December 11, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 12th of December 2025, primary school principals have rejected the government's latest pay offer, Rowandale Primary School Principal Karl Vasau tells Andrew why.
A new report from Rabobank says there's "too much milk for the market", Director at DairyNZ Dr Jacqueline Rowarth shares her thoughts.
Local Water Done Well is going to cost $9 billion dollars more than previously estimated, Water New Zealand Chair Gillian Blythe tells Andrew why water is so expensive.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
That'd be welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Morning to you and thank you for joining us and
listening to the program coming up in the next hour.
Local water done well is going to cost nine billion
dollars more than estimated, so we're going to ask where
it's bought out and is it still better than three waters.
We'll have that story in five. There's a warning we
might be making a bit too much milk that story
in ten. With the United States cracking down on tourists
(00:35):
social media, is it worth even thinking about going there?
And now the primary principles are complaining about their pay deal,
so what do they want? That story? Just before six,
we'll go to the UK and Europe with Vincent McAvennie.
We'll have correspondence fro right around New Zealand and news
as it breaks and you can have your say on
the text. There is a small charge and the number
is ninety two ninety two and it's seven after.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Five the agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's Friday, the Traith December. US forces have seized an
oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Attorney General Pam Bondi,
who leads the US Department of Justice, said the vessel
was transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela to where it a'm.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
This appears to have been a special operations group that
landed by helicopter on the deck. Once they're on the deck,
they would go up to the bridge to take control.
The crews have been trained not to resist, so this
although the troops were armed, this rarely involves any violence.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So that's a bit of a sharp escalation in the
increasingly tense relationship between the two countries, Venezuela and the
United States of America. And speaking of Venezuela, the opposition
leader Maria Coarina Machado, the one who won the Nobel
Peace Prize, she's been hiding for months. Well, she arrived
in Oslo to pick up a prize, and she told
the BBC she knows exactly the risks of turning up
(01:53):
to Oslo, but went anyway, appearing in the dead of
the night waving from a hotel balcony. And it's the
first time she's been seen in public since January.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I know exactly the risks I'm taken, and what upset
for the Venessulana people from the beginning is I'm going
to be in the place where I am more useful
for our costs. And until very short time ago, the
place where I thought I had to be was Venezuela.
(02:22):
The place where I believe I have to be today
on behalf of our cast is Oslo.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And by the way, while she was there, she approved
of the US action against the oil tanker. And finally,
are you m into? Lest they say, there we go?
Remember that as the thing so on from the Hunger Games,
(02:48):
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutchinson and look said to return
to the Hunger Games for next year's prequel. They haven't
been together. They haven't teamed up since Mocking Jpart two,
but US magazines are reporting Lawrence is Becca's catonus Hutcheson
is back as Peter. The new Hunger Games film is
called Sunrise on the Reaping, and can I just say
I never expected much from the Hunger Games films franchise,
(03:09):
but I loved all of them and I'm looking forward
to the new one. It is now nine nine outter five.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
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Speaker 3 (03:27):
Be we all got some fudge in the post yesterday.
The Taxpayers Union yesterday launched a brand of fudge called
Nichola's Fudge to call out what they say as the
government's growing habit of sugar coating fiscal truths. It's a
new campaign calling for more austerity from Nikola Willis by
the Taxpayers Union. They say that Nikola is cutting spending.
(03:47):
Oh no, sorry, they say Nikola Willis is saying she
cuts spending and trimming the fat and bringing fiscal discipline
back to the government. But when you look closely, it's
less responsible budgeting and more creative fudging. And I guess
they have a point when spending keeps gone going up
and so does how borrowing, even while the government does
cut jobs and services and infrastructure investment. So the easy
(04:09):
argument is to say, if the cuts haven't worked, just
cut more. And I think at the heart of the
argument that's exactly what the Taxpayers Union are saying. But
economies are not really that simple. I'd argue that this
government is not guilty of cutting too little, but cutting
possibly the wrong stuff. And if you want a good
example of that, ask anyone in the construction industry how
(04:30):
the government's cuts have hollowed them out, and then look
at the impact of that on the wider economy and
the ability for us to build our way out of
the whole.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Look, the Union is chaired by Ruth Richardson, who famously
gave us the Mother of All budgets back in nineteen
ninety one, a budget that cut spending and introduced user pays.
Is a big, old hard budget which did fix some
of our economic problems, but it was unpopular and that
unpopularity coupled with rising unemployment, nearly costs National the nineteen
ninety three election. It also sparked with the first part
(05:01):
of the post system, and look at that we ended
up choosing MMP. The Mother of All budgets hurt poor
and vulnerable people so much it earned Ruth's economic strategy
the nickname Ruth thin Nasia, which I guess says at
all and people forget that poor and vulnerable peoples have
votes too. Now, this battle between Nichola and Ruth is
(05:21):
ideological between Ruth's view that you have to burn the
village to save the village and Nichola's view that if
you burn a little bit of the village, what's left
will growing value and one year out from an election,
I think that's harmful. It's dividing the right and that
plays into the hands of the left. And I actually
quite like what David Seymour said yesterday when he was
asked about it. He said, it's like my sister's arguing
(05:42):
with my auntie and that never makes for a good
Christmas z me. By the way, I hate their ai ad.
It's not authentic, it's not real. I know it's just
like the dancing Cossacks for twenty twenty five, but I
still I just.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Don't like it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now, Local Water done well as the National Party plan
to fix our water infrastructure, and they always said Sarmon
always said this is going to be a lot cheaper
than the big centralized three Waters plan. Well, the all
the costings have come back. Apparently it's going to cost
nine billion dollars more than we thought. So what's gone on,
what's blown out? And is it still better than three Waters?
(06:20):
We'll find out next here on News Talks.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
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Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's a quarter after five. So local Water done Well
is going to cost nine billion dollars more than previously estimated.
The total investment will come to forty seven point nine
billion dollars. The local government Minister Simon Watt says this
just shows that water projects have been underfunded. They can't
wait any longer. We have to spend the money. So
the Water New Zealand Chief executive Officer is Gillian Blythe
(06:57):
and she joins me this morning. Good morning to you, Gillian,
good morning. Why is it blown out?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Why is it blown out? Because over the last two
to three decades across the country, councils have been trying
to juggle their many demands on their on their budgets
and investment and water infrastructure has not kept pace with
what was required. So they haven't been as muss renewals
of the pets and they haven't been as much required
(07:26):
in terms of looking out of the treatment plan.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So it's brue. So it's brutal evidence that we have
had decades of under investment in water infrastructure and eventually
you have to pay the bill.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
You're absolutely right that what what the challenge that was
provided to councils through this, through this reform process was
to submit a water service delivery plan that would show
that they were financially sustainable, that they were going to
meet regulatory compliance, that they would be able to deliver
on the housing growth and the urban developments that were
(07:57):
required in their neighborhoods. And so that's what's seen across
you know, detailed you know financials for for a ten
year period, and then it's some extra information for the
next thirty that is seen from all councils providing what
they need to spend on the neurals, what they need
to spend off glowth and what we need to across
(08:19):
drinking water, wastewater and stormwater.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Have you seen the plan and does it look good?
And will we notice a difference so all of.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
The plans, Well, let me just go. So you've got
sixty seven councils that have submitted. I think the last
time I went and looked at the website, there are
about fifty four plans that are on the website. We've
got more visibility now about the state of water infrastructure
than we've had probably ever. We will be able. I mean,
(08:48):
I've got people that are that are doing analysis of
the plans at the moment, which that you can you know,
you'll be able to say, you know, what's happening in
the lower set, what's happening in there, you know, the
shop of the North, et cetera, to be able to
look at what's going to be required.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Okay, so look, the basic model is actually similar to
three Waters, but it had a voluntary aspect of no
centralization and of course no co governance. And we were
always told that local water done well will be cheaper
than the big monster that was going to be three Waters.
