February 19, 2026 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Thursday on Newstalk ZB) That About Wraps it Up for the Royal Family/Green Shoots Breaking Out All Over/May As Well Do it Every Year
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the being for Friday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart and we're
looking back at Thursday. Is this recovery actually happening? Are
things actually looking up?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Are they? What did the Reserve banks say about that
the other day? Ranald?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm heapyway about that. And yep, we're back discussing the
possibility of a four year term again. I think I
don't even know if this is on the table, but
I think a lot of people wish that it was.
But before any of that, it's not every night that
Marcus gets to do major breaking news, perhaps the biggest
story of the year, breaking news on his show that
last night.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Eight past eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This is News Talk, sa'd be breaking news.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
News just through from the BBC. Andrew mount Baton Windsor
has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
That is just news through from the UK. Andrew mount
Baton Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
I think it is his sixty sixth birthday today, not
(01:37):
that that's there's a lot of detail. This is a
revery news story. Obviously it's minutes old. It's just come through.
I will bring the information for you now. It's on
the Daily Mail of course too, underneath the shot that
will haunted him forever, of him pinned over that young
woman slash girl. Daily Mail says Andrew mount Baten Windsor's
(02:03):
probably been arrested on his sixty sixth birthday on suspicion
of misconduct in public. Police have today been seen at
Sandring Him, where the King's younger brother is staying. Six
unmarked police cars arrived at King Charles's Norfolk estate at
just after eight a m. This morning. On look, I said,
(02:25):
the group of eight people and playing clothes but appeared
to be police officers. One man appeared to be carrying
a police issue laptop. They part close to Prince Phillip's
former home Wood Farm, where Andrew has been exiled. A
convoy of vehicles was then photographed leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wow arrested on your birthday and attacked with a police
laptop too. Both other things ouch better than being tasted,
I suppose surely then about wraps it up for the
(03:04):
royal family, doesn't it. I think we cannot do that anymore.
Moving on news talk, has it been so are you recovered?
You know from all your economic woes. You'll know if
you're recovering because you start breaking out in green shoots.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
But if you're not feeling it, you're not going to
be spending. Back in the day when we were using
our houses as ATMs, I mean I was, I was
one of them. We bought a house in Grayland because
it was the only place we could afford. I think
it was about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, might
have been closer to three hundred thousand dollars and the
(03:48):
which seemed a fortune at the time. But then the
house prices went up and up and up, so you
could afford to do the renols. We could take it
from an uninsulated place where the floorboards were open to
the bear dirt floor underneath, as it had been since
eighteen ninety. You know, you could do the reno's, you
(04:10):
could do the landscaping of the garden. You were spending
and New Zealand businesses were the ones who benefited from that.
So If you're not doing that, where is where are
the sustainable business is going to get their work. If
people don't feel confident enough about improving their homes or
(04:36):
you know, using the money that they've built up in
their homes, how do you replace that quite significant chunk
of money go around? Do you feel confident? Do you
feel optimistic? Can you see light at the end of
the tunnel?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
As I've said many times, when we've been in the
middle of this economic this particular economic crisis one years old,
is me. You've seen a few economic crises come and go,
and there's always reason to be optimistic. There's always reason
to be pessimistic because it's cyclical or it just goes
(05:12):
up and down, and that seems to be.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The world in which we live.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
U's talk Zippin.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I'm sure Ryan's feeling just as philosophical about things after
hearing what our recently appointed Reserve Bank governor had to
say the other day.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Where does economic growth come from? For enz inc Arna
Bremen answered that question specifically yesterday and was very clear
agricultural exports, tourism and more recently some signs of life
and manufacturing. These are industries that bring us money from offshore,
they grow the pie. They provide the basis for other
(05:48):
sectors to pick up. If you're a farmer or a
tourism operator in Queenstown auto to door this morning, you
should feel very proud of that, and we, through our
government should support them. That means staying off their backs,
letting them get on do what they do best, feeding
the world and providing unforgettable experiences for visitors. On manufacturing,
(06:10):
it is hard to ignore the energy debate. If we
don't have a steady and reliable supply of electricity, trying
to run a factory or a mill, as the Central
North Island has learnt, the hard way just recently becomes
very difficult. So while alng coal for Huntley and methane
target changes might sound bad, they're basically what ensure that
we support the industries that support us. What the Reserve
(06:33):
Bank said unequivocally yesterday is that without them there is
no growth. Without growth, no new jobs. What does that
do to tax, no new hospitals. You get the picture.
This is not to say it's a perfect world. There
are costs to not doing environmental stuff, but for them
to work, you need the world on board and they're not.
