October 10, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Friday 11th of October, the Government's books have sunk further into the red in the year to June, with the deficit $1.8 billion worse than forecast in the budget. Labour Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds joins the show to discuss.
Hurricane Milton has hit Florida, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. US Correspondent Mitch McCann is on the ground in St. Augustine with the latest.
The America's Cup final gets underway this weekend with Emirates Team New Zealand facing Ineos Britannia. Richard Gladwell talks to Ryan ahead of the race.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture bands and a play at store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be just gone six half to five. Welcome to
your Friday morning news Talks to b I've just had
a photo from a soaking wet Mitch McCann, who's in
Augustine in Florida for US tracking the Hurricane Milton as
it makes landfall there. The short story doesn't sound as
bad as perhaps some thought it might have been. Anyway,
(00:36):
we're going to catch up with him later in the show.
Also before six, Labour's finance spokesperson on the government's books,
Who's going to win the America's Cup, a europe correspondent
on North Korean troops seen on the front line in Ukraine,
and why we're too fussy when it comes to buying
a house in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It is finally the eleventh of October. The UN says
Israel is repeatedly firing. It's firing on its own peacekeepers
in southern Lebanon. Two UN peacekeepers have been injured in
the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
These are high profile bases. They're designed like that. The
United Nations peacekeepers drive around in white military vehicles. They
wear blue hats. They're designed to be high visibility.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
US inflation data out and it's reached its lowest point
in three years. Consumer prices up two point four percent
September this year compared to last year. That's the smallest
annual rise since the start of twenty twenty one. But
there is more to the story, and it's not that good.
I'll explain it soon. NATO's new chiefs weighing in on Ukraine,
(01:44):
Mark Rutta. He's the former Dutch Prime Minister.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
It's crucial for Ukraine to fulfill and we have to
afford that. Put in woodcutters where with and in Ukraine,
because there's not only a problem for Ukraine, there's also
a sweat to all of our.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Rutter, of course, is an old mate of Luxin's. They
both worked at UNI lever together. So that you go
some intel. Tennis star Ruffae Nadell is retiring. He has
released a video message. It is all in Spanish. We
don't speak Spanish. Here is him talking about it in May.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It's about the body was not able to play weeks
in a row.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Was not able to allow me to practice and enjoy
the practices.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, basically it's injuries that has got to him. Thirty
eight years old, twenty two Grand Slam titles, and it
sounds like it was Niggley injuries that just kept him
playing from his best. It is eight minutes after.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Five the first Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a playing Store News Talk Zippy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't know where to start this morning. We'll begin
with Auckland because there's lots of little things going on
and I think they're all important Auckland. So Auckland Council
had that dumb idea. This was a couple of months ago,
a really dumb idea to actually the dumbest idea since
they brought in the green food scrap bins. The idea
was it was an authoritarian edict from on high to
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have your rubbish collected every two weeks instead of every week.
They must have been high when they were planning this silly,
silly idea. Anyway, it was in an effort to revive
the plague and boost rodent numbers. That was two months ago.
Now they have decided to ditch that and go with
a trial. So just hold off on the vaccine for
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the plague, just for the minute. Hopefully we won't need it.
In Wellington. You would have seen this in the news yesterday.
They have decided to keep the airport shares and I
would have thought and actually the mere Tory Farno voted
to keep sell the shares, but most of the councilors
voted to keep the shares, and including some right leaning councilors.
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And I was like, what are you doing. You guys
have got pipes bursting. You need to save my This
is a way to raise some revenue without heading rates.
Why wouldn't you sell the shares anyway, went to a
guy called Tony Randall. He's a smart guy. Had him
on the show before. I don't know if I had
him on this show anyways, a smart guy. He's the one.
He used to be an it guy. He used to
(04:15):
be a business analyst, worked in public and private sector.
He's the guy who when in Wellington they were trying
to reduce these speed limits down to thirty kilometers an
hour and they put a business case forward Now, this
business case had gone through every different official at the council,
it had been independently pair reviewed up the wazoo, and
it got to his desk, and he's the only one
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who realized there was a two hundred and fifty million
dollar hole in their numbers. They said, if you bring
the speed limits down in basically all streets in Wellington,
the cost benefit would be seven point seven. So for
every dollar you spend, you get seven point seven back.
Actually it was for every dollar you spend. Who's a
(05:00):
dollar eighty Okay, so this guy knows what he's talking about. Anyway,
I emailed him yesterday Leo did. Thank you Leo, just
to find out what he thought about it. He said,
today the majority changed the decision on the sale of
the airport shares, and this is democracy and action. I
am happy we will re establish the insurance debt headroom
and that we will have to cut some of the
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major projects to do this. This city needs to make
the hard decisions to focus only on essential services and
projects so we can turn the corner on fixing the pipes,
which is the biggest decision this council will have to make.
So there you go. Those are the words of Tony Randall,
who has written to our program this morning. It's basically
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what I think they've done. Did you want to sell
the shares and then have that money floating around in
the coffers for all those wackos on the other side
of the council table to go and spend on even
more ridiculous stuff. Or do you keep those shares, have
a headroom for the insurance and kind of force them
(06:03):
to cut budgets on dumb projects. I think that's the
approach that they've taken. Correct me if I'm wrong. Nine
to nine two the number to text. Twelve minutes after.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Five, Ryan Bridge, some.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Job.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, So four people have died in Hurricane Milton and
it's still causing damage across Florida at the moment. We're
going to go to Florida. Our report of Mitch McCanns.
They're live next.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Good Down, Begging Up with Jesus on your radio and
online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan Bridge and spit City,
New Zealand's Furniture Beds and applying store News Talk ZIB.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Quarter past five on news Talk saidb so. North Korean
military engineers have apparently been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine.
This is with their ballistic missiles. The North Koreans have
been operating in occupied areas of Ukraine. Some of them
have already been killed. Now this information has come from
Kiev in Ukraine, but also from Seoul, so is considered
(07:07):
relatively reliable. You might be asking yourself what on earth
North Koreans doing on the front lines in Ukraine. Well,
the answer, of course is Putin and Kim Jong and
our mates, and clearly he's supplying him with much needed expertise.
Quarter past five, Ryan Bridge, It's taken a lot of
expertise to evacuate some of those trapped by the floodwaters.
(07:31):
We're going to. This is a hurricane Melton, forgive me.
I was about to say, Helene. We're going to Saint
Augustine now in Florida, where US correspondent Mitch McCann is
standing by. Mitch, how is it there, Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
It is wet, it is windy, and it is pretty
cold here at the moment. I'm just looking out of
the water where I am where the hurricane, the back
end of the hurricane passer last night, and there's still
you know, sort of surges with the top of the barriers.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Here surface flooding.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
A number of the businesses have got their sandbags across
their buildings. But really here in many parts of Florida,
it wasn't as bad as perhaps it was forecast to
b last night.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How many I think the death toll was at four
at the moment. Lots of people evacuated, our authorities saying
the worst is over now.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Well, the latest information that we have in the last
couple of moments is that death toll is now six
and the scale of the damage is really only becoming clear.
So four people died in a retirement community in Saint
Lucy County that was reportedly as a result of tornadoes
that were around before the actual storm hit last night.
