December 2, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Tuesday the 3rd of December. More people are joining the jobseeker benefit, making the government's target harder to meet. Could jobseekers who don't move for work face punishment, and what are regions that have had big employers close down seeing? Ruapehu District Mayor Weston Kirton joins the show.
The Supreme Court will allow the Attorney General to appeal a decision on the Foreshore and Seabed made last year - what does it mean? Former Treaty Negations Minister Chris Finlayson speaks to Ryan.
36,000 Te Whatu Ora nurses will go on strike for 8 hours today. NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter on what you need to know.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
They'd be good morning. It is just gone six half
to five year old news talks. It'd be great to
have your company this morning. We look at those benefit
numbers out yesterday. If you live in the provinces and
the mill closes where you work, should you be thought
to move for work? We'll ask that question this morning.
Plus the thirty six thousand nurses going on strike to
make a point about safety. Slightly ironic, the French government
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basically falling apart of the seams already at risk of
a cavan and Leslie Yeoman is in Australia for us
this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's Tuesday to third of December. Nobody is above the
law and this daddy's running the country. Yes, Hunter Biden
was facing gun and tax charges. No longer.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
There may be more selective prosecutions, and there was a
feeling among a number of Biden allies that Hunter Biden
would be an easy target for a Trump Justice department
looking to make a point so that is to protect
his son.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
The decision that's been made here so apparently because remember
during the election, Biden said many times, I will not
pardon my son, I will not parton my son, and
then he has pardoned his son. He says, I took
the weekend this Thanksgiving weekend, took the Thanksgiving weekend with
my family, wrestled with the decision and decided.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So there you go. It's all kicking off in France.
The new government is at risk of caving. And this
is just three months after they formed a member That
took a while too, and they had the Olympics during
that period. It's all over a budget bill using special
powers to bypass a vote by MPs. The far right,
it's not happy. La penn Is throwing her weight around
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the far left. You know that little gaggle of far
lefties that came together during the election. Darn happy either.
So there is the possibility of a confidence vote, which
could take place as early as Thursday. New Zealand time,
the minority government unlikely to survive it. Georgia, we've been
following this on The capital sent a fourth night of
protests against the government's decision to pause negotiations on joining
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the EU.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Every single day there's more and more people coming and
it gives me pup that this government will finally go away.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Plastic talks for a global treaty on tackling plastic pollution
have collapsed more than two years after negotiations started. A
group of around one hundred countries were calling for all
plastic production to be phased out, but face opposition from guests,
whom oil producing countries. Plastic productions billed be responsible for
around five percent of global emission. So there you go,
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two years of talking and no where they got.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Foot your Beds and a
Playing Store, News Talk said, be yeah, we're going to.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Talk to Western Curtain just before six this morning. He's
there to pay who district mayor. Of course, two hundred
and thirty jobs went there at the Winstone pulp mill closures.
So if you live in a place like that and
there are no jobs for you around, do you think
that you should have to move to get a job.
Should you be forced to move to get a job,
should you get sanctions if you don't move to get
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a job text me nineteen nine two. I'd love to
know what you think. I mean, it's brutal, but you
can't have if there is no industry, if there is
no employment in a small provincial part of New Zealand anymore,
if that industry has dried up or fallen over or whatever,
you can't just forever hand out welfare to that place,
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can you? Nineteen nine two. We'd love to know what
your thoughts are on that. And also the pole, if
you've seen this pole. I'll running through the numbers just
before we come back, sorry, just after we get back
from break, because I do I find them a little
bit surprising. But the most important number, I'll tell you
right now, the most important number when it comes to
being elected or re elected as a government is the
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right track wrong track. This is a post Freshwater strategy
poll and the people who think we're in the right
direction going in the right track thirty five percent, the
wrong direction forty eight percent, So yeah, there are more
people who think we're going in the wrong direction. However,
that number was sixty four percent back in August twenty
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twenty three, so the fact that it's come down is
good news for the government. However, there are bad numbers
in this poll, which we'll talk about in a second.
Just gone ten after five News Talk set b Brian Bread.
They did have a bit of a win yesterday in
terms of the Supreme Court decision on the foreshore and
sea bed. We'll get to Chrispin Layson on that next.
(04:52):
Good Morning. If you're just joining us, it is Tuesday,
it is eleven after five. Will you I will be
love as nasty long a.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
Beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
News Talks. The thirteen after five on News Talks there
b Yes. The pole result from this post Freshwater Strategy
poll shows National has slipped four points since the October
twenty twenty three election. Labour is up, Hepkins is up
and actually has pulled ahead of Luxeon as preferred prime minister.
They say this means the twenty twenty six race is
very much alive. We're a long way before were the
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twenty twenty sixth election, aren't We just make that point?
But what is it? What do people just hate Christopher
Luxen that much that they are going to get rid
of them after one term or is it probably more
likely In the numbers we're seeing coming through, not just
the benefit numbers yesterday, but the November Credit indicator reported out,
which I've just gott in my hand here, it is
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still a very tough time out there. Over consumer areas
up three point one percent, mortgage areas up ten percent,
business credit defaults across the board up sixteen percent on
average year on year, the construction industry up thirty eight percent,
transport thirty five percent, company liquidations across the country up
twenty seven percent. So there's a whole bunch of bad
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numbers for you, which might explain the particularly bad number
you see in the political poll fourteen after five Bryan
Bridge torture and Seabed update on the court proceedings yesterday.
So this is basically the government being allowed to appeal
a decision that was made last year by an appeals court.
It's the Supreme Court that's handed out this somewhat of
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a win for the government. You'd have to say it's
all about customary marine title, customary rights to the foreshore
and seabed and Chris fin Leasons, the former treaty negotiations
Minister and Attorney General is with us this morning. Good morning,
Good morning to you. How significant is this?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I think it's a very significant decision. The Supreme Court
has considered the background to the Marine and Coastal at
two thousand and eleven and has had a good hard
look at section sixty eight, which deals with customary marine title,
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and has as it were, repaired the problems caused by
the Court of appealed judgment. So it's a very significant judgment.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So we still have to wait for the government to
appeal the decision. Might have been given the right to
appeal the decision, but they haven't said that they will
do that yet. Does this nullify the need for the
government's amendment to the bill.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I think that's a very good question. Legislation was introduced.
