September 15, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Tuesday 16th of September 2025, the Government's investigating local rules that are holding Eden Park back from hosting more big events, Heart of the City CEO Viv Beck tells Ryan about the impact this could have on Auckland.
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay shares his thoughts on farmer confidence climbing.
Gisborne council’s forestry rules have company directors warning they could go bankrupt.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
earlier show with one roof Love, where you live News talks,
that'd be good.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Morning, Welcome to Tuesday, just gone six after five. Coming
up on the show, Helen and co versus Luxeon and
Bish on the Eden Park where live in Australia, where
A and Z's copper slap on the hand from regulators.
Todd McLay on farmer confidence and deal's being signed in
Saudi overnight and slash in Gisbon could put some they
reckon forresters out of business. That story for you too,
(00:31):
or ahead on early edition the Agenda Tuesday to sixteenth
of September Night and Yahoo isn't ruling out more strikes
on HUMMAS leaders abroad after last week's attack on Kuta.
I'll tell you what the impact of the strikers.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We sent a message to the terrorist you can run,
but you can't hide.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
TikTok news. Washington's closing in on a deal with China
on the American operations. He has Scott Vesent, the US
Treasury Secretary, the.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Two leaders of President Trump and party chair. She will
speak on Friday to complete the deal. But we do
have a framework for a deal with Tikon.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So deadline Thursday, our time. No word yet from China.
Adolescens the big winner at the Emmy's yesterday, taking home
for major awards. This is the British show. It's on Netflix.
It's the Young Boy who murders a schoolmate. It's all
filmed in a continuous take, which must be an absolute
nightmare for the directors. Star Owen Cooper becoming the youngest
male actor to ever win at an an Emmy at
(01:34):
age fifteen. Jami goes to Owen Cooper, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It was just so surreal own. Honestly, when I started
these drama classes a couple of years back, I didn't
expect to be even in the United States, never mind here.
Well I was nothing about three years ago. I'm here
And also.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Views and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Brian and One Room Love, where you Live,
News talks.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That'd beat to have your company. Just gone eight minutes
after five nine to ninety two the number to text Halling.
Clark's put out a statement on Eden Park. Are we
surprised to hear she's a neighbor? Of course, I'll just
read you the first line A key point is that
Eden Park is not even close to maximizing the use
of its current under its current restrictions. So the agreement
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that they've got in place at the moment, it's pretty restrictive.
You can only have twelve concerts a year, so six
artists and twelve concerts a year maximum. They've got a
curfew for weeknight events, all that kind of stuff. She
says that if they're not even maxing what they've got,
then why do you need to give them more? I
suppose it's because if you had fewer restrictions, you might
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get different events and different artists attracted here that you
otherwise wouldn't get. People have been asking in the last
twenty well twelve hours, why is the government doing? Sounds
silly to just we're going to do consultation on this, Like,
you know, we've made up our minds pretty much. We
think we need to lift these restrictions or lift some
of them. Why are they doing consultation? Like, just get
(03:08):
on with it. People are sick of waiting around. You know,
you've been saying you're going to this is an announcement
about consultation that you hope to then become an announcement.
It's not even an announcement about an announcement. That would
be better would be, you know, just scratching them scraping
the barrel here. Anyway, I had a look last night
at the RMA. So the government passed an amendment to
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the RMA this year, and this is a targeted tool,
so the government can overrule local regulations. They can walk
in like a czar and say this is happening. Come hello,
high water and Helen Clark. You can just put some
little air plugs in and get to sleep. Now, in
the legislation they have baked into this legislation the fact
(03:51):
that you need to do consultation. So a couple of things.
It's really targeted, and it's it's for if anything that
would promote economic growth or development capacity they call it,
or employment. Under those provisions, the government can step in.
So that's why. And in order to make that happen,
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it says in the legislation you must consult, so that
is why they're doing the consultation.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The question then becomes, this is the same government that
pass the law, so they've forced themselves to do consultation.
So should they have done that? Why did they do that.
That's a question for the government today. I reckon anyway,
we'll talk about that just before six o'clock this morning.
Bad news for the services sector. Remember, services sector makes
up seventy percent of our economy, so it's important. The
(04:40):
PSI is going backwards again. Services sector August number is
forty seven point five. Remember, you've got to get above
fifty to be positive. We're down one point four points
on July. Been going wrong, way, been going south eighteen
months on the trot Now the average long term is
fifty two point nine. Why inflation, interest costs, weaker consumer confidence.
(05:03):
B n Z says, Yeah, there are good signs that
the economy might be turning in a corner. We might
be coming around, but the bounce back could take longer
than expected. You're on news Talk, said, be on your
Tuesday morning. We'll get to Gisbon on the slash next.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Where you left News Talks, that'd be it's the same
minutes after five Starma in trouble, more trouble. He's had Rainer,
the sacking of his number two heat Well. She had
left basically because she didn't declare she should have paid
some duties on houses that she didn't decleaar properly. And
she's the Housing Minister anyway. And then there was Lord Mandelsson.
(05:46):
And now there's a scandal involving some old messages to
do with the staffer of his. It's all about a
game that they have called shag Mary Kill. I'll tell
you about that shortly. Right now, Gisbon Council's forestry rules
have company directors warning they could go bankrupt. The Environment
courts ordered Samnik Forest Management and Woodlet Investments the land
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owner to clean up slash near Tolliger Bay. It's messy.
There's an appeal before the High Court and a scrap
over who should fit the bill. Julian conn Is, the
Eastland Wood Council chairman, with me this morning. Julian, Good morning,
good morning, a good thank you, Julian. Is it possible
to clean up all the slash and stop it leaving
the land.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
In practical reasons, No, it's not. We live in a
woody environment.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
In our region.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Of course, anybody who lives here will appreciate that. Whenever
it rains we have stilts coming out of our streams
and our rivers as a matter of course and always
have had, and that's how the Poverty Bay flats were created.
So from an operational point of view, the industry's views
that while we are managing movement of woody debris and
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set them in out of our forests, the constraint that
the Council is currently imposing on our standard consent conditions
for harvesting and roading mean that they are wanting us
to stop one hundred percent of Sultan woody debris coming
out of their forest gates, which of course is totally
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impractical and operationally impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It would make operating the impossible.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Pretty much. Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So what do you do?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Well, We're currently in negotiation have been for a couple
of years around trying to get some practicality and reality
around some of those standard consent conditions. We have been
talking to them for two years trying to get them
to understand that what the industry's trying to find is
(07:50):
an environmental and the social and an economic balance in
respect of what we do and in our organizations. But
we haven't made a lot of progress to dates.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To be honest, at the moment, this order from the
Environment Court requires the companies and directors to ensure woody
debris sediment would not enter water and land outside of
the forest boundary. Does that mean that you would be
operating in breach of that?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
If you had a resource consense which stated that, then
yes you would be.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Are there companies now in breach of it?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
There are companies which have resource consents which are set
under older rules and regulations and if they were to
emit woody debrand sediment outside their forests then they would
be in breach of it. Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Interesting. Jillian, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much
for being with me. Jillian conn who's the Eastland would
Council chairman. Time is seventeen minutes after five on news
Talk said B We'll get to Todd McLay who's been
helping sign deals in Saudi Arabia overnight. He's with us live.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Next the first word on the News of the Day
early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roofe love where
you live, News.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Talk said B. Five nineteen on news Talk said be
farmer confidence going through the roof This is the new
Rabobanks survey and it is the second highest level in
a decade. Higher prices of course, rising demand for commodities.
