January 25, 2026 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) But it Might Happen Again/A Coach On Coaching/A Lesson In Attendance (And Acronyms)/How To Get a Writing Job/Less Army. More Band
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean the
Weekend Edition. First with yesterday's news, I am a glen Hart.
Today we're looking back at Sunday and Saturday. Many people
in the country still having a weekend, but don't worry.
We'll keep trucking on through where we were. No rest
(00:46):
for the wicked, especially people as look it as us
right school attendance turn and four last year. We've got
the stats. David Seymour on that Gjorlie. He's going to
like the National Truancy Officer, isn't he? What the hell
is going on with the all blacks coaching situation? We
ask quite a famous coach. I don't know how successfully
(01:08):
he really is. Oscar Kaitlie Nathaniel Lee's got a new play,
new show and the New Zealand Army Band will be
taking part in this military tattoo thing. But before any
of that, Jesus Mount LONGINERI slip crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Could there be a more iconic Kiwi campground? A happier
summer spot? The response EF it is ongoing this morning.
But just the thought of those families enjoying a summer
holiday and all of the joy that brings, and the
ice creams and the card games and just the memories,
and for that to end in a moment, in a
(01:48):
freak accident like this, it's just hideous. And look, this
really isn't about me. It's just to say that after
Mount Monganui, I couldn't help but think a lot about
my own boys and just imagine, just imagine how awful
these days and this waiting will have been for those
(02:10):
poor families whose kids are missing. It's another dimension to
parenting I had to experience to fully understand. I love
my boys so intensely. But we all know there's nothing
that any of us can do to fully protect anyone
in this world. Right, Some things are just left up
to chance and to luck, and freak accidents happen. I
(02:34):
just hope that the poor families at the center of
this have every last bit of support that will possibly
help them in any way.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, I think many of us are still coming to
services book whole things so apparently out of the blue,
and it makes you really think twice about where everything
is and how we deal with extreme weather events.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
From this point on.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Us talk has it been? It all?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Makes?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The whole saga about the All Blacks coaching situation seemed
well pretty stupid, really, isn't it. Mind you, there were
many of us last week it was day that it
was completely stupid.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Anyway, how big a surprise was it to you to
hear of Scott robertson sacking ten days ago?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Look, you know, I think any case, two years in
an international career to get sacked with a record that
he's got or he's accumuated is a huge surprise, man.
And as you know, we don't know all the details,
but it's a hard one to fathom.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
You mentioned the record there seventy four percent, he wins
three out of every four test matches. Does that indicate
to you that this obviously goes beyond the results on
the field.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh well, it has to be, mate, it has to be.
And I think, yeah, they've been. They've been the thing
that I don't like about this, but they've been pretty
happy to share certain things, but they're not happy to
share the real reason he's been sacked. I think, you know,
if they want to leave reports silent and do all
that sort of business behind the scene. They shouldn't been
(04:27):
up to say, right, these are the reasons they're sacking.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So Annie Jones there, I actually know who is coaching
at the moment. To be pivotly honest with you gets
a rounded. It sounded like he was coming live to
us from a.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
A boat.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I don't know where. I don't know where, what background noise.
There wasn't the talk right. So David Seymour, it's pretty
keen to get kids back to school who don't want
to go. Has he managed that? Let's find out.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Actually I saw the headline about attendance improving, and you know,
with headlines set as to get you engaged, and I
got a bit excited. But then I looked at the
numbers and I thought, God, we've still.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Got a way to go, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I mean these numbers are better than last year, and
last year was better than the year before. We've been
able to say that every term bar one that we've
been in an office as a government. The exception was
a term when we had a lot of teacher strikes.
And if the teachers aren't showing up, it's difficult to
(05:36):
persuade the students that it's important. I'll leave that there.