It may have been better to have waited until the
Supreme Court delivered its decision before deciding whether to proceed
was legislation. But I've given a lot of thought to
your questions since I read the judgment yesterday afternoon, and
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that I can't see the needs for legislation now, so.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You would stop it because it's from memory past its
first reading. I think it's submissions have been called from
the Select Committee. You just get rid of the bell,
I mean, because they can appeal it, but then it
could still bounce back again.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Right, Well, they have appealed it and the Attorney General
was successful in the Supreme Court. But questions given that success,
given the decision of the Supreme Court, is legislation clarifying
the Court of appealed decision now necessary? And I don't
think it is right. I think one can proceed on
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the basis of the Supreme Court decision without the need
for legislation.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I guess they don't call it the Supreme Court for nothing,
do they. Chrispin Lason, thank you very much for your
time the Attorney General and form a treaty negotiations Minister
seventeen after five News Talks b get.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty twenty
four on early edition with Smiths City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a play at store.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
News Talks they'd be three quick techs at nineteen after five. Yes, Ryan,
I would move if I had to for work. Back
in our hunter gatherer days, if food ran out where
we lived, we would just move or we would die.
This is the question of whether, if you're in a
town or a province where jobs are dryed up, should
you be forced to move or should we just keep
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paying welfare forever? Ryan, This is on the polls. People
have short memories after the incompetent labor government. The tough
love is unpopular, but totally necessary if we have any
hope of lifting the economy for the benefit of all.
And the third text, Ryan, are those pilot whales like
parrots or are they like us humans putting their fairies
on autopilot and heading for the beach twenty after five,
(09:47):
Ryan Bridge, Only they follow the one sick like one
of them will be sick and is piloting the rest
of these so called pilots. And if that one is
second disorientated and gets onto the beach, then they all follow.
It's quite sad, it really when you think about it. Anyway,
Speaking of being sick, don't go to the hospital today.
Thirty six thousand nurses on strike. Paul Goalz is the
New Zealand Nurses' organization chief executive. He's with us this morning. Paul,
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good morning, good morning. Now, no one is going to
die because of the strike, are they? You've got life
preserving services ready to go.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, each hospital is required to ensure there's a minimum
number of staff to ensure patient care continues.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's all over ironically actually safe staffing levels. And you
think the changes that have been made will mean that
there'll be fewer nurses on a shift. Do you know
how many fewer might it might mean?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
No, No, we don't because it varies. The very nature
that staffing system that they want to pause means that
there's great variance across the different wards, et cetera, according
to just how many patients have gotten and just how
sick or injured those particular patients are. So there's great variants.
And we have actually tried to ascertain through official and
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requests from the fatal or exactly what that number looks like.
We can't get that data.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
They won't give you the data on how many nurses
are needed per patient to be safe.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
We'll put it another way, how many short they are
on each shift?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Right? Well, that seems a bit MINGI of them.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I would have thought, yeah, yeah, if you try to
work together with an employer, that's pretty critical information and
it's been being withheld and we've really asking for that
through the bargaining as well through the good faith provisions
and the bargaining. But we would like to work together
on this rather than just have them make anylateral decisions.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
If your goal is highlight to the public how unsafe
staffing is is taking you know, thirty six thousand nurses
off for an eight hour shift way to make the point.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Well, this is what the nurses themselves asked for. You know,
we've been bargaining for a number of months. They're exact
created by how this process sort of drags on and
it happens every time we do this, and then finally
to fut the war came up with the sort of
these are our two key positions. One is are safe
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staff and pausing that et cetera. That alarms nurses because
already they are understaffed and pausing it exacerbates that problem.
And also there's issues around the wage increase as well.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
All right, Paul, thank you very much your time. Appreciate it.
It's Paul Galter. He's the New Zealand Nurses Organization chief executive.
That strike between eleven am and seven pm today and
people saying don't worry, you know, no one will die, Well,
I mean you can't say that, can you. You don't know
that for sure, but they're basically just saying you will
still be able to access healthcare should you need it,
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especially if you are in a critical condition and the
need of that. By the way, their pay increase that
they were looking at that he was talking about it,
then half a percent they've been offered for April twenty
twenty five year, and then one percent the year after that.
They say it's not inflation, so it's essentially a pay cut.
Twenty three after five News Talks EB the.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
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Speaker 2 (13:13):
It is twenty five minutes after five year on News Talks.
He be great to have your company this morning. This
is the American well would be American presidents now outgoing
and the one elect.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No one will be above the law, the American principle
that no one is above the law.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why do Americans keep saying nobody is above the law
and then repeatedly showing us that some blatantly are. Biden
tweeted this during the campaign, nobody is above the law.
He said it one hundred times. He was talking about
charges against Trump, of course, but on principle, he said
the same applies to him and his family, including his
son Hunter. Then here we are. He's lost the election
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and quicker than you can say, get out of jail free,
he has flip flopped on that. Convictions wiped clean. Hunter
now won't face any jail time or have a criminal
record for two separate core cases, some of them involving
gun charges. By the way, their constitution allows this, it
allows presidents to pardon pretty much anyone for federal crimes
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except themselves for impeachment. Trubbed it on the way out
too when he was in last time Obama both Bush's
FDR apparently hit the record with more than two thousand
pardons when he left office. At the same time that
Biden proves his son is in fact above the law.
You've got the Department of Justice dropping cases against Trump, left,
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right and center. Why while they have a policy not
going after sitting presidents. So we have a Department of
Justice policy, we have that pesky written constitution to blame.
And that's fine. It's their country, it's not mine. But
aren't you kind of glad that we don't mix politics
with justice here like they do in the States. When
we say nobody's above them law. We pretty much mean it,
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don't we. I know some will argue that we apply
the law unevenly, and there are cases to be made
for that, but on political grounds, Nah, we don't really
do that. This is the Department going after person a
because they vote for labor or they vote for ACT
or whatever. It just doesn't work like that here. The
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Americans do many things well, but separation of powers, particularly
when it comes to these types of issues, doesn't appear
to be one of them. Bryan Bridge twenty seven minutes
after five. I just want to run you through because
we are. Mike's going to speak to MPI later this
morning about this poultry situation, but I just want to
run you through what the risks are here. So exports
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are worth one hundred and ninety million dollars and they
are currently on hold. They are halted. This is because
of the discovery of and their biosecurity measures in place
at an egg farm in Otago. They go have to
kill forty thousand chickens there on this remote farm. It
is not H five N one, which is the really
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bad one everyone talks about. It's been detected in only
one of four of the barns on this farm, which
is apparently a good thing because it means that there
are some protocols in place there that's stopping it spread.
And the big number here is twenty one. Twenty one
days is the incubation period, and then we will reassess.
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So for at least the next twenty one days, our
annual one hundred and ninety million dollars worth of exports
will be affected, and then we will reassess and decide
what needs to be done next. That's according to our MPI.
They'll be on the show with Mike after six thirty
this morning. I believe twenty eight minutes after five on
News Talks, he'd be still to come. We're going to
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talk jobs in the provinces just before six o'clock. And
also this beer in Japan that basically went to town
in a supermarket for three days, bit someone's arm off
and then just went loose for three days. Anyway, they've
finally killed it. I'll tell you how.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
a Playing Store, Youth Talk z B.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Good Morning New Zealand twenty four away from six. Welcome
to early edition. I'm Ryan Bridge. Great to have you
company this morning. See this is a problem with written constitutions.
