October 22, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Thursday 23rd of October 2025, an estimated 100,000 teachers, nurses, dentists and medical staff are all walking off the job today, PPTA President Chris Abercrombie tells Ryan some rallies have been called off due to severe weather.
Labour’s keeping the policy train rolling and this time it’s all about video games, New Zealand game developers Association Executive Director Joy Keene shares her thoughts.
The Children’s Commissioner and Independent Children’s Monitor have called out the Children's Minister for cherry-picking statistics on abuse in state care, Karen Chhour makes her case.
Plus, US Correspondent Mitch McCann has the latest on Trump demanding the Justice Department pay him $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him and the government shutdown is now entering its fourth week.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Be Bursday morning. Great to have your company, Thanks for
being with me. We'll look at the strife before six
o'clock this morning. Mitch McCann's in the US for US
Trump suing his own Department of Justice with the gaming
subsidies we spoke about yesterday. Are they working? Are they not?
Karen Ture on these stats she put out. People say
she's cherry picking her numbers. We'll ask her. And I've
got a little Sarkozy prison update for you this morning too.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The agenda birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The twenty third of October. Still having caught those robbers,
no sign of the Crown jewels. This is in Paris,
the museum's directors feeling the heat.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Robley happened three days ago. Since then, I saw my
name really thrown in the gutter and lots of misinformation.
Will some days attack really is obtained. For reminder that
criminals do not stop at the loop. No one, no
one is protected from these brittle criminals.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
Bounce has been in Israel as we know he's all
happy and cheery after his meeting with Nat and Yahoo.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
We're very excited to sit down and work together on
the Gaza peace Plan. We have a very very tough
task ahead of us, which is to disarm the moss
but rebuild Gaza, to make life better for the people
in Gaza, but also to ensure that a mass is
no longer threat to our friends in Israel. That's not easy.
I think the Prime Minister knows that as well as anybody.
But it's something that we're committed to in the Trump administration,
(01:31):
and I think that we've even in the past twenty
four hours, had a lot of good conversations with our
friends in the Israeli government.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You cry, nothing slowing down there. The Russians have killed
seven people overnight, including two children, and Trump's canceled that meeting,
and Botapest with Poten has said, go to.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
The line, go to the line of battle, on the
battlefield lines, and you pull back and you go home.
And everybody takes some time off because you have two
countries that are killing each other, two countries using five
to seven thousand sages a week. So we'll see what happens.
Since we haven't managed his.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
SHOWMNU year right. Finally, this morning, pop Mark, this is
the maker of the hugely popular Leboo Boo dolls, has
seen global revenues saw two hundred and fifty percent in
three months. This is the three months to September this
after they released mini versions. Have you seen these dolls?
My niece loves them. Sales outside China we're up twelve
hundred percent in America, seven hundred percent in Europe and
(02:29):
Hong Kong, where the shares of Hell jump five point
five percent, giving the company evaluation now of wait for it,
forty five point five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
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Speaker 2 (02:49):
Two ninety two is the number to text, give me
how's the weather at your place? And I don't think
it's meant to be that bad just yet? Now, how
is it that these official trips cost so much? Just
when we were on jd Vance, You remember jd Vance
went to the UK went fishing and got in trouble
because they didn't have their right permits for fishing. And
that's how we knew he was there anyway, Trump went
(03:11):
there as well, to Scotland to go to his golf
course and have a little visit. Now the Scottish Parliament
is requesting reimbursement from the UK government for these two trips.
One was five days, one was four days. Guess how
much they want. Twenty four point five million pounds sixty
(03:34):
million New Zealand dollars they reckon, that's how much it
costs to have these two dignitaries in the country for
nine days. Total policing the presidential visit alone was twenty
one million pounds for five days. How is this possible?
Apparently they had to at peak deploy more than four
(03:54):
thousand police officers and the cost for JD vance was
two million pounds. Just unbelievable anyway, though apparently the British
government saying, Nat, we're not paying you anything because it
was basically a holiday for them. They were private visits,
even though Starma went to meet them now here at home.
We had more rent numbers yesterday, so basically we've got
(04:15):
a Cotality property report out this morning says, as you
would expect, things are stable, listing slightly up, but rents
I had a friend whose rent was knocked down fifty bucks.
He was renegotiating the place that he's living in. Knock
down fifty bucks and trade me. Yesterday had this report out.
Listings are up and rents are going down. Especially if
you were in Wellington and you're not getting cheaper rent
(04:38):
right now, go and ask for it because it'll probably happen.
Nine minutes are sorry, eleven minutes after five. Bridge coming
up next, we're going to talk to Karen Shaw. This
is Children's minister. She put these numbers out yesterday and
said things are getting better in terms of abuse in
state care, and a whole bunch of people have come
(04:58):
out and said no, she's cherry at figures. She's with
us on Newstalk seed B, on your.
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Speaker 2 (05:15):
B five point thirteen on News Talks. Heb this textasays Ryan,
let's hope that Trump never comes to New Zealand. I
tend to agree with that if it's going to cost
us millions and squillions of dollars for a five day visit.
Then no, thank you, we can't afford that. I mean,
you could buy the Americas. You could pay for the
America's Cup and fund the America's Cup to to challenge
here for the price of getting a Trump visit now,
(05:37):
and I know what, most people would probably prefer watching
Karen traw with us in just a second, but very quickly,
this is Psychosey. We've been talking about him for a
couple of days now. So he's in this consolitary confinement
cell in a prison in Paris, and this is all
over the campaign funding conviction. Now he's going to have
in the two cells next door to him, he's going
(05:57):
to have his DPS as Diplomatic protect Squad or the
equivalent of for a former president. So the whole time
he's meant to be there five years, the people of
France are paying for two bodyguards in jail. Right five
fourteen Children's Commissioner and Independent Children's Monitor calling out Karen
(06:19):
Chaw for cherry picking stats. This morning they reckon the
abuse in state care is getting worse, and the Minister
put out a press release saying recorded harm was going
down a fourteen percent reduction and recorded harm across the
cure residences since twenty twenty four. Ordering a Tamindiqui's annual
report says five hundred and thirty children in care were
experienced harm in the year to March twenty three, more
(06:41):
than the previous year. So what gives Karen Chaws with
me now, Minister, good morning.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Good morning?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Are you cherry picking here? What's going on?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
So the harm that you're speaking to around that could
be anything so low level. High level harm that I'm
talking about in the decrease in residence is serious harm
where a child or young person has an injury that
is serious. So there's been a massive reduction in harm
(07:15):
and residence and it's the first time ever we're seeing
a reduction and harm and residence in New Zealand. And
this is really important to me because I actually set
this as a real priority when I first came into
Parliament because children deserve to be safe no matter where
they live and within a residence. These young people deserve
(07:35):
to have the best protection they possibly can and be
able to have a chance to turn their lives around,
and they're not going to do that if they're not
really safe where they live. So what I announced yesterday
is around a program that we have put in place
to make sure that our staff have better training, better oversight,
We have better recruitment and strengthened leadership to make sure
(07:59):
that these kids say right, I understand where the where
the Children's Commissioner is coming from. Any harm is not okay,
and we have to make sure that we're clearly focused
on that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Minister. What is serious harm or what's minor harm that
we shouldn't be worried about that's been going up.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
I guess it's recordings like within the MSA when we
had two recordings of harm and one with a cut
finger and one with some boom sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So it's not, it's not, it's not. We're not talking
here about physical abuse. You know, either caregiver on young
person abuse or a young person on young person abuse.
