December 8, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Andrew Dickens Full Show Podcast Tuesday the 9th of December 2025, the Government's announcing a major shake up to the Resource Management Act, Federated Farmers RMA Reform Spokesperson Mark Hooper tells Andrew what he's hoping for.
Kiwi company wool source has landed its first big export deal with Japan, Rural Communities Minister Mark Paterson tells Andrew what the deal means for farmers.
The Hurricanes will start the new season with a different ownership model, interim Hurricanes CEO Tony Philp shares his thoughts.
Australia Correspondent Donna Demaio has the latest on more pressure on Sports Minister over her taxpayer funded trips to sporting events and a federal police blitz targeting people they allege are a threat to Australian cohesion.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, good morning to you, Ed, thank you so much
for choosing us. Coming up in the next hour. There's
a whole lot of people who now own the Hurricanes
as the superside sells fifty percent of their shares, So
what is the grand plan. We're going to have the
CEO of the side in five minutes time. There's a
new type of space age wool on the market, so
will it save the industry? We'll have that story in ten.
(00:33):
Donald Demayo will be joining us from Australia. And today
is the day that the RAMA finally SLINKs off to die,
So what's taking its place and how are the farmer's feeling.
We'll have that story just before six. We'll have correspondence
from right around New Zealand and news as it breaks,
including news on that tsunami warning out of Japan. And
you can have your say anytime you like by using
the text machine. It's ninety two to ninety two and
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a small charge applies. It is seven up to five.
It's Tuesday, the ninth of December, and tsunami warnings have
been issued. There was a seven point six magnitude earthquake
struck off the northeastern coast of Japantus to the right
of Hakkaido. It was detected in the regions called al Maori,
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and they reckon that waves as high as three meters
could be hitting the east coast.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
When you have the displacement of water from the seafloor
all the way up to the surface, that's what can
trigger a big tsunami.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And it's that subduction zone where.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The plates move up and down, not necessarily side signed.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That is where the biggest risk for tsunamis.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And the people who live in Japan and the authorities
there they know that, so they are they may be
some of the best prepared in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So we'll keep our eye on this. At the moment,
no risks to New Zealand to the Ukraine, and she's
getting a bit dicey there. Zelenski has been visiting Downing
Street having more piece talks with Keir Starmouth, Emmanuel Macron
and from Germany Friedrich Metz.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
He's sad with mccra.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And sis fire is fil just lost.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But here's the thing, Donald Trump's here's Zolensky hasn't read
Trump's peace plan yet.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed
that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal that was
as of a few hours ago. His people love it,
but he has it. Russia's fine with it. Russia's you know, Russia, Russia,
I guess would rather have the whole country when you
think of it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But Russia is, I believe, fine with it all right.
And to the whole Netflix and Warner Brothers thing, a
Paramount is going in swinging. They have launched a hostile
bed for Warner Brothers Discovery after losing out to Netflix
and that big money bidding. Warn Now they're putting thirty
dollars a share on the table, which is more than Netflix.
They put twenty seven to seventy five down. They reckon
(02:52):
that their offer is the superior one.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Paramount succeeded in getting President Trump to weigh it over
the weekend, and therefore it feels it's on stronger ground
on Monday to take its pitch directly to the shareholders.
And you may be aware, of course, that the shareholders
have not yet as signed off on the deal with Netflix,
so there's lots to play here.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, there's lots of people making lots of money right now.
Whether they'll continue to who knows. It is nine minutes
after five.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
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Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know, I hate it when politicians tell little porky's
to try and get their point across, because it's just wrong. Now,
submissions close on Plan Change one twenty for Auckland on
December the nineteenth, and there have been a number of
vociferous opponents who have unfortunately exaggerated the effects of the
plan to get support against it. And that's not how
democracy is supposed to work. Anyway, This Plan Change one twenty,
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All cuities are doing it. This is Auckland's one. This
is the plan where more homes can be built within
the city limits because we're all expecting our population to grow.
So these opponents have claimed that this city will be
indiscriminately blanketed with higher density homes. Well that's not true.
In fact, that's rubbish. Taller buildings are only proposed in
certain areas, mostly their train stations or bus routes, in
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their town centres, where there are already jobs, shops and services.
The fact is some areas will actually end out with
less homes than are allowed under the current plan. But
that doesn't stop people saying the city's going to be
full of high density homes. Now that's not true. They've claimed.
The christ Church successfully pushed back on intensification and so
Auckland should too well. Christ Church withdrew because parts of
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their plan already allow greater density than the government was demanding,
and of course the two cities are completely different to
their needs. These opponents have claimed that two million houses
in Auckland is far too many will never need that
much housing, even in the next one hundred years or more. Well,
the two million figure is absolutely aretical. It's only achievable
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if every single site was exploited and developed, and the
reality is that far fewer houses will ever be built
because at the end of the day, the sites will
only be developed if they're sold to developers, and many
homeowners don't want to do that, and if the new
place is severely out of Kilter with the rest of
the suburbs. They won't sell and no developer will build
an unsellable house. There's room for two million, we won't
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hit two million. And they also claim that the city
is going to change overnight, and it just won't. At
the end of the day. All our cities are growing
and the government has said, figure out where you're going to,
where you're going to put the people. You have to
meet the market. These opponents, and I couldn't name them,
but I won't, but they've been around for ages. These
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opponents who are over hyping concerns, are stick in the MUDs,
who don't believe in progress, growth and change, and even
worse than that, they're prepared to tell mistruths to try
and get their point across Z twelve after five. So
I got a phone call last night and it was
from a mate and said, what are you doing right now?
And I said, I don't know. Come come down, come
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and have it, Come and have a glass of champagne
with me. And I said, I can't have cooked dinner,
and I'm listening to Ryan Bridge and I'm getting ready
to work tomorrow morning. I can't come drinking down I'm sorry,
Why why do you want to go drinking? He said,
I've just brought him to the Hurricanes went no, really,
she said, why didn't you choose a better team? That
didn't go down very well anyway? Yeah, the Hurricanes, there
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was fifty percent of their shares up for the grabs
yesterday and they were bought. So why was this happening
and who's bought them? Well, that story is.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
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Speaker 2 (06:50):
My thoughts on the roma change that's coming up at
one o'clock today in a few moments time. So the
Hurricanes are going to start the new season with a
different ownership model and the chain follows the Wellington Rugby
sale of its fifty percent stake in the club. So
what does this mean for fans and what does it
mean what can we expect to see at ground level?
I've got online interim Hurricanes CEO Tony Phelp who joins me? Hello, Tony,
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get out Andrew, good morning, How are you very good?
So what's the new model.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It's it's exciting ownership model where we've got Malcolm Gillies
and John and Peter with s I who brought fifty
percent of the years from Wellington Rugby right and.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Who owns the other fifty percent just to keep every
money in mine?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah. Yeah, We've we've got still existing owners made up
of private ownership with a group called hy eleven. We've
also got ended our contribution and support from them as
well as some provincial Union board members. So between all
of that we feel like we've got a really exciting
and balanced board.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, Now, the Wellington Union sold this year is because
the franchise had racked up two million dollars worth of losses.
