December 15, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Andrew Dickens Full Show Podcast for Monday the 16th of December. The next five-year plan for family and sexual violence has been released by the government, and it includes a review of $1.3 billion in prevention spending. Women's Refuge Chief Executive Dr Ang Jury is on the show.
Infometrics latest food supplier cost index has seen a 2.1 percent rise in the year ending November, is it in line with inflation, and what does it mean for your last minute pre-Christmas dash to the supermarket? Vegetables NZ Chair John Murphy speaks to Andrew.
Auckland FC have drawn 2 all against Melbourne, and the Black Caps are holding a solid lead against England, can they make it all the way? Elliott Smith has your weekend sport wrap.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The issues, the interviews, the Smiths and the Inside. Andrew
Dickens on the early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and apply at store.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It'd be.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Good morning, welcome to the program. Congratulations for still working,
don't feel bad about it. It is the sixteenth of December.
I'm Drew Dickins, coming up gone the program today. How
much is Christmaston are going to cost? Food prices are out?
How much have they gone up? We'll have details in
five minutes. In sport, the black Cats played well and
ORCHIDEFCA still have not been defeated. Sir Elliot Smith on
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sports in ten minutes time. Overseas, migrants in France killed
by an anti migrant militant. Details after five point thirty
and just before six. The government's got a new plan
to combat family and sexual violence. We'll talk to someone
from the Family Refuge about whether it will work. We'll
have correspondence from around New Zealand. Will have news as
at breaks. You can be involved by giving me a text.
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The number to text small chart ninety two ninety two.
That's zeb zeb Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The agenda.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yes, welcome on ed I've forgotten the date to the
sixteenth of December neby yet Okay. After almost twenty years
in prison, the five remaining members of the Bari nine
have returned to Australia. In two thousand and five, Indonesian
officials court nine Australians attempting to smuggle over eight kilos
of heroin out of Bali.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
These Australians served more than nineteen years in prison in Indonesia.
It was time for them to come home. Australia shares
Indonesia's concern about the serious problem ilice that drugs represents
the government will continue to cooperate with Indonesia to counter
narcotics trafficking and transnational crime.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
The two ring leaders of the group were executed by
Indonesian officials back in twenty fifteen. Another had her sentence
commuted after thirteen years in prison. Another diet of cancer
in twenty eight eighteen. And these guys have been in
prison for twenty years. Can you imagine that trying to
get back to normality speaking with speaking about traveling and
tourists in Australia and things going wrong. Seven tourists, four
(02:10):
of them Australian, are in hospital following a suspected alcohol poisoning,
this time in Fiji, is understood they became unwell after
drinking a cocktail at a hotel bar over the weekend.
More details will come to hand as the wik goes on.
Now South Korea, the president there has been impeached by
parliament after he invoked martial law. I may pause for
(02:31):
a moment now, but the journey towards the future, which
I have walked with the people over the past two
and a half years, must never come to a halt.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I will never give up.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The successful move, which follows an earlier failed vote, means
the president is officially suspended from his duties. Prime Minister
Han duck Su is now in the role of acting president,
and South Korea's Constitutional Court now has six months to
decide its fate and whether it upholds the impeachment vote.
And this young democracy is actually quite cockahoop and quite
happy about the fact that people power won. And at
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world first traffic camera trial is underway in the UK.
It uses artificial intelligence to look for unusual driving patterns
that could indicate that someone's a little under the influence
either drugs or alcohol, and once it detects you wobbling
all over the place. Police further up the road will
stop you and conduct roadside tests. You have been warned.
It's ten after five.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
News and Views you trust has start your days Billy
Edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a flying Store youth Talks.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It'd be yeah. So anyone who thought the ferry debate
was over for someone was very, very wrong when they
got their papers this weekend. The weekend papers were full
of recons and I reckon. It's because people have begun
to realize that the ferries are a bigger piece of
infrastructure than most think. Sure, we've got a lot of
tourists on it, we've got a lot of locals traveling
back and forth on it, going home, going to new jobs, whatever,
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heading out on the benures. But thirty billion dollars worth
of travel between the North and South Island on it too.
It's the Iron Bridge, they call it. So the reckons
were all about who screwed it up more? Was it
Nicholas Willis, Nichola Willis, Was it Grant Robertson or was
it Kiwi Rail itself. There was also debate over Winston's
hijacking of the rail job and whether this will play
(04:17):
out well or badly for him. There was the conversation
about rail enabled or rail capable well that rumbled on.
Some said just let Bluebridge have the whole thing, after all,
their ships don't seem to break down or run aground.
Stephen Joyce chimed in commented on the nostalgic choice of
kai farda fadder for the ferry port. This is a
very earthquake prone reclamation, which is what's making Portside so expensive.
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But if not there, then where Stephen? Relocating the port
to a seismically more stable location could be even more expensive.
And all of this conversation was very politically tinged, and
maybe that's a problem. I saw a comment on social
media by the political commentator Liam Hare who noted that
when Grant Robertson first saw plans that Kiwi Ral had
(05:02):
he said no and told them to go back, sharpen
their pencils and try again. Then he failed to put
the possible expenditure into the pre election financial update. But
remember kiw we well hadn't come to him with the
new plan. Now, not putting the potential the possible expenditure
into the prefew. The pre election financial update means one
of two things. One Labor was going to hide it,
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keep it secret, but you know, three to four billion
dollars is really too big to hide. Or what is
more likely, Labor hated the idea too. In other words,
no one a year ago knew what to do. No
one like Kiwi Rail's idea on the table. Now, how
refreshing would that have been if that had been said
openly at the time, then we could have all had
(05:45):
a properly informed debate. It made up a grown grown
It made a grown up decision. And instead of all
this political posturing and virtue signaling and points scoring over
who's right and who's wrong, instead of the silence as
we waited for some hail answer from some politician, and
while we waited, a thirty billion dollar trade route slowly
(06:06):
fell apart. This whole thing is another example of how
the best infrastructure decisions are made without politicians, because the
politicians play games that mask the real issues. Talk back
Question of the day. Lovely weekend for most warm blue skies,
Christmases clothes. Half of the country is tipsy. They've been
(06:28):
having Christmas parties. We're all happy, we're all looking forward
to a summer breaking good times. But then what this week?
We get the Crown accounts on Tuesday, we get the
Balance of Payments on Wednesday, and we get the third
quarter GDP on Thursday, and Treasury comes out with this
half yearly economic forecast, and everyone's expecting their numbers to
be really bad, worse than expected six months ago. Now
(06:50):
that is bad news because it means the government will
be will have even less revenue than it thought. If
it has less revenue, it will have to borrow more,
and therefore it will have to more jobs to square
the ledge.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So my question for you today, will twenty twenty five
be as bad as twenty twenty four or will it
be better? Can we rally to find a new gear
and get over all this stuff and start doing some business?
And can I say the most optimistic text wins? I
will read it out over and over again. The text
number is ninety two ninety two. Meanwhile, more bad news.
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The food prices are up. How much will Christmas dinner costs?
We'll talk this next. Here are news talks.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There be.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture Bids and a flying store.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
News Talk said be thank you for your text. Alistair
has texted apparently the Bluebridge Fairies do break down. Currently
one is going through the northern entrance because they have
issues and so they've had to compromise their roots. That
are sixteen after five. The latest Infometrics food Stuff's grocery
supply indexes out in the year to November, supplier costs
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rose two point one percent. Now that's slightly up from October,
which saw an increase of two percent. Remember it's still
more expensive. It's two percent more expensive. In November, almost
three and a half thousand items increased in cost compared
to October, and that's the largest single month increase since July.
