May 20, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Wednesday 21st of May 2025, House leader Chris Bishop revealed a last-minute decision to delay the vote on Te Pati Maori's privileges committee punishment, Political commentator Brigitte Morten shares her thoughts.
A new report from JLL we need nearly 250,000 square metres of new retail space in the next five years to keep up with demand, Retail NZ's Ann-Marie Johnson shares her thoughts.
Z energy wants to roll out grocery offerings, Monopoly Watch Spokesperson Tex Edwards tells Ryan Bridge what this will mean for competition in the grocery sector.
Plus Gavin Grey has the latest on the UK suspending trade talks with Israel and summoning its ambassador.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with one roof make your Property search Simple.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
US Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It'd be good morning at A six a half to five.
Welcome to Wednesday. We've got your global dairy trade auction overnight.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We'll give you a number shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Retail space Apparently we're short on retail space in New Zealand.
That's despite empty shops. When I go up to Main Street,
there's a lot of empty shops. So how can the
both of those things be true? Could you soon be
buying eggs at your supermarket? Z is looking into this.
Elon Musk's made some comments about political donations. Basically he's
pulling out and Brigitte Morton on to party Mardi. We'll
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get to that before six o'clock here on News Talk
SEB The Agenda Wednesday, the twenty first of May, Gaza.
The UK now suspending trade talks with Israel and summoning
the ambassador.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're horrified by the escalation from Israel.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We repeat our command for a ceasefire as the only
way to free the hostages.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The images, if you watch the news, are awful to
look at. I mean they are just awful. There is
real suffering going on, there no doubt about that. But
is Starma going to change it? We'll talk about that
in a second. The Kremlin, This is on Ukraine. Kremlin
stalling for time still. The spokesperson says, there are quote
no deadlines and there cannot be any.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Ukraine is once again being denied its wish of having
a ceasefire and then talks, and frankly we're just seeing
more and more dialogue without any concrete outcomes or consequences.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Finally, Netflix has swept in and saved Sicime Street. Apparently
I was at risk. I didn't know this. Trump pulled
funding for the public broadcasting service. Warner Brothers Discovery decided
not to renew its deal. Netflix will offer a news
season of the show and ninety hours of previous episodes
(02:00):
on their streaming service. So there you go, Happy Big Bird.
This morning, eight after five.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and One Roof. To make your Property search simple,
youth Talk said.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The Good Morning nine two ninety two is the number
to text. So Europe is trying to stop wars left,
right and center, but they're actually not very good at
doing that. Are they. Let's be honest, We've got and
by the way, starmer is sort of auditioning to be
the new Angler Mercle the know, the de facto leader
of Europe. But is anyone listening to Europe? Has anyone
listened to Europe in a while? Putin certainly hasn't. Yesterday
(02:38):
Boris Johnson, which was quite funny, came out and called
the UK the gimp of Europe because of its deal
which gave away their fisheries for another twelve years. Called
the UK the gimp of Europe. And that may be true,
but surely Europe is the gimp of the world. They're
not respected. They missed their own sanctions deadline with Russia,
which Putin ignored anyway by a week. They've now overnight
(03:02):
imposed more sanctions, but Putin will ignore them too. He
has the last thirteen rounds, what's a fourteenth? They failed
to invest in their military. They were free loading off
the Yanks for decades and now and Israel must be
shaking in its boots. Yes, people are starving and begging
for food in Gaza and Britain's standing there tissing. Is
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that going to change the world? As Starman is pausing
trade talks with Israel. He's summoning the ambassador and Israel
has already come out and literally said, we don't care.
It's not going to change our position. Al Gillespie spoke
to him yesterday. He had an interesting point about, you know,
the only person in the world who can stop the
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war in Ukraine is Hjingping. He's the one that is
supporting Russia by buying the oil that no one else
will take right and really when it comes to Gaza,
it's only Tehran and Washington that can stop the bombing
and the blockade. Another well meaning dog barking at every
passing car from Brussels or London or Paris probably not
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going to change the world. Ryan Bridge shot up to
five and this is news talk. Zip. I'll give you
those Global dairy Trade auction numbers in a second, and
we will talk about z maybe going to sell you
some eggs. I actually think it's there are merits to
this idea, but some practical problems. We'll get to that next.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Ryan Bridge on Eily edition, Where's one roof? Make your
property search simple?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Youth dog Zivvy, Good morning, just gone twelve after five.
Your Global Dairy Trade auction numbers from overnight. The prices
were down the index down point nine percent. That's a
dip after three pretty strong results. Whole milk powdered down
one percent, skim milk powdered down point seven percent. That's
the stuff we really care about. I mean, we care
about most of it, but that's the stuff we really
care about. It's fourteen percent of the total value of
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our exports as powder, a butter down one and a half,
chedder down nine p point two percent, lactosets down thirteen
point two percent, and big drops. The mozzarella really the
only bright spot, and we sell a bunch of that
to the Chinese. Sixty percent of our mozzarella goes to
the Chinese. That's up point seven Despite all of this,
despite the fact that it's a softer one, it's been
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a cracker dairy season. Ten days left to run, Forecasters
for record payouts, supplies being tight, bidding's been hot. A
and Z forecasting ten dollars per kilogram of milk solids
for this season and actually predicting the same for next
season as well. That is good for us, well, it's
good for not just for dairy farmers, but it's good
for the rest of us too. Isn't it good for
your tax take, good for your health system, good for everyone?
(05:40):
Fourteen after five rand shedding eggs from the petrol station
might be the new normal of z energy gets its way.
They're planning to roll out grocery offerings to all of
the are two hundred petrol stations around the country. They
say this isn't to compete with the big supermarket chains,
but instead just top up what they've already got available.
Text Wards is monopoly Watch. Spokesperson with us this morning texts,
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good morning.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Do you think this is a smart move from them?
