April 8, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Full Show Podcast Wednesday 9th of April 2025, Associate Police Minister Casey Costello joins Andrew Dickens to talk on a report which found a substantial increase in organised crime over the past 5 years.
Australia Correspondent Lesley Yeomans shares the reaction from the Australian public on the first debate between Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his election rival Peter Dutton.
Plus, It's OCR day... John Carran, Investment Strategist and Economist at Jarden takes his pick on how the Reserve Bank will move.
And UK/Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey shares the latest on the Duke of Sussex is in court again in London to appeal a decision to downgrade the level of security he receives in the UK.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The issues, these reviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
early edition with one roof make your Property search simple
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be is according to you, Robin to the program.
Ryan's back on Tuesday. Thank you for choosing us. In
the next sixty minutes, Well, it's the Reserve Bank stay
today and what a week to be center stage. What
will happen to our interest rates in this rapidly changing world.
We'll have that story for you in five now. The
first Australian election debate happened last night. We're getting a
correspondent up very early in Australia to tell us how
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it went and who won. I'll talk about the big
challenge for arang and Tamariki to keep our kids safe.
And a new ministerial report shows that organized crime has
exploded in New Zealand over the past five years. So
what are we going to do about it? Associate Minister
of Police Casey Cassella just before six this plas Gavin
Gray from the UK. Correspondents from right around New Zealand
and news as it breaks and you can have your
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say by using the text machine and the number is
ninety two ninety two and a small duplies. It is
seven alf to five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It is Wednesday, the ninth of April. First and update
on the markets. The US stocks and European and Asian
markets have all seemed to have stabilized, but the fight's
not over for China. Why House Secretary Treasury Secretary Scott
percent has called Beijing's response to US tariff's a very
big mistake. Trump has threatened to hit Beijing with an
extra fifty percent tariff if it doesn't withdraw it's thirty
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four percent retaliatory levy by the end of today.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I think it's fair to say that Trump threw that
coved war before China even had a chance to So
I think it's quite clear that China wants to put
some opportunity cost against the Trump administration. But at the
same time, these tariffs are not really a problem for China.
So this could very much well be just a little
bit of kabooki dancing before we are having real negotiations starting.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Meanwhile, New Zealand rebounded yesterday. There's a bit of a
hope around the place that we will not be hit
as hard as others in this new age, and that's
a good thing. Now to the UK, where Prince Harry
has been in a UK Court of Appeal making his
latest legal challenge. This after the High Court upheld the
decision that he should not be provided with the same
level of police protection given to working members of the
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royal family. Now, the Duke of Sussex's security in the
UK is currently decided on a case by case basis,
the same way as the country's other high profile visitors,
and his barrister, Shahid Fatimah KC told the court that
Prince Harry had been subject to a different and so
called bespoke process in that original decision.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
While it is right to acknowledge that Ravak has expertise
in relation to matters of protective security, the nature of
the issues raised by this case do not require the
court to defer to Rabak. The judge wrongly deferred to Rabak.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And finally, what can't science do? A baby girl has
been the first child in the UK to be born
to a mother using a donated womb. The baby's mum,
Grace Davidson, was born without a functioning uterus, and she
received her sister's womb in twenty twenty three in what
was then the UK's only successful womb transplant, and two
years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her
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first child in February.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Oh, she's a little miracle.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We'd never really love ourselves imagine what it'd be like
for her to be here until we sort of saw
her come up over the dreeps.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So it was really wonderful. Congratulations mum. It's ten Out
to five.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
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Speaker 6 (03:49):
It'd be so.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We like to think we're the nice guys of the world.
Visitors come to New Zealand and remark on just how
nice we are, how the cops have no guns, and
how we're a reminder of how the world used to
be before anger, division and disrespect for rules and people
took over. We're a lovely place with nice people. But
now the Speaker of the House is talking up legislation
to provide more protection for our elected representatives. And this
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comes this week after Shane Jones's wife was hassled and
allegedly assaulted just because he's married to Shane. Meanwhile, Awkins
mayor Wayne Brown. He lives in a street right opposite
my brother, and my brother is absolutely gobsmacked at the
increased security on the street. And that has come after
death threats to the mayor, and they increased after the
mayor gave the death knock to the Western Spring Speedway. Obviously,
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there's a lot of very angry New Zealanders and faced
with challenging policies, they respond with threats of physical violence.
It's not nice. So far, they've really succeeded, though James
Shaw earned a decent black eye for standing up for
what he believed in back in the day. But you
have to say, it's only a matter of time, and
it is only a matter of time until someone does
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something stupid and someone is hurt and all they're trying
to do is help us out. But what does this
also do to the numbers of people who might put
their hand up for public office but then think twice
when they realize the danger it poses. And I know
that me railing on about how terrible this is will
make no difference whatsoever. But if we don't say something,
the bullies will win. We're better than this, So before
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you decide to go nuclear against someone you don't agree with,
particularly me. Have a hymn dickens I see that David
Parker is to quit politics. The former Labor Minister was
the backbone of the party. He's been the Attorney General.
His portfolios have included trade, revenue, economic development, climate change, energy.
I don't like everything. He's an old pro He's also
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been the chief proponent for tax changes that would affect
the wealthy. At the last election, he was the main
cheerleader for the capital gains tax. He pushed for it
under Arden durn should I say, and he pushed for
it under Hipkins, but Chris blew it up in what
was called the Bonfire of the Policies because Turkeys don't
vote for Cris and anyone who's worked hard and attained
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a capital asset that appreciates hates it. And they're not
going to vote for a capital gains tax, no matter
how much economic sense it might make. And that's not
because they are rich pricks. That's because they've watched previous
generations earn capital gains without penalty, So why should they so?
With David Parker gone, who will fight for the rebalancing
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of our system that currently sees a lot of money
made with no contribution towards the running of the country.
And the answer to that question is nobody. Labor has
just lost one of the last links to their old
selves and so far they haven't found a new vision
to subscribe to. And with David Parker gone, the question
remains louder than ever, what do labor actually stand for?
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Andrew Dickens, Oh, see our day today? What a day.
I would say that things over the last week have
changed the view of the new Reserve Bank Governor, Christian Hawksby,
who by the way, has got the job for another
six month. So what do the experts reckon? We'll go
to an expert from Jarden's in just a few moments time.
News Talks Here, b it's five fourteen.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
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Speaker 2 (07:18):
Said, be it's sixteen after five. We're going to talk
about a rang and Tomariki and Karen Shure in just
a few moments time. But today is ocr day and
this is where they decide the interest rates. Most economists reckon,
We're going to see a twenty five basis point cut,
and the Februy update from the Reserve Bank suggests that
that could be likely. But you know, things have changed.
