March 25, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Full Show Podcast Wednesday 26th of March 2025, officials warn neither options for an Auckland stadium are feasible, Auckland Councilor Maurice Williamson explains why.
Australia's Federal budget is out and tax cuts are on the way, Australia Correspondent Lesley Yeomans shares the latest.
Employment confidence is down across the country, Employment Expert Tom O'Neil says employers can sense the desperation from applicants.
UK/ Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey shares the latest with more protests and arrests expected in Turkey following the detention of the Ekrem Imamoglu.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens
on early edition with one roof make your Property Search Simple,
News Talks, it'd be.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Here we go halfway through the week. Good morning to
you and welcome to the program, and thank you so
much for choosing us. Coming up over the next sixty minutes,
Australia releases their budget. So where are our neighbors at?
Where's our biggest export market at. We'll have that story
for you shortly. Employers are still not confident to employ
so what are they worried about? We'll have that story
(00:33):
in ten and the Aucklands Stadium kafuffle countslor Morris Williamson
is going to join us just before six. We'll have
correspondence from right around New Zealand and the world. Gavin
Gray from the UK and news as it breaks, and
you can have your say by using the text. There's
a small charge and the number is ninety two ninety two.
It is seven minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's Wednesday, the twenty sixth of March and first of
the Russian Ukraine War. The White House has just confirmed
both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to ensure a safe
passage for commercial shipping and stop all military strikes in
the Black Sea. Washington released separate statements meeting with representatives
from both countries in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine has agreed to
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stop military force in the Black Sea, but adds any
movement of Russian naval vessels would be a violation of
the agreement. To America and President Trump's administration is under
fire for adding an American journalist to a private group
chat which contains sensitive US military information about their air
strikes on Yemen. Here's an idea of what was supposedly
said in the chat. Vice President JD. Vance said I
(01:42):
hate bailing Europe out again, and Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth replied,
I fully share your loathing of European free loading its pathetic.
Editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldboyerg, was the
journalist added by security advisor Michael Watts, and he says
the official were lucky it was him.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
According to everything I understand, they're not supposed to be
doing this on commercial messaging aims. They got quite lucky
that they included my phone number in that they're going
to pick an errand phone number. I mean at least
it wasn't somebody who supported the Hoothies, because they were
actually handing out information that I believe could have endangered
the lives of American service people who were involved in
that operation.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And several members of the CHAT have been testifying at
an already scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. We're told together
the Director of National Intelligence declined to confirm whether she
was in the CHAT or not. And to Australia, we've
already mentioned the government has released as twenty twenty five
federal budget. Treasurer Jim Charmers revealed the budget is in
the red, with a deficit of more than thirty billion
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dollars for the twenty four to twenty five financial year.
Its plan includes nearly nineteen billion dollars in planned tax
cuts from next year. And this was Jim Chalmers speaking
in the Australian Parliament last night.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
This budget is our plan for a new generation of
prosperity in a new world of uncertainty. It's a plan
to help finish the fight against inflation, rebuild living standards
and maximize our national advantages into the future.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But he would say that, wouldn't he. And finally, an
update on Turkey, where a sixth night of protests have
been underway and a seventh night planned over the detention
of the city's mayor, Ekremmglu A Mamglu, of course, is
Turkey's President's president Etwan's main political rival. He's now been
charged with corruption and the Turkish government has already confirmed
more than eleven hundred people have been arrested since the
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protest began.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I just want to live my life.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I mean everyone else thinks to see.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, no one wants.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
To be here normal everyone wants to be at the hall,
but he and the artists trying to be democracy back.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
We here because of the mayor of the stumble at Mamola,
but after everyone realized how bad contrastitation is because of
the economy, inflation and because of justice.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Same song all over the world. It's eleven minutes out
to five.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
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Speaker 2 (04:14):
Sidy So Yes. The Australian government has delivered its budgets.
Its tax cuts are plenty, seventeen point one billion dollars
set to head back into Australian's back pockets. There was
also Medicare funding, energy relief and twenty percent off all
student loans. So one analyst came out and said, it's
the cup of coffee a week budget, and that makes sense.
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On average, Australian taxpayers will get about two hundred and
seventy dollars back in their pocket over the whole tax year,
two hundred and seventy bucks and over fifty two weeks.
That's actually not even enough for a cup of coffee,
which is a reminder to all that tax cuts are
not the windfall that people sometimes believe. But no matter
how small they are, they still cost the state plenty.
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We've found that out with our fourteen billion dollar tax cut,
which barely made a daily difference to us did it
of course while inflation kept on eroding our wallets. But
if our government still had that fourteen billion dollars in
their hands, it might be handy when they face so
many infrastructure deficits and of course the interest payments. The
other headline out of the Australian budget is that they're
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expecting ten years of deficits ten years of them. It's
another example that it's not just us up the proverbal creek.
We're going to look at this in five minutes time
with an Australian correspondent. Twelve after five. What's the number
one global enemy? What do you reckon? I can tell
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you the number one global enemy these days appears to
be the public servant. Everywhere has worken up from its
stupor and realized that public servants have been multiplying like rabbits.
The latest is the United Kingdom, where the chances are there.
Rachel Reeves, a labor politician, has announced a wholesale reduction
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of fifteen percent of all public servants and she promises
this will not affect frontline services, but the proof of
that will be in the execution. So you add the
UK to what's happening in America with their Doge campaign,
our own pruning of the public service, and then you
realize that all countries in the world are facing the
same issues. A public service that has been allowed to
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balloon to an untenable size. It reminds me of the
bad old days here in New Zealand, when New Zealand
Rail was allowed to expand to a massive workforce because
it made unemployment figures look better than the politicians of
the day like that. Now you think, faced with this
around the world and with the numbers that they see,
even public servants might realize that they've been taking the mickey,
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but they don't. Just yesterday I had a PSA secretary
on the program definitively saying that there are no more
efficiencies to be found in our public service. You reckon.
That is a claim the public services paymasters. That's you
and I the taxpayer, just don't believe the public service
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is reducing worldwide. The public service has to reduce worldwide.
We can't afford it. And if the bureaucrats want the
job to be done fairly and equitably and efficiently, they
should get on board.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's Andrew Dickens.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's five fourteen. So we'll look at the Australian budget
in a few moments time, and shortly, in about five
seven minutes time, we're going to look at the employment confidence,
which in this country is down again to the lowest
level seen since post COVID in twenty twenty. So why
when there are green shoots in the economy, our employers
not employing. It's a big story and it's coming shortly
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here on News talks hereb it's five point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
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Speaker 2 (08:00):
It'd be sixteen minutes after five. The Australian government released
its twenty twenty five budget last night. Key focuses on
the cost of living. Australians are getting tax cuts seventeen
billion dollar set to return to their pockets. Are the
winners where healthcare, student debt holders, energy bills. Treasurer Jim
Charmers says this is a budget for a new generation
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of prosperity, despite the fact he's got ten years of deficits.
