Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 28 August 2024
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
- 0:08Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
- 0:12Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture bands and a play at store News Talks.
- 0:15Speaker 2: It'd be good morning. It is six half to five.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. The Police Association just before six.
- 0:22Speaker 2: They've made a big win. The police have taking assets
- 0:24Speaker 2: off gangs. But it's taken them ten years to get there.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Why We'll ask the Police Association President Chris Carhill. Gavin
- 0:31Speaker 2: Gray's in the UK, Heir Starmer is buttering them up
- 0:35Speaker 2: for tax increases over there was about to say tax cuts.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Certainly not the way he's talking overnight. We'll play some audio.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Two seven percent house price increases here in New Zealand
- 0:46Speaker 2: next year, sound pretty good. Brad Olsen away in on that.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Plus forget gas can slash save our energy crisis.
- 0:55Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 0:56Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the twenty eighth of August. Israel has
- 0:59Speaker 2: rescued hostage from Hamas it was captured nearly a year
- 1:02Speaker 2: ago on October seventh. On the goodness it has nearly
- 1:05Speaker 2: been a year. The IDF say they conducted an operation
- 1:08Speaker 2: in tunnels in southern Gaza to rescue fifty two. The
- 1:11Speaker 2: fifty two year old Kiyad parign Al Khadi four operations
- 1:16Speaker 2: by Israel have seen eight hostages rescued alive since the
- 1:19Speaker 2: start of the war.
- 1:21Speaker 3: This will be the first hostage rescued from those tunnels,
- 1:25Speaker 3: and that's significant because that is extremely dangerous territory to
- 1:30Speaker 3: operate in Gaza, Ukraine.
- 1:33Speaker 2: This is week three of its incursion into Russia, and
- 1:36Speaker 2: Ukraine says it now controls more than one hundred Russian
- 1:40Speaker 2: settlements and twelve hundred square kilometers of Russian territory. The
- 1:44Speaker 2: Russians have hit back hard. Four people have died, and
- 1:46Speaker 2: new strikes in Ukraine just a day after one of
- 1:49Speaker 2: their biggest attacks since the start of the war, the
- 1:51Speaker 2: one we told you about yesterday. Meanwhile, the United States
- 1:54Speaker 2: has imposed at new sanctions on more than four hundred
- 1:57Speaker 2: entities and people for supporting Russia's war, including the working
- 2:00Speaker 2: on what is set to become Russia's largest ALIENNG plant.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Let's hope we don't use theirs.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Then.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Back to New Zealand, construction costs are stabilizing. The latest
- 2:10Speaker 2: QV Cost Builders update says the average construction costs for
- 2:14Speaker 2: residential buildings have increased five point three percent this quarter.
- 2:18Speaker 2: That is the third in a row. For non residential
- 2:21Speaker 2: it's up point two down slightly from the last two quarters.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Spokesperson Simon Peterson.
- 2:26Speaker 4: It means that when they are putting their best prices forward,
- 2:29Speaker 4: they can feel confident the estimated costs will line up
- 2:32Speaker 4: with the actualized cost at the end of it.
- 2:36Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 2:41Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
- 2:44Speaker 1: a playing Store.
- 2:45Speaker 2: News Talk said, be just got nine minutes after five.
- 2:48Speaker 2: News Talk said, be listening to Neva and the news
- 2:51Speaker 2: there talking about this this prisoners of high risk in Auckland.
- 2:55Speaker 2: This unit of basically the worst of the worst. It's
- 2:58Speaker 2: either terrorism or its trans national organized crime. And they're saying,
- 3:03Speaker 2: this is from the news. The men spent most of
- 3:06Speaker 2: the time alone in their prison cell. I'm like, yeah,
- 3:10Speaker 2: welcome to prison. You know, isn't that what prison is
- 3:13Speaker 2: supposed to be? Like you sit in a cell and
- 3:16Speaker 2: think about what you've done because you've been a bad person,
- 3:19Speaker 2: and then you have a look at what they are
- 3:21Speaker 2: recommending because there's been an inspectorate gone and what they're
- 3:23Speaker 2: recommending we should be providing additional training for staff who
- 3:27Speaker 2: are working in this high risk area. We should increase
- 3:30Speaker 2: the range of rehabilitative, constructive, and cultural activities that have
- 3:35Speaker 2: been offered to prisoners. There should be increased contact with family.
- 3:40Speaker 2: And your instinct is to go bugger off. You know,
- 3:44Speaker 2: why do they need cultural activities? They've just you know,
- 3:47Speaker 2: murdered ten people. Why do I care? The only caveat
- 3:52Speaker 2: I have with this is when people go to prison,
- 3:55Speaker 2: if they are going to be released one day, we
- 3:57Speaker 2: need to rehabilitate them. We need to give them some
- 3:59Speaker 2: form of human contact. Otherwise they're going to come out
- 4:01Speaker 2: at the other end even worse than when they went in.