John Murphy is the Tear of Vegetables New Zealand and
joins me. Now, good morning to you, John, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Mate, Merry Christmas to you too, Andrew.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So what does this mean for Christmas dinner?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh, it means there's plenty of good produce available and
so we've seen really good supply of fresh vegetables really
for the last few months to be honest and fantastic
by the consumers. Look a little bit tough on some suppliers,
but we're delighted that people will be able to get
sweet corn and all kinds of salads, and before they
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even start looking at the berries and everything like that
that are available, looks really good.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
So talk to me about the supply cost as well.
Supply cost is two thirds of the price increases. The
prices have gone up two point one per Where are
they getting squeezed in their costs?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Look, I think that there is still some general inflationary
pressure that you see, and so you see that lots
of diesel and things like that starting to creep in,
which affects those freight costs that you've been talking about
this morning with theories and everything as well. So there
are still general costs, but the general trend is below
general inflation, i'd say as well. So yeah, I think
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that the key thing here is that there's still very
good buying available, and particularly in the produce area, which
I sees around one point five percent for the year.
That's got to be seen as a successful consumers.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think that's the second time you've said that, So
I know what you're saying. You're saying by local, aren't
you really? Because global production is still low, so there's
loads of inflation there. So you know, don't buy yourself
a French mushroom, buy yourself a New Zealand one.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Absolutely, absolutely. Look, I think the general rule is if
you buy what's abundant and what's available, then you do well.
And that's buying the ticket items at the front of
the supermarket really, and that's also good for consumers because
it reflects what's abundant and available, and that's what we've
got to sell.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Absolutely, Merry Christmas, and what are you going to have
for Christmas dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Look, we'll be getting into all kinds of salads alongside
the traditional ham as well. And then Kinderson peris.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of course you had I forgot your vegetable New Zealand chair.
You're going to have an awful lot of salads. I
wouldn't be surprised if you weren't a vegetarian. John, I
thank you so much for your time today. It is
nineteen after five. I asked for optimistic texts about twenty
twenty five. Richard Sens the text, Hi, Andrew, my favorite
expression is there is nothing more contagious than enthusiasm, except
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the lack of it. So let's get into it. Twenty
twenty five, let's crack this mother, Okay, speaking about being enthusiastic.
How about the black Caps yesterday?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
How about will I rourk?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
How about will you hey? And have had ork? The
FC is still undefeated Elliot Smith on Sport.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Next the First Word on the News of the Day
earlier edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a play at store Youth Talk Zippy.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yesterday was just the best day. I wrapped all the
Christmas presents in one go. I also enjoyed a very
fine pinut green and I did it all while watching
the TV, watching the cricket and watching the black Caps
actually start to dominate England. Elliot Smith on Sport.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
That summer, isn't it really Christmas wrapping?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Every window was open, Yes, yeah, the air was flying
through and the cricket was absolutely marvelous and down and
I shouldn't say down, but in Hamilton, blue sky and
everything looking good. My son went down on Saturday. He
went to Hamilton on Saturday, said it was a beautiful thing.
But very very hot. And we were talking in the
break why why didn't we just go for Will Young
(11:57):
and met Satna right from the start of.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
The scene replies plays so well in India and couldn't
find room for them when they come back home and
different conditions admittedly, but these players have the hot hand,
they're in great form at the moment, and they've been
left out and then you get them for the third
Test and all of a sudden, they're the difference makers
in this team. Will Young looked assured at the top
of the order, much more so than Devin Conway has
(12:19):
locked in the first two tests of the series. Mitchell
Satner with both bat and ball, I thought, has been wonderful.
So you bring those players in and all of a sudden,
it makes a real difference to the team that they
actually look a bit more I guess, more complete than
they did in those first two tests, because it looks
they've looked bitsy throughout this whole series. They haven't been
able to string together sessions on sessions on sessions, which
(12:43):
is what you need to do in test cricket. And
finally in this match it's a dead rubber, but they're
managing to do so.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, Well, I've had a few people actually sending me
emails saying, did they do well because England's given up
because they've already got the series. I don't think that
was the case. I thought Ingland was really trying.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
No, I think so.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Look, Test cricket used to World Test Championships out of
reach for both of these two teams now, but Test
cricket is still the ultimate. Even if you're down to
nil or up to nil in a series, there's still
that one. You don't want to be whitewashed and you
want to go out and whitewash. They're already a hell
of a message for the England team descend to New
Zealand and there may still do so there's still a
better cricket to play in this match to whitewash the
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black Caps. You know, a year out from the Ashes,
which is essentially what English cricket revolves around, is the Ashes,
either at home or away. So they'll be desperate. You
know, they're going to chase at least three forty, probably in
the vicinity of five hundred.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
You would think.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Now, I gave up on the football after an hour
because I just thought it's too hot, it's thirty two
degrees of Melbourne and the Black Knights talking DEFC didn't
seem incisive and wouldn't you night then they became incisive.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
So the rest of your point exactly.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yeah, twice coming from a goal down to draw, just
to level the match, I think is pretty impressive goalkeeping
Howler's either side, but it shows I guess this nacity
in this team is that they're missing three players yesterday
through injury, three key players as well as some of
the usual starters and a couple of them expect about
for months as well, which is the news this morning.
But they managed to riscue your point out of a
(14:03):
two wall drawer. They remain top. And I think you go, well, okay,
you've you've managed to win, You've managed to play from
in front this season.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Now you had to come from behind. They've done it
a different way.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Now they're talking about having a fan committee, you know.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Certainly do an English football weaver.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well, you know, you know the reason their management has
played big money is because they know how to manage,
and the reason fans are fans is because they don't.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, I think now they're Listeninglish football, you know, have
a conduit between the teams. What do you want to see,
what would be best for the games? Et cetera, et cetera.
Can we organize things to make things better in the
fan zone. So I don't think it's the worst as
long as they're not influencing signings and various things.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well that's the thing. This is they worry. This is
where they can go a little bit wrong. Hey yeah,
thank you so much. It is five twenty five.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
The early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 4 (14:46):
HIB News Talks B. It is five twenty seven. Good
morning to you. I'm Andrew Dickens. I see that Mitchell
is congratulating the police for their policing job over the
Napier gang funeral. Four hundred gang members out there. Some
rests and stuff. Can I just a word of warning?
So last week we found out that New Zealand's meth
(15:06):
and cocaine uses through the roof. Thanks to wit Water
wastewater testing, we now know that we've never been so
drugged out. We're into it. Meth and cocaine. What's that
all about? Drug dealing is booming. Remember our biggest drug dealers,
the gangs, the same gangs. The government is getting tough
on with the Patch band. The patch band that came
(15:28):
into attention at this funeral over the weekend in Napier,
the one that made the media because there was a
picture of a Patch gang member riding a horse. At
the funeral. Four people got arrested for patch and insignia crimes,
just four, but four for disorder crimes. Now what am
I more worried about the guys doing the disorder crimes
rather than the guys doing the patch crimes. Meanwhile, the
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drugs keep flowing. I support the Patch band. I don't
mind the Patch band, but I've always warned that it
will not make a huge difference. It's not the only thing.
It's not the silver bullet. It is an inconvenience to
gang members, but it's not a deterrent. I'm old enough
to remember the real intimidation of the patches. Remember them.
They were worn twenty four to seven on filthy leathers
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and by filthy sociopaths who committed filthy and unspeakable crimes
in their leathers all day every day. These days, though,
if you look at the patches, look at them, their
pristine The leather is spotless. It's their Sunday best. It's
like a gang tuxedo. It's what you wear for funerals
and birthday parties. But when you're selling the drugs, you're
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a mufty because you don't want to be identified easily.