And he says this is happening in a new world
of uncertainty.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Trade disruptions are rising, China's growth is slowing, war is
still raging in Europe and a ceasefire in the Middle
East is breaking down.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, that's inspiring. Australian correspondent Leslie Yeomans is covering it
for us and joins us now and she's got up
very early. Leslie, good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Good morning Andrews.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So is this what people wanted?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Well, I guess some people will think it's okay. What
We have to put into a into our mind here though,
that this is basically an election near budget going to
be going to the polls sometime soon, and this is
given tried to give everyone a little bit of everything,
I guess, but it is only just a little bit.
As you mentioned, there's seventeen billion dollars worth of tax cuts,
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which sounds like a lot, but that's probably going to
work out too about for the average for the average
income and are probably about five dollars a week possibly,
and then they won't be coming into effect until the
new financial year. What else, sort of similar to last
year's budget to the cost of living relief, some extra
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money for education, they'll be strengthening medicare, building more homes,
and people will also be getting a little bit of
help more help with their rising energy bills. Those energy
rebates they've been extended to the end of this year
and they'll be giving households around one hundred and fifty
dollars extra a year. They're also with students still have
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people with HEX debts, UNI students who are still trying
to pay off their HEX debts. They're going to be helped.
Their debts are going to be cut a rye around
twenty percent, and there'll also be a different way that
they'll be able to pay it back. They won't have
to that the actual earning rate is going to be
lifted so that when their actual payoff payments cutting will
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be higher now. And one of the things it's interesting
to trying to appeal to people who have been trying
to buy a home. The government's going to ban foreign
buyers from purchasing existing homes in Australia for the next
two years and that will start next month. And it's
just a bid to try and get more people to
be able to purchase an existing home here.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Which is the complete opposite of what we're doing. Funnily enough,
and as you mentioned right at the beginning, you guys
are heading to the polls shortly, so do you think
this will sway people's decisions at all or is it
a bit underwhelming?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I think the government's hoping it will sway people's decisions.
Whether it will or not, who knows. I mean, it's
really hard to tell. The government's been in a situation
over the last few months when you read some of
the social media comments and even look at some of
the polling. The polling hasn't been super bad for the government,
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but a lot of comments you see from people saying
that the government's just been underwhelming absolutely that it sort
of keeps telling you that it's doing stuff but it
doesn't show or sort of actually a show is what
it is doing. There's a lot of talk and there's
a lot of defensive people sort of saying, yes, we're
doing this, that and the other thing, but you don't
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actually see a lot of stuff. A lot of people
have been underwhelmed and disappointed by the government because it
was saying when it first came into power, but it
was going to get all these things done, and then
very little happened or appeared to happen. So it's just
been you just have to wait and see who knows,
who knows what can happen between now and polling day.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Humans from Australia, I thank you for your time. Beer drinkers,
by the way, will be happy. They're going to freeze
the draft beer excise indexation. That means the government misses
out on two hundred million dollars in tax revenue. It's
a win for beer drinkers, brewers and hospitality. It's five
twenty one. Why are our employers not employing that question
and maybe some answers. Next twenty three.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
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Speaker 2 (12:30):
Employment confidence is once again down across the country. People
struggle with job security and recruitment. The Westpact McDermott Miller
Employment Confidence Index has dropped to eighty eight point three.
This is the lowest level since September twenty twenty, a
level last scene post COVID in twenty twenty. Tom O'Neil
is an employment expert and a manager of CV dot
(12:51):
co dot nz and is with me this morning? Is
he indeed with me here this morning?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
There he is up there. I found to tell you
we're missing on my computer screen. Good morning to you.
Why our employers still pessimistic?
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Ah, look, you know it's I think obviously we've got,
you know, the specter of tariffs from America, and I
just think it's it's the massively bad hangover of just
all the facts that have been sort of conspiring against
New Zealand over the last for the three or five years.
And it's interesting there's next messages out there. The seek
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had an employment report that just came out recently, you know,
the job board, and they set after two years of
steady decline in job ed volumes, the past eight months
has been brought to be flat. Now. I know that
doesn't sound like good news. That's just some degree it's
shine that actually, you know, I think I liked to
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think we've actually now flat out. And you know, as
the year progresses, and you know, as hopefully the Tara
Stone turn into something that is going to be massively
destructive for our economy, we can most fortant actually even
have a bump floater in the.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Year, hope. So a lot of people are playing for
jobs right now. But you can smell the desperation, can't you?
Speaker 9 (14:19):
Oh? Absolutely absolutely. And this is the thing being a
candidate out there, you know you need to you need
to try and push that desperation down. I sort of
describe it like being a duck. You see a duck
on a lake swimming along the top half of the
duck is all nice and calming downstairs under the water,
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but you know it's there to think going crazy. And
that's what we need to do when we candidates when
we going to the market. And it's a horrible thing
to say that. The end of the day, employers smell desperation.
They really really do. And so it's important during that
whole interview time, anytime in touch with employers, you just
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put on that top half of the Dutch, you know,
you just put on that brave confidence failure and just
get out there.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I call it. I call it put on your big
boy pats and just go in there with confidence. Tom
O'Neil from CV dot co dot NS and thank you
so much for your time. It's five twenty six.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
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Talks, ITV News So Big I wanted to I'm Andrew
Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. So Auckland looks like it's doing
it again, dilly delling and decision making about big stuff.
A council advisory group has informed us at neither the
fancy waterfront stadium nor an upgrade of Eden Parker considered feasible.
The full Council still has to vote on it on Thursday,
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and so we'll see if anyone has any balls to
actually do anything. Now, by not feasible, they mean not viable.
Without public funding. So we don't seem to have a
charitable billionaire in our midst so the dough would have
to come from the public purse. And this is a
question that every major city wrestles with. Other cities seemed
to be braver this week. Brisbane casually announced a new
stadium to host the Olympics, calmly putting nearly four billion
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dollars on the line. We are a growing nation and
we need a national stadium, and we need a venue
for the events that come, whether it's big sport or
big concerts or monster trucks. We'll see how much fun
for you Eden Park has been this week, three different
sports in one week. We need a venue that's modern,
complete and full of character and recognize around the world.
I love stadiums. I'm super excited about Canterbury's Takaha Forsyth
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Bar is great and sky stadium or you need new
seats and maybe a roof. But what do I want
for Auckland now? First, I have to admit that I,
like many others, have gone to eden Park events for free,
both from eden Park and also businesses. Okay, that taken,
I would be happy for the waterfront stadium to go ahead.
We would never regret it in forty years time. I'm
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also happy for an Eden Park upgrade. After all, Sydney
completely ripped down the Sydney Football Stadium and rebuilt it.
But it really is time for someone to put their
on the block and just do it. We've been talking
about this ever since the World Cup. Every city needs
a cathedral and every nation needs a national stadium, and
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it needs to be iconic. Let's do it all right.
On the way, we're going to run you through the
Russian Ukraine Black Sea ceasefile, which has only just been
announced in the last forty minutes. Gavin Gray from the UK.
