February 11, 2026 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) An Oldie, But a Goodie/How to Spot Child Abuse/Why Does Everything Cost so Much?/Winter Olympics Weirdness
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
This is Yesterday's news. I am Glen Harten. We're looking
back at Wednesday, so child abuse. I know that's a
cheery way to start the podcast, isn't it. But here's
got a few thoughts on the state of affairs and
(00:45):
the wake of high profile cases. We see to be
paying more for everything all the time. Ryan's having a
wind about that. And then we've got some Winter Olympics
update for you. But before any of that, this Indian
FTA has really become a.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
A what do you call it?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
A punching bag already as we build up to the
twenty twenty six general election. Can't contain my excitement about that.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Back in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, the number of people
approved for residents fell by eight percent. The decrease driven
by parent category approvals, which fell sixty three percent. Because
the settings were getting out of whack. People realized there
was a loophole and so it was plugged. It's election
(01:45):
here and I suppose you have to expect it, and
those who have followed politics for a very very long time,
Toby Manhih points out, you know have seen this happen before.
This is what New Zealand first does. This is what
appeals to their voters from the outside looking in. The
(02:07):
Free Great Agreement with India is a very good deal
for New Zealand. We are fundamentally a trading nation from
the outside looking in. This is Winston doing what Winston does,
doing what he does best, coming up to an election
with a sale full of hot air, pounding the popular
drum of anti immigration.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It really is quite absurd and frustrating that Winston gets
all these big gaps for being this amazing Foreign Affairs minister,
and yet the moment that he steps back on New
Zealand soil to campaign on behalf of his party, he
just cranks up the racism a notch. It's just it's
(02:52):
just so shallow.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
News talk z been okay.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
How do we solve child abuse in New Zealand? Apparently
by what making some ads about child abuse so people
know exactly what it is when they see it. Heather's
not buying it now.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
One of the recommendations the coroner has made today in
her report is that ot or ang Atomatic aka Siffs
run a public awareness campaign to help anyone identify possible
signs of abuse and how to take action. Now, to
be fair to her, that's not her idea originally, it
actually came from an earlier review. She's only pointing out
that it still hasn't happened, and then reiterated that there
(03:32):
should be a public campaign. But really, is that what
we need in this country? We need a public campaign
to tell us what child abuse looks like. I think
we all know what child abuse looks looks like. I mean,
I struggle to believe that there are people out there
who do not know that breaking a child's bone isn't
child abuse, in which case isn't. It's just the kind
(03:52):
of thing that well meaning people do to make themselves
feel like they're doing something when really they're doing nothing,
because maybe there is very little that you actually can do.
The problem with Malachi's case was not that people didn't
know what child abuse looked like. People did see the
child abuse and they absolutely knew it was child abuse,
and they went to OT and they said, hey, Malachi
is being abused. Here's the proof, and they did that
(04:15):
by my account, about five times, if not more, and
OT didn't stop it. That's the problem, and it is
the problem for so many children in this country. When
they die, we find out afterwards OT already knew the family,
and yet the kids ended up dead anyway. The problem
isn't that we you and I don't know what child
abuse looks like. Yes we do. The problem is that
(04:36):
the agency is supposed to stop it from supposed to
stop the children from dying, apparently doesn't know what child
abuse looks like. Never mind a campaign. I think you
fix that, you fix that fundamental problem at udoing a timitiki,
you might save a lot of lives.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I mean, there's no easy facts. But you do
have to wonder sometimes when you hear some of these
cases just what the various agencies involved are doing, or
indeed why they're not doing anything. You talk sib right,
So it seems like we're paying more for everything these
(05:13):
days now. I think that's a statement that you could
probably make at every point through history, and it's not
necessarily true. I mean, we don't have that fee for prescriptions,
(05:33):
I don't think anymore. Unless you're really going to the
wrong pharmasy. It's one thing I could think of that
we don't pay as much more. But generally speaking, it
feels that way, doesn't it. I think Ryan feels like
it feels that way.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Last week they scraped the full driver licensed test. But
then NZTA comes out and says, oh, we might need
to increase fees for the first test and for other
bits to make up costs. We'll pay tolls to get
the roads that we want. We're about to get hit
with congestion charging. International tourists pay a tourist tax, of course,
(06:05):
Domestic tourists pay to use dock huts, more recent car parks.
