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FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) Now's the Time to Sell High/Is Anybody In Charge?/Flying Absolutely Everywhere/When Did I Learn Another Language?/You Could Have Someone's Eye Out
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
First of yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am Glean Hart, and we are looking back at
Monday with quickly sipping down from the RB and Z.
I think we are over the RBS, don't we? We
just wrap it up. Regional airlines sort of being helped
in some ways by the government. Are the governments also
(00:53):
being asked to consider compulsory second language bringing, bringing that
back learning that in school, and the anibaphobia continues, fair
of wind. But before any of that, foreign buyers welcome
(01:15):
on in foreign buyers, I mean super rech foreign buyers,
because you get any buy a house worth five million
or more.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's really high five million dollars or more. How many
homes there like that? I mean surely the two and
a half million, three million, I mean that's not affecting
first home buyers, is it, which is really what we
worry about. If people want to fight out around over
three million dollars, then then then go for it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That seems crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's a high three shold and maybe in Auckland that
makes sense, or maybe in Queenstown. But don't we want
people to move to Dunedin in the cargol don't want
people to be buying houses in places. Shouldn't that be?
Is it just a blanket five million nationwide? Because look,
I'm from Dunedin. Five million dollars get your a lot
of house in duned and will get you down to
Abbey to get your stables, horses, will get your full
(02:05):
You'll be able to get full service. You're able to
get full a suburb. You'll be able to run a
fall down to Abby for five million exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Well, one roof has actually run the numbers on how
many properties are worth over five million dollars in some
of the regions, as you can imagine Auckland a fear
whack three hundred three thousand, three hundred and twenty in
Auckland City. But then I go down the list Canterbury,
christ Church one hundred and fifty three, Welle hundred and.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Fifty three in christ Church. Yeah, so okay, come on right, where.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
S that's a lifestyle block? There wasn't it? Wellington? How
many homes and Wellington Wellington's a big place. How many
direcon over the five million mark five hundred no way less,
way less?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Okay, one a little bit more than that.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Thirty nine, just thirty nine and Wellington according to one roof.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So we don't want these people buying homes in our capital.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh, Matton Tyler, you've missed the obvious opportunity here. Anybody
out there who's selling their home at in the moment,
put your price up to five million and the foreigner
will buy it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Obviously, everybody wins. Idiots News talk Z been right.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What makes it about as much sense as what I
just said is what's been happening with the RBNZ lately.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Really nobody in charge at all anymore is there.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
But the new government this time National again, wanted to
be seen to be doing something, so they started canceling
government expenditure and that ended out throwing us into an
even deeper economic funk than anyone had expected, including the
Reserve Bank. Now, in both scenarios, the governments didn't seem
to realize what was happening at the reserve Bank of
our economy, and the Reserve Bank was too proud to
(03:47):
take into account the stupidity of governments. They were working
against each other. They're supposed to be independent, but that's
all supposed to be pulling together to help us. All government,
I think, needs to heed the advice that they give
to local councils. Just stick to your knitting. Your job
is to do the basics. Fund health and education and
(04:07):
the police, and build us stuff to help us do business,
like roads and rail and ferries. But you don't have
to worry about the price of butter or the number
of supermarkets. The markets will do that, the Reserve Bank
will do that. And remember, governments, you need to keep
the borrowing as low as reasonable. Let the Reserve Bank
worry about inflation and the big financial stuff. But that
(04:28):
hasn't happened the last two terms, and that is what
should happen. That's how successful governments respect the independence of
the Reserve Bank, and that's how the last two amateur
governments did not.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Little bit confused about the point Andrew's trying to make there.
I feel like the government's put the pressure on the
RB and Z to Every time anybody asked the government
what they want the.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
RB and Z to do, they said cut cut, cut.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Cut, like straight out and public every time Prime Minister
Nikola willis everyone, how do you cut?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Cut? Doesn't sound very independent government.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I literally don't understand any of this and I don't
want to talk about it anymore. You talk right, We've
got ourselves in a real model with regional air services,
haven't we?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
People and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Hamilton won't be able to fly to Queenstown but they
can't or something is that?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
What's is having independent regional airlines essential to keep the
prices down at Air New Zealand. And I'd also love
to know, just on a side note, given it's a Monday,
given that we've had the weekend, if you are in
Auckland or Wellington, would you be there if you didn't
have to be, if you weren't in the big smoke
(05:56):
for work, would you still be here? Imagine if you're young,
starting off in your career, no kids, Perhaps if you're
a new migrant, you want a bigger center, you want
to be where the people are. Perhaps this Auckland and
(06:18):
Wellington would still be your preferred home. We've heard from
plenty of people who have tried to attract talent to
the provinces and really struggle to do so because they
want to stay in the city because it's bigger, because
there's more to do, because there are more people. But
I'm asking you this morning, if you're in Auckland or Wellington,
(06:42):
would you be here if you didn't have to? And
what would it take to get you to a smaller center?