Two little things happening this morning. One, the government's about
to fall over in France. Literally they're caving in after
being in power for three months, and it took them
two months to pick a primeanent. Anyway, it's a long story,
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but it's a very messy one. And they have used
a particular part This is the prime minister. They used
a particular part of their constitution to push through his
budget without the MP's having to vote on it. So
this is He's used Article forty nine points three of
the French Constitution, which allows the text of a bill
to be passed without a vote, to push through his
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twenty twenty five This is Barnier the Prime Minister, to
push through his twenty twenty five budget. Now, the lefty group,
the little gaggle of lefties of far lefties, aren't happy
that he was put in power by by the President
Emmanuel Macron in the first base. And then you've got
the pen and the right wingers up unhappy with the
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bill itself as well. So you've got the use of
a constitution. And then look at the United States. What's
happening overnight Joe Biden goes to Thanksgiving dinner with his
son Hunter, who's facing charges, about to be about to
be given a sentence, and because of their constitution, their
written constitution, he's allowed to pardon his son, which he
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has done overnight.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
They're not all they're cracked up to be, are they?
Much as we win about our unwritten and loose arrangements.
Twenty two away from six Bryan Bridge, we're going to
our reporters around the country. Are lots of texts to
get to as well, which we will. Colen Proctor is
in Dunedan Callum, good morning to you. Culling starts today
on those forty thousand chickens at the Otaogo egg farm
that were infected with bird flu yod.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Morning, Ryan. This is the Mainland Poultry managed property. It's
near Mouraki for those that know the regents. That's north
of Dunedin that sets a loose twenty percent of its
birds following confirmation of this disease within one of its sheds.
It's not the aviate influenza currently circul wildlife globally. It's
likely this one came from local waterfowl and wild Birds.
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Ministry of Primary Industries Director General Racemith says the culling
of these chickens will take around three days. The whole
process they will take about four to six weeks before
it's complete. In the meantime, MPI stopped all live or
raw poultry exports until it's known just how widespread.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
This disease is.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
All right, Caulham has the weather a scattered rain for Todedan,
but clears this morning to mainly find a gusty westerly today.
I have twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Thank you, Jamie cunninghams and christ its Jamie. The trial
looking into the death of young Faye Bao reaching its
final days.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yes, good morning, Ryan yea, so of course. King June
Joe is charged with killing Yan Fee Boo following a
private property viewing in July last year. Attempts to cross
examination by the Crown finished yesterday, with Charles stating he
wasn't being allowed to answer questions, while the Crown says
he wasn't answering properly. At one stage, Charle asked Crown
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lawyer Pitt Curry if she was ashamed and accused her
and police of falsifying evidence. Curry argued back it was
Chow doing the falsifying, saying his evidence doesn't make sense,
and of course we're up to week seven of a
six week trial.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
May. How's the weather, Well.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
It's morning, cloud then becoming fine, some fresh northwesterlies this afternoon,
but a high of twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Brilliant. Thank you, Max tolsan Wellington Max Housing development. Ruffling feathers.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah, there's a lovely, colorful old villa that sits higher
up in the suburb of Mount Victoria that has well
been brought out and is now being knocked down to
make way for some new luxury flats. This is a
high end residential thirty two unit apartment building with a
swimming pool, garage cafe for residents. Develop a former group
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says it's all thanks to the new district plan which
scrapped many height limits and heritage rules in the Capitol.
Locals are unsurprisingly not happy. They're door knocking around the
suburb at the moment, saying its size wouldn't be respectful
or appropriate.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, did you say it was thirty units? Thirty units? Yeah, Okay,
not very It's a lovely old disrespectful to build a building. Well,
hi to people.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Just I guess I suppose people just don't like big
things overlooking looming over their houses.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Do they know that is true? How's the weather?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Mostly cloudy but a drizzle is some strong northerlyis nineteen
the high central?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thanks Max, Neva's not good, Hey, Neva, good morning. So
residents in Remuerra having their old pipes replaced.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
That's right, they're getting an upgrade. So water Care is
replacing six hundred and fifty meters. This is of this
age in water main and it's part of the twenty
eight million dollar city wide renewal program. So we know
that work is happening on Remuera Road. This is between
the corners of Stony Royd Gardens and Locke Street. Now
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most of you will remember the water main broke three times.
This was beth in fab three times in one day.
So that's where they're centering there, you know, or the
focus there at the moment. Sharon Denks, she's head of
water at water Care. She says like there's going to
be some temporary temporary keyword traffic management restrictions and reduced
on street parking. But she thinks, she reckons that the
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majority will be finished.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Before Christmas, and so this is water not waste.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, it's going to say then to posh tapoo, there
aren't they?
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Well everyone does it?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
What do you think they don't go to the loo
and remu era.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
I'm just checking out the Christmas decorations in our studios
and so you've got them.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You wouldn't get this in era no wants digital. It's
a terribly tacky tinsel.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Well I think it is too. We didn't have this
last year.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I've got they're basically TV screens behind us, aren't they
like like TV screen fifty inch TV or whatever. And
they've got just got to one tacky piece of turms
like it.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
I think we need real You've got to have real,
you know, real decorations.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Sure, I think they're a bit cheap around here. Looks
of it they are.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
Looks got broken chairs, headpines.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
That's the weather.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Oh my gosh, lovely fine, another fine day, a high
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Wasn't it hot yesterday? It was very hot yesterday, but
hot last night too. Seventeen away from six. You're on
news Talk.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
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Speaker 2 (24:32):
We're talking benefit numbers here in New Zealand and just
a second quarter to six. So first we're going to
Leslie yeomans Our Australia Correspondent. Leslie, it was the biggest
I think it was the biggest ever drug bust in
Australian history. Two point three tons of cocaine and lots
of arrests, lots.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
Of arrest and that is a huge amount of anything.
Trying to bring something like that into Australia. They we're
doing it by c And what had happened that on
Saturday and Saturday night and Sunday morning police arrested thirteen
people in all, two of them said to be associated
with the outlawed biking gang Commonchero BIKEI Gang gang in Brisbane.
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Those thirteen people have been mentioned in all the issues
been mentioned in court in Bunderberg yesterday it turned out
that police picked up two people in a boat that
had broken down after they'd gone out to sea to
meet up with the ship to get the drugs and
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bring them back to Australia. And that boat had broken
down and that's why the police were called in. Now
it was the second boat that had actually been used
to try and get the drugs in, and it was
the second boat that had broken down. So I'm not
sure that they were very good at getting purchasing a
boat that that actually could do the job for them.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, especially when you've got such a you know a
lot of money. Well was it like nearly a billion
dollars with cocaine on board?