I'm Andrew Dickens. This is Newstalk zmb OH.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I get this in with.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
News and views you trust to start your day. It's
the early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof. Make
your property search simple if you.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Talk sid me, Thank you boy to you, Welcome to
your Wednesdays. Thank you for du I'm Andrew Dickens in prow.
I turned sixty a while ago and I realize I
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have absolutely no desire to stop working. I don't want
to chill out, I don't want to retire. I like
to work. Yes, I want flexibility, and yes I want
a bit of free time to go to the beach
and have a swim. But I like work. I like
meeting people. I like feeling as though I'm productive, I'm healthy.
I feel like I'm still thirty. I'm active, I still
have experience to share. In fact, I have experience because
I'm older. I think many are like that because data
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from Stats New Zealand shows there are nearly two hundred
thousand New Zealanders age sixty five or older still in
the workforce, and good on you, ninety thousand are aged
over seventy. And wait for this, there are one than
two hundred and fifty seven people aged over ninety who
are still working. Fantastic, some of that work's a bit
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hefty too. Over sixty five's made up ten point three
percent of machinery operators and drivers. Eight percent of them
are laborers. Yeah, this is a white collars. Seven percent
of professionals and nine point one percent of managers. Look.
New Islanders like to work, and the older we get,
the better we get at it. So the message is
to all employers, get yourself some old guys on staff.
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They're worth their weight. And gold. However, on the flip side,
it's just been announced that George Clooney has said that,
at sixty three, he is now too old to play
romantic leads, which is fair enough. I think we want
you on the tools, George, not chasing some tail that
could be your daughter. And by the way, George, I'm
not a fan of your coffee ads either. I really
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just don't get them. It's been two all right, let's
go right around the country. Callum Proctor joins us from Danedan.
Good morning to you. Callum, good morning. What's the shakedown
after this big shake yesterday south of Southland?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Yeah, this was the six point eight magnitude quake felt
by many here scentered west of Stuart Island that struck
at two forty three pm yesterday at a depth of
twelve kilometers. Seismologists are saying this large earthquake struck on
an area which is known to generate big shakes. There
was no threat to la but unpredictable surges and after
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shocks are predicted for the coming days. Dr finn Nelsley
Kemp's from Victoria University. He says there's been two quakes
over a seven magnitude in that area since two thousand
and four, but it's an area that's poorly understood.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
He says.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
It's remote and offshore, so not a lot of research
has been done on it compared to the subduction zone
under the North Island.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And how's your weather?
Speaker 10 (20:24):
That's mainly fine today like wins and a high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Two crash years we go, Claire, sure were good morning
to you. Good morning. One of Christtution's new charter schools
is already looking to expand.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Yes, already, Andrew, that's right. Mastery Schools in New Zealand
Ada Parky is currently sitting at sixty four students at
its new site at Hillsborough. This is after its grand
opening in February. Now it's aiming already to be opening
a year two to three class from term three of
this year. Principal Rose mcinernie says most of the original
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interest had come from years four to eight students, and
that's because students in that age group are more like
to have more obvious or more awareness about learning difficulties.
But now there's increasing demand and so moving younger. Unsure
though whether they'll ever go as young as year one.
McInerney says, more people have discovered about the school and
how students are benefiting from.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
The learning there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Very cool. What a your weather?
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Some cloudy periods in northeasterly is developing this morning high
of nineteen.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Max told joins me from Wellington, Hellimax, good morning. So
we've got a Wellington MP. You got stuck into the cops.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah, exactly. This is a Green MP once again under
fire for comments made about the judicial system, this time
at a university panel discussion. Tamitha Paul, she's Wellington's central MP,
told this panel she'd heard nothing but complaints about police
beat controls across the country. The discussion incidentally called a
radical alternative to policing. Paul wants to see police disestablished effectively.
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She believes Wellingtonians at all don't want to see offices
on the streets. In the past, Sammatha Paul has also
incorrectly claimed the vast majority of people in prison and
therefore nonviolent offenses. The Police Minister Mirk Mitchell has responded
saying Paul is talking absolute nonsense. There's very clear evidence
that people feel safer with police around, and there's been
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a large decrease in violent crime in areas that their
community big teams have been deployed.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Must be lovely on her planet anyway. How's your weather?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
A little cloud otherwise fine? Twenty the High Central and.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Neva Rettimano who joined us from Auckland. Hello, greetings, So
the government's being asked to turn up the tempo on Auckland.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
That's right, the development. So this is Project Auckland. Now,
this is a herald lead initiative. It's kicking off later today.
Now there's going to be a speech from Infrastructure Minister
Chris Bishop. This is happening at the Northern Club. The
Project Auckland editor. Now, this is Breno O'Sullivan. We're seeing
a great deal of change in the super city, a
lot of urban rebuilds and major projects on the way.
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She says, Look, the city's in a good place, and
you know we've got the projects like the City rail Link,
the International Convention Center nearing completion. So you know, really
the city in the regional deals, they provide this opportunity
to address New Zealand's infrastructure deficit. So O'Sullivan says, it
really is up to you know, Auckland Council on the government,
play nicely, play nicely and just lift that level for
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the ambition here for Auckland City.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I've always seen Auckland will be great if we ever
finish it. Now, how's Hawkan's weather?
Speaker 12 (23:21):
Well, morning cloud, then find another good one for us.
Twenty threes are high.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I thank you, Neva. And of course I've starting to
callum before about the earthquakes south of the South Island,
which brought warnings of excessive sea movement. Guess what We've
got more activity under the ground. Facardi White Island is
stirring fresh explosive activity at the volcano has ejected ballistic
blocks over six hundred meters from the vent. Temperature at
that vent three hundred and sixty degrees celsius. The volcanicul
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level remains at two. If you live in the area,
you may notice ash and it may stink of rotten excess.
The sulf is coming out. This is during northerly winds,
but otherwise the coast remains unaffected earthquakes and volcanoes. We
live in a dynamic country, at least geologically. Gavin Gray
from the UK in just a few moments time, because
about an hour ago, finally a concrete movement in the
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Russian Ukraine conflict. More on netnix.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's seventeen to six international correspondence with insign Eye Insurance
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Speaker 2 (24:21):
This it's fourteen to six until the UK we go
and Kevin Gray joins us Hellkevin either okay, we actually
have some movement in the Ukraine Russian conflict, a ceasefire
in the Black Sea.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
Yes, so we think there andrew Black Sea now should
be safe passage for commercial shipping. As the American officials
meeting with Ukraine and Russian representatives is broken up within
the last hour, and now the Ukraine is agreeing to
stop any military force in the Black Sea, but it
says any movement of the Russian naval vessels based of
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course in Crimea and in Russia would be a breaking
of under violation of this agreement. In return, we understand
Russia is demanding that the sanctions currently in place on
the banks, the insurers, the food exporters must be lifted first.
