October 28, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Wednesday 29th of October 2025, The Government’s finally unveiled its new school curriculum for years 1 to 10, Immediate past President of the Auckland Primary Principals Association, Kyle Brewerton shares his thoughts.
A new report for the NZ Initiative believes our MMP system needs 50 more MPs, report author and senior fellow at the NZ Initiative, tells Ryan why.
Former Labour Party leader Phil Goff shares his thoughts on who leaked the capital gains tax.
Plus UK/Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey has the latest on asylum seekers could be housed in military sites and UK ministers to look at complaints modern cars have headlights which are too bright.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with r V Supercenter explore r V successories
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
There'd be Wednesday, Good morning. Great to have your company
coming up on the program. We'll talk about this new
curriculum for primary kids. Gavin Gray in the UK. For
US this morning, there's a guy on who reckons we
need one hundred and seventy MPs because one hundred and
twenty just eight enough. And we'll talk about this capital
gains text to barcle Shall we.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The agenda Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The twenty ninth of October. Gee, you can't say they're
not taking this hurricane Melissa seriously in Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It will cause catastrophic damage, life threatening damage. There is
very little that can stop our category fave hurricane. And
regardless of the where you are in the parish of
Westminland or Sat Elizabeth, if you are under the impact
of those Category fave hurricane for US wins, you will
(00:59):
be having Sidney difficulty.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Another day, another rare earth deal for Trump. This is
in Japan. He gets the tariff rate to fifteen percent,
same as ours. By the way, quite excited about Meeking
meeting Takichi for the first time too.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I have sex.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Respects for Japan in the country, and now I have
a really great respect for the new and incredible Prime Minister.
I have to say this the first female prime Minister
in the history of Japan and fadom Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's another Epstein Andrew update. Unfortunately this time it's a photo.
So you've got Epstein, You've got Gallain, Maxwell and drum
roll please, Harvey Weinstein, all lined up at Prince Andrew's
private home. This is the Royal Lodge who he's still living.
This is for Princess Beatrice's eighteenth birthday in two thousand
and six. Now, just a couple of weeks after the
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photo's taken, Epstein's arrested for sexual assault of a minor.
Until now, everyone thought they just went to Winsor Castle.
Turns out they went for a re shy at Andrew's
beforehand was in.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
The Great Windsor Estate, which is obviously owned by the
monarch at that time. So ultimately, when Prasu calls something
needs to be done, there are conversations absolutely happening in
the palace right now to try and move the narrative
on from the problem of Prince Andrew. So keep an
eye on the next few days. I imagine something will
(02:23):
have to have be done.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
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Speaker 2 (02:34):
It'd be I wonder what people here think about that
nine two ninety two, because I spoke to a royal
biographer yesterday who wrote The Rise and Fall of the
House of York, and he says it's only a matter
of time before they completely cut them loose. He is,
by law entitled to live in that house, so you know,
the one where he pays a peppercorn rent and it's
(02:54):
like a pound a year or something ridiculous. But he
paid initially for a bunch of renovations that cost couple
of million pounds. So this royal biography says, now, I
reckon that's going to be over soon and the King
will force him out, whether that be to Harry and
Meghan's old digs or somewhere you know under a bridge
who cares just hide him because he's a problem. But
I don't really hear people talking about it here, like
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no one. It doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Maybe you have different views. Nine two nine two. This
capital gains tax, where do you start? There's nothing? And look,
there are a lot of economists in this country who
say this is exactly what we need. A capital gains tax,
probably one more comprehensive than this, but at least it's
a start, right. What the problem I have is what
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do they now do labor with interest deductibility? Because if
you're a young couple, young family, got kids, saving for
your future, saving for retirement, whatever it might be, and
you buy a rental property, if labor gets back in,
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do they they revert back to the previous policy of
not allowing interest deductibility and thereby kneecap your business, then
also introduce a tax on the capital you might earn
from selling that property. Is it going to be a
double whammy or are they one and done with the
capital gains tax for investors? Is this as far as
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it goes? I think that's an important question for them.
The other problem you've got from what I could see
just listening to some of the reaction yesterday from GPS,
couple of GP outfits, General Practice Owners Association, Royal College
of GPS. They say, yeah, yeah, yeah, a good or
good sounds nice, but we don't have the capacity to
deal with the demand we have right now. So has
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anyone heard in the last twenty four hours anything about
how you might address that problem? Because if you're giving
everyone three free doctors visits and eighty percent of them
don't need them right now or have no problem paying
for them right now, then what you're going to do
is create a whole lot of demand for a lot
of stuff that you probably you know, Oh I've got
(05:05):
my fingers a little bent, or I'm stub my toe,
so go to the doctor because I got to use
one of my free things. Do you need to be there?
Is that going to save time in an emergency department?
Probably not. If you can afford to go to the doctor,
let's be real, you'll be going for any nickels you
might have. So are you creating demand in areas where
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you shouldn't be creating demand and thereby distorting a system
that's otherwise broken anyway, Bryan Bridge, It's five eleven on
news Talk, said b nineteen nineteen number to text talk
to feel GoF about this?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Next the first Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Bryan Bridge and r V Supercenter explore
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Speaker 2 (05:50):
Said by fourteen on news Talk said b labor market
a couple more signs that it might be just turning
that corner. Stats in ZED monthly employment indicators out yesterday
is zero point three per cent rise and PHIL jobs
for September. Now, this is the one that always gets revised,
and it was again revised for the previous month in August,
so a gain of zero point two percent in filled
jobs was revised down. At least it remains positive an
(06:15):
increase of zero point one percent. So, yes, it feels
a little like we're clutching at straws here, doesn't it. However,
we will get full unemployment numbers from statsune ed next week,
that is Wednesday, Bright and bread Rich just took at
this capital gains tax from Labour show. We former labor
leader of Phil GoF is with me this morning. Fel
Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Ryan. Do you think, and
(06:36):
I know you're a fan of this and we've spoken
about this, do you think if this goes well, you
then look to extend it because it is quite narrow
and focused.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Now, yeah, I think the undertaking by Chris Sippins was
that the texts would be introduced as set out and
would not be changed before the next election, which means
that you know, look, you always changed policy over time,
but you need a mandate for that policy, and that's
what he's saying that he'd be seeking. So nothing going
(07:05):
to be sprung according to what they're telling us in
the in the first term. And you know, I've been
interested to see the reaction to the tax and by
a number of people. I think some people say, look,
it could be broader, but generally a sense of relief
that finally, after years and years of Treasury advocating and
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the OECD saying you're the only country in the western
world that doesn't have such a tax, you need one,
that somebody's finally had the courage to say, we're going
to put one in place for the sake of fairness
and for the sake of making sure we don't distort
investment decisions by making one area of investment tax free.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Do you think, how do you how do you when
you got your capital gains tax through your caucus, how
did with it was the people who wanted you to
go further? How do you stop them from linking and
disunity in the party.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Look, I don't think I think that has been exaggerated
in terms of the differences that might exist. Now, there
are always differences in caucus. I've never known a caucus
to be totally of one mind on controversial topics. I
think the greater nervousness at my time was that people
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had always been frightened to bring in a capital gains tax.
