Full Show Podcast: 16 July 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Zealand's home for trusted news and views. Heather Duplicy
Allen on the mic Hosking Breakfast with the land Rover Discovery,
never Stop discovering news, togs, Dead be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Morning and Welcome. Coming up on the show, Shane Jones
has a plan to secure fuel domestically. He's going to
talk us through at councils will soon have fewer excuses
before spending. The Minister will talk us through that. We'll
have more GPS coming in from more country soon, Sonny
but Williams will talk us through his fight with Paul
Gallan's night. Mark and Jinny do politics. Richard is in
the US and Steve is in Australia.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Heather Duplssy Allen, So, who would.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Ever have thought that the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy would be
one of Trump's biggest problems? But it is. The megabase
is furious how and many of them believe the conspiracy
that Epstein was really murdered. They want to see the files.
Trump promised to release the files. Now now he's not
going to do that, but then he compromised or release
the CCTV footage outside Epstein's cell to show that nothing
had happened, except the Internet spotted there was a minute

(00:58):
missing the thing jump from eleven for four eight to midnight.
That all kicked off the conspiracy theory again. There were
reports that two of his appointments, this is Trump's appointments,
were thinking of quitting the FBI and protest. There were
calls for the Attorney general to be fired. And now
the conspiracy, if anything, has actually spread even wider and
got even more people interested. So the latest is now

(01:19):
that Donald Trump is considering not backing down and releasing
the files, but removing redactions from already released files. Now,
if this surprises you that this has become such a
huge problem for Donald Trump, angering his voters and then
grabbing headlines for days now, it actually shouldn't when you
think about it, because this conspiracy theory cuts to the
very core of what Trump is all about. The Epstein

(01:41):
story is a story, to the conspiracists, of a cover
up of the establishment looking after each other by being
dishonest to the public. Trump is supposed to be the
opposite of that. He's supposed to be the anti establishment.
He's supposed to be there to drain the swamp. So
when he gets into power and doesn't blow the lid
off the cover up, then he becomes the establishment along
with everybody else. He becomes the swamp. And that is

(02:01):
why it is so damaging to him, because to his base,
the man who is supposed to be the anti politician
is now just like every other politician, going back on
his word and helping with the cover up. What has
actually been remarkable is that for a man who usually
has his finger on the pulse of what people are thinking,
he can't see that. Or maybe he can see that.
Maybe that's why he's now considering the redactions. But who

(02:23):
would have thought you cannot silence a conspiracy by simply
saying there's nothing to see here. And who would have
thought that Epstein, of all people, the dead guy, would
be such a problem.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
What news of the world in ninety seconds.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
A number of Russian officials do not seem too worried
about the US threat of tariffs.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
We really want to know what motivates the president of
the United States. It is clear that he is under
enormous I would say, and destined pressure from the European
Union and the current leadership of NATO.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Ukraine, on the other hand, thinks this could be a
turning point.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Oh, we are in lighte with internal law by responding
d Urasian aggression and by US and one branch missiles,
and it's the only way how we can make putin
to negotiate.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Seriously, we heard from Rod yesterday about those heat waves
in the UK. It is also the driest start of
the year since nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
We need to stop talking about these being extreme weather
events and start to accept that because of climate change,
things like this are going to be more normal. So
in the focus of dis government is making sure that
everyone continues to get water, they continue to have their
wastewater services.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Over in the UK, a secret fgen relocation deal has
been unveiled after the personal details of thousands trying to
flee the Taliban will lead.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
This official mistakenly believe that they were sending the names
of one hundred and fifty applicants. However, the spreadsheet in
fact contained personal information associated to eighteen thousand, seven hundred
and fourteen Afghuns.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's actually quite a big deal. I'm going to give
you some more detail on that later. The inquiry into
David Fuller. This is the me who abused corpses at
the mortuary for more than fifteen years has found that
there actually isn't enough regulation and this could happen again.

Speaker 8 (04:07):
I have concluded that yes, it is entirely possible that
such offenses could be repeated, particularly in those sectors that
lack any form of statutory regulation.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
And in more bad news for Master Chef UK, Greg
Wallace's fellow presenter, John Toroade has been sacked following allegations
he used an extremely offensive racist term.

Speaker 9 (04:29):
The BBC takes this upheld, finding extremely seriously we will
not tolerate racist language of any kind. Action must be taken.
John Torode's contract on Master Chef will not be renewed.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
And finally, as South Korean soldier has smashed the world
record for pollups Or Johann completed eleven thousand, seven hundred
and seven pullups in twenty four hours. It was his
second attempt at this particular record. He held it for
all week when he did eight thousand, seven hundred and seven.
That's been overtaken. It's been officially recognized by Guinness World Records.