So my question is will this new ownership fix the
situation and why is the franchise losing so much money?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
So I think it's as we all know, rugby's had
a difficult few years and there's certainly some opportunities here
for the club moving forward to be able to settle
the financial reality of the club and take it into
the future with thinking a little bit differently about the
game and how we continue to engage our community and
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our fans and get people to the stadium and you know,
continue to support our loyal commercial partners through playing some
exciting rugby on the field.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Of course, and that is that is that is that's
the base level. Does the Gillies Andcode the new owners,
do they have any bright new ideas?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
As we all know about the hurricanes, you know, we
dare to be different and certainly Malcolm, John and Peter
and our boarder thinking differently about how we you know,
show rugby of the public both on and off the field.
And you know it's fair to say that Malcolm in
particular is bringing some innovative thoughts and ideas to our game,
which I think is exciting overall.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Will the fans see any change.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Yeah, I think they'll see. Yeah, they'll see an exciting
brand of rugby first and foremost. And you know, we
can really harbor the stadium to be innovative around how
we can allow it to be a really great event
for people to attend and come along to and feel
like they're part of it. And you know, from a
club point of view, we're putting lots of energy and
tension into the community and engagement with our community. And
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as you know, our region is as vast and we've
got a game up in Napier which are excited about
and as well as the stadium in Wellington, and we're
looking to get up to Parmerston North and our bye
week and connect with the community out there.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well Tony, we wish you are the very best of.
Like Tony philp is the interim Hurricanes CEO, my mate
who's brought into it is actually out of Hawks Bay,
so he's think for more Hawk's Bay influenced there in
there as well. As you heard Tony said, it's the
game day experience. That's what you were learning from AUCANDFC.
That's what we're learning from the Warriors. That's what we've
learned from the Breakers. It's the game day experience and
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make that more attractive. The fans will come and then
they bring the money. Speaking about money, it's fair to
say one of the motivating factors for Donald Trump's tariff
wars against the world was the success of China. So
of course the tariffs were designed to contain the Chinese dragon.
Guess what they failed. Yesterday, China's Customers Agency announced that
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the country's accumulated trade surplus reached one point zero eight
trillion dollars through November. It's the first time they broken
the trillion dollar barrier, and they did it in just
eleven months. Exports to the States dropped by nearly a fifth,
but China has throttlebackets purchases of American stuff, and so
despite the tariffs, they're still selling three times as much
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stuff to the United States as it buys. And they've
realized that the United States is not the be all
and end all to global trade. They've wrapped up their
sale to other countries consumer electronics, cars, solar panels. They're
all flooding Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America with
Chinese stuff, and carmakers are go and bust in other countries.
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Factories in some countries like Indonesia and South Africa have
had to curtail production because China's just on fire. And
also the other thing is they've got a weak currency
right now, the red Minbi is undervalued by about thirty
percent against the Euro. So they're making money and I
think that's a good lesson for New Zealand. America is
not the be all and end all. In speaking of which,
New Zealand has a new product to sell to the
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world and it's called wool particle.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
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Speaker 1 (11:41):
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Speaker 2 (11:52):
That'd be it's five twenty two. We've got some more
Ki ingenuity on the show today. QWI company Wool Sauce
has landed its first big export with Japan. They're shipping
off eight tons of their wool particle product. Some people
are calling this the holy Grail for strong wool, and
some people are also saying this will give a farmers
a decent boost because we all know that wool has
been struggling, so rural communities. Minister Mark Pattison joins me. Now,
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goodboring to you, Mark, Good morning Andrew. What exactly is
wool particle.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
It's deconstructed wall fibers. So there's a secret process that's
been two decades in the development out at Lincoln University
and we're finally getting at the commercial stage.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So you're deconstructed, then you're reconstructed and it comes back tougher.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Well, in this case, it's particles, but we can take
it right down sort of pigment size. So look, it's
a secret process, so I don't actually know, but I
do know it's keenly sought and of very high value,
which is of course free interest much interest to her fund.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So far, the first country debate is just Japan and
they're buying eight tons, So why is that? Is that important?
Is it showing that the innovation is working or has
it been slow on the uptake?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
No, it's more the ability to process that. There's a
very small laboratory plant. So the next phase is to
scale this up as demand comes in. So we're very
much constrained by capacity at the moment. But eight ton
it's a fear lot of wallpowder when you see it
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in a store room. So yeah, very big step forward.
This is our moonshot moment. This is where we can
take wall to a whole different plane in terms of value.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I love it. Moonshot moment. Are we going to make
the moon I mean, is this going to work? What
is How will this affect the wall sector? How will
it affect finners?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
Well, Often these kind of innovations are quite a niche,
but this has the ability to be quite large in
the sense that we believe it could take twenty percent
of New Zealand strong Wall Club once fully up and
running at a very high price point. So it has
the opportunity or the potential to really move the needle
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for us sheep farmers.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And they want it to. And I thank you so
much Mark Patterson, who is the rural Community's Minister. And
this is news Talks here B. It's like the secret
Kernel's secret recipe for wool, which no one knows except
for the people who own the IP five twenty five
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B News Talks it B five twenty seven. I'm Andrew
Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. For as long as I've
been in talk radio, I've been talking to people about
RIMA reform. And you know I first turned up and
talked radio back in nineteen ninety six. It's a long time.
The Resource Management Act, it's been around a long time too,
introduced in nineteen ninety one, and it's fair to say
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it's ballooned into being an albatross around our necks. To comply,
you need to pay a fortune to check your compliance.
Authorities have to spend weeks reviewing your plans. That costs
a fortune. So today we're going to learn what comes next.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The reason the roma grew like a cancer of growth
around our progress is quite simple. Too many people took
too many liberties and caused too much damage, and worrying
about their margins, they took shortcuts and then projects failed,
And like so many laws, we had to take into
account those lowest common denominators, the developers who did it cheap,
the developers who did it bad and then liquidated the
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company to leave others to clean up the mess, or
the people who built stuff and it fell down, or
the people who built stuff and it polluted the environment.
The experience is why many will not welcome today's simplification
of the rules. But the overcompensation for those bad actors
has cost us all too much. So today I think
we're all looking for efficiencies. We are still looking for
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the safeguard to protect us from the cowboys who are
far too many in our countries these days. But apparently
there's going to be some national agency that's going to
overlook particularly the environmental concern. So I wish Chris Bishop
all the best of luck today. The work needs to
be done. But again I beg the developers not to
take the piss. Your selfish concern for your bottom line
has resulted in this mess, so just stop it. Here's
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a thing for anybody building anything, whether you're getting a
building consent or a resource consent or anything. Build it once,
build it right, make it last, and care about your legacy.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Said.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's five twenty nine. So johnod Demai is on the
way and we're going to talk more about this politician
who went for a meeting at a ski field and
decided to take along her partner and the kids and
got the taxpayers to pay for it in the cost
of taxpayers three grand. Turns out she also ship the
husband off to a couple of boxing day tests or
(16:53):
something over the course of time. Anyway, this person is
spending taxpayers money like anything, and there is more pressure
on the Sports Minister, who is the person concerned. So
Donald de Mayers got that story. Hey, we'll run through
the poll that came out yesterday, the One News poll
which was well, I thought, business as usual and good
news for national and labor, but more on that coming up.
Just after the news and just before five before sex,
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we will be talking to the farmers about what they're
hoping for from the new changes to the Reserve Management Act.
I can tell you that the Prime Minister said that
it will drop the cost of consents for farmers by
forty six percent and that's got to be good news.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Is next.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
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Speaker 8 (17:50):
It'd be.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Over the water juris deceventh the ninth, and that is
the first time I've heard Snoopy's Christmas this year. Thank
you so much, producer Kenzi. The full Horror is back.