Because I think about my dairy and dairies all around
New Zealand where you know you've got parking problems now
because of cycle. There are whole bunch of reasons why
dairies aren't as hot as they used to be. This
might be a good solution if you just want a
couple of things to pick up.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I don't think it's a real significant move, Ryan. The
problem with that is at the supermarket competition economics review,
the dynamic of their monopoly and supermarkets is you need
what we call like for light competition, So to have
any impact on price, sustainability or nutrition. Competition you need
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like for light shops. This looks like a desperate tent
by the supermarket operators and by the fuel industry to
pretend that the whole cell regime worked. Ironically, the fuel
industry had the same competition problem and it had a
market to study actually before supermarkets, and they had the
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Fuel Industry Act of twenty twenty. So sure it might
be a great place to buy some eggs and some bread,
but it's not going to solve the big planger and
the economy called competition in the super market.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But to be fair, they're not saying it is either
they're just saying or we sell a bunch of stuff
at the moment, we'll sell a bunch of more stuff,
maybe some pressure projects.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
It makes yeah, makes makes perfect sense because if you
think about it in twenty years time, the that the
fuel distributors are going to have a problem as people
swap into electric cars, so then they're not going to
have so much traffic through But actually, if you do
a deeper dive into the announcement, a lot of it
is about the fuel industry trying to be goody two
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shoes with the Commerce Commission and pretend that their wholesale
regime is working, and that the wholesale regime that was
suggested might work in supermarkets could also work. But this
just isn't the case because the industries are quite different,
and it's quite a dangerous move to have the fuel
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industry if you're an industry analyst, and this is a
boten response, right, so apologize to doing it so early
in the morning. But but if you're the fuel industry,
you're trying to persuade the regulators that it isn't a
competition problem in the fuel industry because they have a
they have a wholesale regime where you have to.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Have Yeah, but what they do with selling eggs.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Well, what it's got to do with selling eggs is
that they think it's a solution, that it's that's similar
to it, that that.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Are It is a long boat for the first thing
in the morning.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Ryan.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
But what we what the industry structures trying to do
is say, hey, we could have the wholesale regime similar
to what we had in the fuel industry, and now
we don't need to break up the supermarkets because we're
going to do just what the fuel industry.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Did I don't know text. I think a long bow
not just for Wednesday morning, but just a long bow
is a long bow. But I appreciate you coming on
the show. It is seventeen after five. News Talk said
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Speaker 1 (09:22):
News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
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Speaker 3 (09:30):
News Talk said be Aiden, and Dunedan says, this is
about the global dairy trade action. Good for the farmers,
but not great for my weekly shop. Price of cheese
and butter is increasingly unaffordable, perhaps at a supermarket dairy
prices report to the end of the Global Dairy Price
Report that you bring us every second Wednesday. Yeah, not
about it's two sides. It's two sides of the coin. Right,
(09:52):
You've got the prices that we get, which you know,
even on the whole milk powder alone ten billion dollars
an x spots, that's fourteen percent of the total value
of our exports. That's massive for us. So the higher
the prices, the international prices, the better off we are
as a country. But individually, when you go to the supermarket,
it hurts, isn't it. So yeah, Ad, and you are
(10:14):
not wrong. But I guess what would you rather? Would
you rather the price was low, and we had fewer jobs,
and we had less tax take and less money for
health and less money for education. The list goes on
twenty half to five. News talks are being crying Bridge right.
So it seems that keywis Apparently we still favor the
old fashioned in person shopping experience. There's a new report
(10:37):
from the consultancy JLLL saying we need nearly two hundred
and fifty thousand square meters of new retail space in
the next five years to keep up with demand. Which
when when I go down Main Street and I look
at shops, even in nice areas, these shops boarded up,
shops with rent signed four leaks on the side of
them an Mary Johnson retailings with me this morning, Amory,
(10:59):
good morning, or in it? So how does this work?
Because you do see shops that are sitting empty. Are
we talking about we need new retail space in a
particular area or a particular type.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Look, It's really good to see some positive prospects for
retail I've got to say things have been tough for
a long time for our retailers. But I guess the
thing is that we've been through these cycles before. We
know that eventually the cycle is going to end and
retail will pack up. So my read of this report
is that it's looking towards the future, to the medium
(11:34):
term when there will be demand for retail and retail space,
and so we need to be ahead of that curve.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
What about the online situation? Does this take into account
because it's obviously looking at population growth and saying you've
got X number of people you need amount of retail space.
Does it take into account how much shopping New Zealand
is culturally, how much we do online?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Yeah, we know certainly from our own research, and this
reflects This report reflects that that bricks and water stores
are still way more popular. People might do their research
online before they go to do their shop, but the
majority of key we still prefer to actually go into
a shop to buy the goods that they're looking for,
(12:22):
and we seem to be a little bit different from
the rest of the world on that. But it's hard
to see that trend changing significantly.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I can probably count on one hand how many things
I've bought online in my entire lifetime. Like, I just
don't Yeah, I just don't do it, and you need
to especially close. You need to try them on, don't you.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Well yeah, I was just going to say, especially for
things like clothes and some of those big purchases as well,
you like to touch them and see them before you
actually buy.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, all right, Emory, Well, let's hope that this rings
true and that we get some more Well, well, first
of all, that retail gets a bit of a reprieve
because I know trading is still flat, and also that
we get some more retail spaces. Well. Twenty three minutes
after five, you're on news Talks THEREB. Yeah, I think
I could probably count, literally count on one hand how
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many items are clothing, How many items period I've bought online,
especially clothing. And you know, if you you know, during
winter you put on a little bit of weight, and
then in summer you ideally lose a little bit of weight.
Coming into summer, it gets very hard to try and
decide what size you are. You know, you need to
actually try them on, get them round you. Twenty four
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after five the.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
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Talks IV News Talks THEREB twenty six minutes after five
three strikes for Old Chippy in the last seven days.
Politics is all about perception, as everyone keeps saying, and
the perception of his last time on the ninth four
was bad for three reasons. Crime they were too soft, spending,
too much waste and debt, too much of that with
(14:02):
nothing to show for it. All of this fed into
the cost of living crisis right Basically, labor was too
loose on the purse strings and the gangs too harsh
on business and middle New Zealand. Yesterday, Hipkins stood up
in Parliament argued for shortest sentences. For some MPs, this
is the gun gesture gate, the Hucker sideshow, whatever you
want to call it. Arguing for a reduced sentence from
(14:24):
twenty one days to one was probably ill advised, no
matter where you sit on the actual debate. Politically, for Chippy,
in the eyes of your average voter, it was a
bad move. Arguing for a ninety five percent discount on
sentencing just plays into a narrative they ought to avoid,
like the plague that was strike three. Strike two came
(14:46):
earlier in the day. On debt, he refused to commit
to the debt selling of fifty percent of GDP. It's
the sacred threshold that Treasury warns we just shouldn't cross.
It's the same threshold even Grant Robertson said we shouldn't
the same threshold even Barbed from accounts said we shouldn't
cross a day earlier. So now national can run around
(15:07):
until the election's screaming debt monster till they're blue in
the face, and they won't be wrong until he commits otherwise.
Strike one, of course, came courtesy of the Greens last week,
the Mad Hatter alternative budget. The plans so toxic it
had killed growth like round up on your weeds. Chippy
first said he hadn't read it, which no one believed.
(15:29):
Then he said he'd read it and wouldn't rule anything out,
so he might allow some or all of the roundup
to be sprayed on our economic prosperity. Then he says
some of the stuff was bad, some of it was okay,
but still not committing to anything. Obviously, this is going
to be the high tide mark on a Green Party
negotiation position post election, and most of it will never
(15:51):
see the light of day and actually happen. And the
same way the Privileges Committee thing is not that big
of a deal to most voters and doesn't reflect their
crime and justice policies. But if politics is about perception
and perception is reality, it's three own goals in a week,
(16:12):
three strikes for Chippy.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Rich.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Twenty eight minutes after five, Y're on news Talks. He'd
be Gavin Gray out of the UK for US. Just
after the news We'll get to our reporters as well,
their UK suspending trade talks with Israel. Will that change
the dial very quickly? This is also from the UK
the oil industry. This is from the knock me Down
scandal of the Morning File, and this is on the Guardian.
(16:38):
Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost
its image, according to a new report, shock horror. Isn't
that why all corporates fund charities to make themselves look good?