Dairy farmers have the strongest investment intent, horticulturalists the weakest,
joining us as Todd maclay, the Trade Minister, good morning.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Ray, good morning.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, good news all round. Prices are good for now,
so things are looking up.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yeah, there's good news. A lot of farmers have been
doing it a bit tough for a number of years,
so it's pleasing to see. But I think more importantly
it's very good for the New Zealand economy. We know,
when you know the primary sector is doing well and
prices are up, they start spending money and so we're
starting to see the green roots of growth coming from
rural New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You've got this trade delegation underway at the moment signing
five new commercial or partnerships between Saudi's and New Zealand
companies worth one hundred million dollars. Can you tell us
what they're about?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, look, I'm up here with twenty two or twenty
three New Zealand companies. A range of companies who are
involved in sort of food production and export from some
of the honey companies, A couple of Marie Honey companies
actually you're up here doing pretty well, and then we've
got others who are making films and some on like that.
So this is just an opportunity for us to get
into Saudi, which is a big, big potential for New Zealand.
(10:30):
You remember we included a trade agreement with the GCC
including Saudi last year and so this was just a
chance for them to sign some deals with either partners
have already had that sort of take their trade further,
or new companies they're working with. I think that one
hundred million dollars of the five deal side of day
is only the start of the opportunity up here. It's
(10:51):
just it's an economy that's growing and we with the
private sector, government the privacy have been putting in a
lot of effort and I think it's starting to pay divid.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What do they want with WETA.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Well, so Weather have come up and signed a couple
of agreements with one of the Saudi princesses actually, and
so what that will be about is if you think
about down in New Zealand where it's done exhibitions in
New Zealand, there's a bit of filming and so on.
So as Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in their economy
to open up. They want culture and tourism to be
(11:24):
on show. And some of the suggestions WETA will pay
our ready big part in one telling the story and too,
how you know how to bring visitors in and show
them more than just sand dune's and dunes and nice pictures.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Going to start, I've got three really quick questions for you.
One on the Meathay target review. Have you got any
result to update farmers on this morning?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
So working through that. There's a cabinet process we're working
through now, so I'm going to respect my colleagues, but
we're not too far away. I can give every farmer
and every New Zealand and assurance we will be sensible.
We have to meet our obligations and targets or obligations internationally,
but we're not going to close down farm and sends
job and production overseas along the way.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
A lot of calls to sanction Israel. By my numbers
our trade their exports to New Zealand, we're only about
zero point three percent to them. Have you done any
work or got any advice on that?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
No, I haven't. Out of the Minister our Foreign affairs
or we're talking a lot more about that quite soon.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
In the government's position, there's monthly meetings with officials from
the US on updating. Yes, it's fifteen percent the tariff
right now, but we wanted some clarity going forward. Do
you have any for exporters this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
So we're still working at that. You know. The interesting
thing is I'm here and elsewhere around the world talking
to others, they too are faithing uncertainty. I think that
at the moment the evidence is suggesting that uncertainty is
causing greater harm than the tariff rate. We are working
through one of the things as if we go back
to a trade deficit EI, the US has a trade
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surplus against US, how does that rate come down, and
how do we get at so it won't keep moving.
So look that we're putting every single effort in that
we can. Almost every other country in the world has
the same degree of uncertainty. The very good news, I suppose, though,
as our experts are nimbal and many of them are
choosing to look to other markets. You know, at the
time that we are facing high tariffs in the US,
(13:13):
we sold an extra billion dollars to the EU over
the last year, which is predominantly from the primary sector,
and so there are still lots of opportunities. But the
US for every trading nation, is a confused market at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Appreciate your time even though the uncertainty rains. Minister Tod
McLay with US Live this morning. It's twenty three minutes
after five. Ran bridge to the Starma drama. So he's
got Trump visiting, got a few big things on his calendar.
Trump's coming for a state visit by the end of
the month. He'll have well at the end of the month,
he'll have his party conference, which already the pundits are
saying is going to be like a beauty contest for
(13:47):
a potential replacement for him, because he's in so much trouble.
His number two goes over the housing issues. You've got
Lord Mandelsson sacked over the Epstein emails and the emails
of just how close they were in relationship, basically best pals. Anyway,
he's been out defending himself.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I knew of his association with Epstein, but had I
known then what I know now, i'd never appointed him.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Here's the thing that we'll get him though. Later in
this interview, he talks about the fact that he knew
something was fishy because there were media requests in about
Mandelson and the emails before he went into the house
in PMQ's and defended him.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, I knew before PMQ's was that there had been
media inquiries. I didn't know the content of the Bloomberg emails,
and I knew that questions had been put to Peter
that he had not yet answered, and he hadn't answered
them by the time it got to PMQ's.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So would you go in and defend the guy stridently
that you knew there was something fishy going on with
That's very smart politics from Starma. Anyway, he's got three
and a half years left in office and it's much harder.
It's not like the Conservatives when we got your nineteen
twenty two committee. It's much harder in labor in the
UK to actually roll a sitting leader. Twenty five minutes
after five News TALKSB, We'll get to the Wines on
(15:09):
TikTok next the.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio. How It
by NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
News TALKSB twenty seven after five I have had it
with people whinging about the state of this country and
people flying to Australia who then refuse to stop and
ask why we got here and how we get out
of it. Checking up a post on TikTok or waving
a banner at a protest ain't going to cut it. Productivity,
that's how much we get in for what we put
(15:37):
out is crap. It's been getting worsel flatlining for decades now.
Australia's is better over in Australia, wages of thirty percent higher.
We're smaller. We have to be smarter and that means
doing what the banner waivers of the world hate most.
Getting roadblocks, innovation killers, ie government out of the way.
Doing business needs to be as cheap and easy as possible.
(15:59):
Education it needs to be world class and focused on
the right stuff. Let smart people be smart people and
do what they do best. Invent, optimize, invest, grow, thrive.
We did this Postmoldom with agriculture subsidies and deregulate does
subsidies gone and deregulation and now we're the most productive
in the world at it. It's proof there are, of course,
(16:20):
those who reckon the solution to all of our problems.
Is to have a politician sign a piece of paper
and artificially increase the minimum wage or write a blank
check to teachers. As academic results heads south, the question
for them is who's going to pay for it? When
our best and brightest are leaving New Zealand and businesses
are closing, who can afford that? Show me a democracy
(16:43):
that got rich by increasing the size and influence of government,
and I'll give you a million bucks, and not one
of those Scandinavian ones which did it off the back
of massive mineral deposits which we're not allowed to touch. Remember,
we've fallen so far behind. We can't be managing a
one and a half or two percent GDP economy. This
(17:04):
country needs seven percent for at least three years. This
country needs a growth spurt. We've fallen too far behind.
Please don't be fooled by the false prophets waving their
banners and posting their nonsense. They've got no idea what
they're talking about. Ryan Bridge twenty nine, After five news talks,
heb I actually missed out the best bit of the
(17:24):
story about Starma. I'll tell you that after news. We're
also heading to Australia, and Eden Park before six News Talks.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Heb get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News
Talks at balk.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Good morning, it is twenty four away from six year
on News Talks. He've been coming up before six the
even Parks showdown and we'll get to Donnad Demayo in
Australia as well. Hey, congratulations Jordie Beamish. What an awesome achievement.