It had been recommended, it was regarded as sensible, but
it was regarded as politically damaging. And you know, somebody
described it as a suicide note not within caucused it
from outside. So I think that you know, there would
be some pressure to, say a wealth tax. I'm glad
they didn't go with a wealth tax because a wealth
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tax is as yet reasonably unproven, and as Barbara Edmonds said,
I think quite frankly in her press conference yesterday, that
would be the one thing that would create a differentiation
with Australia and might encourage investment to go to Australia.
Nobody's going to have say, investments going to Australia because
of a capital gains tax, because they actually have one already.
(09:02):
They've had one since the nineteen eighties, and it's a
tougher capital GAINST text and what we're implementing here. So look,
I think by and large the caucus will say this
is our policy and we're going to get behind it.
There is an unanswered question that somebody leaked it. That
happens from time to time, which hunts are pretty fruitless usually,
(09:23):
and I think Hipkins is right to say, well, you know,
if you found a person that maliciously leaked something would
be gone. But they're not going to exert a lot
of time and effort trying to track down who might
have leaked it if indeed it was leaked maliciously.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All right, appreciate your time, Phil GoF Former Labor at
a time now is eighteen minutes after five, Ryan Glene,
I've worked and funded healthcare, but claim after paying for
a visit, I just won't by the processing the claim
if the visit becomes free, So this allowance will end
up subsidizing healthcare providers. Ryan taxed just one thing to
say GST was ten percent. End of argument. Game set match.
(10:02):
Rick wants it basically to be a whole lot easier
than what because the problem is you've got this valuation
issue as well on valuation Day. Here's the thing, here's
a little secret. None of this is going to happen because,
in my opinion, Labor doesn't have a hope in hell
of winning the next election. Look at t Pati Mardi.
(10:23):
I spoke to Winston yesterday, very very very far off
doing a deal, has ruled one out with Hipkins himself,
where do they go the Greens? What do they want?
Wealth tax?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Here?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We aren't going to go for it, but just not
five nineteen.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
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Speaker 2 (10:49):
That'd be great story out of the UK. We'll get
to Gavin Gray, he's with us after News at five
point thirty this morning. The government over there is taking
a look at led headlamps on new cars. You know,
when you get a new current, it's got really bright
flash lights and if you're coming towards one, the hell
I drive up every morning is a hell and so
that means someone's coming over the ridge at the top,
(11:11):
coming down at me and the headlights go bamm straight
in my eyes and I can no longer see anything,
and this is apparently a major problem. Three quarters of
Brits have responded to a survey saying that driving at
night is getting more difficult, ironically because of brighter lights.
So they're doing an investigation there. I'll watch with interest
Gavin Gray on that later. It's five twenty one. Can
(11:33):
you report out this morning? This from the New Zealand
Initiative reckons our MMP system needs a four year term
and get this fifty more MPs. It says parliament's about
thirty percent smaller than other countries. We need more. Nick Clark,
is author and senior fellow at the initiative, joins me
Now morning Nick, morning, Ryan, are you are you good?
Are you trolling us?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Nick?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
No, No, it's actually quite serious. The four year term
is something which has been debated and is under considered
right now. It's not a radical.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
That's fine, but what can one hundred and seventy MPs
do that one hundred and twenty can't.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah, we have a very small parliament by international standards.
Most countries of certain European countries around about our size,
and that are very successful countries. The Scandinavians, Ireland et cetera.
They all have between around one hundred and seventy and
two hundred MPs all around the same side you see
on intense population. Now, the reason why, to answer your
(12:30):
question is why do we need more here in New Zealand.
I think it's probably fair to say that we have
difficulty with select committees in terms of the ability for
them to properly scrutinize legislation. And that's partly because the
MPs that we do have available are so thinly stretched.
We have MPs that end up on city on multiple committees.
(12:51):
They can't get a good handle on what's going on
as much as they perhaps should. They get inundated with submissions.
It's a good idea, I think, to just spread the
law a bit more by having some more MPs. Also,
the electorates that we have are very large, both geographically
and in population terms, and they're becoming increasingly difficult for
MP to service the rather complex and intense needs.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
These extrememps will be electric MPCE, not this one.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Some of them will be yep, yep, yep. We'd be
looking at the fifty fifty.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Look.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't think anyone's going to go for this. Nick
but I do like your idea of getting cabinet down
from fifteen twenty to fifteen ministers. We also have something
like eighty portfolios. It's like the Grand Central Station trying
to wrangle these portfolio ministers. It's outrageous.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yes, absolutely, And you know we put out a report
a few weeks ago, a couple months ago maybe that
talked about this in more detail. But we have a bloated,
fragmented executive. It's really hard to tell who's responsible for what.
We need to get that executive down in size. That
they also dominate the government parties, so it means it
effect is a great way to control a caucus by
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having more executive members. It's also a great on divvy
up the spoils of war Atron Alexa with Coulish and partners.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Nick, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, author and
senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. With one good
idea and one bad one. Twenty four minutes after five,
you're on News Talks EDB.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
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Speaker 2 (14:18):
NEWSTALKSB News Talks HEB. It is twenty six minutes after five.
Did you see the comments yesterday from Malaysia's deputy Prime minister.
If you didn't, he was talking to a Kiwi delegation
often Carla Olympa for Arsian, this will be your new
market and we welcome any halal product from New Zealand great.
(14:39):
I've always been pretty skeptical about these trade missions, if
I'm being honest with you, whether they actually do anything,
whether they actually achieve anything, or is it one big
giant junket. Truth is they're a little bit of both.
On a trip to ladder Ostok and Russia back in
twenty eleven, our Prime minister was in John Key. You
got to sit down with Vladimir Putin. Putin turned up late.
(15:00):
We the journals were out waiting in the rain for hours.
He came and he sat down, he spoke in Russian
and then he booted us out with his bodyguards. But anyway,
he and Key spoke for about an hour. And at
the time New Zealand was trying to cut a free
trade deal with Russia, including a bunch of other like Belarus, Kazakhstan,
and you don't get that sort of access every day.
(15:20):
Of course, you wouldn't be doing that until a deal today,
and we ended up suspending talks with the Russians in
twenty fourteen after they went into Ukraine. So it was
all a waste of time anyway. But I grew to
accept that these meetings actually do achieve something. Besides the
hotels and the accommodation. They're not actually what you think
that might be cracked up to be. The schedules pretty graweling,
(15:40):
and the flight over is a bit crap too. They're
not always glamorous, is the point. Great fun though, back
to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister. If a Kiwi politician
said that to a foreign company wanting to export here,
for example, it wouldn't mean much too importers here, but
there it's different. There's anything I learned about Asia, it's
(16:02):
that politicians have sway. They often control large contracts, have
close relationships or control over parts of the economy that
you wouldn't see in a more Western style democracy. So
when a leader in a country of thirty five million
people in a region with seven hundred million people says
something like that, it's probably worth the trip. Ran twenty
(16:26):
eight minutes after five news talks, there'd be Amazon just
to catch you up. Overnight they announced another fourteen thousand
job cuts. This is job cuts, this is globally takes
their total cut to thirty thousand corporate jobs. This is
hr cloud computing jobs. That's ten percent of their corporate
workforce that they are getting rid of. Why AI But also,
(16:50):
and this is very much like our government and bureaucrats
in Wellington, they went on a pandemic hiring spree and
they still haven't come down from those highs. And I
checked this morning the buiocracy still is around sixty four thousand.