A number of people had to be rescued there as well,
(08:44):
and two people now we know have also died in
the city of Saint Petersburg. In terms of rescues, which
you've talked about in Tampa, one hundred and thirty five
people had to be rescued from an assisted living facility
where first responders arrived and they found people up to
their waste and water. In terms of the infrastructure damage, Ryan,
there's some extraordinary pictures we've seen this morning coming out
(09:06):
of Saint Petersburg, a Major League Baseball stadium called Tropa
Khana Field. The roof there was pretty much ripped off
because of the hurricane. And just down the road in
the same city, Saint Petersburg, a large crane was blown over,
toppled into a nearby building and caused that building is
pretty much destroyed now. So there are some big situations
(09:28):
like that that have happened. But as I say, you know,
as the afternoon goes on, people are going to go
out and find more damage. So the entire scale isn't
clear just yet.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Merchet's obviously early days, but this stuff always eventually becomes political.
The response to it, that is, how are they being judged?
That is both Trump and Harris at the moment.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Well, this has become really political. Even after a Hurricane
Helen last week. Donald Trump was one of the first candidates,
first politicians, I guess to arrive and talk to people
on the scene. Then Kamala Harris has been there, Joe
Biden's been there. There's been a bit of a dispute
between the Governor of Florida, Ronda Santis and Kamala Harris
because he reportedly refused to pick up her phone calls.
(10:09):
But he said, why is she even calling me? She's
never called before when there's been a hurricane. Donald Trump,
on the other hand, has been accused of blaket misinformation,
saying things like the money that was supposed to go
to survivors or people in need is actually going to
illegal immigrants, and people are believing these sort of things.
Marjorie Taylor Green, who I know we've probably talked about before,
is a Republican congresswoman who suggested on social media that
(10:32):
these hurricanes might be engineered, they might be human caused hurricanes,
which is obviously completely wrong. But you know, some people
in some of these states do believe what their politicians
tell them. So the White House has had to go
on a sort of big campaign to combat misinformation.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Goodness, May she's talking cloud seeding, isn't she. Mitch, thank
you for that. Mitch McCann, our US correspondent with US
Live from Saint Augustine and Florida. The good news as well,
the sad news is four people six people now have
lost their lives, but not as bad as feared. It
is nineteen after five News TALKSB.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
News and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a Flying Store. News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Friday morning, we had inflation data out from the US
overnight the September year on year up two point four percent.
They were expecting two point three percent. So inflation cooling. Yes,
that is good, as quickly as expected. No, that's not
so good. The Fed is doing a decision next month,
and what we want is for them to cut cut, cut,
(11:36):
much in the same way our Reserve Bank has here.
Our core prices is the problem. This is prices excluding
food and energy. They are above expectations. There's also some
more data coming out tonight our time, so fingers crossed,
we can just start hacking away at those rates. Twenty
two after five Ryan Bridge. Sunday marks the start of
a big week ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand as
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they face Any Britannia in the race to retain the
America's Cup. Thirteen races first to seven. When's weather plays
ball first should be Sunday morning, very early our time.
Richard Gladwell is the Sale Sale World end Z editor.
He's with us this morning. Good morning, Richard, Great, I'm
very well, Thank you. Are you feeling confident?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Oh yeah, I mean, I think the thing with the
cup is it's it's always the defenders to lose, So
the defender has already got to screw something up to
lose it. But I think, you know, when you look
back at it, they haven't had a lot of racing
against anyos, but yeah, I mean a team Zell Rook sharp,
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and they should should be able to do with They've
always had a design edge over the other guys, and
it's just all part and parcel of you know, the
advantage that the defender does have. People look at that
racing and think it was already close in the Challenges series,
but the point they forget is that Temy Films have
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another three months of development on top of those guys,
so you know, you can certainly do a lot in there.
And I don't think this is going to be a
speed contest. I don't think there's you know, it's a
race that's going to be won by super Boat, but
I think they will have just that little little edge.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I was going to ask about speed. Should we be
worried that they didn't race at the top end speeds
and so far in Barcelona.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Well, I think it's going to work against the British,
to be honest, because most of their racing was in
strong wines and the forecast for the weekend of Monday
is pretty light winds, so there will certainly have a
lighter end of the lighter end of the scale. So yeah,
it helps us. I think you're just yeah, it's just
(13:54):
I mean it's very hard to read, and I mean
everyone gets super nervous about it and and all that
sort of thing. Will these races are very tight. I
mean the legs are only about three and a half
minutes long. You know, it's all over very quickly, ore
extending about to eight leagues to get to their target time,
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which is about twenty six minutes. But you know, you
do see a lot go on there.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Do you do you think do you think many people
will watched Richard? I mean, obviously the timing is terrible
for here in New Zealand, but.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Well, I don't know, and I think it's that is
really bad for New Zealand because you know, you hear
people now, they won't get up and look at it,
you know, midnight or one in the morning. And the
other problem they've got over there, particularly when you like
it's just I mean, I've been up working all night.
But the women there, they started they tried having one
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race at twelve o'clock their time, which is one o'clock
in the morning our time back got wiped out with
these terrible cross seas that were so everyone was falling
off foils, and they stayed around for another three hours
after that then gave it away.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
See that's the thing, Richard. If you're getting up to
watch and then you're waiting, waiting, waiting while everyone's falling over,
you may not stay up too late. Richard, thank you
very much for your time. Great to have you on
the show. As always, Richard Gladwell's Sale World New Zealand editor.
The America's Cup kicks off proper Sunday Morning, Our Time,
the early edition.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by News Talks.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It be Friday Morning News Talk said, b If these
new trade me numbers are to be believed, and I
have no doubt about them, I have no reason not
to believe them, then the biggest problem that we have
with property and getting a foot on the ladder is
not price. We're not too poor, we're too fussy. So
trade me has surveyed its members as the market's showing
(15:53):
green shoots, et cetera, et cetera. Forty four percent of
buyers we're willing to compromise on the size of a section,
only forty percent on the size of the property, only
forty percent on the size of the garden, only thirty
three percent on the condition of the property, and twenty
eight percent on the location. So if you flip those numbers,
around fifty five percent of people won't compromise on section size.
(16:15):
I'll have the section size I like and nothing else.
Sixty percent no compromise on the size of the property,
sixty percent none on the garden, sixty seven percent it
must be new or near new, thank you very much.
And seventy two percent won't travel or leave their favorite suburb.
I mean hard to please much. Hey, I bought a
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house with holes in the floor and the walls. There
were plants growing from the ground up into my bathroom.
The shower pulled. I had to use a bucket to
empty the shower every morning. This carried on for two years.
In fact, the shower was so small and the shower
head was fixed, so I had to duck every time
I got on the shower to have a shower and
(17:00):
duck my head, and the shower head was fixed. It
would only get me from my nipples down. Had very
clean nipples, very filthy here. Anyway, The point of the
story is I lived like that for two years. I
fixed it up. On you go, Things are okay, but
you have to compromise. Property is not a perfectionist game,
is it. It's about compromise and it's about trade offs.
