July 22, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Wednesday 23rd of July 2025 opposition parties are saying we need to take a harsher stance against israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza gets worse, Green's co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick tells Ryan what we can do as a nation.
A new report from MPI and Beef and Lamb NZ estimates non-tariff trade barriers are costing us over $1 billion every year, Beef and Lamb NZ chair, Kate Acland explains what needs to be done.
Sky TV is buying TV three for one dollar from Warner Brothers Discovery, Spinoff founder and media commentator Duncan Grieve shares his thoughts.
Plus UK/Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey has the latest on a number of French cities imposing night-time curfews on young people following a spate of violence linked to drug trafficking.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
an Earli edition with ex Pole Insulation, Keeping Kimi homes
warm and try this winter news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It is six a half to five. Great to have
your company coming up on the program. Before top of
the hour, we'll look at how there are now more
calls growing, calls for some actual sanctions against Israel. Yes,
we've called for a ceasefire. Yes we've renewed our statement
and strengthened our language, but the calls for sanctions directly
against Israel are growing. Gavin Gray's in the UK for
(00:33):
us this morning. There's some French cities are putting young
people on a curfew because crime and violence is so bad.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand talk on trade, tariffs and
sky Free Deal. What it means for us if we're
in the business of watching television. It's all ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The agenda Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Twenty third of July, a big push for sanctions against Israel,
as I said, thirty three people, including twelve children, have
died from malnutrition in just two days. This is according
to the Hamas run Health Ministry, and as.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You are well aware, over the weekend, Israeli military issued
another displacement order in Darryl Balla, spanning four neighborhoods. Our colleagues,
our humanitarian affairs colleagues warned that the mass displacement order
has dealt yet another devastating blow to the already fragile
lifeline keeping people alive across the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Their Justice department in the US wants a word with
Glaine Maxwell. They're asking what she knows Trump's calling the
whole thing and which chine It's order course over Epstein.
His supporters and Epstein victims are pushing hard to get
those files released.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Prove everyone wrong. If you have nothing to hide, then
please release this information that people are asking for. Please
make sure that Gilen Maxwell stays behind bars where she
deserves to be.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
If you were.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Truly not implicated, then this should not be a problem.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The fair point, isn't it? And talking to media after
meeting with the Philippines presidents, Trump slammed, you guessed it,
Jerome Powell.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
People aren't able to buy a house because this guy
is a numb skull.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
He keeps the reach too high and probably doing it
for political reasons.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
The only time I remember him cutting reads. I mean
he cut the reats.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Just before the election to try and help Carmela.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
With all of that talk. He says in the interview,
he's not going to sack them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge at ex Pol
Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter news
talks a'd be well.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Unlike Jerome Powell, our Reserve Bank is cutting interest rates
and there were some interesting numbers out yesterday showing home
ownership and affordability are actually doing pretty well right now.
The outside of Auckland and Todunger is the only caveat
sorry for people who are living in those areas, but
home ownership now affordable for your typical first home buyer
(03:03):
in most parts of this country. Now, what do they
mean by affordable. It's a very good question. This is
interest dot CO dot MZ that looks at the affordability
of housing. So basically, home ownership is unaffordable when your
mortgage payments are forty percent or more for a couple,
this is your take home pay. If you're spending forty
percent or more on your mortgage repayments, it's unaffordable and
(03:27):
the average, Now this is at the lower end of
the market, so if you're just going for a first
time that sort of thing, it's the average thirty three
percent of income on mortgages, which is good. It means
that because there's a trifecta happening here, right We've got
lower mortgage interstratets coming down, we've got lower prices because
the market's subdued, and we've got rising wages and I
(03:48):
know we keep talking about that and doesn't really feel
like it, but it is. It's a statistical fact. So
you've got this sort of trifecta happening, first time in
a generation that's happened, and home ownership actually in most
parts of New Zealand pretty good. So there's some good
news to start your day. And I've got some retailian
z numbers for you too, which will bring hopefully a
bit of smile to your a bit of a smile
(04:10):
to your dial this morning. It's not great in terms
of where they've been, but at least the outlook is
starting to improve. We'll have that story for you, and
next from the spinoff, Don't and Grieve, we'll talk us
through what the sky three deal means for the Sky business.
I mean, how many products have they got now? Just
you know they've got the Sky Sport Go, They've got three,
(04:32):
They've got three now, they've got a whole bunch of
fast channels, They've got Sky Open, They've got Sky to run.
Quite a few things on their plates. So what does
it mean for their business?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's next get ahead of the headlines on early edition
with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes
warm and dry this winter News Talks, that'd.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Be great to have your company. Just gone thirteen minutes
half the five here on News Talks dB. So the
retailians dead report up, this is their core badly. Retail
New Zealand report showing some optimism is creeping into our
retail sector. Thank goodness, we had card transactions. We told
you about this. That was up slightly for June. You know,
inflation is coming down, the ocr is has come down,
(05:15):
is now holding steady. Total volume of retail sales was
up point eight percent compared to the last quarter. So
those are the numbers. And now Retailing z goes out
and surveys retailers and here's what they said the past
three months well, not that great. How did your business
track against your targets? Ten percent exceeded targets, twenty eight
percent met targets, sixty two percent did not meet targets. However,
(05:40):
when you look forward three months, half expect to meet
their target, so that is an improvement. But here's where
it gets interesting. How confident are you that your business
will survive the next twelve months? Nine percent not confident,
sixty nine percent confident, and twenty two percent neutral. Now
the interesting part about this is your sixty nine percent
(06:01):
confident is a great number because it compares with a
fifty seven percent confidence a year prior, so that's up
over ten percentage points. It is fourteen minutes after five
Brian Bridge, the News for New Zealand Media. Sky TV
is buying three for a buck from Warner Brothers Discovery
and it will take on none of its debt investors.
(06:22):
We're loving it. Yesterday's shares and Sky ended up up
five percent more than three bucks. Dunk and Greeves spinoff
founder and media commentator with me this morning. Hey Duncan morning, Ryan.
Good to have you on the show. So what is
this a good smart business decision from Sky?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I think anytime you can buy a business that's got
one hundred million dollars in revenue for a dollar, if
you want to take a hard look at it, it
obviously says something about the nature of the sector that
it goes for that price. But you know that there's
a reason why analysts were very hot on this after
been quite cool on the Media Works acquisition a few
(07:01):
years ago for Sky. So yeah, great deal for Sky.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I think it leads them more. And you point this
out in your column. With a lot of things, a
lot of fingers and a lot of pies, a lot
of apps to run, you know, a lot of linear
TV channels to run, do they need them or will
they need them more or will they rationalize?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Yeah, I think that's been a persistent issue for Sky,
dating back to probably the John Phillett era CEO when
they tried to merge. If you remember with Vodaphone that
they've got a lot of different pieces of technology, and
if you look at the pre eminent modern sort of
TV media company, it's Netflix, which is just a single
(07:40):
property so that you can get on any device anywhere
in the world. Sky much smaller company, a much more
market and has a lot of different things going on.
So I think they're at a great scale now that
certainly if they can rationalize that, not necessarily the brands,
I think that you can with that, but certainly a
(08:01):
number of different technology platforms and how I talk to
each other, that will be a sorder of business to me.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
At the back end. What about their projections, their growth projections.
