February 16, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition Full Show Podcast for Monday 17th February 2025, Tourism Minister Louise Upston talks about the Government's new campaign enticing Australians to visit New Zealand.
Andrew Dickens thinks the Government’s new tourism campaign targeted at Australians is a no brainer.
Andrew Alderson shares all the excitement from over the weekend at the Super Rugby Pacific games.
European leaders are set to gather for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine, UK Correspondent Gavin Gray shares the latest.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The issues is the interviews and the insight.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 3 (00:11):
It'd be it's well, good morning to you, welcome to
the program. Thank you so much for choosing us. I'm
Andrew Dickens in for Brian Bridge on the program today.
Apparently Kiwi Saber is still investing in fossil fuel shares,
so how.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Are they doing that?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And should we be worried? Europe is organizing emergency summer
says the US abandons the Ukraine. Gavin Gray with the
latest and a new campaign tells Ozzie's that they must
come to New Zealand, and the question is why is
this new. Louise Upston, the Tourism Minister, is joining us
just before six. We'll have correspondence from right around the
world and right around New Zealand. Will have news as
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it breaks. You can text us as well if you
have anything to say. And the number is ninety two
ninety two. A small charge applies. It's seven after five.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's Monday, the seventeenth of February. To the Middle East
and Israeli prim Mienist of Benjamin Netanyah, who says he's
working in full cooperation with the United States on a
common strategy for Gaza. After his meeting with US Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem,
Rubio and Nettaja who outlined their areas of agreement, including
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a desire to eradicate harmasa's governing capacity, prevent Iran from
gaining a nuclear weapon, and to monitor developments in post
assad Syria.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I thanked Secretary of Rubio for President Trump's assistance and
helping us secure the release of another three hostages yesterday.
These are hostages that Hamas refused to release only a
few days earlier, and I also thanked him for America's
unequivocal blacking for Israel's policy in Gaza.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
In moving forward, Meanwhile, Marco Rubio says Trump's Gaza takeover
plan took courage for him to propose.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It may have shocked and surprised many, but what cannot
continue is the same cycle where we repeat over and
over again and wind up in the exact same place.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Meanwhile, European leaders will gather in France tomorrow for an
emergency summer tomid US efforts to agree on a deal
with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. In the
coming days, US Secretary of State Micro Rubio is expected
to meet with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, but Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski has said he was not invited to
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those talks, and there's concerned the White House could strike
a deal which damages European security.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Eventually, at some point, the Americans will realize that the
Europeans have to be part of this deal. The one
thing that Donald Trump wants to avoid is this becoming
another Afghanistan. In other words, the whole thing going south
a conflict restarts seeing everybody blaming each other.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He doesn't want to.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Get the flag for that, so he will want the
Europeans on board. So the argument goes to make sure
that this stays a durable settlement.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And finally, the stars of the big screen are arriving
as we speak at London's Royal Festival Hall for the
annual BETHDA Film and TV Awards. Now leading this year's
nominations religious Drama Conclave, followed by Emilia Pevez and the
architecture film The Brutalists with Adrian Brody now Here is
a clip from Conclave, which dominates the awards tonight. It's
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got twelve nominations that the nominations include Best Film Director
and Leading Actor.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Discuss with the Holy Father in that final meeting arrangements
we're made in Paris. I shall pretend this conversation never
took place, but.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
It has taken place. This is a conclave, but it's
not a war.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It is a war and you have to commit to
a side. Yeah, that's definitely Tucci and Ray finds acting
their chops off. It is ten minus after five.
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Speaker 3 (03:55):
The New Zealand Economic Forum has ended in Hamilton and
all week in we saw the analysis about what was
discussed and for me what was fascinating was what we
didn't hear about rather than what we did. New Zealand
I think we can all agree is at a critical
time we have an economy that is fundamentally flawed. We
the taxpayers, in one way or another, have failed to
deliver the revenue to the government to pay for the
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services that we need and we demand. We got deficit
enough to deficit means we live on borrowings. Meanwhile, bills
that have been kicked down the road are coming back
to hurt us and to solve the problems. We heard
from our current leaders who have to fix up the
problems theyf not just by the last government, which are numerous,
but by all governments since the advent of Rogeromics. We
have people there like Finance Minister Nicola Willison, just a
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point of Public Service Commissioner Bryant Roach, and just appointed
Treasury Secretary Ian Renny, And they said, we must increase productivity,
we must encourage more foreign investment, we must slash the
public service, we must improve savings, all of which we
can agree on. But what they didn't talk about was
things like taxation, whether it's corporate tax or capital gains tax.
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They didn't talk about fixing housing and the fundamental force there.
They did not talk about affording superannuation, and they did
not talk about affording healthcare. So we seem to be
putting all our hope in some foreigners riding in to
save us with their capital, which even with the best
will we can muster, will take years to bear fruit.
Meanwhile slashing the public service to the bone, which hurts everyone.
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And I just thought at the end of the weekend,
if that was the best our brightest can bring to
the table, we're in for a long and painful ride.
Just do something. It appears that we only ever consider
half the solutions because we're also politically correct to whatever
politics we follow. Now, the antidote to all that economic
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gloom is the sporting riches we're enjoying right now. Elise
Andrews said a world record in cycling, Alice Robinson got
a World championship silver in alpine skiing. Some guy I'd
never heard of, Filled Melville Ives got himself a gold
in the half pipe yesterday. Orka, the FC continues to
win the only side who have ever humbled them. We've
got Joseph Parker preparing to take a heavyweight world championship
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this coming weekend. And then we had the rugby in
the league over the weekend, and we'll talk all about
this soon with Andrew Ordison. But what impressed me over
the weekend was the crowd attendances at our sporting events.
Good on you, Hamilton, that was a bumper crowd for
the Warriors. It was a real event Catergory at Auckland.
Crowds turned up for the rugby. There was even a
big crowd for the red Bull trolley Darby. It seems
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like in the middle of all this economic doom and gloom,
we're up for having a bit of fun at sports.
And I have to say that was I thought uplifting
over the weekend. So we've got new research revealing that
Kiwisaver funds have significantly increased their exposure to fossil fuel investments.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Do you care?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I've got a text already. As long as my money
is making money, I'm not bothered where it's invested. Thank
you Donald, Thank you for listening. We're going to talk
about this in a moment with Barry Coates, the man
who did the survey that found the facts.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Andrew Dickens on the early edition were the one room
to make your property search simple, youth dog Zibby.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, good one to you. The time is now five fifteen.
Just some of those facts and figures out from the
key we Saver funds, Can we save your investments in
fossil fuels jump to four point four to two billion
in September twenty four that's up from three point seventy
five billion in March twenty twenty four. So that's quick,
and that's an awful lot of money in fossil fuels
put in by Kei Wei Savers, and I asked a
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question do you care? And many people are saying no.