(17:24):
Like any good negotiation, surely everything must be on the table.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
News Talk ZIBB.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Good morning, it is twenty four away from six. You're
on news Talk, said b Vincent Macavini. Are UK europe
correspondents with us on the Dale announcing his retirement finally
at thirty eight years old. We'll talk about that has
reasons for it also our reporters around the country. In
just a few seconds, this text from Jane Ryan. Solar
storm hitting Earth right now. According to the National Oceanic
(18:17):
and Atmospheric Administration estimates its severe possible issues for electrical
grid as New Zealand is turning into the storm because
we're going into daylight. Any information from trans Power, says Jane.
Leo says no, but you get the cool skies, so
there you go. Enjoy it, don't worry about it. Ryan,
Given that Tory Farno voted to sell the airport shares,
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then obviously keeping them was the right decision. The council
would have just blown any money received from the sale
of the shares. Anyway, Mike, thanks for your feedback this morning.
We're on earth as Tom Phillips. How has no one
found Tom Phillips. I don't understand. It blows my mind. Yes,
if you have bush, a big bush, and that is
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that thick, then yes it's going to be difficult. But
surely after how many years? And do they not have
thermal imaging from the helicopters? I don't know. Can you
explain that to me? Nine two nine two is the
number this morning? Great to have your company on a Friday.
Calm proctors into needing calum a call to action from
fed farmers. This a big stout, in fact, a land
(19:26):
war with fish and game.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
That's right, the calling for farmers to boycott fish and game.
It wants members to block anglers from their land by
removing access signs, so you know that's you and me
wanting to go for a fish and a river, replacing
those signs with orange ribbons and saying keep out. It
follows a court decision requiring many of Southends farmers to
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gain a resource consent just to lawfully operate. Federated Farmers
South and says are fed up with fishing games, anti
farming rhetoric. They say farmers have been allowing public access
to their for many years without any goodwill in return
fish and gaming, whilst say they're disappointed that the organizations
using the issue to limit access for kiwis wanting to fish.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Fair enough, it's their land, isn't it. How's the weather today?
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Callum find at partly cloudy, the odds shower later today
for Daneeda and a high of eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Thank you Andenjroy Claire Sherwoods and christ Church clear. A
booming summer is on the cards for christ Church Airport.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Yes, something a bit positive for a Friday.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Ryan.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
This is from christ Church Airport, which is gearing up
for a twenty five percent increase in seat capacity on
the long haul international routes this summer. That's compared to
last year, so a twenty five percent increase on last year.
There are flights for Quantus and Jets. They're both adding
more than one hundred and seventy five thousand seats to
some Australian and domestic routes out of christ Church. Christ
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Church Airport's Chief executive, Justin Watson says this reflects a
strong demand for christ Church is a key gateway to
the South Island. He says the Garden City itself is
increasingly becoming a destined on more and more people's lists.
And fair enough.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, well you're a big APEI Cadeti're clear. How's
your with her today?
Speaker 9 (21:08):
Fine?
Speaker 11 (21:08):
Aside from some petching high cloud nor the least easy
this morning at a maximum of nineteen Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Clear, We're going to mix Hole and Wellington. Max. You
were absolutely positively unsure about what the hell's going on
with the you. That's right.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Watching it all play out in real time in our newsroom,
it's still quite baffling how it all happened. It was
agreed to sell shares in Wellington Airport, move them to
this fund, this money to the fund to better prepare
the city in the event of a disaster, to boost insurance,
diversify funds. Then counselors started changing their minds. Some said
they weren't given the whole picture by officials the city.
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The Chief executive meanwhile, stepped down. Labour got heavily involved,
pushing not to sell. Top national figures urged the sale
to go ahead. Clearly there was some strong lobbying going
on under the water's surface, and not to strain a metaphor,
but that water has been getting choppier and choppier. Yesterday
a vote to stop the sale, throwing the long term
plan into jeopardy. The potential for the Crown to get
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involved rises again. Dirty politics, chaos, disunity, failure, the most
painful and unpleasant chapter in decades, all terms thrown around
at council yesterday. Tadanaki Fannui pointing out an absence of
leadership in the city, but ultimately another major body blow
for a mayor whose only real success in her tenure
in terms of what was promised, will be its most
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divisive to spend on cycling and cycle ways you.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Could have written a book for us just then, Max,
thank you hawsh your weather.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
Today, pay me to and I will fine after a
cheley start fourteen, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Neva is a thinking So this is like a trilogy,
you know, Lord of the Rings. It lasted about as long,
Max over duo. Neither the Fortnightly Rubbish Collection, which I
thought was just begging for the plague to return and
for rodents to explode. And they're actually going to do
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a mere culper and say no, that's right.
Speaker 13 (23:03):
Well look this is interesting, isn't it. It's that good
old chestnut of you know, weekly fortnightly. What are we doing?
So now the Council yesterday voted for a trial, a
trial for fortnightly Rubbish Collection, and so this trial is
going to happen in three areas of between three and
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four thousand households. So this is before the Council considers
whether it should be rolled out, you know, to the
entire region. So it's not known where or when the
trial will take place. But yeah, you know, so it's
it's quite it's a big talking point here. We've got
Daniel Newman, who's you know, a critic of the idea,
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and he was one of the four councilors yesterday voted
against it. Yeah, but I was just saying to to
you know, like produce a Leo. I said, what do
you do you know with your if you have a
lot and you know, like many members of your family
and that, I mean, you can get those bigger bins.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You can, you pay more, you pay more, and then.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
You know that you get some of those people waiting
under the cover of darkness, you know, to put their
little rubbish and add the rubbish. Yeah, everybody know to
do that.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Leo doesn't strike me as somebody who would create a
huge amount of waste. No, you know what I mean.
Just yeah, he said, it's everybody else at his home.
It's not him. He just I don't imagine him sort
of eating a lot and like, you know, having lots
of rubbish. And I don't know.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
Oh, actually, funny as you say that, because I looked
at him and I was thinking the same I thought,
look at him, he probably only just has you know,
like one piece of bread head.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Probably have like a plastic shopping bag a week.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Compared to me, What.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
About you, Yeah, I'd say you've got a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Of a lot of lot of rubbish. I do hey.
Weather today partly.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Cloudy condition, showers becoming widespread this afternoon. Auckland's high seventeen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Thank you very much. We're live to our correspondent in
the UK. Next also Labour's finance spokesperson on the government's books.
Just before Sex News Talks.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
B get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for
twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a Planet store News Talk zi'd.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Be news of interest. Donald Trump is pledging to end
double taxation of Americans. You know, they had that weird
rule where if you're an American citizen living in another
country and you earn money there, you can be taxed
by both jurisdictions. It's unusual. Most countries don't have that,
or they have a double tax agreement. The US policy
dates back to the eighteen sixties when they wanted to
(25:27):
finance the Civil War. So Trump is saying, and here's
why he's saying it, I will get rid of double taxation.
And he's doing that to the four point four million U.
S citizens who live abroad. Two point eight million of
them are eighteen plus and you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
They can vote international correspondence with ends and eye insurance,
peace of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Princess Cage just being spotted in public. Vincent mcavanie is
our UK europe correspondent. Vincent. What's happening here? What's she doing.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well?
