Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 03 February 2026
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: earlierihow with one roof Love where you Live News Talks.
- 0:09Speaker 2: There'd be Tuesday morning, six after five. Great to have
- 0:12Speaker 2: your company coming up this morning. How to tell if
- 0:14Speaker 2: your kid is doing well at school? Everyone's freaking out
- 0:17Speaker 2: about mining but they shouldn't. Why can't Nick Smith buy
- 0:20Speaker 2: a bottle of wine at a vineyard? And we have
- 0:23Speaker 2: a warning for farmers this morning. The agenda Tuesday the
- 0:27Speaker 2: third of February and the UK Lord mandels and it
- 0:30Speaker 2: all gets very grubby. More Epstein emails coming out now
- 0:33Speaker 2: and Starmer wants and booted out of the House of Lords.
- 0:37Speaker 3: He had to leave the Labor Party.
- 0:39Speaker 4: I know he's been a member of most of the.
- 0:41Speaker 5: Most of his life, but he should have taken that
- 0:43Speaker 5: decision a lot earlier.
- 0:44Speaker 4: You know, he's embarrassed the Labor Party.
- 0:46Speaker 5: He's embarrassed the Prime Minister, and he's an embarrassment to
- 0:50Speaker 5: himself to be honest.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Also released a weird video. I don't know where it's
- 0:54Speaker 2: come from, don't know who the interviewer is, but it's
- 0:56Speaker 2: with Epstein. It's nearly two hours long. It's doing the rounds.
- 1:01Speaker 3: Do you think you're the devil himself?
- 1:03Speaker 4: No, but I do have a good mirror.
- 1:05Speaker 5: It's a serious question.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Do you think you're the devil's self?
- 1:09Speaker 5: And look, why would you say that?
- 1:10Speaker 4: Because you have all the attributes you you're incredibly smart.
- 1:13Speaker 3: You remember the devil is somebody what the devil's brilland
- 1:16Speaker 3: you read Milton's You read Milton's Paradise Lost.
- 1:19Speaker 1: No, the devil scares me.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Okay, that's enough for Epstein for now. Let's go to
- 1:24Speaker 2: the Grammys where there were plenty of mentions of ice yesterday,
- 1:28Speaker 2: many salibs ware pins that said ice out.
- 1:31Speaker 6: We're not savers, We're not animals, we're not aliens, we
- 1:36Speaker 6: aren't humans, and we are Americans.
- 1:38Speaker 7: I guess I want to say, I'm up here as
- 1:40Speaker 7: a granddaughter of an immigrant. I'm a product of bravery,
- 1:43Speaker 7: and I think those people deserve to be celebrated.
- 1:46Speaker 8: No one is illegal on stolen land.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I feel like we just need to keep fighting and
- 1:51Speaker 1: speaking up and protesting.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Artists do what artists will do now, Bad Bunny. One
- 1:55Speaker 2: album of the Year and sing a songwriter was Olivia
- 1:58Speaker 2: Dean from the UK. It wouldn't be a Grammy's of
- 2:01Speaker 2: course without some kind of blunder and sheer gave us
- 2:04Speaker 2: this one and.
- 2:05Speaker 5: The Grammy goes to Oh the You. Tommy was going
- 2:11Speaker 5: to be on the promptum, Oh the Gummy goes to
- 2:15Speaker 5: Live Grands.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Yeah, so Kendrick was the real winner. The guy she
- 2:27Speaker 2: initially announced as dead.
- 2:31Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 2:35Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One roof Love where you Live News.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Talk said been eight minutes after five on your Tuesday morning.
- 2:43Speaker 2: She's still in great. Next year. In fact, I went
- 2:45Speaker 2: and saw her at a concert and I don't know,
- 2:47Speaker 2: maybe five years ago now. She was at Spark Arena
- 2:51Speaker 2: or whatever you call it, down at the waterfront, and
- 2:53Speaker 2: she said that she does planks. She planks every single day,
- 2:57Speaker 2: you know where you go on your strengthen your abdominals,
- 3:01Speaker 2: going on your elbows. She planks seven minutes every morning,
- 3:06Speaker 2: seven minutes. Incredible. She was in such great shape, abs
- 3:11Speaker 2: of steel. She had. Now good news for you this morning.
- 3:13Speaker 2: If you have a mortgage, which many of us do.
- 3:16Speaker 2: So twenty twenty five was the year of the refix,
- 3:19Speaker 2: and eighty one percent of fixed rate mortgage borrowers refixed
- 3:24Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. That was the highest percentage in
- 3:27Speaker 2: thirteen years. But it's not all over yet because twenty
- 3:30Speaker 2: twenty six there's plenty more refixing going on. Sixty eight
- 3:34Speaker 2: percent of fixed st rate loans are due to come
- 3:37Speaker 2: up for renewal, and so even though everyone's talking about
- 3:40Speaker 2: interest rates going back up, well, yes they may be
- 3:42Speaker 2: starting to tick back up at the longer term, but
- 3:46Speaker 2: you will still get a better deal than what you
- 3:48Speaker 2: did a year ago. There's one hundred and thirty two
- 3:52Speaker 2: billion dollars worth, or thirty four percent of total borrowings
- 3:55Speaker 2: that will come up for renewal this year, and that
- 3:58Speaker 2: is above the long run average of twenty seven percent.
