January 29, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Andrew Dickens Full Show Podcast for Thursday the 30th of January. The government is lowering speed limits across the country. Viastrada's Glenn Koorey says it makes sense in some places, but does go against the evidence that roads with lower speeds are safer.
Shane Jones has fired off at banks for their attempts to reduce lending and services to fossil fuel business and is understood to have a members bill in the works.
Auckland has seen nine rubbish truck fires in just the first months of the year. Are Aucklanders putting the right things in the bin?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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on early edition with one roof make your property search
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, good morning to you. Thank you so much for
choosing us. We're here till six. Coming up over the
next hour, Shane Jones hits out at Woke Banks. That's
today's headline. Richard Jones from Flap Farmers on this topic
in five minutes later on how can we stop this
epidemic of fires in orcan rubbish drucks? Who knew? And
(00:35):
just before six, how are we going with changing all
the speed signs on our state highways? How much is
this going to or cost? Will it make a difference?
We've got an expert for you. Just before six. We'll
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half to five.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It is Thursday. It is the thirtieth of January and
at least thirty people have died in a crowd crush
at India's Kumila religious festival. Millions were expected to take
a dip in the river.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We have seen little children being brought who have been
separated from their parents. The elderly women who are crying
We've gotten separated from their family. Some of them are
talking about seeing people fall and getting severely injured. It's
absolutely chaotic scenes in the Last and Found Center.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
This, by the way, is the world's largest religious celebration.
They're expecting one hundred million people to flock to this
river bank. Incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
An Australian man who was feared dead while fighting for
Ukraine is in its war with Russia. Apparently he's alive,
according to Russian authorities. Thirty two year old teacher Oscar
Jenkins was captured last year in Ukraine. Australia's Foreign minister
says the government has received confirmation that Oscar is alive
and he is currently in Russian custody. To the United
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Kingdom and the government there has backed the construction of
a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This is all part
of its economic growth plan.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I have always been clear that the third runway at
Heathrow would unlock further growth, boost investments, increase exports and
make the UK more open and more connected.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So that's the chance of Rachel Reeves. She says she
wants proposals for the expansion by the middle of the year.
She says the expansion alone could create one hundred thousand
jobs and back to the US and a federal judge
in the States has blocked President Donald Trump's freeze on
federal grants and loans, and the spending, which is approved
by Congress goes to both public and private organizations and
(02:51):
states and schools. Individual funding isn't impacted by the paws,
and the White House says it's needed to ensure spending
is in line with Donald Trump's agenda. It is nine
after five the first.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Word on the Use of the Day in early edition
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Speaker 2 (03:12):
You talk sipy okay, They say Christopher Luxin is struggling,
but frankly, Chris Hipkins is also struggling. Today in twenty
twenty five, the leader of the opposition has fallen for
the trap of just being against stuff. Instead of for stuff.
So the fundamental problem with our economy is that the
government doesn't make enough money to pay our bills. That's
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why we run deficits. We've been running deficits for far
too long, far too often. Now the answer to that
is either to tax you more, or for New Zealand
to earn more, so more taxes are paid so the
government has more money. So the other day Chris Hipkins
is railing against the government's handling of the economy without
saying how his mob could do any better. You know what,
(03:54):
that's not actually good enough, especially since there's only been
a year since we last saw you running things rather badly.
What would you actually do anyway? This is what he said.
He said the National Act government wants to entrench two
standards of citizenship, one standard for those who have wealth
and all lower standard for those that don't. Now that
might be so, but you know, in that statement alone,
(04:16):
he just hacked off a whole bunch of folks. It
is a bit rich to complain of two tiers of citizenship,
because is he blithely unaware or deliberately ignorant of the
two tiers of citizenship? Labor promoted in treating principles. It
was Maori and non Maori. And when he was Health Minister,
it was vaxed and unvaxed. You know, when people say
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times a divisive, I'd argue that the times have been
divisive for quite some time already, and both sides are guilty.
And I'll tell you something else. I watched John Minto
on the TV last night and I saw a hint
of glee in his face and his determination to hunt
Jews down, because that's what this Palestine hotline thing is
is asking people to snitch on Jews, tell a quasi
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militia ware the Jews are, and then John and his
mates are going to go around and re educate them.
Now what does that sound like to you? You know,
if it walks like a pogram and it talks like
a pogram, then it's probably pretty distasteful. John, and you
seem to enjoy it. And it amazes me how people
who fight against oppression so easily adopt the tactics of oppressors.
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And I'm sure mister Minto and his supporters believe they
have the high moral ground. You don't. And the other
thing that freaks me out is that John Minto looks
pretty much the same as when we first saw him
on TV barking at people through a megathone. Has he
signed some deal with the devil? Is there a portrait
of him rotting in a basement in Gray? Then? I
find it all rather unnerving. It's twelve after five. Shane
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Jones has hit out at the white banks that do
not fund people that fund fossil fuels. So what is
fair farmacin about that? That's next.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
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Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's fourteen after five and Shane Jones has gone off
at the banks. It has understood that New Zealand First
could be looking at a member's bill that could force
the big banks to lend to any businesses that deal
in fossil fuel. Shane Jones says the Australian banks, who
dominate the New Zealerd market need to stop being an
I quote driven by unelected, unorientated climate apostles. Australia's opposition
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party is looking at a similar bill to ensure critical
businesses like farming and mining are able to access bank
lending and services despite how the banks view their businesses.
So Richard McIntyre as the banking spokesperson for Federated Farmers
and joins me. Now, good morning to you, Richard, Good
morning Andrew. Do you agree with mister Jones.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Look, I think this is a really interesting discussion we
have to have as a country. Yet, do we want
to have our elited government city laws and deciding what
society can and can't do, or do we want other
elited banks being able to do that? You know, typically,
you know, we are quite comfortable for businesses to decide
who they do business with or not. But when we're
when we have have a sector that plays such a
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huge role in society like banks to and they've got
quite a bit of scale, and they're also making rule
making agreements on then ary banking lots to act in
very similar manners, then you know, we've really got a
question where it's very reasonable for them for them to
be doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, but it's there money, and they're the banks, and
there's their choice, and that's their freedom of choice. But
I understand what you say. Have you heard of farmers
here having issues accessing lending and other banking services? Because
of their climate practices.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
So we've got farmers who are being asked for all
their emissions profiles and that sort of thing. We've got
the banks who the vast majority of them so far
have set the missions reduction targets for their farmers or
for the AC sector, and so that's the real concern.
You know what happens after that. We've seen what is
happening with in Zen and the petrol stations where you know,
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individually owned petrol stations to local petrol stations are being
told that they have to pay back all of the
debt that they own that they own sorry by twenty
thirty and after that they can have no more debt
but a transactional account, and that than nothing more. So
there's a real question of you know, where is this
going to go for farmers if they can't meet whatever
targets the banks do set, because you know, what begin
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Zen in particular are doing to these petrol stations seems
completely unreasonable.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So what changes would you like to see a new legislation?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
I guess if new legislation camp forwards, I would like
to see in all reality, either far far greater competition
in the banking space, so that if banks would decided
that individually they want it to be the moral police
of the country, then there'd be enough competitions so that
whatever businesses they were declined into fund could actually get
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lending elsewhere. But I think as a society we just
really need to have a really good discussion. And so
are we a democratic, critically elected Are we a democracy?