Isn't it one big exercise in pr I don't think
it's the scandal of the cent key, but anyway, it's
on the front page of the Guardian this morning. You're
(17:00):
on News Talks b twenty nine after five, you're so brah?
Are you soak up my brain?
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Shit to.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The first word on the news of the day. Early
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Speaker 3 (17:40):
News Talk Zippy, Good morning. It is twenty four away
from six year on news Talks b We'll get to
our reporters around the country in just a second. The
frump page of the Herald this morning is all about
the emergency departments giving If you're waiting in line in
an emergency department, they'll go you a bouch and say
(18:01):
go to an after hours clinic. It'll be free. We're
spending one point seven million dollars on there anyway, never
or bring us up speed on that story. Plus we'll
get to christ Church earthquake Warriores with the council offices there,
which you just thought that would have got those sorts
of it after twenty eleven. Also this morning, we're going
to go to Gavin Gray in the UK. We'll get
(18:21):
to him shortly because Dama's playing hardball, attempting to play
hardball with Israeli. Veragaza twenty three minutes away from six
Ryan Bred. Just start with Cullum Procter and to Need
and Calum Good morning morning. Right now, Targo's environment getting
some protection.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Yeah, applications for the tiger Regional Council's annual Eco fund
have been almost three times over subscribed, and that's for
the third year in a row. Sixty nine groups have
applied for project funding across Otago, asking for a total
of nearly three million dollars, but just over a million available.
Just the twenty eight projects have made the short list.
(19:00):
The Regional councils saying these projects will include weed and
pest control across the region, native species protection and water quality.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
They say that the high.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Demand reflects an increasing community awareness. All right, how's your
weather find today? Westerlies for a time and seventeen.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Chairs, Collum Claars and Christs Claire, good morning, good morning.
Now the council offices worry about earthquakes.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
Yes, so this is the big new looking council building.
It's located in the city there on Worcester Boulevard. A
lot of people, interestingly, over the last few hours when
I've been hearing from them and seeing posts online, They're going,
how could this be possible? It's a post quake build. No,
this building was actually moved into in twenty ten, so
just before the earthquakes. Council relocated to this building. That said,
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it is really large and nice and modern, and you
would think that it would be quake safe. However, engineers
have identified that there's some seismic performance issues with an
annex on the side of the building. So yesterday they
announced a snap evacuation of hundreds I think up to
four hundred staff members, including all of the elected members
and the mayor. Film major had to get out the
(20:06):
immediate impacts already being felt. They've had to can today's
council meeting, where the trolley saga that we're hearing about
in the news was going to be discussed, and at
the moment they're saying it could be up to three
weeks before engineers have assessed the seismic performance of the annex.
The chief executive of council says this is a precautionary
approach that they're taking, but safety of staff is paramount.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
So is that. So the potential is what that the
annex could pull the rest of the building down with
it or what well.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
I haven't heard any more about the assessment itself, but
that's what we're thinking. I was speaking with my reporters
this morning. I mean, is it a case of just
being able to remove the annex we're not sure. Hopefully
we'll get an update.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Today all the annex. Yeah, and save the rest of it,
just can it? Hey there you go? Hey, what's just
on the trolleys? Really quickly? What's the situation?
Speaker 11 (20:55):
So the council is discussing what to do about abandoned
trolley apparently thousands of them being abandoned around christ Church
in recent years and costing a lot of money. Some
counselors saying, don't worry about it, leave it to the supermarkets.
It's their problem and we've got bigger fish to fry.
So that's one of our counselors. We've got the news today.
Others saying that we need to step in. Council staff
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should be going and collecting them.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Not their job. Not their job. People just need to
be more responsible. But as you say, because the supermarkets
own them, they should have GPS trackers on them clear
like lime scooters and they can go around and pick
them up at night. There's your solution. Bowl the annex
and pick up your own trolleys.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Save the world.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Look at us, hey quick clear? How should weather.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
Frosty again this morning? Should clear to find northeasterlies and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Thank you Maxis and Wellington max good morning, Good morning.
Now the guy who was heckling Winston Peter's at the
train station yesterday, he's getting a telling off.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Yeah, as hecklers go, it was a little bit tame
yesterday at the Wellington Central rail station. You've got Winston
Peters standing there announcing funding for and a guy who
looked like he really should no better stance going at him,
has a crack at his age, just suggests he stand
up for Maui. They tell each other to naf off.
Some stronger terms are used. Moron the B word, not
(22:12):
the one you're thinking of beginning ball ending lux but
in a classic thing before you speak situation. You've since
had this middle aged guy's boss engineering consultant Tonkin and
Taylor have to apologize and say it's investigating the incident.
The Herald had this story exclusively yesterday. I'm not quite
sure if Tonkin and Taylor released a press release proactively
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or more likely the guy was caught on video, someone
recognized him and went to the firm for comment. Tonkin
and Taylor apologizing for the disruption, bad behavior from one
of its employees not in line with its code of conduct.
A little ironically had just arrived on a train. More
than six hundred million dollars in funding in the budget
for train, significant portion to Metro Rail here in Wellington.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You took one look at that guy and you went, noob.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
You know, he just look like one as well physically.
How's the weather mask party? Cloudy today? Southerley's fifteen the
High Central.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Maybe good morning, Judgey, Judgey, I love it now some alterneds.
We talked about this yesterday with swimming Brown actually, but
we've got numbers now on how much it's happening where
they give a voucher to people waiting in line.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
Yeah, that's right. This is for the urgent care clinic
consultations and sometimes costing about two hundred dollars. So these
figures that have come out, this is all under the
Official Information Act, showing why Tuckety hospitals sending away around
twenty five patients a day with these vouchers, obviously likely
due to the long waiting lists. The White Matar Health
District's total vouchure spend we know now jump from a
(23:47):
million dollars this was in twenty twenty two to one
point eight million dollars last year. So Australasian College for
Emergency Medicines that are doctor Kate Allen. She says that
the vouchers obviously relieve the pressure on EDS. But you
know she did say too their patients they can decline
them if they prefer Yeah, I would want to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I'll just get them.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, yeah, saved them for next time. It's not like
a supermarket or volucher. How's the revenue morning cloud?
Speaker 12 (24:17):
Fine? Whether eighteen is a high here in all clad we.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Didn't have a great one. It is seventeen minutes away
from six year On news talks, Heir b bridget Morton,
the political commentator on the Taparty Marti situation. That's just
before six Gavin Gray and the UK next news talks here, B,
it's just gone quarter to six. You know when Grant
Robertson wanted to get one hundred million dollars a year
from big tech, this is American based technology companies your
(24:40):
Googles and your facebooks and all that stuff making money here.
Wanted to put three percent tax on not their profit
but their revenue because they're not paying enough tax here anyway,
the government, this government and Simon wats the revenue Minister
has just ripped that up and thrown it in the bill.