- 4:04Speaker 2: I guess the question for this unit is, are these people,
- 4:08Speaker 2: these so called terrorists and transnational criminals, ever going to
- 4:13Speaker 2: get out? Ryan Bridge, it is very hard to say sorry,
- 4:17Speaker 2: as Justin Bieber will attest it. But Mark Suckerberg is
- 4:28Speaker 2: doing just that. So this is while Biden was in
- 4:32Speaker 2: the White Well. He's still in the White House, but
- 4:33Speaker 2: this is during COVID, while Biden was in power. Mark Zuckerberg,
- 4:38Speaker 2: owner of Facebook and Meta, has come out and said
- 4:42Speaker 2: the Biden administration censored COVID content including humor and satire
- 4:50Speaker 2: on Facebook during during the lockdowns and all that kind
- 4:54Speaker 2: of stuff, humor and satire. They specifically requested it be
- 4:58Speaker 2: taken down, and you know what Suckerburg did. He followed
- 5:02Speaker 2: their lead and took it down. He says he regrets
- 5:06Speaker 2: doing this, He's sorry that he did this, and basically
- 5:09Speaker 2: he needed bigger bulls to stand up to the White
- 5:13Speaker 2: House to stand up. He's just bent over and taken
- 5:15Speaker 2: it from the Oval Office. The reason this grinds my
- 5:19Speaker 2: gears is because humor and satire is how we as
- 5:22Speaker 2: human beings release express, you know, relieve our feelings, our anxieties,
- 5:29Speaker 2: and god, I hope we never ever get back to
- 5:32Speaker 2: that nineteen eighty four one pm pressory, you know, COVID
- 5:39Speaker 2: lockdown situation again, because even now I can feel myself
- 5:44Speaker 2: writhing in pain. Anyway, so he has said sorry, which
- 5:50Speaker 2: I guess is better and at least he's acknowledged it.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Twelve after five.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge Knew for twenty twenty four on early edition
- 6:01Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
- 6:04Speaker 2: News Talk said, be good morning. It is fourteen after five.
- 6:08Speaker 2: News Talk said, be good morning, Ryan, says Jesse, do
- 6:10Speaker 2: these human rights people who are visiting and reporting on
- 6:13Speaker 2: our prisons also visit the ones in China, Pakistan, Iran
- 6:17Speaker 2: and Russia? I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it, Jesse.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Ryan prisoners are there for a reason. No, they should
- 6:25Speaker 2: not have any privileges. Feed them bread and water. I say,
- 6:28Speaker 2: why don't they give their victims and their families privileges
- 6:32Speaker 2: if they are still alive?
- 6:33Speaker 4: That is?
- 6:34Speaker 2: I agree with you. I hear what you're saying. But
- 6:36Speaker 2: if we are going to if people are going to
- 6:38Speaker 2: be released back into society, don't we want them to
- 6:41Speaker 2: be to have some form of human contact while they're
- 6:44Speaker 2: in there, Otherwise they'll come out more rabid than when
- 6:47Speaker 2: they went in. Nine two niney two is the numbered text.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Quarter past five, Ryan Bridge. The energy crisis. We've been
- 6:55Speaker 2: talking about it all week. We've got gaps to fill
- 6:57Speaker 2: when the sun don't shine, when the wind don't blow,
- 6:59Speaker 2: when the rain don't fall, And a lot of people
- 7:01Speaker 2: are saying, you know, gas alng what about bio energy
- 7:06Speaker 2: could slash the stuff that you know comes from the forestry.
- 7:10Speaker 2: One of our guests mentioned this yesterday. We wanted to
- 7:12Speaker 2: take a closer look at it. Solid biofuels are burned
- 7:15Speaker 2: to create heat and electricity generation as a cheaper alternative
- 7:19Speaker 2: to gas. Companies like Fonterra are actually already using this technology.
- 7:24Speaker 2: So how could we do it here and what would
- 7:26Speaker 2: it cost? Rob Mallinson is the head of Solid bio
- 7:29Speaker 2: Energy Group, is with me this morning. Hey Robe, Hey good,
- 7:33Speaker 2: thank you tell me. The one thing I hear about
- 7:38Speaker 2: slash in particular is by the time you go up
- 7:41Speaker 2: into the wat wops and find the slash and then
- 7:44Speaker 2: manually get it out and then put it in a
- 7:46Speaker 2: truck and take it to some facility to have it,
- 7:49Speaker 2: it's very time consuming. What do you think? What do
- 7:52Speaker 2: you say to that?
- 7:53Speaker 4: Yeah, you know that certainly, particularly I guess in the
- 7:55Speaker 4: Gisbin region because it's so remote. But the penty prayer
- 7:58Speaker 4: is already recovering it around instance, in the Nelson region
- 8:01Speaker 4: then debris, so it's of course it's the course, that's right,
- 8:03Speaker 4: You're right, it's hard to get it out of some places.
- 8:06Speaker 4: I want to all the attention to its twenty million
- 8:08Speaker 4: tons of logs that we export annually, twenty million tons
- 8:12Speaker 4: a year, the forestings to producer and ships eighty to
- 8:14Speaker 4: ninety percent of that goes to China, pretty low value.
- 8:17Speaker 4: And we're talking about an energy shortage, a shortage of fuel,
- 8:21Speaker 4: and we've got one hundred and fifty petta duels of
- 8:23Speaker 4: logs that were exporting every year. That's equivalent to Maui
- 8:26Speaker 4: at its peak, and it's renewable and it's half the
- 8:29Speaker 4: coast of Lerg. So we need it's to be a
- 8:33Speaker 4: part of the solution. I'm not saying it's a silver bullet,
- 8:35Speaker 4: but there's a huge potential part of the solution, particularly
- 8:38Speaker 4: for North Island industry who's taking a massive hit at
- 8:40Speaker 4: the moment and now they're sitting around waiting for an
- 8:43Speaker 4: LERG terminal that may or may not happen. You know what,
- 8:45Speaker 4: prime will be over thirty dollars a giggatril.
- 8:48Speaker 2: So just burn the lungs, don't sell them to China.