Speaker 14 (25:58):
Last month, of course we've got the news that the
Princess of Wales had completed her chemotherapy treatment in that
video she released with her family, and she's now made
her first a public engagement since that news. She accompanied
William unexpectedly to an event in Southport in the north
(26:20):
west of England today to hold a private meeting with
the families of the Bereave children killed in that knife
attack at the Taylor Swift dance class back in July.
This was, to say, her first public engagement. It was
a private meeting, but she said that she wanted to
show her support, empathy and compassion with the local community.
(26:42):
That's the statement through Royal sources that's come out. The
couple spoke to some emergency responders as well, who helped
out at the scene on that horrible day where that
knife man entered into that and they've also been speaking
to the families, we believe some of the survivors as
well of the other children that were at that class.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
All right. Also, we're hearing that Rafa Nadal has announced
his retirement from professional tennis.
Speaker 14 (27:08):
Yeah, two bits of tennis news. Rafa Nadal one of
the biggest players of the last two decades in the
men's game. He is retiring with that twenty two Grand
Slam victory record, meaning he is currently going to be
the second most decorated player in the men's game, just
behind long time rival in Novak Djokovic, who is continuing
(27:28):
to play. But he's had a stellar career known as
course as the King of Clay. He won the French
Open singles title a record fourteen times, winning one hundred
and twelve of his one hundred and sixteen major matches
at Roland Garross and some other tennis news. Wimbledon is
going to finally get rid of its line judges. It's
going to have electronic line calling from next year's tournament.
(27:51):
That's to bring it in line with the sort of
new international standard that's in place with the Australian Open
and the US Open.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So a big change there.
Speaker 14 (27:58):
You won't have John McEnroe getting into big fights with
lone judges anymore in South London.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Well that was half the fun, wasn't it. Thanks so
much for that. That's since at Macavviny, a UK europe
correspondent just gone eleven minutes away.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
From six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Government's books have sunk further into the red in the
year to June, partly thanks to high personnel costs at
Health New Zealand and soaring acc claims. Treasury revealed the
deficit on the Crown books deepened by three point four billion.
It was also one point eight billion worse than Treasury
forecast that was only back in May, the total twelve
point nine billion. Barbara Edmonds as Labour's finance spokesperson, she's
(28:33):
with me this morning. Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good
to have you on the show. Is this a bad result?
Speaker 15 (28:41):
Yeah, it's a really grim read of the government accounts
at anyone has the actual look at them. This is
the largest annual deficit since the pandemic in twenty twenty
and if you go back to the GFC, what's a
nominal term as the economy, So it's not a great read.
The fact that they've had to be revived. I think
a bit really shows that the economic management is very dubious.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, are you talking about Grant Robertson's So.
Speaker 15 (29:10):
No, this is nicol Willison. So this is the largest
and your beffit since COVID.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And then if you look at the GUS, but the
numbers tell us Grant Robertson added five point six billion
from budget twenty three, Nikola Willis chok off one point
one billion since her mini budget.
Speaker 15 (29:27):
Also what you see is that the majority of this
is during the government's time. And if you've read on
page ten of the Fiscal Accounts, as you noted before,
part of the spending of it is because of the
higher cost of borrowing during obviously high inflation.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And who did a borro.
Speaker 15 (29:44):
Majority of its teaches, the nursery.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Space, who did the borrowing, who did the borough.
Speaker 15 (29:50):
Borough twelve point twelve billion for income sex cups whiles?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But which minister did the borring before that in budget
twenty three? See what I saying. So the numbers tell
us that Grant added five point six billion from budget
twenty three, Nicola Willis took off one point one billion
since their mini budget. Do you disagree with that.
Speaker 15 (30:11):
But what I don't agree with is that borrowing for
tax cuts has made this worse.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, don't need to be.
Speaker 15 (30:18):
As bad as it did. That those were the choices
that this government has made, okay, and the borrowing that
right Robinson had done again and your gift aff not
this is higher than it was in twenty twenty at
the height of COVID.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, let's talk about because you said this is
a bad result, right, it's too high? Should we be
making more cuts to the public service?
Speaker 9 (30:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Okay?
Speaker 15 (30:41):
Should it even being is that?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Should we be increased Should we be increasing additional funding
for cost pressures for our frontline services and our government departments.
Speaker 15 (30:54):
Will you ask the people who are struggling to see
their gp because their GP costs have gone up, they
would that they would prefer that their text cuts have
gone to help with that capitation funding That would say
for their GPCs to the inflation has been pushed out
to everybody that use a pay system. But that's what
I mean by public service cut? How do you have
(31:15):
gone too hard to fast?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Too hard to fast? It's only been apparently three point
three percent cut in the last six months two thousand jobs.
It's still sixty four thousand working there. But how can
you have how can you keep the public servants, increase
the budgets in line with inflation, but also at the
same time, so the deficit's too big.
Speaker 15 (31:35):
So Ryan, and that's the point. It's not just public
servants as in account of the people. It is the
cut through the funding that flows to the very the
different agencies that gets distributed to people to help them
during a cost of living crisis. Yeah, but how do
you fund I mean by public services.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You can't have your cake and eat it too. You
can't say, well, keep all the public servants, we'll increase
all the budgets, but we'll also reduce the deficit, can you.
Speaker 15 (32:01):
Well, that's because you don't need to borrow. Well, Labour
could say that because you don't need to borrow for
text cuts, the landlords become text cuts or for text
cuts with the better companies be the choices.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
All right, Barbara, we have to leave it there. Thank
you very much for your time. Labor's finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmunds.
Seven Away from six, The News you Need.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
This Morning and the in Depth Analysis early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Fifth City New Zealand's furniture beds and
a playing store.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
News talks, it'd be five minutes away from six. We've
just had Barbara Edmunds on Labour's finance spokesperson, Mike's here.
She was saying, basically, people would prefer that they had
cheaper hospital visits, et cetera, rather than the tax cut
that they got to Yes, crap.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Yeah, most people think it's crap.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Do you think she's a leader? You like her? I
like the cut of her jib I do, and I
like the answers she gives. Whenever someone says do you
want to be leader? Do you want to be the
prime minister? She said, bro, I've got eight kids. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
I believe her in that because the only reason I
ask is that they're going to get around eventually, probably
sooner rather than later, getting rid of Hipkins because he's
such a disaster and so.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But the question is who she'd be wise not to yes.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
And so, so she's already ruled out when she says that,
I believe her. Mcinaalty's the other one who's ruled out
in a kind of you believe them kind of way.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You don't believe you think it's a bit susty. It's
a poison chalice, isn't. I mean, they're not going to
win the next election, so you're just pout of you.
Well that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
See, this is where it gets difficult because I don't
think they're going to win the next election the way
things tracking at the moment. So at that point they'll
panic and go, geez, we're not going to win. We
need a new leader. And then they'll throw somebody but
the mat No, no, no, the Labor of the Labor Party.
