July 6, 2026 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Tuesday 7th of July 2026, Invest NZ wants foreign companies to invest $30 billion investment in ai data centres over 5 years, Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Penny Simmonds shares her thoughts.
The Government says exporters are already experiencing a 'halo effect' of the India FTA, India Business Council Chair Edwin Paul tells Ryan which sectors are already seeing growth.
Federated Farmers West Coast President Simon Cameron shares his thoughts on the Green Party's policy to ban synthetic fertiliser.
Plus, Australia Correspondent Donna Demaio has the latest on Australia's reaction to China launching a long-range ballistic missile into the South Pacific from one of its nuclear-powered submarines.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with Spark for business Technology that keeps business
moving news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
They'd be good morning six half for five on your Tuesday.
Great to have your company. We'll look at this thirty
billion dollar data center pitch, even though Amazon didn't want
to build one. Here will someone else fund it? We
will go to Donner in Australia. We'll look at the
India Business Council. They reckon the Indie FDA already showing
signs of growth in the economy even though the thing's
only just been signed and hasn't come into force yet.
We'll also talk to fed farmers about the Green's latest
(00:32):
wacky policy. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who's that the seventh of July is fee for dirty
and under Trump's thumb, this is the question the American
striker red card suspension overturned and Trump admits that he
got on the blow of the fee for boss about it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
These were two great athletes that got tangled up and
this referee who is a little bit suspect if you
check his past. I don't want to say that because
they don't like to. Can't you, Rishie? How do you
panalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet.
It's very unfair. You can't do with that show. Yes,
I asked for a review.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
By now the fief of Boss has nothing to see here.
The review and the overturn based on evidence, not on
a politicians say. So, let's go to the UK Foreign
Secretary there of Itt Cooper has commented on the idea
that there's a bit of a boys club at Number
ten Downing Street. This comes after the Deputy Labor Party
leader Lucy Powell said she had some unpleasant experiences I preven.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
At a respond to boysy public commentary and briefings. We're
seen going back thirty years and so that I think
we've seen for a long time. I think it's really
welcome that Andy has said he wants to end that
culture because I think the focus should be on the country.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
What does that mean? Boisy comments? Anyway, after months of speculation,
Sky and staying in the UK, Sky UK is going
to swallow ITV their media business one point six billion
pounds that's three point six billion New Zealand dollars. That
gets the green light because they need one. It'll be
the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
From a viewing standpoint, we are committing to making sure
that the ITV shows that consumers love today continue to
be free and we'll be able to put some of
Sky's extraordinary portfolio of sports rates into the free service,
so to really build fandom for certain keysports.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
They and more drama with Harry. Just get over there
to London and just do your charity stuff and go home.
We're sick of hearing about it. Buckingham Pallace says he
was invited to stay. Harry said he would stay, and
then they said you're too late to stay, and now
he's saying that it's a shame I can't stay.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
We understand that the office offered obviously be made for
the Duke of Sussex to have access to a royal residence.
Buckingham Palace was the one. This was an offer that
was accepted by the Duke of Sussex. Understand for the
Palace's point of view, it was accepted too late. There
wasn't enough time to sort out the hospitality and to
(03:07):
sort out the staffing for that accommodation.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
News and Views you trust to start your day, It's
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Speaker 2 (03:22):
It'd be nine after five nine two ninety two is
the number to text. Now, do we care about the
Chinese firing and ICBM? It was a dummy warhead but
nuclear capable, but a dummy into the Pacific Ocean? Do
we care? The last time they did this was twenty
twenty four. Yeah, we probably do care because it's an
intercontinental ministic bissile ballistic missile. Forgive me, Yeah, we do care.
(03:47):
But how much do we care? Probably not that much.
They so they recon it's to do with this deal
that Australia signed with Fiji. But the other thing that's
going on right now that no one's talking about is RIMPACK,
which is the US lead literary exercise which is happening
right now. It's been happening since the end of June.
It goes through until the end of July. So is
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it to do with what the Australians signed with Fiji,
or is it to do with Rimpack or is it
to do with both? Who knows because it's a guessing
game because they haven't specifically said why they've done it.
They've just said that they've done it and CCTV which
is the estate media or CGTN they now call themselves,
which is their state media, rut thet They've put photos
out about that confirmed it's happened, they just don't say
(04:29):
exactly why. It's apparently a JL three intercontinental ballistic missile,
first launch on one of those since twenty four And
the fact if you look at the agreement between the
Australians and the Fijians, it is interesting because they agree
to act to meet the common danger if either is attacked. Now,
for Fiji, this is actually their first defense alliance. That's
(04:52):
not insignificant. For the Aussies, it's their fourth. Of course,
they have one with us. They have one with the US,
and they have one with puppin Guinea, and now they
have one with Fiji. And the next question everyone's going
to be asking is does New Zealand join the Australia
Fiji agreement because at the moment we only really have
one with the Aussies. If the Aussies are attacked and
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presumably we would get involved. But here's a question for you,
do you want New Zealand to be involved in stuff
like this or do you just want us to trade
and shut up nine two nine two, because I do
we want to look like we're close to China in
the Pacific? Not really? Do we want to look like
we're too close to the US and the Pacific? Not really?
I mean, are they going to come to our aid?
(05:35):
We don't even let the nuclear powered warships in here
for goodness sake. I think we should be more like
the Switzerland of the Pacific, you know, where we trade
with anyone and fight with no one. Nine nine two.
It is twelve after five.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Brian Bridge out next.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The Greens have a policy and very light on detail.
I'll explain more next and we'll get reaction. News Talk
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five fourteen.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Lewis is involved. Ryan, How on earth would New Zealand
get involved and how on earth would New Zealand make
a difference if there was going to be some kind
of conflict in the Pacific. What would we do make
their lunches? Well, to be fair, we did our Poseidon's
the other day. Did you see that story? It was
last week fired a harpoon missile at from an aircraft
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at a sort of destroyed carrier as part of the
Impact Pacific exercises that were going on. So we actually
did shoot a missile the other day, so we're not
completely useless, although we did borrow it from the Australians
because we didn't have any of our own. The very
expensive things caught a past five Ryan Bridge, the number six.
So another policy drop from the Greens. Will be ecstatic
(07:04):
to know. They want to ban on synthetic fertilizers on
farms to help clean up waterways. They want to reduce
the number of cows. They're also pushing to end bottom trawling.
Here is Madam and Davidson.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
We just need to stop buying into this whole concept
of ruining our rivers is the only way to make
a buck.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
We can totally reject that, and that is what the
Greens are doing today.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Simon Cameron, fed Farmer's West Coast President, Simon, good morning,
how are you very well? Thank you? Just to do
the Greens have a point that it is intensive farming
that has caused a lot of our rivers to be unswimmable,
like as a basic fact. Is that wrong?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Yeah, I mean yeah, you'd certainly challenge it is looking
around Wellington and Auckland, where's that Issu're coming from?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, that's outfit, that's out literally our own waste. But
in rural New Zealand, you know they reckon half the
rivers are because of nitrates and stuff that we've got
run off that's come from farms. Are they wrong in
saying that?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Yeah, I mean there's I would challenge it, there's and
there's Yeah, there's been issues in the past, but you
look at where where we've come from. We're certainly making
bigger roads and proving things a heck of a lot.