They're demanding that before the Black Sea cease far as
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it were. They also want to reconnect with SWIFT. That's
the network that facilitates secure banking and financial messaging between
banks now Zelenski. President Zelenski says if Russia violates the
treaty then he wants sanctions reimposed and more weapons. We're
expecting to find out more details later. But Andrew also
with this, has of course been revelations about this chat
(25:38):
between JD. Vans, the numb deputy to Donald Trump, and
Pete Heskeert the Defense Secretary, with Jdvans talking about freedom
of navigation and around that the bombing of the Hooties
with the quote just hate bailing out the europe again,
to which the Defense Secretary Pete Hesker said, I fully
share your loading of European freeloading.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
It's pathetic.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
No news yet on a response from European leaders about that.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Now here's the thing. I even knew that the Isle
of Man had its own government and they've been voting
on the right to choose the right to choose to
in their own lives legislation. It's been approved by the Parliament.
It can now go to Royal a scenes So tell
us about this story.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Yes, So this is a.
Speaker 13 (26:21):
Large island really off Liverpool, between Central Mainland UK and
Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man has its own
legislative set of parliament, but it falls within the UK Parliament,
but it does have its own rules and regulations and
its own ability to make its own laws, and they
are now potentially anyway going to be the first place
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in the United Kingdom which allows assisted dying. Now the
whole process will possibly be implemented within the next year
or so, the Parliament in the Isle of Man needs
to give its blessing first and that will mean it
become the first place within the British asles to allow
right to die. But that has to be for people
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who have a prognosis left to live of twelve months
or fewer. It is only available to those aged over
eighteen and in a bid to prevent what you might
call assisted dying tourism, where somebody from the Mainland who
can't undergo assisted dying goes to the Isle of Man
for assisted dying, there is a minimum residency period. All
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this comes as Whitehall, the main government for the UK,
slightly set a time tied about how it's going to
approach this new law, with the latest theory that even
if it gets the go ahead, it could take up
to four years to implement it. Something the Isle of
man seems capable of doing much faster.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Kevin Gray from the UK, I thank you. It's eleven
to six Dickens all right. The organ stadium debate, Wayne
Brown said, let's just put this to bid was hitting
up Thursday. They're going to have a council vote on this,
and the officials have received a report on the two options,
and that report warns that both eden Park and Key
Parks proposals aren't feasible without public funding. Eden Park two
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point zero, for instance, will require at least one hundred
and ten million dollars alone from Central Government for its
initial stage one plan, and that's just the North stand.
So Marris Williamson is an organd councilor who will be
sitting around the table on Thursday and trying to make
a decision about all of this, and joins us our
good morning to here Morris, good funning. Of course, they're
not feasible without public investment. Wasn't that a given right
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from the start?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Yeah, I would have thought so. They are huge projects
with huge sums of money, and I would have thought, well,
I've still got a lot of questions, says, you can understand,
we haven't had our meeting yet and one of my
questions is why are we involved in this? If these
people are going to do it themselves and they can
fund it and so on, well then we don't need
to be involved. And if we are being involved and
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we're saying, well, we're not going to fund anything, it's
almost sort of a double entendre here, I.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Think absolutely, And yet Wayne Brown said put this to bed,
this this come up with a decision, and yet at
the same time it appears if you don't want to
be part of the public funding of it all, it's
never going anywhere. This has been a waste of time.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
My question, I think I want to answer it on
Thursday is why are we being brought into this now?
We can obviously provide some assistance by way of consenting
and helping along the way that might assist the speed
of it, But there are huge chunks of money. If
you look at Eden Park two point one, they're talking
about five hundred million minimum to do this Stage one,
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two and then the retractable roof Stage three. So again,
I mean it's pretty clear. I think the mayor has
made it clear in his statements that there will be
no funding from the council, So I guess the proposal
still got the ability to go to central government, but
I wouldn't like the chances there either.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But here's the thing. Eden Park rebranded itself as New
Zealand's national stadium, which every other stadium went what. But
that's okay, it's a branding thing. We need a national stadium.
We need a focus for a country. We're what five
and a half million, it's like being a city. We're
competing against Australia. Shouldn't the government actually be stepping in
and saying right, this is the main stadium for the country.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Well, much as I would love to speak on behalf
of the government and make big decisions, I really don't
think I should. It'll be up to them to decide. Now.
There are enormous economic benefits that can happen from these,
because huge events can bring in massive tourism and spending
and hotel bed nights and so on. And you can
actually sometimes put a spreadsheet together which shows an investment
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of a few hundred million can get you back multiple
numbers of that. But that would be for central government
to make a decision. I think at Council while we're
sitting on a close to fifteen billion of debt, while
we're struggling to how to pay bills, and while we're
trying not to make the rate payers pay rates and
increases that all make your eyes water. We really haven't
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got an ability to start playing in this game as well.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And what are your constituents saying to you? What's the
public saying to you when you're out?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
And about everybody I talk to is keen on Eden Park.
There's a sort of a love affair with Eden Park
based on its history, where it's been my concern about
anything that was to be built down on the waterfront,
and it's a pretty sensible concern, I think, is that
if you build on the waterfront, you want something that's
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looking out, you know, the harbor view. So you build
apartments and restaurants and hotels, and they all got their
glass windows looking at their beautiful view. That's its value.
But if you build a stadium, it's looking in. You
go and sit down in your seat and you're looking
at the grass inside. So I would have thought the
last thing you would do is build a big stadium
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down on the waterfront, which is main feature is it's
phenomenal view of the most iconic harbor going. So I'm
a big fan of the old history of Eden Park.
But you know we're going to have an open mind
when we're brief. But my very first question is if
we're not funding this, why are we considering this at all?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Good question, Marris Williamson, have a good meeting on Thursday.
Text through Hospitals and infrastructure are more important than another stadium.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
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Speaker 2 (32:27):
I think Marris Williamson is right. If the council says
they're not going to put any funding into a stadium,
and the reports here is it's not feasible without public funding,
why are you even talking about it? What a glorious
waste of time. And Mike Hoskin, you're talking to Martin Snead. Yeah,
i'd like to well, I wish I wasn't.
Speaker 14 (32:45):
Not that I don't like Martin Sneddon, because I do
because he's a good bloke, but I mean the irony
and I do apologize to the rest of the country
this morning for literally boring them witless about yet another
inept Auckland thing that isn't going to happen. But Sneddon
was in charge of the Cup in twenty eleven, so
you know, do the math. And even then in twenty eleven,
we were talking about it then as a thing and
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what we were going to do. If there's ever an
example of everything that is wrong with this country, and
we've got Chris Hepkins on today to talk about this
alleged cooperation on the Arima and getting things done faster,
so that'll go nowhere either. So if there's any if
you ever want an example of everything that's wrong with
this country, our inability to actually make a decision. Brisbane
(33:29):
yesterday one hundred day review and they came out with
a they said we're going to build a stadium for
the Olympics. One hundred days. We're going to do it
three point seven billion dollars. Thanks for coming. You know,
make it decision, get on with it or bugger off.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Exactly right, all right, Thank you so much. Producer Kenzie,
thank you for your work today. My name Changer. I
can see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Here we go halfway through the week. Good morning to
you and welcome to the program, and thank you so
much for choosing us. Coming up over the next sixty minutes,
Australia releases their budget. So where are our neighbors at?