It's decembnth the ninth, but it's warm. This goes through
some temperature showing Ashburt and today high. These are the
highs for the towns ashburg In twenty seven, Auckland twenty eight,
Blenham twenty nine, christ churchs twenty nine to ned In
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twenty three, Gisborne twenty nine, Graymouth twenty Hamilton twenty nine,
in the Cargo twenty two, twenty two in Cuppite thirty
one in Masterton twenty seven and Api and it it gooes.
It is warm everywhere, and everyone who's walked intough the
office today has walked in and almost the first thing
they've said is all the air conditioning is nice. She
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is hot right now, isn't it? Did you see the
Telly last night? Did you see the poll one news
variant pole? What did it show? Show that our traditional
leading parties are regaining their bases because both the national
labor pretty happy. Other than that, not much really to report.
The Greens are lagging because they're failing to connect on
the social issues which are there go to these days
instead of the environment. New Zealand First continued to appeal
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to older middle New Zealand. I've always thought New Zealand
First is a funny old hybrid of old school conservatism
combined with a lasting concern for the old fashioned working class,
and that's what keeps them going. Actors back up to
ten percent and getting credit for keeping national focused on
economic issues and fighting the debt. But of course to
Pati Mari to Pati Mai are collapsing because of all
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the shenanigans. There are just one percent.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
We've got time on our side to repair, have you.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Mister Tamaharry? And why do we hear from mister Tamaharry
all the time? He's the president, not in the politicians.
Do you ever hear from the National president or the
Labor President. No, you hear from the politicians and the
leader of the party. But well, John's John. Meanwhile, of
course Hipkins and Luxon have strengthened despite both their obvious weaknesses.
In fact, the only thing that leapt out to me
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from the preferred prime minister's numbers as the sudden appearance
of Chris Bishop. Chris is on too.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
The National Party has an ongoing game of thrones internally.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Goodness knows who'll be leading them into the next election.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Oh, I've got a lot of grave ministers doing working
incredibly hard, doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 9 (20:15):
You didn't have any concerns that he was plodding against
you in any kind of a way.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, huh, So good on Chris Bishop. Here's the thing.
National now has a comer. But I don't think Luxlon
has to be worried just yet, said be twenty one
to six and Callen Proctor joins us now from Dunedin
Haller Callen morning, Andrew, Oh, no all backs tests at
Forsyth Bar. Yeah, look, that appears to be the case.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
We understand that there will be no all Blacks tests
here for the first time in five years, with christ
Church's new stadium apparently set to host the first of
only four tests on New Zealand soil next year, and
official announcements being made later this morning by New Zealand
Rugby Our mayor he has Sophie Barker says to miss
out on a test next year is a big blow
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for the city. She says the most recent test had
a fourteen million dollar economic impact, so she says that's
tough for businesses who rely on the big test rugby
crowds to get through the off season here.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, fifteen all black tests next year, but only four
in New Zealand because they're chasing the dollars. How's your weather?
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Hot?
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Yep, warm today again twenty three to Eden's High.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
A fine day with northeasterlies. And I thank you very
much to can Agory we go clear, sure and good
morning to you.
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So there was a there was a morning tea at
a school that went horribly wrong.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
Well, this sounds like my worst nightmare.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's right.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
A shared morning tea and why targeting Primary School and
Burwood has left more than twenty of the school staff
battling gastro symptoms and two hundred and fifty students are
staying home as a precaution. The school principal, Andrew Barker
says staff members, including some teachers, learning assistants and library staff,
fell sick after this morning tea on Friday. He says
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the school is open, but see he is warning that
they may neede to swap to an alternative program if
the illness continues to spread. Barker says, while there are
no student cases of the illness for now, most staff
need to be off work until at least Wednesday. At
this stage, the National Public Health Service doesn't believe there's
any ongoing public health risk, but the Ministry of Education
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has confirmed it's aware of the situation and monitoring it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
They will keep FARO.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
Informed, particularly if there is a need to change the
learning program.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That story is making me feel queasy. Now, how's your weather?
Speaker 12 (22:29):
A hot one here today, as you said, some low
early morning cloud but then should be fine, light winds
afternoon northeasterlies and twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
To Wellington we go. Max told good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Changes to public transport.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Yeah, it's something that's been a bit of a no
brain here for some time, paying on buses, trains and
ferries with your phone or your debit or credit card.
We've been waiting for this for some time. Christ Jurge
got it this year. Auckland has had it for some
time and it is coming to the capital next year,
the first half of next year. In fact, despite the
fact it was first signed off on by regional authorities
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more than sixteen years ago, five point five million dollars
for contactless public transport payment it'll cost the regional council.
They're going to do it in the first half of
next year. We currently use the Snapper card system. That'll
obviously still work for some time as well. This just
offers a bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yes, what we've got hop and Orka, we've got Snapper
down there. We've got what you've got metlink, an app
called metlink, is it right? I mean all this is great,
but it's sort of we went down one direction and
now we're going down another. So wait to see what
happened here. How's your weather? How's your weather.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yes, it's been more convenient if it was the same nationwide,
wouldn't it mostly fine today with Northerly's twenty one the
high in the city, as you said earlier, thirty one
into the thirties in Masterton.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, good stuff in max And it was a very
smart thing to say one card to rule them all
to walk theme we go neither Writt to man. Hello greetings.
So there's a music venue which is facing closure.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That's right, you'll know this one. This is very historic
Kahue Saint David's, Kayper's past now it's facing closure now.
This is due to council rates, insurance costs surging to
about fifty thousand dollars a year now. It was built
to be a soldier's memorial church. This was back in
nineteen twenty seven and the space has been transformed to
host various community events and services for New Zealand's Defense
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Force Director Paul Baragwanath says, despite the building's heritage status,
their rates bell you know, in the tens of thousands.
No remission there. It's an underresourced sector and it relies
heavily on donations and grants.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, it's a lovely, lovely, love lo lovely thing, lovely
church and the Baragwyouths have been involved with that church
since I were first, since I was a kid. So
that is sad, but you know that's insurance. And we're
walking hit by that house. You weather fine.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Apart from morning Cloud twenty eight, as you've been saying,
another sculpture for everyone twenty eight here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
God, I love the air conditioning in my car as well.
He got into the car and just went, oh okay.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
And it's lovely and cool and here too, oh lovely.
I might just stay here now.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We're talking about the farmers who are now moving the
beasts to new pastures at three or four o'clock in
the morning now, to save the beasts and to save
the farmers. Idea idea, She's hot. It is sixteen to
six Donald Tomorow coming up from Australia just a few
moments time, and then we're going to look at this
RMA reformants being announced at one o'clock today. We will
bring you all the details as soon as we can.
(25:20):
Farmers are excited. How excited you'll find out just before.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yes, we're after Australia donad tomorrow. Good morning to you, oh,
good morning to you. So there's even more pressure on
the Sports Minister who believes that going for a skiing
holiday with her whole family appears to be her human right.