So I mean, so who is it? Because I mean,
look at that talent?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Throw Megan? Would you what for? I mean, you know
what I mean. You're just taking one for the team,
aren't you. I guess.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
So anyway we'll go. In general, I think we can
say that what happened in Florida was not nearly as
bad as they overcook it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yes we did.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
So anyway, we'll get back on the ground and.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And Dulton today as well. Yes, we have a great
week and everyone see you Monday.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Salve for more from News Talk set B listen live
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be just gone six half to five. Welcome to
your Friday morning news Talks to b I've just had
a photo from a soaking wet Mitch McCann, who's in
Augustine in Florida for US tracking the Hurricane Milton as
it makes landfall there. The short story doesn't sound as
bad as perhaps some thought it might have been. Anyway,
(00:36):
we're going to catch up with him later in the show.
Also before six, Labour's finance spokesperson on the government's books,
Who's going to win the America's Cup, a europe correspondent
on North Korean troops seen on the front line in Ukraine,
and why we're too fussy when it comes to buying
a house in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It is finally the eleventh of October. The UN says
Israel is repeatedly firing. It's firing on its own peacekeepers
in southern Lebanon. Two UN peacekeepers have been injured in
the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
These are high profile bases. They're designed like that. The
United Nations peacekeepers drive around in white military vehicles. They
wear blue hats. They're designed to be high visibility.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
US inflation data out and it's reached its lowest point
in three years. Consumer prices up two point four percent
September this year compared to last year. That's the smallest
annual rise since the start of twenty twenty one. But
there is more to the story, and it's not that good.
I'll explain it soon. NATO's new chiefs weighing in on Ukraine,
(01:44):
Mark Rutta. He's the former Dutch Prime Minister.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
It's crucial for Ukraine to fulfill and we have to
afford that. Put in woodcutters where with and in Ukraine,
because there's not only a problem for Ukraine, there's also
a sweat to all of our.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Rutter, of course, is an old mate of Luxin's. They
both worked at UNI lever together. So that you go
some intel. Tennis star Ruffae Nadell is retiring. He has
released a video message. It is all in Spanish. We
don't speak Spanish. Here is him talking about it in May.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It's about the body was not able to play weeks
in a row.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Was not able to allow me to practice and enjoy
the practices.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, basically it's injuries that has got to him. Thirty
eight years old, twenty two Grand Slam titles, and it
sounds like it was Niggley injuries that just kept him
playing from his best. It is eight minutes after.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Five the first Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a playing Store News Talk Zippy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't know where to start this morning. We'll begin
with Auckland because there's lots of little things going on
and I think they're all important Auckland. So Auckland Council
had that dumb idea. This was a couple of months ago,
a really dumb idea to actually the dumbest idea since
they brought in the green food scrap bins. The idea
was it was an authoritarian edict from on high to
(03:13):
have your rubbish collected every two weeks instead of every week.
They must have been high when they were planning this silly,
silly idea. Anyway, it was in an effort to revive
the plague and boost rodent numbers. That was two months ago.
Now they have decided to ditch that and go with
a trial. So just hold off on the vaccine for
(03:33):
the plague, just for the minute. Hopefully we won't need it.
In Wellington. You would have seen this in the news yesterday.
They have decided to keep the airport shares and I
would have thought and actually the mere Tory Farno voted
to keep sell the shares, but most of the councilors
voted to keep the shares, and including some right leaning councilors.
(03:54):
And I was like, what are you doing. You guys
have got pipes bursting. You need to save my This
is a way to raise some revenue without heading rates.
Why wouldn't you sell the shares anyway, went to a
guy called Tony Randall. He's a smart guy. Had him
on the show before. I don't know if I had
him on this show anyways, a smart guy. He's the one.
He used to be an it guy. He used to
(04:15):
be a business analyst, worked in public and private sector.
He's the guy who when in Wellington they were trying
to reduce these speed limits down to thirty kilometers an
hour and they put a business case forward Now, this
business case had gone through every different official at the council,
it had been independently pair reviewed up the wazoo, and
it got to his desk, and he's the only one
(04:38):
who realized there was a two hundred and fifty million
dollar hole in their numbers. They said, if you bring
the speed limits down in basically all streets in Wellington,
the cost benefit would be seven point seven. So for
every dollar you spend, you get seven point seven back.
Actually it was for every dollar you spend. Who's a
(05:00):
dollar eighty Okay, so this guy knows what he's talking about. Anyway,
I emailed him yesterday Leo did. Thank you Leo, just
to find out what he thought about it. He said,
today the majority changed the decision on the sale of
the airport shares, and this is democracy and action. I
am happy we will re establish the insurance debt headroom
and that we will have to cut some of the
(05:20):
major projects to do this. This city needs to make
the hard decisions to focus only on essential services and
projects so we can turn the corner on fixing the pipes,
which is the biggest decision this council will have to make.
So there you go. Those are the words of Tony Randall,
who has written to our program this morning. It's basically
(05:43):
what I think they've done. Did you want to sell
the shares and then have that money floating around in
the coffers for all those wackos on the other side
of the council table to go and spend on even
more ridiculous stuff. Or do you keep those shares, have
a headroom for the insurance and kind of force them
(06:03):
to cut budgets on dumb projects. I think that's the
approach that they've taken. Correct me if I'm wrong. Nine
to nine two the number to text. Twelve minutes after.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Five, Ryan Bridge, some.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Job.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, So four people have died in Hurricane Milton and
it's still causing damage across Florida at the moment. We're
going to go to Florida. Our report of Mitch McCanns.
They're live next.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Good Down, Begging Up with Jesus on your radio and
online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan Bridge and spit City,
New Zealand's Furniture Beds and applying store News Talk ZIB.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Quarter past five on news Talk saidb so. North Korean
military engineers have apparently been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine.
This is with their ballistic missiles. The North Koreans have
been operating in occupied areas of Ukraine. Some of them
have already been killed. Now this information has come from
Kiev in Ukraine, but also from Seoul, so is considered
(07:07):
relatively reliable. You might be asking yourself what on earth
North Koreans doing on the front lines in Ukraine. Well,
the answer, of course is Putin and Kim Jong and
our mates, and clearly he's supplying him with much needed expertise.
Quarter past five, Ryan Bridge, It's taken a lot of
expertise to evacuate some of those trapped by the floodwaters.
(07:31):
We're going to. This is a hurricane Melton, forgive me.
I was about to say, Helene. We're going to Saint
Augustine now in Florida, where US correspondent Mitch McCann is
standing by. Mitch, how is it there, Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
It is wet, it is windy, and it is pretty
cold here at the moment. I'm just looking out of
the water where I am where the hurricane, the back
end of the hurricane passer last night, and there's still
you know, sort of surges with the top of the barriers.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Here surface flooding.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
A number of the businesses have got their sandbags across
their buildings. But really here in many parts of Florida,
it wasn't as bad as perhaps it was forecast to
b last night.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
How many I think the death toll was at four
at the moment. Lots of people evacuated, our authorities saying
the worst is over now.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Well, the latest information that we have in the last
couple of moments is that death toll is now six
and the scale of the damage is really only becoming clear.
So four people died in a retirement community in Saint
Lucy County that was reportedly as a result of tornadoes
that were around before the actual storm hit last night.
