February 23, 2026 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast 2025, the Government’s forking out $200 million to keep its majority stake in Genesis Energy, Major Electricity Users' Group Chair John Harbord tells Ryan if this is a good investment.
Warnings that staffing shortages could spell big problems for our airline industry, Aviation Industry Association CEO Simon Wallace shares his concerns.
Auckland councillor Alf Filipaina tells Ryan why he wants Police stationed at the City Rail Link long-term.
Plus Australia Correspondent Donna Demaio has the latest on Anthony Albanese writing to Sir Keir Starmer supporting laws to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession and a monsoon low is heading across three Australian states, bringing torrential downpours and flash flooding.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge, on
an earlier edition with one roof love where you live
News Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, just got six half to five. Great to
have your company. Well look at this Genesis Equity raise.
Where's the demand actually coming from Donald Demo in Australia
for us this morning? Who's poaching our air traffic controllers?
And would you use the CRL of the city RAILNK
and open unless it was patrolled by police?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The agenda Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The twenty fourth of February. The Mexican drug kingpin who's
been captured. He's now dead and all of his henchmen
are going on a rampage.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And right now our goal is to guarantee peace and security,
and this is what we're doing. There is more calmness today,
Security forces, government security cabinets, we're all there, so you
can feel reassured that peace and security is there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's still quite a few businesses and buildings burning to
the US winter storms. They've got fifteen inches of snow
in Central Park. Memdami's put a travel band dangerous conditions.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The mixture of this kind of snow with this kind
of wind is something that can lead to a lot
of danger on our streets and our roads. We know
that the snow is going to continue. It's why we
have the travel band through until twelve pm, because we
are now through the worst of it is still continuing
through the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now Albanezi out of Australia written to Starma wants Andrew
wants to make sure that Randy Andy is never king
of Australia.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This intervention from the Australian primary is significant because a
key part of what's needed to remove the line of
succession is agreement from the Commonwealth realms. All of them
have to agree, and obviously Australia is a key part
of the Commonwealth. So this does feel like a yet
more momentum gathering towards that conclusion put for Andrew.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Starmer's responded saying, yet got your letter and we're not
rolling anything.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Out On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Talks had been eight after five on your Tuesday morning.
Nine two nine two is the number to text. Had
a look at what Trump actually did in response to
the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. It affects US quite
a lot, as you can imagine. So the US Supreme
Court ruled that they were legal, not just the Liberation
day ones, but the drug trafficking ones. The duties that
(02:25):
applied Canada, Mexico, China all unlawful and so Trump obviously
was preempting that this was going to happen, So immediately
cancels those tariffs that were applying, including applying to US.
Cancels them and bring ins a whole bunch bringing brought
in a whole bunch of new ones, a new fifteen
percent charge. Now the question if you are a New
(02:47):
Zealand exporter right now who was paying the tariff at
fifteen percent, those have now been canceled, so a significant
potential for a refund. I was having a look at
a piece that Minter Allison did in New Zealand. This
is the law firm. They said, you have a significant
opportunity for a refund across a wide range of sectors.
(03:09):
So keywies who are exporting to America, because those tariffs
should never have happened and you've been paying them since
early twenty twenty five. So the key is to get
in quick with your claims because there is a window
by which you have to do this, and it really
does depend in their opinion on how much cooperation we
(03:31):
will see from the US importer of record. So if
you are exporting to him, I mean, I'm sure you've
got your own legal advice, but it sounds like something
you'd want to get onto, and get onto pretty quickly. Anyway.
We'll have more about those tariffs later in the program,
and including what will happen to the EU and to
the UK who signed deals with Trump and said, oh
we will set this tariff rate. If those tariff rates
(03:54):
were illegal, then on what basis where these deals done
and do we need to go back to the drawing
board on them? Nine two ten, After five Ryan Bridge
come out. Next, we'll speak to Alf Philip Pine and
Elf is a city councilor in Auckland. By's also a
former cop. He reckons we need police officers long term
at every station on the city. Railing which they reckon
(04:16):
is going to open in September. Sound expensive? Yeah, that's next.
News TALKSB News.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And Views You Trust to start your day. It's early
edition with Bryan Bridge and one Roofe Love Where you Live.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
News TALKSB five twelve on news talk ZB some good
news on our discretionary spend. This is money we don't
need to spend, but we do spend because well, we
want to. Our stats in z numbers out yesterday two
hundred and thirty nine million seasonally adjusted. This is an
increase in sales volumes for the December quarter. The discretionary
spending was a big driver of that. Retail sales volumes
(04:51):
rose a seasonally adjusted point nine that was much stronger
than the economists had predicted and comes on top of
a booster one point nine for the September quarters. So
retail is coming back, baby, and not just because the
prices are gone up because of inflation. They're actually buying
more stuff, which is good. And to Roy, good morning, Roy.
(05:12):
Royce has no more sick days for Ryan. Please make
sure he turns up and treats his z B with respect.
It was annual leave. Roy, Okay, you can't say that.
I don't think I've had a sick day since I've
been here, have I kens nearly two years? Roy? Okay,
give me a break. Thirteen after five ray Bridge, an
Algan councilor wants cops stationed at the City rail Link
(05:33):
long term currently officers are going to be deployed on
the trains when it opens we think September to make
passengers feel safer, but not permanently.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Elf.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Philippina is with us this morning.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Morning, Elf, morning, not till Mary.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
How are you around?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Very well? Thank you? What exactly are you worried about? Elf?
What do you think is going to happen to people
on these trains?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Well?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
I think firstly, it's just a safety issue around, especially
with the CRL, specially with the tunnel. I just I
just sort of worry about the safety of the community
and a discussion needs to happen with the government in
regards and obviously the police Commissioner, with transport officers dedicated
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to the safety and there on on our transport system.
That's my concern. We need to have a conversation or
can transport have traffic officers they obviously don't have the
authority to at least locked up. Arrest is not about arresting,
(06:39):
but it's just about having officers there so.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That Counsel Council has transport officers right ALF, So if
someone goes and bashes someone over the head, can a
transport officer hold them down and detain them until police arrive.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Well, look then and again that courses problem when you
end up sort of holding them.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
But from what problems?
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Well, if they end up sort of getting assaulted, if
they don't end up doing it, if they can't restrain
them with the handcuffs, if they can't at least ensure
if there's not the numbers there. Look, I don't even
transport officers don't have the ability if they end up
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having numbers against them. I just think the conversation needs
to happen because the safety of our passengers, our public
is paramount.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I agree, But the problem is you can't have cops everywhere.
Are you saying that you think these stations are going
to be more dangerous than Queen Street for example, any
old spot?
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Yeah, I think a conversation needs to happen where we
are working together with the police. I know that's happening.