And I think that we need to remind ourselves about this.
The gang big wigs are becoming your neighbor. They live
in your suburb. They drive Merks, not Kingswood's. They have degrees,
they have brains, they have very good lawyers, and they'll
order a hit no problem at all. So you worry
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about their patches. They're doing the big business. I am
way more intimidated by those guys than some patch To
dude riding a horse in Hawks Bay, who, by the way,
had no shoes on. Andrew Dickens lovely optimistic text coming
in when we've got a whole lot of bad economic
news coming in. Andrew. Down in christ Church, we're buzzing.
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Everywhere you look. There are new buildings and people are
flocking to the city from all over New Zealand because
of lots of opportunities. That's great, and I've got a
very emotional text about optimism for twenty twenty five that
I will read out after the news, which is in
a few moments time. We're going to Gavin Gray in
the UK. There's a little island between Madagascar and and Africa, Mozambique,
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that has been pummeled by big waves. So i'll tell
you all about that story with Gavin Gray, and later
we'll talk about the new family and sexual violence initiatives
brought in by the government over the course of the weekend.
This is News Talk, said B.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Get ahead of the headlines. Andrew Dickens on early edition
with Split City, New Zealand's furniture Bids and Appliant Store
News Talk sid B Exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I have to say. As I drove to work this morning,
I was the only person on the roads on a
major urban owned motorway. It's the first time it's been
like that, and I normally drive in early for a
while because a lot of people had decided that Christmas
starts today. Kerrydem that's one. John McDonald will be doing
nine to twelve today. Mike, of course has already gone,
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but I'm here and Heather's here. Heather will join me
a little bit later on, and the boys are here
in the afternoon and Ryan's on drive had a text
through us send me an optimistic text about twenty twenty
five as we head into Christmas with a whole lot
of bad economic information coming our way this week, and
Jean says, hey, Andrew, optimistically, we're not being bombed. Excellent, Jean.
(19:00):
This is a text so that I just got as well.
Twenty twenty five will be a great year. We'll have
a long, hot summer with enough rain to keep things growing.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
So my wife and I will continue to work, exercise
and be healthy, and our youngest daughter will finish her degree,
and our oldest daughter will finish rehab and remain clean
for the rest of the year. How can life be
better than that? On a very moving text, Lisa also
writes me and says about the gangs. Gangs and our
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comrades were once comrade? Should I say gangs were once
comrades now their corporations. It's very well written text, and
I thank you, Lisa. Twenty two to six, We're going
right around the country. Jamie Cunningham joins us from Daneed
and Hella, Jamie, good morning. Does this mean that Calum
Proctor's on holiday? It does mean that a lazy bugger,
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tell me about the world's rarest whale.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Weill.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Scientists believe the world's rarest whale, which was found on
an Otago beach, died of hid injuries. The five metres
spatoothed whale washed asshured nears hi Eddimouth south of Dunedin
in July. Now, there's only ever been seven sightings of
the mammal with this, while the first ever to be dissected.
Doc expert Anton van Halden says it's possible the whale
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suffered some sort of head trauma, with bruising identified on
its head and neck, as well as a broken jaw.
He says the cause of the injuries is still unknown.
Now scientists will now analyze the data from the dissection
then publish their findings.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Excellent. How's your weather.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Oh well, it's.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Raining and southerly's developing this morning, then clearing to fine
and are high of fourteen.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Clai shore it joins us fro Christier Tella Claire.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
They're playing instruments in the cathedral.
Speaker 11 (20:41):
Well, yes, musical instruments are going to be played inside
the cathedral for the first time since the quakes. The
Walston brass band is performing both inside and outside tonight
as part of a fundraising effort for the City Mission.
The rebuild of courses on hold indefinitely after attempts to
fill an eighty five million dollar funding gap fail. Now
Dean Ben Truman says, well, that pause is very frustrating.
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They do want to keep making use of the cathedral,
so he says having live music back in the space
is very important, especially brass bands, especially at Christmas. The
performance will be live streamed as well on the Reinstatement
Group's Facebook page if you want to watch. It's at
six forty five tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Lovely. How's your weather?
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Shall was here as.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Well, turning to rain for a time a bit later,
possibly heavy westerly is turning strong southerly the high nineteen.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Adam Cooper's in Wellington, Hellegadam Boding Andrew So deadly weekend
around the water in Wellington.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Yeah, pretty tragic stuff. Three deaths around the water overall
in the country, two of them here in our region.
On Saturday evening, a child died at Avalon Park and
Lower Hut, right next door to the old TVNS and
studios there. They were unable to be saved after being
pulled un aresponsive from the ponds at the park. Emergency
services were then also called to a person needing help
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on Eastbourne Beach yesterday morning. They were unable to be
saved either. And if of course, this comes after another
person died near Fakatane after jumping off a boat and
a man is missing in the Waikato River after jumping
from Puketti Bridge on Saturday night. So Water Safety and
his head n Chief Executive Daniel Gerard, has spoken this morning.
He says they're worried about the summer ahead and he
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understands that right now, with so much going on, there
could be some decision fatigue at this time of year,
but he is just urging people to make good choices
when in and around water. How's your weather, Adam, Pretty
wild today, cloudy shows from the afternoon rain with thunderstorms
and hail possible early this evening.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And we're heading for a five twenty. Thank you and
Wendy Petries in our Auckland studio because never read demand
who has already gone off for Christmas? We need to
turn on your mone Oh.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
It's a common theme emerging, isn't.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
That absolutely Wendy, we have a problem with graffiti in
orcandover twenty twenty four.
Speaker 12 (22:46):
Yeah, we sure do, and Auckland Council is using innovative
methods to deal with the graffiti. The number of taggings
has been on the rise and is set to be
twenty thousand more this financial year than last one hundred
and eighteen thousand tags. The councilor is using a special
protective coating on certain buildings which make them remove all easier.
It's also hanging art vegetation on walls portable CCTV cameras
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to dissuade taggers and make it easier to catch them.
Did you know that the central and eastern areas of
Auckland were the most tagged, while North Auckland has the
least graffiti.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hou's Orker's weather.
Speaker 12 (23:21):
Well, we're actually looking at rain heavy at times, with
possible thunderstorms and downpours easing to a few showers this
evening twenty two the high.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Thank you, Wendy. Now, I don't like to bag on
the media, but on the front page of my paper
yesterday with speculation of a society hookup, did you see
that it's between a seventy eight year old former cabinet minister,
mayor and controversial talkback hosts and one of our foremost
King's Council, a wonderful woman who's sixty five years old.
She was widow. Back in twenty fourteen, they were asked
for comment because somebody had said to the paper, these
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guys have hooked up. The talkback host couldn't help himself,
but his quote said nothing. The lawyer gave a stern
no comment. Apparently they had lunch together. Is this news?
And did this warrant a front page photo of both parties?
I mean, imagine being them. What if they were in
the first flush of something approaching love and suddenly they're
all over the paper, and suddenly all their mates are
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talking about it. You wake up on Sunday morning, you
pick up the paper, your faces are on the front page.
This is the sort of thing that could cause enough
embarrassment to break a fragile butterfly of a relationship. I
didn't care about that story. I felt embarrassed for the
both of them. They say the media only covers the
news because people need to know, but this was not
news anyone needs to know, nor, by the way, was
(24:33):
the story about the TV host who was doing number
twos in a motel room toilet where an unknown man
came wandering and thinking the room was is that wasn't
news either. Obviously we're in the silly season, but it
didn't need to be that silly. Gavin Gray from the
UK on this incredible storm in the African Seas and
also a vigilante in France. This is News Talks.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
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Speaker 4 (25:03):
Kevin Gray from the UK. Good morning, hither Andrew. So
let's go to France first, where five people have died
in shootings in northern France and this might effect be
some sort of vigilentiattech.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yes, that's what local media is reporting. So a twenty
two year old man has now turned himself into police.