Tarif's been thrown in every direction globally. It's a little
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uncerting right now. What would the bank do? So I've
got investment strategists and economists at Jarden John Karen up
early to talk to me.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
How John, Yeah, good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What are you picking?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Yeah, I'm picking a twenty five based point cut. I
think the strong indicator that's what they'll do. Obviously, there's
been a lot of turmoil and uncertainty your markets with
Trump's tariffs, but I think it's too early for the
Reserve Bank to panic and do anything more than twenty
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five based points at this point.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you reckon the tariffs are inflation really globally? And
of course the weapon against inflation is to keep the
interest rates a little high. Do you think that the
tariffs are inflationary?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Look, it's very hard to tell. I mean, there's so
many things that could determine the impact on inflation. So
I think certainly it could be inflationary in the United States,
where the primary impact is. But here in New Zealand.
We're not putting tariffs on US goods. It's not entirely
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certain what that impact will be, so I think we
have to wait for the evidence in the full nature
of the tariffs to make that call.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's all very logical, but of course he don't live
logical age. What do you think? What do you think
the Reserve Bank might say about the economy in general?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Yeah, I think they will note that the US, the
New Zealand economy has shown signs of that it's sort
of turning point. There have been some more positive signs
in the New Zealand economy recently, so they will be
cautiously optimistic, I think, And I think they will indicate
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that they still see inflation pressures under control at this point,
but you know they will sound a note of caution,
particularly about the effect of those tariffs on global economic
growth and the impact on New Zealand exports.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'll take cautiously optimistic every day, John, John Karen from
Jardin's and I thank you for your time. It is
eighteen minutes out to five. The Australian election campaign is
in its second week. The two leaders faced off last
night in a debate in front of an audience of
allegedly singing voters. Yeah, Peter Dutton described as the ex
cop who brought Australia's opposition back from the brink, and
(10:05):
of course the Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi, who's described as
the working class hero who fell out of favor. So
what happened that story? Next on Newstalk Zibby.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The First Word on the News of the Day Early
Edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room to Make Your
Property Surgeon Symbol News Talk Zibby.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's coming up five to twenty one on a Wednesday morning.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi and his election rival Peter
Dutton faced off last night in their first debate before
the federal election, which is to happen on the third
of May.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
The world has shrown a lot of challenges to Australia
in the last few years and we've responded the Australian way.
What this selection is about, though.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Is what happens next.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
People have seen the government make mistakes priorities, but just
having accorded with your own priorities.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, So cost of living issues dominated the debate, but
there were some good one liners on energy.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
The only dash Poul said that the coalition have as
the gas lighting of the Australian public.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And they were asked about US President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
When you impost tariffs, it's attacks on the country that
is imposing it.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Whatever is thrown at us. The Prime Minister of the
day should have the ability of the strength of character
to be able to stand up against bullies, against those
that would seek to do us harm, to keep our
country safe and to make sure that we can make
the right economic decisions for our country.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So Australian correspondent Leslie Yeomans has been getting the reaction
for us and we've got her up very early indeed
in Australia. Thank you so much, Lesie. Good morning to you.
Good morning Andrew skycoarder for Albernezi. Was he the obvious winner?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
It appears so.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
One hundred undecided voters were invited to this first debate
and they were the ones who were asking the questions
and then would eventually at the end of the debate
give their assessment of who won and possibly who they
would vote for, mentioning those those tariffs from the US.
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Donald Trump was the first. In the first question that
was put to Alberan Easy. It was the only time
he was ever mentioned, so he got one mention and
that was it, and then they moved on to other things.
The debate basically was a sort of policy driven I
guess all the questions that were asked were about the
main policy issues from both parties, immigration, health, education, and Yes,
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cost of living.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is cost of living the number one issue?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Yes, it is, Yeah, because that's what's hurting people the most.
And there's so much going on with what is going
on overseas that I think also a lot of people
just don't get that. Sometimes it doesn't matter what anyone does,
things are going to sort of be going downhill because
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of overseas influences. A lot of stuff that can be
done over here as well in your home country, but
there are a lot of outside influences that are going
to cause some issues. Just like watching the stock market
go down, peoples overhear their superannuation, which is invested in
goodness knows what is sort of being affected. Yes, So
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there was a lot of cost of living issues mentioned
last night, and concerns regarding energy policy as well, and
how the government is going to try and help people
cope with those growing energy bills.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Is it going to be a close one?
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Most elections are these days, particularly seeing that there are
other with the two major parties, one of their main
concerns now is what's going to happen with some of
the independence what we call overhere the teal independence, And
they're sort of growing in number, and it's going to
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be interesting to see if some more of those teal
independence can middle away at the major parties in some
of those of those seats, and more of them are
coming forward.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, and are you going to be able to get
back to seat this morning?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Good and I thank you for your time today. Lisie
Yeomens is our Australian correspondent. I mean, just look at
the time. I can't believe she got up for us.
Thank you so much. It's five twenty four. We were
talking about Oranga tom Ariki yesterday. A new reporters come out.
I want to have some thoughts about that in a
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So Aranga Tamariki is getting rid of its target to
place fifty eight percent of the kids in its care
with widerfino or family, and it's also ditching a target
for investment with Maori organizations. Twenty three percent of their
funding was targeted for organizations with Maori and EWE links.
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The Minister of Children, Karen Tua, says this is part
of OT's safety first approach, and she said the targets
were outdated and went against the need not race direct
to and she was concerned whether the priority of mary
organizations were getting in the way of the quality and
efficacy of the services being provided. And all of that
makes sense to me. The ingrained belief in our children's
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social workers that kids are always better off if rehome
with farno or family always seemed counterfactual to me, because
in many cases the abuse directed at the kids was
at the hand of farno or family themselves, people that
have been raised by other people in their family but
failed at their own parenting. So why would we give
the kids back to the people that raise the people
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who can't raise the kids. It often seemed to me
that children were being thrown right back into the very
cauldron we were trying to help them escape from and
there have been generations of examples, haven't there. Let's not
forget baby Ru. I haven't mentioned Ru's name for a while.
He was murdered in October twenty twenty three. Nobody has
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been charged for killing him. There was anger then and
anger now when the police were worth there when he suffered,
or sorry when the people who were there when he
suffered did not cooperate with the police. They were there,
they say nothing. Those people were and are Rosie Moronga,
her partner, Dylan Ross, and Ru's mother Storm Wall. They
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were and they are Ruse Farno. What happened people, It's
being two years and two Christmas is what happened two birthdays.
The uplifting of kids is a very serious thing, and
they need to be housed in safe places with good people.
But the history of oranga tamariki suggests that too many
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of the supposed saviors are in fact predators hiding in
plain sight. There is no easy answer to this, which
is why I've spoken about this for decades. And the
only thing we can have is strong vigilance by our agencies,
by oranga tamariki, And the only thing we can hope
for is that good people forward to help the kids
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that have been abused Dickens, it's five nine. A bit
of exciting around of course, that Bruce Springsteen is releasing
not one, but seven new albums in June, and the
first single was released yes, oh no, five days ago.