Can you compare the two Is it still cheaper than
three Waters would have been, even though it has burned
(09:24):
out by nine billion dollars and the whole thing is
forty seven point nine billion, I think, you know, as always.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Is the case with this, you know, you would be
carefully comparing an apple with an apple. Some of the
figures that you saw under the labor proposals, where you know,
some of the big headline figures were sort of one
hundred and twenty one hundred and eighty billion, but that
was over thirty years.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
This is over that.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
The figures of forty seven point nine billion or forty
eight billion are over the first ten years. You know,
we're going to want the wants the you know, in
some cases the nineteen council controlled organizations sort have come together,
either a single soores or multi councils that have come together,
are rather than going to be looking at what it
means for those districts, as will the in house business units.
(10:07):
So we're going to discover what's actually required, and then
we've got to come together and see whether we can
continue to find more efficiencies and more ways of leveraging
the strength that exists across different councils provisions.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
At the moment, Yeah, when I saw some articles and
some news wild back comparing the ten year plan versus
the thirty year plan and the forty seven point nine
million if you expand that over three and they started
looking at the cost of it all, and they started saying, well,
it looks like local water done well is going to
cost even more than three waters. But is that because
the infrastructure is more expensive.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
I think the more you know, look just in the
same way as you look at your own heart, you know,
the more you look at it, the more you realize
that you've got to spend a bit of money on
you know, painting that window or fixing that roop. What's
happened is that there has been a real focus on
ensuring registry compliants. We've got wastewater treatment plants across the country,
(11:03):
you know, many who are We've got frend and dirty
that are council owned, many of which are on expired
consents and leading upgrades. And so once you start looking
at those sorts of things, you've got to work out,
you know, right, you know, is there remodular solution, is
there technologies?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And all I get that, I get that it's only
going to get more and more expensive. And I thank
you so much for your time today. That is the
Water New Zealand Chief Executive Jillian blythe my thanks to
the texture, has said, too many councils have really old
pipes that should have been replaced progressively over the years.
You're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
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Speaker 3 (11:46):
So over the past year. Thank god for the milk prices, right,
dairy prices well. A new report from rubber Banks says
maybe there's too much milk for the market. Global dairy
prices are under pressure after surging New Zealand production through
the back half of the year, and rubber Banks says
global dairy prices are set to weaken. Farmers have been
breaking records month after month. May through September. October hit
(12:06):
the third highest output ever. So joining us is doctor JACKEYL.
And Rath, a professor at Lincoln University. Good on to you,
to Jack on good morning, So what's behind the increase
of production effect you've described? This report describes the global
increase as stunning.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
It's been building up for a while, and it's because
milk is a very good product and people want to
consume it, and it's good for so many different things,
and people sometimes forget the calcium various vitiments, so it's
wanted an increase in people around the world. It means
that they're looking for high quality protein, so milk's about
(12:44):
the best thing you can do. And for the protein,
the amino acids, in particular the ones we need, it's
about the most environmentally it is the most environmentally sensible
food you can consume.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So go for at milk, yeah, exactly. So as the
price and is of course the farmers say, oh, well,
let's pump out some more milk, but then that depresses
the prices.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
Well, this is a.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Global thing, not just New Zealand, and certainly we have
been responding to signals about producing more milk, but their
world and other countries can do it more quickly than
we can because they aren't on seasonal production in the
same way that we are matching the grass curve. They
they eat supplements. So our milk is in demand because
(13:27):
it's glass feed.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But this is not great use for farmers. Well, I
mean no, I had to put it into some sort
of context because at the moment it's brilliant for farmers.
So this is less brilliant.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Now it's come off the peak at the moment, and
we'll see what happens next to you. But always farmers
have an eye on the cost of production. So at
the moment and for a while across the sector, So
I'm talking dry stop as well. People have wanted consumers
have been prepared to pay more for our product than
(13:58):
the cost of producing it. So we keep an eye
on the cost of production, and it's the margins. We
should always be looking at the difference for doing cost
of production and what people are prepared to pay, and
that stuff like trying to sell a house. When people
want our product, we feel good about it, but then
the jawy spreads in other countries start producing it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
To course, we know it swings and round about absolutely.
Doctor Jacklin Routh, a professor at Lincoln University, News talks
Hire it is five twenty four way even by the
traveling to America after what happened yesterday. More on the Cinema, the.
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Speaker 3 (14:34):
Be Newsalks b. It is five twenty seven. Imantwer dickens.
I don't want to ask what is America thinking? But
what are they thinking? There's more details of their social
media information. Request to enter the States came to the
light yesterday. The less I wanted to go there. To
get in, I need to supply a wealth of personal information,
including DNA and all my social media links. Now, I
(14:55):
love America and it's people, but if I have to
jump through all those hoops, my first reaction is to
forget it. The Land of the Free is no longer
the land of the free speech. Say the wrong thing
on social media, they may cancel you. This is worse
than anything under Biden and Obama. It's cancel culture writ large.
And the irony is so dumb because if you really
are an enemy of the States, you've already canceled all
(15:17):
your social media. This is going to cancel the tourists
and not the terrorists instead. I'll probably get canceled because
I've said this. Here's the other bonkers thing that I
heard yesterday out of Trump's America. Marca Rubio halted the
State Department's official use of the typeface Calibri. He called
the whole font wasteful and ordered the return of Times
(15:38):
New Roman. He called it as part of a push
to stamp out diversity. Now, I thought, how does that work? Well, Apparently,
back in twenty twenty three, Anthony Blincoln ordered the typeface
changed to Calibri to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities.
If you've got low vision or dyslexia and people who
use screen readers, it's easier to read, and that is
in fact true. It was invented for people with low vision.
(15:59):
And the way it's Microsoft Officer's default font, and apparently
it works. But apparently it's also woke. So America's going
back to Times New Roman. And the left says, of
course they're going back to Times New Roman. Meg is
obsessed with all things Roman. Now, this would all just
be a bit funny. You know, I just change the font.
If it wasn't actually so expensive, you'd think you just
(16:20):
have to ask everyone changing default font, Off we go.
But no, Apparently teams are going to have to check
every little unit. And apparently that's one hundred and forty
five thousand dollars an agency, and there's a lot of
agencies in American bureaucracy. And here's the thing. Times New
Roman takes more ink, and then when you calculate the
(16:40):
sheer volume of wordage being printed out of the American state,
the cost actually mounts into many millions. The right off
and complain about the cost of crazy left wing ideology,
seemingly blessfully unaware that their jest is ideologically crazy, said
(17:01):
be by the way I write with Calibri. I wrote
this editorium with Calibri. It looks more like twenty twenty
five than Times New Roman, which looks like the font
my great grandfather knew.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
But there we go.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Take three on water infrastructure of councils. Stop spending money
on things like climate change, speed bubs, culture in the
cycle lanes, and any spending on anything beyond councils basics
that it will be easy to meet water upgrade costs.
I think you might want to have a look at
your council budget and see just exactly how much they
do spend on water and roads and everything, and then
compared with what they spend on cycle lanes and culture,
(17:32):
and you'll realize that they spend very little on that.
It's a bigger problem than that easy answer. Hey, on
the way, Vincent Macavenni out of the UK, we'll go
run around the country and before sex the primary school
principles are not happy with there.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
They just pay deal on.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Tell you why good.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 8 (18:02):
Said be.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
That's not Michael. Is it Michael Jackson? There's not Michael Jackson.