Steve says, can we save it? Investment type should not
be restricted, and thank you Steve. Wherever the money is
being is being put that as long as it's making money,
that's all right. Number of texts saying that. So we'll
talk about this shortly. But first look, who's in the
studio is Andrew Orderson. I've coming as it's all right,
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hold on, hold on a second. We'll just turn up
your channel right there and so we can hear you,
and then you are am.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I there now, I've comeing as you're Anethis said, you know, yes.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, Barry's not up, but we'll get him up. In
the second, theory goes very good, gosh, Super Rugby. You know,
during the week I was thinking Super Rubby, too soon,
too hot, and then of course what happened. I watched
all of it over the weekend and the crowds were big,
and the footy was great, I think a compelling start
and also those closest games as well. I think it
had really helped with keeping you, I guess, entertained and
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engaged in all those fixtures. So yeah, it got starne.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
I mean, you know when you see that the Blues
are kept on the bottom of the table at the
moment depending champions up the first week, Well there you go,
you've got addical competition.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's because some father called Damian McKenzie, who had a
funny old season last year he was either genius ordatrocious,
shows that he's learned something over the off season.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Well that's right, and you know he's got I guess
some py of incentive still to go Dami McKenzie to
be in the mix et centa for the All Blacks
later on and those sorts of things. So yeah, it's
I mean, whine A Pacific are putting up a good
show as well.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They traveled halfway around the world and took the Western
Force to town and only lost by one gosing is
it a forty five four? So yeah, yeah, I mean
that's all part of it is that.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
But I think most people would be quite entertained by
that first week and just your boats. Well for the competition,
because I'm always reluctant as well. I think I mid February,
is that really the time to be starting rugby? But
yeah and warm, Yeah, and it made for some running
rugby exactly exactly and the harder grounds, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So that definitely helps two things. Yannick Simmer, the the
Italian tennis player, doping and all that sort of thing.
Tell me about what's happening with that band.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Well not, it's it's a bit of a sweetheart deal
and what will be a two year band has been
reduced to three months. Probably some good lawyers involved there,
but it's the fact that it really is wet bus
ticket type type punishment and he's not even going to
miss the French Open, so it's not three months. So
it's kind of negotiated and it looks like he's had
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more power than actually the institutions involved in running the sports. Yeah,
that he's able to negotiate that.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Sorry, I'm sorry, the excuse seemed flimsy.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Yeah, exactly exactly so, And I just think doping stoping,
and you've got it. You've got to be so vigilant
about that. And others have gone for skates for probably
lesser crimes.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, okay, yeah, and that remember, well the other was lucky.
He is lucky. I think so truly. Meanwhile, Shane van
Gisberg is doing the Dayton of five hundred the super
Speedway and I was hearing that over the news. You know,
this is a very even competition. I actually think he's
going to be quite good because he's an elbows out driver. Yeah,
I always I don't like that description.
Speaker 9 (10:36):
Actually, yeah, it's and and of course with the Dayton
and five hundred, I think they'd reduce the horsepower down
at least from what correspondents telling us, and that means
you get more pack racing involved in it. And I'm
sure we'll become experts on Dayton five.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Across the course of the morning.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
But you know, it's it's another for a by New
Zealand motorsport driver into the top echelon of a certain
discipline and I think we're going to look back on
this as a real golden era for New Zealanders and
most across the board.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So you've seen Liam Lawson playing the guitar. No, it's
on social media, came out of the last week. He
just sits he's amazing and he can sing. I mean,
is that right? Is there nothing? This is what we
can't do? Is no end to his talents?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
A look.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And also I really loved all your skiing, your skiing commentary,
just the tricks and the names of the tricks. It's
like you're speaking another language it is.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
I've got no idea what I'm saying, but there I
felt like putting allegedly in front of it. And sick
work Andrew and with words they say sport all morning long.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's five twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
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Speaker 3 (11:55):
It's five twenty two. The new researchers revealed keep Saber
Funds have significantly increased they're exposure to fossil fuel investments
between March and September last year. There was an eighteen
percent increase nearly four and a half billion dollars. Is
what we put in from our Keiwi saver into fossil
fuel investments, and that continued investment into coal, oil and
gas companies stands and start contrast to public sentiment. A
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recent survey found that seventy seven percent of New Zealanders
say they want to avoid fossil fuel investments. That may
be so, but not this morning. When I ask you
the question, what do you think? John has written saying
Andrew I left a Keywi saver provided due to their
ethical investing policy. The world is going to need oil
for a long time yet, and we need to make money.
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And here here's the thing. I think you have a point, John.
Surely our exposure will naturally shrink as the carbon sector
naturally sinks as we promote renewables. And therefore you have
to ask a question, is a key We saver's role
to force a future change or is a Keiwi saver's
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role to look out for our money in the best
way possible. That debate will happen all day. Meanwhile, another
debate happening is about what Destiny's Church got up to
over the course of the weekend. And I have to say,
the haka is a funny thing. The harker is something
New Zealanders do as a sign of respect. Though yes
it started life as a war dance, but it was
a respect for war dance. But we do it as
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respect I'll never forget the solo Hukker performed at a
funeral of a friend of mine by his son, was
so moving, respecting the man and the rugby. The rugby
haker is mostly about respect for our opponent, but at
its heart it is about battle. And so the Harker
performed before the Pride parade and Aukland over the weekend,
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I have to say, was not about respect. There was
no respect there at all. It was about standing up.
It was about a battle. It was about a division.
It was about we don't like you. It was about hatred,
it was about we don't respect you. And this from
members of a church, and Brian Tummicky appears to be
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in all for it. And Brian Tummicky seems to have
forgotten the basic ethos of a church, which is respect
for the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. It's
a bit like that Catholic bishop who got worried about
the health of transgenders and that was considered to be political,
when in fact that's his faith. It is her faith.
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I should say. It is five twenty five. It's News talksb.
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it is now five twenty two twenty seven, I should
say five twenty seven. The government's new tourism campaign targeted
at Australians, I think is a no brainer. A simple
test is comparing how many New Zealanders have visited Australia
compared to how many Australians have come here. I remember
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being at a conference a while back in Sydney and
we were asking around the room how many of you
who have been to New Zealand. There were none, and
yet I then asked how many of you guys have
been to Queensland? What they all had been including me?
You see, for Kiwi's it's a right of passage to
visit Australia, but it's not a right of passage for
Ossie's to come here. So imploring everyone to come here,
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in fact, saying everyone must come here, I think is
a good thing. Shame on the Labor spokesperson who was
on the Telly last night who seemed to think such
a plea was desperate. I'm sorry, that's not desperate. It's
just got a bit of energy about it. If we
can imbue the belief in Australia that a visit to
New Zealand is a must, then that will continue to
pay its way for generations. It's the same for European visitors.
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The people I know who came here from Europe for
their oe and became my friends here are now the
parents of kids who then returned. The kids, having heard
the legends from mum Zoe and New Zealand are the
ones who come back. My partner Zoe was in Germany
and her friends' children's are the ones who have come
to New Zealand find more found out more about the
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exotic foreigner who landed in their parents' mints. So it's
important to remember that every time we go overseas and
meet others, we go as ambassadors and we promote repeat
business of inbound tourism here. But for everywhere aside from Australia,
we are still a major trip with big journeys and
big bills. So Australia is very cheap and very important
for Australians. We're a three hour flight. We're just like them,
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we speak the same language as them, but we're exotically different.
Our scenic delights are delightful, and thanks to our stuttering
economy and DOMMA, we're relatively cheap as chips. Of course,
everyone there must come here, and their children and their
children's children and so on. In fact, this is our
campaign that should never stop, and in fact this is
a campaign that we need to renew year after year
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after year. So it's coming of five twenty nine. Europe's
all of it tis was right now about the American president.
