Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 04 March 2026
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: earlier edition with one roof love where you live, News
- 0:09Speaker 1: Talk said, be good.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Morning, six half five. Great to have your company. Let's
- 0:13Speaker 2: look at the export numbers. Dery still number one, but
- 0:15Speaker 2: tourism wants it's top spot back.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Louise Upston on the new tourism numbers this morning. Gavin
- 0:21Speaker 2: Gray in the UK, there's a growth downgrade for the Brits.
- 0:24Speaker 3: What's changing with your power bill?
- 0:26Speaker 2: And we've got bootcamp two point zero for bad kids.
- 0:31Speaker 3: The agenda Wednesday, the fourth of March.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Gold States preparing for more attacks this morning, especially the
- 0:36Speaker 2: Saudis are going after the wheel infrastructure. They had a
- 0:39Speaker 2: hit to the US embassy and read yesterday. Israel meanwhile
- 0:43Speaker 2: confirming strikes in Tehran, Beirute.
- 0:45Speaker 4: There is a state of panic. There's state of complete
- 0:50Speaker 4: shock about what happened. People have fled in their pajamas.
- 0:55Speaker 4: They just roll their kids with them and some of
- 0:58Speaker 4: them have even a broads. There are very serious concerns
- 1:02Speaker 4: that what's happened this morning might be the start of
- 1:05Speaker 4: a very large military campaign.
- 1:07Speaker 2: So after yesterday, Rubio is saying it was the Israelis.
- 1:10Speaker 2: It was Netanyahu that dragged us into this whole thing,
- 1:13Speaker 2: and we took the opportunity when we saw it.
- 1:14Speaker 3: Ntnaho's laughing it off.
- 1:16Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's ridiculous. Donald Trump is the strongest
- 1:20Speaker 5: leader in the world. He does what he thinks is
- 1:23Speaker 5: right for America. He does also what he thinks is
- 1:26Speaker 5: right for future generations. And frankly, we're partners in that
- 1:30Speaker 5: effort because I've devoted my life to securing the life
- 1:35Speaker 5: of the one and only Jewish state. And believe me,
- 1:38Speaker 5: it's been a struggle.
- 1:39Speaker 3: To the UK.
- 1:39Speaker 2: The Brits have had a budget, sorry, a growth forecast downgrade.
- 1:43Speaker 2: This is after their budgets twenty twenty six forecast down
- 1:46Speaker 2: to one point one percent, was one point four percent
- 1:49Speaker 2: last year. Rachel reevespinning it.
- 1:52Speaker 6: I've always said that growth is for a purpose to
- 1:55Speaker 6: make working people better off, and I can confirm that
- 2:00Speaker 6: e P per person is set to grow more than
- 2:03Speaker 6: was expected in the autumn, with growth of five point
- 2:07Speaker 6: six percent over the course of this parliament. That compares
- 2:11Speaker 6: to a fool in GDP per capita in the last parliments.
- 2:15Speaker 2: That person big thing to come out of bills and
- 2:18Speaker 2: Hills testifying over Epstein is.
- 2:20Speaker 3: That they look old.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Have you seen the photos? I suppose they are aging,
- 2:24Speaker 2: aren't they. But the other thing to come out was
- 2:26Speaker 2: the video that I've now released of Hillary storming out.
- 2:29Speaker 4: I've done with.
- 2:30Speaker 7: If you guys are doing that, I am done. You
- 2:32Speaker 7: can hold me in contemp from now until the cows
- 2:34Speaker 7: come home. This is just typical behavior. Oh for Heaven's
- 2:39Speaker 7: sad to understand how that's permissible.
- 2:43Speaker 8: It doesn't matter.
- 2:44Speaker 3: We are abiding by the same rules.
- 2:48Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I would like to take a break at
- 2:50Speaker 5: this norm.
- 2:50Speaker 3: I'd like to have died Grandma Cranky.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
- 2:58Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof love where you live.
- 3:02Speaker 3: News talks'd be nine two the number six.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Would love to hear from you this morning, as I
- 3:06Speaker 2: always do. Hey, we've got the Global Dairy Trust. It
- 3:08Speaker 2: will starve us some good news. Global Dairy Trade auction
- 3:11Speaker 2: out overnight. It was up five point seven percent. They
- 3:14Speaker 2: just keeps going up and up and up.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Doesn't it. This year.
- 3:16Speaker 2: End of last year it was down, down, down, Now
- 3:18Speaker 2: it's up up, up, up five point seven percent. The
- 3:21Speaker 2: previous auction was up three point six one before that
- 3:23Speaker 2: six point seven. And you look at the things we
- 3:26Speaker 2: care about, butter up six point one percent and skim
- 3:30Speaker 2: milk powder this is where we make our money, and
- 3:32Speaker 2: the milk powders, so whole milk powder up four and
- 3:34Speaker 2: a half percent, skim milk powder up nine point one percent,
- 3:39Speaker 2: Mozzarella We celibate of that too, specially in China. Seven
- 3:42Speaker 2: point nine percent increase for them. So there you go,
- 3:45Speaker 2: good news for dairy farms. It might be why they
- 3:48Speaker 2: still maintain and retain the number one spot for our
- 3:51Speaker 2: export dollars. We'll talk about that with Louise Upston Layer.
