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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The issues, the interviews and the inside with one room
to make your property search simple.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
News Dogs, it'd be good morning. Welcome to early edition
on Wednesday, the twelfth of February. I'm Francisco Radkin filling
in for Andrew Dickins this morning. Good to have you
with us. You're most welcome to contact me anytime this morning.
You can flick through a text on ninety two ninety
two or you can email me at Francesca at newstorgsib
dot co dot nz. Right on the show today, the
Fungerrai Mayor is with us to talk about New Zealand.
(00:32):
First's built to restore powers of fluoridation back to local communities,
What is going on with anios and New Zealand, Rugby
and kung Aura has come up with a pragmatic approach
to dealing with debt owed by tenants. But will it
increase homelessness? We will discuss this before the end of
the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's Wednesday, twelfth of February. First an update from the
Middle East. Jordan's King Abdullah is set to meet with
the US President Donald Trump the House after he suggested
with holding aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don't
cooperate with his plans to take control of Gaza. Meanwhile,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanna, who has promised relentless action
to return hostages being held in Gaza after her masked them,
(01:15):
laid their release until further notice. Here's Trump's reaction to that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
If all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at
twelve o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would
say cancel it, and all bets are off and let
hell break out.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
France has been hosting a two day artificial intelligence summit
in Paris. Dozens of world leaders, top tech bosses, and
policymakers gathered to debate AI's impact on security, business, jobs,
and much more. India's Prime Minister there Endromodi called for
an AI governance rules.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No one holds the key to our collective frujar and
shared dat the other than whom that sense of responsibility
much guider.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
US Vice President Jady Varnes called for Europe to keep
an open mind.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
America wants to partner with all of you, and we
want to embark on the AI revolution before us with
the spirit of openness and collaboration and.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Finally back home a Hawk's Bay. Dad has been helping
his son and daughter learn to hitchhike to school after
their rural school bus route was cut by the Ministry
of Education. Mike Brown lives on a family farm near
the Arapawa Noi River, about forty five kilometers north of Napier,
and he says it takes about forty five minutes to
get into town. The Ministry of Education says the Ministry
(02:44):
applies its policy consistently across New Zealand to ensure limited
school transport funding is allocated fairly and efficiently.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Really addition, with one roof, make your property search simple.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
News Talk sippy nine past five now. Last night we
discovered that New Zealand has slipped to fourth place in
the worldwide rankings of the least corrupt countries, with the
country achieving its worst place. This is its worst placing
ever on the Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index. Yes there
is such a thing. The index has been comparing countries
(03:20):
annually since nineteen ninety three and for many decades, New
Zealand place number one. We were first, which I'm sure
made us feel good because New Zealand is like a winner.
But as fourth, really so bad out of one hundred
and eighty countries. Top three now is now Denmarket number one,
Finland number two, Singapore number three. This is of course
all about transparency of government, not individual corruption crimes, and
(03:43):
actually because of that we should take it seriously and
our slow decline is worth taking note of Transparency International
New Zealand Chief Executive Julie Haggy, she said there is concern,
or it was noted in the report, there is concern
about New Zealand's lack of transparency around lobbying, revolving door
between government and lobbyists, use of urgency, issues of party financing,
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and limitations on the scope of the Official Information Act.
And I don't think that's news to New Zealanders at all.
We've had a pretty slack response to corruption pressures over
the years. There have been some attempt to create a
new code of conduct for lobbyists. This will of course
be a voluntary code of conduct. So the lobbyists did
a good job. There are a little bit of an
inadequate attempt to address this. So the drop in rankings
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brings the issues back to the fore. I don't think
it's going to create too much of a stir with
politicians yet, but you wouldn't want to see that ranking
drop much further because we kiwis we like things to
be straight up? Does the drop in rankings concern you'd
love to hear from? You can text on ninety two
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Speaker 1 (04:49):
The first word on the news of the day in
early edition with one roof will make your property search simple.
The news talks.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That'd be you're with early dedition it's thirteen pars. New
Zealand first have introduced a bill to restore powers of
floridation back to local communities. Their decision to floridate drinking
water currently rests with the Director General of Health, but
the bill would allow locals to decide what they want
in their water through binding referendums. Fung Ray is the
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only one of fourteen councils not to fluoridate it's water
since the government's twenty twenty two directive. Mayor Vincent Cocarilla
joins me, Now, thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Vincent, good morning, How are this morning very good?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thank you? Are you happy to see this bill put
in the ballot?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I think it's a very good step forward. I have
to say that it's great to have a central government
backing behind local government.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Again, why should this decision rest locally?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, Look, it's one of those things, especially with fluoridation,
there's a lot of controversy that a lot of people
with strong opinions from both sides, and what it day
is By putting it back to the people, it actually
gives the people to start the say whether people like
the decision. At the end of the day, it's still
of like when you have a binding referee them. It
makes it very clear that the community have spoken. So
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whichever the decision may be, the community has spoken and
the community accept the decision when they are when the
decision is imposed on them, they are always going to
rebel from it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
How do you think fan I would vote in a referendum?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Oh, now that's a very hard arnswer answer on that one. Look,
I have I have heard from both sides of the sense,
and I have had very passionate people from both sides
of the sense, both in the medical and non medical
side of things, and both have very clear views and
opinions about it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Are the options that mean that everybody gets what they
want when it comes to this debate.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Look, by allowing as I said, by allowing the community
to have to say, actually makes the decision back onto
the community, so they actually take ownership of it. That's
what the big thing is, and that's why when you
impose something onto a community, you will always get people
resenting the government for it. Whereas if you give them
the decision and give them the power to actually make
(07:10):
that call, they generally accept what has been decided.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But have you got on it?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
May not like it?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah except this.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So yeah, exactly. So, Look, if fluoridation gets put into
place where you are, have you got an option for
people that don't want it? If it's not put in place,
is there another option there for people who do want it?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
And that's something that the councilor has to decide when
that time comes. At this present moment, we have we've
never fluoridated in sang today ever so and this has
been through a referendum in two thousand and two, so
we've actually been through that process a while ago, and
it's probably a good time to redo that referendum. And
it's probably a very good smart idea.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
About was it about sixty five percent sed no in
that referendum.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah, that's correct, and it was a lot of good
councilors at the time actually were quite surprised by the result.