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Yeah? Amazing, incredible right.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Tasmania. So there's a men's only club in Tasmania and
they voted to allow women into their bar, but on
one condition.
Speaker 11 (26:16):
What's that, Yes, a one condition. They still have to
be accompanied by a man. Now, the Tasmania, the women
folk are delicate down there. The Tasmania Club was established
one hundred and sixty three years ago and they it
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was established by seventy gentlemen who just wanted somewhere where
they could go and to the fat, so to speak,
without the ladies around them. So they decided that they
would establish this club. Now it's been going all that
time and women have been allowed into the bar prior
to this folk being taken but they had to ask
permission by the General manager of the club, and they
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still had to be accompanied by a man. Now. Earlier
this year, the club's membership voted to allow women into
the bar, and they had a pretty successful vote on that.
It was seventy four to twenty two in favor, but
the very vocal minority kicked up a stink and said
we're not happy with that, so they put it all
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on hold. Some of those more progressive members decided that
that was just getting a bit too ridiculous, so they
pushed to have the vote implemented and the new rules
put in. So yes, women are now allowed into the bar.
They have to be accompanied by a man though still
and yes, we'll see, well just baby steps in tazzy
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baby steps.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Wait till they get a trans rights activist in there.
They'll be just said that they won't know what to
do with themselves.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
Lose. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Listen, thank you for that. Lizzlie Evans, who's our Australia
suponded with us this morning eleven away from six bread Rich.
So we've got the job seeker numbers were up yesterday,
not good for the government's target, up eight thousand people
on the job seeker over the last quarter a total
now two hundred thousand. The target for the government, remember,
is fifty thousand by twenty thirty. But a question arose
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at Postcab yesterday should you be forced to move for
a job and should you be punished if you don't
move for that job? The Minister Louise ups and insisting
that the sanctions are just for those who are looking
for work and are not complying with those requirements.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
They're not being punished if they can't find a job.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
It's about the common sense steps that they need to
take and look for some people.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
They'll have a house, they'll have kids.
Speaker 11 (28:46):
In school, they'll bet a whole bunch of.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Life circumstances they have to deal with. ANYMSD take that
into consideration.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
They're to a pay who district's being hammered by job
cuts recently, Western Curtains of the Marry's with us this morning.
Good morning Western, Yes, good morning Ryan, Good to have
you on the show. Tell me how are you guys
getting on? You know there were two hundred and thirty
job cuts from Winstone. Pope are where is everyone?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Well, I'm moving around, Ryan, that's obviously you've got only
a limited number of opportunities in our district. We do
have one or two businesses in the seasonal basis that
take people, and we know traditionally have a high unemployment
rate in our area anyway, But to have two thirty jobs,
you know, taken away from us is a huge impact
in the economy. And we are losing these people primarily overseas.
(29:34):
Some of those go overseas with their skill sets, but
the mill impact is huge to us. But we're doing
our best as a council and as a community to
you know, keep those people in our towns. And there's
a huge impact to us. You know, the families that
have to move away.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Is this to me, No, it's massive. Is anyone being
forced to move or is MSD saying we will pay
you the job seeking in effit so long as you
peep up with your requirements until you find a job
in the district.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Well, a're simply not there. Ryan The jobs that these
people are accustomed to just simply not there. So you
can't just force people into other work that not skill
haven't got the skill sets. A lot of the people
that you know, the government is trying to focus on,
as I understand, the people that hadn't had jobs for
some time, so those jobs seekers don't have licenses, and
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it's just unfortunate that, you know, we do see cuts
in the areas like licensing for example. We understand next
year the people that deliver on licensing for example, I'm
going to lose their funding for people that vulnerable people
that need a license, they sometimes can't afford to, you know,
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come in there and go through the process for a
car license. But that funding is cutting, has been cut.
So it's unfortunate that on one hand, you know, we're
trying to get people into work, and then the other
is that we hear that over funding going to be cut,
so we're trying to deal with that with EMST to
try and get that restated.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
That's problem, I think.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, I think that the hard Leg and a whole
bunch of others did great work with those with licensing.
Western Thank you very much for that. Sounds like there's
not much of an issue, more of a storm and
teacup when it comes to claims that MSD would force
you to move and get out of town. Basically, if
you wanted to get yourself a benefit, it is eight
minutes away from six Newstalk said B.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
News and Views you trust to start your day's early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
Beds and a Flying Store.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
News Talk said B. It is six away from six
news Talks. It'd be great to have your company. And
by the way, you can get five thousand dollars. We've
just spoken to Western Curtain d to a pay who district.
You can get five thousand dollars from work and income
to move. If you find a job in another district,
they will give you five thousand dollars. So long as
you don't leave that job within three months or study
within three months, they give you five grand to relocate.
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Mike is here, whether that's Mike good Morning doesn't work.
Speaker 12 (32:02):
You remember three cater Christ Church?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, I do remember three christ Christ Church, and no
one took it up. Virtually no one took it because
you've got family, your family roots and all that stuff's
more important. Hey, someone has just asked, and I've been
wanting to ask all morning, but I sort of haven't
had the bulls. How do they kill forty thousand chickens
from Jack?
Speaker 12 (32:21):
It's a very good question, don't know, but we've got
some chicken people on and they will I'm sure be
able to tell guests them. I'm guessing, well, you know
why why are you upset? Why are you upset? But
well it's when you when you have a chicken on
your plate. How do you think it died?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well, honestly, I don't want to. I don't think about
it too.
Speaker 12 (32:41):
Much, do you know, Well maybe you shouldn't. That's life
on the land, right.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, a practical slaughter of poultry. There's an online guide
checking off. You've got to get off the dark web.
Chicken should be picked up by placing both hands securely
over the wings to prevent flapping.
Speaker 12 (32:59):
I don't think they can do and forty thousand times
because that's labor intended.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
That is not it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I don't.
Speaker 12 (33:06):
I don't think fingers crossed touch would that it's that serious?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
No, it's out well it's it sounds like it's not
the serious strain. And there was only one barn out
of four on the farm that was affected, which is
apparently a good sign too.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
Anyway, Prime Minister on this morning, very good being a Tuesday,
and think of that pole. I give it no time whatsoever.
Freshwater as far as I know it's an international operator,
then you know they're not. They're not one of your regulars.
So it's got that touchy but weird kind of two
years out from an election. Might be right, might be wrong?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Who would know?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Does it matter?
Speaker 12 (33:36):
Exactly precisely? Ivan Cleary by the way, Oh very good.
After eight o'clock this morning. I like winners on my program,
Ryan and I.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well you've got a loser.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Well I'll tell them that. I'll say, fortunately I've got
I said. Ryan says you're a loser. Chris, that's right.