The Digital Services Tax Bill is now officially out of
(25:01):
the order paper in the bin. No one wants to
take on Trump and risk some kind of backfire. It's
fourteen away from six.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
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Speaker 3 (25:16):
Devin Gray Are UK, you're a correspondent, Gavin, Welcome to
the program. Suspension of trade talks with Israel from the UK,
but also summoning of an ambassador.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
Yeah, things certainly taking big steps today, Ryan here with
the UK suspending those trade talks, summoning the country's ambassador,
imposing fresh sanctions on West Bank settlers, and these Foreign
Secretary here described in the military escalation in Gaza as
morally unjustifiable. These were pretty rarely seens of the Houses
(25:47):
of Parliament, but the move follows warnings of starvation among
the people of Gaza. With this new military operation that
started over the weekend. There were some pretty fiery exchanges,
as I mentioned, with the also the opposition party suggesting
the actions will be welcomed by Hamas, but also some
angry calls from the government to go much much further, However,
(26:09):
this hasn't gone down well as you can imagine with Israel.
They say that they will not be diverted from their
path of defending their existence, but global experts warming of
this looming famine. Meanwhile, the UK and France and Canada
all issuing a joint statement effectively condemning what they're calling
(26:29):
the egregious Israel sees the egregious Israel action in Gaza,
and again Nettayahu Benjamin Ettno to the leader of Israel,
getting a very very furious response to that, just saying
that they are offering a huge prize for the genocidal
attack on Israel.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
October the seventh, This British athlete who's run across Australia.
How quickly did he do it?
Speaker 13 (26:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Now?
Speaker 13 (26:55):
Look, I know you know you like the odd run.
I like going for the odd run. But this guy
exceptional thirty one year old Britain called William Googe. He
ran three thousand, eight hundred kilometers in thirty five days,
an average of more than one hundred kilometers a day.
That's two and a half marathons in the day. He
ran from Codslow Beach in Perth on the fifteenth of
(27:18):
April and finished at Australia's iconic Bondi Beach in Sydney
with his father by his side. Originally from Bedfordshire, that's
north of London, he started running marathons after his mother
died from cancer seven years ago, and then he began
raising money for cancer charities. This particular trip raising money
for the UK, US and Australia cancer charities. This record
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yet to be verified gathered Guinness Book of Records, but
it has not days off. Let me repeat he did
it in thirty five days. The previous or existing record
is thirty nine days.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Quite extraordinary, A lovely story, a lovely way to finish.
Thank you very much for that. Kevin Gray are UK
europe Correspondent. I always think when people run for ages
and forever in a day, I think one day you're
going to need new hips and new knees and we're
probably going to have to pay for that. Do you
ever think that when people are running past you?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I do.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It is eleven minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. A
political master stroke was it from National Yesterday to adjourn
the debate to move the privileges debate to the June
the fifth focus goes back on the budget for budget week,
the hype and the steam goes out of the issue
or are they risks to doing this? Bridget Morton, political
commentator with me this morning, Bridget good morning, Good morning.
The Multi party described this as psychological warfare. What do
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you reckon?
Speaker 9 (28:34):
I think it's just actually knowing the standing orders and
knowing how to use parliament and clearly National did that
yesterday and they're also able to therefore take the moral
hyground that actually about to say this allowed those to
parting Maori MP to be there for the budget and
actually that that's one of the most important things that
needs to happen in the parliamentary calendar and they're going
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to be there to have their vote in these days.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And yet Chris Hopkins and Labor voted against it. How
does make them look?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Well?
Speaker 9 (29:02):
I think to them they were in a tricky position
because they don't agree with the extent of the punishment
being handed out. And I do think Hipkins did give
a powerful speech in the House yesterday and just about
the extent of the punishment. But it was clear from
National jumping up that Hipkins had not anticipated that this
might happen and I suspect perhaps that the actually had
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more time to contemplate it. They may have actually agreed
with the government and had that.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Delay is Hopkins and I might be going out on it.
This might be a long bow. But you know, he's
arguing because he wants to go from twenty one days
down to one day for that's a like ninety five
percent reduction in sentence. You know, does he risk playing
into that soft on crime thing?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Well, don't think it's necessarily soft in crime, but it
does make him look like he's not willing to stand
up to party Maori. And at the moment, should they
want to be back in government, they would need to
park them old as a coalition partner. And it doesn't
necessarily demonstrate that he would be a strong leader if
he's willing for that kind of behavior which was egregious
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as happened in Parliament during the Treaty Principles buill debate
to happen without any significant pushback, and one day is
a very small punishment for what they did.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, I agree, but also act when a little bit
far asking about in terms of imprisonment.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Yes, absolutely, I think that was frankly just a bit silly.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, well, totally silly, in a waste of everyone's time. Bridget,
thank you very much. We'll probably talk to you after
the budget. Bridget Morton, political commentator here on news Talk
said B nine to six.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Talk ZIB six.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
To six on news Talk sib Sparks chares were up
yesterday to nearly three percent. Actually this after some speculation
out of Australia in a media column, a market gossip
you could call it, but about two private equity firms
potentially wanting to have an interest in buying some shares
it's dull listed and selling. At the moment. There are
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data assets wanting apparently eight hundred million dollars. They've got
debt one point seven billion, a lot of debt for Spark.
So the talk is that if they don't get what
they want for the asset sales, then they might need
to raise them capital and that might mean that it's cheaper,
and then these private equity firms would swoop in. I
guess that's the theory. Someone says, Ryan. People who don't
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run also need new knees. And hips that we have
to pay for. Yeah, that's true. But if you run,
the more you run, the more damage you do to
your joints. Don't you six to six ray for it morning? Mike.
You're a runner.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I was until I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Did you need new hips? No?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I don't. It's a nice cycle for that very reason.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Funnily enough, Oprah said to me many years ago, the
best exercise you can do is walk, and that's been
proven scientifically, so people think by running it's an extension
of walking. If you want to preserve yourself, cycling and
walking at.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
The keys, well, I swim because for the same reason, example,
on your joints, and you can do it until you're
dragged out of the pool after a cardiac.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
See.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Let me ask you firstly, what are these lights doing on?
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I was asked to turn the lights on this morning
by our colleagues over at Herald.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Why and why are you listening to the heralds? Don't
you know?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
There's a cost of living crisis here and lights of
the size cost a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'm not so consumed with paying the power bill here.
But no I listened to them because I'm partly employed
by them?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Are you how that might be a mistake on your part,
But I'll talk to you about that another day. The
Tonkin and Taylor.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yes, the guy so the guy?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So are you allowed on your way to work to
have a go at Winston because he didn't do anything,
I mean just he had.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
A pop bollocks, that's hardly. He didn't threaten him, he
had his land out.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Did he gave himself away? But if you're Tonking to Taylor,
if you run Tonkin and Taylor and you look at this,
are you going, oh jeez, what's this guy doing? Is
he a problem previously? Is this the sort of thing
he does? I'm just talking about the investigation they're going
to launch into him. Is it sackable offense?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
What do you do?
Speaker 7 (33:15):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Because you're your own person outside of work, it would
be the argument. And did he punction anyone?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
No, he didn't break the laws. He was a bit
of a pratt.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
If he was wearing a warehouse uniform and worked at
the warehouse and you knew that, then you would probably
say he.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Was Yeah, but he was wearing a Tonquin and Taylor.
Hence we're talking about it on radio program. So I'm saying,
so he identified himself. So is it a breach of
the company? And do you when does your relationship with
the company's start and stop?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Well, ours never stops.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Of course, it doesn't stop, Ryan, And that's why we
don't go out at night and make fools of ourselves.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Do you know what I thought when I saw him?