They thought it'd go the other way.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Have you got in trouble for not doing this once?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
The interesting thing is we have broken no laws at
the present moment. And to say the same thing as
many some of the other councils who have been asked
to thaorroidate haven't actually started thauroidating either. So as of
the twenty eighth of March, that's when the mandate actually
has to happen. Until then, we've still broken broken no laws.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okay, so it's getting It's getting close, isn't it. How
can Yeah? How contentious do you think that this bill
will be?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Look, I I don't know about central government. I don't
know how they will all or political parties will vote
on it. I can't answer that one either. Whether it's contentious, yes,
I do, and again I do say it's because there
are very passionate people from both sides.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You're spoken to other councils, are they happy with this
bill as well?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
There are a lot of councils who are very, very
happy And the main reason is because they actually would
prefer to have the community have a say as well.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Lean's appreciate your time this morning. Nice to talk to you.
That was Funday Mayor Vince Cocurio there talking about New
Zealand First have introduced a bill to restore the powers
of fluoridation back to local communities.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Elliot Smith is up next on the legal battle ahead
for New Zealand Rugby against Enios.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Where's one roof?
Make your property search simple.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
News Talk ZIB five twenty Now. New Zealand Rugby has
entered a legal battle with its major sponsor Anios. They
say Anios have failed to make the first sponsorship payment
of twenty twenty five and they're trying to exit their
six year contract three years. Early ZB Rugby commentator Elliott
Smith is with me now, Good morning Elliott.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Good morning Francesca.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So as the spot on the front of the AB
shirt no longer has coveted as it once.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Was, well, I think there's certainly elements of that in
terms of just being a tough time for marketing and
sports and getting value out of that dollar. But also
in the US their commercial revenue has been eaten up
in Europe and they are looking for a way to
save cost. Have now got to try and find a
new America's Cup team that they're going to try and fund.
(10:14):
They've got the Manchester United now as well, and the
squeeze has really come on at Sports, the Sports portfolio
to try and save some money. So I think they've
gone Actually, New Zealand, we could probably flick that off
and and save a bit of money there eight to
ten million New Zealand dollars a year we can get
rid of that. New Zealand Rugby said no, you've got
a commercial contract with us, and that's where the stalemate
(10:36):
meets at the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So that eight million, that was eight million per year,
not in the not for the total of the six.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Years, not for the total of six years. So is
there someone in the facility of eight to ten million
dollars a year that New Zealand Rugby had agreed with
any US here that's substantial?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Is this really a case though, of them not US?
I mean, have the All Blacks has New Zealand Rugby
I should say, looked after this partnership, Well.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Well, look, having been around a lot of All Blacks events.
You see the Inenios branding on the all blacks clothing.
You see it a lot of sidelines of games, the
Anios logo there. I've been at training runs around the world,
including London where a lot of the Inios companies are based,
and you've seen a lot of Ineos representatives on the
(11:23):
touch line there and being welcomed in there. So in
terms of trying to get that commercial dollar and showing
the opportunities there and leveraging that, I think New Zealand
Rugby has done plenty to open the door and the
OOS would say they could have always done more. But
seeing a statement from any Os overnight, they're very much
blaming a commercial downturn in Europe and in petrochemical companies
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feeling the squeeze in Europe for the decision not to
go not to pay this payment that they were owed
to New Zealand Rugby. They said they went to New
Zealand Rugby to try and hammer out an agreement. Didn't
come to that from New Zealand Rugby. New Zealand Rugby
weren't interested so very much on a commercial side, it
says in THEOS are blaming the fact they don't have
the money at the moment to try and meet those
(12:09):
payments that they agreed to with New Zealand rupe there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
How long could it take to secure a new sponsorship contract.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Well, these things are in play for nearly two years,
is my understanding. When they go out to tend and
the negotiations are hammer out, whether you're get in front
of the jersey, a spot on the shorts, what kind
of financials are involved, what kind of commercial obligations are
from New Zealand side in terms of your tickets to
matches or hospitality, player appearances, promotions, everything like that. It
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can take close to two years. So if they're not
getting eight million dollars this year from in the OS,
it's hard to see them making up in the short term.
There aren't as we know, there's a big business turn
don't downturn around a lot of the globe. They're not
quelling up to sponsor sports of any shape at the moment,
so it's going to take a lot for New Zealand
Rugby to try and replace this, especially at short notice.
(13:02):
And you remember as well, their agreement with Ford came
to an end the end of last year as well,
or earlier this year or at some point this year.
So there's a couple of financial holes and shortfalls that
New Zealand Rugby's got to meet at a time when
the pressure is going on the community game. They're looking
for new revenue streams. They've lost two that they are expecting,
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certainly one that are expecting in their bank accounts from
January first.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Elliott Smith, thank you so much for talking us through that.
Appreciate it. It is twenty four pass far. You're with early edition.
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You're with early edition. It's twenty six past five. Kien
Or is taking a step in the right direction. They
have announced a tough approach to rental debt, but they're
doing it in a fair way, which hopefully gives people
who intend to pay their rent but have hit a
hurdle a chance to get back on track. The debt
was kind of crazy. Between two thousand and seven and
twenty twenty three, the total debt owed to Coying Aura
(14:03):
by its tenants increased from one million to twenty one million. Now,
obviously this period included the COVID days and cost of
living crisis, and it would have been a little heartless
for the government to kick people out of homes during
a lockdown or due to a job loss caused by
an unprecedented event like a pandemic. But twenty one million,
it is a big number. Kung Aora has worked hard
(14:25):
to reduce that debt is now down from twenty one
point six million in January twenty twenty four to sixteen
point one million this January. It is a good effort,
but clearly things have gone out of control and we're
never going to get on top of the numbers. So
the Board of coyng Aura has decided to help some
tenants with significant rent debt get on top of their
debt faster. They're going to reduce the amount they owe
down to twelve weeks worth of rent and forgive the
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rest if the tenant has been consistently paying rent and
making reasonable payments to reduce what they owe. So this
is going to wipe eight million off the debt number,
which is a quick way to make the numbers look
more appealing, isn't it. But will we either going to
recoup the money from the twenty tenants owing more than
twelve weeks? No, So why not give people an incentive
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to pay. This is a pragmatic decision, but it raises
the question, what's stopping tenants just clocking up the debt
if they know that it will be reduced back to
twelve weeks. Well, this is a one time offer because
from now on tenants won't get to the point of
owing more than twelve weeks rent coying or estates. They
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will be in touch much earlier if rent is missed,
to have a chat and to work out a payback plan.
If this doesn't happen, if there is no intent to
pay off debt, then eviction processes will begin, which could
happen well before reaching the twelve week mark. So the
message is very clear here. Sustaining tenancy's framework is coming
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to an end. It is going to be easy to
evict people, but they'll be closely managed to prevent things
getting to that point if possible, and I think we'd
all agree people deserve it opportunity to get back on
track and the last thing we want to see is
an unnecessary increase in homelessness. As Associate Housing Minister Tama
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Portaka said yesterday, while most kang Or tenants are great
tenants who respect the properties, good neighbors and pay their
rent on time. Some need a little more TOTALKU encouragement
to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
News Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
So, does this sound even handed to you or are
you concerned that this approach may possibly cause more homelessness.