I mean, given what you know about the state of
running media companies in New Zealand right now, especially ones
that are relying on advertising, that projection of earnings growth
of at least ten million a year by twenty eight
I think it was, you know, these things realistic.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
I think so.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I mean skuy ultimately is buys a lot of content
on one side, from sports to entertainment to some international news,
and then try to sell it a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Some of that they had supported. Some of it, you know,
a lot of it are subscription revenue. But what they've
done now is really build that they had supported side
of the business, but a stake in over time, just
take the content that they already have and put it
in a bunch of different places. And that's what three
and three now offer them far bigger scale of free
(09:06):
to accessible content, and they've had four. They've actually done
well in advertising sky and in a market that's been
pretty terrible for a lot of the local media. So
you know, it really does look like a very there's
a basket and here which a great discus and also
great for three, which has had, as you will know,
reluctant owners for a long period of time.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now, yeah, reluctance the nice word. I think duncan thank you.
Dank and Grieve spin off founder and media commentator on
the Sky three deal. It is seventeen minutes after five.
Y're on News Talk ce B coming up next. So
you've got your tariffs. In terms of trade barriers, you've
got your tariffs and we talk about those a lot,
but they are a whole bunch that we don't talk
about but beef and lamma. And they say, if we
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got rid of them, managed to eliminate them, we'd be
about one and a half billion bucks a year better off.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
On your radio and online. On iheard Radio edition with
Ryan Bridge and x Full Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
and dry. This winter News Talks EDB.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
News Talks EDB has just gone five twenty high. Ryan
Humus just needs to release the hostages, then there will
be peace. Why is no one putting it?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
This?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Simply says Andy. Well, it's not a simple situlation situation,
but I mean, yes, that would certainly help, wouldn't it.
You'd have to say, I'm just gone five twenty. We'll
talk about that just before six this morning. Rich General
Motors has their results out for quarter two, which make
for interesting reading. We'll get to that in just a second.
Major hurdles to free trader holding back our red meat exports.
(10:36):
This is according to Beef and Lamb and also the
Meat Industry Association. New report from MBI and Beef and
Lamb estimates non tariff trade barriers are costing US more
than a billion bucks a year. Kate Acklin from Beef
and Lamb with me. Now, Hey, Kate, morning, Ryan, good morning.
So what we when you say non tariff trade barriers?
What are you talking about specifically and which countries?
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Well, so, non tariff barriers are things like inspections or
environmental requirements or paperwork requirements. And sometimes those measures they
serve a really important purpose. They're actual that food is
safe to eat. But when they're not science based or transparent,
then actually they are just a barrier and a cost
to trade, and you know that adds uncertainty, it adds
(11:19):
cost for both farmers and exporters. So you know, this
report highlights one point five billion dollars a year is
what those non tariff barriers are costing.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Our sector and what are you which countries?
Speaker 9 (11:34):
So it's really broadly spread. Actually there's no sort of
one particular one that sticks out, and I think the
whole purpose of this report is just to highlight those
areas that can be worked on.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Are they using them because if if they're really broaden,
everyone does it. I mean, are they using them on
purpose to try and restrict trade when they can't do tariffs?
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
There is absolutely an aspect of that. So you know
what this report, this reports entitled barriers to trade, So
it looks at that both the tariffs and the non
tariff barriers that we're facing. And you know, a ten
point four billion dollar sector is what the red meat
industry is worth, So you know one point five billion
is significant.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, no, no doubt, it's significant. How hard will it
be to try and get you know, all these disparate
different countries with a myriad different regulations around inspections, et cetera.
How hard is it to try and get them all
to change? There is based on what probably is a
subjective view, is it not. You know, we might think
that their inspections are over zealous, but they, on the
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other hand, might think that they're just fine. And we
have quite strict you know, environmental and biosecurity standards in
New Zealand too.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Look, we absolutely do, and you know we work very
closely with the Ministry for Primary Industries and Ministry for
Foreign Affairs in trade and just to make sure that
any of those requirements that we're facing going into those
countries are science based. And you know, this report actually
is quite helpful for them to identify where those hot
spots are. And I think I heard yesterday that the
(13:04):
Ministry of Foreign Afairs and Traders working on one hundred
and ninety four different non tariff barriers across the world
that our sector faces. So you know, it is a
big issue and the shighlights it.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
She's a big job. Kate, appreciate that, Thank you very much. Kate,
Acklan Beef and Lamb New Zealand share with me this morning,
by the way, that report. It's quite interesting just looking
at the tariffs that we do have so far, so
the ten percent tariff under the new US administration, and
we'll see total tariffs faced by the sector more than
double from one hundred and fifty five million to more
(13:36):
than three hundred almost three hundred and seventy million dollars.
That's just after the ten percent tariff, which I suppose
goes some way to showing you how low they were
to begin with. Twenty three minutes after five here on
news Talk, sa'd b are coming up. Change to ACC's accounting,
which you would think it's a bit like New Plymouth.
You know, New Plmouth stuffed up the rates, and I
(13:58):
was pleased to see this. Yesterday they came out and
said no, no, you're not going to be They stuffed
up the rates and residents were going to have to
pay on average I think it was next one hundred
bucks a year because there was an accounting eerror and
they had a meeting and the residents said, no, you
go and find another three million dollars in savings and
I will pocket that one hundred dollars thank you. You
(14:21):
will not take that from me. I was pleased to
see that they had done that. You would think a
similar thing would happen with the acc accounting changes that
they have announced, but nay, we'll get to that shortly.
It's twenty four after five.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio how Advy News.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
TALKSB News TALKSB twenty six minutes after five. This business
with the supermarkets and they're pricing Consumer New Zealand in
case you didn't catch it yesterday came out with a
petition which we should all sign, apparently, and they want change.
They want to stop prices being incorrectly labeled. So when
you go to the checkout and you scan your receipts
and something's different to what you expected, something is different
(14:59):
to what was on the shelf, then under their plan,
you would get a refund on the product and you
would get to take the product home for free. The
idea is that if you make the punishment more than
fit the crime, then they'll stop doing it, which I get.
But the supermarkets reckon and consumer en Zed calls the spin,
but they reckon that there's just too many products and
(15:21):
they honestly make mistakes more often than not. It's out
by literally a few cents you know, so like five
ninety nine instead of five ninety five. The key question
here is whether we think the supermarkets are doing this
on purpose or whether they're just large organizations that occasionally
get small things wrong and correct the errors when they're
(15:43):
spotted and give refunds where necessary and where people have
asked for them. If we're saying they are deliberately doing this,
that's a whole other thing. And I'm not saying that
supermarkets should be given a hall pass here. But if
we're talking about a few million dollars a year, which
is what they think it adds up to spread over
a population of five million people, plus the free products
(16:07):
and the cost of those, on top of refunds that
they would have to pay for, and the staff hours
of going around and checking all the prices. Again, you've
got to ask yourself if the potential payoff is worth
the cost of pushing a policy like that. One Ryan Bred,
twenty eight minutes after five year on Newstalok said, be
we'll get to Garza just before six o'clock this morning.
(16:27):
Right now, General Motors earnings out overnight, so profit has
shrink they've taken. This is second quarter results for them,
they've taken a one point one billion dollar hit to
their bottom line from tariffs. Net income down thirty five
percent for the second quarter and it will get worse
for quarter three. They reckon they held prices steady and
(16:48):
basically just absorbed, soaked up all of the tariff costs.
So that's why it's set their bottom line to the
tune of one point one billion dollars. They say they
need trade deals to get out of this. Mexico, Canada,
South Korea, everywhere they get their parts net and come down.
