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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap For Tuesday, all
the best bits from the mic hosting breakfast on News
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and today is it all right to throw kids to
the ground and stick your knee on the backs? Will
there be an durn return for the COVID inquiry? What's
happening with the Wellington Maternity ward? This whole maternity versus
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ed thing is coming to the head and what it's
like we're working at the Reserve Bank, in fact, is
there any work at the Reserve Bank? But before any
of that family boost, some families shouldn't be boosted.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Apparently, so Nikola Willis has finally made her long awaited
changes to the Family Boost policy to try to redeem
the thing which has turned into a bit of a
dog of a policy sounded good at the election, because well,
of course it did. Who doesn't love the idea of
helping families to cover expensive childcare costs? But then the
problem started happening. It became hard to administer hardly anyone
got the money promised. Who wants to hold onto three
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months worth of invoices in order to claim the money
back at the end of a quarter. And then it
turns out we are spending about a quarter of the
money of this thing just on the admin of it.
So Nikola Willis has now tweaked it to improved it,
to improve it, but honestly I dislike it as much
as I did yesterday before before these changes. What we've
done now is families earning up to two hundred and
thirty thousand dollars a year can claim money for ec
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is a family on two hundred and thirty thousand dollars
a year poor, No, they're not poor. If they're not poor,
then why are we giving the money in the form
of welfare. The country is broke also, it makes absolutely
no sense that we're handing out money to working families.
But then at the very same time, the NATS are
tossing up whether to campaign next year on rails in
the superage again, which means in effect taking money away
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from pensioners. Because the country is broke, so we don't
have enough money to give welfare to our pensioners, but
we do have enough money to give welfare to working
parents on a good wicket. I mean, this is the
kind of election bride that shouldn't have been tweaked, should
just have been scraped.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, So here this fairy basically seems to be shout
out for holdies, not for young ease. Of course, you
know my theory, never ever, never, never ever ever never
have kids, and all these problems just instantly go away.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So we wrap.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And when I say all these problems, I do mean
all these problems, problems like this problem for example.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now listen, let's talk about what's going on here, okay,
with the citizens arrest. If you listen to parenting experts,
you can hear the same thing time and time and
time again about raising kids properly. Kids need love, but
just as important, and someone actually say more important, they
need boundaries. They need to be told no, They need
to be disciplined, They need to learn what they can
and cannot do. And if you don't do that properly
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as their parents, you basically ruin their chances at success
later in life. Now bear that in mind when you
hear people like the Children's Commissioner arguing that kids should
be off limits on citizens arrests, because, of course, at
the moment what is happening, the government is proposing a
law change to allow retailers or security guards or even
you and I if we want to, to hold a
shoplifter in a citizen's arrest until the cops can get
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their intakeover. Now, the Children's commissioner is well meaning because
she doesn't want kids hurt, because these things can go badly,
especially if you've got the worst case scenario playing out
like we have seen, which is where youve got weapons involved.
You've got the kids turning up armed with hammers and
knives and so on to raid a store. Now, while
the Child's Children's Commissioner means well, though, she is wrong
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because a loophole like that that says adults can be
held down but kids can't, will be exploited, and it
will be exploited by adults. Gangs already use kids to
commit their ram raids. They already use them to commit
their thefts because they know that kids get off more
likely than they would. If you make a rule that
kids are allowed to escape but adults get held down,
you only make it more likely that they do send
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the kids in. Thereby making it more likely that the
kids up kids end up ruining their lives chances, which
brings us back to the very start of what I
was saying. Kids need boundaries, and it's not just from
their parents, it's also from the state. So if we
do citizens arrests for the adult crims, we also have
to do citizens arrest for the kiddie crims.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
My solution is, have you ever played that game where
it's there called mouse Trap? It's a board game and
it has a very elaborate sort of chain reaction mouse
trap set up, And then I don't think I've ever
played it, only even saw the ad for it on TV,
and I thought I loved that game, and nobody ever
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gave it to me for Christmas, and that was always
a bit of a disappointment. Anyway, in the end, a
big trap falls over the top of the mouse I
think to trap it, and that's what I think that
they should have at all shops by the entrance, and
somebody's trying to knock off with stuff, a big trap
comes down on them and nobody gets hurt and everybody's fine. Right.