We're going to talk about this later in the hour
with Brooks Stanley, who is with a homeless youth advocacy group.
Just we're just going to see whether this approach is
going to work for everybody. But I'd like to hear
from you. Do you like the direction that kyang Or
is going and do you think it's fair handed? And
(16:50):
obviously we just got to get on with trying to
get on top of this. I think they've done a
pretty good job. Here ninety two ninety two is the text.
News is up here, next here on news Talk, zip.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
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Speaker 9 (17:39):
Hear you, June your look live goody live here you
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Speaker 5 (18:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is any addition on news toork z'd be I'm
for tis going, I can filling in for Andrew today.
Thanks for being with us in the next half hour,
we head to the UK to get the reaction to
football or Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of
causing racially aggravated harassment and as I mentioned before the
news kan Ora has a new approach to tenants who
don't pay their rent. I think they've taken a pretty
(18:21):
even handed approach to make sure that we don't get
into the pickle that we got into into the previous government.
But is it approach that will work for all tenants?
Will it create more homelessness for our youth. We're going
to discuss this before the end of the hour, and
thank you for your feedback on this morning. State housing
is a privileged to the government. Isn't the landlord the taxpayer?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Is?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It was always intended to be temporary accommodation for those
who needed it, not a free, long term luxury lifestyle.
Thank you Max. Why don't we all stop paying our landlord?
What a kick in the guts for private renters who
went through COVID and hardship. More pandering and another one
here from Gary says hi, as most of the social
housing tenants are on benefits, I don't see how they
could not pay rent if it's taken out prior to
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the benefit being paid. Here's the thing, Gary. The point
that you raise is a ready good one. How did
any of this get to the point that it did,
And that is the issue. No one should be owing
forty thousand dollars in rent. It should never get to
that point. And I think this is what King Ara
is saying, whether you were earning your own money or
you're on a benefit or a mix of the both
and things, there is no reason why if you can't
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pay your rent one week that there is not immediate
communication with coing or and a plan put in place
to help you out, discussions being had. You work together
and you work forward. And that's what the government is saying.
No longering let tenants get to the point where they
get into strife and they owe more than twelve weeks.
And somebody textas say regarding Anyos and New Zealand Rugby,
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you've got an international company and a rugby player doing
politics on stage, they will cancel. I think I can
with one hundred percent confidence. I don't think that's got
anything to do with why AS has pulled out. I
think many other reasons behind that. Look, thanks for your feedback.
Keep the feedback coming you can text. On ninety two
ninety two News Talk said be right it is time
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to head around the country and joining me indonedin is
Callum Proctor. Good morning, Callum, morning to you. We have
a pivotal meeting for the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago
districts today, Yes we do.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
It's in Alexandra represented us from the Queenstown Lakes Central
Otaga District. San Otago Regional Councils will gather there today
to discuss a potential regional deal they want to propose
to central government. This coalition deal will aim to drive
economic growth and establish a pipeline of infrastructure to the region.
They say it would reflect a thirty year vision for
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the area and a decade long strategic plan. This would
include potentially pitching for a Southern Lakes based hospital and
a mass transit gondola link between Central Queenstown and Frankton.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And the weather in Dunedin today, Callum, I.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Mostly fine over towards this evening and nineteen thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And Claire Sherwood is in christ Church in a big
day head at the christ Church City Council today.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Claire sure as Francesca. Look, counselors are today considering and
adopting our draft annual plan. This is the plan that
will outline what council will deliver over the coming year
and how that will be paid for. Now there is
a proposed eight point six four percent rates increase here
in christ Church for the average household That works out
to be around six dollars per week. Councilor Sam McDonald
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is acknowledging community concerns about that eight point six four
percent figure. He says they're looking at what levers can
be pulled to reduce that increase. The mayor has previously
talked about things like reducing levels of service like the
frequency of council services, rather than cutting them all together.
Their draft to annual plan then goes up for public
feedback from late to this month until the end.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Of next Thank you so much, Claire. And the weather today.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Mostly cloudings, some brief afternoon fine spells. Easterly is developing
and the high should be two twenty one.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Lovely. Thank you Claire. Have a good day. And Max
Toll is with us in Wellington. Good morning, Max, I
believe we've got an announcement coming today on Wellington's Golden
Mile upgrades.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
Yeah, good morning. So the Golden Mile development have been
a few years in the works. The Golden Mile essentially
is the spine of the city streets from Lampton Key
to Courtney Place, and the mayor or when she ran,
ran on a campaign of transforming those streets into carless,
pedestrian friendly, bike and bus friendly a street essentially tomorrow
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today an announcement is coming that is expected to be
the final design of this street project and the timeframes
for when construction will begin, when construction will finish, and
when cars will finally be banished from the central city.
It's riled up businesses that fear that their business will
really diminish with cars not being able to park outside
(22:54):
outside their doors drive along. We kind of confirmed yesterday
that work is confirmed stand in April according to the
City Council, and yet a final contract for this work
is still not signed, so that's a little contradictory. We're
going to ask some questions at this media announcement today
that the council is holding. We did speak to a
business owner on Courtney Place yesterday. He fears the worst.
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He says it would be a sad day for Wellington
when the Golden Mile is confirmed and impacted businesses have
not been properly consulted.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Thank you, Max. Have you got a nice day today?
Were the ones we do?
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (23:30):
It should be cloud clearing fine from pretty early in
the morning. Southerly's a high of twenty central.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Thank you so much. Max. Never britty man who is
in the studio now, j weckon the buck.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
I've had three coffees this morning, so I'm gone energized,
good to go for the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
When for Auckland's cbd as plans for overnight street packing
charges are delayed another.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
Year, Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I think people gods are looking upon Oh.
Speaker 13 (23:57):
Absolutely, And I know a few people, especially in those apartments,
and they've only got one car park, so you get
those two car households and one of them's got to
park out on the road.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
So yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:05):
So what we know is at Auckland Transport, the charges
they're going to kick in from March twenty twenty six
cost about one to two dollars an hour, depending on demand.
But it says that this decision follows feedback from all
the businesses, the residents and the workers. So they're going
to wait really until the City rail Link is opening
for twenty twenty six. Viv Beck Heart of the City
Chief Executive. She's happy to go along with the charges
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once the project's complete.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Okay, Auckland's weather to day please fine another monkey.