- 3:55Speaker 2: I mean, tourism though, is coming back and they had
- 3:57Speaker 2: some very pleasing numbers which we'll share with you later
- 3:59Speaker 2: on the program before six on oil, and we will
- 4:04Speaker 2: talk a little bit about this this morning. In fact,
- 4:06Speaker 2: we'll talk about it quite a lot. But this one
- 4:08Speaker 2: hundred and twenty dollars a barrel number. So JP Morgan
- 4:12Speaker 2: had come out yesterday and said that if a worst
- 4:16Speaker 2: case scenario, if things go from bad to worse, and
- 4:18Speaker 2: bad to worse and bad to worse, we could hit
- 4:19Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel. How many barrels
- 4:23Speaker 2: are physically disrupted, how long the disruption lasts. These are
- 4:26Speaker 2: all important things, of course, whether a credible replacement supply,
- 4:31Speaker 2: like you know, when the release your strategic reserves, how
- 4:34Speaker 2: quickly you can actually mobilize them and avoid the whole
- 4:38Speaker 2: thing clamping up and the log jam continuing. That's all
- 4:41Speaker 2: quite important. But this is from their report. They say,
- 4:44Speaker 2: we estimate that if the conflict lasts more than three weeks,
- 4:48Speaker 2: golf oil producers would exhaust storage capacity and would be
- 4:51Speaker 2: forced to shut production. Under this scenario, brink crew trade
- 4:55Speaker 2: could hit one hundred to one hundred and twenty dollars
- 4:58Speaker 2: a barrel. Now that is a day zone for us,
- 5:01Speaker 2: according to Kelly Echold from Westpac, I'll tell you why
- 5:04Speaker 2: in a few moments, Bryan Bridge, eleven minutes after five
- 5:09Speaker 2: lots more to come. We'll talk about the boot camps.
- 5:11Speaker 2: And it's not the same. So we had a boot
- 5:13Speaker 2: camp that didn't do very well, although there were some
- 5:18Speaker 2: if you look in the sort of fine print, there
- 5:20Speaker 2: were some good things that came out of it, but
- 5:23Speaker 2: you kind of had to look hard to see them.
- 5:26Speaker 2: But we're doing a two point zero version of boot camp.
- 5:29Speaker 2: It's not the same one. They heard the minister yesterday
- 5:32Speaker 2: saying we've had learnings. So we'll talk about those next
- 5:35Speaker 2: News TALKSB on.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early edition with
- 5:42Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live.
- 5:45Speaker 3: News Talks EDB fourteen after five.
- 5:48Speaker 2: So we're getting changes to our power bills that could
- 5:51Speaker 2: mean we get money back in our pocket.
- 5:52Speaker 3: This is what they're telling us. Do we believe this?
- 5:55Speaker 2: So the Electricity Authority is updating the rules and this
- 5:58Speaker 2: is what we're going to get. You can look forward
- 6:00Speaker 2: to on your power bill, a clearer bill plane language,
- 6:04Speaker 2: and a requirement that you're on the best plan for
- 6:07Speaker 2: your usage. Now is this really going to save us money?
- 6:10Speaker 2: And if they tell you that you're not on the
- 6:12Speaker 2: best plan for your usage, are you going to change?
- 6:15Speaker 2: Because half the problem is us, isn't it. We look
- 6:17Speaker 2: at our bills and we go on, it's expense. I've
- 6:19Speaker 2: got to hate them, and then we pay it they reckon.
- 6:22Speaker 2: There will also be a cap on how far back
- 6:24Speaker 2: energy companies can hit you with backdated charges, so we'll
- 6:26Speaker 2: find out more about that with the Utilities Disputes Commission
- 6:30Speaker 2: a few minutes rich first, though, Boot camps are back
- 6:33Speaker 2: for young offenders. This is the second pilot, starting Monday,
- 6:36Speaker 2: ten teenagers. Last time, six of the ten participants reoffended
- 6:41Speaker 2: while they were on the program. One of them died
- 6:44Speaker 2: in a car accident sadly.
- 6:45Speaker 5: Now.
- 6:45Speaker 2: A review acknowledged the extent of the reoffending, but also
- 6:50Speaker 2: noted the seriousness and the frequency of the offending had
- 6:54Speaker 2: reduced for those in the pilot when compared to a
- 6:58Speaker 2: control group. Aaron Hendry is use development worker and Kickback
- 7:02Speaker 2: co founder.
- 7:02Speaker 3: With me this morning. Hey Aaron, heykub good thank you.
- 7:06Speaker 5: So.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Look, it's not perfect, but none of these things are is,
- 7:09Speaker 2: but it sounds like there might be a glimmer of
- 7:11Speaker 2: hope there.
- 7:14Speaker 9: I think if we stood back and look at the
- 7:17Speaker 9: evidence and the expertise around, you know, what really works
- 7:19Speaker 9: for kids, we wouldn't be We wouldn't be going ahead
- 7:22Speaker 9: with another book can Basically, essentially, what we're trying to
- 7:24Speaker 9: do is make an already flawed child prison system work.
- 7:28Speaker 9: We're putting millions of dollars into this project for a
- 7:31Speaker 9: very small cohort of young people, and at the same
- 7:33Speaker 9: time we're pulling the resources out of the community that
- 7:36Speaker 9: are essentially needed to prevent children from needed to come
- 7:39Speaker 9: into the justice system in the first place.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Where are the resources being pulled from these millions? Look, look,
- 7:46Speaker 3: what we're.
- 7:47Speaker 9: Seeing, at least in the community is a real lack
- 7:49Speaker 9: of access to housing. There's a real lack of you know,
- 7:52Speaker 9: intensive support for FINO for children and the kickback the kids.
- 7:57Speaker 9: That kickback serves that these are the kids that are
- 7:59Speaker 9: on their pat way to the justice system, right These
- 8:02Speaker 9: are children that are experiencing homelessness, that are sleeping rough.