But I know that when I ended up being the
transport chair way back in the day with Mundico going
over to Australia for some of the states there having
dedicated transport police. Actually in the States, like in Sydney
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in Brisbane, having the dedicated police officers.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
There, and they need something to look.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
I mean the tasers and guns. I think for me
having dedicated police officers. Again, it's about the uniform and
the fact that people will realize. It's like when we
amalgamated in nineteen ninety two with the Ministry of Transport
right first of July nineteen ninety two, when we amalgamated there,
(08:52):
we ended up sort of having the one Transport Police
under the Ministry of Transport under new the You don't
think that the structure needs to happen, all.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Right, The uniform might help ALP appreciate your time this morning,
as I always do. Elf Philippina Auckland City counselor and
former police officer himself, seventeen after five News Talks, the'b
coming up next, who's poaching all of our aviation air
traffic controllers?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Where You Live News Talks A B five nineteen on
News talks 'b Aiden says, I reckon, a conversation needs
to happen. Who doesn't love a good conversation? Stick the
kettle on? Yeah, And there was a little bit of that.
There is always a little bit of that from counselor
as we just spoke to Elf Philippina out of Auckland
about the need for police or someone to be on
(09:46):
patrol beyond the beat at the New City railing. Speaking
of conversations, Saint John want to have one about women.
This is an interesting number that's come out this morning.
Female patients have lower odds of surviving fifty percent are
lower odds of surviving a cardiac arrest, having one out
of hospital, so you're out in the street, you fall over, Yeah,
you have a heart attack sixty percent less likely to
(10:07):
receive a DEFIB than male patients, they think, because well
obvious reasons of where the heart is. So you'd be
less likely to get the defib machine from the church
or wherever it might be and clamp it on a
woman than you would be a man. We need to
have a conversation. Brian Breadley twenty after five warnings that
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staff and shortages could spell big problems for our airlines.
Our air traffic controllers can't start on the job, by
the way, until they're twenty one, apparently getting poached off
shorter places like the Middle East with big salary packages.
Simon Wallace Aviation Industry Association CEO with me this morning, Simon,
Good morning, Good morning Ryan. Who's poaching them and how
much are they offering.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Yeah, there's obviously a growing number of services airlines rapidly
expanding in the Middle East and South Asia, so that
requires the need for a lot more air traffic controllers.
So those are the countries that are taking our well
qualified air traffic controllers at very competitive salaries. And we're
talking hundreds of thousands of dollars here, Ryans. So we
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can't compete on that here in New Zealand. So we've
got to look at the conditions that we're offering a
round lifestyle, work life balance, all those sorts of other
things to try and keep our air traffic controllers here.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So what would your average air traffic controller be paid
here and how much could they get there?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Roughly after twelve year, after twelve to eighteen months training
by airways who train our air traffic controllers, starting salary
round is around about one hundred and ten to one
hundred and fifteen k So that's a pretty pretty good
start out salary for a young person and it goes
up from there. But you know, the Middle Eastern countries.
You know UAU guitar. They are offering figures a lot
(11:52):
more than that. Of course it varies according to which
country they go to, but a lot more than that,
as I say, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Right, So we train them, then they punkeed them. Why
don't we bond them.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Look, that's something that I think that airways we'll be
looking at. You would need to talk to them, run
the training. But you know, it is not just air
traffic controls that we've got a problem with aviation here
in New Zealand and Ryan, we're incredibly short of aviation engineers,
I guess, the less sexy part of the industry, and
(12:27):
we're short of more than three hundred engineers out of
a workforce of three thousand. So you know, we've got
shortages of traffic controllers, engineers, pilots across all those vidal
occupations in the system.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Simon, is it true that you can't start then the
job air traffic control until you're twenty one? And if so, why.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
That's a rule.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Yeah, that is correct, And that's a rule that's set
down by the Civil Aviation Authority under the licensing system.
And I know that when Airways paid for the Select
Committee last week, that's something that they want to get change.
So that requires a will and a way from the
regulator and others. But certainly one thing that needs to
be looked at is that.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Just because we think they're more responsible and reasonable to
make better decisions that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Yeah, I think that. I think that's a big part
of it. Ryan at twenty one, that's the figure that's
been put on it. But I think that needs to
be looked at when we have this problem with our
air control being proached off short.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And simon, just give us the overview here. How bad
is the shortage of all of the aforementioned Is it
going to mean that we can't fly one day or
what does it mean?
Speaker 9 (13:40):
Well, engineers, is the real need right at the moment
to set three hundred short and that is causing problems
through the whole system economic co operational this you know
you're seeing we're already seeing flights being delayed, but it's
across what we call the whole general aviation system, which
is agricultural aviation, contracting, emergency services. You know, when you
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can't get an engineer to fix a plane and safety
is paramount. You know that plane is grounded and you
can't operate or do those services. So this is an
issue that has been looked at by this new Aviation
Council and the action plan that was launched by James
Meaga a couple of months ago. It's not just a
white paper. It's got some clear actions in there with
workforce fronts and centers. So you know there's some work
(14:24):
being done with between industry and government and that's that's
coming to the fore in a few weeks time.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Simon, appreciate your time this morning. That's Simon Wallace, Aviation
Industry Association CEO. So twenty one years. I mean, if
you're controlling planes and they could crash into each other
with hundreds of people on board, then you would want
somebody who's reasonable. But you can do a hell of
a lot of other things before the age of twenty
one which also have implications for life and death, like
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driver car. I suppose it's less the collateral potentially nine
two nine two. What do we think next? We'll talk
about the move on orders. News Talk Said B.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Early edition Full the show podcast on Ihart Radio Power
by NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
NEWSTALKSB it is twenty seven after five Kiwis are generally
known around the world is good sorts, good people. We
open doors, we say please and thank you. We help
a neighbor out. We leap into help people when helpers
need it. It's one of those traits that we're most
proud of as a country, I think. But one thing
we hate more than anything else is when that kindness
is taken for granted. Then there is no more mister
(15:28):
nice guy. And we saw this with the kids stealing
from dairies and ram raiding the poor, old, hard working
dairy owners. The minute they started destroying livelihoods beating people
with screwdrivers and hammers, sympathy evaporated. Sure, some of these
kids may have had hard upbringings, but there are plenty
of kids out there with tough upbringings who choose not
(15:49):
to drive ans Antita through a four square window at
three am aren't there. So we voted for boot camps.
We reversed ourt no chase police chase policy. We crack down.
Kindness has its limits A long time ago for those
who frequent the city, we cross the same line with
beggars and rough sleepers. We care about them, of course,
(16:09):
we do. We're not a holes. We donate our time
and our money to the city mission, to charities, We
pay our taxes knowing that they should be going to
help in some way improve their lives. But there are
also a bunch of idiots taking advantage with squirted bottles
at traffic lights. They can be quite aggressive and dangerous.
Not to mention, same goes for rough sleepers on the
(16:31):
footpaths and some of our biggest cities. It's costing businesses,
it's destroying the reputation of entire swathes of city shops.
These shops provide jobs for the rest of us, especially
in our biggest city, where foreign terrists first impression should
be not a punch up between two roufies on the footpath.