But four people that's including two security guards and two
men staying in a camp on the coastline of Dunkirk,
believed to be migrants possibly trying to get across to
the UK, have been killed in these shootings. The government
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is also confessed it's alleged to an earlier shooting in
the nearby town and it is thought that the earlier
shooting was that of his boss. Again unconfirmed reports several
firearms were found in the suspect's car, he said. The
police are saying that he is previously unknown to them.
But all five murders were reportedly committed within just a
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two hour killing spree in the Dunkirk area, and it
looks like the age ranges from something like thirty seven
down to nineteen. And obviously police absolutely cover in the
area and looking at finding motives for this. But as
I said, it does appear to be this young man
had already expressed some pretty severe anti migrant attitudes and
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that's I think probably the motive that police are now
looking at.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
So these guys are all coming around there because they
want to get to England, get across the channel. And
of course it was at a huge peak of while back.
How bad are these camps these days? Have the numbers
dropped because the world's become more stable?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
No, I wish I could say they have, and maybe
they will. Syria is something like the second or third
most popular country for people trying to make that journey.
Perhaps now things in Syria have changed that or damper numbers,
but you know, it really is it's like so many tentacles.
As soon as you cut one off the authorities investigating this,
another one simply grows up. But this government looking at
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how to work with other officers from police stations and
police national police officers around the world in order to
dry and combat this. But it does seem to be
extremely difficult to try and bring the numbers down. And
the conditions in those cabras as we are in December,
it's wet, it's cold, it's miserable, really pretty awful.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Now I found out a new islands maybe, and it's
between Madagesca and Mozambique, Africa, and it's near the Comoros,
and it's called Mayottes and it's just been hammered by
a cyclone, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
The worst in nearly a century. It is a French
Indian territory. So France is immediately sending some two hundred
and fifty firefighters and security personnel to MyoD. As you said,
you've probably never heard of it. It's very very small,
but this cyclone called Cyclone China, absolutely ripped through that
particular area, causing wing gusts of two hundred and twenty
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five kilometers an hour. And there are lots of fears.
I'm afraid that the death toll here could rise considerably.
It has been confirmed eleven were killed, two hundred and
forty six injured. However, they are really only just being
able to start to get to the areas that are
worst affected, and lots of buildings have been absolutely flattened
by this, so I'm a fear that it could well
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see arising deathtoll over the next few hours. There are
reports of trees being uprooted, rus being ripped off, power
lines being down, and I'm afraid communications in the area
absolutely on the floor. So it's going to take a
very very long time to get those rescuers into action
and a very long time for those French firefighters on
security personnel to arrive too.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Kevin Gray from the UK, I thank you. It's eleven
to six. So one point three billion dollars in family
and sexual violence prevention spending is set to go under
review by this government. It's the second five year plan
and it follows on from the Labor government's first one,
which has launched back in twenty twenty one. Now the
government announced the review a new plan yesterday which will
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see a new cross agency plan tasked with doing fewer things,
but doing those things well. And the move has been
welcomed by those working in violence prevents. So let's find
out if that's true. I am joined now by doctor
An's jury from the Women's Refuge and is the chief executive.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Good morning to you, Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Are you welcoming the plan?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
Are many parts of it? Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
What parts are you not welcoming? That was not a
wholehearted one hundred percent? This is awesome.
Speaker 13 (29:22):
Look, no plan is ever going to make all the
people happy all the time. You know, we need to
recognize that the things in there that are like, certainly
the focus on training of frontline civil servants. I think
that's long overdue. We need to be all talking from
the same songsheet.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
When the government says we're doing we're going to do
fewer things, but do them well. That means that some
agencies or groups like yours will be sitting there on tenderhooks.
We aren't wondering whether you're the one that will get
the tick of approval.
Speaker 13 (29:58):
The air well that remains to be seen. Andrew. I
have no immediate fears, and I mean, well, we'll face
any sort of reviews as everyone else would have to do.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You do you understand Do you understand the new government's
approach and the differences from the past regime. Their approach
is called social investment, and do you understand the difference
between their approach and the past regimes approach?
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Yes? No, maybe? Is the answer that I don't think
anybody is really clear in the sector. I don't think
anybody is really clear about what this particular version of
social investment is.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
There are there are seven focus areas with phrases like
protecting children and young people, investing in commissioning will, keeping
people safe, and stopping violence. Do these goals seem vague?
Speaker 13 (30:57):
They could be tighter. There are measures in the action
plan that do measure progress against those goals. So you know,
I mean, we haven't had really solid measures before. That's
got to be a move forward.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Good. Please can be a little bit more confidence as
we head into Christmas.
Speaker 13 (31:20):
Look, there's one of the things that's really good in
this plan is a focus on those using violence in
services that are available to them. That is long overdue.
So you know, if we're going to beat this thing,
let's try and turn the tap off and stop the
people that are actually committing the violence.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Well see it and Merry Christmas. Thank you for all
your service over the course of the year.
Speaker 13 (31:47):
Okay, bye bye bye.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Now it is a seven to six, tough job for her,
tough job for us, tough job for the government. Always
has been, always will be.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Bids and
applying store youth Talk said be.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You may or may not have heard, but it's in
the paper today that massive university's quoted. The year competition
is out and they've got some nominees and there's about
ten of them and currently leading the races. A quote
from Prime Minister Christopher Laxson on property, the media and
success after the whole rental property thing, and he said,
let me be clear, I'm wealthy, I'm you know, sorted.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
How do you know that's leading the race.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Because they told me this, do they? Yes, this is
in the article, this is according to the Augan How
much are we leading the race by? Well, now, the
reason that Heather is so excited is that Christopher Lackson
said those very words on your program in response to
your questioning. You are looking like you're going to get
that quote? Are they year?
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 14 (32:47):
And you know what, can I be completely honest with
you When he said it, I thought nothing of it
because I was like, well, obviously.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
That's the truth, wealthy, you're sorted so well.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
So moving on. Yeah, thanks for being honest with us.
Everybody else though, flipped the lid.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Didn't that exactly?
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Anyway? How much are they're leading by?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
I haven't the quag margin. I hope it's beg man.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Well it's going to be even bigger now.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Well, actually, actually, how do you vote?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Andrew?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
So this is a nomination. Voting closes at midnight on
Wednesday and can be done at Massy's University's website.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Okay, we've got to go for it. We've got everybody listening.
Needs to go for it and help me out with
this one now.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
But hold on, there's a whole lot of Ruby Tooey
in there, and Ruby twoy is just a quote machine.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
No, no, no, what does she say?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
No, none of them listened here. She said to King
Charles about the Buckingham Palace gardens. You've got enough room
out there for like three rugby fields bro.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
Like three rugby fields bro brobing the king.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Isn't it good? I'm Mark Porsche Woodman Wickliffe was said,
what are you going to do when you retire? She said,
lounge on the couch, eat maccas and KFC and pop
out babies.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Do you know what? That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 14 (33:50):
You know, I've got one more week of work and
then i can lounge on the couch, eat McDonald's and
KFC's and pop out a baby as well.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
And I'm looking forward to it. Can I just say
really quick?
Speaker 14 (34:00):
And we're going to talk on the show this morning
about the fact that the Trade ministers using the last
few days of this week basically to go to India
sprook the chances of that free tap trade agreement. And
question for you do you think the cops if you're
holding a big event turning a profit, you need the
cops there.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
Should you pay them for their services?