- 8:05Speaker 9: You know, the youngest we've met is nine. It's starting
- 8:07Speaker 9: to steal to survive, starting to get into really dangerous
- 8:10Speaker 9: situations and doing some pretty dangerous stuff. Right. There is
- 8:13Speaker 9: not the resources in the community right now to adequately
- 8:16Speaker 9: respond to those children with the speed that they need
- 8:19Speaker 9: that response. And that has gotten a lot harder over
- 8:22Speaker 9: the last couple of years. And so what our government
- 8:24Speaker 9: should be doing and have been advised to do, is
- 8:27Speaker 9: start to really invest in our community so we can
- 8:30Speaker 9: do that early intervention really really well. And where is
- 8:33Speaker 9: that where there is a need for you know, a
- 8:35Speaker 9: far more intensive reference support that that is done within
- 8:38Speaker 9: local communities, within final environments, and we provide the support
- 8:42Speaker 9: both the finer and to Thomitiki and Tongite. Right. One
- 8:45Speaker 9: of the concerning things I think we have around the
- 8:47Speaker 9: extend of the second boot camp, right, So we've extended
- 8:49Speaker 9: it now, so three months to six months. That's going
- 8:51Speaker 9: to be resource intensive. But what we know is where
- 8:54Speaker 9: the boot camp has failed is in the transitions. The
- 8:57Speaker 9: government knew this coming into it, where they struggle as
- 8:59Speaker 9: the trends of now that's that's the resources around housing support,
- 9:03Speaker 9: addressing poverty, addressing what's going with a final home, access
- 9:06Speaker 9: to disability support, finance for all those sort of things.
- 9:09Speaker 9: That investment supports early intervention and it supports transition, but
- 9:13Speaker 9: we aren't seeing a real significant increase in the resources
- 9:16Speaker 9: to go into that transition. We always know that in
- 9:19Speaker 9: a real secure environment like the you know, like the
- 9:21Speaker 9: book camps, like other child prison models, you're going to
- 9:23Speaker 9: reduce the fanisture in that short period of time while
- 9:25Speaker 9: they're in in the care.
- 9:27Speaker 2: You mentioned a nine year old that you're looking after
- 9:30Speaker 2: that's stealing to survive or about to start stealing to survive.
- 9:34Speaker 2: What's where's why is where is the nine.
- 9:37Speaker 3: Year old living? And why aren't they getting money? Yeah?
- 9:40Speaker 9: Yeah, so we meet. We met a range of children, right,
- 9:43Speaker 9: so we had you know, almost twenty percent of the
- 9:46Speaker 9: children that we met over of the young people we
- 9:48Speaker 9: serve over last year, we're under fifteen, right, So these
- 9:53Speaker 9: are kids that they're FINO often really struggling in poverty,
- 9:57Speaker 9: housing and security, homelessness themselves. You know, many of the
- 10:00Speaker 9: children that we see coming through our doors that are
- 10:03Speaker 9: in those situations have some form of disability, whether form
- 10:08Speaker 9: of disability.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Yeah, this nine year old, I mean, it's quite a
- 10:12Speaker 2: shocking example. You've raised this a nine year old. So
- 10:15Speaker 2: where's mum and dad? Where are they living?
- 10:18Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 10:18Speaker 9: Yeah, Look, I won't speak about like very specific circumstances,
- 10:21Speaker 9: but what I'll say in terms of the context of
- 10:23Speaker 9: the children that we about the context of the children
- 10:26Speaker 9: that we meet, including you know, kids as young as
- 10:29Speaker 9: there is that they're often the FINO themselves are in poverty,
- 10:33Speaker 9: they're often experiencing homesode, and they're not getting and many
- 10:37Speaker 9: many times the that we're talking and the families that
- 10:41Speaker 9: we're talking about really love their kids and are trying
- 10:44Speaker 9: to do the best they can to support them. But
- 10:46Speaker 9: there's real complex stuff happening for those children and the
- 10:50Speaker 9: support for the FINO just is not there. And know
- 10:52Speaker 9: I said before, you know that that concern around faced
- 10:55Speaker 9: and other disabilities. Some parents are just really struggling to
- 10:57Speaker 9: understand how can we support our child of all the
- 11:00Speaker 9: stuff that they've gone through and they don't have the
- 11:03Speaker 9: adequate support something from the children we're talking about I'm
- 11:05Speaker 9: going right now. Yeah, a looking like needing life long
- 11:08Speaker 9: support and those resources aren't in placeful.
- 11:11Speaker 2: Okay, I've got to live there, Aaron, We've got to run.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Aaron Hendry, youth development worker, Kickback co founder Times nineteen
- 11:16Speaker 2: after five views and views.
- 11:18Speaker 1: You trust to start your day. It's early edition with
- 11:22Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you.
- 11:25Speaker 3: Live News talks that'd be twenty one.
- 11:27Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, The Electricity Authority updating the rules
- 11:30Speaker 2: for your power bill, clearer bills, playing language, a requirement
- 11:33Speaker 2: that you're on the best plan for your usage. Neil
- 11:36Speaker 2: mallon is Utilities Disputes Commissioner and CEO of ME this morning, now,
- 11:39Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning Ryan. Will these make any difference
- 11:43Speaker 2: to what we're actually paying on the bills?
- 11:46Speaker 5: Oh?
- 11:46Speaker 10: Look, I think they will long term because what they
- 11:49Speaker 10: will do is reduce some of the inefficiencies in the system.
- 11:51Speaker 10: I think particularly for consumers who get caught up in
- 11:55Speaker 10: errors with their metering or their billing and face a
- 11:58Speaker 10: large back or they'll make a real difference of those consumers.
- 12:01Speaker 3: Is it going to be.
- 12:01Speaker 2: Easier for us to understand? I mean, they're pretty easy
- 12:04Speaker 2: to understand, now, aren't they.
- 12:06Speaker 8: Oh?