Do we have a democratical really to government that decides
what we can and can't do? Or are we happy
to leave it up to these big corporates, you know,
making decisions overseas about what we can and can't do,
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what industries they will fund or won't fund. You know,
there's an issue there that really deserves some discussion.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Richard, I thank you for your time today. Richard McIntyre
is from Federative Farmers. They're banking spokesperson. Now, who knew
we had rubbish trucks blowing up all over our biggest
city twenty twenty five has had a very fiery start
or can wate trucks? Five rubbish and recycling truck fires
in just the first two weeks of January. So imagine it.
You're just a bloke and you running around trying to
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pick up some rubbish and suddenly your truck blows up.
So what's happening and how can we stop it? We're
going to talk to the council in just a few
months time. It is eighteen after five.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
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Speaker 2 (10:01):
You talk with me right It is now five twenty. Yeah,
rubbish tracks are blowing up. Well, blowing up might be
an exaggeration, but there have been loads of fires and
rubbish and recycling trucks nine over the past little while.
On top of that at Ukhan's recycling facility that has
one or two small fires every single week. So Auckland
Council Deputy Director of Resilience and Infrastructure Paru Sued joins
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me right.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Now, hello, Pero, good morning Andrew.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What's blowing up?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Oh my god? It's all the wrong items that people
are putting into those trucks and they are predominantly lithemine
batteries that we've got so many of them in our
devices that.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Are blowing up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yes, so it give us a list. What's blown up?
What's the stuff we shouldn't be putting in the in
the rubbish truck.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
So one thing to clearly remember is what you should
be putting into your recycling bins. It is meant for
packaging only that comes out of your kitchen, laundry and
your bathrooms, and of course paper that you might have,
and actually nothing else. What people are doing or I
guess they're doing it by mistake or some of them
are thinking, is wish cycling. They're actually putting in things
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like batteries. They're also putting in canisters that might have
got some gas in it, or LPT bottles or even
being found in it that can very easily once damished
cash fire.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, so where should we put them? Like in December alone,
nearly six hundred laptops and over three hundred and twelve
batteries found their way into our recycling re facility, which
you just know that bad. So where should those people
that put the laptops and batteries.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
That's right, And if you think of just you know,
visit Council's website. There is a whole list of places
where you can take them, and it's an easy search
that you can find them. But there are also retailers
that actually offer you can take them to those retailers
and they'll take it back for free. So might it
Ten and Bunnings, for example, have battery dropouts. There are
a lot of organizations that do e waste collections and
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take back as well. We also have some community recycling
centers that take ewate back. So I guess just a
little bit of research on where you can take it
near your house is what you need to do to
be able to get these materials to the right place
and this post of correctly.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So is there anything you can actually do to crack
down on the people who are either lazy or ignorant
to put this down? Or do you just have to
rely on community responsibility?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Hey, I think it's community responsibility is all on us
to actually do the right thing. We can look through
footage to see where it's come from. It's quite hard
to do that, but I think if we all just
think a little bit before we put that material in
the bin, I think that's the best way to go
because that's then preventing it from entering into the win
and we're not spending time wondering and policing it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Peral, Thank you so much. For your time today produceud
from the organ Council and it is now five twenty three.
Number of people are actually criticizing me for my comments
at the top of the program. They're saying that this
Palestine hotline targets Idea soldiers, only that those guys have
committed war crimes. Someone else informs me about how many
Gazans have died as if I have had my head
in a sand. I know all this, but at the
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same time, if you're fighting the bad guys, you don't
actually use the bad guys tactics. And I find the
tactics being used by John Minto and his mates to
be bad guy tactics snitching, hunting down, re education. It's
five twenty three.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
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Speaker 2 (13:31):
Talks it B. It is five twenty six. Good morning,
I'm Andrew Dickens. Thank you for joining me. It beggars
belief these days when we report that it's hard to
make money if you're a doctor, it's hard to make
money if you have got a GP practice. It beggars
belief that we don't have enough doctors in this country.
Primary medical care is the most important care we can have.
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Forget your fancy specialists, forget your rock star surgeons. If
a GP can spot and fix a problem as it begins,
then you can save your life and you can save
the nation a ton on costs down the line. So
the health of our primary health sector should be of
primary importance, but it hasn't been. We've added a million
people through immigration over the past ten years, and we've
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also been creating new New Zealanders ourselves, while our numbers
of doctors per head of population is plummeted. There's two
ways to get new doctors right. One way is to
find them and import them from overseas, but that is
necessarily difficult because not every Tom Dick and Harry who
say their doctors are in fact doctors. We've seen stories
about that. The other way is to train them ourselves,
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and in that area, I believe we've been waefully short
on the numbers. I do not know why. You'd think
our doctor training would increase in line of population, but
it hasn't for decades. And what about this University of
Wyicado new Medical School, which was an election policy. Remember
it was built on top of a report completed by
Steven Joyce's consultancy firm, which is basically Stephen in some researches,
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a consultant report that was not cheap. It was pushed
by the University of Wycato, it got supported by the
people who became the government. We're supposed to have a
new medical school in the way Kado in Hamilton. Well
we are a year into the new administration and where
are we at. We've got nothing. The medical unions are
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already coming out saying this is taking too long. The
Prime Minister's only comment on it is that work is
continuing on the business case and it will go to
Cabinet in the future. So where the hell does that mean?
That is But unofficially it is understood that the project
has been dogged with problems and is increasingly seen as unnecessary, costly,
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and worst of all, a bad idea. I'm sorry, a
bad idea from Stephen Joyce, from a well paid consultant
who knew Stephen Joyce has many good ideas, but maybe
this one isn't so. But still, if we're wanting to
train new doctors and we want to train them in
a school, we were going to build a new one
but when not building a new one, So what about
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raising the money the numbers? Elsewhere? Things are just not happening,
And it's not nice when things just don't happen, because, frankly,
I'd like to go to a doctor, and when I
do go to a doctor, I don't want to be
told that you've only got fifteen minutes. But in fact,
let's make that ten because I'm running late. Andrew Dickens,
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it is five twenty eight. You want some entertainment, it's
happening right now, Yes, this radio show, or you could
stick on the TV and see the Senate confirmation hearing
for the Health Secretary pick in the United States of America,
which is a man by the name of Robert F.
Kennedy Junior. So there's a lot of finger waggling, there's
(16:44):
a lot of finger pointing from all the people asking
him questions, and there's a lot of one ma ma
from RFK himself. I mean, I don't know if you've
known about all this. His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, one of
the Kennedys, has gone a bit viral because she's actually said, yeah, well,
cousin Bob, he's a bit of a predator. He likes
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to mince birds and then feed them to snakes, and
he's a bit strange. I'm not sure you want him
for a health secretary. So anyway, Mitch McCann is coming
to us from the United States of America to tell
us more about these confirmation hearings. They're very entertaining. And
also I went for a walk on the beach and
it's stank, and I'll tell you that story in five.