Finally I got to hear it yesterday because there's a
new lyric video out, so I'll play you a bit
of it and tell you some of the reaction to
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the song. Isn't any good? Is the question? Plus? Organized
crime has exploded in New Zealand over the past five years.
We have a ministerial report. So here we go again.
What are we going to do about it? You've got
Early Edition with Andrew Dickens here till Monday. This is
News Talk. Set me.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
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and one roof make your property search simple News Talks.
It'd be around.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Him.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Ah yeah, good morning. My manager is welcome back to
the program and thank you for turning to us. Now
that is what the world's been waiting for. Apparently, the
new single from Bruce Springsteen released five days ago. Last
night they dropped a lyric video on YouTube. If you
want to watch it and I listened to it last
night and that was the first time I've heard it,
And frankly, I think it's a bit of a dirge,
to be honest with you, and there might be a
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reason why he hasn't released this stuff but the whole
seven albums, because you know, And is this the best
song of the seventy three songs that he's releasing. I
hope not. But Bruce fans are Bruce fans. And I
was looking at the video and I love the review
from a Bruce fan. I'm going to read it out.
Listen to this love how With only seven lines, Bruce
creates a haunting, lyrical narrative that channels the mythos of
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Southern vigilante dust mool blues and folk of the thirties,
and weaves that tapantry with a simple yet raw, brass knuck,
larger than life musical arrangement that, in my opinion, feels
more introspective, reflective, and full of unsatisfied anger and Catharsis
after killing the woman he loves off for goodness, state
man steady on. Now do we like cops on the beat? Yes,
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we do. A taxpayer courier hole shows that sixty six
percent of us feel safer with cops on the beat,
only ten percent feel ly safe. The real irony came
in this poll. Amongst Green voters, forty eight percent feel
more safe and only nineteen percent feel less safe, which
all makes a mockery of Green MP Tamotha Paul's claims
that we don't want to see cops everywhere and they
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make us feel uneasy. Talk to your people, Tamitha. It
shows what we all know, and that's that Tamotha Paul
does not speak for a lot of us, and her
feelings are based on a small minority of her constituents
who feel targeted and profiled. And that may be because
they've got something lurking beneath to feel guilty about and
it shows up in their demeanor. Paul's only point worth
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considering is her core for services to target, put services
to target, preventing people getting into crime in the first place.
Right now, Tamotha, when you come up with a workable
idea for that, maybe we should also send you out
on a hunt for a unicorn in the wild. It
is twenty one to six Andrew dickens around the country.
We go callen Proctor from Dunedin. Good morning, morning, Andrew
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ten centimeters of snow at Cardrona.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
Ow and it felt like it yesterday too. Here a
first taste of winter and it's so building excitement for
ski fields, notably Kadrona Alpine Resort that's the one near Wanaka.
They work up to ten centimeters of the white stuff
around the mountain yesterday. Of course other fields in the
region also getting a dusting, but Kadrona's on track to
overtake Fucker Parper as New Zealand's largest ski field when
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it opens one hundred and fifty hectares of new terrain.
The general managers Laura Headley, She says they're working hard
to finish multiple including this new express sharelift and t bar.
She says it's going to be a lot of new terrain,
about the size of one hundred and fifty football fields.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I booked my holiday to go and ski the Soho
Basin a year and a half ago because I am
so excited. How's your weather today.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
Well, no sign of any snow today. It's better day
find today for duneed and cloudy period sou westeries and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Player sure it joins you from Christier Telly Claire.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So the whole tsunami warning system scenario, well.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
The tsunami warning system scenario, it's gone from one thing
to the next over the last few days. The forty
five sirens here in christ Church that cover the area
along the coastline between Brooklyn's and Taylor's mistake were meant
to sound at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, but they
simply didn't. And that's because the person responsible, we've now learned,
was dealing with a car which had crashed outside their property.
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Council's head of Community Support and Partnerships, John phil sal
says it's unacceptable that we have an emergency system so
dependent on person. But overnight's the coastal counselor so lest
Donovan's taken it one further. She's revealed that it's unacceptable
the sirens are not triggered locally. In fact, she says
these sirens are operated by a small company in Auckland,
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and she claims they're using outdated technology. Discussions are underway
with the external supplier to ensure this can't happen again,
while another test of our sirens will be done.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Over the next few weeks. Is still yet to confirm
a date for that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
How's your weather today?
Speaker 13 (22:27):
Fine? With Southwesterly's dying out a bit later and Hive eighteen.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Max told joins us from Wellington hall Imax, good morning,
what do you know about Andrew Little running from air?
Speaker 14 (22:36):
Yeah? Great story from our news remethan minera yet late
yesterday it does seem very legitimate that Little is considering
a tilt at the city's top job. What's been interesting
is about the instant reaction is that Andrew Little appears
to be a guy who's pretty broadly liked across the spectrum.
He got some praise from Winston Peters even, who reckons
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first and foremost it'd be a lot more sane and
rational than the current holder of offers some national voices
on social media as well, expressing cautious support. Little says
a lot of people have been asking him to run.
We've well documented the Labour's struggle to find a viable
candidate to take on Torrifino. Little says the city does
need a change, and he'll announce more at a later date.
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How's your weather mostly find Southerly's sixteenth central.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Never read a mana joins us formalkanhell and either reatings
so Orkin has love to know what their property's worth,
but there's a delay in finding that out.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Oh, this is like a delay of a delay of
a delay, Andrew so Augland Council. They completed the new
valuations by last May, but release of the capital values
data now that's been pushed back a second time from
next month to an unknown date this year. So the
figures applied to more than six hundred thousand properties. So
this initial delay was because the Valuer General requested an amendments.
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So fingers crossed that they're hoping to confirm a new
date in May May next month.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
How's Awkin's weather?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
Mainly fine. We've got a few showers are clearing early afternoon.
Twenty is the high here?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
It is now seventeen to six. Now, earlier I mentioned
Tamiki the change of targets there. I also mentioned the
case of baby Rue and Lorraine has made a very
good point. She says, good morning, Andrew. Now after baby Route,
Now do the little five year old Pakihat boy whose
auntie and uncle went to court to try and get
custody because they knew he was unsafe, but his imprisoned
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mother gave custody to her friend who then killed him.
Let's hear you talk about this little guy or are
you just doing Malori? Lorraine, very good point. The funding
for Mali organizations by Tamriki was targeted at twenty three percent,
so there's another seventy seven percent that goes towards everybody
else in New Zealand. And this problem is not just
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a Milord problem. This is also a European and Asian
problem as well. And you're right. All kids that suffer
at the hands of their parents and then at the
hands of their caregivers to be remembered, no matter what
the color of this skin. So thank you the rain.
It is sixteen minutes to sixth Prince Harry is in
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court again. He wants more cops when he comes to
the UK because he does not feel safe. Kevin Grays with.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
A Snakes International correspondence with ins andn Eye Insurance Peace
of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Way after the UK. Kevin greg good morning to here
hither Andrew. What a good job it is to be
Prince Harry's lawyer because he's in court a lot.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
He is and it seems to be one of the
few reasons he comes back to the UK At the moment.