- 8:51Speaker 4: Potentially that's an option. Yeah, we could use the residues
- 8:53Speaker 4: of first, of course, but then we've got one hundred
- 8:55Speaker 4: and fifty pea jewels of logs. There's one hundred and
- 8:57Speaker 4: fifty million giga jewels the more fine and industry uses
- 9:00Speaker 4: twenty five million gigadeals to put into contact. So we
- 9:03Speaker 4: just need twenty percent of the export logs below its value,
- 9:07Speaker 4: export logs which are probably going to drop off, if anywhere,
- 9:09Speaker 4: in terms of job the demand in China with their
- 9:11Speaker 4: declining population and construction industry. So we need to be
- 9:14Speaker 4: finding a home for this and we need a policy
- 9:16Speaker 4: that encourages that home.
- 9:17Speaker 2: We are we, then, you know, again, kneecapping one industry
- 9:21Speaker 2: to try and prop up our energy sector, aren't we?
- 9:24Speaker 2: I mean, which is what is happening right now with
- 9:26Speaker 2: mythnics et cetera. But are we not just doing more
- 9:29Speaker 2: of the same as opposed to actually adding to the
- 9:32Speaker 2: productive capacity of the country.
- 9:34Speaker 4: Yeah, if we put in an LNG terminal, if those
- 9:37Speaker 4: twenty five million giga duels as Northie ended industry demand
- 9:39Speaker 4: is met through LNG eight hundred million dollars a year,
- 9:43Speaker 4: roughly we'll flow off shore versus paying four hundred million
- 9:46Speaker 4: dollars to the log industry, to the forest industry keep
- 9:48Speaker 4: it on shore. It makes no sense to be putting
- 9:50Speaker 4: an l It makes no sense to be locking in
- 9:52Speaker 4: a fossil fuel when we've got one hundred and fifty
- 9:54Speaker 4: petta duals of renewal energy available locally every year it's
- 9:57Speaker 4: not a declining resource, it's a sustainable and all our
- 10:01Speaker 4: North Oldon industries, under pressure from their cluster clients, will
- 10:04Speaker 4: be decarbonized. But this can take all those boxes.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Rob, you're the head of the Solid bio Energy Group.
- 10:10Speaker 2: What is that.
- 10:12Speaker 4: It's a subset of the bio Energy Association of New Zealands.
- 10:15Speaker 4: So I just represented a bunch of people who who
- 10:18Speaker 4: want to see this this progress. People and industry. We're
- 10:21Speaker 4: a well established industry. All their sawmills and poland off
- 10:24Speaker 4: they all use this technology, this good or combustion of
- 10:27Speaker 4: biomass in wood boilers to make ute or steam. So
- 10:31Speaker 4: it's perfectly suited to meeting those heat requirements of North
- 10:35Speaker 4: Island industry and South Island industry. And we've already adopted
- 10:38Speaker 4: about five pepper duals in the last few years according
- 10:40Speaker 4: to ECO, the governmental authority. So it's happening. We just
- 10:44Speaker 4: need to happen faster. The industry is very capable. There's
- 10:47Speaker 4: twenty different boiler suppliers available in New Zealand or boiler
- 10:50Speaker 4: tech types right, so it's a mature industry that has
- 10:56Speaker 4: potential to grow even further.
- 10:58Speaker 2: All right, Well, I would love to hear from people
- 11:00Speaker 2: out there who are in this industry, whether it's a
- 11:04Speaker 2: viable alternative that we should be looking at more. Rob,
- 11:07Speaker 2: thank you very much for your time. That's Rob Mallinson.
- 11:09Speaker 2: He's the head of the Solid bio Energy Group. Says
- 11:11Speaker 2: we're exporting a whole bunch of logs to China and
- 11:16Speaker 2: we would only need to use twenty five percent of
- 11:18Speaker 2: our export logs to try and fill the energy gaps
- 11:21Speaker 2: that we've got. News A good idea, bad idea. I
- 11:23Speaker 2: would love your feedback. Nine two nine two is the
- 11:25Speaker 2: number nineteen after five the news.
- 11:27Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis early
- 11:30Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's furniture
- 11:34Speaker 1: beds and a playing store.
- 11:35Speaker 2: News Talk said B good to see old Chippy showed
- 11:38Speaker 2: up somewhere. We tried to get him on our show yesterday. NAT.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Same with Megan Woods running and hiding and right at
- 11:47Speaker 2: the moment when the government's making moves on energy anyway,
- 11:50Speaker 2: I digress. Twenty two minutes after five on News Talk
- 11:52Speaker 2: said B. B and Zed are still bullish about house
- 11:54Speaker 2: prices rising in twenty twenty five. This is because mortgage
- 11:58Speaker 2: rates are starting to ease. Thank you. Adrian Or at
- 12:00Speaker 2: long last, the bank is sticking with their prediction of
- 12:03Speaker 2: a seven percent increase across the year following a flat
- 12:07Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Brad Olson Informetric CEO Principal Economists with us, Hey, Brad,
- 12:12Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. So seven percent, what do you reckon?