He gets gold in the three thousand meters steeple chase.
This is in Tokyo. You would have heard it in
sport there with Andrew World Athletic Championships. He was up
against well and kept running in first place throughout. Basically
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the whole thing was Alba Kali. This is the Moroccan
He's won the gold at the Olympics twice, so kind
of knows what he's doing. So Beamish is in second
place and then just in the last few strides he
manages to edge ahead of him and wins the race
by zero point zero seven seconds. So congratulations, what drama,
(18:45):
what a race and a brilliant result for New Zealand.
It's probably more.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Like the last decade of what's gone into it as
opposed to the last few months. But it's going to
take a while.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
On a second, yeah, bread a lot of work. Good
on them. It is twenty three minutes away from six now.
Calum Proctor is indonedan for us this morning, Culum, good
morning morning.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This livestock control movement plan in central Otago, what's it
going to do?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Well?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
This is going to help protect stock and Otago from
a disease spread by possums bovine TB. These restrictions will
try preventing infected possums from spreading this around the region,
and it'll ensure all cattle and deer here Ryan over
three months are tested against the bacterial disease within sixty
days of being moved. Osprey says TV's historically been a
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huge issue in Otago particularly, but they are close to
eradicating it, which is remarkable. They say, at its peak
there were seventeen hundred affected herds and so the fact
the fact that they're down to just sixteen nationally is
a phenomenal achievement.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It certainly is. How's the weather.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
It's mainly fine, gusty southwester first up today, turns north
easterly the high sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Thank you. Clears in Christ.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Hey Claire, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So we've got the White Beatas Camp movement for the
White Beatas Camp at the North Canterbury River.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Yeah, they've been moved on from the Wymarcarretti River.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Ryan.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
This is after the district Council acted on its by
law to remove the camping setups. This was because, of course,
the community had concerns, asking both council and police to
step in. Photos of the riverbank were sent into our
news room. There were campers, vans, as well as tents
and sort of makeshift wooden shelters where they appeared to
be staying overnight. Now, as part of Council's education before
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enforcement approach, Wymarcarretti District Council staff visited the site and
asked those there to move on. The Mayor, Dan Gordon
says they did so peacefully, but the council will involve
police if they have to. He says, they'll continue to
work with those who have been causing these issues. They
do hope the matter will resolve itself permanently or at
least until the end of this season. In late October,
(20:55):
house the weather fine aside from a bit of cloud
about early today, westerly coming northeasterlies a high of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Thanks clear mix and wellington morning mechs morning. Prior convictions
for the Lifer's Lodge accused of being revealed.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Yeah, it's about time we checked in on this trial.
The man who lit this fatal Loafer's Lodge fire in
Newtown a couple of years ago, fifty years old, identity suppressed,
pursuing an insanity defense rather than flat out denying he
was the one who lit the fire though that killed five.
He is pursuing insanity. Fifty prior offenses for this man
serious violence after a period of drinking, he had fractured
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someone's skull and spent six years in prison. Attempt at arson,
He tried to burn down a butcher's shop, common assault, fraud.
The defense's case is that he didn't know what he
was doing, hence insanity clearly, though there are wider questions
via this trial of whether a large emergency housing hostel
was the best and only place for him to be staying.
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It is a five week trial. There are still a
couple of weeks to go yet.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
All right, and here's the weather.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Should be fine today with Norwesterly's getting.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Up nice one, Max, thank you, Neva's and Auckland Morning Neva,
good morning, Auckland's Secondary School Cultural Competition change on the way.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Yes, that is right, and look next to his Polyfest.
It's now going to be held across two different venues
on two separate dates. So the first event will be
held at the Monaco Sports Bowl. This is from March eighteen.
This will feature you know, like the Cook Islands you Wear,
some more Tonga diversity stages, and then the Maldi stage
will perform from March twenty two days later. This is
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at the dew Drop Event Center in Monaco, and that's
going to provide the better alignment with events like matter Tiny,
So it kind of makes sense. And so all of
this is happening to you know, just help relieve that
pressure on the sports Bowl and allow for gross because
it has just grown so much over the years.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
It's massive. Yeah, oh that's very good news. Maybe they
can have it at Eden Park once they change all
the rules.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
That would be great.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What do you think about that? Just open it up?
Who cares? Let them go?
Speaker 12 (22:57):
Well, this is going to be good too, because you know,
like with the Sunday night. You know how at Eden
Park you can't. You know, they're not having anything like
that on Sunday nights here You're not allowed to. But
you know, like this is going to be quite good. Really, yeah, yeah,
they have to do.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Something unless you live next door, and then you might
not be too heavy.
Speaker 12 (23:14):
I'm about four blocks away, five blocks away, I mean,
and you must not in that street.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You must hear the raw.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
But I do hear the raw, and I don't mind
the raw because you know, and.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You have odd hours. So if anyone would be upset,
oh it would be me. I mean Helen Clark seeming retired.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
Well you see that's the thing, though, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Is it the the oldies, the oldiest.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
Mind you, I'm an oldie too, but.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, all right, neither.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
How's that weather?
Speaker 12 (23:41):
Cloudy showers? I have eighteen Everyone's going to text you now,
go ah, you're.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Not that old. You're not that old. It is thanks
neither eighteen minutes away from sex very quickly. This is
Keir Starmer. I set o't update you. So he's had
all of those problems aforementioned, but also overnight with a
fresh scandal. Paulden. This is his director of strategy at
Number ten. Now he's been revealed by the Mail to
have made some explicit comments about Diane Abbott in a
(24:10):
message to private email back in twenty seventeen. Dian Abbott
is the veteran MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
It's always stoked something, isn't it over in the UK? Anyway?
The Mail understands that mister Ovenden had exchanged emails with
a former colleague in twenty seventeen in which he retold
a story about a game of quote Shag Mary Kill
involving Miss Abbot that he had overheard. He then graphically
(24:34):
recounted the conversation in which two women described as performing
sex acts on Miss Abbot, who's seventy one years old.
So this is another headache for Starmer anyway. He's now resigned,
saying he's becoming quote a distraction. Seventeen to six, We're
alive in Australia. Next on Newstalk.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
SEBB International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
Mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Simon Chicks, Ryan Jordi Beamish, He's the man. I got
very emotional watching him win overnight yet it's pretty cool
to see it is six for sorry, fourteen minutes away
from six. Now let's go to donnad Australia correspondent Donna.
Good morning, good morning to you. We've got a big fine.
This is for A in Z. It's set well, it
sounds big, but they are big business, aren't they. What's
it four?
Speaker 13 (25:21):
Well, it's a record fine, in fact, two hundred and
forty million dollars for widespread misconduct one of the big
four banks, A and Z. As you mentioned, there were
four investigations brought by the financial regulator ASEK, the Australian
Securities and Investments Commission. Now the A and Z bank
failed to respond to hundreds of customer hardship notices, made
(25:43):
misleading statements about its savings interest rates, and did not
refund fees to thousands of dead customers, also admitting to
engaging in unconscionable conduct when raising money for the federal
government to finance spending in areas such as health and welfare.