And they expect once the full terifs take effect, it
could be a third of their profit that's wiped out.
(17:10):
And this is General Motives. This is the company, one
of the companies presumably Trump was wanting to revive and
bring back and production in America and huh. Anyway, not
great result for them and the future not looking too
bright either. It is twenty nine minutes after five News Talk,
said b as I said, our reporters next will get
to Gavin Gray in the UK and Gaza before.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Six News and Views.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You trust to start your day. It's early edition with
Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
This winter, News Talk said b s don't coming.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Good morning. It is twenty four away from six year
on news Talk ZB Ed Sharon is coming to New Zealand.
He's got an all new loop tour. It's January, February
and March of next year, a great summer run right
across the country. And interestingly he is going to you Wellington.
So before Max comes here and bags Wellington again this morning,
let's just celebrate the fact that Sky's Stadium will host
(18:28):
one of his gigs. Mout smart you'll get one to
a brand new album from him coming September, and according
to the press release from his promoters, a renewed creative spirit.
Looking forward to seeing Ed Sharon in the country very quickly.
On supermarket prices, your text messages have been coming in
thick and fast on this right. I noticed that supermarkets
(18:48):
place more expensive items above the wrong label. So you
think you're getting a five hundred gram jar of natala
for the price of the two hundred and fifty grand jar.
You do have to be a little bit careful and
read closely. Sometimes. I also have not quite figured out
and I don't know if it's a uniform thing or not,
but whether the price is above the product or below
(19:09):
the product. Just haven't quite figured that out yet, and
I always have to check. And maybe they do that
deliberately because they're all a holes, you know that they're
trying to screw us, so they mix it up. And
whether you go to pack and stay or then you
go to countdown or then you go to New World,
that it's all different because they are evil, you know,
(19:30):
imperialist prats and they are just constantly trying to screw
us down. Twenty two or are we paranoid? Twenty two
to six are reporters around the country. Callum and de
Eden Hay Callum, good morning, right, Jills Raddis has got
a plan. He wants a second term and he's a
man with a plan.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
He's officially confirmed he's so going to seek re election
in this year's October election. Jills Raddicks says he's getting
the new hospital up and running remains a priority for him,
be a part of followed by other infrastructure around the city.
He says projects are not done and there are plans
and funding in place, so he wants to see it through.
City councilors. Carmen Hulahans, Sophie Barker, Lee Vandervis, and Mandy
(20:13):
Mayhem challenging Raddick for the job. Other meror hopeful sere
at the stage businessman in Moscule's Hidi community bought chair
and Andrew Simms and also Green Party nominee Mickey Treadwell.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Excellent. How's your weather?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
It's another freezer this morning minus five at the airport
with severe frosts and morning fog. Otherwise fine light wins
the heights of the eleven.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
All right, thanks Caleen and clear than christ this morning, Claire,
good morning. This okay, brag time from you. You've got
your sports center, you've got your stadium coming. Now there's
a new play area.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
Yeah, this is going to be a big play area
too at the old site of the Q two pols.
So the new pools have been built and nearby is
the new Shirley Boys and Avonside Girls High School campus.
Now we've got news that this new play space is coming.
This is a project that we'll have play equipment for kids,
picnic tables, there'll be some really cool little I guess
nods to the park's history, specifically around its sporting history.
(21:07):
So there'll be some horse themed rockers as well. Coastal
Ward Community board member Alex Hewison has been a part
of this. He tells us that it's been in the
pipeline since twenty sixteen. He says it's simple that the
community in East christ Church has waited too long for it,
but there is hope this will be open by the
end of summer. He says, there'll be some really nice nods,
as I say, to the previous history of the of
(21:30):
the Q two complex there, including the Commonwealth Games. So
there'll be like a four square that's themed around the
comm Games for example.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Oh that's cool. How's the weather.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
Cold here as well? Frosty sitting at minus three at
the moment, should clear too, mainly fine though with a
bit of cloud building the high will be ten degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Thank you, Max's and Wellington Max, good morning. You've got
what you're bringing us the news of the Wellington show
for Ed Shearon, Yes, how dare you?
Speaker 12 (21:58):
This is some good positive news for the city. We've
been running stories for some time now about how music
acts skip the capital. As you said, Lewis Capaldi, Lord,
they're just doing Auckland and christ Church homegrown. The Festival,
the annual music event that's leaving as well. Getting Ed
Sheeran to come to Wellington feels like a weight off
the shoulders January twenty one. He's performing here at sky
(22:20):
Stadium last lee. We did have the Foo Fighters last
year and before that well Ed Sheeran himself in twenty
twenty three he got almost fifty thousand people to sky
Stadium himself. Tickets go on sale next week. There is
still the overarching question though, of us having or not
having that sort of mid sized venue to rival other cities,
to rival Spark or Wolfbrook of eight to twelve to
(22:43):
fifteen thousand ish when the acts don't want to fill
up a stadium. We had Brewtown actually in Upper Hutt
yesterday talking to us about its outdoor site. They want
to host more music. Wellingtonian shouldn't have to fly to
Auckland or christ Church when their favorites fly this way.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, the Bruckhouse places quite It's quite a good venue.
I've had friends and family that have gone there for
concerts and said they had a great time, including a
New Year's one. That's enough. That's an apper heart, isn't it.
How Anyway, that's completely unrelated. You want do you want
our weather?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
How's your wear? The max?
Speaker 12 (23:17):
No, Bruetown's brilliant. Obviously limited by weather though a little
cloudy today. Otherwise fine twelve the high.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thank you so much, Neva and Auckland, NEV. Good morningreetings.
We had bit of chaos on the motorway last night.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Now look, police are continuing to investigate this is a bomb.
Skin of this caused, as you say, chaos on the
Southern Motorway yesterday a man's body was found nearby. Now
the officers that are called to the walkway, this is
at Highbrook about eleven thirty am, they found an item
resembling an improvised explosive device. So, of course state part
of State Highway one that was closed for hours as
(23:50):
a result. We were just talking about this in the newsroom.
I think it didn't clear into well into the evening.
Specialists say two objects found in the area likely and
not IED's, but they're exact them. Police carried out a
detailed scene examination last night and they're looking into this
man's death as well.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Right, so they don't so they thought they were bombs,
looked them up, looked into them they're not bombs. Yeah likely, yeah, execuly,
I mean you want to be cautious. But there were
a lot of people upset. There was the one woman
who was in the traffic for three and a half
hours apparently.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Well they were talking about this in the newsroom. Lucky.
I didn't even know what was going on. I was
at home. I'm a lounger, fastest sleep thinking. Thank goodness,
they finally frost and Shelter places today's high fourteen for Aukland.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Brilliant, Thank you very much. As somebody says, you need
to use the grocer app when you go to the groceries.
It's great that Nick also says, I believe all supermarket
owners have new Range rovers. I mean there's I don't notice, obviously,
I don't know that's true. But is that a bad thing?
I don't know. Doesn't everyone want a new Range Rover? Hey,
it is seventeen minutes away from sex News talk SETB.
(24:58):
You know what's pretty cool that we've got a business
right here in New Zealand who's actually caring about the
planet and doing something real about it, not just talking,
And who's leading the way Xpole. Yeah, it's the warmest
feet in the world. People you know them. They've got
something called XPOLES Earth Initiative, and honestly it is quite impressive.
All seven of their factories across the country are fitted
(25:19):
with recycling machines, not just for their own offcuts, but
also for waste that's collected from building sites and even households.