Speaker 13 (24:31):
Day twenty seven.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Is the high.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
We can't complain or can we can we?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, we can't.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
We have to just go and sleep.
Speaker 14 (24:38):
Out on the road.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So it's just because you spend most of your time
in here in the sub condition play but after you
go go and complain to somebody else in the news room.
Thank you very much for being in here. Coming up
next week and he heads to the UK. Gavin Graves
with us it is sixteen to.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And joining me now from the UK is Gevin greg
Good morning.
Speaker 14 (25:04):
Devin, good morning that Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Tell me what's the reaction being to footballer Sam kurb
being found not guilty of causing racially aggravated harassment?
Speaker 14 (25:15):
Yeah, I mean Sam Kerr, of course, is the Australian
international women's footballer, a major superstar as well. Thirty one
years old, plays for Chelsea as a striker in the
Women's Football League. She's been found not guilty of that charge,
which could have led to a two year prison centers
the jury clear in relation to an incident back in Twickenham,
(25:37):
which is southwest London, back in January of twenty twenty three,
the thirty one year old had always said in the
court that she was antagonized by officers when she was
taken to a police station following a dispute with a
taxi driver in which the one of she and her
partner one of them was sick in the back a
(25:58):
window was kicked in the tax She driver Drodan to
the police station demanding compensation and to get the cab
cleaned up. And during the discussion with the police officer
about what had happened, she was caught using the words
you're stupid and white. Now that was where really this
whole whole court case home. Was that racially motivated? She
(26:22):
denied it amounted to a racial offense. The jury agreed
with her, but as the prosecutor said, what had happened
if somebody would have said you're stupid and black, because
of course that was what the prosecution was saying, it
was clearly racist.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Kevin Gray thank you very much for the update. Appreciate
it right. Evocates are warning a tough approach on rent
debt from the country's biggest landlord will force more people
onto the streets. King Ora wants to crack down on
tenants with rent arears, some who owe tens of thousands
(26:54):
of dollars in months of unpaid rent. Brooks S. Dairley
joins me now from Monachi Range and Advocacy Group, which
aims to prevent and end youth homelessness. Thanks for being
with us, bro Good morning, Good morning. What's your reaction
to this.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
I think that the announcement made yesterday by the minister
is going to increase and make comelessness worse, and we
can't look at this announcement in isolation of the other
announcements they've made. Instead of investing billions into prisons, they
should be investing this money into preventative solutions like warm,
(27:35):
affordable and universal housing and looking for cope oper multi solutions,
because we know that those are the solutions that are
working on the ground.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Brook are you worried that this particular approach will affect
younger tenants.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
We're worried that it will impact everybody who is in
a KO house. We're worried about the pipeline from you
homelessness because we know that that then as an indicator
of homelessness itself. We're worried that there are no alternatives
(28:09):
to emergency housing that the government is putting forward, and
we're worried about the lack of strategy for addressing homelessness.
There was a Homelessness plan from twenty twenty until twenty
twenty three, and at the moment there is nothing in
place to carry on that MAHI or ensure that we
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work towards preventing and ending homelessness in ulti oil.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So brokers people are evicted, where will they go?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
And that's what our question is to given the announcements.
While previous announcements made about emergency accommodation, we know that
we're in amongst we're in the midst of a housing crisis,
and there's no alternatives being put forward for emergency housing
for addressing the immediate harm of that. But then also
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there's no long term strategy either. We know that people
are ending up on the streets there and there's ending
up in overcrowded housing and we're already seeing an increase
of homelessness with people going back to living in their
cars Brook.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Why aren't tenants paying their rent?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
I think that's a good question, and I think we
need to be looking at the wider context. We know
that KO housing is provided to some of our most disadvantaged.
FUNO that the reason why people are in KO housing
is because it's affordable, but that people in their spaces
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are often experiencing poverty, They're experiencing high complex needs. There's
a lot of intergenerational issues, and so we need to
look to be addressing those long term and looking for
short term solutions to ensure that that harm is addressed,
those issues are addressed first, are also looking to longer
(30:09):
term solutions to ensure that you know that we are
ensuring the right to housing, that everybody has a warm, safe,
an affordable home in alter.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So, how do we resolve this because the government can't
keep sort of paying off tens of thousands of dollars
in people's rent.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
I think that the government is there to serve the
communities and that they shouldn't be looking to run using
them as a business. And I think if we look
at centering the needs of people in the space and
actually people in our communities, then the solutions will the
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solutions are there. We can ensrying the right to housing,
we can have a strategy to ensure that there is
no homelessness altered, or we can implement a duty to
assist to ensure that no government department can turn people
away if they're experiencing homelessness. The government has all the
(31:09):
power and the resources to do that. We saw them
enact that power during COVID with the previous government, and
we're wondering where their energy is from this government and
confronting the issue of homelessness and even poverty and ulti
or these are huge crises that are happening, and we've
(31:31):
seen a massive increase in homelessness and even poverty with
this government, and the harm that causes in our communities
is disturbing. It's horrendous, especially given the you know, we've
just had them apologize for the report that's come out
for people that have been abused in state of faith
(31:53):
based care, and so you know, if we have that
apology and no actions to ensure that those things don't
happen again, and some of our Finno who have experienced
have been mistake here in Ko Housing. Yeah, then it's empty.
Those apologies empty.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Look, Brooke, appreciate your thoughts on this this morning. That
was Brooke Stanley there from MONARCHI Fingertaki. It is six
to six. I'd like to hear your thoughts to ninety
two ninety two News.
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Speaker 2 (32:32):
Dogs said, be my costking is with you shortly at
six am. He's currently just warming up, picking his teeth,
getting the sleep out of his eyes. Oh no, I said,
what's feeling out?
Speaker 15 (32:45):
I was very interested in what Elliott said to you
earlier on I don't know, I mean he knows what
he's talking about. But the suggestion that any of els
don't have any money. This is a fifty five billion
dollar company who sponsors Mercedes F one and until recently
the America's Cup, that I don't think money's got anything
to do with it, because I mean you're talking about
they say it's forty eight million sober six years, so
(33:06):
that's eight million dollars a year. Eight million dollars to
someone like Enios is literally money down the back of
the sofa.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So I opened.
Speaker 15 (33:13):
My suspicion. I hope I'm wrong, but my suspicion is
that the deal will involve a certain series of circumstances
that need to unfold from the sponsor's point of view.
I eat the number of people go to games, watch
market the whole thing, and it hasn't happened because Rugby's
got problems. So if that's the side of the equation,
it's interesting to watch the union take them to court
because that side of the story will come out, presumably
(33:34):
because it's very unusual for a company to just wake
up one morning go no, you know what, No, I
can't be bothered anymore.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
Bye Bye.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
News Dogs, it'd be good morning. Welcome to early edition
on Wednesday, the twelfth of February. I'm Francisco Radkin filling
in for Andrew Dickins this morning. Good to have you
with us. You're most welcome to contact me anytime this morning.