- 4:01Speaker 2: So basically, if you're somebody who has a three hundred
- 4:05Speaker 2: thousand dollars loan, let's say it's locked in for a year,
- 4:08Speaker 2: you could go from a five point seven odd percent
- 4:12Speaker 2: down to a four and a half. That will save
- 4:14Speaker 2: you three hundred dollars a month. So when everyone's talking about, oh,
- 4:18Speaker 2: the you know interest rates are going back up, Yes
- 4:20Speaker 2: they are ticking back up, but it doesn't mean that
- 4:24Speaker 2: your rate will go back up if you're refixing. In fact,
- 4:27Speaker 2: probably the opposite will happen. Now, Sam Stubbs, you know,
- 4:31Speaker 2: the Kiwi Savior. He's got our article out today and
- 4:35Speaker 2: he says New Zealand is probably going to have a
- 4:37Speaker 2: pretty flat housing market over the long term, which would
- 4:40Speaker 2: be good for us, and it's hard to argue with that. However,
- 4:45Speaker 2: what does that mean for the Labor Party and their
- 4:48Speaker 2: capital gains tax? Remember their free doctors' visits, three of
- 4:53Speaker 2: them every year to a GP. They are funded directly
- 4:58Speaker 2: by a capital gains tak Now, if we see and
- 5:02Speaker 2: we last week am Z cut their forecast for property
- 5:05Speaker 2: price growth. If we don't see capital gains, what happens
- 5:12Speaker 2: to your capital gains tax? And then what happens to
- 5:15Speaker 2: the policy and where do you get the money? That's
- 5:18Speaker 2: the question for Labor I think given the state of
- 5:21Speaker 2: the property market at the moment, nine two ninety two
- 5:24Speaker 2: is the number to text. It's eleven after five, show
- 5:27Speaker 2: me up next. We've got a bit of a warning
- 5:29Speaker 2: for farmers. Yes, great year last year, but what's happening
- 5:32Speaker 2: this year? And what do we need to keep abreast of?
- 5:34Speaker 2: News talks atb.
- 5:36Speaker 1: News and Views you Trust. To start your day, It's
- 5:39Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Where you Live News talks at B five point thirteen.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Insurance is very expensive. It is. The premiums are going
- 5:49Speaker 2: through the roof. In fact, premiums rising three times more
- 5:53Speaker 2: than inflation since twenty eleven. The last two years alone,
- 5:57Speaker 2: we've seen them jump up the premiums forty percent in
- 6:01Speaker 2: two years. And you know, we've got some areas being
- 6:04Speaker 2: cut off from insurance altogether. We spoke about that yesterday,
- 6:09Speaker 2: So the question becomes, what do you do about it? Well,
- 6:11Speaker 2: Scott Simpson, whose Commerce Consumer Affairs Minister, he says he
- 6:15Speaker 2: is going to do something about it. Not quite what,
- 6:17Speaker 2: we don't know, but one thing they're looking at is
- 6:21Speaker 2: cutting off entire areas from being developed in the first place,
- 6:24Speaker 2: therefore taking some risk out. Another issue is the capital requirements.
- 6:29Speaker 2: But like the banks, and this is also the RBNZ,
- 6:32Speaker 2: the capital requirements for insurers. Most insurers got around the
- 6:36Speaker 2: world have to hold sufficient capital reserves or reinsurance to
- 6:41Speaker 2: cover their liabilities. And it's for a generally around the world,
- 6:45Speaker 2: for a one in two hundred or two hundred and
- 6:47Speaker 2: fifty year catastrophic event, right, that's what they do overseas.
- 6:51Speaker 2: In New Zealand, it's for a one in one thousand
- 6:55Speaker 2: year catastrophic event. So you can't use your capital as
- 6:59Speaker 2: freely you can don't make as much money. Therefore your
- 7:02Speaker 2: premium might be a little higher. Nine two ninety two
- 7:05Speaker 2: quarter past five. Ryan Bridge Agery business had a cracky
- 7:08Speaker 2: year in twenty twenty five. But farmers are being worn.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Don't pop the champagne just yet, rabobanks as twenty twenty
- 7:14Speaker 2: six comes with headwinds global politics, industry rules and the weather.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Fed farmers are Italian Canterbury to stock up now with
- 7:21Speaker 2: winter feed pressure looming. Mid Canterbury Fed Farmer's President David
- 7:25Speaker 2: Acklin joins me. Now, David, good morning, Dad, morning on
- 7:29Speaker 2: So what yes, last year was great? What are you
- 7:32Speaker 2: worried about this year?
- 7:34Speaker 9: Well, what we're worried about is just the storms that
- 7:36Speaker 9: went through the arable farms. We had a number of
- 7:39Speaker 9: hailstorms take out ait of feed free Christmas and then
- 7:42Speaker 9: they've just had a bit of a tricky harvest coming
- 7:44Speaker 9: through this January period. So it's more about making sure
- 7:46Speaker 9: farmers are connecting with their supplies with their growers for
- 7:50Speaker 9: winter feed and just just double checking out that all
- 7:53Speaker 9: those contracts and that feeder is in place. It's just
- 7:55Speaker 9: a sort of more of a heads up rather than
- 7:58Speaker 9: getting to May and in a situation where we've got
- 8:02Speaker 9: cows with nowhere to go.
- 8:03Speaker 2: So it's not it's not panic stations just yet.
- 8:07Speaker 9: No, it's not panic stations. It's just hey, guys, it's
- 8:12Speaker 9: time to check in and just secure that feed. We've
- 8:15Speaker 9: seen a fat you know, straw and that side of
- 8:18Speaker 9: things with the tricky harvest being mulched back into the
- 8:21Speaker 9: ground rather than bailed. So it's just, you know, there's
- 8:23Speaker 9: just a few pressures there and it's a bit of
- 8:26Speaker 9: change around with a few Derek convisions happening in that
- 8:28Speaker 9: side of thing. So there's a few dynamics happening that
- 8:31Speaker 9: we just need to get people to actually make those
- 8:34Speaker 9: phone calls early.
- 8:35Speaker 2: The wind you mentioned last year the hall and the
- 8:38Speaker 2: wind was pretty hectic. A lot of machinery was sort
- 8:42Speaker 2: of tipped over because of that wind. How's the repairs going.