Here are news talks hipb.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
Property search simple, youth talk zippy.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes, good morning to you, Welcome to your Thank you
so much for choosing our program. We were talking earlier
about Shane Jones. He's running an off banks who won't
lend to fossil fuel industries or those people who actually
or basically farmers. That's what he's saying. Wonderful text here.
Maybe these banks who don't lend to the farmers should
seesaw business with the rich that fly private jets or
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I don't think they will, or maybe those that drive
devil diesel utes, I don't think they would. Where does
this all end? Good point? Now, look, I went for
a walk at the beach yesterday afternoon. It was lovely.
It was warm. That's one of the benefits of doing
these early shows, you get some time in the afternoon. Yes,
it was gorgeous, but at the southern end of the beach,
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stretching for about two hundred meters, was a pungent carpet
created by the tides of the sea over the winter.
And you know the stuff. It was old kelp and puriade,
seaweed and perhuda, caw wire, leaf fall and all sorts
of other guns that ended out in the harbor and
then gets washed up onto a beach. And the thing
about it, it's been there for a while. It's been
a hig it's rotting and smelling real bad. So I
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phoned the council. The council said, we'll go and look
at the Safe Swim website, which gives real time assessments
of beach quality. So I went to Safe Swim and
it said the beach is safe swimming quality. Good. Yes,
thank you for that. I know it is safe to
swim at. It's just dangerous to sit down wind of
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the decomposing and rotting an ugly six inch carpet of
composts that stretches for two hundred meters and stinks to
high heaven. And I ask you, because I could phone
the council once again to complain, I ask you, is
it too much to ask the council to come along
and hoover it all up. In Sydney they clean the
beaches every week. We don't ever clean our beaches and
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they sit there stinking. And here's the thing. I pay
rates and it's a cost of living crisis, and going
to the beach is free. And if the council liked
us hoover up the junk dis it's twenty one minutes
to excess. Go right around New Zealand and we're going
to Dunedin first. Callum Proctor. Good morning to you, morning Andrew.
I've just been banging on about training more doctors. It
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looks like Otaga University is up for it.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Yes, they are very much so. And this would help,
of course, the big GP shortage that we have across
New Zealand. We've just heard thirty six percent of general
practices we're not enrolling any new patients in twenty twenty four,
many turning them away, or you are added to a
lengthy wait list. Well, the Medical School here says they
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could fix that. It says that it could increase its
capacity as soon as next year if this is needed.
The acting dean is Tim Wilkinson. He says research shows
medical students' interest in general practices actually grows during their
training here at Otaga. And he says a lot of
students don't make their minds up until after they graduate.
And how's your weather today, Callum drizzle clears this afternoon
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and nineteen Emily Ansel from Christyage, good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Good morning Andrew.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So we get these speed limit reversals. That's happening in
your area on State Highway seventy five. What's people saying
about it?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Yeah, Well, Salwin's mayor has a few good things to say.
It's one of thirty eight stretches of road going back
to what it previously was. By July, the road will
increase from eighty kilometers an hour to one hundred from
Harswell to Little River. It was dropped in twenty twenty
two after NZTA found most serious crashes on the road
occurred at highest speeds. Sam brought in the maryor mentioned
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says there was little consultation by the Labor government when
it made the decision. He says, it's pleasing this government
has gone through that process before announcing the changes.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
How's your weather fine.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Apart from areas of morning and evening cloud northeasterlys developing
in the morning, picking up in the afternoon with a
high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Emily answel thank you so very much, and good morning
to Max Toll from Wellington. Hello, Max, good morning. So
your council there now has a Crown observer because of
course they've operated so fantastically so far, and the Crown
observed has been making some observations.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Yeah, that's right. His first report has been made public.
One could argue that since his appointment, city Council meetings
have probably been a bit more cordial, a little less dysfunctional.
The long term plan, for instance, did eventually get over
the line. Yet Lindsay McKenzie still points out all of
the usual stuff, political positioning, ideologies, the media spotlight or
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still unsurprisingly still holding the city back. We've got a
predominantly a left wing Green heavy council. It's always going
to be a challenge for some of these people to
stomach working with the government. Yet there's a concern about
leaks to the media, relationships biases in the reports of
council officers. That's one complaint from some councilors. Unfortunately, you
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have to say a lot of these things aren't going
to get better as a councilor's try to get re
elected later this year and some start fancying a crack
at dethroning Tory Faro at the head of the table.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know you can psych this dial all those observations
and said that probably to every single council in New Zealand.
How's your weather?
Speaker 10 (23:05):
Occasional rain Southerley's twenty the high central and.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Never ret A man who now joins me in Orklandallo
neither hello, greetings.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
I thought you're going to say hello, rever.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You look like you're going to put an R in there.
Would you like me to no? Okay. So there's problems
at the hospital.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
Yes, water woes. Water woes where Auckland City Hospital. So
a water leak means that the hospital's main building. This
does include the maternity water is without hot water so overnight.
We do know that the water system and part of
the hospital that was turned off completely. The good news
it's expected to be back on this morning. Hot water,
though it's going to take a little while longer. But
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we do know also that the toilets, the dialysis machines,
in fire sprinklers, they're all unaffected their goodness, because they
run on a different water system.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Great.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
How's the weather.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Cloudy, isolated childs developing late morning, clearing tonight still hot
hot hot twenty five is are high.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Never Rettimuta, I thank you at a seventeen minutes to six,
I was just complaining about the junk on my beach
that stinks, the compost that stinks. And I said, phone
the council, teaches, says, phone the council.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It's all natural, Go down and put it on your garden.
Tell me, why doesn't the council go and gullip it
up and stick it on all its gardens that it
has around the place. It could do it. It's a resource.
But just get rid of it from the beach because
that stinks and it's big. And it is seventeen to six.
What's happening in America with the RFK confirmation hearing? Mitch
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mc camp will tell you in a few moments time,
and before the end of the show. We're going to
talk about the new speed signs that are going up
all around the country.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It is fourteen to six. Let's go to America. Mitch McCann, Hello,
good morning, How are you very good? The RFK Robert F.
Kennedy confirmation continues and his cousin Caroline Kennedy has called
him a predator with family like that, who needs enemies?
Oh that's right.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
She put out this video yesterday saying that it was
difficult for her to speak out against her cousin because
they are a close family. However, she really did lay
into ARIFK. Junior. She called him a predator, and she
said that he used to gloat about putting chickens and
a blender to feed his hawks. Of course, Arif K
Junior today is facing a Senate confirmation hearing to be
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a Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Health in the US,
essentially controlling the US Health Department. However, there are a
couple of problems. He denies vaccine science and science around fluoride,
and this morning he started his confirmation hearing saying that
American's overall health is in grievous condition, more so than
any other developed nation. And also this morning he's faced
(25:41):
a number of protesters inside the Congressional building. Someone stood
up and yelled he lies. Another person with a mask
on and holding a sign said vaccine saves lives also
interrupted Kennedy. So it's not been without a bit of
drama this morning than Washington.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
With all this controversy, Is there any chance that he
might not get the nod?
