Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on Parliament paying tribute after Sunday's Bondi terror attack

Condolences and support from New Zealand MPs for Australia's Jewish community, after Sunday's terror attack.

Parliament's held a moment's silence - marking the 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire during Hanukkah celebrations at Sydney's Bondi Beach.

Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says speakers from all the major political parties paid tribute to the victims. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's move on.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Barry sopis here singing your political chorus. Wonder Barry good afternoon,
afternoon run. So they've been talking about the Sydney massacre
in Parliament this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, I've got to say it was a moving start
to Parliament today with the Prime Minister himself moving emotion
on the Jewish massacre and Bondo Beach. I thought all
the speeches were poignant and reflected the mood of most
of us at the moment. Chris Luxen. He was followed
by Labour's Chris Hopkins and then the Greens Chloe Swarbrick.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Here they are people were shot dead on a beach
on Sunday just for being Jewish. Anti Semitism is one
of the oldest forms of hatred and history, and it
remains one of the most dangerous. It mutates, it disguises itself,
but its impact is always the same, fair exclusion and dehumanization.

(00:50):
As Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party, I
stand in solidarity with the Jewish community which feels shaken
and vulnerable right now, and I say to the community,
you belong, you are valued here and we will protect you.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Terrorism is designed to divide us it is designed to
turn us against each other. It's designed to create more polarization.
The terrorist attacks are nothing to do with immigration. They
are terrorist attacks and they should always be called out

(01:24):
as exactly that. That kind of hatefulness should never be
confused with any legitimate debates that are taking place around
world events. They should never be blamed on anyone other
than the people who did them, which are the terrorists.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
We condemn the murder of fifteen innocent people. A child, parents, friends, partners,
human beings practicing their faith and their values. It is
the work of us here on earth to build that
real safety. This means understand that all of our fate

(02:02):
on this little planet is interconnected, mister speaker. We need
each other more than that we are each other, and
that is the light that we must carry into the darkness.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, what about the from the River to the Sea.
You mentioned that.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Chloe s Warbrick has been name checked. Of course, sir,
ever since this massacre broke out. Were terrible, but there
wasn't a Palestinian scarf on any of the Greens backs
today and they made sure of that, and the MP
stood for a minute silence out of respect for the
people that were killed in the massacre.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh that's nice, that's good to hear. Right, our treasuries
we had the hayfu come out, and the growth is
and well not great. I mean it gets there, but
not great now, and debt levels rising in the short
term all.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
I think the government spent a lot of time talking
this down, didn't they. Nichola Willis did so we weren't
expecting great things, but and we knew I think that
the surplus would be pushed out another year, so you know,
it's about what we thought would happen today. And I
looked at the debt levels of other countries compared to GDP,

(03:12):
and of course New Zealand is actually at the lower
end in terms of the forty forty five percent, and
look at Australia's it's higher than ours, and most other
countries in the OECD are as well. So even though
the figures sound big in New Zealand, when you look
internationally they are pretty reasonable. Really. The debate on the

(03:36):
economy spilled over into the House this afternoon, with the
argument coming down to the cost of a marmite sandwich,
something Chris Luxon said kids should have in their school
lunch along with an apple. Here they are with the
last question coming from David Seymour.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is it cheaper or more expensive now to make a
marmite sandwich than it was at the beginning of this year?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Or the good news is that food inflation, as that
member will have seen, has fallen to four point four
percent today. It's a third month in a row. It's
come down and it's a hell of a lot lower
than what it was at twelve and a half percent
under that Prime Minister.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Is he not aware that the price of buying a
loaf of bread is up fifty percent in just the
last year. The price of a mar Might sandwich is
significantly more expensive than it was when he told parents
to go out and buy marmite and bread and butter
and make their kids a sandwich. Oh my goodness, Oh
my goodness.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I love the way that the member has got an
analysis on the cost of a mum Might sandwich but
actually couldn't work out where sixty six billion dollars that
he spent during COVID went gotn't even be bothered to
show up to a COVID inquiry.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Can the Prime Minister confirm that the Government's healthy school
lunch program is being done for half the price that
it was done under the previous government, with the same
return rate for the meals. And doesn't it seem strange
that labours say they want cheaper food, but when we
give it to them they don't want that either.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Good point the last, and it's white bread, isn't it's
up forty five, that's right, so you could step by
the brown, but it's probably just as expensive. Barry, thank
you very much for that. Good to see you. As
always Barry's Super News Talks. They'd be senior political correspondent.

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