(16:51):
So while the headlines about this move on policy, like
the crackdown on ram raiders before it, or the hard
line on ko tenants who were throwing knives across the
fence or bottles across the fence to their neighbors before it,
they will scream cruel and mean in the papers. But
I think they are out of step with the reality
(17:12):
of people and the reality that these people are facing
in their own lives. The good grace, cup hath runneth
empty twenty nine minutes after five News coming up. Next,
we head to our Australian correspondent, Donna Demeayo, and we'll
speak to the big users of energy about that Genesis announcement.
(17:33):
News Talk ZBB.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
The first Word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where You Live,
News Talks.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
B pretty borroway from six News TALKSB.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We'll speak to the major Electricity Users group because they
are going to be using most of the electricity increase
that we'll see over the next few years. We will
need twenty five percent more power to power in New Zealand.
Donald Demayo out of Australia for us before then too.
And we'll get to our reporters in just a second.
But first to the bafters where Michael B. Jordan and
Delroy Lindo. They are both actors, Black actors, and they
(18:23):
are up on stage presenting an award at the bafters
and someone in the crowd yells out the N word repeatedly, a.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Fatal part of movie making.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
We're here to celebrate now. There was a guy in
the audience with Turette's John Davidson, a Turette's campaigner from Scotland,
is the inspiration behind the now bafter winning film I
Swear he shouted several times before and during the ceremony
and led to this apology by the host.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
You may have had some strong and offensive language tonight,
Tete Sendron. There's a disability and the ticks you've heard
Tony are involunteer.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's the person who has.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
To syndrome, has no control over their language.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
We apologize if you were offended.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Now obviously offensive, obviously terrible. But if they can't control it,
they can't control it. I suppose you either don't have
them there, or you have them there and you put
up with it.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
And Bridge Clum.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Proctor and Tonedan Cullum, good morning, morning, right alternative ways
to invest in central Otago gold. This is a suggestion
from an otager Uni professor. Let's right to listen to this.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Australian company Sanshana Minerals. We're aware of them buying the
Bendigoo for site last year. They're working to get the
relevant consents for exploration at the site. This despite a
lot of local opposition and this is what the associate
Professor Sergio Bigoman's proposing. He's urging the company to consider
the fact that gold keeps its value while underground. So
(19:49):
he says, why not just leave it there? He says,
unlike other minerals, gold production has always been much higher
than demand, with very little actually produced into product. Sigibn says,
most gold actually sits in volts accumulating dusts. Investors never
see it, so he says, why not just leave it
in the ground.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But don't you sort of need to make sure it's there?
And how much you know? I don't know. How's your weather?
Speaker 12 (20:14):
A few showers before dawn here, but then a fine
day head nor easterlies developing.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Nineteen the heighth brilliant. Thank you Claire in christ Itch morning.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Clear, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Now there's plans for the red Zone.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Yeah, this is the city Council's two point five million
dollar plan to regenerate part of what was known as
our red zone. So it's for the northern banks of
the or tarct or Avon Rivert Corridor area, specifically between
fitzyer Old Avenue and Stanmore Road. Now, the plan would
include things like nature play areas, some walking tracks, a
viewing platform, as well as fruit trees. There's also a
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plan to allow space for the likes of farmers' markets,
art exhibitions and also food truck events. We've caught up
with avon Or Tarcato Network manager Hailey Gulietta, who says
any progress in the area is really great, but the
council should have prioritized basic community engagement in the first instance.
She says it would have been better to acknowledge the
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communities that actually already live there, but she does acknowledge. Look,
it's taken seven years just to get to this point,
so let's take whatever we can get.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
All right, how's your weather cloudy?
Speaker 13 (21:17):
There is a bit of showers about today, should clear
to find northwesterlies turning southerly a bit later in a
high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Have a great day, Claire Max's and Wellington Morning Max,
Good morning. Our bus lanes raking in the cash?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And fine? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (21:31):
That's fry story in the post apparently people driving in
bus lanes and now the Wellington City Council's leading money
spinner regarding infringements at the seventeen nine million dollars in
you know, parking other infringement notices six million for driving
in bus lanes and there are only a handful of
those lanes and cameras and the CBD as well. The
biggest money spinner actually is right outside our office on
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Cambridge Terrace, which apparently just catches everyone out. We even
had a reporter started in our newsroom for The Herald
the other week bang first day out in the job,
one hundred and fifty dollars fine for just shifting over
a lane too early before turning up our side street.
That we ask for evidence got the photo back of
her clutching the steering wheel at ten and two, nose
pressed up against the windscreen. That's one hundred and fifty
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bucks for driving in that lane for just a few meters.
The Razine paint shop on Cambridge Terrace has even had
to put up a sign warning trades not to drive
in the lane. Twenty six thousand infringements in that one
Cambridge Terrace lane in one year alone. The council raking
it in Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And that's so that's for going into a bus line.
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Yes, slightly early before you have to turn lefts or not.
I'm sure a lot of people are flouting it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Anyway, because how long I never know how how long
you've got If you want to turn left and you
need to go into the bus line to do that,
how long have you got?
Speaker 11 (22:50):
I think it's fifty meters. Don't quote me on it,
but I think it's fifty meters.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So we all get out of measuring tapes while driving
and figured that one out. Well, exactly. Yeah. The other
thing I've noticed just around where I live, Max while
you hear, is the bus lanes don't have well they are.
They do have signs on the side say the times
that the bus lanes will operate, but most people either
don't read them or don't know, and they're queuing in
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the right hand lane when they could all be using
the left hand lane. They just don't know it.
Speaker 11 (23:20):
At a fair in the traffic stools.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. How's your weather.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Party, cloudy with the odd shower, gusty north least twenty one.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
One, Thank you morning, neither good morning. We're in the
thick of it. Is it March mad or not?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Quite?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, yeah, but it kind of is.
Speaker 14 (23:35):
But yeah, you're right, just prior to that, because you know,
with everyone going back to school UNI and work after
summer holidays. You're yeah, you're right, Like Auckland Transports is
that that congestion is probably going to increase by about
five percent on average average levels. And I think they're
also saying too, because this public transport network is going
to be busier, busier when it's working. You know, the
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buses and trains are fairies, so they should be made.
Thinking about thirteen thousand trips a day. At is saying, look,
busy time between seven and nine am three to six
pm Wednesday generally the busiest day. Just to make sure
you know you're planned for that. And also like as
your mex are talking about, you know, getting into the
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right lanes.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Before I know.
Speaker 14 (24:19):
I've been pinned a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, bloody expensive it is.
Speaker 14 (24:23):
And I think you're right, you know, like it's knowing
when to get into that lane before you know. And
I mean usually I'm just say fifty meters. He's probably
right because Mex is always right, but I'm usually in
there like two meters before here.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, you know, you're crippled with fear. Crippled crippled with fear.
There's a headlights and they're standing there with video cameras exactly. Yeah, Hey,
someone's just texting, you know the story about Tourett's and
that guy yelling at the best Yes, drama.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
What do you do? That's what do you do?
Speaker 14 (24:53):
So they've got to get him out?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Do you think something? Just But then it's not his faults,
he's got Tourett's.
Speaker 14 (24:59):
But he said the end how many times?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I know, I know it's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 14 (25:02):
What he should have just said, dick hid dick kid,
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, I know, but he can't. He can't. I know,
he almost It's almost like they want to say the
most offensive thing at that moment.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
You know.