Where's our biggest export market at. We'll have that story
for you shortly. Employers are still not confident to employ
so what are they worried about? We'll have that story
(00:33):
in ten and the Aucklands Stadium kafuffle countslor Morris Williamson
is going to join us just before six. We'll have
correspondence from right around New Zealand and the world. Gavin
Gray from the UK and news as it breaks, and
you can have your say by using the text. There's
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It is seven minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It's Wednesday, the twenty sixth of March and first of
the Russian Ukraine War. The White House has just confirmed
both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to ensure a safe
passage for commercial shipping and stop all military strikes in
the Black Sea. Washington released separate statements meeting with representatives
from both countries in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine has agreed to
(01:18):
stop military force in the Black Sea, but adds any
movement of Russian naval vessels would be a violation of
the agreement. To America and President Trump's administration is under
fire for adding an American journalist to a private group
chat which contains sensitive US military information about their air
strikes on Yemen. Here's an idea of what was supposedly
said in the chat. Vice President JD. Vance said I
(01:42):
hate bailing Europe out again, and Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth replied,
I fully share your loathing of European free loading its pathetic.
Editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldboyerg, was the
journalist added by security advisor Michael Watts, and he says
the official were lucky it was him.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
According to everything I understand, they're not supposed to be
doing this on commercial messaging aims. They got quite lucky
that they included my phone number in that they're going
to pick an errand phone number. I mean at least
it wasn't somebody who supported the Hoothies, because they were
actually handing out information that I believe could have endangered
the lives of American service people who were involved in
that operation.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And several members of the CHAT have been testifying at
an already scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. We're told together
the Director of National Intelligence declined to confirm whether she
was in the CHAT or not. And to Australia, we've
already mentioned the government has released as twenty twenty five
federal budget. Treasurer Jim Charmers revealed the budget is in
the red, with a deficit of more than thirty billion
(02:44):
dollars for the twenty four to twenty five financial year.
Its plan includes nearly nineteen billion dollars in planned tax
cuts from next year. And this was Jim Chalmers speaking
in the Australian Parliament last night.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
This budget is our plan for a new generation of
prosperity in a new world of uncertainty. It's a plan
to help finish the fight against inflation, rebuild living standards
and maximize our national advantages into the future.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But he would say that, wouldn't he. And finally, an
update on Turkey, where a sixth night of protests have
been underway and a seventh night planned over the detention
of the city's mayor, Ekremmglu A Mamglu, of course, is
Turkey's President's president Etwan's main political rival. He's now been
charged with corruption and the Turkish government has already confirmed
more than eleven hundred people have been arrested since the
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protest began.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I just want to live my life.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I mean everyone else thinks to see.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, no one wants.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
To be here normal everyone wants to be at the hall,
but he and the artists trying to be democracy back.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
We here because of the mayor of the stumble at Mamola,
but after everyone realized how bad contrastitation is because of
the economy, inflation and because of justice.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Same song all over the world. It's eleven minutes out
to five.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis Early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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Speaker 2 (04:14):
Sidy So Yes. The Australian government has delivered its budgets.
Its tax cuts are plenty, seventeen point one billion dollars
set to head back into Australian's back pockets. There was
also Medicare funding, energy relief and twenty percent off all
student loans. So one analyst came out and said, it's
the cup of coffee a week budget, and that makes sense.
(04:35):
On average, Australian taxpayers will get about two hundred and
seventy dollars back in their pocket over the whole tax year,
two hundred and seventy bucks and over fifty two weeks.
That's actually not even enough for a cup of coffee,
which is a reminder to all that tax cuts are
not the windfall that people sometimes believe. But no matter
how small they are, they still cost the state plenty.
(04:59):
We've found that out with our fourteen billion dollar tax cut,
which barely made a daily difference to us did it
of course while inflation kept on eroding our wallets. But
if our government still had that fourteen billion dollars in
their hands, it might be handy when they face so
many infrastructure deficits and of course the interest payments. The
other headline out of the Australian budget is that they're
(05:20):
expecting ten years of deficits ten years of them. It's
another example that it's not just us up the proverbal creek.
We're going to look at this in five minutes time
with an Australian correspondent. Twelve after five. What's the number
one global enemy? What do you reckon? I can tell
(05:43):
you the number one global enemy these days appears to
be the public servant. Everywhere has worken up from its
stupor and realized that public servants have been multiplying like rabbits.
The latest is the United Kingdom, where the chances are there.
Rachel Reeves, a labor politician, has announced a wholesale reduction
(06:04):
of fifteen percent of all public servants and she promises
this will not affect frontline services, but the proof of
that will be in the execution. So you add the
UK to what's happening in America with their Doge campaign,
our own pruning of the public service, and then you
realize that all countries in the world are facing the
same issues. A public service that has been allowed to
(06:25):
balloon to an untenable size. It reminds me of the
bad old days here in New Zealand, when New Zealand
Rail was allowed to expand to a massive workforce because
it made unemployment figures look better than the politicians of
the day like that. Now you think, faced with this
around the world and with the numbers that they see,
even public servants might realize that they've been taking the mickey,
(06:49):
but they don't. Just yesterday I had a PSA secretary
on the program definitively saying that there are no more
efficiencies to be found in our public service. You reckon.
That is a claim the public services paymasters. That's you
and I the taxpayer, just don't believe the public service
(07:12):
is reducing worldwide. The public service has to reduce worldwide.
We can't afford it. And if the bureaucrats want the
job to be done fairly and equitably and efficiently, they
should get on board.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's Andrew Dickens.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's five fourteen. So we'll look at the Australian budget
in a few moments time, and shortly, in about five
seven minutes time, we're going to look at the employment confidence,
which in this country is down again to the lowest
level seen since post COVID in twenty twenty. So why
when there are green shoots in the economy, our employers
not employing. It's a big story and it's coming shortly
(07:48):
here on News talks hereb it's five point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
and One Room Make your Property Search Simple News Talks.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It'd be sixteen minutes after five. The Australian government released
its twenty twenty five budget last night. Key focuses on
the cost of living. Australians are getting tax cuts seventeen
billion dollar set to return to their pockets. Are the
winners where healthcare, student debt holders, energy bills. Treasurer Jim
Charmers says this is a budget for a new generation
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of prosperity, despite the fact he's got ten years of deficits.
And he says this is happening in a new world
of uncertainty.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Trade disruptions are rising, China's growth is slowing, war is
still raging in Europe and a ceasefire in the Middle
East is breaking down.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, that's inspiring. Australian correspondent Leslie Yeomans is covering it
for us and joins us now and she's got up
very early. Leslie, good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Good morning Andrews.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So is this what people wanted?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Well, I guess some people will think it's okay. What
We have to put into a into our mind here though,
that this is basically an election near budget going to
be going to the polls sometime soon, and this is
given tried to give everyone a little bit of everything,
I guess, but it is only just a little bit.