Would you need a regional airline? Would that help sway
you to make the move?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I feel like if I was moving to a smaller center,
I don't want anybody to be able to get there
that stays being a smaller center, And I've got the
opposite motivation there. Really, could you make sure there's no
lights in or out?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Maybe not even now in this ongoing.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Group desire from just about everybody, it seems certainly anybody
who is on or listens to news talks b to
go back to the future, especially with education.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Now people want.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
To be compulsory to learn a second language. That's good,
isn't it.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
This is one of those experiential topics because it's Chinese
Language Week and educators and experts have renewed calls for
second language courses to become compulsory from intermediate school. Yeah,
(07:58):
needs to strengthen teaching of all secrey languages including Pacific languages.
So you might want to say how beneficial it was
for you learning language is at school. My experience was
I found out a waste of time because for some
reason I just had zero interest in it, zero interest
(08:20):
in French and Latin. I don't think the teachers were bad.
I just had zero interest and thought it was a
waste of time. I thought we had it, should have
the option not to learn it, because I couldn't. It
seemed pointless to me, particularly Latin.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't remember being compulsory. I'm pretty sure I didn't
learn one. If I did, I've forgotten it. And I'm
pretty old, so it must have been before my time.
I certainly didn't didn't learn Latin. Maybe that's why I've
never really got the esterix thing. People seem to be
(08:56):
into those asterisks things.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, I don know anything about that. Like I said,
if I learned a foreign language, I've forgotten it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Now, news talk, we're going to finish up here with
more anemophobia because it was about Wendy, wasn't it.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
So now I don't know where we got to in
the end. But the forecast was for gusts of up
to one hundred and twenty k's per hour. So the
people who run Cornwall Park closed it on Sunday because
of flying wood. They were worried that staff and punters
might be struck by flying wood, so they shut the
gates and they closed the toilets, and they closed the cafe,
(09:35):
and they closed the creamery, and they closed everything, closed
the Big store closed everything because the flying wood. Meanwhile,
on Sunday, when Cornwall Park was closed, I went to
another park, which was Victoria Park in the Central City,
which is also actually incidentally full of really old trees
and therefore bits of wood, lots of branches and twigs
and stuff lying around. And despite the fact that there
were three of us at the park and it was quiet, Wendy,
(09:57):
none of us were struck by flying wood. Remarkably, we
also walked to the park down at a road which
is lined with old plane trees that have been there
for at least one hundred years. So if you're going
to be struck by a flying tree, one of them
falling down on your head would be one of those.
None of them fell on our heads, nor did any
of their branches or any of their flying wood. Now,
obviously it's their park, so the Cornwall Park truss board
(10:19):
can shut the park if they like, and probably what
they will say is that they didn't want to put
their staff at risk. And there will be a lot
of people in this country who will nod their heads
and say, look, that's the wiset thing to do. After all,
it is windy, and there could be wood flying all around,
and it might have a staff member right in the
eye and blind them forever. You never know better to
take care. I look at this and think that's ridiculous
(10:40):
that we are so worried and anxious and frankly neurotic
that even wind is freaking us out. Now, I would
urge the people who run Cornwill Park to get a grip. Farmers,
they may be shocked to discover, often work outside in
the wind and there are lots of bits of wood
flying around the Department of Conservation probably want to reconsider this,
but at the moment they still allow us to walk
around in the bush in high wind. There are definitely
(11:01):
lots of bits of wood of wood lying around in
the bush, if you know what I mean. I mean
some people also have old trees in their backyards and
they're still there when it's windy. Shockingly and the trees
don't always fall down in the wind. This, I think
is the perfect example of how we are getting to
be ridiculous over safety. Yes, of course you should extreme,
you should reduce your extreme risks, don't take unnecessary risks.
(11:24):
But you don't want to be reducing every single risk,
otherwise you're just going to be sitting in your house
all day. I don't think flying wood in a park
on a windy day in Auckland is so extremely risky
that staff must be sent home and members of the
public must be banned from entry.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
This is one of those ones where I brought it
up with domestic enager last night when were out walking
the dog, and I was surprised that she had sort
of the opposite view to me on Earth. And I
very quickly changed my view, of course, because who needs
that kind of grief in their lives? And I now
(12:00):
believe that all parts should be closed when it's windy.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm not quite sure we're you going to fly your
kites anymore, but.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
For whatever reason that part was closed, I'm totally supportive,
and that's my official line from now on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Sad we've sorted that out, that's the end. Of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I think I'm not in any trouble at home because
of that podcast now, and that's really all we can ask,
isn't it. We'll see you back here again tomorrow, and
I'll try and keep my head down then as well.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Use talking Talking has it been for? More from news
Talk Said, Be listen live on air or online, and
keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk said be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
First of yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am Glean Hart, and we are looking back at
Monday with quickly sipping down from the RB and Z.