Speaker 14 (25:13):
That's I think how many times did he say it?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Many? Multiple? Someone's saying, here can I identify is Tourett's
one of those things I can identify as having?
Speaker 14 (25:22):
You know, a lot of people thought I had Tourette's.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Really the things that I say, how's that weather? Try
and try and hold the turretts back as you read
it for for Fine twenty four, very good sixteen Away
from sex news talks, they'd be we'll have to Australia.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for new Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Fourteen away from six News talks. They'd be don to Mayo,
our Australia correspondent on a good morning.
Speaker 15 (25:56):
Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Good So you don't want Andrew as your can.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
Surprise surprise. Look, we had heard, we had heard that
the British government was considering passing a law that would
remove Andrew Mountbatten Winsor's succession rights, and of course this
followed his arrest then release without charge. We have now
heard that Anthony Albanezi has told the British PM that
the Australian government would agree to any proposal to remove
(26:23):
Andrew from the line of raw succession. Now he remains
eighth in line to the throne. So mister Albinizi is
the first leader of a Commonwealth country to confirm support
for legislation that would strip Andrew of succession rights. And
he actually wrote this to his British counterpart to let
him know of Australia's position. It looks it's a very
(26:45):
complex legal framework that would surround this changing of the
line of succession, but it means that these changes require
all countries where King Charles is head of state, including Australia,
to pass new law. Minister has said these are grave
allegations and Australia takes them very seriously. So he's made
(27:06):
that move.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's interesting what did the Australian public think of that,
you know, down at the pub, because I had spoke
to our deputy Prime minister here going called David Seymour
about this last week and he said so many people
have to die in order that he would actually become king.
It's not probably not worth your time passing a law.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Oh.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
I think I can't speak for all Australians, but I
think they, you know, just in case, I think they're
going to support that move, just just saying.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All right, and you've got a monsoon low hitting your way.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
Oh, this is quite nasty. In fact, some areas of
Australia could actually get a year's worth of rain in
just one week. And these are parts of South Australia
right across Queensland and New South Wales. And of course
there's a risk of a great deal of flash flooding
with this monsoon low. The forecast obviously follows this record
(27:59):
breaking that we've suffered through in recent times. The Buerau
Mineology has issued these quite a number of severe weather
warnings for today, and we know that intense rainfalls expected.
For instance, some places could get brace yourself two hundred
to three one hundred millimeters of rain over just a
handful of days. And Melbourne isn't in the clear either.
(28:20):
We've got thunderstorms coming, we've got heavy rain, flash flooding,
so it's going to be a land of extremes throughout
the day and.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The rest of the week. Donald appreciate that. Donald de Malo,
our Australia correspondent time is eleven minutes away from six.
By the way, the price of oil is staying where
it was most of for the last few days, which
is its highest price in six months, around seventy two
dollars a barrel, start of the year at sixty This
is all over well, partly the supply issues, but also
(28:49):
there's the war in the Middle East, the potential four
and the military built up of the US. Now, I
am told that the Strait of Humus is where you
want to be watching. But there are talks heading to
Geneva this week, so some optimism there. Electricity demand is
going to increase in this country by twenty five percent
over the next ten years, evs, data centers, commercial industrial uses.
(29:14):
They will lead the charge. It's part of the reason
that Genesis is doing this four hundred million dollar equity
raise to fast track solar and batteries to smooth out
Huntley's supply during dry years. John Harbord is the Major
Electricity Users Group chair and joins us this morning. Hi John,
Good morning. So you represent the likes of Fonterra Woolies,
(29:35):
who's in and still big users. How worried are they
about the security of electricity in this country?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Look, security of electricity is pretty critical. When you run
a manufacturing business and you need to be operating twenty
four to seven, you need to know that the electricity
is going to be there every minute of every day.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What's driving the increase in their demand? Are they expanding
or is it decarbonizational? By both, it's.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
An element of both. The other thing that's driving electrification
is obviously lack of domestic gas. So people who are
who can are trying to move away from using gas,
and one of the most attractive options obviously is electricity.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Does this announcement ease their minds?
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Certainly it's welcome from a security of supply perspective. The
one thing that Genesis is leaning into very heavily is
dispatchable firming capacity, which is just a fancy way of
saying an ability to store electricity and then put it
into the system when you know, when it's we don't
have enough water in the hydro lakes and the sun
and the wind aren't cooperating, and that's the most important
(30:45):
electricity for the system. You know, that backup supply that's
there whenever you need it. So look, I think from
that perspective it's a really really good thing. It doesn't
do much of the short term for affordability issues, but
that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, you mentioned that. I've found it an interesting yesterday
everyone was focusing on the solar but it's more of
the big battery at Huntley that will smooth the dry
years that's more important here, surely.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Yeah, that's from our perspective that's really really critical. But
the solar aspect is really important as well. Now it
has to be put in the context that our other
large generators are also planning to build a lot of solar,
and the theory is that if you build a lot
of solar, you generate a lot more electricity. During summer,
which is when solar electricity obviously is more effective. But
(31:33):
what that means is the hydrogenerators keep more of the
water in the lakes because they don't need to use it,
and then that's available during winter when we're often short.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Gotcha, John, Appreciate your time, John Harvard, Major Electricity Users
Group here welcoming that announcement yesterday. It is ate away
from six News Talk.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Seb get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
Ryan Branch and one roof Love Where you Live.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
News Talks'd be five away from sex News Talks. He'd
be Mike is here with you next. Good morning, Mike,
Sure to see you Ryan. What's on the show today?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Well?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Andy Willman? Oh right, okay, Now, so he was.
Speaker 10 (32:13):
Behind top Gear and then the Grand Tour and now
Clarkson's Farm.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
What is the producer of it? He's the producer.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Well, if you ever watched top Gear, he became sort
of famous. You never seen him, but he became famous.
Every time they did a thing, they'd get a note
and they go, oh, message from mister Wilman, and that's
the Willman. So he's the he's the genius behind it all.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Did they ever figure out who the stick was or
the guard.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
We know who the stick is. There's been several sticks
in the same guy, but no, it wasn't the same guy.
So what happens is that generally once one stick goes
because you never know when the stick goes because you
never saw the stick. But once the stick goes, some
guy pops up in the British press and goes, oh,
I was the stick.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Tubbies, we know we no, no, no, we know.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Well, they're just guys who were moderately okay at driving
a car but never quite make it to f one
right because a lot of people remember, I'm Schumacher was
it was claimed while Michael Schumacher was claimed was the stick,
and of course they were never quite that good. And
Schumacher famously came on one of the episodes and they
went are you the stick and he went no. So anyway,
(33:16):
so he's on the program to also we make but
it's four years since the war started. Yeah, four So
we got the EU EU ambassador to this country is
rolling on into the studio to give the.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I spoke to someone from their Foreign ministry last week
and they want to set up like a war crimes
tribunal to try and go after really well, yeah, I
mean it doesn't do. It's not gonna get potent setting there.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
I'd concentrate on finishing the war first. Well, and then
you've got that pit.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You know, you've got to go at it from all angles.