It could be anything tripping and falling, stubbing a toe.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
This fourteen percent reduction of finding of harm is based
on it could be physical abuse where a child. This
is what I'm speaking to today, is physical abuse where
a child or a young person has injury or it
was at risk of injury. Sexual abuse or including exposure
to sexual activity and sexual imagery and grooming behaviors, neglect
(09:07):
where the basic needs of a child young person has
not been met, emotional abuse with mental health and social
or emotional functioning and development. So what I would also say.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What's the number? What's the number to the five hundreds,
because this is what they're coming at you with, right,
So that the five hundred and thirty children in here
have experienced harm in the last year, up from five
hundred and seven the year before.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
So the number I'm reporting to is in twenty twenty
four to twenty twenty five, there was around one hundred
and ninety five findings of harm and for one hundred
and for one hundred and fifteen children and young people
and residential placements. In the previous year there were two
hundred and twenty eight findings of harm for one hundred
(09:50):
and eighteen children. What I would also say is eighty
three percent of the harm experience that was caused by
other children in placement and twelve percent was by staff.
So we're really breaking this down so we've got a
good understanding.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Of what's happening, Minister.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Given that most of the harm is between the young people,
do you need to separate them out of it more?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
This is why we've put legislation change through Parliament even
recently in response to not only needing the necessity of
making sure young people are safe, but in response to
the Abuse and Care inquiry Where residence is we're a
big part of the story that was told from survivors
(10:35):
in care, so we need to make sure that we're
keeping these young people safe. Some of the routines we've
done with staff is that they have clear bags now
when they're coming within residents, so we can see what
they're bringing into residents and contraband is lower.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Sounds It sounds like you're making moves on all the
right places, Minister, but obviously some disagreement about exactly how
safe the young people there are. Care and appreciate your
time this morning, Care and Shaw Children's Minister. It is
nineteen after five News Talks, CB.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
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Speaker 2 (11:15):
S a lot of love for Karen Shaw this morning
at five twenty one. There always is, actually whenever we
speak to her, even if the numbers that she's talking
about may be a little whiffy, but this one says Ryan,
we would not need the state residences or the state
here if we didn't have the worst family violence stats
in the developed world. Let's look inside our homes before
we get outraged and all fluffed up about Karen Chaw.
(11:37):
Twenty two minutes after five, Now, Labour's keeping this policy,
the policy train rolling, I should say this time it's
all about video games. If elected, they plan to expand
the game Development Rebate, which gives KIWI studios access to
forty million bucks a year to grow the industry. Joe
Joey rather Keen is executive director of the Game Developers Association.
With me this morning, Joy, good morning, good morning, very well,
(12:00):
thank you. How many studios use the current subsidy.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
At the moment we have forty one studios accessing the subsidy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And is all the money, because I think it's up
to forty million a year, is all the money that's
currently on the table being taken up being used?
Speaker 9 (12:18):
No, not at all. So this particular well the twenty
twenty five financial year we had twenty four million used
out of that forty million allocation.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, And is that because people there aren't enough companies
out there to actually take it, or people don't know
about it.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
It's definitely more and not enough people qualify for it.
So we have a lot of developers that are small,
maybe one to three staff, that are turning over less
than two hundred thousand dollars and so they weren't able
to access the rebate based on that entry qualification.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Right and they will now be yet well, assuming labor
gets into how then they would be eligible for it.
What constitutes gaming? What do you actually have to be doing?
Speaker 9 (13:07):
So it's actually game development, so it's the creation of
video games essentially, and it's an industry. It's very interesting. Actually,
when you're making a video game, you don't normally have
any income at all, so it's very hard to make
a video game without money. And then once your game
is made and you release it to the world, then
(13:27):
you might make money. So what the rebate actually does
is it just helps give the studios a bit more
resource to be able to go off and make these
games and get them out there. We have a fabulous,
fabulous development agency called Code who helps the smaller studios
get ready for launching games and to ensure that they
(13:50):
are successful games.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Very quickly. How many businesses have used it have been successful?
Do we know?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Oh, actually most of them. So we have companies like
pick Park who are award winning developers, Dinosaur Polo Club,
Grindy Gear Games and they pass of Excel too, which
is New Zealand's most successful game at the moment. But
every game that comes out just really seems to resonate
(14:17):
and the world curr't good enough of New Zealand developed games.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Droy, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for being with me,
Joy Keen, New Zealand Game Developers Association. Time is twenty
four minutes after five News Talk said B the early.
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Speaker 2 (14:35):
Five twenty six News Talks a B. Massive University gives
you these numbers every year and they're quite interesting. This
tells you how much you might need in retirement. And
if you're living in a city, you've got two people
at home and you want to live comfortably in your retirement,
you're going to need a million bucks. That's what they're
telling you. If you're in the provinces half that now
you can start working backwards and you're probably doing it
(14:56):
in your head right now in terms of your net
worth depending on your aid, which you may also need
to think about the fact you can't rely on the pension.
You know, some government eventually will means test it, they'll
change the age, they'll cut it back. It's inevitable that
that will happen. So there's a shortfall you're probably going
to have to fill. And you're thinking about this now,
can we say the contributions they're going to need to
go up? They are slightly from three to four percent,
(15:19):
but realistically we'll need to bump them up to probably ten.
I think the Aussies are eleven or twelve by now,
and I know people are doing this. I've got friends
who are in their thirties who are planning, meticulously, planning
already for their retirement, saving, investing all of that good stuff.
People are working, slogging their guts out and working hard,
(15:42):
just being responsible, making sure they can take care of
themselves and their families when they get to age of retirement.
Which is why to me it's smacks of entitlement that
politicians live in a different world to us on superannuation,
totally different world. They get a super subsidy two and
a half times the percent they contribute up to a
(16:04):
maximum of twenty percent a backbencher. They're one hundred and
seventy k twenty percent of that could be about thirty
four thousand dollars a year. Nice, right, we get dollar
for dollar from our employers up to what three percent.
The argument is their jobs aren't secure, so they need
more security. You know, you have an election that comes
every three years and there's a chance that they'll be
(16:25):
turfed out, So this is some security for them. Well,
they aren't the only ones in that situation, are they?
But they are the only ones I know of who
get a retirement istignt egg quite that big and pretty
am my twenty eight On news talks, there'd be nine
two ninety two the number to text, Hey, Netflix had
a result overnight, which sounds great, but actually shars dropped.
(16:47):
So here are the numbers for you. Shears fell five percent.
This is an extended trading. After the numbers came out,
they earned despite going the shears going the earnings going up,
the shears came down. So two and a half million
dollars five dollars eighty seven per share. This is for
the September quarter. That's an eight percent increase revenue up
seventeen percent from the year before, but it's all been
(17:11):
affected by a massive six hundred million dollar Brazilian tax dispute.
That's how they're explaining this one away. This morning, we're
a stateside with Mitch mcan next on News Talks.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
Away from six Yer on News Talks, it'd be great
to have your company This Thursday morning, we'll get to
Mitch McCanns stateside in the moment before six will talk
strikes over in the UK. You know the labor one
in one out deal that they did with France. This
is on migration. The whole thing's turn into a bit
of a fast because there's a guy that they deported.