- 8:46Speaker 9: I think that we've had they've had a pretty good
- 8:49Speaker 9: run of it. I know in those early stages there's
- 8:51Speaker 9: a lot of but the crews and irrigation companies, you know,
- 8:57Speaker 9: hell of a job to get get into the country
- 8:59Speaker 9: and and also to get things back up, right, But
- 9:02Speaker 9: there was a really critical of sewing and that side
- 9:05Speaker 9: of things and it was pretty dry. So always what
- 9:08Speaker 9: crops that would have been affected through that will be back.
- 9:11Speaker 9: You know, they only have to be a couple of
- 9:13Speaker 9: three tons of feed and it makes actually a big
- 9:15Speaker 9: difference across the whole province. So it's just that those
- 9:18Speaker 9: little shortages that are just adding up a wee bit
- 9:20Speaker 9: at the moment.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Was just talking about insurance, David. What's on farm insurance
- 9:24Speaker 2: like premium wires at the moment.
- 9:28Speaker 9: We renewed ours the other day and it feels like
- 9:30Speaker 9: it's sneaked up again, but it hasn't gone up as
- 9:34Speaker 9: reapidly as it has done and the you know, we
- 9:36Speaker 9: had a hellish horizers if well sort of has just
- 9:40Speaker 9: come to a new hihre. It feels at the moment,
- 9:42Speaker 9: all right.
- 9:43Speaker 2: David good tattoo is always David Acklin, mid Canterbury Fed
- 9:46Speaker 2: Farmer's President. It's eighteen after five. News Talks at b.
- 9:50Speaker 1: The News you need this morning and the in depth
- 9:53Speaker 1: analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
- 9:57Speaker 1: Where You Live News Talks that b.
- 10:00Speaker 2: I spoke to the Prime Minister yesterday about this critical
- 10:03Speaker 2: minerals deal that they are potentially doing with the United States,
- 10:07Speaker 2: and everybody is absolutely ut rebolt not everybody, I mean
- 10:10Speaker 2: the opposition parties are absolutely outraged about it. I like
- 10:15Speaker 2: what AX says, The ACT Party says, because this is
- 10:17Speaker 2: critical rare Earth Minerals Act says, we'd else we would
- 10:21Speaker 2: be hypocritical to try and stop this. We all use
- 10:24Speaker 2: and benefit from the devices that are made from these minerals.
- 10:28Speaker 2: So restricting mining here just means that if the US
- 10:31Speaker 2: can't get those minerals from New Zealand, they will be
- 10:34Speaker 2: dug up somewhere else, probably somewhere with poor environmental oversight
- 10:38Speaker 2: and more. Child Labor talked to you about that in
- 10:40Speaker 2: two minutes time news talks at b Brian. Did you
- 10:44Speaker 2: see the story art yesterday where Nelson's men and Nick
- 10:47Speaker 2: Smith walked into a vineyard couldn't get a bottle of
- 10:50Speaker 2: wine in a vineyard? This was at the Ready to
- 10:53Speaker 2: Roll Gig and Nelson, They featuring Stella, the Mockers, the dudes.
- 10:57Speaker 2: He was told it's cup only apparent and he's taken
- 11:01Speaker 2: a swipe at what he calls over zealous alcohol licensing
- 11:04Speaker 2: laws New Zealand. Wine grows chair. Fabian Yukits joins me
- 11:08Speaker 2: this morning, Fabian, good morning, good morning.
- 11:11Speaker 4: How are you.
- 11:11Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you, thanks for being up and
- 11:13Speaker 2: early with me. What's the situation, like, what is the
- 11:16Speaker 2: rule here?
- 11:19Speaker 4: I understand the rule is made by the Council New
- 11:23Speaker 4: Zealand Health and the police in conjunction with the winery,
- 11:27Speaker 4: but the winery doesn't get a lot of choice in it.
- 11:30Speaker 4: They can choose to go to a hearing, but they
- 11:32Speaker 4: don't want to go to a hearing that involves a
- 11:34Speaker 4: lot of time and effort and probably cost, so they
- 11:38Speaker 4: basically told what they have to do. What's the RST? Sorry,
- 11:44Speaker 4: what is the rationale? That's hard to tell. The rule
- 11:48Speaker 4: I suppose is there to perhaps stop people from drinking
- 11:52Speaker 4: too much, but in fact it's very unpractical and it
- 11:56Speaker 4: doesn't really achieve that anyway. At the type of concert
- 12:00Speaker 4: was held at Nudoff, which is one of New Zealand's
- 12:02Speaker 4: most iconic wineries. It's a very relaxed affair and you
- 12:06Speaker 4: can imagine you go there with a couple of friends,
- 12:08Speaker 4: You grab a blanket and one person stays there to
- 12:11Speaker 4: hold the place in the audience. Another person goes to
- 12:14Speaker 4: get some food and the third person goes to the
- 12:16Speaker 4: queue to get some wine and they told they're only
- 12:19Speaker 4: allowed two cups and there's three people there, so it's
- 12:22Speaker 4: an impossible and impractical situation. And that's what they faced with.
- 12:28Speaker 4: I mean Nudoff itself. The winery have got a very
- 12:30Speaker 4: good relationship with the council, but this is all about
- 12:33Speaker 4: the customer. It's about the experience, and it's the people
- 12:37Speaker 4: like next Smith to go to these concerts that are frustrated.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Is it the bottle, like, are they worried someone will
- 12:42Speaker 2: throw a bottle because it's glass? Or is it just
- 12:45Speaker 2: the amount you can get?