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
That's a very good question. Talk about question of the day? Hey,
did you proceed?
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Alan?
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Next? My name is Andrew Dickins. Thanks to producer Leo Ce.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
You tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It'd be.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Good morning, welcome to the program. Congratulations for still working,
don't feel bad about it. It is the sixteenth of December.
I'm Drew Dickins, coming up gone the program today. How
much is Christmaston are going to cost? Food prices are out?
How much have they gone up? We'll have details in
five minutes. In sport, the black Cats played well and
ORCHIDEFCA still have not been defeated. Sir Elliot Smith on
(00:38):
sports in ten minutes time. Overseas, migrants in France killed
by an anti migrant militant. Details after five point thirty
and just before six. The government's got a new plan
to combat family and sexual violence. We'll talk to someone
from the Family Refuge about whether it will work. We'll
have correspondence from around New Zealand. Will have news as
at breaks. You can be involved by giving me a text.
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The number to text small chart ninety two ninety two.
That's zeb zeb Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The agenda.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yes, welcome on ed I've forgotten the date to the
sixteenth of December neby yet Okay. After almost twenty years
in prison, the five remaining members of the Bari nine
have returned to Australia. In two thousand and five, Indonesian
officials court nine Australians attempting to smuggle over eight kilos
of heroin out of Bali.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
These Australians served more than nineteen years in prison in Indonesia.
It was time for them to come home. Australia shares
Indonesia's concern about the serious problem ilice that drugs represents
the government will continue to cooperate with Indonesia to counter
narcotics trafficking and transnational crime.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
The two ring leaders of the group were executed by
Indonesian officials back in twenty fifteen. Another had her sentence
commuted after thirteen years in prison. Another diet of cancer
in twenty eight eighteen. And these guys have been in
prison for twenty years. Can you imagine that trying to
get back to normality speaking with speaking about traveling and
tourists in Australia and things going wrong. Seven tourists, four
(02:10):
of them Australian, are in hospital following a suspected alcohol poisoning,
this time in Fiji, is understood they became unwell after
drinking a cocktail at a hotel bar over the weekend.
More details will come to hand as the wik goes on.
Now South Korea, the president there has been impeached by
parliament after he invoked martial law. I may pause for
(02:31):
a moment now, but the journey towards the future, which
I have walked with the people over the past two
and a half years, must never come to a halt.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I will never give up.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The successful move, which follows an earlier failed vote, means
the president is officially suspended from his duties. Prime Minister
Han duck Su is now in the role of acting president,
and South Korea's Constitutional Court now has six months to
decide its fate and whether it upholds the impeachment vote.
And this young democracy is actually quite cockahoop and quite
happy about the fact that people power won. And at
(03:04):
world first traffic camera trial is underway in the UK.
It uses artificial intelligence to look for unusual driving patterns
that could indicate that someone's a little under the influence
either drugs or alcohol, and once it detects you wobbling
all over the place. Police further up the road will
stop you and conduct roadside tests. You have been warned.
It's ten after five.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
News and Views you trust has start your days Billy
Edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a flying Store youth Talks.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It'd be yeah. So anyone who thought the ferry debate
was over for someone was very, very wrong when they
got their papers this weekend. The weekend papers were full
of recons and I reckon. It's because people have begun
to realize that the ferries are a bigger piece of
infrastructure than most think. Sure, we've got a lot of
tourists on it, we've got a lot of locals traveling
back and forth on it, going home, going to new jobs, whatever,
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heading out on the benures. But thirty billion dollars worth
of travel between the North and South Island on it too.
It's the Iron Bridge, they call it. So the reckons
were all about who screwed it up more? Was it
Nicholas Willis, Nichola Willis, Was it Grant Robertson or was
it Kiwi Rail itself. There was also debate over Winston's
hijacking of the rail job and whether this will play
(04:17):
out well or badly for him. There was the conversation
about rail enabled or rail capable well that rumbled on.
Some said just let Bluebridge have the whole thing, after all,
their ships don't seem to break down or run aground.
Stephen Joyce chimed in commented on the nostalgic choice of
kai farda fadder for the ferry port. This is a
very earthquake prone reclamation, which is what's making Portside so expensive.
(04:40):
But if not there, then where Stephen? Relocating the port
to a seismically more stable location could be even more expensive.
And all of this conversation was very politically tinged, and
maybe that's a problem. I saw a comment on social
media by the political commentator Liam Hare who noted that
when Grant Robertson first saw plans that Kiwi Ral had
(05:02):
he said no and told them to go back, sharpen
their pencils and try again. Then he failed to put
the possible expenditure into the pre election financial update. But
remember kiw we well hadn't come to him with the
new plan. Now, not putting the potential the possible expenditure
into the prefew. The pre election financial update means one
of two things. One Labor was going to hide it,
(05:23):
keep it secret, but you know, three to four billion
dollars is really too big to hide. Or what is
more likely, Labor hated the idea too. In other words,
no one a year ago knew what to do. No
one like Kiwi Rail's idea on the table. Now, how
refreshing would that have been if that had been said
openly at the time, then we could have all had
(05:45):
a properly informed debate. It made up a grown grown
It made a grown up decision. And instead of all
this political posturing and virtue signaling and points scoring over
who's right and who's wrong, instead of the silence as
we waited for some hail answer from some politician, and
while we waited, a thirty billion dollar trade route slowly
(06:06):
fell apart. This whole thing is another example of how
the best infrastructure decisions are made without politicians, because the
politicians play games that mask the real issues. Talk back
Question of the day. Lovely weekend for most warm blue skies,
Christmases clothes. Half of the country is tipsy. They've been
(06:28):
having Christmas parties. We're all happy, we're all looking forward
to a summer breaking good times. But then what this week?
We get the Crown accounts on Tuesday, we get the
Balance of Payments on Wednesday, and we get the third
quarter GDP on Thursday, and Treasury comes out with this
half yearly economic forecast, and everyone's expecting their numbers to
be really bad, worse than expected six months ago. Now
(06:50):
that is bad news because it means the government will
be will have even less revenue than it thought. If
it has less revenue, it will have to borrow more,
and therefore it will have to more jobs to square
the ledge.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So my question for you today, will twenty twenty five
be as bad as twenty twenty four or will it
be better? Can we rally to find a new gear
and get over all this stuff and start doing some business?
And can I say the most optimistic text wins? I
will read it out over and over again. The text
number is ninety two ninety two. Meanwhile, more bad news.
(07:24):
The food prices are up. How much will Christmas dinner costs?
We'll talk this next. Here are news talks.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There be.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture Bids and a flying store.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
News Talk said be thank you for your text. Alistair
has texted apparently the Bluebridge Fairies do break down. Currently
one is going through the northern entrance because they have
issues and so they've had to compromise their roots. That
are sixteen after five. The latest Infometrics food Stuff's grocery
supply indexes out in the year to November, supplier costs
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rose two point one percent. Now that's slightly up from October,
which saw an increase of two percent. Remember it's still
more expensive. It's two percent more expensive. In November, almost
three and a half thousand items increased in cost compared
to October, and that's the largest single month increase since July.
John Murphy is the Tear of Vegetables New Zealand and
joins me. Now, good morning to you, John, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Mate, Merry Christmas to you too, Andrew.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So what does this mean for Christmas dinner?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh, it means there's plenty of good produce available and
so we've seen really good supply of fresh vegetables really
for the last few months to be honest and fantastic
by the consumers. Look a little bit tough on some suppliers,
but we're delighted that people will be able to get
sweet corn and all kinds of salads, and before they
(08:49):
even start looking at the berries and everything like that
that are available, looks really good.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
So talk to me about the supply cost as well.