That's fifteen thousand more than twenty seventeen pre COVID, So
that forty percent growth that we saw over COVID still there.
(17:13):
Can't get rid of it. It's like one of those
chips that once you pop, you can't stop pringles.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
News TALKSBB.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 2 (17:47):
Twenty four away from the six year on News Talks,
it'd be great to have your company. We'll look at
this new curriculum for primary kids. Before six o'clock we'll
get to Gavin Gray in the UK, they're using army
bases now in seid of migrant hotels. Things are that
bad over there. Speaking of in Australia, they've kicked off.
Remember they did this deal with NARU, the Pacific Island
to take some of their detainees. Well, it's happening, it's
(18:08):
already started and this is in the last twenty four hours.
They won't tell you how many, They won't tell you
actually much about the deal at all. But what we
do know is that there were three hundred and fifty
odd people criminals in jail being detained in Australia, and
the courts said, na, you can't detain them indefinitely, so
you're basically going to have to release them. And the
(18:29):
Australian government obviously didn't want to release them because they
have been convicted of crimes. So instead of releasing them
into their own populations, which is probably what the Brits
would have done, they are sending them to Naruna's all
kicking off and all happening now. Time is twenty three
away from.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Six Brian Bridge.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Our reporters around the country, Rosy Leishman Fords need and
good morning, Good morning, the city sent and not feeling
very safe.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
No so.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Window stickers have been handed out to retailers and placed
at City Council venues across the need as part of
the Safe Space initiative. They signify the premises are safe
and welcoming places for anyone in distress or needing help.
Staff at those locations have received guidance on how to
respond appropriately, and the initiatives are part of work by
(19:16):
the Central City Safety Advisory Group, set up after concerns
about safety around the city's bus hub, where sixteen year
old was fatally stabbed last year.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh so it's like a you can go in there
if someone's harassing you or something like that. Is that
what it means? Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
It's just a safe spot you can go and know
it's all right safe.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Okay. How's your weather, Rosie?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
The old showers at first, and then it's turning to
fine with some high cloud in the afternoon and evening
and westerlies and a high of fifteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Brilliant. Thanks Rosie. Have a good day, Clears and christ
Church morning.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Claire, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
A busy summer for the airport.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
Yes, and only going to get busier. Ryan. So the
first flight from Adelaide to christ Church touchdown yesterday afternoon
off our summer season. There's about two hundred and fifty
thousand more seats into Christchurch than this time last year.
International arrivals are expected to rise fourteen percent on last year.
Domestic will be up about ten percent. The Christchurch Airport
(20:15):
Aero Development Manager Gordon Bevin says planning is already underway
for some more growth with future markets on the radar.
He says the airport has the largest domestic network ever
and he expects the new stadium to drive that even further.
He says, to buy convention Center and christ Church has
had an impact equivalent of three jets from Australia per week.
(20:36):
So they're unsure what to think the stadium and the
new Metro Sports Center could do.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
If you mentioned to Pie the convention Center one more time, clear,
it's like I should get a Bingo card every time
you mentioned the stadium and the convention Center. Honestly I
should get a prize.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Well, you should come and visit them.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No, do you know what? I actually already have plans
to do that. I've heard of an event that's at
the new stadium and listen to you go. I'm getting
myself in there for next year.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Which be sure you're and Mike asking big fans of
christ Church.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm a convert, thanks to you. Clear, let's put it
that way. Hey, how's your weather?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Oh well, pretty fine today if you isolated showers. Westerly's
turning northeasterly and the high will be seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Nice one, Thank you, Max and Wellington Morning Max, good morning.
Massive demand for just one part time job. What is it?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Yeah, this is a story picked up by our newsroom,
Wellie Putt. It's an indoor mini golf business in the CBD.
They put up an ad for a part time job
over the summer, just running the desk for up to
fifteen hours a week. It doesn't pay particularly well, it's
pretty dull work. More than six hundred people have so
far applied and the job still doesn't close until the
end of the week, an astonishing number. The owner says
(21:50):
it's not just students either, chucking in an application. He's
been surprised by the number of overqualified people. He's also well.
He also seems like a bit of a masochist. He's
determined to give everyone a fair go. So he's sorting
through every application one by one, reading them, contacting them back. Meanwhile,
Whennington's unemployment rates has risen from two point eight to
four point eight percent over the year to June twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Five, goodness three. I love that you declared it dull work,
having not done it yourself.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Well, I've been there, I've played that mini golf course.
And all you do is sit at the desk and
welcome people and give them the you know, putters and
send them on their way.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's meaningful for somebody next, well more than six hundred people. Yes, right,
how's your weather.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Should be fine today with northern He's sixteen the high
mix mornings.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
We love it time.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
But you're right, it is meaningful to someone.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And the thing is job, but job, job, And you
can read a book while you do that, you know
what I mean? Like I would not.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
You've got to focus.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, I mean yeah, but there'll be times when no
one's coming in and you can sit there and read
your book.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Who reads books these days?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Folks?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I just started reading a book to day. Oh hey,
the underground that you and I are going to go
on in Auckland. Correct, we're going to be able to
use our phones under there.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
That's right, five G phone connection. I thought that that
would have been sorted out anyway when I saw the
story and.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What's going on.
Speaker 11 (23:14):
So Telco's including one ins in Spark two degrees.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
They have begun installing the high speed mobile connectivity.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And this is an announcement. Yes you can use your phone. Well,
what's next. There'll be oxygen you know, you can breathe freely.
I thought what I saw this, and I mean I
said to the newsroom, I shall be using this story.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
This is like breaking news. We can use our phones underground.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
God. Okay, well that's the end of my story. Okay, no,
thank you. How's our weather? Healdy isolated showers?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Happy hump Day?
Speaker 12 (23:47):
Eighteen is a high.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It won't matter when you're underground.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
That's right, Glean twenty and off I go.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Thanks Neva. Good to see hey. Lots of people are
texting in about the LED headlights.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
This is from James Morning, James. The LED headlights are
now not used in mind sights in Australia for the
very reason that you travel on undulating ground and they
become dazzling. This is the people who are coming towards
you with led lights. The old school halogen ones are
becoming more popular. Back in the minds, this is the
(24:18):
Brits trying to sort out how bright the car lights are.
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for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Right, let's go to Gavin gray are UK europe correspondent
now at fourteen minutes away from six Kevin, Welcome to
the show. Either. So you've got asylum seekers and the
hotels has obviously been a big problem. Now we're looking
at what military sites.
Speaker 12 (25:52):
Yes, that's right. The government has had some embarrassment over
just how much it's costing to put up these asylum
seekers into hotels. And it's also some embarrassment that a
recent report actually said that the whole system had seen
taxpayers money squandered on asylum accommodation, where the hotels are
(26:13):
seen as a go to solution rather than a stopgap one.