I don't think it's going to help his popularity. But
he's back in court, this time the Court of Appeal
to challenge an earlier High Court decision which went against him.
This is all about the level of security he receives
when he's in the UK.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Now.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
The committee that sits to decide on this automatically, of course,
gives security to working royals. He is no longer a
working royal and so the Duke's secure in the UK
is currently decided on a case by case basis like
any other high profile visitor to the UK. Prince Harry
sat in the back of the court today with a
notepad and pen. He didn't give evidence. It's a two
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day hearing and then a decision will be made at
a later date. Interestingly, his legal representative saying that he
should have been told how the decisions about security were
being made. She's not arguing that he should automatically be
entitled to the same protection he was previously given. Anyway,
Prince Harry claimed that he had not been given the
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chance to make his own case or see the risk
assessments and also outlined some incidents that had happened, which
he says was a danger because his security had been downgraded,
including a car pursuit with paparazzi in New York so
that's not the UK, and also Al Qaeda calling for
the prince to be murdered back in twenty twenty. As
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I said a decision would be made at a later date.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Andrew, Well, I wish him lack but when he quit
the job, basically he's ended up being just the same
as Brad Pitt and Taylor Swift, So you know what
could he expect Anyway, The big story around the world's
the tariffs and the reaction on the on the sheer
markets and the stock market. So European indices rose what
three percent after the week of tariff So is a
bit of a rebound, Yes, a.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Little bit of a rebound obviously awaiting this big decision
day now on the tariff war as it were between
the US and China and for US on the sideline. Well, yeah,
more positive territory today. The foot Sea one hundred up
two point seven percent, the CAC forty in Paris up
two point five percent, the Dack's up two and a
half percent. But when you look at how they've gone down,
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all the three indices reached their record highs last month
since then, the foot Sea one hundred down eleven percent,
the CAC in Paris down fourteen percent, and the same
for the DAKS down fourteen percent. So huge losses. And
although today, yes, some positive news, well I'm afraid there's
an awful long way to go besween these share values
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actually start to recover significantly.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yes, and to figure out the whole ramifications of you're
a very wise man for saying that, And I thank
you for your time today, Gavin great out of the UK.
It's eleven to six. All right, boy, there's a hell
of a report out. It's from the Ministerial Advisory Group
Targeting Transnational Organized Crime and it's releasing his first report
this morning. It shows a substantial increase in organized crime
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over the past five years. It shows surges and methamphetamine usage,
which we already knew. It shows growth in cyber fraud.
So the Associate Minister of Police, Casey Costello, is the
minister responsible for the working group, and of course sees
a police minister. She joins me. Now, good morning to you, Casey.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's good, it's a bad it's a bad picture of
what is seemingly a bad land.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yes, And that's the big part is the first report
is about buildewenis about what the real is as we're
dealing with as a government. We've done a lot of
work around the public facing stuff that people see, the
game patches, the sentence thing, but this is what's in
behind driving this crime trend that we need to get
on top of. And the first part is building at
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public awareness.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
The report then goes on to say information sharing is
as a critical problem and you need to work on
that first. But I would say that most of the
people out and about go, yeah, well you shouldn't share
information anyway, When are we going to hit the crimins?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
So this is the part. It's about a step change
in the way we approach. We have always operated in
silos and our enforcement agencies we work cooperatively at the
ground level. We haven't been very good at a high
level allowing these leavers to be pulled. And that's the part.
We have seen a change.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
You saw media.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yesterday about the increase of work that I idea doing.
We are seeing a change in that environment, and we
just know that we can do more, and it's about
being clear about what it is we're trying to do now.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
The one thing we're getting a lot of headlines on
because of the waste water and because of the arrest
is meth usage that has absolutely skyrocketed. It's doubled over
the year, and the report shows that we used to
stop fifty five kilograms of meth a year decade on,
we're now stopping ninety kilograms of week. You are also
the Minister for Customs. Does this concern you? Is our
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border security working? Can you actually harden this out?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
The good news in that story is that nearly half
of the drugs we're stopping, we're stopping outside of our border,
so they're not even on New Zealand shores when we
get it. So that shows our international relationships, our intelligence
sharing across the world is really god and we're targeting
supply chains well. But we can do more, and there's
a whole range of leaders that I know we can poll.
(30:52):
I started this work when we first started talking about
what we can do. We started this work and Cabinet
signed us off in November last year, so we were
gearing up for this for some time, and now we're
heaving the rubber hitting the road.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay, well when will the rubber hit the road? Because
you know what everyone has said and even this report say,
is that successive government's policies failures have been rearranging the
dictators on the Titanic. So when can you give us
a timeline of when you might actually make some bold
changes to legislation that fights the surge in organized crime?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
The big thing is that we want to be making
sure we're doing the right thing. That's why we've set
up this group of experts that work operationally, understand what
it's like in the field, and know what we can
do better. This isn't about policy people writing an action plan.
So each month's a report will be delivered from the
Advisory Group with specific actions that they recommend the government
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does that. The first report was just setting the scene,
making sure people understand the gravity of the situation we're
dealing with. And each month up until the final report
in September, we will be delivering on specific actions that
this government can do to move faster.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So will we get an action plan this year?
Speaker 5 (32:04):
That this is more than an action plan? This is
specific actions we will do each month that the group
will no.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I mean I mean by the bold legislation, the actually
confronting the problem, not actually identifying the problem, but confronting
the problem. Will you confront the problem this year?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Yes, absolutely, That's what I'm saying. Each month there will
be things that we will be doing, specific actions we
will be doing around how the agencies work closer together,
breaking down those barriers, around information sharing, how we target
the money better, how we disrupt and prevent our borders
from being compromised. We as a nation should be the
very best in the world doing this. We have one
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and one border, one enforcement agency, one justice system, and
I know we can do better.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Ok Sie, I thank you so very very much. We
always are very good at identifying the problem. The trick
is actually solving it.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
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Speaker 2 (33:05):
By the way, Kios Sarma so Kis Starmer, the Prime
Minister of the UK, has written a piece and it's
been printed in the Herald today and he kind of
says what I said in the first place, that the
age of rules and regulations and civil government has gone.
And welcome to the age of deals and alliances. I
call it the age of the blocks, the bricks versus
versus the Aussies and the Australasians and all that sort
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of thing. It's in the Herald today. Mike Hosking is
on the radio today. Good morning, good morning, good news
on building for you. I've got good news on universities
for you this morning. I've got good news on the
rugby for you this morning, say the Herald. No, it's
on the app on the I've been on the up
before the Herald even worked out well on the up
with what was about. So the only bad news work
that organized current thing. So we'll talk about that so
(33:47):
plenty going on this one. Good stuff that my thanks
to producer Kensey, and I'm back again tomorrow. I have
yourself a great and productive day. Bye m hmm.
