May 12, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Tuesday 13th of May 2025, Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming resigns suddenly, Former Cop Lance Burdett shares his thoughts.
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown believes Auckland's the ticket to getting our country out of recession, Auckland Business Chamber CEO Simon Bridges shares his thoughts.
The Government's announced $100 million of the 2025 budget will go to helping kids with maths over four years, Upper Hutt Principals Association President Robyn Brown tells Ryan Bridge whether or not it will work.
Plus, Australia Correspondent Donna Demaio has the latest on hundreds of distressing claims of childcare abuse at one of Australia’s biggest childcare companies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues is the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge
on early edition with one roof make your Property search simple.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Newstalks B good morning, six after five, So the pawn
thing on the computer where Jevin mcskimming. We'll talk to
Lance Bert out about that shortly. Simon bridges on the
Mayor of Auckland and his manifesto. He's given us a refresh.
Actually I saw yesterday he's caught big flags hanging from
cranes across the city. Does Wayne Brown Simon bridges on
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that in just a few moments. We'll get to Dona
tomorrow out of Australia and on the maths announcement from
Erica Stanford yesterday. We'll talk to a principal in Upper
Heart who's I mean, that's a lot of money and
it's to a good cause. But still not happy, still
not happy. Seven after five Newstalks at B the Agenda Tuesday,
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the thirteentth of May. Here's Trump on the tariff walk
back or partial walk back with China.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They were very happy to be able to do something
with us, and the relationship is very very good. I'll
speak to President she maybe at the end of the week.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Where we'll get to more on that in just a second.
The did He trial in New York this is sex
trafficking and other charges. Opening statements have started. That videotape
that we told you about yesterday a big focus.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
This is a charge and Almuda trying to try to
prove that somehow she was resisting or that this is
part of her the fraud or the force that was
used to try to encourage and engage and force her
to involve herself in the so called freakot.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, we've got the Philippines midterm elections. Early results are in.
This is the race that's dominated by two dynasties, essentially
the Senate racist candidates backed by President Ferdinand Marcus Junior
against those supported by Vice President Sarah Deturte that's Rodrigo's daughter.
If Marcus is a Senate wins more seats, it increases
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his chances of impeaching Dette for alleged misuse of state funds.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Everybody here and right across the country is voting for
those senators. They are the ones who get to vote
on the impeachment later this year, they will decide the
fate of the Vice president if she's impeached, she'll be
banned for running from running for president, banned from public office.
In a way, how political career will be over?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Eight after five, That was your agenda on.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan
Bridge and One Roof to make your property search simple.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You talk said they Now everybody knows we send a
lot of goods up to Asia and China in particular,
so this one is important for us. It is good
news this morning. A deal between the US and China
best and when I met with China and Geneva again,
it's not a free trade deal. It's a bit like
the UK, not a free trade deal, not even an
economic deal like with the UK. Really, it's more of
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a ceasefire, a ninety day pause from Wednesday. So the
UI this is going to cut tariffs on China from
one hundred and forty five percent down to thirty percent.
China in turn will cut these from one hundred and
twenty five percent down to ten percent. I mean talk
about a back down of walk away. Scott Veson says,
both sides wanted this, but the question is which side
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needed it more.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I have seen what's going on in the Chinese economy,
we can see what's going on with the shipments to
the US. And again if we are the deficit country,
historically the deficit country has a better negotiating position and.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The negotiations will have to continue. So over the next
ninety days though that, you know, the devil will be
in the detail. This is just a cease fire, it's
not a peace deal. So we'll find out over the
next couple of months what's happening with that. Markets obviously
like this, especially the tech stocks. They are up, the
NASDAC up three point three percent, the SMP, the Dow
two and a half percent of early trading, and a
lot of this was already priced in. You know, the
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markets were expecting that he was doing you know, now
that he started to do deals, they realized the whole
thing was pretty much just a big, a big bluff
to get to get better deals out of the likes
of the UK, which he's got out of the likes
of China. So we'll see where they land. But yeah,
a lot of the are already priced in. Recovered losses
(04:16):
from liberation, Dame Gold, the old safe haven down but
still high. The mid April high was three and a
half thousand dollars now it's three two hundred and fifteen,
and of course the dollar, the US dollars shot up,
so it's it's you know, our dollars down, Yen's down,
all that stuff. News Talks wud be just gone eleven
minutes after five, coming up next the paorn issue on
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the work computer and given MCS skimming.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Ryan Bridge on early edition with one room make your
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Speaker 2 (04:48):
Used talk ZIDB thirteen after five. News Talks had been
the vitriol over because the Nicola Willis thing and the
C word in a stuff publication the other day over
the weekend. Well, now, now the Labor Party is sort
of involved in all of this, so this is after
the paparaity thing. They're obviously a big is shoess, obviously
got people rolled up. But you can't be going in
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comparing Brooke van Velden to a Nazi, which is what
the Labor Party has done on their social media, completely inappropriate,
says Chris Heipkins. We can say that again. So this
was a particular branch of the Labor Party posted on
their page on Wednesday showing a fake image of Brooke
van Velden. I've obviously gone chucked at in AI a
(05:31):
photo of Brook van Velden wearing a military uniform next
to a Nazi banner. Fourteen after five, Brian, Well, we've
got more on this resignation of the Deputy Police Commissioner
Devin Mcskimming. Sources have told The Herald that he quit
after pawn was found on his work computer. This is
before basically he could be pushed. Lance Burdette is author
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and former police officer with us this morning. Lance, good morning.
Are you shocked to hear that? Surprise to hear that?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I am very shocked. I don't know given that well,
but I know of him. He was a high flyer,
a person that was very determined out of nowhere. You know,
You've got to remember that it's not the accessing of
the pornography or having it, it's that it's on a
police computer. And it's common knowledge that you know, viruses
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and malware into computers from all sorts of unethical sites
where its gambling, gaming or restricted websites, and to be
doing that on a police computer is beyond me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, this is alleged at this stage obviously, but when confronted,
when confronted with what the herald is reporting is the
cause of this. He resigns. So then yeah, now the
criminal charge. The interesting thing for me is that you've got,
you know, allegedly poorn on a work computer, but then
you've got a separate criminal investigation going on, and yet
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you know you keep your job during that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, yeah, because they're obviously it's like any criminal investigation.
The idea is to get all the evidence there first,
and then you speak with the person what they call
him personal interest. I've never seen this before. I've never
It's none in my career and never happened in I
think my living memory where a senior police officer has
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ever done anything like this and then having been removed
or they're resigned before the investigations. That's employment investigation. But
now with this criminal investigation, I've never heard of it,
and I find it quite astounding, to be honest, and
I'm wondering what's behind it all? And like everybody else,
do you figure out what it is?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Do you think this is casting a long shadow over
the police? Do you think that the minister or the
commissioner should be more upfront about actually what's I mean?
Obviously the criminal part, you can't talk about I get that,
but for the rest of it now, I mean he's
left the building. Who can't just say what happened.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Unlessed up. Both linked and so there we have to be.