They're now recycling more than five hundred tons of polystyring
a year, and they've set up recycling bins throughout building
merchants nationwide up and down the country, and they take
back packaging waste from there as well. Now that is
(25:39):
one thousand cubic meters of waste every month, roughly ten
truck and trailer roads loads. I should say even better,
seventy five percent of their products now contain recycled content.
So if you're building or renovating and you want to
be a bit better to the planet, go to Xpole
dot co dot NZ your home and the environment will
thank you for it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
International correspondence with Insie Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for
New Zealand Business.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Kevin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent joining us live
this morning.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Kevin.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
A number of French cities imposing curfews on young people.
Speaker 14 (26:12):
This is over crime, yes, that's right, Ryan, and in
particular drug trafficking and the use of young children to
be couriers within that trade. Now, the latest city to
undergo this idea of a curfew is Nim that's in
the south of France, and they say that is really
tried to prevent under sixteen's being exposed to violence and
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to contain tensions. The curfew is between nine pm and
six a m. And over the course of the last
month there have been several shootings, one in broad daylight,
all to do with the drugs trade. One person has
died in those shootings, several injured, and last week the
body of a nineteen year old man was found partially
burned on the outskirts of the city of Nim. It's
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not just their Bezier to the southwest has had a
curfew in place for children that's been plagued by violence
that the weekend balaklava clad used lured police and then
attacked them, according to local media and Limoje in southwestern
France also imposing curfew measures and certainly politicians waking up
saying we now have a real epidemic. I'm afraid of
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drug related violence. One hundred and ten people dying in
France in twenty twenty four with drug related violence.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Meanwhile, the BRIT's are happy about this fine that actually
miss Nottingham. This is a Royal Navy warship sunk by
the Germans and found at what one hundred years later?
Speaker 14 (27:36):
Yes, and I think it will be particularly poignant for
those who lost their lives that the families of the
thirty eight crew members who were killed. It was a
four hundred and fifty seven foot ship. It was torpedoed
by a German submarine in August nineteen sixteen and has
finally been found. There were numerous missions to try and
find this vessel, which was absolutely stuffed with crew members.
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So in total there were twenty officers, the captain and
three hundred and fifty seven other crew who were rescued
by Royal Navy destroyers and survived. And we know it's
the vessel because they say they've seen the cutlery and
crockery embossed with the Royal Navy Blue crown emblem and
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the letterer in Nottingham on top of the stern as well,
so we do pretty sure, and they've now found it
the Nottingham was struck three times on its port side.
It was on a reconnaissance mission, but they'd spotted a
German U boat earlier, but they thought it was a
small fishing vessel. It wasn't. It attacked and that led
to this quite high death camp, but plenty managing to escape,
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but some very difficult memories for those who have loved
ones who'd lost their lives in that First World War.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It sounds like two givin thank you for that. Kevin Gray,
you're correspondent, just gone eleven minutes away from six. So,
by the way, who just said it ticks? Come and
Ryan there was a fatality. This person lives in Japan.
Clearly a fatality on a Japanese city round network yesterday.
There was an announcement on the train to expect it
no longer than fifteen minutes. So they don't muck around
in Japan even if there are casualties, fatalities on the tracks.
(29:08):
Just gone ten minutes away from six now two guards
that we go. Opposition parties here saying government needs to
get harder to take a harshest stance against Israel. Yesterday,
Winston Peter has joined a bunch of other countries and
calling for an immediate sease fire.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
This horror must end. Two lives have been lost, too
many people have been traumatized, polarized and embittered, ensuring that
yet another generation of Israeli and Palestinian children born into
a situation have insufferable conflict and enmity. That is why
and Zeelan has come together with foreign ministers from twenty
seven other countries to state as city as we can
(29:45):
that enough is enough, that this war must end, now
that this suffering is intolerable.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Close to Aubert during party colored with me this morning, Chloe,
good morning, enough. So what more can Winston Dowe has
called for an unconditional seats fire, immediate SEASPI what else?
Speaker 15 (30:02):
The Foreign Minister has been calling for a ceasefire for
the better part of two years. But Ryan, at the
end of the day, Palestinians can't eat words, and right
now the blockade on Gaza is starving, actively starving the
people of Palestine. Look, we've had Holocaust scholars and survivors,
We've had Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Entities, Amnesty International,
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all of which have said that what is unfolding before
our very eyes is a genocide. Then we have the
horrific videos livestream to our phones twenty four to seven,
and as schools and hospitals are being bombed and eight
hundred people have been murdered in the last two months
lighting up for food. I think the absolute bare minimum
that any of us can expect from our so called
representatives and leaders has put substance behind their words.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So we dratifically, what specific sanctions are you talking about,
because we've got sanctions to travel bands against a couple
of members of Nitnya's cabinet, But what specifically else would
you like?
Speaker 15 (30:58):
So we can copy the exact same framework that we
did with the Russia's Sanctions Act, where you'll recall that
our Parliament acted within just a few weeks of Russia's
unlawful invasion into an occupation of Ukraine and sanctioned Russia autonomously.
That's the reason that I took the parallel approach with
the sanctions Bill, with the Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Sanctions Bill,
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which actually would implement a put some substance behind the
words that we signed up to in September of last
year when we joined with one hundred and twenty three
other member states to support the United Nations General Assembly
effectively to back up the advisory opinion from the ICJ,
the International Court of Justice in a nutshell, Ryan, we
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had seen other countries also move to do this. Yes,
spaceic sanctions. That Ireland has done this.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We saw.
Speaker 15 (31:45):
We saw just last week that twelve countries came together
to do the same and Borgata. So we need some
action behind words. All those words are just empty.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
We appreciate time close for Green Party co leader that
EU is discussing this very matter as well about whether
you put sanctions on Israel or not. At this point
they have not. It is seven minutes away from six newstalks.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
B Bryan Bridge on early edition with ex bowl insulation
keeping Kiwio's warm and try this winter News Talks b there's.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Five to six on News Talks, b Ryan. My kids
work in a supermarket. They are managed very, very hard.
If there are any errors, there is big pressure on them.
This is about whether you worry if your bill is
two cents out from what you thought it would be
when you went to the shelf versus at the checkout.
Is that a major deal? Should we be forcing the
supermarkets to then give us the item for free and
(32:38):
a refund on the full price as well, which is
what Consumrin's advance. N it's five to six mics in
the studio. Hey Mike, do you know when you go
to this do you go to the supermarket? No? Okay,
so you wouldn't know about the price above the item
below the item question. Apparently there's no law that says
you have to put the price above or below. People
get confused, end up paying something. They shot, do you reckon?
Speaker 16 (33:01):
Most people look at the price anyway. They look at
the price roughly. Then you do the price per key.
The thing is whether that's a bargain or not. My
suggestion would be if you buy less crap, you've got
more money for good stuff. How about that for an idea?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
You know you feed yourself?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, no, no, but I.
Speaker 16 (33:16):
Mean, well, this was the thing I'm getting infuriated. Yesterday
Hipkins was in the house talking about and tomatoes are
up and carriages it's seasonal, idiots.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yes, but they are more than you expect for the season.
But here's the thing about food inflation. Don't buy it
if you look at it.
