April 14, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast 2025, The Government has put new sex education guidelines out for consultation, Auckland Primary Principals' Association President Kyle Brewerton shares his thoughts.
Auckland Council's voted on the future of land destroyed by floods, Auckland Council Group Manager for the Tamaki Makaurau recovery office tells Ryan Bridge about the plan they've come up with.
The Government's coughing up $13.5 million for a new global marketing campaign to attract tourists to New Zealand, Tourism Holdings Chief Executive Grant Webster shares his thoughts.
Plus, Donna Demaio from Australia has Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's reaction to the Opposition’s diss rap track that criticises Labor.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with one roof make your Property search Simple.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
News Talks EDB.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning, it is six half the five News Talks
HEADB Tuesday, the fifteenth of April. Great to have your company.
It is me. I'm back, got up at half past
a Sparrow's fat this morning. Forgot what that felt like,
but great to be with you this morning. We're looking
at a couple of things. Is now the right time
to be investing in advertising for Terrists organ Council buys
(00:33):
twelve hundred homes. We'll look at the Luxeon Winston thing.
And we're also in Australia before six o'clock as well.
News Talk s HEADB.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
First to the US Trump and our Salvador's president be meeting.
He's the bloke that's housing Trump's illegal immigrants. They've had
a week chat and.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We appreciate working with you. It's because you want to
start grime and serve a we and it's very very effective.
And I wanted to see a lot of the people
of El Salvador and said they have one hell of
a president. We're pretty eager to help.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We know that you have.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
A crank problem, a terrorism problem that.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
You need help with, and we're small country than we can.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Help them do it. Meanwhile, and this is a bit
of a worry for the markets this morning. I'll just
give you an update on them shortly. But Trump has
come out and said what Lutnik said at the weekend.
So the Chinese made smartphones and other electronics being exempt
from tariffs, he's now saying they are simply moving into
a different levy bucket. European stock markets bounced on Monday
(01:41):
morning after the official announcement that some electronic products would
escape levies up to one hundred and forty five percent
in China. China has called on Trump to completely cancel
the tariff regime and return to quote the right path
of mutual respect.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We want to make our chips and so we conductors
and other things in our country. And I will tell
you another one is pharmaceutic those drugs and pharma suit
of bos. We want to make our drugs in this country,
and by placing a tariff on the companies that are
not in this country, they're going to move into our
country and we're going to have our drugs made in
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the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And an all female crew including pop star Katie Perry,
have landed back on Earth after traveling to space on
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket. Flight lasted eleven minutes reached
a height of about one hundred kilometers above Earth. They
were only up there for three minutes. Katie Perry chose
to sing.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I've covered that song in the past, and obviously, like
my higher self is always steering the ship, because I
had no clue that one day I would decide to
sing a little bit of that in space.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But I think that it's not about me.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
It's not about singing my songs.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
It's about a collective energy in there. It's about us,
It's about making space for future women.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh God, Louis Armstrong, what a wonderful world. That's the
song she sang in space.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Get ahead of the Headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Talk z'd be.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I'm even sure you can say they went well. Then
technically they went to space. They went to the Carmen Line,
which is the internationally recognized boundary of space, and floated
weightlessly for three minutes. Would you say you've been to space?
I guess you have. If you're weightless, you've been to space.
Apparently when they were up there, one passenger could be
heard saying, oh my goodness. Another one could be heard saying,
(03:37):
I love you, Jeff Bezos. Presumably that would have been
his fiance, because his fiance, Laurence Sanchez was up there
with them. Anyway, good news this morning. Forty three applications
in two weeks for the Golden Investment Scheme VISA not bad,
not bad. That's basically really wealthy people wanting to move here,
which is good. The last one, this was the one
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the Labor government reduced. They had one hundred applications in
two and a half years. So to get forty three
applications in a couple of weeks, you'd have to say,
is pretty good. You have to put to get this
five million dollars down and spend a week here every
year for the first three years, and then basically you've
got your residency and you must invest that money directly
(04:20):
into New Zealand companies. This is good because people with
money generally spend it, and generally this is good for everybody.
Some immigrant immigration agents already reckon, we could get five
or six hundred applications annually. But the foreign buyer band
they reckon is becoming a problem. And this is where Winston.
I mean, they've got a few things to talk about
(04:40):
Winston and Luxeon, don't they, But this is where he
needs to come in and basically get on board. Last
time I asked Nikola Willis about this, she said, there
are leader to leader talks between Winston and Luxon. There
are talks going on about potentially bringing back moving the
foreign buyer band, but taking the minimum from two million
(05:03):
up to five million dollars. So you're talking your coastal
mansions and your you know, your stone manors near Queenstown.
So the sooner that cabinet gets on and agrees to that,
the bet at Winston just needs to have a chat
with his boss, basically, and he is the boss, by
the way, despite what it might have sounded like yesterday,
I don't know if you saw that press conference. I'll
tell you more about that a little later on. Coming
(05:24):
up next, we're going to talk to Grant Webster. He's
the chief executive at Tourism Holdings. We've spoken to him before.
Is now the right time to be spending thirteen and
a half million dollars encouraging international visitors coming to New Zealand,
particularly we're given the precarious state of the global economy.
Are people looking to travel right now or are they
(05:44):
hunkering down to eleven after five?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's next News and Views you trust to start your
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Make your Property Search Simple? Can you's talk said?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Be good morning, It is five fourteens have been all
over the place this morning. This after the tech tariff
back down. I guess you the back down to the
back down, the reversal of the backdown. So the S
and P five hundred was up and early trading was
up one and a half a one point two percent.
Nasdaq was up that was at one point three. Dal
Jones was up point eight. Anyway, they've all come back
(06:20):
after Trump confirmed what Lutnik said at the weekend, which
is basically this is this reprieve is only going to
be temporary, and those particular you know, the cell phones,
the Apple iPhones, all these things are just going to
be put into a different levy basket. So's it's all over.
The show doesn't know if it's Arthur and Martha. About
(06:40):
half an hour ago when I checked the SMP was
point three, Nasdak was flat, so that was from a
high of two to flat, and the dal Jones point
one just gone quarter past five z B. Now the
government's coughing up thirteen and a half million dollars for
a new global marketing campaign to attract tourists to New Zealand.
This comes at the number of international visitors dropped two
(07:02):
percent in February compared with last year, though that was
largely to do with the timing of the Chinese New Year.
We're still only at eighty five percent of pre COVID overall.
Chief Executive Tourism Holdings Grant Websters with me, Hi Grant.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Good morning, welcome back to the morning.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Thank you good to be here. So is now a
good time to be spending coin on advertising for international
tourism direcon.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Yes, I do. Obviously I'm somewhat biased, but it's a
very competitive market out there, and often in New Zealand
we think people just come, you know, because we're a
great country, which we are, but we're well less than
one percent of world tourism, so you know, we have
to compete.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Did you see a boost from the campaign that they
launched in Australia. You know that everyone must Go campaign
that everyone made fun of. Did it work as you
have you seen any evidence of it working.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Look, there has been some commentary in the market that
some people have it's a very difficult time year on
year comparisons because East is obviously so late relative to
last year. There's no major events in winter, so it's
quite hard to get a direct comparison out of Australia
for US at that time. It's not a big market
for US. We turn domestic at that time, so not noticeable.