That's another kid. It is, My goodness me, he's even
higher than I thought. They forget Santa Claus is coming
to town.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What's also true, as the second Test continues in Wellington,
it's a kracket. The basis is definitely our best ground,
followed by Hagley Obal. What's also true is Awk and
the f C play the Central Coast Mariness tonight at
nine thirty five pm. In Australia, the Phoenix play the
Jets Sunday at three and Wellington and the Breakers play
the Melbourne Phoenix tomorrow at ten pm and Australia. Now,
(18:45):
The New York Times has published their call on the
best comedy of twenty twenty five, and they reckon the
best special is by a guy called Roy Woods Junior,
and it's on Hulu. And I've never heard of Roy
Wood Junior, so I've had a look into it. He
used to be on The Daily Show a couple of
years ago, and this special that he's done, which apparently
is enormously funny, is a State of the Nation's special,
and in it he laments the decline of phone calls,
(19:06):
and I am so with that man. People keep texting
me and I keep phoning them back, and they go,
why are you phoning back, you old man? I said, Actually,
I get a lot more information through and I get
I find out executly what you mean a lot better
when I give you when I talk to you. We're humans,
we talk. So I'm right with Roywood. There he complains
about the rise of self checkout. Ah, this man's a genius.
(19:28):
Here he talks about the brittle state of middle age friendship.
He sees alarming evidence of fray connections everywhere, even customer
service at a gun range. As he says, about customer
service at a gun range, how are you going to
be rude to somebody who's just showed up to practice murder?
But cha, his name is Roy Wood Junior, and the
specialists out on Hulu. Find out wherever you can find
(19:50):
it is twenty two to six, said, be around the
country we go. Callum Proctor joins us from Otago Halla,
Callum morning Andrew. Of course, after the winding up of
the nationwide technical institutes, at technical institutes are coming back
to local hands and the guys in Southend are very
happy about.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
This, Yeah they are. So they're rolling out the red
carpet today. Andrew and the Cargo's Calvin Streets being transformed
into Graduation Lane to celebrate the return of the Southern
Institute of Technology back into local hands. So the streets
lined with banners. It's ready for a full parade and
a week long celebration of Southenders and the Institute's renewed autonomy.
(20:28):
The mere. Tom Campbell says Graduation Lane shows the Institute
is back where it belongs, locally, lead and delivering local
benefits and shaping local futures. He says today's celebration honors
those students and the autonomy that south Enders fought.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
To get back.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Good stuff. How's your weather for the weekend?
Speaker 11 (20:46):
Well, for today, a few showers about dannedan mainly fine
eighteen the heighth.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Lovely self and I thank you? Do you crazy as
we go? Emily answer good morning to you?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And Canterbury gets some new helicopters.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
That's right, a brand new wist Pack rescue helicopter taking
flight across Canterbury and the West Coast. It's the first
of three upgraded choppers. With a larger cabin, tail cameras
and weather radar to help crews avoid dangerous conditions. It's
part of a major fundraising campaign to transform the rescue
helicopter service. Critical Care Flight paramedic Scott Meres says it'll
give paramedics better access to patients and boost safety on
(21:21):
every mission. He says, the team is really enthusiastic about
these aircrafts and see it as a chance to improve
their work.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Great enough, and how's your weather?
Speaker 12 (21:28):
Occasional showers easing before dawn, then clearing to find in
the afternoon, southerly is easing in the evening and today's
high is also eighteen degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
All right to Wellington we go, Max Tod, Good morning
to you. What a great test.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Yeah, it looks looks like we could be over by
Saturday lunchtime almost.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh you're such an optimist. Hey, so speaking about being optimistic.
The second supercity amalgamation talks to underway in the Wellington region.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Yeah, mehers in Wellington and why did APPA have met
now to talk amalgamation in terms of this region as well?
Upper Hut seems the only sticking point. They don't think
it would benefit them to throw their lot in with
the City, Lower Hut Podder and all the different wided
apper regional entities. But next year does look like when
things will kick up A not sure. That's when there'll
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be engagement with the government, then consultation with the public.
That's the way it works. Regional councils are already on
the way out. A majority, not a large majority, but
a majority nonetheless does want amalgamation. In terms of the
public it feels inevitable, especially as water costs keep climbing.
The future of public transport, at least in this region
(22:34):
is still relatively unclear. We don't have trains most of
the time on the weekend because of all the maintenance
work that needs to be done. So this new Wellington
Mayoral Forum has been set up, chaired by Andrew Little.
It's met and it'll meet again early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Orkin love to super City. I'm sure Wellington will II.
How's your winner?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, A little cloud this morning, but clearing by this afternoon.
Southerly's just sixteen the high and.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I think you need a britty man who joins us
from Auckland for the last time this year.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, the Christmas party is. The Christmas party is this afternoon.
But you're not coming because you're out of the As
soon as you finish, you're gone.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
No, no seven, I shall walk out that door. I'm
flying to New Plymouth actually this afternoon, just for the weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well, speaking about flying, we've got news about in New Zealand.
Speaker 13 (23:20):
Yes, look, it's giving traveler's something new to look forward
to this summer.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now, what is it.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
It's unveiling its new Auckland International Airport. It's called the
Lookout Lounge. Now, this lounge is going to be open
daily during peak travel. This is from five am until
ten am and then again three thirty pm to nine
fifteen pm. Now this will be operating alongside the Koodoo
Lounge in the summer holiday season. So yeah, randoms can't
go with there obviously. Yeah, you can look out of
(23:47):
you see.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I remember the old days is the basic terminal had
a lookout point and every time you went out there,
you just dancing, run up there and have a block
and you look at all the planes.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
It was fun.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And they got rid of them.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
They're all right, Yeah, a lot of people used to
go there and have a wee see right, Not that you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Care about the weather in Auckland because you're going to
New Plymouth, but how's the weather in Auckland.
Speaker 13 (24:07):
Well, for all those Christmas parties, our Christmas party today,
it's going to be fine, fine, fine. There's not a sign,
not a little bit of rain today, so that is
good news. Just a little bit of cloud morning and
evening cloud.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think we're going to need that.
Speaker 13 (24:19):
Twenty three is the high slightly cooler than the earlier
temperatures of twenty eight during the week, and.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I thank you now. A text through from someone about
America because we're about to go to Vincent macavenny to
talk UK, Europe and the Texas says, why have we
not been hearing the news the huge announcement from the
Fed Reserve because yesterday, of course we had a one
point two five percent rate cut. But actually the textas says,
what was more important is that they are announcing that
quantitative easing is restarting.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
And you know what that is.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's money, money buying money, you know, it's what we did,
and they're going to commence bond buying, money printing, that's
what I meant to say. They're going to commence bond
buying again. And as the textas says, this forces liquidity
into markets and rises the shed It's dramatically and check
out the price of gold and silver this morning. And
most are totally unaware that this is happening now. And
that might be true about today, but they have been
(25:08):
signaling this for about a month now. And here Interesting
Times seventeen to six to UK and Europe.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Knicks International correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand Business four into six.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Vincent mcavinny is out of the UK and Europe. Wanting
to you, Vincent.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
So big burgery Bristol Museum.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, that's right. More than six hundred artifacts of significant
cultural value have been stolen from the British Empire and
Commonwealth Connection collection. A group of four men were spotted
on CCTV raiding one of the museum's storage sites. And
it's the latest in objects going missing from European museums.
