November 27, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 28th of November 2025, Judith Collins has ordered a public inquiry into the Tom Phillips case, Child Matters CEO Jane Searle tells Ryan what she hopes to see from it.
Jennifer Andrews from Oyster Property Group which manages Dress Mart shares what retailers are hoping for this Black Friday.
The Government's considering moving escooters into cycle lanes as injury costs soar, Cycling Action Spokesperson Patrick Morgan shares his thoughts.
Plus, UK Correspondent Vincent McAviney has the latest on Labour's budget and a limited form of military service being re-introduced in France.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
To be a great Friday, just gone six after five
and great to have your company. We'll look at the
Tom Phillips inquiry before six vincent of the UK for
US migrations down there. It's Black Friday. Government wants the
scooters to ride in bike planes. Plus we've got more
good news on the economy front the agenda. It is Friday,
the twenty eighth of November. These two National Guard soldiers
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that were shot still in a critical condition in DC.
He has judged an en for you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My message to the individual who committed these acts is
you picked the wrong target, the wrong city and the
wrong country, and you'll be sorry for the violence and
the evil that you perpetrated in our nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Turns out the guy she's talking about, the guy who's
alleged have done all of this, did some military work
and affteris done.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I also spoke to Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe
last night and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. There is
confirmation now that the subject had a relationship in Afghanistan
with partner forces. We are fully investigating that aspect of
his background as well to include any known associates that
are either overseas or here in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Now the Wall Street Journal is also reporting this morning
that he had a relationship with the CIA, So we'll
talk about that shortly. Hong Kong, that fire seventy five
did three hundred still missing, very grim. My block is
still on fire now.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
My daughter and my husband are still not out. The
husband of my neighbor has already died.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
More on the charges those guys are facing later. Finally,
this morning, the fifth and final season of Stranger Things
has dropped on Netflix.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
We have a plan.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
It's a bit insane.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, we could go wrong, no idea, but I think
we should find.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
Out everyone in.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I want to see that actor's horrent look.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now, this is underwhelming for two reasons. Firstly, their whole
thing crashed worldwide. The platform crashed worldwide as everyone tries
to log in it at the same time. The second thing,
so they've got four episodes up so far. Reviews are
quite mixed. Apparently the show ceasils between thrilling and annoying.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
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Speaker 2 (02:33):
Never really watched it. I watched a couple of episodes,
never really got into it, but too ironically, a little
too strange for me. Just gone eight minutes after five
nine two nine two is the number to text this morning.
Spent half my day yesterday driving around looking for a
car park. How annoying is that couldn't find one? I
did that trick you know where you go. Hail Mary,
full of grace, please find me a parking space. Didn't work.
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Usually it works. Not that I'm religious, pay park free, park,
I don't care. I just needed to park. Actually, this
is a good thing, and this is how I calmed
myself down yesterday. So this is a good thing. It
means that people are out shopping and they're outspending. A
full street is a healthy street. But we need more
car parks, don't we We need more car I don't
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care where you live in New Zealand, you need more
car parks. The city in Auckland, the CRL doesn't take
you everywhere. Won't take you everywhere it finally opens, it's
not going to take you quickly either. I was chatting
to Nick Saunty yesterday from Eden Park and he wants
to build fifteen hundred car parks at eden Park. Have
a listen.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
We could easily get fifteen hundred car parks on the
outer oval. That would enable then a footbridge into Kingsland,
a master plan for the stadium, and we have that master.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Plan and massive profits for Eden Park.
Speaker 10 (03:47):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So they are massive profits. So the stadium he worked
at in Melbourne, the car park was their single largest
source of revenue more than anything else. No, the concerts,
the rugby, whatever it was, they go gangbusters, they go nuts.
Good luck to them. Note yesterday you know he wants
more concerts. The local board voted against giving him more concerts.
I mean, what a bunch of muppets. Anyway, I had
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to look at the airports this morning because it's the
Similars thing with to Stadia. You drive somewhere, you leave
your car for a while, and you go and do
something fun. In this case, it'd be a holiday. Sydney,
Brisbane and Melbourne car parking is between seven and fifteen
percent of their total revenue. Isn't that fascinating? A few
years back they made a loss on everything else except
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car parking for airports, like the profit margins for these
airports to a pretty incredible forty percent at Melbourne, fifty
eight percent in Brisbane and in Perth. So why are
more of them being built? Maybe they are and I
just haven't seen them. I'm seeing parks being taken away,
but where are the new ones that are there to
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replace thement? And I don't care if we're paying loads
for them? Where are they? No point having an economic
recovery on and shops ready for business when people can't
get there in the first place. Ryan Bridge five eleven
on News Talk SETB. You know the East scooters, the
line scooters that you see driving around. Apparently they're not
allowed to use the bike planes, which I've seen them
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in the bike lane, so they must be breaking the rules. Anyway,
government wants to change those rules. We'll talk about that
next News Talk Set B on your.
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Speaker 2 (05:32):
News Talk set B News Talk SEB. It is five
point thirteen on your Friday morning ride and needing counselor
is busy removing car parking in favor of cycle lanes
and taxi ranks, and that is annoying. The thing is,
you've got to have everything right. The CRL people if
they want to go to Eden Park and they want
to go on a train, they can go on the CRL.
If they want to go on a bus, you can
go on a bus. But some people will want to drive,
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and so they should have a car park. They're available
for them, so let them build the fifteen hundred parks.
I say. Now, let's get to the retail trade numbers
out yesterday, because they were rather good. This is for
September from stats in Z. Retail activity increase one point
nine percent, moving up motor vehicle parts retailing up seven
point two Electronic and electrical goods up nine point eight percent.
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Supermarket grocery stores down one point four that's hopefully a
good thing. Food and beverage services up one point six Hardware,
building and garden supplies up one point seven percent. This
is great, the largest increase by the way since the
December quarter of twenty twenty one for retail activity. It's great.
It's a good sign because it means that for quarter
three GDP should be looking all right. It is fourteen
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after five Grand Bridge Auctually. Adding to all of this
is retailers getting a boost from Black Friday, which is
today now outpacing Boxing Day sales. Thirty nine percent of
us say we do most of our gift shopping on
days just like this one. Jennifer Andrews is Oyster Property
Group and manages Dress Smart Shopping sent Jennifer, good morning,
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Good morning, so what's the plan today.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
We're expecting a really great Black Friday. Back Over the
last few months, it's been a difficult retail time in
New Zealand, but obviously statistics are showing that things are improving.
So we're preparing for a very busy day today. We
have discounts all through the weekend, but particularly Black Friday
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is when most people like to come out to find
the discounts. Consuming New Zealand recently warned that not all
Black Friday deals are what they've seen at Dressmart. Our
promise is to is consistent and we deliver all year
round savings of thirty to seventy percent, and we're a
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true outlet center in terms of that daily discount. But
on Black Friday, retailers office savings that get better than that.
So we really do see it as a very popular
day to come out shopping.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, Jennifer, what's your best deal today? Because it's
thirty to seventy percent off? I mean, can I get
something for ninety percent off today?
