July 2, 2026 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 3rd of July 2026, seems like the Government is moving to put restrictions Indian immigration, Sonny Lam, Immigration expert at Queen City Law shares his thoughts.
The All Blacks take on France in the first test of the season at the sold out One New Zealand stadium, Chief Executive Venues Otautahi, Caroline Harvie-Teare tells Ryan how big of a deal this will be for the garden city.
Erica Stanford's rolling out a big expansion of early language support in ECE centres, Advocates for Early Learning Excellence Chair Kelly Seaburg shares her thoughts on the programme.
Plus, UK Correspondent Vincent McAviney has the latest on Sir Keir Starmer apologising on behalf of the British state for its role in historical forced adoptions in England and Wales and the ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang that targeted girls as young as 12 has been released from prison.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
They'd be very good morning, six after five on your Friday.
Prime Minister Modi is coming for a visit to New Zealand.
That's the room of this month potentially as the government
looks at immigration restrictions on Indians. We'll look at that
before top of the hour. The Hurricanes are playing France
in christ Church. We'll speak to the stadium boss in
just a few moments. Also, well, kids probably having a
(00:33):
little bit of trouble getting when they get to school,
been able to speak, and because of this, Erica Stamford's
making a bunch of changes before they get there. We'll
talk about that before top of the hour too. News Talks.
Theb the Agenda Friday, the third of June, eight days
under the rubble in Venezuela, and they'll pulled the guy
out alive.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
If they had just gone in and drilled quickly, there
was the risk that one of those worlds could have
collapsed on him and would have crushed him. And so
they had to do this really carefully.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
To the UK now where they forced adoptions that people
know about happened in Britain. Starmer on behalf of the
government has formally said, sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
The shame is not yours. The shame was never yours.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The shame is ours. It's quite shocking. One hundred and
eighty five thousand babies are taken from unmarried mothers in
England and Wales. During the fifties, sixties, seventies, not that
long ago, many women pressed into giving up their children.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
As an adopted person born in nineteen seventy two, I
welcome to this statement from the Prime minister. Does a
Prime minister agree with me? The mother should be supported
by the state to look after their children and not
forced to give them up.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now Trump is going after Cuba again.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Of Cuba after many, many decades, it's coming our way,
coming over.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Cuba's president says, we're not for sale.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Mate is an outreach and an upfront to the dignity
of our people. We don't want the war, but we're
not afraid of it, and we are getting ready so
that we're in a surprise or defeating.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
There you go, coming up in a few minutes. I'll
tell you what Mam Dami, the new Socialist Democratic mayor
of New York is telling them and what to do
in a heat wave.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
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Speaker 2 (02:31):
That'd be eight after five. Rough sleepers big story in
the mainstream media this week. You would have seen it.
They've been covering it all over it like flies to
a blanket. And the other day I was watching a
scene unfold before my very eyes. It was on a
relatively nice street in Auckland, like a cafe retail area,
(02:52):
so lots of people. It was during the middle of
the day. I'd finished work and there was a woman
who was who police were trying to restrain. She was,
you know, middle aged. I don't know if she was
a rough sleeper or not. I have no idea, but
I just know that she looks she was having a meltdown, right.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
She was going crazy. She was yelling, she was screaming,
she was saying, don't take me away, don't take me away.
And people were and this was an awkward situation for police.
And I was just kind of watching from across the street, thinking, oh,
you poor guys and girls having to do this in
front of everybody, because you've got all your Karens and
your Kens having their coffees and their lattes and going
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into the shops and watching all this scene unfold. And
as soon as the police start putting their hands onto
this woman, they stand up, and then some of them
get their phones out. And I'm thinking, oh, you poor guys,
who would want to be a police officer, because you're
damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
This person is causing a scene, running into the shop,
(03:57):
you know, sitting on the ground, all this kind of stuff,
and I don't know what. Maybe there was a reason
that they were going to arrest her anyway, you know,
like it might have been something completely unrelated to just
causing a public nuisance. I don't know, but just just
thinking about being a police officer in a situation like that,
when you've got every Tom, Dick and Harry with a phone,
(04:20):
the judgment, the casting of aspersions, and it's an impossible situation.
And then you also now have politicians weighing in saying
this is inhumane, this is cruel, this is making rough
sleeping illegal. Once they change the law, how easy is
it going to be for a police officer to actually
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enforce it. How difficult is that job going to be
for them, not because of the actual work involved, but
the judgment from the rest of us. Looking one Chapter
five News Talks, there'd be coming up next. We're going
to talk about the early childhood education. This is a
really interesting one because too many kids. In fact, I
(05:02):
was watching last night there was a woman saying who
works in an early childhood center that normally by the
time a kid gets to school, they have about two
thousand words in their vocab. Kids are coming to school
with five hundred. So something has to change. That's next.
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News TALKSB five thirteen nine two ninety two The Numbers
to text Amanda, Good morning to you. Amanda says I
was one of those children, well not in England but
here in New Zealand. Adopted child of the seventies. My
sixteen year old birth mother was sent to a stranger's
farm in the Wycuto when she showed her pregnancy. It's
just crazy how women were treated back then for just
and to be fair, teenage pregnancies were a thing then.
(05:56):
Teenage pregnancies were a thing when I was at school.
Teenage pregnancies these not a thing at all. They just
don't happen. Isn't that crazy anyway? The Amanda says the
mother wasn't treated very well, but luckily Amanda was adopted
within the family. Others weren't so lucky. Nice to have
you listening this morning. It is fourteen enough to five
(06:16):
ran Serica. Stanford's going big on early language support in
EC centers. Centers going from sixty five to five hundred
kids starting school can barely speak. Some of them too
much screen time a problem. To Kelly Seberg, advocates for
Early Learning Excellence chair and a News Shoots Sonny Nook
director joins us this morning.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Morning, Kelly, morning, Ryan, How are you very well?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Thank you? So what is it? From what I can
understand yesterday, this is about getting EC staff to be
more engaged with talking to young to talking to the kids.
Is that about right?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And look, it's a program. I've had colleagues and staff
who've gone through it, and they rave about what they've
learned and what they're putting into practice with children. So
it's a really highly regarded program in the sector. And
you're thinking about intentional teaching strategies around oral language. So
it's wonderful to talk to children and that's great, but
we really want to think about our questioning skills, how
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we're eliciting responses from children and being much more aware
of developing oral language skills in early learning. So it's
a fantastic program.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Because one of the important things, and this is what
ECE centers. I mean, some parents worry about ECE centers
because are there enough instructors or teachers there to give
the child everything that they need to develop those skills
because when you're that young, it's very much about one
on one, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Well, one on one or with small group is what
you need. But you've got to remember an early childhood education.
The vast majority of staff thirty three thousand qualified registered
teachers are in early learning, so we have highly qualified staff.