But you know the thing about I know the Commissioner
and also know the minister. They both have strong moral
and ethical codes and you've seen this with the with
the latest saga around the swim tests. So they both
are ensuring that police officers and police officers have to
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be beyond approach. The higher they go up, the more
the higher expectation of them. And you know, as I say,
to get to me in the second top job and
then to have this happen to a person as I've
never seen it before. I can't even think in overseas
jurisdictions where it's happened before. So yeah, they do have
to wait now for the rest of the investigation to
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go through. He's no longer a police officer, and it
does tarnish the rest of the service. But know that
I used to investigate police officers. We are tougher on
our own.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Greshout your time. Thanks for that, lancebur author and form
police officer on Jevin mcsginning this morning, just gone. Seventeen
minutes after five. Wayne Brown has a new manifesto for Auckland,
but it affects well the whole country if he has
his way. Simon Bridges on that next the news.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You need this morning and the in depth analysis early
edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room make your Property
search simple, news talks.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It'd be good morning. It's nineteen minutes after five. We're
going to get to Donal Tomyow in Australia after the news.
Right now, Wayne Brown and Auckland has refreshed his magnificent
manifesto for Auckland. He says work with the government's been
mostly good, but he wants the bed tax. He's like
a broken record with the bed tax and the visa
waivers for China for Brazil. He reckons these can help
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turbocharge growth Auckland and in turn save the entire country.
Simon Bridges the Auckland Business Chamber of CEO of me
this morning, Simon, good morning, Aye morning, Ryan.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Yes, what a magnificent manifesto. Indeed, I just wanted to
say that escause I like the yeah, I like the
way I rolled off the.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We'll get you into a second. But this China us
well it's not a deal, but at least it's a pause.
Has got to be a good thing for us, right.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Ah yeah, good news indeed, hallelujah. I mean, well, as
you say, none of us are naive, but I think
those two you know, country is really the biggest superpowers.
You get argue into you as well, but in the world,
we need things to be sort of predictable, certain and
you know, at a level as much as it can
be harmonious for the world of global economy.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And so yeah, good news.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
We'll see how it all goes. But good news so far.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now, Wayne Brown and the he wants the visas, the
visa waivers, and you've spoken about this before for China
and for Brazil. And I'm assuming the reason that the
government's not moving on the stuff is because they're worried
about overstayers.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, if they are, it seems a strange concern to me.
I mean, you know, I think that Wayne Brown is right.
My point be this, I don't see a single public
policy reason not to do this. Now, you could argue
with some other Southeast Asian countries, overstaying I think probably
would be in other countries a really significant issue that
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they're frankly poor, less developed countries. It's not the China today.
You know, you go to those cities and they're more advanced,
more developed than New Zealand. And you know what we
would see is I think a real sugar hit the
economy if you had some kind of reciprocal visa right,
that is, you know, no visa for a period of time.
If the government was really worried about that issue. You're
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mentioning there are things they could do, right What they
could actually do is say, you know what, it's only
got to be for those who fail at the front
of the plane.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That would still be a sugar hit.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
And right now, I think I've said before on zre'd
be beggars, can't be choosers. So I cannot see a
reason not to do it. I'm totally with Wayne Brown
on this, and I just say that, you know, even
some of your colleagues when you're there saying how amazing
Erica Stanford is, she hasn't moved on this as she should.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yep, know fair enough to I happen to agree with you,
what about the bad tax because he's harping on about this,
but it's not going to happen because I well, it
probably needs a rebrand. They should take the word tax
out of it, for ste exactly. You know, that's the problem.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
I think that's the issue. Look, I'm not saying this
is sort of weazelways, right. I'm agnostic whether it's actually
a quote bad tax, right, But I think the issue
that Wayne's talking about is right for Auckland, and therefore,
you know, I think for New.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Zealand the government does need to do something.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
I mean going me give you my sort of maybe
slightly self serving perspective, but I was Minister of Economic
Development in the last days of the Key slash English government.
We get a steady pipeline of major events for the
likes of Auckland that there's just no pipeline again. That's
in the end, that's a fun thing, right, So.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We need something again it but politically to get it
across the line? Is there any way you can just
charge foreigners the bad tax?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
You know?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Like that. That's the problem for the central government, isn't
it They I don't want to introduce another tax that's
going to hurt Key with you. So we're coming from
christ it's for a concert at Eden Park.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
My simple point would be, look, okay, so you don't
like my senses, and I'm not close to the internal
politics within the coalition on this. My sense is your
first point was the right one, which is in the
end I think they said no new Texas. This says
texts and so that's the sort of issue. Well, look,
the question is not text it's funding, right if they
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want to do it through some other mechanism. But in
the end, both central and local government are failing Auckland
when it comes to major events and activations that you
need for tourists, that you need for people coming in,
but you also just need if you want a dynamic,
exciting city that our kids want to stay in and
work in, right rather than bugger off to Sydney in London.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
If you want excitement in Auckland, you just read Wayne
Brown's manifesto. Simon, thank you for that. Simon Bridges, Auckland
Chamber of CEO with us this morning. Twenty four minutes
alfter five, News Talk said be the early edition.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Full the show podcast on Ihart Radio. How if they News.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Talks AB News TALKSB twenty six minutes after five, if
what they're saying about Flick Electric shutting up shop is true,
and I've got no reason to doubt it. Then, sadly
it should come as no surprise to us. This is
a business desk report. Flickers owned by z So far
they're not saying anything, but it's one of the smaller
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retailers they help keep the bigger gen Taylors hon us
the forty thousand customers does Flick have well had potentially,
but the cracks started showing ages ago, like winter twenty
twenty one, they closed their books to new customers. The
great wholesale price crunch hit them hard and last year
(14:41):
again wholesale prices shot up above retail and you can't
run a business like that. We were warned then about
what is happening now. It means the little guys basically
can't hold on. The problem for them is hedging. This
is their big problem. They can't afford the cost of
hedging during a crunch for new customers, and that means
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least choice for us, and we know what that typically
does to prices. And unlike Air New Zealand and the
regional airfares debate in the past week, there is in
this situation a quick fix for the problem. At least
a partial one. And guess what. The government announced such
a fix too much fanfare. In February. They said that
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the big Gen tailors would no longer be allowed to
offer sweetheart deals to their own lot. Transparency about these
deals would be forced upon them. We had the Minister
on at the time. Now, the Generator part has been
favoring the Taylor part, but not the other smaller players,
so they were going to do something about it. The
(15:44):
odds are basically stacked against Flick and the little guys
and out Flix the lights. So we've known about this
unfairness since at least twenty twenty one for Flick, and
we've had belatedly an announcement that something might change, but
years later, no real change, and another retailer bites the
dust forty thousand customers off to you guessed at Meridian
(16:07):
one of the big Gen tailor's losing Flick, if true,
is another sign that winter is coming, and I can't
see anybody in much of a hurry to do much
of anything about it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Bryan Bridge Ay.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Minutes after five, y're on news Talk, sa'd be We're
going to talk about the Maths situation. This is coming
up to six o'clock, We're going to talk to a
principle out of upper Heart because to me, what happened
yesterday with Erica Stanford and the one hundred million dollars,
which is twenty five million a year over four years,
to me, looked like not politics, but want a minister
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who's wanting genuine change, not something that will yield results
for her at the next election, but something that will
yield results in maybe ten years. You're talking about primary
school kids, first two years of primary school in particular,
so what's not to love about that? Really, we'll talk
to a principal who doesn't have a lot of love.