I reckon, you reckon the war will end. And when
the war, when you've got to be ready to go,
When when's it going to end? Well, I would have
said two years ago it was probably going to be
over and count and counting. Have a great Tuesday, See
you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
to News Talks it Be from five am weekdays, or
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News Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, just got six half to five. Great to
have your company. Well look at this Genesis Equity raise.
Where's the demand actually coming from Donald Demo in Australia
for us this morning? Who's poaching our air traffic controllers?
And would you use the CRL of the city RAILNK
and open unless it was patrolled by police?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
The agenda Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The twenty fourth of February. The Mexican drug kingpin who's
been captured. He's now dead and all of his henchmen
are going on a rampage.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And right now our goal is to guarantee peace and security,
and this is what we're doing. There is more calmness today,
Security forces, government security cabinets, we're all there, so you
can feel reassured that peace and security is there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's still quite a few businesses and buildings burning to
the US winter storms. They've got fifteen inches of snow
in Central Park. Memdami's put a travel band dangerous conditions.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The mixture of this kind of snow with this kind
of wind is something that can lead to a lot
of danger on our streets and our roads. We know
that the snow is going to continue. It's why we
have the travel band through until twelve pm, because we
are now through the worst of it is still continuing
through the morning.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now Albanezi out of Australia written to Starma wants Andrew
wants to make sure that Randy Andy is never king
of Australia.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This intervention from the Australian primary is significant because a
key part of what's needed to remove the line of
succession is agreement from the Commonwealth realms. All of them
have to agree, and obviously Australia is a key part
of the Commonwealth. So this does feel like a yet
more momentum gathering towards that conclusion put for Andrew.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Starmer's responded saying, yet got your letter and we're not
rolling anything.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Out On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Talks had been eight after five on your Tuesday morning.
Nine two nine two is the number to text. Had
a look at what Trump actually did in response to
the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. It affects US quite
a lot, as you can imagine. So the US Supreme
Court ruled that they were legal, not just the Liberation
day ones, but the drug trafficking ones. The duties that
(02:25):
applied Canada, Mexico, China all unlawful and so Trump obviously
was preempting that this was going to happen, So immediately
cancels those tariffs that were applying, including applying to US.
Cancels them and bring ins a whole bunch bringing brought
in a whole bunch of new ones, a new fifteen
percent charge. Now the question if you are a New
(02:47):
Zealand exporter right now who was paying the tariff at
fifteen percent, those have now been canceled, so a significant
potential for a refund. I was having a look at
a piece that Minter Allison did in New Zealand. This
is the law firm. They said, you have a significant
opportunity for a refund across a wide range of sectors.
(03:09):
So keywies who are exporting to America, because those tariffs
should never have happened and you've been paying them since
early twenty twenty five. So the key is to get
in quick with your claims because there is a window
by which you have to do this, and it really
does depend in their opinion on how much cooperation we
(03:31):
will see from the US importer of record. So if
you are exporting to him, I mean, I'm sure you've
got your own legal advice, but it sounds like something
you'd want to get onto, and get onto pretty quickly. Anyway.
We'll have more about those tariffs later in the program,
and including what will happen to the EU and to
the UK who signed deals with Trump and said, oh
we will set this tariff rate. If those tariff rates
(03:54):
were illegal, then on what basis where these deals done
and do we need to go back to the drawing
board on them? Nine two ten, After five Ryan Bridge
come out. Next, we'll speak to Alf Philip Pine and
Elf is a city councilor in Auckland. By's also a
former cop. He reckons we need police officers long term
at every station on the city. Railing which they reckon
(04:16):
is going to open in September. Sound expensive? Yeah, that's next.
News TALKSB News.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And Views You Trust to start your day. It's early
edition with Bryan Bridge and one Roofe Love Where you Live.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
News TALKSB five twelve on news talk ZB some good
news on our discretionary spend. This is money we don't
need to spend, but we do spend because well, we
want to. Our stats in z numbers out yesterday two
hundred and thirty nine million seasonally adjusted. This is an
increase in sales volumes for the December quarter. The discretionary
spending was a big driver of that. Retail sales volumes
(04:51):
rose a seasonally adjusted point nine that was much stronger
than the economists had predicted and comes on top of
a booster one point nine for the September quarters. So
retail is coming back, baby, and not just because the
prices are gone up because of inflation. They're actually buying
more stuff, which is good. And to Roy, good morning, Roy.
(05:12):
Royce has no more sick days for Ryan. Please make
sure he turns up and treats his z B with respect.
It was annual leave. Roy, Okay, you can't say that.
I don't think I've had a sick day since I've
been here, have I kens nearly two years? Roy? Okay,
give me a break. Thirteen after five ray Bridge, an
Algan councilor wants cops stationed at the City rail Link
(05:33):
long term currently officers are going to be deployed on
the trains when it opens we think September to make
passengers feel safer, but not permanently.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Elf.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Philippina is with us this morning.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Morning, Elf, morning, not till Mary.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
How are you around?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Very well? Thank you? What exactly are you worried about? Elf?
What do you think is going to happen to people
on these trains?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Well?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
I think firstly, it's just a safety issue around, especially
with the CRL, specially with the tunnel. I just I
just sort of worry about the safety of the community
and a discussion needs to happen with the government in
regards and obviously the police Commissioner, with transport officers dedicated
(06:16):
to the safety and there on on our transport system.
That's my concern. We need to have a conversation or
can transport have traffic officers they obviously don't have the
authority to at least locked up. Arrest is not about arresting,
(06:39):
but it's just about having officers there so.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That Counsel Council has transport officers right ALF, So if
someone goes and bashes someone over the head, can a
transport officer hold them down and detain them until police arrive.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Well, look then and again that courses problem when you
end up sort of holding them.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
But from what problems?
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Well, if they end up sort of getting assaulted, if
they don't end up doing it, if they can't restrain
them with the handcuffs, if they can't at least ensure
if there's not the numbers there. Look, I don't even
transport officers don't have the ability if they end up
(07:29):
having numbers against them. I just think the conversation needs
to happen because the safety of our passengers, our public
is paramount.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I agree, But the problem is you can't have cops everywhere.
Are you saying that you think these stations are going
to be more dangerous than Queen Street for example, any
old spot?
Speaker 8 (07:52):
Yeah, I think a conversation needs to happen where we
are working together with the police. I know that's happening.
But I know that when I ended up being the
transport chair way back in the day with Mundico going
over to Australia for some of the states there having
dedicated transport police. Actually in the States, like in Sydney
(08:19):
in Brisbane, having the dedicated police officers.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
There, and they need something to look.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
I mean the tasers and guns. I think for me
having dedicated police officers. Again, it's about the uniform and
the fact that people will realize. It's like when we
amalgamated in nineteen ninety two with the Ministry of Transport
right first of July nineteen ninety two, when we amalgamated there,
(08:52):
we ended up sort of having the one Transport Police
under the Ministry of Transport under new the You don't
think that the structure needs to happen, all.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Right, The uniform might help ALP appreciate your time this morning,
as I always do. Elf Philippina Auckland City counselor and
former police officer himself, seventeen after five News Talks, the'b
coming up next, who's poaching all of our aviation air
traffic controllers?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Where You Live News Talks A B five nineteen on
News talks 'b Aiden says, I reckon, a conversation needs
to happen. Who doesn't love a good conversation? Stick the
kettle on? Yeah, And there was a little bit of that.