Speaker 11 (08:09):
Potentially there are stores that have discounts on top of
that feed for example, which is Women's Where and Children's Where,
they will have a discount on top of their regular discount.
But all of the stores are offering great offers. I
was there yesterday walking through them, and there's just so
many options. I think our retailers are telling us that
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in particular, customers are after luxury guesting brands like Coach
we have, which is a high end brand, but they
have huge discounts on all of their accessories today. And
then summer essentials are really popular at this time of year.
Beach where holiday clothing, get your jail opened.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Get your geneals, get your beach balls. Jennifer, have you
got enough car parks?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
We'd have plenty of car parks. Have you gone over
seven hundred car park.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay, does it get full?
Speaker 11 (09:06):
I think if you come out before say three pm,
the morning's always best. But we manage it really carefully.
We have people walking through making sure that the cars
circulate really well.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
All right.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
So yeah, and you've got the whole weekend. The retailers
keep their discounts going all weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Jennifer looking forward to it, getting out there and spending
some money. Jennifer Andrews with us from Oyster Property Group.
They manage dress Smart shopping center that's in Auckland. Seventeen
minutes after five, we'll be back with cycling next.
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Speaker 2 (09:49):
Be five twenty. This fire in Hong Kong terrible thing
to see and it's bamboo scaffolding around it. That's a
big problem. They also apparently used styrofoam to seal the
windows on all of the floors and that it just
took off. That's what happened. They've arrested three guys. Now,
there was a maintenance firm that was responsible for the building.
(10:09):
They've been arrested on manslaughter. Two of them are directors
and one of them is an engineering consultant, so they've
been locked up already. They're going to face some kind
of charges, potentially manslaughter charges. And the residents who were
inside looking out their windows at the workers on this
bamboo scaffolding said that they were smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Rayham Bridge, you're on news.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Talk, said b The government's considering thinking about moving East
scooters into cycle lanes as injury costs go through the
roof es scooter industries cost ACC nearly fourteen million alone
this year. Patrick Morgan is Cycle Action spokesperson with me
this morning. Good morning, Patrick, Good morning Mayne. Are you
happy to share a lane with a limescooter? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (10:53):
This is long overdue. It makes sense for this to happen.
Pedestrians really don't want es scooters on the footpath and
off on our streets can be quite hostile for people,
so it makes sense to put estcooters on bike lanes.
But we're going to need a lot more bike planes,
aren't we.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You just had to do it, didn't you. You had
to go there, Patrick? How many more bike planes do
we need?
Speaker 12 (11:18):
Look, modern cities give people choices about how they get around,
whether you walk, bike, take the car, the bus, whatever.
Eastcooter is a part of modern cities. They're here to stay,
but they need to be managed properly. And that's why
it's good news that the government is at last updating
the law to permit them in bike lanes.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
No get that, but how many more bike lanes do
you reckon? We need?
Speaker 12 (11:44):
We don't need a bikeplane on every street, No one's
asking for that. What we need is bike planes on
busy streets where people want to go, so to get
people to our schools, workplaces, shops. There's a trend in
modern cities for people to get around by bike. You
by conscuter. So I think councilors and the government need
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to restart building bike planes to meet public demand.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Right. And is that demand there? Because last time I
we spent hundreds and millions of dollars probably over billions
now on cycle ways across the country and cycle networks
across the country, and yet there's still only two percent
of us commuting to work on them according to the census.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yeah, okay, you've got to be aware of that.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
We haven't spent nearly that much. Bikelanes are the best
bang for bucket and transport. They're cheap to do, you
can roll them out quickly. There's huge public demand.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
We can see that, and some of them, some of
them are cost tens and millions of dollars for a
little tiny one.
Speaker 12 (12:45):
It just doesn't add up to the number you said.
What we've got is do you know how much we
had Wellington? It's well under that. But they are great
dolly for money because they reduce congestion, they get people
where they're going, and they also give people the choices
to get around the modern city. So for example, in
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Wellington we have added thirty two kilometers of bike lanes
in just about four years. On some of them. The
numbers have doubles in just over a year's time. That's
what success looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Doubled from what to what.
Speaker 12 (13:22):
I think the numbers and went around four not around
four thousand people get around by bike every single day
in the numbers even hard it's not imagine all those
people on the bass.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know, do you know? Because the number who are
commuting to work is an interesting one, isn't it? And
that hasn't changed really in the sensus the two most
recent A.
Speaker 12 (13:44):
No, that's not true at all. It's been going up
in Wellington for over a Decade's familiar with also in
christ Church. When you're built a good network, people use it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But are they? I mean are they? It's like two percent.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
The sensus only measures the journey to work. The trouble
without is that it doesn't count the journeys that many
people make, for example, people make in their local communities,
that children make to school children under fifteen, So we
know that the numbers are much higher than that. We
also know that people deserve to be safe and by
planes keep people safe. How can you put a price
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on that?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
All right, Patrick, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for
being with me. Patrick Morgan's Cycling Action spokesperson. It is
twenty four minutes after five News TALKSVB. We'll look at
some on some fallout from that RB and Z report
yesterday the.
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Talks B, News TALKSB. It is five twenty six. This
rbn Z update this week made the point that yes
we are and bounce back mode. It's back on everybody.
We will grow two and a half percent next year,
they reckon, But this country needs more than that, and
it deserves more than that. The problem for us is,
and how has been for many years, in fact, probably
thirty years now, productivity, how much we get out for
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what we put in. We went sideways, and just recently
it's been falling. As you know, this is a bad thing.
It's taking us more people, more resources to make less stuff.
It puts a ceiling on our success. It's a wealth killer.
Some reckon. It's the canary in the coal mine, the
thing we should care about most because we're basically sleepwalking
(15:26):
into third world status, which sounds a bit dramatic, like
falling asleep on a plane and waking up in a
different country. One day, we will wake up outside of
the OECD. Wouldn't that feel a bit gutting? The solution
in part is AI. The World Economic Forum has put
some numbers on this. They show it can boost labour
productivity and developed countries by up to forty percent over
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fifteen years. Imagine if we achieved something even close to that. Here.
The richer your country, the more you gain, which stands
to reason because higher labor costs incentivize switching to AI
to save on your wage bills. Right, the economic upswing
that we're seeing right now is a business cycle uplift.
They go up, they go down. But if you're talking
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about making this country a serious economic contender on the
world stage as we once were, then you need a plan,
you need a strategy, you need electricity and a shrake
ton of it, and you need to get rid of
a whole bunch of regulations. Do we have those things
right now? No, but we need to. I'm hoping that
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next year at the election, more than a tax cut
here or a medicard there, somebody from some parties somewhere
I don't even care, which paints us a credible path
towards prosperity and wealth again, because Lord knows we need it.
Pry and Bridge News TALKSB twenty nine minutes Our five.
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A couple of techs for you this morning, morning, Ryan.