- 12:18Speaker 5: It was probably a little bit higher than what we're
- 12:19Speaker 5: thinking at the moment, But there's just so much uncertainty
- 12:22Speaker 5: out there around how the housing market responds to what
- 12:25Speaker 5: is quite a lot of different factors that are all
- 12:28Speaker 5: moving through the system. Now. Benz's looking at the latest figures,
- 12:32Speaker 5: but also at the path forward for interest rates and
- 12:34Speaker 5: similar and saying, well, you know, funnily enough, when interest
- 12:37Speaker 5: rates come down, once you get some of the other
- 12:40Speaker 5: parts of the economic system that work their way out,
- 12:43Speaker 5: then you'll start to see a bit more growth because
- 12:45Speaker 5: all of a sudden you will have more people in
- 12:48Speaker 5: the economy who are able to try and get houses
- 12:51Speaker 5: that will stimulate that level of demand, and all of
- 12:53Speaker 5: a sudden you'll start to push up prices. So I
- 12:55Speaker 5: can absolutely buy that story. I think there's also a
- 12:58Speaker 5: lot of other factors that we have to work through. First,
- 13:01Speaker 5: the fact that we've got for example, the highest number
- 13:03Speaker 5: of houses available for sale since about twenty fifteen, and
- 13:07Speaker 5: you know, on some figures, I think nearly six months
- 13:10Speaker 5: of stock at the moment suggests that we've got a
- 13:12Speaker 5: little bit to get through twenty twenty four before we
- 13:15Speaker 5: get too close to our understanding twenty twenty five. So
- 13:18Speaker 5: everyone's got a forecast, but even be and Z said that,
- 13:21Speaker 5: you know, everything is quite uncertain at the moment because
- 13:23Speaker 5: there are just so many moving parts in the economy.
- 13:26Speaker 2: And presumably it's going to be different strokes for different
- 13:29Speaker 2: folks in different regions, right, because if you are starting
- 13:32Speaker 2: from a relatively low average price, you're more likely to
- 13:35Speaker 2: see an increase as opposed to your major centers where
- 13:39Speaker 2: the prices are already pretty high. Maybe they're the demand
- 13:42Speaker 2: for those or the ability for people to service those
- 13:45Speaker 2: mortgages may not be as high.
- 13:48Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, but also how the labor market is moving
- 13:50Speaker 5: in different regions, Because if you've got areas across the
- 13:53Speaker 5: country who are seeing either higher unemployment rates or again
- 13:57Speaker 5: just lower employment growth, then you know you've got to
- 14:00Speaker 5: have money. You've got to have an income to be
- 14:02Speaker 5: able to afford a mortgagey payment, and if you haven't
- 14:04Speaker 5: got that then, that we're sort of added on starter.
- 14:07Speaker 5: So you could argue and see, for example, that Wellington
- 14:11Speaker 5: might remain a bit more subdued for longer because there
- 14:14Speaker 5: are fewer jobs that are coming through. You're seeing those
- 14:16Speaker 5: public sector cut backs, you're seeing the private sector who's
- 14:20Speaker 5: not getting as much government money either. That's all reducing
- 14:23Speaker 5: job activity in the Wellington region. So there is a
- 14:26Speaker 5: whole lot of moves there. One thing that I don't
- 14:28Speaker 5: think we've fully understood yet in the housing market, and
- 14:32Speaker 5: we might not for a couple of years, is also
- 14:34Speaker 5: how the very large number of houses that we've been
- 14:37Speaker 5: building the last couple of years will influence the market
- 14:40Speaker 5: because all of a sudden and over the last year
- 14:43Speaker 5: or so, you've been getting more of them coming onto
- 14:45Speaker 5: the market. You'll continue to see that over the next
- 14:47Speaker 5: year or so. There's a lot of houses that are
- 14:49Speaker 5: being added to supply. That should also keep competition a
- 14:53Speaker 5: bit higher for houses, which should keep prices maybe a
- 14:56Speaker 5: little bit more subdued in the past. Regardless, the numbers
- 15:00Speaker 5: you're looking at the moment still suggest a housing market
- 15:02Speaker 5: that is not going to absolutely refire away as we
- 15:05Speaker 5: get into twenty twenty five. Even if it is a
- 15:07Speaker 5: bit of upside coming through.
- 15:08Speaker 2: Yes, certainly doesn't feel like it. Brad Olson Informetrics, Thanks
- 15:11Speaker 2: so much for your time. It is twenty five after five.
- 15:16Speaker 1: The early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio Power
- 15:20Speaker 1: by News.
- 15:21Speaker 4: Talks at me.
- 15:22Speaker 2: It's just gone twenty seven after five. News Talk said,
- 15:24Speaker 2: be awful for the family to see. I know. This
- 15:28Speaker 2: is the people who were filming that tragic fatal accident
- 15:31Speaker 2: on the Southern Motorway. The news media will cover it up,
- 15:35Speaker 2: but you know they will film it, go out to
- 15:37Speaker 2: a story. They will film the bodies in the accident.
- 15:40Speaker 2: They would film the accident aftermath, but they would not
- 15:43Speaker 2: show it to the audience. Here we have social media.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Everyone's got a camera. It's the new word of mouth.
- 15:49Speaker 2: You film what you see and you post it online.
- 15:52Speaker 2: It's the wild West, open slather. The cops are upset
- 15:55Speaker 2: with this.
- 15:56Speaker 6: Can I just say I thought that was disgusting?
- 15:58Speaker 2: It really was.
- 15:58Speaker 6: I mean I saw some of the foot which it
- 16:01Speaker 6: was filmed before emergency services arrived.
- 16:03Speaker 7: There were close ups of people to cease in the van,
- 16:06Speaker 7: an injured line.
- 16:06Speaker 4: On the road.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Yeah, close ups of people who are injured lying on
- 16:10Speaker 2: the road. Not a nice thing to see or to experience.