- 12:06Speaker 10: Look, I think I think there's difficulties between different retailers
- 12:10Speaker 10: understanding plans. We get a lot of complaints about, you know,
- 12:13Speaker 10: not understanding usage, not understanding how much people are paying
- 12:16Speaker 10: for their bills. I think having some standard things will
- 12:19Speaker 10: really help consumers. It will also promote switching, It will
- 12:22Speaker 10: reduce the complaints that come through to us when we
- 12:24Speaker 10: deal with them, and it we make it easier for
- 12:26Speaker 10: us to sort of resolve those complaints with consumers as well.
- 12:28Speaker 10: So I think they're positive changes.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Neil, there's going to be a cap on how far
- 12:32Speaker 2: back the energy companies can hit you with a backdated charge.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Do you deal with a lot of disputes about that.
- 12:37Speaker 3: How far back are we talking?
- 12:39Speaker 10: Look, we're talking about it being reduced to six months,
- 12:42Speaker 10: which is a really big shift. We at utilities of
- 12:45Speaker 10: Sheets deal with around about fourteen thousand complaints a year,
- 12:49Speaker 10: and last year we dealt with abound one hundred and
- 12:52Speaker 10: two hundred complaints dealing with really specific backdoor issues. And
- 12:56Speaker 10: it doesn't sound like a lot, but the average bill
- 12:58Speaker 10: for a consumer was around two thy and three hundred.
- 13:01Speaker 10: That's for a household. For a business it was eighteen thousand,
- 13:04Speaker 10: and you're dealing with in some cases, people getting hit
- 13:07Speaker 10: with that bill in one go and it being deducted
- 13:09Speaker 10: from their account. So it's a significant change that we've
- 13:12Speaker 10: been pushing for for a couple of years. And to
- 13:15Speaker 10: be fair, some retailers have been really positive and worked
- 13:18Speaker 10: with utility spits to reduce the amount voluntarily that they
- 13:21Speaker 10: would go back, but we were seeing differences between retailers.
- 13:24Speaker 10: We were seeing consumers getting really impacted by this. So
- 13:27Speaker 10: we've been pushing for that change for the last couple
- 13:29Speaker 10: of years and it's positive to see it any right, Neil.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Neil mallon Utilities Disputes, Commissioner
- 13:34Speaker 2: and CEO. Time is twenty three after five, Ray and bread.
- 13:38Speaker 2: We'll wait and see where comes through when we get seaper.
- 13:40Speaker 3: Does anyone think we're going to get cheaper power bills now?
- 13:43Speaker 3: The UK.
- 13:44Speaker 2: We're had to Gavin Gray after News at five point thirty.
- 13:46Speaker 2: UK government is considering sending a Royal Navy warship to
- 13:49Speaker 2: the Mediterranean because you know, Cyprus, their RAF based there
- 13:54Speaker 2: was hat well, there was a couple of issues, one
- 13:57Speaker 2: of which was the runway at the air base was
- 14:00Speaker 2: hit by a couple of drones. The damage was only mine,
- 14:03Speaker 2: but the government so they're going to look at sending
- 14:06Speaker 2: HMS Duncan, a type forty five destroyer. Apparently the government
- 14:10Speaker 2: there wants more back up because of what's happening in
- 14:13Speaker 2: the Middle East, so they're going to send them some
- 14:15Speaker 2: air defense at least that's what they're considering. Gavin will
- 14:17Speaker 2: update us after five point thirty.
- 14:19Speaker 3: News Talk, said b the early.
- 14:21Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio how It By News
- 14:25Speaker 1: Talks AB.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Five twenty six, News Talk said be most common question
- 14:30Speaker 2: I'm getting asked at the moment is with the Middle East,
- 14:33Speaker 2: when does it start to affect us here in New Zealand.
- 14:35Speaker 2: And I'm talking about the economy. If it's still going
- 14:38Speaker 2: in two or three weeks, then lots of countries, including ours,
- 14:41Speaker 2: will start to feel the pinch. This is not my words,
- 14:43Speaker 2: This is the economist. So we have about two or
- 14:46Speaker 2: three weeks of stocks of oil in New Zealand. I
- 14:48Speaker 2: know it's not a hell of a lot, is it,
- 14:50Speaker 2: Although that's more than what we did have. This government
- 14:52Speaker 2: actually changed the requirement Brent Crewe futures topped out at
- 14:56Speaker 2: eighty five dollars a barrel overnight. That's the highest it's
- 14:59Speaker 2: been in a eighteen months, JP Morgan. As I mentioned earlier,
- 15:03Speaker 2: they say we could hit one hundred and twenty. The
- 15:05Speaker 2: Iraqis are now pulling back on their production refineries in
- 15:09Speaker 2: Asia overnight, they, according to Bloomberg, thinking about cutting production
- 15:13Speaker 2: by twenty or thirty percent because of the humus log jam.
- 15:17Speaker 2: You've got tankers backed up, unable to port all this
- 15:20Speaker 2: stuff means delays. And our economy runs on oil and gas,
- 15:24Speaker 2: it runs on fossil fuels. It's a common misconception that
- 15:28Speaker 2: we don't in New Zealand because we generate so much
- 15:31Speaker 2: renewable energy. But that's generation eighty percent all thereabouts. People
- 15:35Speaker 2: often think that's the same as use. In fact, about
- 15:39Speaker 2: sixty percent of our energy supply of what we use
- 15:43Speaker 2: day to day, comes from fossil fuels. Did you know
- 15:45Speaker 2: that Kelly Echold from Westpac told me yesterday it's likely
- 15:49Speaker 2: petrol prices will go up for US. As of yesterday,
- 15:52Speaker 2: he estimated eight cents a liter at the pump within
- 15:55Speaker 2: a week or two. Now, oil prices at the moment
- 15:57Speaker 2: are actually, by comparison to recent is quite low. But
- 16:02Speaker 2: your one hundred to one hundred and twenty dollars barrel
- 16:05Speaker 2: forecast is key. That's the point at which our inflation
- 16:09Speaker 2: forecast would have to change, he reckons. And we know
- 16:12Speaker 2: what that means, don't we price is going up. Think
- 16:14Speaker 2: about how much of what you do in a day
- 16:16Speaker 2: driving a car, using a plastic pen, powering your business trucks,
- 16:21Speaker 2: getting food to supermarkets. Think about how much that uses oil.