As you mentioned, there's seventeen billion dollars worth of tax cuts,
(09:13):
which sounds like a lot, but that's probably going to
work out too about for the average for the average
income and are probably about five dollars a week possibly,
and then they won't be coming into effect until the
new financial year. What else, sort of similar to last
year's budget to the cost of living relief, some extra
(09:34):
money for education, they'll be strengthening medicare, building more homes,
and people will also be getting a little bit of
help more help with their rising energy bills. Those energy
rebates they've been extended to the end of this year
and they'll be giving households around one hundred and fifty
dollars extra a year. They're also with students still have
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people with HEX debts, UNI students who are still trying
to pay off their HEX debts. They're going to be helped.
Their debts are going to be cut a rye around
twenty percent, and there'll also be a different way that
they'll be able to pay it back. They won't have
to that the actual earning rate is going to be
lifted so that when their actual payoff payments cutting will
(10:19):
be higher now. And one of the things it's interesting
to trying to appeal to people who have been trying
to buy a home. The government's going to ban foreign
buyers from purchasing existing homes in Australia for the next
two years and that will start next month. And it's
just a bid to try and get more people to
be able to purchase an existing home here.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Which is the complete opposite of what we're doing. Funnily enough,
and as you mentioned right at the beginning, you guys
are heading to the polls shortly, so do you think
this will sway people's decisions at all or is it
a bit underwhelming?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I think the government's hoping it will sway people's decisions.
Whether it will or not, who knows. I mean, it's
really hard to tell. The government's been in a situation
over the last few months when you read some of
the social media comments and even look at some of
the polling. The polling hasn't been super bad for the government,
(11:18):
but a lot of comments you see from people saying
that the government's just been underwhelming absolutely that it sort
of keeps telling you that it's doing stuff but it
doesn't show or sort of actually a show is what
it is doing. There's a lot of talk and there's
a lot of defensive people sort of saying, yes, we're
doing this, that and the other thing, but you don't
(11:38):
actually see a lot of stuff. A lot of people
have been underwhelmed and disappointed by the government because it
was saying when it first came into power, but it
was going to get all these things done, and then
very little happened or appeared to happen. So it's just
been you just have to wait and see who knows,
who knows what can happen between now and polling day.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Humans from Australia, I thank you for your time. Beer drinkers,
by the way, will be happy. They're going to freeze
the draft beer excise indexation. That means the government misses
out on two hundred million dollars in tax revenue. It's
a win for beer drinkers, brewers and hospitality. It's five
twenty one. Why are our employers not employing that question
and maybe some answers. Next twenty three.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make your property search
simple If you talks, it'd be so.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Employment confidence is once again down across the country. People
struggle with job security and recruitment. The Westpact McDermott Miller
Employment Confidence Index has dropped to eighty eight point three.
This is the lowest level since September twenty twenty, a
level last scene post COVID in twenty twenty. Tom O'Neil
is an employment expert and a manager of CV dot
(12:51):
co dot nz and is with me this morning? Is
he indeed with me here this morning?
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
There he is up there. I found to tell you
we're missing on my computer screen. Good morning to you.
Why our employers still pessimistic?
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Ah, look, you know it's I think obviously we've got,
you know, the specter of tariffs from America, and I
just think it's it's the massively bad hangover of just
all the facts that have been sort of conspiring against
New Zealand over the last for the three or five years.
And it's interesting there's next messages out there. The seek
(13:35):
had an employment report that just came out recently, you know,
the job board, and they set after two years of
steady decline in job ed volumes, the past eight months
has been brought to be flat. Now. I know that
doesn't sound like good news. That's just some degree it's
shine that actually, you know, I think I liked to
(13:56):
think we've actually now flat out. And you know, as
the year progresses, and you know, as hopefully the Tara
Stone turn into something that is going to be massively
destructive for our economy, we can most fortant actually even
have a bump floater in the.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Year, hope. So a lot of people are playing for
jobs right now. But you can smell the desperation, can't you?
Speaker 9 (14:19):
Oh? Absolutely absolutely. And this is the thing being a
candidate out there, you know you need to you need
to try and push that desperation down. I sort of
describe it like being a duck. You see a duck
on a lake swimming along the top half of the
duck is all nice and calming downstairs under the water,
(14:39):
but you know it's there to think going crazy. And
that's what we need to do when we candidates when
we going to the market. And it's a horrible thing
to say that. The end of the day, employers smell desperation.
They really really do. And so it's important during that
whole interview time, anytime in touch with employers, you just
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put on that top half of the Dutch, you know,
you just put on that brave confidence failure and just
get out there.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I call it. I call it put on your big
boy pats and just go in there with confidence. Tom
O'Neil from CV dot co dot NS and thank you
so much for your time. It's five twenty six.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
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Talks, ITV News So Big I wanted to I'm Andrew
Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. So Auckland looks like it's doing
it again, dilly delling and decision making about big stuff.
A council advisory group has informed us at neither the
fancy waterfront stadium nor an upgrade of Eden Parker considered feasible.
The full Council still has to vote on it on Thursday,
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and so we'll see if anyone has any balls to
actually do anything. Now, by not feasible, they mean not viable.
Without public funding. So we don't seem to have a
charitable billionaire in our midst so the dough would have
to come from the public purse. And this is a
question that every major city wrestles with. Other cities seemed
to be braver this week. Brisbane casually announced a new
stadium to host the Olympics, calmly putting nearly four billion
(16:06):
dollars on the line. We are a growing nation and
we need a national stadium, and we need a venue
for the events that come, whether it's big sport or
big concerts or monster trucks. We'll see how much fun
for you Eden Park has been this week, three different
sports in one week. We need a venue that's modern,
complete and full of character and recognize around the world.
I love stadiums. I'm super excited about Canterbury's Takaha Forsyth
(16:30):
Bar is great and sky stadium or you need new
seats and maybe a roof. But what do I want
for Auckland now? First, I have to admit that I,
like many others, have gone to eden Park events for free,
both from eden Park and also businesses. Okay, that taken,
I would be happy for the waterfront stadium to go ahead.
We would never regret it in forty years time. I'm
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also happy for an Eden Park upgrade. After all, Sydney
completely ripped down the Sydney Football Stadium and rebuilt it.
But it really is time for someone to put their
on the block and just do it. We've been talking
about this ever since the World Cup. Every city needs
a cathedral and every nation needs a national stadium, and
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it needs to be iconic. Let's do it all right.
On the way, we're going to run you through the
Russian Ukraine Black Sea ceasefile, which has only just been
announced in the last forty minutes. Gavin Gray from the UK.
I'm Andrew Dickens. This is Newstalk zmb OH.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I get this in with.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
News and views you trust to start your day. It's
the early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof. Make
your property search simple if you.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Talk sid me, Thank you boy to you, Welcome to
your Wednesdays. Thank you for du I'm Andrew Dickens in prow.