- 16:15Speaker 2: But so long as you're not driving and filming, isn't
- 16:19Speaker 2: it actually potentially useful evidence? Couldn't it help with an
- 16:23Speaker 2: investigation if police are able to review some of this
- 16:26Speaker 2: footage of a crash or the immediate aftermath of a crash.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Was that safety barrier strong enough? By the way, how
- 16:35Speaker 2: often does the truck's tire blowout? I mean that sounds
- 16:39Speaker 2: like a horrible thing to happen and frightening, but it
- 16:42Speaker 2: obviously happens, and then what You've got no control and
- 16:45Speaker 2: it's all over over back to the filming. It is
- 16:49Speaker 2: the new word of mouth. People don't just tell each
- 16:53Speaker 2: other what happened anymore. They need to show me. Have
- 16:55Speaker 2: you got the video? Have you got the video? I mean,
- 16:56Speaker 2: this is just the way I think that society is going.
- 16:59Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I'm on board with it at all,
- 17:03Speaker 2: but it's the way it's going, isn't it. And there's
- 17:06Speaker 2: very little chance we will turn that ship around now,
- 17:08Speaker 2: and trying to do so maybe a little futile society.
- 17:13Speaker 2: We are increasingly desensitized to stuff and insensitive to the
- 17:19Speaker 2: feelings of those around us. That's just that's just who
- 17:23Speaker 2: we are now, isn't it. It has just gone twenty
- 17:25Speaker 2: nine minutes after five. We're going to talk about airport
- 17:29Speaker 2: wait times and potential taxes in the UK.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Next, the first Word on the News of the Day
- 17:41Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's
- 17:45Speaker 1: furniture beds at a play at store, News Talk Zippy.
- 18:06Speaker 2: The other thing that you talk to Big, you'll listen
- 18:08Speaker 2: to Oasis. A lot of people celebrating last night because
- 18:13Speaker 2: a twenty twenty five tour is coming after fifteen years apart.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are getting back together in
- 18:21Speaker 2: their fifties now fifty one and fifty seven, getting back
- 18:24Speaker 2: to getting the band back together and heading the road
- 18:26Speaker 2: they'll do Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Dublin. I got together
- 18:30Speaker 2: in the nineteen nineties. Everybody knows this, assume everybody knows
- 18:34Speaker 2: their songs. I went to print a story off about
- 18:36Speaker 2: them this morning and what I didn't realize is that
- 18:39Speaker 2: it was a live blog from the BBC nineteen pages long,
- 18:44Speaker 2: a live blog of people just celebrating Oasis. Essentially, stay
- 18:55Speaker 2: for me, Right and Bridge Rich would be hard to
- 19:11Speaker 2: work with your siblings, wouldn't it? Do you we ever
- 19:13Speaker 2: worked with your siblings. I don't think I could do it.
- 19:15Speaker 2: I love my younger brother, Sean, he was the best
- 19:18Speaker 2: man at my wedding, but he's pretty simple, so I
- 19:23Speaker 2: don't think I think I would struggle. We would fight
- 19:26Speaker 2: would be the problem. Although at fifty one and fifty seven,
- 19:28Speaker 2: as you assume, they would be over past that stage
- 19:31Speaker 2: by now. Here's a quick question for you. What would
- 19:33Speaker 2: you rather a government taxing you more or no government
- 19:37Speaker 2: at all. Let's start in the UK a couple of
- 19:40Speaker 2: developments overnights. Keir Starmer is laying the groundwork for tax hikes.
- 19:44Speaker 6: There is a budget coming in October and it's going
- 19:48Speaker 6: to be painful. We have no other choice. Given the
- 19:51Speaker 6: situation that we're in. Those with the broadest shoulders should
- 19:55Speaker 6: bear the heavier burden, and that's why we're cracking down on.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Non non doms. By the way, like Richie Senex's wife,
- 20:05Speaker 2: those who were born overseas and only declare and pay
- 20:08Speaker 2: tax on their UK income, they get to keep everything
- 20:11Speaker 2: else separate and tax in different jurisdiction. In the US,
- 20:15Speaker 2: Karmala Harris wants to hike the corporate tax rate from
- 20:18Speaker 2: twenty one to twenty eight percent. Of course you'll never
- 20:20Speaker 2: senate to do it. In New Zealand we've had a
- 20:22Speaker 2: tax cut, so we are an outlier. Here in France,
- 20:26Speaker 2: they still have no idea who's going to run the place,
- 20:29Speaker 2: no prime minister yet. What is going on here? Macron
- 20:33Speaker 2: has just met with Marie La Penn from the far right.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Remember he said she was a threat to democracy. Now
- 20:38Speaker 2: it turns out she could be a solution.
- 20:40Speaker 8: The new Popular Front is led by France Bard. The
- 20:44Speaker 8: idea that there should be a new Popular Front government
- 20:47Speaker 8: without fran some bald minister has changes absolutely nothing. In reality,
- 20:51Speaker 8: It'll still be Fran some bad and it will still
- 20:53Speaker 8: be John Lumanochean leading the government.
- 20:56Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge back home, We're going to our reporters right
- 20:58Speaker 2: around the country, starting with Calum Proctor in Duned and
- 21:01Speaker 2: Calum Good morning. Decisions on whether Otago will see a
- 21:05Speaker 2: unitary authority still up in the air this morning. Yeah, morning, Ryan.
- 21:10Speaker 7: This was Councilor Kevin Gilbert's notice of motion calling for
- 21:13Speaker 7: discussions to begin on governance structure. They were debated at
- 21:16Speaker 7: a council meeting a Duneedan City Council meeting yesterday. Mayor
- 21:20Speaker 7: Jills Radicks told us Look, it was a good conversation
- 21:22Speaker 7: with councilors requesting a high level report on the options
- 21:27Speaker 7: for progressing discussions on a possible unitary authority. But he
- 21:30Speaker 7: says there is a workload issue here, some councilors agreeing
- 21:35Speaker 7: with the idea and principle, but believing it was too
- 21:37Speaker 7: much for staff also working on the long term plan.