I thought I'd hate to work with that guy. Have
a good day, SA tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
US Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It'd be good morning at A six a half to five.
Welcome to Wednesday. We've got your global dairy trade auction overnight.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We'll give you a number shortly.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Retail space Apparently we're short on retail space in New Zealand.
That's despite empty shops. When I go up to Main Street,
there's a lot of empty shops. So how can the
both of those things be true? Could you soon be
buying eggs at your supermarket? Z is looking into this.
Elon Musk's made some comments about political donations. Basically he's
pulling out and Brigitte Morton on to party Mardi. We'll
(00:41):
get to that before six o'clock here on News Talk
SEB The Agenda Wednesday, the twenty first of May, Gaza.
The UK now suspending trade talks with Israel and summoning
the ambassador.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're horrified by the escalation from Israel.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We repeat our command for a ceasefire as the only
way to free the hostages.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The images, if you watch the news, are awful to
look at. I mean they are just awful. There is
real suffering going on, there no doubt about that. But
is Starma going to change it? We'll talk about that
in a second. The Kremlin, This is on Ukraine. Kremlin
stalling for time still. The spokesperson says, there are quote
no deadlines and there cannot be any.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Ukraine is once again being denied its wish of having
a ceasefire and then talks, and frankly we're just seeing
more and more dialogue without any concrete outcomes or consequences.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Finally, Netflix has swept in and saved Sicime Street. Apparently
I was at risk. I didn't know this. Trump pulled
funding for the public broadcasting service. Warner Brothers Discovery decided
not to renew its deal. Netflix will offer a news
season of the show and ninety hours of previous episodes
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on their streaming service. So there you go, Happy Big Bird.
This morning, eight after five.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and One Roof. To make your Property search simple,
youth Talk said.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The Good Morning nine two ninety two is the number
to text. So Europe is trying to stop wars left,
right and center, but they're actually not very good at
doing that. Are they. Let's be honest, We've got and
by the way, starmer is sort of auditioning to be
the new Angler Mercle the know, the de facto leader
of Europe. But is anyone listening to Europe? Has anyone
listened to Europe in a while? Putin certainly hasn't. Yesterday
(02:38):
Boris Johnson, which was quite funny, came out and called
the UK the gimp of Europe because of its deal
which gave away their fisheries for another twelve years. Called
the UK the gimp of Europe. And that may be true,
but surely Europe is the gimp of the world. They're
not respected. They missed their own sanctions deadline with Russia,
which Putin ignored anyway by a week. They've now overnight
(03:02):
imposed more sanctions, but Putin will ignore them too. He
has the last thirteen rounds, what's a fourteenth? They failed
to invest in their military. They were free loading off
the Yanks for decades and now and Israel must be
shaking in its boots. Yes, people are starving and begging
for food in Gaza and Britain's standing there tissing. Is
(03:26):
that going to change the world? As Starman is pausing
trade talks with Israel. He's summoning the ambassador and Israel
has already come out and literally said, we don't care.
It's not going to change our position. Al Gillespie spoke
to him yesterday. He had an interesting point about, you know,
the only person in the world who can stop the
(03:47):
war in Ukraine is Hjingping. He's the one that is
supporting Russia by buying the oil that no one else
will take right and really when it comes to Gaza,
it's only Tehran and Washington that can stop the bombing
and the blockade. Another well meaning dog barking at every
passing car from Brussels or London or Paris probably not
(04:09):
going to change the world. Ryan Bridge shot up to
five and this is news talk. Zip. I'll give you
those Global dairy Trade auction numbers in a second, and
we will talk about z maybe going to sell you
some eggs. I actually think it's there are merits to
this idea, but some practical problems. We'll get to that next.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Ryan Bridge on Eily edition, Where's one roof? Make your
property search simple?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Youth dog Zivvy, Good morning, just gone twelve after five.
Your Global Dairy Trade auction numbers from overnight. The prices
were down the index down point nine percent. That's a
dip after three pretty strong results. Whole milk powdered down
one percent, skim milk powdered down point seven percent. That's
the stuff we really care about. I mean, we care
about most of it, but that's the stuff we really
care about. It's fourteen percent of the total value of
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our exports as powder, a butter down one and a half,
chedder down nine p point two percent, lactosets down thirteen
point two percent, and big drops. The mozzarella really the
only bright spot, and we sell a bunch of that
to the Chinese. Sixty percent of our mozzarella goes to
the Chinese. That's up point seven Despite all of this,
despite the fact that it's a softer one, it's been
(05:17):
a cracker dairy season. Ten days left to run, Forecasters
for record payouts, supplies being tight, bidding's been hot. A
and Z forecasting ten dollars per kilogram of milk solids
for this season and actually predicting the same for next
season as well. That is good for us, well, it's
good for not just for dairy farmers, but it's good
for the rest of us too. Isn't it good for
your tax take, good for your health system, good for everyone?
(05:40):
Fourteen after five rand shedding eggs from the petrol station
might be the new normal of z energy gets its way.
They're planning to roll out grocery offerings to all of
the are two hundred petrol stations around the country. They
say this isn't to compete with the big supermarket chains,
but instead just top up what they've already got available.
Text Wards is monopoly Watch. Spokesperson with us this morning texts,
(06:02):
good morning.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Do you think this is a smart move from them?
Because I think about my dairy and dairies all around
New Zealand where you know you've got parking problems now
because of cycle. There are whole bunch of reasons why
dairies aren't as hot as they used to be. This
might be a good solution if you just want a
couple of things to pick up.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I don't think it's a real significant move, Ryan. The
problem with that is at the supermarket competition economics review,
the dynamic of their monopoly and supermarkets is you need
what we call like for light competition, So to have
any impact on price, sustainability or nutrition. Competition you need
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like for light shops. This looks like a desperate tent
by the supermarket operators and by the fuel industry to
pretend that the whole cell regime worked. Ironically, the fuel
industry had the same competition problem and it had a
market to study actually before supermarkets, and they had the
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Fuel Industry Act of twenty twenty. So sure it might
be a great place to buy some eggs and some bread,
but it's not going to solve the big planger and
the economy called competition in the super market.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But to be fair, they're not saying it is either
they're just saying or we sell a bunch of stuff
at the moment, we'll sell a bunch of more stuff,
maybe some pressure projects.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
It makes yeah, makes makes perfect sense because if you
think about it in twenty years time, the that the
fuel distributors are going to have a problem as people
swap into electric cars, so then they're not going to
have so much traffic through But actually, if you do
a deeper dive into the announcement, a lot of it
is about the fuel industry trying to be goody two
(07:56):
shoes with the Commerce Commission and pretend that their wholesale
regime is working, and that the wholesale regime that was
suggested might work in supermarkets could also work. But this
just isn't the case because the industries are quite different,
and it's quite a dangerous move to have the fuel
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industry if you're an industry analyst, and this is a
boten response, right, so apologize to doing it so early
in the morning. But but if you're the fuel industry,
you're trying to persuade the regulators that it isn't a
competition problem in the fuel industry because they have a
they have a wholesale regime where you have to.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Have Yeah, but what they do with selling eggs.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Well, what it's got to do with selling eggs is
that they think it's a solution, that it's that's similar
to it, that that.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Are It is a long boat for the first thing
in the morning.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Ryan.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
But what we what the industry structures trying to do
is say, hey, we could have the wholesale regime similar
to what we had in the fuel industry, and now
we don't need to break up the supermarkets because we're
going to do just what the fuel industry.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Did I don't know text. I think a long bow
not just for Wednesday morning, but just a long bow
is a long bow. But I appreciate you coming on
the show. It is seventeen after five. News Talk said
p the.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
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Speaker 3 (09:30):
News Talk said be Aiden, and Dunedan says, this is
about the global dairy trade action. Good for the farmers,
but not great for my weekly shop. Price of cheese
and butter is increasingly unaffordable, perhaps at a supermarket dairy
prices report to the end of the Global Dairy Price
Report that you bring us every second Wednesday. Yeah, not
about it's two sides. It's two sides of the coin. Right,
(09:52):
You've got the prices that we get, which you know,
even on the whole milk powder alone ten billion dollars
an x spots, that's fourteen percent of the total value
of our exports. That's massive for us. So the higher
the prices, the international prices, the better off we are
as a country. But individually, when you go to the supermarket,
it hurts, isn't it. So yeah, Ad, and you are
(10:14):
not wrong. But I guess what would you rather? Would
you rather the price was low, and we had fewer jobs,
and we had less tax take and less money for
health and less money for education. The list goes on
twenty half to five. News talks are being crying Bridge right.