(05:07):
He also stopped at eleven seven oh seven in order
to honor his unit number seven oh seven. When you go,
don't feel ashamed of himself if you can't even do
one at at more than eleven thousand, and that is
to use the world in ninety seconds. It's got the
inflation data out of the US overnight. It is as
clear as day the impact that tariffs are having over
There has been a massive spike in inflation in June,

(05:29):
just as those tariffs are taking hold. So the CPI
has gone up two point seven percent from a year earlier.
This is the fastest that it's risen since February. It
is slightly higher than expected. It's up from an annual
pace of around two point four in May. Doesn't sound huge,
but remember inflation's on the down right. So when you
actually look at the graph and you see what happens

(05:49):
in June, you can see it is quite a significant
up core inflation, which is when you strip out the
volatile food and energy prices, as this is a scene
as much more reliable core inflation. That's up two point
nine percent from the same time last year. Thirteen past six.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
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Speaker 2 (06:09):
EBB, heither you missed the mark on the Epstein topic,
just like Mike keeps missing the mark on AI. It's
best to not discredit seriously credible accusations by calling them
conspiracy theories. It just makes you look a bit silly. Well,
I have to be honest with you. I did wonder
I thought she'll like call it a conspiracy theory or shop.
But then the alternative is just to call it the theory,
and that doesn't sound nearly as Jazzy does it. Sixteen

(06:32):
past six Greg Smith, Devin funds management with US Now
Morning Greg, Morning, Heather. Hey, I just mentioned those US
inflation numbers. What do you reckon?

Speaker 10 (06:42):
He's aim from mixed bag.

Speaker 11 (06:44):
I mean, basically, as you said said, they came a
line of estimates, but they did show that tariff'sa beginning
to work their way through the US economy. So if
you look, as you said, the headline inflation, that was
pretty much in line two point seven percent annually. But
what was that from two point four percent of may
things beef, coffee, and fruit, they are up over two percent.
Those egg prices they fell, but that's still like twenty

(07:05):
seven percent on a year ago. Enerjury prices increased. You
mentioned core inflation, which is what the feed tends to
look at. That was two point nine percent, but the
game up from two point eight percent in May. Annually,
things like vehicle prices they fell, but tariff sensitive products
you look at a peril home furnishings, they are up
point four percent and one percent respectively. So I think

(07:25):
that's a particular and just sheltered prices. They were typically stronger,
three point eight percent higher than a year ago. So Trump,
of course he no surprising they shed. In another call
for the FED to lower rate. See said inflation was
very low, and it has come down from those peak levels,
but it's trending downwards, but still above the feeds two
percent target by some distance. He said, cutting rates would

(07:46):
say one trillion dollars. A ye're not quite sure about
his math, said, but anyhow, I suppose a big motivation
for him is the use has got a lot of debt,
and the lower inflation, lower inst rates are, the better
there's in terms of boring costs. But we just don't
know how the tariffs are going to stoke inflation more,
and we obviously don't know where these tarif freights are
going to settlef So the average tar freight is currently

(08:08):
around nineteen percent that's the highest since nineteen thirty three,
and that could go higher. And then of course there's
the big beautiful bills, So no how that's going to
impact inflation either.

Speaker 10 (08:16):
So yeah, it's.

Speaker 11 (08:17):
Expected that the Fed will stay in hole when it
meets later this month. And yeah, a quarter percentage point
cut in September, and I don't think the CPO really changes.
Few markets pretty much took it in this dride brilliant.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Now some big earnings from the banks, then.

Speaker 11 (08:32):
Yes, and these are very important obviously a big sider
on the economy and often set the tone for the
ending seasons. We've had a number of results overnight, so
a bit of a mixed bag. So JP Morgan Chase,
it's the biggest bank in America. They beat on revenue
and earnings. They did well, and they fixed income, training
and investment banking. Airning's actually down seventeen percent to fifteen billion,

(08:53):
but that was boosted by seal of their visa stake
a year ago. Revenues down ten percent, credit loss provisions
they were lower. That's a good sign around the economy,
and they've benefiting from higher interest rates. She is a
slightly but are up nearly twenty percent year to day.
In City group, they also had a good result as well.
There she is up three percent. Revenues came in at
twenty one point seven billion. Their banking posis did quite well.

(09:16):
Revenues there sored eighteen percent. Need income again benefit from
hire inch threats that was up twenty five percent to
four billion dollars.

Speaker 10 (09:24):
Four year guides was also lifted.

Speaker 11 (09:26):
All they did say the economy is deteriorating a bit
relative to last year, so that was interesting. But on
the other side, we had a couple of disappointing results
here they wells fargoed are big bank as well.