We've got one hundred and ninety kilogram per year per
year careful on these things now, so we're catchment groups
are done a phenomenal job rperio and plantings. Yeah, I
(08:30):
think we're heading in the right direction. We've done a
lot in the last dec order two decade of two.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And if you read their policy document, they say simon
that it's basically unchecked in environmental vandalism that's going on.
You're saying that it's not unchecked we have limits, we
have rules, there are standards.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Yeah, absolutely, that's ridiculous. That is absolutely checked. And we've
come a very very long way. Look, technology has come
a long way. Everyone's sort of picked that up and
it implemented it from wear precision agg We're a lot
more careful in how we use it. We're using a
lot less of it, to be honest, from what we
were a few years ago. And I mean, what do
they want us to do, because by phasing it out,
(09:12):
you're going to reduce what this country can produce by
at least twenty five percent. We're an export nation down
to the bottom of South Pacific. What are you going
to do for anything to the country.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I mean, that is the fundamental question. So twenty five
percent you reckon? So is that the nitrate? At least
that the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. If you get rid of that,
if you ban that, that's twenty five percent at least
of industry that's gone.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Yeah, at least, right, So everything, it all starts with
the seed, but it needs the nutrients to grow. And
every time you grow something, you know, if you're an
arable farmer, for example, what doesn't mean if you're growing grass, wheat, corn,
mung beans. It doesn't matter if you grow something, you
take it away. Whether you've grazed it, we've harvest it.
You're taking nutrients from the soil. You've got to replenish
(09:57):
it up.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So Simon Good TV on the Simon Cameron fed Farmer's
West Coast President with us this morning. Time is eighteen
minutes after five. I don't know what to tell you.
I printed off the Greens release this morning. No, not
just the release. I clicked on the see our policy
page and it is four pages that have printed off
for me. Two of the pages are pictures. Actually I lie.
(10:20):
So the first page is a picture of a river,
The second page, half of the page is a picture
of another river. The third page you've got seventy five
percent writing, and then on the back end, your fourth
page is just a giant Green Party logo, which they
will love the fact I've printed off on hard copy.
So you have one and a half pages destroying, potentially
(10:44):
destroying twenty five percent of our biggest exporting industry. Now
is that a smart thing to say? This is the
problem the Greens have And I will come back to
this at in about seven minutes time. But it's all
very well to say this is what we shouldn't do,
this is what we can we can't do, But what
do we do to feed ourselves? Five nineteen News Talks
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Speaker 2 (11:21):
News TALKSB B twenty one. George says, morning Ryan, look
at Ukraine. If you think anyone is going to come
to New Zealand's rescue, that is exhibit A. George, very
good point. We're going to speak to donnad To Mayo
for Australia reaction to that Chinese missile that came into
the Pacific yesterday. First Government says export is here already
experiencing a halo effect of the India FTA. They've put
out a press release about this. Apply exports to India
(11:43):
up sixty three percent on last season. Key we for
a grower set for big tariff savings. Edwin Paul, India
Business Council Chair with us this morning. It was good morning,
good mining Graham. Now look I'm all for this FTA
but to try and claim we're already having some kind
of impact from it before all the things even you know,
passed into law surely is a stretch.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Oh, I would beg to disagree, because business is all
about confidence the contents that the market displaced. So Ever,
since the talk of the FTA came in, the visitor
arrivals to New Zealand increase people, we've seen delegations happening
back and forth. I'm not surprised, and I think the
(12:26):
term halo is quite right. We are. Time is too
early to count the numbers exactly, but we are seeing
the impact already.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And we've I mean, you're rap, we've had delegations going
both ways. What about specific industries, what are you seeing
in you know, particular areas.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Okay, see you the lowest hanging fruit literally, I mean
sorry for the part that you mentioned. Is we've seen
an increase in apple's already, and with our defined increase
in quota from fokiv fruit, we know there's going to
be a steady increase on the side. And also specific
to sectors. We had a delegation on agri tech which
(13:06):
came to our field days and that was only about
a month ago and I think they even the outcomes
were greater around that. But we're also seeing interest in honey,
in meat and wood, in technology, innovation, sports tech.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Especially obviously Modi's coming here Friday, very big visit for
our country. Are you is anyone worried about the noise
from Winston Peters and he's in on first.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Oh, the noise will always be around such high level delegation,
and it's not just in India or New Zealand. Anywhere
these leaders go there's always been some fringe gentlemen's creating
these kinds of issues. We I think both garments a
Erica and the commitment from both the leaders to actually
meet and shake hands would be the strongest symbol there,
(13:55):
I mean strongest signal that they would can wait for
to increase business confidence.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
All right, thank you very much, Edwin and Paul India
Business Council Chair with us this morning time is twenty
four after five. So am z's June card spending data
is out and it tells you that well, it's a
tracking data and much of the because we had an
uplift in the data from the month earlier and they
are now saying, well that was perhaps a bit of
a mirage. So price hikes rather than volume gains were
(14:23):
pushing up the card spending data. An you'll spending growth however,
this is a good news story is up five point
eight percent. Hospitality month on month was down two point
two That was after a lift in May. Housing durables down,
apparel flat however, terrorism recreation, and wasn't it great to
see all the tourists here in newsaland in the South
Island enjoying the snow. Yesterday twenty five after five Newstalk VB.
(14:47):
Next we'll look at tax, the Greens and Top News
Talks VB. It is twenty seven after five. This week,
the Tony Blair Foundation warned Andy Berman that Burnham I
should say the incoming British prime so that you can't
tax your way to prosperity. Some of our politicians could
probably use a similar lecture. We have parties wanting new
(15:08):
taxes to fund what is basically a universal basic income,
even though AI hasn't yet stolen the number of jobs
that they claimed that it would. In fact, there's a
Wall Street Journal piece out this morning that talks about
exactly this point. Even big tech seems to be you
turning on the job's doomsday scenario that's been painted for AI.
(15:28):
We had the Greens yesterday come out with that policy
that was not serious but potentially quite destructive to our
standard of living. You can read it on the website.
It's four pages long. Two of the pages of pictures
and photos. Cows are gone should be gone capped. Synthetic
nitrate fertilizers should be phased out. Bottom trawling should be banned.
(15:50):
Zero detail on when, how, and the economic impact of
doing so in this four pages. Same goes for bottom trawlings.
