The Huddle: Was Stuart Nash out of line?

Tonight on The Huddle, Auckland councillor Maurice Williamson and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!

Stuart Nash has copped some backlash after criticising opponent Katie Nimon over her move to take a few months off after giving birth. Was this out of line?

Is the ANZ Premiership over and done? We've heard three teams have have been told their contracts end in a matter of days. Are we worried about this? 

The Government will be launching a review after meth pipes were spotted in retailers. What do we make of this? Should we be concerned?

Did One News get it wrong in putting so much FIFA World Cup final coverage ahead of Ryan Fox's Open win?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nineteen away from six.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Huddled with Us this evening. Morris Williamson, Auckland councilor,
former National Party MP, and Jack Tame, host of Saturday
Mornings in Q and A highlights. What two men commenting
on this?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
We're going to get ourselves in trouble. Who wants to
go first? On commenting on Katie's.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Jack, I thought she. I thought she put forward a
really good argument. I think I think representation takes many forms.
And the fact that she was able to return to
work in her electorate, I don't know. Maybe hearing her
football that argument might have negated some of you were
concerns about representation.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
But she had taken six months or not off parliamentary
parliamentary work.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, I think it's reasonable. I would hate to think
that other young mothers would be put off becoming MP's
because they thought it was unreasonable to take off six months.
And I think the same She was able to return
to work in Napier and her electorate and do some
electric work while being supported by some of her colleagues.
Seems like a pretty good balance from Okay Morris.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Uh mate, I don't think she should have taken six
months off. I reckon if you'll know, as I said earlier,
if your name's on the door, you're back at work
as soon as you reasonably can, which I think is
ten weeks of ten weeks back in the electric ten
weeks back in parliament.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
I've learned over the years in politics this is one issue.
It's a no when if you have a view either
way on it.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Tell me Jack is braver than you.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Morris, Absolutely he is. He's much braver than I am.
But all I can say is that in the modern world,
there is now technology where you can participate without being somewhere.
You know, zoom and teams and all sorts. You can
actually do a whole lot of work and send documents
backwards and forwards and change them while you're sitting at
a desk. I don't think you have to be physically

(01:53):
out of place to keep working, so I sort of
a most can.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You're just making the argument for making parliament Parliament largely
remote and cutting costs and not flying these buggers all
over the country. All the time, and I don't think.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I don't think you need to have as much of
the flying around because a lot of it's mainly campaigning
and trying to promote yourself. But in the end you
will have to do work in Wellington at some point,
Otherwise you're going to exclude women who are going to
have children. The desperate thing this country needs is for
us to have some more of our own children, because
the fertility rate is so bloody low, and another number

(02:28):
of countries are suffering like that around the world, where
they're just not having enough to replace their own stock.
So I don't think anything's wrong with what she did.
I don't know enough to know the details, but I'm
nervous about domining either you'll get it wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's only a small proportion, right, Like, it's only a
relatively small proportion. It's like kating them and then and
the Tapati Maldi MPs who aren't coming to Parliament very regularly, I.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Mean, and Napier Jack. It is one hundred percent of
their represented.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well, and I suppose the voters in Napier will be
the ultimate judges of their MP in this circumstance. But
I think if you've got a structure whereby you can
organize to be supported by MP's on the electrics either side,
and you are returning to electric work earlier. I think
there'll actually be a lot of MP a lot of
voters in Napier who would say, actually, that seems like
a pretty reasonable balance, and you know they're centifible back.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, all right, we'll take a break. Come back to
you guys shortly.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
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Speaker 1 (03:29):
Right, you're back with a huddle Morris Williamson and Jack
Tame Morris, do you want to take a bit on
whether the A and Z Premiership the netballs back next year?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah? Look, I worry about some of the sports we've
got in this country because I don't know there's enough
eyeballs or participants in terms of audience to go to
keep them all functioning. I hear these names from the
A and Z Premiere and I don't even know where
they're from. I don't know where the Mystics are from,
or the Northern Stars or whatever they are. I thought

(03:57):
they were Aucland, but it turns out I got that wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Think they are are't they pack your electra? Aren't they
they packing a Houn?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Aren't there two Northern Aren't there two Northern teams that
are both Auckland or something and one that's further north. Look,
the problem is I don't know no more. I know
more about NRL teams and where they're from than I
do about it. So I worry that some of these
sports just don't have enough people interested or watching them.
But it does look pretty shocking that there's not enough