- 12:48Speaker 4: Look, I'm not one hundred percent sure, maybe a little
- 12:51Speaker 4: bit of both. But that winery, like a lot of
- 12:54Speaker 4: wineries around New Zealand, had experienced Nudoff itself over twenty
- 12:59Speaker 4: years of in concerts and they've never had any problems before,
- 13:04Speaker 4: very relaxed the fear and that just doesn't happen. So
- 13:08Speaker 4: you can do risk analysis and management and say I'm
- 13:11Speaker 4: going to cut out every possibility of anything going wrong,
- 13:15Speaker 4: but in the end that becomes impractical. So a little
- 13:18Speaker 4: bit of common sense would be very helpful.
- 13:21Speaker 2: Sounds like it's a bit missing there, Fabian, appreciate your
- 13:23Speaker 2: time this morning. Thanks for being with me. Fabian U Kitch,
- 13:26Speaker 2: New Zealand Wine Growers. Chair time is twenty three minutes
- 13:29Speaker 2: after five. Yeah, come on, I mean it's not R
- 13:33Speaker 2: and V is it. You wouldn't sell bottles of wine
- 13:35Speaker 2: to nineteen year olds at R and V, but at
- 13:39Speaker 2: a rolling ready to roll gig at a vineyard and
- 13:43Speaker 2: Nelson with Nick Smith in attendance. Come on, settle down.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Twenty four after five.
- 13:50Speaker 1: The early edition Full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by Newstalks.
- 13:56Speaker 2: B News Talks B. It is five twenty six. Someone says,
- 13:59Speaker 2: bring back hardboard wine. It makes me gag just thinking
- 14:03Speaker 2: about it. Right here we go again with this nonsense
- 14:06Speaker 2: about mining again. The same crowd who moan and bitch
- 14:09Speaker 2: and moan when we don't have enough cash to upgrade
- 14:12Speaker 2: schools or pay teachers more or pay nurses more. They
- 14:15Speaker 2: are the same lot who throw the eggs at the
- 14:17Speaker 2: crown cars and chant shame at ribbon cuttings for mining operations.
- 14:22Speaker 2: The latest wind is about Otago Council giving road access
- 14:26Speaker 2: to some Assi gold miners to mine gold in an
- 14:28Speaker 2: area that was basically founded on doing exactly that. You
- 14:32Speaker 2: don't get wealthy sitting on your hands or waving banners.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Let's be honest, that's not how you create communities that
- 14:39Speaker 2: people actually want to live in, in which teachers earn
- 14:42Speaker 2: a decent wage, nurses don't work sixteen hour shifts. A
- 14:46Speaker 2: country that looks a bit more like, oh, I don't know, Australia.
- 14:49Speaker 2: You know that place that all our kids are moving to.
- 14:52Speaker 2: You can't have your cake and eat it too, critical minerals.
- 14:55Speaker 2: Another example, Why wouldn't we do a deal and pull
- 14:58Speaker 2: it out of the ground. Everyone else is doing it.
- 15:01Speaker 2: By the way, a lot of this stuff goes into
- 15:03Speaker 2: electric cars, into electronic technology like cell phones and computers,
- 15:08Speaker 2: you know the computers the Greens use in Parliament, rather
- 15:12Speaker 2: than into things like SUVs. So what's the problem. Now,
- 15:16Speaker 2: some facts before people get themselves too carried away, Before
- 15:20Speaker 2: you start to imagine giant open cast pits stretching from
- 15:24Speaker 2: coast to coast across the country, blighting the landscape. Current
- 15:28Speaker 2: minds make up four thousand hectares of land in New Zealand.
- 15:33Speaker 2: That is zero point zero one five percent of our
- 15:37Speaker 2: total land mass, zero point zero one five and the
- 15:43Speaker 2: conservation estate. Will we mind just zero point five percent
- 15:47Speaker 2: of that half a percent? If we are serious about
- 15:51Speaker 2: creating a wealthy country where society functions, our elderly have
- 15:55Speaker 2: warm homes, and our kids see a future, we need
- 15:58Speaker 2: to start doing some thing about it, something other than
- 16:02Speaker 2: waving banners and getting poorer. Bryan Bridge News Talk zaid
- 16:08Speaker 2: B nine nine two is the number of text. It's
- 16:11Speaker 2: twenty eight minutes after five. Now. The guy who was
- 16:15Speaker 2: the MC at the Grammys last night, Trevor Noah, who
- 16:18Speaker 2: has a late night show. Trump doesn't like him anyway,
- 16:20Speaker 2: but he made a joke which Trump really didn't like.
- 16:25Speaker 10: That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as
- 16:29Speaker 10: much as Trump wants Greenland, Which makes sense. I mean,
- 16:33Speaker 10: because Epstein's island is gone. He needs a new one
- 16:35Speaker 10: to hang out with. Bill Clinton. So oh, I told
- 16:37Speaker 10: you it's my last year. What are you going to
- 16:40Speaker 10: do about it?
- 16:41Speaker 2: Yeah? But awkward? So Trump is suing him, good luck
- 16:44Speaker 2: in court. He also took aim at Nicki Minaj's support
- 16:47Speaker 2: for Trump. You know, Nicki Minaj is the rapper. She
- 16:49Speaker 2: really likes Trump. She's his number one fan. They've been
- 16:53Speaker 2: hanging out recently. She got to mention too, Nicki Minaj
- 16:57Speaker 2: is not here.
- 16:58Speaker 4: She is not here.
- 17:02Speaker 11: She is.
- 17:04Speaker 10: She is still at the White House with Donald Trump
- 17:07Speaker 10: discussing very important issues.
- 17:10Speaker 7: Actually, Nikki, I have the biggest ass.
- 17:12Speaker 2: I haven't.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Everybody's saying it, Nikki.
- 17:14Speaker 7: I know they say to you, but it's me who
- 17:17Speaker 7: look at it.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Look at it, baby. That was the Grammys for you.
- 17:22Speaker 2: A lot of ice bangers and attendance to News Talks
- 17:25Speaker 2: b We'll get to our reporters next, and then we're
- 17:28Speaker 2: live to Australia with Donald Demayo.