So this ongoing business about COVID nineteen, do you remember
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we had lots of people got it, some people died,
some people got really sack. We couldn't go out. No,
you've blocked it out like I have. I'm just reading
all this off the piece of paper. Apparently it happened anyway.
They're having some kind of inquiry about it, and apparently
lots of people think that Jacinda Aderne was responsible for
it or something, so they wanted to come back. It's
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be put up against the wall and shot. I think
that's what they want.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's been a bit of chat about whether Jacinda should
be back in the country for the COVID inquiry. Now,
I mean, of course, of course she should, mainly because
it's a Royal Commission of inquiry and she herself knows
how important these things are. You'll remember when she announced
the abuse the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse and
Stake Care, she said, this is a chance to confront
our history and make sure we don't make the same
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mistakes again. You could say the very same thing of
the COVID inquiry. This is a chance to confront our
history and make sure we don't make the same mistakes again.
So I would expect you to come back. However, I
do not think that she is going to be coming
back anytime soon. I don't know if you've seen it,
but she's got an interview in the Australian Women's Weekly
Out Weekly, which is out this month. If you want
to spend your dollars on it, it's not bad. Actually
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it gives you a bit of an insight. But it
makes the point. I mean, you read that article, you
will come away with the impression that Jacinda and Clark
and the family are staying in Boston for a very
long time. It makes the point. She went over for
three months, they are now they've been there for two years,
she says. She basically says New Zealand will always be home.
But you know, we really do like it here. I
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get to meet amazing and interesting people. We've made some
lovely friends, live in an area with lots of kids.
So yeah, it's just been easy. And I suspect that
is how it will stay. And the inquiry just Cinda
will not be there.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Do we actually almost feel sorry for her in a way.
Imagine you know, appearing at the quitement of the inquiry
or not, just you know, going to a cafe and
not knowing if the people there hate you will love you. Yeah, weird.
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I suppose you know that's all of us all the time, really,
isn't it. We don't know. Perhaps she's a little bit
more divisive than some people. They'll rewrap right here. They
raised this yesterday and it looks like it is turning
into a thing, the fight between expected mothers and people
who've injured themselves.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
As predicted yesterday that Wellington Hospital plan to cut the
maternity beds as copying huge, huge amounts of heat. They
had a meeting apparently yesterday. Are staff meeting about it.
It's been described as hostile. The staff are resisting it.
They say their mind is blown at the suggestion that
they would take maternity beds away. They're up in arms,
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they're heated about it. What they're worried about is that women,
if you take out the beds, you're going to have
a shortage at times. It's not all the time, right,
because sometimes there's hardly anyone to have been giving birth
in their next minute, everybody's giving birth. But they're worried
they're going to have women giving birth in hallways. You
don't need that, No one needs to see that, and
they don't need that to be seen. You're going to
have patients going through still births and they're going to
be next to mothers who are having live birth, and
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that's incredibly distressing for everybody. Are you going to have
people discharged before they're ready to leave? And so on it?
Remember remember this when I found this out, freaked me out.
So I'm very glad I'm finished having babies now. But
the two most dangerous parts of your life are when
you're being born, done that and when you're giving birth.
Done that. So I'm okay now, But it's crazy if
it's a dangerous time, take away those beds, don't you think?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So? I'm just trying to think. I've been in an
im maternity ward twice, wow, I guess three times. I
don't remember the first time. And I've been in an
emergency department three times, one straight each shoulder, and at
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another time I rolled my car around and around upside
down and work up in the hospital. And I'm just
trying to think who would have the right of weigh
in all those situations. And basically, all I can tell
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you is that I am not going to get in
the way of screaming about to be a mother, like
I mean I was screaming when I did my shoulders,
but I also would have been prepared to do anything
that anybody told me at that point, whereas you can't
tell us scream another to do anything. Yeah, I think
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the maternity ward wins every time in that battle. The
re wrap right. If you thought you getting enough to
leave at your job, this next bit isn't going to
make you feel any better about it.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
This is Look, if you're you're getting ready for work
today and you're thinking, geez, I need a break. I
wish I didn't have to keep. This is going to
rip unity. We all need jobs at the Reserve Bank
because when you work for the Reserve Bank, life is sweet.