(08:16):
But there has been some positive commentary in the industry.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
How is domestic going?
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Oh, look, it's okay, it's okay. It's not something to
write home about. But we're not in the doldrums about it.
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
What markets do you reckon we should be targeting because
they're talking China, they're talking Australia in the US, India, Germany,
South Korea, India less so, but as an emerging market
in South Korea.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
I think that feels really good. Actually, the tourists in
New Zealand's get the information on forward bookings, they get
the information on who's got the most active considerers for
New Zealand. So they're targeting where the fish are. So
I think that's the right thing to do. They feel
like the right markets.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
How worried are you, Grant about the slowdown, you know,
the global general global slowdown that will inevitably come from
these tariffs.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Yeah. Look, I think the volatility and uncertainty is I know,
those of words everybody's using, but no, look that it
is concerning on a global basis. You know, people put
their hands in their pockets very quickly. We know that.
We certainly see and we've talked about this that Europeans
going into the US because we've obviously got business up
(09:29):
there that's really dropped off. Will that balance out with
domestic in the US. I don't know. So yeah, we
watch and wait and see. Definitely. In the past we've
seen things recover quite quickly when there's been a bit
of a pause. But we'll see. You have to see
what happens this time.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
All right, Grant, Hey, take care, best of luck, Thanks
for coming on the program. As always, Grant, we've chief
Executive Terrorism Holdings. It's eighteen after five year on news
talks therebs so Auckland Council has agreed to buy twelve
hundred homes the ones that got hit by the floods,
like the Auckland Anniversary floods got whacked. There's actually one
down the road from my house and they are clearing
(10:07):
the land at the moment on a lot of these places.
What are they going to do with it? Next?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We'll find out, Ryan Bridge on Nafili edition where one
roof make your property search simple.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Uth talg Zibby.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It is twenty after five twenty news talk zaib are
just too Russia for a second. So obviously they're back
to well they never stopped, but absolutely hammering Ukraine, just
lobbing everything they can at it, basically while they can.
And Zelensky has said to Trump, come and visit, Please
come and have a look at what they are doing.
And at the same time as you've got that going on,
(10:43):
you've got Russia planning for a spring offensive if they're
not showing no signs of going anywhere or backing down.
And at the same time that all that is happening,
you've got this Reuter's report that says there are business leaders,
business executives in the EU who are worry, reried, about
gas supply, which is fair because they had the gas
crisis twenty two to twenty three. Remember that prices shot
(11:06):
up through the sky and the US plugged the gap.
Now you've got Trump using energy as part of a
bargaining as a bargaining chip in his tower of trade war.
So these guys in Europe and their head officers are
sitting around talking, well, do we start importing from Putin again?
(11:29):
Do we start getting gas from gas prompt? So whatever
outcome Trump was hoping for, surely that is not one
that you want. Twenty one after five News Talk z'd
be Augan Council's voted on the future of land destroyed
by floods. By the end of this year, more than
twelve hundred high risk homes will have been purchased at
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a cost of three hundred and fifty two million dollars,
and a large amount of the land will be retained
for flood resilience. Mace wards with Auckland Council's recovery off
is with me now, Mace, Good.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Morning, Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Quite a bit of land. Where is it all in
clumps or is it individual properties randomly spread out? What
are we talking?
Speaker 8 (12:11):
It's a mix, I guess. So there are some clusters
of properties that are in clumps of areas that were
really adversely affected during those twenty twenty three storms, and
then then those areas spread across the region where either
landslipe or flooding arequed.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Where does the money come from? Because it's quite a chunk.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
That is a chunk, and just for those twelve hundred properties,
it's over one point two billion dollars between the Crown
and the council funding. So it's a significant investment in
future resilience for Auckland and ensuring people are removed from
that intolerable risk to life that was so critical during
that time. So the money comes from the Crown and ratepayers,
(12:54):
so it's fifty to fifty funding split.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
The thirty percent I've seen that you estimate twenty percent
of the land could actually be developed, so you could
end up with housing on some of this land.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
That's correct. I mean, this really matters, So it will
take time, but our current current modeling shows that with
some further investment in flood resilience for example, so this
is the making space for water program in a different
development form than the homes that were there in a
brown field sense. You know, we think there is around
(13:30):
thirty percent that could be redeveloped for safe residential use.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What happens to the rest of it? Does it just
sit there? And you know as a flood zone.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
There's a number of options. So yes, some of it
will be used for the Blue Green Network and making
space for water, so it will be actually daylighting streams
to make more space for water, and that those areas
will be immenity for use by people when it's not flooding.
(14:03):
So think about long linear parks downstream sides where there's
walking paths and the like, but when it floods, that
space is there and people will be will be safe.
And other other locations, it's possible in those sporadic locations
to potentially neighbors to buy that land for a non
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residential use, increase the size of their garden.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That time, backyard, appreciate that. Thanks for your time this morning,
Masward from Augand Council's Recovery office. It is twenty four
minutes after five News Talks. There be will talk Luxon
and Winston next the.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
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Speaker 3 (14:46):
Talks b News Talks there be it is five twenty six.
Luxon's stucky, poor old Luckson, stuck between a rock and
a hard place, really isn't and it's only going to
get worse as we head into next year. Just when
he's done dealing with David's on the Treaty Bill he
never wanted to go with, but agreed to to get
into government. That was shut down on Thursday, and now
(15:06):
the fire kicks off. He's having to hose that down too.
He's been hosing it down since last Friday. Now that's
Winston and his big noting about how to deal with Trump. Right.
The phone calls that Luxeon hastily arranged to avoid being
in the House for the death of the Treaty Principal's
Bill are the same phone calls that have now started
(15:27):
this tussle with Winston. He just can't win either way.
There's coalition land mines to step on. Here's the thing.
Winston first made these comments last Thursday. He said Luxon
should have called him or whatever the words were, so
he should have just picked up the phone, called them
straight away, squared it off, have it out, whatever, move on. Instead,
(15:50):
you're trying to announce a tourism boost at SkyCity on Monday,
and it's still dragging out. Some journalists in the press
conference yesterday even asked Luxeon where the head apologized to
Winston Peters. For goodness sakes, what an outrageous question. For
the record, Luxeon gave a speech basically saying he supports
free trade, big deal. We all do. Then he calls
(16:12):
a couple of world leaders he's met and tells them
he likes free trade, big deal. Guess what, that's fine
because he's the Prime Minister. That's actually his job. He
is the boss. Winston's just feeling a bit left out
over and tong or obviously, so he's running his mouth off.
What does Luxon do. Does he just have a private
(16:33):
call and hope that Winston calms down, or does he
take a harder line in public with Winston call him out,
tell us he's only the Foreign Minister, not the Prime
Minister and he should stay in his lane. Whatever the strategy,
he needs to figure it out quick smart. As I
wrote about it the weekend, Winston's only just getting started.
