have looked at the social media over the last
- 29:56Speaker 15: twenty four hours and previously, but especially over the last
- 30:00Speaker 15: twenty four hours, and listen, I'm really surprised with the
- 30:04Speaker 15: negativity around people that people are saying things like I
- 30:08Speaker 15: hope the cop doesn't survive. The system is dad people
- 30:13Speaker 15: are bullies. I find that absolutely disgusting. We have a
- 30:19Speaker 15: circumstances where I have said for quite from the very
- 30:23Speaker 15: start of a situation of a father who has abscondered,
- 30:27Speaker 15: have abducted his children away from the wider family group,
- 30:31Speaker 15: and it's not just the father's decision, it's more around
- 30:35Speaker 15: removing choice in socialization for those children and hiding away
- 30:40Speaker 15: from everybody. So I think those people are wrong and
- 30:42Speaker 15: taking a really big chill prill in regards to what
- 30:45Speaker 15: our the Zealand society is all about. It's more about
- 30:48Speaker 15: being together, being with families and giving children the best opportunity.
- 30:52Speaker 2: That they could have.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Chris Budge, private investigator who was looking for Tom Phillips.
- 30:55Speaker 3: It is eight to six news Talks.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Eb get ahead the headlines on early edition with Ryan
- 31:02Speaker 1: Branch and one roof Love where you Live News Talks.
- 31:06Speaker 3: That'd be sixty six on News Talks. He'd be loads
- 31:08Speaker 3: of texts on Tom Phillips. As you can imagine people,
- 31:11Speaker 3: most people saying you cannot do that, but some people
- 31:14Speaker 3: still defending him. A bit of housekeeping for Early Edition
- 31:17Speaker 3: this morning.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Ryan.
- 31:18Speaker 3: I always loved listening to your Wellington reporter Max's update.
- 31:21Speaker 3: He always has something amusing to say. I agree he does. Interestingly,
- 31:24Speaker 3: he always says the weather followed by the word central.
- 31:28Speaker 3: Is this a British thing or a Max quirk? Well,
- 31:30Speaker 3: we have to ask him.
- 31:30Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
- 31:31Speaker 3: Lots of people also asking what was the song we
- 31:33Speaker 3: played after the five point thirty news Olivia Dean Man,
- 31:36Speaker 3: I need was the song?
- 31:37Speaker 2: Mike is in the studio, Mike, good morning.
- 31:39Speaker 15: Good morning.
- 31:39Speaker 20: I'm just reading about Absolute Traffic Solutions.
- 31:42Speaker 2: Yes, do you know about them?
- 31:44Speaker 3: Yes, I've just heard that they are eighty five staff,
- 31:47Speaker 3: although sixty you've already found new short term contracts.
- 31:49Speaker 20: How is it possible that you can be in the
- 31:51Speaker 20: business of traffic management in New Zealand and be outage
- 31:55Speaker 20: and not run your company to the point where you're
- 31:57Speaker 20: making not only a profit but some sort of exorbitant
- 32:00Speaker 20: profit and you're living in the Bahamas?
- 32:02Speaker 3: Is this the Wayne Brown anti Cone effect? Though taking force,
- 32:06Speaker 3: taking action?
- 32:07Speaker 2: Perhaps it is.
- 32:08Speaker 20: Is one hundred and ten thousand dollars a reasonable income.
- 32:13Speaker 2: For one person or a household one person? I think so?
- 32:16Speaker 20: Teacher, that's what a teacher is.
- 32:17Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't.
- 32:19Speaker 20: You're getting to the point. Brian Roach is on the
- 32:20Speaker 20: program after seven o'clock this morning. You're getting to the
- 32:23Speaker 20: point applies to the nurses. Nurses earn even more, and
- 32:26Speaker 20: every time I raise it, people go mental, They go,
- 32:29Speaker 20: I know somebody and they don't, et cetera. And you
- 32:32Speaker 20: can't argue with the numbers. You're talking about a primary
- 32:35Speaker 20: teacher on one hundred and ten thousand dollars. It's got
- 32:38Speaker 20: to the point now where you're starting to think, because
- 32:40Speaker 20: there's the whole thing with industrial relations is sympathy, of course,
- 32:44Speaker 20: and we're on their side, aren't we, you know, because
- 32:46Speaker 20: we like teachers, we like nurses, we like doctors. But
- 32:49Speaker 20: there comes a point where in a country where the
- 32:52Speaker 20: average wages seventy to eighty thousand dollars that you're going
- 32:55Speaker 20: I tell you what, one ten's not bad.
- 32:57Speaker 2: And no one else is getting two and a half percent.
- 33:01Speaker 20: Well when you say two and a half, it's actually
- 33:03Speaker 20: four percent. Yeah, yeah, you're adding these numbers to give
- 33:07Speaker 20: you think.
- 33:07Speaker 3: That because all of these and these industries that we
- 33:10Speaker 3: talk about are all government funded, aren't they?
- 33:13Speaker 2: So what if we just privatize them all?
- 33:15Speaker 20: Well, you could do that or you could. You know,
- 33:18Speaker 20: I've always argued you pay teachers on merit. In other words,
- 33:22Speaker 20: you know you're good, I'll give you two hundred and
- 33:23Speaker 20: fifty thousand dollars, and over here the useless one earns
- 33:27Speaker 20: forty two.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Which they argue, know you will strip all the poorer
- 33:29Speaker 2: schools of the good teacher, of.
- 33:30Speaker 20: Course, and so that's fine. So the downside of what
- 33:33Speaker 20: they want is that everybody gets the same thing. Therefore
- 33:36Speaker 20: the bill is gargantu and every time you get a
- 33:39Speaker 20: pay rise, but there comes a point where you start
- 33:41Speaker 20: to think.
- 33:42Speaker 2: How much enough's enough? Just what is it?
- 33:44Speaker 3: It's a good bargaining technic. Either take this offer or
- 33:47Speaker 3: will privatize is a little.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Bit of that.
- 33:50Speaker 20: We'll see how much frustration we'll get from Brian Roach.
- 33:53Speaker 20: Please skimmission of this morning as well. We're ready chambers
- 33:55Speaker 20: back in the MICA's next.
- 33:56Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybody, see you tomorrow on Early Editions.
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