We needed a new washing machine, and we did our research,
decided on a brand and a model. It was acquired
in the Black Friday Sale for eight hundred and eighty
two dollars, but retail price was one thy fifty five,
a huge saving of one hundred and seventy three dollars.
That's just a normal sale price, says Michael. Nothing spectacular.
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I don't know that's that seems quite good to me.
Ryan's cycle lanes have created congestion because they take away
the car parks. Ryan, I work in South Auckland. Never
seen a person on a bike in the bike plane,
says Mark. Someone else wants East scooters to have a
speed limit on them. I think they do in some
areas if you're around a congested area. We're in the UK.
Next then the Tom Phillips Inquiry, News Talks vb.
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Speaker 2 (17:50):
Twenty four away from six year on news Talks ZIRB
on your Friday morning, coming up to look at the
Tom Phillips Inquiry. Vincent's in the UK for US, the
migration numbers are down there. They're quite happy about, thank
you very much. A funny story out of Australia. They
are absolutely ropeable, especially the farmers over there about their
new Bureau of Meterology Forecaster. They've done a revamp of
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their website and be like met Service here. If they
revamp the website and one morning you log in to
check you whether and the whole thing is just upside down.
That's what's happened, by the way, in New South Wales outback,
New South Wales forty four point eight degrees yesterday, quite hot.
We thought twenty six was bad in Auckland anyway. So
they call it the bomb, the Bureau of Meteorology. So
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the Bomb changes its website. Been planning the change for years.
It's now a disaster. The hashtag that's trending is change
it back. That's gone viral. They did a new color
scheme for the rain radar. No one can understand it.
The farmers are furious. The fishermen are furious because they
can no longer put in their GPS coordinates of where
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they are in Australia and then it will give them
a specific forecast, and they just absolutely outraged. This gets worse.
So they're hot under the collar already right because of
the temperature and of the new layout, and then they
get the news drops on them like a big bike
a bomb. The cost for the revamp of the website
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was supposed to be four million dollars. The total cost
of the redesign ninety six point five million dollars. Bryan Bridge,
I know twenty two away from Sex. Let's get to
our reporters around the country. Colum in Toned and Colum
good morning morning, right, big power cut there today?
Speaker 13 (19:39):
Yeah, a lot of people waking up here to know
power this morning. More than two thousand seven hundreds of
eating households and facts are currently without power, with the
crews still working around to try and pinpoint the.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Cause of this major outage.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
Aurora Energy says electricity was cut initially to about six
and a half thousand customers at around three point thirty
this morning. The suburbs affected it from Port Chalmers to
Northeast Valley and teams are still investigating what triggered this
mass loss of supply.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Do they know when the power will be back on?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
At the stage?
Speaker 13 (20:10):
No word at the stage.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Ok. How's your weather?
Speaker 13 (20:13):
Our showers possible for our Friday today? A north easterly
and nineteen the high cheers.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Callum clear, good morning, good morning. So christ Church will
be the new site for this arebus Memorial?
Speaker 14 (20:24):
Yes, that's right of course. Today Mark's forty six years
since two hundred and fifty seven people died when that
Air New Zealand flight slammed into the mountain in Antarctica
in nineteen seventy nine. We knew already that two christ
Church sites had been formally offered by our council. We
had Craycroft Reserve, which is in Cashmere, effectively in the Porthills,
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and also a spot on the Avon River, of course,
after a plan to build one in Auckland was aborted.
The Airline Pilots Association president Andrew McKean says christ Church
is New Zealand's gateway to Antarctica, so it makes sense
to have a memorial here, given the flight was intended
to stop over before returning to Auckland. But christ Churge
mayor Film Major, says he welcomes those impacted by the
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tragedy to the city to remember their loved ones and
what he calls a tranquil spot of the porthills. He
says the city holds a place in the tragedy. As
the plane was due to land here.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It certainly was how's your weather?
Speaker 14 (21:18):
High cloud clearing to find this morning westerly is developing
before turning easterly. The high will be twenty six excellent.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Thank you, Claire Max and Wellington Max, good morning morning.
Oh you've got a story about parking, paid parking being
put on ice. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:33):
This is in Petoni, the Lower Hut Harbour side suburb,
but lovely area I visit quite often. I can tell
you about a year ago the Hut City Council for
the first time introduced paid parking along the high street
Jackson Street. To say it was controversial, wo'd probably be
a bit of an understatement. I've tried to dodge it
myself a few times and never been picked up. But
one business owner told me it certainly is well enforced.
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People are pinged all the time. Hut City has a
new man, now well known, Ken Laban. He's probably been
hearing an earful from locals on the campaign trail and
so over the Christmas and New Year period. The hud
City Council has announced it's very graciously suspending the enforcement
of paid parking on Jackson Street and on another nearby
large car park. Apparently time limits will still remain. I'm
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not sure how strict that will be, but good good
Ken Laban says it marks the start of a longer
conversation around parking in the area. Business is down for
what's a wonderful street. Perhaps this bit of bureaucratic greed
may eventually be reversed for good.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Sounds like your popular mere already. How's your weather?
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Yes, periods of rain this morning, clearing later strong wind
twenty one nice one, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Neiva in Auckland, Good morning, theres Auckland Transport's got a
bus thing going on. What's going on?
Speaker 15 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (22:50):
So look what's happened is it? Dozens of bus stops
in Auckland. They've been lived without benches, you know, the benches,
the seats and apparently they've been stolen, likely for metal
so ats. Notified police and what we know so far
is it's sixty five of its three thousand bus shelters
have been left with no seats. Rebecca Tempoole, she's the spokesperson.
(23:11):
She says that it uses this is hilarious anti theft
bolting on the seats, right, yeah, but unfortunately these bolts
haven't been enough to stop the thefts.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What are people doing with the seats to putting them
in their gardens?
Speaker 10 (23:24):
No, well they're just taking them in, you know, like
stolen for scrap metal. Because I think it's in the
middle of the night I think, you know, people go
running around and they steal a lot of the it's
even like plugs at cemeteries and things like that.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Most awful. If they had buses, like if we had
public transport that came more often. You don't need to
sit down, like when you know, when you're in London
on the underground, no one's sitting waiting out under standing
because it's three minutes to your next train.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
But you do need to sit down In Auckland, could
they should give you a bed? And I feel sorry
for older people as well, because you know what not
that I take public dreads. Well, when I'm driving past
and everyone's standing, I went, oh, but you know, if
you've got older people, yeah, yeah, and encouraging, you need
to sit down.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, it's just a need bus stop, hotels, that's the really.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Because in Mount Eden apparently Mount Eden Road is one
of the worst and they've you know, like aight's gone
down there and there's been like five or six of
those bus stops been hit.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
How's our weather?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Clowny? Few showers, possibly heavy and thundery from afternoon twenty
five is the high and other hot one?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Thank you never seventeen away from six a couple of
quick things. We've had loads of text on the cycle ways,
as you can imagine. And we spoke to Patrick Morgan
from the Cycle Action Network earlier in the program and
I said, oh, there's hundreds of millions a dollar to
spend on these cycle ways and I was like, maybe
it's a billion by now. Well I had a little
look because he said it's nothing like that. So on
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the urban cycle program, this is partly funded by councils,
partly funded by government. Between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen
there was an investment of two hundred million dollars cycling
as part of that one particular program. So it is
hundreds of millions, isn't it. And then that's for a
couple of years. How much has it been since then?