But this is about building professional development and if you
think about most only learning services might have a one
(08:03):
to four ratio four or three or four ratio for
their for their under twos, and as the moving up,
the you know, they might be only one to seven,
one to eight, a maximum one to ten for their
up to five year olds. Those are really quality ratios
across across internationally and with qualified teachers. This is great,
but like you all teachers, everyone needs a focus on
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particular parts of curriculum and this is a program that
really supports that. And I think what's really important is
when we're focusing on oral language, you know, we really
do have an opportunity to build a connected zero to
eighteen years literacy pathway. And I think this is why
the Minister is so interested, because we know that when
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we build strong foundations in oral language, that leads on
to you know, early literacy, which feeds into his structured
literacy and curriculum and schools, teacher education and ongoing professional development.
You can't just sort of set teach and then leave them.
It is around really focusing what their practice is looking
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at and their ongoing professional learning.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Kelly, it all sounds fantastic to me. I mean, it's
targeting exactly the area we need to be targeting, because
as we know, if we don't get it right before
they get to school, then they are far less likely
to get it right while they're there. Kelly Seberg, Advocates
for Advocates for Early Learning Excellence Chair, Newstreet Studying Look
Director with us. This morning time is seventeen minutes after five,
(09:31):
and you're on News Talks. There'd be excellent news for
you this morning on consents. I'll give that to you
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Speaker 2 (09:53):
News Talks a B five nineteen. Great to have your
company this morning. I've got good news coming from the
rural sector, but good news on consents because if you
look at Australia, they've got new consents, are actually starting
to dip a bit, their taxes are going up, they've
got capital gains changes, negative gearing changes, all that sort
of stuff. Here we have not only do we have
housing prices either flat or stable or falling outside of
(10:17):
the Unicorn South Island consents her up. So even though
prices are stable are falling, consents her up. That's monthly
and annually. Rents are down. This is all good news.
Affordability in the North item, for example, a lot of
places is up. Stats n Z says three eight hundred
billion consents issued for new dwellings in May. That's up
(10:38):
twenty one percent on May last year. Thirty nine thousand
consents annually, nineteen percent increase on the year before. This
is after three years of going backwards, So this is
good news. And it's across a whole bunch of different
property types as well. Eighteen thousand standalone houses that's up
seventeen percent on the year, seventeen thousand town houses that's
(10:59):
up twenty two percent, and a twenty percent increase in apartments,
although I have seen a lot of ugly ones lately.
Twenty one after five Rayon Bridge, big weekend for the
Garden City. The All Blacks take on France in the
first test of the season. Sold out one Insied Stadium
seven ten pm Saturday. Put it in your diaries, put
it in calendars. Caroline Harvey tears with us one Insied
(11:19):
stadium boss. Good morning, good morning, how are you very well?
Thank you? Another sellout.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Yeah, we're sort of getting used to it down here.
It's awesome. It's been a bit of a whirl wind.
Seventy days so far, so no, we're very happy with
how everything's going on. The weekend is going to be
an absolute electric atmosphere down here.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, seventy days. How many people have you head through now?
Have you done? Have you done a tally?
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Yeah? Yeah. So after the weekend with thirty thousand coming
into the All Blacks, we're at just over three hundred
and seventeen thousand guests through the stadium. So a really
awesome start and just incredible to see the positivity and
pride that's around the city.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I've been there. I think it's fantastic. It's hard to
argue with it. Have there been any hiccups?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Oh, look, there's always things to learn, you know. We
got the keys four days before we held Souper around
so but look, it's really incremental shifts, you know, and
that's what we wanted to see. So the venues performing beautifully.
There's some operational tweaks that we've made over the time.
We're really looking forward to having an enhanced external overlay
(12:27):
for the All Blacks. Obviously, we had a bit of
feedback around the concert overlay, so we're really hoping that
everyone has a great experience with that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
On Saturday night, what do you mean external overlay.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yeah, so we have to when we have more than
twenty five thousand people in the building. So the building
is designed for twenty five thousand, we have to bring
in extra food and beverage and toilets just to supplement
the offering for what's for.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
That extra number.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
And so we had a few cues and things that
we weren't too pleased with for the concert, so built
a night market for this one. So really enhanced offering
and a replication of some of those vendors that are
inside because everyone's loving the food vendors, all of our
local offerings inside the building. So we just want to
make sure that we're enhancing that offering for those that
(13:15):
have that other experience as.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well more lose fewer queues. Caroline, how's revenue going?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Yeah, Look, we are. We're having a great year. You know,
we knew that it was going to be solid, and
we knew that it was going to be positive, but
we probably didn't expect it to be quite so. Look,
and we know that there's a honeymoon, of course there is.
But I think what we're seeing is people are genuinely
connecting with the venue. People are loving the experience and
they're coming back, and so our job is to maintain
(13:46):
that momentum, maintain that good quality service and that that
wonderful guest experience, and keep delivering awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Content, fantastic. Caroline Harvey tea who is cheap Ezech venues
all today. He possibly one the n ZED stadium four
after five line is a kindergarten department teacher of twenty
six years. I can tell you that, yes, oral language
is a huge concern. There are a lot of fantastic
PD programs personal development. I'm assuming that is to promote this. However,
(14:15):
your guest has deluded. Our biggest problem is ratios. There
is little time for focused, intentional teaching as we operate
under ratios of one to ten in groups of children
aged two to five. That is the real problem. Okay, interesting,
So a ratio of one to ten when you've got
two to five year olds, so you've got ten three
(14:38):
year olds. Now look, I'm no parent, but to me
that sounds a bit insane. How are you meant to
get and how are you meant to improve oral language
and vocabulary? And a lot of these kids you need
to have them focus, you know, focus, focus, focus, If
there's ten of them. That does sound difficult. I appreciate
(14:59):
your text this morning from a kindergarten teacher twenty five
minutes after five News TALKSVB News Talks VB. It is
twenty seven minutes after five. The government's looking to move
on from free school lunches for every kid in a
poor school. David Seymour told me this week they're looking
at tightening things up, and I think that it's probably
going to happen at present. If your kid's school is
(15:20):
signed up to the school lunches program, your kid automatically
gets a lunch, whether you ask for one or not.
The only way to stop that is to actually contact
the school and opt out on an individual basis. Now,
how many parents are doing that, even if they're providing
lunch to their kids. I reckon they'll change this so
that parents will have to opt their kids in rather
(15:42):
than the other way around. I think it makes much
more sense to do it that way. If it's true
that half the lunches aren't being eaten, then why waste
the resources taxpayer resource? After all, if the food was
good enough for the fifty percent of kids who did
eat it, then why Wasn't it good enough For the
fifty percent who didn't, It's obvious they're not hungry. There
(16:02):
is an alternative for them. If there really is a
problem with the quality of the lunches, then surely producing
fewer of them will lower the costs and perhaps allow
quality to improve further. You know, do less, we do
more with less. I must say it seems odd that
all the meals must be hot when most Kiwis pre
(16:25):
the previous labor government were raised on a lunch of
cold sandwiches, weren't we. I'm not saying this is soundingly
some grumpy old man. I'm like thirty eight, you know,
but I never had a hot lunch in my life. Seriously,
hot meals were for dinner only. Anyway, to those frustrated
by the media coverage of these stories this week, and
(16:46):
there have been many of you, it seems like changes
are coming, which should mean only those kids who are
actually hungry will get fed by the state cry and
bread in nine minutes after five Great to have your
company play you that audio on Mamdami. He's asking actually,
I'll tell you what he's doing, and then I'll give
you the audio after the news. He's telling because there's
(17:07):
a heat wave coming. I've been to Europe. Now the
heat wave coming to New York. You wait, No one
moans like in New Yorker. Mamdarmi is the MIA and
he has put out a social media video saying New York,
it's hot out there. However, will we cope? The power
grid is working over time? Set your AC to seventy
eight degrees that's fahrenhearit obviously, now what is seventy eight
(17:33):
degrees fahrenheit and celsius twenty five? Sorry, that's not acceptable.