(06:56):
In the meantime, the question is whether we can afford
to bite the economic hand that feeds us, And if
you listen to the bank, it would appear that we can't.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's funny that we can do. We can't afford to
save the world anymore. Apparently we can't afford to do
things like build bridges over harbors as well. It's kind
of like two opposer ends of the things that we
can't afford. We've got to stick to our what they say,
we're going to stick our core business or something. And
(07:26):
this this NSIED Inc. New Zealand Inc. That I keep
hearing about.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
All the time. Where's where's that base? What do they sell?
What's their website?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Use your setting right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
If you don't think the recovery is happening fast enough
or insian inks moving in the right direction, you can
vote this government out and vote a new one in,
or try to this year. It seems like only yesterday
that we had an election and it might be time
to do something about that.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I think we can blame the ACT Party for this,
because it was ACT that said that it would support
a four year term, but only if Parliament agreed to
Amen's standing order so that the opposition would have a
majority on the majority, if not all, of the select committees,
and if it didn't want to do that in that term,
then the term would be the bog standard three year term,
which meant that we would be going to any given
election not knowing if we were voting for a four
year term or a three year term, because that would
(08:16):
only be decided by the government after the election.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Haha.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Can you see why that didn't work? Miles too complicated?
Who wants to go to an election not knowing what
you're voting for. I'm not blaming the act Party for
stuffing this up, though, by the way, I am actually
quite grateful to them, because I am yet to be
convinced that the four year term is a good idea.
In this country, we have some of the fastest lawmaking
in the world. You don't need me to tell you that.
(08:40):
We've been talking about since what the nineteen eighties. You
cannot tell me. Governments do not have enough time in
this country to get done the thing that they want
to get done if laws get passed as fast as
they do. And the problem is there are no real
checks on those plans. We don't have an upper house.
We don't have a Senate, we don't have a House
of Lords. The only real check is the coalition partners
in this case Act and National and New Zealand first
(09:03):
checking each other. So imagine this right, Imagine if Chris
Bishop had had his housing plan happening in a year
that wasn't an election year, would he have back down?
There's nothing to stop him. In the UK, they have
council elections that you know, that will that that is
currently a problem for Kirstarma. That kind of thing stops people.
But here we have nothing other than election years. Election
(09:24):
years are our check on bad ideas. That is why
Chris Bishop has had to do the back down, because
this is not just about having three or four years
of bad governments like Jasinda Ardern's. It's also about having
three or four years of your chosen government having some
of its own bad ideas. So actor has unwittingly actually
done us a favor.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I think, I mean, I feel like based on that argument,
it literally should just be every year. It should it
be like a yearly job review for the government. And
if you're not moving in the right right direction every year,
then the other people have a go. I mean things
(10:08):
like infrastructure and you know, significant institutional change, education policy
and health policy.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And stuff like that. Takes a long time to bed
this stuff in. It doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
News talk ze been.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
This is I think the theme.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's coming through this podcast, apart from the Royal family
bollocks at the beginning, is we take a short term
approach to things that we should perhaps take a little
bit of a longer term approach to. I wonder how
Matt and Tyler say it.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
The government and the coalition they've run out of time
to get a referendum for a four year parliamentary term
over the line? Was this a mistake? O eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty it's number to call how.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Much work needs to be done? Wouldn't you just have
to come up with the sentence, should New Zealand extend
the electoral term to four years? Electoral term four years?
What would the previous previous referendum questions like?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
So?
Speaker 9 (11:08):
I think in twenty eleven we did. We looked at
MMP and whether we wanted to keep it. That's right,
and I think the question was just should New Zealand
keep the mixed member proportional voting system. So it's not
like you've spent a lot of time asking the question.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
That doesn't take months. No, yeah, I mean we'll ask
a minister Paul Goldsmith about that. We're going to have
a chat to him in about fifteen minutes. So that's
a fair question. What do you actually need to do
behind the scene.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I think the cannabis one was I think that was
written by people that lost their minds.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Oh, that was a confusing question, and I think was
that malica in competence. It felt like in competence that
they tried to do the right thing. But when that
question came out, it was there was so many sort
of double meanings to it that nobody could quite figure
it out.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
Yeah, no, I mean, or maybe I'm remembering it wrong.
I'll lock up what the actual question was. But it
was quite confused.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's how I remember it too.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's funny, how and ironic that none of us can
quite remember what happened with the cannabis thing. It's so
often the way, isn't it, that you can't quite remember
what happened with the cannabis thing. It's like alcohol things
can be like.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That as well.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You quite remember what happened there.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
The finer details.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All Right, This podcast has been going on so long,
I can't quite remember what happened at the beginning of it.