- 17:31Speaker 6: Okay, if this were man, the first word on the
- 17:42Speaker 6: News of the Day early edition with Ryan Bridge and
- 17:46Speaker 6: one roof love.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Where you live news Talk, said Bill Truty, far away
- 17:58Speaker 2: from six News Talks heid Be. This is Olivia Dean,
- 18:00Speaker 2: who just picked up Singer Songwriter of the Year at
- 18:03Speaker 2: the Grammys last night. Congratulations. Shortly we'll go to Donald
- 18:07Speaker 2: de Mayo, our Australia correspondent. The Coalition still not mending
- 18:10Speaker 2: fences and how to read your kids report card Erica
- 18:13Speaker 2: Stamford has new advice for teachers and hopefully making life
- 18:17Speaker 2: easier for students. Now, a couple of your checks. We've
- 18:20Speaker 2: just been talking about mining in New Zealand. And you know,
- 18:23Speaker 2: we need to take a multi pronged approach to make
- 18:27Speaker 2: this country wealthare and you can't just keep saying no
- 18:30Speaker 2: to do this and no to that, no to that,
- 18:31Speaker 2: and expect that things will get better. But I like
- 18:34Speaker 2: your text, Paul. Paul says, good morning Ryan about the
- 18:37Speaker 2: mining and the wealth that brings into New Zealand. The
- 18:39Speaker 2: wealth never seems to get to the people that actually
- 18:42Speaker 2: need it. I'm not talking about the homeless. I'm talking
- 18:44Speaker 2: about the laborer or the minimum wage worker that never
- 18:48Speaker 2: seems to own their own home. How do you get
- 18:50Speaker 2: the wealth down to this level? There is never a
- 18:53Speaker 2: plan that addresses that question.
- 18:55Speaker 8: Paul.
- 18:55Speaker 2: I actually think you have a point. But the point,
- 19:00Speaker 2: whether that works or not, you don't then say you
- 19:03Speaker 2: don't start from the position that we should do nothing
- 19:07Speaker 2: at all. You know, if the wealth doesn't go where
- 19:09Speaker 2: you want it to go, you don't say, well, let's
- 19:11Speaker 2: not create the wealth. You say, how do we better
- 19:14Speaker 2: manage the wealth? I think you don't just say no,
- 19:17Speaker 2: Ryan about the wine festival ages no barrier for stupidity.
- 19:21Speaker 2: There is a case at the moment where a man
- 19:23Speaker 2: throw a glass at another man's neck. For goodness sakes,
- 19:26Speaker 2: you could argue that the reason they have been no
- 19:28Speaker 2: incidence at festivals over the last twenty years is because
- 19:31Speaker 2: of the rules put in place. Have a great day, justin, justin,
- 19:33Speaker 2: thanks for that text. I think generally, is it fair
- 19:37Speaker 2: to say generally next Smith or somebody of his age
- 19:41Speaker 2: would be better behaved on the booze than a nineteen
- 19:46Speaker 2: year old given the same amount of alcohol. I don't know.
- 19:48Speaker 2: I think that's a generalization we can make. It's twenty
- 19:51Speaker 2: two away from six Ryan Bridge. Our reporters columns here
- 19:55Speaker 2: with details of the roads and the gold mine and
- 19:57Speaker 2: the need and Colum good morning.
- 20:00Speaker 12: Year morning, Ryan says you alluded to the controversial gold
- 20:03Speaker 12: mine project near Cromwall. It's the Central Otaga District Council
- 20:09Speaker 12: has now granted road access to this Australian company planning
- 20:13Speaker 12: the open cast gold mine. It's Santana Minerals. They can
- 20:16Speaker 12: now use two roads linked to the Bendigo Opha project
- 20:21Speaker 12: in exchange for an annual payment of about one point
- 20:23Speaker 12: twenty five million dollars. This is once gold production begins.
- 20:28Speaker 12: Santana Minerals submitted a fast track consent application for the
- 20:32Speaker 12: open cast mine back in November. The company describes the
- 20:35Speaker 12: agreement as an endorsement from the council, but district Mayor
- 20:39Speaker 12: Tamer Ali says, look, this means that they have not
- 20:42Speaker 12: taken a position on the project. She says the mind
- 20:44Speaker 12: still sits with the fast track process. The advocacy group
- 20:49Speaker 12: Sustainable Terraces, though, says this announcement from the council is disappointing.
- 20:52Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? Morning? Shower clearing this afternoon?
- 20:57Speaker 2: Southerly is today? So the hi just fifteen? Thanks Callum
- 21:00Speaker 2: and clears and christ Church take clear. How's the small morning?
- 21:03Speaker 2: How's the smell?
- 21:04Speaker 7: Oh, it's terrible and it's possibly going to happen again.
- 21:07Speaker 8: According to our maya, as you know, we have hundreds
- 21:10Speaker 8: of people complaining about this issue from the wastewater treatment
- 21:14Speaker 8: plant over in Bromley. Environment Canterbury say there have been
- 21:17Speaker 8: several more hundred over.
- 21:18Speaker 7: The past few days.
- 21:19Speaker 8: The city Council's gone as far as deploying a jet
- 21:22Speaker 8: boat into the oxygenation ponds. They want to oxygenate the
- 21:26Speaker 8: ponds further and say the current conditions are the worst
- 21:29Speaker 8: they have seen since the fire at the plant in
- 21:31Speaker 8: twenty twenty one. Staff are still reviewing data around the
- 21:35Speaker 8: plant and where the smell's coming from. The mere film
- 21:38Speaker 8: Major though says prolonged rain can overload the sewer flushing
- 21:42Speaker 8: extra material through and that doesn't help. He says the
- 21:45Speaker 8: long period of gray days is when the pond will
- 21:47Speaker 8: then go smelly because of the lack of sunshine. He
- 21:50Speaker 8: does add that progress is being made on a new
- 21:52Speaker 8: sludge reactor which will help eliminate the stench, but it
- 21:56Speaker 8: may happen again in the near future. They have a
- 21:58Speaker 8: residence meeting plan for this evening with council attending to
- 22:02Speaker 8: hear people's concerns.