At peak places Wellington, you'll probably have to pay some
kind of targeted special rate for pumping all your number
twos into the cook straight Now, so long as this
stuff is ring fenced, I prefer things are charged in
this way because if you don't want to use a
toll road, use a taxed one. You know, user pays
(06:28):
makes more sense to me. It's fairer to those who
use it, more importantly to those who don't use a
particular good or service. But at some point your household
budget is hit with so many fees and charges that
you have to stop and ask how long this can continue?
It's death by a thousand cuts. And then you ask,
can the government cut wasteful spending elsewhere to cover some
(06:50):
of this stuff or give me back some tax please
that I'm currently paying handover fist. In case you needed
examples of that this week, Shane Jones's half billion dollar
slush fund would be a good place to start.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I would have thought that you go, Ryan Bridge, sort
of balancing the books on behalf of all of it there,
keeping a keeping a strict record of in coming and
out going. I'm glad somebody's doing it. I certainly that's
not my job, either here or at home city. Okay,
(07:26):
I don't know if you've been watching it. I haven't
watched much of it. The Winter Olympics. I just can't
relate to people, you know, fly through the year upside
down and spinning around. They make it look too easy.
I think that's the problem.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I saw some of the men's figure skating. They still
dress on though, don't they It does look free blades
of glory. The young American flipped over like did a somersault.
Good on them and look to be a delightful young Chap,
but you didn't grab me all triple X or the
common all triple X or the Commonists all triple x.
(08:04):
Al No, I knows what's going on. Really, we watch
it once every four years. The commentators could be slightly
more helpful. Oh, triple excel raspberry? What's a raspberry? A
raspberry ice skating? Never heard of that. I think they
just make stuff up anyway. So yes, I wonder about that.
How could we make it better? Or should we just
get rid of it altogether? I don't know the answer
(08:26):
to that, but I've watched it and I thought, yeah,
because in the past, the past couple of Olympics, it's
a raspberry twist named after the word. I don't know
what it is. Oh, I see it's his own signature
(08:46):
move for this Ilia mullanin and mullanin Melina in Russian
means raspberry. Oh yeah, there we go. It's a raspberry twist. Anyway,
What am I gonna say about the Olympics. I'm gonna
say since we've I feel the last five or six
Olympics we've got into it because've been discovering new things
(09:06):
about it. But now most all looks of it and
feels a it samey, samey.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think that dovetails into what I was just saying
before about how you just like the way that they
can just ski backwards down and down the hill whenever
they feel like it. For example, when you think about it,
that's impossible, and yet it just everybody's doing it, aren't
(09:31):
they apart from the one who's famously drop your leg
the other day he wasn't going in the new region except.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Up in the helicopter.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But yeah, it's just too weird. It's too weird. This
is this is my mantra, my Winter Olympics mandra.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's too weird news talk.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
And of course even weirder as the the metals that
keep self distructing, not to mention the the blokey cheated.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Also self distracting.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Really, I suppose we.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Want to chat about this extraordinary post when interview from
this Norwegi Olympic biathlete, So the twenty eight year old
his named Stirler lay Greed. He won his first individual
Olympic medal, but he admitted straight after that win that
he had an affair three months ago that he called
his biggest mistake. He's just a little bit of what
he said. He said, it's been the worst week of
my life since he told his girlfriend of six months
(10:27):
about the affair. There's someone, he said, I wanted to
share it with whom might not be watching. Six months ago,
I met the love of my life, the most beautiful
and kindest person in the world. Three months ago, I
made the biggest mistake and cheated on her. I had
the gold medal in life and I've lost it.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
For a start, let's go into this more. For start,
is it really a girlfriend if you've only been going
out for six months? I mean, that's just the start
of relationship.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Yeah, good, good question to answer answers.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Second is admitting to everyone that you cheated on your partner.
A you know, just just say Does that going to help?
I mean, just say that you love.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
It straight off the bat.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
I think that's a it's a poor strategy.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
I think this guy's a bun boiler. But the question
we're going to ask, is there any way back from cheating?
How do you if you've cheated on a partner, A
partner's cheat on you, what can they do to come back?
Is there any way out of it? I don't I
don't think winning a bronze medal. Maybe when a gold
medal and you've got a chance, but some bronze medal
loser coming through and coming in third, coming and coming
in third and killing his funner of six months. They
(11:29):
were only going out for three months when he cheated.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
On a dirty dog, basically a one night stand.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, I mean yeah, as public forums go for your
it's your your confession. They don't get a lot more
public than that, do they essentially on the on the
dais at the Olympics. I can't I can't see that
(11:56):
working out well for him, to be honest. But memoir, definitely,
there's been some memorable moments. All right, I'm glen heart.