And so consequently, now with thirty two thousand asylum seekers
being accommodated in hotels at the moment and costing several
million dollars every single day. The government's looking at making
things a bit cheaper, so it's looking at two sites,
one in Inverness in Scotland, the other down in East
(26:34):
Sussex at Crobra. Interesting of course, local opposition to both.
The combined total could see nine hundred single men being
taken out of hotels and housed in these Rather interestingly,
they're the National Audit Office the sort of money surveying
people with the government said that large sites such as
military bases will cost more than hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
In of course, the problem just gets with from with,
doesn't it. Hey, this modern car lights story has really
got our listeners going. This morning, someone says led car
lights are all four especially when driving and you've got
someone behind you on full beam. Your government might be
doing something about it.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
Yes, it's actually starting to assess the brightness and indeed
how high the lights are going. So it's interesting that,
of course, as people get older, their eyesight's not quite
as good, and indeed it takes around nine seconds to
recover from glare for an older person compared to one
second for a sixteen year old so that's the problem. Often,
as you said, you get glare from the lights and
(27:33):
it takes you a little while for your eyes to adjust,
and the older you are, the worse it gets. So
after lots of complaints, the government is looking at these
because it's saying these led headlamps are increasingly common in
new vehicles and are causing big problems, making it much
harder to drive at night. All this, of course coincides
with our clocks going back. So it's just before five
(27:54):
o'clock here in the evening and it is dark already
here in the UK, So that's why we're dazzling head lights.
Cited as a factor in two hundred and fifty accidents
a year here in the UK. There is no evidence
brighter lights are causing more collisions than previously, according to
one industry group, but the government says, well, we're still
going to look at this.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
All right, hey Gavin, very quickly, the spotlight is on
Andrew again. Do you think we will see any change here?
Is he going to have to move house? Yes?
Speaker 12 (28:21):
I think there's all sorts of talk now, particularly with
Prince William behind this. It is rumored that he said
to his Duke of York's two daughters, Eugenie and Beatrice. Well,
you might not be able to keep your titles if
you don't convince your dad to move out. That is
pure speculation. I very much doubt it was put quite
so bluntly, but they are massively keen to get him
(28:43):
out of Royal Lodge. It is a taxpayer funded home.
And what is the latest photo show, Ryan Oh, Jeffrey Epstein,
Gilaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein all of the Royal Lord
Prince Andrew's home together.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Believable drinking a shit campaign. Gavin, Thank you, Gavin Grayer,
you're correspondent. It's ten to six Bridge, So the government's
unveiled its new school curriculum. This is years one to ten,
so your primary big change is more focused on New
Zealand history, civics, financial education. From year three consent education
becomes compulsory. Carl Briton is the immediate past president of
(29:20):
the Auckland Primary Principals Association with me this morning, Carl,
Good morning.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
What do you reckon? Wells?
Speaker 13 (29:27):
Very early days, we can only actually see other than
the English and maths. We can only actually see the
science and the physical health and Educations full documents at
the moment, the rest of it hasn't quite been uploaded yet.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
No, so there's still a bit of a technical delay there.
You haven't seen Social Sciences yet because that'll be one
of the more contentious ones, right, Okay.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
I imagine, so you imagine sory. But no, we can't
see the full document yet.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Okay, So when are you going to see the full document?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I imagine it'll be today.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
All it was all uploaded yesterday, and it's just the
case of the system. It's half updating them. Ironically last
week it updated early.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So from what you from what you have seen, Kyle,
what do you think it looks like there's a lot.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I think that's the immediate reaction.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
There's an awful lot.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
Particularly the science has got a quite a significant increase
in the actual content. So the onus is going to
be on schools and school leaders to take a real
deep dive into that end to make sure that we
do feedback. We've got a six month window to give
feedback to the ministry around what our impressions are and
what we think is doable and what's achievable and what's
relevant and so on. Is it the onus, as I say,
(30:34):
is really honest to make sure we give that feedback.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Is it harder stuff or is it just more stuff?
A bit of both?
Speaker 13 (30:40):
Actually, yeah, I mean it's again we've had it for
oh gosh about what twelve hours so earlily days. But yeah,
the initial reaction is it would be fair to say,
particularly again in the science, there's some things in there
that creep in quite early that otherwise we haven't seen
in the past, and then just yet to share volume
of what's in there is quite significant. And being that
(31:01):
that's only other than English and mass only two areas
so far, it's clearly going to be quite extensive in
terms of what's expected in the school day.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
All right, we might forget you back once computers uploaded
eight minutes away from Sex. That's Carl Broughton from formerly
of the Primary Principals Association in Auckland.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
News talkst B Views and Views you Trust to start
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Speaker 2 (31:32):
Just gone six minutes away from six Ryan, I no
longer this is from Neville. I no longer drive at
nighttime because of the oncoming lights, the LED lights far
too bright. This is the Brits are going to do
something about it. Some MPs are looking into it. They
might end up banning them. Over there, Mike's in the
studio this morning. Good morning, Mike.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Great to see you.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Great to see you. As always.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
I discovered in one of my cars one of the
greatest inventions. I think back to cars, AB love it
one of the cars. Well, how many have we got? No, No,
I couldn't mean it like that. I discovered this thing
where you know, you get your upbeam down beam automatic.
You know, it does it in the country become quite sophisticated.
Now in the first I didn't realize that because I
don't drive much at night, and so the first time
(32:12):
I discovered it, when it does it automatically, that's one
of the great inventions of all time, as far.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
As around even I've got that.
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Do you think so maybe maybe it is? Maybe I
discovered it. It was ABS. If you go back to
ABS breaking, that's one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I don't think I've even not driven a car.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
See this is this is interesting. If you go back
far enough. See, I've got a car that's got a
it's five speed manual and the fifth was the luxury option,
so you had four and the fifth one if you
paid a bit extra for the car that was like
you got a five speed. And then so that hasn't
got a BS so you put the brakes on it
just it just slides.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Just be careful. W you're gone back to ninety three?
Back to how many cars.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
Have you gone?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (32:53):
You know how it goes?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
How many fingers have you got on one head? It
does it?
Speaker 10 (32:57):
There's a lot of admind, that's all I know. It's
a lot of a lot of warrant of fitnesses.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All that say, I had to get my license fronear
the other day. Did you yes? And then did your failure?
I test? What happened? I've got the photo here I
can show you. Is it a bad photo? I look
like a criminal? Mic? Did you not realize that? My
husband told me that.
Speaker 10 (33:15):
Don't you realize that. Let's have a look at it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh my god, terrible doing? Is that a self? Did
you take that yourself? No? They took it. Why are
you looking like that? I don't know what's I don't
know what I looked normal, don't you go?
Speaker 10 (33:32):
Can I just check that before you print it off?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You remember Anthony Dixon, that criminal, Yes, exactly exactly the same,
looks like exactly the same.