Speaker 12 (26:01):
Well, it seems like this will be the most difficult
of Donald Trump's cabinet nominations. Given that Pete Higgsith from
the Defense Department, he was sworn in a few days ago,
he was the one that was the most unlikely to
pass the test of the Senate. However, it remains to
be seen whether the Republicans they.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Only need three, they only need three.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
To vote against him, and he will fail to get
through this confirmation hearing. So we're likely to hear after
his his hearing today whether or not he will reach
that threshold. But so he'll be sworn in in a
couple of days. Highly controversial over here, very good now.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Donald Trump's immigration policy has been put in place, and
then a week there's already been five thousand arrests there.
Cracking on.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
They certainly are, and they are doing that in New
York now as well. And the new secretary for the
Department of Homeland Security was out on the beat with
enforcement OSSes yesterday morning, in fact, videoing from her phone
an immigrant being led out into a police fan in
the Bronx Now. She posted Christie nom a caption alongside
that saying, dirt bags like this will continue to be
(27:05):
removed from our streets. And it goes without saying this
is a real public relations exercise for Donald Trump as well.
The White House are posting images online of people in
handcuffs being led onto a military plane to go back
to places like Guatemala. Doctor Phil the TV Doctor, has
even been going out with ICE immigration agents in Chicago,
filming them for his TV channels. And then we've got
(27:28):
the secretary posting photos as well. So it's a policy
in the Trump administration, but it's also very much a
public relations exercise as well.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Much began, Hey, thank you so much for your time,
no worries, thank you very much. It's eleven to six.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Andrew digulous speed.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Limits have started going back up again. Thirty eight sections
of the State highway network will return to their previously
higher speed limits by July. The first State Highway two
between Featherston and Masterton is the first place to see
the increase that happened last night, and of course all
the politicians were there in front of the cameras going
haven't we done well? Glenn Coury is a certified safe
system assessor and level crossing safety impact accessor at a
(28:09):
company called via Strata and joins me Now, hall a.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Glenn, good morning.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Andrew didn't even know jobs like yours existed.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
There's lots of safety jobs out there.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
How did you get all the skills?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
There's lots of training courses both here in Australia that
do things like that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Are you for or against increasing speed limits for.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Most of these? Very much against. I see it as
a populous move really and in quite evidence free. You know,
there might be some sections that they're looking at, well,
there might be a case, but a lot of these
have already seen very good reductions and deaths and serious
injuries already.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
So you reckon that they all need to be judged
on their own individual you know, status and how good
or bad the roads are.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Yeah, exactly, And I think they've sort of gone with
people going it's slowing me down, terrible and all the
rest of it, rather than actually looking at the evidence
about what's actually happened on some of these roads.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Okay, do you have any in all your training, will
you got your skills? Do you have any proof that
raising the speed limits will increase productivity?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, that one seems a bit of a misnomer as well,
because for a start, trucks can't go higher than the
ninety in In fact, even at eighty ks tends to be
their optimal speed, so that's probably not going to help them.
Some of the roads are talking about they're looking at
urban ones for example, and like Wellington near the Terrace
Tunnel's going to be a seventy k road. Well, the
(29:41):
problem is that rush hour on Wellington you're lucky if
you even don fifty at the moment.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's true, but that's rush hour. But you know, when
you're at three o'clock in the morning and you've been
told to go, you know, seventy when you could quite
easily do one hundred, that hacks people off.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah, but that, if anything, you're going to be able
to go faster and other parts of the road or
other parts of the network, And so it's a bit
of a moment. At one section you've saved, yes, thirty seconds,
what are you going to do with thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Make a cup of coffee? Obviously? Now once okay, Well,
here's the thing. The opponents, there's fear mongering. They're saying,
all these feedlomers go up, there's going to be a
big jump in the road toll. Do you believe that?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Well, it's what we've seen with the opposite. I guess
when they've come down. So some of the sections they're
looking at, say State Highway five, maybe the topor for example,
since it came in three years ago, we've seen about
more than forty percent drop in debts and serious injuries
there the one from Nelson to blend them that that's
been about a seventy percent drop. So it's really looking
(30:42):
back the other way, we could expect to see those
games go away.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
The last speed limits that were reduced by the Labor government,
I think there was a list of about three hundred
of them, and most of them were outside of schools,
and a lot of the schools were in rural areas
where they were basically on state highways where going fast
and the schools wanted the cars to go slower around
the schools. There are a number of communities that have
these concerns. Should they have the ability to ask, if
(31:13):
not demand, a speed limit that's appropriate for their community
if they want to.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I think it's very important. And I see that a
lot of areas in the Tasman District, for example, have
been crying out for lower speeds on rural roads or
near schools and been a little bit frustrated that it
hasn't been happening. So I'm a little dispointed that we're
down to only getting consultation on state highways when a
lot of other local roads also should be looking at,
(31:40):
well what do the people actually want?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
All right, Glen Couri, I thank you so much for
I ask you one last question. How much do you
reckon this is all going to cost us?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well that's the other thing. Yeah, you go all the
work of putting signs up and now they're potentially going
to have to put new signs up, and it could
be rather piecemeal as well, you chop and change, So
it's adding up in terms of signs. Never mind, as
I say, the cost tenche to people's lives.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Gren Curry, I thank you so much. He's from a
company called v Strata and he looks at safety on
roads and it is six minutes to six, and a
text through just says that's rubbish. Trucks can easily do
one hundred. Yeah they can do one hundred, but often
they're not supposed to ninety. Limit's all over the place
for tracks all the time, even on the open road.
Six to six.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
The News you Need this morning and the in Depth
Analysis Early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
Your Property Search Simple News Talk Sid.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Be Goodbody, Mike Costing Morning. I was talking about John
Minto earlier this morning. Oh yeah I was, And I
was talking about how he seems to have some glee
at hunting down jews.
Speaker 13 (32:43):
There's something wrong with people like that.
Speaker 12 (32:45):
I was.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
Funnily enough, I saw his photo yesterday and I thought
to myself, how long's he been around?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Sorry, you know what I was about to say. I
was about to say, you and John Minto have something
in common, which is what well, do you have a
portrait of Dorian Gray somewhere in your basement, and does
he have a portrait, Because I've been watching him since
I was a kid, and ever since he had a
megaphone with whole all racial tours, barking at everybody that
he could bark at, He's looked exactly the same. Well,
and so do you. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I've aged really well and that's widely accepted by most people.
But haven't sit there funnily enough. Funnily enough, I thought
yesterday when I saw him, I thought he's aged badly.
He looks the same. I know what he's saying, but
I thought he did.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
But as the smile crease in his face has become.
Speaker 13 (33:27):
Smile, well does he ever smile?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Okay, the grimace crease in his face has become particularly deep.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
It's a funny way to live your life, isn't it.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with apartheid the first time around,
the genuine cause this time around, I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Just people that could just cause it.
Speaker 13 (33:40):
Of course, it's got ten seconds to see Jones on
the banks and fossil fuels.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Good show. Thank you, Leo. I'm Andrew Dickins. See you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, good morning to you. Thank you so much for
choosing us. We're here till six. Coming up over the
next hour, Shane Jones hits out at Woke Banks. That's
today's headline. Richard Jones from Flap Farmers on this topic
in five minutes later on how can we stop this
epidemic of fires in orcan rubbish drucks? Who knew? And
(00:35):
just before six, how are we going with changing all
the speed signs on our state highways? How much is
this going to or cost? Will it make a difference?