- 16:25Speaker 2: We're dependent. And once you get those prices going up,
- 16:29Speaker 2: you get general prices going up, and then you get
- 16:31Speaker 2: the reserve banks back up, and then what is this
- 16:34Speaker 2: the event the hell that our recovery dies on. Please
- 16:38Speaker 2: don't don't don't freak out. Don't freak out. We're not
- 16:41Speaker 2: there yet. We're not there yet. National certainly will be
- 16:44Speaker 2: hoping not. But the ingredients are there, and the language
- 16:49Speaker 2: you have to say coming out of the White House
- 16:50Speaker 2: over the last twenty four hours. Isn't exactly helping to
- 16:53Speaker 2: allay our fears?
- 16:54Speaker 9: Is it?
- 16:55Speaker 2: R twenty nine minutes after five nine to ninety two
- 16:59Speaker 2: is the number to text? A lot of people tax
- 17:00Speaker 2: thinking about our social worker on the program earlier. Not
- 17:04Speaker 2: many of you happy with him, someone says at the
- 17:08Speaker 2: start of World War three.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Oh, look, that's a question beyond my pay grade.
- 17:12Speaker 2: I hope not. I really hope not. It wouldn't be
- 17:16Speaker 2: a good It wouldn't be a good thing, would it.
- 17:18Speaker 2: We'll go to Gavin Gray, he might know. He's our
- 17:20Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent. He's with us after News at five
- 17:23Speaker 2: point thirty and we'll talk to a little he's Upstate
- 17:25Speaker 2: about these numbers on tourism. A lot of growth happening
- 17:27Speaker 2: there and not just from the Aussies coming from China.
- 17:30Speaker 3: To News TALKSB.
- 17:43Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
- 17:45Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
- 17:50Speaker 1: where you Live.
- 17:51Speaker 3: News Talks B twenty four away from six. Good morning,
- 18:04Speaker 3: great to have your company.
- 18:05Speaker 2: We had two Louise Upston on the new tourism numbers
- 18:08Speaker 2: you've just heard about in the news that's coming Before
- 18:10Speaker 2: six we head to.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Gavin Graham in the UK as well.
- 18:12Speaker 2: There's a really interesting study that's come out this morning
- 18:14Speaker 2: from Massi University. This is their Massi University's Food Experience
- 18:20Speaker 2: and Sensory Testing Feast Laboratory, which sounds like a fascinating
- 18:24Speaker 2: place to work. It found that and I don't think
- 18:27Speaker 2: this will be a great surprise because it stands to reason.
- 18:30Speaker 2: But depending you can, as a human when you're drinking
- 18:34Speaker 2: cow's milk tell the difference in what the cow is
- 18:37Speaker 2: being fed. Apparently, so not only can you tell, and
- 18:40Speaker 2: apparently this is already well documented, the stage of lactation
- 18:45Speaker 2: at which the milk was extracted that will change the
- 18:48Speaker 2: flavor profile of the milk, So when it comes out
- 18:50Speaker 2: of the teath you can tell that. Apparently if you've
- 18:53Speaker 2: given a blind taste test, now we know that you
- 18:56Speaker 2: can also tell depending on where the cow's been grazing,
- 18:59Speaker 2: you can tell that there's taste difference as well. So
- 19:01Speaker 2: they had herds included cows grazing on standard pasture under
- 19:05Speaker 2: contemporary management. That's your herd. A. Then cows were fed
- 19:09Speaker 2: a diverse pasture under regenitaive regenitate, let's.
- 19:15Speaker 3: Kip that word. That's your Herd B, and then there
- 19:19Speaker 3: was a.
- 19:19Speaker 2: Herd C and they basically blind tasties for people and
- 19:22Speaker 2: they could tell the difference.
- 19:23Speaker 3: But there you go.
- 19:25Speaker 2: It is twenty three minutes away from six Bridge. Let's
- 19:28Speaker 2: go to Callum and Dunedin Modern Callum.
- 19:31Speaker 8: It's actually Jamie.
- 19:32Speaker 3: But hello Jamie. Tell us about the Forsyth Bar Stadium.
- 19:38Speaker 11: Yeah, well, Duneedan City councilors are considering the fate of
- 19:41Speaker 11: the stadium. They set to decide whether to put more
- 19:43Speaker 11: money into it after warnings it's in a financial unsustainable position.
- 19:48Speaker 11: Doing nothing could see debt balloon from eighty five million
- 19:51Speaker 11: dollars to almost two hundred million by twenty sixty. Of course,
- 19:55Speaker 11: this just comes a month before competition ramps up for
- 19:58Speaker 11: the city with Christ Churches one zed stadium, of course opening.
- 20:02Speaker 11: The first option in today's report is council putting an
- 20:04Speaker 11: extra one point twenty five million into the stadium next
- 20:07Speaker 11: year and more the following year, reducing debt to thirty
- 20:10Speaker 11: seven million by twenty sixty. The second would inject two
- 20:14Speaker 11: point twenty five million dollars upfront. Believe less room for
- 20:18Speaker 11: unexpected costs.
- 20:19Speaker 3: All right, how's weather.
- 20:21Speaker 11: Fine with northeasterlies and a high of nineteen.
- 20:24Speaker 2: All right, thanks Jamie Claire in christ Morning Claire, good morning.
- 20:28Speaker 2: You've got a landlord of North Canterbury yarn for us.