- 22:04Speaker 2: What is the sludge reactor? This sounds horrifying as you're
- 22:08Speaker 2: with it clear well, after a.
- 22:10Speaker 8: Lovely day yesterday, we have a heavy rain watch in
- 22:12Speaker 8: place today, falls right through until this evening, colds Southerlys
- 22:16Speaker 8: to go with it, and only fourteen degrees.
- 22:18Speaker 2: Thank you. Max is in Wellington. Morning Max, Good morning.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Now we've got more coming to light about this helicopter crash.
- 22:26Speaker 13: Yeah, this was the fatal crash near pai Kakaiki Hill
- 22:29Speaker 13: last week in quite a remote area, relatively close to
- 22:32Speaker 13: Transmission Gully. We now have the names in the ages
- 22:35Speaker 13: of the two victims, Cole Richie twenty five Joseph Keey
- 22:39Speaker 13: fifty four from Tohada. Both were pest controlled contractors working
- 22:43Speaker 13: on the highway itself. At the posters reporting that Keighley's father,
- 22:47Speaker 13: also named Joseph, also died in a helicopter crash. He
- 22:50Speaker 13: was pilot piloting a helicopter that crashed by Mount Tohada
- 22:54Speaker 13: near Topau during takeoff in nineteen eighty three, when this
- 22:58Speaker 13: Joseph was just a child, and then in ninety eight
- 23:00Speaker 13: hey obviously stayed in the helicopter business. This Joseph was
- 23:03Speaker 13: on a deer recovery operation when a pilot with a
- 23:07Speaker 13: pilot when the helicopter crashed in remote bushland in the
- 23:10Speaker 13: Duahine Ranges following a mechanical failure. He pulled himself free.
- 23:14Speaker 13: He pulled the pilot free from the wreckage before it
- 23:17Speaker 13: erupted into flames. He suffered a deep gash to his leg,
- 23:20Speaker 13: but still lit a fire to keep them warm. And
- 23:22Speaker 13: then this Joseph Keeley climbed a ridge to call for help.
- 23:26Speaker 13: So incredibly tragic, and this Kieley family history is one
- 23:30Speaker 13: certainly marked by tragedy, and in particular harrowing history with
- 23:33Speaker 13: helicopters in this country. Yeah, it sounds like it to Max.
- 23:36Speaker 13: How's your weadder cloudy and rainy Southerly's this afternoon twenty one?
- 23:40Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you Neivas and an Incandava good morning,
- 23:42Speaker 2: Good morning. Now you've got a water Care updates for us?
- 23:44Speaker 7: Yes, not praising water Care will not meet personally, but
- 23:48Speaker 7: apparently they're continuing to make progress. So on it's thirteen
- 23:51Speaker 7: point eight billion dollar capital delivery program. So I can
- 23:55Speaker 7: tell you it's finished the repairs. This is on the
- 23:57Speaker 7: six point two kilometres of wastewater pipes in the eastern
- 24:00Speaker 7: coastal suburbs of Beachlands and Mritai. The crews there they've
- 24:04Speaker 7: fixed eighty five man holes, almost two hundred household connections,
- 24:08Speaker 7: so they're on track. And obviously this work is going
- 24:11Speaker 7: to prevent the ground water and seawater from entering the
- 24:14Speaker 7: network and overwhelming the system. So water Cares is that
- 24:18Speaker 7: those two areas, Beachlands and Mtriai Tai, they were prioritized
- 24:23Speaker 7: and that was because of the history of the infiltration
- 24:26Speaker 7: and inflow problems that those two suburbs have had.
- 24:30Speaker 2: Good to know, good to have A nice update for you, Lakia.
- 24:32Speaker 2: Now how's our weather?
- 24:34Speaker 7: Cloudy, few showers, still warm. Twenty five is the high
- 24:37Speaker 7: today here in Auckland.
- 24:37Speaker 2: Brilliant. Never to think you for that seventeen minutes away
- 24:40Speaker 2: from sex very quickly, you know. The grubby Lord Mandelsson update.
- 24:43Speaker 2: So he's quit labor this Ober in the UK. Quit
- 24:46Speaker 2: labor because there's a photo. Not just because of this.
- 24:49Speaker 2: It's sort of a rolling mall of bad headlines for
- 24:52Speaker 2: him with Epstein, but the photo is him standing in
- 24:55Speaker 2: a hotel room with an unknown woman. She's in a robe.
- 24:58Speaker 2: He's got his pants down like he's wearing unwearing wife fronts. Anyway,
- 25:02Speaker 2: he's quit labor and they now starm A desperate to
- 25:05Speaker 2: get him out of the House of Lords as well.
- 25:08Speaker 2: The worst, the most egregious issue here is the emails.
- 25:13Speaker 2: This is your smoking gun, so he Fords emails. This
- 25:17Speaker 2: is when he's a cabinet minister. Fords emails to Epstein
- 25:21Speaker 2: from Downing Street aids. They're talking about the credit crunch crisis,
- 25:27Speaker 2: what government assets they might be able to sell. This
- 25:31Speaker 2: is like insider trading. And he was the Business Secretary
- 25:35Speaker 2: at the time and he's advising Epstein. How he and
- 25:39Speaker 2: his other rich mates can lobby against a banker's bonus tax.
- 25:44Speaker 2: That is inexcusable.