There is always a little bit of that from counselor
as we just spoke to Elf Philippina out of Auckland
about the need for police or someone to be on
(09:46):
patrol beyond the beat at the New City railing. Speaking
of conversations, Saint John want to have one about women.
This is an interesting number that's come out this morning.
Female patients have lower odds of surviving fifty percent are
lower odds of surviving a cardiac arrest, having one out
of hospital, so you're out in the street, you fall over, Yeah,
you have a heart attack sixty percent less likely to
(10:07):
receive a DEFIB than male patients, they think, because well
obvious reasons of where the heart is. So you'd be
less likely to get the defib machine from the church
or wherever it might be and clamp it on a
woman than you would be a man. We need to
have a conversation. Brian Breadley twenty after five warnings that
(10:29):
staff and shortages could spell big problems for our airlines.
Our air traffic controllers can't start on the job, by
the way, until they're twenty one, apparently getting poached off
shorter places like the Middle East with big salary packages.
Simon Wallace Aviation Industry Association CEO with me this morning, Simon,
Good morning, Good morning Ryan. Who's poaching them and how
much are they offering.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Yeah, there's obviously a growing number of services airlines rapidly
expanding in the Middle East and South Asia, so that
requires the need for a lot more air traffic controllers.
So those are the countries that are taking our well
qualified air traffic controllers at very competitive salaries. And we're
talking hundreds of thousands of dollars here, Ryans. So we
(11:12):
can't compete on that here in New Zealand. So we've
got to look at the conditions that we're offering a
round lifestyle, work life balance, all those sorts of other
things to try and keep our air traffic controllers here.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So what would your average air traffic controller be paid
here and how much could they get there?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Roughly after twelve year, after twelve to eighteen months training
by airways who train our air traffic controllers, starting salary
round is around about one hundred and ten to one
hundred and fifteen k So that's a pretty pretty good
start out salary for a young person and it goes
up from there. But you know, the Middle Eastern countries.
You know UAU guitar. They are offering figures a lot
(11:52):
more than that. Of course it varies according to which
country they go to, but a lot more than that,
as I say, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Right, So we train them, then they punkeed them. Why
don't we bond them.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Look, that's something that I think that airways we'll be
looking at. You would need to talk to them, run
the training. But you know, it is not just air
traffic controls that we've got a problem with aviation here
in New Zealand and Ryan, we're incredibly short of aviation engineers,
I guess, the less sexy part of the industry, and
(12:27):
we're short of more than three hundred engineers out of
a workforce of three thousand. So you know, we've got
shortages of traffic controllers, engineers, pilots across all those vidal
occupations in the system.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Simon, is it true that you can't start then the
job air traffic control until you're twenty one? And if so, why.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
That's a rule.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Yeah, that is correct, And that's a rule that's set
down by the Civil Aviation Authority under the licensing system.
And I know that when Airways paid for the Select
Committee last week, that's something that they want to get change.
So that requires a will and a way from the
regulator and others. But certainly one thing that needs to
be looked at is that.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Just because we think they're more responsible and reasonable to
make better decisions that sort of thing.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Yeah, I think that. I think that's a big part
of it. Ryan at twenty one, that's the figure that's
been put on it. But I think that needs to
be looked at when we have this problem with our
air control being proached off short.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And simon, just give us the overview here. How bad
is the shortage of all of the aforementioned Is it
going to mean that we can't fly one day or
what does it mean?
Speaker 9 (13:40):
Well, engineers, is the real need right at the moment
to set three hundred short and that is causing problems
through the whole system economic co operational this you know
you're seeing we're already seeing flights being delayed, but it's
across what we call the whole general aviation system, which
is agricultural aviation, contracting, emergency services. You know, when you
(14:01):
can't get an engineer to fix a plane and safety
is paramount. You know that plane is grounded and you
can't operate or do those services. So this is an
issue that has been looked at by this new Aviation
Council and the action plan that was launched by James
Meaga a couple of months ago. It's not just a
white paper. It's got some clear actions in there with
workforce fronts and centers. So you know there's some work
(14:24):
being done with between industry and government and that's that's
coming to the fore in a few weeks time.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Simon, appreciate your time this morning. That's Simon Wallace, Aviation
Industry Association CEO. So twenty one years. I mean, if
you're controlling planes and they could crash into each other
with hundreds of people on board, then you would want
somebody who's reasonable. But you can do a hell of
a lot of other things before the age of twenty
one which also have implications for life and death, like
(14:49):
driver car. I suppose it's less the collateral potentially nine
two nine two. What do we think next? We'll talk
about the move on orders. News Talk Said B.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Early edition Full the show podcast on Ihart Radio Power
by NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
NEWSTALKSB it is twenty seven after five Kiwis are generally
known around the world is good sorts, good people. We
open doors, we say please and thank you. We help
a neighbor out. We leap into help people when helpers
need it. It's one of those traits that we're most
proud of as a country, I think. But one thing
we hate more than anything else is when that kindness
is taken for granted. Then there is no more mister
(15:28):
nice guy. And we saw this with the kids stealing
from dairies and ram raiding the poor, old, hard working
dairy owners. The minute they started destroying livelihoods beating people
with screwdrivers and hammers, sympathy evaporated. Sure, some of these
kids may have had hard upbringings, but there are plenty
of kids out there with tough upbringings who choose not
(15:49):
to drive ans Antita through a four square window at
three am aren't there. So we voted for boot camps.
We reversed ourt no chase police chase policy. We crack down.
Kindness has its limits A long time ago for those
who frequent the city, we cross the same line with
beggars and rough sleepers. We care about them, of course,
(16:09):
we do. We're not a holes. We donate our time
and our money to the city mission, to charities, We
pay our taxes knowing that they should be going to
help in some way improve their lives. But there are
also a bunch of idiots taking advantage with squirted bottles
at traffic lights. They can be quite aggressive and dangerous.
Not to mention, same goes for rough sleepers on the
(16:31):
footpaths and some of our biggest cities. It's costing businesses,
it's destroying the reputation of entire swathes of city shops.
These shops provide jobs for the rest of us, especially
in our biggest city, where foreign terrists first impression should
be not a punch up between two roufies on the footpath.
(16:51):
So while the headlines about this move on policy, like
the crackdown on ram raiders before it, or the hard
line on ko tenants who were throwing knives across the
fence or bottles across the fence to their neighbors before it,
they will scream cruel and mean in the papers. But
I think they are out of step with the reality
(17:12):
of people and the reality that these people are facing
in their own lives. The good grace, cup hath runneth
empty twenty nine minutes after five News coming up. Next,
we head to our Australian correspondent, Donna Demeayo, and we'll
speak to the big users of energy about that Genesis announcement.