But we're ending it, and I hope you remember to
come back again for a weekend edition on Monday. When
I try and remember what happened tomorrow, then see what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh that's confuted good used talking talkings.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It beam for more from News Talk Said B. Listen
live on air or online, and keep our shows with
you wherever you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the being for Friday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart and we're
looking back at Thursday. Is this recovery actually happening? Are
things actually looking up?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Are they? What did the Reserve banks say about that
the other day? Ranald?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm heapyway about that. And yep, we're back discussing the
possibility of a four year term again. I think I
don't even know if this is on the table, but
I think a lot of people wish that it was.
But before any of that, it's not every night that
Marcus gets to do major breaking news, perhaps the biggest
story of the year, breaking news on his show that
last night.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Eight past eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This is News Talk, sa'd be breaking news.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
News just through from the BBC. Andrew mount Baton Windsor
has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
That is just news through from the UK. Andrew mount
Baton Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
I think it is his sixty sixth birthday today, not
(01:37):
that that's there's a lot of detail. This is a
revery news story. Obviously it's minutes old. It's just come through.
I will bring the information for you now. It's on
the Daily Mail of course too, underneath the shot that
will haunted him forever, of him pinned over that young
woman slash girl. Daily Mail says Andrew mount Baten Windsor's
(02:03):
probably been arrested on his sixty sixth birthday on suspicion
of misconduct in public. Police have today been seen at
Sandring Him, where the King's younger brother is staying. Six
unmarked police cars arrived at King Charles's Norfolk estate at
just after eight a m. This morning. On look, I said,
(02:25):
the group of eight people and playing clothes but appeared
to be police officers. One man appeared to be carrying
a police issue laptop. They part close to Prince Phillip's
former home Wood Farm, where Andrew has been exiled. A
convoy of vehicles was then photographed leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wow arrested on your birthday and attacked with a police
laptop too. Both other things ouch better than being tasted,
I suppose surely then about wraps it up for the
(03:04):
royal family, doesn't it. I think we cannot do that anymore.
Moving on news talk, has it been so are you recovered?
You know from all your economic woes. You'll know if
you're recovering because you start breaking out in green shoots.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
But if you're not feeling it, you're not going to
be spending. Back in the day when we were using
our houses as ATMs, I mean I was, I was
one of them. We bought a house in Grayland because
it was the only place we could afford. I think
it was about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, might
have been closer to three hundred thousand dollars and the
(03:48):
which seemed a fortune at the time. But then the
house prices went up and up and up, so you
could afford to do the renols. We could take it
from an uninsulated place where the floorboards were open to
the bear dirt floor underneath, as it had been since
eighteen ninety. You know, you could do the reno's, you
(04:10):
could do the landscaping of the garden. You were spending
and New Zealand businesses were the ones who benefited from that.
So If you're not doing that, where is where are
the sustainable business is going to get their work. If
people don't feel confident enough about improving their homes or
(04:36):
you know, using the money that they've built up in
their homes, how do you replace that quite significant chunk
of money go around? Do you feel confident? Do you
feel optimistic? Can you see light at the end of
the tunnel?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
As I've said many times, when we've been in the
middle of this economic this particular economic crisis one years old,
is me. You've seen a few economic crises come and go,
and there's always reason to be optimistic. There's always reason
to be pessimistic because it's cyclical or it just goes
(05:12):
up and down, and that seems to be.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The world in which we live.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
U's talk Zippin.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I'm sure Ryan's feeling just as philosophical about things after
hearing what our recently appointed Reserve Bank governor had to
say the other day.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Where does economic growth come from? For enz inc Arna
Bremen answered that question specifically yesterday and was very clear
agricultural exports, tourism and more recently some signs of life
and manufacturing. These are industries that bring us money from offshore,
they grow the pie. They provide the basis for other
(05:48):
sectors to pick up. If you're a farmer or a
tourism operator in Queenstown auto to door this morning, you
should feel very proud of that, and we, through our
government should support them. That means staying off their backs,
letting them get on do what they do best, feeding
the world and providing unforgettable experiences for visitors. On manufacturing,
(06:10):
it is hard to ignore the energy debate. If we
don't have a steady and reliable supply of electricity, trying
to run a factory or a mill, as the Central
North Island has learnt, the hard way just recently becomes
very difficult. So while alng coal for Huntley and methane
target changes might sound bad, they're basically what ensure that
we support the industries that support us. What the Reserve
(06:33):
Bank said unequivocally yesterday is that without them there is
no growth. Without growth, no new jobs. What does that
do to tax, no new hospitals. You get the picture.
This is not to say it's a perfect world. There
are costs to not doing environmental stuff, but for them
to work, you need the world on board and they're not.