- 25:47Speaker 1: We're in Australia next International correspondence with ends and eye insurance,
- 25:52Speaker 1: peace of mind for New Zealand business.
- 25:55Speaker 2: So anyway from six, it's got to donad mail and
- 25:57Speaker 2: Australia correspondent on a good morning, Good morning to you.
- 26:01Speaker 2: Now tell me how did last night's meet and go
- 26:03Speaker 2: with the coalition and they all come by.
- 26:05Speaker 14: Are now, Oh well, it's fascinating, isn't it.
- 26:08Speaker 11: The Liberals and the Nationals are going to have to
- 26:10Speaker 11: sit apart in Parliament today because yes, the Nationals leader
- 26:15Speaker 11: David Little Proud and Susan Lee, the Liberal leader, cannot
- 26:18Speaker 11: seem to make amends. It was about two weeks ago
- 26:20Speaker 11: that the coalition fractured. At the time Little Prowd said
- 26:25Speaker 11: the political alliance was untenable. Now these talks were held
- 26:29Speaker 11: last night, you know, they were attempting to reunite the parties. Well,
- 26:33Speaker 11: that meeting was described as civil cooperative, but apparently further
- 26:39Speaker 11: negotiations are needed. Now Parliament resumes today at two o'clock
- 26:43Speaker 11: and at this stage, as I mentioned, the parties are
- 26:45Speaker 11: going to have to sit apart.
- 26:46Speaker 14: In the meantime, we know that Susan Lee could still
- 26:50Speaker 14: face a leadership threat, and it's understood that her would
- 26:54Speaker 14: be rival Angus Taylor will not actually mount a challenge.
- 26:58Speaker 14: But you know what, you never know this is stand by.
- 27:01Speaker 14: The Liberal Party is meeting later this morning. Let's see
- 27:05Speaker 14: what happens there.
- 27:06Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not only a matter of time, surely, isn't it.
- 27:09Speaker 4: Now?
- 27:10Speaker 2: They says this guy Dezzy Freeman, who's the cop killer.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Yesterday I heard that they thought he was dead. But
- 27:17Speaker 2: are they doing a new search for him?
- 27:19Speaker 11: Yes, a fresh search for Desi Freeman has begun and
- 27:24Speaker 11: it is the remote part of the Mount Buffalo National
- 27:27Speaker 11: Parking Victoria.
- 27:28Speaker 14: And that was five months ago the two police.
- 27:30Speaker 15: Officers were shot dead at a property in Poorpunker. They
- 27:34Speaker 15: were executing a warrant at the time. We know now
- 27:36Speaker 15: that more than one hundred police officers and volunteers are
- 27:40Speaker 15: again searching for the fugitive fifty six year old. And
- 27:44Speaker 15: we've heard from police and they're saying that they just
- 27:47Speaker 15: want answers and this search will continue until those answers
- 27:51Speaker 15: are found, and police do believe that he could be dead.
- 27:55Speaker 11: There are a couple of other theories as well, that
- 27:57Speaker 11: he could still be being harbored by someone, or he
- 28:00Speaker 11: could have gotten out of that area and he could.
- 28:02Speaker 14: Be surviving alone.
- 28:04Speaker 11: And very very sadly, the sister of one of the
- 28:06Speaker 11: police officers that was killed says death would be too
- 28:10Speaker 11: good an outcome.
- 28:12Speaker 2: Yeah, those poor families. Hey appreciate that. Donna is always
- 28:15Speaker 2: good to chat. Donald to our Australia correspondent. It's eleven
- 28:18Speaker 2: to six. Ryan Bridge school report cards are getting in
- 28:21Speaker 2: government make over. It's rolling out a standardized system for
- 28:25Speaker 2: years zero through ten covering reading, writing, mass reports have
- 28:28Speaker 2: used five clear markers emerging, developing, consolidating, proficient and exceeding.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Steve mccrack and his Secondary Principals School Council chair and
- 28:39Speaker 2: joins us now Steve, good morning, Ran, very well, thank you.
- 28:43Speaker 2: Does that sound all very simple and easy to understand?
- 28:47Speaker 16: Look from a parent's perspective, absolutely, and there's no doubting
- 28:50Speaker 16: there's a need for that national consistency to ensure that
- 28:53Speaker 16: we know as parents ourselves that where our students are
- 28:57Speaker 16: at exactly. And I suppose the biggest concern as the school. Yeah,
- 29:01Speaker 16: starts the timing once again, and this announcement it seems
- 29:04Speaker 16: to be quite quite rushed, Roan, But this.
- 29:07Speaker 2: Is talking about a mid year progress report, so you
- 29:11Speaker 2: wouldn't have to do that till the middle of the
- 29:12Speaker 2: year presumably.
- 29:14Speaker 16: Yeah, it's a little bit unclear on the exact timing
- 29:17Speaker 16: as yet, so we're eagerly awaiting a little bit more detail.
- 29:21Speaker 16: But once again that there's no doubting the need for it,
- 29:24Speaker 16: and once of course the students get through some of
- 29:27Speaker 16: their curriculum work, and particularly in English and mathematics, then yeah,
- 29:31Speaker 16: it's only obvious that we report to parents on their progress.
- 29:35Speaker 2: Why haven't we had a national standardized one until now?
- 29:39Speaker 16: Yeah, that's a really good question. The legislation is still
- 29:42Speaker 16: came and the fact that schools still have to report
- 29:46Speaker 16: two times a year formerly to parents. Yeah, but it's done.
- 29:50Speaker 16: Good question around than the need for it, Yeah, just
- 29:54Speaker 16: to develop that consistency, of course.
- 29:56Speaker 2: Yeah, because you do hear from parents they say, oh,
- 29:58Speaker 2: it's too confusing, I don't really understand where they're at.