Tony Major, the former UK Prime Minister, who rarely offers
direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with the
BBC Radio over the weekend to call the Trump administration
unlike anything he'd ever seen and to warn that Washington
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might live to regret ceding the world stage to a
more autocratic person. And he condemned JD Vance, the US
Vice President, as hypocritical and not statesmanlike, for lecturing Europe
on free speech while also cuddling Vladimir Putin's Russia. He
went off, Meanwhile, the Europeans are having an emergency summit
meeting to discuss what to do about all of this,
and we'll have details of that summit coming up very shortly.
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With Gavin Gray out of Europe right here on News Talks, heb.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
Edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make Your Property
Surge and symbol Youth Talk Zibby, Good.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Morning, Welcome to you. Monday. Normal transmission has resumed. I'm
doing early edition wy and Bridge. It's going to be
doing the drivetime show while of course Heather is on
maternity leave and so it's all good. So we talked
about Brian Tommicky's Destiny Church's stunts over the course of
the weekend. I'm sure mister Tommicky thinks that New Zealanders
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are all behind him, but not the listeners to this show. Well,
Texan already. Destiny Church writes a text to Judge, not
lest you yourself be judged. Kathy writes that Brian wats
his face, breaks rules, his church and judge and I
wouldn't want to be in their circle. Thank you, Kathy
the Kiwi and another textasys equally, Destiny is not a church.
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It's a classic example of how far Christianity has fallen
as our egos become bigger and bigger, in our collective intelligence,
smaller and smaller. Thank you for contributing to the show
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I have to say this is a very petty little
point and I already apologize for it. But for it
churchly that who lives on tithing and donations from his followers.
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I'm not sure whether it is a good look that
Bryan turns up on the telly wearing a very very
expensive Emporio Amani T shirt. It's twenty two to six.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Andrew Dicka is around the country.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We go Callum Proctor, good morning from Dunedin.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Yes, morning, Andrew.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Why is it one I can reserve closed?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oh, it's just too dry and the fire risk is
too high. I think this is a sign of just
how extreme conditions are right around the region. The Queenstown
Lakes District Councils shut the Mount Iron Reserve because of
the fire risks brought on by the spell of hot
and dry weather.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Here.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Fire and emergencies providing guidance to the council, so the
reserve and the tracks closed from midday to six am
now each day. It can only be excessed in the
mornings when that risk is low and the temperatures are down.
That Council says conditions are being closely monitored. They'll reopen
the area as soon as they can when it's safe too.
At the Mount Iron Reserve, yeah, there.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Was a big fire on Mount Iron a while back.
In fact, that made of mine almost lost his house,
so that is a danger. Now, how is your weather fine?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
For most of the regions today For to need an
occasional rain, this evening or easterly is easing and twenty
four today.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Claire Sherwood joins me from christ Church Hell Claire, good morning.
So christ Church is hot for students.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Yes, So I'm nervous about telling everyone about this, Andrew,
because everyone will want to move here. But Other Institute
of Technology has seen a thirty four percent increase in
international student enrollments for this year. That's up from two
hundred and fifty four last year to three hundred and
forty now. Domestic enrollments rose by one percent to just
over fivey two hundred. The international director, Deana Anderson, says
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Other's approach is targeted as students have a huge amount
of choice across the country. She says there's been an
increase in international students re enrolling as well, meaning people
are choosing to stay in christ Church and continue studies further.
Anderson says the tracking to reach pre COVID numbers by
the end of this year fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And I always liked Elam University, always liked it every
time I visited there. Question which is just lovely, especially
on a nice day. And how's your weather?
Speaker 10 (21:12):
Pretty nice day here, mainly fine, there will be some
occasion wearing This afternoon northeasterlies a high of twenty three.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Next toll joins us from Wellington home X. Good morning,
So investigators are looking at a fire. This fire was
in a multi story building.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Yeah. So for those who know Wellington fairly well, these
are the blue and white apartment to complex the Brooklyn
Road end of the year of Willis Street. They had
the circular porthole windows, quite notable for their distinct architecture.
As specialist fire investigators are going to be there today
trying to work out what caused this fire. They are
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council run flats. They were called fire an emergency about
two thirty yesterday afternoon. Thankfully no one was in the
flat where the fire started. Everyone was able to be evacuated.
Firefighters got in quickly could extinguish the fire and ventilate
the building without anyone being heard. So now the matter
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turns to finding out what caused it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Very good, how's your weather?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I shall be partly cloudy today with some isolated showers
developing later twenty six the high Central.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And you've already man who joins us from walk and
hello neither good morning. So Brian Tammocke's Destiny Church antics
over the course of the weekend are causing worries.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Yes, this is one of the big stories of the weekend.
So you're absolutely right, Andrew. The worries anti LGBTQ protests
and auckland over the weekend could have deadly consequences. So
the groups linked to Destiny Church, as we know, they
stormed the children's drag event and that was at a
Westalkland library on Saturday. Then obviously they later disrupted the
Pride parade with a hiker that was down Ponsonby Henderson.
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Messy local board cheer Chris Carter says, look, you know,
struggling with sexual identity is already a leading factor in
youth suicide. And he says that you know Tamaky's preaching
about love of the family, but you know he's spreading
a message of hate and prejudice.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Okay, how's the weather.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
The weather occasional rain, which is probably welcome to you
in Auckland at the moment because it's been so muggy.
Twenty five is the high.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It was supposed to rain yesterday and it did not.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Yes, it did, probably not in your area.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'll tell you why, rain. I tell you why. I
knew it was going to rain. So I went to
watch The Brutalist, which is three and a half hours long,
and I went in and it wasn't rainy. And I
came out it wasn't raining, and I went, oh my god,
to fall asleep. No, no, I'll tell you how many
tor it breaks did jev. I'll tell you that's a
very good point, and I'll tell you more about that
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very shortly. But thank you so much. Okay. It is
seventeen to sex. European leaders have caught an emergency summit
this week to discuss America's abandonment of the war. Meanwhile,
we never really report on the war. The war grinds on.
Russia has the military advantage. Its troops, however, inexperienced and
badly trained, so they're easily defeated if Ukraine can come
up against them. Meanwhile, Ukraine has a similar problem with
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what they've done is have concentrated its best fights into
army corps that then run brigades. They are regularly swapped
out to give them rest time and also time to
train new fighters. But the whole conflict is on a
knife edge. And we'll have more with Devin Gray in
just a.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Moment International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It is according to Sex of the Moment Louis Upston
on the push to get Australians to come to New
Zealand to have a holiday. But first to the Europe
we go, Gavin Gray, good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So we've got the emergency summit on the war in
Ukraine tomorrow or in days in France.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Yes, it hasn't all formerly been announced, but it looks
like very little in Europe happens quickly. But it does
look like this is going to happen pretty quickly, and
that's because the Europeans are now pretty terrified frankly about
being left out of the negotiations about ending the war
in Ukraine, which is on the doorstep of Europe. They
fear that this is going to be put together by
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America and Russia without even Ukraine being involved, let alone
anybody from Europe, and so they want to attend this
summit in Paris, going to be hosted by Emmanuel Macron.
Sekire Starmer is likely to go, and interestingly, Sakire Starmer
already then has a meeting with US President Donald Trump
at the White House at the end of this month,
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so it looks like there is some sort of a
schedule for this. But of course, I say the end
of this month, that's still two weeks away. Donald Trump
doesn't tend to wait two weeks to announce things. So
there is this real fear that in some way Donald
Trump and Vladimir Putin are going to agree something which
neither Ukraine nor Europe agree with, and I think that's
going to be very difficult. So there are not going
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to be calls. President Zelenski has started this for the
creation of an army of Europe amid to the rising
concern that the US may no longer come to the
continent's aid.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yes, so there's an army outside of NATO, another army,
another sort of organization. So some are for and some
are against. That's what they'll be discussing as this emergency summit.