- 21:40Speaker 7: Raddick says that they plan to have a report out
- 21:43Speaker 7: by Christmas.
- 21:44Speaker 2: All Right, weather today and Dnedan clum a mainly fine,
- 21:47Speaker 2: strong northerly this afternoon in seventeen today Claire Sherewoods and
- 21:51Speaker 2: christ Church. Hey, clear, you're going to go fast on
- 21:53Speaker 2: your southern motorway.
- 21:54Speaker 9: Stone if you're heading that way, Ryan, perhaps Look, the
- 21:57Speaker 9: government has announced a potential speed limit in for our
- 22:00Speaker 9: southern motorway. That's a stretch from Curlitz Road for those
- 22:03Speaker 9: who are local right out to Rolliston. It's quite a
- 22:06Speaker 9: long stretch. They want one hundred and ten kilometers per hour.
- 22:09Speaker 9: The Salwyn Mayor Sam Broughton, he's actually advocated for an
- 22:13Speaker 9: increase like this, He says, Look, enabling people to get
- 22:16Speaker 9: from A to B efficiently is a good thing.
- 22:18Speaker 2: He says.
- 22:18Speaker 9: There are roads in the North Island that are built
- 22:20Speaker 9: to the same standard which currently operate at that speed
- 22:23Speaker 9: very safely, and it's something that the Southern Motorway should
- 22:26Speaker 9: do too. Public consultation on this will open next Tuesday.
- 22:30Speaker 2: All right, weather today, some low cloud or fog to start.
- 22:33Speaker 9: Otherwise fine, the high cloud is back by evening a
- 22:36Speaker 9: maximum of seventeen.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Right, Max Hols and Wellington, Where are you wasting money today? Max?
- 22:42Speaker 10: Well exactly? A really good story by ZBZ for Minera Today.
- 22:46Speaker 10: In early twenty twenty two, the then Labor government talked
- 22:49Speaker 10: up three hundred million dollars of public housing funding going
- 22:52Speaker 10: towards a project to build around three hundred new townhouses
- 22:55Speaker 10: and apartments in Mount Cook, along with a playground, community
- 22:59Speaker 10: guard and orchard. Are Utopia by the sounds of things
- 23:02Speaker 10: meant to be finished twenty twenty three to twenty five
- 23:05Speaker 10: was the rough estimate. This Arlington site has just been
- 23:08Speaker 10: a massive empty I saw since then it's had fifty
- 23:10Speaker 10: million bucks spent on it, nothing to show for it
- 23:13Speaker 10: going order. The latest it's said is that it needs
- 23:15Speaker 10: to take another look at costs and plans. No new plans,
- 23:18Speaker 10: no design, no new consent application, no timeline. Locals in
- 23:23Speaker 10: Mount Cook are frustrated. Early on Coying Order would provide
- 23:26Speaker 10: them with their updates. Now it's gone quiet. There were
- 23:29Speaker 10: homes there before. They're obviously gone. The City Missions worried
- 23:32Speaker 10: about the lack of homes. Local MP Tammatha Paul is worried.
- 23:35Speaker 10: Kaying of Order is just going to go pull the
- 23:37Speaker 10: plug completely.
- 23:39Speaker 2: What we're on earth is fifty million gone exactly.
- 23:42Speaker 10: It's an empty site.
- 23:45Speaker 2: How's your weather?
- 23:47Speaker 10: Showers clearing to find this morning? Sixteen the High Central.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Thank you so much, mix and never reading matters. An Auckland, Hey, Neva.
- 23:54Speaker 6: Good morning.
- 23:54Speaker 2: I thought we would do the weather first because I
- 23:56Speaker 2: always forget once we get cheading is a good idea, Peter,
- 23:59Speaker 2: It's a good idea.
- 24:00Speaker 11: The Auckland weather cloudy with a few showers clearing this
- 24:03Speaker 11: evening are high of seventeen. Wasn't it lovely?
- 24:05Speaker 2: Yesterday? Just felt springy, beautiful? Do you know what? The
- 24:09Speaker 2: weather is springing and the economy is about to spring tease?
- 24:13Speaker 2: Isn't it positive? Goodes? Let's talk about this beam scooter.
- 24:17Speaker 11: Oh my goodness. So look, Auckland Councils terminated its contract
- 24:21Speaker 11: with provider Beam E Scooters. Now this is over breaches
- 24:24Speaker 11: of its contract. So now it's ordered all the scooters
- 24:27Speaker 11: have got to be activated. Well this started midnight last
- 24:30Speaker 11: night and all of them they've got to be off
- 24:32Speaker 11: the streets by Friday five pm. So the council says
- 24:36Speaker 11: at the company, it deployed too many scooters and then
- 24:39Speaker 11: used misleading data to conceal that fact. So that's what
- 24:43Speaker 11: it's all about. Merv and Chetty he's the licensing and
- 24:46Speaker 11: Environmental health manager. He says, Look, the limits on the
- 24:49Speaker 11: scooter numbers, they're there for the safety of the footpath
- 24:52Speaker 11: users and to prevent use and so we can't have
- 24:54Speaker 11: so many.
- 24:56Speaker 6: Year on there.
- 24:56Speaker 11: So Beam says, you know, they're disappointed obviously, and it's
- 25:00Speaker 11: apologized to the council.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Ah, what they need to do more allegedly lied about it.
- 25:06Speaker 11: Too terrible and so Beams also says, look, it's in
- 25:09Speaker 11: the process now of appointing an independent external orditor to
- 25:12Speaker 11: examine the issue. Well it's too late now, isn't it.