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After the news and just before six here on News
Talk sip b Hi.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Two nine.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Maybe we Google dares get up a fuffy she said,
this life.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Forever, so here to get there.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Then there's be it over you. We can dance. We
can dance All nine.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 9 (17:47):
Speak.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Twenty four minutes away from six year on News Talk
sib it is Tuesday morning, this morning. Good to have
your company. We'll get to Erica Stamford and new Math
changes just before six also a child Keay company in
Australia and really really hot and deep water will tell
you why with Donald Mayo. She's with us just in
a few minutes time now twenty four minutes away from
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in the UK. Keir Starmer is crowing this morning, but
considering himself a bit of a borders are I think
we can make that analogy. He's cracking down on legal
immigration with a wait for it, wait for it, with
a white paper.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Today we publish a white paper on immigration, a strategy
absolutely central to my plan for change that will finally
take back control of our borders.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now, why is he doing this. It's the Farage effect
in full swing. Of course, we'll get to that in
just a second. But here's what he has said. He'll
cut legal immigration by one hundred thousand by twenty twenty nine.
Currently there's about eight hundred thousand net per anum, so
it is significant. He's going to scrap a visa that
boris brought in. This is the opposite of what we're doing.
Scrap a visa that boris brought in, so you can't
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hire doctors and nurses, care workers, from overseas anymore. The
jobs must go to a brit first employers and this
will be interesting for any key we wanted to go
on an OE. Employers will have to pay more to
hire foreign staff. And he says, this is not about
Nigel Farras, but of course it's about Feras. The reformers
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cleaned up from the local elections there obviously you know
immigration is what drives their support. And here's the latest
IPSOS poll out in the last twenty four hours from
the UK More Brits now think that Reform is the
main opposition party, not the Conservatives. Imagine that happening to
the National Party. Here people saying I know actors, you
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know act as the government, not National and who has
a good plan for changing Britain. Here are the results.
Reform thirty seven percent, Labor thirty two percent, Conservatives twenty
four percent. So you can see why Labor and Starmer
are throwing white papers on immigration faster than you can blink.
(20:04):
And that is of course the issue that's driving reforms search.
So yeah, also Starma's disapproval numbers are nearing Liz trust territory.
I think the Bristles are just unhappy generally, aren't they
twenty one away from six reporters around the country. Collen
Proctor and Dunedan Cullen. Good morning. This missing English tramper
in Milford's sound. What's happening with the search?
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Well, look, police have advised pausing the search for now.
This is for twenty five year old Eli Sweeting, who
failed to return from a day trip to Mita Peak
a Sunday week ago.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
So that's nine days now.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
They have carried out extensive searches of the area and
what is dangerous and challenging terrain.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Over that time.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Two helicopters have also been used with thermal imagery and
a drone look. They say no pausing the search is
difficult news for the family, but they will remain in
frequent contact with them. Impus family has traveled here now
to assist with the search and they describe him as
a passionate adventurer and an experienced climber.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And how's your weather today, callum?
Speaker 11 (21:09):
Some showers later this morning, but clearing to find this
afternoon south westeries and seventeen today.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Nice one, Thank you clears than the christ Church clear
good morning, good morning now the Christ Church Cathedral they'll
be lining up to visit.
Speaker 12 (21:21):
Well apparently all that's certainly the hope of the Restoration Trust.
The historic landmark, of course, has been severely damaged in
our CBD since the twenty eleven earthquakes. We know that
repairs began five years ago, but they have been put
on hold indefinitely because of a lack of money. They've
now been opening it to the public sort of overtime.
It started last year with the first opening to the
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public as part of a festival. Now the Reinstatement Trust
is keen to do it again and as often as
possible to keep it front of mind. There'll be the
opportunity for fifty people to pay to have a look
behind the gates on a tour each month. Projects director
Caroline Grant says it's one way to make the most
of the space while restoration remains on hold.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
All right, and weather but a foggy.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
To start today, partly Glady later could see a shower
this evening north of westerlies and a high of nineteen.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
All right, Max Toles and Wellington. The body count on
the restaurant closures keeps going up and up. Max, Good morning, Yeah,
good morning, Ekemburgers. Did you ever eat there? No, I
hadn't heard of that one.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Oh interesting, that's the former well now former permanent sort
of caravan set up. It has been a bit of
an institution in the capital for well over a decade.
The first place I ate at when I moved to
the capitol Bohemian, good vegetarian, vegan options. A lot of
people responding to the article with the mourning the loss
of Ekemburghers with stories of their own. Apparently the landlord
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wouldn't renew the lease and the owners who only took
it up a few months ago don't believe it financially
worthwhile to set up elsewhere. Same story, No vibe in Wellington.
The other one a Vida Bar on Featherston Street. That's
the same owners as the Louver Belgian Beer Cafe the
Featherstone Bar. The same guy closed up the Whistling Sisters
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last year. Again, not enough customers are pretty simple liquidators,
creditors all paid. That's fine for traffic just down the
city's still hurting apparently.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yes, it's very sad to hear that. How's your weather today?
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Should be fine this morning, a bit of cloud developing later.
The wind Up as well today sixteen the High Central.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
All right, thank you, Max, ands are not Canava. Good morning.
I'm just thinking if we have another restaurant closed in Wellington,
we're going to have to hear stories about where. You know,
the every meal that Max has eaten there.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, I started eating the teen years ago. When I
arrived at Wellington.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
I said, I really feel for Wellington.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's terrible. I think that one's on Cuba Street. If
it's the one I'm thinking of, it sounds a lot
of people go there.
Speaker 13 (23:51):
Vegan food, yes, I mean I'm not vegan, but I
love Do you like vegan? Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Friend of mine, I've got two friends who are vegan
and quite serious about it, and I've tried it. We
had vegan food at their wedding and I went home
and ed McDonald's on the way.
Speaker 13 (24:06):
Did you so grass, because as I say, they really
know their flavors as well.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You know, I thought it was all quite dry. I
don't know.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Oh right, or you won't be going there?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Then? Well it's closed, isn't it anyway. Auckland Writers Festival, yes,
now that is on.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
It kicks off today. Book sales are set to skyrocket
this week. What we know is that obviously it showcases
the local writers once when around the world one hundred
and seventy events over the next week. So this festival
is the best attended of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere,
per Capita and Lindsey Finner, and she's the artistic director.
She says, at the book sales they were up fifty
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percent last year on the one before. She reckons at
the festival the book buying in motion, because you know,
you wonder how book sales actually go.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
You know, people.
Speaker 13 (24:54):
Audio and kind there's so much available, but you know,
just that actual book for my I've got so many
books at home I still haven't even read. Actually, so
they reckon this Writer's Festival will be there, and of
course I've got really good writers there, the new writers
and falling back with some of the old, you know,
lovely writers that they've got. They've got suit Ian Rank
and remember him bestseller creative John Reebis.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, I heard about I haven't read it, yeah,
like most things on my bookshelf, but I do the
audio books. Now, that's the thing it was.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
We didn't get into that because people the newsroom, people
are talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's great, that's great. How your how's the weather cloudy?