Actually that's a good idea anyway. He both are with us.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
See Tom for more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge.
Listen live to Newstalk SETB from five am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
They'd be good morning. It is just gone six half
to five year old news talks. It'd be great to
have your company this morning. We look at those benefit
numbers out yesterday. If you live in the provinces and
the mill closes where you work, should you be thought
to move for work? We'll ask that question this morning.
Plus the thirty six thousand nurses going on strike to
make a point about safety. Slightly ironic, the French government
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basically falling apart of the seams already at risk of
a cavan and Leslie Yeoman is in Australia for us
this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's Tuesday to third of December. Nobody is above the
law and this daddy's running the country. Yes, Hunter Biden
was facing gun and tax charges. No longer.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
There may be more selective prosecutions, and there was a
feeling among a number of Biden allies that Hunter Biden
would be an easy target for a Trump Justice department
looking to make a point so that is to protect
his son.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
The decision that's been made here so apparently because remember
during the election, Biden said many times, I will not
pardon my son, I will not parton my son, and
then he has pardoned his son. He says, I took
the weekend this Thanksgiving weekend, took the Thanksgiving weekend with
my family, wrestled with the decision and decided.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So there you go. It's all kicking off in France.
The new government is at risk of caving. And this
is just three months after they formed a member That
took a while too, and they had the Olympics during
that period. It's all over a budget bill using special
powers to bypass a vote by MPs. The far right,
it's not happy. La penn Is throwing her weight around
(01:54):
the far left. You know that little gaggle of far
lefties that came together during the election. Darn happy either.
So there is the possibility of a confidence vote, which
could take place as early as Thursday. New Zealand time,
the minority government unlikely to survive it. Georgia, we've been
following this on The capital sent a fourth night of
protests against the government's decision to pause negotiations on joining
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the EU.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Every single day there's more and more people coming and
it gives me pup that this government will finally go away.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Plastic talks for a global treaty on tackling plastic pollution
have collapsed more than two years after negotiations started. A
group of around one hundred countries were calling for all
plastic production to be phased out, but face opposition from guests,
whom oil producing countries. Plastic productions billed be responsible for
around five percent of global emission. So there you go,
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two years of talking and no where they got.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Foot your Beds and a
Playing Store, News Talk said, be yeah, we're going to.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Talk to Western Curtain just before six this morning. He's
there to pay who district mayor. Of course, two hundred
and thirty jobs went there at the Winstone pulp mill closures.
So if you live in a place like that and
there are no jobs for you around, do you think
that you should have to move to get a job.
Should you be forced to move to get a job,
should you get sanctions if you don't move to get
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a job text me nineteen nine two. I'd love to
know what you think. I mean, it's brutal, but you
can't have if there is no industry, if there is
no employment in a small provincial part of New Zealand anymore,
if that industry has dried up or fallen over or whatever,
you can't just forever hand out welfare to that place,
(03:47):
can you? Nineteen nine two. We'd love to know what
your thoughts are on that. And also the pole, if
you've seen this pole. I'll running through the numbers just
before we come back, sorry, just after we get back
from break, because I do I find them a little
bit surprising. But the most important number, I'll tell you
right now, the most important number when it comes to
being elected or re elected as a government is the
(04:09):
right track wrong track. This is a post Freshwater strategy
poll and the people who think we're in the right
direction going in the right track thirty five percent, the
wrong direction forty eight percent, So yeah, there are more
people who think we're going in the wrong direction. However,
that number was sixty four percent back in August twenty
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twenty three, so the fact that it's come down is
good news for the government. However, there are bad numbers
in this poll, which we'll talk about in a second.
Just gone ten after five News Talk set b Brian Bread.
They did have a bit of a win yesterday in
terms of the Supreme Court decision on the foreshore and
sea bed. We'll get to Chrispin Layson on that next.
(04:52):
Good Morning. If you're just joining us, it is Tuesday,
it is eleven after five. Will you I will be
love as nasty long a.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
Beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
News Talks. The thirteen after five on News Talks there
b Yes. The pole result from this post Freshwater Strategy
poll shows National has slipped four points since the October
twenty twenty three election. Labour is up, Hepkins is up
and actually has pulled ahead of Luxeon as preferred prime minister.
They say this means the twenty twenty six race is
very much alive. We're a long way before were the
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twenty twenty sixth election, aren't We just make that point?
But what is it? What do people just hate Christopher
Luxen that much that they are going to get rid
of them after one term or is it probably more
likely In the numbers we're seeing coming through, not just
the benefit numbers yesterday, but the November Credit indicator reported out,
which I've just gott in my hand here, it is
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still a very tough time out there. Over consumer areas
up three point one percent, mortgage areas up ten percent,
business credit defaults across the board up sixteen percent on
average year on year, the construction industry up thirty eight percent,
transport thirty five percent, company liquidations across the country up
twenty seven percent. So there's a whole bunch of bad
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numbers for you, which might explain the particularly bad number
you see in the political poll fourteen after five Bryan
Bridge torture and Seabed update on the court proceedings yesterday.
So this is basically the government being allowed to appeal
a decision that was made last year by an appeals court.
It's the Supreme Court that's handed out this somewhat of
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a win for the government. You'd have to say it's
all about customary marine title, customary rights to the foreshore
and seabed and Chris fin Leasons, the former treaty negotiations
Minister and Attorney General is with us this morning. Good morning,
Good morning to you. How significant is this?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I think it's a very significant decision. The Supreme Court
has considered the background to the Marine and Coastal at
two thousand and eleven and has had a good hard
look at section sixty eight, which deals with customary marine title,
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and has as it were, repaired the problems caused by
the Court of appealed judgment. So it's a very significant judgment.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So we still have to wait for the government to
appeal the decision. Might have been given the right to
appeal the decision, but they haven't said that they will
do that yet. Does this nullify the need for the
government's amendment to the bill.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I think that's a very good question. Legislation was introduced.
It may have been better to have waited until the
Supreme Court delivered its decision before deciding whether to proceed
was legislation. But I've given a lot of thought to
your questions since I read the judgment yesterday afternoon, and
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that I can't see the needs for legislation now, so.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You would stop it because it's from memory past its
first reading. I think it's submissions have been called from
the Select Committee. You just get rid of the bell,
I mean, because they can appeal it, but then it
could still bounce back again.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Right, Well, they have appealed it and the Attorney General
was successful in the Supreme Court. But questions given that success,
given the decision of the Supreme Court, is legislation clarifying
the Court of appealed decision now necessary? And I don't
think it is right. I think one can proceed on
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the basis of the Supreme Court decision without the need
for legislation.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I guess they don't call it the Supreme Court for nothing,
do they. Chrispin Lason, thank you very much for your
time the Attorney General and form a treaty negotiations Minister
seventeen after five News Talks b get.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty twenty
four on early edition with Smiths City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a play at store.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
News Talks they'd be three quick techs at nineteen after five. Yes, Ryan,
I would move if I had to for work. Back
in our hunter gatherer days, if food ran out where
we lived, we would just move or we would die.