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Oh my god, Hell, that's like ten years.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that's ten years now. Oh, what a cock.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
Up, What a disaster. Peter Beck, by the way, he
celebrated twenty years of rocket lag today, so he's joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
What a great success story. Have a great day. Run
See tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
There'd be Wednesday, Good morning. Great to have your company
coming up on the program. We'll talk about this new
curriculum for primary kids. Gavin Gray in the UK. For
US this morning, there's a guy on who reckons we
need one hundred and seventy MPs because one hundred and
twenty just eight enough. And we'll talk about this capital
gains text to barcle Shall we.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The agenda Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The twenty ninth of October. Gee, you can't say they're
not taking this hurricane Melissa seriously in Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It will cause catastrophic damage, life threatening damage. There is
very little that can stop our category fave hurricane. And
regardless of the where you are in the parish of
Westminland or Sat Elizabeth, if you are under the impact
of those Category fave hurricane for US wins, you will
(00:59):
be having Sidney difficulty.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Another day, another rare earth deal for Trump. This is
in Japan. He gets the tariff rate to fifteen percent,
same as ours. By the way, quite excited about Meeking
meeting Takichi for the first time too.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I have sex.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Respects for Japan in the country, and now I have
a really great respect for the new and incredible Prime Minister.
I have to say this the first female prime Minister
in the history of Japan and fadom Prime Minister.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's another Epstein Andrew update. Unfortunately this time it's a photo.
So you've got Epstein, You've got Gallain, Maxwell and drum
roll please, Harvey Weinstein, all lined up at Prince Andrew's
private home. This is the Royal Lodge who he's still living.
This is for Princess Beatrice's eighteenth birthday in two thousand
and six. Now, just a couple of weeks after the
(01:50):
photo's taken, Epstein's arrested for sexual assault of a minor.
Until now, everyone thought they just went to Winsor Castle.
Turns out they went for a re shy at Andrew's
beforehand was in.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
The Great Windsor Estate, which is obviously owned by the
monarch at that time. So ultimately, when Prasu calls something
needs to be done, there are conversations absolutely happening in
the palace right now to try and move the narrative
on from the problem of Prince Andrew. So keep an
eye on the next few days. I imagine something will
(02:23):
have to have be done.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Ryan Bridge on early edition with r v's SuperStor Explore
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Speaker 2 (02:34):
It'd be I wonder what people here think about that
nine two ninety two, because I spoke to a royal
biographer yesterday who wrote The Rise and Fall of the
House of York, and he says it's only a matter
of time before they completely cut them loose. He is,
by law entitled to live in that house, so you know,
the one where he pays a peppercorn rent and it's
(02:54):
like a pound a year or something ridiculous. But he
paid initially for a bunch of renovations that cost couple
of million pounds. So this royal biography says, now, I
reckon that's going to be over soon and the King
will force him out, whether that be to Harry and
Meghan's old digs or somewhere you know under a bridge
who cares just hide him because he's a problem. But
I don't really hear people talking about it here, like
(03:16):
no one. It doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Maybe you have different views. Nine two nine two. This
capital gains tax, where do you start? There's nothing? And look,
there are a lot of economists in this country who
say this is exactly what we need. A capital gains tax,
probably one more comprehensive than this, but at least it's
a start, right. What the problem I have is what
(03:39):
do they now do labor with interest deductibility? Because if
you're a young couple, young family, got kids, saving for
your future, saving for retirement, whatever it might be, and
you buy a rental property, if labor gets back in,
(03:59):
do they they revert back to the previous policy of
not allowing interest deductibility and thereby kneecap your business, then
also introduce a tax on the capital you might earn
from selling that property. Is it going to be a
double whammy or are they one and done with the
capital gains tax for investors? Is this as far as
(04:21):
it goes? I think that's an important question for them.
The other problem you've got from what I could see
just listening to some of the reaction yesterday from GPS,
couple of GP outfits, General Practice Owners Association, Royal College
of GPS. They say, yeah, yeah, yeah, a good or
good sounds nice, but we don't have the capacity to
deal with the demand we have right now. So has
(04:44):
anyone heard in the last twenty four hours anything about
how you might address that problem? Because if you're giving
everyone three free doctors visits and eighty percent of them
don't need them right now or have no problem paying
for them right now, then what you're going to do
is create a whole lot of demand for a lot
of stuff that you probably you know, Oh I've got
(05:05):
my fingers a little bent, or I'm stub my toe,
so go to the doctor because I got to use
one of my free things. Do you need to be there?
Is that going to save time in an emergency department?
Probably not. If you can afford to go to the doctor,
let's be real, you'll be going for any nickels you
might have. So are you creating demand in areas where
(05:27):
you shouldn't be creating demand and thereby distorting a system
that's otherwise broken anyway, Bryan Bridge, It's five eleven on
news Talk, said b nineteen nineteen number to text talk
to feel GoF about this?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
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Early edition with Bryan Bridge and r V Supercenter explore
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Speaker 2 (05:50):
Said by fourteen on news Talk said b labor market
a couple more signs that it might be just turning
that corner. Stats in ZED monthly employment indicators out yesterday
is zero point three per cent rise and PHIL jobs
for September. Now, this is the one that always gets revised,
and it was again revised for the previous month in August,
so a gain of zero point two percent in filled
jobs was revised down. At least it remains positive an
(06:15):
increase of zero point one percent. So, yes, it feels
a little like we're clutching at straws here, doesn't it. However,
we will get full unemployment numbers from statsune ed next week,
that is Wednesday, Bright and bread Rich just took at
this capital gains tax from Labour show. We former labor
leader of Phil GoF is with me this morning. Fel
Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Ryan. Do you think, and
(06:36):
I know you're a fan of this and we've spoken
about this, do you think if this goes well, you
then look to extend it because it is quite narrow
and focused.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Now, yeah, I think the undertaking by Chris Sippins was
that the texts would be introduced as set out and
would not be changed before the next election, which means
that you know, look, you always changed policy over time,
but you need a mandate for that policy, and that's
what he's saying that he'd be seeking. So nothing going
(07:05):
to be sprung according to what they're telling us in
the in the first term. And you know, I've been
interested to see the reaction to the tax and by
a number of people. I think some people say, look,
it could be broader, but generally a sense of relief
that finally, after years and years of Treasury advocating and
(07:27):
the OECD saying you're the only country in the western
world that doesn't have such a tax, you need one,
that somebody's finally had the courage to say, we're going
to put one in place for the sake of fairness
and for the sake of making sure we don't distort
investment decisions by making one area of investment tax free.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Do you think, how do you how do you when
you got your capital gains tax through your caucus, how
did with it was the people who wanted you to
go further? How do you stop them from linking and
disunity in the party.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Look, I don't think I think that has been exaggerated
in terms of the differences that might exist. Now, there
are always differences in caucus. I've never known a caucus
to be totally of one mind on controversial topics. I
think the greater nervousness at my time was that people
(08:19):
had always been frightened to bring in a capital gains tax.
It had been recommended, it was regarded as sensible, but
it was regarded as politically damaging. And you know, somebody
described it as a suicide note not within caucused it
from outside. So I think that you know, there would
be some pressure to, say a wealth tax. I'm glad
they didn't go with a wealth tax because a wealth
(08:41):
tax is as yet reasonably unproven, and as Barbara Edmonds said,
I think quite frankly in her press conference yesterday, that
would be the one thing that would create a differentiation
with Australia and might encourage investment to go to Australia.