So it seems that keywis Apparently we still favor the
old fashioned in person shopping experience. There's a new report
(10:37):
from the consultancy JLLL saying we need nearly two hundred
and fifty thousand square meters of new retail space in
the next five years to keep up with demand. Which
when when I go down Main Street and I look
at shops, even in nice areas, these shops boarded up,
shops with rent signed four leaks on the side of
them an Mary Johnson retailings with me this morning, Amory,
(10:59):
good morning, or in it? So how does this work?
Because you do see shops that are sitting empty. Are
we talking about we need new retail space in a
particular area or a particular type.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Look, It's really good to see some positive prospects for
retail I've got to say things have been tough for
a long time for our retailers. But I guess the
thing is that we've been through these cycles before. We
know that eventually the cycle is going to end and
retail will pack up. So my read of this report
is that it's looking towards the future, to the medium
(11:34):
term when there will be demand for retail and retail space,
and so we need to be ahead of that curve.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
What about the online situation? Does this take into account
because it's obviously looking at population growth and saying you've
got X number of people you need amount of retail space.
Does it take into account how much shopping New Zealand
is culturally, how much we do online?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Yeah, we know certainly from our own research, and this
reflects This report reflects that that bricks and water stores
are still way more popular. People might do their research
online before they go to do their shop, but the
majority of key we still prefer to actually go into
a shop to buy the goods that they're looking for,
(12:22):
and we seem to be a little bit different from
the rest of the world on that. But it's hard
to see that trend changing significantly.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I can probably count on one hand how many things
I've bought online in my entire lifetime. Like, I just
don't Yeah, I just don't do it, and you need
to especially close. You need to try them on, don't you.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Well yeah, I was just going to say, especially for
things like clothes and some of those big purchases as well,
you like to touch them and see them before you
actually buy.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, all right, Emory, Well, let's hope that this rings
true and that we get some more Well, well, first
of all, that retail gets a bit of a reprieve
because I know trading is still flat, and also that
we get some more retail spaces. Well. Twenty three minutes
after five, you're on news Talks THEREB. Yeah, I think
I could probably count, literally count on one hand how
(13:15):
many items are clothing, How many items period I've bought online,
especially clothing. And you know, if you you know, during
winter you put on a little bit of weight, and
then in summer you ideally lose a little bit of weight.
Coming into summer, it gets very hard to try and
decide what size you are. You know, you need to
actually try them on, get them round you. Twenty four
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after five the.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
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Talks IV News Talks THEREB twenty six minutes after five
three strikes for Old Chippy in the last seven days.
Politics is all about perception, as everyone keeps saying, and
the perception of his last time on the ninth four
was bad for three reasons. Crime they were too soft, spending,
too much waste and debt, too much of that with
(14:02):
nothing to show for it. All of this fed into
the cost of living crisis right Basically, labor was too
loose on the purse strings and the gangs too harsh
on business and middle New Zealand. Yesterday, Hipkins stood up
in Parliament argued for shortest sentences. For some MPs, this
is the gun gesture gate, the Hucker sideshow, whatever you
want to call it. Arguing for a reduced sentence from
(14:24):
twenty one days to one was probably ill advised, no
matter where you sit on the actual debate. Politically, for Chippy,
in the eyes of your average voter, it was a
bad move. Arguing for a ninety five percent discount on
sentencing just plays into a narrative they ought to avoid,
like the plague that was strike three. Strike two came
(14:46):
earlier in the day. On debt, he refused to commit
to the debt selling of fifty percent of GDP. It's
the sacred threshold that Treasury warns we just shouldn't cross.
It's the same threshold even Grant Robertson said we shouldn't
the same threshold even Barbed from accounts said we shouldn't
cross a day earlier. So now national can run around
(15:07):
until the election's screaming debt monster till they're blue in
the face, and they won't be wrong until he commits otherwise.
Strike one, of course, came courtesy of the Greens last week,
the Mad Hatter alternative budget. The plans so toxic it
had killed growth like round up on your weeds. Chippy
first said he hadn't read it, which no one believed.
(15:29):
Then he said he'd read it and wouldn't rule anything out,
so he might allow some or all of the roundup
to be sprayed on our economic prosperity. Then he says
some of the stuff was bad, some of it was okay,
but still not committing to anything. Obviously, this is going
to be the high tide mark on a Green Party
negotiation position post election, and most of it will never
(15:51):
see the light of day and actually happen. And the
same way the Privileges Committee thing is not that big
of a deal to most voters and doesn't reflect their
crime and justice policies. But if politics is about perception
and perception is reality, it's three own goals in a week,
(16:12):
three strikes for Chippy.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Rich.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Twenty eight minutes after five, Y're on news Talks. He'd
be Gavin Gray out of the UK for US. Just
after the news We'll get to our reporters as well,
their UK suspending trade talks with Israel. Will that change
the dial very quickly? This is also from the UK
the oil industry. This is from the knock me Down
scandal of the Morning File, and this is on the Guardian.
(16:38):
Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost
its image, according to a new report, shock horror. Isn't
that why all corporates fund charities to make themselves look good?
Isn't it one big exercise in pr I don't think
it's the scandal of the cent key, but anyway, it's
on the front page of the Guardian this morning. You're
(17:00):
on News Talks b twenty nine after five, you're so brah?
Are you soak up my brain?