I turned sixty a while ago and I realize I
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have absolutely no desire to stop working. I don't want
to chill out, I don't want to retire. I like
to work. Yes, I want flexibility, and yes I want
a bit of free time to go to the beach
and have a swim. But I like work. I like
meeting people. I like feeling as though I'm productive, I'm healthy.
I feel like I'm still thirty. I'm active, I still
have experience to share. In fact, I have experience because
I'm older. I think many are like that because data
(18:24):
from Stats New Zealand shows there are nearly two hundred
thousand New Zealanders age sixty five or older still in
the workforce, and good on you, ninety thousand are aged
over seventy. And wait for this, there are one than
two hundred and fifty seven people aged over ninety who
are still working. Fantastic, some of that work's a bit
(18:46):
hefty too. Over sixty five's made up ten point three
percent of machinery operators and drivers. Eight percent of them
are laborers. Yeah, this is a white collars. Seven percent
of professionals and nine point one percent of managers. Look.
New Islanders like to work, and the older we get,
the better we get at it. So the message is
to all employers, get yourself some old guys on staff.
(19:08):
They're worth their weight. And gold. However, on the flip side,
it's just been announced that George Clooney has said that,
at sixty three, he is now too old to play
romantic leads, which is fair enough. I think we want
you on the tools, George, not chasing some tail that
could be your daughter. And by the way, George, I'm
not a fan of your coffee ads either. I really
(19:29):
just don't get them. It's been two all right, let's
go right around the country. Callum Proctor joins us from Danedan.
Good morning to you. Callum, good morning. What's the shakedown
after this big shake yesterday south of Southland?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Yeah, this was the six point eight magnitude quake felt
by many here scentered west of Stuart Island that struck
at two forty three pm yesterday at a depth of
twelve kilometers. Seismologists are saying this large earthquake struck on
an area which is known to generate big shakes. There
was no threat to la but unpredictable surges and after
(20:01):
shocks are predicted for the coming days. Dr finn Nelsley
Kemp's from Victoria University. He says there's been two quakes
over a seven magnitude in that area since two thousand
and four, but it's an area that's poorly understood.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
He says.
Speaker 10 (20:16):
It's remote and offshore, so not a lot of research
has been done on it compared to the subduction zone
under the North Island.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And how's your weather?
Speaker 10 (20:24):
That's mainly fine today like wins and a high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Two crash years we go, Claire, sure were good morning
to you. Good morning. One of Christtution's new charter schools
is already looking to expand.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Yes, already, Andrew, that's right. Mastery Schools in New Zealand
Ada Parky is currently sitting at sixty four students at
its new site at Hillsborough. This is after its grand
opening in February. Now it's aiming already to be opening
a year two to three class from term three of
this year. Principal Rose mcinernie says most of the original
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interest had come from years four to eight students, and
that's because students in that age group are more like
to have more obvious or more awareness about learning difficulties.
But now there's increasing demand and so moving younger. Unsure
though whether they'll ever go as young as year one.
McInerney says, more people have discovered about the school and
how students are benefiting from.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
The learning there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Very cool. What a your weather?
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Some cloudy periods in northeasterly is developing this morning high
of nineteen.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Max told joins me from Wellington, Hellimax, good morning. So
we've got a Wellington MP. You got stuck into the cops.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah, exactly. This is a Green MP once again under
fire for comments made about the judicial system, this time
at a university panel discussion. Tamitha Paul, she's Wellington's central MP,
told this panel she'd heard nothing but complaints about police
beat controls across the country. The discussion incidentally called a
radical alternative to policing. Paul wants to see police disestablished effectively.
(21:54):
She believes Wellingtonians at all don't want to see offices
on the streets. In the past, Sammatha Paul has also
incorrectly claimed the vast majority of people in prison and
therefore nonviolent offenses. The Police Minister Mirk Mitchell has responded
saying Paul is talking absolute nonsense. There's very clear evidence
that people feel safer with police around, and there's been
(22:15):
a large decrease in violent crime in areas that their
community big teams have been deployed.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Must be lovely on her planet anyway. How's your weather?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
A little cloud otherwise fine? Twenty the High Central and.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Neva Rettimano who joined us from Auckland. Hello, greetings, So
the government's being asked to turn up the tempo on Auckland.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
That's right, the development. So this is Project Auckland. Now,
this is a herald lead initiative. It's kicking off later today.
Now there's going to be a speech from Infrastructure Minister
Chris Bishop. This is happening at the Northern Club. The
Project Auckland editor. Now, this is Breno O'Sullivan. We're seeing
a great deal of change in the super city, a
lot of urban rebuilds and major projects on the way.
(22:54):
She says, Look, the city's in a good place, and
you know we've got the projects like the City rail Link,
the International Convention Center nearing completion. So you know, really
the city in the regional deals, they provide this opportunity
to address New Zealand's infrastructure deficit. So O'Sullivan says, it
really is up to you know, Auckland Council on the government,
play nicely, play nicely and just lift that level for
(23:15):
the ambition here for Auckland City.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I've always seen Auckland will be great if we ever
finish it. Now, how's Hawkan's weather?
Speaker 12 (23:21):
Well, morning cloud, then find another good one for us.
Twenty threes are high.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I thank you, Neva. And of course I've starting to
callum before about the earthquakes south of the South Island,
which brought warnings of excessive sea movement. Guess what We've
got more activity under the ground. Facardi White Island is
stirring fresh explosive activity at the volcano has ejected ballistic
blocks over six hundred meters from the vent. Temperature at
that vent three hundred and sixty degrees celsius. The volcanicul
(23:48):
level remains at two. If you live in the area,
you may notice ash and it may stink of rotten excess.
The sulf is coming out. This is during northerly winds,
but otherwise the coast remains unaffected earthquakes and volcanoes. We
live in a dynamic country, at least geologically. Gavin Gray
from the UK in just a few moments time, because
about an hour ago, finally a concrete movement in the
(24:10):
Russian Ukraine conflict. More on netnix.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's seventeen to six international correspondence with insign Eye Insurance
Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
This it's fourteen to six until the UK we go
and Kevin Gray joins us Hellkevin either okay, we actually
have some movement in the Ukraine Russian conflict, a ceasefire
in the Black Sea.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
Yes, so we think there andrew Black Sea now should
be safe passage for commercial shipping. As the American officials
meeting with Ukraine and Russian representatives is broken up within
the last hour, and now the Ukraine is agreeing to
stop any military force in the Black Sea, but it
says any movement of the Russian naval vessels based of
(24:55):
course in Crimea and in Russia would be a breaking
of under violation of this agreement. In return, we understand
Russia is demanding that the sanctions currently in place on
the banks, the insurers, the food exporters must be lifted first.