Speaker 13 (25:42):
Are the questions about these taxpayer funded travel expenses by
the Sports Minister just continue because the Sports Minister is
pretty much under fire for a range of expenses that
the tax payers of paying paid for, and it some
of them in relation to claims she made for her
(26:02):
in her family to attend the AFL Grand Final for instance,
and cricket test matches. And so we do know that
these expenses are within the guidelines, but the Coalition is
asking does it you know, does the travel meet community
expectations as they say? Now, for instance, a couple of
flights for a self in hubby to the twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty four Boxing Day tests. You know,
(26:24):
it cost around three grand and the flights were taken
under family reunion entitlements. So the coal istion she's saying,
is she taking advantage of the rules. Also, the twenty
twenty two twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four AFL
Grand Finals. Now, she was a guest of the AFL,
but it costs upwards of eight point five thousand dollars
when she claimed family travel. Now, the Liberals say that
(26:45):
these expenses are way more than what the community expects
of politicians, and they want Miss Wells to refer herself
and her expense claims to independent scrutiny. We've heard from
the PM as well, I will add, and the pmsas Yes,
the travel does meet the guidelines, but then we've got
additional insights that he cleared the minister's travel to New
(27:07):
York for the UN General Assembly and how much did
that cost? More than one hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Hobby, he's having a lot of fun though. Hey, so
the Federal police cracking down on people they allege are
a threat to Australian cohesion.
Speaker 13 (27:22):
Yes, it's been a week long blitz targeting individuals and
groups that police say are damaging Australia's cohesion cohesion and
as part of the operation they've arrested and charged a
twenty one year old Queensland man who allegedly was in
possession of violent extremist material. Separate incident a twenty five
year old man from Sydney's Northwest and he's been issued
a court attendance notice, so he's heading to court after
(27:44):
allegedly using the Nazi salute at a recent public gathering.
And in another incident just before the Blitz, a Queensland
man's been charged with allegedly displaying Nazi symbols and posting
content on x which violates Commonwealth law. Online three year
old has been arrested and is also heading to course.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And Tomoratow from Australia. I thank you for your time.
It's eleven to six news talks 'd be So the
government is announcing this major shakeup of the Resource Management
Actor at one o'clock today. Will bring you everything as
it happens. Regional councils have already been slashed, but now
the government's eyeing up a forty to fifty percent cut
on the number of consents required. Zoning is getting a
clean up too, trimming down from the one, one and
(28:26):
seventy five zones we've got at the moment. And apparently
there's some new agency that will overlook environmental concerns. So
I'm joined now by Federated Farmer's Arroma Reform spokesperson Mark Hooper,
who joins with kill Mark, good morning, this is what
you've been wanting for years.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Yeah, well that's right. We have been campaigning around this
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And with your campaigning, have you been coming up with
the ideas and you've been helping the government, you know,
in their time in opposition, Because I heard the EMA
guy yesterday he's been working on reform and reform ideas
and presenting it to politicians for eight years. Have you,
guys Farmer has been doing the same.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think ours goes back for a good
twenty odd years in some form or another. But certainly,
you know, since the term of the previous government, you know,
we've been pretty pretty proactive around this and particularly focusing
I guess, a really really quite simple message that the
current system is broken, that it's too expensive, it's too
(29:26):
time consuming, and it's too unpredictable. So really we're looking
for a good outcome, which is faster, the cheaper better.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I said a bit earlier in the program though, the
reason the Garram may balloon to become this cancelus growth
around our economy is because too many people actually did
some stuff and actually ruin the environment. Will there be
environmental safeguards you reckon? From what you know?
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Yeah, absolutely there will be. I mean one of the
reasons you mentioned there in the intro cutting consents by
you know, up to fifty percent. So that's around the
basis having a good set of national standards for common
activities things like farming, vegetable growing, various things that we
(30:08):
need just to kind of run. If you have good
national standards around there, you've still got environmental conditions in place.
And as long as those conditions have been met, then
that becomes a permitted activity and cuts down the number
of consents.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So mistery Kraig this year Christopher ux to the Prime Minister,
reckoned that this would cut the costs of consents required
by farmers by forty six percent. Now what is that
going to do to the farmer's bottom line and what
is that going to do in terms of what they
can do going forward to make their operations better?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Yeah, well, I think this is the big thing is
that really we've got to get back to a position
where we can have a growth economy, and we've got
to look at what are the things that are holding
us back, and it's this ability to get on and
do things. It's all the additional cost associated with what
would otherwise be a standard farmer activity. So it's having
(31:02):
to get all of the expert planners, the consultants, the
extra e weeek consultation at a consent level, all this
sort of thing. It all takes time, slows things down,
adds a huge amount of bureaucratic costs. So it's going
to help enormously.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well, Mark, we wait for one o'clock and I thank
you so much for your time today. I who will
not be enjoying this right now. That's all the guys
who are regional counselors and who work for regional councils.
They're the ones doing the consents. They've been using this
as you know, Well they make money from it, don't they.
But that's going to be slashed. The councils are going
to be gone. The councilors that will take over the
regional councils operations, well you know they're going to lose
(31:40):
money and they've got a rates cap on as well.
So I'd have to say the councilors are sitting there
going well, who's taking away the big golden egg. Oh,
it's the government and what will that mean for ratepayers?
And what will that mean for whatever? We'll find out
more at one It's News Talks b it is seven
to six.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
As you need this morning and the in depth analysis
earlier this year when Andrew Dickens and our the Supercenter
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Speaker 2 (32:10):
Be Muzz can also see how the councils are not
going to like it. Muzz says Dickens. I agree with
the dropping of the cost for consents, but that means
the councils aren't going to get as much revenue. So
how are they What are they going to do it?
Are they going to look at other areas? Yes, as
I said, their lunch has been cut in all sorts
of different ways, and you might see a whole lot
of new user pays coming after all the consents drop away. Now,
(32:31):
Heather walked into the studio and complained it was too cold. Well,
but you know the rest of the world is complaining
that it's too hot. How's your family coping with the heat?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Oh it's okay. No, We've got because we've got a
pool put in. I mean, it's the boogiest thing I've
ever done in my whole entire life. So we got
a pool put in. I thought, Jesus might I'm risking
it in the middle of a recession, but when and
did it anyway, And it's it's paying dividends at the
moment because everybody comes but Wallows comes home from candy
and work and stuff, jumps in the pool.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Human and also really helpful yesterday.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Because the three year old who's almost four has got
a little bit of a fever, and what the hell's
going on with all the sickness? And then in late
spring summer, Yeah, well, no, do I look like a
doctor anyway?
Speaker 7 (33:12):
You did?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
No, you don't, not like literally not at all. And
I've seen what you consume, so you're definitely not a doctor.
The thing, the RM is coming out at one o'clock
this afternoon. I mean, I feel like we've had a
bunch of false starts, so I don't I wouldn't be
surprised to people a bit like talked about We've been
talking about the RMA for donkeys years now, but this
is hopefully the time that we get on top of
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it and reform it. And it sounds like it's going
to be quite massive. Like we have apparently about twelve
hundred zones in this country right where you've got your
bespoke rules, twelve hundred of them in a place like
New Zealand, they're going to take it down to fewer
than twenty. That's pretty significant.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
And also everybody would you know, perceive the rules and
regulations in different ways depending on which regional council they
were with. Now that is going to be one national
agency that's going to say this is out with you.