(16:53):
There's an election to fight next year and he'll be
unshackled from the deputy PM rains next month. Then it's
all on for young and old and luxon this week
has been warned.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
News Talk, said B.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Five twenty nine on news Talk said B. Coming up,
get to see Neva again. Been a long time I've
missed that woman. Neva Ready, Marley will be here. We'll
go to Donald Demayo in Australia and there's a new
sex education guideline book come out for teachers. We'll talk
to an Orca teacher about that. All ahead, News Talk
said B.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof make
your Property search simple. News Talk said by find you.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Good morning. It is twenty four away from a six
year on news Talks.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
There B.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'm Ryan Bridge. Great to be back with you this morning.
I'm getting all of your lovely messages. Thank you. This
one has a crack. This is from Gary, a bit
of a crack at Winston because Winston's had He's had
a bit of a crack at luckson morning. Ryan, welcome back.
Remember Winston did not phone or discuss with the Prime
Minister before he sacked our ambassador to London. Isn't this
(18:29):
exactly the same thing that the Prime Minister has done
probably less severe even all Luxeon did was give a speech.
Now he's sacked one of our most high profile, high
profile diplomats without even speaking to the boss. So yeah,
Garrett good point. Well made twenty three minutes away.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
From six News Talk said be good to.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Donald to my own Australia shortly right now. Callum Proctor
is with us in Toneed and Cullen. Good morning, morning Ryan.
A bit of excitement down there after the discovery of
a threatened fish and you've got a rear penguin sighting
to boot.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Yeah, much excitement the fish. For a start, it's named
after one of the most notorious book characters, The Gollumn
galaxious fish has been found at several sites in the
Waimatuku Stream. This is near in the Cargo, of course,
named after Gollum from Lord of the Rings. This is
due to its large eyes and preference for swampy habitat.
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So Doc says the fish are unique to South and
so these findings reinforced the need to protect their homes.
And penguin was spotted on Otago Peninsula yesterday, so the
King Penguin's being cited less than ten times in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Very cool. How's your weather.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
It's fine today, but cloud develops towards this evening the
High thirteenth.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Claire Schubert is in christge clear, good morning, good morning,
welcome back, thank you, good to be back. Now your
mayor has done a tour of the new stadium. Great
it's nearing completion. But how do you get there?
Speaker 12 (19:55):
Well, that's the real question, Ryan. Look, construction of the
new stadiums in its final year. Now the roof cladding
is underway. The grass for the field is already been
grown off site. This is a six hundred and eighty
three million dollar project due to open a year from now.
But the mayor yesterday admitted look public transports an issue
for the city. He says he'd like to see a
contingent of free buses running when a major event is
(20:17):
on and that we need to look at the likes
of Melbourne because they know how to move people around.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
For the Formula one, he.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Says he doesn't know yet what the first event will be,
with that decision lying in the hands of Venues Autotahi.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It's pretty cool. I saw the footage of it yesterday.
Very exciting for christ Church. How's your weather today?
Speaker 12 (20:35):
Som rain turning to showers. They will clear by this afternoon.
Southwesterlies and a.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
High of twelve matt.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Thank you, Claire. Max Toller is in Wellington, Max, good morning,
Good morning. Now there's a sentiment for change, unsurprising in
the capital. This is the mayoral race. I'm assuming yeah, correct.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Our reporter Ethan Minara has got his hands on some
polling done by Curia of one thousand Welling Tony in
so a healthy sample size asking who they'd vote for
for mayor. Unfortunately Andrew Little not included. It's all signs
point to him running, but this done obviously he hasn't
declared yet. Still pretty disastrous for the incumbent. Eighteen percent
support for Torri Fano, to compare that thirty percent for
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current counselor Ray Chung. Carl Tiefenbaker. He's a local businessman
who's run a few times before here and there. He's
lost every time, but seems to be a viable competitor
as well this time around. And you know, drawing on
this theme, the business world not happy. We had a
local tech boss come in on Wellington Mornings yesterday. He
said he wouldn't set up business in the capital today
(21:37):
if he had the chance. Again, we have the wrong imperatives.
At a furniture store closing on Newtown this week, the
act its owner blames the cycle lane on Adelaide Road.
Nothing against cycle lanes or cyclists in general, but business
permanently dropped thirty percent the day those car parks disappeared
in that's May.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, I think talent repellent was the word he used
to describe it.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, Hey, how's your with him? X?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Some early dresser claring to find fifteen the High Central.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Thank you very much. And in Auckland, Happy day, good morning,
you're back. Come back, baby, you're back home.
Speaker 13 (22:12):
Welcome home.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
It's good to be here. Good to see your smiling face.
Speaker 13 (22:17):
Oh, thank you, mister T. I was running around the
newsroom while you know, Mex was talking, and I lost
my breath because I was too busy going high fiving.
Nobody could see me except for you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Lovely to see your need.
Speaker 13 (22:28):
How hell is that alarm?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It was brutal this morning. Yeah, I forgot what I
remember it. As soon as I wake up, I went, oh,
that's right. As soon as you get in here.
Speaker 13 (22:38):
You're happy, that's right, since you get in and then
you can go home and have a we net.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Exactly Now, NEVA tell us about Auckland Airport all the
drugs at their season.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
Yes, now it's good news for customs. So what's happened
is that the customs officers have seen tens of millions
of dollars worth of drugs. This is at Auckland Airport
in the span of a week, so over the weekend.
Don't think you'll remember. Fifty kilograms of met they've found
in bags. This was on a flight from San fran
and two kilograms were concealed in a suitcase as well.
The last Tuesday officers also sees more than twenty three
(23:07):
kilograms of meth, cocaine and unaccompanied bigs and they were
from Honolulu. So customs very very happy about that. They
say that the combined street value would have been about
twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Woo victory.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Indeed, how's the weather partley?
Speaker 13 (23:22):
Cloudy? Just the odd show and all the funger Puola
still warm though twenty three is are high here in Auckland.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It is very warm, isn't that still? And eighty percent
humidity even last night, I noticed.
Speaker 13 (23:32):
Did you eighty percent humidity?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I was considering putting the air con on for a minute. Yeah,
which after the cold snap we had exactly. But isn't
it neva good to see you? Neva ready? Mano in
Auckland for US is eighteen minutes away from six. You're
on News Talk sai'd be. The Liberal Party in Australia
has released a quote hip hop disc track about Anthony
Albanesi and labor. If it sounds cringe, it's because it
(23:56):
is Dona Demeyo.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Next International corresponds with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Good morning at this quarter to six on News Talk ZB.
Just before we get to donnad Demayo, excuse me, just
before we get to Donna Damayow, I want to play
you a little clip of this disk track that the
Liberal Party in Australia has decided would be a fantastic
idea to win them an election, a disc track about labor.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Have a listen, you need the way it is supposed
to be. The money was spinding on groceries.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I just want to.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Bust some eggs and cheese one hundred bucks. You kid
in me.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
It cost too much to live.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
The economy is looking a mess man, so we live
in shape. The check labor God is still and self stressed.
We need a fantasy, right stop people in the cow.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
I just want to put food on the table, so
I'm willing to do it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I got please make it stop, Kenzy, thank you. Donadamaya
is with us for reaction. Donna How Australia correspondent, Good morning,
good morning to you. Are you cringing too? What is
Australia doing laughing or cringing?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
This was released on SoundCloud just after Peter Dutton's official
campaign launch in Western Sydney. And I can tell you
if you want some entertainment, go to the comments section
on SoundCloud underneath that release of that song, and you
will see the most extraordinary amount of comments and most
of them are rather negative. I'm just gonna say that.