(25:54):
Of course, we had that Louver heist of the Duels
a few months ago, and the British Museum here at
London as well has had numerous items in recent years stolen,
some by members of staff. So call for increased protections
on these museum hordes to make sure they stay safe
for the public.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I mean, while more, ADDI badie with the Eurovision Song
contest because Israel is competing.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, that's right. Last week we saw Spain, Ireland, Slovenia
and the Netherlands pull out after they attempted to get
Israel kicked out of the competition. Israel will be staying in.
They'll be competing. Those countries have all withdrawn their acts
and withdrawn their funding, and they've been joined today by Iceland,
which is normally quite a strong competitor in the competition.
(26:37):
They've said that they will not join the seventieth anniversary
competition next May. So guys, there's room for New Zealand
if you want to send someone up.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I actually have a problem with Australia competing in the
past as well. I mean, it's called Eurovision for a reason. Vincent,
and I thank you for your time today, Vincent Mecavinie
out of the UK. Meanwhile, the big news overnight is
that Ukraine delivered its response to the US drafted peace
proposal the war to with Russia. After a series of
consultations with Kiev. At a meeting of Moscow, the twenty
eight point plan was winnowed down to twenty points, meant
(27:09):
to make it more palatable to both parties. It's among
a set of three documents being negotiated, along with one
on security guarantees and another on economic recovery. And the
discussions are ongoing and it's unclear what changes, if any,
that Kiev made to the documents in its latest response,
But I mean it's progressing. More to come this weekend
with Donald Trump and Europe.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Meanwhile, here's something chilling, chilling for you. Last night, NATO's
Secretary General Mark Rutte gave a stark warning in a
speech in Berlin. He said, we are Russia's next target.
We have to be crystal clear about the threat. We
are Russia's next target. We are already in harm's way.
Merry Christmas and let's pray for a happy new year.
(27:52):
US talksz'd be eleven to six to glove from the
secondary teacher's pay deal has vatus pretty quickly because now
the primary principles back in the ring. They've rejected the
government's four point six pay rise, a four point six
percent pay rise, and they want what the secondary principles got,
and what they got was a fifteen thousand dollars curriculum change.
A balance. Karl Vasov, the principal of robin Dale Primary School, Carlvaso,
(28:16):
joins me, right, now get they Carl, good?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
And how are you today?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Good? Now, there's going to be some people out there
who get no pay rises at all and think, wow,
four point six was pretty good. So what was wrong
with it?
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I think what it is sent through is that we've
been fighting for a long time to get recognition so
that we can attract, retain and support principles to do
the best job they can for their communities. And quite frankly,
we've just had enough of just being told or here
this will do, merry Christmas, go away, and so the
Principles have drawn a line in the sand the NCDO
(28:49):
Principles that I belong to, and just said that's just
not enough to acknowledge the work that we do every day.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Okay, so have you got a percent I bet you won't,
But what sort a percentage would make you happy?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
What we want is we just want acknowledgement that at
the moment, we're going through some huge changes and trying
to implement these changes in our communities at a pace
that keeps up.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So, oh dear, have we dropped off? Carl Vaso? Are
you still with me or not?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
I know our community is best and when you're changing
the curriculums at such a huge rate at a fast pace,
we've got to balance a whole lot of things in
our schools to ensure that it's.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
It's effective, that it relates to our kids. Can I
get this at whatever rate the government has in their
heads about what we're worth inside our communities, we're worth
a lot, not just monetary, but you know, support wise, all.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Right, you know, community, So what we're what we're what
we're talking about here, not necessarily is a four point
six percent pay rise, but you want and your your
union says, it's a crushing workload to change the curriculum.
And the secondary school principle has got a fifteen thousand
dollars curriculum age allowance. So if you just got that,
would you walk away happy?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
What I would go away from seeing if that was
on the table is that they've acknowledged the work that
we do as a principle in my community. You know,
I'm focused. I've got a low socio economic community, lots
of community people that struggle to make ends meet. So
for me to continually ask for more and more and more,
it's not a really good reflection sometimes. But what I
(30:25):
am focused on is that whoever comes after me is
equipped with and acknowledged with the right skills and you know,
re enumerated in a way that you know, acknowledges the
work that they do. So fifteen thousand dollars that the
secondary principles got, would you not think that that is
feared that the primary principles get it?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Well, look it's got a name and it's a curriculum
change allow and so what would that fifteen thousand dollars
be used for? And would it help you change the
curriculum or not? I mean, I think we're talking at
cross purposes here. You're wanting to be valued, Carl, I
value you. I'm just talking about I'm just talking about
the money that will stop you complaining.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Well, I don't think we're complaining, Andrew. I think what
it is is that it's an amount of money that
acknowledges that the change that principles are leading in their schools,
and so we've got a new curriculum just like the
secondary principles. They're implementing change to NCA. We're implementing change
to English, structured literacy programs in our school, structured numeracy
(31:26):
programs in our schools, trying to change the way in
which we teach these things. And we're leading schools, you know,
the same size as secondary schools. Secondaries are bigger, no doubt,
but they've got a larger staffing allowance that we don't
get sometimes when you look at the staffing and the
way schools are stuff, you're funded on the size of
the shoe size of your kids.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
All right, KL, thank you so much for your time.
Canvasso is the principle of Rowandale Primary School. A fifteen
thousand dollars curriculum change allowance. Gosh, if I got it,
if I got a grant every time things changed in
my job, gee, I wouldn't be working anymore. And that's
a cheap shot, and I'm sorry, Carl, But at the
same time, this is what people are thinking. Four point
(32:06):
six percent sounds good. Fifteen grands to change the change
the curriculum. We'll see now It is now seven minutes to.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
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Speaker 3 (32:25):
More than one news talk sa'd be it's the first
week of Heather and I actually doing the early starts,
and of course we're just having a bitch in the
studio about how tired we are, because it is pretty
brutal at hours. It's fair to say, and I'm picking
that you're not going to go to the Christmas party
this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
No, I can't go to the Christmas I was going
to go to the Christmas party. I mean, we're one
of those sad organizations that has a one o'clock to
four o'clock Christmas party.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, because we don't give a stuff about productivity, and
we send the entire company out to a party on
Friday afternoon at one o'clock.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
On balance, right, call to make three hours of lost
productivity is much better than a whole bunch of people
appearing on social media in trouble for getting up to
no good.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Don't you think it's true? As soon as as soon
as the sun goes down, stuff happens.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
I get too right anyway, I go to the party,
But no I'm not because my son is vomiting at
the moment, and so I've got a lot of vomit
to clean up.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yes, sleep deprived vomiting childs. You gotta write your hair column.
I mean you're a busy woman.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well you've done very well.
Speaker 10 (33:22):
Oh thanks very much, so have you. We're both managed.
Yeah yeah, Now what are you doing to how naval gazy?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
We are?
Speaker 10 (33:27):
Listen, we are gonna do ah like the principles are
winding me up. The primary principles want more money.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Had to go on.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
I know they want fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I wanted him to talk about money and all. He said,
I just want to be appreciated.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Oh well, let me send you a Christmas card mate,
if that will get you to sign the thing like
Lord above. Anyway, But for that, really good news. Massive
weekend in the capitol right if anybody is looking for
something to do, go to Wellington this weekend. They've got
the Avatar premi yere, they've got two cruise ships coming
in and they've got the base in reserve cricket.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
How good is that?
Speaker 7 (33:58):
So good?
Speaker 10 (33:59):
It means They'll clean up Courtney Place for us, don't
you think.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, absolutely, they're not so gold a mile Heather doc Allen.
I thank you and she is here next. I'm Andrew Dickens.