Have a listen to this. At the Reserve Bank, when
you sign a little contract going work there, it's not
like you and I will get four weeks and your
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leave as a standard, they get five weeks. They start,
they start at five weeks. That is the absolute lowest.
So you go work at the Reserve Bank. You got
yourself five weeks and you'll leave. But you can add
to that. You can also get yourself another three weeks.
You can buy it. So what you need to do
is you use two percent of your pay, and then
you buy yourself another three weeks and you'll leave. That
is a bargain because three weeks is actually equivalent to
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equivalent to six weeks six percent of you year's work,
So it should be equivalent to six percent of your income.
So if you're buying six percent of you're you're buying
with two percent, you're buying six percent worth of leave
for two percent. Numbers are not my strength, you can tell,
but you follow what I'm saying. Right, you're getting six
percent for the pay of two percent. That is a bargain.
That's bye bye bye. And by the way, I need
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to say thank you to the Taxpayers Union for digging
these numbers up. So you get yourself your five weeks,
and you add to it your three weeks that you've
just bought at a bargain rate, at a warehouse style
bargain rate. You've now got yourself eight weeks and you'll leave.
But then they give you at the Reserve Bank, because
they don't like that's enough. Then they give you a
standard fifteen days worth of wellness leave every single year
quote for when you need to recover, re energize, or rest,
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as if that's not what the weekend is. For Now
you get yourself eight weeks plus fifteen days. There's another
three weeks. You've got yourself eleven weeks of annual leave
so that you can go and rest. Then, of course
I'm assuming that they get the two weeks worth of
sickly the ten days that the rest of us get,
and so I'm assuming that if you're at the Reserve Bank,
now you're really in, you're really into this kind of
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that You've got the momentum going of needing to re
energize and rest. You're going to use up those ten
days sick leave, aren't you. You're just gonna be like
child's got chicken pox. Yep, got to stay home. Yeah,
Oh look, I've got a snotty nose. No, I don't
want to make you sick. I've got to stay over.
So by the time you've used up all of this,
you've got yourself thirteen weeks of leave that you can
take at the Reserve Bank. That's fully a quarter of
the year that you don't have to work. That's a
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pretty sweet package. But it does not end there, because
then with the remaining three quarters of the year that
you may you may want to turn up, but you're
now legally obliged to turn for three quarters of the year.
You can work at home, and most employees do actually
do this. At the Reserve Bank, at least one day
a week at home. They are taking the vast majority.
They got six hundred and fifty people who work there.
Four to fifty five of them do at least one
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day a week at home, so that's seventy percent. So
that's most of you, right. So then if you decide,
a cow, I need to work from home. They don't
want you to just be sitting on the couch and
getting you know, bag baddie cannot ergonomics, getting yourself a
little hunch and like, I don't know, some carpal tunnel.
So they say, we'll give you eight hundred bucks. You
can set up your home office by yourself, a nice
little light, nice little desk, maybe a reclining chair or
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something bargain. So they have paid out fifty nine thousand
dollars in home equipment because everybody's onto this racket, and
they've paid five hundred and thirty five thousand dollars just
making sure that you're going to the gym at the
Reserve Bank, a little bit of a little bit of wellness,
reimbursement and so on. So as you get yourself ready
for work today, you need to be asking this question,
should I relocate to Wellington and work for the Reserve Bank?
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Because we're all asking that question, and actually.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Because you've you've shown that you can't do numbers.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So it's I don't think that. But they also they
have positions for people who identify as trees and I
will be doing that at the Reserve Bank, And you
can just go Does this not go some of the
way to explaining why Adrian All was desperate for that
funding boost from Nikola Willer, so desperate that he quit
because otherwise how is he going to pay for all
of this nonsense?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So turns out there's there's more than six hundred people
working at the Reserve Bank. What what do they do?
I know that there's there's the ocr thing that seems
to happen every so often that they'll tell us that's
what the interest rate's going to be. I just I'm
not sure what else they do? Do you know, I
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don't know. It must be very important. I am glean Halt.
It was definitely more important than what I'm doing, which
is why I don't get there mutually for sure, And
so you can cannot mean to be back here again
tomorrow because I don't get any mental wellness leave either,
m H. And I'll see you then. This is kind
of me to wellness for us all.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
How you think you problem shared all that? See you then.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
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