So it's when one comes in, then one goes out, right.
(18:04):
So guy comes to Britain on one of the small boats.
He's Iranian guy August this happens. He's then removed from
Britain on September nineteen, sent back to France. Then he
skips out of his migrant shelter in Paris and jumps
on another small boat, goes back across the channel back
in England and arrives there on Saturday, less than a
(18:28):
month after it was kicked out. So it's like one in,
one out, one back in. You can imagine what the
British press is doing with this this morning. Anyway, a
couple of milestones have been reached by the Labor government,
which again the press is highlighting. One hundred new small
boat migrants reached Britain today. One hundred people in one day.
(18:50):
That's a new milestone. Also, the total number that have
arrived since Labour came to powers now sawed past sixty thousand,
and last year they had thirty six thousand, eight hundred
small boat migrants crossing the Channel and heading to Britain.
Bryan Bridge, twenty three minutes away from Sexy. On news
talks heb Cullum, Procter and denedin for us this morning. Culum,
(19:10):
good morning morning, right. So you've got this principal leaving
the job. This is after a bit of a standdown
period here.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
This is Carissa Nicol here Ryan. She was principal of
the State Integrated Columbus College here in Dunedin. She started
the job in twenty twenty three, but has been away
from work since.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The middle of this year.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Now that absence has gone unexplained by the school and
its board, and that's naturally led to much speculation. The
ODT reporting today the school has now emailed staff and
parents to say that Nicol won't be returning. Acting Principal
Aaron Everett says this news may be unsettling for students
and is urging them to talk to parents or teachers
with any concerns.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, how's your weather.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
We've got that orange wind warning here Gail Norwester's gust
of one hundred and ten ks today, scattered rain the
high twenty four.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Thank Callum players and Christchur's clear. A lot of weather
happening today for you too.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Yeah, we have a lot of weather. Indeed, we're under
a local state of emergency here in Canterbury, while the
National Emergency Management Agencies activated a National Coordination Center for today.
This of course comes after the rare red wind warnings
that have been issued for Canterbury, but also as far
north as Wellington and Southern Wide and Upper also Cai,
(20:25):
Coda and Southern Marlboro impacted We're told gusts could reach
up to one hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. Civil
Defense Controller James Thompson says the impact of the high
winds and rain was seen Tuesday, but today is more
about these higher winds and higher temperatures. Kaikoda's mayor is
also urging vigilance. They're worried that these winds could flare
up those big fires. We know that five homes and
(20:48):
nine other structures were destroyed by the blazers on Tuesday.
Craig mackel says these winds do pose a danger in
the already burnt areas. He says if first responders tell
residents to evacuate, very simple, they need to do so
before things turn to custard.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thank you clear and to Wellington. We go now with
mes a lot of weather for you today, to a
lot of closures to mix.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
I think everyone here is erring on the side of
caution today after how narly had got on Tuesday. A
lot of businesses telling staff to work from home. Those
who are not on strike anyway, those on strike are
staying home anyway. We don't have any public demonstrations going
ahead now. Seeing a lot of bars restaurants right around
the region shutting today as well. The council's swimming pools, libraries,
(21:32):
recreation centers, community centers. They're all closed today. A strong
warning to stay away from many parks or reserves anywhere
with trees, basically after Tuesday's tragedy a man hit by
a fallen branch, killing him. Don't put your rubbish out
unless you need to. The university is closed today as well.
Victoria Online exams are proceeding as normal, but on campus
ones are postponed.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Looking at the.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Forecast, it is still going to be very, very windy,
but from what I'm seeing the forecast perhaps as you'd
imagine on a very typically windy Wellington day with some
steady rain. Nevertheless, heed those warnings, take care, take nothing
for granted.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right, Max, thank you very much for that up date.
Neva and Aukland, Neva, good morning, Good morning. Hey, we've
had lots of texts on this. People are really interested
in this electric bus VI car collision and Parnell.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yes, now this happened last night, so people will be
waking up to this story because it happened about nine
p thirty. What we do know is that multiple people
were taken to hospital last night. Now this was you're
quite right. Electric bus and a car collided in Parnell.
All the emergency services so this happened, you know, they
were called to Tamaki Drive which is a busy area
(22:39):
where the bus was on fire. Police say, yes, it
was an Auckland Transport electric bus, making it prone as
we know, to reigniting people nearby. Social media was just
going off, people saying, you know, they saw intense flames
areca burning rubber people. You know, obviously we're on the
bus and that So the road along Tamakie Drive will
remain closed likely until well daylight probably, but an update
(23:02):
for the road uses you know, that should be coming
and more details, you know, like this morning, because there's
a little, very very little. But like as you say,
this bus fire, this comes just after the crash remember
in that busy west Aalkand transit station, which was only
like a week a couple of weeks ago, and that
left the electric bus smoldering.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's right, Yeah, so does that one. This is so
they're more prone to it because they've got the batter reasons.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
That's right, they're more prone to it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It was massive flames I saw the photos exactly. Shoot,
all right, how's our weather?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Okay, so yeah, mixed bag, morning drizzle, afternoon chowers turning
too heavy, rain, possibly thundery, strong northwesteries, very warm. Twenty
three the high here and all thank.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You never eighteen minutes away from six Give this man
a metal. Foreign Minister Winston Peter's guests where he is today?
Of all of the countries in the world, Iceland, the
guy just does not stop, does he. He's over there,
other end of the planet. He's looking at a geo
thermal power station. There he's meeting with the prime minister.
Series meeting with the energy minister, you name it. It's
(24:04):
part of a Nordic tour. Is also going Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland.
We're in the US. Next news Talk seb. According to
six on news Talks Hebb, we were talking earlier about
the cost of how much it will cost you to
retire comfortably and Massi University. Yes, they said it was
basically a million bucks for two people, a million bucks
in a city area and half that if you're in
(24:24):
the provinces. Loads of texts on this this morning, Ryan,
absolute rubbish. My husband and myself both retired on a
pension on less than a quarter of the amount that
you're quoting. Where do people get these figures? Do they
pull them out of the ear. It does depend on
your lifestyle, dear Texter, and the choice'es lifestyle that that
refers to gives you treats. It gives you meals out,
(24:45):
you know, going out for dinner with friends, it gives
you holidays. It's actually quite a comfortable one designed to
basically match what lifestyle you might have during your working
life to one you want in retirement. Just gone fourteen
to six International correspondence.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So with ends in Eye Insurance, Peace of mind for
New Zealand Business Cisco.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
State cyber is Mitch mccannon, Mitch, good morning, welcome to
the show. Good to have you here as always. Now, Hi, Ran,
how are you doing good? Thank you. So Trump's suing
the Department of Justice, but he is saying he'll give
the money to charity, right.
Speaker 13 (25:18):
Yeah, that's right. But Democrats aren't worried about that. They
are in a state of outrage, as you might expect, Ryan,
it's been reported Donald Trump, and he's pretty much confirmed
it yesterday. He's seeking a large payment from his own
Justice Department for the prosecutions he was put through in
the years while he was running for president. It's reported
that Donald Trump wants a payment that could total two
(25:38):
hundred and thirty million U S dollars or four hundred
million New Zealand dollars. Now he's submitted two claims here.
The first is that his rights were violated during the
investigation around Russian collusion, and the second one is he's
his privacy was invaded when they went through mar A
Lago looking for sensitive documents while he was running for president.