Speaker 16 (33:34):
No, if you look at something and go look, that's
too expensive this month, I'm not going to buy I'm
going to buy something cheap. Buy something cheap.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
What a season.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
But what if the cheap thing is, you know, a
pack of noodles and that's all you can give you? No,
I see what.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 16 (33:48):
But when it comes to fruit and vegetables, for example,
there's always something on sales.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Always. Oh come on, Mike Hoskin. If you are paying
too much in the supermarket, don't go there.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
to news Talks it be from five am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
an Earli edition with ex Pole Insulation, Keeping Kimi homes
warm and try this winter news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It is six a half to five. Great to have
your company coming up on the program. Before top of
the hour, we'll look at how there are now more
calls growing, calls for some actual sanctions against Israel. Yes,
we've called for a ceasefire. Yes we've renewed our statement
and strengthened our language, but the calls for sanctions directly
against Israel are growing. Gavin Gray's in the UK for
(00:33):
us this morning. There's some French cities are putting young
people on a curfew because crime and violence is so bad.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand talk on trade, tariffs and
sky Free Deal. What it means for us if we're
in the business of watching television. It's all ahead.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The agenda Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Twenty third of July, a big push for sanctions against Israel,
as I said, thirty three people, including twelve children, have
died from malnutrition in just two days. This is according
to the Hamas run Health Ministry, and as.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You are well aware, over the weekend, Israeli military issued
another displacement order in Darryl Balla, spanning four neighborhoods. Our colleagues,
our humanitarian affairs colleagues warned that the mass displacement order
has dealt yet another devastating blow to the already fragile
lifeline keeping people alive across the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Their Justice department in the US wants a word with
Glaine Maxwell. They're asking what she knows Trump's calling the
whole thing and which chine It's order course over Epstein.
His supporters and Epstein victims are pushing hard to get
those files released.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Prove everyone wrong. If you have nothing to hide, then
please release this information that people are asking for. Please
make sure that Gilen Maxwell stays behind bars where she
deserves to be.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
If you were.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Truly not implicated, then this should not be a problem.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The fair point, isn't it? And talking to media after
meeting with the Philippines presidents, Trump slammed, you guessed it,
Jerome Powell.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
People aren't able to buy a house because this guy
is a numb skull.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
He keeps the reach too high and probably doing it
for political reasons.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
The only time I remember him cutting reads. I mean
he cut the reats.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Just before the election to try and help Carmela.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
With all of that talk. He says in the interview,
he's not going to sack them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge at ex Pol
Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter news
talks a'd be well.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Unlike Jerome Powell, our Reserve Bank is cutting interest rates
and there were some interesting numbers out yesterday showing home
ownership and affordability are actually doing pretty well right now.
The outside of Auckland and Todunger is the only caveat
sorry for people who are living in those areas, but
home ownership now affordable for your typical first home buyer
(03:03):
in most parts of this country. Now, what do they
mean by affordable. It's a very good question. This is
interest dot CO dot MZ that looks at the affordability
of housing. So basically, home ownership is unaffordable when your
mortgage payments are forty percent or more for a couple,
this is your take home pay. If you're spending forty
percent or more on your mortgage repayments, it's unaffordable and
(03:27):
the average, Now this is at the lower end of
the market, so if you're just going for a first
time that sort of thing, it's the average thirty three
percent of income on mortgages, which is good. It means
that because there's a trifecta happening here, right We've got
lower mortgage interstratets coming down, we've got lower prices because
the market's subdued, and we've got rising wages and I
(03:48):
know we keep talking about that and doesn't really feel
like it, but it is. It's a statistical fact. So
you've got this sort of trifecta happening, first time in
a generation that's happened, and home ownership actually in most
parts of New Zealand pretty good. So there's some good
news to start your day. And I've got some retailian
z numbers for you too, which will bring hopefully a
bit of smile to your a bit of a smile
(04:10):
to your dial this morning. It's not great in terms
of where they've been, but at least the outlook is
starting to improve. We'll have that story for you, and
next from the spinoff, Don't and Grieve, we'll talk us
through what the sky three deal means for the Sky business.
I mean, how many products have they got now? Just
you know they've got the Sky Sport Go, They've got three,
(04:32):
They've got three now, they've got a whole bunch of
fast channels, They've got Sky Open, They've got Sky to run.
Quite a few things on their plates. So what does
it mean for their business?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's next get ahead of the headlines on early edition
with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes
warm and dry this winter News Talks, that'd.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Be great to have your company. Just gone thirteen minutes
half the five here on News Talks dB. So the
retailians dead report up, this is their core badly. Retail
New Zealand report showing some optimism is creeping into our
retail sector. Thank goodness, we had card transactions. We told
you about this. That was up slightly for June. You know,
inflation is coming down, the ocr is has come down,
(05:15):
is now holding steady. Total volume of retail sales was
up point eight percent compared to the last quarter. So
those are the numbers. And now Retailing z goes out
and surveys retailers and here's what they said the past
three months well, not that great. How did your business
track against your targets? Ten percent exceeded targets, twenty eight
percent met targets, sixty two percent did not meet targets. However,
(05:40):
when you look forward three months, half expect to meet
their target, so that is an improvement. But here's where
it gets interesting. How confident are you that your business
will survive the next twelve months? Nine percent not confident,
sixty nine percent confident, and twenty two percent neutral. Now
the interesting part about this is your sixty nine percent
(06:01):
confident is a great number because it compares with a
fifty seven percent confidence a year prior, so that's up
over ten percentage points. It is fourteen minutes after five
Brian Bridge, the News for New Zealand Media. Sky TV
is buying three for a buck from Warner Brothers Discovery
and it will take on none of its debt investors.
(06:22):
We're loving it. Yesterday's shares and Sky ended up up
five percent more than three bucks. Dunk and Greeves spinoff
founder and media commentator with me this morning. Hey Duncan morning, Ryan.
Good to have you on the show. So what is
this a good smart business decision from Sky?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I think anytime you can buy a business that's got
one hundred million dollars in revenue for a dollar, if
you want to take a hard look at it, it
obviously says something about the nature of the sector that
it goes for that price. But you know that there's
a reason why analysts were very hot on this after
been quite cool on the Media Works acquisition a few
(07:01):
years ago for Sky. So yeah, great deal for Sky.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I think it leads them more. And you point this
out in your column. With a lot of things, a
lot of fingers and a lot of pies, a lot
of apps to run, you know, a lot of linear
TV channels to run, do they need them or will
they need them more or will they rationalize?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Yeah, I think that's been a persistent issue for Sky,
dating back to probably the John Phillett era CEO when
they tried to merge. If you remember with Vodaphone that
they've got a lot of different pieces of technology, and
if you look at the pre eminent modern sort of
TV media company, it's Netflix, which is just a single
(07:40):
property so that you can get on any device anywhere
in the world. Sky much smaller company, a much more
market and has a lot of different things going on.
So I think they're at a great scale now that
certainly if they can rationalize that, not necessarily the brands,
I think that you can with that, but certainly a
(08:01):
number of different technology platforms and how I talk to
each other, that will be a sorder of business to me.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
At the back end. What about their projections, their growth projections.
I mean, given what you know about the state of
running media companies in New Zealand right now, especially ones
that are relying on advertising, that projection of earnings growth
of at least ten million a year by twenty eight
I think it was, you know, these things realistic.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
I think so.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I mean skuy ultimately is buys a lot of content
on one side, from sports to entertainment to some international news,
and then try to sell it a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Some of that they had supported. Some of it, you know,
a lot of it are subscription revenue. But what they've
done now is really build that they had supported side
of the business, but a stake in over time, just
take the content that they already have and put it
in a bunch of different places. And that's what three
and three now offer them far bigger scale of free
(09:06):
to accessible content, and they've had four. They've actually done
well in advertising sky and in a market that's been
pretty terrible for a lot of the local media. So
you know, it really does look like a very there's
a basket and here which a great discus and also
great for three, which has had, as you will know,
reluctant owners for a long period of time.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now, yeah, reluctance the nice word. I think duncan thank you.