Ever try to get a resource consent une building, but
not resources.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Literally, people sitting next to each other at Auckland Council
will disagree on what the rules are.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yes, so infurious, I know, but they also make money
and that then gets turned into libraries and roads. No, Matt,
there we go. My thanks to Producing Cancy.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, good morning to you, Ed, thank you so much
for choosing us. Coming up in the next hour. There's
a whole lot of people who now own the Hurricanes
as the superside sells fifty percent of their shares, So
what is the grand plan. We're going to have the
CEO of the side in five minutes time. There's a
new type of space age wool on the market, so
will it save the industry? We'll have that story in ten.
(00:33):
Donald Demayo will be joining us from Australia. And today
is the day that the RAMA finally SLINKs off to die,
So what's taking its place and how are the farmer's feeling.
We'll have that story just before six. We'll have correspondence
from right around New Zealand and news as it breaks,
including news on that tsunami warning out of Japan. And
you can have your say anytime you like by using
the text machine. It's ninety two to ninety two and
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a small charge applies. It is seven up to five.
It's Tuesday, the ninth of December, and tsunami warnings have
been issued. There was a seven point six magnitude earthquake
struck off the northeastern coast of Japantus to the right
of Hakkaido. It was detected in the regions called al Maori,
(01:16):
and they reckon that waves as high as three meters
could be hitting the east coast.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
When you have the displacement of water from the seafloor
all the way up to the surface, that's what can
trigger a big tsunami.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And it's that subduction zone where.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The plates move up and down, not necessarily side signed.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That is where the biggest risk for tsunamis.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And the people who live in Japan and the authorities
there they know that, so they are they may be
some of the best prepared in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So we'll keep our eye on this. At the moment,
no risks to New Zealand to the Ukraine, and she's
getting a bit dicey there. Zelenski has been visiting Downing
Street having more piece talks with Keir Starmouth, Emmanuel Macron
and from Germany Friedrich Metz.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
He's sad with mccra.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And sis fire is fil just lost.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But here's the thing, Donald Trump's here's Zolensky hasn't read
Trump's peace plan yet.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed
that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal that was
as of a few hours ago. His people love it,
but he has it. Russia's fine with it. Russia's you know, Russia, Russia,
I guess would rather have the whole country when you
think of it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But Russia is, I believe, fine with it all right.
And to the whole Netflix and Warner Brothers thing, a
Paramount is going in swinging. They have launched a hostile
bed for Warner Brothers Discovery after losing out to Netflix
and that big money bidding. Warn Now they're putting thirty
dollars a share on the table, which is more than Netflix.
They put twenty seven to seventy five down. They reckon
(02:52):
that their offer is the superior one.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Paramount succeeded in getting President Trump to weigh it over
the weekend, and therefore it feels it's on stronger ground
on Monday to take its pitch directly to the shareholders.
And you may be aware, of course, that the shareholders
have not yet as signed off on the deal with Netflix,
so there's lots to play here.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, there's lots of people making lots of money right now.
Whether they'll continue to who knows. It is nine minutes
after five.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The First Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know, I hate it when politicians tell little porky's
to try and get their point across, because it's just wrong. Now,
submissions close on Plan Change one twenty for Auckland on
December the nineteenth, and there have been a number of
vociferous opponents who have unfortunately exaggerated the effects of the
plan to get support against it. And that's not how
democracy is supposed to work. Anyway, This Plan Change one twenty,
(03:57):
All cuities are doing it. This is Auckland's one. This
is the plan where more homes can be built within
the city limits because we're all expecting our population to grow.
So these opponents have claimed that this city will be
indiscriminately blanketed with higher density homes. Well that's not true.
In fact, that's rubbish. Taller buildings are only proposed in
certain areas, mostly their train stations or bus routes, in
(04:18):
their town centres, where there are already jobs, shops and services.
The fact is some areas will actually end out with
less homes than are allowed under the current plan. But
that doesn't stop people saying the city's going to be
full of high density homes. Now that's not true. They've claimed.
The christ Church successfully pushed back on intensification and so
Auckland should too well. Christ Church withdrew because parts of
(04:41):
their plan already allow greater density than the government was demanding,
and of course the two cities are completely different to
their needs. These opponents have claimed that two million houses
in Auckland is far too many will never need that
much housing, even in the next one hundred years or more. Well,
the two million figure is absolutely aretical. It's only achievable
(05:02):
if every single site was exploited and developed, and the
reality is that far fewer houses will ever be built
because at the end of the day, the sites will
only be developed if they're sold to developers, and many
homeowners don't want to do that, and if the new
place is severely out of Kilter with the rest of
the suburbs. They won't sell and no developer will build
an unsellable house. There's room for two million, we won't
(05:24):
hit two million. And they also claim that the city
is going to change overnight, and it just won't. At
the end of the day. All our cities are growing
and the government has said, figure out where you're going to,
where you're going to put the people. You have to
meet the market. These opponents, and I couldn't name them,
but I won't, but they've been around for ages. These
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opponents who are over hyping concerns, are stick in the MUDs,
who don't believe in progress, growth and change, and even
worse than that, they're prepared to tell mistruths to try
and get their point across Z twelve after five. So
I got a phone call last night and it was
from a mate and said, what are you doing right now?
And I said, I don't know. Come come down, come
(06:07):
and have it, Come and have a glass of champagne
with me. And I said, I can't have cooked dinner,
and I'm listening to Ryan Bridge and I'm getting ready
to work tomorrow morning. I can't come drinking down I'm sorry,
Why why do you want to go drinking? He said,
I've just brought him to the Hurricanes went no, really,
she said, why didn't you choose a better team? That
didn't go down very well anyway? Yeah, the Hurricanes, there
(06:28):
was fifty percent of their shares up for the grabs
yesterday and they were bought. So why was this happening
and who's bought them? Well, that story is.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
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Speaker 2 (06:50):
My thoughts on the roma change that's coming up at
one o'clock today in a few moments time. So the
Hurricanes are going to start the new season with a
different ownership model and the chain follows the Wellington Rugby
sale of its fifty percent stake in the club. So
what does this mean for fans and what does it
mean what can we expect to see at ground level?
I've got online interim Hurricanes CEO Tony Phelp who joins me? Hello, Tony,
(07:16):
get out Andrew, good morning, How are you very good?
So what's the new model.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It's it's exciting ownership model where we've got Malcolm Gillies
and John and Peter with s I who brought fifty
percent of the years from Wellington Rugby right and.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Who owns the other fifty percent just to keep every
money in mine?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah. Yeah, We've we've got still existing owners made up
of private ownership with a group called hy eleven. We've
also got ended our contribution and support from them as
well as some provincial Union board members. So between all
of that we feel like we've got a really exciting
and balanced board.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Okay, Now, the Wellington Union sold this year is because
the franchise had racked up two million dollars worth of losses.
So my question is will this new ownership fix the
situation and why is the franchise losing so much money?
Speaker 7 (08:09):
So I think it's as we all know, rugby's had
a difficult few years and there's certainly some opportunities here
for the club moving forward to be able to settle
the financial reality of the club and take it into
the future with thinking a little bit differently about the
game and how we continue to engage our community and
(08:30):
our fans and get people to the stadium and you know,
continue to support our loyal commercial partners through playing some
exciting rugby on the field.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Of course, and that is that is that is that's
the base level. Does the Gillies Andcode the new owners,
do they have any bright new ideas?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
As we all know about the hurricanes, you know, we
dare to be different and certainly Malcolm, John and Peter
and our boarder thinking differently about how we you know,
show rugby of the public both on and off the field.