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And then how much more cycling is actually being done?
I mean, they're just basic questions about whether it's worth
the investment. Because you also do, as everyone's pointing out,
takeaway cycle ways too. Now productivity. I was kind of
bagging our productivity earlier, and it deserves a punch in
the guts, except if you're a cow. Cow productivity is
(25:32):
up massively. Dairy farmers achieving more with fewer cows. This
has shown through your record milk production per cow. Average
cow producing four hundred and fourteen kilograms of milk solids.
That is up fourteen kilograms from last season. How are
they doing it? Well, they're using different feeds, they're using science,
they're using technology. They've been smart about it. Sixteen to
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six News Talk.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
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Speaker 2 (26:03):
The do Talk ZB. So let's go to the UK
where I've had their budget is today we told you
about that now. NIT migration is down quite drastically. Vincent
McAvennie are UK europe correspondent, Vincent, good morning, good morning.
So well what's the number.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Well, this is a huge drop. It's down to two
hundred and four thousand from six hundred and forty nine
last year. It's driven by fewer arrivals for work and
study reasons. And this is a huge drop from the
last five years when it speak sort of rose in
Boris Johnson's time to almost a million in terms of
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net migration, and this is something that labor will want
to celebrate. However, within those figures, around one hundred and
thirty three thousand are people who have claimed asylum. So
critics will be saying that whilst the migration figures show
we've got fewer people coming in on the sort of
traditional routes of a playing to come for working and studying,
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you still have a big number of people arriving here
for asylum and that means that you're sort of not
controlling as much as some people might like who is
coming in and out of the country.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Now, the limited form of military service that's going into
France that have released the details.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Yeah, that's right. France is following a number of European
countries which are bringing back forms of national service. Now
this is a voluntary form, but they're looking to get
around fifty thousand young French men and women involved in
this in the next five or so years. They're wanting
this to sort of be ready to sort of support
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the nation in any kind of emergency. And this is
with the renewed threat of Russia from Europe. And as
I said, the latest country that's following it, Belgium, has
also done this. The Netherlands, they have introduced schemes and
some countries like Lithuania, Latvia, they never really got rid
of theirs. So it's something that European countries are considering.
But whether or not young people want to do it
(28:00):
means to be seen.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Vincent mcaviney are UK europe correspondent, to appreciate your time.
Just to the US very quickly. You know, these two
guards that were shot, to National Guard members who were shot,
they're still in a critical condition. Turns out the guy
who's accused of doing it, who also was shot by them.
Trump's calling it an active terror. But this guy worked
(28:21):
with the CIA in Kandahar. He was actually withdrawn from
Afghanistan September twenty twenty one. That's when he entered the States,
so used to work. There was some CIA backed military
units that he was operating with. So yes, he's a
very bad person, but also at some point worked with
the US government. It's eleven away from six Ryan bridsch
(28:44):
So we're getting a public inquiry into the Tom Phillips case.
Justice Simon Moore case will run it. It's behind closed doors.
They're going to look at agencies, including the police, did
they do everything they could to protect those children. Jane
Cearle Child Matters Chief executive with me this morning, Jane,
Good morning.
Speaker 12 (29:00):
Good morning Ryan.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Now, the fact that it's private, you know that it's
behind closed doors, good thing.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
It is a good thing. I think it's entirely appropriate
that we have this review. It's quite wide reaching, it's
got a practical focus, but most importantly, it has been
done to protect the rights of those involved. So I'm
hopeful it's going to be a constructive process.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Is what are we actually hoping to change here or achieve?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Well, you know, the tragedy of this case doesn't hide
the fact that we still have learnings to get from it,
and if we can improve the system. Whatever recommendations come
out of this is not as important as if they
are actually implemented, because there's many recommendations from reviews that
are never implemented. So what we want is strengthening the
system that we can learn from it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
This is such for audoing a Tamadikian agencies like that.
It's between a rock and a hard place, aren't they.
Because you go in and you take children away and
people say, oh, you're taking you know, you count steal
children from from families, and then you don't, and then
you're criticized if you don't. It's a hard place to
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Absolutely, and it's very easy for the public and media
to judge without having all the facts. I'm very pleased
to see that this review has a practical focus and
that word was used because I think it's important to
understand that people make decisions and those agencies on the
information they have at the time.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Jane, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Jane Selchild
Matter CEO. Time is eleven to six News Talks the
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One News Talks at B Welcome back. It is seven
minutes away from six. You know, the UK had their
budget yesterday, the Labor Party had their budgetes day. Nigel
Faras has been waiting with this video to go and
I think it looks like it's AI generated anyway, It's
very dramatic. He's sitting there at a desk with a
pen and a paper, penning a letter to Britain.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
These cleuarless politicians have never run a business, have no
idea how.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
The real world works.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Thanks to them, I would not be surprised if a
financial crisis causes an early general election. When that election comes,
Reformer UK will be ready. We will proudly be the
party of Alarm Clock Britain, defending the hard working tax
players who keep this country running well.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Labour's pulling forth at the moment, as we told you
in the other week, Reform number one, then Conservatives, then
the Greens, then labor on fifteen worst result for them
if they had an election tomorrow, which they're not. By
the way, it's a long way off. Fifteen percent, worse
than a century.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Bryan Bridge six' two.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
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Rigby morning And Beth rigby who works For sky In.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
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said it's a budget for the, party not the. Country
and because the election is so far, off they need
to sure up the lack of support within their caucus
because their caucus is, massive of, course because they won
very well and they don't know what to do with
it and it's a disaster.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
And they've got those hard lefties and there away it.
Is it's a very good it's very good.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
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year what what labor governments if you look at the
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do with? Economies And texas.
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debt's a. Problem, no and you know you might want
to think about. That and to some extent.
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because they have more domestic. Demand we're reliant on trade
that can go tits up. Tomorrow and you actually need
to have some. Headroom yes you.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
To be a great Friday, just gone six after five
and great to have your company. We'll look at the
Tom Phillips inquiry before six vincent of the UK for
US migrations down there. It's Black Friday. Government wants the
scooters to ride in bike planes. Plus we've got more
good news on the economy front the agenda. It is Friday,
the twenty eighth of November. These two National Guard soldiers
(00:33):
that were shot still in a critical condition in DC.