Speaker 10 (09:35):
There she has fell over six percent.

Speaker 11 (09:37):
They fell short on GUIDs and Black Croc, the world's
largest asset menser.

Speaker 10 (09:41):
There she has fell six percent as well.

Speaker 11 (09:42):
So they had had a miss so bit of a
mixed bag. We'll get a clear picture tonight. Gold and
Sex Bank of America and Morgan Stanley O scheduled to report.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Greg not looking good with the housing market here.

Speaker 10 (09:54):
Still quite subdued.

Speaker 11 (09:55):
So we sort of thought we were seeing some green shoots,
but yeah, perhaps they've been sort of waded down a
little bit. So this is our latest ari iron Z
report for June, so turn of us. So in the
last couple of months the house pricing except fell by
zero point three percent and Mays was revised down to
a flat performance. So we had seen some gains, but
that's sort of all sort of changed now. He looked

(10:17):
nationally at medium prices, they're actually flats around about seven
seventy thousand, but Auckland is dragging things down down by
three point four percent to nine forty thousand see strip
Aukan Now price is actually up one point seven percent,
so annually prices up just zero point three percent on
a year ago. Andy Hither, it's all about the regions.
South Island's doing pretty well. West Coast you want to

(10:39):
be there, prices up on a medium basis thirty five
percent for it in twenty thousand and SOUTHND prices had
a record at five hundred two thousand, So it really
is all Aukan dragging things down. Sales over all down
four percent. That was following a three percent fall in May.
Medium time to sell that rose to forty eight days,
so it just looks like we're in a bird of
a holding pair as well. So still some interest among buyers,

(11:04):
but yeah, just generally quite subdued. I think as far
as the housing market goes heither, so we'll watch with interest.

Speaker 10 (11:10):
We two from here over the year. It's potentially four
hit us with the numbers. Then. Yeah, So the day is.

Speaker 11 (11:15):
Down point seven percent to dread down a little bit
by some of the blower chips. But sm P five
hundred down point one percent, nast Deck up point seven percent.
In video keeps going up four percent four point two
trillion dollar market cap. It's actually worth more than the
UK economy, which is.

Speaker 10 (11:31):
The world's sixth largest.

Speaker 11 (11:33):
Forty one hundred down point seven percent, Nick up points
six percent, sees I three hundred in China was flat.
Chon's GDP was at one point one percent the June quarters.
That was quite positive. There a SX two hundred up
points seven percent. Indeed X fifty we were at point
one percent twelve six eight nine. We've had some good
news again for the diocect of this morning. Heather prices
are up at the l latest auction, including for whole

(11:54):
milk powder, so it's good news. Gold down fifteen dollars
threey three and twenty eight and Ounce down sixty C.

Speaker 10 (12:01):
Sixty six spot.

Speaker 11 (12:02):
Did he have a barrel cozy markets Kiwi down half
percent against the US dollar fifty nine point four. We're
flating against the strain dollar ninety one point three, British
pound with down point one percent forty four point one,
and we are point four percent high against the Japanese
yen eighty eight point five.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Good stuff, Thank you very much, Greg, look enjoy your
enjoy your morning and looking after yourself was Greg Smith,
Devin Funds Management. Trump has had another crack at Jerome
Powell again. Richard Arnold on that after half past six
twenty two.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
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Some numbers you might be interested in if you if
you're one of those people like myself who likes to
get irritated by in New Zealand for flying the planes late.
They are, in fact just they've just been ranked in globally,
well not globally actually just in the Asia Pacific region.
They've been ranked tenth best for getting to you where
you're supposed to go on time. Auckland Airport nowhere to

(12:58):
be seen. We'll talk to in New Zealand about that
and when they're with us. After half past at twenty
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(13:47):
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(14:07):
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(14:28):
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Speaker 1 (14:54):
Setting the agenda and talking the big issues either Dupathy
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Speaker 2 (15:05):
Dead be hey. So over in the UK, you remember
the case of the sycamore gap tree that got felled.
One day it was there. The next day people woke
up and it was gone. The two guys who did
they got boozed and they chopped down the tree. They've
just been jailed for four years and three months, which
is extraordinary because not only is it the first time
anyone has ever actually been put in jail for chopping

(15:27):
down just one tree, but it's also quite a harsh
jail term. Four years and three months is about four
years and three months more than we in New Zealand
would give somebody for, I don't know, attacking someone with
the samurai sword. How mental is that you attack a
tree with the samurai sword. You're going to jail attack
a person with a samurai saord. It's fine home d
FORU twenty two away from seven. Got some numbers for

(15:52):
you on how air New Zealand is performing globally with
its on time performance. Aviation analytics company Syrium ranks airlines
and airport for punctuality in New Zealand is the tenth
beast in the Asia Pacific region. Auckland Airports nowhere to
be seen. This is for last month only. Kate Boya
is in New Zealand's general manager of airports and with
us high Kate.