A number of people had to be rescued there as well,
(08:44):
and two people now we know have also died in
the city of Saint Petersburg. In terms of rescues, which
you've talked about in Tampa, one hundred and thirty five
people had to be rescued from an assisted living facility
where first responders arrived and they found people up to
their waste and water. In terms of the infrastructure damage, Ryan,
there's some extraordinary pictures we've seen this morning coming out
(09:06):
of Saint Petersburg, a Major League Baseball stadium called Tropa
Khana Field. The roof there was pretty much ripped off
because of the hurricane. And just down the road in
the same city, Saint Petersburg, a large crane was blown over,
toppled into a nearby building and caused that building is
pretty much destroyed now. So there are some big situations
(09:28):
like that that have happened. But as I say, you know,
as the afternoon goes on, people are going to go
out and find more damage. So the entire scale isn't
clear just yet.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Merchet's obviously early days, but this stuff always eventually becomes political.
The response to it, that is, how are they being judged?
That is both Trump and Harris at the moment.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
Well, this has become really political. Even after a Hurricane
Helen last week. Donald Trump was one of the first candidates,
first politicians, I guess to arrive and talk to people
on the scene. Then Kamala Harris has been there, Joe
Biden's been there. There's been a bit of a dispute
between the Governor of Florida, Ronda Santis and Kamala Harris
because he reportedly refused to pick up her phone calls.
(10:09):
But he said, why is she even calling me? She's
never called before when there's been a hurricane. Donald Trump,
on the other hand, has been accused of blaket misinformation,
saying things like the money that was supposed to go
to survivors or people in need is actually going to
illegal immigrants, and people are believing these sort of things.
Marjorie Taylor Green, who I know we've probably talked about before,
is a Republican congresswoman who suggested on social media that
(10:32):
these hurricanes might be engineered, they might be human caused hurricanes,
which is obviously completely wrong. But you know, some people
in some of these states do believe what their politicians
tell them. So the White House has had to go
on a sort of big campaign to combat misinformation.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Goodness, May she's talking cloud seeding, isn't she. Mitch, thank
you for that. Mitch McCann, our US correspondent with US
Live from Saint Augustine and Florida. The good news as well,
the sad news is four people six people now have
lost their lives, but not as bad as feared. It
is nineteen after five News TALKSB.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
News and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a Flying Store. News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Friday morning, we had inflation data out from the US
overnight the September year on year up two point four percent.
They were expecting two point three percent. So inflation cooling. Yes,
that is good, as quickly as expected. No, that's not
so good. The Fed is doing a decision next month,
and what we want is for them to cut cut, cut,
(11:36):
much in the same way our Reserve Bank has here.
Our core prices is the problem. This is prices excluding
food and energy. They are above expectations. There's also some
more data coming out tonight our time, so fingers crossed,
we can just start hacking away at those rates. Twenty
two after five Ryan Bridge. Sunday marks the start of
a big week ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand as
(11:59):
they face Any Britannia in the race to retain the
America's Cup. Thirteen races first to seven. When's weather plays
ball first should be Sunday morning, very early our time.
Richard Gladwell is the Sale Sale World end Z editor.
He's with us this morning. Good morning, Richard, Great, I'm
very well, Thank you. Are you feeling confident?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Oh yeah, I mean, I think the thing with the
cup is it's it's always the defenders to lose, So
the defender has already got to screw something up to
lose it. But I think, you know, when you look
back at it, they haven't had a lot of racing
against anyos, but yeah, I mean a team Zell Rook sharp,
(12:45):
and they should should be able to do with They've
always had a design edge over the other guys, and
it's just all part and parcel of you know, the
advantage that the defender does have. People look at that
racing and think it was already close in the Challenges series,
but the point they forget is that Temy Films have
(13:05):
another three months of development on top of those guys,
so you know, you can certainly do a lot in there.
And I don't think this is going to be a
speed contest. I don't think there's you know, it's a
race that's going to be won by super Boat, but
I think they will have just that little little edge.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I was going to ask about speed. Should we be
worried that they didn't race at the top end speeds
and so far in Barcelona.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
Well, I think it's going to work against the British,
to be honest, because most of their racing was in
strong wines and the forecast for the weekend of Monday
is pretty light winds, so there will certainly have a
lighter end of the lighter end of the scale. So yeah,
it helps us. I think you're just yeah, it's just
(13:54):
I mean it's very hard to read, and I mean
everyone gets super nervous about it and and all that
sort of thing. Will these races are very tight. I
mean the legs are only about three and a half
minutes long. You know, it's all over very quickly, ore
extending about to eight leagues to get to their target time,
(14:15):
which is about twenty six minutes. But you know, you
do see a lot go on there.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Do you do you think do you think many people
will watched Richard? I mean, obviously the timing is terrible
for here in New Zealand, but.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Well, I don't know, and I think it's that is
really bad for New Zealand because you know, you hear
people now, they won't get up and look at it,
you know, midnight or one in the morning. And the
other problem they've got over there, particularly when you like
it's just I mean, I've been up working all night.
But the women there, they started they tried having one
(14:50):
race at twelve o'clock their time, which is one o'clock
in the morning our time back got wiped out with
these terrible cross seas that were so everyone was falling
off foils, and they stayed around for another three hours
after that then gave it away.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
See that's the thing, Richard. If you're getting up to
watch and then you're waiting, waiting, waiting while everyone's falling over,
you may not stay up too late. Richard, thank you
very much for your time. Great to have you on
the show. As always, Richard Gladwell's Sale World New Zealand editor.
The America's Cup kicks off proper Sunday Morning, Our Time,
the early edition.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by News Talks.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It be Friday Morning News Talk said, b If these
new trade me numbers are to be believed, and I
have no doubt about them, I have no reason not
to believe them, then the biggest problem that we have
with property and getting a foot on the ladder is
not price. We're not too poor, we're too fussy. So
trade me has surveyed its members as the market's showing
(15:53):
green shoots, et cetera, et cetera. Forty four percent of
buyers we're willing to compromise on the size of a section,
only forty percent on the size of the property, only
forty percent on the size of the garden, only thirty
three percent on the condition of the property, and twenty
eight percent on the location. So if you flip those numbers,
around fifty five percent of people won't compromise on section size.
(16:15):
I'll have the section size I like and nothing else.
Sixty percent no compromise on the size of the property,
sixty percent none on the garden, sixty seven percent it
must be new or near new, thank you very much.
And seventy two percent won't travel or leave their favorite suburb.
I mean hard to please much. Hey, I bought a
(16:37):
house with holes in the floor and the walls. There
were plants growing from the ground up into my bathroom.
The shower pulled. I had to use a bucket to
empty the shower every morning. This carried on for two years.
In fact, the shower was so small and the shower
head was fixed, so I had to duck every time
I got on the shower to have a shower and
(17:00):
duck my head, and the shower head was fixed. It
would only get me from my nipples down. Had very
clean nipples, very filthy here. Anyway, The point of the
story is I lived like that for two years. I
fixed it up. On you go, Things are okay, but
you have to compromise. Property is not a perfectionist game,
is it. It's about compromise and it's about trade offs.
(17:24):
Like any good negotiation, surely everything must be on the table.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
News Talk ZIBB.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Good morning, it is twenty four away from six. You're
on news Talk, said b Vincent Macavini. Are UK europe
correspondents with us on the Dale announcing his retirement finally
at thirty eight years old. We'll talk about that has
reasons for it also our reporters around the country. In
just a few seconds, this text from Jane Ryan. Solar
storm hitting Earth right now. According to the National Oceanic
(18:17):
and Atmospheric Administration estimates its severe possible issues for electrical
grid as New Zealand is turning into the storm because
we're going into daylight. Any information from trans Power, says Jane.