(25:20):
So yes, the song has had about fourteen thousand streams
so far. The Coalition says, you know, it's a serious
message in a new format. The album cover of the
song uses Anthony Albaniz's face photo shopped onto the iPhone
shrug emoji that's been used to promote the song as
they say as well. But we actually heard from Peter
(25:42):
Dutton during a press conference yesterday. He hadn't even listened
to it himself, which was extraordinary, But the Prime Minister
was asked about it and he just said, you know what,
there's lots of good Australian music around. He says the
Coalition's tactics are beyond his comprehension, and the PMC well,
how about voters just check out his spotify this because
(26:03):
he's not planning on a disc track himself, and he said,
I'll leave it to others to see why the Coalition
consistently borrow cultures and ideas and policies from other places.
So interesting words from the PM in regard to that,
goodness man, interesting disc track.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I heard this a video coming too, Like we've got
the audio, the threatening to release the videos, so we'll
look forward to that. Donna Hey tell us about this
Aussie company being fined for greenwashing.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yes, on a much more serious note, we've heard from
the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that took Klawox Australia
to the Federal Court over misleading claims made between June
twenty twenty one and July twenty twenty three. This company
is behind glad garbage bags. It's been fined eight point
two five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What did it do?
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Falsely claimed that the products were made from recycled ocean plastics,
but in fact these bags were actually made from recycled
plastic that had been collected from communities in Indonesia. But
these communities were up to fifty k's from the shoreline
and Clorox was found to have sold about two point
two million bags during this defending period and guess what,
(27:15):
they were more expensive than its standard range. So in
addition to the eight point twenty five million dollar fine,
also an apology has been ordered and the company now
says yes it does respect the outcome. Essentially, it was
alleged that they were greenwashing and now they face that
a massive fine.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
All right, Donna, thank you for the update. Great to
have you on again, Dona Tomorrow, our Australia correspondent. It
is twelve to six news Talk said be now a
new six education curriculums being put out for consultation by
the government. Children from year four will learn about consent,
gender stereotypes and inclusion, while high school aged kids will
(27:57):
learn about sexual violence and menstruals cycles and STIs. Carl
Bruton's the president at Auckland Primary Principles Association with me
this morning. Carl, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good to
have you on. So anything out of the ordinary in this.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
To be honest, I haven't had a look at the
actual content of the of the proposed curriculum and detail,
but based on what you're saying, that's largely why we're
doing a consultation because where some of those things are
pitched doesn't quite sit with what we would expect in
terms of age and stage of our little people.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
What's inappropriate at what age do you think?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Well, if you flip it a little bit, the puvotal
change is really the focus, particularly for those primary years,
because we've seen particularly things like periods are happening earlier
and earlier. We would see that that would be more
beneficial to be talking about menstrual cycles in those younger
years and just being quite upfront about that and including
the boys in those conversations as well. So it just
(28:54):
eliminates all the all the giggling and carrying on and
just makes us.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
And normalizes it a lot more.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
At those early year is when you're starting to talk
about things like consent and if you even were going
to entertain things like sexual violence and might have you.
That's certainly something for those older years. You wouldn't expect
the year five student to be having those conversations.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
What about the big, the controversial elephant in the room
that you know, kicks of the protests off and all
that stuff, is the gender and the puberty blockers. Is
that a primary school conversation?
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Yeah, you're right, it is the contentious one. We don't know,
and that's that's the trouble. We are just teachers, right,
we're educators. We're not really sure in terms of psychologically
and the psychology behind things like gender identity where it
does best fit and is it something that a school
teacher should be trying to teach and grapple with. I mean,
(29:44):
we certainly go down the road as being respectful and inclusive,
and people are all prone and entitled to their opinions
and views, and we should support anyone who thinks whatever
they think, and you know, we just should be good
to eat one another. We don't sort of get into
the detail, but so it does beg the question is
there something for schools to grapple with and that's why
again this is this consultation should hopefully bring some clarity.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Good point, Kyle, appreciate your time. Kyle Brillton, Orkrom Primary
Principals Association President. It is nine minutes away from six
News TALKSBB. Just by the bye, that particular issue isn't
really it basically isn't addressed in these new guidelines, the
puberty blockers and the gender identity and all that stuff.
It's not really it's it mentions gender, It mentions gender
(30:27):
being accepting of people, but it doesn't go into you know,
am I this or am I that? And do I
need drugs at all at any level from what I
can see of school, primary or secondary. Nine minutes away
from six you're on News Talk SBB. We'll get to
the HOSK next.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room to make Your
Property Search Symbol News Talks B.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Good morning, as six to six News TALKSB. We didn't
have to look at the website of the group that
TAMMITHA Paul, you know, with the Paul who wants to
defund the police. She is putting out the feelers for
donations to the group People Against the Prisons, and I
went on their website this morning because you can follow
the link from her social media. Anyway, I didn't donate,
but I did have a read of the website. One
(31:15):
of the things that they argue is unjust, it's dignified,
and is a risk to the safety of our prisoners
is the fact that the prison guards go round every
night and check every two hours. They check on each
prisoner and they shine a light shine to talk into
their eyes. Now, they say this is impinging on the
(31:35):
prisoner's dignity and their well being. The reason they do
this is one obviously for security, but two to make
sure that no one is harming themselves. So you can't
He just can't win, can you. You just cannot win.
It is five minutes away from six News Talk ZEBB
and Mike is here this morning. Good morning, Mike, so
(31:55):
you mate, you will. I'm very well, thank you. Now
you're busy with the TVs. Ye, Well that's going on
only for you.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
We've got sky CEO this morning. They've had a thing,
they've had an update, and at this present point in time,
they've officially told us things have gone well. So what
happened was at about three twenty four, twenty five, they
did whatever they were going.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
To do, thet's switchover, the switchover.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
But what I didn't realize until this is a developing story,
is that it didn't all happen before twenty five. It's
evolving as we rolling. It's a rolling thunder and they're
scraping barnacles off the boat and so by six o'clock
apparently all the So do this. If you're listening to
this this morning because it's school holiday fun, go to
your Sky channels. Pick a channel and see if it's
(32:41):
actually the channel it was before, because at the moment
some of them are some of them marn't.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
This is going to confuse people. So for you, you
you like your Fox.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
You're a hard right, right, Leana. We've all noticed that
on the Drive show. So Fox is back, but you
go to one of the other ones. You're getting Eden. Now,
I don't know what the hell eating as well?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Eden is well, Eden was a Warner Brothers channel.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Was it?
Speaker 10 (33:04):
They're still in business? They are, Well there you go,
so so Eden is there this morning, but it's on
where Sky was. So if you're wanting to watch Sky
UK you've got Eden very confused.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
You see how it's all worked. Do you know what
I think the problem is? They sent Katy Perry into space,
into space, something goes wrong up there and the channels don't.
After Amtha, there was.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
A lot of DRS trouble with signals at Bahrain and
the F one. I also put that down to it
as well, very much.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
So.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Anyway, good to see you, Good to see you too.
What's on today?