Supply cost is two thirds of the price increases. The
prices have gone up two point one per Where are
they getting squeezed in their costs?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Look, I think that there is still some general inflationary
pressure that you see, and so you see that lots
of diesel and things like that starting to creep in,
which affects those freight costs that you've been talking about
this morning with theories and everything as well. So there
are still general costs, but the general trend is below
general inflation, i'd say as well. So yeah, I think
(09:27):
that the key thing here is that there's still very
good buying available, and particularly in the produce area, which
I sees around one point five percent for the year.
That's got to be seen as a successful consumers.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think that's the second time you've said that, So
I know what you're saying. You're saying by local, aren't
you really? Because global production is still low, so there's
loads of inflation there. So you know, don't buy yourself
a French mushroom, buy yourself a New Zealand one.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Absolutely, absolutely. Look, I think the general rule is if
you buy what's abundant and what's available, then you do well.
And that's buying the ticket items at the front of
the supermarket really, and that's also good for consumers because
it reflects what's abundant and available, and that's what we've
got to sell.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Absolutely, Merry Christmas, and what are you going to have
for Christmas dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Look, we'll be getting into all kinds of salads alongside
the traditional ham as well. And then Kinderson peris.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Of course you had I forgot your vegetable New Zealand chair.
You're going to have an awful lot of salads. I
wouldn't be surprised if you weren't a vegetarian. John, I
thank you so much for your time today. It is
nineteen after five. I asked for optimistic texts about twenty
twenty five. Richard Sens the text, Hi, Andrew, my favorite
expression is there is nothing more contagious than enthusiasm, except
(10:49):
the lack of it. So let's get into it. Twenty
twenty five, let's crack this mother, Okay, speaking about being enthusiastic.
How about the black Caps yesterday?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
How about will I rourk?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
How about will you hey? And have had ork? The
FC is still undefeated Elliot Smith on Sport.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Next the First Word on the News of the Day
earlier edition with Andrew Dickens and Smith City New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a play at store Youth Talk Zippy.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yesterday was just the best day. I wrapped all the
Christmas presents in one go. I also enjoyed a very
fine pinut green and I did it all while watching
the TV, watching the cricket and watching the black Caps
actually start to dominate England. Elliot Smith on Sport.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
That summer, isn't it really Christmas wrapping?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Every window was open, Yes, yeah, the air was flying
through and the cricket was absolutely marvelous and down and
I shouldn't say down, but in Hamilton, blue sky and
everything looking good. My son went down on Saturday. He
went to Hamilton on Saturday, said it was a beautiful thing.
But very very hot. And we were talking in the
break why why didn't we just go for Will Young
(11:57):
and met Satna right from the start of.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
The scene replies plays so well in India and couldn't
find room for them when they come back home and
different conditions admittedly, but these players have the hot hand,
they're in great form at the moment, and they've been
left out and then you get them for the third
Test and all of a sudden, they're the difference makers
in this team. Will Young looked assured at the top
of the order, much more so than Devin Conway has
(12:19):
locked in the first two tests of the series. Mitchell
Satner with both bat and ball, I thought, has been wonderful.
So you bring those players in and all of a sudden,
it makes a real difference to the team that they
actually look a bit more I guess, more complete than
they did in those first two tests, because it looks
they've looked bitsy throughout this whole series. They haven't been
able to string together sessions on sessions on sessions, which
(12:43):
is what you need to do in test cricket. And
finally in this match it's a dead rubber, but they're
managing to do so.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, Well, I've had a few people actually sending me
emails saying, did they do well because England's given up
because they've already got the series. I don't think that
was the case. I thought Ingland was really trying.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
No, I think so.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Look, Test cricket used to World Test Championships out of
reach for both of these two teams now, but Test
cricket is still the ultimate. Even if you're down to
nil or up to nil in a series, there's still
that one. You don't want to be whitewashed and you
want to go out and whitewash. They're already a hell
of a message for the England team descend to New
Zealand and there may still do so there's still a
better cricket to play in this match to whitewash the
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black Caps. You know, a year out from the Ashes,
which is essentially what English cricket revolves around, is the Ashes,
either at home or away. So they'll be desperate. You
know, they're going to chase at least three forty, probably in
the vicinity of five hundred.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
You would think.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Now, I gave up on the football after an hour
because I just thought it's too hot, it's thirty two
degrees of Melbourne and the Black Knights talking DEFC didn't
seem incisive and wouldn't you night then they became incisive.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
So the rest of your point exactly.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Yeah, twice coming from a goal down to draw, just
to level the match, I think is pretty impressive goalkeeping
Howler's either side, but it shows I guess this nacity
in this team is that they're missing three players yesterday
through injury, three key players as well as some of
the usual starters and a couple of them expect about
for months as well, which is the news this morning.
But they managed to riscue your point out of a
(14:03):
two wall drawer. They remain top. And I think you go, well, okay,
you've you've managed to win, You've managed to play from
in front this season.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Now you had to come from behind. They've done it
a different way.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Now they're talking about having a fan committee, you know.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Certainly do an English football weaver.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well, you know, you know the reason their management has
played big money is because they know how to manage,
and the reason fans are fans is because they don't.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, I think now they're Listeninglish football, you know, have
a conduit between the teams. What do you want to see,
what would be best for the games? Et cetera, et cetera.
Can we organize things to make things better in the
fan zone. So I don't think it's the worst as
long as they're not influencing signings and various things.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Well that's the thing. This is they worry. This is
where they can go a little bit wrong. Hey yeah,
thank you so much. It is five twenty five.
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is congratulating the police for their policing job over the
Napier gang funeral. Four hundred gang members out there. Some
rests and stuff. Can I just a word of warning?
So last week we found out that New Zealand's meth
(15:06):
and cocaine uses through the roof. Thanks to wit Water
wastewater testing, we now know that we've never been so
drugged out. We're into it. Meth and cocaine. What's that
all about? Drug dealing is booming. Remember our biggest drug dealers,
the gangs, the same gangs. The government is getting tough
on with the Patch band. The patch band that came
(15:28):
into attention at this funeral over the weekend in Napier,
the one that made the media because there was a
picture of a Patch gang member riding a horse. At
the funeral. Four people got arrested for patch and insignia crimes,
just four, but four for disorder crimes. Now what am
I more worried about the guys doing the disorder crimes
rather than the guys doing the patch crimes. Meanwhile, the
(15:49):
drugs keep flowing. I support the Patch band. I don't
mind the Patch band, but I've always warned that it
will not make a huge difference. It's not the only thing.
It's not the silver bullet. It is an inconvenience to
gang members, but it's not a deterrent. I'm old enough
to remember the real intimidation of the patches. Remember them.
They were worn twenty four to seven on filthy leathers
(16:10):
and by filthy sociopaths who committed filthy and unspeakable crimes
in their leathers all day every day. These days, though,
if you look at the patches, look at them, their
pristine The leather is spotless. It's their Sunday best. It's
like a gang tuxedo. It's what you wear for funerals
and birthday parties. But when you're selling the drugs, you're
(16:30):
a mufty because you don't want to be identified easily.
And I think that we need to remind ourselves about this.
The gang big wigs are becoming your neighbor. They live
in your suburb. They drive Merks, not Kingswood's. They have degrees,
they have brains, they have very good lawyers, and they'll
order a hit no problem at all. So you worry
(16:53):
about their patches. They're doing the big business. I am
way more intimidated by those guys than some patch To
dude riding a horse in Hawks Bay, who, by the way,
had no shoes on. Andrew Dickens lovely optimistic text coming
in when we've got a whole lot of bad economic
news coming in. Andrew. Down in christ Church, we're buzzing.