Seventy percent of our fishing industry by volumes caught by
trawling within a meter of our sea floor. Did you
know that? The industry did you know? Worth five billion
a year sixteen thousand plus jobs. Dairies our biggest export
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sixteen billion a year. To try and take them down
is to launch an assault essentially much like the Chinese
on our standard of living, akin to the doomsday AI
job wipeout that was once predicted to happen but hasn't
yet eventuated. On top of this, there's a plan for
more taxes, which remember even Tony Blair admits is no
(16:31):
plan for prosperity. The thing about the Greens the River
plan is that the partly right agricultural runoff has made
many rivers unswimmable in New Zealand. But simply banning and
taxing things does not solve problems. It creates new ones,
like how are we going to feed the kids, create
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jobs or stay in the OECD Bryan Bridge twenty nine
after five Now Trumps off to Turkey. We've got our
Defense minister over in Turkey already. This is for the
NATO meeting. But Trump's off there. He's going to have
a little meeting with Erduwan. Then he's going to have
dinner with the NATO leaders. That will go well because
(17:12):
he loves them. He's going to meet with Zelenski, He's
going to meet with the Syrian presidents up meant Al Shara,
and then there'll be a news conference. So we'll have
plenty of Trump coverage in the next few days. We're
in Australia. Next News Talks eb.
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News Talks at b tredy far away from six zero
News Talk said on your Tuesday morning, great to have
your company. Penny Wong, the Australian Foreign minist has commented
on this missile thing. We'll go to Donald de Mayo
out of Australia in a few minutes time. We're also
going to talk about AI and data centers because there's
(18:14):
a push to get thirty billion dollars in foreign investment here,
which I mean good luck. Amazon didn't want to build well,
they said they'd build one, then they didn't build one,
then they said they'd build it again with luxe and
and power, and then they have pulled out of that again.
So who's going to pay for these data centers? Do
we want them? Anyway? This textas says Ryan, the net
zero thing this is we were talking about the Greens.
The net zero thing is a scam, says Mark. It
(18:37):
is ruining ours standard of living. Interestingly, we're going to
get Penny Simmons on the show just before six this
morning in about twenty minutes. Interestingly, it is the net
zero ambitions of a lot of these big tech companies
that is driving the demand for AI data centers in
places like New Zealand. This is the theory because of
(18:57):
our renewable energy. You know, we have so much renewed energy.
These guys have net zero targets. Your Googles and your
Microsofts and your Amazons. They say, oh, look, it's got
a New Zealand like we've in America. Apparently a lot
of it is alng A lot of it is coming
off the grid, which is not renewable, and so they
are going, let's go to New Zealand. That's the theory. Anyway, Mark,
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we will test it with the minister. Just before six,
this one says, this is from John Farmer, John, Good
morning John. On the greens. Wouldn't it be better to
get all of our farmers aligned and up to speed
with the best practice of our best farmers when it
comes to night trate management rather than tax or ban
which would kill industry. Wouldn't it be better to aim
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for the aim to be the best rather than killing
the goose that's laying all the golden eggs for the economy.
Couldn't agree more? John? Time is twenty two to six.
Our reporters come into need and kill them. Good morning morning,
right a bit drier there today. Yeah, definitely there.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
The rains stopped as predicted sort of late morning round
lunchtime and the chance to dry out through yesterday afternoon
and today forecast looking a lot better.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And you've got a new this is good news from
Simon Brown. New state of the art radiation therapy machine
there here we do.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
It's so working its magic for our cancer patients here.
It's a four point three million dollar linear accelerator which
is fully operational here now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The Health Minister's confirmed.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
It replaces the old Dunedan hospital machine which has reached
the end of its life. Simeon Brown says this version
targets tumors within a millimeter and can treat from multiple
angles as well. It allows clinicians to provide higher doses
to tumor sites while reducing the risk of side effects
through less healthy tissue exposure. Multiple tumors can also be
(20:48):
treated simultaneously. Now operating it to Eden Hospital.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
All right, callum, thank you very much for that. Rosy
Leachman and christ this morning. Rosie, good morning. So you've
got a new qualification for health workers there.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Yes, Institute of Canterbury Course is aiming to give health
workers more confidence treating children As GP clinics face growing demand.
The christ Church based Polytech will launch the Child Health
and Development micro Credential in semester two, giving primary health
care workers the chance to upskill. The course is fully
(21:19):
online and has no exams. Program leader m A. Fairs
says the workforce is seeing more children than ever as
pressure grows on general practice. She says it's critical primary
care workers are up to speed with current research to
treat children as they can be more complex to treat
because they're more vulnerable to becoming unwell.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Hows you wear the rosie?
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Well?
Speaker 10 (21:40):
There are some weather warnings for parts of Canterbury, but
here in christ Church we're getting occasional rain in southeast
esterday and a high of eleven degrees.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
All right to be in Wellington, good morning to best
morning right now? You got your counselors going where.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Back to school? Actually? So Local Government New Zealand's how's
this partnered with Victoria University of Wellington to create and
offer a micro credential in Local Governance. So this is
a short focus course which equates to about five university
credits and it's delivered online over a maximum of about
eighteen weeks so they can study towards a certified a
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Certified Local Governance practitioner and then they've got the opportunity
to progress to a Certified Local Governance Advanced Practitioner. It'll
cover off topics like leadership, finance, and communication and engagement
local government. New Zealand says it will be a major
boost to the set down a big help to both
members future leadership opportunities and decision making skills.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
What on Earth? So while they're a counselor that you
have to be a counselor or a mayor to actually
do it. And yes, it's while you're elected members on
Earth and while you're sitting on a council you also
study at UNI online. That's bizarre to bear.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
As a counselor study to become a better counselor, I guess.
It also says that the courses are tailored.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
To be about just doing their job better, you know,
focus on.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
That they do. Say they make tough decisions in council
and this will help them make those decisions easier.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Apparently poor things always love your stories. How's your weather?
Speaker 11 (23:13):
Our periods of rain today for us possibly heavy southeasterly
these are getting stronger this afternoon and twelve degrees out high.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right, take care five university credits Neva. What are
they going to do with that they.
Speaker 12 (23:25):
Supposed to be?
Speaker 13 (23:26):
Can you hear me? Oh, look at the old.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You need to go back to UNI. I need to
go back to Uni. But you know, once you're in
a job like university is to get you into a job.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
These guys have jobs.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
And the leadership as well, Like aren't they supposed to
be leaders before you know, when they're elected because they're
counselors and then while they're doing these credits and they're
doing them on leadership and then you have a you
have paying for this for goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That is quite a good question. I bet it's us,
I bet it is I bet it's you Wellington.
Speaker 13 (23:57):
That would be like us going back to school broadcast
broadcasting school to speak English proper.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Hey. In Auckland, the Inorganic Collection service is boosting reuse.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
It is now look bike's, furniture, household appliances. They're all
getting a second life. This is through the Auckland Council's
Inorganic Collection. So examples include, you know, things like discarded
bikes being fixed and then given back to the community.
So as we know this in organic service. You know,
people they put their une wanted items on property the
council collection, you know, phone them and say come.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I collect that.