And this happened over many, many years. We've heard from
(26:03):
the asset chair Joe Longo, who said that time and
time again A and ZED betrayed the trust of Australians.
We have an apology from the A and Z chair
and he's also said that the bank has taken all
necessary action, even holding some top executives and relevant executives
accountable for what happened.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
How do you refund fees to a dead customer? Complicated?
Speaker 13 (26:28):
I don't know. I'm not good at ADM me neither.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But they should be. That's the point, because there were
you know, billions of dollars and they've got a big operation.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
Right absolutely absolutely so, yes, that was a record fine
that was established and I suppose the bank has to
deal with it now. I think they can appeal.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I'm not sure, all right, Donna, thank you very much
for that. Dond to Mayo, Australia correspond It's fifteen away
from Sex Ryan Bridge. So Howie Clark heading back this morning.
As the government goes after eating Parks restricts, only six
artists are allowed to play a total of twelve shows
a year there, and only on certain days. You've got
a curfew on weeknights. These are two thousand. I didn't
(27:09):
realize this until yesterday. Two thousand. Max capacity for conferences there,
consultation on changes getting underway. Vivbek Heart of the City
CEO with us this morning. Viv Good morning, Good morning.
How ridiculous are these rules?
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, what I can say is that this is.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
All about driving economic growth and I think the idea
of actually testing this to enable more concerts wherever they
might be. But it's about the size and the scale.
You know, if we're going to benchmark ourselves with Brisbane,
they had forty five I think as I understand that
their Economic Development Agency supported more than forty five events,
(27:49):
I think it might have been twenty four that generated
two hundred million economic activity and brought two hundred thousand
people to the city. So you know, we're talking about
unlocking the ability to really utilize major events as a
big economic driver.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Do we have the same infrastructure and capacity though as Brisbane.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Has, Well, you know, Eden Park is clearly the largest
stadium in the country, and we've got others coming on
stream but not as big. So it's you know, we're
going to have to do something that fits for purpose here.
But I think the idea of having a look at
these rules to see what's possible is important. And you
know the fact is that these are the opportunities we've
(28:29):
been asking for we're looking for a long term, sustainable
pipeline of events with sustainable funding. Now that's not what's here.
We've got some immediate money which is terrific to drive things.
From our perspective, coming out of a decade of major
construction and disruption, this is the sort of thing that
can actually start to get things moving.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, what do you think they're going to do because
they've announced this one off money for the major events?
What do you think they're going to do because they're
talking or they want a pipeline that they need to
stuff going forward? Is that? Do you reckon that they're
going to I reckon the nets are going to go
to the election with a bid tax. What do you reckon?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Well, there's going to have to be something, and they've
pushed back. I understand it. They pushed back on it
because there was well, they're not going to do it
this term. There's quite a lot of support for it
to be national rather than regional. Obviously, there's a big
push here to g get something locally to get things moving.
But I think what we do need is to see
what's going to come beyond that. There has to be
(29:28):
something if we're going to be in this space, we're
going to have to have a sustainable funding model, so
this is really an interim step. I think it's been
really well received from our perspective. If you look at
something like a Pink, you know, we had a day
of six and a half million dollars of spend. You know,
those sort of concerts make a massive difference, and that's
really what we want to unlock here. And I think,
(29:49):
you know, having a lock at these rules to see
what is possible to really start to grow and make
sure we're in it for the long term. That's going
to be key because we have to have the artists
wanting to come here. It has to be something that's viable.
But there's certainly a big opportunity from an economic to speak.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Everyone talks about Pink. I mean it was a great concert,
Wasn't that. There's no doubting, no knowing that.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I appreciate your time this morning. Vivivebk Heart of the
city's CEO, on the potential changes to Eden Park and
its restrictions. Maybe Pink more Pink will get us out
of the stink. Hey nine to six News Talks. Heb
right next on.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Your radio and on Lane on iHeartRadio Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof Love, where You Live, News Talks, EDB.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
News Talks, HEB. It is seven minutes away from six.
Interesting to see today whether those priests who have chained
themselves to Nicola Willis's electorate office they did it with
Simmy and Brown's yesterday, whether they are still there today.
And the Pope has come out and criticized in his
first official interview with media, criticized Elon Musk for being
too rich. Last time I checked, the Vatican was the
eighteenth wealthiest nation on Earth per capita. Of course, not
(30:57):
a big population, lots of tithing with a net of
wait for it, somewhere between estimates. Very obviously there's not
a lot of scrutiny going on here. Seventy to two
hundred and fifty billion dollars, it's six to six. Ryan Bridge,
Good morning, Mike morning.
Speaker 14 (31:13):
Quick question for the priests who were chained up. Yes,
tell me when they talk about sanctions. Yes, tell me
how much we sell to Israel? What's the two way trade?
Well in New Zealand and Israel.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
More significant what they sell to us, because that would
be the thing that damages the most. And this morning.
I had a look at was sixty billion is their
exports and one hundred and ninety million to New Zealand
zero point three percent.
Speaker 14 (31:41):
Tiny. It's irrelevant, but I don't care pointless. By the way,
message from my wife for you. So I, according to her,
misled you yesterday Viza v the underneath of the car.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Ah.
Speaker 14 (31:52):
Yeah, So this had happened to us, and I'd forgotten this.
One of our sons who had a Mercedes and he
had the same thing break and he was told he
took it along and they said, glew it back on.
So glew it back on because she said, and so
she said, I shouldn't be giving you advice that involves
you spending a lot of money. And so at six
(32:14):
hundred dollars, she didn't want you spending the six hundred dollars.
She wanted you. She wanted you to glue it back on.
And I said, well, look at it. Surely would depend
on how you know broken up it was? Oh, is
it completely? That's what I said, because ours was just cracked.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
No, mine screwed.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
And I thought for six hundred dollars, obviously this was
on our walk yesterday, I said, for six hundred dollars.
I said, Ryan's a beginner these days, he's on the
good money, and six hundred dollars for a protector, you know,
for us. And also she said I shouldn't have laughed
at your station wagon.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yes, my actually my husband mentioned that. Yeah, and it's
wrong with the station wagon.
Speaker 14 (32:50):
Well, everything's wrong with the station wagon once since the
invention of the suv, the station wagons no longer necessary
before the suv.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Fair enough, Can I tell you what happened? What yesterday?
I went to the mechanic, Yes, and I had to
go in because we've got the wheels aligned. Yes. And
he said, so you made a decision about the plastic
covering and I said, yeah, I have. I'm not getting it.
Speaker 14 (33:12):
So you're now driving, You're now driving without protection. Yes,
And so when a rock goes up under smacks you,
some the oils all over the road on me, it's
on your welfare.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And I'll use that massive salary you keep talking about
to fix it again.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
Did you do your alignment while you hit the road cone?
Is that all connected with the same The alignment is
because you know how I park on the street because
I'm poor. Oh you you smack into the foot path.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No, I parked slightly because it's a narrow street, so
I have park on the two wheels on the footpaths
slightly good, which everyone does because otherwise sort of life
are you living? Clearly not a hosting one on the street?
Half like up? Thank you? Kate?