Speaker 12 (16:11):
Good morning, Heather, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, you're welcome. So you guys came in at seventy
eight point sixty one percent for punctuality, which is not
bad but it is still one in five flights that
are late. Eh.

Speaker 12 (16:22):
It is heather. And you know, there's two things I
would say here. One is context really matters. So our
June performance is impacted by the fact that we are
in the middle of winter, and what that means is
we're going to see de icing, significant fog days and
of course at the start of school holidays we saw
that massive storm which severely impacted the network all over

(16:45):
the country, but particularly the Tasman and Marlborough regions. So
we were third in May, we were top five in
Jen and feb. We are going to see some seasonality,
but that doesn't mean that we're happy with that performance.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I see you guys. Second, please, I was just
gonna say.

Speaker 12 (17:03):
The second thing is we are so focused on turning
around our on time performance. We've heard our customers on this.
It is so critical that we deliver them safely and
on time to their destination. So we've been throwing the
kitchen sink at this. Over the last six months, we've
improved our performance by six points versus the prior six months,

(17:24):
reduced cancelations from four percent to two point eight percent,
So that's really good. We're really happy with that, but
we have to keep after it. We have to keep
delivering for our customers.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I see you guys had a little bit of fog
disruption just in the last few guys in particular, have
you managed to get your schedules back on track.

Speaker 12 (17:40):
We are getting back on track.

Speaker 13 (17:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (17:42):
We saw a Monday severe disruption and Auckland from the fog,
and yesterday christ Church was heavily impacted. And when those
hubports go down Heather, as you can imagine, the ripple
effects through the network is massive. So we are rebooking.
We're using our new automated rebooking or to get people
back on flights and back in the air again.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Now does it surprise you at all that Auckland Airport
hasn't made this list of punctual outfits.

Speaker 12 (18:11):
Well, what I would say is that Auckland is going
to have some of the same impacts that we have
in terms of those weather disruption and some of that fog.
They are also going through major infrastructure works and that
can cause disruption. And we can see that there's tarmac
changes and that we are going to be continuing to

(18:31):
work with them on how we navigate those changes. Over
in the next few years.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Hey, that is very magnanimous of you. Thanks very much.
Enjoy your time. That's Kboya, who's in New Zealand's General
manager of Airports out to that Auckland airport business. I mean,
you know why they're not on the list because it's
a hellhole. Quite surprised to see went through the list.
Quite surprised to see. Actually the old South African airports
are not doing too badly. They're cropping up quite a lot.

(18:57):
Most the world's most on time media airport number five
is joe Burgh Tambo International Airport, which actually, when you
think about it, I don't know if you've flown through,
it is where you're.

Speaker 13 (19:08):
Going to go.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
If you're gonna go to Safari or anything like that,
you're going to go into joe Burg's airport. It actually
is quite efficient when you think about it. And the
most on time small airport Durban comes in at number
three and Cape Town comes in at number five. So
that's not half bad karma in Auckland. You can't be
coma Auckland. You can't be beaten by South African airports.
Have you seen this that they don't even have power

(19:29):
half the time in the country sort it out eighteen
away from seven. Now Trump's daughter in law. If you
thought the Epstein thing was getting a bit hairy for him,
his daughter in law, Lara Trump, is now called on
the White House to demonstrate more transparency on the Epstein files.

Speaker 14 (19:45):
I do think that there needs to be more transparency on.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
This, and I think that that will happen.

Speaker 14 (19:50):
I mean, look, I don't know what truly exists there,
but I know that this is something that's important to
the president as well. He doesn't want transparency on all
these I believe, no, probably trying to get out sooner
rather than l We they hear it and they understand it,
so hopefully we see that happen soon in the lanner
and that I guess that would be my advice. But
to everybody out there who's all worked up about it,

(20:11):
there's no great plot to keep this information away then
I'm aware of. I do just believe that maybe it's
been slow rolled for reasons that hopefully we understand down
the line, and I think we're probably going to get
more transparency on the theories.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know, it always works when you tell the conspiracy
theorists that there's nothing they're not hiding anything that always
works to quell the conspiracy theory. Trump is done the
usual thing where he stands outside the helicopter shouting about
Pam Bonby and the Epstein files. Again, why didn't she
tell you about when.

Speaker 14 (20:41):
You have specifically think she'd tell you about all that
your name up here end.

Speaker 15 (20:44):
Up by it.

Speaker 16 (20:45):
No, No, she's She's given us just a very quick briefing.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
And in terms of.