Speaker 13 (24:31):
So Auckland councils saying that since it's seen items been
diverted from landfill, that's increased from sixteen percent to twenty
seven percent since twenty twenty two. So the Council's saying,
you know what, this is pretty good. So they're increasingly
being treated. This is landfill being treated as the last
resort and better to see these items being repurposed.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Basically, that's really cool. Yeah, I mean we should we should,
you know, we throw too much stuff away. Done well,
we just do. You know. One of my neighbors is
they're quite a greeny household, I think, you know, very
sort of happy. And yesterday they had I noticed on
the fence as I was walking the dog they had
out a bag and it said free on it and
I was like, oh, it looked like it was a
(25:11):
cardboard sort of nice shopping bag Pegani one. Oh it
was empty. They were giving away the Pegani bagh a
car is nothing in it. They were they were just
obviously saying this is a this is a sort of
a cardboard bag that we should reuse somehow.
Speaker 13 (25:29):
So did you open the bag and think what the hell?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Bless them?
Speaker 13 (25:33):
So are you obviously not very good friends with your neighbors?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
These greenies, Well, I've seen them once in the park
at the gold Page.
Speaker 13 (25:40):
You should put something on your fence.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
A big sign that says stay away. Has has that weather.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Shellers so heavy thunderstorm, sail possible northfunder but until evening
fourteen the high here.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
To six new talks. There be His Penny Wong, the
Australian Foreign Minister on the Chinese missile.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
Australia has been clear that this proposed test is in
the context of a rapid military built up by China
which is lacking in the transparency and reassurance as to
intend that the region expects. The Pacific Island's foreign leaders
have made clear that they want the Pacific to be
an ocean of peace. We believe this test is inconsistent
(27:20):
with that objective.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Donad Demato is with us from Australia this morning for
more reaction. Donna, A big deal, Oh, a huge deal,
huge deal.
Speaker 15 (27:30):
We know that this is a nuclear capable, intercontinental ballistic missile.
It was armed with a dummy warhead. It went straight
into the Pacific Ocean. The austrain government has been swift
to respond, saying that it's destabilizing to the region. In fact,
and as we just heard from Foreign Minister Penny Wong
saying that you know, acknowledging that the Austraian government had
(27:52):
been informed the test would occur, but did argue that
this move lacked the transparency and reassurance that Pacific neighbors expected,
and in fact went on to say that destabilizing acts
can lead to what she called miscalculation, can lead where
we do not want these actions to lead. And she
said that she thinks China is aware of this position
(28:15):
that Australia holds. She said all this on the ABC
last night, so she actually also said that Australia regards
this proposed test as counter to all those things that
I just mentioned. Now you actually have also heard from
Acting Prime Minister Richard Miles, and he said that the
government was in fact alarmed by the plans. This is
(28:37):
a long range missile test. We're very concerned about any
actions that undermine the stability, peace and security of the
Pacific and Australia remains completely committed to the Ocean of
Peace declaration that was made at the floor at the
Pacific Islands Forum last year and as he put it,
our primary focus, Australia's primary concern is on maintaining the
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peace and security.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
Of the Pacific.
Speaker 15 (29:02):
So quite strong and swift reaction as I mentioned to
what happened and what China.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Did appreciate that update. Donald Tomorow, Australia correspondent. By the way,
the missile was fired into the South Pacific Nuclear Free
Zone that was established by the Treaty of Raratonga. It
is ten two in this New Zealand. This is a
Crown agency. They want foreign companies to pump thirty billion
dollars investment into AI data centers over five years in
New Zealand. We've got one in Westgate that's owned by
(29:30):
a subsidiary in Ireland to cost a billion dollars. But
will they steal our power at peak times? Do we
have the water to cool them? And what about the jobs?
Do they actually create them? Penny Simmons, Minister of Science,
Innovation and Technology with me this morning. Minister, Good morning,
Good morning, Ryan. I mentioned AI data centers once on
the show, and the text machine goes with people saying,
(29:52):
we needed a referendum on these things. I hate them.
They're going to steal our power. We don't have the power.
They actually seem quite controversial.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
Sure they are, and yet we've got fifty six of
them already and they are using zero point six percent
of our power. So and anyone that's using the digital economy,
anyone who's jumped on a video conference or streamed a
movie or done some banking online is part of the
(30:21):
digital economy that needs the infrastructure of data centers. So
we have them now and we're going to need more
in the future, and AI is just accelerating that.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So fifty six data centers less than a percent of
our power. If we get thirty billion in investment as
investment Z wants, how many data centers does that equal?
How much of our power is that equal?
Speaker 12 (30:44):
Well, the thing is, though, at the same time, we're
extending the amount of renewable energy that we're producing. So
you've heard the Prime Minister talking about the fact that
we've got nine renewable energy projects going through FastTrack. Six
of them have already been approved, three with expert panels.
(31:05):
Now so yes, if we weren't doing that work, could
be worried. But we've got that happening in parallel that
we're getting more electricity, and so we want that electricity
available so that it puts a downward pressure on prices,
but also so that it allows more industries to come here,
like data centers, and they create then that growth in
(31:29):
our economy and they create jobs.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, Penny Simons, Science Minister good Tavy on the
program eight minutes away from six. I mean, is anyone
else just a little bit confused? We need LNG to
fill the gaps in the dry years because we're so
desperate for power. On the other hand, come in and
build your data center, take the power. It's yours eight to.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Six sid B before the news breaks here it first.
Ryan Bridge on early edition with sparks for business technology
that keeps business moving.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
News talks that be five six news talks. It'd be
great to have your company. Mike's in the studio morning. Mike,
Greetings Ryan. See this back and forth with Harry and
Buckingham Palace.
Speaker 16 (32:07):
He's arrived, by the way, he's just and just touchdown.
But it's sort of pathetic, isn't it. It's it's beyond pathetic,
like how many times they went back and forth? So
they made the offer, he said no, and then he
came back and said, oh, no, I will, and they said,
well you can't.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Now do you reckon?
Speaker 16 (32:23):
He's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I reckon?
Speaker 16 (32:27):
What do you reckon that?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 16 (32:28):
The ratio is of people. It's because the British tabloids
still pedal it like there's no tomorrow. Obviously they get
clicks out of it, because otherwise they wouldn't do it,
So there's clearing. I couldn't be less interested in him
AND's wife.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I used to be, you know, back when the when
they went to Netflix and did the Brexit or whatever.
But then you know that trip they did to Australia
just recently, and they had the BBC vox seed all
these Australian people on the street and they said and
they none of them even knew they were coming and
couldn't ke les.
Speaker 16 (33:00):
Yeah, I think they're relevant, completely irrelevant. I do feel
slightly sorry for him in the circumstances. I put it
down to the fact I believe he's thick and unfortunately
his life has become Waywood because of his laquered intellectual capacity,
and hence he finds himself in this particular predicament.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Probably a fair assistment. I know, exactly what are you
doing today?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (33:20):
Look, I got so much good stuff, right do you know?
We're selling apples Twindia already?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
But are you really going to put that down to
the f t A. It hasn't even been gone through.
It's a vibe. It's it's the move.
Speaker 16 (33:32):
It's it's the move.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
What you're doing is create.
Speaker 16 (33:34):
You're creating the environment and atmosphere to do more business.
That's what we need, the halo effect, with the halo effects.
I know, look, I'm all for the ft. It doesn't
sound like it sounds like you're a cynical, But I'm
cynical about the halo effect, are you? Why don't you
just ride with it? I mean it's good, we're selling
more stuff to the world.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That's great.