Dank and Grieve spin off founder and media commentator on
the Sky three deal. It is seventeen minutes after five.
Y're on News Talk ce B coming up next. So
you've got your tariffs. In terms of trade barriers, you've
got your tariffs and we talk about those a lot,
but they are a whole bunch that we don't talk
about but beef and lamma. And they say, if we
(09:50):
got rid of them, managed to eliminate them, we'd be
about one and a half billion bucks a year better off.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
On your radio and online. On iheard Radio edition with
Ryan Bridge and x Full Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
and dry. This winter News Talks EDB.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
News Talks EDB has just gone five twenty high. Ryan
Humus just needs to release the hostages, then there will
be peace. Why is no one putting it?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
This?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Simply says Andy. Well, it's not a simple situlation situation,
but I mean, yes, that would certainly help, wouldn't it.
You'd have to say, I'm just gone five twenty. We'll
talk about that just before six this morning. Rich General
Motors has their results out for quarter two, which make
for interesting reading. We'll get to that in just a second.
Major hurdles to free trader holding back our red meat exports.
(10:36):
This is according to Beef and Lamb and also the
Meat Industry Association. New report from MBI and Beef and
Lamb estimates non tariff trade barriers are costing US more
than a billion bucks a year. Kate Acklin from Beef
and Lamb with me. Now, Hey, Kate, morning, Ryan, good morning.
So what we when you say non tariff trade barriers?
What are you talking about specifically and which countries?
Speaker 9 (10:58):
Well, so, non tariff barriers are things like inspections or
environmental requirements or paperwork requirements. And sometimes those measures they
serve a really important purpose. They're actual that food is
safe to eat. But when they're not science based or transparent,
then actually they are just a barrier and a cost
to trade, and you know that adds uncertainty, it adds
(11:19):
cost for both farmers and exporters. So you know, this
report highlights one point five billion dollars a year is
what those non tariff barriers are costing.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Our sector and what are you which countries?
Speaker 9 (11:34):
So it's really broadly spread. Actually there's no sort of
one particular one that sticks out, and I think the
whole purpose of this report is just to highlight those
areas that can be worked on.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Are they using them because if if they're really broaden,
everyone does it. I mean, are they using them on
purpose to try and restrict trade when they can't do tariffs?
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
There is absolutely an aspect of that. So you know
what this report, this reports entitled barriers to trade, So
it looks at that both the tariffs and the non
tariff barriers that we're facing. And you know, a ten
point four billion dollar sector is what the red meat
industry is worth, So you know one point five billion
is significant.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, no, no doubt, it's significant. How hard will it
be to try and get you know, all these disparate
different countries with a myriad different regulations around inspections, et cetera.
How hard is it to try and get them all
to change? There is based on what probably is a
subjective view, is it not. You know, we might think
that their inspections are over zealous, but they, on the
(12:36):
other hand, might think that they're just fine. And we
have quite strict you know, environmental and biosecurity standards in
New Zealand too.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Look, we absolutely do, and you know we work very
closely with the Ministry for Primary Industries and Ministry for
Foreign Affairs in trade and just to make sure that
any of those requirements that we're facing going into those
countries are science based. And you know, this report actually
is quite helpful for them to identify where those hot
spots are. And I think I heard yesterday that the
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Ministry of Foreign Afairs and Traders working on one hundred
and ninety four different non tariff barriers across the world
that our sector faces. So you know, it is a
big issue and the shighlights it.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
She's a big job. Kate, appreciate that, Thank you very much. Kate,
Acklan Beef and Lamb New Zealand share with me this morning,
by the way, that report. It's quite interesting just looking
at the tariffs that we do have so far, so
the ten percent tariff under the new US administration, and
we'll see total tariffs faced by the sector more than
double from one hundred and fifty five million to more
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than three hundred almost three hundred and seventy million dollars.
That's just after the ten percent tariff, which I suppose
goes some way to showing you how low they were
to begin with. Twenty three minutes after five here on
news Talk, sa'd b are coming up. Change to ACC's accounting,
which you would think it's a bit like New Plymouth.
You know, New Plmouth stuffed up the rates, and I
(13:58):
was pleased to see this. Yesterday they came out and
said no, no, you're not going to be They stuffed
up the rates and residents were going to have to
pay on average I think it was next one hundred
bucks a year because there was an accounting eerror and
they had a meeting and the residents said, no, you
go and find another three million dollars in savings and
I will pocket that one hundred dollars thank you. You
(14:21):
will not take that from me. I was pleased to
see that they had done that. You would think a
similar thing would happen with the acc accounting changes that
they have announced, but nay, we'll get to that shortly.
It's twenty four after five.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio how Advy News.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
TALKSB News TALKSB twenty six minutes after five. This business
with the supermarkets and they're pricing Consumer New Zealand in
case you didn't catch it yesterday came out with a
petition which we should all sign, apparently, and they want change.
They want to stop prices being incorrectly labeled. So when
you go to the checkout and you scan your receipts
and something's different to what you expected, something is different
(14:59):
to what was on the shelf, then under their plan,
you would get a refund on the product and you
would get to take the product home for free. The
idea is that if you make the punishment more than
fit the crime, then they'll stop doing it, which I get.
But the supermarkets reckon and consumer en Zed calls the spin,
but they reckon that there's just too many products and
(15:21):
they honestly make mistakes more often than not. It's out
by literally a few cents you know, so like five
ninety nine instead of five ninety five. The key question
here is whether we think the supermarkets are doing this
on purpose or whether they're just large organizations that occasionally
get small things wrong and correct the errors when they're
(15:43):
spotted and give refunds where necessary and where people have
asked for them. If we're saying they are deliberately doing this,
that's a whole other thing. And I'm not saying that
supermarkets should be given a hall pass here. But if
we're talking about a few million dollars a year, which
is what they think it adds up to spread over
a population of five million people, plus the free products
(16:07):
and the cost of those, on top of refunds that
they would have to pay for, and the staff hours
of going around and checking all the prices. Again, you've
got to ask yourself if the potential payoff is worth
the cost of pushing a policy like that. One Ryan Bred,
twenty eight minutes after five year on Newstalok said, be
we'll get to Garza just before six o'clock this morning.
(16:27):
Right now, General Motors earnings out overnight, so profit has
shrink they've taken. This is second quarter results for them,
they've taken a one point one billion dollar hit to
their bottom line from tariffs. Net income down thirty five
percent for the second quarter and it will get worse
for quarter three. They reckon they held prices steady and
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basically just absorbed, soaked up all of the tariff costs.
So that's why it's set their bottom line to the
tune of one point one billion dollars. They say they
need trade deals to get out of this. Mexico, Canada,
South Korea, everywhere they get their parts net and come down.
And they expect once the full terifs take effect, it
could be a third of their profit that's wiped out.
(17:10):
And this is General Motives. This is the company, one
of the companies presumably Trump was wanting to revive and
bring back and production in America and huh. Anyway, not
great result for them and the future not looking too
bright either. It is twenty nine minutes after five News Talk,
said b as I said, our reporters next will get
to Gavin Gray in the UK and Gaza before.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Six News and Views.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You trust to start your day. It's early edition with
Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
This winter, News Talk said b s don't coming.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Good morning. It is twenty four away from six year
on news Talk ZB Ed Sharon is coming to New Zealand.