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Shit to.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
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News Talk Zippy, Good morning. It is twenty four away
from six year on news Talks b We'll get to
our reporters around the country in just a second. The
frump page of the Herald this morning is all about
the emergency departments giving If you're waiting in line in
an emergency department, they'll go you a bouch and say
(18:01):
go to an after hours clinic. It'll be free. We're
spending one point seven million dollars on there anyway, never
or bring us up speed on that story. Plus we'll
get to christ Church earthquake Warriores with the council offices there,
which you just thought that would have got those sorts
of it after twenty eleven. Also this morning, we're going
to go to Gavin Gray in the UK. We'll get
(18:21):
to him shortly because Dama's playing hardball, attempting to play
hardball with Israeli. Veragaza twenty three minutes away from six
Ryan Bred. Just start with Cullum Procter and to Need
and Calum Good morning morning. Right now, Targo's environment getting
some protection.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Yeah, applications for the tiger Regional Council's annual Eco fund
have been almost three times over subscribed, and that's for
the third year in a row. Sixty nine groups have
applied for project funding across Otago, asking for a total
of nearly three million dollars, but just over a million available.
Just the twenty eight projects have made the short list.
(19:00):
The Regional councils saying these projects will include weed and
pest control across the region, native species protection and water quality.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
They say that the high.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Demand reflects an increasing community awareness. All right, how's your
weather find today? Westerlies for a time and seventeen.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Chairs, Collum Claars and Christs Claire, good morning, good morning.
Now the council offices worry about earthquakes.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
Yes, so this is the big new looking council building.
It's located in the city there on Worcester Boulevard. A
lot of people, interestingly, over the last few hours when
I've been hearing from them and seeing posts online, They're going,
how could this be possible? It's a post quake build. No,
this building was actually moved into in twenty ten, so
just before the earthquakes. Council relocated to this building. That said,
(19:45):
it is really large and nice and modern, and you
would think that it would be quake safe. However, engineers
have identified that there's some seismic performance issues with an
annex on the side of the building. So yesterday they
announced a snap evacuation of hundreds I think up to
four hundred staff members, including all of the elected members
and the mayor. Film major had to get out the
(20:06):
immediate impacts already being felt. They've had to can today's
council meeting, where the trolley saga that we're hearing about
in the news was going to be discussed, and at
the moment they're saying it could be up to three
weeks before engineers have assessed the seismic performance of the annex.
The chief executive of council says this is a precautionary
approach that they're taking, but safety of staff is paramount.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
So is that. So the potential is what that the
annex could pull the rest of the building down with
it or what well.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
I haven't heard any more about the assessment itself, but
that's what we're thinking. I was speaking with my reporters
this morning. I mean, is it a case of just
being able to remove the annex we're not sure. Hopefully
we'll get an update.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Today all the annex. Yeah, and save the rest of it,
just can it? Hey there you go? Hey, what's just
on the trolleys? Really quickly? What's the situation?
Speaker 11 (20:55):
So the council is discussing what to do about abandoned
trolley apparently thousands of them being abandoned around christ Church
in recent years and costing a lot of money. Some
counselors saying, don't worry about it, leave it to the supermarkets.
It's their problem and we've got bigger fish to fry.
So that's one of our counselors. We've got the news today.
Others saying that we need to step in. Council staff
(21:16):
should be going and collecting them.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Not their job. Not their job. People just need to
be more responsible. But as you say, because the supermarkets
own them, they should have GPS trackers on them clear
like lime scooters and they can go around and pick
them up at night. There's your solution. Bowl the annex
and pick up your own trolleys.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Save the world.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Look at us, hey quick clear? How should weather.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
Frosty again this morning? Should clear to find northeasterlies and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Thank you Maxis and Wellington max good morning, Good morning.
Now the guy who was heckling Winston Peter's at the
train station yesterday, he's getting a telling off.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Yeah, as hecklers go, it was a little bit tame
yesterday at the Wellington Central rail station. You've got Winston
Peters standing there announcing funding for and a guy who
looked like he really should no better stance going at him,
has a crack at his age, just suggests he stand
up for Maui. They tell each other to naf off.
Some stronger terms are used. Moron the B word, not
(22:12):
the one you're thinking of beginning ball ending lux but
in a classic thing before you speak situation. You've since
had this middle aged guy's boss engineering consultant Tonkin and
Taylor have to apologize and say it's investigating the incident.
The Herald had this story exclusively yesterday. I'm not quite
sure if Tonkin and Taylor released a press release proactively
(22:33):
or more likely the guy was caught on video, someone
recognized him and went to the firm for comment. Tonkin
and Taylor apologizing for the disruption, bad behavior from one
of its employees not in line with its code of conduct.
A little ironically had just arrived on a train. More
than six hundred million dollars in funding in the budget
for train, significant portion to Metro Rail here in Wellington.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You took one look at that guy and you went, noob.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
You know, he just look like one as well physically.
How's the weather mask party? Cloudy today? Southerley's fifteen the
High Central.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Maybe good morning, Judgey, Judgey, I love it now some alterneds.
We talked about this yesterday with swimming Brown actually, but
we've got numbers now on how much it's happening where
they give a voucher to people waiting in line.
Speaker 12 (23:23):
Yeah, that's right. This is for the urgent care clinic
consultations and sometimes costing about two hundred dollars. So these
figures that have come out, this is all under the
Official Information Act, showing why Tuckety hospitals sending away around
twenty five patients a day with these vouchers, obviously likely
due to the long waiting lists. The White Matar Health
District's total vouchure spend we know now jump from a
(23:47):
million dollars this was in twenty twenty two to one
point eight million dollars last year. So Australasian College for
Emergency Medicines that are doctor Kate Allen. She says that
the vouchers obviously relieve the pressure on EDS. But you
know she did say too their patients they can decline
them if they prefer Yeah, I would want to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I'll just get them.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, yeah, saved them for next time. It's not like
a supermarket or volucher. How's the revenue morning cloud?
Speaker 12 (24:17):
Fine? Whether eighteen is a high here in all clad we.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Didn't have a great one. It is seventeen minutes away
from six year On news talks, Heir b bridget Morton,
the political commentator on the Taparty Marti situation. That's just
before six Gavin Gray and the UK next news talks here, B,
it's just gone quarter to six. You know when Grant
Robertson wanted to get one hundred million dollars a year
from big tech, this is American based technology companies your
(24:40):
Googles and your facebooks and all that stuff making money here.
Wanted to put three percent tax on not their profit
but their revenue because they're not paying enough tax here anyway,
the government, this government and Simon wats the revenue Minister
has just ripped that up and thrown it in the bill.
The Digital Services Tax Bill is now officially out of
(25:01):
the order paper in the bin. No one wants to
take on Trump and risk some kind of backfire. It's
fourteen away from six.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
International correspondence with ins and Eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Devin Gray Are UK, you're a correspondent, Gavin, Welcome to
the program. Suspension of trade talks with Israel from the UK,
but also summoning of an ambassador.
Speaker 13 (25:26):
Yeah, things certainly taking big steps today, Ryan here with
the UK suspending those trade talks, summoning the country's ambassador,
imposing fresh sanctions on West Bank settlers, and these Foreign
Secretary here described in the military escalation in Gaza as
morally unjustifiable. These were pretty rarely seens of the Houses
(25:47):
of Parliament, but the move follows warnings of starvation among
the people of Gaza. With this new military operation that
started over the weekend. There were some pretty fiery exchanges,
as I mentioned, with the also the opposition party suggesting
the actions will be welcomed by Hamas, but also some
angry calls from the government to go much much further, However,
(26:09):
this hasn't gone down well as you can imagine with Israel.