Leo says no, but you get the cool skies, so
there you go. Enjoy it, don't worry about it. Ryan,
Given that Tory Farno voted to sell the airport shares,
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then obviously keeping them was the right decision. The council
would have just blown any money received from the sale
of the shares. Anyway, Mike, thanks for your feedback this morning.
We're on earth as Tom Phillips. How has no one
found Tom Phillips. I don't understand. It blows my mind. Yes,
if you have bush, a big bush, and that is
(19:04):
that thick, then yes it's going to be difficult. But
surely after how many years? And do they not have
thermal imaging from the helicopters? I don't know. Can you
explain that to me? Nine two nine two is the
number this morning? Great to have your company on a Friday.
Calm proctors into needing calum a call to action from
fed farmers. This a big stout, in fact, a land
(19:26):
war with fish and game.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
That's right, the calling for farmers to boycott fish and game.
It wants members to block anglers from their land by
removing access signs, so you know that's you and me
wanting to go for a fish and a river, replacing
those signs with orange ribbons and saying keep out. It
follows a court decision requiring many of Southends farmers to
(19:49):
gain a resource consent just to lawfully operate. Federated Farmers
South and says are fed up with fishing games, anti
farming rhetoric. They say farmers have been allowing public access
to their for many years without any goodwill in return
fish and gaming, whilst say they're disappointed that the organizations
using the issue to limit access for kiwis wanting to fish.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Fair enough, it's their land, isn't it. How's the weather today?
Speaker 10 (20:12):
Callum find at partly cloudy, the odds shower later today
for Daneeda and a high of eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Thank you Andenjroy Claire Sherwoods and christ Church clear. A
booming summer is on the cards for christ Church Airport.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Yes, something a bit positive for a Friday.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Ryan.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
This is from christ Church Airport, which is gearing up
for a twenty five percent increase in seat capacity on
the long haul international routes this summer. That's compared to
last year, so a twenty five percent increase on last year.
There are flights for Quantus and Jets. They're both adding
more than one hundred and seventy five thousand seats to
some Australian and domestic routes out of christ Church. Christ
(20:49):
Church Airport's Chief executive, Justin Watson says this reflects a
strong demand for christ Church is a key gateway to
the South Island. He says the Garden City itself is
increasingly becoming a destined on more and more people's lists.
And fair enough.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, well you're a big APEI Cadeti're clear. How's
your with her today?
Speaker 9 (21:08):
Fine?
Speaker 11 (21:08):
Aside from some petching high cloud nor the least easy
this morning at a maximum of nineteen Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Clear, We're going to mix Hole and Wellington. Max. You
were absolutely positively unsure about what the hell's going on
with the you. That's right.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Watching it all play out in real time in our newsroom,
it's still quite baffling how it all happened. It was
agreed to sell shares in Wellington Airport, move them to
this fund, this money to the fund to better prepare
the city in the event of a disaster, to boost insurance,
diversify funds. Then counselors started changing their minds. Some said
they weren't given the whole picture by officials the city.
(21:43):
The Chief executive meanwhile, stepped down. Labour got heavily involved,
pushing not to sell. Top national figures urged the sale
to go ahead. Clearly there was some strong lobbying going
on under the water's surface, and not to strain a metaphor,
but that water has been getting choppier and choppier. Yesterday
a vote to stop the sale, throwing the long term
plan into jeopardy. The potential for the Crown to get
(22:04):
involved rises again. Dirty politics, chaos, disunity, failure, the most
painful and unpleasant chapter in decades, all terms thrown around
at council yesterday. Tadanaki Fannui pointing out an absence of
leadership in the city, but ultimately another major body blow
for a mayor whose only real success in her tenure
in terms of what was promised, will be its most
(22:27):
divisive to spend on cycling and cycle ways you.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Could have written a book for us just then, Max,
thank you hawsh your weather.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
Today, pay me to and I will fine after a
cheley start fourteen, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Neva is a thinking So this is like a trilogy,
you know, Lord of the Rings. It lasted about as long,
Max over duo. Neither the Fortnightly Rubbish Collection, which I
thought was just begging for the plague to return and
for rodents to explode. And they're actually going to do
(23:01):
a mere culper and say no, that's right.
Speaker 13 (23:03):
Well look this is interesting, isn't it. It's that good
old chestnut of you know, weekly fortnightly. What are we doing?
So now the Council yesterday voted for a trial, a
trial for fortnightly Rubbish Collection, and so this trial is
going to happen in three areas of between three and
(23:24):
four thousand households. So this is before the Council considers
whether it should be rolled out, you know, to the
entire region. So it's not known where or when the
trial will take place. But yeah, you know, so it's
it's quite it's a big talking point here. We've got
Daniel Newman, who's you know, a critic of the idea,
(23:44):
and he was one of the four councilors yesterday voted
against it. Yeah, but I was just saying to to
you know, like produce a Leo. I said, what do
you do you know with your if you have a
lot and you know, like many members of your family
and that, I mean, you can get those bigger bins.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You can, you pay more, you pay more, and then.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
You know that you get some of those people waiting
under the cover of darkness, you know, to put their
little rubbish and add the rubbish. Yeah, everybody know to
do that.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Leo doesn't strike me as somebody who would create a
huge amount of waste. No, you know what I mean.
Just yeah, he said, it's everybody else at his home.
It's not him. He just I don't imagine him sort
of eating a lot and like, you know, having lots
of rubbish. And I don't know.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
Oh, actually, funny as you say that, because I looked
at him and I was thinking the same I thought,
look at him, he probably only just has you know,
like one piece of bread head.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Probably have like a plastic shopping bag a week.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Compared to me, What.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
About you, Yeah, I'd say you've got a bit.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Of a lot of lot of rubbish. I do hey.
Weather today partly.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Cloudy condition, showers becoming widespread this afternoon. Auckland's high seventeen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Thank you very much. We're live to our correspondent in
the UK. Next also Labour's finance spokesperson on the government's books.
Just before Sex News Talks.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
B get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for
twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a Planet store News Talk zi'd.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Be news of interest. Donald Trump is pledging to end
double taxation of Americans. You know, they had that weird
rule where if you're an American citizen living in another
country and you earn money there, you can be taxed
by both jurisdictions. It's unusual. Most countries don't have that,
or they have a double tax agreement. The US policy
dates back to the eighteen sixties when they wanted to
(25:27):
finance the Civil War. So Trump is saying, and here's
why he's saying it, I will get rid of double taxation.
And he's doing that to the four point four million U.
S citizens who live abroad. Two point eight million of
them are eighteen plus and you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
They can vote international correspondence with ends and eye insurance,
peace of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Princess Cage just being spotted in public. Vincent mcavanie is
our UK europe correspondent. Vincent. What's happening here? What's she doing.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well?