Speaker 16 (33:52):
No, it's fantastic. So I'm well, you don't you go
away be miserable. I'm going to I'm going to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
This with your next news talks You've been.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
They'd be good morning six half for five on your Tuesday.
Great to have your company. We'll look at this thirty
billion dollar data center pitch, even though Amazon didn't want
to build one. Here will someone else fund it? We
will go to Donner in Australia. We'll look at the
India Business Council. They reckon the Indie FDA already showing
signs of growth in the economy even though the thing's
only just been signed and hasn't come into force yet.
We'll also talk to fed farmers about the Green's latest
(00:32):
wacky policy. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who's that the seventh of July is fee for dirty
and under Trump's thumb, this is the question the American
striker red card suspension overturned and Trump admits that he
got on the blow of the fee for boss about it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
These were two great athletes that got tangled up and
this referee who is a little bit suspect if you
check his past. I don't want to say that because
they don't like to. Can't you, Rishie? How do you
panalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet.
It's very unfair. You can't do with that show. Yes,
I asked for a review.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
By now the fief of Boss has nothing to see here.
The review and the overturn based on evidence, not on
a politicians say. So, let's go to the UK Foreign
Secretary there of Itt Cooper has commented on the idea
that there's a bit of a boys club at Number
ten Downing Street. This comes after the Deputy Labor Party
leader Lucy Powell said she had some unpleasant experiences I preven.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
At a respond to boysy public commentary and briefings. We're
seen going back thirty years and so that I think
we've seen for a long time. I think it's really
welcome that Andy has said he wants to end that
culture because I think the focus should be on the country.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
What does that mean? Boisy comments? Anyway, after months of speculation,
Sky and staying in the UK, Sky UK is going
to swallow ITV their media business one point six billion
pounds that's three point six billion New Zealand dollars. That
gets the green light because they need one. It'll be
the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
From a viewing standpoint, we are committing to making sure
that the ITV shows that consumers love today continue to
be free and we'll be able to put some of
Sky's extraordinary portfolio of sports rates into the free service,
so to really build fandom for certain keysports.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
They and more drama with Harry. Just get over there
to London and just do your charity stuff and go home.
We're sick of hearing about it. Buckingham Pallace says he
was invited to stay. Harry said he would stay, and
then they said you're too late to stay, and now
he's saying that it's a shame I can't stay.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
We understand that the office offered obviously be made for
the Duke of Sussex to have access to a royal residence.
Buckingham Palace was the one. This was an offer that
was accepted by the Duke of Sussex. Understand for the
Palace's point of view, it was accepted too late. There
wasn't enough time to sort out the hospitality and to
(03:07):
sort out the staffing for that accommodation.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
News and Views you trust to start your day, It's
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Speaker 2 (03:22):
It'd be nine after five nine two ninety two is
the number to text. Now, do we care about the
Chinese firing and ICBM? It was a dummy warhead but
nuclear capable, but a dummy into the Pacific Ocean? Do
we care? The last time they did this was twenty
twenty four. Yeah, we probably do care because it's an
intercontinental ministic bissile ballistic missile. Forgive me, Yeah, we do care.
(03:47):
But how much do we care? Probably not that much.
They so they recon it's to do with this deal
that Australia signed with Fiji. But the other thing that's
going on right now that no one's talking about is RIMPACK,
which is the US lead literary exercise which is happening
right now. It's been happening since the end of June.
It goes through until the end of July. So is
(04:07):
it to do with what the Australians signed with Fiji,
or is it to do with Rimpack or is it
to do with both? Who knows because it's a guessing
game because they haven't specifically said why they've done it.
They've just said that they've done it and CCTV which
is the estate media or CGTN they now call themselves,
which is their state media, rut thet They've put photos
out about that confirmed it's happened, they just don't say
(04:29):
exactly why. It's apparently a JL three intercontinental ballistic missile,
first launch on one of those since twenty four And
the fact if you look at the agreement between the
Australians and the Fijians, it is interesting because they agree
to act to meet the common danger if either is attacked. Now,
for Fiji, this is actually their first defense alliance. That's
(04:52):
not insignificant. For the Aussies, it's their fourth. Of course,
they have one with us. They have one with the US,
and they have one with puppin Guinea, and now they
have one with Fiji. And the next question everyone's going
to be asking is does New Zealand join the Australia
Fiji agreement because at the moment we only really have
one with the Aussies. If the Aussies are attacked and
(05:14):
presumably we would get involved. But here's a question for you,
do you want New Zealand to be involved in stuff
like this or do you just want us to trade
and shut up nine two nine two, because I do
we want to look like we're close to China in
the Pacific? Not really? Do we want to look like
we're too close to the US and the Pacific? Not really?
I mean, are they going to come to our aid?
(05:35):
We don't even let the nuclear powered warships in here
for goodness sake. I think we should be more like
the Switzerland of the Pacific, you know, where we trade
with anyone and fight with no one. Nine nine two.
It is twelve after five.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Brian Bridge out next.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The Greens have a policy and very light on detail.
I'll explain more next and we'll get reaction. News Talk
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Speaker 2 (06:16):
Lewis is involved. Ryan, How on earth would New Zealand
get involved and how on earth would New Zealand make
a difference if there was going to be some kind
of conflict in the Pacific. What would we do make
their lunches? Well, to be fair, we did our Poseidon's
the other day. Did you see that story? It was
last week fired a harpoon missile at from an aircraft
(06:41):
at a sort of destroyed carrier as part of the
Impact Pacific exercises that were going on. So we actually
did shoot a missile the other day, so we're not
completely useless, although we did borrow it from the Australians
because we didn't have any of our own. The very
expensive things caught a past five Ryan Bridge, the number six.
So another policy drop from the Greens. Will be ecstatic
(07:04):
to know. They want to ban on synthetic fertilizers on
farms to help clean up waterways. They want to reduce
the number of cows. They're also pushing to end bottom trawling.
Here is Madam and Davidson.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
We just need to stop buying into this whole concept
of ruining our rivers is the only way to make
a buck.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
We can totally reject that, and that is what the
Greens are doing today.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Simon Cameron, fed Farmer's West Coast President, Simon, good morning,
how are you very well? Thank you? Just to do
the Greens have a point that it is intensive farming
that has caused a lot of our rivers to be unswimmable,
like as a basic fact. Is that wrong?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Yeah, I mean yeah, you'd certainly challenge it is looking
around Wellington and Auckland, where's that Issu're coming from?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, that's outfit, that's out literally our own waste. But
in rural New Zealand, you know they reckon half the
rivers are because of nitrates and stuff that we've got
run off that's come from farms. Are they wrong in
saying that?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Yeah, I mean there's I would challenge it, there's and
there's Yeah, there's been issues in the past, but you
look at where where we've come from. We're certainly making
bigger roads and proving things a heck of a lot.
We've got one hundred and ninety kilogram per year per
year careful on these things now, so we're catchment groups
are done a phenomenal job rperio and plantings. Yeah, I
(08:30):
think we're heading in the right direction. We've done a
lot in the last dec order two decade of two.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And if you read their policy document, they say simon
that it's basically unchecked in environmental vandalism that's going on.