You can flick through a text on ninety two ninety
two or you can email me at Francesca at newstorgsib
dot co dot nz. Right on the show today, the
Fungerrai Mayor is with us to talk about New Zealand.
(00:32):
First's built to restore powers of fluoridation back to local communities,
What is going on with anios and New Zealand, Rugby
and kung Aura has come up with a pragmatic approach
to dealing with debt owed by tenants. But will it
increase homelessness? We will discuss this before the end of
the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's Wednesday, twelfth of February. First an update from the
Middle East. Jordan's King Abdullah is set to meet with
the US President Donald Trump the House after he suggested
with holding aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don't
cooperate with his plans to take control of Gaza. Meanwhile,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanna, who has promised relentless action
to return hostages being held in Gaza after her masked them,
(01:15):
laid their release until further notice. Here's Trump's reaction to that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
If all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at
twelve o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would
say cancel it, and all bets are off and let
hell break out.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
France has been hosting a two day artificial intelligence summit
in Paris. Dozens of world leaders, top tech bosses, and
policymakers gathered to debate AI's impact on security, business, jobs,
and much more. India's Prime Minister there Endromodi called for
an AI governance rules.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No one holds the key to our collective frujar and
shared dat the other than whom that sense of responsibility
much guider.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
US Vice President Jady Varnes called for Europe to keep
an open mind.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
America wants to partner with all of you, and we
want to embark on the AI revolution before us with
the spirit of openness and collaboration and.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Finally back home a Hawk's Bay. Dad has been helping
his son and daughter learn to hitchhike to school after
their rural school bus route was cut by the Ministry
of Education. Mike Brown lives on a family farm near
the Arapawa Noi River, about forty five kilometers north of Napier,
and he says it takes about forty five minutes to
get into town. The Ministry of Education says the Ministry
(02:44):
applies its policy consistently across New Zealand to ensure limited
school transport funding is allocated fairly and efficiently.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
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Speaker 2 (02:58):
News Talk sippy nine past five now. Last night we
discovered that New Zealand has slipped to fourth place in
the worldwide rankings of the least corrupt countries, with the
country achieving its worst place. This is its worst placing
ever on the Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index. Yes there
is such a thing. The index has been comparing countries
(03:20):
annually since nineteen ninety three and for many decades, New
Zealand place number one. We were first, which I'm sure
made us feel good because New Zealand is like a winner.
But as fourth, really so bad out of one hundred
and eighty countries. Top three now is now Denmarket number one,
Finland number two, Singapore number three. This is of course
all about transparency of government, not individual corruption crimes, and
(03:43):
actually because of that we should take it seriously and
our slow decline is worth taking note of Transparency International
New Zealand Chief Executive Julie Haggy, she said there is concern,
or it was noted in the report, there is concern
about New Zealand's lack of transparency around lobbying, revolving door
between government and lobbyists, use of urgency, issues of party financing,
(04:06):
and limitations on the scope of the Official Information Act.
And I don't think that's news to New Zealanders at all.
We've had a pretty slack response to corruption pressures over
the years. There have been some attempt to create a
new code of conduct for lobbyists. This will of course
be a voluntary code of conduct. So the lobbyists did
a good job. There are a little bit of an
inadequate attempt to address this. So the drop in rankings
(04:28):
brings the issues back to the fore. I don't think
it's going to create too much of a stir with
politicians yet, but you wouldn't want to see that ranking
drop much further because we kiwis we like things to
be straight up? Does the drop in rankings concern you'd
love to hear from? You can text on ninety two
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Speaker 2 (04:57):
That'd be you're with early dedition it's thirteen pars. New
Zealand first have introduced a bill to restore powers of
floridation back to local communities. Their decision to floridate drinking
water currently rests with the Director General of Health, but
the bill would allow locals to decide what they want
in their water through binding referendums. Fung Ray is the
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only one of fourteen councils not to fluoridate it's water
since the government's twenty twenty two directive. Mayor Vincent Cocarilla
joins me, Now, thanks for your time this morning.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Vincent, good morning, How are this morning very good?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Thank you? Are you happy to see this bill put
in the ballot?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I think it's a very good step forward. I have
to say that it's great to have a central government
backing behind local government.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Again, why should this decision rest locally?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah, Look, it's one of those things, especially with fluoridation,
there's a lot of controversy that a lot of people
with strong opinions from both sides, and what it day
is By putting it back to the people, it actually
gives the people to start the say whether people like
the decision. At the end of the day, it's still
of like when you have a binding referee them. It
makes it very clear that the community have spoken. So
(06:07):
whichever the decision may be, the community has spoken and
the community accept the decision when they are when the
decision is imposed on them, they are always going to
rebel from it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
How do you think fan I would vote in a referendum?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Oh, now that's a very hard arnswer answer on that one. Look,
I have I have heard from both sides of the sense,
and I have had very passionate people from both sides
of the sense, both in the medical and non medical
side of things, and both have very clear views and
opinions about it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Are the options that mean that everybody gets what they
want when it comes to this debate.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Look, by allowing as I said, by allowing the community
to have to say, actually makes the decision back onto
the community, so they actually take ownership of it. That's
what the big thing is, and that's why when you
impose something onto a community, you will always get people
resenting the government for it. Whereas if you give them
the decision and give them the power to actually make
(07:10):
that call, they generally accept what has been decided.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But have you got on it?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
May not like it?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah except this.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So yeah, exactly. So, Look, if fluoridation gets put into
place where you are, have you got an option for
people that don't want it? If it's not put in place,
is there another option there for people who do want it?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
And that's something that the councilor has to decide when
that time comes. At this present moment, we have we've
never fluoridated in sang today ever so and this has
been through a referendum in two thousand and two, so
we've actually been through that process a while ago, and
it's probably a good time to redo that referendum. And
it's probably a very good smart idea.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
About was it about sixty five percent sed no in
that referendum.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah, that's correct, and it was a lot of good
councilors at the time actually were quite surprised by the result.