Speaker 16 (20:51):
The credibility of the different things that they've seen, and
I would say that you know, these files were made
up by Komi, they were made up by Obama, they
were made up by the baiting it from you know,
uh we and we went three years of that with
the Russia Russia Russia hugs, with all of the different
things that we had to go through. We've gone through

(21:12):
years of it. But she's handled it very well and
it's going to be up to her. Whatever she thinks
is credible, she should release.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, well, anyway, we'll see how that goes for him,
saying she's doing very well. Richard Arnold on that next
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Now it's Richard Arnold, US correspondent, Morning, Richard. How has
that anti Russia package been received?

Speaker 17 (22:44):
It's been interesting in the last few minutes. I guess
we might call this the art of the no Deal.
As Trumpers agreed to let NATO supply you has made
Patreot anti missile events systems for Ukraine and some other weapons.
There's been a suggestion that maybe Trump would go a
little further, but then just minutes ago Trump seemed to
knock that down, which is the way he works, right.
He suggested something in switches positions that might be part

(23:06):
of the reason why Russia is indicating that it doesn't
really care about Trump's fifty day peace calendar or a
one hundred percent tariff threat will will hit Russia on
the head. In the latest attacks, the nightly bombardment of
civilian areas in Ukraine, Russia said two hundred and sixty
seven drones into Ukrainian territory last night. That's a finger

(23:26):
in the face of the Trump team clearly. Now, Trump
says he is increasingly angered by Putin's moves.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
So your home, iyteller. First lady and I looked with
Vladimir today.

Speaker 18 (23:35):
We had a wonderful conversation.

Speaker 16 (23:37):
She said, Oh, really another city was just here.

Speaker 17 (23:41):
So that's interesting, isn't it? That first lady Milania Trump
from Slovenia. Originally he might be whispering into his ear
and suggesting that maybe the US is being made to
look the full. Then there was a phone call with
Ukraine's Zelenski where Trump asked him if he has the
ability to hit Russia's two biggest cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
That fueled some speculation that maybe Trump might be willing
to supply longer range missiles for that purpose that could

(24:04):
straight more deeply into Russian territory. At moments ago, Trump
was asked about this, specifically.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Should the Lansky target Moscow?

Speaker 18 (24:11):
Sir?

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Should the Lansky target Moscow or deeper into Russians who
shouldn't target Moscow?

Speaker 17 (24:17):
So what do we know? Trump then continued on the
Ukraine's theme, saying.

Speaker 16 (24:21):
No, nobody's I'm gonna know whar I want to you
know what? The side I'm on humanity side. I want
to stop the killing of thousands of people a week.

Speaker 17 (24:30):
So how much of this is just talked During that
infamous over office session with Trump back in February. You
recall Trump warned that escalating the war would be playing
with the threat of heading into World War three. But
if Moscow continues to say they don't care what Trump does,
how far could the Trump putin alliance come apart?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
And is Donald liking that inflation data?

Speaker 17 (24:49):
No, obviously not, because that was the key issue in
which he campaigned in the election. And if people are
complaining that the prices of groceries and fuel are going up,
you know, it points of being directly yet the White House.
But that is the other big policy issues that we've
seen because of inflation. He has spiked in during the CPI,
rising by two point seven percent from a year earlier,

(25:11):
so that was slightly higher than expected. With all the
huffing and puffing about Trump terrorists, few have been able
to pin down the long term effects of them. But
the fuel and grocery prices, like I say, have been increasing.
We're also being warned that the price of tomatoes is
going up. That's because most tomatoes have come from Mexico,
which has been hit by the Trump terriffs and by

(25:32):
Trump deportation sereach to farm workers. Trump is giving the
same response he always does, that the FED and its
boss during power should be cutting interest rates even though
those prices are going.

Speaker 16 (25:42):
Up, interest rates should be coming down. Where we have
a very, very successful country, we should have the lowest
interest rate anywhere in the world, and we don't. Jeron
Powell has done a terrible job at Frankly, I don't
think you could do a worse job.

Speaker 17 (25:58):
Of course, it's the federal handle, the Open Market Committee
that the size he sings, and Powell can't easily be
sacked by any president. So mostly this seems to be
political deflection.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Good to talk to you, Richard, Thank you very much,
Richard Arnold, US correspondent. Hither are you going to comment
on the appalling way the Prime Minister and Winston Peters
have publicly put David Seymour down over the letter he
sent to the UN. Yes, we will thank you. Roger
nine Away from seven.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Heather duple c Allen on the Mike Husking Breakfast with
the Landrover, Discovery News Talks head b By.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
The way, on the inflation, Donald Trump doesn't think there
is any it's.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Very little inflation.