They say that they will not be diverted from their
path of defending their existence, but global experts warming of
this looming famine. Meanwhile, the UK and France and Canada
all issuing a joint statement effectively condemning what they're calling
(26:29):
the egregious Israel sees the egregious Israel action in Gaza,
and again Nettayahu Benjamin Ettno to the leader of Israel,
getting a very very furious response to that, just saying
that they are offering a huge prize for the genocidal
attack on Israel.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
October the seventh, This British athlete who's run across Australia.
How quickly did he do it?
Speaker 13 (26:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Now?
Speaker 13 (26:55):
Look, I know you know you like the odd run.
I like going for the odd run. But this guy
exceptional thirty one year old Britain called William Googe. He
ran three thousand, eight hundred kilometers in thirty five days,
an average of more than one hundred kilometers a day.
That's two and a half marathons in the day. He
ran from Codslow Beach in Perth on the fifteenth of
(27:18):
April and finished at Australia's iconic Bondi Beach in Sydney
with his father by his side. Originally from Bedfordshire, that's
north of London, he started running marathons after his mother
died from cancer seven years ago, and then he began
raising money for cancer charities. This particular trip raising money
for the UK, US and Australia cancer charities. This record
(27:40):
yet to be verified gathered Guinness Book of Records, but
it has not days off. Let me repeat he did
it in thirty five days. The previous or existing record
is thirty nine days.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Quite extraordinary, A lovely story, a lovely way to finish.
Thank you very much for that. Kevin Gray are UK
europe Correspondent. I always think when people run for ages
and forever in a day, I think one day you're
going to need new hips and new knees and we're
probably going to have to pay for that. Do you
ever think that when people are running past you?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I do.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It is eleven minutes away from six Bryan Bridge. A
political master stroke was it from National Yesterday to adjourn
the debate to move the privileges debate to the June
the fifth focus goes back on the budget for budget week,
the hype and the steam goes out of the issue
or are they risks to doing this? Bridget Morton, political
commentator with me this morning, Bridget good morning, Good morning.
The Multi party described this as psychological warfare. What do
(28:32):
you reckon?
Speaker 9 (28:34):
I think it's just actually knowing the standing orders and
knowing how to use parliament and clearly National did that
yesterday and they're also able to therefore take the moral
hyground that actually about to say this allowed those to
parting Maori MP to be there for the budget and
actually that that's one of the most important things that
needs to happen in the parliamentary calendar and they're going
(28:54):
to be there to have their vote in these days.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And yet Chris Hopkins and Labor voted against it. How
does make them look?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Well?
Speaker 9 (29:02):
I think to them they were in a tricky position
because they don't agree with the extent of the punishment
being handed out. And I do think Hipkins did give
a powerful speech in the House yesterday and just about
the extent of the punishment. But it was clear from
National jumping up that Hipkins had not anticipated that this
might happen and I suspect perhaps that the actually had
(29:25):
more time to contemplate it. They may have actually agreed
with the government and had that.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Delay is Hopkins and I might be going out on it.
This might be a long bow. But you know, he's
arguing because he wants to go from twenty one days
down to one day for that's a like ninety five
percent reduction in sentence. You know, does he risk playing
into that soft on crime thing?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Well, don't think it's necessarily soft in crime, but it
does make him look like he's not willing to stand
up to party Maori. And at the moment, should they
want to be back in government, they would need to
park them old as a coalition partner. And it doesn't
necessarily demonstrate that he would be a strong leader if
he's willing for that kind of behavior which was egregious
(30:10):
as happened in Parliament during the Treaty Principles buill debate
to happen without any significant pushback, and one day is
a very small punishment for what they did.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, I agree, but also act when a little bit
far asking about in terms of imprisonment.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Yes, absolutely, I think that was frankly just a bit silly.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, well, totally silly, in a waste of everyone's time. Bridget,
thank you very much. We'll probably talk to you after
the budget. Bridget Morton, political commentator here on news Talk
said B nine to six.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and one roof make your Property Search Simple News
Talk ZIB six.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
To six on news Talk sib Sparks chares were up
yesterday to nearly three percent. Actually this after some speculation
out of Australia in a media column, a market gossip
you could call it, but about two private equity firms
potentially wanting to have an interest in buying some shares
it's dull listed and selling. At the moment. There are
(31:12):
data assets wanting apparently eight hundred million dollars. They've got
debt one point seven billion, a lot of debt for Spark.
So the talk is that if they don't get what
they want for the asset sales, then they might need
to raise them capital and that might mean that it's cheaper,
and then these private equity firms would swoop in. I
guess that's the theory. Someone says, Ryan. People who don't
(31:33):
run also need new knees. And hips that we have
to pay for. Yeah, that's true. But if you run,
the more you run, the more damage you do to
your joints. Don't you six to six ray for it morning? Mike.
You're a runner.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I was until I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Did you need new hips? No?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I don't. It's a nice cycle for that very reason.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Funnily enough, Oprah said to me many years ago, the
best exercise you can do is walk, and that's been
proven scientifically, so people think by running it's an extension
of walking. If you want to preserve yourself, cycling and
walking at.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
The keys, well, I swim because for the same reason, example,
on your joints, and you can do it until you're
dragged out of the pool after a cardiac.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
See.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Let me ask you firstly, what are these lights doing on?
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I was asked to turn the lights on this morning
by our colleagues over at Herald.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Why and why are you listening to the heralds? Don't
you know?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
There's a cost of living crisis here and lights of
the size cost a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'm not so consumed with paying the power bill here.
But no I listened to them because I'm partly employed
by them?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Are you how that might be a mistake on your part,
But I'll talk to you about that another day. The
Tonkin and Taylor.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yes, the guy so the guy?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So are you allowed on your way to work to
have a go at Winston because he didn't do anything,
I mean just he had.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
A pop bollocks, that's hardly. He didn't threaten him, he
had his land out.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Did he gave himself away? But if you're Tonking to Taylor,
if you run Tonkin and Taylor and you look at this,
are you going, oh jeez, what's this guy doing? Is
he a problem previously? Is this the sort of thing
he does? I'm just talking about the investigation they're going
to launch into him. Is it sackable offense?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
What do you do?
Speaker 7 (33:15):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Because you're your own person outside of work, it would
be the argument. And did he punction anyone?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
No, he didn't break the laws. He was a bit
of a pratt.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
If he was wearing a warehouse uniform and worked at
the warehouse and you knew that, then you would probably
say he.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Was Yeah, but he was wearing a Tonquin and Taylor.
Hence we're talking about it on radio program. So I'm saying,
so he identified himself. So is it a breach of
the company? And do you when does your relationship with
the company's start and stop?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Well, ours never stops.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Of course, it doesn't stop, Ryan, And that's why we
don't go out at night and make fools of ourselves.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Do you know what I thought when I saw him?
I thought I'd hate to work with that guy. Have
a good day, SA tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
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