But we have made progress, enormous progress since the lows
of the sort of post COVID blues. We've done better advertising,
we've started investigating prosecutions. We haven't landed one. We have
said that we've put another thirty eight million dollars of funding,
(05:58):
and we've totally retooled the attendance service to have more
robust contracts after we did a big inquiry and found
that some were very good and others weren't. And I've
traveled up and down the country and sat down at
a table with groups of principals, deans, police, all of
the people that are engaged in attendance and said what works.
(06:22):
So from the start of this year, every school will
be participating in the Star the Steps Attendance Response scheme.
And that is sort of an answer to your question
and the lead up to this interview, you said, well,
is it the parents, is it the students? Is at
the schools? Is it the government? It's actually all of them.
And what the Star does is it says look for
(06:43):
every stage of a student's attendance or non attendance, there
are different responsibilities. So if they are attending more than
ninety percent of the time, that's cool enough. They do
just keep going. If they drop below ninety then there
are some responses from the school, and if they drop
below eighty then the Ministry of Education gets involved.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Nobody loves an acronyms more than I do. But by
my calculations, the steps attendance response scheme doesn't spell star,
spell sars. Well, maybe I just didn't go to school
(07:27):
enough to work that out, you school. Oscar Kiteley and
Nathaniel Lees joined the franchis correct In yesterday morning to
talk about their latest show about the life of Buddy Umonga.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oscar, you were the writer of this show. The idea
was parties. But how do you come on as a writer?
What made you want to get involved.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I've been friends with Buddy since the end of the
nineteen hundreds, and just with us living in different cities,
I lost touch with him and I heard at his
four and I hadn't seen him for a few years.
And then I saw him at a commemoration for the
(08:20):
down rage thing at Tapapa and we just went for
a coffee after and I hadn't seen him for a
long time, and it was just great to see him
and he said that he was working on the show
with Nathaniel and I said, oh, well, let me know
if you need any help with writing, and he did so.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Apparently sometimes if you want a job, you should ask
for it and that might come off for you. News
Talk Zeth Bean. Right, let's finish up with the So
this whole Edinburgh Military Tattoo thing, pipe bands marching and
(09:08):
then New Zealand Army Band as well. Apparently he's here's
a bloke who's in the New Zealand Army Band. Great
more armies spent more time on their bands and less
time on being armies, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
For anyone who is a little uninitiated. What actually is
the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I guess it has a vault over the years. It's
the last year it celebrated its seventy fifth anniversary of
the tattoo in Edinburgh and it has always been an
opportunity to feature initially a lot of the capabilities of
the British forces. So in the past they used to
have demonstrations of you know, the dogs doing their working thing,
(09:56):
the gym people throwing out trampolines in the middle of
the Esthlanard and Edinburgh and also you know some of
the capabilities of their their forces with either the Navy
where they on a boat or also bring on their
soldiers to produce some drills. Over the years, it certainly
(10:16):
has evolved from that to also almost the production highlighting
not only the instrumentalists from the UK, but incorporating some
from overseas as well to what it is now, which
is a real bucket list for those who want to
experience the Edinburgh Tattoo watching it. With the Tattoo coming
(10:38):
to Auckland, we will be featuring pretty much a top
three groups which generally try and I guess over the
UK they bring one of the top groups there. But however,
coming to New Zealand and Australia they try and bring
the very best groups. And so that's going to be
(10:59):
the top secret John Call from Switzerland and also his
Majesty the king Guards Band and drill team from Norway
and the New Zealand Army.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So it actually turns out that most armies around the
world are spending more time doing bands than being armies.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
More or that is that where all this extra you
know everybody's putting more money into their military. Are they
just buying cooler instruments? One of those cool black saxophones,
for example. No saxophones out there and don't be any
saxophones out there. They play sex phone in the New
(11:44):
Zealand av And.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
They do mostly a brass but isn't it We wouldn't think.
I don't maybe explain the difference between brass and woodouldn't
come on, guys, I am Glen Hart for my saxophone player.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That is peaking news tools. They've been the weekend tradition.