That's a saunat in your apartment living room. We're in UK.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
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Twenty four minutes away from sixty year on News Talks
MB on your Friday and Morning. Great to have your
company coming up inside the next twenty Modi is apparently
coming to New Zealand a mid and immigrations spat. Winston's
not happy. We'll look at that. Also in the UK,
Starmas saying sorry, but for what we'll answer. That text
of the morning is from Jane. Good morning Jane, She says,
morning Ryan. We were talking about police and what a
(18:29):
job they're going to have, moving on rough sleepers in
front of Karen's and Ken's with their mobile phones out
filming the whole thing, getting all judgy and tisk tisk.
Jane says, good morning, Ryan. My partner is still serving
as a frontline police officer in his mid sixties, completed
twenty years joined later in life. He has always seen
it as a vocation and remains committed to his role.
(18:50):
That's in spite of the constant cuts, the poor wages,
and the ever present danger, let alone the constant judgment
by people who have never walked a day in his shoes.
This is what I was getting at. This is people
all judging Judgey tisky tiskey. But do they have any
idea what's going on? Anyway, Jane continues, they want him
when they're in danger, which is the point. But it's
(19:11):
fine to fling judgment and insults when they observe a
situation that they know nothing about. The hierarchy don't want
to see the daily challenges. Politics and ambition overrides where
the focus needs to be on the front line where
the rank and file face the daily grind, where they
are underpaid, often underprotected, and always on trial. Bryan Bridge
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the number to text plenty on parents too, first Callum
and the need morning Collum. Morning, right, very wintry weather.
Condition's unsurprisingly given its winter for you guys this week, well, that's.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Right, middle of winter and this is what you'd expect here.
It's been a chaotic couple of days though on our
roads here in Danneeda and Aroardo'sago, Dunedan residents bracing for
our potential third day of slipping and sliding with the
ice roads again expected to cause this option. It's been
a panel beats delight, Ryan, that's for sure. Southern roads
turning into ice rinks, black ice everywhere, freezing fog as well,
(20:07):
and hare frosts our southern motorways and Eden's been closed
the last two mornings after peak hour crashes in similar spots.
The Council says contract contractors have been out again monitoring
conditions over nights. They've applied written to the icing chemicals,
but so it's important motorists to their part by driving
to the conditions. The Council's official word this morning as
(20:29):
areas of isolated black ice, so great care is required.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
All right, good to know, callum, thank you very much
for that. Clear and christ Church morning, Claire, good morning.
Is this about job losses in christ Church?
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Yeah, We've got twenty workers at called the Stuart's Hornby
Concrete plant facing redundancy after a closure proposal which was
put to them last week. The company cited tough market
conditions and financial losses for them. What's really upsetting these
workers and the union is the fact that the company's
owners have just been listed on the billion dollars to
(21:00):
the Stuart family's estimated fortune is one point one billion
dollars Air two unions and a half Startlers says the
workers previously accepted pay cunts in order to be able
to keep working. She says, collectively they have one hundred
and forty four years of loyalty to the business and
they feel very scared and confused now. A spokesperson for
called the Stewart says they will carry out fair consultation
(21:22):
during this process, but a final decision will be made
next month.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Right, how's your weather, clearp frosty.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
To start here as well and very foggy on the
drive in. Otherwise should clear to fine northeasteries developing as
we make our way to thirteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are you going to the rugby on said day?
Speaker 11 (21:37):
Missed out on tickets four minutes sold.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Out, Ryan, You need better hook ups, said B.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Think you have to introduce me to some of your mates.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Clear sherevid In Christ and to be a smacking doosh, Wellington,
Good morning morning, local MP upset with the tiaquy Is
this the water thing?
Speaker 13 (21:56):
No, this is on more point wastewater plays and she's
actually not upsets this time. A Green MP, Julian Genta,
were seeking reassurance that staff will be on site at
all times when it reopens later this year. She actually
believes that will be the case. So this is our
wastewater facility, which has been shut since February after heavy
rain flooded and destroyed most of it, sending untreated wastewater
(22:20):
pouring into the Southern coast, she says. Despite a Crown
review still being underwag tiaki Wi believes twenty four to
seven staffing will be the outcome. Interestingly, though, a story
in the Post this morning reports that the first take
of this three hundred and fifty thousand dollars rate path
undered review has already paid the four member team about
two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and it's still been
(22:41):
kept under wraps as well, despite being due back before
July first. So we'll keep pressing Simon Watson's office on
that one.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Good on you, And just to clarify, you're saying that
Julian Gender not angry.
Speaker 13 (22:54):
No, she's sent a letter and got the outcome she wanted.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Was man bites dog. Hey, what's your weather doing.
Speaker 13 (23:03):
It's going to be a cloudy day for us today,
possible shower or two northerly wins in a mild thirteen
degrees in Wellington.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Got on you to be as thank you neither an
or good morning Neva, Good morning now Devenport Waterfront Development
people upset.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yes they are?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
What right?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So what this is?
Speaker 14 (23:21):
It's a four hundred million dollar plan. Now this includes apartments,
there'll be a hotel with up to fifty rooms, retail
commercial space, and also car parks between eighty and two
hundred car parks. So private credit fund that's Peninsula Campital.
They've applied under the fast Trek regime. Devenport Heritage chairperson,
it's Margo McCrae. She's very dismayed at the plans. She says, look,
(23:44):
this will dwarf the heritage buildings on the suburb, you know,
Victoria Road. But the local architect and urban advocate, that's
Judy Stout. She says, Look, I'm excited. She's excited about
this project.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, it's Devenport's one of those. It's like a mount
eat and it's you know, like Clark Area where they
will fight tooth and nail executive development. So quite right,
good luck to them. How's the weather fine?
Speaker 14 (24:07):
Apart from pitches of morning fog here in Auckland, fifteen.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Is the high brilliant, Thank you very much. Hey, ma'm Damie.
You know the New York mayor I was telling you
about earlier who has just told everybody to set their
ear conditioning. There's a heat wave. Set their ear conditioning
to seventy eight degrees fahrenheit, that is twenty five degrees celsius.
I mean, that's madness. He's saying, that's what you need
to do to save the grid. This is what I
(24:33):
don't know if you know Bill Mayer, he's the late
night comedian. This is what he's saying about. The Democrats
need to just come out and be a bit more
honest about who and what this guy is.
Speaker 15 (24:42):
Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not
may or Mom Danny is a socialist or a democratic socialist.
Let me settle it. He's a straight up communist. How
do I notice? Well, I'm reading between the lines when
one of his mete your advisor says, elect more communists,
(25:07):
which is fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's a belief system.