(25:59):
And it raises some various ethics questions because it's his
own Justice Department that would have to sign this off.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What about the shutdown thing, how's that going. It's still
in shutdown at the moment, and there's obviously calls for
it to end. But is it going to Oh, it
doesn't look like it at this stage.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
There's going to be another vote today on this, but
the Republicans and Democrats aren't budging. But one of the
problems here is that the Democrats are complaining Donald Trump
won't even have a discussion with them about it, and
he's about to take off on a tour of Asia
for a number of days. Meanwhile, seven hundred and fifty
thousand people still aren't being paid in the federal governments.
So twenty two days into the shutdown, no closer to
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a solution.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Mitch, thank you for that much. Mccannon State signed thirteen
away from six joh on News Talk CB. So they
reckon one hundred thousand teachers, nurses, dentists, medical staff, you
name it, walking off the job today nationwide, this is
the mega strike. Unions have called off the rallies in Wellington,
christ Church into Needen. This is because of the weather.
Chris Abercrombie's pptare president with me this morning. Good morning,
good morning. Is this one hundred thousand number accurate?
Speaker 8 (27:03):
As accurate as it can be? You know, we think
that's about right.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Have you heard from the government or the Public Service
Commission lately?
Speaker 8 (27:11):
No, we haven't known.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Have you tried to reach out to them.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
We've made it very clear that we're more than happy
to talk about anything they want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Have you messaged them, have you called them? Anything like that?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
There's been some communication between our bargaining teams.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
When is that?
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Oh, there's some various emails have gone back and forth
over the last few days.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Okay, but nothing's you're not. No one's sitting down.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
No, no one's sitting down.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Note, and you didn't present the latest offer the teachers.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Well, the teachers did yet to see it, and they
gave very good feedback on it and basically was out.
The biggest feedback was they felt disrespected by it.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So you did present the offer formerly to teachers.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
Not formally, but they did, they did get the offer,
they did see it, and they did give feedback. Thousands
of thousands of teacher to feedback on it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
So you've got how many members.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
You got, twenty one thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
And how many gave feedback.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Of six seven thousand I think?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, So I mean not not a huge amount, is it?
Speaker 8 (28:14):
No, But but it very clear that we're people fout
on it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You guys are part of the CTU. The CTU is
in bed with labor. They've got voting powers and we're not.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
We're not doing this, do you Well?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
No, No, I'm asking the question. Do you think you
are a political organization?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Are you?
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Are you asking of unions that are political organizations? Yes, yes,
unions are political organizations, just like Federated Farmers as a
political organization, but.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Not formally tied to the National Party.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
I'm not formally tied to the Labor Party. PvdA is
not formally tied.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
No, but you're part of the CEAT you know, yes, okay,
So does that not make you buy association type or
is this.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Well, wouldn't that make Federated farmers we association ties?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well, they don't have it. They don't decide on who's
going to be the next national leader, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Well, that's a stretch.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, it's not. I mean, that's part of the labor rules,
isn't it. Can you see why? I guess can you
see why? There's an argument that you would be called
that these strikes would be called politically politically motivated.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Well, the employers, the governments, of course it would be
politically motivated. They make up the curriculum, they make up INCA,
they make up their pay rates, they do everything the
government that affects teachers, So of course it's political.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Have you had, Chris, if you guys had any correspondence
with any parties, you know, in organizing the strike or
anything like that.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
No, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, And is when's the next meeting that you know
of as scheduled for and will this be the last
strike of the year. I know you've got another couple
sort of smaller ones happening, but is this the last
action for the year or what our.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Next formal meetings? So the dates are locked in as
November the eleventh, that's the date the ministry has agreed to,
and hopefully we will have more before that that. We
do have a half day strike on November the fifth,
but we've loved about to call that off if we
don't need it.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
All right, Chris, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you
for being with me. That is Chris Abercrombie, who's the
PPHA president. The next meeting there November the eleventh, nine
to six.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
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Speaker 2 (30:35):
News Talk said be seven minutes away from six News
Talk said be Ryan. They won't strike when they are
on holiday. We need to hurry up and get rid
of them. Ryan a teacher. I'm a teacher, not part
of the union. I know many teachers who are in
a furious that they lose a day's pay because of
the union muppets. I mean, I'm sure there are some
people that feel like that. But you'd have to say,
(30:56):
if what Erica Stamford says is true, that there are
a whole bunch of tea which is out there who
hate the don't look like where the union is going
on this and would prefer to be at work, that
we would have heard more from them. Maybe six away
from six ran Mike's in the studio, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 14 (31:12):
Oh Ryan, we're not doing this. We're not doing this,
Ryan doing what? Oh you're upsetting the unionists. Why do
you get unionists on your program and upset them? For goodness,
We're not here to upset unionists.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
This is their big day.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
All the rest of the media is right behind it.
It'll be a fabulous day. I just say, what about
the weather. What do you do in the weather?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I mean, you don't go weather, you don't rally in
and weather like.
Speaker 14 (31:34):
Well, how are they going to hold the funeral for Jimboltia?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well? Quite right, And actually they've put out did you
see the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is put out
a statement this morning warning about flying flags at half
mass and the health and safety protocols that will go
around that with the red widness.
Speaker 14 (31:49):
For goodness, So we got Don McKinnon on this morning.
I'm going to ask them about the weather and stuff.
It's interesting how some things can go ahead and some
things can't go ahead, just depending on your view of
the world, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Somebody said that the whole weather thing is in an
invention of the Auckland media bubble.
Speaker 14 (32:02):
You do remember that one of those that you're getting
me wound up here, the red warning. What you get
in the media these days is they've issued a very
rare red warning.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Now.
Speaker 14 (32:12):
The reason it's rare is because they only invented it
two years ago. My entire life, they've never had these
sort of warnings. So they just say it's going to
be hey, listen, it's going to be really windy today.
They don't go red warning, orange warning. Everything about the
modern world is, you know, seventy k's on the Auckland
Harbor Bridge suddenly has become a thing. Why seventy K
Suddenly you think.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Because we had invented it, We had that truck.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
That ten years ago, and you know the next thing,
you know, we've got to red warning and flying trample.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
The one thing we do need is really good rain
radar assistance because the farmers checked them themselves and they
know to move the livestock. But you've got to have
that technology and all the right place.
Speaker 14 (32:48):
Well, my mother, I was doing to my mother last night,
who's in the heart of the red zone, And I said,
I said, God bless you, and go, you know, go
well with the red zone.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
She go.
Speaker 14 (32:55):
All she's upset about is the lack of range. She goes,
I'm watching a garden die. What I want is some range, chick.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And hey, the Prime Minister this morning's in the Herald,
and I know you love the story, Mike, so I'll
share it with everybody else. So Christopher Luxon and Amanda
Luxeon's private holiday home this is on Wahiki Island at
Natangy Beach.
Speaker 14 (33:12):
As opposed to what the public holiday home.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Wait, good point, Okay, this is salacious from the Herald
this morning. Valued at first valued at ten million dollars
via the council. And they went, I didn't realize you
could challenge the valuation.
Speaker 14 (33:27):
It's actually quite common.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
They're saving eight thousand dollars a year after twenty five
thousand dollars a year rate spill because they were revalued.