He has judged an en for you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My message to the individual who committed these acts is
you picked the wrong target, the wrong city and the
wrong country, and you'll be sorry for the violence and
the evil that you perpetrated in our nation's capital.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Turns out the guy she's talking about, the guy who's
alleged have done all of this, did some military work
and affteris done.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I also spoke to Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe
last night and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. There is
confirmation now that the subject had a relationship in Afghanistan
with partner forces. We are fully investigating that aspect of
his background as well to include any known associates that
are either overseas or here in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Now the Wall Street Journal is also reporting this morning
that he had a relationship with the CIA, So we'll
talk about that shortly. Hong Kong, that fire seventy five
did three hundred still missing, very grim. My block is
still on fire now.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
My daughter and my husband are still not out. The
husband of my neighbor has already died.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
More on the charges those guys are facing later. Finally,
this morning, the fifth and final season of Stranger Things
has dropped on Netflix.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
We have a plan.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
It's a bit insane.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, we could go wrong, no idea, but I think
we should find.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
Out everyone in.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I want to see that actor's horrent look.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Now, this is underwhelming for two reasons. Firstly, their whole
thing crashed worldwide. The platform crashed worldwide as everyone tries
to log in it at the same time. The second thing,
so they've got four episodes up so far. Reviews are
quite mixed. Apparently the show ceasils between thrilling and annoying.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2 (02:33):
Never really watched it. I watched a couple of episodes,
never really got into it, but too ironically, a little
too strange for me. Just gone eight minutes after five
nine two nine two is the number to text this morning.
Spent half my day yesterday driving around looking for a
car park. How annoying is that couldn't find one? I
did that trick you know where you go. Hail Mary,
full of grace, please find me a parking space. Didn't work.
(02:56):
Usually it works. Not that I'm religious, pay park free, park,
I don't care. I just needed to park. Actually, this
is a good thing, and this is how I calmed
myself down yesterday. So this is a good thing. It
means that people are out shopping and they're outspending. A
full street is a healthy street. But we need more
car parks, don't we We need more car I don't
(03:17):
care where you live in New Zealand, you need more
car parks. The city in Auckland, the CRL doesn't take
you everywhere. Won't take you everywhere it finally opens, it's
not going to take you quickly either. I was chatting
to Nick Saunty yesterday from Eden Park and he wants
to build fifteen hundred car parks at eden Park. Have
a listen.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
We could easily get fifteen hundred car parks on the
outer oval. That would enable then a footbridge into Kingsland,
a master plan for the stadium, and we have that master.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Plan and massive profits for Eden Park.
Speaker 10 (03:47):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So they are massive profits. So the stadium he worked
at in Melbourne, the car park was their single largest
source of revenue more than anything else. No, the concerts,
the rugby, whatever it was, they go gangbusters, they go nuts.
Good luck to them. Note yesterday you know he wants
more concerts. The local board voted against giving him more concerts.
I mean, what a bunch of muppets. Anyway, I had
(04:11):
to look at the airports this morning because it's the
Similars thing with to Stadia. You drive somewhere, you leave
your car for a while, and you go and do
something fun. In this case, it'd be a holiday. Sydney,
Brisbane and Melbourne car parking is between seven and fifteen
percent of their total revenue. Isn't that fascinating? A few
years back they made a loss on everything else except
(04:32):
car parking for airports, like the profit margins for these
airports to a pretty incredible forty percent at Melbourne, fifty
eight percent in Brisbane and in Perth. So why are
more of them being built? Maybe they are and I
just haven't seen them. I'm seeing parks being taken away,
but where are the new ones that are there to
(04:53):
replace thement? And I don't care if we're paying loads
for them? Where are they? No point having an economic
recovery on and shops ready for business when people can't
get there in the first place. Ryan Bridge five eleven
on News Talk SETB. You know the East scooters, the
line scooters that you see driving around. Apparently they're not
allowed to use the bike planes, which I've seen them
(05:14):
in the bike lane, so they must be breaking the rules. Anyway,
government wants to change those rules. We'll talk about that
next News Talk Set B on your.
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News Talk set B News Talk SEB. It is five
point thirteen on your Friday morning ride and needing counselor
is busy removing car parking in favor of cycle lanes
and taxi ranks, and that is annoying. The thing is,
you've got to have everything right. The CRL people if
they want to go to Eden Park and they want
to go on a train, they can go on the CRL.
If they want to go on a bus, you can
go on a bus. But some people will want to drive,
(05:54):
and so they should have a car park. They're available
for them, so let them build the fifteen hundred parks.
I say. Now, let's get to the retail trade numbers
out yesterday, because they were rather good. This is for
September from stats in Z. Retail activity increase one point
nine percent, moving up motor vehicle parts retailing up seven
point two Electronic and electrical goods up nine point eight percent.
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Supermarket grocery stores down one point four that's hopefully a
good thing. Food and beverage services up one point six Hardware,
building and garden supplies up one point seven percent. This
is great, the largest increase by the way since the
December quarter of twenty twenty one for retail activity. It's great.
It's a good sign because it means that for quarter
three GDP should be looking all right. It is fourteen
(06:40):
after five Grand Bridge Auctually. Adding to all of this
is retailers getting a boost from Black Friday, which is
today now outpacing Boxing Day sales. Thirty nine percent of
us say we do most of our gift shopping on
days just like this one. Jennifer Andrews is Oyster Property
Group and manages Dress Smart Shopping sent Jennifer, good morning,
(07:01):
Good morning, so what's the plan today.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
We're expecting a really great Black Friday. Back Over the
last few months, it's been a difficult retail time in
New Zealand, but obviously statistics are showing that things are improving.
So we're preparing for a very busy day today. We
have discounts all through the weekend, but particularly Black Friday
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is when most people like to come out to find
the discounts. Consuming New Zealand recently warned that not all
Black Friday deals are what they've seen at Dressmart. Our
promise is to is consistent and we deliver all year
round savings of thirty to seventy percent, and we're a
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true outlet center in terms of that daily discount. But
on Black Friday, retailers office savings that get better than that.
So we really do see it as a very popular
day to come out shopping.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, Jennifer, what's your best deal today? Because it's
thirty to seventy percent off? I mean, can I get
something for ninety percent off today?
Speaker 11 (08:09):
Potentially there are stores that have discounts on top of
that feed for example, which is Women's Where and Children's Where,
they will have a discount on top of their regular discount.
But all of the stores are offering great offers. I
was there yesterday walking through them, and there's just so
many options. I think our retailers are telling us that
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in particular, customers are after luxury guesting brands like Coach
we have, which is a high end brand, but they
have huge discounts on all of their accessories today. And
then summer essentials are really popular at this time of year.
Beach where holiday clothing, get your jail opened.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Get your geneals, get your beach balls. Jennifer, have you
got enough car parks?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
We'd have plenty of car parks. Have you gone over
seven hundred car park.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Okay, does it get full?
Speaker 11 (09:06):
I think if you come out before say three pm,
the morning's always best. But we manage it really carefully.
We have people walking through making sure that the cars
circulate really well.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
All right.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
So yeah, and you've got the whole weekend. The retailers
keep their discounts going all weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Jennifer looking forward to it, getting out there and spending
some money. Jennifer Andrews with us from Oyster Property Group.
They manage dress Smart shopping center that's in Auckland. Seventeen
minutes after five, we'll be back with cycling next.