Nobody's going to have say, investments going to Australia because
of a capital gains tax, because they actually have one already.
(09:02):
They've had one since the nineteen eighties, and it's a
tougher capital GAINST text and what we're implementing here. So look,
I think by and large the caucus will say this
is our policy and we're going to get behind it.
There is an unanswered question that somebody leaked it. That
happens from time to time, which hunts are pretty fruitless usually,
(09:23):
and I think Hipkins is right to say, well, you know,
if you found a person that maliciously leaked something would
be gone. But they're not going to exert a lot
of time and effort trying to track down who might
have leaked it if indeed it was leaked maliciously.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All right, appreciate your time, Phil GoF Former Labor at
a time now is eighteen minutes after five, Ryan Glene,
I've worked and funded healthcare, but claim after paying for
a visit, I just won't by the processing the claim
if the visit becomes free, So this allowance will end
up subsidizing healthcare providers. Ryan taxed just one thing to
say GST was ten percent. End of argument. Game set match.
(10:02):
Rick wants it basically to be a whole lot easier
than what because the problem is you've got this valuation
issue as well on valuation Day. Here's the thing, here's
a little secret. None of this is going to happen because,
in my opinion, Labor doesn't have a hope in hell
of winning the next election. Look at t Pati Mardi.
(10:23):
I spoke to Winston yesterday, very very very far off
doing a deal, has ruled one out with Hipkins himself,
where do they go the Greens? What do they want?
Wealth tax?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Here?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We aren't going to go for it, but just not
five nineteen.
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Speaker 2 (10:49):
That'd be great story out of the UK. We'll get
to Gavin Gray, he's with us after News at five
point thirty this morning. The government over there is taking
a look at led headlamps on new cars. You know,
when you get a new current, it's got really bright
flash lights and if you're coming towards one, the hell
I drive up every morning is a hell and so
that means someone's coming over the ridge at the top,
(11:11):
coming down at me and the headlights go bamm straight
in my eyes and I can no longer see anything,
and this is apparently a major problem. Three quarters of
Brits have responded to a survey saying that driving at
night is getting more difficult, ironically because of brighter lights.
So they're doing an investigation there. I'll watch with interest
Gavin Gray on that later. It's five twenty one. Can
(11:33):
you report out this morning? This from the New Zealand
Initiative reckons our MMP system needs a four year term
and get this fifty more MPs. It says parliament's about
thirty percent smaller than other countries. We need more. Nick Clark,
is author and senior fellow at the initiative, joins me
Now morning Nick, morning, Ryan, are you are you good?
Are you trolling us?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Nick?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
No, No, it's actually quite serious. The four year term
is something which has been debated and is under considered
right now. It's not a radical.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
That's fine, but what can one hundred and seventy MPs
do that one hundred and twenty can't.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Yeah, we have a very small parliament by international standards.
Most countries of certain European countries around about our size,
and that are very successful countries. The Scandinavians, Ireland et cetera.
They all have between around one hundred and seventy and
two hundred MPs all around the same side you see
on intense population. Now, the reason why, to answer your
(12:30):
question is why do we need more here in New Zealand.
I think it's probably fair to say that we have
difficulty with select committees in terms of the ability for
them to properly scrutinize legislation. And that's partly because the
MPs that we do have available are so thinly stretched.
We have MPs that end up on city on multiple committees.
(12:51):
They can't get a good handle on what's going on
as much as they perhaps should. They get inundated with submissions.
It's a good idea, I think, to just spread the
law a bit more by having some more MPs. Also,
the electorates that we have are very large, both geographically
and in population terms, and they're becoming increasingly difficult for
MP to service the rather complex and intense needs.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
These extrememps will be electric MPCE, not this one.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Some of them will be yep, yep, yep. We'd be
looking at the fifty fifty.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Look.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't think anyone's going to go for this. Nick
but I do like your idea of getting cabinet down
from fifteen twenty to fifteen ministers. We also have something
like eighty portfolios. It's like the Grand Central Station trying
to wrangle these portfolio ministers. It's outrageous.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yes, absolutely, And you know we put out a report
a few weeks ago, a couple months ago maybe that
talked about this in more detail. But we have a bloated,
fragmented executive. It's really hard to tell who's responsible for what.
We need to get that executive down in size. That
they also dominate the government parties, so it means it
effect is a great way to control a caucus by
(13:57):
having more executive members. It's also a great on divvy
up the spoils of war Atron Alexa with Coulish and partners.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Nick, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, author and
senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. With one good
idea and one bad one. Twenty four minutes after five,
you're on News Talks EDB.
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NEWSTALKSB News Talks HEB. It is twenty six minutes after five.
Did you see the comments yesterday from Malaysia's deputy Prime minister.
If you didn't, he was talking to a Kiwi delegation
often Carla Olympa for Arsian, this will be your new
market and we welcome any halal product from New Zealand great.
(14:39):
I've always been pretty skeptical about these trade missions, if
I'm being honest with you, whether they actually do anything,
whether they actually achieve anything, or is it one big
giant junket. Truth is they're a little bit of both.
On a trip to ladder Ostok and Russia back in
twenty eleven, our Prime minister was in John Key. You
got to sit down with Vladimir Putin. Putin turned up late.
(15:00):
We the journals were out waiting in the rain for hours.
He came and he sat down, he spoke in Russian
and then he booted us out with his bodyguards. But anyway,
he and Key spoke for about an hour. And at
the time New Zealand was trying to cut a free
trade deal with Russia, including a bunch of other like Belarus, Kazakhstan,
and you don't get that sort of access every day.
(15:20):
Of course, you wouldn't be doing that until a deal today,
and we ended up suspending talks with the Russians in
twenty fourteen after they went into Ukraine. So it was
all a waste of time anyway. But I grew to
accept that these meetings actually do achieve something. Besides the
hotels and the accommodation. They're not actually what you think
that might be cracked up to be. The schedules pretty graweling,
(15:40):
and the flight over is a bit crap too. They're
not always glamorous, is the point. Great fun though, back
to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister. If a Kiwi politician
said that to a foreign company wanting to export here,
for example, it wouldn't mean much too importers here, but
there it's different. There's anything I learned about Asia, it's
(16:02):
that politicians have sway. They often control large contracts, have
close relationships or control over parts of the economy that
you wouldn't see in a more Western style democracy. So
when a leader in a country of thirty five million
people in a region with seven hundred million people says
something like that, it's probably worth the trip. Ran twenty
(16:26):
eight minutes after five news talks, there'd be Amazon just
to catch you up. Overnight they announced another fourteen thousand
job cuts. This is job cuts, this is globally takes
their total cut to thirty thousand corporate jobs. This is
hr cloud computing jobs. That's ten percent of their corporate
workforce that they are getting rid of. Why AI But also,
(16:50):
and this is very much like our government and bureaucrats
in Wellington, they went on a pandemic hiring spree and
they still haven't come down from those highs. And I
checked this morning the buiocracy still is around sixty four thousand.