Speaker 14 (33:34):
And the reason the Council gave them the number is
because it's an algorithm. It's important to point out that
no one from the Council comes around, looks at your
kitchen and your coubds and goes, oh, it was a
nice place. They just pick a number and if you
don't like it, you go and challenge it. So anyway,
stop picking on unions and stop picking on the Prime Minister.
Ryan pick On Everybody Time time, all shows, over Home
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Speaker 2 (33:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Be Bursday morning. Great to have your company, Thanks for
being with me. We'll look at the strife before six
o'clock this morning. Mitch McCann's in the US for US
Trump suing his own Department of Justice with the gaming
subsidies we spoke about yesterday. Are they working? Are they not?
Karen Ture on these stats she put out. People say
she's cherry picking her numbers. We'll ask her. And I've
got a little Sarkozy prison update for you this morning too.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The agenda birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The twenty third of October. Still having caught those robbers,
no sign of the Crown jewels. This is in Paris,
the museum's directors feeling the heat.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Robley happened three days ago. Since then, I saw my
name really thrown in the gutter and lots of misinformation.
Will some days attack really is obtained. For reminder that
criminals do not stop at the loop. No one, no
one is protected from these brittle criminals.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
J D.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Bounce has been in Israel as we know he's all
happy and cheery after his meeting with Nat and Yahoo.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
We're very excited to sit down and work together on
the Gaza peace Plan. We have a very very tough
task ahead of us, which is to disarm the moss
but rebuild Gaza, to make life better for the people
in Gaza, but also to ensure that a mass is
no longer threat to our friends in Israel. That's not easy.
I think the Prime Minister knows that as well as anybody.
But it's something that we're committed to in the Trump administration,
(01:31):
and I think that we've even in the past twenty
four hours, had a lot of good conversations with our
friends in the Israeli government.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You cry, nothing slowing down there. The Russians have killed
seven people overnight, including two children, and Trump's canceled that meeting,
and Botapest with Poten has said, go to.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
The line, go to the line of battle, on the
battlefield lines, and you pull back and you go home.
And everybody takes some time off because you have two
countries that are killing each other, two countries using five
to seven thousand sages a week. So we'll see what happens.
Since we haven't managed his.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
SHOWMNU year right. Finally, this morning, pop Mark, this is
the maker of the hugely popular Leboo Boo dolls, has
seen global revenues saw two hundred and fifty percent in
three months. This is the three months to September this
after they released mini versions. Have you seen these dolls?
My niece loves them. Sales outside China we're up twelve
hundred percent in America, seven hundred percent in Europe and
(02:29):
Hong Kong, where the shares of Hell jump five point
five percent, giving the company evaluation now of wait for it,
forty five point five billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 2 (02:49):
Two ninety two is the number to text, give me
how's the weather at your place? And I don't think
it's meant to be that bad just yet? Now, how
is it that these official trips cost so much? Just
when we were on jd Vance, You remember jd Vance
went to the UK went fishing and got in trouble
because they didn't have their right permits for fishing. And
that's how we knew he was there anyway, Trump went
(03:11):
there as well, to Scotland to go to his golf
course and have a little visit. Now the Scottish Parliament
is requesting reimbursement from the UK government for these two trips.
One was five days, one was four days. Guess how
much they want. Twenty four point five million pounds sixty
(03:34):
million New Zealand dollars they reckon, that's how much it
costs to have these two dignitaries in the country for
nine days. Total policing the presidential visit alone was twenty
one million pounds for five days. How is this possible?
Apparently they had to at peak deploy more than four
(03:54):
thousand police officers and the cost for JD vance was
two million pounds. Just unbelievable anyway, though apparently the British
government saying, Nat, we're not paying you anything because it
was basically a holiday for them. They were private visits,
even though Starma went to meet them now here at home.
We had more rent numbers yesterday, so basically we've got
(04:15):
a Cotality property report out this morning says, as you
would expect, things are stable, listing slightly up, but rents
I had a friend whose rent was knocked down fifty bucks.
He was renegotiating the place that he's living in. Knock
down fifty bucks and trade me. Yesterday had this report out.
Listings are up and rents are going down. Especially if
you were in Wellington and you're not getting cheaper rent
(04:38):
right now, go and ask for it because it'll probably happen.
Nine minutes are sorry, eleven minutes after five. Bridge coming
up next, we're going to talk to Karen Shaw. This
is Children's minister. She put these numbers out yesterday and
said things are getting better in terms of abuse in
state care, and a whole bunch of people have come
(04:58):
out and said no, she's cherry at figures. She's with
us on Newstalk seed B, on your.
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B five point thirteen on News Talks. Heb this textasays Ryan,
let's hope that Trump never comes to New Zealand. I
tend to agree with that if it's going to cost
us millions and squillions of dollars for a five day visit.
Then no, thank you, we can't afford that. I mean,
you could buy the Americas. You could pay for the
America's Cup and fund the America's Cup to to challenge
here for the price of getting a Trump visit now,
(05:37):
and I know what, most people would probably prefer watching
Karen traw with us in just a second, but very quickly,
this is Psychosey. We've been talking about him for a
couple of days now. So he's in this consolitary confinement
cell in a prison in Paris, and this is all
over the campaign funding conviction. Now he's going to have
in the two cells next door to him, he's going
(05:57):
to have his DPS as Diplomatic protect Squad or the
equivalent of for a former president. So the whole time
he's meant to be there five years, the people of
France are paying for two bodyguards in jail. Right five
fourteen Children's Commissioner and Independent Children's Monitor calling out Karen
(06:19):
Chaw for cherry picking stats. This morning they reckon the
abuse in state care is getting worse, and the Minister
put out a press release saying recorded harm was going
down a fourteen percent reduction and recorded harm across the
cure residences since twenty twenty four. Ordering a Tamindiqui's annual
report says five hundred and thirty children in care were
experienced harm in the year to March twenty three, more
(06:41):
than the previous year. So what gives Karen Chaws with
me now, Minister, good morning.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Good morning?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Are you cherry picking here? What's going on?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
So the harm that you're speaking to around that could
be anything so low level. High level harm that I'm
talking about in the decrease in residence is serious harm
where a child or young person has an injury that
is serious. So there's been a massive reduction in harm
(07:15):
and residence and it's the first time ever we're seeing
a reduction and harm and residence in New Zealand. And
this is really important to me because I actually set
this as a real priority when I first came into
Parliament because children deserve to be safe no matter where
they live and within a residence. These young people deserve
(07:35):
to have the best protection they possibly can and be
able to have a chance to turn their lives around,
and they're not going to do that if they're not
really safe where they live. So what I announced yesterday
is around a program that we have put in place
to make sure that our staff have better training, better oversight,
We have better recruitment and strengthened leadership to make sure
(07:59):
that these kids say right, I understand where the where
the Children's Commissioner is coming from. Any harm is not okay,
and we have to make sure that we're clearly focused
on that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Minister. What is serious harm or what's minor harm that
we shouldn't be worried about that's been going up.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
I guess it's recordings like within the MSA when we
had two recordings of harm and one with a cut
finger and one with some boom sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So it's not, it's not, it's not. We're not talking
here about physical abuse. You know, either caregiver on young
person abuse or a young person on young person abuse.