- 20:30Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 20:31Speaker 12: Well, this North Canterbury landlord has been ordered to pay
- 20:33Speaker 12: more than twenty nine thousand dollars. This is after she
- 20:37Speaker 12: rented out some unlawful sheds and shipping containers. The Tenancy
- 20:41Speaker 12: Tribunal has found that Madeline Fee had breached the Residential
- 20:45Speaker 12: Tenancy Act in multiple ways, including failing to ladge any
- 20:48Speaker 12: bonds for these so called homes, also seizing tenants goods
- 20:53Speaker 12: and permitting harassment. One tenant was living in a shed
- 20:56Speaker 12: that was nowhere near consented for residential use. The tribe
- 21:00Speaker 12: A found this woman actors intentionally she exposed her tenants
- 21:03Speaker 12: to harm. They rejected her claim that she was helping
- 21:06Speaker 12: desperate people, and it ruled that she was maximizing rental
- 21:10Speaker 12: income from what were non compliant properties. House weather fine
- 21:16Speaker 12: apart from a bit of a cloud about for Banks
- 21:18Speaker 12: Peninsula early today and again tonight at northeasterly is developing
- 21:22Speaker 12: and seventeen degrees.
- 21:23Speaker 2: Thank Claire, Max and Wellington morning Max, good morning, you've
- 21:26Speaker 2: got a new type of parking warden raking in the cash.
- 21:29Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is in the Hut Valley.
- 21:31Speaker 13: Gone of the days of keeping an eye out for
- 21:33Speaker 13: a parking warden or checking for chalk on the tire
- 21:36Speaker 13: when leaving your car for a little while.
- 21:38Speaker 3: Somewhere.
- 21:38Speaker 13: The hud City Council making well over one hundred thousand
- 21:41Speaker 13: dollars more a month in parking fines since rolling out
- 21:45Speaker 13: license plate technology A year ago. Monthly parking enforcement revenue
- 21:49Speaker 13: was about two hundred and eighty thousand dollars in twenty
- 21:51Speaker 13: twenty four, it's now more than four hundred thousand dollars.
- 21:55Speaker 13: So the technology involves wardens. I suppose driving past camera
- 22:00Speaker 13: is affixed to their vehicles that can scan license plates
- 22:03Speaker 13: marry them up with the parking machines.
- 22:05Speaker 3: It can also check wafts and regio's.
- 22:08Speaker 13: A typical fine of one hundred and fifty dollars later
- 22:10Speaker 13: shows up in the post, often weeks after the fact.
- 22:14Speaker 3: Stung me over Christmas.
- 22:15Speaker 13: In fact, got a fine in the posts and couldn't
- 22:17Speaker 13: quite work out at first when and where because it
- 22:19Speaker 13: happened a month ago. The council says it's a new
- 22:21Speaker 13: technology that's made parking compliance more efficient, allowing its parking
- 22:25Speaker 13: team to cover a much wider area than possible on foot.
- 22:28Speaker 3: That's just what we want, isn't it. How's your weather?
- 22:31Speaker 13: Yeah, cloudy with some drizzle this morning, clearing later seventeen.
- 22:35Speaker 3: Thank you, neighvas an Auckland morning never good morning.
- 22:38Speaker 14: Sorry, I was a bit late to the studio. I
- 22:39Speaker 14: was having a wee chilly check check to a producer McKenzie.
- 22:42Speaker 14: She said she's had the same dream for the past
- 22:44Speaker 14: three nights where she woke up and it was the
- 22:47Speaker 14: nightmare really and where she was late for work, you know,
- 22:51Speaker 14: and the alarm didn't go off. So she's had that
- 22:52Speaker 14: same night meres three days in a row, probably at
- 22:55Speaker 14: about one am.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Maybe that's because McKenzie there was a day not so
- 22:58Speaker 2: long ago where there did happen and we had to call.
- 23:03Speaker 2: So sorry to call you out on air, but I
- 23:05Speaker 2: know I would normally never do anything like that. But
- 23:08Speaker 2: because you've raised it, don't talk to Neva Kenzie and
- 23:11Speaker 2: she comes on here and spills the beans. Hey, you also,
- 23:16Speaker 2: could you help me with something struggled with regenerative regenerative yes, man,
- 23:26Speaker 2: and I think too hard.
- 23:27Speaker 14: One, because you know, we wake up so early. It's
- 23:30Speaker 14: getting your mouth around those words regenerative, mind you, because
- 23:33Speaker 14: you not what it should be fair.
- 23:36Speaker 7: That's where you pay the big bucks for goodness crying.
- 23:39Speaker 3: Loads of people have been texting in about that story.
- 23:41Speaker 2: It's a great yarn about what the milk tastes like
- 23:44Speaker 2: depending on what you're feeding it. And apparently this person
- 23:46Speaker 2: is that it was actually already confirmed in the film
- 23:49Speaker 2: Napoleon Dynamite. He was tasting milk in a competition, said
- 23:54Speaker 2: the cows have been eating onions and he can.
- 23:55Speaker 14: Tell I don't like milkn't. It's a shame.
- 24:02Speaker 3: Our weather today, nev.
- 24:03Speaker 14: Fine, fine, you can just notice those southerlyes in the air,
- 24:06Speaker 14: a little bit of a bite, but beautiful clear Skys
- 24:09Speaker 14: twenty one is a high here in Autland today.
- 24:11Speaker 2: Brilliant, thank you, eighteen minutes away from six News talks
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- 25:24Speaker 2: Sixteen away from six fig at Silleries Upton on tourism
- 25:26Speaker 2: and a second first. The UK government considering whether to
- 25:29Speaker 2: send a Navy warship to the Mediterranean. This is after
- 25:32Speaker 2: what happened in Cyprus read the Middle East. Let's go
- 25:35Speaker 2: to Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent, Gavin what are
- 25:37Speaker 2: they saying, Ryan?