We've got an expert for you. Just before six. We'll
have correspondence from around New Zealand and around the world.
You can have your say by sending me a text.
The number is ninety two to ninety two. A small
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Newstalk stb dot co dot nz. It is seven a
half to five.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It is Thursday. It is the thirtieth of January and
at least thirty people have died in a crowd crush
at India's Kumila religious festival. Millions were expected to take
a dip in the river.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We have seen little children being brought who have been
separated from their parents. The elderly women who are crying
We've gotten separated from their family. Some of them are
talking about seeing people fall and getting severely injured. It's
absolutely chaotic scenes in the Last and Found Center.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
This, by the way, is the world's largest religious celebration.
They're expecting one hundred million people to flock to this
river bank. Incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
An Australian man who was feared dead while fighting for
Ukraine is in its war with Russia. Apparently he's alive,
according to Russian authorities. Thirty two year old teacher Oscar
Jenkins was captured last year in Ukraine. Australia's Foreign minister
says the government has received confirmation that Oscar is alive
and he is currently in Russian custody. To the United
(02:09):
Kingdom and the government there has backed the construction of
a third runway at Heathrow Airport. This is all part
of its economic growth plan.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I have always been clear that the third runway at
Heathrow would unlock further growth, boost investments, increase exports and
make the UK more open and more connected.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So that's the chance of Rachel Reeves. She says she
wants proposals for the expansion by the middle of the year.
She says the expansion alone could create one hundred thousand
jobs and back to the US and a federal judge
in the States has blocked President Donald Trump's freeze on
federal grants and loans, and the spending, which is approved
by Congress goes to both public and private organizations and
(02:51):
states and schools. Individual funding isn't impacted by the paws,
and the White House says it's needed to ensure spending
is in line with Donald Trump's agenda. It is nine
after five the first.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Word on the Use of the Day in early edition
with Andrew Dickins and One Room to Make Your Property
Search and Simple.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You talk sipy okay, They say Christopher Luxin is struggling,
but frankly, Chris Hipkins is also struggling. Today in twenty
twenty five, the leader of the opposition has fallen for
the trap of just being against stuff. Instead of for stuff.
So the fundamental problem with our economy is that the
government doesn't make enough money to pay our bills. That's
(03:32):
why we run deficits. We've been running deficits for far
too long, far too often. Now the answer to that
is either to tax you more, or for New Zealand
to earn more, so more taxes are paid so the
government has more money. So the other day Chris Hipkins
is railing against the government's handling of the economy without
saying how his mob could do any better. You know what,
(03:54):
that's not actually good enough, especially since there's only been
a year since we last saw you running things rather badly.
What would you actually do anyway? This is what he said.
He said the National Act government wants to entrench two
standards of citizenship, one standard for those who have wealth
and all lower standard for those that don't. Now that
might be so, but you know, in that statement alone,
(04:16):
he just hacked off a whole bunch of folks. It
is a bit rich to complain of two tiers of citizenship,
because is he blithely unaware or deliberately ignorant of the
two tiers of citizenship? Labor promoted in treating principles. It
was Maori and non Maori. And when he was Health Minister,
it was vaxed and unvaxed. You know, when people say
(04:36):
times a divisive, I'd argue that the times have been
divisive for quite some time already, and both sides are guilty.
And I'll tell you something else. I watched John Minto
on the TV last night and I saw a hint
of glee in his face and his determination to hunt
Jews down, because that's what this Palestine hotline thing is
is asking people to snitch on Jews, tell a quasi
(04:59):
militia ware the Jews are, and then John and his
mates are going to go around and re educate them.
Now what does that sound like to you? You know,
if it walks like a pogram and it talks like
a pogram, then it's probably pretty distasteful. John, and you
seem to enjoy it. And it amazes me how people
who fight against oppression so easily adopt the tactics of oppressors.
(05:20):
And I'm sure mister Minto and his supporters believe they
have the high moral ground. You don't. And the other
thing that freaks me out is that John Minto looks
pretty much the same as when we first saw him
on TV barking at people through a megathone. Has he
signed some deal with the devil? Is there a portrait
of him rotting in a basement in Gray? Then? I
find it all rather unnerving. It's twelve after five. Shane
(05:43):
Jones has hit out at the white banks that do
not fund people that fund fossil fuels. So what is
fair farmacin about that? That's next.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
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Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's fourteen after five and Shane Jones has gone off
at the banks. It has understood that New Zealand First
could be looking at a member's bill that could force
the big banks to lend to any businesses that deal
in fossil fuel. Shane Jones says the Australian banks, who
dominate the New Zealerd market need to stop being an
I quote driven by unelected, unorientated climate apostles. Australia's opposition
(06:27):
party is looking at a similar bill to ensure critical
businesses like farming and mining are able to access bank
lending and services despite how the banks view their businesses.
So Richard McIntyre as the banking spokesperson for Federated Farmers
and joins me. Now, good morning to you, Richard, Good
morning Andrew. Do you agree with mister Jones.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Look, I think this is a really interesting discussion we
have to have as a country. Yet, do we want
to have our elited government city laws and deciding what
society can and can't do, or do we want other
elited banks being able to do that? You know, typically,
you know, we are quite comfortable for businesses to decide
who they do business with or not. But when we're
when we have have a sector that plays such a
(07:08):
huge role in society like banks to and they've got
quite a bit of scale, and they're also making rule
making agreements on then ary banking lots to act in
very similar manners, then you know, we've really got a
question where it's very reasonable for them for them to
be doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, but it's there money, and they're the banks, and
there's their choice, and that's their freedom of choice. But
I understand what you say. Have you heard of farmers
here having issues accessing lending and other banking services? Because
of their climate practices.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
So we've got farmers who are being asked for all
their emissions profiles and that sort of thing. We've got
the banks who the vast majority of them so far
have set the missions reduction targets for their farmers or
for the AC sector, and so that's the real concern.
You know what happens after that. We've seen what is
happening with in Zen and the petrol stations where you know,
(08:03):
individually owned petrol stations to local petrol stations are being
told that they have to pay back all of the
debt that they own that they own sorry by twenty
thirty and after that they can have no more debt
but a transactional account, and that than nothing more. So
there's a real question of you know, where is this
going to go for farmers if they can't meet whatever
targets the banks do set, because you know, what begin
(08:26):
Zen in particular are doing to these petrol stations seems
completely unreasonable.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So what changes would you like to see a new legislation?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
I guess if new legislation camp forwards, I would like
to see in all reality, either far far greater competition
in the banking space, so that if banks would decided
that individually they want it to be the moral police
of the country, then there'd be enough competitions so that
whatever businesses they were declined into fund could actually get
(08:55):
lending elsewhere. But I think as a society we just
really need to have a really good discussion. And so
are we a democratic, critically elected Are we a democracy?