Speaker 16 (26:34):
As you know, the numbers were very good, very much
inside the margin, so.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
We've had no inflation.

Speaker 16 (26:40):
All we have as we're making a fortune. We are
taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. You saw we
had a surplus of twenty five billion dollars last month,
which we haven't had in many, many years.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
There you go six away from seven.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, the ins and the outs, it's the fizz with business.
Take your business productivity to the next level.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
According to a new survey, our, construction sector remains under
significant pressure. Over the last eighteen months. There have been
more than seventeen thousand jobs lost in the sector. So
let's take a look at the EBOSS twenty twenty five
Builder Sentiment report. It shows average business capacity has dropped
from sixty seven to sixty four percent compared to last year.
A quarter of builders are operating at less than half

(27:25):
their capacity, less than fifty percent. However, despite those negative numbers,
the rate of decline is now slowing. Net demand sentiment
is up from negative fifty five last year to negative
thirty three twenty two percent of builders, so nearly a
quarter so demand has been up in the last year.
That compares to only twelve percent last year who said
the same thing. Large businesses of up to fifty employees

(27:48):
are showing the most optimism at the minute, but the
optimism is somewhat limited. The next twelvemonth forecast isn't looking
overly flash. Forty six percent of builders expect industry conditions
to get worse, although that is at least an improved
movement when sixty nine percent last year thought things could
get worse. Forty percent expect improvement in the sector, so
forty six negative plays forty positive. Workloads have declined to

(28:10):
an average of eight point two months, meaning the average
builder is out of work after eight months thirty percent
of builders, so they only have three months or less
of work in the books. But there are some green
shoots here twenty four percent of builders, so they're looking
to hire over the next twelve months. So that's positive
because that means expansion and that means work, and that's
always a good thing, isn't it now? Oh man, you

(28:31):
know what, I know? This seems like like a nothing,
but I think it might be is something. This is
the government taking those full wellbeing provisions out of council law.
This is the these things are just if you watch
what councils spend their money on. Everything gets blamed on
these things. It's like a social wellbeing, there's a cultural wellbeing,
there's an economic wellbeing, and there's I think there's a

(28:51):
like environmental one or something who cares anyway, they use
the social and cultural one for everything. So for example,
remembering Carpety District Council was busted paying for people to
go to cooking classes, which is not a council's job, right,
That's not what a council is supposed to do, but
they did. They said it was for the social well being.
So we're gonna have a chat to Simon Watts, who's
now taking them out of the legislation, try to get
their councils to focus on what they should be doing.

(29:13):
He's with us shortly. Also Shane Jones. The government is
considering trying to encourage domestic production of fuel and the
idea that they've got in a new Reporter is to
set up a special economic zone to do that where
there is some sort of like incentive in the zone.
So we have a chat to Shane Jones about that
when he's with us after seven News is next Newstalk,
there'd be.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
The Breakfast show, Kiwi's Trust to Stay in the Nome
and the Duple c Allen on the mic asking Breakfast
with a Vida, Retirement Communities, Life Your Way, News Togs, he'd.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Be good morning to you. The government is considering encouraging
domestic production of fuel. A new reports suggests setting up
special economic zones to do that. This is to lock
and fuel security. Shane Jones is the Associate Energy Ministound
with US Morning Shane, Hey morning folks. So where would
you put these special economic zones?

Speaker 11 (30:13):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (30:13):
Obviously, hailing from Lauthland, I think one would be good
around Marston Point, given that the Labor Party in particular
just simber, don't close down our mast and Point refinery.
That will stimulate the whole boast, the whole range of
energy investments. And why not Taranucky because if we're ever
going to have to rely upon the importation of gas

(30:34):
from overseas to keep the economy functioning, left to be
in Taranucky after Jacimba canceled the oil and gas industry
and then and.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Then what do you do in these zones? Do you
offer tax breaks or subsidies or what?

Speaker 18 (30:46):
Yeah, those are the details still to be teased through.
In other countries, they offer a range of incentives through
bespoke tax treatment planning rules that are tailored for the
activity in that particular site. I mean around Marsden Point,
it's already an energy precinct and energy zone. We're looking
forward to creating the dry dock facility over time at

(31:09):
Marston Point, and I'm sure that as ministers work through
the various regional and local government deals that other locations
will see some merit in having these zones there. Later
in the year, we hope to have as a part
of the legislation coming through the option of creating such thones.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
What do you think is the greatest threat I suppose
to our fuel security at the moment.