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Be five twenty. This fire in Hong Kong terrible thing
to see and it's bamboo scaffolding around it. That's a
big problem. They also apparently used styrofoam to seal the
windows on all of the floors and that it just
took off. That's what happened. They've arrested three guys. Now,
there was a maintenance firm that was responsible for the building.
(10:09):
They've been arrested on manslaughter. Two of them are directors
and one of them is an engineering consultant, so they've
been locked up already. They're going to face some kind
of charges, potentially manslaughter charges. And the residents who were
inside looking out their windows at the workers on this
bamboo scaffolding said that they were smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Rayham Bridge, you're on news.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Talk, said b The government's considering thinking about moving East
scooters into cycle lanes as injury costs go through the
roof es scooter industries cost ACC nearly fourteen million alone
this year. Patrick Morgan is Cycle Action spokesperson with me
this morning. Good morning, Patrick, Good morning Mayne. Are you
happy to share a lane with a limescooter? Yeah?
Speaker 12 (10:53):
This is long overdue. It makes sense for this to happen.
Pedestrians really don't want es scooters on the footpath and
off on our streets can be quite hostile for people,
so it makes sense to put estcooters on bike lanes.
But we're going to need a lot more bike planes,
aren't we.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You just had to do it, didn't you. You had
to go there, Patrick? How many more bike planes do
we need?
Speaker 12 (11:18):
Look, modern cities give people choices about how they get around,
whether you walk, bike, take the car, the bus, whatever.
Eastcooter is a part of modern cities. They're here to stay,
but they need to be managed properly. And that's why
it's good news that the government is at last updating
the law to permit them in bike lanes.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
No get that, but how many more bike lanes do
you reckon? We need?
Speaker 12 (11:44):
We don't need a bikeplane on every street, No one's
asking for that. What we need is bike planes on
busy streets where people want to go, so to get
people to our schools, workplaces, shops. There's a trend in
modern cities for people to get around by bike. You
by conscuter. So I think councilors and the government need
(12:05):
to restart building bike planes to meet public demand.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Right. And is that demand there? Because last time I
we spent hundreds and millions of dollars probably over billions
now on cycle ways across the country and cycle networks
across the country, and yet there's still only two percent
of us commuting to work on them according to the census.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yeah, okay, you've got to be aware of that.
Speaker 12 (12:28):
We haven't spent nearly that much. Bikelanes are the best
bang for bucket and transport. They're cheap to do, you
can roll them out quickly. There's huge public demand.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
We can see that, and some of them, some of
them are cost tens and millions of dollars for a
little tiny one.
Speaker 12 (12:45):
It just doesn't add up to the number you said.
What we've got is do you know how much we
had Wellington? It's well under that. But they are great
dolly for money because they reduce congestion, they get people
where they're going, and they also give people the choices
to get around the modern city. So for example, in
(13:07):
Wellington we have added thirty two kilometers of bike lanes
in just about four years. On some of them. The
numbers have doubles in just over a year's time. That's
what success looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Doubled from what to what.
Speaker 12 (13:22):
I think the numbers and went around four not around
four thousand people get around by bike every single day
in the numbers even hard it's not imagine all those
people on the bass.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know, do you know? Because the number who are
commuting to work is an interesting one, isn't it? And
that hasn't changed really in the sensus the two most
recent A.
Speaker 12 (13:44):
No, that's not true at all. It's been going up
in Wellington for over a Decade's familiar with also in
christ Church. When you're built a good network, people use it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But are they? I mean are they? It's like two percent.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
The sensus only measures the journey to work. The trouble
without is that it doesn't count the journeys that many
people make, for example, people make in their local communities,
that children make to school children under fifteen, So we
know that the numbers are much higher than that. We
also know that people deserve to be safe and by
planes keep people safe. How can you put a price
(14:23):
on that?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
All right, Patrick, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for
being with me. Patrick Morgan's Cycling Action spokesperson. It is
twenty four minutes after five News TALKSVB. We'll look at
some on some fallout from that RB and Z report
yesterday the.
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Talks B, News TALKSB. It is five twenty six. This
rbn Z update this week made the point that yes
we are and bounce back mode. It's back on everybody.
We will grow two and a half percent next year,
they reckon, But this country needs more than that, and
it deserves more than that. The problem for us is,
and how has been for many years, in fact, probably
thirty years now, productivity, how much we get out for
(15:04):
what we put in. We went sideways, and just recently
it's been falling. As you know, this is a bad thing.
It's taking us more people, more resources to make less stuff.
It puts a ceiling on our success. It's a wealth killer.
Some reckon. It's the canary in the coal mine, the
thing we should care about most because we're basically sleepwalking
(15:26):
into third world status, which sounds a bit dramatic, like
falling asleep on a plane and waking up in a
different country. One day, we will wake up outside of
the OECD. Wouldn't that feel a bit gutting? The solution
in part is AI. The World Economic Forum has put
some numbers on this. They show it can boost labour
productivity and developed countries by up to forty percent over
(15:48):
fifteen years. Imagine if we achieved something even close to that. Here.
The richer your country, the more you gain, which stands
to reason because higher labor costs incentivize switching to AI
to save on your wage bills. Right, the economic upswing
that we're seeing right now is a business cycle uplift.
They go up, they go down. But if you're talking
(16:09):
about making this country a serious economic contender on the
world stage as we once were, then you need a plan,
you need a strategy, you need electricity and a shrake
ton of it, and you need to get rid of
a whole bunch of regulations. Do we have those things
right now? No, but we need to. I'm hoping that
(16:30):
next year at the election, more than a tax cut
here or a medicard there, somebody from some parties somewhere
I don't even care, which paints us a credible path
towards prosperity and wealth again, because Lord knows we need it.
Pry and Bridge News TALKSB twenty nine minutes Our five.
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A couple of techs for you this morning, morning, Ryan.
We needed a new washing machine, and we did our research,
decided on a brand and a model. It was acquired
in the Black Friday Sale for eight hundred and eighty
two dollars, but retail price was one thy fifty five,
a huge saving of one hundred and seventy three dollars.
That's just a normal sale price, says Michael. Nothing spectacular.
(17:11):
I don't know that's that seems quite good to me.
Ryan's cycle lanes have created congestion because they take away
the car parks. Ryan, I work in South Auckland. Never
seen a person on a bike in the bike plane,
says Mark. Someone else wants East scooters to have a
speed limit on them. I think they do in some
areas if you're around a congested area. We're in the UK.
Next then the Tom Phillips Inquiry, News Talks vb.
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on your Friday morning, coming up to look at the
Tom Phillips Inquiry. Vincent's in the UK for US, the
migration numbers are down there. They're quite happy about, thank
you very much. A funny story out of Australia. They
are absolutely ropeable, especially the farmers over there about their
new Bureau of Meterology Forecaster. They've done a revamp of
(18:11):
their website and be like met Service here. If they
revamp the website and one morning you log in to
check you whether and the whole thing is just upside down.
That's what's happened, by the way, in New South Wales outback,
New South Wales forty four point eight degrees yesterday, quite hot.