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Ryan's back on Tuesday. Thank you for choosing us. In
the next sixty minutes, Well, it's the Reserve Bank stay
today and what a week to be center stage. What
will happen to our interest rates in this rapidly changing world.
We'll have that story for you in five now. The
first Australian election debate happened last night. We're getting a
correspondent up very early in Australia to tell us how
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it went and who won. I'll talk about the big
challenge for arang and Tamariki to keep our kids safe.
And a new ministerial report shows that organized crime has
exploded in New Zealand over the past five years. So
what are we going to do about it? Associate Minister
of Police Casey Cassella just before six this plas Gavin
Gray from the UK. Correspondents from right around New Zealand
and news as it breaks and you can have your
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seven alf to five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It is Wednesday, the ninth of April. First and update
on the markets. The US stocks and European and Asian
markets have all seemed to have stabilized, but the fight's
not over for China. Why House Secretary Treasury Secretary Scott
percent has called Beijing's response to US tariff's a very
big mistake. Trump has threatened to hit Beijing with an
extra fifty percent tariff if it doesn't withdraw it's thirty
(01:28):
four percent retaliatory levy by the end of today.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I think it's fair to say that Trump threw that
coved war before China even had a chance to So
I think it's quite clear that China wants to put
some opportunity cost against the Trump administration. But at the
same time, these tariffs are not really a problem for China.
So this could very much well be just a little
bit of kabooki dancing before we are having real negotiations starting.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Meanwhile, New Zealand rebounded yesterday. There's a bit of a
hope around the place that we will not be hit
as hard as others in this new age, and that's
a good thing. Now to the UK, where Prince Harry
has been in a UK Court of Appeal making his
latest legal challenge. This after the High Court upheld the
decision that he should not be provided with the same
level of police protection given to working members of the
(02:17):
royal family. Now, the Duke of Sussex's security in the
UK is currently decided on a case by case basis,
the same way as the country's other high profile visitors,
and his barrister, Shahid Fatimah KC told the court that
Prince Harry had been subject to a different and so
called bespoke process in that original decision.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
While it is right to acknowledge that Ravak has expertise
in relation to matters of protective security, the nature of
the issues raised by this case do not require the
court to defer to Rabak. The judge wrongly deferred to Rabak.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And finally, what can't science do? A baby girl has
been the first child in the UK to be born
to a mother using a donated womb. The baby's mum,
Grace Davidson, was born without a functioning uterus, and she
received her sister's womb in twenty twenty three in what
was then the UK's only successful womb transplant, and two
years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her
(03:21):
first child in February.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Oh, she's a little miracle.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We'd never really love ourselves imagine what it'd be like
for her to be here until we sort of saw
her come up over the dreeps.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So it was really wonderful. Congratulations mum. It's ten Out
to five.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
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Speaker 6 (03:49):
It'd be so.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We like to think we're the nice guys of the world.
Visitors come to New Zealand and remark on just how
nice we are, how the cops have no guns, and
how we're a reminder of how the world used to
be before anger, division and disrespect for rules and people
took over. We're a lovely place with nice people. But
now the Speaker of the House is talking up legislation
to provide more protection for our elected representatives. And this
(04:13):
comes this week after Shane Jones's wife was hassled and
allegedly assaulted just because he's married to Shane. Meanwhile, Awkins
mayor Wayne Brown. He lives in a street right opposite
my brother, and my brother is absolutely gobsmacked at the
increased security on the street. And that has come after
death threats to the mayor, and they increased after the
mayor gave the death knock to the Western Spring Speedway. Obviously,
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there's a lot of very angry New Zealanders and faced
with challenging policies, they respond with threats of physical violence.
It's not nice. So far, they've really succeeded, though James
Shaw earned a decent black eye for standing up for
what he believed in back in the day. But you
have to say, it's only a matter of time, and
it is only a matter of time until someone does
(04:55):
something stupid and someone is hurt and all they're trying
to do is help us out. But what does this
also do to the numbers of people who might put
their hand up for public office but then think twice
when they realize the danger it poses. And I know
that me railing on about how terrible this is will
make no difference whatsoever. But if we don't say something,
the bullies will win. We're better than this, So before
(05:20):
you decide to go nuclear against someone you don't agree with,
particularly me. Have a hymn dickens I see that David
Parker is to quit politics. The former Labor Minister was
the backbone of the party. He's been the Attorney General.
His portfolios have included trade, revenue, economic development, climate change, energy.
I don't like everything. He's an old pro He's also
(05:41):
been the chief proponent for tax changes that would affect
the wealthy. At the last election, he was the main
cheerleader for the capital gains tax. He pushed for it
under Arden durn should I say, and he pushed for
it under Hipkins, but Chris blew it up in what
was called the Bonfire of the Policies because Turkeys don't
vote for Cris and anyone who's worked hard and attained
(06:03):
a capital asset that appreciates hates it. And they're not
going to vote for a capital gains tax, no matter
how much economic sense it might make. And that's not
because they are rich pricks. That's because they've watched previous
generations earn capital gains without penalty, So why should they so?
With David Parker gone, who will fight for the rebalancing
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of our system that currently sees a lot of money
made with no contribution towards the running of the country.
And the answer to that question is nobody. Labor has
just lost one of the last links to their old
selves and so far they haven't found a new vision
to subscribe to. And with David Parker gone, the question
remains louder than ever, what do labor actually stand for?
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Andrew Dickens, Oh, see our day today? What a day.
I would say that things over the last week have
changed the view of the new Reserve Bank Governor, Christian Hawksby,
who by the way, has got the job for another
six month. So what do the experts reckon? We'll go
to an expert from Jarden's in just a few moments time.
News Talks Here, b it's five fourteen.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
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Speaker 2 (07:18):
Said, be it's sixteen after five. We're going to talk
about a rang and Tomariki and Karen Shure in just
a few moments time. But today is ocr day and
this is where they decide the interest rates. Most economists reckon,
We're going to see a twenty five basis point cut,
and the Februy update from the Reserve Bank suggests that
that could be likely. But you know, things have changed.
Tarif's been thrown in every direction globally. It's a little
(07:39):
uncerting right now. What would the bank do? So I've
got investment strategists and economists at Jarden John Karen up
early to talk to me.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
How John, Yeah, good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What are you picking?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Yeah, I'm picking a twenty five based point cut. I
think the strong indicator that's what they'll do. Obviously, there's
been a lot of turmoil and uncertainty your markets with
Trump's tariffs, but I think it's too early for the
Reserve Bank to panic and do anything more than twenty
(08:12):
five based points at this point.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you reckon the tariffs are inflation really globally? And
of course the weapon against inflation is to keep the
interest rates a little high. Do you think that the
tariffs are inflationary?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Look, it's very hard to tell. I mean, there's so
many things that could determine the impact on inflation. So
I think certainly it could be inflationary in the United States,
where the primary impact is. But here in New Zealand.