It could be anything tripping and falling, stubbing a toe.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
This fourteen percent reduction of finding of harm is based
on it could be physical abuse where a child. This
is what I'm speaking to today, is physical abuse where
a child or a young person has injury or it
was at risk of injury. Sexual abuse or including exposure
to sexual activity and sexual imagery and grooming behaviors, neglect
(09:07):
where the basic needs of a child young person has
not been met, emotional abuse with mental health and social
or emotional functioning and development. So what I would also say.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What's the number? What's the number to the five hundreds,
because this is what they're coming at you with, right,
So that the five hundred and thirty children in here
have experienced harm in the last year, up from five
hundred and seven the year before.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
So the number I'm reporting to is in twenty twenty
four to twenty twenty five, there was around one hundred
and ninety five findings of harm and for one hundred
and for one hundred and fifteen children and young people
and residential placements. In the previous year there were two
hundred and twenty eight findings of harm for one hundred
(09:50):
and eighteen children. What I would also say is eighty
three percent of the harm experience that was caused by
other children in placement and twelve percent was by staff.
So we're really breaking this down so we've got a
good understanding.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Of what's happening, Minister.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Given that most of the harm is between the young people,
do you need to separate them out of it more?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
This is why we've put legislation change through Parliament even
recently in response to not only needing the necessity of
making sure young people are safe, but in response to
the Abuse and Care inquiry Where residence is we're a
big part of the story that was told from survivors
(10:35):
in care, so we need to make sure that we're
keeping these young people safe. Some of the routines we've
done with staff is that they have clear bags now
when they're coming within residents, so we can see what
they're bringing into residents and contraband is lower.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Sounds It sounds like you're making moves on all the
right places, Minister, but obviously some disagreement about exactly how
safe the young people there are. Care and appreciate your
time this morning, Care and Shaw Children's Minister. It is
nineteen after five News Talks, CB.
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S a lot of love for Karen Shaw this morning
at five twenty one. There always is, actually whenever we
speak to her, even if the numbers that she's talking
about may be a little whiffy, but this one says Ryan,
we would not need the state residences or the state
here if we didn't have the worst family violence stats
in the developed world. Let's look inside our homes before
we get outraged and all fluffed up about Karen Chaw.
(11:37):
Twenty two minutes after five, Now, Labour's keeping this policy,
the policy train rolling, I should say this time it's
all about video games. If elected, they plan to expand
the game Development Rebate, which gives KIWI studios access to
forty million bucks a year to grow the industry. Joe
Joey rather Keen is executive director of the Game Developers Association.
With me this morning, Joy, good morning, good morning, very well,
(12:00):
thank you. How many studios use the current subsidy.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
At the moment we have forty one studios accessing the subsidy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And is all the money, because I think it's up
to forty million a year, is all the money that's
currently on the table being taken up being used?
Speaker 9 (12:18):
No, not at all. So this particular well the twenty
twenty five financial year we had twenty four million used
out of that forty million allocation.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, And is that because people there aren't enough companies
out there to actually take it, or people don't know
about it.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
It's definitely more and not enough people qualify for it.
So we have a lot of developers that are small,
maybe one to three staff, that are turning over less
than two hundred thousand dollars and so they weren't able
to access the rebate based on that entry qualification.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Right and they will now be yet well, assuming labor
gets into how then they would be eligible for it.
What constitutes gaming? What do you actually have to be doing?
Speaker 9 (13:07):
So it's actually game development, so it's the creation of
video games essentially, and it's an industry. It's very interesting. Actually,
when you're making a video game, you don't normally have
any income at all, so it's very hard to make
a video game without money. And then once your game
is made and you release it to the world, then
(13:27):
you might make money. So what the rebate actually does
is it just helps give the studios a bit more
resource to be able to go off and make these
games and get them out there. We have a fabulous,
fabulous development agency called Code who helps the smaller studios
get ready for launching games and to ensure that they
(13:50):
are successful games.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Very quickly. How many businesses have used it have been successful?
Do we know?
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Oh, actually most of them. So we have companies like
pick Park who are award winning developers, Dinosaur Polo Club,
Grindy Gear Games and they pass of Excel too, which
is New Zealand's most successful game at the moment. But
every game that comes out just really seems to resonate
(14:17):
and the world curr't good enough of New Zealand developed games.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Droy, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for being with me,
Joy Keen, New Zealand Game Developers Association. Time is twenty
four minutes after five News Talk said B the early.
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Five twenty six News Talks a B. Massive University gives
you these numbers every year and they're quite interesting. This
tells you how much you might need in retirement. And
if you're living in a city, you've got two people
at home and you want to live comfortably in your retirement,
you're going to need a million bucks. That's what they're
telling you. If you're in the provinces half that now
you can start working backwards and you're probably doing it
(14:56):
in your head right now in terms of your net
worth depending on your aid, which you may also need
to think about the fact you can't rely on the pension.
You know, some government eventually will means test it, they'll
change the age, they'll cut it back. It's inevitable that
that will happen. So there's a shortfall you're probably going
to have to fill. And you're thinking about this now,
can we say the contributions they're going to need to
go up? They are slightly from three to four percent,
(15:19):
but realistically we'll need to bump them up to probably ten.
I think the Aussies are eleven or twelve by now,
and I know people are doing this. I've got friends
who are in their thirties who are planning, meticulously, planning
already for their retirement, saving, investing all of that good stuff.
People are working, slogging their guts out and working hard,
(15:42):
just being responsible, making sure they can take care of
themselves and their families when they get to age of retirement.
Which is why to me it's smacks of entitlement that
politicians live in a different world to us on superannuation,
totally different world. They get a super subsidy two and
a half times the percent they contribute up to a
(16:04):
maximum of twenty percent a backbencher. They're one hundred and
seventy k twenty percent of that could be about thirty
four thousand dollars a year. Nice, right, we get dollar
for dollar from our employers up to what three percent.
The argument is their jobs aren't secure, so they need
more security. You know, you have an election that comes
every three years and there's a chance that they'll be
(16:25):
turfed out, So this is some security for them. Well,
they aren't the only ones in that situation, are they?
But they are the only ones I know of who
get a retirement istignt egg quite that big and pretty
am my twenty eight On news talks, there'd be nine
two ninety two the number to text, Hey, Netflix had
a result overnight, which sounds great, but actually shars dropped.
(16:47):
So here are the numbers for you. Shears fell five percent.
This is an extended trading. After the numbers came out,
they earned despite going the shears going the earnings going up,
the shears came down. So two and a half million
dollars five dollars eighty seven per share. This is for
the September quarter. That's an eight percent increase revenue up
seventeen percent from the year before, but it's all been
(17:11):
affected by a massive six hundred million dollar Brazilian tax dispute.
That's how they're explaining this one away. This morning, we're
a stateside with Mitch mcan next on News Talks.
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Away from six Yer on News Talks, it'd be great
to have your company This Thursday morning, we'll get to
Mitch McCanns stateside in the moment before six will talk
strikes over in the UK. You know the labor one
in one out deal that they did with France. This
is on migration. The whole thing's turn into a bit
of a fast because there's a guy that they deported.
So it's when one comes in, then one goes out, right.
(18:04):
So guy comes to Britain on one of the small boats.
He's Iranian guy August this happens. He's then removed from
Britain on September nineteen, sent back to France. Then he
skips out of his migrant shelter in Paris and jumps
on another small boat, goes back across the channel back
in England and arrives there on Saturday, less than a
(18:28):
month after it was kicked out. So it's like one in,
one out, one back in. You can imagine what the
British press is doing with this this morning. Anyway, a
couple of milestones have been reached by the Labor government,
which again the press is highlighting. One hundred new small
boat migrants reached Britain today. One hundred people in one day.