Speaker 13 (25:32):
Isolated chowers? Eighteen is the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
High brilliant, you have a great day. Neither it is
seventeen or we're late sixteen minutes away from six year
on news Talks, he'd be we're going to get to
Donald to Mayo on Australia.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Next International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business sit.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Thing away from six on news talks with the Donald
Mayo is our Australia correspondent on a good morning, Good
morning to you. Now, what is going on with this
childcare center in Australia.
Speaker 15 (26:00):
Well, as you know, childcare is a multi billion dollar enterprise.
Now there are accusations that one of Australia's biggest childcare companies,
Affinity Education, is treating children like numbers on a spreadsheet.
That these accusations that it's been quite greedy. Now it's
been hit with seventeen hundred regulatory breaches, that's more than
(26:22):
one per day between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four. Now,
despite the breaches, they've been issued with just nine infringement
notices totally less than two thousand dollars in penalties, and
the ABC has exposed some pretty damning evidence of child
safety concerns. I'm just going to describe a video. It's
quite distressing, but there's a video of a baby crying
(26:43):
and a bouncer. A childcare worker slaps the child repeatedly
and a colleague has been recording the abuse and then
posted it on Snapchat. Now, as you can imagine that
this video has highlighted what people are saying, the on
going systemic issues relating to staffing and safety in these
(27:04):
childcare centers. And as you can imagine, people now asking
is the industry in crisis?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Did the colleague post it to shame that her colleague
or was it like, yeah, look at this, this is
what the child.
Speaker 15 (27:15):
No, it was look at this that work, Yeah it was.
It was vile.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes, that's terrible. Donald. I appreciate your time this morning
as always. That Sara, Australia Correspondent onto my twelve minutes
away from Sex News talks hev Ryan Bridge. Here are
the numbers on maths from America stand for one hundred
million dollars over four years. That's twenty five million dollars
a year. This is going to come out in the budget.
Well it's a pre budget announcement. Really, every kid will
now get a new Math's ability check in the first
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two years of their schooling life, one hundred and forty
three new Maths intervention teachers and forty million dollars for tutoring.
Robin Brown Upperhart Principles Association with me.
Speaker 16 (27:50):
Robin, good morning, Good morning, How are you going.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm good, Thank you. This all sounds like it's got
to be a good thing.
Speaker 16 (27:58):
It's always been in education, so absolutely, we're always we
value that. But unfortunately our problem doesn't sit in maths.
We are desperate for learning support. If we want to
improve achievement, we need to put every cent we have
into learning support rather than ring fencing it just for Maths.
(28:22):
We know that that's not going to make a huge difference.
At the moment. We have an adequate PLD or professional
development for teachers on a curriculum that they've only had
two terms to teach so far. It's not being implemented
with fability. We have no way of even assessing it yet.
For us in New Zealand, we need New Zealand based
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resources led by New Zealand based educators for teachers?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
What do we not have New Zealand based educators are
Are you saying you don't want us to bring in
teachers from overseas to fill these maths jobs?
Speaker 16 (28:57):
Well, that's it. We're going to we walk one hundred
and forty three math jobs.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
What's wrong? What's wrong with teachers and materials from overseas
for maths?
Speaker 16 (29:08):
It's not designed for New Zealand. Children in New Zealand different.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
What's different about a New Zealander learning to count than
an Australian or an American.
Speaker 16 (29:18):
What's different is the way in which children learn. The
language that we're using for those children is not always English.
Are today our children need to be taught today, and
the resources are being translated, but they've.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Got separate resources. They've got separate resources that will be
translated for translation.
Speaker 16 (29:34):
Doesn't mean that it's actually designed for the children.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But Robin, you're not going to sit here this morning
surely and protest more money going into maths resources on
the basis that there might be a translation of some tests.
Speaker 16 (29:47):
I'm not protesting more money going into math resources. I'm
protesting money going into math resources when we have an
extraordinary large need for learning support. You needed to go
into learning support. We need additional support in classrooms for
teachers when we have children where behavior is an issue,
where diverse needs a neurodiversity in our schools. We've got
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children that are going to be accessing additional Tier two
support for literacy, additional Tier to support for new mercy
when they actually need additional support for their learning needs.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So what you're saying is basically, the kids are coming
in too frazzled to you know, they've either got neglect
issues or behavior issues. They're not even ready to learn.
That's step one. That's what you're saying. Yes, absolutely, all right,
I appreciate your time. Robin Brown, who's the Upper Heart
Principals Association with us this morning, eight minutes away from
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six News Talks AB.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Get ahead of the headlines on early editions with Ryan
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Talks ZB.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Speaks away from six News Talks ZB. Right, while that
interview is all that is wrong with education in one
phone call? What a mindset? That's Kevin. This is Robin Brown,
who was the Principals Association and Upper Heart not happy
with well, not not happy with Erika Stanfords announcement, but says, basically,
kids are just crazy. When they come into class, they're
not even ready to learn. So it doesn't matter how
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much money you put into maths or literacy or whatever.
The kids aren't even capable of learning. Five cry and
Bridge morning, Mike, have you seen.
Speaker 14 (31:28):
The electricity poll this morning? You were talking about Flick.
I think earlier I was talking about Flick, but I
haven't seen the electricity right. So the pole we've got
to poll out and Courier did it for Octopus, who
were one of your retails type people, and all the
ones who claimed that we need to break up Gen Taylors. Anyway,
vast majority of New Zealanders want the government to do
something about the price of power. My question is, what
is it you want the government to do.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Literally, well, there's one little thing they can do, the
one thing that they've said they would do, which is
take the power away from the gent tailors. They're giving
themselves sweetheart deals on hedging but not giving it to
the smaller players, thereby pushing the smaller players out of
the market.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
And so by having no sweetheart deals, you would lower
you would argue the price of power.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
For the smaller players, thereby keeping them in the market,
thereby lowering the price. That's the theory.
Speaker 14 (32:15):
Next part of the survey says, and huge number, sixty
seven sixty eight percent of people say the profits of
the power companies are too high. Now tell me you
pick me right now, pick me a power company, anyone
you want?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Meridian? Yep?
Speaker 14 (32:28):
How much profit do they make?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Exactly? I can't remember. No one can remember.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
No one knows. And that's the stupidity of the poll
because you just assume that people may go.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Let's how you say, are people paid too much in government?
They need to be paid more? Do they really how
much more?
Speaker 11 (32:45):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (32:46):
I don't know who should decide? Oh, I'm not really
sure do you want the government to pay?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
So basically, polls suck.
Speaker 14 (32:51):
Poles are a complete and utter waste of time. We'll
talk about their business of the mass this morning. Do
you reckon the biggest in to education success in this
country is government announcements and all money and all resources,
all the attitude of the sort of people in the
education system. We don't We're just succeed.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
We just had an example of that on the program. Now,
I think I think a bit of the latter. But
I do think they have a point when they say
that kids are coming in basically insane and incapable of learning.
They're fighting, they've got behavioral issues, they've got adhd up
the wazoo. Is that I don't think they're lying about that.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
Well, I think they are to be frank well, having
had having had five kids.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, but your kids probably aren't, you know what I mean?
Speaker 14 (33:35):
Well, no, because I went to all sorts of different
schools and it's not it's not as bad as they
make out.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know.