Kids underway tell me about commuter cat.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Ah Well, I love this story. So there is this
cat from a village or small town outside London and
it was just turned up at somebody's door and it
turns out that these people have adopted it. It's a
family cat now, so to speak. And this cat is
incredibly adventurous. He's already gone on buses and managed to
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find his way home. He's actually ended up going behind
the bar at the local pub and just sort of
sitting there for lunch and so forth. But I think
the biggest shot came quite recently when the owners had
a call from Waterloo Railway Station, which is a London terminus.
The cat had got on the coach on the train carriage, rather,
(26:46):
had got on the train carriage at Weybridge and conducted
a thirty kilometer trip right into the heart of London, unaccompanied,
completely unannounced. Who knows how he got to the station,
Who knows how he got on the train? The owner said,
I was absolutely stunned when somebody from the ticket office
at Waterloo Station said, your cat is here. It's got
(27:07):
your labor on. He said, what the hell is my
cat doing in Waterloo getting on to trains and going
for a ride?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
What a good question.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Absolutely, if he doesn't watch out that cat, we'll get
to some pancras and before he knows that, you get
a call from France. We got your care here, Gavin
or the best. Thank you so much for your time today.
It is now eleven minutes to six. So the government's
announced a new campaign for encouraging ousies to come here
for the next holiday. The campaign is called Everyone Must Come. No,
(27:34):
so I got that wrong. Everyone must go. Everyone must
Go because it's aimed at the Gaussies. Everyone must Go.
It's costing us half a million dollars. It will be
followed by more campaigns targeting other places. Tourism Minister Louise
ups And announced the marketing will go live across the
Ditch next week. She announced us yesterday. She's with me now,
Hello Louise, good morning to you. How are you very good?
(27:55):
So how effective do you think this could be?
Speaker 12 (27:58):
Well, this is the first of several tourism boost announcements
that we're planning over the coming weeks and The important
part with this is it's very much supported by industry.
So what we will see is accommodation providers, airlines who
are supporting this push to get Aussies to come over
and visit with their own deals. So it means that
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every dollar of taxpayers ben goes that much further.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
The question I had and I raised us earlier this
morning is why haven't we been doing this since the
beginning of time. I mean, they're right there, it's cheap
for them to come here, it's easy for them to
talk and commute and to get around. They've got friends here.
This is something we should have been doing forever.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
Yeah, So Tourism New Zealand are already doing campaigns into Australia.
They've got an autumn campaign that's underway at the moment.
This is on top of so we wanted a short,
sharp injection to make sure that Australians know that they
can come over straight away. We wanted some urgency in
it and a fresh campaign to really work with the
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industry on. So this is in addition to what Tourism
New Zealand is already doing into Australia.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I see that in Australia we're already their number one destination.
There was a piece on the news actually last week
saying we're number one for Australians leaving and coming here.
So is there more upside that we can get?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (29:23):
Absolutely So if you look at our twenty nineteen numbers,
we're only sitting at eighty eight percent of that. This
short boost we're aiming to bring another five thousand visitors in,
which would take us up to ninety three percent, so
there's still lots of potential. You know, we're a long
way off where we were in twenty nineteen, so job
number one is getting those numbers back. And you're right,
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Australians can make the decision quickly and hop over the pitch.
So this campaign is all about saying we're open for business.
We welcome you with open arms, so get on, make
the decision and come over.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Very good. Any other sovereignties that you wanted to do
a campaign like this in any other places.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
Well there'll be other parts of the Tourism Boost campaign.
But if you look at other big markets, obviously China
numbers are down at sixty percent of where they were
in twenty nineteen, which is concerning, and there's emerging markets
like India, so we will be making sure that we
have campaigns into existing markets to get numbers back to
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where they were in twenty nineteen, as well as some
other parts of our Tourism Boost campaign which will be
coming out in the next few weeks.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Okay, we wish you only success with that one and
putting your other hat on there. You were on the
telly last night as well twice. A recent one News
vary In poll found forty six percent of New Zealand
has thought the issue of homelessness was getting worse. And
you're the minister in charge of worrying about that sort
of thing, are they wrong?
Speaker 12 (30:51):
Lock Homelessness has been a challenge for many, many years
and so it is something that people worry about. What
I'm incredibly proud of to Pawtucker and Minister Bishop and
I have had a real focus on emergency housing and
getting children out of living in motels. Nineteen hundred fewer
children living in motels than a where a year ago.
(31:13):
So we have taken a real focus to this issue,
focusing first and foremost on children, and the number of
people living in emergency housing now is significantly below where
it was We've also seen five thousand fewer people on
the social housing Register. So while there's always more work
(31:34):
to do, we have made some incredible inroads into some
of these long standing housing challenges.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Louise Upstin, Minister for Social Development and Minister for Tourism.
Two portfolios, two parts that interview. Thank you so much
for your time. News talks here it is coming up
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Speaker 3 (32:02):
Tex through the corporate I worked for, brought three hundred
Australians over last week and Orca was absolutely exceptional and
they loved it, so that's quite good. Meanwhile, the Baptis
are happening as we speak in London and they're all
filing in. And the big films there are Conclave and
the Brutalists. Now I've seen Conclave. It's Ray Fine and
Stanley Tucci. I actually found the film to be strangely bloodless,
but very nice costumes. But that's more about being the
(32:23):
pope as opposed to being the actors. And the other one,
the Brutalist I saw yesterday. It's three and a half
hours long. But the wonderful thing about The Brutalist is
it has a fifteen minute intermission in the middle of
it with a countdown timer, so they suddenly say, off
you go, go to the Loup, Go get yourself another
glass at bin A Noirs. It's all good. You've got
fifteen minutes to come back. You come back and see
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part two. And I loved it. Reminded me of the
old days. Before you know it, they'll be playing God
Save the King and we'll stand up and look at
the guys with the funny fairy hats on my cosking,
Good morning morning. I saw the trailer for that yesterday
or the day before, and it was an epic trailer.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
It looks like an epic movie.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
It's a movie, and I would, do you drink at
the movies?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I do?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I got myself another Pinot Noir at the halftime break,
and that was the thing. Instead of getting one to
go in, I got it at the halftime, so I
knew there was something to look forward to.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
So I'd rather not have a half time. I'd rather
immerse myself drink, immerse myself in there and get stuck.
And they say, Conclave's very good, Conclave's good, and the
Brutalist is good good reviews.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I think I could have taken an hour out of
the I think there was you know, there were the
moments when you look at clocks ticking and you're going.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
So I'm waiting for the streaming. Obviously, because I'm nowhere
in the world, I'm going to the movies.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
So of the.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Two, I'd go to a Brutalist. The Brutalists.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
Would you watch that one?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
It looked good to.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Melicity Jones is good in it, and of course Adrian Brody,
who looks remarkably like me. It's quite good.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
It's a similar thing. What do you doing today? You
got David, I got David Timo. I'm going to try
and avoid that. This thing that Erica Stampard said yesterday,
it seems to be increasingly a pile on. So anyway,
while I'll find other things to talk to him about.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Great Stuf. My name is Andrew Dickens. Kenzie was our
producer LID He helps as well, And I'll see.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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Andrew Dickens in for Brian Bridge on the program today.