Speaker 14 (33:54):
Do you do you have a colburn out the back
of your property? There's no running water? Mike, Hey, listen,
speaking of that, we're talking about guests this morning. Big
warning from show Jones. We're gonna run out apparently going
to run out by twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We're going to look by house apparently something all right,
look forward to that. Mic next, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
to News Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
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The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
earlier show with one roof Love, where you live News talks,
that'd be good.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Morning, Welcome to Tuesday, just gone six after five. Coming
up on the show, Helen and co versus Luxeon and
Bish on the Eden Park where live in Australia, where
A and Z's copper slap on the hand from regulators.
Todd McLay on farmer confidence and deal's being signed in
Saudi overnight and slash in Gisbon could put some they
reckon forresters out of business. That story for you too,
(00:31):
or ahead on early edition the Agenda Tuesday to sixteenth
of September Night and Yahoo isn't ruling out more strikes
on HUMMAS leaders abroad after last week's attack on Kuta.
I'll tell you what the impact of the strikers.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We sent a message to the terrorist you can run,
but you can't hide.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
TikTok news. Washington's closing in on a deal with China
on the American operations. He has Scott Vesent, the US
Treasury Secretary, the.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Two leaders of President Trump and party chair. She will
speak on Friday to complete the deal. But we do
have a framework for a deal with Tikon.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
So deadline Thursday, our time. No word yet from China.
Adolescens the big winner at the Emmy's yesterday, taking home
for major awards. This is the British show. It's on Netflix.
It's the Young Boy who murders a schoolmate. It's all
filmed in a continuous take, which must be an absolute
nightmare for the directors. Star Owen Cooper becoming the youngest
male actor to ever win at an an Emmy at
(01:34):
age fifteen. Jami goes to Owen Cooper, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It was just so surreal own. Honestly, when I started
these drama classes a couple of years back, I didn't
expect to be even in the United States, never mind here.
Well I was nothing about three years ago. I'm here
And also.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Views and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Brian and One Room Love, where you Live,
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
That'd beat to have your company. Just gone eight minutes
after five nine to ninety two the number to text Halling.
Clark's put out a statement on Eden Park. Are we
surprised to hear she's a neighbor? Of course, I'll just
read you the first line A key point is that
Eden Park is not even close to maximizing the use
of its current under its current restrictions. So the agreement
(02:24):
that they've got in place at the moment, it's pretty restrictive.
You can only have twelve concerts a year, so six
artists and twelve concerts a year maximum. They've got a
curfew for weeknight events, all that kind of stuff. She
says that if they're not even maxing what they've got,
then why do you need to give them more? I
suppose it's because if you had fewer restrictions, you might
(02:46):
get different events and different artists attracted here that you
otherwise wouldn't get. People have been asking in the last
twenty well twelve hours, why is the government doing? Sounds
silly to just we're going to do consultation on this, Like,
you know, we've made up our minds pretty much. We
think we need to lift these restrictions or lift some
of them. Why are they doing consultation? Like, just get
(03:08):
on with it. People are sick of waiting around. You know,
you've been saying you're going to this is an announcement
about consultation that you hope to then become an announcement.
It's not even an announcement about an announcement. That would
be better would be, you know, just scratching them scraping
the barrel here. Anyway, I had a look last night
at the RMA. So the government passed an amendment to
(03:28):
the RMA this year, and this is a targeted tool,
so the government can overrule local regulations. They can walk
in like a czar and say this is happening. Come hello,
high water and Helen Clark. You can just put some
little air plugs in and get to sleep. Now, in
the legislation they have baked into this legislation the fact
(03:51):
that you need to do consultation. So a couple of things.
It's really targeted, and it's it's for if anything that
would promote economic growth or development capacity they call it,
or employment. Under those provisions, the government can step in.
So that's why. And in order to make that happen,
(04:12):
it says in the legislation you must consult, so that
is why they're doing the consultation.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The question then becomes, this is the same government that
pass the law, so they've forced themselves to do consultation.
So should they have done that? Why did they do that.
That's a question for the government today. I reckon anyway,
we'll talk about that just before six o'clock this morning.
Bad news for the services sector. Remember, services sector makes
up seventy percent of our economy, so it's important. The
(04:40):
PSI is going backwards again. Services sector August number is
forty seven point five. Remember, you've got to get above
fifty to be positive. We're down one point four points
on July. Been going wrong, way, been going south eighteen
months on the trot Now the average long term is
fifty two point nine. Why inflation, interest costs, weaker consumer confidence.
(05:03):
B n Z says, Yeah, there are good signs that
the economy might be turning in a corner. We might
be coming around, but the bounce back could take longer
than expected. You're on news Talk, said, be on your
Tuesday morning. We'll get to Gisbon on the slash next.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Where you left News Talks, that'd be it's the same
minutes after five Starma in trouble, more trouble. He's had Rainer,
the sacking of his number two heat Well. She had
left basically because she didn't declare she should have paid
some duties on houses that she didn't decleaar properly. And
she's the Housing Minister anyway. And then there was Lord Mandelsson.
(05:46):
And now there's a scandal involving some old messages to
do with the staffer of his. It's all about a
game that they have called shag Mary Kill. I'll tell
you about that shortly. Right now, Gisbon Council's forestry rules
have company directors warning they could go bankrupt. The Environment
courts ordered Samnik Forest Management and Woodlet Investments the land
(06:06):
owner to clean up slash near Tolliger Bay. It's messy.
There's an appeal before the High Court and a scrap
over who should fit the bill. Julian conn Is, the
Eastland Wood Council chairman, with me this morning. Julian, Good morning,
good morning, a good thank you, Julian. Is it possible
to clean up all the slash and stop it leaving
the land.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
In practical reasons, No, it's not. We live in a
woody environment.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
In our region.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Of course, anybody who lives here will appreciate that. Whenever
it rains we have stilts coming out of our streams
and our rivers as a matter of course and always
have had, and that's how the Poverty Bay flats were created.
So from an operational point of view, the industry's views
that while we are managing movement of woody debris and
(06:56):
set them in out of our forests, the constraint that
the Council is currently imposing on our standard consent conditions
for harvesting and roading mean that they are wanting us
to stop one hundred percent of Sultan woody debris coming
out of their forest gates, which of course is totally
(07:17):
impractical and operationally impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It would make operating the impossible.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Pretty much. Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So what do you do?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Well, We're currently in negotiation have been for a couple
of years around trying to get some practicality and reality
around some of those standard consent conditions. We have been
talking to them for two years trying to get them
to understand that what the industry's trying to find is
(07:50):
an environmental and the social and an economic balance in
respect of what we do and in our organizations. But
we haven't made a lot of progress to dates.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To be honest, at the moment, this order from the
Environment Court requires the companies and directors to ensure woody
debris sediment would not enter water and land outside of
the forest boundary. Does that mean that you would be
operating in breach of that?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
If you had a resource consense which stated that, then
yes you would be.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Are there companies now in breach of it?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
There are companies which have resource consents which are set
under older rules and regulations and if they were to
emit woody debrand sediment outside their forests then they would
be in breach of it. Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Interesting. Jillian, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much
for being with me. Jillian conn who's the Eastland would
Council chairman. Time is seventeen minutes after five on news
Talk said B We'll get to Todd McLay who's been
helping sign deals in Saudi Arabia overnight. He's with us live.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Next the first word on the News of the Day
early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roofe love where
you live, News.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Talk said B. Five nineteen on news Talk said be
farmer confidence going through the roof This is the new
Rabobanks survey and it is the second highest level in
a decade. Higher prices of course, rising demand for commodities.