We're not putting tariffs on US goods. It's not entirely
(08:49):
certain what that impact will be, so I think we
have to wait for the evidence in the full nature
of the tariffs to make that call.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's all very logical, but of course he don't live
logical age. What do you think? What do you think
the Reserve Bank might say about the economy in general?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Yeah, I think they will note that the US, the
New Zealand economy has shown signs of that it's sort
of turning point. There have been some more positive signs
in the New Zealand economy recently, so they will be
cautiously optimistic, I think, And I think they will indicate
(09:28):
that they still see inflation pressures under control at this point,
but you know they will sound a note of caution,
particularly about the effect of those tariffs on global economic
growth and the impact on New Zealand exports.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'll take cautiously optimistic every day, John, John Karen from
Jardin's and I thank you for your time. It is
eighteen minutes out to five. The Australian election campaign is
in its second week. The two leaders faced off last
night in a debate in front of an audience of
allegedly singing voters. Yeah, Peter Dutton described as the ex
cop who brought Australia's opposition back from the brink, and
(10:05):
of course the Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi, who's described as
the working class hero who fell out of favor. So
what happened that story? Next on Newstalk Zibby.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The First Word on the News of the Day Early
Edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room to Make Your
Property Surgeon Symbol News Talk Zibby.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's coming up five to twenty one on a Wednesday morning.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi and his election rival Peter
Dutton faced off last night in their first debate before
the federal election, which is to happen on the third
of May.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
The world has shrown a lot of challenges to Australia
in the last few years and we've responded the Australian way.
What this selection is about, though.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Is what happens next.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
People have seen the government make mistakes priorities, but just
having accorded with your own priorities.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, So cost of living issues dominated the debate, but
there were some good one liners on energy.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
The only dash Poul said that the coalition have as
the gas lighting of the Australian public.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And they were asked about US President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
When you impost tariffs, it's attacks on the country that
is imposing it.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
Whatever is thrown at us. The Prime Minister of the
day should have the ability of the strength of character
to be able to stand up against bullies, against those
that would seek to do us harm, to keep our
country safe and to make sure that we can make
the right economic decisions for our country.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
So Australian correspondent Leslie Yeomans has been getting the reaction
for us and we've got her up very early indeed
in Australia. Thank you so much, Lesie. Good morning to you.
Good morning Andrew skycoarder for Albernezi. Was he the obvious winner?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
It appears so.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
One hundred undecided voters were invited to this first debate
and they were the ones who were asking the questions
and then would eventually at the end of the debate
give their assessment of who won and possibly who they
would vote for, mentioning those those tariffs from the US.
(12:01):
Donald Trump was the first. In the first question that
was put to Alberan Easy. It was the only time
he was ever mentioned, so he got one mention and
that was it, and then they moved on to other things.
The debate basically was a sort of policy driven I
guess all the questions that were asked were about the
main policy issues from both parties, immigration, health, education, and Yes,
(12:26):
cost of living.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is cost of living the number one issue?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Yes, it is, Yeah, because that's what's hurting people the most.
And there's so much going on with what is going
on overseas that I think also a lot of people
just don't get that. Sometimes it doesn't matter what anyone does,
things are going to sort of be going downhill because
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of overseas influences. A lot of stuff that can be
done over here as well in your home country, but
there are a lot of outside influences that are going
to cause some issues. Just like watching the stock market
go down, peoples overhear their superannuation, which is invested in
goodness knows what is sort of being affected. Yes, So
(13:14):
there was a lot of cost of living issues mentioned
last night, and concerns regarding energy policy as well, and
how the government is going to try and help people
cope with those growing energy bills.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Is it going to be a close one?
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Most elections are these days, particularly seeing that there are
other with the two major parties, one of their main
concerns now is what's going to happen with some of
the independence what we call overhere the teal independence, And
they're sort of growing in number, and it's going to
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be interesting to see if some more of those teal
independence can middle away at the major parties in some
of those of those seats, and more of them are
coming forward.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yes, and are you going to be able to get
back to seat this morning?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Good and I thank you for your time today. Lisie
Yeomens is our Australian correspondent. I mean, just look at
the time. I can't believe she got up for us.
Thank you so much. It's five twenty four. We were
talking about Oranga tom Ariki yesterday. A new reporters come out.
I want to have some thoughts about that in a
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So Aranga Tamariki is getting rid of its target to
place fifty eight percent of the kids in its care
with widerfino or family, and it's also ditching a target
for investment with Maori organizations. Twenty three percent of their
funding was targeted for organizations with Maori and EWE links.
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The Minister of Children, Karen Tua, says this is part
of OT's safety first approach, and she said the targets
were outdated and went against the need not race direct
to and she was concerned whether the priority of mary
organizations were getting in the way of the quality and
efficacy of the services being provided. And all of that
makes sense to me. The ingrained belief in our children's
(15:13):
social workers that kids are always better off if rehome
with farno or family always seemed counterfactual to me, because
in many cases the abuse directed at the kids was
at the hand of farno or family themselves, people that
have been raised by other people in their family but
failed at their own parenting. So why would we give
the kids back to the people that raise the people
(15:36):
who can't raise the kids. It often seemed to me
that children were being thrown right back into the very
cauldron we were trying to help them escape from and
there have been generations of examples, haven't there. Let's not
forget baby Ru. I haven't mentioned Ru's name for a while.
He was murdered in October twenty twenty three. Nobody has
(15:56):
been charged for killing him. There was anger then and
anger now when the police were worth there when he suffered,
or sorry when the people who were there when he
suffered did not cooperate with the police. They were there,
they say nothing. Those people were and are Rosie Moronga,
her partner, Dylan Ross, and Ru's mother Storm Wall. They
(16:17):
were and they are Ruse Farno. What happened people, It's
being two years and two Christmas is what happened two birthdays.
The uplifting of kids is a very serious thing, and
they need to be housed in safe places with good people.
But the history of oranga tamariki suggests that too many
(16:38):
of the supposed saviors are in fact predators hiding in
plain sight. There is no easy answer to this, which
is why I've spoken about this for decades. And the
only thing we can have is strong vigilance by our agencies,
by oranga tamariki, And the only thing we can hope
for is that good people forward to help the kids
(17:02):
that have been abused Dickens, it's five nine. A bit
of exciting around of course, that Bruce Springsteen is releasing
not one, but seven new albums in June, and the
first single was released yes, oh no, five days ago.
Finally I got to hear it yesterday because there's a
new lyric video out, so I'll play you a bit
of it and tell you some of the reaction to
(17:23):
the song. Isn't any good? Is the question? Plus? Organized
crime has exploded in New Zealand over the past five years.
We have a ministerial report. So here we go again.
What are we going to do about it? You've got
Early Edition with Andrew Dickens here till Monday. This is
News Talk. Set me.