Speaker 15 (25:11):
He's allowed to believe it and people are allowed to
vote for it. But if liberals deny it, like he's
just going through a garth phase, they're going to lose
more elections. This is not a communist country.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's film a heat wave coming to New York this week,
we're in London next fourteen away from six year old
news talk cib I. Tell you who is looking stunning
overnight is the Princess of Wales's Kate. Princess Kate looking
absolutely fabulous and she's off to the tennis first time,
first appearance there at Wimbledon since her diagnosis cancer diagnosis
back in twenty twenty four. She's wearing this big blue
(25:48):
pants suit. People are loving her. She's smiling, she's shaking hands,
laughing with the crowd. She's got these lovely matching airings on.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Look.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Everybody, almost unilaterally across the science this morning is saying,
what a fantastic excited is to see Princess Kate so
happy after such a and has been by the way
walking mountains literally to raise money for cancer. So all
they are thirteen.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
To two international correspondence with Ensign Eye Insurance Peace of
Mind for New Zealand business saying in.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The UK, if you got a Minton Macavanney a UK
europe correspondent, a good morning, good evening to you.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So it's a big sorry about these adoptions. What actually
happen with them?
Speaker 12 (26:31):
Yeah, this is a big moment. Around one hundred and
eighty five thousand babies single mothers in the nineteen fifties,
sixties and nineteen seventies across the country simply because they
were unmarried, These were sort of forced into adoption. And
today the Prime Minister Sirkir Starmer has issued a historic
apology on behalf of the British state for its role
(26:51):
in these adoptions.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And has the apology been accepted, well.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
It has been from some of the campaign who were
in the chamber of a House of Commons when he
made this apology. Obviously, some of these families have now
passed away, but many saying it has sort of been
about time beyond time that this was taken. They're going
to receive around four million pounds in the next few years,
(27:18):
not as compensation but as a package to try and
help them access records and improve family reunions because some
of these women were never reunited with their children. And indeed,
one of Kirstama's own MPs and Keen she herself had
a baby taken from her when she was seventeen in
nineteen sixty six, and she said that this important apology
(27:40):
has been so important to her because she's had to
live in the knowledge of having this sort of state
shame put upon her and the babies growing up thinking
that they had been given up and weren't sort of
forced to be given up by their parents.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Now to another topic, grooming gangs in the UK. It's
something we hear a lot about in the media and
there was twenty years ago now as a Pakistani guide
jailed for his partner grooming gang. He's going to be
released and won't be deported.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
Why.
Speaker 15 (28:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
This is the sort of most famous incident of this.
This is the so called Rochdale brooming gangs, where these
groups of largely Pakistani men were going about and targeting
specifically young white girls, grooming them and then sort of
passing them around for sex. It was really horrific. But
the ring leader of that gang, he was jailed back
in twenty twelve. He has now been released with the
(28:32):
end of his sentence. He's been put out on license
this afternoon. But due to a fifty five year old
law that was intended to help Commonwealth citizens settle here
in the UK, as it stands at the moment, he
cannot be deported back to Pakistani. Has had his British
citizenship revoked, but this law says he can't be deported.
But we're hearing from MPs right across the house and
(28:54):
actually Andy Burnham, the likely incoming Prime Minister, that they
think this law needs to be check so that this
man can be deported back to Pakistan.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Vincent mcaviniy a UK europe correspondent, Time is ten away
from six insuson this morning about what exactly is and
isn't happening re immigration in the India FTA. Modi is
expected to visit here this month. Winston's been agitating about it.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
The National Party has just changed its course, no doubt
due to poor poling. Immigration policy settings are being made
more restrictive in a way which targets India and India alone.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Now Erica Stanford's officers has confirmed there are changes out
for consultation at the moment. Sunny Lamb, immigration expert at
Queen's City Law former immigration officer, joins us this morning. Sunny,
good morning, good morning, how are y good? Thank you?
So what changes are they actually looking at? Do we know.
Speaker 16 (29:46):
At this stage? Not exactly sure, nothing is really reviewed
right now, but it does seem like there are going
to be specific restrictions ons targeted under the FTA with India.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And has that to do with bringing your husband, your wife,
your kids along with you?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Well, yes, it seems like based on Winston anyway, that
it will be restricting the ability to apply for a
fur divisa once you're in New Zealand, and there will
be restrictions on bringing family and also some sort of
means testing which is a little bit different, but I
(30:25):
wouldn't say completely new.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
How common is it then just place restrictions or to
tag one particular country.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
In question.
Speaker 16 (30:35):
There's a matter of extent.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Really we do have country specific policy, say for example,
with Chinese special policy visas or tai chefs or Japanese
tour guides. These currently do exist and are not well known.
(31:00):
But the proposed restrictions will be more extreme than previous examples.
Certainly having a restriction on the plank for a further
visa once your own New Zealand that's somewhat new, not
completely new, but will be similar to imposing automatic limited visa. Ultimately,
(31:24):
I think it depends on what the restricts are not
going to be.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And we will find out in due course, I'm sure,
although the government apparently would like us to not know
before Mighty arrived. Sunning Lamb, immigration expert Queen said law
former immigration officer. It is eight to six News Talks ABB.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
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Speaker 2 (31:50):
Fine, it's six minutes away from six News Talks. There'll
be fifty seven thousand jobs added in June next to
the US economy puts a bit of a snap on
a hot streak, a hot high streak that they have
seen over there. Less than they were expecting, but still
the US economy is going to be fine. Tesla selling
more cars twenty four percent increase from the same period
(32:10):
last year. This is for the second quarter, four hundred
and eighty thousand electric vehicles sold, and that comes after
an increase in the first quarter of six point three percent.
It is five to two. Bryan Bridge, good morning, mate.
Speaker 17 (32:22):
Tell you what's interesting about the job numbers yesterday? That's
the forecast was one hundred and something. Yeah, and they
said forty thousand would come from the World Cup, so
they were expecting some booming time and maybe there are
forty thousand in the World Cup, which if you take
the forty thousand off the number you just gave.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
There are no jobs.
Speaker 16 (32:41):
No.
Speaker 17 (32:42):
So the market is weakening.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, but they've been going gangbus they are, and well
going gangbusters is a strong word. Half percent, they're more
robut wage increases too. I mean, you cannot hurt America,
can you, despite what Trump does to it.
Speaker 17 (32:56):
That's that's the size of the domestic market when you
got three hundred and twenty million people. You can make anything,
and you will have a market.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Plus AI plus all that investment that's going on. But
deeper you in the spade this weekend?
Speaker 17 (33:09):
What you're on the spade?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
No, no, no, no, no. Father in law's come up
to do that. That's pathetic.
Speaker 17 (33:17):
Are you going to stand there and watch him do it?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
No, I'm going to go out and do something else.
You're kidding me?
Speaker 17 (33:22):
No, so he will turn out.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I've got a bad back, Oh god, I do. Are
you kidding me? No, I'm not. I'm being honest with you.
Make When was the last time you were on a spade? Exactly?
Hot kettle black? When was the last time I was
on the spade? Have you ever been on the spade?
Speaker 17 (33:44):
I have been on a spade, don't get me wrong.
Oh no, I don't my fish air of spade, remember anyway,
I know exactly. Erica Stanford's with us and Dave Rennie.