Dairy farmers have the strongest investment intent, horticulturalists the weakest,
joining us as Todd maclay, the Trade Minister, good morning.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Ray, good morning.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, good news all round. Prices are good for now,
so things are looking up.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yeah, there's good news. A lot of farmers have been
doing it a bit tough for a number of years,
so it's pleasing to see. But I think more importantly
it's very good for the New Zealand economy. We know,
when you know the primary sector is doing well and
prices are up, they start spending money and so we're
starting to see the green roots of growth coming from
rural New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You've got this trade delegation underway at the moment signing
five new commercial or partnerships between Saudi's and New Zealand
companies worth one hundred million dollars. Can you tell us
what they're about?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, look, I'm up here with twenty two or twenty
three New Zealand companies. A range of companies who are
involved in sort of food production and export from some
of the honey companies, A couple of Marie Honey companies
actually you're up here doing pretty well, and then we've
got others who are making films and some on like that.
So this is just an opportunity for us to get
into Saudi, which is a big, big potential for New Zealand.
(10:30):
You remember we included a trade agreement with the GCC
including Saudi last year and so this was just a
chance for them to sign some deals with either partners
have already had that sort of take their trade further,
or new companies they're working with. I think that one
hundred million dollars of the five deal side of day
is only the start of the opportunity up here. It's
(10:51):
just it's an economy that's growing and we with the
private sector, government the privacy have been putting in a
lot of effort and I think it's starting to pay divid.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What do they want with WETA.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Well, so Weather have come up and signed a couple
of agreements with one of the Saudi princesses actually, and
so what that will be about is if you think
about down in New Zealand where it's done exhibitions in
New Zealand, there's a bit of filming and so on.
So as Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in their economy
to open up. They want culture and tourism to be
(11:24):
on show. And some of the suggestions WETA will pay
our ready big part in one telling the story and too,
how you know how to bring visitors in and show
them more than just sand dune's and dunes and nice pictures.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Going to start, I've got three really quick questions for you.
One on the Meathay target review. Have you got any
result to update farmers on this morning?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
So working through that. There's a cabinet process we're working
through now, so I'm going to respect my colleagues, but
we're not too far away. I can give every farmer
and every New Zealand and assurance we will be sensible.
We have to meet our obligations and targets or obligations internationally,
but we're not going to close down farm and sends
job and production overseas along the way.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
A lot of calls to sanction Israel. By my numbers
our trade their exports to New Zealand, we're only about
zero point three percent to them. Have you done any
work or got any advice on that?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
No, I haven't. Out of the Minister our Foreign affairs
or we're talking a lot more about that quite soon.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
In the government's position, there's monthly meetings with officials from
the US on updating. Yes, it's fifteen percent the tariff
right now, but we wanted some clarity going forward. Do
you have any for exporters this morning?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
So we're still working at that. You know. The interesting
thing is I'm here and elsewhere around the world talking
to others, they too are faithing uncertainty. I think that
at the moment the evidence is suggesting that uncertainty is
causing greater harm than the tariff rate. We are working
through one of the things as if we go back
to a trade deficit EI, the US has a trade
(12:51):
surplus against US, how does that rate come down, and
how do we get at so it won't keep moving.
So look that we're putting every single effort in that
we can. Almost every other country in the world has
the same degree of uncertainty. The very good news, I suppose, though,
as our experts are nimbal and many of them are
choosing to look to other markets. You know, at the
time that we are facing high tariffs in the US,
(13:13):
we sold an extra billion dollars to the EU over
the last year, which is predominantly from the primary sector,
and so there are still lots of opportunities. But the
US for every trading nation, is a confused market at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Appreciate your time even though the uncertainty rains. Minister Tod
McLay with US Live this morning. It's twenty three minutes
after five. Ran bridge to the Starma drama. So he's
got Trump visiting, got a few big things on his calendar.
Trump's coming for a state visit by the end of
the month. He'll have well at the end of the month,
he'll have his party conference, which already the pundits are
saying is going to be like a beauty contest for
(13:47):
a potential replacement for him, because he's in so much trouble.
His number two goes over the housing issues. You've got
Lord Mandelsson sacked over the Epstein emails and the emails
of just how close they were in relationship, basically best pals. Anyway,
he's been out defending himself.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I knew of his association with Epstein, but had I
known then what I know now, i'd never appointed him.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Here's the thing that we'll get him though. Later in
this interview, he talks about the fact that he knew
something was fishy because there were media requests in about
Mandelson and the emails before he went into the house
in PMQ's and defended him.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, I knew before PMQ's was that there had been
media inquiries. I didn't know the content of the Bloomberg emails,
and I knew that questions had been put to Peter
that he had not yet answered, and he hadn't answered
them by the time it got to PMQ's.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So would you go in and defend the guy stridently
that you knew there was something fishy going on with
That's very smart politics from Starma. Anyway, he's got three
and a half years left in office and it's much harder.
It's not like the Conservatives when we got your nineteen
twenty two committee. It's much harder in labor in the
UK to actually roll a sitting leader. Twenty five minutes
after five News TALKSB, We'll get to the Wines on
(15:09):
TikTok next the.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio. How It
by NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
News TALKSB twenty seven after five I have had it
with people whinging about the state of this country and
people flying to Australia who then refuse to stop and
ask why we got here and how we get out
of it. Checking up a post on TikTok or waving
a banner at a protest ain't going to cut it. Productivity,
that's how much we get in for what we put
(15:37):
out is crap. It's been getting worsel flatlining for decades now.
Australia's is better over in Australia, wages of thirty percent higher.
We're smaller. We have to be smarter and that means
doing what the banner waivers of the world hate most.
Getting roadblocks, innovation killers, ie government out of the way.
Doing business needs to be as cheap and easy as possible.
(15:59):
Education it needs to be world class and focused on
the right stuff. Let smart people be smart people and
do what they do best. Invent, optimize, invest, grow, thrive.
We did this Postmoldom with agriculture subsidies and deregulate does
subsidies gone and deregulation and now we're the most productive
in the world at it. It's proof there are, of course,
(16:20):
those who reckon the solution to all of our problems.
Is to have a politician sign a piece of paper
and artificially increase the minimum wage or write a blank
check to teachers. As academic results heads south, the question
for them is who's going to pay for it? When
our best and brightest are leaving New Zealand and businesses
are closing, who can afford that? Show me a democracy
(16:43):
that got rich by increasing the size and influence of government,
and I'll give you a million bucks, and not one
of those Scandinavian ones which did it off the back
of massive mineral deposits which we're not allowed to touch. Remember,
we've fallen so far behind. We can't be managing a
one and a half or two percent GDP economy. This
(17:04):
country needs seven percent for at least three years. This
country needs a growth spurt. We've fallen too far behind.
Please don't be fooled by the false prophets waving their
banners and posting their nonsense. They've got no idea what
they're talking about. Ryan Bridge twenty nine, After five news talks,
heb I actually missed out the best bit of the
(17:24):
story about Starma. I'll tell you that after news. We're
also heading to Australia, and Eden Park before six News Talks.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Heb get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News
Talks at balk.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Good morning, it is twenty four away from six year
on News Talks. He've been coming up before six the
even Parks showdown and we'll get to Donnad Demayo in
Australia as well. Hey, congratulations Jordie Beamish. What an awesome achievement.