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It'd be around.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Him.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Ah yeah, good morning. My manager is welcome back to
the program and thank you for turning to us. Now
that is what the world's been waiting for. Apparently, the
new single from Bruce Springsteen released five days ago. Last
night they dropped a lyric video on YouTube. If you
want to watch it and I listened to it last
night and that was the first time I've heard it,
And frankly, I think it's a bit of a dirge,
to be honest with you, and there might be a
(18:28):
reason why he hasn't released this stuff but the whole
seven albums, because you know, And is this the best
song of the seventy three songs that he's releasing. I
hope not. But Bruce fans are Bruce fans. And I
was looking at the video and I love the review
from a Bruce fan. I'm going to read it out.
Listen to this love how With only seven lines, Bruce
creates a haunting, lyrical narrative that channels the mythos of
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Southern vigilante dust mool blues and folk of the thirties,
and weaves that tapantry with a simple yet raw, brass knuck,
larger than life musical arrangement that, in my opinion, feels
more introspective, reflective, and full of unsatisfied anger and Catharsis
after killing the woman he loves off for goodness, state
man steady on. Now do we like cops on the beat? Yes,
(19:16):
we do. A taxpayer courier hole shows that sixty six
percent of us feel safer with cops on the beat,
only ten percent feel ly safe. The real irony came
in this poll. Amongst Green voters, forty eight percent feel
more safe and only nineteen percent feel less safe, which
all makes a mockery of Green MP Tamotha Paul's claims
that we don't want to see cops everywhere and they
(19:37):
make us feel uneasy. Talk to your people, Tamitha. It
shows what we all know, and that's that Tamotha Paul
does not speak for a lot of us, and her
feelings are based on a small minority of her constituents
who feel targeted and profiled. And that may be because
they've got something lurking beneath to feel guilty about and
it shows up in their demeanor. Paul's only point worth
(20:01):
considering is her core for services to target, put services
to target, preventing people getting into crime in the first place.
Right now, Tamotha, when you come up with a workable
idea for that, maybe we should also send you out
on a hunt for a unicorn in the wild. It
is twenty one to six Andrew dickens around the country.
We go callen Proctor from Dunedin. Good morning, morning, Andrew
(20:26):
ten centimeters of snow at Cardrona.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
Ow and it felt like it yesterday too. Here a
first taste of winter and it's so building excitement for
ski fields, notably Kadrona Alpine Resort that's the one near Wanaka.
They work up to ten centimeters of the white stuff
around the mountain yesterday. Of course other fields in the
region also getting a dusting, but Kadrona's on track to
overtake Fucker Parper as New Zealand's largest ski field when
(20:52):
it opens one hundred and fifty hectares of new terrain.
The general managers Laura Headley, She says they're working hard
to finish multiple including this new express sharelift and t bar.
She says it's going to be a lot of new terrain,
about the size of one hundred and fifty football fields.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I booked my holiday to go and ski the Soho
Basin a year and a half ago because I am
so excited. How's your weather today.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
Well, no sign of any snow today. It's better day
find today for duneed and cloudy period sou westeries and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Player sure it joins you from Christier Telly Claire.
Speaker 12 (21:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So the whole tsunami warning system scenario, well.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
The tsunami warning system scenario, it's gone from one thing
to the next over the last few days. The forty
five sirens here in christ Church that cover the area
along the coastline between Brooklyn's and Taylor's mistake were meant
to sound at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, but they
simply didn't. And that's because the person responsible, we've now learned,
was dealing with a car which had crashed outside their property.
(21:52):
Council's head of Community Support and Partnerships, John phil sal
says it's unacceptable that we have an emergency system so
dependent on person. But overnight's the coastal counselor so lest
Donovan's taken it one further. She's revealed that it's unacceptable
the sirens are not triggered locally. In fact, she says
these sirens are operated by a small company in Auckland,
(22:12):
and she claims they're using outdated technology. Discussions are underway
with the external supplier to ensure this can't happen again,
while another test of our sirens will be done.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Over the next few weeks. Is still yet to confirm
a date for that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
How's your weather today?
Speaker 13 (22:27):
Fine? With Southwesterly's dying out a bit later and Hive eighteen.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Max told joins us from Wellington hall Imax, good morning,
what do you know about Andrew Little running from air?
Speaker 14 (22:36):
Yeah? Great story from our news remethan minera yet late
yesterday it does seem very legitimate that Little is considering
a tilt at the city's top job. What's been interesting
is about the instant reaction is that Andrew Little appears
to be a guy who's pretty broadly liked across the spectrum.
He got some praise from Winston Peters even, who reckons
(22:56):
first and foremost it'd be a lot more sane and
rational than the current holder of offers some national voices
on social media as well, expressing cautious support. Little says
a lot of people have been asking him to run.
We've well documented the Labour's struggle to find a viable
candidate to take on Torrifino. Little says the city does
need a change, and he'll announce more at a later date.
(23:19):
How's your weather mostly find Southerly's sixteenth central.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Never read a mana joins us formalkanhell and either reatings
so Orkin has love to know what their property's worth,
but there's a delay in finding that out.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Oh, this is like a delay of a delay of
a delay, Andrew so Augland Council. They completed the new
valuations by last May, but release of the capital values
data now that's been pushed back a second time from
next month to an unknown date this year. So the
figures applied to more than six hundred thousand properties. So
this initial delay was because the Valuer General requested an amendments.
(23:53):
So fingers crossed that they're hoping to confirm a new
date in May May next month.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
How's Awkin's weather?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
Mainly fine. We've got a few showers are clearing early afternoon.
Twenty is the high here?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
It is now seventeen to six. Now, earlier I mentioned
Tamiki the change of targets there. I also mentioned the
case of baby Rue and Lorraine has made a very
good point. She says, good morning, Andrew. Now after baby Route,
Now do the little five year old Pakihat boy whose
auntie and uncle went to court to try and get
custody because they knew he was unsafe, but his imprisoned
(24:24):
mother gave custody to her friend who then killed him.
Let's hear you talk about this little guy or are
you just doing Malori? Lorraine, very good point. The funding
for Mali organizations by Tamriki was targeted at twenty three percent,
so there's another seventy seven percent that goes towards everybody
else in New Zealand. And this problem is not just
(24:46):
a Milord problem. This is also a European and Asian
problem as well. And you're right. All kids that suffer
at the hands of their parents and then at the
hands of their caregivers to be remembered, no matter what
the color of this skin. So thank you the rain.
It is sixteen minutes to sixth Prince Harry is in
(25:06):
court again. He wants more cops when he comes to
the UK because he does not feel safe. Kevin Grays with.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
A Snakes International correspondence with ins andn Eye Insurance Peace
of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Way after the UK. Kevin greg good morning to here
hither Andrew. What a good job it is to be
Prince Harry's lawyer because he's in court a lot.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
He is and it seems to be one of the
few reasons he comes back to the UK At the moment.