I think we are over the RBS, don't we? We
just wrap it up. Regional airlines sort of being helped
in some ways by the government. Are the governments also
(00:53):
being asked to consider compulsory second language bringing, bringing that
back learning that in school, and the anibaphobia continues, fair
of wind. But before any of that, foreign buyers welcome
(01:15):
on in foreign buyers, I mean super rech foreign buyers,
because you get any buy a house worth five million
or more.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's really high five million dollars or more. How many
homes there like that? I mean surely the two and
a half million, three million, I mean that's not affecting
first home buyers, is it, which is really what we
worry about. If people want to fight out around over
three million dollars, then then then go for it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That seems crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's a high three shold and maybe in Auckland that
makes sense, or maybe in Queenstown. But don't we want
people to move to Dunedin in the cargol don't want
people to be buying houses in places. Shouldn't that be?
Is it just a blanket five million nationwide? Because look,
I'm from Dunedin. Five million dollars get your a lot
of house in duned and will get you down to
Abbey to get your stables, horses, will get your full
(02:05):
You'll be able to get full service. You're able to
get full a suburb. You'll be able to run a
fall down to Abby for five million exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Well, one roof has actually run the numbers on how
many properties are worth over five million dollars in some
of the regions, as you can imagine Auckland a fear
whack three hundred three thousand, three hundred and twenty in
Auckland City. But then I go down the list Canterbury,
christ Church one hundred and fifty three, Welle hundred and.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Fifty three in christ Church. Yeah, so okay, come on right, where.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
S that's a lifestyle block? There wasn't it? Wellington? How
many homes and Wellington Wellington's a big place. How many
direcon over the five million mark five hundred no way less,
way less?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Okay, one a little bit more than that.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Thirty nine, just thirty nine and Wellington according to one roof.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So we don't want these people buying homes in our capital.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh, Matton Tyler, you've missed the obvious opportunity here. Anybody
out there who's selling their home at in the moment,
put your price up to five million and the foreigner
will buy it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Obviously, everybody wins. Idiots News talk Z been right.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What makes it about as much sense as what I
just said is what's been happening with the RBNZ lately.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Really nobody in charge at all anymore is there.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
But the new government this time National again, wanted to
be seen to be doing something, so they started canceling
government expenditure and that ended out throwing us into an
even deeper economic funk than anyone had expected, including the
Reserve Bank. Now, in both scenarios, the governments didn't seem
to realize what was happening at the reserve Bank of
our economy, and the Reserve Bank was too proud to
(03:47):
take into account the stupidity of governments. They were working
against each other. They're supposed to be independent, but that's
all supposed to be pulling together to help us. All government,
I think, needs to heed the advice that they give
to local councils. Just stick to your knitting. Your job
is to do the basics. Fund health and education and
(04:07):
the police, and build us stuff to help us do business,
like roads and rail and ferries. But you don't have
to worry about the price of butter or the number
of supermarkets. The markets will do that, the Reserve Bank
will do that. And remember, governments, you need to keep
the borrowing as low as reasonable. Let the Reserve Bank
worry about inflation and the big financial stuff. But that
(04:28):
hasn't happened the last two terms, and that is what
should happen. That's how successful governments respect the independence of
the Reserve Bank, and that's how the last two amateur
governments did not.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Little bit confused about the point Andrew's trying to make there.
I feel like the government's put the pressure on the
RB and Z to Every time anybody asked the government
what they want the.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
RB and Z to do, they said cut cut, cut.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Cut, like straight out and public every time Prime Minister
Nikola willis everyone, how do you cut?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Cut? Doesn't sound very independent government.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I literally don't understand any of this and I don't
want to talk about it anymore. You talk right, We've
got ourselves in a real model with regional air services,
haven't we?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
People and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Hamilton won't be able to fly to Queenstown but they
can't or something is that?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
What's is having independent regional airlines essential to keep the
prices down at Air New Zealand. And I'd also love
to know, just on a side note, given it's a Monday,
given that we've had the weekend, if you are in
Auckland or Wellington, would you be there if you didn't
have to be, if you weren't in the big smoke
(05:56):
for work, would you still be here? Imagine if you're young,
starting off in your career, no kids, Perhaps if you're
a new migrant, you want a bigger center, you want
to be where the people are. Perhaps this Auckland and
(06:18):
Wellington would still be your preferred home. We've heard from
plenty of people who have tried to attract talent to
the provinces and really struggle to do so because they
want to stay in the city because it's bigger, because
there's more to do, because there are more people. But
I'm asking you this morning, if you're in Auckland or Wellington,
(06:42):
would you be here if you didn't have to? And
what would it take to get you to a smaller center?