And you know it's fair to say that Malcolm in
particular is bringing some innovative thoughts and ideas to our game,
which I think is exciting overall.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Will the fans see any change.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Yeah, I think they'll see. Yeah, they'll see an exciting
brand of rugby first and foremost. And you know, we
can really harbor the stadium to be innovative around how
we can allow it to be a really great event
for people to attend and come along to and feel
like they're part of it. And you know, from a
club point of view, we're putting lots of energy and
tension into the community and engagement with our community. And
(09:36):
as you know, our region is as vast and we've
got a game up in Napier which are excited about
and as well as the stadium in Wellington, and we're
looking to get up to Parmerston North and our bye
week and connect with the community out there.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well Tony, we wish you are the very best of.
Like Tony philp is the interim Hurricanes CEO, my mate
who's brought into it is actually out of Hawks Bay,
so he's think for more Hawk's Bay influenced there in
there as well. As you heard Tony said, it's the
game day experience. That's what you were learning from AUCANDFC.
That's what we're learning from the Warriors. That's what we've
learned from the Breakers. It's the game day experience and
(10:10):
make that more attractive. The fans will come and then
they bring the money. Speaking about money, it's fair to
say one of the motivating factors for Donald Trump's tariff
wars against the world was the success of China. So
of course the tariffs were designed to contain the Chinese dragon.
Guess what they failed. Yesterday, China's Customers Agency announced that
(10:31):
the country's accumulated trade surplus reached one point zero eight
trillion dollars through November. It's the first time they broken
the trillion dollar barrier, and they did it in just
eleven months. Exports to the States dropped by nearly a fifth,
but China has throttlebackets purchases of American stuff, and so
despite the tariffs, they're still selling three times as much
(10:53):
stuff to the United States as it buys. And they've
realized that the United States is not the be all
and end all to global trade. They've wrapped up their
sale to other countries consumer electronics, cars, solar panels. They're
all flooding Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America with
Chinese stuff, and carmakers are go and bust in other countries.
(11:13):
Factories in some countries like Indonesia and South Africa have
had to curtail production because China's just on fire. And
also the other thing is they've got a weak currency
right now, the red Minbi is undervalued by about thirty
percent against the Euro. So they're making money and I
think that's a good lesson for New Zealand. America is
not the be all and end all. In speaking of which,
New Zealand has a new product to sell to the
(11:36):
world and it's called wool particle.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
While tee you more next.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
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Speaker 2 (11:52):
That'd be it's five twenty two. We've got some more
Ki ingenuity on the show today. QWI company Wool Sauce
has landed its first big export with Japan. They're shipping
off eight tons of their wool particle product. Some people
are calling this the holy Grail for strong wool, and
some people are also saying this will give a farmers
a decent boost because we all know that wool has
been struggling, so rural communities. Minister Mark Pattison joins me. Now,
(12:16):
goodboring to you, Mark, Good morning Andrew. What exactly is
wool particle.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
It's deconstructed wall fibers. So there's a secret process that's
been two decades in the development out at Lincoln University
and we're finally getting at the commercial stage.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So you're deconstructed, then you're reconstructed and it comes back tougher.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Well, in this case, it's particles, but we can take
it right down sort of pigment size. So look, it's
a secret process, so I don't actually know, but I
do know it's keenly sought and of very high value,
which is of course free interest much interest to her fund.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So far, the first country debate is just Japan and
they're buying eight tons, So why is that? Is that important?
Is it showing that the innovation is working or has
it been slow on the uptake?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
No, it's more the ability to process that. There's a
very small laboratory plant. So the next phase is to
scale this up as demand comes in. So we're very
much constrained by capacity at the moment. But eight ton
it's a fear lot of wallpowder when you see it
(13:36):
in a store room. So yeah, very big step forward.
This is our moonshot moment. This is where we can
take wall to a whole different plane in terms of value.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I love it. Moonshot moment. Are we going to make
the moon I mean, is this going to work? What
is How will this affect the wall sector? How will
it affect finners?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
Well, Often these kind of innovations are quite a niche,
but this has the ability to be quite large in
the sense that we believe it could take twenty percent
of New Zealand strong Wall Club once fully up and
running at a very high price point. So it has
the opportunity or the potential to really move the needle
(14:15):
for us sheep farmers.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And they want it to. And I thank you so
much Mark Patterson, who is the rural Community's Minister. And
this is news Talks here B. It's like the secret
Kernel's secret recipe for wool, which no one knows except
for the people who own the IP five twenty five
News Talks The b rama changed today one pm. Will
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B News Talks it B five twenty seven. I'm Andrew
Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. For as long as I've
been in talk radio, I've been talking to people about
RIMA reform. And you know I first turned up and
talked radio back in nineteen ninety six. It's a long time.
The Resource Management Act, it's been around a long time too,
introduced in nineteen ninety one, and it's fair to say
(15:04):
it's ballooned into being an albatross around our necks. To comply,
you need to pay a fortune to check your compliance.
Authorities have to spend weeks reviewing your plans. That costs
a fortune. So today we're going to learn what comes next.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
The reason the roma grew like a cancer of growth
around our progress is quite simple. Too many people took
too many liberties and caused too much damage, and worrying
about their margins, they took shortcuts and then projects failed,
And like so many laws, we had to take into
account those lowest common denominators, the developers who did it cheap,
the developers who did it bad and then liquidated the
(15:36):
company to leave others to clean up the mess, or
the people who built stuff and it fell down, or
the people who built stuff and it polluted the environment.
The experience is why many will not welcome today's simplification
of the rules. But the overcompensation for those bad actors
has cost us all too much. So today I think
we're all looking for efficiencies. We are still looking for
(15:59):
the safeguard to protect us from the cowboys who are
far too many in our countries these days. But apparently
there's going to be some national agency that's going to
overlook particularly the environmental concern. So I wish Chris Bishop
all the best of luck today. The work needs to
be done. But again I beg the developers not to
take the piss. Your selfish concern for your bottom line
has resulted in this mess, so just stop it. Here's
(16:21):
a thing for anybody building anything, whether you're getting a
building consent or a resource consent or anything. Build it once,
build it right, make it last, and care about your legacy.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Said.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's five twenty nine. So johnod Demai is on the
way and we're going to talk more about this politician
who went for a meeting at a ski field and
decided to take along her partner and the kids and
got the taxpayers to pay for it in the cost
of taxpayers three grand. Turns out she also ship the
husband off to a couple of boxing day tests or
(16:53):
something over the course of time. Anyway, this person is
spending taxpayers money like anything, and there is more pressure
on the Sports Minister, who is the person concerned. So
Donald de Mayers got that story. Hey, we'll run through
the poll that came out yesterday, the One News poll
which was well, I thought, business as usual and good
news for national and labor, but more on that coming up.
Just after the news and just before five before sex,
(17:17):
we will be talking to the farmers about what they're
hoping for from the new changes to the Reserve Management Act.
I can tell you that the Prime Minister said that
it will drop the cost of consents for farmers by
forty six percent and that's got to be good news.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Is next.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Andrew Dickens on early edition with r V Supercenter explore
our v's accessories and servicing all in one news talks.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
It'd be.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Over the water juris deceventh the ninth, and that is
the first time I've heard Snoopy's Christmas this year. Thank
you so much, producer Kenzi. The full Horror is back.