This is the question of whether, if you're in a
town or a province where jobs are dryed up, should
you be forced to move or should we just keep
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paying welfare forever? Ryan, This is on the polls. People
have short memories after the incompetent labor government. The tough
love is unpopular, but totally necessary if we have any
hope of lifting the economy for the benefit of all.
And the third text, Ryan, are those pilot whales like
parrots or are they like us humans putting their fairies
on autopilot and heading for the beach twenty after five,
(09:47):
Ryan Bridge, Only they follow the one sick like one
of them will be sick and is piloting the rest
of these so called pilots. And if that one is
second disorientated and gets onto the beach, then they all follow.
It's quite sad, it really when you think about it. Anyway,
Speaking of being sick, don't go to the hospital today.
Thirty six thousand nurses on strike. Paul Goalz is the
New Zealand Nurses' organization chief executive. He's with us this morning. Paul,
(10:09):
good morning, good morning. Now, no one is going to
die because of the strike, are they? You've got life
preserving services ready to go.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, each hospital is required to ensure there's a minimum
number of staff to ensure patient care continues.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's all over ironically actually safe staffing levels. And you
think the changes that have been made will mean that
there'll be fewer nurses on a shift. Do you know
how many fewer might it might mean?
Speaker 5 (10:38):
No, No, we don't because it varies. The very nature
that staffing system that they want to pause means that
there's great variance across the different wards, et cetera, according
to just how many patients have gotten and just how
sick or injured those particular patients are. So there's great variants.
And we have actually tried to ascertain through official and
(11:00):
requests from the fatal or exactly what that number looks like.
We can't get that data.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
They won't give you the data on how many nurses
are needed per patient to be safe.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
We'll put it another way, how many short they are
on each shift?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Right? Well, that seems a bit MINGI of them.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I would have thought, yeah, yeah, if you try to
work together with an employer, that's pretty critical information and
it's been being withheld and we've really asking for that
through the bargaining as well through the good faith provisions
and the bargaining. But we would like to work together
on this rather than just have them make anylateral decisions.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
If your goal is highlight to the public how unsafe
staffing is is taking you know, thirty six thousand nurses
off for an eight hour shift way to make the point.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Well, this is what the nurses themselves asked for. You know,
we've been bargaining for a number of months. They're exact
created by how this process sort of drags on and
it happens every time we do this, and then finally
to fut the war came up with the sort of
these are our two key positions. One is are safe
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staff and pausing that et cetera. That alarms nurses because
already they are understaffed and pausing it exacerbates that problem.
And also there's issues around the wage increase as well.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
All right, Paul, thank you very much your time. Appreciate it.
It's Paul Galter. He's the New Zealand Nurses Organization chief executive.
That strike between eleven am and seven pm today and
people saying don't worry, you know, no one will die, Well,
I mean you can't say that, can you. You don't know
that for sure, but they're basically just saying you will
still be able to access healthcare should you need it,
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especially if you are in a critical condition and the
need of that. By the way, their pay increase that
they were looking at that he was talking about it,
then half a percent they've been offered for April twenty
twenty five year, and then one percent the year after that.
They say it's not inflation, so it's essentially a pay cut.
Twenty three after five News Talks EB the.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Early edition for All the Show podcast on Ihart Radio
Power by News Talks IV.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It is twenty five minutes after five year on News Talks.
He be great to have your company this morning. This
is the American well would be American presidents now outgoing
and the one elect.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No one will be above the law, the American principle
that no one is above the law.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why do Americans keep saying nobody is above the law
and then repeatedly showing us that some blatantly are. Biden
tweeted this during the campaign, nobody is above the law.
He said it one hundred times. He was talking about
charges against Trump, of course, but on principle, he said
the same applies to him and his family, including his
son Hunter. Then here we are. He's lost the election
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and quicker than you can say, get out of jail free,
he has flip flopped on that. Convictions wiped clean. Hunter
now won't face any jail time or have a criminal
record for two separate core cases, some of them involving
gun charges. By the way, their constitution allows this, it
allows presidents to pardon pretty much anyone for federal crimes
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except themselves for impeachment. Trubbed it on the way out
too when he was in last time Obama both Bush's
FDR apparently hit the record with more than two thousand
pardons when he left office. At the same time that
Biden proves his son is in fact above the law.
You've got the Department of Justice dropping cases against Trump, left,
(14:36):
right and center. Why while they have a policy not
going after sitting presidents. So we have a Department of
Justice policy, we have that pesky written constitution to blame.
And that's fine. It's their country, it's not mine. But
aren't you kind of glad that we don't mix politics
with justice here like they do in the States. When
we say nobody's above them law. We pretty much mean it,
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don't we. I know some will argue that we apply
the law unevenly, and there are cases to be made
for that, but on political grounds, Nah, we don't really
do that. This is the Department going after person a
because they vote for labor or they vote for ACT
or whatever. It just doesn't work like that here. The
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Americans do many things well, but separation of powers, particularly
when it comes to these types of issues, doesn't appear
to be one of them. Bryan Bridge twenty seven minutes
after five. I just want to run you through because
we are. Mike's going to speak to MPI later this
morning about this poultry situation, but I just want to
run you through what the risks are here. So exports
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are worth one hundred and ninety million dollars and they
are currently on hold. They are halted. This is because
of the discovery of and their biosecurity measures in place
at an egg farm in Otago. They go have to
kill forty thousand chickens there on this remote farm. It
is not H five N one, which is the really
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bad one everyone talks about. It's been detected in only
one of four of the barns on this farm, which
is apparently a good thing because it means that there
are some protocols in place there that's stopping it spread.
And the big number here is twenty one. Twenty one
days is the incubation period, and then we will reassess.
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So for at least the next twenty one days, our
annual one hundred and ninety million dollars worth of exports
will be affected, and then we will reassess and decide
what needs to be done next. That's according to our MPI.
They'll be on the show with Mike after six thirty
this morning. I believe twenty eight minutes after five on
News Talks, he'd be still to come. We're going to
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talk jobs in the provinces just before six o'clock. And
also this beer in Japan that basically went to town
in a supermarket for three days, bit someone's arm off
and then just went loose for three days. Anyway, they've
finally killed it. I'll tell you how.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
a Playing Store, Youth Talk z B.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Good Morning New Zealand twenty four away from six. Welcome
to early edition. I'm Ryan Bridge. Great to have you
company this morning. See this is a problem with written constitutions.