We'll see you back here again, used talks doors it been.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
For more from newstalkst B.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Listen live on air or online, and keep our shows
with you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk Said Be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean the
Weekend Edition. First with yesterday's news, I am a glen Hart.
Today we're looking back at Sunday and Saturday. Many people
in the country still having a weekend, but don't worry.
We'll keep trucking on through where we were. No rest
(00:46):
for the wicked, especially people as look it as us
right school attendance turn and four last year. We've got
the stats. David Seymour on that Gjorlie. He's going to
like the National Truancy Officer, isn't he? What the hell
is going on with the all blacks coaching situation? We
ask quite a famous coach. I don't know how successfully
(01:08):
he really is. Oscar Kaitlie Nathaniel Lee's got a new play,
new show and the New Zealand Army Band will be
taking part in this military tattoo thing. But before any
of that, Jesus Mount LONGINERI slip crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Could there be a more iconic Kiwi campground? A happier
summer spot? The response EF it is ongoing this morning.
But just the thought of those families enjoying a summer
holiday and all of the joy that brings, and the
ice creams and the card games and just the memories,
and for that to end in a moment, in a
(01:48):
freak accident like this, it's just hideous. And look, this
really isn't about me. It's just to say that after
Mount Monganui, I couldn't help but think a lot about
my own boys and just imagine, just imagine how awful
these days and this waiting will have been for those
(02:10):
poor families whose kids are missing. It's another dimension to
parenting I had to experience to fully understand. I love
my boys so intensely. But we all know there's nothing
that any of us can do to fully protect anyone
in this world. Right, Some things are just left up
to chance and to luck, and freak accidents happen. I
(02:34):
just hope that the poor families at the center of
this have every last bit of support that will possibly
help them in any way.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, I think many of us are still coming to
services book whole things so apparently out of the blue,
and it makes you really think twice about where everything
is and how we deal with extreme weather events.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
From this point on.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Us talk has it been? It all?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Makes?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The whole saga about the All Blacks coaching situation seemed
well pretty stupid, really, isn't it. Mind you, there were
many of us last week it was day that it
was completely stupid.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Anyway, how big a surprise was it to you to
hear of Scott robertson sacking ten days ago?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Look, you know, I think any case, two years in
an international career to get sacked with a record that
he's got or he's accumuated is a huge surprise, man.
And as you know, we don't know all the details,
but it's a hard one to fathom.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
You mentioned the record there seventy four percent, he wins
three out of every four test matches. Does that indicate
to you that this obviously goes beyond the results on
the field.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh well, it has to be, mate, it has to be.
And I think, yeah, they've been. They've been the thing
that I don't like about this, but they've been pretty
happy to share certain things, but they're not happy to
share the real reason he's been sacked. I think, you know,
if they want to leave reports silent and do all
that sort of business behind the scene. They shouldn't been
(04:27):
up to say, right, these are the reasons they're sacking.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So Annie Jones there, I actually know who is coaching
at the moment. To be pivotly honest with you gets
a rounded. It sounded like he was coming live to
us from a.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
A boat.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I don't know where. I don't know where, what background noise.
There wasn't the talk right. So David Seymour, it's pretty
keen to get kids back to school who don't want
to go. Has he managed that? Let's find out.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Actually I saw the headline about attendance improving, and you know,
with headlines set as to get you engaged, and I
got a bit excited. But then I looked at the
numbers and I thought, God, we've still.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Got a way to go, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I mean these numbers are better than last year, and
last year was better than the year before. We've been
able to say that every term bar one that we've
been in an office as a government. The exception was
a term when we had a lot of teacher strikes.
And if the teachers aren't showing up, it's difficult to
(05:36):
persuade the students that it's important. I'll leave that there.
But we have made progress, enormous progress since the lows
of the sort of post COVID blues. We've done better advertising,
we've started investigating prosecutions. We haven't landed one. We have
said that we've put another thirty eight million dollars of funding,
(05:58):
and we've totally retooled the attendance service to have more
robust contracts after we did a big inquiry and found
that some were very good and others weren't. And I've
traveled up and down the country and sat down at
a table with groups of principals, deans, police, all of
the people that are engaged in attendance and said what works.