Speaker 18 (31:32):
Oh, well, obviously the geopolitical situation. People need to bear
in mind. Whether that we chew through eleven million liters
every day of diesel, I'll put out the suggestion and
the decisions that we're going to have to store up
to diesel, store diesel up to twenty eight days. People
are telling me that that's not enough. The fuel companies,
if you control more than ten percent of the fuel

(31:54):
supply market, it's our expectation from twenty twenty eight that
you'll have an additional set days on shore. Obviously, I
don't want to alarm anyone, but we do live in
highly uncertain times.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I heard you were involved in a showdown over the
lizards in cabinet on Monday. What happened?

Speaker 18 (32:15):
Oh no, no, no, it's in cabinet. Everything is tapu.
But do you win well? Obviously the Oceania gold mine
is going to flourish. We need to have guardrails. The
Department of Conservation, they're going through a set of changes.
Those changes will ensure that when DOC officials are allocating

(32:35):
concessions or entitlements to use up to thirty eight percent
of New Zealand's landscape, they're not looking at it through
the orifice.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Of a lizard showdown or no showdown.

Speaker 18 (32:46):
Shane, No, no, I'm not going to be drawn on
what happens in their list. I'm working with our docor
mister Tamar, who both wants to deny, work very closely
with and mister Bishop.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
All right, thank you, Shane. If you don't deny it,
you know what we think. Shane Jones, Associate Energy Minister,
ever do for the Ellens government is finally taking those
full well being provisions out of council law. Things have
been controversial. They will ruined the two thousands jon Keys
government got rid of them. Grant Robertson put them back
in the coming out again. Simon Watts is the local
government minister. Morning Simon, Good morning, Heather. What proportion of

(33:21):
council spending do you reckon is on these full provisions?

Speaker 19 (33:26):
Well, we know the average rates increased last year alone
was just over eight percent. Well, that's pretty significant across
the board. We know that because of the fact that
they haven't got clarity around what they need to do
pretty much any activities in the scope for what they do.
And that's good news for counts of bureaucrats, but bad
news for ratepayers. So the changes we're doing is getting

(33:47):
councils back to the basics. We've said, you know, you
need to have a clearly defined scope of activities that
you do core services. We're putting that back into the
legislation and by the way, you're putting another kicker in
there as well, which is in addition to it's been
done in the past, which means that when they're setting
their rates going forward, they have to take account of
the core services. So you know, some councils on the

(34:09):
decide they want to do something else. Well, they've got
the money then in the rate payers of what that
might be. Okay, but first and foremost, they have to
deliver their core services. So you know, it'll get them
back to the basics and that'll be in law by
the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
What if, though, they continue to spend on these four
wellbeing pillars, if they put up some light show and
they say it's for cultural well being and it blows
the budget, what are you going to do about it?

Speaker 19 (34:31):
Well, we've put in play within the legislation a specific
requirement that when are setting those rates that they obviously
charge the rate payer, they have to be aligned and
linked to the core services that we've defined in the legislation. Now,
there are and there may be examples where councils have
the ability and the means and the rate payer remich

(34:54):
to go further than that. But our viewers, is the
linkage that we've put into the legislation make sure because
at the moment it's a free for all.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
I mean, yeah, what is well being?

Speaker 18 (35:04):
Right?

Speaker 19 (35:04):
I mean anything's in scope and that's the problem. And
because everything's in scope, then you've got counsel the lover
the place doing WILLI nearly and now nonsense type pet
projects which are just leading to exorbitant prices. We're seeing
those across the world.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'm just getting I'm getting a lot of examples right
now of you guys announcing things that sounds awesome but
actually leads enough leads to nothing. So can you tell
me that you know for sure this is going to
drop council spending and if it doesn't, you're going to
do something.

Speaker 19 (35:33):
Absolutely, it's one O one that if you clearly state
and define what you need to do and put it
into law and that's what the measure upon. So we've
got to coup more of transparency and accountability measures coming
out as well than they're going to focuses.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
And if they don't, if they ignore you, what are
you going to do?

Speaker 19 (35:50):
Well, We've got a number of mechanisms through the Minister
to intervene in terms of council performance. You're seeing us
already do that in Wellington and other areas. And the
best thing that keywits can do is make sure they
check up to the voting box this year and voting
their elections and make sure they get the right people
with the right smarts into those roles that you don't
present their values.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Okay, listener, are you gonna do anything about this business
going on with Ray Chung's letter about Tory Farno.