(04:25):
participation that they may end up with three of them going,
isn't it or.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, I mean it seems entirely possibly at the stage
we're all kind of speculating this is the problem, though, Jack,
don't you think at the heart of it that the
guys who are running Netbor New Zealand are not actually
explaining to people what's going on. They're just flitting off
to Glasgow.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, I definitely think we need some clarity, and I'm
it was a very good interview to just have to five,
but I'm still not sure that I'm any clearer on
the situation as it kind of stands at the moment.
I mean, it's a difficult one act because it's like
there are so many different entertainment products and ultimately that's
what these competitions are. There are so many instament products
vying for our attention right now. But I just think

(05:04):
given the prominence of netball, especially with young girls in
New Zealand, but you know, the popularity of netball over
the year, I think it would be a great shame
if there wasn't an attainable competition for young people to
strive towards. But yeah, I mean, at the end of
the day, this is ultimately an economic question, right and
if they can't make it stack up on the numbers front,

(05:24):
then you know, then it could be in trouble. But
I think it would be a great shame.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Don't we have to do what we do with the
Warriors though, and they actually join an Australian competition.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yes, but the Australians don't want us, Morris, of course
they want us, No, they know they don't, they don't.
We had this discussion although the mystics might be starting
in the Australian squad as an expansion tea.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
So I knew all along, I was right on you.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Know, you were right, you were one hundred percent right.
This is what kept us going for ages and what
we need to get back to Jack, I am surprised
to find out it's surprised and not surprised. Surprised to
find out, not surprised to find out that the bond
and the pea pipes are illegal to be sold, but
surprised that the cops have just allowed it to kind
of happen.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, it just feels like one of those kind of
one of those things on the on the huge list
of things that police are trying to be dealing with.
It feels like this would be the absolute last priority,
and evidently it is. The thing that always surprises me
is like just how many are for sale? You go
into these shops sometimes you're like, oh my god, how
can you possibly justify heavy?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Though, if you think about it, you're doing the meth
and you've got a glass pipe. Now you're going to
be wasted. You're going to drop the pipe, right, so
you're going to need lots of pipes. But with the bonds,
I don't understand, because they wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, I mean, this is truth be told. This is
not my area of expertise. I've got I've got far
too much on in my life to be to be
wasting time with this stuff. But well, I just I mean,
I yeah, I can't. I can't see good reason to
keep telling It feels like the sort of thing where
the police need to do it like a little crackdown,
make a big song and dance, and then hope that
other retailers who are holding these things just go. You

(07:00):
know what, I don't want to be on the front
page of the HEROLD. Aren't it too right?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Because here's the problem with it, Morris, is that if
you see this, if kids walk into Cosmic Corner and
Wellington and see this stuff on display, it normalizes drugs
for them, as they think it's absolutely fine.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah. No, I think anything in that sort of noteure's
got to be kept completely away. I mean, we do
it with cigarettes. They've got to be behind sliding doors,
not even able to see them because they're so dangerous
for you. Well, why not for any of those other
things as well, because you don't want that to be
normalized and you don't want kids to think I can
just whip down there and grab that and use it
when I need to.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, I think that's a good point.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Jack.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Do you need to recuse yourself from a discussion about
TV and Z's bulletin.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yes, all I would say is all I would say.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh, not accusing oneself.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
No, no, no, I'm going to plead fess I need
any editorial questions. But what I would say is that
I'm just it's always pleasing to see how much New
Zealanders care about the content on maybe one sixteen bullows
always pleasing to see, So I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
What did you think, Morris of Jody? I love Jody,
but Jody goes on Mike this morning, she goes, oh,
it's perfectly fine to go sixteen or seventeen minutes on
the FIFA World Cup before we get to the fact
that old mate has won the British Open.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Well, first of all, Ryan Fox is just amazing and
I thought the way he played was out steaming, and
the Open is just the biggest thing in golf and
to win it made me so proud. Now I expect
that would just be leading all of the news networks.
Turned on the news that night because I didn't watch
it live but it was recorded, turn it on and
I'm just scrolling through and scrolling through, and I came

(08:30):
to the conclusion they don't even know Ryan Fox has
actually won the open. Yeah, clicked over and had to
look at the other one, and TV three I think
ran with it straight away. It's that important, and for
goodness sake that the Beeferwheel Cup was between two countries
We've not really got any great connection with from what
I'm told. I didn't see it, but was boring as

(08:50):
hell according to my family, And.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Also Morris happened about twelve hours earlier, so it was
old news guys. Thank you appreciate it, Morris Williams and.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
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