(17:13):
Everywhere you look. There are new buildings and people are
flocking to the city from all over New Zealand because
of lots of opportunities. That's great, and I've got a
very emotional text about optimism for twenty twenty five that
I will read out after the news, which is in
a few moments time. We're going to Gavin Gray in
the UK. There's a little island between Madagascar and and Africa, Mozambique,
(17:34):
that has been pummeled by big waves. So i'll tell
you all about that story with Gavin Gray, and later
we'll talk about the new family and sexual violence initiatives
brought in by the government over the course of the weekend.
This is News Talk, said B.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Get ahead of the headlines. Andrew Dickens on early edition
with Split City, New Zealand's furniture Bids and Appliant Store
News Talk sid B Exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I have to say. As I drove to work this morning,
I was the only person on the roads on a
major urban owned motorway. It's the first time it's been
like that, and I normally drive in early for a
while because a lot of people had decided that Christmas
starts today. Kerrydem that's one. John McDonald will be doing
nine to twelve today. Mike, of course has already gone,
(18:38):
but I'm here and Heather's here. Heather will join me
a little bit later on, and the boys are here
in the afternoon and Ryan's on drive had a text
through us send me an optimistic text about twenty twenty
five as we head into Christmas with a whole lot
of bad economic information coming our way this week, and
Jean says, hey, Andrew, optimistically, we're not being bombed. Excellent, Jean.
(19:00):
This is a text so that I just got as well.
Twenty twenty five will be a great year. We'll have
a long, hot summer with enough rain to keep things growing.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
So my wife and I will continue to work, exercise
and be healthy, and our youngest daughter will finish her degree,
and our oldest daughter will finish rehab and remain clean
for the rest of the year. How can life be
better than that? On a very moving text, Lisa also
writes me and says about the gangs. Gangs and our
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comrades were once comrade? Should I say gangs were once
comrades now their corporations. It's very well written text, and
I thank you, Lisa. Twenty two to six, We're going
right around the country. Jamie Cunningham joins us from Daneed
and Hella, Jamie, good morning. Does this mean that Calum
Proctor's on holiday? It does mean that a lazy bugger,
(19:52):
tell me about the world's rarest whale.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Weill.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
Scientists believe the world's rarest whale, which was found on
an Otago beach, died of hid injuries. The five metres
spatoothed whale washed asshured nears hi Eddimouth south of Dunedin
in July. Now, there's only ever been seven sightings of
the mammal with this, while the first ever to be dissected.
Doc expert Anton van Halden says it's possible the whale
(20:14):
suffered some sort of head trauma, with bruising identified on
its head and neck, as well as a broken jaw.
He says the cause of the injuries is still unknown.
Now scientists will now analyze the data from the dissection
then publish their findings.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Excellent. How's your weather.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Oh well, it's.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Raining and southerly's developing this morning, then clearing to fine
and are high of fourteen.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Clai shore it joins us fro Christier Tella Claire.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
They're playing instruments in the cathedral.
Speaker 11 (20:41):
Well, yes, musical instruments are going to be played inside
the cathedral for the first time since the quakes. The
Walston brass band is performing both inside and outside tonight
as part of a fundraising effort for the City Mission.
The rebuild of courses on hold indefinitely after attempts to
fill an eighty five million dollar funding gap fail. Now
Dean Ben Truman says, well, that pause is very frustrating.
(21:04):
They do want to keep making use of the cathedral,
so he says having live music back in the space
is very important, especially brass bands, especially at Christmas. The
performance will be live streamed as well on the Reinstatement
Group's Facebook page if you want to watch. It's at
six forty five tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Lovely. How's your weather?
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Shall was here as.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Well, turning to rain for a time a bit later,
possibly heavy westerly is turning strong southerly the high nineteen.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Adam Cooper's in Wellington, Hellegadam Boding Andrew So deadly weekend
around the water in Wellington.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Yeah, pretty tragic stuff. Three deaths around the water overall
in the country, two of them here in our region.
On Saturday evening, a child died at Avalon Park and
Lower Hut, right next door to the old TVNS and
studios there. They were unable to be saved after being
pulled un aresponsive from the ponds at the park. Emergency
services were then also called to a person needing help
(21:54):
on Eastbourne Beach yesterday morning. They were unable to be
saved either. And if of course, this comes after another
person died near Fakatane after jumping off a boat and
a man is missing in the Waikato River after jumping
from Puketti Bridge on Saturday night. So Water Safety and
his head n Chief Executive Daniel Gerard, has spoken this morning.
He says they're worried about the summer ahead and he
(22:14):
understands that right now, with so much going on, there
could be some decision fatigue at this time of year,
but he is just urging people to make good choices
when in and around water. How's your weather, Adam, Pretty
wild today, cloudy shows from the afternoon rain with thunderstorms
and hail possible early this evening.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And we're heading for a five twenty. Thank you and
Wendy Petries in our Auckland studio because never read demand
who has already gone off for Christmas? We need to
turn on your mone Oh.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
It's a common theme emerging, isn't.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
That absolutely Wendy, we have a problem with graffiti in
orcandover twenty twenty four.
Speaker 12 (22:46):
Yeah, we sure do, and Auckland Council is using innovative
methods to deal with the graffiti. The number of taggings
has been on the rise and is set to be
twenty thousand more this financial year than last one hundred
and eighteen thousand tags. The councilor is using a special
protective coating on certain buildings which make them remove all easier.
It's also hanging art vegetation on walls portable CCTV cameras
(23:10):
to dissuade taggers and make it easier to catch them.
Did you know that the central and eastern areas of
Auckland were the most tagged, while North Auckland has the
least graffiti.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Hou's Orker's weather.
Speaker 12 (23:21):
Well, we're actually looking at rain heavy at times, with
possible thunderstorms and downpours easing to a few showers this
evening twenty two the high.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Thank you, Wendy. Now, I don't like to bag on
the media, but on the front page of my paper
yesterday with speculation of a society hookup, did you see
that it's between a seventy eight year old former cabinet minister,
mayor and controversial talkback hosts and one of our foremost
King's Council, a wonderful woman who's sixty five years old.
She was widow. Back in twenty fourteen, they were asked
for comment because somebody had said to the paper, these
(23:49):
guys have hooked up. The talkback host couldn't help himself,
but his quote said nothing. The lawyer gave a stern
no comment. Apparently they had lunch together. Is this news?
And did this warrant a front page photo of both parties?
I mean, imagine being them. What if they were in
the first flush of something approaching love and suddenly they're
all over the paper, and suddenly all their mates are
(24:11):
talking about it. You wake up on Sunday morning, you
pick up the paper, your faces are on the front page.
This is the sort of thing that could cause enough
embarrassment to break a fragile butterfly of a relationship. I
didn't care about that story. I felt embarrassed for the
both of them. They say the media only covers the
news because people need to know, but this was not
news anyone needs to know, nor, by the way, was
(24:33):
the story about the TV host who was doing number
twos in a motel room toilet where an unknown man
came wandering and thinking the room was is that wasn't
news either. Obviously we're in the silly season, but it
didn't need to be that silly. Gavin Gray from the
UK on this incredible storm in the African Seas and
also a vigilante in France. This is News Talks.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
AB International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Kevin Gray from the UK. Good morning, hither Andrew. So
let's go to France first, where five people have died
in shootings in northern France and this might effect be
some sort of vigilentiattech.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yes, that's what local media is reporting. So a twenty
two year old man has now turned himself into police.