He gets gold in the three thousand meters steeple chase.
This is in Tokyo. You would have heard it in
sport there with Andrew World Athletic Championships. He was up
against well and kept running in first place throughout. Basically
(18:20):
the whole thing was Alba Kali. This is the Moroccan
He's won the gold at the Olympics twice, so kind
of knows what he's doing. So Beamish is in second
place and then just in the last few strides he
manages to edge ahead of him and wins the race
by zero point zero seven seconds. So congratulations, what drama,
(18:45):
what a race and a brilliant result for New Zealand.
It's probably more.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Like the last decade of what's gone into it as
opposed to the last few months. But it's going to
take a while.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
On a second, yeah, bread a lot of work. Good
on them. It is twenty three minutes away from six now.
Calum Proctor is indonedan for us this morning, Culum, good
morning morning.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This livestock control movement plan in central Otago, what's it
going to do?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Well?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
This is going to help protect stock and Otago from
a disease spread by possums bovine TB. These restrictions will
try preventing infected possums from spreading this around the region,
and it'll ensure all cattle and deer here Ryan over
three months are tested against the bacterial disease within sixty
days of being moved. Osprey says TV's historically been a
(19:38):
huge issue in Otago particularly, but they are close to
eradicating it, which is remarkable. They say, at its peak
there were seventeen hundred affected herds and so the fact
the fact that they're down to just sixteen nationally is
a phenomenal achievement.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It certainly is. How's the weather.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
It's mainly fine, gusty southwester first up today, turns north
easterly the high sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Thank you. Clears in Christ.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Hey Claire, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So we've got the White Beatas Camp movement for the
White Beatas Camp at the North Canterbury River.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Yeah, they've been moved on from the Wymarcarretti River.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Ryan.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
This is after the district Council acted on its by
law to remove the camping setups. This was because, of course,
the community had concerns, asking both council and police to
step in. Photos of the riverbank were sent into our
news room. There were campers, vans, as well as tents
and sort of makeshift wooden shelters where they appeared to
be staying overnight. Now, as part of Council's education before
(20:34):
enforcement approach, Wymarcarretti District Council staff visited the site and
asked those there to move on. The Mayor, Dan Gordon
says they did so peacefully, but the council will involve
police if they have to. He says, they'll continue to
work with those who have been causing these issues. They
do hope the matter will resolve itself permanently or at
least until the end of this season. In late October,
(20:55):
house the weather fine aside from a bit of cloud
about early today, westerly coming northeasterlies a high of fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Thanks clear mix and wellington morning mechs morning. Prior convictions
for the Lifer's Lodge accused of being revealed.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Yeah, it's about time we checked in on this trial.
The man who lit this fatal Loafer's Lodge fire in
Newtown a couple of years ago, fifty years old, identity suppressed,
pursuing an insanity defense rather than flat out denying he
was the one who lit the fire though that killed five.
He is pursuing insanity. Fifty prior offenses for this man
serious violence after a period of drinking, he had fractured
(21:32):
someone's skull and spent six years in prison. Attempt at arson,
He tried to burn down a butcher's shop, common assault, fraud.
The defense's case is that he didn't know what he
was doing, hence insanity clearly, though there are wider questions
via this trial of whether a large emergency housing hostel
was the best and only place for him to be staying.
(21:53):
It is a five week trial. There are still a
couple of weeks to go yet.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
All right, and here's the weather.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Should be fine today with Norwesterly's getting.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Up nice one, Max, thank you, Neva's and Auckland Morning Neva,
good morning, Auckland's Secondary School Cultural Competition change on the way.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
Yes, that is right, and look next to his Polyfest.
It's now going to be held across two different venues
on two separate dates. So the first event will be
held at the Monaco Sports Bowl. This is from March eighteen.
This will feature you know, like the Cook Islands you Wear,
some more Tonga diversity stages, and then the Maldi stage
will perform from March twenty two days later. This is
(22:29):
at the dew Drop Event Center in Monaco, and that's
going to provide the better alignment with events like matter Tiny,
So it kind of makes sense. And so all of
this is happening to you know, just help relieve that
pressure on the sports Bowl and allow for gross because
it has just grown so much over the years.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
It's massive. Yeah, oh that's very good news. Maybe they
can have it at Eden Park once they change all
the rules.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
That would be great.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What do you think about that? Just open it up?
Who cares? Let them go?
Speaker 12 (22:57):
Well, this is going to be good too, because you know,
like with the Sunday night. You know how at Eden
Park you can't. You know, they're not having anything like
that on Sunday nights here You're not allowed to. But
you know, like this is going to be quite good. Really, yeah, yeah,
they have to do.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Something unless you live next door, and then you might
not be too heavy.
Speaker 12 (23:14):
I'm about four blocks away, five blocks away, I mean,
and you must not in that street.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You must hear the raw.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
But I do hear the raw, and I don't mind
the raw because you know, and.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You have odd hours. So if anyone would be upset,
oh it would be me. I mean Helen Clark seeming retired.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
Well you see that's the thing, though, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Is it the the oldies, the oldiest.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
Mind you, I'm an oldie too, but.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, all right, neither.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
How's that weather?
Speaker 12 (23:41):
Cloudy showers? I have eighteen Everyone's going to text you now,
go ah, you're.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Not that old. You're not that old. It is thanks
neither eighteen minutes away from sex very quickly. This is
Keir Starmer. I set o't update you. So he's had
all of those problems aforementioned, but also overnight with a
fresh scandal. Paulden. This is his director of strategy at
Number ten. Now he's been revealed by the Mail to
have made some explicit comments about Diane Abbott in a
(24:10):
message to private email back in twenty seventeen. Dian Abbott
is the veteran MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
It's always stoked something, isn't it over in the UK? Anyway?
The Mail understands that mister Ovenden had exchanged emails with
a former colleague in twenty seventeen in which he retold
a story about a game of quote Shag Mary Kill
involving Miss Abbot that he had overheard. He then graphically
(24:34):
recounted the conversation in which two women described as performing
sex acts on Miss Abbot, who's seventy one years old.
So this is another headache for Starmer anyway. He's now resigned,
saying he's becoming quote a distraction. Seventeen to six, We're
alive in Australia. Next on Newstalk.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
SEBB International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
Mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Simon Chicks, Ryan Jordi Beamish, He's the man. I got
very emotional watching him win overnight yet it's pretty cool
to see it is six for sorry, fourteen minutes away
from six. Now let's go to donnad Australia correspondent Donna.
Good morning, good morning to you. We've got a big fine.
This is for A in Z. It's set well, it
sounds big, but they are big business, aren't they. What's
it four?
Speaker 13 (25:21):
Well, it's a record fine, in fact, two hundred and
forty million dollars for widespread misconduct one of the big
four banks, A and Z. As you mentioned, there were
four investigations brought by the financial regulator ASEK, the Australian
Securities and Investments Commission. Now the A and Z bank
failed to respond to hundreds of customer hardship notices, made
(25:43):
misleading statements about its savings interest rates, and did not
refund fees to thousands of dead customers, also admitting to
engaging in unconscionable conduct when raising money for the federal
government to finance spending in areas such as health and welfare.
And this happened over many, many years. We've heard from
(26:03):
the asset chair Joe Longo, who said that time and
time again A and ZED betrayed the trust of Australians.