(18:50):
That's a new milestone. Also, the total number that have
arrived since Labour came to powers now sawed past sixty thousand,
and last year they had thirty six thousand, eight hundred
small boat migrants crossing the Channel and heading to Britain.
Bryan Bridge, twenty three minutes away from Sexy. On news
talks heb Cullum, Procter and denedin for us this morning. Culum,
(19:10):
good morning morning, right. So you've got this principal leaving
the job. This is after a bit of a standdown
period here.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
This is Carissa Nicol here Ryan. She was principal of
the State Integrated Columbus College here in Dunedin. She started
the job in twenty twenty three, but has been away
from work since.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The middle of this year.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Now that absence has gone unexplained by the school and
its board, and that's naturally led to much speculation. The
ODT reporting today the school has now emailed staff and
parents to say that Nicol won't be returning. Acting Principal
Aaron Everett says this news may be unsettling for students
and is urging them to talk to parents or teachers
with any concerns.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, how's your weather.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
We've got that orange wind warning here Gail Norwester's gust
of one hundred and ten ks today, scattered rain the
high twenty four.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Thank Callum players and Christchur's clear. A lot of weather
happening today for you too.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Yeah, we have a lot of weather. Indeed, we're under
a local state of emergency here in Canterbury, while the
National Emergency Management Agencies activated a National Coordination Center for today.
This of course comes after the rare red wind warnings
that have been issued for Canterbury, but also as far
north as Wellington and Southern Wide and Upper also Cai,
(20:25):
Coda and Southern Marlboro impacted We're told gusts could reach
up to one hundred and fifty kilometers an hour. Civil
Defense Controller James Thompson says the impact of the high
winds and rain was seen Tuesday, but today is more
about these higher winds and higher temperatures. Kaikoda's mayor is
also urging vigilance. They're worried that these winds could flare
up those big fires. We know that five homes and
(20:48):
nine other structures were destroyed by the blazers on Tuesday.
Craig mackel says these winds do pose a danger in
the already burnt areas. He says if first responders tell
residents to evacuate, very simple, they need to do so
before things turn to custard.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thank you clear and to Wellington. We go now with
mes a lot of weather for you today, to a
lot of closures to mix.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
I think everyone here is erring on the side of
caution today after how narly had got on Tuesday. A
lot of businesses telling staff to work from home. Those
who are not on strike anyway, those on strike are
staying home anyway. We don't have any public demonstrations going
ahead now. Seeing a lot of bars restaurants right around
the region shutting today as well. The council's swimming pools, libraries,
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recreation centers, community centers. They're all closed today. A strong
warning to stay away from many parks or reserves anywhere
with trees, basically after Tuesday's tragedy a man hit by
a fallen branch, killing him. Don't put your rubbish out
unless you need to. The university is closed today as well.
Victoria Online exams are proceeding as normal, but on campus
ones are postponed.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Looking at the.
Speaker 12 (21:54):
Forecast, it is still going to be very, very windy,
but from what I'm seeing the forecast perhaps as you'd
imagine on a very typically windy Wellington day with some
steady rain. Nevertheless, heed those warnings, take care, take nothing
for granted.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
All right, Max, thank you very much for that up date.
Neva and Aukland, Neva, good morning, Good morning. Hey, we've
had lots of texts on this. People are really interested
in this electric bus VI car collision and Parnell.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yes, now this happened last night, so people will be
waking up to this story because it happened about nine
p thirty. What we do know is that multiple people
were taken to hospital last night. Now this was you're
quite right. Electric bus and a car collided in Parnell.
All the emergency services so this happened, you know, they
were called to Tamaki Drive which is a busy area
(22:39):
where the bus was on fire. Police say, yes, it
was an Auckland Transport electric bus, making it prone as
we know, to reigniting people nearby. Social media was just
going off, people saying, you know, they saw intense flames
areca burning rubber people. You know, obviously we're on the
bus and that So the road along Tamakie Drive will
remain closed likely until well daylight probably, but an update
(23:02):
for the road uses you know, that should be coming
and more details, you know, like this morning, because there's
a little, very very little. But like as you say,
this bus fire, this comes just after the crash remember
in that busy west Aalkand transit station, which was only
like a week a couple of weeks ago, and that
left the electric bus smoldering.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's right, Yeah, so does that one. This is so
they're more prone to it because they've got the batter reasons.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
That's right, they're more prone to it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It was massive flames I saw the photos exactly. Shoot,
all right, how's our weather?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Okay, so yeah, mixed bag, morning drizzle, afternoon chowers turning
too heavy, rain, possibly thundery, strong northwesteries, very warm. Twenty
three the high here and all thank.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You never eighteen minutes away from six Give this man
a metal. Foreign Minister Winston Peter's guests where he is today?
Of all of the countries in the world, Iceland, the
guy just does not stop, does he. He's over there,
other end of the planet. He's looking at a geo
thermal power station. There he's meeting with the prime minister.
Series meeting with the energy minister, you name it. It's
(24:04):
part of a Nordic tour. Is also going Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland.
We're in the US. Next news Talk seb. According to
six on news Talks Hebb, we were talking earlier about
the cost of how much it will cost you to
retire comfortably and Massi University. Yes, they said it was
basically a million bucks for two people, a million bucks
in a city area and half that if you're in
(24:24):
the provinces. Loads of texts on this this morning, Ryan,
absolute rubbish. My husband and myself both retired on a
pension on less than a quarter of the amount that
you're quoting. Where do people get these figures? Do they
pull them out of the ear. It does depend on
your lifestyle, dear Texter, and the choice'es lifestyle that that
refers to gives you treats. It gives you meals out,
(24:45):
you know, going out for dinner with friends, it gives
you holidays. It's actually quite a comfortable one designed to
basically match what lifestyle you might have during your working
life to one you want in retirement. Just gone fourteen
to six International correspondence.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So with ends in Eye Insurance, Peace of mind for
New Zealand Business Cisco.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
State cyber is Mitch mccannon, Mitch, good morning, welcome to
the show. Good to have you here as always. Now, Hi, Ran,
how are you doing good? Thank you. So Trump's suing
the Department of Justice, but he is saying he'll give
the money to charity, right.
Speaker 13 (25:18):
Yeah, that's right. But Democrats aren't worried about that. They
are in a state of outrage, as you might expect, Ryan,
it's been reported Donald Trump, and he's pretty much confirmed
it yesterday. He's seeking a large payment from his own
Justice Department for the prosecutions he was put through in
the years while he was running for president. It's reported
that Donald Trump wants a payment that could total two
(25:38):
hundred and thirty million U S dollars or four hundred
million New Zealand dollars. Now he's submitted two claims here.
The first is that his rights were violated during the
investigation around Russian collusion, and the second one is he's
his privacy was invaded when they went through mar A
Lago looking for sensitive documents while he was running for president.
(25:59):
And it raises some various ethics questions because it's his
own Justice Department that would have to sign this off.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What about the shutdown thing, how's that going. It's still
in shutdown at the moment, and there's obviously calls for
it to end. But is it going to Oh, it
doesn't look like it at this stage.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
There's going to be another vote today on this, but
the Republicans and Democrats aren't budging. But one of the
problems here is that the Democrats are complaining Donald Trump
won't even have a discussion with them about it, and
he's about to take off on a tour of Asia
for a number of days. Meanwhile, seven hundred and fifty
thousand people still aren't being paid in the federal governments.