They thought it'd go the other way.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Have you got in trouble for not doing this once?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
The interesting thing is we have broken no laws at
the present moment. And to say the same thing as
many some of the other councils who have been asked
to thaorroidate haven't actually started thauroidating either. So as of
the twenty eighth of March, that's when the mandate actually
has to happen. Until then, we've still broken broken no laws.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okay, so it's getting It's getting close, isn't it. How
can Yeah? How contentious do you think that this bill
will be?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Look, I I don't know about central government. I don't
know how they will all or political parties will vote
on it. I can't answer that one either. Whether it's contentious, yes,
I do, and again I do say it's because there
are very passionate people from both sides.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You're spoken to other councils, are they happy with this
bill as well?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
There are a lot of councils who are very, very
happy And the main reason is because they actually would
prefer to have the community have a say as well.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Lean's appreciate your time this morning. Nice to talk to you.
That was Funday Mayor Vince Cocurio there talking about New
Zealand First have introduced a bill to restore the powers
of fluoridation back to local communities.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Elliot Smith is up next on the legal battle ahead
for New Zealand Rugby against Enios.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
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Speaker 2 (09:28):
News Talk ZIB five twenty Now. New Zealand Rugby has
entered a legal battle with its major sponsor Anios. They
say Anios have failed to make the first sponsorship payment
of twenty twenty five and they're trying to exit their
six year contract three years. Early ZB Rugby commentator Elliott
Smith is with me now, Good morning Elliott.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Good morning Francesca.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So as the spot on the front of the AB
shirt no longer has coveted as it once.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Was, well, I think there's certainly elements of that in
terms of just being a tough time for marketing and
sports and getting value out of that dollar. But also
in the US their commercial revenue has been eaten up
in Europe and they are looking for a way to
save cost. Have now got to try and find a
new America's Cup team that they're going to try and fund.
(10:14):
They've got the Manchester United now as well, and the
squeeze has really come on at Sports, the Sports portfolio
to try and save some money. So I think they've
gone Actually, New Zealand, we could probably flick that off
and and save a bit of money there eight to
ten million New Zealand dollars a year we can get
rid of that. New Zealand Rugby said no, you've got
a commercial contract with us, and that's where the stalemate
(10:36):
meets at the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So that eight million, that was eight million per year,
not in the not for the total of the six.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Years, not for the total of six years. So is
there someone in the facility of eight to ten million
dollars a year that New Zealand Rugby had agreed with
any US here that's substantial?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Is this really a case though, of them not US?
I mean, have the All Blacks has New Zealand Rugby
I should say, looked after this partnership, Well.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Well, look, having been around a lot of All Blacks events.
You see the Inenios branding on the all blacks clothing.
You see it a lot of sidelines of games, the
Anios logo there. I've been at training runs around the world,
including London where a lot of the Inios companies are based,
and you've seen a lot of Ineos representatives on the
(11:23):
touch line there and being welcomed in there. So in
terms of trying to get that commercial dollar and showing
the opportunities there and leveraging that, I think New Zealand
Rugby has done plenty to open the door and the
OOS would say they could have always done more. But
seeing a statement from any Os overnight, they're very much
blaming a commercial downturn in Europe and in petrochemical companies
(11:48):
feeling the squeeze in Europe for the decision not to
go not to pay this payment that they were owed
to New Zealand Rugby. They said they went to New
Zealand Rugby to try and hammer out an agreement. Didn't
come to that from New Zealand Rugby. New Zealand Rugby
weren't interested so very much on a commercial side, it
says in THEOS are blaming the fact they don't have
the money at the moment to try and meet those
(12:09):
payments that they agreed to with New Zealand rupe there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
How long could it take to secure a new sponsorship contract.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
Well, these things are in play for nearly two years,
is my understanding. When they go out to tend and
the negotiations are hammer out, whether you're get in front
of the jersey, a spot on the shorts, what kind
of financials are involved, what kind of commercial obligations are
from New Zealand side in terms of your tickets to
matches or hospitality, player appearances, promotions, everything like that. It
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can take close to two years. So if they're not
getting eight million dollars this year from in the OS,
it's hard to see them making up in the short term.
There aren't as we know, there's a big business turn
don't downturn around a lot of the globe. They're not
quelling up to sponsor sports of any shape at the moment,
so it's going to take a lot for New Zealand
Rugby to try and replace this, especially at short notice.
(13:02):
And you remember as well, their agreement with Ford came
to an end the end of last year as well,
or earlier this year or at some point this year.
So there's a couple of financial holes and shortfalls that
New Zealand Rugby's got to meet at a time when
the pressure is going on the community game. They're looking
for new revenue streams. They've lost two that they are expecting,
(13:24):
certainly one that are expecting in their bank accounts from
January first.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Elliott Smith, thank you so much for talking us through that.
Appreciate it. It is twenty four pass far. You're with early edition.
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You're with early edition. It's twenty six past five. Kien
Or is taking a step in the right direction. They
have announced a tough approach to rental debt, but they're
doing it in a fair way, which hopefully gives people
who intend to pay their rent but have hit a
hurdle a chance to get back on track. The debt
was kind of crazy. Between two thousand and seven and
twenty twenty three, the total debt owed to Coying Aura
(14:03):
by its tenants increased from one million to twenty one million. Now,
obviously this period included the COVID days and cost of
living crisis, and it would have been a little heartless
for the government to kick people out of homes during
a lockdown or due to a job loss caused by
an unprecedented event like a pandemic. But twenty one million,
it is a big number. Kung Aora has worked hard
(14:25):
to reduce that debt is now down from twenty one
point six million in January twenty twenty four to sixteen
point one million this January. It is a good effort,
but clearly things have gone out of control and we're
never going to get on top of the numbers. So
the Board of coyng Aura has decided to help some
tenants with significant rent debt get on top of their
debt faster. They're going to reduce the amount they owe
down to twelve weeks worth of rent and forgive the
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rest if the tenant has been consistently paying rent and
making reasonable payments to reduce what they owe. So this
is going to wipe eight million off the debt number,
which is a quick way to make the numbers look
more appealing, isn't it. But will we either going to
recoup the money from the twenty tenants owing more than
twelve weeks? No, So why not give people an incentive
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to pay. This is a pragmatic decision, but it raises
the question, what's stopping tenants just clocking up the debt
if they know that it will be reduced back to
twelve weeks. Well, this is a one time offer because
from now on tenants won't get to the point of
owing more than twelve weeks rent coying or estates. They
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will be in touch much earlier if rent is missed,
to have a chat and to work out a payback plan.
If this doesn't happen, if there is no intent to
pay off debt, then eviction processes will begin, which could
happen well before reaching the twelve week mark. So the
message is very clear here. Sustaining tenancy's framework is coming
(15:50):
to an end. It is going to be easy to
evict people, but they'll be closely managed to prevent things
getting to that point if possible, and I think we'd
all agree people deserve it opportunity to get back on
track and the last thing we want to see is
an unnecessary increase in homelessness. As Associate Housing Minister Tama
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Portaka said yesterday, while most kang Or tenants are great
tenants who respect the properties, good neighbors and pay their
rent on time. Some need a little more TOTALKU encouragement
to do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
News Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
So, does this sound even handed to you or are
you concerned that this approach may possibly cause more homelessness.