Apparently Kiwi Saber is still investing in fossil fuel shares,
so how.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Are they doing that?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And should we be worried? Europe is organizing emergency summer
says the US abandons the Ukraine. Gavin Gray with the
latest and a new campaign tells Ozzie's that they must
come to New Zealand, and the question is why is
this new. Louise Upston, the Tourism Minister, is joining us
just before six. We'll have correspondence from right around the
world and right around New Zealand. Will have news as
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have anything to say. And the number is ninety two
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
The agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's Monday, the seventeenth of February. To the Middle East
and Israeli prim Mienist of Benjamin Netanyah, who says he's
working in full cooperation with the United States on a
common strategy for Gaza. After his meeting with US Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem,
Rubio and Nettaja who outlined their areas of agreement, including
(01:17):
a desire to eradicate harmasa's governing capacity, prevent Iran from
gaining a nuclear weapon, and to monitor developments in post
assad Syria.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I thanked Secretary of Rubio for President Trump's assistance and
helping us secure the release of another three hostages yesterday.
These are hostages that Hamas refused to release only a
few days earlier, and I also thanked him for America's
unequivocal blacking for Israel's policy in Gaza.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
In moving forward, Meanwhile, Marco Rubio says Trump's Gaza takeover
plan took courage for him to propose.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It may have shocked and surprised many, but what cannot
continue is the same cycle where we repeat over and
over again and wind up in the exact same place.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Meanwhile, European leaders will gather in France tomorrow for an
emergency summer tomid US efforts to agree on a deal
with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. In the
coming days, US Secretary of State Micro Rubio is expected
to meet with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, but Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski has said he was not invited to
(02:21):
those talks, and there's concerned the White House could strike
a deal which damages European security.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Eventually, at some point, the Americans will realize that the
Europeans have to be part of this deal. The one
thing that Donald Trump wants to avoid is this becoming
another Afghanistan. In other words, the whole thing going south
a conflict restarts seeing everybody blaming each other.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He doesn't want to.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Get the flag for that, so he will want the
Europeans on board. So the argument goes to make sure
that this stays a durable settlement.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And finally, the stars of the big screen are arriving
as we speak at London's Royal Festival Hall for the
annual BETHDA Film and TV Awards. Now leading this year's
nominations religious Drama Conclave, followed by Emilia Pevez and the
architecture film The Brutalists with Adrian Brody now Here is
a clip from Conclave, which dominates the awards tonight. It's
(03:10):
got twelve nominations that the nominations include Best Film Director
and Leading Actor.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Discuss with the Holy Father in that final meeting arrangements
we're made in Paris. I shall pretend this conversation never
took place, but.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
It has taken place. This is a conclave, but it's
not a war.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It is a war and you have to commit to
a side. Yeah, that's definitely Tucci and Ray finds acting
their chops off. It is ten minus after five.
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Speaker 3 (03:55):
The New Zealand Economic Forum has ended in Hamilton and
all week in we saw the analysis about what was
discussed and for me what was fascinating was what we
didn't hear about rather than what we did. New Zealand
I think we can all agree is at a critical
time we have an economy that is fundamentally flawed. We
the taxpayers, in one way or another, have failed to
deliver the revenue to the government to pay for the
(04:16):
services that we need and we demand. We got deficit
enough to deficit means we live on borrowings. Meanwhile, bills
that have been kicked down the road are coming back
to hurt us and to solve the problems. We heard
from our current leaders who have to fix up the
problems theyf not just by the last government, which are numerous,
but by all governments since the advent of Rogeromics. We
have people there like Finance Minister Nicola Willison, just a
(04:39):
point of Public Service Commissioner Bryant Roach, and just appointed
Treasury Secretary Ian Renny, And they said, we must increase productivity,
we must encourage more foreign investment, we must slash the
public service, we must improve savings, all of which we
can agree on. But what they didn't talk about was
things like taxation, whether it's corporate tax or capital gains tax.
(05:00):
They didn't talk about fixing housing and the fundamental force there.
They did not talk about affording superannuation, and they did
not talk about affording healthcare. So we seem to be
putting all our hope in some foreigners riding in to
save us with their capital, which even with the best
will we can muster, will take years to bear fruit.
Meanwhile slashing the public service to the bone, which hurts everyone.
(05:23):
And I just thought at the end of the weekend,
if that was the best our brightest can bring to
the table, we're in for a long and painful ride.
Just do something. It appears that we only ever consider
half the solutions because we're also politically correct to whatever
politics we follow. Now, the antidote to all that economic
(05:44):
gloom is the sporting riches we're enjoying right now. Elise
Andrews said a world record in cycling, Alice Robinson got
a World championship silver in alpine skiing. Some guy I'd
never heard of, Filled Melville Ives got himself a gold
in the half pipe yesterday. Orka, the FC continues to
win the only side who have ever humbled them. We've
got Joseph Parker preparing to take a heavyweight world championship
(06:05):
this coming weekend. And then we had the rugby in
the league over the weekend, and we'll talk all about
this soon with Andrew Ordison. But what impressed me over
the weekend was the crowd attendances at our sporting events.
Good on you, Hamilton, that was a bumper crowd for
the Warriors. It was a real event Catergory at Auckland.
Crowds turned up for the rugby. There was even a
big crowd for the red Bull trolley Darby. It seems
(06:26):
like in the middle of all this economic doom and gloom,
we're up for having a bit of fun at sports.
And I have to say that was I thought uplifting
over the weekend. So we've got new research revealing that
Kiwisaver funds have significantly increased their exposure to fossil fuel investments.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Do you care?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I've got a text already. As long as my money
is making money, I'm not bothered where it's invested. Thank
you Donald, Thank you for listening. We're going to talk
about this in a moment with Barry Coates, the man
who did the survey that found the facts.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Andrew Dickens on the early edition were the one room
to make your property search simple, youth dog Zibby.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, good one to you. The time is now five fifteen.
Just some of those facts and figures out from the
key we Saver funds, Can we save your investments in
fossil fuels jump to four point four to two billion
in September twenty four that's up from three point seventy
five billion in March twenty twenty four. So that's quick,
and that's an awful lot of money in fossil fuels
put in by Kei Wei Savers, and I asked a
(07:25):
question do you care? And many people are saying no.
Steve says, can we save it? Investment type should not
be restricted, and thank you Steve. Wherever the money is
being is being put that as long as it's making money,
that's all right. Number of texts saying that. So we'll
talk about this shortly. But first look, who's in the
studio is Andrew Orderson. I've coming as it's all right,
(07:45):
hold on, hold on a second. We'll just turn up
your channel right there and so we can hear you,
and then you are am.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I there now, I've comeing as you're Anethis said, you know, yes.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, Barry's not up, but we'll get him up. In
the second, theory goes very good, gosh, Super Rugby. You know,
during the week I was thinking Super Rubby, too soon,
too hot, and then of course what happened. I watched
all of it over the weekend and the crowds were big,
and the footy was great, I think a compelling start
and also those closest games as well. I think it
had really helped with keeping you, I guess, entertained and
(08:18):
engaged in all those fixtures. So yeah, it got starne.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
I mean, you know when you see that the Blues
are kept on the bottom of the table at the
moment depending champions up the first week, Well there you go,
you've got addical competition.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's because some father called Damian McKenzie, who had a
funny old season last year he was either genius ordatrocious,
shows that he's learned something over the off season.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Well that's right, and you know he's got I guess
some py of incentive still to go Dami McKenzie to
be in the mix et centa for the All Blacks
later on and those sorts of things. So yeah, it's
I mean, whine A Pacific are putting up a good
show as well.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They traveled halfway around the world and took the Western
Force to town and only lost by one gosing is
it a forty five four? So yeah, yeah, I mean
that's all part of it is that.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
But I think most people would be quite entertained by
that first week and just your boats. Well for the competition,
because I'm always reluctant as well. I think I mid February,
is that really the time to be starting rugby? But
yeah and warm, Yeah, and it made for some running
rugby exactly exactly and the harder grounds, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So that definitely helps two things. Yannick Simmer, the the
Italian tennis player, doping and all that sort of thing.