That's fifteen thousand more than twenty seventeen pre COVID, So
that forty percent growth that we saw over COVID still there.
(17:13):
Can't get rid of it. It's like one of those
chips that once you pop, you can't stop pringles.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
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it'd be great to have your company. We'll look at
this new curriculum for primary kids. Before six o'clock we'll
get to Gavin Gray in the UK, they're using army
bases now in seid of migrant hotels. Things are that
bad over there. Speaking of in Australia, they've kicked off.
Remember they did this deal with NARU, the Pacific Island
to take some of their detainees. Well, it's happening, it's
(18:08):
already started and this is in the last twenty four hours.
They won't tell you how many, They won't tell you
actually much about the deal at all. But what we
do know is that there were three hundred and fifty
odd people criminals in jail being detained in Australia, and
the courts said, na, you can't detain them indefinitely, so
you're basically going to have to release them. And the
(18:29):
Australian government obviously didn't want to release them because they
have been convicted of crimes. So instead of releasing them
into their own populations, which is probably what the Brits
would have done, they are sending them to Naruna's all
kicking off and all happening now. Time is twenty three
away from.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Six Brian Bridge.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Our reporters around the country, Rosy Leishman Fords need and
good morning, Good morning, the city sent and not feeling
very safe.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
No so.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Window stickers have been handed out to retailers and placed
at City Council venues across the need as part of
the Safe Space initiative. They signify the premises are safe
and welcoming places for anyone in distress or needing help.
Staff at those locations have received guidance on how to
respond appropriately, and the initiatives are part of work by
(19:16):
the Central City Safety Advisory Group, set up after concerns
about safety around the city's bus hub, where sixteen year
old was fatally stabbed last year.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh so it's like a you can go in there
if someone's harassing you or something like that. Is that
what it means? Yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
It's just a safe spot you can go and know
it's all right safe.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Okay. How's your weather, Rosie?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
The old showers at first, and then it's turning to
fine with some high cloud in the afternoon and evening
and westerlies and a high of fifteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Brilliant. Thanks Rosie. Have a good day, Clears and christ
Church morning.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Claire, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
A busy summer for the airport.
Speaker 11 (19:52):
Yes, and only going to get busier. Ryan. So the
first flight from Adelaide to christ Church touchdown yesterday afternoon
off our summer season. There's about two hundred and fifty
thousand more seats into Christchurch than this time last year.
International arrivals are expected to rise fourteen percent on last year.
Domestic will be up about ten percent. The Christchurch Airport
(20:15):
Aero Development Manager Gordon Bevin says planning is already underway
for some more growth with future markets on the radar.
He says the airport has the largest domestic network ever
and he expects the new stadium to drive that even further.
He says, to buy convention Center and christ Church has
had an impact equivalent of three jets from Australia per week.
(20:36):
So they're unsure what to think the stadium and the
new Metro Sports Center could do.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
If you mentioned to Pie the convention Center one more time, clear,
it's like I should get a Bingo card every time
you mentioned the stadium and the convention Center. Honestly I
should get a prize.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Well, you should come and visit them.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
No, do you know what? I actually already have plans
to do that. I've heard of an event that's at
the new stadium and listen to you go. I'm getting
myself in there for next year.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Which be sure you're and Mike asking big fans of
christ Church.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm a convert, thanks to you. Clear, let's put it
that way. Hey, how's your weather?
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Oh well, pretty fine today if you isolated showers. Westerly's
turning northeasterly and the high will be seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Nice one, Thank you, Max and Wellington Morning Max, good morning.
Massive demand for just one part time job. What is it?
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Yeah, this is a story picked up by our newsroom,
Wellie Putt. It's an indoor mini golf business in the CBD.
They put up an ad for a part time job
over the summer, just running the desk for up to
fifteen hours a week. It doesn't pay particularly well, it's
pretty dull work. More than six hundred people have so
far applied and the job still doesn't close until the
end of the week, an astonishing number. The owner says
(21:50):
it's not just students either, chucking in an application. He's
been surprised by the number of overqualified people. He's also well.
He also seems like a bit of a masochist. He's
determined to give everyone a fair go. So he's sorting
through every application one by one, reading them, contacting them back. Meanwhile,
Whennington's unemployment rates has risen from two point eight to
four point eight percent over the year to June twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Five, goodness three. I love that you declared it dull work,
having not done it yourself.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Well, I've been there, I've played that mini golf course.
And all you do is sit at the desk and
welcome people and give them the you know, putters and
send them on their way.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's meaningful for somebody next, well more than six hundred people. Yes, right,
how's your weather.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Should be fine today with northern He's sixteen the high
mix mornings.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
We love it time.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
But you're right, it is meaningful to someone.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And the thing is job, but job, job, And you
can read a book while you do that, you know
what I mean? Like I would not.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
You've got to focus.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, I mean yeah, but there'll be times when no
one's coming in and you can sit there and read
your book.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Who reads books these days?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Folks?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I just started reading a book to day. Oh hey,
the underground that you and I are going to go
on in Auckland. Correct, we're going to be able to
use our phones under there.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
That's right, five G phone connection. I thought that that
would have been sorted out anyway when I saw the
story and.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What's going on.
Speaker 11 (23:14):
So Telco's including one ins in Spark two degrees.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
They have begun installing the high speed mobile connectivity.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And this is an announcement. Yes you can use your phone. Well,
what's next. There'll be oxygen you know, you can breathe freely.
I thought what I saw this, and I mean I
said to the newsroom, I shall be using this story.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
This is like breaking news. We can use our phones underground.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
God. Okay, well that's the end of my story. Okay, no,
thank you. How's our weather? Healdy isolated showers?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Happy hump Day?
Speaker 12 (23:47):
Eighteen is a high.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
It won't matter when you're underground.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
That's right, Glean twenty and off I go.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Thanks Neva. Good to see hey. Lots of people are
texting in about the LED headlights.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
This is from James Morning, James. The LED headlights are
now not used in mind sights in Australia for the
very reason that you travel on undulating ground and they
become dazzling. This is the people who are coming towards
you with led lights. The old school halogen ones are
becoming more popular. Back in the minds, this is the
(24:18):
Brits trying to sort out how bright the car lights are.
We'll talk to Gavin Gray next. You probably heard me
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Speaker 2 (25:39):
Right, let's go to Gavin gray are UK europe correspondent
now at fourteen minutes away from six Kevin, Welcome to
the show. Either. So you've got asylum seekers and the
hotels has obviously been a big problem. Now we're looking
at what military sites.
Speaker 12 (25:52):
Yes, that's right. The government has had some embarrassment over
just how much it's costing to put up these asylum
seekers into hotels. And it's also some embarrassment that a
recent report actually said that the whole system had seen
taxpayers money squandered on asylum accommodation, where the hotels are
(26:13):
seen as a go to solution rather than a stopgap one.