I'll be back again on Monday and I thanks to
producer Kimsey as always, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
That'd be welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Morning to you and thank you for joining us and
listening to the program coming up in the next hour.
Local water done well is going to cost nine billion
dollars more than estimated, so we're going to ask where
it's bought out and is it still better than three waters.
We'll have that story in five. There's a warning we
might be making a bit too much milk that story
in ten. With the United States cracking down on tourists
(00:35):
social media, is it worth even thinking about going there?
And now the primary principles are complaining about their pay deal,
so what do they want? That story? Just before six,
we'll go to the UK and Europe with Vincent McAvennie.
We'll have correspondence fro right around New Zealand and news
as it breaks and you can have your say on
the text. There is a small charge and the number
is ninety two ninety two and it's seven after.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Five the agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's Friday, the Traith December. US forces have seized an
oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Attorney General Pam Bondi,
who leads the US Department of Justice, said the vessel
was transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela to where it a'm.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
This appears to have been a special operations group that
landed by helicopter on the deck. Once they're on the deck,
they would go up to the bridge to take control.
The crews have been trained not to resist, so this
although the troops were armed, this rarely involves any violence.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So that's a bit of a sharp escalation in the
increasingly tense relationship between the two countries, Venezuela and the
United States of America. And speaking of Venezuela, the opposition
leader Maria Coarina Machado, the one who won the Nobel
Peace Prize, she's been hiding for months. Well, she arrived
in Oslo to pick up a prize, and she told
the BBC she knows exactly the risks of turning up
(01:53):
to Oslo, but went anyway, appearing in the dead of
the night waving from a hotel balcony. And it's the
first time she's been seen in public since January.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I know exactly the risks I'm taken, and what upset
for the Venessulana people from the beginning is I'm going
to be in the place where I am more useful
for our costs. And until very short time ago, the
place where I thought I had to be was Venezuela.
(02:22):
The place where I believe I have to be today
on behalf of our cast is Oslo.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And by the way, while she was there, she approved
of the US action against the oil tanker. And finally,
are you m into? Lest they say, there we go?
Remember that as the thing so on from the Hunger Games,
(02:48):
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutchinson and look said to return
to the Hunger Games for next year's prequel. They haven't
been together. They haven't teamed up since Mocking Jpart two,
but US magazines are reporting Lawrence is Becca's catonus Hutcheson
is back as Peter. The new Hunger Games film is
called Sunrise on the Reaping, and can I just say
I never expected much from the Hunger Games films franchise,
(03:09):
but I loved all of them and I'm looking forward
to the new one. It is now nine nine outter five.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
News and Views. You Trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 3 (03:27):
Be we all got some fudge in the post yesterday.
The Taxpayers Union yesterday launched a brand of fudge called
Nichola's Fudge to call out what they say as the
government's growing habit of sugar coating fiscal truths. It's a
new campaign calling for more austerity from Nikola Willis by
the Taxpayers Union. They say that Nikola is cutting spending.
(03:47):
Oh no, sorry, they say Nikola Willis is saying she
cuts spending and trimming the fat and bringing fiscal discipline
back to the government. But when you look closely, it's
less responsible budgeting and more creative fudging. And I guess
they have a point when spending keeps gone going up
and so does how borrowing, even while the government does
cut jobs and services and infrastructure investment. So the easy
(04:09):
argument is to say, if the cuts haven't worked, just
cut more. And I think at the heart of the
argument that's exactly what the Taxpayers Union are saying. But
economies are not really that simple. I'd argue that this
government is not guilty of cutting too little, but cutting
possibly the wrong stuff. And if you want a good
example of that, ask anyone in the construction industry how
(04:30):
the government's cuts have hollowed them out, and then look
at the impact of that on the wider economy and
the ability for us to build our way out of
the whole.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Look, the Union is chaired by Ruth Richardson, who famously
gave us the Mother of All budgets back in nineteen
ninety one, a budget that cut spending and introduced user pays.
Is a big, old hard budget which did fix some
of our economic problems, but it was unpopular and that
unpopularity coupled with rising unemployment, nearly costs National the nineteen
ninety three election. It also sparked with the first part
(05:01):
of the post system, and look at that we ended
up choosing MMP. The Mother of All budgets hurt poor
and vulnerable people so much it earned Ruth's economic strategy
the nickname Ruth thin Nasia, which I guess says at
all and people forget that poor and vulnerable peoples have
votes too. Now, this battle between Nichola and Ruth is
(05:21):
ideological between Ruth's view that you have to burn the
village to save the village and Nichola's view that if
you burn a little bit of the village, what's left
will growing value and one year out from an election,
I think that's harmful. It's dividing the right and that
plays into the hands of the left. And I actually
quite like what David Seymour said yesterday when he was
asked about it. He said, it's like my sister's arguing
(05:42):
with my auntie and that never makes for a good
Christmas z me. By the way, I hate their ai ad.
It's not authentic, it's not real. I know it's just
like the dancing Cossacks for twenty twenty five, but I
still I just.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Don't like it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now, Local Water done well as the National Party plan
to fix our water infrastructure, and they always said Sarmon
always said this is going to be a lot cheaper
than the big centralized three Waters plan. Well, the all
the costings have come back. Apparently it's going to cost
nine billion dollars more than we thought. So what's gone on,
what's blown out? And is it still better than three Waters?
(06:20):
We'll find out next here on News Talks.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
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Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's a quarter after five. So local Water done Well
is going to cost nine billion dollars more than previously estimated.
The total investment will come to forty seven point nine
billion dollars. The local government Minister Simon Watt says this
just shows that water projects have been underfunded. They can't
wait any longer. We have to spend the money. So
the Water New Zealand Chief executive Officer is Gillian Blythe
(06:57):
and she joins me this morning. Good morning to you, Gillian,
good morning. Why is it blown out?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Why is it blown out? Because over the last two
to three decades across the country, councils have been trying
to juggle their many demands on their on their budgets
and investment and water infrastructure has not kept pace with
what was required. So they haven't been as muss renewals
of the pets and they haven't been as much required
(07:26):
in terms of looking out of the treatment plan.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So it's brue. So it's brutal evidence that we have
had decades of under investment in water infrastructure and eventually
you have to pay the bill.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
You're absolutely right that what what the challenge that was
provided to councils through this, through this reform process was
to submit a water service delivery plan that would show
that they were financially sustainable, that they were going to
meet regulatory compliance, that they would be able to deliver
on the housing growth and the urban developments that were
(07:57):
required in their neighborhoods. And so that's what's seen across
you know, detailed you know financials for for a ten
year period, and then it's some extra information for the
next thirty that is seen from all councils providing what
they need to spend on the neurals, what they need
to spend off glowth and what we need to across
(08:19):
drinking water, wastewater and stormwater.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Have you seen the plan and does it look good?
And will we notice a difference so all of.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
The plans, Well, let me just go. So you've got
sixty seven councils that have submitted. I think the last
time I went and looked at the website, there are
about fifty four plans that are on the website. We've
got more visibility now about the state of water infrastructure
than we've had probably ever. We will be able. I mean,
(08:48):
I've got people that are that are doing analysis of
the plans at the moment, which that you can you know,
you'll be able to say, you know, what's happening in
the lower set, what's happening in there, you know, the
shop of the North, et cetera, to be able to
look at what's going to be required.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Okay, so look, the basic model is actually similar to
three Waters, but it had a voluntary aspect of no
centralization and of course no co governance. And we were
always told that local water done well will be cheaper
than the big monster that was going to be three Waters.