Don't forget to come back again tomorrow for another one
of these was he used.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Talking Talkings it Bean
Speaker 1 (12:16):
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you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
This is Yesterday's news. I am Glen Harten. We're looking
back at Wednesday, so child abuse. I know that's a
cheery way to start the podcast, isn't it. But here's
got a few thoughts on the state of affairs and
(00:45):
the wake of high profile cases. We see to be
paying more for everything all the time. Ryan's having a
wind about that. And then we've got some Winter Olympics
update for you. But before any of that, this Indian
FTA has really become a.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
A what do you call it?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
A punching bag already as we build up to the
twenty twenty six general election. Can't contain my excitement about that.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Back in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, the number of people
approved for residents fell by eight percent. The decrease driven
by parent category approvals, which fell sixty three percent. Because
the settings were getting out of whack. People realized there
was a loophole and so it was plugged. It's election
(01:45):
here and I suppose you have to expect it, and
those who have followed politics for a very very long time,
Toby Manhih points out, you know have seen this happen before.
This is what New Zealand first does. This is what
appeals to their voters from the outside looking in. The
(02:07):
Free Great Agreement with India is a very good deal
for New Zealand. We are fundamentally a trading nation from
the outside looking in. This is Winston doing what Winston does,
doing what he does best, coming up to an election
with a sale full of hot air, pounding the popular
drum of anti immigration.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It really is quite absurd and frustrating that Winston gets
all these big gaps for being this amazing Foreign Affairs minister,
and yet the moment that he steps back on New
Zealand soil to campaign on behalf of his party, he
just cranks up the racism a notch. It's just it's
(02:52):
just so shallow.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
News talk z been okay.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
How do we solve child abuse in New Zealand? Apparently
by what making some ads about child abuse so people
know exactly what it is when they see it. Heather's
not buying it now.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
One of the recommendations the coroner has made today in
her report is that ot or ang Atomatic aka Siffs
run a public awareness campaign to help anyone identify possible
signs of abuse and how to take action. Now, to
be fair to her, that's not her idea originally, it
actually came from an earlier review. She's only pointing out
that it still hasn't happened, and then reiterated that there
(03:32):
should be a public campaign. But really, is that what
we need in this country? We need a public campaign
to tell us what child abuse looks like. I think
we all know what child abuse looks looks like. I mean,
I struggle to believe that there are people out there
who do not know that breaking a child's bone isn't
child abuse, in which case isn't. It's just the kind
(03:52):
of thing that well meaning people do to make themselves
feel like they're doing something when really they're doing nothing,
because maybe there is very little that you actually can do.
The problem with Malachi's case was not that people didn't
know what child abuse looked like. People did see the
child abuse and they absolutely knew it was child abuse,
and they went to OT and they said, hey, Malachi
is being abused. Here's the proof, and they did that
(04:15):
by my account, about five times, if not more, and
OT didn't stop it. That's the problem, and it is
the problem for so many children in this country. When
they die, we find out afterwards OT already knew the family,
and yet the kids ended up dead anyway. The problem
isn't that we you and I don't know what child
abuse looks like. Yes we do. The problem is that
(04:36):
the agency is supposed to stop it from supposed to
stop the children from dying, apparently doesn't know what child
abuse looks like. Never mind a campaign. I think you
fix that, you fix that fundamental problem at udoing a timitiki,
you might save a lot of lives.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I mean, there's no easy facts. But you do
have to wonder sometimes when you hear some of these
cases just what the various agencies involved are doing, or
indeed why they're not doing anything. You talk sib right,
So it seems like we're paying more for everything these
(05:13):
days now. I think that's a statement that you could
probably make at every point through history, and it's not
necessarily true. I mean, we don't have that fee for prescriptions,
(05:33):
I don't think anymore. Unless you're really going to the
wrong pharmasy. It's one thing I could think of that
we don't pay as much more. But generally speaking, it
feels that way, doesn't it. I think Ryan feels like
it feels that way.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Last week they scraped the full driver licensed test. But
then NZTA comes out and says, oh, we might need
to increase fees for the first test and for other
bits to make up costs. We'll pay tolls to get
the roads that we want. We're about to get hit
with congestion charging. International tourists pay a tourist tax, of course,
(06:05):
Domestic tourists pay to use dock huts, more recent car parks.
At peak places Wellington, you'll probably have to pay some
kind of targeted special rate for pumping all your number
twos into the cook straight Now, so long as this
stuff is ring fenced, I prefer things are charged in
this way because if you don't want to use a
toll road, use a taxed one. You know, user pays
(06:28):
makes more sense to me. It's fairer to those who
use it, more importantly to those who don't use a
particular good or service. But at some point your household
budget is hit with so many fees and charges that
you have to stop and ask how long this can continue?