We thought twenty six was bad in Auckland anyway. So
they call it the bomb, the Bureau of Meteorology. So
(18:35):
the Bomb changes its website. Been planning the change for years.
It's now a disaster. The hashtag that's trending is change
it back. That's gone viral. They did a new color
scheme for the rain radar. No one can understand it.
The farmers are furious. The fishermen are furious because they
can no longer put in their GPS coordinates of where
(18:57):
they are in Australia and then it will give them
a specific forecast, and they just absolutely outraged. This gets worse.
So they're hot under the collar already right because of
the temperature and of the new layout, and then they
get the news drops on them like a big bike
a bomb. The cost for the revamp of the website
(19:17):
was supposed to be four million dollars. The total cost
of the redesign ninety six point five million dollars. Bryan Bridge,
I know twenty two away from Sex. Let's get to
our reporters around the country. Colum in Toned and Colum
good morning morning, right, big power cut there today?
Speaker 13 (19:39):
Yeah, a lot of people waking up here to know
power this morning. More than two thousand seven hundreds of
eating households and facts are currently without power, with the
crews still working around to try and pinpoint the.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Cause of this major outage.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
Aurora Energy says electricity was cut initially to about six
and a half thousand customers at around three point thirty
this morning. The suburbs affected it from Port Chalmers to
Northeast Valley and teams are still investigating what triggered this
mass loss of supply.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Do they know when the power will be back on?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
At the stage?
Speaker 13 (20:10):
No word at the stage.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Ok. How's your weather?
Speaker 13 (20:13):
Our showers possible for our Friday today? A north easterly
and nineteen the high cheers.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Callum clear, good morning, good morning. So christ Church will
be the new site for this arebus Memorial?
Speaker 14 (20:24):
Yes, that's right of course. Today Mark's forty six years
since two hundred and fifty seven people died when that
Air New Zealand flight slammed into the mountain in Antarctica
in nineteen seventy nine. We knew already that two christ
Church sites had been formally offered by our council. We
had Craycroft Reserve, which is in Cashmere, effectively in the Porthills,
(20:44):
and also a spot on the Avon River, of course,
after a plan to build one in Auckland was aborted.
The Airline Pilots Association president Andrew McKean says christ Church
is New Zealand's gateway to Antarctica, so it makes sense
to have a memorial here, given the flight was intended
to stop over before returning to Auckland. But christ Churge
mayor Film Major, says he welcomes those impacted by the
(21:06):
tragedy to the city to remember their loved ones and
what he calls a tranquil spot of the porthills. He
says the city holds a place in the tragedy. As
the plane was due to land here.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It certainly was how's your weather?
Speaker 14 (21:18):
High cloud clearing to find this morning westerly is developing
before turning easterly. The high will be twenty six excellent.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Thank you, Claire Max and Wellington Max, good morning morning.
Oh you've got a story about parking, paid parking being
put on ice. Yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:33):
This is in Petoni, the Lower Hut Harbour side suburb,
but lovely area I visit quite often. I can tell
you about a year ago the Hut City Council for
the first time introduced paid parking along the high street
Jackson Street. To say it was controversial, wo'd probably be
a bit of an understatement. I've tried to dodge it
myself a few times and never been picked up. But
one business owner told me it certainly is well enforced.
(21:56):
People are pinged all the time. Hut City has a
new man, now well known, Ken Laban. He's probably been
hearing an earful from locals on the campaign trail and
so over the Christmas and New Year period. The hud
City Council has announced it's very graciously suspending the enforcement
of paid parking on Jackson Street and on another nearby
large car park. Apparently time limits will still remain. I'm
(22:19):
not sure how strict that will be, but good good
Ken Laban says it marks the start of a longer
conversation around parking in the area. Business is down for
what's a wonderful street. Perhaps this bit of bureaucratic greed
may eventually be reversed for good.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Sounds like your popular mere already. How's your weather?
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Yes, periods of rain this morning, clearing later strong wind
twenty one nice one, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Neiva in Auckland, Good morning, theres Auckland Transport's got a
bus thing going on. What's going on?
Speaker 15 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (22:50):
So look what's happened is it? Dozens of bus stops
in Auckland. They've been lived without benches, you know, the benches,
the seats and apparently they've been stolen, likely for metal
so ats. Notified police and what we know so far
is it's sixty five of its three thousand bus shelters
have been left with no seats. Rebecca Tempoole, she's the spokesperson.
(23:11):
She says that it uses this is hilarious anti theft
bolting on the seats, right, yeah, but unfortunately these bolts
haven't been enough to stop the thefts.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What are people doing with the seats to putting them
in their gardens?
Speaker 10 (23:24):
No, well they're just taking them in, you know, like
stolen for scrap metal. Because I think it's in the
middle of the night I think, you know, people go
running around and they steal a lot of the it's
even like plugs at cemeteries and things like that.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Most awful. If they had buses, like if we had
public transport that came more often. You don't need to
sit down, like when you know, when you're in London
on the underground, no one's sitting waiting out under standing
because it's three minutes to your next train.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
But you do need to sit down In Auckland, could
they should give you a bed? And I feel sorry
for older people as well, because you know what not
that I take public dreads. Well, when I'm driving past
and everyone's standing, I went, oh, but you know, if
you've got older people, yeah, yeah, and encouraging, you need
to sit down.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, it's just a need bus stop, hotels, that's the really.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
Because in Mount Eden apparently Mount Eden Road is one
of the worst and they've you know, like aight's gone
down there and there's been like five or six of
those bus stops been hit.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
How's our weather?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Clowny? Few showers, possibly heavy and thundery from afternoon twenty
five is the high and other hot one?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Thank you never seventeen away from six a couple of
quick things. We've had loads of text on the cycle ways,
as you can imagine. And we spoke to Patrick Morgan
from the Cycle Action Network earlier in the program and
I said, oh, there's hundreds of millions a dollar to
spend on these cycle ways and I was like, maybe
it's a billion by now. Well I had a little
look because he said it's nothing like that. So on
(24:48):
the urban cycle program, this is partly funded by councils,
partly funded by government. Between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen
there was an investment of two hundred million dollars cycling
as part of that one particular program. So it is
hundreds of millions, isn't it. And then that's for a
couple of years. How much has it been since then?
(25:10):
And then how much more cycling is actually being done?
I mean, they're just basic questions about whether it's worth
the investment. Because you also do, as everyone's pointing out,
takeaway cycle ways too. Now productivity. I was kind of
bagging our productivity earlier, and it deserves a punch in
the guts, except if you're a cow. Cow productivity is
(25:32):
up massively. Dairy farmers achieving more with fewer cows. This
has shown through your record milk production per cow. Average
cow producing four hundred and fourteen kilograms of milk solids.
That is up fourteen kilograms from last season. How are
they doing it? Well, they're using different feeds, they're using science,
they're using technology. They've been smart about it. Sixteen to
(25:55):
six News Talk.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
SEBB International Correspondence with ends it insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business sit in.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
The do Talk ZB. So let's go to the UK
where I've had their budget is today we told you
about that now. NIT migration is down quite drastically. Vincent
McAvennie are UK europe correspondent, Vincent, good morning, good morning.