- 25:14Speaker 2: It is too late on your bike, on your.
- 25:17Speaker 11: Bike in the scooter and I've done the weather, so
- 25:19Speaker 11: why shall depart?
- 25:20Speaker 2: Good on your neigh for good to see you? Just
- 25:22Speaker 2: gone seventeen minutes away from six news Talk said, be
- 25:25Speaker 2: the Police Association here just before six. They have managed
- 25:28Speaker 2: to get the assets off the gangs. But why did
- 25:31Speaker 2: it take ten years? Gavin Gray's in the UK. Since
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- 26:41Speaker 2: Kiers Starm has done a speech in the Rose Garden
- 26:43Speaker 2: in London. Gavin Gray's our UK Europe correspondent, sounds like
- 26:47Speaker 2: some tax hikes are coming, Gavin. We don't appear to
- 26:54Speaker 2: have Gavin. We'll come back to him as soon as
- 26:57Speaker 2: we can. So basically what Kistarm has done is rather
- 27:01Speaker 2: than go and paint a rosy picture in the Rose
- 27:03Speaker 2: Garden in his address to the British public last night,
- 27:07Speaker 2: he has said we've got a budget comment coming in October.
- 27:10Speaker 2: Things are bad. Those who have done well, or the
- 27:14Speaker 2: phrase he used with those with the broadest shoulders must
- 27:18Speaker 2: shoulder the biggest burden. So what does that tell you?
- 27:22Speaker 2: They're going after the big cats. They're going after the whales,
- 27:25Speaker 2: and they are going after tax increases. And this is
- 27:28Speaker 2: not a surprise. This is something that was accusations that
- 27:32Speaker 2: were leveled by Rishi Senac etc. Before the election. We
- 27:36Speaker 2: can't get to Gavin Gray unfortunately, but mark our words
- 27:40Speaker 2: that budget will include tax increases and especially they also
- 27:44Speaker 2: mentioned the non doms, which is the likes of Rishi
- 27:48Speaker 2: Sunak's wife who were born outside of the UK and
- 27:53Speaker 2: managed to keep some of their income outside of the
- 27:56Speaker 2: UK not taxed within UK territory. They are only taxed
- 28:02Speaker 2: on the income that they earn there. You can expect
- 28:04Speaker 2: moves around that too. Just gone eleven away from six Bridge.
- 28:09Speaker 2: A landmark decision has been handed down in the War
- 28:11Speaker 2: against Gangs. Judge Peter Andrew has ruled that Headhunter's boss
- 28:15Speaker 2: Wayne Boyle must forfeit fifteen million dollars in assets. Police
- 28:20Speaker 2: argued that Doyle's assets were a direct result of criminal
- 28:23Speaker 2: activity and he was in fact the gang's president, not
- 28:26Speaker 2: just your average Joe blogs member. Police Association President Chris
- 28:30Speaker 2: Carr hills with me now, Chris, good morning.
- 28:33Speaker 12: Good morning, Ryan.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Hey, it's a long time to get fifteen million dollars
- 28:38Speaker 2: ten years through the courts.
- 28:40Speaker 12: Yes, it's been a very long process, a lot of
- 28:43Speaker 12: very hard work, but this is something police have looked
- 28:46Speaker 12: at for many, many years, and it took a change
- 28:49Speaker 12: in legislation to sort of enable police to be able
- 28:51Speaker 12: to get to where they've got. But it's a massive result.
- 28:54Speaker 12: I mean, normally when police sees assets are linked to
- 28:57Speaker 12: a specific offending, some drug and porte, you know, something
- 29:01Speaker 12: like that. But this is looking at long term leadership
- 29:04Speaker 12: of a gang who is established just to commit a
- 29:08Speaker 12: legal actions and make money, and he's lost homes, he's
- 29:12Speaker 12: lost the clubrooms. It's a magnificent result for police but
- 29:16Speaker 12: sends a very clear message to gangs that their money
- 29:19Speaker 12: isn't going.
- 29:20Speaker 2: To be safe. But is it? Does something else need
- 29:23Speaker 2: to change so that doesn't take ten years next time,
- 29:26Speaker 2: or of the changes that have already been made. Will
- 29:28Speaker 2: that speed it up? Hopefully?
- 29:30Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 29:31Speaker 12: Look, this certainly needs to speed up. And I think
- 29:34Speaker 12: there's some lot of lessons to be learned out of
- 29:36Speaker 12: this sort of prosecution. And you know it'll be appealed,
- 29:40Speaker 12: we know that. But in some ways that may be
- 29:41Speaker 12: a good thing because it'll set the higher courts, will
- 29:44Speaker 12: set the rules going forward as well, which I think
- 29:46Speaker 12: will be very helpful. The judge has taken a long
- 29:49Speaker 12: time to make a very considered opinion, so I think
- 29:51Speaker 12: it'll stand up in the higher court.
- 29:53Speaker 2: Ten months, he took ten months to deliberate. Do you
- 29:57Speaker 2: how hard is it to prove who's in charge of
- 29:59Speaker 2: a gang? I mean, is it not kind of obvious?
- 30:03Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 30:04Speaker 12: Well, well I think with Doyle it was very obvious.
- 30:06Speaker 12: Everyone knew he was the chief. Now that was his name,
- 30:09Speaker 12: and he was the boss of that gang. But you know,
- 30:13Speaker 12: you've got to prove that to a standard of proof
- 30:16Speaker 12: beyond well, in fact, in the court it's on the
- 30:18Speaker 12: balance probabilities. So he was a very good example of
- 30:25Speaker 12: this and it will be a lot harder for some games.