It's decembnth the ninth, but it's warm. This goes through
some temperature showing Ashburt and today high. These are the
highs for the towns ashburg In twenty seven, Auckland twenty eight,
Blenham twenty nine, christ churchs twenty nine to ned In
(18:25):
twenty three, Gisborne twenty nine, Graymouth twenty Hamilton twenty nine,
in the Cargo twenty two, twenty two in Cuppite thirty
one in Masterton twenty seven and Api and it it gooes.
It is warm everywhere, and everyone who's walked intough the
office today has walked in and almost the first thing
they've said is all the air conditioning is nice. She
(18:49):
is hot right now, isn't it? Did you see the
Telly last night? Did you see the poll one news
variant pole? What did it show? Show that our traditional
leading parties are regaining their bases because both the national
labor pretty happy. Other than that, not much really to report.
The Greens are lagging because they're failing to connect on
the social issues which are there go to these days
instead of the environment. New Zealand First continued to appeal
(19:09):
to older middle New Zealand. I've always thought New Zealand
First is a funny old hybrid of old school conservatism
combined with a lasting concern for the old fashioned working class,
and that's what keeps them going. Actors back up to
ten percent and getting credit for keeping national focused on
economic issues and fighting the debt. But of course to
Pati Mari to Pati Mai are collapsing because of all
(19:33):
the shenanigans. There are just one percent.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
We've got time on our side to repair, have you.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Mister Tamaharry? And why do we hear from mister Tamaharry
all the time? He's the president, not in the politicians.
Do you ever hear from the National president or the
Labor President. No, you hear from the politicians and the
leader of the party. But well, John's John. Meanwhile, of
course Hipkins and Luxon have strengthened despite both their obvious weaknesses.
In fact, the only thing that leapt out to me
(20:00):
from the preferred prime minister's numbers as the sudden appearance
of Chris Bishop. Chris is on too.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
The National Party has an ongoing game of thrones internally.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Goodness knows who'll be leading them into the next election.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Oh, I've got a lot of grave ministers doing working
incredibly hard, doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 9 (20:15):
You didn't have any concerns that he was plodding against
you in any kind of a way.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, huh, So good on Chris Bishop. Here's the thing.
National now has a comer. But I don't think Luxlon
has to be worried just yet, said be twenty one
to six and Callen Proctor joins us now from Dunedin
Haller Callen morning, Andrew, Oh, no all backs tests at
Forsyth Bar. Yeah, look, that appears to be the case.
Speaker 11 (20:42):
We understand that there will be no all Blacks tests
here for the first time in five years, with christ
Church's new stadium apparently set to host the first of
only four tests on New Zealand soil next year, and
official announcements being made later this morning by New Zealand
Rugby Our mayor he has Sophie Barker says to miss
out on a test next year is a big blow
(21:02):
for the city. She says the most recent test had
a fourteen million dollar economic impact, so she says that's
tough for businesses who rely on the big test rugby
crowds to get through the off season here.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, fifteen all black tests next year, but only four
in New Zealand because they're chasing the dollars. How's your weather?
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Hot?
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Yep, warm today again twenty three to Eden's High.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
A fine day with northeasterlies. And I thank you very
much to can Agory we go clear, sure and good
morning to you.
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So there was a there was a morning tea at
a school that went horribly wrong.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
Well, this sounds like my worst nightmare.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's right.
Speaker 12 (21:34):
A shared morning tea and why targeting Primary School and
Burwood has left more than twenty of the school staff
battling gastro symptoms and two hundred and fifty students are
staying home as a precaution. The school principal, Andrew Barker
says staff members, including some teachers, learning assistants and library staff,
fell sick after this morning tea on Friday. He says
(21:56):
the school is open, but see he is warning that
they may neede to swap to an alternative program if
the illness continues to spread. Barker says, while there are
no student cases of the illness for now, most staff
need to be off work until at least Wednesday. At
this stage, the National Public Health Service doesn't believe there's
any ongoing public health risk, but the Ministry of Education
(22:16):
has confirmed it's aware of the situation and monitoring it.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
They will keep FARO.
Speaker 12 (22:21):
Informed, particularly if there is a need to change the
learning program.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That story is making me feel queasy. Now, how's your weather?
Speaker 12 (22:29):
A hot one here today, as you said, some low
early morning cloud but then should be fine, light winds
afternoon northeasterlies and twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
To Wellington we go. Max told good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Changes to public transport.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Yeah, it's something that's been a bit of a no
brain here for some time, paying on buses, trains and
ferries with your phone or your debit or credit card.
We've been waiting for this for some time. Christ Jurge
got it this year. Auckland has had it for some
time and it is coming to the capital next year,
the first half of next year. In fact, despite the
fact it was first signed off on by regional authorities
(23:02):
more than sixteen years ago, five point five million dollars
for contactless public transport payment it'll cost the regional council.
They're going to do it in the first half of
next year. We currently use the Snapper card system. That'll
obviously still work for some time as well. This just
offers a bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yes, what we've got hop and Orka, we've got Snapper
down there. We've got what you've got metlink, an app
called metlink, is it right? I mean all this is great,
but it's sort of we went down one direction and
now we're going down another. So wait to see what
happened here. How's your weather? How's your weather.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yes, it's been more convenient if it was the same nationwide,
wouldn't it mostly fine today with Northerly's twenty one the
high in the city, as you said earlier, thirty one
into the thirties in Masterton.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, good stuff in max And it was a very
smart thing to say one card to rule them all
to walk theme we go neither Writt to man. Hello greetings.
So there's a music venue which is facing closure.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That's right, you'll know this one. This is very historic
Kahue Saint David's, Kayper's past now it's facing closure now.
This is due to council rates, insurance costs surging to
about fifty thousand dollars a year now. It was built
to be a soldier's memorial church. This was back in
nineteen twenty seven and the space has been transformed to
host various community events and services for New Zealand's Defense
(24:20):
Force Director Paul Baragwanath says, despite the building's heritage status,
their rates bell you know, in the tens of thousands.
No remission there. It's an underresourced sector and it relies
heavily on donations and grants.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, it's a lovely, lovely, love lo lovely thing, lovely
church and the Baragwyouths have been involved with that church
since I were first, since I was a kid. So
that is sad, but you know that's insurance. And we're
walking hit by that house. You weather fine.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Apart from morning Cloud twenty eight, as you've been saying,
another sculpture for everyone twenty eight here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
God, I love the air conditioning in my car as well.
He got into the car and just went, oh okay.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
And it's lovely and cool and here too, oh lovely.
I might just stay here now.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We're talking about the farmers who are now moving the
beasts to new pastures at three or four o'clock in
the morning now, to save the beasts and to save
the farmers. Idea idea, She's hot. It is sixteen to
six Donald Tomorow coming up from Australia just a few
moments time, and then we're going to look at this
RMA reformants being announced at one o'clock today. We will
bring you all the details as soon as we can.
(25:20):
Farmers are excited. How excited you'll find out just before.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yes, we're after Australia donad tomorrow. Good morning to you, oh,
good morning to you. So there's even more pressure on
the Sports Minister who believes that going for a skiing
holiday with her whole family appears to be her human right.