So well what's the number.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Well, this is a huge drop. It's down to two
hundred and four thousand from six hundred and forty nine
last year. It's driven by fewer arrivals for work and
study reasons. And this is a huge drop from the
last five years when it speak sort of rose in
Boris Johnson's time to almost a million in terms of
(26:40):
net migration, and this is something that labor will want
to celebrate. However, within those figures, around one hundred and
thirty three thousand are people who have claimed asylum. So
critics will be saying that whilst the migration figures show
we've got fewer people coming in on the sort of
traditional routes of a playing to come for working and studying,
(27:02):
you still have a big number of people arriving here
for asylum and that means that you're sort of not
controlling as much as some people might like who is
coming in and out of the country.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Now, the limited form of military service that's going into
France that have released the details.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Yeah, that's right. France is following a number of European
countries which are bringing back forms of national service. Now
this is a voluntary form, but they're looking to get
around fifty thousand young French men and women involved in
this in the next five or so years. They're wanting
this to sort of be ready to sort of support
(27:39):
the nation in any kind of emergency. And this is
with the renewed threat of Russia from Europe. And as
I said, the latest country that's following it, Belgium, has
also done this. The Netherlands, they have introduced schemes and
some countries like Lithuania, Latvia, they never really got rid
of theirs. So it's something that European countries are considering.
But whether or not young people want to do it
(28:00):
means to be seen.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Vincent mcaviney are UK europe correspondent, to appreciate your time.
Just to the US very quickly. You know, these two
guards that were shot, to National Guard members who were shot,
they're still in a critical condition. Turns out the guy
who's accused of doing it, who also was shot by them.
Trump's calling it an active terror. But this guy worked
(28:21):
with the CIA in Kandahar. He was actually withdrawn from
Afghanistan September twenty twenty one. That's when he entered the States,
so used to work. There was some CIA backed military
units that he was operating with. So yes, he's a
very bad person, but also at some point worked with
the US government. It's eleven away from six Ryan bridsch
(28:44):
So we're getting a public inquiry into the Tom Phillips case.
Justice Simon Moore case will run it. It's behind closed doors.
They're going to look at agencies, including the police, did
they do everything they could to protect those children. Jane
Cearle Child Matters Chief executive with me this morning, Jane,
Good morning.
Speaker 12 (29:00):
Good morning Ryan.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Now, the fact that it's private, you know that it's
behind closed doors, good thing.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
It is a good thing. I think it's entirely appropriate
that we have this review. It's quite wide reaching, it's
got a practical focus, but most importantly, it has been
done to protect the rights of those involved. So I'm
hopeful it's going to be a constructive process.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Is what are we actually hoping to change here or achieve?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Well, you know, the tragedy of this case doesn't hide
the fact that we still have learnings to get from it,
and if we can improve the system. Whatever recommendations come
out of this is not as important as if they
are actually implemented, because there's many recommendations from reviews that
are never implemented. So what we want is strengthening the
system that we can learn from it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
This is such for audoing a Tamadikian agencies like that.
It's between a rock and a hard place, aren't they.
Because you go in and you take children away and
people say, oh, you're taking you know, you count steal
children from from families, and then you don't, and then
you're criticized if you don't. It's a hard place to
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Absolutely, and it's very easy for the public and media
to judge without having all the facts. I'm very pleased
to see that this review has a practical focus and
that word was used because I think it's important to
understand that people make decisions and those agencies on the
information they have at the time.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Jane, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Jane Selchild
Matter CEO. Time is eleven to six News Talks the
B on your Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2 (30:36):
One News Talks at B Welcome back. It is seven
minutes away from six. You know, the UK had their
budget yesterday, the Labor Party had their budgetes day. Nigel
Faras has been waiting with this video to go and
I think it looks like it's AI generated anyway, It's
very dramatic. He's sitting there at a desk with a
pen and a paper, penning a letter to Britain.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
These cleuarless politicians have never run a business, have no
idea how.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
The real world works.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Thanks to them, I would not be surprised if a
financial crisis causes an early general election. When that election comes,
Reformer UK will be ready. We will proudly be the
party of Alarm Clock Britain, defending the hard working tax
players who keep this country running well.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Labour's pulling forth at the moment, as we told you
in the other week, Reform number one, then Conservatives, then
the Greens, then labor on fifteen worst result for them
if they had an election tomorrow, which they're not. By
the way, it's a long way off. Fifteen percent, worse
than a century.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Bryan Bridge six' two.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And mike's here on A friday morning, Morning Mike Beth
Rigby morning And Beth rigby who works For sky In.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
BRITAIN i thought she summed it up really. Well she,
said it's a budget for the, party not the. Country
and because the election is so far, off they need
to sure up the lack of support within their caucus
because their caucus is, massive of, course because they won
very well and they don't know what to do with
it and it's a disaster.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
And they've got those hard lefties and there away it.
Is it's a very good it's very good.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Insight if you want to think about the election here next,
year what what labor governments if you look at the
labor government And australia labor, Government, britain what labor governments
do with? Economies And texas.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And canada And. Canada Canada's nune with its debt and the.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Massive amounts of. Debt they don't seem to think that
debt's a. Problem, no and you know you might want
to think about. That and to some extent.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's true true for them than it is for us
because they have more domestic. Demand we're reliant on trade
that can go tits up. Tomorrow and you actually need
to have some. Headroom yes you.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Do it's it's it's it's it's they should run the
country right on the way we run our. Lives you,
see you see What i'm.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Saying do you want some if one?
Speaker 9 (32:36):
News, well you're not really. Interested you're not really a sports,
going are? You, Okay i'm going because my audience after
six o'clock is is interested in that. Stuff And i'm
not sitting on your show wasting good. Material if you
make it, Interesting i'll be interesting. Interesting, okay they're going
to make the decision On liam On monday to go
(32:56):
you have. Go it was going to be the end
of the, sea but it's not going to be directly
after this week, why good. Question no one. Knows it's
just all of a sudden they've decided now is the.
TIME i, mean obviously they're announcing. It they've already made the.
Decision although, interestingly this is the thing that fascinates me about.
People So liam ced. Yesterday they're in guitar of course
for this. Weekend lilliams is THAT i don't have a.
CLUE i refuse to believe that you can get some.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
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Speaker 16 (33:21):
Would my money is On hadja to do what to
be in the in the? Seat, well of course he.
Is that's that's a foregone. Conclusion don't don't make stuff
up as you go. Along So haji will go To Red.
Bull the question is Does liam? Survive does he have
a job On monday for this? Season that's the. Key
so It's sonoda V lawson because there's one extra, driver.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So hedg has definitely got. One he's one.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
Hundred, okay any. Questions it has been a bit, crap hasn't.
It he's been a bit, crap but It's Lynn ladd
And lawson And. Sonoda, okay so do some research over the.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Weekend do you know WHAT i don't like? It every great. Weekend,
Everyone see You.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
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