You're saying that it's not unchecked we have limits, we
have rules, there are standards.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Yeah, absolutely, that's ridiculous. That is absolutely checked. And we've
come a very very long way. Look, technology has come
a long way. Everyone's sort of picked that up and
it implemented it from wear precision agg We're a lot
more careful in how we use it. We're using a
lot less of it, to be honest, from what we
were a few years ago. And I mean, what do
they want us to do, because by phasing it out,
(09:12):
you're going to reduce what this country can produce by
at least twenty five percent. We're an export nation down
to the bottom of South Pacific. What are you going
to do for anything to the country.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I mean, that is the fundamental question. So twenty five
percent you reckon? So is that the nitrate? At least
that the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. If you get rid of that,
if you ban that, that's twenty five percent at least
of industry that's gone.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Yeah, at least, right, So everything, it all starts with
the seed, but it needs the nutrients to grow. And
every time you grow something, you know, if you're an
arable farmer, for example, what doesn't mean if you're growing grass, wheat, corn,
mung beans. It doesn't matter if you grow something, you
take it away. Whether you've grazed it, we've harvest it.
You're taking nutrients from the soil. You've got to replenish
(09:57):
it up.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So Simon Good TV on the Simon Cameron fed Farmer's
West Coast President with us this morning. Time is eighteen
minutes after five. I don't know what to tell you.
I printed off the Greens release this morning. No, not
just the release. I clicked on the see our policy
page and it is four pages that have printed off
for me. Two of the pages are pictures. Actually I lie.
(10:20):
So the first page is a picture of a river,
The second page, half of the page is a picture
of another river. The third page you've got seventy five
percent writing, and then on the back end, your fourth
page is just a giant Green Party logo, which they
will love the fact I've printed off on hard copy.
So you have one and a half pages destroying, potentially
(10:44):
destroying twenty five percent of our biggest exporting industry. Now
is that a smart thing to say? This is the
problem the Greens have And I will come back to
this at in about seven minutes time. But it's all
very well to say this is what we shouldn't do,
this is what we can we can't do, But what
do we do to feed ourselves? Five nineteen News Talks
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News TALKSB B twenty one. George says, morning Ryan, look
at Ukraine. If you think anyone is going to come
to New Zealand's rescue, that is exhibit A. George, very
good point. We're going to speak to donnad To Mayo
for Australia reaction to that Chinese missile that came into
the Pacific yesterday. First Government says export is here already
experiencing a halo effect of the India FTA. They've put
out a press release about this. Apply exports to India
(11:43):
up sixty three percent on last season. Key we for
a grower set for big tariff savings. Edwin Paul, India
Business Council Chair with us this morning. It was good morning,
good mining Graham. Now look I'm all for this FTA
but to try and claim we're already having some kind
of impact from it before all the things even you know,
passed into law surely is a stretch.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Oh, I would beg to disagree, because business is all
about confidence the contents that the market displaced. So Ever,
since the talk of the FTA came in, the visitor
arrivals to New Zealand increase people, we've seen delegations happening
back and forth. I'm not surprised, and I think the
(12:26):
term halo is quite right. We are. Time is too
early to count the numbers exactly, but we are seeing
the impact already.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And we've I mean, you're rap, we've had delegations going
both ways. What about specific industries, what are you seeing
in you know, particular areas.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Okay, see you the lowest hanging fruit literally, I mean
sorry for the part that you mentioned. Is we've seen
an increase in apple's already, and with our defined increase
in quota from fokiv fruit, we know there's going to
be a steady increase on the side. And also specific
to sectors. We had a delegation on agri tech which
(13:06):
came to our field days and that was only about
a month ago and I think they even the outcomes
were greater around that. But we're also seeing interest in honey,
in meat and wood, in technology, innovation, sports tech.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Especially obviously Modi's coming here Friday, very big visit for
our country. Are you is anyone worried about the noise
from Winston Peters and he's in on first.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Oh, the noise will always be around such high level delegation,
and it's not just in India or New Zealand. Anywhere
these leaders go there's always been some fringe gentlemen's creating
these kinds of issues. We I think both garments a
Erica and the commitment from both the leaders to actually
meet and shake hands would be the strongest symbol there,
(13:55):
I mean strongest signal that they would can wait for
to increase business confidence.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
All right, thank you very much, Edwin and Paul India
Business Council Chair with us this morning time is twenty
four after five. So am z's June card spending data
is out and it tells you that well, it's a
tracking data and much of the because we had an
uplift in the data from the month earlier and they
are now saying, well that was perhaps a bit of
a mirage. So price hikes rather than volume gains were
(14:23):
pushing up the card spending data. An you'll spending growth however,
this is a good news story is up five point
eight percent. Hospitality month on month was down two point
two That was after a lift in May. Housing durables down,
apparel flat however, terrorism recreation, and wasn't it great to
see all the tourists here in newsaland in the South
Island enjoying the snow. Yesterday twenty five after five Newstalk VB.
(14:47):
Next we'll look at tax, the Greens and Top News
Talks VB. It is twenty seven after five. This week,
the Tony Blair Foundation warned Andy Berman that Burnham I
should say the incoming British prime so that you can't
tax your way to prosperity. Some of our politicians could
probably use a similar lecture. We have parties wanting new
(15:08):
taxes to fund what is basically a universal basic income,
even though AI hasn't yet stolen the number of jobs
that they claimed that it would. In fact, there's a
Wall Street Journal piece out this morning that talks about
exactly this point. Even big tech seems to be you
turning on the job's doomsday scenario that's been painted for AI.
(15:28):
We had the Greens yesterday come out with that policy
that was not serious but potentially quite destructive to our
standard of living. You can read it on the website.
It's four pages long. Two of the pages of pictures
and photos. Cows are gone should be gone capped. Synthetic
nitrate fertilizers should be phased out. Bottom trawling should be banned.
(15:50):
Zero detail on when, how, and the economic impact of
doing so in this four pages. Same goes for bottom trawlings.
Seventy percent of our fishing industry by volumes caught by
trawling within a meter of our sea floor. Did you
know that? The industry did you know? Worth five billion
a year sixteen thousand plus jobs. Dairies our biggest export
(16:10):
sixteen billion a year. To try and take them down
is to launch an assault essentially much like the Chinese
on our standard of living, akin to the doomsday AI
job wipeout that was once predicted to happen but hasn't
yet eventuated. On top of this, there's a plan for
more taxes, which remember even Tony Blair admits is no
(16:31):
plan for prosperity. The thing about the Greens the River
plan is that the partly right agricultural runoff has made
many rivers unswimmable in New Zealand. But simply banning and
taxing things does not solve problems. It creates new ones,
like how are we going to feed the kids, create
(16:51):
jobs or stay in the OECD Bryan Bridge twenty nine
after five Now Trumps off to Turkey. We've got our
Defense minister over in Turkey already. This is for the
NATO meeting. But Trump's off there. He's going to have
a little meeting with Erduwan. Then he's going to have
dinner with the NATO leaders. That will go well because
(17:12):
he loves them. He's going to meet with Zelenski, He's
going to meet with the Syrian presidents up meant Al Shara,
and then there'll be a news conference. So we'll have
plenty of Trump coverage in the next few days. We're
in Australia. Next News Talks eb.