Tell me about what's happening with that band.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Well not, it's it's a bit of a sweetheart deal
and what will be a two year band has been
reduced to three months. Probably some good lawyers involved there,
but it's the fact that it really is wet bus
ticket type type punishment and he's not even going to
miss the French Open, so it's not three months. So
it's kind of negotiated and it looks like he's had
(09:55):
more power than actually the institutions involved in running the sports. Yeah,
that he's able to negotiate that.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Sorry, I'm sorry, the excuse seemed flimsy.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
Yeah, exactly exactly so, And I just think doping stoping,
and you've got it. You've got to be so vigilant
about that. And others have gone for skates for probably
lesser crimes.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, okay, yeah, and that remember, well the other was lucky.
He is lucky. I think so truly. Meanwhile, Shane van
Gisberg is doing the Dayton of five hundred the super
Speedway and I was hearing that over the news. You know,
this is a very even competition. I actually think he's
going to be quite good because he's an elbows out driver. Yeah,
I always I don't like that description.
Speaker 9 (10:36):
Actually, yeah, it's and and of course with the Dayton
and five hundred, I think they'd reduce the horsepower down
at least from what correspondents telling us, and that means
you get more pack racing involved in it. And I'm
sure we'll become experts on Dayton five.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Across the course of the morning.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
But you know, it's it's another for a by New
Zealand motorsport driver into the top echelon of a certain
discipline and I think we're going to look back on
this as a real golden era for New Zealanders and
most across the board.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So you've seen Liam Lawson playing the guitar. No, it's
on social media, came out of the last week. He
just sits he's amazing and he can sing. I mean,
is that right? Is there nothing? This is what we
can't do? Is no end to his talents?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
A look.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And also I really loved all your skiing, your skiing commentary,
just the tricks and the names of the tricks. It's
like you're speaking another language it is.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
I've got no idea what I'm saying, but there I
felt like putting allegedly in front of it. And sick
work Andrew and with words they say sport all morning long.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
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It's five twenty two. The new researchers revealed keep Saber
Funds have significantly increased they're exposure to fossil fuel investments
between March and September last year. There was an eighteen
percent increase nearly four and a half billion dollars. Is
what we put in from our Keiwi saver into fossil
fuel investments, and that continued investment into coal, oil and
gas companies stands and start contrast to public sentiment. A
(12:17):
recent survey found that seventy seven percent of New Zealanders
say they want to avoid fossil fuel investments. That may
be so, but not this morning. When I ask you
the question, what do you think? John has written saying
Andrew I left a Keywi saver provided due to their
ethical investing policy. The world is going to need oil
for a long time yet, and we need to make money.
(12:39):
And here here's the thing. I think you have a point, John.
Surely our exposure will naturally shrink as the carbon sector
naturally sinks as we promote renewables. And therefore you have
to ask a question, is a key We saver's role
to force a future change or is a Keiwi saver's
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role to look out for our money in the best
way possible. That debate will happen all day. Meanwhile, another
debate happening is about what Destiny's Church got up to
over the course of the weekend. And I have to say,
the haka is a funny thing. The harker is something
New Zealanders do as a sign of respect. Though yes
it started life as a war dance, but it was
a respect for war dance. But we do it as
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respect I'll never forget the solo Hukker performed at a
funeral of a friend of mine by his son, was
so moving, respecting the man and the rugby. The rugby
haker is mostly about respect for our opponent, but at
its heart it is about battle. And so the Harker
performed before the Pride parade and Aukland over the weekend,
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I have to say, was not about respect. There was
no respect there at all. It was about standing up.
It was about a battle. It was about a division.
It was about we don't like you. It was about hatred,
it was about we don't respect you. And this from
members of a church, and Brian Tummicky appears to be
(14:04):
in all for it. And Brian Tummicky seems to have
forgotten the basic ethos of a church, which is respect
for the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. It's
a bit like that Catholic bishop who got worried about
the health of transgenders and that was considered to be political,
when in fact that's his faith. It is her faith.
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it is now five twenty two twenty seven, I should
say five twenty seven. The government's new tourism campaign targeted
at Australians, I think is a no brainer. A simple
test is comparing how many New Zealanders have visited Australia
compared to how many Australians have come here. I remember
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being at a conference a while back in Sydney and
we were asking around the room how many of you
who have been to New Zealand. There were none, and
yet I then asked how many of you guys have
been to Queensland? What they all had been including me?
You see, for Kiwi's it's a right of passage to
visit Australia, but it's not a right of passage for
Ossie's to come here. So imploring everyone to come here,
(15:18):
in fact, saying everyone must come here, I think is
a good thing. Shame on the Labor spokesperson who was
on the Telly last night who seemed to think such
a plea was desperate. I'm sorry, that's not desperate. It's
just got a bit of energy about it. If we
can imbue the belief in Australia that a visit to
New Zealand is a must, then that will continue to
pay its way for generations. It's the same for European visitors.
(15:42):
The people I know who came here from Europe for
their oe and became my friends here are now the
parents of kids who then returned. The kids, having heard
the legends from mum Zoe and New Zealand are the
ones who come back. My partner Zoe was in Germany
and her friends' children's are the ones who have come
to New Zealand find more found out more about the
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exotic foreigner who landed in their parents' mints. So it's
important to remember that every time we go overseas and
meet others, we go as ambassadors and we promote repeat
business of inbound tourism here. But for everywhere aside from Australia,
we are still a major trip with big journeys and
big bills. So Australia is very cheap and very important
for Australians. We're a three hour flight. We're just like them,
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we speak the same language as them, but we're exotically different.
Our scenic delights are delightful, and thanks to our stuttering
economy and DOMMA, we're relatively cheap as chips. Of course,
everyone there must come here, and their children and their
children's children and so on. In fact, this is our
campaign that should never stop, and in fact this is
a campaign that we need to renew year after year
(16:49):
after year. So it's coming of five twenty nine. Europe's
all of it tis was right now about the American president.
Tony Major, the former UK Prime Minister, who rarely offers
direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with the
BBC Radio over the weekend to call the Trump administration
unlike anything he'd ever seen and to warn that Washington
(17:09):
might live to regret ceding the world stage to a
more autocratic person. And he condemned JD Vance, the US
Vice President, as hypocritical and not statesmanlike, for lecturing Europe
on free speech while also cuddling Vladimir Putin's Russia. He
went off, Meanwhile, the Europeans are having an emergency summit
meeting to discuss what to do about all of this,
and we'll have details of that summit coming up very shortly.