He's got an all new loop tour. It's January, February
and March of next year, a great summer run right
across the country. And interestingly he is going to you Wellington.
So before Max comes here and bags Wellington again this morning,
let's just celebrate the fact that Sky's Stadium will host
(18:28):
one of his gigs. Mout smart you'll get one to
a brand new album from him coming September, and according
to the press release from his promoters, a renewed creative spirit.
Looking forward to seeing Ed Sharon in the country very quickly.
On supermarket prices, your text messages have been coming in
thick and fast on this right. I noticed that supermarkets
(18:48):
place more expensive items above the wrong label. So you
think you're getting a five hundred gram jar of natala
for the price of the two hundred and fifty grand jar.
You do have to be a little bit careful and
read closely. Sometimes. I also have not quite figured out
and I don't know if it's a uniform thing or not,
but whether the price is above the product or below
(19:09):
the product. Just haven't quite figured that out yet, and
I always have to check. And maybe they do that
deliberately because they're all a holes, you know that they're
trying to screw us, so they mix it up. And
whether you go to pack and stay or then you
go to countdown or then you go to New World,
that it's all different because they are evil, you know,
(19:30):
imperialist prats and they are just constantly trying to screw
us down. Twenty two or are we paranoid? Twenty two
to six are reporters around the country. Callum and de
Eden Hay Callum, good morning, right, Jills Raddis has got
a plan. He wants a second term and he's a
man with a plan.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
He's officially confirmed he's so going to seek re election
in this year's October election. Jills Raddicks says he's getting
the new hospital up and running remains a priority for him,
be a part of followed by other infrastructure around the city.
He says projects are not done and there are plans
and funding in place, so he wants to see it through.
City councilors. Carmen Hulahans, Sophie Barker, Lee Vandervis, and Mandy
(20:13):
Mayhem challenging Raddick for the job. Other meror hopeful sere
at the stage businessman in Moscule's Hidi community bought chair
and Andrew Simms and also Green Party nominee Mickey Treadwell.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Excellent. How's your weather?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
It's another freezer this morning minus five at the airport
with severe frosts and morning fog. Otherwise fine light wins
the heights of the eleven.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
All right, thanks Caleen and clear than christ this morning, Claire,
good morning. This okay, brag time from you. You've got
your sports center, you've got your stadium coming. Now there's
a new play area.
Speaker 11 (20:44):
Yeah, this is going to be a big play area
too at the old site of the Q two pols.
So the new pools have been built and nearby is
the new Shirley Boys and Avonside Girls High School campus.
Now we've got news that this new play space is coming.
This is a project that we'll have play equipment for kids,
picnic tables, there'll be some really cool little I guess
nods to the park's history, specifically around its sporting history.
(21:07):
So there'll be some horse themed rockers as well. Coastal
Ward Community board member Alex Hewison has been a part
of this. He tells us that it's been in the
pipeline since twenty sixteen. He says it's simple that the
community in East christ Church has waited too long for it,
but there is hope this will be open by the
end of summer. He says, there'll be some really nice nods,
as I say, to the previous history of the of
(21:30):
the Q two complex there, including the Commonwealth Games. So
there'll be like a four square that's themed around the
comm Games for example.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Oh that's cool. How's the weather.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
Cold here as well? Frosty sitting at minus three at
the moment, should clear too, mainly fine though with a
bit of cloud building the high will be ten degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Thank you, Max's and Wellington Max, good morning. You've got
what you're bringing us the news of the Wellington show
for Ed Shearon, Yes, how dare you?
Speaker 12 (21:58):
This is some good positive news for the city. We've
been running stories for some time now about how music
acts skip the capital. As you said, Lewis Capaldi, Lord,
they're just doing Auckland and christ Church homegrown. The Festival,
the annual music event that's leaving as well. Getting Ed
Sheeran to come to Wellington feels like a weight off
the shoulders January twenty one. He's performing here at sky
(22:20):
Stadium last lee. We did have the Foo Fighters last
year and before that well Ed Sheeran himself in twenty
twenty three he got almost fifty thousand people to sky
Stadium himself. Tickets go on sale next week. There is
still the overarching question though, of us having or not
having that sort of mid sized venue to rival other cities,
to rival Spark or Wolfbrook of eight to twelve to
(22:43):
fifteen thousand ish when the acts don't want to fill
up a stadium. We had Brewtown actually in Upper Hutt
yesterday talking to us about its outdoor site. They want
to host more music. Wellingtonian shouldn't have to fly to
Auckland or christ Church when their favorites fly this way.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, the Bruckhouse places quite It's quite a good venue.
I've had friends and family that have gone there for
concerts and said they had a great time, including a
New Year's one. That's enough. That's an apper heart, isn't it.
How Anyway, that's completely unrelated. You want do you want
our weather?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
How's your wear? The max?
Speaker 12 (23:17):
No, Bruetown's brilliant. Obviously limited by weather though a little
cloudy today. Otherwise fine twelve the high.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thank you so much, Neva and Auckland, NEV. Good morningreetings.
We had bit of chaos on the motorway last night.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Now look, police are continuing to investigate this is a bomb.
Skin of this caused, as you say, chaos on the
Southern Motorway yesterday a man's body was found nearby. Now
the officers that are called to the walkway, this is
at Highbrook about eleven thirty am, they found an item
resembling an improvised explosive device. So, of course state part
of State Highway one that was closed for hours as
(23:50):
a result. We were just talking about this in the newsroom.
I think it didn't clear into well into the evening.
Specialists say two objects found in the area likely and
not IED's, but they're exact them. Police carried out a
detailed scene examination last night and they're looking into this
man's death as well.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Right, so they don't so they thought they were bombs,
looked them up, looked into them they're not bombs. Yeah likely, yeah, execuly,
I mean you want to be cautious. But there were
a lot of people upset. There was the one woman
who was in the traffic for three and a half
hours apparently.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Well they were talking about this in the newsroom. Lucky.
I didn't even know what was going on. I was
at home. I'm a lounger, fastest sleep thinking. Thank goodness,
they finally frost and Shelter places today's high fourteen for Aukland.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Brilliant, Thank you very much. As somebody says, you need
to use the grocer app when you go to the groceries.
It's great that Nick also says, I believe all supermarket
owners have new Range rovers. I mean there's I don't notice, obviously,
I don't know that's true. But is that a bad thing?
I don't know. Doesn't everyone want a new Range Rover? Hey,
it is seventeen minutes away from sex News talk SETB.
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You know what's pretty cool that we've got a business
right here in New Zealand who's actually caring about the
planet and doing something real about it, not just talking,
And who's leading the way Xpole. Yeah, it's the warmest
feet in the world. People you know them. They've got
something called XPOLES Earth Initiative, and honestly it is quite impressive.
All seven of their factories across the country are fitted
(25:19):
with recycling machines, not just for their own offcuts, but
also for waste that's collected from building sites and even households.
They're now recycling more than five hundred tons of polystyring
a year, and they've set up recycling bins throughout building
merchants nationwide up and down the country, and they take
back packaging waste from there as well. Now that is
(25:39):
one thousand cubic meters of waste every month, roughly ten
truck and trailer roads loads. I should say even better,
seventy five percent of their products now contain recycled content.