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News Talks at b tredy far away from six zero
News Talk said on your Tuesday morning, great to have
your company. Penny Wong, the Australian Foreign minist has commented
on this missile thing. We'll go to Donald de Mayo
out of Australia in a few minutes time. We're also
going to talk about AI and data centers because there's
(18:14):
a push to get thirty billion dollars in foreign investment here,
which I mean good luck. Amazon didn't want to build well,
they said they'd build one, then they didn't build one,
then they said they'd build it again with luxe and
and power, and then they have pulled out of that again.
So who's going to pay for these data centers? Do
we want them? Anyway? This textas says Ryan, the net
zero thing this is we were talking about the Greens.
The net zero thing is a scam, says Mark. It
(18:37):
is ruining ours standard of living. Interestingly, we're going to
get Penny Simmons on the show just before six this
morning in about twenty minutes. Interestingly, it is the net
zero ambitions of a lot of these big tech companies
that is driving the demand for AI data centers in
places like New Zealand. This is the theory because of
(18:57):
our renewable energy. You know, we have so much renewed energy.
These guys have net zero targets. Your Googles and your
Microsofts and your Amazons. They say, oh, look, it's got
a New Zealand like we've in America. Apparently a lot
of it is alng A lot of it is coming
off the grid, which is not renewable, and so they
are going, let's go to New Zealand. That's the theory. Anyway, Mark,
(19:19):
we will test it with the minister. Just before six,
this one says, this is from John Farmer, John, Good
morning John. On the greens. Wouldn't it be better to
get all of our farmers aligned and up to speed
with the best practice of our best farmers when it
comes to night trate management rather than tax or ban
which would kill industry. Wouldn't it be better to aim
(19:42):
for the aim to be the best rather than killing
the goose that's laying all the golden eggs for the economy.
Couldn't agree more? John? Time is twenty two to six.
Our reporters come into need and kill them. Good morning morning,
right a bit drier there today. Yeah, definitely there.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
The rains stopped as predicted sort of late morning round
lunchtime and the chance to dry out through yesterday afternoon
and today forecast looking a lot better.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And you've got a new this is good news from
Simon Brown. New state of the art radiation therapy machine
there here we do.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
It's so working its magic for our cancer patients here.
It's a four point three million dollar linear accelerator which
is fully operational here now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The Health Minister's confirmed.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
It replaces the old Dunedan hospital machine which has reached
the end of its life. Simeon Brown says this version
targets tumors within a millimeter and can treat from multiple
angles as well. It allows clinicians to provide higher doses
to tumor sites while reducing the risk of side effects
through less healthy tissue exposure. Multiple tumors can also be
(20:48):
treated simultaneously. Now operating it to Eden Hospital.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
All right, callum, thank you very much for that. Rosy
Leachman and christ this morning. Rosie, good morning. So you've
got a new qualification for health workers there.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Yes, Institute of Canterbury Course is aiming to give health
workers more confidence treating children As GP clinics face growing demand.
The christ Church based Polytech will launch the Child Health
and Development micro Credential in semester two, giving primary health
care workers the chance to upskill. The course is fully
(21:19):
online and has no exams. Program leader m A. Fairs
says the workforce is seeing more children than ever as
pressure grows on general practice. She says it's critical primary
care workers are up to speed with current research to
treat children as they can be more complex to treat
because they're more vulnerable to becoming unwell.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Hows you wear the rosie?
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Well?
Speaker 10 (21:40):
There are some weather warnings for parts of Canterbury, but
here in christ Church we're getting occasional rain in southeast
esterday and a high of eleven degrees.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
All right to be in Wellington, good morning to best
morning right now? You got your counselors going where.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Back to school? Actually? So Local Government New Zealand's how's
this partnered with Victoria University of Wellington to create and
offer a micro credential in Local Governance. So this is
a short focus course which equates to about five university
credits and it's delivered online over a maximum of about
eighteen weeks so they can study towards a certified a
(22:17):
Certified Local Governance practitioner and then they've got the opportunity
to progress to a Certified Local Governance Advanced Practitioner. It'll
cover off topics like leadership, finance, and communication and engagement
local government. New Zealand says it will be a major
boost to the set down a big help to both
members future leadership opportunities and decision making skills.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
What on Earth? So while they're a counselor that you
have to be a counselor or a mayor to actually
do it. And yes, it's while you're elected members on
Earth and while you're sitting on a council you also
study at UNI online. That's bizarre to bear.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
As a counselor study to become a better counselor, I guess.
It also says that the courses are tailored.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
To be about just doing their job better, you know,
focus on.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
That they do. Say they make tough decisions in council
and this will help them make those decisions easier.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Apparently poor things always love your stories. How's your weather?
Speaker 11 (23:13):
Our periods of rain today for us possibly heavy southeasterly
these are getting stronger this afternoon and twelve degrees out high.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
All right, take care five university credits Neva. What are
they going to do with that they.
Speaker 12 (23:25):
Supposed to be?
Speaker 13 (23:26):
Can you hear me? Oh, look at the old.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You need to go back to UNI. I need to
go back to Uni. But you know, once you're in
a job like university is to get you into a job.
Speaker 13 (23:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
These guys have jobs.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
And the leadership as well, Like aren't they supposed to
be leaders before you know, when they're elected because they're
counselors and then while they're doing these credits and they're
doing them on leadership and then you have a you
have paying for this for goodness.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That is quite a good question. I bet it's us,
I bet it is I bet it's you Wellington.
Speaker 13 (23:57):
That would be like us going back to school broadcast
broadcasting school to speak English proper.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Hey. In Auckland, the Inorganic Collection service is boosting reuse.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
It is now look bike's, furniture, household appliances. They're all
getting a second life. This is through the Auckland Council's
Inorganic Collection. So examples include, you know, things like discarded
bikes being fixed and then given back to the community.
So as we know this in organic service. You know,
people they put their une wanted items on property the
council collection, you know, phone them and say come.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I collect that.
Speaker 13 (24:31):
So Auckland councils saying that since it's seen items been
diverted from landfill, that's increased from sixteen percent to twenty
seven percent since twenty twenty two. So the Council's saying,
you know what, this is pretty good. So they're increasingly
being treated. This is landfill being treated as the last
resort and better to see these items being repurposed.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Basically, that's really cool. Yeah, I mean we should we should,
you know, we throw too much stuff away. Done well,
we just do. You know. One of my neighbors is
they're quite a greeny household, I think, you know, very
sort of happy. And yesterday they had I noticed on
the fence as I was walking the dog they had
out a bag and it said free on it and
I was like, oh, it looked like it was a
(25:11):
cardboard sort of nice shopping bag Pegani one. Oh it
was empty. They were giving away the Pegani bagh a
car is nothing in it. They were they were just
obviously saying this is a this is a sort of
a cardboard bag that we should reuse somehow.