Exciting weekend for him, won't it? First time up? Must
be it must be a moment in.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Time you're impressed with the team. I don't do that.
Speaker 17 (34:01):
I'm the team's the team all are the Hurricanes, the
all I want is victory.
Speaker 16 (34:06):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We'll talk to him Happy Friday, see him Monday.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
They'd be very good morning, six after five on your Friday.
Prime Minister Modi is coming for a visit to New Zealand.
That's the room of this month potentially as the government
looks at immigration restrictions on Indians. We'll look at that
before top of the hour. The Hurricanes are playing France
in christ Church. We'll speak to the stadium boss in
just a few moments. Also, well, kids probably having a
(00:33):
little bit of trouble getting when they get to school,
been able to speak, and because of this, Erica Stamford's
making a bunch of changes before they get there. We'll
talk about that before top of the hour too. News Talks.
Theb the Agenda Friday, the third of June, eight days
under the rubble in Venezuela, and they'll pulled the guy
out alive.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
If they had just gone in and drilled quickly, there
was the risk that one of those worlds could have
collapsed on him and would have crushed him. And so
they had to do this really carefully.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
To the UK now where they forced adoptions that people
know about happened in Britain. Starmer on behalf of the
government has formally said, sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
The shame is not yours. The shame was never yours.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The shame is ours. It's quite shocking. One hundred and
eighty five thousand babies are taken from unmarried mothers in
England and Wales. During the fifties, sixties, seventies, not that
long ago, many women pressed into giving up their children.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
As an adopted person born in nineteen seventy two, I
welcome to this statement from the Prime minister. Does a
Prime minister agree with me? The mother should be supported
by the state to look after their children and not
forced to give them up.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now Trump is going after Cuba again.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Of Cuba after many, many decades, it's coming our way,
coming over.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Cuba's president says, we're not for sale.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Mate is an outreach and an upfront to the dignity
of our people. We don't want the war, but we're
not afraid of it, and we are getting ready so
that we're in a surprise or defeating.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
There you go, coming up in a few minutes. I'll
tell you what Mam Dami, the new Socialist Democratic mayor
of New York is telling them and what to do
in a heat wave.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
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Speaker 2 (02:31):
That'd be eight after five. Rough sleepers big story in
the mainstream media this week. You would have seen it.
They've been covering it all over it like flies to
a blanket. And the other day I was watching a
scene unfold before my very eyes. It was on a
relatively nice street in Auckland, like a cafe retail area,
(02:52):
so lots of people. It was during the middle of
the day. I'd finished work and there was a woman
who was who police were trying to restrain. She was,
you know, middle aged. I don't know if she was
a rough sleeper or not. I have no idea, but
I just know that she looks she was having a meltdown, right.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
She was going crazy. She was yelling, she was screaming,
she was saying, don't take me away, don't take me away.
And people were and this was an awkward situation for police.
And I was just kind of watching from across the street, thinking, oh,
you poor guys and girls having to do this in
front of everybody, because you've got all your Karens and
your Kens having their coffees and their lattes and going
(03:34):
into the shops and watching all this scene unfold. And
as soon as the police start putting their hands onto
this woman, they stand up, and then some of them
get their phones out. And I'm thinking, oh, you poor guys,
who would want to be a police officer, because you're
damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
This person is causing a scene, running into the shop,
(03:57):
you know, sitting on the ground, all this kind of stuff,
and I don't know what. Maybe there was a reason
that they were going to arrest her anyway, you know,
like it might have been something completely unrelated to just
causing a public nuisance. I don't know, but just just
thinking about being a police officer in a situation like that,
when you've got every Tom, Dick and Harry with a phone,
(04:20):
the judgment, the casting of aspersions, and it's an impossible situation.
And then you also now have politicians weighing in saying
this is inhumane, this is cruel, this is making rough
sleeping illegal. Once they change the law, how easy is
it going to be for a police officer to actually
(04:41):
enforce it. How difficult is that job going to be
for them, not because of the actual work involved, but
the judgment from the rest of us. Looking one Chapter
five News Talks, there'd be coming up next. We're going
to talk about the early childhood education. This is a
really interesting one because too many kids. In fact, I
(05:02):
was watching last night there was a woman saying who
works in an early childhood center that normally by the
time a kid gets to school, they have about two
thousand words in their vocab. Kids are coming to school
with five hundred. So something has to change. That's next.
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News TALKSB five thirteen nine two ninety two The Numbers
to text Amanda, Good morning to you. Amanda says I
was one of those children, well not in England but
here in New Zealand. Adopted child of the seventies. My
sixteen year old birth mother was sent to a stranger's
farm in the Wycuto when she showed her pregnancy. It's
just crazy how women were treated back then for just
and to be fair, teenage pregnancies were a thing then.
(05:56):
Teenage pregnancies were a thing when I was at school.
Teenage pregnancies these not a thing at all. They just
don't happen. Isn't that crazy anyway? The Amanda says the
mother wasn't treated very well, but luckily Amanda was adopted
within the family. Others weren't so lucky. Nice to have
you listening this morning. It is fourteen enough to five
(06:16):
ran Serica. Stanford's going big on early language support in
EC centers. Centers going from sixty five to five hundred
kids starting school can barely speak. Some of them too
much screen time a problem. To Kelly Seberg, advocates for
Early Learning Excellence chair and a News Shoots Sonny Nook
director joins us this morning.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Morning, Kelly, morning, Ryan, How are you very well?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Thank you? So what is it? From what I can
understand yesterday, this is about getting EC staff to be
more engaged with talking to young to talking to the kids.
Is that about right?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And look, it's a program. I've had colleagues and staff
who've gone through it, and they rave about what they've
learned and what they're putting into practice with children. So
it's a really highly regarded program in the sector. And
you're thinking about intentional teaching strategies around oral language. So
it's wonderful to talk to children and that's great, but
we really want to think about our questioning skills, how
(07:13):
we're eliciting responses from children and being much more aware
of developing oral language skills in early learning. So it's
a fantastic program.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Because one of the important things, and this is what
ECE centers. I mean, some parents worry about ECE centers
because are there enough instructors or teachers there to give
the child everything that they need to develop those skills
because when you're that young, it's very much about one
on one, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Well, one on one or with small group is what
you need. But you've got to remember an early childhood education.
The vast majority of staff thirty three thousand qualified registered
teachers are in early learning, so we have highly qualified staff.
But this is about building professional development and if you
think about most only learning services might have a one
(08:03):
to four ratio four or three or four ratio for
their for their under twos, and as the moving up,
the you know, they might be only one to seven,
one to eight, a maximum one to ten for their
up to five year olds. Those are really quality ratios
across across internationally and with qualified teachers. This is great,
but like you all teachers, everyone needs a focus on
(08:25):
particular parts of curriculum and this is a program that
really supports that. And I think what's really important is
when we're focusing on oral language, you know, we really
do have an opportunity to build a connected zero to
eighteen years literacy pathway. And I think this is why
the Minister is so interested, because we know that when
(08:45):
we build strong foundations in oral language, that leads on
to you know, early literacy, which feeds into his structured
literacy and curriculum and schools, teacher education and ongoing professional development.