(17:32):
With Gavin Gray out of Europe right here on News Talks, heb.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
Edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make Your Property
Surge and symbol Youth Talk Zibby, Good.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Morning, Welcome to you. Monday. Normal transmission has resumed. I'm
doing early edition wy and Bridge. It's going to be
doing the drivetime show while of course Heather is on
maternity leave and so it's all good. So we talked
about Brian Tommicky's Destiny Church's stunts over the course of
the weekend. I'm sure mister Tommicky thinks that New Zealanders
(18:27):
are all behind him, but not the listeners to this show. Well,
Texan already. Destiny Church writes a text to Judge, not
lest you yourself be judged. Kathy writes that Brian wats
his face, breaks rules, his church and judge and I
wouldn't want to be in their circle. Thank you, Kathy
the Kiwi and another textasys equally, Destiny is not a church.
(18:49):
It's a classic example of how far Christianity has fallen
as our egos become bigger and bigger, in our collective intelligence,
smaller and smaller. Thank you for contributing to the show
ninety two ninety two. It's a small charge does apply.
I have to say this is a very petty little
point and I already apologize for it. But for it
churchly that who lives on tithing and donations from his followers.
(19:11):
I'm not sure whether it is a good look that
Bryan turns up on the telly wearing a very very
expensive Emporio Amani T shirt. It's twenty two to six.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Andrew Dicka is around the country.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
We go Callum Proctor, good morning from Dunedin.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Yes, morning, Andrew.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Why is it one I can reserve closed?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oh, it's just too dry and the fire risk is
too high. I think this is a sign of just
how extreme conditions are right around the region. The Queenstown
Lakes District Councils shut the Mount Iron Reserve because of
the fire risks brought on by the spell of hot
and dry weather.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Here.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Fire and emergencies providing guidance to the council, so the
reserve and the tracks closed from midday to six am
now each day. It can only be excessed in the
mornings when that risk is low and the temperatures are down.
That Council says conditions are being closely monitored. They'll reopen
the area as soon as they can when it's safe too.
At the Mount Iron Reserve, yeah, there.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Was a big fire on Mount Iron a while back.
In fact, that made of mine almost lost his house,
so that is a danger. Now, how is your weather fine?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
For most of the regions today For to need an
occasional rain, this evening or easterly is easing and twenty
four today.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Claire Sherwood joins me from christ Church Hell Claire, good morning.
So christ Church is hot for students.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Yes, So I'm nervous about telling everyone about this, Andrew,
because everyone will want to move here. But Other Institute
of Technology has seen a thirty four percent increase in
international student enrollments for this year. That's up from two
hundred and fifty four last year to three hundred and
forty now. Domestic enrollments rose by one percent to just
over fivey two hundred. The international director, Deana Anderson, says
(20:45):
Other's approach is targeted as students have a huge amount
of choice across the country. She says there's been an
increase in international students re enrolling as well, meaning people
are choosing to stay in christ Church and continue studies further.
Anderson says the tracking to reach pre COVID numbers by
the end of this year fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And I always liked Elam University, always liked it every
time I visited there. Question which is just lovely, especially
on a nice day. And how's your weather?
Speaker 10 (21:12):
Pretty nice day here, mainly fine, there will be some
occasion wearing This afternoon northeasterlies a high of twenty three.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Next toll joins us from Wellington home X. Good morning,
So investigators are looking at a fire. This fire was
in a multi story building.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Yeah. So for those who know Wellington fairly well, these
are the blue and white apartment to complex the Brooklyn
Road end of the year of Willis Street. They had
the circular porthole windows, quite notable for their distinct architecture.
As specialist fire investigators are going to be there today
trying to work out what caused this fire. They are
(21:47):
council run flats. They were called fire an emergency about
two thirty yesterday afternoon. Thankfully no one was in the
flat where the fire started. Everyone was able to be evacuated.
Firefighters got in quickly could extinguish the fire and ventilate
the building without anyone being heard. So now the matter
(22:07):
turns to finding out what caused it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Very good, how's your weather?
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I shall be partly cloudy today with some isolated showers
developing later twenty six the high Central.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And you've already man who joins us from walk and
hello neither good morning. So Brian Tammocke's Destiny Church antics
over the course of the weekend are causing worries.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Yes, this is one of the big stories of the weekend.
So you're absolutely right, Andrew. The worries anti LGBTQ protests
and auckland over the weekend could have deadly consequences. So
the groups linked to Destiny Church, as we know, they
stormed the children's drag event and that was at a
Westalkland library on Saturday. Then obviously they later disrupted the
Pride parade with a hiker that was down Ponsonby Henderson.
(22:48):
Messy local board cheer Chris Carter says, look, you know,
struggling with sexual identity is already a leading factor in
youth suicide. And he says that you know Tamaky's preaching
about love of the family, but you know he's spreading
a message of hate and prejudice.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Okay, how's the weather.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
The weather occasional rain, which is probably welcome to you
in Auckland at the moment because it's been so muggy.
Twenty five is the high.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It was supposed to rain yesterday and it did not.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Yes, it did, probably not in your area.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'll tell you why, rain. I tell you why. I
knew it was going to rain. So I went to
watch The Brutalist, which is three and a half hours long,
and I went in and it wasn't rainy. And I
came out it wasn't raining, and I went, oh my god,
to fall asleep. No, no, I'll tell you how many
tor it breaks did jev. I'll tell you that's a
very good point, and I'll tell you more about that
(23:35):
very shortly. But thank you so much. Okay. It is
seventeen to sex. European leaders have caught an emergency summit
this week to discuss America's abandonment of the war. Meanwhile,
we never really report on the war. The war grinds on.
Russia has the military advantage. Its troops, however, inexperienced and
badly trained, so they're easily defeated if Ukraine can come
up against them. Meanwhile, Ukraine has a similar problem with
(23:57):
what they've done is have concentrated its best fights into
army corps that then run brigades. They are regularly swapped
out to give them rest time and also time to
train new fighters. But the whole conflict is on a
knife edge. And we'll have more with Devin Gray in
just a.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Moment International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It is according to Sex of the Moment Louis Upston
on the push to get Australians to come to New
Zealand to have a holiday. But first to the Europe
we go, Gavin Gray, good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
So we've got the emergency summit on the war in
Ukraine tomorrow or in days in France.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Yes, it hasn't all formerly been announced, but it looks
like very little in Europe happens quickly. But it does
look like this is going to happen pretty quickly, and
that's because the Europeans are now pretty terrified frankly about
being left out of the negotiations about ending the war
in Ukraine, which is on the doorstep of Europe. They
fear that this is going to be put together by
(25:00):
America and Russia without even Ukraine being involved, let alone
anybody from Europe, and so they want to attend this
summit in Paris, going to be hosted by Emmanuel Macron.
Sekire Starmer is likely to go, and interestingly, Sakire Starmer
already then has a meeting with US President Donald Trump
at the White House at the end of this month,
(25:21):
so it looks like there is some sort of a
schedule for this. But of course, I say the end
of this month, that's still two weeks away. Donald Trump
doesn't tend to wait two weeks to announce things. So
there is this real fear that in some way Donald
Trump and Vladimir Putin are going to agree something which
neither Ukraine nor Europe agree with, and I think that's
going to be very difficult. So there are not going
(25:42):
to be calls. President Zelenski has started this for the
creation of an army of Europe amid to the rising
concern that the US may no longer come to the
continent's aid.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yes, so there's an army outside of NATO, another army,
another sort of organization. So some are for and some
are against. That's what they'll be discussing as this emergency summit.