Speaker 13 (25:29):
So did you open the bag and think what the hell?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Bless them?
Speaker 13 (25:33):
So are you obviously not very good friends with your neighbors?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
These greenies, Well, I've seen them once in the park
at the gold Page.
Speaker 13 (25:40):
You should put something on your fence.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
A big sign that says stay away. Has has that weather.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Shellers so heavy thunderstorm, sail possible northfunder but until evening
fourteen the high here.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
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(26:13):
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they help reduce nasal congestion with as little as ten minutes.
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(26:35):
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
To six new talks. There be His Penny Wong, the
Australian Foreign Minister on the Chinese missile.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
Australia has been clear that this proposed test is in
the context of a rapid military built up by China
which is lacking in the transparency and reassurance as to
intend that the region expects. The Pacific Island's foreign leaders
have made clear that they want the Pacific to be
an ocean of peace. We believe this test is inconsistent
(27:20):
with that objective.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Donad Demato is with us from Australia this morning for
more reaction. Donna, A big deal, Oh, a huge deal,
huge deal.
Speaker 15 (27:30):
We know that this is a nuclear capable, intercontinental ballistic missile.
It was armed with a dummy warhead. It went straight
into the Pacific Ocean. The austrain government has been swift
to respond, saying that it's destabilizing to the region. In fact,
and as we just heard from Foreign Minister Penny Wong
saying that you know, acknowledging that the Austraian government had
(27:52):
been informed the test would occur, but did argue that
this move lacked the transparency and reassurance that Pacific neighbors expected,
and in fact went on to say that destabilizing acts
can lead to what she called miscalculation, can lead where
we do not want these actions to lead. And she
said that she thinks China is aware of this position
(28:15):
that Australia holds. She said all this on the ABC
last night, so she actually also said that Australia regards
this proposed test as counter to all those things that
I just mentioned. Now you actually have also heard from
Acting Prime Minister Richard Miles, and he said that the
government was in fact alarmed by the plans. This is
(28:37):
a long range missile test. We're very concerned about any
actions that undermine the stability, peace and security of the
Pacific and Australia remains completely committed to the Ocean of
Peace declaration that was made at the floor at the
Pacific Islands Forum last year and as he put it,
our primary focus, Australia's primary concern is on maintaining the
(29:00):
peace and security.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
Of the Pacific.
Speaker 15 (29:02):
So quite strong and swift reaction as I mentioned to
what happened and what China.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Did appreciate that update. Donald Tomorow, Australia correspondent. By the way,
the missile was fired into the South Pacific Nuclear Free
Zone that was established by the Treaty of Raratonga. It
is ten two in this New Zealand. This is a
Crown agency. They want foreign companies to pump thirty billion
dollars investment into AI data centers over five years in
New Zealand. We've got one in Westgate that's owned by
(29:30):
a subsidiary in Ireland to cost a billion dollars. But
will they steal our power at peak times? Do we
have the water to cool them? And what about the jobs?
Do they actually create them? Penny Simmons, Minister of Science,
Innovation and Technology with me this morning. Minister, Good morning,
Good morning, Ryan. I mentioned AI data centers once on
the show, and the text machine goes with people saying,
(29:52):
we needed a referendum on these things. I hate them.
They're going to steal our power. We don't have the power.
They actually seem quite controversial.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
Sure they are, and yet we've got fifty six of
them already and they are using zero point six percent
of our power. So and anyone that's using the digital economy,
anyone who's jumped on a video conference or streamed a
movie or done some banking online is part of the
(30:21):
digital economy that needs the infrastructure of data centers. So
we have them now and we're going to need more
in the future, and AI is just accelerating that.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So fifty six data centers less than a percent of
our power. If we get thirty billion in investment as
investment Z wants, how many data centers does that equal?
How much of our power is that equal?
Speaker 12 (30:44):
Well, the thing is, though, at the same time, we're
extending the amount of renewable energy that we're producing. So
you've heard the Prime Minister talking about the fact that
we've got nine renewable energy projects going through FastTrack. Six
of them have already been approved, three with expert panels.
(31:05):
Now so yes, if we weren't doing that work, could
be worried. But we've got that happening in parallel that
we're getting more electricity, and so we want that electricity
available so that it puts a downward pressure on prices,
but also so that it allows more industries to come here,
like data centers, and they create then that growth in
(31:29):
our economy and they create jobs.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
All right, Penny Simons, Science Minister good Tavy on the
program eight minutes away from six. I mean, is anyone
else just a little bit confused? We need LNG to
fill the gaps in the dry years because we're so
desperate for power. On the other hand, come in and
build your data center, take the power. It's yours eight to.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Six sid B before the news breaks here it first.
Ryan Bridge on early edition with sparks for business technology
that keeps business moving.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
News talks that be five six news talks. It'd be
great to have your company. Mike's in the studio morning. Mike,
Greetings Ryan. See this back and forth with Harry and
Buckingham Palace.
Speaker 16 (32:07):
He's arrived, by the way, he's just and just touchdown.
But it's sort of pathetic, isn't it. It's it's beyond pathetic,
like how many times they went back and forth? So
they made the offer, he said no, and then he
came back and said, oh, no, I will, and they said,
well you can't.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Now do you reckon?
Speaker 16 (32:23):
He's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I reckon?
Speaker 16 (32:27):
What do you reckon that?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 16 (32:28):
The ratio is of people. It's because the British tabloids
still pedal it like there's no tomorrow. Obviously they get
clicks out of it, because otherwise they wouldn't do it,
So there's clearing. I couldn't be less interested in him
AND's wife.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I used to be, you know, back when the when
they went to Netflix and did the Brexit or whatever.
But then you know that trip they did to Australia
just recently, and they had the BBC vox seed all
these Australian people on the street and they said and
they none of them even knew they were coming and
couldn't ke les.
Speaker 16 (33:00):
Yeah, I think they're relevant, completely irrelevant. I do feel
slightly sorry for him in the circumstances. I put it
down to the fact I believe he's thick and unfortunately
his life has become Waywood because of his laquered intellectual capacity,
and hence he finds himself in this particular predicament.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Probably a fair assistment. I know, exactly what are you
doing today?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (33:20):
Look, I got so much good stuff, right do you know?
We're selling apples Twindia already?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
But are you really going to put that down to
the f t A. It hasn't even been gone through.
It's a vibe. It's it's the move.
Speaker 16 (33:32):
It's it's the move.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
What you're doing is create.
Speaker 16 (33:34):
You're creating the environment and atmosphere to do more business.
That's what we need, the halo effect, with the halo effects.
I know, look, I'm all for the ft. It doesn't
sound like it sounds like you're a cynical, But I'm
cynical about the halo effect, are you? Why don't you
just ride with it? I mean it's good, we're selling
more stuff to the world.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That's great.
Speaker 16 (33:52):
No, it's fantastic. So I'm well, you don't you go
away be miserable. I'm going to I'm going to celebrate.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
This with your next news talks You've been.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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