Do we have a democratical really to government that decides
what we can and can't do? Or are we happy
to leave it up to these big corporates, you know,
making decisions overseas about what we can and can't do,
(09:16):
what industries they will fund or won't fund. You know,
there's an issue there that really deserves some discussion.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Richard, I thank you for your time today. Richard McIntyre
is from Federative Farmers. They're banking spokesperson. Now, who knew
we had rubbish trucks blowing up all over our biggest
city twenty twenty five has had a very fiery start
or can wate trucks? Five rubbish and recycling truck fires
in just the first two weeks of January. So imagine it.
You're just a bloke and you running around trying to
(09:42):
pick up some rubbish and suddenly your truck blows up.
So what's happening and how can we stop it? We're
going to talk to the council in just a few
months time. It is eighteen after five.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
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Speaker 2 (10:01):
You talk with me right It is now five twenty. Yeah,
rubbish tracks are blowing up. Well, blowing up might be
an exaggeration, but there have been loads of fires and
rubbish and recycling trucks nine over the past little while.
On top of that at Ukhan's recycling facility that has
one or two small fires every single week. So Auckland
Council Deputy Director of Resilience and Infrastructure Paru Sued joins
(10:26):
me right.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Now, hello, Pero, good morning Andrew.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What's blowing up?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Oh my god? It's all the wrong items that people
are putting into those trucks and they are predominantly lithemine
batteries that we've got so many of them in our
devices that.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Are blowing up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yes, so it give us a list. What's blown up?
What's the stuff we shouldn't be putting in the in
the rubbish truck.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
So one thing to clearly remember is what you should
be putting into your recycling bins. It is meant for
packaging only that comes out of your kitchen, laundry and
your bathrooms, and of course paper that you might have,
and actually nothing else. What people are doing or I
guess they're doing it by mistake or some of them
are thinking, is wish cycling. They're actually putting in things
(11:11):
like batteries. They're also putting in canisters that might have
got some gas in it, or LPT bottles or even
being found in it that can very easily once damished
cash fire.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, so where should we put them? Like in December alone,
nearly six hundred laptops and over three hundred and twelve
batteries found their way into our recycling re facility, which
you just know that bad. So where should those people
that put the laptops and batteries.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
That's right, And if you think of just you know,
visit Council's website. There is a whole list of places
where you can take them, and it's an easy search
that you can find them. But there are also retailers
that actually offer you can take them to those retailers
and they'll take it back for free. So might it
Ten and Bunnings, for example, have battery dropouts. There are
a lot of organizations that do e waste collections and
(12:00):
take back as well. We also have some community recycling
centers that take ewate back. So I guess just a
little bit of research on where you can take it
near your house is what you need to do to
be able to get these materials to the right place
and this post of correctly.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So is there anything you can actually do to crack
down on the people who are either lazy or ignorant
to put this down? Or do you just have to
rely on community responsibility?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Hey, I think it's community responsibility is all on us
to actually do the right thing. We can look through
footage to see where it's come from. It's quite hard
to do that, but I think if we all just
think a little bit before we put that material in
the bin, I think that's the best way to go
because that's then preventing it from entering into the win
and we're not spending time wondering and policing it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Peral, Thank you so much. For your time today produceud
from the organ Council and it is now five twenty three.
Number of people are actually criticizing me for my comments
at the top of the program. They're saying that this
Palestine hotline targets Idea soldiers, only that those guys have
committed war crimes. Someone else informs me about how many
Gazans have died as if I have had my head
in a sand. I know all this, but at the
(13:10):
same time, if you're fighting the bad guys, you don't
actually use the bad guys tactics. And I find the
tactics being used by John Minto and his mates to
be bad guy tactics snitching, hunting down, re education. It's
five twenty three.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
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Talks it B. It is five twenty six. Good morning,
I'm Andrew Dickens. Thank you for joining me. It beggars
belief these days when we report that it's hard to
make money if you're a doctor, it's hard to make
money if you have got a GP practice. It beggars
belief that we don't have enough doctors in this country.
Primary medical care is the most important care we can have.
(13:52):
Forget your fancy specialists, forget your rock star surgeons. If
a GP can spot and fix a problem as it begins,
then you can save your life and you can save
the nation a ton on costs down the line. So
the health of our primary health sector should be of
primary importance, but it hasn't been. We've added a million
people through immigration over the past ten years, and we've
(14:13):
also been creating new New Zealanders ourselves, while our numbers
of doctors per head of population is plummeted. There's two
ways to get new doctors right. One way is to
find them and import them from overseas, but that is
necessarily difficult because not every Tom Dick and Harry who
say their doctors are in fact doctors. We've seen stories
about that. The other way is to train them ourselves,
(14:36):
and in that area, I believe we've been waefully short
on the numbers. I do not know why. You'd think
our doctor training would increase in line of population, but
it hasn't for decades. And what about this University of
Wyicado new Medical School, which was an election policy. Remember
it was built on top of a report completed by
Steven Joyce's consultancy firm, which is basically Stephen in some researches,
(14:59):
a consultant report that was not cheap. It was pushed
by the University of Wycato, it got supported by the
people who became the government. We're supposed to have a
new medical school in the way Kado in Hamilton. Well
we are a year into the new administration and where
are we at. We've got nothing. The medical unions are
(15:20):
already coming out saying this is taking too long. The
Prime Minister's only comment on it is that work is
continuing on the business case and it will go to
Cabinet in the future. So where the hell does that mean?
That is But unofficially it is understood that the project
has been dogged with problems and is increasingly seen as unnecessary, costly,
(15:41):
and worst of all, a bad idea. I'm sorry, a
bad idea from Stephen Joyce, from a well paid consultant
who knew Stephen Joyce has many good ideas, but maybe
this one isn't so. But still, if we're wanting to
train new doctors and we want to train them in
a school, we were going to build a new one
but when not building a new one, So what about
(16:01):
raising the money the numbers? Elsewhere? Things are just not happening,
And it's not nice when things just don't happen, because, frankly,
I'd like to go to a doctor, and when I
do go to a doctor, I don't want to be
told that you've only got fifteen minutes. But in fact,
let's make that ten because I'm running late. Andrew Dickens,
(16:23):
it is five twenty eight. You want some entertainment, it's
happening right now, Yes, this radio show, or you could
stick on the TV and see the Senate confirmation hearing
for the Health Secretary pick in the United States of America,
which is a man by the name of Robert F.
Kennedy Junior. So there's a lot of finger waggling, there's
(16:44):
a lot of finger pointing from all the people asking
him questions, and there's a lot of one ma ma
from RFK himself. I mean, I don't know if you've
known about all this. His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, one of
the Kennedys, has gone a bit viral because she's actually said, yeah, well,
cousin Bob, he's a bit of a predator. He likes
(17:07):
to mince birds and then feed them to snakes, and
he's a bit strange. I'm not sure you want him
for a health secretary. So anyway, Mitch McCann is coming
to us from the United States of America to tell
us more about these confirmation hearings. They're very entertaining. And
also I went for a walk on the beach and
it's stank, and I'll tell you that story in five.