So twenty two days into the shutdown, no closer to
(26:37):
a solution.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Mitch, thank you for that much. Mccannon State signed thirteen
away from six joh on News Talk CB. So they
reckon one hundred thousand teachers, nurses, dentists, medical staff, you
name it, walking off the job today nationwide, this is
the mega strike. Unions have called off the rallies in Wellington,
christ Church into Needen. This is because of the weather.
Chris Abercrombie's pptare president with me this morning. Good morning,
good morning. Is this one hundred thousand number accurate?
Speaker 8 (27:03):
As accurate as it can be? You know, we think
that's about right.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Have you heard from the government or the Public Service
Commission lately?
Speaker 8 (27:11):
No, we haven't known.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Have you tried to reach out to them.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
We've made it very clear that we're more than happy
to talk about anything they want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Have you messaged them, have you called them? Anything like that?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
There's been some communication between our bargaining teams.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
When is that?
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Oh, there's some various emails have gone back and forth
over the last few days.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Okay, but nothing's you're not. No one's sitting down.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
No, no one's sitting down.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Note, and you didn't present the latest offer the teachers.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Well, the teachers did yet to see it, and they
gave very good feedback on it and basically was out.
The biggest feedback was they felt disrespected by it.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So you did present the offer formerly to teachers.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
Not formally, but they did, they did get the offer,
they did see it, and they did give feedback. Thousands
of thousands of teacher to feedback on it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
So you've got how many members.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
You got, twenty one thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
And how many gave feedback.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Of six seven thousand I think?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, So I mean not not a huge amount, is it?
Speaker 8 (28:14):
No, But but it very clear that we're people fout
on it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You guys are part of the CTU. The CTU is
in bed with labor. They've got voting powers and we're not.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
We're not doing this, do you Well?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
No, No, I'm asking the question. Do you think you
are a political organization?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Are you?
Speaker 8 (28:32):
Are you asking of unions that are political organizations? Yes, yes,
unions are political organizations, just like Federated Farmers as a
political organization, but.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Not formally tied to the National Party.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
I'm not formally tied to the Labor Party. PvdA is
not formally tied.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
No, but you're part of the CEAT you know, yes, okay,
So does that not make you buy association type or
is this.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Well, wouldn't that make Federated farmers we association ties?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well, they don't have it. They don't decide on who's
going to be the next national leader, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Well, that's a stretch.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, it's not. I mean, that's part of the labor rules,
isn't it. Can you see why? I guess can you
see why? There's an argument that you would be called
that these strikes would be called politically politically motivated.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Well, the employers, the governments, of course it would be
politically motivated. They make up the curriculum, they make up INCA,
they make up their pay rates, they do everything the
government that affects teachers, So of course it's political.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Have you had, Chris, if you guys had any correspondence
with any parties, you know, in organizing the strike or
anything like that.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
No, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Okay, And is when's the next meeting that you know
of as scheduled for and will this be the last
strike of the year. I know you've got another couple
sort of smaller ones happening, but is this the last
action for the year or what our.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Next formal meetings? So the dates are locked in as
November the eleventh, that's the date the ministry has agreed to,
and hopefully we will have more before that that. We
do have a half day strike on November the fifth,
but we've loved about to call that off if we
don't need it.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
All right, Chris, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you
for being with me. That is Chris Abercrombie, who's the
PPHA president. The next meeting there November the eleventh, nine
to six.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
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Speaker 2 (30:35):
News Talk said be seven minutes away from six News
Talk said be Ryan. They won't strike when they are
on holiday. We need to hurry up and get rid
of them. Ryan a teacher. I'm a teacher, not part
of the union. I know many teachers who are in
a furious that they lose a day's pay because of
the union muppets. I mean, I'm sure there are some
people that feel like that. But you'd have to say,
(30:56):
if what Erica Stamford says is true, that there are
a whole bunch of tea which is out there who
hate the don't look like where the union is going
on this and would prefer to be at work, that
we would have heard more from them. Maybe six away
from six ran Mike's in the studio, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 14 (31:12):
Oh Ryan, we're not doing this. We're not doing this,
Ryan doing what? Oh you're upsetting the unionists. Why do
you get unionists on your program and upset them? For goodness,
We're not here to upset unionists.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
This is their big day.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
All the rest of the media is right behind it.
It'll be a fabulous day. I just say, what about
the weather. What do you do in the weather?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I mean, you don't go weather, you don't rally in
and weather like.
Speaker 14 (31:34):
Well, how are they going to hold the funeral for Jimboltia?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Well? Quite right, And actually they've put out did you
see the Ministry for Culture and Heritage is put out
a statement this morning warning about flying flags at half
mass and the health and safety protocols that will go
around that with the red widness.
Speaker 14 (31:49):
For goodness, So we got Don McKinnon on this morning.
I'm going to ask them about the weather and stuff.
It's interesting how some things can go ahead and some
things can't go ahead, just depending on your view of
the world, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Somebody said that the whole weather thing is in an
invention of the Auckland media bubble.
Speaker 14 (32:02):
You do remember that one of those that you're getting
me wound up here, the red warning. What you get
in the media these days is they've issued a very
rare red warning.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Now.
Speaker 14 (32:12):
The reason it's rare is because they only invented it
two years ago. My entire life, they've never had these
sort of warnings. So they just say it's going to
be hey, listen, it's going to be really windy today.
They don't go red warning, orange warning. Everything about the
modern world is, you know, seventy k's on the Auckland
Harbor Bridge suddenly has become a thing. Why seventy K
Suddenly you think.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Because we had invented it, We had that truck.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
That ten years ago, and you know the next thing,
you know, we've got to red warning and flying trample.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
The one thing we do need is really good rain
radar assistance because the farmers checked them themselves and they
know to move the livestock. But you've got to have
that technology and all the right place.
Speaker 14 (32:48):
Well, my mother, I was doing to my mother last night,
who's in the heart of the red zone, And I said,
I said, God bless you, and go, you know, go
well with the red zone.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
She go.
Speaker 14 (32:55):
All she's upset about is the lack of range. She goes,
I'm watching a garden die. What I want is some range, chick.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
And hey, the Prime Minister this morning's in the Herald,
and I know you love the story, Mike, so I'll
share it with everybody else. So Christopher Luxon and Amanda
Luxeon's private holiday home this is on Wahiki Island at
Natangy Beach.
Speaker 14 (33:12):
As opposed to what the public holiday home.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Wait, good point, Okay, this is salacious from the Herald
this morning. Valued at first valued at ten million dollars
via the council. And they went, I didn't realize you
could challenge the valuation.
Speaker 14 (33:27):
It's actually quite common.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
They're saving eight thousand dollars a year after twenty five
thousand dollars a year rate spill because they were revalued.
Speaker 14 (33:34):
And the reason the Council gave them the number is
because it's an algorithm. It's important to point out that
no one from the Council comes around, looks at your
kitchen and your coubds and goes, oh, it was a
nice place. They just pick a number and if you
don't like it, you go and challenge it. So anyway,
stop picking on unions and stop picking on the Prime Minister.
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