You can't just sort of set teach and then leave them.
It is around really focusing what their practice is looking
(09:06):
at and their ongoing professional learning.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Kelly, it all sounds fantastic to me. I mean, it's
targeting exactly the area we need to be targeting, because
as we know, if we don't get it right before
they get to school, then they are far less likely
to get it right while they're there. Kelly Seberg, Advocates
for Advocates for Early Learning Excellence Chair, Newstreet Studying Look
Director with us. This morning time is seventeen minutes after five,
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and you're on News Talks. There'd be excellent news for
you this morning on consents. I'll give that to you
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News Talks a B five nineteen. Great to have your
company this morning. I've got good news coming from the
rural sector, but good news on consents because if you
look at Australia, they've got new consents, are actually starting
to dip a bit, their taxes are going up, they've
got capital gains changes, negative gearing changes, all that sort
of stuff. Here we have not only do we have
housing prices either flat or stable or falling outside of
(10:17):
the Unicorn South Island consents her up. So even though
prices are stable are falling, consents her up. That's monthly
and annually. Rents are down. This is all good news.
Affordability in the North item, for example, a lot of
places is up. Stats n Z says three eight hundred
billion consents issued for new dwellings in May. That's up
(10:38):
twenty one percent on May last year. Thirty nine thousand
consents annually, nineteen percent increase on the year before. This
is after three years of going backwards, So this is
good news. And it's across a whole bunch of different
property types as well. Eighteen thousand standalone houses that's up
seventeen percent on the year, seventeen thousand town houses that's
(10:59):
up twenty two percent, and a twenty percent increase in apartments,
although I have seen a lot of ugly ones lately.
Twenty one after five Rayon Bridge, big weekend for the
Garden City. The All Blacks take on France in the
first test of the season. Sold out one Insied Stadium
seven ten pm Saturday. Put it in your diaries, put
it in calendars. Caroline Harvey tears with us one Insied
(11:19):
stadium boss. Good morning, good morning, how are you very well?
Thank you? Another sellout.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
Yeah, we're sort of getting used to it down here.
It's awesome. It's been a bit of a whirl wind.
Seventy days so far, so no, we're very happy with
how everything's going on. The weekend is going to be
an absolute electric atmosphere down here.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, seventy days. How many people have you head through now?
Have you done? Have you done a tally?
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Yeah? Yeah. So after the weekend with thirty thousand coming
into the All Blacks, we're at just over three hundred
and seventeen thousand guests through the stadium. So a really
awesome start and just incredible to see the positivity and
pride that's around the city.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I've been there. I think it's fantastic. It's hard to
argue with it. Have there been any hiccups?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Oh, look, there's always things to learn, you know. We
got the keys four days before we held Souper around
so but look, it's really incremental shifts, you know, and
that's what we wanted to see. So the venues performing beautifully.
There's some operational tweaks that we've made over the time.
We're really looking forward to having an enhanced external overlay
(12:27):
for the All Blacks. Obviously, we had a bit of
feedback around the concert overlay, so we're really hoping that
everyone has a great experience with that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
On Saturday night, what do you mean external overlay.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yeah, so we have to when we have more than
twenty five thousand people in the building. So the building
is designed for twenty five thousand, we have to bring
in extra food and beverage and toilets just to supplement
the offering for what's for.
Speaker 8 (12:52):
That extra number.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
And so we had a few cues and things that
we weren't too pleased with for the concert, so built
a night market for this one. So really enhanced offering
and a replication of some of those vendors that are
inside because everyone's loving the food vendors, all of our
local offerings inside the building. So we just want to
make sure that we're enhancing that offering for those that
(13:15):
have that other experience as.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well more lose fewer queues. Caroline, how's revenue going?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Yeah, Look, we are. We're having a great year. You know,
we knew that it was going to be solid, and
we knew that it was going to be positive, but
we probably didn't expect it to be quite so. Look,
and we know that there's a honeymoon, of course there is.
But I think what we're seeing is people are genuinely
connecting with the venue. People are loving the experience and
they're coming back, and so our job is to maintain
(13:46):
that momentum, maintain that good quality service and that that
wonderful guest experience, and keep delivering awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Content, fantastic. Caroline Harvey tea who is cheap Ezech venues
all today. He possibly one the n ZED stadium four
after five line is a kindergarten department teacher of twenty
six years. I can tell you that, yes, oral language
is a huge concern. There are a lot of fantastic
PD programs personal development. I'm assuming that is to promote this. However,
(14:15):
your guest has deluded. Our biggest problem is ratios. There
is little time for focused, intentional teaching as we operate
under ratios of one to ten in groups of children
aged two to five. That is the real problem. Okay, interesting,
So a ratio of one to ten when you've got
two to five year olds, so you've got ten three
(14:38):
year olds. Now look, I'm no parent, but to me
that sounds a bit insane. How are you meant to
get and how are you meant to improve oral language
and vocabulary? And a lot of these kids you need
to have them focus, you know, focus, focus, focus, If
there's ten of them. That does sound difficult. I appreciate
(14:59):
your text this morning from a kindergarten teacher twenty five
minutes after five News TALKSVB News Talks VB. It is
twenty seven minutes after five. The government's looking to move
on from free school lunches for every kid in a
poor school. David Seymour told me this week they're looking
at tightening things up, and I think that it's probably
going to happen at present. If your kid's school is
(15:20):
signed up to the school lunches program, your kid automatically
gets a lunch, whether you ask for one or not.
The only way to stop that is to actually contact
the school and opt out on an individual basis. Now,
how many parents are doing that, even if they're providing
lunch to their kids. I reckon they'll change this so
that parents will have to opt their kids in rather
(15:42):
than the other way around. I think it makes much
more sense to do it that way. If it's true
that half the lunches aren't being eaten, then why waste
the resources taxpayer resource? After all, if the food was
good enough for the fifty percent of kids who did
eat it, then why Wasn't it good enough For the
fifty percent who didn't, It's obvious they're not hungry. There
(16:02):
is an alternative for them. If there really is a
problem with the quality of the lunches, then surely producing
fewer of them will lower the costs and perhaps allow
quality to improve further. You know, do less, we do
more with less. I must say it seems odd that
all the meals must be hot when most Kiwis pre
(16:25):
the previous labor government were raised on a lunch of
cold sandwiches, weren't we. I'm not saying this is soundingly
some grumpy old man. I'm like thirty eight, you know,
but I never had a hot lunch in my life. Seriously,
hot meals were for dinner only. Anyway, to those frustrated
by the media coverage of these stories this week, and
(16:46):
there have been many of you, it seems like changes
are coming, which should mean only those kids who are
actually hungry will get fed by the state cry and
bread in nine minutes after five Great to have your
company play you that audio on Mamdami. He's asking actually,
I'll tell you what he's doing, and then I'll give
you the audio after the news. He's telling because there's
(17:07):
a heat wave coming. I've been to Europe. Now the
heat wave coming to New York. You wait, No one
moans like in New Yorker. Mamdarmi is the MIA and
he has put out a social media video saying New York,
it's hot out there. However, will we cope? The power
grid is working over time? Set your AC to seventy
eight degrees that's fahrenhearit obviously, now what is seventy eight
(17:33):
degrees fahrenheit and celsius twenty five? Sorry, that's not acceptable.