Speaker 10 (33:35):
Well, as I've just said, Ryan, obviously you haven't started.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
On more than one interview.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
Well that was the highlight the feature. Actually, Jeremy Piven,
you watch Entourage, Yes, Jeremy Piven Gold I never watched Ontourage,
so that's going to be the embarrassing part of the interview.
But I did watch mister Selfish. It was absolutely accepted. Anyway,
he's with us after.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I all right, Mike here next. Good to be back everyone.
See tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
News Talks EDB.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning, it is six half the five News Talks
HEADB Tuesday, the fifteenth of April. Great to have your company.
It is me. I'm back, got up at half past
a Sparrow's fat this morning. Forgot what that felt like,
but great to be with you this morning. We're looking
at a couple of things. Is now the right time
to be investing in advertising for Terrists organ Council buys
(00:33):
twelve hundred homes. We'll look at the Luxeon Winston thing.
And we're also in Australia before six o'clock as well.
News Talk s HEADB.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
First to the US Trump and our Salvador's president be meeting.
He's the bloke that's housing Trump's illegal immigrants. They've had
a week chat and.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We appreciate working with you. It's because you want to
start grime and serve a we and it's very very effective.
And I wanted to see a lot of the people
of El Salvador and said they have one hell of
a president. We're pretty eager to help.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We know that you have.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
A crank problem, a terrorism problem that.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
You need help with, and we're small country than we can.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Help them do it. Meanwhile, and this is a bit
of a worry for the markets this morning. I'll just
give you an update on them shortly. But Trump has
come out and said what Lutnik said at the weekend.
So the Chinese made smartphones and other electronics being exempt
from tariffs, he's now saying they are simply moving into
a different levy bucket. European stock markets bounced on Monday
(01:41):
morning after the official announcement that some electronic products would
escape levies up to one hundred and forty five percent
in China. China has called on Trump to completely cancel
the tariff regime and return to quote the right path
of mutual respect.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We want to make our chips and so we conductors
and other things in our country. And I will tell
you another one is pharmaceutic those drugs and pharma suit
of bos. We want to make our drugs in this country,
and by placing a tariff on the companies that are
not in this country, they're going to move into our
country and we're going to have our drugs made in
(02:15):
the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And an all female crew including pop star Katie Perry,
have landed back on Earth after traveling to space on
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket. Flight lasted eleven minutes reached
a height of about one hundred kilometers above Earth. They
were only up there for three minutes. Katie Perry chose
to sing.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I've covered that song in the past, and obviously, like
my higher self is always steering the ship, because I
had no clue that one day I would decide to
sing a little bit of that in space.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But I think that it's not about me.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
It's not about singing my songs.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
It's about a collective energy in there. It's about us,
It's about making space for future women.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh God, Louis Armstrong, what a wonderful world. That's the
song she sang in space.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
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Talk z'd be.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I'm even sure you can say they went well. Then
technically they went to space. They went to the Carmen Line,
which is the internationally recognized boundary of space, and floated
weightlessly for three minutes. Would you say you've been to space?
I guess you have. If you're weightless, you've been to space.
Apparently when they were up there, one passenger could be
heard saying, oh my goodness. Another one could be heard saying,
(03:37):
I love you, Jeff Bezos. Presumably that would have been
his fiance, because his fiance, Laurence Sanchez was up there
with them. Anyway, good news this morning. Forty three applications
in two weeks for the Golden Investment Scheme VISA not bad,
not bad. That's basically really wealthy people wanting to move here,
which is good. The last one, this was the one
(03:59):
the Labor government reduced. They had one hundred applications in
two and a half years. So to get forty three
applications in a couple of weeks, you'd have to say,
is pretty good. You have to put to get this
five million dollars down and spend a week here every
year for the first three years, and then basically you've
got your residency and you must invest that money directly
(04:20):
into New Zealand companies. This is good because people with
money generally spend it, and generally this is good for everybody.
Some immigrant immigration agents already reckon, we could get five
or six hundred applications annually. But the foreign buyer band
they reckon is becoming a problem. And this is where Winston.
I mean, they've got a few things to talk about
(04:40):
Winston and Luxeon, don't they, But this is where he
needs to come in and basically get on board. Last
time I asked Nikola Willis about this, she said, there
are leader to leader talks between Winston and Luxon. There
are talks going on about potentially bringing back moving the
foreign buyer band, but taking the minimum from two million
(05:03):
up to five million dollars. So you're talking your coastal
mansions and your you know, your stone manors near Queenstown.
So the sooner that cabinet gets on and agrees to that,
the bet at Winston just needs to have a chat
with his boss, basically, and he is the boss, by
the way, despite what it might have sounded like yesterday,
I don't know if you saw that press conference. I'll
tell you more about that a little later on. Coming
(05:24):
up next, we're going to talk to Grant Webster. He's
the chief executive at Tourism Holdings. We've spoken to him before.
Is now the right time to be spending thirteen and
a half million dollars encouraging international visitors coming to New Zealand,
particularly we're given the precarious state of the global economy.
Are people looking to travel right now or are they
(05:44):
hunkering down to eleven after five?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
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Speaker 3 (05:58):
Be good morning, It is five fourteens have been all
over the place this morning. This after the tech tariff
back down. I guess you the back down to the
back down, the reversal of the backdown. So the S
and P five hundred was up and early trading was
up one and a half a one point two percent.
Nasdaq was up that was at one point three. Dal
Jones was up point eight. Anyway, they've all come back
(06:20):
after Trump confirmed what Lutnik said at the weekend, which
is basically this is this reprieve is only going to
be temporary, and those particular you know, the cell phones,
the Apple iPhones, all these things are just going to
be put into a different levy basket. So's it's all over.
The show doesn't know if it's Arthur and Martha. About
(06:40):
half an hour ago when I checked the SMP was
point three, Nasdak was flat, so that was from a
high of two to flat, and the dal Jones point
one just gone quarter past five z B. Now the
government's coughing up thirteen and a half million dollars for
a new global marketing campaign to attract tourists to New Zealand.
This comes at the number of international visitors dropped two
(07:02):
percent in February compared with last year, though that was
largely to do with the timing of the Chinese New Year.
We're still only at eighty five percent of pre COVID overall.
Chief Executive Tourism Holdings Grant Websters with me, Hi Grant.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Good morning, welcome back to the morning.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Thank you good to be here. So is now a
good time to be spending coin on advertising for international
tourism direcon.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Yes, I do. Obviously I'm somewhat biased, but it's a
very competitive market out there, and often in New Zealand
we think people just come, you know, because we're a
great country, which we are, but we're well less than
one percent of world tourism, so you know, we have
to compete.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Did you see a boost from the campaign that they
launched in Australia. You know that everyone must Go campaign
that everyone made fun of. Did it work as you
have you seen any evidence of it working.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Look, there has been some commentary in the market that
some people have it's a very difficult time year on
year comparisons because East is obviously so late relative to
last year. There's no major events in winter, so it's
quite hard to get a direct comparison out of Australia
for US at that time. It's not a big market
for US. We turn domestic at that time, so not noticeable.
(08:16):
But there has been some positive commentary in the industry.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
How is domestic going?
Speaker 9 (08:22):
Oh, look, it's okay, it's okay. It's not something to
write home about. But we're not in the doldrums about it.