Would you need a regional airline? Would that help sway
you to make the move?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I feel like if I was moving to a smaller center,
I don't want anybody to be able to get there
that stays being a smaller center, And I've got the
opposite motivation there. Really, could you make sure there's no
lights in or out?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Maybe not even now in this ongoing.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Group desire from just about everybody, it seems certainly anybody
who is on or listens to news talks b to
go back to the future, especially with education.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Now people want.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
To be compulsory to learn a second language. That's good,
isn't it.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
This is one of those experiential topics because it's Chinese
Language Week and educators and experts have renewed calls for
second language courses to become compulsory from intermediate school. Yeah,
(07:58):
needs to strengthen teaching of all secrey languages including Pacific languages.
So you might want to say how beneficial it was
for you learning language is at school. My experience was
I found out a waste of time because for some
reason I just had zero interest in it, zero interest
(08:20):
in French and Latin. I don't think the teachers were bad.
I just had zero interest and thought it was a
waste of time. I thought we had it, should have
the option not to learn it, because I couldn't. It
seemed pointless to me, particularly Latin.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't remember being compulsory. I'm pretty sure I didn't
learn one. If I did, I've forgotten it. And I'm
pretty old, so it must have been before my time.
I certainly didn't didn't learn Latin. Maybe that's why I've
never really got the esterix thing. People seem to be
(08:56):
into those asterisks things.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, I don know anything about that. Like I said,
if I learned a foreign language, I've forgotten it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Now, news talk, we're going to finish up here with
more anemophobia because it was about Wendy, wasn't it.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
So now I don't know where we got to in
the end. But the forecast was for gusts of up
to one hundred and twenty k's per hour. So the
people who run Cornwall Park closed it on Sunday because
of flying wood. They were worried that staff and punters
might be struck by flying wood, so they shut the
gates and they closed the toilets, and they closed the cafe,
(09:35):
and they closed the creamery, and they closed everything, closed
the Big store closed everything because the flying wood. Meanwhile,
on Sunday, when Cornwall Park was closed, I went to
another park, which was Victoria Park in the Central City,
which is also actually incidentally full of really old trees
and therefore bits of wood, lots of branches and twigs
and stuff lying around. And despite the fact that there
were three of us at the park and it was quiet, Wendy,
(09:57):
none of us were struck by flying wood. Remarkably, we
also walked to the park down at a road which
is lined with old plane trees that have been there
for at least one hundred years. So if you're going
to be struck by a flying tree, one of them
falling down on your head would be one of those.
None of them fell on our heads, nor did any
of their branches or any of their flying wood. Now,
obviously it's their park, so the Cornwall Park truss board
(10:19):
can shut the park if they like, and probably what
they will say is that they didn't want to put
their staff at risk. And there will be a lot
of people in this country who will nod their heads
and say, look, that's the wiset thing to do. After all,
it is windy, and there could be wood flying all around,
and it might have a staff member right in the
eye and blind them forever. You never know better to
take care. I look at this and think that's ridiculous
(10:40):
that we are so worried and anxious and frankly neurotic
that even wind is freaking us out. Now, I would
urge the people who run Cornwill Park to get a grip. Farmers,
they may be shocked to discover, often work outside in
the wind and there are lots of bits of wood
flying around the Department of Conservation probably want to reconsider this,
but at the moment they still allow us to walk
around in the bush in high wind. There are definitely
(11:01):
lots of bits of wood of wood lying around in
the bush, if you know what I mean. I mean
some people also have old trees in their backyards and
they're still there when it's windy. Shockingly and the trees
don't always fall down in the wind. This, I think
is the perfect example of how we are getting to
be ridiculous over safety. Yes, of course you should extreme,
you should reduce your extreme risks, don't take unnecessary risks.
(11:24):
But you don't want to be reducing every single risk,
otherwise you're just going to be sitting in your house
all day. I don't think flying wood in a park
on a windy day in Auckland is so extremely risky
that staff must be sent home and members of the
public must be banned from entry.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
This is one of those ones where I brought it
up with domestic enager last night when were out walking
the dog, and I was surprised that she had sort
of the opposite view to me on Earth. And I
very quickly changed my view, of course, because who needs
that kind of grief in their lives? And I now
(12:00):
believe that all parts should be closed when it's windy.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm not quite sure we're you going to fly your
kites anymore, but.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
For whatever reason that part was closed, I'm totally supportive,
and that's my official line from now on.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Sad we've sorted that out, that's the end. Of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I think I'm not in any trouble at home because
of that podcast now, and that's really all we can ask,
isn't it. We'll see you back here again tomorrow, and
I'll try and keep my head down then as well.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Use talking Talking has it been for? More from news
Talk Said, Be listen live on air or online, and
keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
podcast on iHeartRadio
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