- 30:28Speaker 12: But in saying that, you know, there's ways that police
- 30:31Speaker 12: can do this now and this it's a really good
- 30:34Speaker 12: example going forward. And what I like is it's not
- 30:37Speaker 12: just assets that he's accumulated, you know in recent times.
- 30:41Speaker 12: These are assets he's owned for decades and so it's
- 30:45Speaker 12: a big landmark ruling for police and it's one that
- 30:48Speaker 12: will have some real implications going forward.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Chris, thank you for that. Chris can't help Police Association
- 30:52Speaker 2: prison and I wonder when we'll see that house on
- 30:54Speaker 2: trade me ninety six brain Bridge, right, very quickly, I've
- 31:01Speaker 2: got number for you here, sixty seven percent. So the
- 31:04Speaker 2: number of people who are using debit cards, credit cards,
- 31:08Speaker 2: f postcards to pay for things has actually gone down.
- 31:11Speaker 2: It's sixty seven percent, down from seventy seven percent and
- 31:15Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Why people are using digital wallets. This
- 31:18Speaker 2: is your Apple Pay and your iPhone pay or whatever
- 31:22Speaker 2: it is, that's gone from ten to fifteen percent in
- 31:25Speaker 2: terms of how you pay for stuff. I do it personally.
- 31:27Speaker 2: I don't like it. I worry that I will lose
- 31:30Speaker 2: my phone and I will lose my wallet all in one.
- 31:34Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I sort of hedge my
- 31:37Speaker 2: bets by keeping them separated. But anyway, that is a
- 31:41Speaker 2: big change that's happening, down to sixty seven percent on
- 31:44Speaker 2: your old f postcard.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
- 31:50Speaker 1: twenty four on Early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
- 31:54Speaker 1: Furniture Beds and a play at store News Talk zid be.
- 31:57Speaker 2: Well, look out, the airlines are getting simioned. That's happened
- 32:01Speaker 2: to the electricity. It's happened to n ZTA getting summons
- 32:05Speaker 2: by Simeon and they've been told sort out your on
- 32:08Speaker 2: time performance. You know how in New Zealand all the
- 32:11Speaker 2: alone say, oh when on time ninety five or I
- 32:13Speaker 2: don't know ninety eight percent of the time. Really are
- 32:17Speaker 2: you actually on time? And is that time the original
- 32:20Speaker 2: time for the flight or the one that you changed
- 32:22Speaker 2: it to While we were on the way to the airport.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Mike's in the studio, is here next? Good morning, Mike morning.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Simon's with us.
- 32:28Speaker 13: So several things that one's the CIA, which is the authority,
- 32:31Speaker 13: and they've had cultural problems if you follow these sort
- 32:33Speaker 13: of things. But they put a new board and so
- 32:35Speaker 13: they're going to make them and the fees they charge,
- 32:38Speaker 13: So there's that part of it. There's the pricing of
- 32:41Speaker 13: the year tickets. That's another part of it. And the
- 32:44Speaker 13: problem is nothing's going to happen. And there's also, as
- 32:47Speaker 13: you say, the reportage of what was on time and
- 32:49Speaker 13: what wasn't. Everyone's got an anecdotal story of a plane
- 32:52Speaker 13: that didn't take off or arrive on time and your
- 32:55Speaker 13: auntie who was a bit late and then the plane
- 32:56Speaker 13: turned around because of engineering issues.
- 32:59Speaker 2: I know there's Auntie. But what about those business leaders
- 33:02Speaker 2: who do travel every day for meetings who say, I
- 33:05Speaker 2: literally don't fly anymore.
- 33:06Speaker 13: Because there's there's no question. And I guess we all
- 33:09Speaker 13: know them, people who travel a lot who say, look,
- 33:12Speaker 13: I can't tell you that last time. You know it
- 33:15Speaker 13: doesn't I get it. Here's the important point, though, So
- 33:18Speaker 13: when they publish all of these details around pricing, First
- 33:20Speaker 13: of all, you always think the price is too high.
- 33:23Speaker 13: It doesn't matter what they say about the price. That
- 33:24Speaker 13: doesn't look you can get bargains if you do this.
- 33:27Speaker 13: There the next thing, Oh no, I paid nine thousand
- 33:29Speaker 13: dollars to fly to in Picagoo. You're never going to
- 33:31Speaker 13: convince people. The important point here is nothing's going to change.
- 33:35Speaker 13: So the theory is that by publishing this, we all
- 33:38Speaker 13: get shock, horror, put pressure on the airlines, and they
- 33:41Speaker 13: then go, we'll tidy up our act because there's.
- 33:43Speaker 2: No plan, so there's no hope.
- 33:45Speaker 13: There's well, well, I mean the sense that they're not
- 33:47Speaker 13: doing anything. They're not going to do.
- 33:48Speaker 2: Anything about it. But the answer to all of this
- 33:50Speaker 2: is just get richer, isn't it, Because you're never going
- 33:52Speaker 2: to get things.
- 33:53Speaker 13: Cheaper, so you can buy your own plane, right, well.
- 33:55Speaker 2: So you can at least afford to get an air
- 33:57Speaker 2: FIATDA in Picago.
- 33:58Speaker 13: Well exactly, so it's anyway, we'll talk to Simming about this.
- 34:01Speaker 2: And see what is going to do with brilliant Mike.
- 34:03Speaker 2: So do next. That's up for me.
- 34:04Speaker 1: See you tomorrow for more from News Talk sed B.
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