- 25:39Speaker 7: Were you timed as well? About ten fifteen minutes ago. Now,
- 25:42Speaker 7: the government did finally admit it was going to deploy
- 25:46Speaker 7: a Royal Navy warship to the Mediterranean, HMS Dragon. It's
- 25:50Speaker 7: a Type forty five destroyer is to be sent to
- 25:52Speaker 7: the region. And it comes after some pretty stinging criticism
- 25:55Speaker 7: from the Cypriot government about a lack of air defense
- 25:58Speaker 7: frankly from the UK. The Middle East War, of course,
- 26:01Speaker 7: continues to get worsip with seamen to Widen and the
- 26:06Speaker 7: Prime Minister says that he is sending helicopters with counter
- 26:10Speaker 7: drone capabilities to Cypress. Now there's a British Air Force
- 26:14Speaker 7: base on Cypress. But of course it was the Cypriotic
- 26:16Speaker 7: president who was so angry at the fact that one
- 26:19Speaker 7: of those drones from Iran was successful in damaging that
- 26:24Speaker 7: Air Force base, the ACRETII base. Now the government says
- 26:28Speaker 7: it caused minimal damage, but we're told it hit the runway.
- 26:30Speaker 7: That is pretty serious. If an RAF base. So the
- 26:34Speaker 7: Royal Navy currently has no major warship in the Mediterranean
- 26:38Speaker 7: region and the government looks like it's finally actually doing
- 26:41Speaker 7: something about that. And it follows reports that France was
- 26:45Speaker 7: going to move air defense systems to Cypress after the
- 26:48Speaker 7: British base was hit. You can imagine how embarrassing that
- 26:51Speaker 7: was as a prospect of having to be helped out
- 26:54Speaker 7: by France to guard our own troops.
- 26:55Speaker 2: Now let's go to Rechel Reeves the forecasts that the
- 27:00Speaker 2: growth forecasts being downgraded. But she's spinning this as actually
- 27:03Speaker 2: not their bit.
- 27:04Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely summed up perfectly. She's spinning this as
- 27:08Speaker 7: all going according to plan. However, the statistics don't quite
- 27:12Speaker 7: suggest that. Plus the fact of course she announces it
- 27:14Speaker 7: during the very week we've seen energy prices rocket because
- 27:18Speaker 7: of that Iran conflict. So we now get the economic
- 27:22Speaker 7: forecast this year economic growth has been downgraded from one
- 27:26Speaker 7: point four percent to one point one percent. That downgrade
- 27:31Speaker 7: has taken place in just three months and was calculated
- 27:33Speaker 7: before this military action. And it looks like as well,
- 27:39Speaker 7: UK unemployment will increase to five point three percent this
- 27:43Speaker 7: year before falling gradually. They're predicting to four percent and
- 27:47Speaker 7: inflation predicted to be two point three percent this year
- 27:50Speaker 7: but falling over the coming couple of years. The government
- 27:53Speaker 7: is saying its measures of stability are working. Other people
- 27:57Speaker 7: are saying, just look at the figures. How can you
- 28:00Speaker 7: say they are working. Either way, everything could be thrown
- 28:03Speaker 7: up in there depending on what happens with Eron.
- 28:07Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Gavin gray Are UK europe correspondent. It
- 28:09Speaker 2: is eleven away from six brand Bridge tourism well and
- 28:13Speaker 2: truly back in business. Total spend has hit forty six
- 28:16Speaker 2: point six billion in the year of March. That's up
- 28:18Speaker 2: three point three percent. Now overseas visitors spend this is
- 28:21Speaker 2: your foreigners coming here and having fun, jump seven percent
- 28:24Speaker 2: to eighteen point one billion. Eleven percent of the workforce
- 28:27Speaker 2: is tourism employed in the sector, so that's good. Louise
- 28:30Speaker 2: Upston tourism mister here to talk about the numbers. Louise,
- 28:32Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning Llan. That is good news. And
- 28:36Speaker 2: particularly the foreign visitors and the Chinese are coming back.
- 28:38Speaker 2: They're still not recovered from COVID right, yeah.
- 28:42Speaker 8: So just the numbers that were released yesterday relate to
- 28:46Speaker 8: the period to March twenty five, so that is you know,
- 28:51Speaker 8: looking at historic data. But it's really great to see
- 28:54Speaker 8: strong recovery in international visitors because if you think about
- 28:58Speaker 8: what that means, more tourists means more customers for Kiwi businesses.
- 29:03Speaker 8: That's why we're seeing the jobs, the number of Kiwis
- 29:06Speaker 8: employed in tourism and hospitality increasing as well. That's exactly
- 29:11Speaker 8: what we want in terms of growing the economy.
- 29:14Speaker 2: In terms of the Chinese numbers, have you seen in
- 29:16Speaker 2: the intervening period them coming back stronger?
- 29:20Speaker 8: Definitely, so tourism businesses would say the Lunar New Year period,
- 29:25Speaker 8: which is just the last few weeks, has been particularly strong.
- 29:29Speaker 8: There were a number of changes that we made at
- 29:31Speaker 8: the end of last year around some visa settings that
- 29:34Speaker 8: have had a significant impact. One of them is that
- 29:38Speaker 8: if a Chinese person is in Australia and they have
- 29:41Speaker 8: an Australian visa, they can enter New Zealand visa free.
- 29:46Speaker 8: We think, and we're trialing that for twelve months. We
- 29:49Speaker 8: think that's had a really significant impact. So as we
- 29:54Speaker 8: see more data coming out, I'm very very positive that
- 29:57Speaker 8: we will achieve our target it of getting our visitor
- 30:01Speaker 8: numbers back to what they were pre COVID.