(17:33):
News Talk ZBB.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
The first Word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where You Live,
News Talks.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
B pretty borroway from six News TALKSB.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We'll speak to the major Electricity Users group because they
are going to be using most of the electricity increase
that we'll see over the next few years. We will
need twenty five percent more power to power in New Zealand.
Donald Demayo out of Australia for us before then too.
And we'll get to our reporters in just a second.
But first to the bafters where Michael B. Jordan and
Delroy Lindo. They are both actors, Black actors, and they
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are up on stage presenting an award at the bafters
and someone in the crowd yells out the N word repeatedly, a.
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We're here to celebrate now. There was a guy in
the audience with Turette's John Davidson, a Turette's campaigner from Scotland,
is the inspiration behind the now bafter winning film I
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and led to this apology by the host.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
You may have had some strong and offensive language tonight,
Tete Sendron. There's a disability and the ticks you've heard
Tony are involunteer.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's the person who has.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
To syndrome, has no control over their language.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
We apologize if you were offended.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Now obviously offensive, obviously terrible. But if they can't control it,
they can't control it. I suppose you either don't have
them there, or you have them there and you put
up with it.
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from an otager Uni professor. Let's right to listen to this.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Australian company Sanshana Minerals. We're aware of them buying the
Bendigoo for site last year. They're working to get the
relevant consents for exploration at the site. This despite a
lot of local opposition and this is what the associate
Professor Sergio Bigoman's proposing. He's urging the company to consider
the fact that gold keeps its value while underground. So
(19:49):
he says, why not just leave it there? He says,
unlike other minerals, gold production has always been much higher
than demand, with very little actually produced into product. Sigibn says,
most gold actually sits in volts accumulating dusts. Investors never
see it, so he says, why not just leave it
in the ground.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But don't you sort of need to make sure it's there?
And how much you know? I don't know. How's your weather?
Speaker 12 (20:14):
A few showers before dawn here, but then a fine
day head nor easterlies developing.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Nineteen the heighth brilliant. Thank you Claire in christ Itch morning.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Clear, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Now there's plans for the red Zone.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Yeah, this is the city Council's two point five million
dollar plan to regenerate part of what was known as
our red zone. So it's for the northern banks of
the or tarct or Avon Rivert Corridor area, specifically between
fitzyer Old Avenue and Stanmore Road. Now, the plan would
include things like nature play areas, some walking tracks, a
viewing platform, as well as fruit trees. There's also a
(20:48):
plan to allow space for the likes of farmers' markets,
art exhibitions and also food truck events. We've caught up
with avon Or Tarcato Network manager Hailey Gulietta, who says
any progress in the area is really great, but the
council should have prioritized basic community engagement in the first instance.
She says it would have been better to acknowledge the
(21:09):
communities that actually already live there, but she does acknowledge. Look,
it's taken seven years just to get to this point,
so let's take whatever we can get.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
All right, how's your weather cloudy?
Speaker 13 (21:17):
There is a bit of showers about today, should clear
to find northwesterlies turning southerly a bit later in a
high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Have a great day, Claire Max's and Wellington Morning Max,
Good morning. Our bus lanes raking in the cash?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And fine? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (21:31):
That's fry story in the post apparently people driving in
bus lanes and now the Wellington City Council's leading money
spinner regarding infringements at the seventeen nine million dollars in
you know, parking other infringement notices six million for driving
in bus lanes and there are only a handful of
those lanes and cameras and the CBD as well. The
biggest money spinner actually is right outside our office on
(21:53):
Cambridge Terrace, which apparently just catches everyone out. We even
had a reporter started in our newsroom for The Herald
the other week bang first day out in the job,
one hundred and fifty dollars fine for just shifting over
a lane too early before turning up our side street.
That we ask for evidence got the photo back of
her clutching the steering wheel at ten and two, nose
pressed up against the windscreen. That's one hundred and fifty
(22:14):
bucks for driving in that lane for just a few meters.
The Razine paint shop on Cambridge Terrace has even had
to put up a sign warning trades not to drive
in the lane. Twenty six thousand infringements in that one
Cambridge Terrace lane in one year alone. The council raking
it in Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And that's so that's for going into a bus line.
Speaker 11 (22:35):
Yes, slightly early before you have to turn lefts or not.
I'm sure a lot of people are flouting it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Anyway, because how long I never know how how long
you've got If you want to turn left and you
need to go into the bus line to do that,
how long have you got?
Speaker 11 (22:50):
I think it's fifty meters. Don't quote me on it,
but I think it's fifty meters.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So we all get out of measuring tapes while driving
and figured that one out. Well, exactly. Yeah. The other
thing I've noticed just around where I live, Max while
you hear, is the bus lanes don't have well they are.
They do have signs on the side say the times
that the bus lanes will operate, but most people either
don't read them or don't know, and they're queuing in
(23:15):
the right hand lane when they could all be using
the left hand lane. They just don't know it.
Speaker 11 (23:20):
At a fair in the traffic stools.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, exactly, exactly. How's your weather.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Party, cloudy with the odd shower, gusty north least twenty one.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
One, Thank you morning, neither good morning. We're in the
thick of it. Is it March mad or not?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Quite?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, yeah, but it kind of is.
Speaker 14 (23:35):
But yeah, you're right, just prior to that, because you know,
with everyone going back to school UNI and work after
summer holidays. You're yeah, you're right, Like Auckland Transports is
that that congestion is probably going to increase by about
five percent on average average levels. And I think they're
also saying too, because this public transport network is going
to be busier, busier when it's working. You know, the
(23:57):
buses and trains are fairies, so they should be made.
Thinking about thirteen thousand trips a day. At is saying, look,
busy time between seven and nine am three to six
pm Wednesday generally the busiest day. Just to make sure
you know you're planned for that. And also like as
your mex are talking about, you know, getting into the
(24:18):
right lanes.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Before I know.
Speaker 14 (24:19):
I've been pinned a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, bloody expensive it is.
Speaker 14 (24:23):
And I think you're right, you know, like it's knowing
when to get into that lane before you know. And
I mean usually I'm just say fifty meters. He's probably
right because Mex is always right, but I'm usually in
there like two meters before here.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, you know, you're crippled with fear. Crippled crippled with fear.
There's a headlights and they're standing there with video cameras exactly. Yeah, Hey,
someone's just texting, you know the story about Tourett's and
that guy yelling at the best Yes, drama.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
What do you do? That's what do you do?
Speaker 14 (24:53):
So they've got to get him out?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Do you think something? Just But then it's not his faults,
he's got Tourett's.
Speaker 14 (24:59):
But he said the end how many times?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I know, I know it's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 14 (25:02):
What he should have just said, dick hid dick kid,
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, I know, but he can't. He can't. I know,
he almost It's almost like they want to say the
most offensive thing at that moment.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
You know.
Speaker 14 (25:13):
That's I think how many times did he say it?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Many? Multiple? Someone's saying, here can I identify is Tourett's
one of those things I can identify as having?