We have an apology from the A and Z chair
and he's also said that the bank has taken all
necessary action, even holding some top executives and relevant executives
accountable for what happened.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
How do you refund fees to a dead customer? Complicated?
Speaker 13 (26:28):
I don't know. I'm not good at ADM me neither.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But they should be. That's the point, because there were
you know, billions of dollars and they've got a big operation.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
Right absolutely absolutely so, yes, that was a record fine
that was established and I suppose the bank has to
deal with it now. I think they can appeal.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I'm not sure, all right, Donna, thank you very much
for that. Dond to Mayo, Australia correspond It's fifteen away
from Sex Ryan Bridge. So Howie Clark heading back this morning.
As the government goes after eating Parks restricts, only six
artists are allowed to play a total of twelve shows
a year there, and only on certain days. You've got
a curfew on weeknights. These are two thousand. I didn't
(27:09):
realize this until yesterday. Two thousand. Max capacity for conferences there,
consultation on changes getting underway. Vivbek Heart of the City
CEO with us this morning. Viv Good morning, Good morning.
How ridiculous are these rules?
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Well, what I can say is that this is.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
All about driving economic growth and I think the idea
of actually testing this to enable more concerts wherever they
might be. But it's about the size and the scale.
You know, if we're going to benchmark ourselves with Brisbane,
they had forty five I think as I understand that
their Economic Development Agency supported more than forty five events,
(27:49):
I think it might have been twenty four that generated
two hundred million economic activity and brought two hundred thousand
people to the city. So you know, we're talking about
unlocking the ability to really utilize major events as a
big economic driver.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Do we have the same infrastructure and capacity though as Brisbane.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Has, Well, you know, Eden Park is clearly the largest
stadium in the country, and we've got others coming on
stream but not as big. So it's you know, we're
going to have to do something that fits for purpose here.
But I think the idea of having a look at
these rules to see what's possible is important. And you
know the fact is that these are the opportunities we've
(28:29):
been asking for we're looking for a long term, sustainable
pipeline of events with sustainable funding. Now that's not what's here.
We've got some immediate money which is terrific to drive things.
From our perspective, coming out of a decade of major
construction and disruption, this is the sort of thing that
can actually start to get things moving.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, what do you think they're going to do because
they've announced this one off money for the major events?
What do you think they're going to do because they're
talking or they want a pipeline that they need to
stuff going forward? Is that? Do you reckon that they're
going to I reckon the nets are going to go
to the election with a bid tax. What do you reckon?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Well, there's going to have to be something, and they've
pushed back. I understand it. They pushed back on it
because there was well, they're not going to do it
this term. There's quite a lot of support for it
to be national rather than regional. Obviously, there's a big
push here to g get something locally to get things moving.
But I think what we do need is to see
what's going to come beyond that. There has to be
(29:28):
something if we're going to be in this space, we're
going to have to have a sustainable funding model, so
this is really an interim step. I think it's been
really well received from our perspective. If you look at
something like a Pink, you know, we had a day
of six and a half million dollars of spend. You know,
those sort of concerts make a massive difference, and that's
really what we want to unlock here. And I think,
(29:49):
you know, having a lock at these rules to see
what is possible to really start to grow and make
sure we're in it for the long term. That's going
to be key because we have to have the artists
wanting to come here. It has to be something that's viable.
But there's certainly a big opportunity from an economic to speak.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Everyone talks about Pink. I mean it was a great concert,
Wasn't that. There's no doubting, no knowing that.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I appreciate your time this morning. Vivivebk Heart of the
city's CEO, on the potential changes to Eden Park and
its restrictions. Maybe Pink more Pink will get us out
of the stink. Hey nine to six News Talks. Heb
right next on.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Your radio and on Lane on iHeartRadio Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof Love, where You Live, News Talks, EDB.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
News Talks, HEB. It is seven minutes away from six.
Interesting to see today whether those priests who have chained
themselves to Nicola Willis's electorate office they did it with
Simmy and Brown's yesterday, whether they are still there today.
And the Pope has come out and criticized in his
first official interview with media, criticized Elon Musk for being
too rich. Last time I checked, the Vatican was the
eighteenth wealthiest nation on Earth per capita. Of course, not
(30:57):
a big population, lots of tithing with a net of
wait for it, somewhere between estimates. Very obviously there's not
a lot of scrutiny going on here. Seventy to two
hundred and fifty billion dollars, it's six to six. Ryan Bridge,
Good morning, Mike morning.
Speaker 14 (31:13):
Quick question for the priests who were chained up. Yes,
tell me when they talk about sanctions. Yes, tell me
how much we sell to Israel? What's the two way trade?
Well in New Zealand and Israel.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
More significant what they sell to us, because that would
be the thing that damages the most. And this morning.
I had a look at was sixty billion is their
exports and one hundred and ninety million to New Zealand
zero point three percent.
Speaker 14 (31:41):
Tiny. It's irrelevant, but I don't care pointless. By the way,
message from my wife for you. So I, according to her,
misled you yesterday Viza v the underneath of the car.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Ah.
Speaker 14 (31:52):
Yeah, So this had happened to us, and I'd forgotten this.
One of our sons who had a Mercedes and he
had the same thing break and he was told he
took it along and they said, glew it back on.
So glew it back on because she said, and so
she said, I shouldn't be giving you advice that involves
you spending a lot of money. And so at six
(32:14):
hundred dollars, she didn't want you spending the six hundred dollars.
She wanted you. She wanted you to glue it back on.
And I said, well, look at it. Surely would depend
on how you know broken up it was? Oh, is
it completely? That's what I said, because ours was just cracked.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
No, mine screwed.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
And I thought for six hundred dollars, obviously this was
on our walk yesterday, I said, for six hundred dollars.
I said, Ryan's a beginner these days, he's on the
good money, and six hundred dollars for a protector, you know,
for us. And also she said I shouldn't have laughed
at your station wagon.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yes, my actually my husband mentioned that. Yeah, and it's
wrong with the station wagon.
Speaker 14 (32:50):
Well, everything's wrong with the station wagon once since the
invention of the suv, the station wagons no longer necessary
before the suv.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Fair enough, Can I tell you what happened? What yesterday?
I went to the mechanic, Yes, and I had to
go in because we've got the wheels aligned. Yes. And
he said, so you made a decision about the plastic
covering and I said, yeah, I have. I'm not getting it.
Speaker 14 (33:12):
So you're now driving, You're now driving without protection. Yes,
And so when a rock goes up under smacks you,
some the oils all over the road on me, it's
on your welfare.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And I'll use that massive salary you keep talking about
to fix it again.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
Did you do your alignment while you hit the road cone?
Is that all connected with the same The alignment is
because you know how I park on the street because
I'm poor. Oh you you smack into the foot path.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No, I parked slightly because it's a narrow street, so
I have park on the two wheels on the footpaths
slightly good, which everyone does because otherwise sort of life
are you living? Clearly not a hosting one on the street?
Half like up? Thank you? Kate?
Speaker 14 (33:54):
Do you do you have a colburn out the back
of your property? There's no running water? Mike, Hey, listen,
speaking of that, we're talking about guests this morning. Big
warning from show Jones. We're gonna run out apparently going
to run out by twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
We're going to look by house apparently something all right,
look forward to that. Mic next, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
to News Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
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