(06:22):
So from the start of this year, every school will
be participating in the Star the Steps Attendance Response scheme.
And that is sort of an answer to your question
and the lead up to this interview, you said, well,
is it the parents, is it the students? Is at
the schools? Is it the government? It's actually all of them.
And what the Star does is it says look for
(06:43):
every stage of a student's attendance or non attendance, there
are different responsibilities. So if they are attending more than
ninety percent of the time, that's cool enough. They do
just keep going. If they drop below ninety then there
are some responses from the school, and if they drop
below eighty then the Ministry of Education gets involved.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Nobody loves an acronyms more than I do. But by
my calculations, the steps attendance response scheme doesn't spell star,
spell sars. Well, maybe I just didn't go to school
(07:27):
enough to work that out, you school. Oscar Kiteley and
Nathaniel Lees joined the franchis correct In yesterday morning to
talk about their latest show about the life of Buddy Umonga.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oscar, you were the writer of this show. The idea
was parties. But how do you come on as a writer?
What made you want to get involved.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
I've been friends with Buddy since the end of the
nineteen hundreds, and just with us living in different cities,
I lost touch with him and I heard at his
four and I hadn't seen him for a few years.
And then I saw him at a commemoration for the
(08:20):
down rage thing at Tapapa and we just went for
a coffee after and I hadn't seen him for a
long time, and it was just great to see him
and he said that he was working on the show
with Nathaniel and I said, oh, well, let me know
if you need any help with writing, and he did so.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Apparently sometimes if you want a job, you should ask
for it and that might come off for you. News
Talk Zeth Bean. Right, let's finish up with the So
this whole Edinburgh Military Tattoo thing, pipe bands marching and
(09:08):
then New Zealand Army Band as well. Apparently he's here's
a bloke who's in the New Zealand Army Band. Great
more armies spent more time on their bands and less
time on being armies, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
For anyone who is a little uninitiated. What actually is
the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I guess it has a vault over the years. It's
the last year it celebrated its seventy fifth anniversary of
the tattoo in Edinburgh and it has always been an
opportunity to feature initially a lot of the capabilities of
the British forces. So in the past they used to
have demonstrations of you know, the dogs doing their working thing,
(09:56):
the gym people throwing out trampolines in the middle of
the Esthlanard and Edinburgh and also you know some of
the capabilities of their their forces with either the Navy
where they on a boat or also bring on their
soldiers to produce some drills. Over the years, it certainly
(10:16):
has evolved from that to also almost the production highlighting
not only the instrumentalists from the UK, but incorporating some
from overseas as well to what it is now, which
is a real bucket list for those who want to
experience the Edinburgh Tattoo watching it. With the Tattoo coming
(10:38):
to Auckland, we will be featuring pretty much a top
three groups which generally try and I guess over the
UK they bring one of the top groups there. But however,
coming to New Zealand and Australia they try and bring
the very best groups. And so that's going to be
(10:59):
the top secret John Call from Switzerland and also his
Majesty the king Guards Band and drill team from Norway
and the New Zealand Army.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So it actually turns out that most armies around the
world are spending more time doing bands than being armies.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
More or that is that where all this extra you
know everybody's putting more money into their military. Are they
just buying cooler instruments? One of those cool black saxophones,
for example. No saxophones out there and don't be any
saxophones out there. They play sex phone in the New
(11:44):
Zealand av And.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
They do mostly a brass but isn't it We wouldn't think.
I don't maybe explain the difference between brass and woodouldn't
come on, guys, I am Glen Hart for my saxophone player.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That is peaking news tools. They've been the weekend tradition.
We'll see you back here again, used talks doors it been.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
For more from newstalkst B.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Listen live on air or online, and keep our shows
with you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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