Here are news talks hipb.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Andrew Dickens on early edition with one roof make your
Property search simple, youth talk zippy.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yes, good morning to you, Welcome to your Thank you
so much for choosing our program. We were talking earlier
about Shane Jones. He's running an off banks who won't
lend to fossil fuel industries or those people who actually
or basically farmers. That's what he's saying. Wonderful text here.
Maybe these banks who don't lend to the farmers should
seesaw business with the rich that fly private jets or
(18:18):
I don't think they will, or maybe those that drive
devil diesel utes, I don't think they would. Where does
this all end? Good point? Now, look, I went for
a walk at the beach yesterday afternoon. It was lovely.
It was warm. That's one of the benefits of doing
these early shows, you get some time in the afternoon. Yes,
it was gorgeous, but at the southern end of the beach,
(18:39):
stretching for about two hundred meters, was a pungent carpet
created by the tides of the sea over the winter.
And you know the stuff. It was old kelp and puriade,
seaweed and perhuda, caw wire, leaf fall and all sorts
of other guns that ended out in the harbor and
then gets washed up onto a beach. And the thing
about it, it's been there for a while. It's been
a hig it's rotting and smelling real bad. So I
(19:04):
phoned the council. The council said, we'll go and look
at the Safe Swim website, which gives real time assessments
of beach quality. So I went to Safe Swim and
it said the beach is safe swimming quality. Good. Yes,
thank you for that. I know it is safe to
swim at. It's just dangerous to sit down wind of
(19:25):
the decomposing and rotting an ugly six inch carpet of
composts that stretches for two hundred meters and stinks to
high heaven. And I ask you, because I could phone
the council once again to complain, I ask you, is
it too much to ask the council to come along
and hoover it all up. In Sydney they clean the
beaches every week. We don't ever clean our beaches and
(19:48):
they sit there stinking. And here's the thing. I pay
rates and it's a cost of living crisis, and going
to the beach is free. And if the council liked
us hoover up the junk dis it's twenty one minutes
to excess. Go right around New Zealand and we're going
to Dunedin first. Callum Proctor. Good morning to you, morning Andrew.
I've just been banging on about training more doctors. It
(20:10):
looks like Otaga University is up for it.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Yes, they are very much so. And this would help,
of course, the big GP shortage that we have across
New Zealand. We've just heard thirty six percent of general
practices we're not enrolling any new patients in twenty twenty four,
many turning them away, or you are added to a
lengthy wait list. Well, the Medical School here says they
(20:34):
could fix that. It says that it could increase its
capacity as soon as next year if this is needed.
The acting dean is Tim Wilkinson. He says research shows
medical students' interest in general practices actually grows during their
training here at Otaga. And he says a lot of
students don't make their minds up until after they graduate.
And how's your weather today, Callum drizzle clears this afternoon
(20:56):
and nineteen Emily Ansel from Christyage, good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Good morning Andrew.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So we get these speed limit reversals. That's happening in
your area on State Highway seventy five. What's people saying
about it?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Yeah, Well, Salwin's mayor has a few good things to say.
It's one of thirty eight stretches of road going back
to what it previously was. By July, the road will
increase from eighty kilometers an hour to one hundred from
Harswell to Little River. It was dropped in twenty twenty
two after NZTA found most serious crashes on the road
occurred at highest speeds. Sam brought in the maryor mentioned
(21:28):
says there was little consultation by the Labor government when
it made the decision. He says, it's pleasing this government
has gone through that process before announcing the changes.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
How's your weather fine.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Apart from areas of morning and evening cloud northeasterlys developing
in the morning, picking up in the afternoon with a
high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Emily answel thank you so very much, and good morning
to Max Toll from Wellington. Hello, Max, good morning. So
your council there now has a Crown observer because of
course they've operated so fantastically so far, and the Crown
observed has been making some observations.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Yeah, that's right. His first report has been made public.
One could argue that since his appointment, city Council meetings
have probably been a bit more cordial, a little less dysfunctional.
The long term plan, for instance, did eventually get over
the line. Yet Lindsay McKenzie still points out all of
the usual stuff, political positioning, ideologies, the media spotlight or
(22:25):
still unsurprisingly still holding the city back. We've got a
predominantly a left wing Green heavy council. It's always going
to be a challenge for some of these people to
stomach working with the government. Yet there's a concern about
leaks to the media, relationships biases in the reports of
council officers. That's one complaint from some councilors. Unfortunately, you
(22:48):
have to say a lot of these things aren't going
to get better as a councilor's try to get re
elected later this year and some start fancying a crack
at dethroning Tory Faro at the head of the table.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know you can psych this dial all those observations
and said that probably to every single council in New Zealand.
How's your weather?
Speaker 10 (23:05):
Occasional rain Southerley's twenty the high central and.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Never ret A man who now joins me in Orklandallo
neither hello, greetings.
Speaker 11 (23:12):
I thought you're going to say hello, rever.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You look like you're going to put an R in there.
Would you like me to no? Okay. So there's problems
at the hospital.
Speaker 11 (23:19):
Yes, water woes. Water woes where Auckland City Hospital. So
a water leak means that the hospital's main building. This
does include the maternity water is without hot water so overnight.
We do know that the water system and part of
the hospital that was turned off completely. The good news
it's expected to be back on this morning. Hot water,
though it's going to take a little while longer. But
(23:40):
we do know also that the toilets, the dialysis machines,
in fire sprinklers, they're all unaffected their goodness, because they
run on a different water system.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Great.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
How's the weather.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Cloudy, isolated childs developing late morning, clearing tonight still hot
hot hot twenty five is are high.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Never Rettimuta, I thank you at a seventeen minutes to six,
I was just complaining about the junk on my beach
that stinks, the compost that stinks. And I said, phone
the council, teaches, says, phone the council.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It's all natural, Go down and put it on your garden.
Tell me, why doesn't the council go and gullip it
up and stick it on all its gardens that it
has around the place. It could do it. It's a resource.
But just get rid of it from the beach because
that stinks and it's big. And it is seventeen to six.
What's happening in America with the RFK confirmation hearing? Mitch
(24:27):
mc camp will tell you in a few moments time,
and before the end of the show. We're going to
talk about the new speed signs that are going up
all around the country.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It is fourteen to six. Let's go to America. Mitch McCann, Hello,
good morning, How are you very good? The RFK Robert F.
Kennedy confirmation continues and his cousin Caroline Kennedy has called
him a predator with family like that, who needs enemies?
Oh that's right.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
She put out this video yesterday saying that it was
difficult for her to speak out against her cousin because
they are a close family. However, she really did lay
into ARIFK. Junior. She called him a predator, and she
said that he used to gloat about putting chickens and
a blender to feed his hawks. Of course, Arif K
Junior today is facing a Senate confirmation hearing to be
(25:18):
a Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Health in the US,
essentially controlling the US Health Department. However, there are a
couple of problems. He denies vaccine science and science around fluoride,
and this morning he started his confirmation hearing saying that
American's overall health is in grievous condition, more so than
any other developed nation. And also this morning he's faced
(25:41):
a number of protesters inside the Congressional building. Someone stood
up and yelled he lies. Another person with a mask
on and holding a sign said vaccine saves lives also
interrupted Kennedy. So it's not been without a bit of
drama this morning than Washington.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
With all this controversy, Is there any chance that he
might not get the nod?