Speaker 14 (25:22):
You know, a lot of people thought I had Tourette's.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Really the things that I say, how's that weather? Try
and try and hold the turretts back as you read
it for for Fine twenty four, very good sixteen Away
from sex news talks, they'd be we'll have to Australia.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for new Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Fourteen away from six News talks. They'd be don to Mayo,
our Australia correspondent on a good morning.
Speaker 15 (25:56):
Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Good So you don't want Andrew as your can.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
Surprise surprise. Look, we had heard, we had heard that
the British government was considering passing a law that would
remove Andrew Mountbatten Winsor's succession rights, and of course this
followed his arrest then release without charge. We have now
heard that Anthony Albanezi has told the British PM that
the Australian government would agree to any proposal to remove
(26:23):
Andrew from the line of raw succession. Now he remains
eighth in line to the throne. So mister Albinizi is
the first leader of a Commonwealth country to confirm support
for legislation that would strip Andrew of succession rights. And
he actually wrote this to his British counterpart to let
him know of Australia's position. It looks it's a very
(26:45):
complex legal framework that would surround this changing of the
line of succession, but it means that these changes require
all countries where King Charles is head of state, including Australia,
to pass new law. Minister has said these are grave
allegations and Australia takes them very seriously. So he's made
(27:06):
that move.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's interesting what did the Australian public think of that,
you know, down at the pub, because I had spoke
to our deputy Prime minister here going called David Seymour
about this last week and he said so many people
have to die in order that he would actually become king.
It's not probably not worth your time passing a law.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Oh.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
I think I can't speak for all Australians, but I
think they, you know, just in case, I think they're
going to support that move, just just saying.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All right, and you've got a monsoon low hitting your way.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
Oh, this is quite nasty. In fact, some areas of
Australia could actually get a year's worth of rain in
just one week. And these are parts of South Australia
right across Queensland and New South Wales. And of course
there's a risk of a great deal of flash flooding
with this monsoon low. The forecast obviously follows this record
(27:59):
breaking that we've suffered through in recent times. The Buerau
Mineology has issued these quite a number of severe weather
warnings for today, and we know that intense rainfalls expected.
For instance, some places could get brace yourself two hundred
to three one hundred millimeters of rain over just a
handful of days. And Melbourne isn't in the clear either.
(28:20):
We've got thunderstorms coming, we've got heavy rain, flash flooding,
so it's going to be a land of extremes throughout
the day and.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The rest of the week. Donald appreciate that. Donald de Malo,
our Australia correspondent time is eleven minutes away from six.
By the way, the price of oil is staying where
it was most of for the last few days, which
is its highest price in six months, around seventy two
dollars a barrel, start of the year at sixty This
is all over well, partly the supply issues, but also
(28:49):
there's the war in the Middle East, the potential four
and the military built up of the US. Now, I
am told that the Strait of Humus is where you
want to be watching. But there are talks heading to
Geneva this week, so some optimism there. Electricity demand is
going to increase in this country by twenty five percent
over the next ten years, evs, data centers, commercial industrial uses.
(29:14):
They will lead the charge. It's part of the reason
that Genesis is doing this four hundred million dollar equity
raise to fast track solar and batteries to smooth out
Huntley's supply during dry years. John Harbord is the Major
Electricity Users Group chair and joins us this morning. Hi John,
Good morning. So you represent the likes of Fonterra Woolies,
(29:35):
who's in and still big users. How worried are they
about the security of electricity in this country?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Look, security of electricity is pretty critical. When you run
a manufacturing business and you need to be operating twenty
four to seven, you need to know that the electricity
is going to be there every minute of every day.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
What's driving the increase in their demand? Are they expanding
or is it decarbonizational? By both, it's.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
An element of both. The other thing that's driving electrification
is obviously lack of domestic gas. So people who are
who can are trying to move away from using gas,
and one of the most attractive options obviously is electricity.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Does this announcement ease their minds?
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Certainly it's welcome from a security of supply perspective. The
one thing that Genesis is leaning into very heavily is
dispatchable firming capacity, which is just a fancy way of
saying an ability to store electricity and then put it
into the system when you know, when it's we don't
have enough water in the hydro lakes and the sun
and the wind aren't cooperating, and that's the most important
(30:45):
electricity for the system. You know, that backup supply that's
there whenever you need it. So look, I think from
that perspective it's a really really good thing. It doesn't
do much of the short term for affordability issues, but
that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, you mentioned that. I've found it an interesting yesterday
everyone was focusing on the solar but it's more of
the big battery at Huntley that will smooth the dry
years that's more important here, surely.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Yeah, that's from our perspective that's really really critical. But
the solar aspect is really important as well. Now it
has to be put in the context that our other
large generators are also planning to build a lot of solar,
and the theory is that if you build a lot
of solar, you generate a lot more electricity. During summer,
which is when solar electricity obviously is more effective. But
(31:33):
what that means is the hydrogenerators keep more of the
water in the lakes because they don't need to use it,
and then that's available during winter when we're often short.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Gotcha, John, Appreciate your time, John Harvard, Major Electricity Users
Group here welcoming that announcement yesterday. It is ate away
from six News Talk.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Seb get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
Ryan Branch and one roof Love Where you Live.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
News Talks'd be five away from sex News Talks. He'd
be Mike is here with you next. Good morning, Mike,
Sure to see you Ryan. What's on the show today?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Well?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Andy Willman? Oh right, okay, Now, so he was.
Speaker 10 (32:13):
Behind top Gear and then the Grand Tour and now
Clarkson's Farm.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
What is the producer of it? He's the producer.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Well, if you ever watched top Gear, he became sort
of famous. You never seen him, but he became famous.
Every time they did a thing, they'd get a note
and they go, oh, message from mister Wilman, and that's
the Willman. So he's the he's the genius behind it all.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Did they ever figure out who the stick was or
the guard.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
We know who the stick is. There's been several sticks
in the same guy, but no, it wasn't the same guy.
So what happens is that generally once one stick goes
because you never know when the stick goes because you
never saw the stick. But once the stick goes, some
guy pops up in the British press and goes, oh,
I was the stick.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Tubbies, we know we no, no, no, we know.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Well, they're just guys who were moderately okay at driving
a car but never quite make it to f one
right because a lot of people remember, I'm Schumacher was
it was claimed while Michael Schumacher was claimed was the stick,
and of course they were never quite that good. And
Schumacher famously came on one of the episodes and they
went are you the stick and he went no. So anyway,
(33:16):
so he's on the program to also we make but
it's four years since the war started. Yeah, four So
we got the EU EU ambassador to this country is
rolling on into the studio to give the.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I spoke to someone from their Foreign ministry last week
and they want to set up like a war crimes
tribunal to try and go after really well, yeah, I
mean it doesn't do. It's not gonna get potent setting there.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
I'd concentrate on finishing the war first. Well, and then
you've got that pit.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You know, you've got to go at it from all angles.
I reckon, you reckon the war will end. And when
the war, when you've got to be ready to go,
When when's it going to end? Well, I would have
said two years ago it was probably going to be
over and count and counting. Have a great Tuesday, See
you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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