- 30:04Speaker 2: We're still I mean, tourism was number one in terms
- 30:07Speaker 2: of expert export earnings pre COVID. We haven't returned it
- 30:12Speaker 2: to its mantle yet. Do you think that'll come soon
- 30:14Speaker 2: or do you think there is just given too good?
- 30:17Speaker 8: Well, we're at number two at the moment, and we
- 30:20Speaker 8: do have an ambitious target to double the value of
- 30:24Speaker 8: tourism exports within the decade, and we've got a Tourism
- 30:28Speaker 8: growth roadmap that basically maps out how we do that.
- 30:33Speaker 8: But it is important. Export growth is important because it
- 30:37Speaker 8: directly means an increase in jobs for New Zealanders. Key
- 30:41Speaker 8: we businesses are growing and that means an increase in wages.
- 30:45Speaker 8: So that's why it is absolutely critical that we keep
- 30:48Speaker 8: our focus on growing tourism and I'm really really excited
- 30:52Speaker 8: to see that we're seeing results already.
- 30:54Speaker 2: All Right, Well, appreciate your time this morning, Louise Upston,
- 30:57Speaker 2: the Tourism Minister. It is eight to six News Talk
- 31:00Speaker 2: h B and Mike is here with us.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Next the first Word on the News of the Day
- 31:05Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where
- 31:09Speaker 1: you Live News Talks.
- 31:11Speaker 3: It'd be six to six News Talk, said be.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Trump is meeting with mertzer Gym and Chancellor right now
- 31:16Speaker 2: at the White House, and he's given a little update
- 31:19Speaker 2: on the Middle East.
- 31:20Speaker 3: That is coming along as you see very well.
- 31:23Speaker 11: They have no navy.
- 31:24Speaker 15: It's been knocked out, they have no air force has
- 31:26Speaker 15: been knocked out, they have no air detection has been
- 31:29Speaker 15: knocked out, their radar has been knocked out, and.
- 31:34Speaker 5: Just about everything's been knocked out.
- 31:36Speaker 3: He Trump says, my opinion is that Iran was going
- 31:39Speaker 3: to attack us.
- 31:40Speaker 2: First, Ryan Bridge Mike in the studio morning, Mike, have
- 31:44Speaker 2: you sorted your leak problem out?
- 31:45Speaker 15: I was thinking it's not a leak, it's a but
- 31:48Speaker 15: thank you for caring. I got the quote this morning.
- 31:51Speaker 15: Funnily enough, having talked to I'll give you the clue.
- 31:54Speaker 15: The electrician yesterday. Two options won't go round into the
- 31:58Speaker 15: background of your hang on. Why are we not going
- 32:01Speaker 15: into the background because too long and detailed catastrophic failure okay,
- 32:06Speaker 15: headline catastrophic.
- 32:07Speaker 3: Failure, power failure. Oh yeah, yeah, the grids out, the
- 32:13Speaker 3: grids out. Okay.
- 32:13Speaker 15: Anyways, quotes in this morning two options option number one
- 32:20Speaker 15: are cheaper, but isn't going to happen for a period
- 32:23Speaker 15: of time due to technical difficulties. Once again so complicated
- 32:26Speaker 15: that I won't explain.
- 32:27Speaker 3: So in the meantime, there's no power.
- 32:29Speaker 15: Oh no, this power, there's power. The main problem, Ryan,
- 32:31Speaker 15: the difficulty is, well, yesterday it was the swimming pool, lid,
- 32:35Speaker 15: wooden clothes. But the other problem is the three phase
- 32:39Speaker 15: aspect of the power problem.
- 32:41Speaker 2: If you asked, as I watched Trump talk about war three, these.
- 32:47Speaker 15: Important you asked, these are the important things? So the pool,
- 32:50Speaker 15: So fix that part of it. But it's three phase.
- 32:52Speaker 15: So you've got one phase, two phase and three phase.
- 32:55Speaker 3: Do you understand this? This I can count? No, this
- 32:57Speaker 3: is reletive. Well you tell me how many phase are
- 32:59Speaker 3: you at your but for closing a poll? In no,
- 33:02Speaker 3: for power? How much?
- 33:03Speaker 9: What?
- 33:04Speaker 15: How many phases you're at your house?
- 33:05Speaker 9: What do you mean?
- 33:06Speaker 3: I have no idea exactly.
- 33:07Speaker 15: So that's why this is important because if it goes
- 33:10Speaker 15: that's the first question in the last year. Is that
- 33:12Speaker 15: a two phase system? What have you got three phase?
- 33:16Speaker 15: Of course I've got three phases.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Very complicated. It is complicated. It's down to why haven't
- 33:20Speaker 3: you got a one phase.
- 33:21Speaker 15: Because then you've got no power. Phases are about capacity, Ryan,
- 33:26Speaker 15: So right. So anyway, so the three phase and the
- 33:28Speaker 15: critical part of the three phases that runs the SPA heater.
- 33:31Speaker 15: Oh exactly anyway, So option one's the cheap one, but
- 33:36Speaker 15: the equipment required to find the problem is not readily available,
- 33:40Speaker 15: so that'll be months. Phase two or option two is
- 33:44Speaker 15: the immediate fix. By putting even.
- 33:46Speaker 2: More, how much is that tens of Oh wow tends
- 33:50Speaker 2: and the problem in the meantime is a poll that's
- 33:53Speaker 2: not heated.
- 33:53Speaker 15: In some other stuff, I've embellished the story slightly, but nevertheless, anyway,
- 33:58Speaker 15: a simpleters this morning.
- 34:00Speaker 2: From good I need to hear from him, MICUs was
- 34:03Speaker 2: your next Enjoy your Wednesday morning news Talks.
- 34:06Speaker 3: It'd be.
- 34:10Speaker 1: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
- 34:13Speaker 1: to News Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
- 34:16Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.