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
What markets do you reckon we should be targeting because
they're talking China, they're talking Australia in the US, India, Germany,
South Korea, India less so, but as an emerging market
in South Korea.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
I think that feels really good. Actually, the tourists in
New Zealand's get the information on forward bookings, they get
the information on who's got the most active considerers for
New Zealand. So they're targeting where the fish are. So
I think that's the right thing to do. They feel
like the right markets.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
How worried are you, Grant about the slowdown, you know,
the global general global slowdown that will inevitably come from
these tariffs.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Yeah. Look, I think the volatility and uncertainty is I know,
those of words everybody's using, but no, look that it
is concerning on a global basis. You know, people put
their hands in their pockets very quickly. We know that.
We certainly see and we've talked about this that Europeans
going into the US because we've obviously got business up
(09:29):
there that's really dropped off. Will that balance out with
domestic in the US. I don't know. So yeah, we
watch and wait and see. Definitely. In the past we've
seen things recover quite quickly when there's been a bit
of a pause. But we'll see. You have to see
what happens this time.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
All right, Grant, Hey, take care, best of luck, Thanks
for coming on the program. As always, Grant, we've chief
Executive Terrorism Holdings. It's eighteen after five year on news
talks therebs so Auckland Council has agreed to buy twelve
hundred homes the ones that got hit by the floods,
like the Auckland Anniversary floods got whacked. There's actually one
down the road from my house and they are clearing
(10:07):
the land at the moment on a lot of these places.
What are they going to do with it? Next?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We'll find out, Ryan Bridge on Nafili edition where one
roof make your property search simple.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Uth talg Zibby.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It is twenty after five twenty news talk zaib are
just too Russia for a second. So obviously they're back
to well they never stopped, but absolutely hammering Ukraine, just
lobbing everything they can at it, basically while they can.
And Zelensky has said to Trump, come and visit, Please
come and have a look at what they are doing.
And at the same time as you've got that going on,
(10:43):
you've got Russia planning for a spring offensive if they're
not showing no signs of going anywhere or backing down.
And at the same time that all that is happening,
you've got this Reuter's report that says there are business leaders,
business executives in the EU who are worry, reried, about
gas supply, which is fair because they had the gas
crisis twenty two to twenty three. Remember that prices shot
(11:06):
up through the sky and the US plugged the gap.
Now you've got Trump using energy as part of a
bargaining as a bargaining chip in his tower of trade war.
So these guys in Europe and their head officers are
sitting around talking, well, do we start importing from Putin again?
(11:29):
Do we start getting gas from gas prompt? So whatever
outcome Trump was hoping for, surely that is not one
that you want. Twenty one after five News Talk z'd
be Augan Council's voted on the future of land destroyed
by floods. By the end of this year, more than
twelve hundred high risk homes will have been purchased at
(11:50):
a cost of three hundred and fifty two million dollars,
and a large amount of the land will be retained
for flood resilience. Mace wards with Auckland Council's recovery off
is with me now, Mace, Good.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
Morning, Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Quite a bit of land. Where is it all in
clumps or is it individual properties randomly spread out? What
are we talking?
Speaker 8 (12:11):
It's a mix, I guess. So there are some clusters
of properties that are in clumps of areas that were
really adversely affected during those twenty twenty three storms, and
then then those areas spread across the region where either
landslipe or flooding arequed.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Where does the money come from? Because it's quite a chunk.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
That is a chunk, and just for those twelve hundred properties,
it's over one point two billion dollars between the Crown
and the council funding. So it's a significant investment in
future resilience for Auckland and ensuring people are removed from
that intolerable risk to life that was so critical during
that time. So the money comes from the Crown and ratepayers,
(12:54):
so it's fifty to fifty funding split.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
The thirty percent I've seen that you estimate twenty percent
of the land could actually be developed, so you could
end up with housing on some of this land.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
That's correct. I mean, this really matters, So it will
take time, but our current current modeling shows that with
some further investment in flood resilience for example, so this
is the making space for water program in a different
development form than the homes that were there in a
brown field sense. You know, we think there is around
(13:30):
thirty percent that could be redeveloped for safe residential use.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What happens to the rest of it? Does it just
sit there? And you know as a flood zone.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
There's a number of options. So yes, some of it
will be used for the Blue Green Network and making
space for water, so it will be actually daylighting streams
to make more space for water, and that those areas
will be immenity for use by people when it's not flooding.
(14:03):
So think about long linear parks downstream sides where there's
walking paths and the like, but when it floods, that
space is there and people will be will be safe.
And other other locations, it's possible in those sporadic locations
to potentially neighbors to buy that land for a non
(14:26):
residential use, increase the size of their garden.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That time, backyard, appreciate that. Thanks for your time this morning,
Masward from Augand Council's Recovery office. It is twenty four
minutes after five News Talks. There be will talk Luxon
and Winston next the.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
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Talks b News Talks there be it is five twenty six.
Luxon's stucky, poor old Luckson, stuck between a rock and
a hard place, really isn't and it's only going to
get worse as we head into next year. Just when
he's done dealing with David's on the Treaty Bill he
never wanted to go with, but agreed to to get
into government. That was shut down on Thursday, and now
(15:06):
the fire kicks off. He's having to hose that down too.
He's been hosing it down since last Friday. Now that's
Winston and his big noting about how to deal with Trump. Right.
The phone calls that Luxeon hastily arranged to avoid being
in the House for the death of the Treaty Principal's
Bill are the same phone calls that have now started
(15:27):
this tussle with Winston. He just can't win either way.
There's coalition land mines to step on. Here's the thing.
Winston first made these comments last Thursday. He said Luxon
should have called him or whatever the words were, so
he should have just picked up the phone, called them
straight away, squared it off, have it out, whatever, move on. Instead,
(15:50):
you're trying to announce a tourism boost at SkyCity on Monday,
and it's still dragging out. Some journalists in the press
conference yesterday even asked Luxeon where the head apologized to
Winston Peters. For goodness sakes, what an outrageous question. For
the record, Luxeon gave a speech basically saying he supports
free trade, big deal. We all do. Then he calls
(16:12):
a couple of world leaders he's met and tells them
he likes free trade, big deal. Guess what, that's fine
because he's the Prime Minister. That's actually his job. He
is the boss. Winston's just feeling a bit left out
over and tong or obviously, so he's running his mouth off.
What does Luxon do. Does he just have a private
(16:33):
call and hope that Winston calms down, or does he
take a harder line in public with Winston call him out,
tell us he's only the Foreign Minister, not the Prime
Minister and he should stay in his lane. Whatever the strategy,
he needs to figure it out quick smart. As I
wrote about it the weekend, Winston's only just getting started.
(16:53):
There's an election to fight next year and he'll be
unshackled from the deputy PM rains next month. Then it's
all on for young and old and luxon this week
has been warned.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
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Five twenty nine on news Talk said B. Coming up,
get to see Neva again. Been a long time I've
missed that woman. Neva Ready, Marley will be here. We'll
go to Donald Demayo in Australia and there's a new
sex education guideline book come out for teachers. We'll talk
to an Orca teacher about that. All ahead, News Talk
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Speaker 3 (18:04):
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Speaker 10 (18:08):
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Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'm Ryan Bridge. Great to be back with you this morning.