That's a saunat in your apartment living room. We're in UK.
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MB on your Friday and Morning. Great to have your
company coming up inside the next twenty Modi is apparently
coming to New Zealand a mid and immigrations spat. Winston's
not happy. We'll look at that. Also in the UK,
Starmas saying sorry, but for what we'll answer. That text
of the morning is from Jane. Good morning Jane, She says,
morning Ryan. We were talking about police and what a
(18:29):
job they're going to have, moving on rough sleepers in
front of Karen's and Ken's with their mobile phones out
filming the whole thing, getting all judgy and tisk tisk.
Jane says, good morning, Ryan. My partner is still serving
as a frontline police officer in his mid sixties, completed
twenty years joined later in life. He has always seen
it as a vocation and remains committed to his role.
(18:50):
That's in spite of the constant cuts, the poor wages,
and the ever present danger, let alone the constant judgment
by people who have never walked a day in his shoes.
This is what I was getting at. This is people
all judging Judgey tisky tiskey. But do they have any
idea what's going on? Anyway, Jane continues, they want him
when they're in danger, which is the point. But it's
(19:11):
fine to fling judgment and insults when they observe a
situation that they know nothing about. The hierarchy don't want
to see the daily challenges. Politics and ambition overrides where
the focus needs to be on the front line where
the rank and file face the daily grind, where they
are underpaid, often underprotected, and always on trial. Bryan Bridge
(19:34):
the number to text plenty on parents too, first Callum
and the need morning Collum. Morning, right, very wintry weather.
Condition's unsurprisingly given its winter for you guys this week, well, that's.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Right, middle of winter and this is what you'd expect here.
It's been a chaotic couple of days though on our
roads here in Danneeda and Aroardo'sago, Dunedan residents bracing for
our potential third day of slipping and sliding with the
ice roads again expected to cause this option. It's been
a panel beats delight, Ryan, that's for sure. Southern roads
turning into ice rinks, black ice everywhere, freezing fog as well,
(20:07):
and hare frosts our southern motorways and Eden's been closed
the last two mornings after peak hour crashes in similar spots.
The Council says contract contractors have been out again monitoring
conditions over nights. They've applied written to the icing chemicals,
but so it's important motorists to their part by driving
to the conditions. The Council's official word this morning as
(20:29):
areas of isolated black ice, so great care is required.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
All right, good to know, callum, thank you very much
for that. Clear and christ Church morning, Claire, good morning.
Is this about job losses in christ Church?
Speaker 11 (20:40):
Yeah, We've got twenty workers at called the Stuart's Hornby
Concrete plant facing redundancy after a closure proposal which was
put to them last week. The company cited tough market
conditions and financial losses for them. What's really upsetting these
workers and the union is the fact that the company's
owners have just been listed on the billion dollars to
(21:00):
the Stuart family's estimated fortune is one point one billion
dollars Air two unions and a half Startlers says the
workers previously accepted pay cunts in order to be able
to keep working. She says, collectively they have one hundred
and forty four years of loyalty to the business and
they feel very scared and confused now. A spokesperson for
called the Stewart says they will carry out fair consultation
(21:22):
during this process, but a final decision will be made
next month.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Right, how's your weather, clearp frosty.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
To start here as well and very foggy on the
drive in. Otherwise should clear to fine northeasteries developing as
we make our way to thirteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are you going to the rugby on said day?
Speaker 11 (21:37):
Missed out on tickets four minutes sold.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Out, Ryan, You need better hook ups, said B.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Think you have to introduce me to some of your mates.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Clear sherevid In Christ and to be a smacking doosh, Wellington,
Good morning morning, local MP upset with the tiaquy Is
this the water thing?
Speaker 13 (21:56):
No, this is on more point wastewater plays and she's
actually not upsets this time. A Green MP, Julian Genta,
were seeking reassurance that staff will be on site at
all times when it reopens later this year. She actually
believes that will be the case. So this is our
wastewater facility, which has been shut since February after heavy
rain flooded and destroyed most of it, sending untreated wastewater
(22:20):
pouring into the Southern coast, she says. Despite a Crown
review still being underwag tiaki Wi believes twenty four to
seven staffing will be the outcome. Interestingly, though, a story
in the Post this morning reports that the first take
of this three hundred and fifty thousand dollars rate path
undered review has already paid the four member team about
two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and it's still been
(22:41):
kept under wraps as well, despite being due back before
July first. So we'll keep pressing Simon Watson's office on
that one.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Good on you, And just to clarify, you're saying that
Julian Gender not angry.
Speaker 13 (22:54):
No, she's sent a letter and got the outcome she wanted.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Was man bites dog. Hey, what's your weather doing.
Speaker 13 (23:03):
It's going to be a cloudy day for us today,
possible shower or two northerly wins in a mild thirteen
degrees in Wellington.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Got on you to be as thank you neither an
or good morning Neva, Good morning now Devenport Waterfront Development
people upset.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yes they are?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
What right?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So what this is?
Speaker 14 (23:21):
It's a four hundred million dollar plan. Now this includes apartments,
there'll be a hotel with up to fifty rooms, retail
commercial space, and also car parks between eighty and two
hundred car parks. So private credit fund that's Peninsula Campital.
They've applied under the fast Trek regime. Devenport Heritage chairperson,
it's Margo McCrae. She's very dismayed at the plans. She says, look,
(23:44):
this will dwarf the heritage buildings on the suburb, you know,
Victoria Road. But the local architect and urban advocate, that's
Judy Stout. She says, Look, I'm excited. She's excited about
this project.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, it's Devenport's one of those. It's like a mount
eat and it's you know, like Clark Area where they
will fight tooth and nail executive development. So quite right,
good luck to them. How's the weather fine?
Speaker 14 (24:07):
Apart from pitches of morning fog here in Auckland, fifteen.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Is the high brilliant, Thank you very much. Hey, ma'm Damie.
You know the New York mayor I was telling you
about earlier who has just told everybody to set their
ear conditioning. There's a heat wave. Set their ear conditioning
to seventy eight degrees fahrenheit, that is twenty five degrees celsius.
I mean, that's madness. He's saying, that's what you need
to do to save the grid. This is what I
(24:33):
don't know if you know Bill Mayer, he's the late
night comedian. This is what he's saying about. The Democrats
need to just come out and be a bit more
honest about who and what this guy is.
Speaker 15 (24:42):
Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not
may or Mom Danny is a socialist or a democratic socialist.
Let me settle it. He's a straight up communist. How
do I notice? Well, I'm reading between the lines when
one of his mete your advisor says, elect more communists,
(25:07):
which is fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's a belief system.