So if you're building or renovating and you want to
be a bit better to the planet, go to Xpole
dot co dot NZ your home and the environment will
thank you for it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
International correspondence with Insie Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for
New Zealand Business.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Kevin Gray are UK. You're a correspondent joining us live
this morning.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Kevin.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
A number of French cities imposing curfews on young people.
Speaker 14 (26:12):
This is over crime, yes, that's right, Ryan, and in
particular drug trafficking and the use of young children to
be couriers within that trade. Now, the latest city to
undergo this idea of a curfew is Nim that's in
the south of France, and they say that is really
tried to prevent under sixteen's being exposed to violence and
(26:33):
to contain tensions. The curfew is between nine pm and
six a m. And over the course of the last
month there have been several shootings, one in broad daylight,
all to do with the drugs trade. One person has
died in those shootings, several injured, and last week the
body of a nineteen year old man was found partially
burned on the outskirts of the city of Nim. It's
(26:55):
not just their Bezier to the southwest has had a
curfew in place for children that's been plagued by violence
that the weekend balaklava clad used lured police and then
attacked them, according to local media and Limoje in southwestern
France also imposing curfew measures and certainly politicians waking up
saying we now have a real epidemic. I'm afraid of
(27:18):
drug related violence. One hundred and ten people dying in
France in twenty twenty four with drug related violence.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Meanwhile, the BRIT's are happy about this fine that actually
miss Nottingham. This is a Royal Navy warship sunk by
the Germans and found at what one hundred years later?
Speaker 14 (27:36):
Yes, and I think it will be particularly poignant for
those who lost their lives that the families of the
thirty eight crew members who were killed. It was a
four hundred and fifty seven foot ship. It was torpedoed
by a German submarine in August nineteen sixteen and has
finally been found. There were numerous missions to try and
find this vessel, which was absolutely stuffed with crew members.
(27:59):
So in total there were twenty officers, the captain and
three hundred and fifty seven other crew who were rescued
by Royal Navy destroyers and survived. And we know it's
the vessel because they say they've seen the cutlery and
crockery embossed with the Royal Navy Blue crown emblem and
(28:19):
the letterer in Nottingham on top of the stern as well,
so we do pretty sure, and they've now found it
the Nottingham was struck three times on its port side.
It was on a reconnaissance mission, but they'd spotted a
German U boat earlier, but they thought it was a
small fishing vessel. It wasn't. It attacked and that led
to this quite high death camp, but plenty managing to escape,
(28:39):
but some very difficult memories for those who have loved
ones who'd lost their lives in that First World War.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It sounds like two givin thank you for that. Kevin Gray,
you're correspondent, just gone eleven minutes away from six. So,
by the way, who just said it ticks? Come and
Ryan there was a fatality. This person lives in Japan.
Clearly a fatality on a Japanese city round network yesterday.
There was an announcement on the train to expect it
no longer than fifteen minutes. So they don't muck around
in Japan even if there are casualties, fatalities on the tracks.
(29:08):
Just gone ten minutes away from six now two guards
that we go. Opposition parties here saying government needs to
get harder to take a harshest stance against Israel. Yesterday,
Winston Peter has joined a bunch of other countries and
calling for an immediate sease fire.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
This horror must end. Two lives have been lost, too
many people have been traumatized, polarized and embittered, ensuring that
yet another generation of Israeli and Palestinian children born into
a situation have insufferable conflict and enmity. That is why
and Zeelan has come together with foreign ministers from twenty
seven other countries to state as city as we can
(29:45):
that enough is enough, that this war must end, now
that this suffering is intolerable.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Close to Aubert during party colored with me this morning, Chloe,
good morning, enough. So what more can Winston Dowe has
called for an unconditional seats fire, immediate SEASPI what else?
Speaker 15 (30:02):
The Foreign Minister has been calling for a ceasefire for
the better part of two years. But Ryan, at the
end of the day, Palestinians can't eat words, and right
now the blockade on Gaza is starving, actively starving the
people of Palestine. Look, we've had Holocaust scholars and survivors,
We've had Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Entities, Amnesty International,
(30:24):
all of which have said that what is unfolding before
our very eyes is a genocide. Then we have the
horrific videos livestream to our phones twenty four to seven,
and as schools and hospitals are being bombed and eight
hundred people have been murdered in the last two months
lighting up for food. I think the absolute bare minimum
that any of us can expect from our so called
representatives and leaders has put substance behind their words.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
So we dratifically, what specific sanctions are you talking about,
because we've got sanctions to travel bands against a couple
of members of Nitnya's cabinet, But what specifically else would
you like?
Speaker 15 (30:58):
So we can copy the exact same framework that we
did with the Russia's Sanctions Act, where you'll recall that
our Parliament acted within just a few weeks of Russia's
unlawful invasion into an occupation of Ukraine and sanctioned Russia autonomously.
That's the reason that I took the parallel approach with
the sanctions Bill, with the Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Sanctions Bill,
(31:18):
which actually would implement a put some substance behind the
words that we signed up to in September of last
year when we joined with one hundred and twenty three
other member states to support the United Nations General Assembly
effectively to back up the advisory opinion from the ICJ,
the International Court of Justice in a nutshell, Ryan, we
(31:39):
had seen other countries also move to do this. Yes,
spaceic sanctions. That Ireland has done this.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We saw.
Speaker 15 (31:45):
We saw just last week that twelve countries came together
to do the same and Borgata. So we need some
action behind words. All those words are just empty.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
We appreciate time close for Green Party co leader that
EU is discussing this very matter as well about whether
you put sanctions on Israel or not. At this point
they have not. It is seven minutes away from six newstalks.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
B Bryan Bridge on early edition with ex bowl insulation
keeping Kiwio's warm and try this winter News Talks b there's.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Five to six on News Talks, b Ryan. My kids
work in a supermarket. They are managed very, very hard.
If there are any errors, there is big pressure on them.
This is about whether you worry if your bill is
two cents out from what you thought it would be
when you went to the shelf versus at the checkout.
Is that a major deal? Should we be forcing the
supermarkets to then give us the item for free and
(32:38):
a refund on the full price as well, which is
what Consumrin's advance. N it's five to six mics in
the studio. Hey Mike, do you know when you go
to this do you go to the supermarket? No? Okay,
so you wouldn't know about the price above the item
below the item question. Apparently there's no law that says
you have to put the price above or below. People
get confused, end up paying something. They shot, do you reckon?
Speaker 16 (33:01):
Most people look at the price anyway. They look at
the price roughly. Then you do the price per key.
The thing is whether that's a bargain or not. My
suggestion would be if you buy less crap, you've got
more money for good stuff. How about that for an idea?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
You know you feed yourself?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
No, no, no, but I.
Speaker 16 (33:16):
Mean, well, this was the thing I'm getting infuriated. Yesterday
Hipkins was in the house talking about and tomatoes are
up and carriages it's seasonal, idiots.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yes, but they are more than you expect for the season.
But here's the thing about food inflation. Don't buy it
if you look at it.
Speaker 16 (33:34):
No, if you look at something and go look, that's
too expensive this month, I'm not going to buy I'm
going to buy something cheap. Buy something cheap.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
What a season.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
But what if the cheap thing is, you know, a
pack of noodles and that's all you can give you? No,
I see what.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 16 (33:48):
But when it comes to fruit and vegetables, for example,
there's always something on sales.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Always. Oh come on, Mike Hoskin. If you are paying
too much in the supermarket, don't go there.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
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