But four people that's including two security guards and two
men staying in a camp on the coastline of Dunkirk,
believed to be migrants possibly trying to get across to
the UK, have been killed in these shootings. The government
(25:36):
is also confessed it's alleged to an earlier shooting in
the nearby town and it is thought that the earlier
shooting was that of his boss. Again unconfirmed reports several
firearms were found in the suspect's car, he said. The
police are saying that he is previously unknown to them.
But all five murders were reportedly committed within just a
(25:57):
two hour killing spree in the Dunkirk area, and it
looks like the age ranges from something like thirty seven
down to nineteen. And obviously police absolutely cover in the
area and looking at finding motives for this. But as
I said, it does appear to be this young man
had already expressed some pretty severe anti migrant attitudes and
(26:20):
that's I think probably the motive that police are now
looking at.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
So these guys are all coming around there because they
want to get to England, get across the channel. And
of course it was at a huge peak of while back.
How bad are these camps these days? Have the numbers
dropped because the world's become more stable?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
No, I wish I could say they have, and maybe
they will. Syria is something like the second or third
most popular country for people trying to make that journey.
Perhaps now things in Syria have changed that or damper numbers,
but you know, it really is it's like so many tentacles.
As soon as you cut one off the authorities investigating this,
another one simply grows up. But this government looking at
(26:55):
how to work with other officers from police stations and
police national police officers around the world in order to
dry and combat this. But it does seem to be
extremely difficult to try and bring the numbers down. And
the conditions in those cabras as we are in December,
it's wet, it's cold, it's miserable, really pretty awful.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Now I found out a new islands maybe, and it's
between Madagesca and Mozambique, Africa, and it's near the Comoros,
and it's called Mayottes and it's just been hammered by
a cyclone, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
The worst in nearly a century. It is a French
Indian territory. So France is immediately sending some two hundred
and fifty firefighters and security personnel to MyoD. As you said,
you've probably never heard of it. It's very very small,
but this cyclone called Cyclone China, absolutely ripped through that
particular area, causing wing gusts of two hundred and twenty
(27:47):
five kilometers an hour. And there are lots of fears.
I'm afraid that the death toll here could rise considerably.
It has been confirmed eleven were killed, two hundred and
forty six injured. However, they are really only just being
able to start to get to the areas that are
worst affected, and lots of buildings have been absolutely flattened
by this, so I'm a fear that it could well
(28:09):
see arising deathtoll over the next few hours. There are
reports of trees being uprooted, rus being ripped off, power
lines being down, and I'm afraid communications in the area
absolutely on the floor. So it's going to take a
very very long time to get those rescuers into action
and a very long time for those French firefighters on
security personnel to arrive too.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Kevin Gray from the UK, I thank you. It's eleven
to six. So one point three billion dollars in family
and sexual violence prevention spending is set to go under
review by this government. It's the second five year plan
and it follows on from the Labor government's first one,
which has launched back in twenty twenty one. Now the
government announced the review a new plan yesterday which will
(28:50):
see a new cross agency plan tasked with doing fewer things,
but doing those things well. And the move has been
welcomed by those working in violence prevents. So let's find
out if that's true. I am joined now by doctor
An's jury from the Women's Refuge and is the chief executive.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Good morning to you, Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Are you welcoming the plan?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
Are many parts of it? Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Well?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
What parts are you not welcoming? That was not a
wholehearted one hundred percent? This is awesome.
Speaker 13 (29:22):
Look, no plan is ever going to make all the
people happy all the time. You know, we need to
recognize that the things in there that are like, certainly
the focus on training of frontline civil servants. I think
that's long overdue. We need to be all talking from
the same songsheet.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
When the government says we're doing we're going to do
fewer things, but do them well. That means that some
agencies or groups like yours will be sitting there on tenderhooks.
We aren't wondering whether you're the one that will get
the tick of approval.
Speaker 13 (29:58):
The air well that remains to be seen. Andrew. I
have no immediate fears, and I mean, well, we'll face
any sort of reviews as everyone else would have to do.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You do you understand Do you understand the new government's
approach and the differences from the past regime. Their approach
is called social investment, and do you understand the difference
between their approach and the past regimes approach?
Speaker 13 (30:24):
Yes? No, maybe? Is the answer that I don't think
anybody is really clear in the sector. I don't think
anybody is really clear about what this particular version of
social investment is.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
There are there are seven focus areas with phrases like
protecting children and young people, investing in commissioning will, keeping
people safe, and stopping violence. Do these goals seem vague?
Speaker 13 (30:57):
They could be tighter. There are measures in the action
plan that do measure progress against those goals. So you know,
I mean, we haven't had really solid measures before. That's
got to be a move forward.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Good. Please can be a little bit more confidence as
we head into Christmas.
Speaker 13 (31:20):
Look, there's one of the things that's really good in
this plan is a focus on those using violence in
services that are available to them. That is long overdue.
So you know, if we're going to beat this thing,
let's try and turn the tap off and stop the
people that are actually committing the violence.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Well see it and Merry Christmas. Thank you for all
your service over the course of the year.
Speaker 13 (31:47):
Okay, bye bye bye.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Now it is a seven to six, tough job for her,
tough job for us, tough job for the government. Always
has been, always will be.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Andrew Dickens and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Bids and
applying store youth Talk said be.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You may or may not have heard, but it's in
the paper today that massive university's quoted. The year competition
is out and they've got some nominees and there's about
ten of them and currently leading the races. A quote
from Prime Minister Christopher Laxson on property, the media and
success after the whole rental property thing, and he said,
let me be clear, I'm wealthy, I'm you know, sorted.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
How do you know that's leading the race.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Because they told me this, do they? Yes, this is
in the article, this is according to the Augan How
much are we leading the race by? Well, now, the
reason that Heather is so excited is that Christopher Lackson
said those very words on your program in response to
your questioning. You are looking like you're going to get
that quote? Are they year?
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 14 (32:47):
And you know what, can I be completely honest with
you When he said it, I thought nothing of it
because I was like, well, obviously.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
That's the truth, wealthy, you're sorted so well.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
So moving on. Yeah, thanks for being honest with us.
Everybody else though, flipped the lid.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Didn't that exactly?
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Anyway? How much are they're leading by?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
I haven't the quag margin. I hope it's beg man.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Well it's going to be even bigger now.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Well, actually, actually, how do you vote?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Andrew?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
So this is a nomination. Voting closes at midnight on
Wednesday and can be done at Massy's University's website.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Okay, we've got to go for it. We've got everybody listening.
Needs to go for it and help me out with
this one now.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
But hold on, there's a whole lot of Ruby Tooey
in there, and Ruby twoy is just a quote machine.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
No, no, no, what does she say?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
No, none of them listened here. She said to King
Charles about the Buckingham Palace gardens. You've got enough room
out there for like three rugby fields bro.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
Like three rugby fields bro brobing the king.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Isn't it good? I'm Mark Porsche Woodman Wickliffe was said,
what are you going to do when you retire? She said,
lounge on the couch, eat maccas and KFC and pop
out babies.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Do you know what? That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 14 (33:50):
You know, I've got one more week of work and
then i can lounge on the couch, eat McDonald's and
KFC's and pop out a baby as well.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
And I'm looking forward to it. Can I just say
really quick?
Speaker 14 (34:00):
And we're going to talk on the show this morning
about the fact that the Trade ministers using the last
few days of this week basically to go to India
sprook the chances of that free tap trade agreement. And
question for you do you think the cops if you're
holding a big event turning a profit, you need the
cops there.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
Should you pay them for their services?
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
That's a very good question. Talk about question of the day? Hey,
did you proceed?
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Alan?
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Next? My name is Andrew Dickins. Thanks to producer Leo Ce.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
You tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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