Speaker 15 (25:11):
He's allowed to believe it and people are allowed to
vote for it. But if liberals deny it, like he's
just going through a garth phase, they're going to lose
more elections. This is not a communist country.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's film a heat wave coming to New York this week,
we're in London next fourteen away from six year old
news talk cib I. Tell you who is looking stunning
overnight is the Princess of Wales's Kate. Princess Kate looking
absolutely fabulous and she's off to the tennis first time,
first appearance there at Wimbledon since her diagnosis cancer diagnosis
back in twenty twenty four. She's wearing this big blue
(25:48):
pants suit. People are loving her. She's smiling, she's shaking hands,
laughing with the crowd. She's got these lovely matching airings on.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Look.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Everybody, almost unilaterally across the science this morning is saying,
what a fantastic excited is to see Princess Kate so
happy after such a and has been by the way
walking mountains literally to raise money for cancer. So all
they are thirteen.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
To two international correspondence with Ensign Eye Insurance Peace of
Mind for New Zealand business saying in.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The UK, if you got a Minton Macavanney a UK
europe correspondent, a good morning, good evening to you.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So it's a big sorry about these adoptions. What actually
happen with them?
Speaker 12 (26:31):
Yeah, this is a big moment. Around one hundred and
eighty five thousand babies single mothers in the nineteen fifties,
sixties and nineteen seventies across the country simply because they
were unmarried, These were sort of forced into adoption. And
today the Prime Minister Sirkir Starmer has issued a historic
apology on behalf of the British state for its role
(26:51):
in these adoptions.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And has the apology been accepted, well.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
It has been from some of the campaign who were
in the chamber of a House of Commons when he
made this apology. Obviously, some of these families have now
passed away, but many saying it has sort of been
about time beyond time that this was taken. They're going
to receive around four million pounds in the next few years,
(27:18):
not as compensation but as a package to try and
help them access records and improve family reunions because some
of these women were never reunited with their children. And indeed,
one of Kirstama's own MPs and Keen she herself had
a baby taken from her when she was seventeen in
nineteen sixty six, and she said that this important apology
(27:40):
has been so important to her because she's had to
live in the knowledge of having this sort of state
shame put upon her and the babies growing up thinking
that they had been given up and weren't sort of
forced to be given up by their parents.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Now to another topic, grooming gangs in the UK. It's
something we hear a lot about in the media and
there was twenty years ago now as a Pakistani guide
jailed for his partner grooming gang. He's going to be
released and won't be deported.
Speaker 10 (28:08):
Why.
Speaker 15 (28:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
This is the sort of most famous incident of this.
This is the so called Rochdale brooming gangs, where these
groups of largely Pakistani men were going about and targeting
specifically young white girls, grooming them and then sort of
passing them around for sex. It was really horrific. But
the ring leader of that gang, he was jailed back
in twenty twelve. He has now been released with the
(28:32):
end of his sentence. He's been put out on license
this afternoon. But due to a fifty five year old
law that was intended to help Commonwealth citizens settle here
in the UK, as it stands at the moment, he
cannot be deported back to Pakistani. Has had his British
citizenship revoked, but this law says he can't be deported.
But we're hearing from MPs right across the house and
(28:54):
actually Andy Burnham, the likely incoming Prime Minister, that they
think this law needs to be check so that this
man can be deported back to Pakistan.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Vincent mcaviniy a UK europe correspondent, Time is ten away
from six insuson this morning about what exactly is and
isn't happening re immigration in the India FTA. Modi is
expected to visit here this month. Winston's been agitating about it.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
The National Party has just changed its course, no doubt
due to poor poling. Immigration policy settings are being made
more restrictive in a way which targets India and India alone.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Now Erica Stanford's officers has confirmed there are changes out
for consultation at the moment. Sunny Lamb, immigration expert at
Queen's City Law former immigration officer, joins us this morning. Sunny,
good morning, good morning, how are y good? Thank you?
So what changes are they actually looking at? Do we know.
Speaker 16 (29:46):
At this stage? Not exactly sure, nothing is really reviewed
right now, but it does seem like there are going
to be specific restrictions ons targeted under the FTA with India.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And has that to do with bringing your husband, your wife,
your kids along with you?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Well, yes, it seems like based on Winston anyway, that
it will be restricting the ability to apply for a
fur divisa once you're in New Zealand, and there will
be restrictions on bringing family and also some sort of
means testing which is a little bit different, but I
(30:25):
wouldn't say completely new.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
How common is it then just place restrictions or to
tag one particular country.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
In question.
Speaker 16 (30:35):
There's a matter of extent.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Really we do have country specific policy, say for example,
with Chinese special policy visas or tai chefs or Japanese
tour guides. These currently do exist and are not well known.
(31:00):
But the proposed restrictions will be more extreme than previous examples.
Certainly having a restriction on the plank for a further
visa once your own New Zealand that's somewhat new, not
completely new, but will be similar to imposing automatic limited visa. Ultimately,
(31:24):
I think it depends on what the restricts are not
going to be.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And we will find out in due course, I'm sure,
although the government apparently would like us to not know
before Mighty arrived. Sunning Lamb, immigration expert Queen said law
former immigration officer. It is eight to six News Talks ABB.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
keeps business moving News Talks B.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Fine, it's six minutes away from six News Talks. There'll
be fifty seven thousand jobs added in June next to
the US economy puts a bit of a snap on
a hot streak, a hot high streak that they have
seen over there. Less than they were expecting, but still
the US economy is going to be fine. Tesla selling
more cars twenty four percent increase from the same period
(32:10):
last year. This is for the second quarter, four hundred
and eighty thousand electric vehicles sold, and that comes after
an increase in the first quarter of six point three percent.
It is five to two. Bryan Bridge, good morning, mate.
Speaker 17 (32:22):
Tell you what's interesting about the job numbers yesterday? That's
the forecast was one hundred and something. Yeah, and they
said forty thousand would come from the World Cup, so
they were expecting some booming time and maybe there are
forty thousand in the World Cup, which if you take
the forty thousand off the number you just gave.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
There are no jobs.
Speaker 16 (32:41):
No.
Speaker 17 (32:42):
So the market is weakening.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, but they've been going gangbus they are, and well
going gangbusters is a strong word. Half percent, they're more
robut wage increases too. I mean, you cannot hurt America,
can you, despite what Trump does to it.
Speaker 17 (32:56):
That's that's the size of the domestic market when you
got three hundred and twenty million people. You can make anything,
and you will have a market.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Plus AI plus all that investment that's going on. But
deeper you in the spade this weekend?
Speaker 17 (33:09):
What you're on the spade?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
No, no, no, no, no. Father in law's come up
to do that. That's pathetic.
Speaker 17 (33:17):
Are you going to stand there and watch him do it?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
No, I'm going to go out and do something else.
You're kidding me?
Speaker 17 (33:22):
No, so he will turn out.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I've got a bad back, Oh god, I do. Are
you kidding me? No, I'm not. I'm being honest with you.
Make When was the last time you were on a spade? Exactly?
Hot kettle black? When was the last time I was
on the spade? Have you ever been on the spade?
Speaker 17 (33:44):
I have been on a spade, don't get me wrong.
Oh no, I don't my fish air of spade, remember anyway,
I know exactly. Erica Stanford's with us and Dave Rennie.
Exciting weekend for him, won't it? First time up? Must
be it must be a moment in.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Time you're impressed with the team. I don't do that.
Speaker 17 (34:01):
I'm the team's the team all are the Hurricanes, the
all I want is victory.
Speaker 16 (34:06):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We'll talk to him Happy Friday, see him Monday.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
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