They're demanding that before the Black Sea cease far as
(25:15):
it were. They also want to reconnect with SWIFT. That's
the network that facilitates secure banking and financial messaging between
banks now Zelenski. President Zelenski says if Russia violates the
treaty then he wants sanctions reimposed and more weapons. We're
expecting to find out more details later. But Andrew also
with this, has of course been revelations about this chat
(25:38):
between JD. Vans, the numb deputy to Donald Trump, and
Pete Heskeert the Defense Secretary, with Jdvans talking about freedom
of navigation and around that the bombing of the Hooties
with the quote just hate bailing out the europe again,
to which the Defense Secretary Pete Hesker said, I fully
share your loading of European freeloading.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
It's pathetic.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
No news yet on a response from European leaders about that.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Now here's the thing. I even knew that the Isle
of Man had its own government and they've been voting
on the right to choose the right to choose to
in their own lives legislation. It's been approved by the Parliament.
It can now go to Royal a scenes So tell
us about this story.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Yes, So this is a.
Speaker 13 (26:21):
Large island really off Liverpool, between Central Mainland UK and
Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man has its own
legislative set of parliament, but it falls within the UK Parliament,
but it does have its own rules and regulations and
its own ability to make its own laws, and they
are now potentially anyway going to be the first place
(26:44):
in the United Kingdom which allows assisted dying. Now the
whole process will possibly be implemented within the next year
or so, the Parliament in the Isle of Man needs
to give its blessing first and that will mean it
become the first place within the British asles to allow
right to die. But that has to be for people
(27:06):
who have a prognosis left to live of twelve months
or fewer. It is only available to those aged over
eighteen and in a bid to prevent what you might
call assisted dying tourism, where somebody from the Mainland who
can't undergo assisted dying goes to the Isle of Man
for assisted dying, there is a minimum residency period. All
(27:26):
this comes as Whitehall, the main government for the UK,
slightly set a time tied about how it's going to
approach this new law, with the latest theory that even
if it gets the go ahead, it could take up
to four years to implement it. Something the Isle of
man seems capable of doing much faster.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Kevin Gray from the UK, I thank you. It's eleven
to six Dickens all right. The organ stadium debate, Wayne
Brown said, let's just put this to bid was hitting
up Thursday. They're going to have a council vote on this,
and the officials have received a report on the two options,
and that report warns that both eden Park and Key
Parks proposals aren't feasible without public funding. Eden Park two
(28:06):
point zero, for instance, will require at least one hundred
and ten million dollars alone from Central Government for its
initial stage one plan, and that's just the North stand.
So Marris Williamson is an organd councilor who will be
sitting around the table on Thursday and trying to make
a decision about all of this, and joins us our
good morning to here Morris, good funning. Of course, they're
not feasible without public investment. Wasn't that a given right
(28:28):
from the start?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Yeah, I would have thought so. They are huge projects
with huge sums of money, and I would have thought, well,
I've still got a lot of questions, says, you can understand,
we haven't had our meeting yet and one of my
questions is why are we involved in this? If these
people are going to do it themselves and they can
fund it and so on, well then we don't need
to be involved. And if we are being involved and
(28:51):
we're saying, well, we're not going to fund anything, it's
almost sort of a double entendre here, I.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Think absolutely, And yet Wayne Brown said put this to bed,
this this come up with a decision, and yet at
the same time it appears if you don't want to
be part of the public funding of it all, it's
never going anywhere. This has been a waste of time.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
My question, I think I want to answer it on
Thursday is why are we being brought into this now?
We can obviously provide some assistance by way of consenting
and helping along the way that might assist the speed
of it, But there are huge chunks of money. If
you look at Eden Park two point one, they're talking
about five hundred million minimum to do this Stage one,
(29:35):
two and then the retractable roof Stage three. So again,
I mean it's pretty clear. I think the mayor has
made it clear in his statements that there will be
no funding from the council, So I guess the proposal
still got the ability to go to central government, but
I wouldn't like the chances there either.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But here's the thing. Eden Park rebranded itself as New
Zealand's national stadium, which every other stadium went what. But
that's okay, it's a branding thing. We need a national stadium.
We need a focus for a country. We're what five
and a half million, it's like being a city. We're
competing against Australia. Shouldn't the government actually be stepping in
and saying right, this is the main stadium for the country.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Well, much as I would love to speak on behalf
of the government and make big decisions, I really don't
think I should. It'll be up to them to decide. Now.
There are enormous economic benefits that can happen from these,
because huge events can bring in massive tourism and spending
and hotel bed nights and so on. And you can
actually sometimes put a spreadsheet together which shows an investment
(30:42):
of a few hundred million can get you back multiple
numbers of that. But that would be for central government
to make a decision. I think at Council while we're
sitting on a close to fifteen billion of debt, while
we're struggling to how to pay bills, and while we're
trying not to make the rate payers pay rates and
increases that all make your eyes water. We really haven't
(31:04):
got an ability to start playing in this game as well.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And what are your constituents saying to you? What's the
public saying to you when you're out?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
And about everybody I talk to is keen on Eden Park.
There's a sort of a love affair with Eden Park
based on its history, where it's been my concern about
anything that was to be built down on the waterfront,
and it's a pretty sensible concern, I think, is that
if you build on the waterfront, you want something that's
(31:31):
looking out, you know, the harbor view. So you build
apartments and restaurants and hotels, and they all got their
glass windows looking at their beautiful view. That's its value.
But if you build a stadium, it's looking in. You
go and sit down in your seat and you're looking
at the grass inside. So I would have thought the
last thing you would do is build a big stadium
(31:52):
down on the waterfront, which is main feature is it's
phenomenal view of the most iconic harbor going. So I'm
a big fan of the old history of Eden Park.
But you know we're going to have an open mind
when we're brief. But my very first question is if
we're not funding this, why are we considering this at all?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Good question, Marris Williamson, have a good meeting on Thursday.
Text through Hospitals and infrastructure are more important than another stadium.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
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Speaker 2 (32:27):
I think Marris Williamson is right. If the council says
they're not going to put any funding into a stadium,
and the reports here is it's not feasible without public funding,
why are you even talking about it? What a glorious
waste of time. And Mike Hoskin, you're talking to Martin Snead. Yeah,
i'd like to well, I wish I wasn't.
Speaker 14 (32:45):
Not that I don't like Martin Sneddon, because I do
because he's a good bloke, but I mean the irony
and I do apologize to the rest of the country
this morning for literally boring them witless about yet another
inept Auckland thing that isn't going to happen. But Sneddon
was in charge of the Cup in twenty eleven, so
you know, do the math. And even then in twenty eleven,
we were talking about it then as a thing and
(33:07):
what we were going to do. If there's ever an
example of everything that is wrong with this country, and
we've got Chris Hepkins on today to talk about this
alleged cooperation on the Arima and getting things done faster,
so that'll go nowhere either. So if there's any if
you ever want an example of everything that's wrong with
this country, our inability to actually make a decision. Brisbane
(33:29):
yesterday one hundred day review and they came out with
a they said we're going to build a stadium for
the Olympics. One hundred days. We're going to do it
three point seven billion dollars. Thanks for coming. You know,
make it decision, get on with it or bugger off.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Exactly right, all right, Thank you so much. Producer Kenzie,
thank you for your work today. My name Changer. I
can see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
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