Speaker 14 (25:58):
Last month, of course we've got the news that the
Princess of Wales had completed her chemotherapy treatment in that
video she released with her family, and she's now made
her first a public engagement since that news. She accompanied
William unexpectedly to an event in Southport in the north
(26:20):
west of England today to hold a private meeting with
the families of the Bereave children killed in that knife
attack at the Taylor Swift dance class back in July.
This was, to say, her first public engagement. It was
a private meeting, but she said that she wanted to
show her support, empathy and compassion with the local community.
(26:42):
That's the statement through Royal sources that's come out. The
couple spoke to some emergency responders as well, who helped
out at the scene on that horrible day where that
knife man entered into that and they've also been speaking
to the families, we believe some of the survivors as
well of the other children that were at that class.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
All right. Also, we're hearing that Rafa Nadal has announced
his retirement from professional tennis.
Speaker 14 (27:08):
Yeah, two bits of tennis news. Rafa Nadal one of
the biggest players of the last two decades in the
men's game. He is retiring with that twenty two Grand
Slam victory record, meaning he is currently going to be
the second most decorated player in the men's game, just
behind long time rival in Novak Djokovic, who is continuing
(27:28):
to play. But he's had a stellar career known as
course as the King of Clay. He won the French
Open singles title a record fourteen times, winning one hundred
and twelve of his one hundred and sixteen major matches
at Roland Garross and some other tennis news. Wimbledon is
going to finally get rid of its line judges. It's
going to have electronic line calling from next year's tournament.
(27:51):
That's to bring it in line with the sort of
new international standard that's in place with the Australian Open
and the US Open.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So a big change there.
Speaker 14 (27:58):
You won't have John McEnroe getting into big fights with
lone judges anymore in South London.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Well that was half the fun, wasn't it. Thanks so
much for that. That's since at Macavviny, a UK europe
correspondent just gone eleven minutes away.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
From six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Government's books have sunk further into the red in the
year to June, partly thanks to high personnel costs at
Health New Zealand and soaring acc claims. Treasury revealed the
deficit on the Crown books deepened by three point four billion.
It was also one point eight billion worse than Treasury
forecast that was only back in May, the total twelve
point nine billion. Barbara Edmonds as Labour's finance spokesperson, she's
(28:33):
with me this morning. Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good
to have you on the show. Is this a bad result?
Speaker 15 (28:41):
Yeah, it's a really grim read of the government accounts
at anyone has the actual look at them. This is
the largest annual deficit since the pandemic in twenty twenty
and if you go back to the GFC, what's a
nominal term as the economy, So it's not a great read.
The fact that they've had to be revived. I think
a bit really shows that the economic management is very dubious.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay, are you talking about Grant Robertson's So.
Speaker 15 (29:10):
No, this is nicol Willison. So this is the largest
and your beffit since COVID.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And then if you look at the GUS, but the
numbers tell us Grant Robertson added five point six billion
from budget twenty three, Nikola Willis chok off one point
one billion since her mini budget.
Speaker 15 (29:27):
Also what you see is that the majority of this
is during the government's time. And if you've read on
page ten of the Fiscal Accounts, as you noted before,
part of the spending of it is because of the
higher cost of borrowing during obviously high inflation.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And who did a borro.
Speaker 15 (29:44):
Majority of its teaches, the nursery.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Space, who did the borrowing, who did the borough.
Speaker 15 (29:50):
Borough twelve point twelve billion for income sex cups whiles?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But which minister did the borring before that in budget
twenty three? See what I saying. So the numbers tell
us that Grant added five point six billion from budget
twenty three, Nicola Willis took off one point one billion
since their mini budget. Do you disagree with that.
Speaker 15 (30:11):
But what I don't agree with is that borrowing for
tax cuts has made this worse.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, don't need to be.
Speaker 15 (30:18):
As bad as it did. That those were the choices
that this government has made, okay, and the borrowing that
right Robinson had done again and your gift aff not
this is higher than it was in twenty twenty at
the height of COVID.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, let's talk about because you said this is
a bad result, right, it's too high? Should we be
making more cuts to the public service?
Speaker 9 (30:40):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Okay?
Speaker 15 (30:41):
Should it even being is that?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Should we be increased Should we be increasing additional funding
for cost pressures for our frontline services and our government departments.
Speaker 15 (30:54):
Will you ask the people who are struggling to see
their gp because their GP costs have gone up, they
would that they would prefer that their text cuts have
gone to help with that capitation funding That would say
for their GPCs to the inflation has been pushed out
to everybody that use a pay system. But that's what
I mean by public service cut? How do you have
(31:15):
gone too hard to fast?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Too hard to fast? It's only been apparently three point
three percent cut in the last six months two thousand jobs.
It's still sixty four thousand working there. But how can
you have how can you keep the public servants, increase
the budgets in line with inflation, but also at the
same time, so the deficit's too big.
Speaker 15 (31:35):
So Ryan, and that's the point. It's not just public
servants as in account of the people. It is the
cut through the funding that flows to the very the
different agencies that gets distributed to people to help them
during a cost of living crisis. Yeah, but how do
you fund I mean by public services.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You can't have your cake and eat it too. You
can't say, well, keep all the public servants, we'll increase
all the budgets, but we'll also reduce the deficit, can you.
Speaker 15 (32:01):
Well, that's because you don't need to borrow. Well, Labour
could say that because you don't need to borrow for
text cuts, the landlords become text cuts or for text
cuts with the better companies be the choices.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
All right, Barbara, we have to leave it there. Thank
you very much for your time. Labor's finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmunds.
Seven Away from six, The News you Need.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
This Morning and the in Depth Analysis early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Fifth City New Zealand's furniture beds and
a playing store.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
News talks, it'd be five minutes away from six. We've
just had Barbara Edmunds on Labour's finance spokesperson, Mike's here.
She was saying, basically, people would prefer that they had
cheaper hospital visits, et cetera, rather than the tax cut
that they got to Yes, crap.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Yeah, most people think it's crap.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Do you think she's a leader? You like her? I
like the cut of her jib I do, and I
like the answers she gives. Whenever someone says do you
want to be leader? Do you want to be the
prime minister? She said, bro, I've got eight kids. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
I believe her in that because the only reason I
ask is that they're going to get around eventually, probably
sooner rather than later, getting rid of Hipkins because he's
such a disaster and so.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
But the question is who she'd be wise not to yes.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
And so, so she's already ruled out when she says that,
I believe her. Mcinaalty's the other one who's ruled out
in a kind of you believe them kind of way.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You don't believe you think it's a bit susty. It's
a poison chalice, isn't. I mean, they're not going to
win the next election, so you're just pout of you.
Well that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
See, this is where it gets difficult because I don't
think they're going to win the next election the way
things tracking at the moment. So at that point they'll
panic and go, geez, we're not going to win. We
need a new leader. And then they'll throw somebody but
the mat No, no, no, the Labor of the Labor Party.
So I mean, so who is it? Because I mean,
look at that talent?
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Throw Megan? Would you what for? I mean, you know
what I mean. You're just taking one for the team,
aren't you. I guess.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
So anyway we'll go. In general, I think we can
say that what happened in Florida was not nearly as
bad as they overcook it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yes we did.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
So anyway, we'll get back on the ground and.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And Dulton today as well. Yes, we have a great
week and everyone see you Monday.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
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