(06:56):
In the meantime, the question is whether we can afford
to bite the economic hand that feeds us, And if
you listen to the bank, it would appear that we can't.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's funny that we can do. We can't afford to
save the world anymore. Apparently we can't afford to do
things like build bridges over harbors as well. It's kind
of like two opposer ends of the things that we
can't afford. We've got to stick to our what they say,
we're going to stick our core business or something. And
(07:26):
this this NSIED Inc. New Zealand Inc. That I keep
hearing about.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
All the time. Where's where's that base? What do they sell?
What's their website?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Use your setting right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
If you don't think the recovery is happening fast enough
or insian inks moving in the right direction, you can
vote this government out and vote a new one in,
or try to this year. It seems like only yesterday
that we had an election and it might be time
to do something about that.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I think we can blame the ACT Party for this,
because it was ACT that said that it would support
a four year term, but only if Parliament agreed to
Amen's standing order so that the opposition would have a
majority on the majority, if not all, of the select committees,
and if it didn't want to do that in that term,
then the term would be the bog standard three year term,
which meant that we would be going to any given
election not knowing if we were voting for a four
year term or a three year term, because that would
(08:16):
only be decided by the government after the election.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Haha.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Can you see why that didn't work? Miles too complicated?
Who wants to go to an election not knowing what
you're voting for. I'm not blaming the act Party for
stuffing this up, though, by the way, I am actually
quite grateful to them, because I am yet to be
convinced that the four year term is a good idea.
In this country, we have some of the fastest lawmaking
in the world. You don't need me to tell you that.
(08:40):
We've been talking about since what the nineteen eighties. You
cannot tell me. Governments do not have enough time in
this country to get done the thing that they want
to get done if laws get passed as fast as
they do. And the problem is there are no real
checks on those plans. We don't have an upper house.
We don't have a Senate, we don't have a House
of Lords. The only real check is the coalition partners
in this case Act and National and New Zealand first
(09:03):
checking each other. So imagine this right, Imagine if Chris
Bishop had had his housing plan happening in a year
that wasn't an election year, would he have back down?
There's nothing to stop him. In the UK, they have
council elections that you know, that will that that is
currently a problem for Kirstarma. That kind of thing stops people.
But here we have nothing other than election years. Election
(09:24):
years are our check on bad ideas. That is why
Chris Bishop has had to do the back down, because
this is not just about having three or four years
of bad governments like Jasinda Ardern's. It's also about having
three or four years of your chosen government having some
of its own bad ideas. So actor has unwittingly actually
done us a favor.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I think, I mean, I feel like based on that argument,
it literally should just be every year. It should it
be like a yearly job review for the government. And
if you're not moving in the right right direction every year,
then the other people have a go. I mean things
(10:08):
like infrastructure and you know, significant institutional change, education policy
and health policy.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And stuff like that. Takes a long time to bed
this stuff in. It doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
News talk ze been.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
This is I think the theme.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's coming through this podcast, apart from the Royal family
bollocks at the beginning, is we take a short term
approach to things that we should perhaps take a little
bit of a longer term approach to. I wonder how
Matt and Tyler say it.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
The government and the coalition they've run out of time
to get a referendum for a four year parliamentary term
over the line? Was this a mistake? O eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty it's number to call how.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Much work needs to be done? Wouldn't you just have
to come up with the sentence, should New Zealand extend
the electoral term to four years? Electoral term four years?
What would the previous previous referendum questions like?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
So?
Speaker 9 (11:08):
I think in twenty eleven we did. We looked at
MMP and whether we wanted to keep it. That's right,
and I think the question was just should New Zealand
keep the mixed member proportional voting system. So it's not
like you've spent a lot of time asking the question.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
That doesn't take months. No, yeah, I mean we'll ask
a minister Paul Goldsmith about that. We're going to have
a chat to him in about fifteen minutes. So that's
a fair question. What do you actually need to do
behind the scene.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I think the cannabis one was I think that was
written by people that lost their minds.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Oh, that was a confusing question, and I think was
that malica in competence. It felt like in competence that
they tried to do the right thing. But when that
question came out, it was there was so many sort
of double meanings to it that nobody could quite figure
it out.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
Yeah, no, I mean, or maybe I'm remembering it wrong.
I'll lock up what the actual question was. But it
was quite confused.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's how I remember it too.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's funny, how and ironic that none of us can
quite remember what happened with the cannabis thing. It's so
often the way, isn't it, that you can't quite remember
what happened with the cannabis thing. It's like alcohol things
can be like.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That as well.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You quite remember what happened there.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
The finer details.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All Right, This podcast has been going on so long,
I can't quite remember what happened at the beginning of it.
But we're ending it, and I hope you remember to
come back again for a weekend edition on Monday. When
I try and remember what happened tomorrow, then see what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh that's confuted good used talking talkings.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It beam for more from News Talk Said B. Listen
live on air or online, and keep our shows with
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