Speaker 12 (26:01):
Well, it seems like this will be the most difficult
of Donald Trump's cabinet nominations. Given that Pete Higgsith from
the Defense Department, he was sworn in a few days ago,
he was the one that was the most unlikely to
pass the test of the Senate. However, it remains to
be seen whether the Republicans they.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Only need three, they only need three.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
To vote against him, and he will fail to get
through this confirmation hearing. So we're likely to hear after
his his hearing today whether or not he will reach
that threshold. But so he'll be sworn in in a
couple of days. Highly controversial over here, very good now.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Donald Trump's immigration policy has been put in place, and
then a week there's already been five thousand arrests there.
Cracking on.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
They certainly are, and they are doing that in New
York now as well. And the new secretary for the
Department of Homeland Security was out on the beat with
enforcement OSSes yesterday morning, in fact, videoing from her phone
an immigrant being led out into a police fan in
the Bronx Now. She posted Christie nom a caption alongside
that saying, dirt bags like this will continue to be
(27:05):
removed from our streets. And it goes without saying this
is a real public relations exercise for Donald Trump as well.
The White House are posting images online of people in
handcuffs being led onto a military plane to go back
to places like Guatemala. Doctor Phil the TV Doctor, has
even been going out with ICE immigration agents in Chicago,
filming them for his TV channels. And then we've got
(27:28):
the secretary posting photos as well. So it's a policy
in the Trump administration, but it's also very much a
public relations exercise as well.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Much began, Hey, thank you so much for your time,
no worries, thank you very much. It's eleven to six.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Andrew digulous speed.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Limits have started going back up again. Thirty eight sections
of the State highway network will return to their previously
higher speed limits by July. The first State Highway two
between Featherston and Masterton is the first place to see
the increase that happened last night, and of course all
the politicians were there in front of the cameras going
haven't we done well? Glenn Coury is a certified safe
system assessor and level crossing safety impact accessor at a
(28:09):
company called via Strata and joins me Now, hall a.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Glenn, good morning.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Andrew didn't even know jobs like yours existed.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
There's lots of safety jobs out there.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
How did you get all the skills?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
There's lots of training courses both here in Australia that
do things like that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Are you for or against increasing speed limits for.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Most of these? Very much against. I see it as
a populous move really and in quite evidence free. You know,
there might be some sections that they're looking at, well,
there might be a case, but a lot of these
have already seen very good reductions and deaths and serious
injuries already.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
So you reckon that they all need to be judged
on their own individual you know, status and how good
or bad the roads are.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Yeah, exactly, And I think they've sort of gone with
people going it's slowing me down, terrible and all the
rest of it, rather than actually looking at the evidence
about what's actually happened on some of these roads.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Okay, do you have any in all your training, will
you got your skills? Do you have any proof that
raising the speed limits will increase productivity?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, that one seems a bit of a misnomer as well,
because for a start, trucks can't go higher than the
ninety in In fact, even at eighty ks tends to be
their optimal speed, so that's probably not going to help them.
Some of the roads are talking about they're looking at
urban ones for example, and like Wellington near the Terrace
Tunnel's going to be a seventy k road. Well, the
(29:41):
problem is that rush hour on Wellington you're lucky if
you even don fifty at the moment.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's true, but that's rush hour. But you know, when
you're at three o'clock in the morning and you've been
told to go, you know, seventy when you could quite
easily do one hundred, that hacks people off.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah, but that, if anything, you're going to be able
to go faster and other parts of the road or
other parts of the network, And so it's a bit
of a moment. At one section you've saved, yes, thirty seconds,
what are you going to do with thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Make a cup of coffee? Obviously? Now once okay, Well,
here's the thing. The opponents, there's fear mongering. They're saying,
all these feedlomers go up, there's going to be a
big jump in the road toll. Do you believe that?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Well, it's what we've seen with the opposite. I guess
when they've come down. So some of the sections they're
looking at, say State Highway five, maybe the topor for example,
since it came in three years ago, we've seen about
more than forty percent drop in debts and serious injuries
there the one from Nelson to blend them that that's
been about a seventy percent drop. So it's really looking
(30:42):
back the other way, we could expect to see those
games go away.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
The last speed limits that were reduced by the Labor government,
I think there was a list of about three hundred
of them, and most of them were outside of schools,
and a lot of the schools were in rural areas
where they were basically on state highways where going fast
and the schools wanted the cars to go slower around
the schools. There are a number of communities that have
these concerns. Should they have the ability to ask, if
(31:13):
not demand, a speed limit that's appropriate for their community
if they want to.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
I think it's very important. And I see that a
lot of areas in the Tasman District, for example, have
been crying out for lower speeds on rural roads or
near schools and been a little bit frustrated that it
hasn't been happening. So I'm a little dispointed that we're
down to only getting consultation on state highways when a
lot of other local roads also should be looking at,
(31:40):
well what do the people actually want?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
All right, Glen Couri, I thank you so much for
I ask you one last question. How much do you
reckon this is all going to cost us?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well that's the other thing. Yeah, you go all the
work of putting signs up and now they're potentially going
to have to put new signs up, and it could
be rather piecemeal as well, you chop and change, So
it's adding up in terms of signs. Never mind, as
I say, the cost tenche to people's lives.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Gren Curry, I thank you so much. He's from a
company called v Strata and he looks at safety on
roads and it is six minutes to six, and a
text through just says that's rubbish. Trucks can easily do
one hundred. Yeah they can do one hundred, but often
they're not supposed to ninety. Limit's all over the place
for tracks all the time, even on the open road.
Six to six.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
The News you Need this morning and the in Depth
Analysis Early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
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Speaker 2 (32:33):
Be Goodbody, Mike Costing Morning. I was talking about John
Minto earlier this morning. Oh yeah I was, And I
was talking about how he seems to have some glee
at hunting down jews.
Speaker 13 (32:43):
There's something wrong with people like that.
Speaker 12 (32:45):
I was.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
Funnily enough, I saw his photo yesterday and I thought
to myself, how long's he been around?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Sorry, you know what I was about to say. I
was about to say, you and John Minto have something
in common, which is what well, do you have a
portrait of Dorian Gray somewhere in your basement, and does
he have a portrait, Because I've been watching him since
I was a kid, and ever since he had a
megaphone with whole all racial tours, barking at everybody that
he could bark at, He's looked exactly the same. Well,
and so do you. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I've aged really well and that's widely accepted by most people.
But haven't sit there funnily enough. Funnily enough, I thought
yesterday when I saw him, I thought he's aged badly.
He looks the same. I know what he's saying, but
I thought he did.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
But as the smile crease in his face has become.
Speaker 13 (33:27):
Smile, well does he ever smile?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Okay, the grimace crease in his face has become particularly deep.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
It's a funny way to live your life, isn't it.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with apartheid the first time around,
the genuine cause this time around, I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Just people that could just cause it.
Speaker 13 (33:40):
Of course, it's got ten seconds to see Jones on
the banks and fossil fuels.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Good show. Thank you, Leo. I'm Andrew Dickins. See you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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