It's death by a thousand cuts. And then you ask,
can the government cut wasteful spending elsewhere to cover some
(06:50):
of this stuff or give me back some tax please
that I'm currently paying handover fist. In case you needed
examples of that this week, Shane Jones's half billion dollar
slush fund would be a good place to start.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I would have thought that you go, Ryan Bridge, sort
of balancing the books on behalf of all of it there,
keeping a keeping a strict record of in coming and
out going. I'm glad somebody's doing it. I certainly that's
not my job, either here or at home city. Okay,
(07:26):
I don't know if you've been watching it. I haven't
watched much of it. The Winter Olympics. I just can't
relate to people, you know, fly through the year upside
down and spinning around. They make it look too easy.
I think that's the problem.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I saw some of the men's figure skating. They still
dress on though, don't they It does look free blades
of glory. The young American flipped over like did a somersault.
Good on them and look to be a delightful young Chap,
but you didn't grab me all triple X or the
common all triple X or the Commonists all triple x.
(08:04):
Al No, I knows what's going on. Really, we watch
it once every four years. The commentators could be slightly
more helpful. Oh, triple excel raspberry? What's a raspberry? A
raspberry ice skating? Never heard of that. I think they
just make stuff up anyway. So yes, I wonder about that.
How could we make it better? Or should we just
get rid of it altogether? I don't know the answer
(08:26):
to that, but I've watched it and I thought, yeah,
because in the past, the past couple of Olympics, it's
a raspberry twist named after the word. I don't know
what it is. Oh, I see it's his own signature
(08:46):
move for this Ilia mullanin and mullanin Melina in Russian
means raspberry. Oh yeah, there we go. It's a raspberry twist. Anyway,
What am I gonna say about the Olympics. I'm gonna
say since we've I feel the last five or six
Olympics we've got into it because've been discovering new things
(09:06):
about it. But now most all looks of it and
feels a it samey, samey.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think that dovetails into what I was just saying
before about how you just like the way that they
can just ski backwards down and down the hill whenever
they feel like it. For example, when you think about it,
that's impossible, and yet it just everybody's doing it, aren't
(09:31):
they apart from the one who's famously drop your leg
the other day he wasn't going in the new region except.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Up in the helicopter.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But yeah, it's just too weird. It's too weird. This
is this is my mantra, my Winter Olympics mandra.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's too weird news talk.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
And of course even weirder as the the metals that
keep self distructing, not to mention the the blokey cheated.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Also self distracting.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Really, I suppose we.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Want to chat about this extraordinary post when interview from
this Norwegi Olympic biathlete, So the twenty eight year old
his named Stirler lay Greed. He won his first individual
Olympic medal, but he admitted straight after that win that
he had an affair three months ago that he called
his biggest mistake. He's just a little bit of what
he said. He said, it's been the worst week of
my life since he told his girlfriend of six months
(10:27):
about the affair. There's someone, he said, I wanted to
share it with whom might not be watching. Six months ago,
I met the love of my life, the most beautiful
and kindest person in the world. Three months ago, I
made the biggest mistake and cheated on her. I had
the gold medal in life and I've lost it.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
For a start, let's go into this more. For start,
is it really a girlfriend if you've only been going
out for six months? I mean, that's just the start
of relationship.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Yeah, good, good question to answer answers.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
Second is admitting to everyone that you cheated on your partner.
A you know, just just say Does that going to help?
I mean, just say that you love.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
It straight off the bat.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
I think that's a it's a poor strategy.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
I think this guy's a bun boiler. But the question
we're going to ask, is there any way back from cheating?
How do you if you've cheated on a partner, A
partner's cheat on you, what can they do to come back?
Is there any way out of it? I don't I
don't think winning a bronze medal. Maybe when a gold
medal and you've got a chance, but some bronze medal
loser coming through and coming in third, coming and coming
in third and killing his funner of six months. They
(11:29):
were only going out for three months when he cheated.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
On a dirty dog, basically a one night stand.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, I mean yeah, as public forums go for your
it's your your confession. They don't get a lot more
public than that, do they essentially on the on the
dais at the Olympics. I can't I can't see that
(11:56):
working out well for him, to be honest. But memoir, definitely,
there's been some memorable moments. All right, I'm glen heart.
Don't forget to come back again tomorrow for another one
of these was he used.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
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