Speaker 13 (25:42):
Are the questions about these taxpayer funded travel expenses by
the Sports Minister just continue because the Sports Minister is
pretty much under fire for a range of expenses that
the tax payers of paying paid for, and it some
of them in relation to claims she made for her
(26:02):
in her family to attend the AFL Grand Final for instance,
and cricket test matches. And so we do know that
these expenses are within the guidelines, but the Coalition is
asking does it you know, does the travel meet community
expectations as they say? Now, for instance, a couple of
flights for a self in hubby to the twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty four Boxing Day tests. You know,
(26:24):
it cost around three grand and the flights were taken
under family reunion entitlements. So the coal istion she's saying,
is she taking advantage of the rules. Also, the twenty
twenty two twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four AFL
Grand Finals. Now, she was a guest of the AFL,
but it costs upwards of eight point five thousand dollars
when she claimed family travel. Now, the Liberals say that
(26:45):
these expenses are way more than what the community expects
of politicians, and they want Miss Wells to refer herself
and her expense claims to independent scrutiny. We've heard from
the PM as well, I will add, and the pmsas Yes,
the travel does meet the guidelines, but then we've got
additional insights that he cleared the minister's travel to New
(27:07):
York for the UN General Assembly and how much did
that cost? More than one hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Hobby, he's having a lot of fun though. Hey, so
the Federal police cracking down on people they allege are
a threat to Australian cohesion.
Speaker 13 (27:22):
Yes, it's been a week long blitz targeting individuals and
groups that police say are damaging Australia's cohesion cohesion and
as part of the operation they've arrested and charged a
twenty one year old Queensland man who allegedly was in
possession of violent extremist material. Separate incident a twenty five
year old man from Sydney's Northwest and he's been issued
a court attendance notice, so he's heading to court after
(27:44):
allegedly using the Nazi salute at a recent public gathering.
And in another incident just before the Blitz, a Queensland
man's been charged with allegedly displaying Nazi symbols and posting
content on x which violates Commonwealth law. Online three year
old has been arrested and is also heading to course.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And Tomoratow from Australia. I thank you for your time.
It's eleven to six news talks 'd be So the
government is announcing this major shakeup of the Resource Management
Actor at one o'clock today. Will bring you everything as
it happens. Regional councils have already been slashed, but now
the government's eyeing up a forty to fifty percent cut
on the number of consents required. Zoning is getting a
clean up too, trimming down from the one, one and
(28:26):
seventy five zones we've got at the moment. And apparently
there's some new agency that will overlook environmental concerns. So
I'm joined now by Federated Farmer's Arroma Reform spokesperson Mark Hooper,
who joins with kill Mark, good morning, this is what
you've been wanting for years.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Yeah, well that's right. We have been campaigning around this
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And with your campaigning, have you been coming up with
the ideas and you've been helping the government, you know,
in their time in opposition, Because I heard the EMA
guy yesterday he's been working on reform and reform ideas
and presenting it to politicians for eight years. Have you,
guys Farmer has been doing the same.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, yeah, I think ours goes back for a good
twenty odd years in some form or another. But certainly,
you know, since the term of the previous government, you know,
we've been pretty pretty proactive around this and particularly focusing
I guess, a really really quite simple message that the
current system is broken, that it's too expensive, it's too
(29:26):
time consuming, and it's too unpredictable. So really we're looking
for a good outcome, which is faster, the cheaper better.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I said a bit earlier in the program though, the
reason the Garram may balloon to become this cancelus growth
around our economy is because too many people actually did
some stuff and actually ruin the environment. Will there be
environmental safeguards you reckon? From what you know?
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Yeah, absolutely there will be. I mean one of the
reasons you mentioned there in the intro cutting consents by
you know, up to fifty percent. So that's around the
basis having a good set of national standards for common
activities things like farming, vegetable growing, various things that we
(30:08):
need just to kind of run. If you have good
national standards around there, you've still got environmental conditions in place.
And as long as those conditions have been met, then
that becomes a permitted activity and cuts down the number
of consents.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So mistery Kraig this year Christopher ux to the Prime Minister,
reckoned that this would cut the costs of consents required
by farmers by forty six percent. Now what is that
going to do to the farmer's bottom line and what
is that going to do in terms of what they
can do going forward to make their operations better?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Yeah, well, I think this is the big thing is
that really we've got to get back to a position
where we can have a growth economy, and we've got
to look at what are the things that are holding
us back, and it's this ability to get on and
do things. It's all the additional cost associated with what
would otherwise be a standard farmer activity. So it's having
(31:02):
to get all of the expert planners, the consultants, the
extra e weeek consultation at a consent level, all this
sort of thing. It all takes time, slows things down,
adds a huge amount of bureaucratic costs. So it's going
to help enormously.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Well, Mark, we wait for one o'clock and I thank
you so much for your time today. I who will
not be enjoying this right now. That's all the guys
who are regional counselors and who work for regional councils.
They're the ones doing the consents. They've been using this
as you know, Well they make money from it, don't they.
But that's going to be slashed. The councils are going
to be gone. The councilors that will take over the
regional councils operations, well you know they're going to lose
(31:40):
money and they've got a rates cap on as well.
So I'd have to say the councilors are sitting there
going well, who's taking away the big golden egg. Oh,
it's the government and what will that mean for ratepayers?
And what will that mean for whatever? We'll find out
more at one It's News Talks b it is seven
to six.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
As you need this morning and the in depth analysis
earlier this year when Andrew Dickens and our the Supercenter
explore our these accessories and servicing all than one US
talks that'd.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Be Muzz can also see how the councils are not
going to like it. Muzz says Dickens. I agree with
the dropping of the cost for consents, but that means
the councils aren't going to get as much revenue. So
how are they What are they going to do it?
Are they going to look at other areas? Yes, as
I said, their lunch has been cut in all sorts
of different ways, and you might see a whole lot
of new user pays coming after all the consents drop away. Now,
(32:31):
Heather walked into the studio and complained it was too cold. Well,
but you know the rest of the world is complaining
that it's too hot. How's your family coping with the heat?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Oh it's okay. No, We've got because we've got a
pool put in. I mean, it's the boogiest thing I've
ever done in my whole entire life. So we got
a pool put in. I thought, Jesus might I'm risking
it in the middle of a recession, but when and
did it anyway, And it's it's paying dividends at the
moment because everybody comes but Wallows comes home from candy
and work and stuff, jumps in the pool.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Human and also really helpful yesterday.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Because the three year old who's almost four has got
a little bit of a fever, and what the hell's
going on with all the sickness? And then in late
spring summer, Yeah, well, no, do I look like a
doctor anyway?
Speaker 7 (33:12):
You did?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
No, you don't, not like literally not at all. And
I've seen what you consume, so you're definitely not a doctor.
The thing, the RM is coming out at one o'clock
this afternoon. I mean, I feel like we've had a
bunch of false starts, so I don't I wouldn't be
surprised to people a bit like talked about We've been
talking about the RMA for donkeys years now, but this
is hopefully the time that we get on top of
(33:35):
it and reform it. And it sounds like it's going
to be quite massive. Like we have apparently about twelve
hundred zones in this country right where you've got your
bespoke rules, twelve hundred of them in a place like
New Zealand, they're going to take it down to fewer
than twenty. That's pretty significant.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
And also everybody would you know, perceive the rules and
regulations in different ways depending on which regional council they
were with. Now that is going to be one national
agency that's going to say this is out with you.
Ever try to get a resource consent une building, but
not resources.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Literally, people sitting next to each other at Auckland Council
will disagree on what the rules are.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yes, so infurious, I know, but they also make money
and that then gets turned into libraries and roads. No, Matt,
there we go. My thanks to Producing Cancy.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
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