I'm getting all of your lovely messages. Thank you. This
one has a crack. This is from Gary, a bit
of a crack at Winston because Winston's had He's had
a bit of a crack at luckson morning. Ryan, welcome back.
Remember Winston did not phone or discuss with the Prime
Minister before he sacked our ambassador to London. Isn't this
(18:29):
exactly the same thing that the Prime Minister has done
probably less severe even all Luxeon did was give a speech.
Now he's sacked one of our most high profile, high
profile diplomats without even speaking to the boss. So yeah,
Garrett good point. Well made twenty three minutes away.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
From six News Talk said be good to.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Donald to my own Australia shortly right now. Callum Proctor
is with us in Toneed and Cullen. Good morning, morning Ryan.
A bit of excitement down there after the discovery of
a threatened fish and you've got a rear penguin sighting
to boot.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Yeah, much excitement the fish. For a start, it's named
after one of the most notorious book characters, The Gollumn
galaxious fish has been found at several sites in the
Waimatuku Stream. This is near in the Cargo, of course,
named after Gollum from Lord of the Rings. This is
due to its large eyes and preference for swampy habitat.
(19:24):
So Doc says the fish are unique to South and
so these findings reinforced the need to protect their homes.
And penguin was spotted on Otago Peninsula yesterday, so the
King Penguin's being cited less than ten times in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Very cool. How's your weather.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
It's fine today, but cloud develops towards this evening the
High thirteenth.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Claire Schubert is in christge clear, good morning, good morning,
welcome back, thank you, good to be back. Now your
mayor has done a tour of the new stadium. Great
it's nearing completion. But how do you get there?
Speaker 12 (19:55):
Well, that's the real question, Ryan. Look, construction of the
new stadiums in its final year. Now the roof cladding
is underway. The grass for the field is already been
grown off site. This is a six hundred and eighty
three million dollar project due to open a year from now.
But the mayor yesterday admitted look public transports an issue
for the city. He says he'd like to see a
contingent of free buses running when a major event is
(20:17):
on and that we need to look at the likes
of Melbourne because they know how to move people around.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
For the Formula one, he.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Says he doesn't know yet what the first event will be,
with that decision lying in the hands of Venues Autotahi.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
It's pretty cool. I saw the footage of it yesterday.
Very exciting for christ Church. How's your weather today?
Speaker 12 (20:35):
Som rain turning to showers. They will clear by this afternoon.
Southwesterlies and a.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
High of twelve matt.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Thank you, Claire. Max Toller is in Wellington, Max, good morning,
Good morning. Now there's a sentiment for change, unsurprising in
the capital. This is the mayoral race. I'm assuming yeah, correct.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Our reporter Ethan Minara has got his hands on some
polling done by Curia of one thousand Welling Tony in
so a healthy sample size asking who they'd vote for
for mayor. Unfortunately Andrew Little not included. It's all signs
point to him running, but this done obviously he hasn't
declared yet. Still pretty disastrous for the incumbent. Eighteen percent
support for Torri Fano, to compare that thirty percent for
(21:15):
current counselor Ray Chung. Carl Tiefenbaker. He's a local businessman
who's run a few times before here and there. He's
lost every time, but seems to be a viable competitor
as well this time around. And you know, drawing on
this theme, the business world not happy. We had a
local tech boss come in on Wellington Mornings yesterday. He
said he wouldn't set up business in the capital today
(21:37):
if he had the chance. Again, we have the wrong imperatives.
At a furniture store closing on Newtown this week, the
act its owner blames the cycle lane on Adelaide Road.
Nothing against cycle lanes or cyclists in general, but business
permanently dropped thirty percent the day those car parks disappeared
in that's May.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, I think talent repellent was the word he used
to describe it.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, Hey, how's your with him? X?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Some early dresser claring to find fifteen the High Central.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Thank you very much. And in Auckland, Happy day, good morning,
you're back. Come back, baby, you're back home.
Speaker 13 (22:12):
Welcome home.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
It's good to be here. Good to see your smiling face.
Speaker 13 (22:17):
Oh, thank you, mister T. I was running around the
newsroom while you know, Mex was talking, and I lost
my breath because I was too busy going high fiving.
Nobody could see me except for you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Lovely to see your need.
Speaker 13 (22:28):
How hell is that alarm?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
It was brutal this morning. Yeah, I forgot what I
remember it. As soon as I wake up, I went, oh,
that's right. As soon as you get in here.
Speaker 13 (22:38):
You're happy, that's right, since you get in and then
you can go home and have a we net.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Exactly Now, NEVA tell us about Auckland Airport all the
drugs at their season.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
Yes, now it's good news for customs. So what's happened
is that the customs officers have seen tens of millions
of dollars worth of drugs. This is at Auckland Airport
in the span of a week, so over the weekend.
Don't think you'll remember. Fifty kilograms of met they've found
in bags. This was on a flight from San fran
and two kilograms were concealed in a suitcase as well.
The last Tuesday officers also sees more than twenty three
(23:07):
kilograms of meth, cocaine and unaccompanied bigs and they were
from Honolulu. So customs very very happy about that. They
say that the combined street value would have been about
twenty nine million dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Woo victory.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Indeed, how's the weather partley?
Speaker 13 (23:22):
Cloudy? Just the odd show and all the funger Puola
still warm though twenty three is are high here in Auckland.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It is very warm, isn't that still? And eighty percent
humidity even last night, I noticed.
Speaker 13 (23:32):
Did you eighty percent humidity?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I was considering putting the air con on for a minute. Yeah,
which after the cold snap we had exactly. But isn't
it neva good to see you? Neva ready? Mano in
Auckland for US is eighteen minutes away from six. You're
on News Talk sai'd be. The Liberal Party in Australia
has released a quote hip hop disc track about Anthony
Albanesi and labor. If it sounds cringe, it's because it
(23:56):
is Dona Demeyo.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Next International corresponds with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Good morning at this quarter to six on News Talk ZB.
Just before we get to donnad Demayo, excuse me, just
before we get to Donna Damayow, I want to play
you a little clip of this disk track that the
Liberal Party in Australia has decided would be a fantastic
idea to win them an election, a disc track about labor.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Have a listen, you need the way it is supposed
to be. The money was spinding on groceries.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I just want to.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Bust some eggs and cheese one hundred bucks. You kid
in me.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
It cost too much to live.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
The economy is looking a mess man, so we live
in shape. The check labor God is still and self stressed.
We need a fantasy, right stop people in the cow.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
I just want to put food on the table, so
I'm willing to do it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I got please make it stop, Kenzy, thank you. Donadamaya
is with us for reaction. Donna How Australia correspondent, Good morning,
good morning to you. Are you cringing too? What is
Australia doing laughing or cringing?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
This was released on SoundCloud just after Peter Dutton's official
campaign launch in Western Sydney. And I can tell you
if you want some entertainment, go to the comments section
on SoundCloud underneath that release of that song, and you
will see the most extraordinary amount of comments and most
of them are rather negative. I'm just gonna say that.