We're going to talk about this later in the hour
with Brooks Stanley, who is with a homeless youth advocacy group.
Just we're just going to see whether this approach is
going to work for everybody. But I'd like to hear
from you. Do you like the direction that kyang Or
is going and do you think it's fair handed? And
(16:50):
obviously we just got to get on with trying to
get on top of this. I think they've done a
pretty good job. Here ninety two ninety two is the text.
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Thanks for being with us in the next half hour,
we head to the UK to get the reaction to
football or Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of
causing racially aggravated harassment and as I mentioned before the
news kan Ora has a new approach to tenants who
don't pay their rent. I think they've taken a pretty
(18:21):
even handed approach to make sure that we don't get
into the pickle that we got into into the previous government.
But is it approach that will work for all tenants?
Will it create more homelessness for our youth. We're going
to discuss this before the end of the hour, and
thank you for your feedback on this morning. State housing
is a privileged to the government. Isn't the landlord the taxpayer?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Is?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It was always intended to be temporary accommodation for those
who needed it, not a free, long term luxury lifestyle.
Thank you Max. Why don't we all stop paying our landlord?
What a kick in the guts for private renters who
went through COVID and hardship. More pandering and another one
here from Gary says hi, as most of the social
housing tenants are on benefits, I don't see how they
could not pay rent if it's taken out prior to
(19:03):
the benefit being paid. Here's the thing, Gary. The point
that you raise is a ready good one. How did
any of this get to the point that it did,
And that is the issue. No one should be owing
forty thousand dollars in rent. It should never get to
that point. And I think this is what King Ara
is saying, whether you were earning your own money or
you're on a benefit or a mix of the both
and things, there is no reason why if you can't
(19:26):
pay your rent one week that there is not immediate
communication with coing or and a plan put in place
to help you out, discussions being had. You work together
and you work forward. And that's what the government is saying.
No longering let tenants get to the point where they
get into strife and they owe more than twelve weeks.
And somebody textas say regarding Anyos and New Zealand Rugby,
(19:50):
you've got an international company and a rugby player doing
politics on stage, they will cancel. I think I can
with one hundred percent confidence. I don't think that's got
anything to do with why AS has pulled out. I
think many other reasons behind that. Look, thanks for your feedback.
Keep the feedback coming you can text. On ninety two
ninety two News Talk said be right it is time
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to head around the country and joining me indonedin is
Callum Proctor. Good morning, Callum, morning to you. We have
a pivotal meeting for the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago
districts today, Yes we do.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
It's in Alexandra represented us from the Queenstown Lakes Central
Otaga District. San Otago Regional Councils will gather there today
to discuss a potential regional deal they want to propose
to central government. This coalition deal will aim to drive
economic growth and establish a pipeline of infrastructure to the region.
They say it would reflect a thirty year vision for
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the area and a decade long strategic plan. This would
include potentially pitching for a Southern Lakes based hospital and
a mass transit gondola link between Central Queenstown and Frankton.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
And the weather in Dunedin today, Callum, I.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Mostly fine over towards this evening and nineteen thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And Claire Sherwood is in christ Church in a big
day head at the christ Church City Council today.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Claire sure as Francesca. Look, counselors are today considering and
adopting our draft annual plan. This is the plan that
will outline what council will deliver over the coming year
and how that will be paid for. Now there is
a proposed eight point six four percent rates increase here
in christ Church for the average household That works out
to be around six dollars per week. Councilor Sam McDonald
(21:30):
is acknowledging community concerns about that eight point six four
percent figure. He says they're looking at what levers can
be pulled to reduce that increase. The mayor has previously
talked about things like reducing levels of service like the
frequency of council services, rather than cutting them all together.
Their draft to annual plan then goes up for public
feedback from late to this month until the end.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Of next Thank you so much, Claire. And the weather today.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Mostly cloudings, some brief afternoon fine spells. Easterly is developing
and the high should be two twenty one.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Lovely. Thank you Claire. Have a good day. And Max
Toll is with us in Wellington. Good morning, Max, I
believe we've got an announcement coming today on Wellington's Golden
Mile upgrades.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
Yeah, good morning. So the Golden Mile development have been
a few years in the works. The Golden Mile essentially
is the spine of the city streets from Lampton Key
to Courtney Place, and the mayor or when she ran,
ran on a campaign of transforming those streets into carless,
pedestrian friendly, bike and bus friendly a street essentially tomorrow
(22:33):
today an announcement is coming that is expected to be
the final design of this street project and the timeframes
for when construction will begin, when construction will finish, and
when cars will finally be banished from the central city.
It's riled up businesses that fear that their business will
really diminish with cars not being able to park outside
(22:54):
outside their doors drive along. We kind of confirmed yesterday
that work is confirmed stand in April according to the
City Council, and yet a final contract for this work
is still not signed, so that's a little contradictory. We're
going to ask some questions at this media announcement today
that the council is holding. We did speak to a
business owner on Courtney Place yesterday. He fears the worst.
(23:19):
He says it would be a sad day for Wellington
when the Golden Mile is confirmed and impacted businesses have
not been properly consulted.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Thank you, Max. Have you got a nice day today?
Were the ones we do?
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (23:30):
It should be cloud clearing fine from pretty early in
the morning. Southerly's a high of twenty central.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Thank you so much. Max. Never britty man who is
in the studio now, j weckon the buck.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
I've had three coffees this morning, so I'm gone energized,
good to go for the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
When for Auckland's cbd as plans for overnight street packing
charges are delayed another.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
Year, Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I think people gods are looking upon Oh.
Speaker 13 (23:57):
Absolutely, And I know a few people, especially in those apartments,
and they've only got one car park, so you get
those two car households and one of them's got to
park out on the road.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
So yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:05):
So what we know is at Auckland Transport, the charges
they're going to kick in from March twenty twenty six
cost about one to two dollars an hour, depending on demand.
But it says that this decision follows feedback from all
the businesses, the residents and the workers. So they're going
to wait really until the City rail Link is opening
for twenty twenty six. Viv Beck Heart of the City
Chief Executive. She's happy to go along with the charges
(24:26):
once the project's complete.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Okay, Auckland's weather to day please fine another monkey.
Speaker 13 (24:31):
Day twenty seven.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Is the high.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
We can't complain or can we can we?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, we can't.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
We have to just go and sleep.
Speaker 14 (24:38):
Out on the road.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So it's just because you spend most of your time
in here in the sub condition play but after you
go go and complain to somebody else in the news room.