I don't think it's going to help his popularity. But
he's back in court, this time the Court of Appeal
to challenge an earlier High Court decision which went against him.
This is all about the level of security he receives
when he's in the UK.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Now.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
The committee that sits to decide on this automatically, of course,
gives security to working royals. He is no longer a
working royal and so the Duke's secure in the UK
is currently decided on a case by case basis like
any other high profile visitor to the UK. Prince Harry
sat in the back of the court today with a
notepad and pen. He didn't give evidence. It's a two
(26:13):
day hearing and then a decision will be made at
a later date. Interestingly, his legal representative saying that he
should have been told how the decisions about security were
being made. She's not arguing that he should automatically be
entitled to the same protection he was previously given. Anyway,
Prince Harry claimed that he had not been given the
(26:33):
chance to make his own case or see the risk
assessments and also outlined some incidents that had happened, which
he says was a danger because his security had been downgraded,
including a car pursuit with paparazzi in New York so
that's not the UK, and also Al Qaeda calling for
the prince to be murdered back in twenty twenty. As
(26:55):
I said a decision would be made at a later date.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Andrew, Well, I wish him lack but when he quit
the job, basically he's ended up being just the same
as Brad Pitt and Taylor Swift, So you know what
could he expect Anyway, The big story around the world's
the tariffs and the reaction on the on the sheer
markets and the stock market. So European indices rose what
three percent after the week of tariff So is a
bit of a rebound, Yes, a.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Little bit of a rebound obviously awaiting this big decision
day now on the tariff war as it were between
the US and China and for US on the sideline. Well, yeah,
more positive territory today. The foot Sea one hundred up
two point seven percent, the CAC forty in Paris up
two point five percent, the Dack's up two and a
half percent. But when you look at how they've gone down,
(27:42):
all the three indices reached their record highs last month
since then, the foot Sea one hundred down eleven percent,
the CAC in Paris down fourteen percent, and the same
for the DAKS down fourteen percent. So huge losses. And
although today, yes, some positive news, well I'm afraid there's
an awful long way to go besween these share values
(28:03):
actually start to recover significantly.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yes, and to figure out the whole ramifications of you're
a very wise man for saying that, And I thank
you for your time today, Gavin great out of the UK.
It's eleven to six. All right, boy, there's a hell
of a report out. It's from the Ministerial Advisory Group
Targeting Transnational Organized Crime and it's releasing his first report
this morning. It shows a substantial increase in organized crime
(28:29):
over the past five years. It shows surges and methamphetamine usage,
which we already knew. It shows growth in cyber fraud.
So the Associate Minister of Police, Casey Costello, is the
minister responsible for the working group, and of course sees
a police minister. She joins me. Now, good morning to you, Casey.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's good, it's a bad it's a bad picture of
what is seemingly a bad land.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yes, And that's the big part is the first report
is about buildewenis about what the real is as we're
dealing with as a government. We've done a lot of
work around the public facing stuff that people see, the
game patches, the sentence thing, but this is what's in
behind driving this crime trend that we need to get
on top of. And the first part is building at
(29:17):
public awareness.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
The report then goes on to say information sharing is
as a critical problem and you need to work on
that first. But I would say that most of the
people out and about go, yeah, well you shouldn't share
information anyway, When are we going to hit the crimins?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
So this is the part. It's about a step change
in the way we approach. We have always operated in
silos and our enforcement agencies we work cooperatively at the
ground level. We haven't been very good at a high
level allowing these leavers to be pulled. And that's the part.
We have seen a change.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
You saw media.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yesterday about the increase of work that I idea doing.
We are seeing a change in that environment, and we
just know that we can do more, and it's about
being clear about what it is we're trying to do now.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
The one thing we're getting a lot of headlines on
because of the waste water and because of the arrest
is meth usage that has absolutely skyrocketed. It's doubled over
the year, and the report shows that we used to
stop fifty five kilograms of meth a year decade on,
we're now stopping ninety kilograms of week. You are also
the Minister for Customs. Does this concern you? Is our
(30:25):
border security working? Can you actually harden this out?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
The good news in that story is that nearly half
of the drugs we're stopping, we're stopping outside of our border,
so they're not even on New Zealand shores when we
get it. So that shows our international relationships, our intelligence
sharing across the world is really god and we're targeting
supply chains well. But we can do more, and there's
a whole range of leaders that I know we can poll.
(30:52):
I started this work when we first started talking about
what we can do. We started this work and Cabinet
signed us off in November last year, so we were
gearing up for this for some time, and now we're
heaving the rubber hitting the road.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay, well when will the rubber hit the road? Because
you know what everyone has said and even this report say,
is that successive government's policies failures have been rearranging the
dictators on the Titanic. So when can you give us
a timeline of when you might actually make some bold
changes to legislation that fights the surge in organized crime?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
The big thing is that we want to be making
sure we're doing the right thing. That's why we've set
up this group of experts that work operationally, understand what
it's like in the field, and know what we can
do better. This isn't about policy people writing an action plan.
So each month's a report will be delivered from the
Advisory Group with specific actions that they recommend the government
(31:46):
does that. The first report was just setting the scene,
making sure people understand the gravity of the situation we're
dealing with. And each month up until the final report
in September, we will be delivering on specific actions that
this government can do to move faster.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So will we get an action plan this year?
Speaker 5 (32:04):
That this is more than an action plan? This is
specific actions we will do each month that the group
will no.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I mean I mean by the bold legislation, the actually
confronting the problem, not actually identifying the problem, but confronting
the problem. Will you confront the problem this year?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Yes, absolutely, That's what I'm saying. Each month there will
be things that we will be doing, specific actions we
will be doing around how the agencies work closer together,
breaking down those barriers, around information sharing, how we target
the money better, how we disrupt and prevent our borders
from being compromised. We as a nation should be the
very best in the world doing this. We have one
(32:41):
and one border, one enforcement agency, one justice system, and
I know we can do better.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Ok Sie, I thank you so very very much. We
always are very good at identifying the problem. The trick
is actually solving it.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make your property search simple,
you talk said be.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
By the way, Kios Sarma so Kis Starmer, the Prime
Minister of the UK, has written a piece and it's
been printed in the Herald today and he kind of
says what I said in the first place, that the
age of rules and regulations and civil government has gone.
And welcome to the age of deals and alliances. I
call it the age of the blocks, the bricks versus
versus the Aussies and the Australasians and all that sort
(33:26):
of thing. It's in the Herald today. Mike Hosking is
on the radio today. Good morning, good morning, good news
on building for you. I've got good news on universities
for you this morning. I've got good news on the
rugby for you this morning, say the Herald. No, it's
on the app on the I've been on the up
before the Herald even worked out well on the up
with what was about. So the only bad news work
that organized current thing. So we'll talk about that so
(33:47):
plenty going on this one. Good stuff that my thanks
to producer Kensey, and I'm back again tomorrow. I have
yourself a great and productive day. Bye m hmm.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
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