Speaker 14 (33:39):
There's mostly kids are good, Mostly kids want to do okay,
Mostly kids turn up. Mostly the world isn't ending, and
mostly the government can't do anything about your power bill.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
And that's according to a poll of one exactly. Mike's
next Have a Great Day.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Newstalks B good morning, six after five, So the pawn
thing on the computer where Jevin mcskimming. We'll talk to
Lance Bert out about that shortly. Simon bridges on the
Mayor of Auckland and his manifesto. He's given us a refresh.
Actually I saw yesterday he's caught big flags hanging from
cranes across the city. Does Wayne Brown Simon bridges on
(00:32):
that in just a few moments. We'll get to Dona
tomorrow out of Australia and on the maths announcement from
Erica Stanford yesterday. We'll talk to a principal in Upper
Heart who's I mean, that's a lot of money and
it's to a good cause. But still not happy, still
not happy. Seven after five Newstalks at B the Agenda Tuesday,
(00:53):
the thirteentth of May. Here's Trump on the tariff walk
back or partial walk back with China.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They were very happy to be able to do something
with us, and the relationship is very very good. I'll
speak to President she maybe at the end of the week.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Where we'll get to more on that in just a second.
The did He trial in New York this is sex
trafficking and other charges. Opening statements have started. That videotape
that we told you about yesterday a big focus.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
This is a charge and Almuda trying to try to
prove that somehow she was resisting or that this is
part of her the fraud or the force that was
used to try to encourage and engage and force her
to involve herself in the so called freakot.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, we've got the Philippines midterm elections. Early results are in.
This is the race that's dominated by two dynasties, essentially
the Senate racist candidates backed by President Ferdinand Marcus Junior
against those supported by Vice President Sarah Deturte that's Rodrigo's daughter.
If Marcus is a Senate wins more seats, it increases
(01:56):
his chances of impeaching Dette for alleged misuse of state funds.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Everybody here and right across the country is voting for
those senators. They are the ones who get to vote
on the impeachment later this year, they will decide the
fate of the Vice president if she's impeached, she'll be
banned for running from running for president, banned from public office.
In a way, how political career will be over?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Eight after five, That was your agenda on.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan
Bridge and One Roof to make your property search simple.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You talk said they Now everybody knows we send a
lot of goods up to Asia and China in particular,
so this one is important for us. It is good
news this morning. A deal between the US and China
best and when I met with China and Geneva again,
it's not a free trade deal. It's a bit like
the UK, not a free trade deal, not even an
economic deal like with the UK. Really, it's more of
(02:56):
a ceasefire, a ninety day pause from Wednesday. So the
UI this is going to cut tariffs on China from
one hundred and forty five percent down to thirty percent.
China in turn will cut these from one hundred and
twenty five percent down to ten percent. I mean talk
about a back down of walk away. Scott Veson says,
both sides wanted this, but the question is which side
(03:16):
needed it more.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I have seen what's going on in the Chinese economy,
we can see what's going on with the shipments to
the US. And again if we are the deficit country,
historically the deficit country has a better negotiating position and.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The negotiations will have to continue. So over the next
ninety days though that, you know, the devil will be
in the detail. This is just a cease fire, it's
not a peace deal. So we'll find out over the
next couple of months what's happening with that. Markets obviously
like this, especially the tech stocks. They are up, the
NASDAC up three point three percent, the SMP, the Dow
two and a half percent of early trading, and a
lot of this was already priced in. You know, the
(03:56):
markets were expecting that he was doing you know, now
that he started to do deals, they realized the whole
thing was pretty much just a big, a big bluff
to get to get better deals out of the likes
of the UK, which he's got out of the likes
of China. So we'll see where they land. But yeah,
a lot of the are already priced in. Recovered losses
(04:16):
from liberation, Dame Gold, the old safe haven down but
still high. The mid April high was three and a
half thousand dollars now it's three two hundred and fifteen,
and of course the dollar, the US dollars shot up,
so it's it's you know, our dollars down, Yen's down,
all that stuff. News Talks wud be just gone eleven
minutes after five, coming up next the paorn issue on
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the work computer and given MCS skimming.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Ryan Bridge on early edition with one room make your
Property search simple.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Used talk ZIDB thirteen after five. News Talks had been
the vitriol over because the Nicola Willis thing and the
C word in a stuff publication the other day over
the weekend. Well, now, now the Labor Party is sort
of involved in all of this, so this is after
the paparaity thing. They're obviously a big is shoess, obviously
got people rolled up. But you can't be going in
(05:09):
comparing Brooke van Velden to a Nazi, which is what
the Labor Party has done on their social media, completely inappropriate,
says Chris Heipkins. We can say that again. So this
was a particular branch of the Labor Party posted on
their page on Wednesday showing a fake image of Brooke
van Velden. I've obviously gone chucked at in AI a
(05:31):
photo of Brook van Velden wearing a military uniform next
to a Nazi banner. Fourteen after five, Brian, Well, we've
got more on this resignation of the Deputy Police Commissioner
Devin Mcskimming. Sources have told The Herald that he quit
after pawn was found on his work computer. This is
before basically he could be pushed. Lance Burdette is author
(05:53):
and former police officer with us this morning. Lance, good morning.
Are you shocked to hear that? Surprise to hear that?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I am very shocked. I don't know given that well,
but I know of him. He was a high flyer,
a person that was very determined out of nowhere. You know,
You've got to remember that it's not the accessing of
the pornography or having it, it's that it's on a
police computer. And it's common knowledge that you know, viruses
(06:22):
and malware into computers from all sorts of unethical sites
where its gambling, gaming or restricted websites, and to be
doing that on a police computer is beyond me.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, this is alleged at this stage obviously, but when confronted,
when confronted with what the herald is reporting is the
cause of this. He resigns. So then yeah, now the
criminal charge. The interesting thing for me is that you've got,
you know, allegedly poorn on a work computer, but then
you've got a separate criminal investigation going on, and yet
(06:56):
you know you keep your job during that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, yeah, because they're obviously it's like any criminal investigation.
The idea is to get all the evidence there first,
and then you speak with the person what they call
him personal interest. I've never seen this before. I've never
It's none in my career and never happened in I
think my living memory where a senior police officer has
(07:24):
ever done anything like this and then having been removed
or they're resigned before the investigations. That's employment investigation. But
now with this criminal investigation, I've never heard of it,
and I find it quite astounding, to be honest, and
I'm wondering what's behind it all? And like everybody else,
do you figure out what it is?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Do you think this is casting a long shadow over
the police? Do you think that the minister or the
commissioner should be more upfront about actually what's I mean?
Obviously the criminal part, you can't talk about I get that,
but for the rest of it now, I mean he's
left the building. Who can't just say what happened.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Unlessed up. Both linked and so there we have to be.
But you know the thing about I know the Commissioner
and also know the minister. They both have strong moral
and ethical codes and you've seen this with the with
the latest saga around the swim tests. So they both
are ensuring that police officers and police officers have to
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be beyond approach. The higher they go up, the more
the higher expectation of them. And you know, as I say,
to get to me in the second top job and
then to have this happen to a person as I've
never seen it before. I can't even think in overseas
jurisdictions where it's happened before. So yeah, they do have
to wait now for the rest of the investigation to
(08:45):
go through. He's no longer a police officer, and it
does tarnish the rest of the service. But know that
I used to investigate police officers. We are tougher on
our own.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Greshout your time. Thanks for that, lancebur author and form
police officer on Jevin mcsginning this morning, just gone. Seventeen
minutes after five. Wayne Brown has a new manifesto for Auckland,
but it affects well the whole country if he has
his way. Simon Bridges on that next the news.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
You need this morning and the in depth analysis early
edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room make your Property
search simple, news talks.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It'd be good morning. It's nineteen minutes after five. We're
going to get to Donal Tomyow in Australia after the news.