(25:20):
So yes, the song has had about fourteen thousand streams
so far. The Coalition says, you know, it's a serious
message in a new format. The album cover of the
song uses Anthony Albaniz's face photo shopped onto the iPhone
shrug emoji that's been used to promote the song as
they say as well. But we actually heard from Peter
(25:42):
Dutton during a press conference yesterday. He hadn't even listened
to it himself, which was extraordinary, But the Prime Minister
was asked about it and he just said, you know what,
there's lots of good Australian music around. He says the
Coalition's tactics are beyond his comprehension, and the PMC well,
how about voters just check out his spotify this because
(26:03):
he's not planning on a disc track himself, and he said,
I'll leave it to others to see why the Coalition
consistently borrow cultures and ideas and policies from other places.
So interesting words from the PM in regard to that,
goodness man, interesting disc track.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I heard this a video coming too, Like we've got
the audio, the threatening to release the videos, so we'll
look forward to that. Donna Hey tell us about this
Aussie company being fined for greenwashing.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yes, on a much more serious note, we've heard from
the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that took Klawox Australia
to the Federal Court over misleading claims made between June
twenty twenty one and July twenty twenty three. This company
is behind glad garbage bags. It's been fined eight point
two five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What did it do?
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Falsely claimed that the products were made from recycled ocean plastics,
but in fact these bags were actually made from recycled
plastic that had been collected from communities in Indonesia. But
these communities were up to fifty k's from the shoreline
and Clorox was found to have sold about two point
two million bags during this defending period and guess what,
(27:15):
they were more expensive than its standard range. So in
addition to the eight point twenty five million dollar fine,
also an apology has been ordered and the company now
says yes it does respect the outcome. Essentially, it was
alleged that they were greenwashing and now they face that
a massive fine.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
All right, Donna, thank you for the update. Great to
have you on again, Dona Tomorrow, our Australia correspondent. It
is twelve to six news Talk said be now a
new six education curriculums being put out for consultation by
the government. Children from year four will learn about consent,
gender stereotypes and inclusion, while high school aged kids will
(27:57):
learn about sexual violence and menstruals cycles and STIs. Carl
Bruton's the president at Auckland Primary Principles Association with me
this morning. Carl, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good to
have you on. So anything out of the ordinary in this.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
To be honest, I haven't had a look at the
actual content of the of the proposed curriculum and detail,
but based on what you're saying, that's largely why we're
doing a consultation because where some of those things are
pitched doesn't quite sit with what we would expect in
terms of age and stage of our little people.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
What's inappropriate at what age do you think?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Well, if you flip it a little bit, the puvotal
change is really the focus, particularly for those primary years,
because we've seen particularly things like periods are happening earlier
and earlier. We would see that that would be more
beneficial to be talking about menstrual cycles in those younger
years and just being quite upfront about that and including
the boys in those conversations as well. So it just
(28:54):
eliminates all the all the giggling and carrying on and
just makes us.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
And normalizes it a lot more.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
At those early year is when you're starting to talk
about things like consent and if you even were going
to entertain things like sexual violence and might have you.
That's certainly something for those older years. You wouldn't expect
the year five student to be having those conversations.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
What about the big, the controversial elephant in the room
that you know, kicks of the protests off and all
that stuff, is the gender and the puberty blockers. Is
that a primary school conversation?
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Yeah, you're right, it is the contentious one. We don't know,
and that's that's the trouble. We are just teachers, right,
we're educators. We're not really sure in terms of psychologically
and the psychology behind things like gender identity where it
does best fit and is it something that a school
teacher should be trying to teach and grapple with. I mean,
(29:44):
we certainly go down the road as being respectful and inclusive,
and people are all prone and entitled to their opinions
and views, and we should support anyone who thinks whatever
they think, and you know, we just should be good
to eat one another. We don't sort of get into
the detail, but so it does beg the question is
there something for schools to grapple with and that's why
again this is this consultation should hopefully bring some clarity.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Good point, Kyle, appreciate your time. Kyle Brillton, Orkrom Primary
Principals Association President. It is nine minutes away from six
News TALKSBB. Just by the bye, that particular issue isn't
really it basically isn't addressed in these new guidelines, the
puberty blockers and the gender identity and all that stuff.
It's not really it's it mentions gender, It mentions gender
(30:27):
being accepting of people, but it doesn't go into you know,
am I this or am I that? And do I
need drugs at all at any level from what I
can see of school, primary or secondary. Nine minutes away
from six you're on News Talk SBB. We'll get to
the HOSK next.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room to make Your
Property Search Symbol News Talks B.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Good morning, as six to six News TALKSB. We didn't
have to look at the website of the group that
TAMMITHA Paul, you know, with the Paul who wants to
defund the police. She is putting out the feelers for
donations to the group People Against the Prisons, and I
went on their website this morning because you can follow
the link from her social media. Anyway, I didn't donate,
but I did have a read of the website. One
(31:15):
of the things that they argue is unjust, it's dignified,
and is a risk to the safety of our prisoners
is the fact that the prison guards go round every
night and check every two hours. They check on each
prisoner and they shine a light shine to talk into
their eyes. Now, they say this is impinging on the
(31:35):
prisoner's dignity and their well being. The reason they do
this is one obviously for security, but two to make
sure that no one is harming themselves. So you can't
He just can't win, can you. You just cannot win.
It is five minutes away from six News Talk ZEBB
and Mike is here this morning. Good morning, Mike, so
(31:55):
you mate, you will. I'm very well, thank you. Now
you're busy with the TVs. Ye, Well that's going on
only for you.
Speaker 10 (32:02):
We've got sky CEO this morning. They've had a thing,
they've had an update, and at this present point in time,
they've officially told us things have gone well. So what
happened was at about three twenty four, twenty five, they
did whatever they were going.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
To do, thet's switchover, the switchover.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
But what I didn't realize until this is a developing story,
is that it didn't all happen before twenty five. It's
evolving as we rolling. It's a rolling thunder and they're
scraping barnacles off the boat and so by six o'clock
apparently all the So do this. If you're listening to
this this morning because it's school holiday fun, go to
your Sky channels. Pick a channel and see if it's
(32:41):
actually the channel it was before, because at the moment
some of them are some of them marn't.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
This is going to confuse people. So for you, you
you like your Fox.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
You're a hard right, right, Leana. We've all noticed that
on the Drive show. So Fox is back, but you
go to one of the other ones. You're getting Eden. Now,
I don't know what the hell eating as well?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Eden is well, Eden was a Warner Brothers channel.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Was it?
Speaker 10 (33:04):
They're still in business? They are, Well there you go,
so so Eden is there this morning, but it's on
where Sky was. So if you're wanting to watch Sky
UK you've got Eden very confused.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
You see how it's all worked. Do you know what
I think the problem is? They sent Katy Perry into space,
into space, something goes wrong up there and the channels don't.
After Amtha, there was.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
A lot of DRS trouble with signals at Bahrain and
the F one. I also put that down to it
as well, very much.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
So.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Anyway, good to see you, Good to see you too.
What's on today?
Speaker 10 (33:35):
Well, as I've just said, Ryan, obviously you haven't started.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
On more than one interview.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
Well that was the highlight the feature. Actually, Jeremy Piven,
you watch Entourage, Yes, Jeremy Piven Gold I never watched Ontourage,
so that's going to be the embarrassing part of the interview.
But I did watch mister Selfish. It was absolutely accepted. Anyway,
he's with us after.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I all right, Mike here next. Good to be back everyone.
See tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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