- 30:02Speaker 2: Although in saying that emerging, developing, consolidating, proficient, and exceeding,
- 30:07Speaker 2: I guess you can understand all of those words. Consolidating
- 30:11Speaker 2: is an odd one. But there we go. I suppose
- 30:13Speaker 2: you've got to have some nerdy words in there.
- 30:16Speaker 16: Yeah, obviously, but there is a bit of a risk
- 30:20Speaker 16: in the detail, right, and it's not too bad in
- 30:22Speaker 16: terms of putting five key descriptors in there. But we know,
- 30:27Speaker 16: into yet nine and ten, for example, in the English
- 30:29Speaker 16: and Mathematics curriculum, which we're now expected to report against,
- 30:32Speaker 16: far more nuanced and detailed than what just for example
- 30:36Speaker 16: in the English curriculum in English assessment tags where it
- 30:39Speaker 16: says around a text and language studies. There's a lot
- 30:43Speaker 16: more in the English curriculum than just putting things into
- 30:45Speaker 16: five board categories.
- 30:47Speaker 2: What about a box that just is must pull finger
- 30:49Speaker 2: another one that says get tutoring. You know, why don't
- 30:52Speaker 2: we make it really really brutal, quite simple?
- 30:57Speaker 16: Oh well, that sounds like my report card when I
- 30:59Speaker 16: was at school, Ryan, But in all seriousness, it's further
- 31:02Speaker 16: in the detail that we've looked overnight.
- 31:04Speaker 4: Then.
- 31:04Speaker 16: Yeah, it does say that there's expected comments and things
- 31:07Speaker 16: for individual students. And if you look at a learner
- 31:09Speaker 16: or a student with individual learning needs and maybe some
- 31:14Speaker 16: discrete learning challenges, then there's a whole lot more intricacy
- 31:19Speaker 16: that needs to go into this in five board categories.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Steve McCracken, Secondary Principal, school Chair. I appreciate your time
- 31:25Speaker 2: this morning. It's eight to six News Talks theb Mike
- 31:28Speaker 2: with you.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Next, get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
- 31:33Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge, and one roof love where you live News Talks.
- 31:37Speaker 2: That'd be six to six morning, Ryan says one of
- 31:40Speaker 2: our texters. Most of the noise about the mining is
- 31:43Speaker 2: coming from his words. Bloody millionaires who have all done
- 31:47Speaker 2: very well, thank you very much, using our environment to
- 31:49Speaker 2: suit themselves. A photo of Sam Neil and Graham Sidney
- 31:53Speaker 2: sipping wine at a recent four hundred and fifty dollars
- 31:56Speaker 2: a ticket event made me spew. Bloody vineyards with all
- 32:00Speaker 2: their diesel powered wind turbines. It's hypocritical. Five to six
- 32:05Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge. I don't know about that, but I do
- 32:07Speaker 2: get the point. Mike's here with us. Mike, good morning.
- 32:10Speaker 3: When was the last time you were at a vineyard
- 32:12Speaker 3: with a diesel powered turbine.
- 32:14Speaker 2: I'd never been to a vineyard with a diesel powered
- 32:16Speaker 2: wind turbine. However, I haven't been to Sam Nils, so
- 32:20Speaker 2: perhaps he.
- 32:21Speaker 3: Would be one of the best pinots in the country.
- 32:24Speaker 3: He's a serious producer of wine. When he started. I
- 32:26Speaker 3: remember when he started out in as many many years ago.
- 32:29Speaker 3: I thought this will be interesting because a lot of
- 32:30Speaker 3: well known people get into wine, of course, and they
- 32:32Speaker 3: may or may not know anything about it. But if
- 32:33Speaker 3: you go to the two Paddock story and look at
- 32:35Speaker 3: what they've done, how they've done it in their single
- 32:37Speaker 3: vineyard stuff he makes exceedingly good good for her wine.
- 32:42Speaker 2: And others around him will soon be mining the land.
- 32:46Speaker 2: Well when you.
- 32:46Speaker 3: Say around them, if you've been to Central Otago, she's
- 32:49Speaker 3: a reasonably large place and you can do quite quite
- 32:52Speaker 3: a little.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Bit, which is what makes the complaints all that.
- 32:56Speaker 3: Sillhundi Pea Ryan Hundi pea global heavy weight from It
- 33:01Speaker 3: could be interesting, actually, global heavyweight from Meta. She's in
- 33:04Speaker 3: charge of safety for Meta, so Meta and their various
- 33:07Speaker 3: social media outlets, so you know, cutting edge at the moment.
- 33:11Speaker 3: Of course, I would imagine she's got to work cut
- 33:12Speaker 3: out for around the planet at the moment. Anyway, she's
- 33:15Speaker 3: in the country and she will be sitting right where
- 33:17Speaker 3: I'm sitting this morning at about seven thirty.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Oh, that's interesting.
- 33:20Speaker 3: They've got what they call a safety camp in the
- 33:23Speaker 3: country today, you've got to kind of be invited to it,
- 33:25Speaker 3: which makes it slightly weird in and of itself. But
- 33:28Speaker 3: I mean, she must be looking at Australia, looking at France,
- 33:31Speaker 3: looking at Britain and where the legislation and the law's
- 33:33Speaker 3: going around these sort of things, and thinking to herself,
- 33:36Speaker 3: you know, because she's right up there, she'll know zakabug.
- 33:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:39Speaker 3: So anyway, well a job and I will be talking
- 33:42Speaker 3: to her about the mini scams online that involve me
- 33:46Speaker 3: and crypto.
- 33:47Speaker 2: Yeah good, yeah, also the kids who are going mental
- 33:51Speaker 2: because they're using it too much, all that stuff. All right,
- 33:54Speaker 2: Mike's with the next Enjoy your Tuesday morning News Talks.
- 33:57Speaker 2: They'd be.
- 34:05Speaker 1: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
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