Right now, Wayne Brown and Auckland has refreshed his magnificent
manifesto for Auckland. He says work with the government's been
mostly good, but he wants the bed tax. He's like
a broken record with the bed tax and the visa
waivers for China for Brazil. He reckons these can help
(09:44):
turbocharge growth Auckland and in turn save the entire country.
Simon Bridges the Auckland Business Chamber of CEO of me
this morning, Simon, good morning, Aye morning, Ryan.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Yes, what a magnificent manifesto. Indeed, I just wanted to
say that escause I like the yeah, I like the
way I rolled off the.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We'll get you into a second. But this China us
well it's not a deal, but at least it's a pause.
Has got to be a good thing for us, right.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Ah yeah, good news indeed, hallelujah. I mean, well, as
you say, none of us are naive, but I think
those two you know, country is really the biggest superpowers.
You get argue into you as well, but in the world,
we need things to be sort of predictable, certain and
you know, at a level as much as it can
be harmonious for the world of global economy.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And so yeah, good news.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
We'll see how it all goes. But good news so far.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now, Wayne Brown and the he wants the visas, the
visa waivers, and you've spoken about this before for China
and for Brazil. And I'm assuming the reason that the
government's not moving on the stuff is because they're worried
about overstayers.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, if they are, it seems a strange concern to me.
I mean, you know, I think that Wayne Brown is right.
My point be this, I don't see a single public
policy reason not to do this. Now, you could argue
with some other Southeast Asian countries, overstaying I think probably
would be in other countries a really significant issue that
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they're frankly poor, less developed countries. It's not the China today.
You know, you go to those cities and they're more advanced,
more developed than New Zealand. And you know what we
would see is I think a real sugar hit the
economy if you had some kind of reciprocal visa right,
that is, you know, no visa for a period of time.
If the government was really worried about that issue. You're
(11:31):
mentioning there are things they could do, right What they
could actually do is say, you know what, it's only
got to be for those who fail at the front
of the plane.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That would still be a sugar hit.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
And right now, I think I've said before on zre'd
be beggars, can't be choosers. So I cannot see a
reason not to do it. I'm totally with Wayne Brown
on this, and I just say that, you know, even
some of your colleagues when you're there saying how amazing
Erica Stanford is, she hasn't moved on this as she should.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yep, know fair enough to I happen to agree with you,
what about the bad tax because he's harping on about this,
but it's not going to happen because I well, it
probably needs a rebrand. They should take the word tax
out of it, for ste exactly. You know, that's the problem.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
I think that's the issue. Look, I'm not saying this
is sort of weazelways, right. I'm agnostic whether it's actually
a quote bad tax, right, But I think the issue
that Wayne's talking about is right for Auckland, and therefore,
you know, I think for New.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Zealand the government does need to do something.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
I mean going me give you my sort of maybe
slightly self serving perspective, but I was Minister of Economic
Development in the last days of the Key slash English government.
We get a steady pipeline of major events for the
likes of Auckland that there's just no pipeline again. That's
in the end, that's a fun thing, right, So.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We need something again it but politically to get it
across the line? Is there any way you can just
charge foreigners the bad tax?
Speaker 7 (12:56):
You know?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Like that. That's the problem for the central government, isn't
it They I don't want to introduce another tax that's
going to hurt Key with you. So we're coming from
christ it's for a concert at Eden Park.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
My simple point would be, look, okay, so you don't
like my senses, and I'm not close to the internal
politics within the coalition on this. My sense is your
first point was the right one, which is in the
end I think they said no new Texas. This says
texts and so that's the sort of issue. Well, look,
the question is not text it's funding, right if they
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want to do it through some other mechanism. But in
the end, both central and local government are failing Auckland
when it comes to major events and activations that you
need for tourists, that you need for people coming in,
but you also just need if you want a dynamic,
exciting city that our kids want to stay in and
work in, right rather than bugger off to Sydney in London.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
If you want excitement in Auckland, you just read Wayne
Brown's manifesto. Simon, thank you for that. Simon Bridges, Auckland
Chamber of CEO with us this morning. Twenty four minutes
alfter five, News Talk said be the early edition.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Full the show podcast on Ihart Radio. How if they News.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Talks AB News TALKSB twenty six minutes after five, if
what they're saying about Flick Electric shutting up shop is true,
and I've got no reason to doubt it. Then, sadly
it should come as no surprise to us. This is
a business desk report. Flickers owned by z So far
they're not saying anything, but it's one of the smaller
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retailers they help keep the bigger gen Taylors hon us
the forty thousand customers does Flick have well had potentially,
but the cracks started showing ages ago, like winter twenty
twenty one, they closed their books to new customers. The
great wholesale price crunch hit them hard and last year
(14:41):
again wholesale prices shot up above retail and you can't
run a business like that. We were warned then about
what is happening now. It means the little guys basically
can't hold on. The problem for them is hedging. This
is their big problem. They can't afford the cost of
hedging during a crunch for new customers, and that means
(15:02):
least choice for us, and we know what that typically
does to prices. And unlike Air New Zealand and the
regional airfares debate in the past week, there is in
this situation a quick fix for the problem. At least
a partial one. And guess what. The government announced such
a fix too much fanfare. In February. They said that
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the big Gen tailors would no longer be allowed to
offer sweetheart deals to their own lot. Transparency about these
deals would be forced upon them. We had the Minister
on at the time. Now, the Generator part has been
favoring the Taylor part, but not the other smaller players,
so they were going to do something about it. The
(15:44):
odds are basically stacked against Flick and the little guys
and out Flix the lights. So we've known about this
unfairness since at least twenty twenty one for Flick, and
we've had belatedly an announcement that something might change, but
years later, no real change, and another retailer bites the
dust forty thousand customers off to you guessed at Meridian
(16:07):
one of the big Gen tailor's losing Flick, if true,
is another sign that winter is coming, and I can't
see anybody in much of a hurry to do much
of anything about it.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Bryan Bridge Ay.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Minutes after five, y're on news Talk, sa'd be We're
going to talk about the Maths situation. This is coming
up to six o'clock, We're going to talk to a
principle out of upper Heart because to me, what happened
yesterday with Erica Stanford and the one hundred million dollars,
which is twenty five million a year over four years,
to me, looked like not politics, but want a minister
(16:42):
who's wanting genuine change, not something that will yield results
for her at the next election, but something that will
yield results in maybe ten years. You're talking about primary
school kids, first two years of primary school in particular,
so what's not to love about that? Really, we'll talk
to a principal who doesn't have a lot of love.
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After the news and just before six here on News
Talk sip b Hi.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Two nine.