Can you compare the two Is it still cheaper than
three Waters would have been, even though it has burned
(09:24):
out by nine billion dollars and the whole thing is
forty seven point nine billion, I think, you know, as always.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
Is the case with this, you know, you would be
carefully comparing an apple with an apple. Some of the
figures that you saw under the labor proposals, where you know,
some of the big headline figures were sort of one
hundred and twenty one hundred and eighty billion, but that
was over thirty years.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
This is over that.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
The figures of forty seven point nine billion or forty
eight billion are over the first ten years. You know,
we're going to want the wants the you know, in
some cases the nineteen council controlled organizations sort have come together,
either a single soores or multi councils that have come together,
are rather than going to be looking at what it
means for those districts, as will the in house business units.
(10:07):
So we're going to discover what's actually required, and then
we've got to come together and see whether we can
continue to find more efficiencies and more ways of leveraging
the strength that exists across different councils provisions.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
At the moment, Yeah, when I saw some articles and
some news wild back comparing the ten year plan versus
the thirty year plan and the forty seven point nine
million if you expand that over three and they started
looking at the cost of it all, and they started saying, well,
it looks like local water done well is going to
cost even more than three waters. But is that because
the infrastructure is more expensive.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
I think the more you know, look just in the
same way as you look at your own heart, you know,
the more you look at it, the more you realize
that you've got to spend a bit of money on
you know, painting that window or fixing that roop. What's
happened is that there has been a real focus on
ensuring registry compliants. We've got wastewater treatment plants across the country,
(11:03):
you know, many who are We've got frend and dirty
that are council owned, many of which are on expired
consents and leading upgrades. And so once you start looking
at those sorts of things, you've got to work out,
you know, right, you know, is there remodular solution, is
there technologies?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And all I get that, I get that it's only
going to get more and more expensive. And I thank
you so much for your time today. That is the
Water New Zealand Chief Executive Jillian blythe my thanks to
the texture, has said, too many councils have really old
pipes that should have been replaced progressively over the years.
You're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
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Speaker 3 (11:46):
So over the past year. Thank god for the milk prices, right,
dairy prices well. A new report from rubber Banks says
maybe there's too much milk for the market. Global dairy
prices are under pressure after surging New Zealand production through
the back half of the year, and rubber Banks says
global dairy prices are set to weaken. Farmers have been
breaking records month after month. May through September. October hit
(12:06):
the third highest output ever. So joining us is doctor JACKEYL.
And Rath, a professor at Lincoln University. Good on to you,
to Jack on good morning, So what's behind the increase
of production effect you've described? This report describes the global
increase as stunning.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
It's been building up for a while, and it's because
milk is a very good product and people want to
consume it, and it's good for so many different things,
and people sometimes forget the calcium various vitiments, so it's
wanted an increase in people around the world. It means
that they're looking for high quality protein, so milk's about
(12:44):
the best thing you can do. And for the protein,
the amino acids, in particular the ones we need, it's
about the most environmentally it is the most environmentally sensible
food you can consume.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So go for at milk, yeah, exactly. So as the
price and is of course the farmers say, oh, well,
let's pump out some more milk, but then that depresses
the prices.
Speaker 10 (13:05):
Well, this is a.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Global thing, not just New Zealand, and certainly we have
been responding to signals about producing more milk, but their
world and other countries can do it more quickly than
we can because they aren't on seasonal production in the
same way that we are matching the grass curve. They
they eat supplements. So our milk is in demand because
(13:27):
it's glass feed.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
But this is not great use for farmers. Well, I
mean no, I had to put it into some sort
of context because at the moment it's brilliant for farmers.
So this is less brilliant.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Now it's come off the peak at the moment, and
we'll see what happens next to you. But always farmers
have an eye on the cost of production. So at
the moment and for a while across the sector, So
I'm talking dry stop as well. People have wanted consumers
have been prepared to pay more for our product than
(13:58):
the cost of producing it. So we keep an eye
on the cost of production, and it's the margins. We
should always be looking at the difference for doing cost
of production and what people are prepared to pay, and
that stuff like trying to sell a house. When people
want our product, we feel good about it, but then
the jawy spreads in other countries start producing it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
To course, we know it swings and round about absolutely.
Doctor Jacklin Routh, a professor at Lincoln University, News talks
Hire it is five twenty four way even by the
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Be Newsalks b. It is five twenty seven. Imantwer dickens.
I don't want to ask what is America thinking? But
what are they thinking? There's more details of their social
media information. Request to enter the States came to the
light yesterday. The less I wanted to go there. To
get in, I need to supply a wealth of personal information,
including DNA and all my social media links. Now, I
(14:55):
love America and it's people, but if I have to
jump through all those hoops, my first reaction is to
forget it. The Land of the Free is no longer
the land of the free speech. Say the wrong thing
on social media, they may cancel you. This is worse
than anything under Biden and Obama. It's cancel culture writ large.
And the irony is so dumb because if you really
are an enemy of the States, you've already canceled all
(15:17):
your social media. This is going to cancel the tourists
and not the terrorists instead. I'll probably get canceled because
I've said this. Here's the other bonkers thing that I
heard yesterday out of Trump's America. Marca Rubio halted the
State Department's official use of the typeface Calibri. He called
the whole font wasteful and ordered the return of Times
(15:38):
New Roman. He called it as part of a push
to stamp out diversity. Now, I thought, how does that work? Well, Apparently,
back in twenty twenty three, Anthony Blincoln ordered the typeface
changed to Calibri to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities.
If you've got low vision or dyslexia and people who
use screen readers, it's easier to read, and that is
in fact true. It was invented for people with low vision.
(15:59):
And the way it's Microsoft Officer's default font, and apparently
it works. But apparently it's also woke. So America's going
back to Times New Roman. And the left says, of
course they're going back to Times New Roman. Meg is
obsessed with all things Roman. Now, this would all just
be a bit funny. You know, I just change the font.
If it wasn't actually so expensive, you'd think you just
(16:20):
have to ask everyone changing default font, Off we go.
But no, Apparently teams are going to have to check
every little unit. And apparently that's one hundred and forty
five thousand dollars an agency, and there's a lot of
agencies in American bureaucracy. And here's the thing. Times New
Roman takes more ink, and then when you calculate the
(16:40):
sheer volume of wordage being printed out of the American state,
the cost actually mounts into many millions. The right off
and complain about the cost of crazy left wing ideology,
seemingly blessfully unaware that their jest is ideologically crazy, said
(17:01):
be by the way I write with Calibri. I wrote
this editorium with Calibri. It looks more like twenty twenty
five than Times New Roman, which looks like the font
my great grandfather knew.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
But there we go.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Take three on water infrastructure of councils. Stop spending money
on things like climate change, speed bubs, culture in the
cycle lanes, and any spending on anything beyond councils basics
that it will be easy to meet water upgrade costs.
I think you might want to have a look at
your council budget and see just exactly how much they
do spend on water and roads and everything, and then
compared with what they spend on cycle lanes and culture,
(17:32):
and you'll realize that they spend very little on that.
It's a bigger problem than that easy answer. Hey, on
the way, Vincent Macavenni out of the UK, we'll go
run around the country and before sex the primary school
principles are not happy with there.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
They just pay deal on.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Tell you why good.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
Dickens and are the Supercenter explore are these excess its
results servicing all in one news talk.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Said be.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
That's not Michael. Is it Michael Jackson? There's not Michael Jackson.