Two little things happening this morning. One, the government's about
to fall over in France. Literally they're caving in after
being in power for three months, and it took them
two months to pick a primeanent. Anyway, it's a long story,
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but it's a very messy one. And they have used
a particular part This is the prime minister. They used
a particular part of their constitution to push through his
budget without the MP's having to vote on it. So
this is He's used Article forty nine points three of
the French Constitution, which allows the text of a bill
to be passed without a vote, to push through his
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twenty twenty five This is Barnier the Prime Minister, to
push through his twenty twenty five budget. Now, the lefty group,
the little gaggle of lefties of far lefties, aren't happy
that he was put in power by by the President
Emmanuel Macron in the first base. And then you've got
the pen and the right wingers up unhappy with the
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bill itself as well. So you've got the use of
a constitution. And then look at the United States. What's
happening overnight Joe Biden goes to Thanksgiving dinner with his
son Hunter, who's facing charges, about to be about to
be given a sentence, and because of their constitution, their
written constitution, he's allowed to pardon his son, which he
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has done overnight.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
They're not all they're cracked up to be, are they?
Much as we win about our unwritten and loose arrangements.
Twenty two away from six Bryan Bridge, we're going to
our reporters around the country. Are lots of texts to
get to as well, which we will. Colen Proctor is
in Dunedan Callum, good morning to you. Culling starts today
on those forty thousand chickens at the Otaogo egg farm
that were infected with bird flu yod.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Morning, Ryan. This is the Mainland Poultry managed property. It's
near Mouraki for those that know the regents. That's north
of Dunedin that sets a loose twenty percent of its
birds following confirmation of this disease within one of its sheds.
It's not the aviate influenza currently circul wildlife globally. It's
likely this one came from local waterfowl and wild Birds.
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Ministry of Primary Industries Director General Racemith says the culling
of these chickens will take around three days. The whole
process they will take about four to six weeks before
it's complete. In the meantime, MPI stopped all live or
raw poultry exports until it's known just how widespread.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
This disease is.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
All right, Caulham has the weather a scattered rain for Todedan,
but clears this morning to mainly find a gusty westerly today.
I have twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Thank you, Jamie cunninghams and christ its Jamie. The trial
looking into the death of young Faye Bao reaching its
final days.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yes, good morning, Ryan yea, so of course. King June
Joe is charged with killing Yan Fee Boo following a
private property viewing in July last year. Attempts to cross
examination by the Crown finished yesterday, with Charles stating he
wasn't being allowed to answer questions, while the Crown says
he wasn't answering properly. At one stage, Charle asked Crown
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lawyer Pitt Curry if she was ashamed and accused her
and police of falsifying evidence. Curry argued back it was
Chow doing the falsifying, saying his evidence doesn't make sense,
and of course we're up to week seven of a
six week trial.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
May. How's the weather, Well.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
It's morning, cloud then becoming fine, some fresh northwesterlies this afternoon,
but a high of twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Brilliant. Thank you, Max tolsan Wellington Max Housing development. Ruffling feathers.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah, there's a lovely, colorful old villa that sits higher
up in the suburb of Mount Victoria that has well
been brought out and is now being knocked down to
make way for some new luxury flats. This is a
high end residential thirty two unit apartment building with a
swimming pool, garage cafe for residents. Develop a former group
(21:45):
says it's all thanks to the new district plan which
scrapped many height limits and heritage rules in the Capitol.
Locals are unsurprisingly not happy. They're door knocking around the
suburb at the moment, saying its size wouldn't be respectful
or appropriate.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, did you say it was thirty units? Thirty units? Yeah, Okay,
not very It's a lovely old disrespectful to build a building. Well,
hi to people.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Just I guess I suppose people just don't like big
things overlooking looming over their houses.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Do they know that is true? How's the weather?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Mostly cloudy but a drizzle is some strong northerlyis nineteen
the high central?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thanks Max, Neva's not good, Hey, Neva, good morning. So
residents in Remuerra having their old pipes replaced.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
That's right, they're getting an upgrade. So water Care is
replacing six hundred and fifty meters. This is of this
age in water main and it's part of the twenty
eight million dollar city wide renewal program. So we know
that work is happening on Remuera Road. This is between
the corners of Stony Royd Gardens and Locke Street. Now
(22:55):
most of you will remember the water main broke three times.
This was beth in fab three times in one day.
So that's where they're centering there, you know, or the
focus there at the moment. Sharon Denks, she's head of
water at water Care. She says like there's going to
be some temporary temporary keyword traffic management restrictions and reduced
on street parking. But she thinks, she reckons that the
(23:18):
majority will be finished.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Before Christmas, and so this is water not waste.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, it's going to say then to posh tapoo, there
aren't they?
Speaker 10 (23:31):
Well everyone does it?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
What do you think they don't go to the loo
and remu era.
Speaker 10 (23:38):
I'm just checking out the Christmas decorations in our studios
and so you've got them.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You wouldn't get this in era no wants digital. It's
a terribly tacky tinsel.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Well I think it is too. We didn't have this
last year.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I've got they're basically TV screens behind us, aren't they
like like TV screen fifty inch TV or whatever. And
they've got just got to one tacky piece of turms
like it.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
I think we need real You've got to have real,
you know, real decorations.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Sure, I think they're a bit cheap around here. Looks
of it they are.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
Looks got broken chairs, headpines.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
That's the weather.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Oh my gosh, lovely fine, another fine day, a high
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Wasn't it hot yesterday? It was very hot yesterday, but
hot last night too. Seventeen away from six. You're on
news Talk.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Zb International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
We're talking benefit numbers here in New Zealand and just
a second quarter to six. So first we're going to
Leslie yeomans Our Australia Correspondent. Leslie, it was the biggest
I think it was the biggest ever drug bust in
Australian history. Two point three tons of cocaine and lots
of arrests, lots.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
Of arrest and that is a huge amount of anything.
Trying to bring something like that into Australia. They we're
doing it by c And what had happened that on
Saturday and Saturday night and Sunday morning police arrested thirteen
people in all, two of them said to be associated
with the outlawed biking gang Commonchero BIKEI Gang gang in Brisbane.
(25:16):
Those thirteen people have been mentioned in all the issues
been mentioned in court in Bunderberg yesterday it turned out
that police picked up two people in a boat that
had broken down after they'd gone out to sea to
meet up with the ship to get the drugs and
(25:36):
bring them back to Australia. And that boat had broken
down and that's why the police were called in. Now
it was the second boat that had actually been used
to try and get the drugs in, and it was
the second boat that had broken down. So I'm not
sure that they were very good at getting purchasing a
boat that that actually could do the job for them.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, especially when you've got such a you know a
lot of money. Well was it like nearly a billion
dollars with cocaine on board?
Speaker 11 (26:05):
Yeah? Amazing, incredible right.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Tasmania. So there's a men's only club in Tasmania and
they voted to allow women into their bar, but on
one condition.