Kids underway tell me about commuter cat.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Ah Well, I love this story. So there is this
cat from a village or small town outside London and
it was just turned up at somebody's door and it
turns out that these people have adopted it. It's a
family cat now, so to speak. And this cat is
incredibly adventurous. He's already gone on buses and managed to
(26:24):
find his way home. He's actually ended up going behind
the bar at the local pub and just sort of
sitting there for lunch and so forth. But I think
the biggest shot came quite recently when the owners had
a call from Waterloo Railway Station, which is a London terminus.
The cat had got on the coach on the train carriage, rather,
(26:46):
had got on the train carriage at Weybridge and conducted
a thirty kilometer trip right into the heart of London, unaccompanied,
completely unannounced. Who knows how he got to the station,
Who knows how he got on the train? The owner said,
I was absolutely stunned when somebody from the ticket office
at Waterloo Station said, your cat is here. It's got
(27:07):
your labor on. He said, what the hell is my
cat doing in Waterloo getting on to trains and going
for a ride?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
What a good question.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Absolutely, if he doesn't watch out that cat, we'll get
to some pancras and before he knows that, you get
a call from France. We got your care here, Gavin
or the best. Thank you so much for your time today.
It is now eleven minutes to six. So the government's
announced a new campaign for encouraging ousies to come here
for the next holiday. The campaign is called Everyone Must Come. No,
(27:34):
so I got that wrong. Everyone must go. Everyone must
Go because it's aimed at the Gaussies. Everyone must Go.
It's costing us half a million dollars. It will be
followed by more campaigns targeting other places. Tourism Minister Louise
ups And announced the marketing will go live across the
Ditch next week. She announced us yesterday. She's with me now,
Hello Louise, good morning to you. How are you very good?
(27:55):
So how effective do you think this could be?
Speaker 12 (27:58):
Well, this is the first of several tourism boost announcements
that we're planning over the coming weeks and The important
part with this is it's very much supported by industry.
So what we will see is accommodation providers, airlines who
are supporting this push to get Aussies to come over
and visit with their own deals. So it means that
(28:21):
every dollar of taxpayers ben goes that much further.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
The question I had and I raised us earlier this
morning is why haven't we been doing this since the
beginning of time. I mean, they're right there, it's cheap
for them to come here, it's easy for them to
talk and commute and to get around. They've got friends here.
This is something we should have been doing forever.
Speaker 12 (28:40):
Yeah, So Tourism New Zealand are already doing campaigns into Australia.
They've got an autumn campaign that's underway at the moment.
This is on top of so we wanted a short,
sharp injection to make sure that Australians know that they
can come over straight away. We wanted some urgency in
it and a fresh campaign to really work with the
(29:03):
industry on. So this is in addition to what Tourism
New Zealand is already doing into Australia.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I see that in Australia we're already their number one destination.
There was a piece on the news actually last week
saying we're number one for Australians leaving and coming here.
So is there more upside that we can get?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (29:23):
Absolutely So if you look at our twenty nineteen numbers,
we're only sitting at eighty eight percent of that. This
short boost we're aiming to bring another five thousand visitors in,
which would take us up to ninety three percent, so
there's still lots of potential. You know, we're a long
way off where we were in twenty nineteen, so job
number one is getting those numbers back. And you're right,
(29:45):
Australians can make the decision quickly and hop over the pitch.
So this campaign is all about saying we're open for business.
We welcome you with open arms, so get on, make
the decision and come over.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Very good. Any other sovereignties that you wanted to do
a campaign like this in any other places.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
Well there'll be other parts of the Tourism Boost campaign.
But if you look at other big markets, obviously China
numbers are down at sixty percent of where they were
in twenty nineteen, which is concerning, and there's emerging markets
like India, so we will be making sure that we
have campaigns into existing markets to get numbers back to
(30:26):
where they were in twenty nineteen, as well as some
other parts of our Tourism Boost campaign which will be
coming out in the next few weeks.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Okay, we wish you only success with that one and
putting your other hat on there. You were on the
telly last night as well twice. A recent one News
vary In poll found forty six percent of New Zealand
has thought the issue of homelessness was getting worse. And
you're the minister in charge of worrying about that sort
of thing, are they wrong?
Speaker 12 (30:51):
Lock Homelessness has been a challenge for many, many years
and so it is something that people worry about. What
I'm incredibly proud of to Pawtucker and Minister Bishop and
I have had a real focus on emergency housing and
getting children out of living in motels. Nineteen hundred fewer
children living in motels than a where a year ago.
(31:13):
So we have taken a real focus to this issue,
focusing first and foremost on children, and the number of
people living in emergency housing now is significantly below where
it was We've also seen five thousand fewer people on
the social housing Register. So while there's always more work
(31:34):
to do, we have made some incredible inroads into some
of these long standing housing challenges.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Louise Upstin, Minister for Social Development and Minister for Tourism.
Two portfolios, two parts that interview. Thank you so much
for your time. News talks here it is coming up
seven to six.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
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Speaker 3 (32:02):
Tex through the corporate I worked for, brought three hundred
Australians over last week and Orca was absolutely exceptional and
they loved it, so that's quite good. Meanwhile, the Baptis
are happening as we speak in London and they're all
filing in. And the big films there are Conclave and
the Brutalists. Now I've seen Conclave. It's Ray Fine and
Stanley Tucci. I actually found the film to be strangely bloodless,
but very nice costumes. But that's more about being the
(32:23):
pope as opposed to being the actors. And the other one,
the Brutalist I saw yesterday. It's three and a half
hours long. But the wonderful thing about The Brutalist is
it has a fifteen minute intermission in the middle of
it with a countdown timer, so they suddenly say, off
you go, go to the Loup, Go get yourself another
glass at bin A Noirs. It's all good. You've got
fifteen minutes to come back. You come back and see
(32:44):
part two. And I loved it. Reminded me of the
old days. Before you know it, they'll be playing God
Save the King and we'll stand up and look at
the guys with the funny fairy hats on my cosking,
Good morning morning. I saw the trailer for that yesterday
or the day before, and it was an epic trailer.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
It looks like an epic movie.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
It's a movie, and I would, do you drink at
the movies?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I do?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I got myself another Pinot Noir at the halftime break,
and that was the thing. Instead of getting one to
go in, I got it at the halftime, so I
knew there was something to look forward to.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
So I'd rather not have a half time. I'd rather
immerse myself drink, immerse myself in there and get stuck.
And they say, Conclave's very good, Conclave's good, and the
Brutalist is good good reviews.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I think I could have taken an hour out of
the I think there was you know, there were the
moments when you look at clocks ticking and you're going.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
So I'm waiting for the streaming. Obviously, because I'm nowhere
in the world, I'm going to the movies.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
So of the.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Two, I'd go to a Brutalist. The Brutalists.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
Would you watch that one?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
It looked good to.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Melicity Jones is good in it, and of course Adrian Brody,
who looks remarkably like me. It's quite good.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
It's a similar thing. What do you doing today? You
got David, I got David Timo. I'm going to try
and avoid that. This thing that Erica Stampard said yesterday,
it seems to be increasingly a pile on. So anyway,
while I'll find other things to talk to him about.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Great Stuf. My name is Andrew Dickens. Kenzie was our
producer LID He helps as well, And I'll see.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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