That's another kid. It is, My goodness me, he's even
higher than I thought. They forget Santa Claus is coming
to town.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What's also true, as the second Test continues in Wellington,
it's a kracket. The basis is definitely our best ground,
followed by Hagley Obal. What's also true is Awk and
the f C play the Central Coast Mariness tonight at
nine thirty five pm. In Australia, the Phoenix play the
Jets Sunday at three and Wellington and the Breakers play
the Melbourne Phoenix tomorrow at ten pm and Australia. Now,
(18:45):
The New York Times has published their call on the
best comedy of twenty twenty five, and they reckon the
best special is by a guy called Roy Woods Junior,
and it's on Hulu. And I've never heard of Roy
Wood Junior, so I've had a look into it. He
used to be on The Daily Show a couple of
years ago, and this special that he's done, which apparently
is enormously funny, is a State of the Nation's special,
and in it he laments the decline of phone calls,
(19:06):
and I am so with that man. People keep texting
me and I keep phoning them back, and they go,
why are you phoning back, you old man? I said, Actually,
I get a lot more information through and I get
I find out executly what you mean a lot better
when I give you when I talk to you. We're humans,
we talk. So I'm right with Roywood. There he complains
about the rise of self checkout. Ah, this man's a genius.
(19:28):
Here he talks about the brittle state of middle age friendship.
He sees alarming evidence of fray connections everywhere, even customer
service at a gun range. As he says, about customer
service at a gun range, how are you going to
be rude to somebody who's just showed up to practice murder?
But cha, his name is Roy Wood Junior, and the
specialists out on Hulu. Find out wherever you can find
(19:50):
it is twenty two to six, said, be around the
country we go. Callum Proctor joins us from Otago Halla,
Callum morning Andrew. Of course, after the winding up of
the nationwide technical institutes, at technical institutes are coming back
to local hands and the guys in Southend are very
happy about.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
This, Yeah they are. So they're rolling out the red
carpet today. Andrew and the Cargo's Calvin Streets being transformed
into Graduation Lane to celebrate the return of the Southern
Institute of Technology back into local hands. So the streets
lined with banners. It's ready for a full parade and
a week long celebration of Southenders and the Institute's renewed autonomy.
(20:28):
The mere. Tom Campbell says Graduation Lane shows the Institute
is back where it belongs, locally, lead and delivering local
benefits and shaping local futures. He says today's celebration honors
those students and the autonomy that south Enders fought.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
To get back.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Good stuff. How's your weather for the weekend?
Speaker 11 (20:46):
Well, for today, a few showers about dannedan mainly fine
eighteen the heighth.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Lovely self and I thank you? Do you crazy as
we go? Emily answer good morning to you?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And Canterbury gets some new helicopters.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
That's right, a brand new wist Pack rescue helicopter taking
flight across Canterbury and the West Coast. It's the first
of three upgraded choppers. With a larger cabin, tail cameras
and weather radar to help crews avoid dangerous conditions. It's
part of a major fundraising campaign to transform the rescue
helicopter service. Critical Care Flight paramedic Scott Meres says it'll
give paramedics better access to patients and boost safety on
(21:21):
every mission. He says, the team is really enthusiastic about
these aircrafts and see it as a chance to improve
their work.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Great enough, and how's your weather?
Speaker 12 (21:28):
Occasional showers easing before dawn, then clearing to find in
the afternoon, southerly is easing in the evening and today's
high is also eighteen degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
All right to Wellington we go, Max Tod, Good morning
to you. What a great test.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Yeah, it looks looks like we could be over by
Saturday lunchtime almost.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh you're such an optimist. Hey, so speaking about being optimistic.
The second supercity amalgamation talks to underway in the Wellington region.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Yeah, mehers in Wellington and why did APPA have met
now to talk amalgamation in terms of this region as well?
Upper Hut seems the only sticking point. They don't think
it would benefit them to throw their lot in with
the City, Lower Hut Podder and all the different wided
apper regional entities. But next year does look like when
things will kick up A not sure. That's when there'll
(22:14):
be engagement with the government, then consultation with the public.
That's the way it works. Regional councils are already on
the way out. A majority, not a large majority, but
a majority nonetheless does want amalgamation. In terms of the
public it feels inevitable, especially as water costs keep climbing.
The future of public transport, at least in this region
(22:34):
is still relatively unclear. We don't have trains most of
the time on the weekend because of all the maintenance
work that needs to be done. So this new Wellington
Mayoral Forum has been set up, chaired by Andrew Little.
It's met and it'll meet again early twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Orkin love to super City. I'm sure Wellington will II.
How's your winner?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, A little cloud this morning, but clearing by this afternoon.
Southerly's just sixteen the high and.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I think you need a britty man who joins us
from Auckland for the last time this year.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. I'm so happy.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, the Christmas party is. The Christmas party is this afternoon.
But you're not coming because you're out of the As
soon as you finish, you're gone.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
No, no seven, I shall walk out that door. I'm
flying to New Plymouth actually this afternoon, just for the weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Well, speaking about flying, we've got news about in New Zealand.
Speaker 13 (23:20):
Yes, look, it's giving traveler's something new to look forward
to this summer.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now, what is it.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
It's unveiling its new Auckland International Airport. It's called the
Lookout Lounge. Now, this lounge is going to be open
daily during peak travel. This is from five am until
ten am and then again three thirty pm to nine
fifteen pm. Now this will be operating alongside the Koodoo
Lounge in the summer holiday season. So yeah, randoms can't
go with there obviously. Yeah, you can look out of
(23:47):
you see.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I remember the old days is the basic terminal had
a lookout point and every time you went out there,
you just dancing, run up there and have a block
and you look at all the planes.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
It was fun.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And they got rid of them.
Speaker 13 (23:58):
They're all right, Yeah, a lot of people used to
go there and have a wee see right, Not that you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Care about the weather in Auckland because you're going to
New Plymouth, but how's the weather in Auckland.
Speaker 13 (24:07):
Well, for all those Christmas parties, our Christmas party today,
it's going to be fine, fine, fine. There's not a sign,
not a little bit of rain today, so that is
good news. Just a little bit of cloud morning and
evening cloud.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think we're going to need that.
Speaker 13 (24:19):
Twenty three is the high slightly cooler than the earlier
temperatures of twenty eight during the week, and.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I thank you now. A text through from someone about
America because we're about to go to Vincent macavenny to
talk UK, Europe and the Texas says, why have we
not been hearing the news the huge announcement from the
Fed Reserve because yesterday, of course we had a one
point two five percent rate cut. But actually the textas says,
what was more important is that they are announcing that
quantitative easing is restarting.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
And you know what that is.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's money, money buying money, you know, it's what we did,
and they're going to commence bond buying, money printing, that's
what I meant to say. They're going to commence bond
buying again. And as the textas says, this forces liquidity
into markets and rises the shed It's dramatically and check
out the price of gold and silver this morning. And
most are totally unaware that this is happening now. And
that might be true about today, but they have been
(25:08):
signaling this for about a month now. And here Interesting
Times seventeen to six to UK and Europe.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Knicks International correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand Business four into six.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Vincent mcavinny is out of the UK and Europe. Wanting
to you, Vincent.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
So big burgery Bristol Museum.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, that's right. More than six hundred artifacts of significant
cultural value have been stolen from the British Empire and
Commonwealth Connection collection. A group of four men were spotted
on CCTV raiding one of the museum's storage sites. And
it's the latest in objects going missing from European museums.
(25:54):
Of course, we had that Louver heist of the Duels
a few months ago, and the British Museum here at
London as well has had numerous items in recent years stolen,
some by members of staff. So call for increased protections
on these museum hordes to make sure they stay safe
for the public.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I mean, while more, ADDI badie with the Eurovision Song
contest because Israel is competing.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, that's right. Last week we saw Spain, Ireland, Slovenia
and the Netherlands pull out after they attempted to get
Israel kicked out of the competition. Israel will be staying in.