Speaker 11 (26:16):
What's that, Yes, a one condition. They still have to
be accompanied by a man. Now, the Tasmania, the women
folk are delicate down there. The Tasmania Club was established
one hundred and sixty three years ago and they it
(26:37):
was established by seventy gentlemen who just wanted somewhere where
they could go and to the fat, so to speak,
without the ladies around them. So they decided that they
would establish this club. Now it's been going all that
time and women have been allowed into the bar prior
to this folk being taken but they had to ask
permission by the General manager of the club, and they
(27:01):
still had to be accompanied by a man. Now. Earlier
this year, the club's membership voted to allow women into
the bar, and they had a pretty successful vote on that.
It was seventy four to twenty two in favor, but
the very vocal minority kicked up a stink and said
we're not happy with that, so they put it all
(27:22):
on hold. Some of those more progressive members decided that
that was just getting a bit too ridiculous, so they
pushed to have the vote implemented and the new rules
put in. So yes, women are now allowed into the bar.
They have to be accompanied by a man though still
and yes, we'll see, well just baby steps in tazzy
(27:46):
baby steps.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Wait till they get a trans rights activist in there.
They'll be just said that they won't know what to
do with themselves.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
Lose. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Listen, thank you for that. Lizzlie Evans, who's our Australia
suponded with us this morning eleven away from six bread Rich.
So we've got the job seeker numbers were up yesterday,
not good for the government's target, up eight thousand people
on the job seeker over the last quarter a total
now two hundred thousand. The target for the government, remember,
is fifty thousand by twenty thirty. But a question arose
(28:20):
at Postcab yesterday should you be forced to move for
a job and should you be punished if you don't
move for that job? The Minister Louise ups and insisting
that the sanctions are just for those who are looking
for work and are not complying with those requirements.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
They're not being punished if they can't find a job.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
It's about the common sense steps that they need to
take and look for some people.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
They'll have a house, they'll have kids.
Speaker 11 (28:46):
In school, they'll bet a whole bunch of.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Life circumstances they have to deal with. ANYMSD take that
into consideration.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
They're to a pay who district's being hammered by job
cuts recently, Western Curtains of the Marry's with us this morning.
Good morning Western, Yes, good morning Ryan, Good to have
you on the show. Tell me how are you guys
getting on? You know there were two hundred and thirty
job cuts from Winstone. Pope are where is everyone?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Well, I'm moving around, Ryan, that's obviously you've got only
a limited number of opportunities in our district. We do
have one or two businesses in the seasonal basis that
take people, and we know traditionally have a high unemployment
rate in our area anyway, But to have two thirty jobs,
you know, taken away from us is a huge impact
in the economy. And we are losing these people primarily overseas.
(29:34):
Some of those go overseas with their skill sets, but
the mill impact is huge to us. But we're doing
our best as a council and as a community to
you know, keep those people in our towns. And there's
a huge impact to us. You know, the families that
have to move away.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Is this to me, No, it's massive. Is anyone being
forced to move or is MSD saying we will pay
you the job seeking in effit so long as you
peep up with your requirements until you find a job
in the district.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Well, a're simply not there. Ryan The jobs that these
people are accustomed to just simply not there. So you
can't just force people into other work that not skill
haven't got the skill sets. A lot of the people
that you know, the government is trying to focus on,
as I understand, the people that hadn't had jobs for
some time, so those jobs seekers don't have licenses, and
(30:27):
it's just unfortunate that, you know, we do see cuts
in the areas like licensing for example. We understand next
year the people that deliver on licensing for example, I'm
going to lose their funding for people that vulnerable people
that need a license, they sometimes can't afford to, you know,
(30:48):
come in there and go through the process for a
car license. But that funding is cutting, has been cut.
So it's unfortunate that on one hand, you know, we're
trying to get people into work, and then the other
is that we hear that over funding going to be cut,
so we're trying to deal with that with EMST to
try and get that restated.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
That's problem, I think.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, I think that the hard Leg and a whole
bunch of others did great work with those with licensing.
Western Thank you very much for that. Sounds like there's
not much of an issue, more of a storm and
teacup when it comes to claims that MSD would force
you to move and get out of town. Basically, if
you wanted to get yourself a benefit, it is eight
minutes away from six Newstalk said B.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
News and Views you trust to start your day's early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
Beds and a Flying Store.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
News Talk said B. It is six away from six
news Talks. It'd be great to have your company. And
by the way, you can get five thousand dollars. We've
just spoken to Western Curtain d to a pay who district.
You can get five thousand dollars from work and income
to move. If you find a job in another district,
they will give you five thousand dollars. So long as
you don't leave that job within three months or study
within three months, they give you five grand to relocate.
(32:00):
Mike is here, whether that's Mike good Morning doesn't work.
Speaker 12 (32:02):
You remember three cater Christ Church?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, I do remember three christ Christ Church, and no
one took it up. Virtually no one took it because
you've got family, your family roots and all that stuff's
more important. Hey, someone has just asked, and I've been
wanting to ask all morning, but I sort of haven't
had the bulls. How do they kill forty thousand chickens
from Jack?
Speaker 12 (32:21):
It's a very good question, don't know, but we've got
some chicken people on and they will I'm sure be
able to tell guests them. I'm guessing, well, you know
why why are you upset? Why are you upset? But
well it's when you when you have a chicken on
your plate. How do you think it died?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Well, honestly, I don't want to. I don't think about
it too.
Speaker 12 (32:41):
Much, do you know, Well maybe you shouldn't. That's life
on the land, right.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, a practical slaughter of poultry. There's an online guide
checking off. You've got to get off the dark web.
Chicken should be picked up by placing both hands securely
over the wings to prevent flapping.
Speaker 12 (32:59):
I don't think they can do and forty thousand times
because that's labor intended.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
That is not it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I don't.
Speaker 12 (33:06):
I don't think fingers crossed touch would that it's that serious?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
No, it's out well it's it sounds like it's not
the serious strain. And there was only one barn out
of four on the farm that was affected, which is
apparently a good sign too.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
Anyway, Prime Minister on this morning, very good being a Tuesday,
and think of that pole. I give it no time whatsoever.
Freshwater as far as I know it's an international operator,
then you know they're not. They're not one of your regulars.
So it's got that touchy but weird kind of two
years out from an election. Might be right, might be wrong?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Who would know?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Does it matter?
Speaker 12 (33:36):
Exactly precisely? Ivan Cleary by the way, Oh very good.
After eight o'clock this morning. I like winners on my program,
Ryan and I.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well you've got a loser.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Well I'll tell them that. I'll say, fortunately I've got
I said. Ryan says you're a loser. Chris, that's right.
Actually that's a good idea anyway. He both are with us.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
See Tom for more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge.
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