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Maybe we Google dares get up a fuffy she said,
this life.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Forever, so here to get there.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Then there's be it over you. We can dance. We
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Speaker 2 (17:48):
Twenty four minutes away from six year on News Talk
sib it is Tuesday morning, this morning. Good to have
your company. We'll get to Erica Stamford and new Math
changes just before six also a child Keay company in
Australia and really really hot and deep water will tell
you why with Donald Mayo. She's with us just in
a few minutes time now twenty four minutes away from
(18:09):
in the UK. Keir Starmer is crowing this morning, but
considering himself a bit of a borders are I think
we can make that analogy. He's cracking down on legal
immigration with a wait for it, wait for it, with
a white paper.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Today we publish a white paper on immigration, a strategy
absolutely central to my plan for change that will finally
take back control of our borders.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Now, why is he doing this. It's the Farage effect
in full swing. Of course, we'll get to that in
just a second. But here's what he has said. He'll
cut legal immigration by one hundred thousand by twenty twenty nine.
Currently there's about eight hundred thousand net per anum, so
it is significant. He's going to scrap a visa that
boris brought in. This is the opposite of what we're doing.
Scrap a visa that boris brought in, so you can't
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hire doctors and nurses, care workers, from overseas anymore. The
jobs must go to a brit first employers and this
will be interesting for any key we wanted to go
on an OE. Employers will have to pay more to
hire foreign staff. And he says, this is not about
Nigel Farras, but of course it's about Feras. The reformers
(19:21):
cleaned up from the local elections there obviously you know
immigration is what drives their support. And here's the latest
IPSOS poll out in the last twenty four hours from
the UK More Brits now think that Reform is the
main opposition party, not the Conservatives. Imagine that happening to
the National Party. Here people saying I know actors, you
(19:42):
know act as the government, not National and who has
a good plan for changing Britain. Here are the results.
Reform thirty seven percent, Labor thirty two percent, Conservatives twenty
four percent. So you can see why Labor and Starmer
are throwing white papers on immigration faster than you can blink.
(20:04):
And that is of course the issue that's driving reforms search.
So yeah, also Starma's disapproval numbers are nearing Liz trust territory.
I think the Bristles are just unhappy generally, aren't they
twenty one away from six reporters around the country. Collen
Proctor and Dunedan Cullen. Good morning. This missing English tramper
in Milford's sound. What's happening with the search?
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Well, look, police have advised pausing the search for now.
This is for twenty five year old Eli Sweeting, who
failed to return from a day trip to Mita Peak
a Sunday week ago.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
So that's nine days now.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
They have carried out extensive searches of the area and
what is dangerous and challenging terrain.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Over that time.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Two helicopters have also been used with thermal imagery and
a drone look. They say no pausing the search is
difficult news for the family, but they will remain in
frequent contact with them. Impus family has traveled here now
to assist with the search and they describe him as
a passionate adventurer and an experienced climber.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And how's your weather today, callum?
Speaker 11 (21:09):
Some showers later this morning, but clearing to find this
afternoon south westeries and seventeen today.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Nice one, Thank you clears than the christ Church clear
good morning, good morning now the Christ Church Cathedral they'll
be lining up to visit.
Speaker 12 (21:21):
Well apparently all that's certainly the hope of the Restoration Trust.
The historic landmark, of course, has been severely damaged in
our CBD since the twenty eleven earthquakes. We know that
repairs began five years ago, but they have been put
on hold indefinitely because of a lack of money. They've
now been opening it to the public sort of overtime.
It started last year with the first opening to the
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public as part of a festival. Now the Reinstatement Trust
is keen to do it again and as often as
possible to keep it front of mind. There'll be the
opportunity for fifty people to pay to have a look
behind the gates on a tour each month. Projects director
Caroline Grant says it's one way to make the most
of the space while restoration remains on hold.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
All right, and weather but a foggy.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
To start today, partly Glady later could see a shower
this evening north of westerlies and a high of nineteen.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
All right, Max Toles and Wellington. The body count on
the restaurant closures keeps going up and up. Max, Good morning, Yeah,
good morning, Ekemburgers. Did you ever eat there? No, I
hadn't heard of that one.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Oh interesting, that's the former well now former permanent sort
of caravan set up. It has been a bit of
an institution in the capital for well over a decade.
The first place I ate at when I moved to
the capitol Bohemian, good vegetarian, vegan options. A lot of
people responding to the article with the mourning the loss
of Ekemburghers with stories of their own. Apparently the landlord
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wouldn't renew the lease and the owners who only took
it up a few months ago don't believe it financially
worthwhile to set up elsewhere. Same story, No vibe in Wellington.
The other one a Vida Bar on Featherston Street. That's
the same owners as the Louver Belgian Beer Cafe the
Featherstone Bar. The same guy closed up the Whistling Sisters
(23:05):
last year. Again, not enough customers are pretty simple liquidators,
creditors all paid. That's fine for traffic just down the
city's still hurting apparently.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yes, it's very sad to hear that. How's your weather today?
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Should be fine this morning, a bit of cloud developing later.
The wind Up as well today sixteen the High Central.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
All right, thank you, Max, ands are not Canava. Good morning.
I'm just thinking if we have another restaurant closed in Wellington,
we're going to have to hear stories about where. You know,
the every meal that Max has eaten there.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, I started eating the teen years ago. When I
arrived at Wellington.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
I said, I really feel for Wellington.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's terrible. I think that one's on Cuba Street. If
it's the one I'm thinking of, it sounds a lot
of people go there.
Speaker 13 (23:51):
Vegan food, yes, I mean I'm not vegan, but I
love Do you like vegan? Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Friend of mine, I've got two friends who are vegan
and quite serious about it, and I've tried it. We
had vegan food at their wedding and I went home
and ed McDonald's on the way.
Speaker 13 (24:06):
Did you so grass, because as I say, they really
know their flavors as well.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You know, I thought it was all quite dry. I
don't know.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Oh right, or you won't be going there?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Then? Well it's closed, isn't it anyway. Auckland Writers Festival, yes,
now that is on.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
It kicks off today. Book sales are set to skyrocket
this week. What we know is that obviously it showcases
the local writers once when around the world one hundred
and seventy events over the next week. So this festival
is the best attended of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere,
per Capita and Lindsey Finner, and she's the artistic director.
She says, at the book sales they were up fifty
(24:44):
percent last year on the one before. She reckons at
the festival the book buying in motion, because you know,
you wonder how book sales actually go.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
You know, people.
Speaker 13 (24:54):
Audio and kind there's so much available, but you know,
just that actual book for my I've got so many
books at home I still haven't even read. Actually, so
they reckon this Writer's Festival will be there, and of
course I've got really good writers there, the new writers
and falling back with some of the old, you know,
lovely writers that they've got. They've got suit Ian Rank
and remember him bestseller creative John Reebis.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, I heard about I haven't read it, yeah,
like most things on my bookshelf, but I do the
audio books. Now, that's the thing it was.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
We didn't get into that because people the newsroom, people
are talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's great, that's great. How your how's the weather cloudy?
Speaker 13 (25:32):
Isolated chowers? Eighteen is the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
High brilliant, you have a great day. Neither it is
seventeen or we're late sixteen minutes away from six year
on news Talks, he'd be we're going to get to
Donald to Mayo on Australia.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Next International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business sit.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Thing away from six on news talks with the Donald
Mayo is our Australia correspondent on a good morning, Good
morning to you. Now, what is going on with this
childcare center in Australia.