And so consequently, now with thirty two thousand asylum seekers
being accommodated in hotels at the moment and costing several
million dollars every single day. The government's looking at making
things a bit cheaper, so it's looking at two sites,
one in Inverness in Scotland, the other down in East
(26:34):
Sussex at Crobra. Interesting of course, local opposition to both.
The combined total could see nine hundred single men being
taken out of hotels and housed in these Rather interestingly,
they're the National Audit Office the sort of money surveying
people with the government said that large sites such as
military bases will cost more than hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
In of course, the problem just gets with from with,
doesn't it. Hey, this modern car lights story has really
got our listeners going. This morning, someone says led car
lights are all four especially when driving and you've got
someone behind you on full beam. Your government might be
doing something about it.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
Yes, it's actually starting to assess the brightness and indeed
how high the lights are going. So it's interesting that,
of course, as people get older, their eyesight's not quite
as good, and indeed it takes around nine seconds to
recover from glare for an older person compared to one
second for a sixteen year old so that's the problem. Often,
as you said, you get glare from the lights and
(27:33):
it takes you a little while for your eyes to adjust,
and the older you are, the worse it gets. So
after lots of complaints, the government is looking at these
because it's saying these led headlamps are increasingly common in
new vehicles and are causing big problems, making it much
harder to drive at night. All this, of course coincides
with our clocks going back. So it's just before five
(27:54):
o'clock here in the evening and it is dark already
here in the UK, So that's why we're dazzling head lights.
Cited as a factor in two hundred and fifty accidents
a year here in the UK. There is no evidence
brighter lights are causing more collisions than previously, according to
one industry group, but the government says, well, we're still
going to look at this.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
All right, hey Gavin, very quickly, the spotlight is on
Andrew again. Do you think we will see any change here?
Is he going to have to move house? Yes?
Speaker 12 (28:21):
I think there's all sorts of talk now, particularly with
Prince William behind this. It is rumored that he said
to his Duke of York's two daughters, Eugenie and Beatrice. Well,
you might not be able to keep your titles if
you don't convince your dad to move out. That is
pure speculation. I very much doubt it was put quite
so bluntly, but they are massively keen to get him
(28:43):
out of Royal Lodge. It is a taxpayer funded home.
And what is the latest photo show, Ryan Oh, Jeffrey Epstein,
Gilaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein all of the Royal Lord
Prince Andrew's home together.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Believable drinking a shit campaign. Gavin, Thank you, Gavin Grayer,
you're correspondent. It's ten to six Bridge, So the government's
unveiled its new school curriculum. This is years one to ten,
so your primary big change is more focused on New
Zealand history, civics, financial education. From year three consent education
becomes compulsory. Carl Briton is the immediate past president of
(29:20):
the Auckland Primary Principals Association with me this morning, Carl,
Good morning.
Speaker 13 (29:23):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
What do you reckon? Wells?
Speaker 13 (29:27):
Very early days, we can only actually see other than
the English and maths. We can only actually see the
science and the physical health and Educations full documents at
the moment, the rest of it hasn't quite been uploaded yet.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
No, so there's still a bit of a technical delay there.
You haven't seen Social Sciences yet because that'll be one
of the more contentious ones, right, Okay.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
I imagine, so you imagine sory. But no, we can't
see the full document yet.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Okay, So when are you going to see the full document?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I imagine it'll be today.
Speaker 13 (29:54):
All it was all uploaded yesterday, and it's just the
case of the system. It's half updating them. Ironically last
week it updated early.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So from what you from what you have seen, Kyle,
what do you think it looks like there's a lot.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I think that's the immediate reaction.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
There's an awful lot.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
Particularly the science has got a quite a significant increase
in the actual content. So the onus is going to
be on schools and school leaders to take a real
deep dive into that end to make sure that we
do feedback. We've got a six month window to give
feedback to the ministry around what our impressions are and
what we think is doable and what's achievable and what's
relevant and so on. Is it the onus, as I say,
(30:34):
is really honest to make sure we give that feedback.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Is it harder stuff or is it just more stuff?
A bit of both?
Speaker 13 (30:40):
Actually, yeah, I mean it's again we've had it for
oh gosh about what twelve hours so earlily days. But yeah,
the initial reaction is it would be fair to say,
particularly again in the science, there's some things in there
that creep in quite early that otherwise we haven't seen
in the past, and then just yet to share volume
of what's in there is quite significant. And being that
(31:01):
that's only other than English and mass only two areas
so far, it's clearly going to be quite extensive in
terms of what's expected in the school day.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
All right, we might forget you back once computers uploaded
eight minutes away from Sex. That's Carl Broughton from formerly
of the Primary Principals Association in Auckland.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
News talkst B Views and Views you Trust to start
your day. It's earlier edition with Ryan Bridge and are
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than one News Talks balks.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Just gone six minutes away from six Ryan, I no
longer this is from Neville. I no longer drive at
nighttime because of the oncoming lights, the LED lights far
too bright. This is the Brits are going to do
something about it. Some MPs are looking into it. They
might end up banning them. Over there, Mike's in the
studio this morning. Good morning, Mike.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Great to see you.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Great to see you. As always.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
I discovered in one of my cars one of the
greatest inventions. I think back to cars, AB love it
one of the cars. Well, how many have we got? No, No,
I couldn't mean it like that. I discovered this thing
where you know, you get your upbeam down beam automatic.
You know, it does it in the country become quite sophisticated.
Now in the first I didn't realize that because I
don't drive much at night, and so the first time
(32:12):
I discovered it, when it does it automatically, that's one
of the great inventions of all time, as far.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
As around even I've got that.
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Do you think so maybe maybe it is? Maybe I
discovered it. It was ABS. If you go back to
ABS breaking, that's one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I don't think I've even not driven a car.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
See this is this is interesting. If you go back
far enough. See, I've got a car that's got a
it's five speed manual and the fifth was the luxury option,
so you had four and the fifth one if you
paid a bit extra for the car that was like
you got a five speed. And then so that hasn't
got a BS so you put the brakes on it
just it just slides.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Just be careful. W you're gone back to ninety three?
Back to how many cars.
Speaker 13 (32:53):
Have you gone?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (32:53):
You know how it goes?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
How many fingers have you got on one head? It
does it?
Speaker 10 (32:57):
There's a lot of admind, that's all I know. It's
a lot of a lot of warrant of fitnesses.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All that say, I had to get my license fronear
the other day. Did you yes? And then did your failure?
I test? What happened? I've got the photo here I
can show you. Is it a bad photo? I look
like a criminal? Mic? Did you not realize that? My
husband told me that.
Speaker 10 (33:15):
Don't you realize that. Let's have a look at it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh my god, terrible doing? Is that a self? Did
you take that yourself? No? They took it. Why are
you looking like that? I don't know what's I don't
know what I looked normal, don't you go?
Speaker 10 (33:32):
Can I just check that before you print it off?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You remember Anthony Dixon, that criminal, Yes, exactly exactly the same,
looks like exactly the same.
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Oh my god, Hell, that's like ten years.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that's ten years now. Oh, what a cock.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
Up, What a disaster. Peter Beck, by the way, he
celebrated twenty years of rocket lag today, so he's joining us.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
What a great success story. Have a great day. Run
See tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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