Thank you very much for being in here. Coming up
next week and he heads to the UK. Gavin Graves
with us it is sixteen to.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
And joining me now from the UK is Gevin greg
Good morning.
Speaker 14 (25:04):
Devin, good morning that Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Tell me what's the reaction being to footballer Sam kurb
being found not guilty of causing racially aggravated harassment?
Speaker 14 (25:15):
Yeah, I mean Sam Kerr, of course, is the Australian
international women's footballer, a major superstar as well. Thirty one
years old, plays for Chelsea as a striker in the
Women's Football League. She's been found not guilty of that charge,
which could have led to a two year prison centers
the jury clear in relation to an incident back in Twickenham,
(25:37):
which is southwest London, back in January of twenty twenty three,
the thirty one year old had always said in the
court that she was antagonized by officers when she was
taken to a police station following a dispute with a
taxi driver in which the one of she and her
partner one of them was sick in the back a
(25:58):
window was kicked in the tax She driver Drodan to
the police station demanding compensation and to get the cab
cleaned up. And during the discussion with the police officer
about what had happened, she was caught using the words
you're stupid and white. Now that was where really this
whole whole court case home. Was that racially motivated? She
(26:22):
denied it amounted to a racial offense. The jury agreed
with her, but as the prosecutor said, what had happened
if somebody would have said you're stupid and black, because
of course that was what the prosecution was saying, it
was clearly racist.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Kevin Gray thank you very much for the update. Appreciate
it right. Evocates are warning a tough approach on rent
debt from the country's biggest landlord will force more people
onto the streets. King Ora wants to crack down on
tenants with rent arears, some who owe tens of thousands
(26:54):
of dollars in months of unpaid rent. Brooks S. Dairley
joins me now from Monachi Range and Advocacy Group, which
aims to prevent and end youth homelessness. Thanks for being
with us, bro Good morning, Good morning. What's your reaction
to this.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
I think that the announcement made yesterday by the minister
is going to increase and make comelessness worse, and we
can't look at this announcement in isolation of the other
announcements they've made. Instead of investing billions into prisons, they
should be investing this money into preventative solutions like warm,
(27:35):
affordable and universal housing and looking for cope oper multi solutions,
because we know that those are the solutions that are
working on the ground.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Brook are you worried that this particular approach will affect
younger tenants.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
We're worried that it will impact everybody who is in
a KO house. We're worried about the pipeline from you
homelessness because we know that that then as an indicator
of homelessness itself. We're worried that there are no alternatives
(28:09):
to emergency housing that the government is putting forward, and
we're worried about the lack of strategy for addressing homelessness.
There was a Homelessness plan from twenty twenty until twenty
twenty three, and at the moment there is nothing in
place to carry on that MAHI or ensure that we
(28:32):
work towards preventing and ending homelessness in ulti oil.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So brokers people are evicted, where will they go?
Speaker 7 (28:39):
And that's what our question is to given the announcements.
While previous announcements made about emergency accommodation, we know that
we're in amongst we're in the midst of a housing crisis,
and there's no alternatives being put forward for emergency housing
for addressing the immediate harm of that. But then also
(29:03):
there's no long term strategy either. We know that people
are ending up on the streets there and there's ending
up in overcrowded housing and we're already seeing an increase
of homelessness with people going back to living in their
cars Brook.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Why aren't tenants paying their rent?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
I think that's a good question, and I think we
need to be looking at the wider context. We know
that KO housing is provided to some of our most disadvantaged.
FUNO that the reason why people are in KO housing
is because it's affordable, but that people in their spaces
(29:47):
are often experiencing poverty, They're experiencing high complex needs. There's
a lot of intergenerational issues, and so we need to
look to be addressing those long term and looking for
short term solutions to ensure that that harm is addressed,
those issues are addressed first, are also looking to longer
(30:09):
term solutions to ensure that you know that we are
ensuring the right to housing, that everybody has a warm, safe,
an affordable home in alter.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So, how do we resolve this because the government can't
keep sort of paying off tens of thousands of dollars
in people's rent.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
I think that the government is there to serve the
communities and that they shouldn't be looking to run using
them as a business. And I think if we look
at centering the needs of people in the space and
actually people in our communities, then the solutions will the
(30:48):
solutions are there. We can ensrying the right to housing,
we can have a strategy to ensure that there is
no homelessness altered, or we can implement a duty to
assist to ensure that no government department can turn people
away if they're experiencing homelessness. The government has all the
(31:09):
power and the resources to do that. We saw them
enact that power during COVID with the previous government, and
we're wondering where their energy is from this government and
confronting the issue of homelessness and even poverty and ulti
or these are huge crises that are happening, and we've
(31:31):
seen a massive increase in homelessness and even poverty with
this government, and the harm that causes in our communities
is disturbing. It's horrendous, especially given the you know, we've
just had them apologize for the report that's come out
for people that have been abused in state of faith
(31:53):
based care, and so you know, if we have that
apology and no actions to ensure that those things don't
happen again, and some of our Finno who have experienced
have been mistake here in Ko Housing. Yeah, then it's empty.
Those apologies empty.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Look, Brooke, appreciate your thoughts on this this morning. That
was Brooke Stanley there from MONARCHI Fingertaki. It is six
to six. I'd like to hear your thoughts to ninety
two ninety two News.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
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Speaker 2 (32:32):
Dogs said, be my costking is with you shortly at
six am. He's currently just warming up, picking his teeth,
getting the sleep out of his eyes. Oh no, I said,
what's feeling out?
Speaker 15 (32:45):
I was very interested in what Elliott said to you
earlier on I don't know, I mean he knows what
he's talking about. But the suggestion that any of els
don't have any money. This is a fifty five billion
dollar company who sponsors Mercedes F one and until recently
the America's Cup, that I don't think money's got anything
to do with it, because I mean you're talking about
they say it's forty eight million sober six years, so
(33:06):
that's eight million dollars a year. Eight million dollars to
someone like Enios is literally money down the back of
the sofa.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So I opened.
Speaker 15 (33:13):
My suspicion. I hope I'm wrong, but my suspicion is
that the deal will involve a certain series of circumstances
that need to unfold from the sponsor's point of view.
I eat the number of people go to games, watch
market the whole thing, and it hasn't happened because Rugby's
got problems. So if that's the side of the equation,
it's interesting to watch the union take them to court
because that side of the story will come out, presumably
(33:34):
because it's very unusual for a company to just wake
up one morning go no, you know what, No, I
can't be bothered anymore.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
Bye Bye.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
More of that's on the Mic Hosking Show Sink It Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
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