Speaker 15 (26:00):
Well, as you know, childcare is a multi billion dollar enterprise.
Now there are accusations that one of Australia's biggest childcare companies,
Affinity Education, is treating children like numbers on a spreadsheet.
That these accusations that it's been quite greedy. Now it's
been hit with seventeen hundred regulatory breaches, that's more than
(26:22):
one per day between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four. Now,
despite the breaches, they've been issued with just nine infringement
notices totally less than two thousand dollars in penalties, and
the ABC has exposed some pretty damning evidence of child
safety concerns. I'm just going to describe a video. It's
quite distressing, but there's a video of a baby crying
(26:43):
and a bouncer. A childcare worker slaps the child repeatedly
and a colleague has been recording the abuse and then
posted it on Snapchat. Now, as you can imagine that
this video has highlighted what people are saying, the on
going systemic issues relating to staffing and safety in these
(27:04):
childcare centers. And as you can imagine, people now asking
is the industry in crisis?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Did the colleague post it to shame that her colleague
or was it like, yeah, look at this, this is
what the child.
Speaker 15 (27:15):
No, it was look at this that work, Yeah it was.
It was vile.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yes, that's terrible. Donald. I appreciate your time this morning
as always. That Sara, Australia Correspondent onto my twelve minutes
away from Sex News talks hev Ryan Bridge. Here are
the numbers on maths from America stand for one hundred
million dollars over four years. That's twenty five million dollars
a year. This is going to come out in the budget.
Well it's a pre budget announcement. Really, every kid will
now get a new Math's ability check in the first
(27:41):
two years of their schooling life, one hundred and forty
three new Maths intervention teachers and forty million dollars for tutoring.
Robin Brown Upperhart Principles Association with me.
Speaker 16 (27:50):
Robin, good morning, Good morning, How are you going.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm good, Thank you. This all sounds like it's got
to be a good thing.
Speaker 16 (27:58):
It's always been in education, so absolutely, we're always we
value that. But unfortunately our problem doesn't sit in maths.
We are desperate for learning support. If we want to
improve achievement, we need to put every cent we have
into learning support rather than ring fencing it just for Maths.
(28:22):
We know that that's not going to make a huge difference.
At the moment. We have an adequate PLD or professional
development for teachers on a curriculum that they've only had
two terms to teach so far. It's not being implemented
with fability. We have no way of even assessing it yet.
For us in New Zealand, we need New Zealand based
(28:44):
resources led by New Zealand based educators for teachers?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
What do we not have New Zealand based educators are
Are you saying you don't want us to bring in
teachers from overseas to fill these maths jobs?
Speaker 16 (28:57):
Well, that's it. We're going to we walk one hundred
and forty three math jobs.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
What's wrong? What's wrong with teachers and materials from overseas
for maths?
Speaker 16 (29:08):
It's not designed for New Zealand. Children in New Zealand different.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
What's different about a New Zealander learning to count than
an Australian or an American.
Speaker 16 (29:18):
What's different is the way in which children learn. The
language that we're using for those children is not always English.
Are today our children need to be taught today, and
the resources are being translated, but they've.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Got separate resources. They've got separate resources that will be
translated for translation.
Speaker 16 (29:34):
Doesn't mean that it's actually designed for the children.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But Robin, you're not going to sit here this morning
surely and protest more money going into maths resources on
the basis that there might be a translation of some tests.
Speaker 16 (29:47):
I'm not protesting more money going into math resources. I'm
protesting money going into math resources when we have an
extraordinary large need for learning support. You needed to go
into learning support. We need additional support in classrooms for
teachers when we have children where behavior is an issue,
where diverse needs a neurodiversity in our schools. We've got
(30:11):
children that are going to be accessing additional Tier two
support for literacy, additional Tier to support for new mercy
when they actually need additional support for their learning needs.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So what you're saying is basically, the kids are coming
in too frazzled to you know, they've either got neglect
issues or behavior issues. They're not even ready to learn.
That's step one. That's what you're saying. Yes, absolutely, all right,
I appreciate your time. Robin Brown, who's the Upper Heart
Principals Association with us this morning, eight minutes away from
(30:46):
six News Talks AB.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Get ahead of the headlines on early editions with Ryan
Bridge and one roof Make your Property Search Simple News
Talks ZB.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Speaks away from six News Talks ZB. Right, while that
interview is all that is wrong with education in one
phone call? What a mindset? That's Kevin. This is Robin Brown,
who was the Principals Association and Upper Heart not happy
with well, not not happy with Erika Stanfords announcement, but says, basically,
kids are just crazy. When they come into class, they're
not even ready to learn. So it doesn't matter how
(31:19):
much money you put into maths or literacy or whatever.
The kids aren't even capable of learning. Five cry and
Bridge morning, Mike, have you seen.
Speaker 14 (31:28):
The electricity poll this morning? You were talking about Flick.
I think earlier I was talking about Flick, but I
haven't seen the electricity right. So the pole we've got
to poll out and Courier did it for Octopus, who
were one of your retails type people, and all the
ones who claimed that we need to break up Gen Taylors. Anyway,
vast majority of New Zealanders want the government to do
something about the price of power. My question is, what
is it you want the government to do.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Literally, well, there's one little thing they can do, the
one thing that they've said they would do, which is
take the power away from the gent tailors. They're giving
themselves sweetheart deals on hedging but not giving it to
the smaller players, thereby pushing the smaller players out of
the market.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
And so by having no sweetheart deals, you would lower
you would argue the price of power.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
For the smaller players, thereby keeping them in the market,
thereby lowering the price. That's the theory.
Speaker 14 (32:15):
Next part of the survey says, and huge number, sixty
seven sixty eight percent of people say the profits of
the power companies are too high. Now tell me you
pick me right now, pick me a power company, anyone
you want?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Meridian? Yep?
Speaker 14 (32:28):
How much profit do they make?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Exactly? I can't remember. No one can remember.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
No one knows. And that's the stupidity of the poll
because you just assume that people may go.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Let's how you say, are people paid too much in government?
They need to be paid more? Do they really how
much more?
Speaker 11 (32:45):
Oh?
Speaker 14 (32:46):
I don't know who should decide? Oh, I'm not really
sure do you want the government to pay?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
So basically, polls suck.
Speaker 14 (32:51):
Poles are a complete and utter waste of time. We'll
talk about their business of the mass this morning. Do
you reckon the biggest in to education success in this
country is government announcements and all money and all resources,
all the attitude of the sort of people in the
education system. We don't We're just succeed.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
We just had an example of that on the program. Now,
I think I think a bit of the latter. But
I do think they have a point when they say
that kids are coming in basically insane and incapable of learning.
They're fighting, they've got behavioral issues, they've got adhd up
the wazoo. Is that I don't think they're lying about that.
Speaker 14 (33:28):
Well, I think they are to be frank well, having
had having had five kids.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, but your kids probably aren't, you know what I mean?
Speaker 14 (33:35):
Well, no, because I went to all sorts of different
schools and it's not it's not as bad as they
make out.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know.
Speaker 14 (33:39):
There's mostly kids are good, Mostly kids want to do okay,
Mostly kids turn up. Mostly the world isn't ending, and
mostly the government can't do anything about your power bill.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
And that's according to a poll of one exactly. Mike's
next Have a Great Day.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
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