They'll be competing. Those countries have all withdrawn their acts
and withdrawn their funding, and they've been joined today by Iceland,
which is normally quite a strong competitor in the competition.
(26:37):
They've said that they will not join the seventieth anniversary
competition next May. So guys, there's room for New Zealand
if you want to send someone up.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I actually have a problem with Australia competing in the
past as well. I mean, it's called Eurovision for a reason. Vincent,
and I thank you for your time today, Vincent Mecavinie
out of the UK. Meanwhile, the big news overnight is
that Ukraine delivered its response to the US drafted peace
proposal the war to with Russia. After a series of
consultations with Kiev. At a meeting of Moscow, the twenty
eight point plan was winnowed down to twenty points, meant
(27:09):
to make it more palatable to both parties. It's among
a set of three documents being negotiated, along with one
on security guarantees and another on economic recovery. And the
discussions are ongoing and it's unclear what changes, if any,
that Kiev made to the documents in its latest response,
But I mean it's progressing. More to come this weekend
with Donald Trump and Europe.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Meanwhile, here's something chilling, chilling for you. Last night, NATO's
Secretary General Mark Rutte gave a stark warning in a
speech in Berlin. He said, we are Russia's next target.
We have to be crystal clear about the threat. We
are Russia's next target. We are already in harm's way.
Merry Christmas and let's pray for a happy new year.
(27:52):
US talksz'd be eleven to six to glove from the
secondary teacher's pay deal has vatus pretty quickly because now
the primary principles back in the ring. They've rejected the
government's four point six pay rise, a four point six
percent pay rise, and they want what the secondary principles got,
and what they got was a fifteen thousand dollars curriculum change.
A balance. Karl Vasov, the principal of robin Dale Primary School, Carlvaso,
(28:16):
joins me, right, now get they Carl, good?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
And how are you today?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Good? Now, there's going to be some people out there
who get no pay rises at all and think, wow,
four point six was pretty good. So what was wrong
with it?
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I think what it is sent through is that we've
been fighting for a long time to get recognition so
that we can attract, retain and support principles to do
the best job they can for their communities. And quite frankly,
we've just had enough of just being told or here
this will do, merry Christmas, go away, and so the
Principles have drawn a line in the sand the NCDO
(28:49):
Principles that I belong to, and just said that's just
not enough to acknowledge the work that we do every day.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Okay, so have you got a percent I bet you won't,
But what sort a percentage would make you happy?
Speaker 7 (29:03):
What we want is we just want acknowledgement that at
the moment, we're going through some huge changes and trying
to implement these changes in our communities at a pace
that keeps up.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So, oh dear, have we dropped off? Carl Vaso? Are
you still with me or not?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
I know our community is best and when you're changing
the curriculums at such a huge rate at a fast pace,
we've got to balance a whole lot of things in
our schools to ensure that it's.
Speaker 14 (29:28):
It's effective, that it relates to our kids. Can I
get this at whatever rate the government has in their
heads about what we're worth inside our communities, we're worth
a lot, not just monetary, but you know, support wise, all.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Right, you know, community, So what we're what we're what
we're talking about here, not necessarily is a four point
six percent pay rise, but you want and your your
union says, it's a crushing workload to change the curriculum.
And the secondary school principle has got a fifteen thousand
dollars curriculum age allowance. So if you just got that,
would you walk away happy?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
What I would go away from seeing if that was
on the table is that they've acknowledged the work that
we do as a principle in my community. You know,
I'm focused. I've got a low socio economic community, lots
of community people that struggle to make ends meet. So
for me to continually ask for more and more and more,
it's not a really good reflection sometimes. But what I
(30:25):
am focused on is that whoever comes after me is
equipped with and acknowledged with the right skills and you know,
re enumerated in a way that you know, acknowledges the
work that they do. So fifteen thousand dollars that the
secondary principles got, would you not think that that is
feared that the primary principles get it?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Well, look it's got a name and it's a curriculum
change allow and so what would that fifteen thousand dollars
be used for? And would it help you change the
curriculum or not? I mean, I think we're talking at
cross purposes here. You're wanting to be valued, Carl, I
value you. I'm just talking about I'm just talking about
the money that will stop you complaining.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Well, I don't think we're complaining, Andrew. I think what
it is is that it's an amount of money that
acknowledges that the change that principles are leading in their schools,
and so we've got a new curriculum just like the
secondary principles. They're implementing change to NCA. We're implementing change
to English, structured literacy programs in our school, structured numeracy
(31:26):
programs in our schools, trying to change the way in
which we teach these things. And we're leading schools, you know,
the same size as secondary schools. Secondaries are bigger, no doubt,
but they've got a larger staffing allowance that we don't
get sometimes when you look at the staffing and the
way schools are stuff, you're funded on the size of
the shoe size of your kids.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
All right, KL, thank you so much for your time.
Canvasso is the principle of Rowandale Primary School. A fifteen
thousand dollars curriculum change allowance. Gosh, if I got it,
if I got a grant every time things changed in
my job, gee, I wouldn't be working anymore. And that's
a cheap shot, and I'm sorry, Carl, But at the
same time, this is what people are thinking. Four point
(32:06):
six percent sounds good. Fifteen grands to change the change
the curriculum. We'll see now It is now seven minutes to.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Six on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition
with Andrew Dickens and are the Supercenter explore r V successories,
hand servicing.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
More than one news talk sa'd be it's the first
week of Heather and I actually doing the early starts,
and of course we're just having a bitch in the
studio about how tired we are, because it is pretty
brutal at hours. It's fair to say, and I'm picking
that you're not going to go to the Christmas party
this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
No, I can't go to the Christmas I was going
to go to the Christmas party. I mean, we're one
of those sad organizations that has a one o'clock to
four o'clock Christmas party.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, because we don't give a stuff about productivity, and
we send the entire company out to a party on
Friday afternoon at one o'clock.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
On balance, right, call to make three hours of lost
productivity is much better than a whole bunch of people
appearing on social media in trouble for getting up to
no good.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Don't you think it's true? As soon as as soon
as the sun goes down, stuff happens.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
I get too right anyway, I go to the party,
But no I'm not because my son is vomiting at
the moment, and so I've got a lot of vomit
to clean up.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yes, sleep deprived vomiting childs. You gotta write your hair column.
I mean you're a busy woman.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well you've done very well.
Speaker 10 (33:22):
Oh thanks very much, so have you. We're both managed.
Yeah yeah, Now what are you doing to how naval gazy?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
We are?
Speaker 10 (33:27):
Listen, we are gonna do ah like the principles are
winding me up. The primary principles want more money.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Had to go on.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
I know they want fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I wanted him to talk about money and all. He said,
I just want to be appreciated.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Oh well, let me send you a Christmas card mate,
if that will get you to sign the thing like
Lord above. Anyway, But for that, really good news. Massive
weekend in the capitol right if anybody is looking for
something to do, go to Wellington this weekend. They've got
the Avatar premi yere, they've got two cruise ships coming
in and they've got the base in reserve cricket.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
How good is that?
Speaker 7 (33:58):
So good?
Speaker 10 (33:59):
It means They'll clean up Courtney Place for us, don't
you think.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, absolutely, they're not so gold a mile Heather doc Allen.
I thank you and she is here next. I'm Andrew Dickens.
I'll be back again on Monday and I thanks to
producer Kimsey as always, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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to News Talks it Be from five am weekdays, or
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