Speaker 19 (36:15):
Oh look, we've made it and Prime Minister's made some
statements around the inappropriateness of that. As minister, you know,
I stay out of local government elections, but at the
end of the day, the voters are going to make
a decision and that that area and that's the way
democracy works.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
All right, Simon, thanks very much. Simon Watt's local government minister,
Heather douper Cy len we did some GPS faster and
we'll talk about that in a minute. Just to quick
heads up, adrianaw has got himself a new job. Adrian's
been appointed to the board of the Cook Islands National
Superannuation Fund, which actually is probably a benefit for him
because he is actually quite good at superannuation. He did

(36:51):
that exceedingly well for us before he became the Reserve
Bank Governor. It also Cook Island's good spot. He is
of Cook Island descent, so good luck to him and
the good news you can stop stressing about how he's
going to pay the bills. Just keep on stressing about
how you're going to pay the bills. Give them what
he did.

Speaker 20 (37:07):
What do you reckon That fund is going to be
investing in like Chinese infrastructure or Chinese ports.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Or I don't know, Treez probably given how much he
loves them. Quarter Past the Mike.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
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Speaker 10 (37:24):
A be Hither.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
I'm absolutely convinced Staft to listen to listening to you
talk to Simon Watts, that councils will continue to spend
money on whatever nonsense they want and there will be
no consequences. Go to the ballot box. We did that
twenty months ago and nothing has changed. I agree with you, Paul.
Nothing is. If it comes down to democracy, it's up
to us. That's what it is. We've got to turn
up and vote. Do we turn up and vote?

Speaker 11 (37:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Anyway, I've got more on councils for you. Shortly. It's
eighteen past seven now. Changes are being made to fast
track more foreign doctors into the country, the Medical Councils,
adding three new countries to the list of those that
we accept doctors from really quickly. It's Chile, Luxembourg and Croatia.
Doctor Barzburrella is the cheer of the general practitioners out
here or and worth us morning.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Does, Good morning, Heather.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
So have we got doctors from those countries actually interested
in coming here.

Speaker 18 (38:09):
At that point?

Speaker 15 (38:09):
Look?

Speaker 10 (38:10):
I hope, I hope we do.

Speaker 21 (38:11):
But more importantly, I hope once we get them, we
attract them, we can retain them. It's fine bringing doctors
into the country. God help is if youing a top
on my accent time one of them. Sixty percent of
this country's doctors come from overseas. The problem is that
the Medical Council data shows that within twelve months of
doctors arriving here, forty percent leave and by two years

(38:32):
sixty percent of left. So attracting is one thing, and
that's good, and if we've got incentives to do that,
that's great. What we need to work on next is
retaining those doctors and not simply being an immigration agency
for Australia.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, totally. Now when we do when we fast track them,
how fast are we fast tracking them?

Speaker 18 (38:48):
Yeah? Good question, honest, you don't know.

Speaker 10 (38:49):
Man.

Speaker 21 (38:49):
Thing of it is that we can shrink it down
from a year or two to two a matter of months,
and that's really important. We are easily on the underestimate
five hundred GP short in this country at the moment,
on a good day, probably one thousand gps short. So gosh,
if we can fastrat until a week, that would be brilliant.
One needless to say that that was fantasy. But the
past is the better.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, absolutely, Now I see the hospitals are getting slammed
at the moment by the winter illnesses. What about you not?

Speaker 21 (39:16):
Likewise, we're being slammed at left right in the center.
But probably the biggest way of being slammed is the fact,
as I said, we are short. The demand is exceeding
the supply to meet it as a result of which
people are going to after hours and people are turning
up to the modest departments, and we do not have
capacity in the secondary sector to look after the primary overflow.
So the entire health sector is being slammed, and we

(39:40):
being doctors, and there's no substitute for doctors either. We
simply just need doctors who can diagnose and treat and
not miss things, and that that's crucial. So it comes
up to the initiative, but look, let's work on the retention.
Is my summary on that good step.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I really appreciate you, t I'm doctor Barzbarrell, chair of
the general Practitioners out here. Or It's twenty past seven.

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Speaker 3 (41:14):
Heather du plus see Ellen Sew three.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Now, I'm as interested as anyone about this mystery as
to where the David Seymour is in fact in trouble
over the letter that he sent to the un Whether
the media reporting is right that the Prime Minister gave
David a telling off, or whether David is right that
it was actually just a nice chat, Whether the media
reporting is right that Winston has crossed with David for
sending the letter, or where the David's right that Winston
is not crossing is basically going to send the same

(41:37):
letter again, or where the Winston is right when he
says that's not true what David said. I'm as interested
as you are and what the truth actually is. But
regardless of whether David is in trouble. Can we just
agree amongst ourselves that he was right when he gave
the UN a slap down and called the letter presumptive,
condescending and wholly misplaced. What they did was they piped
up on the Regulatory Standards Bill. This is the UN,

(41:58):
and they sent a letter to us which started the
chain of correspondence. And what the UN Special Rapperteur on
the Rights of Indigenous People got wrong, especially is his
assertion that the bill fails to uphold Indigenous rights guaranteed
in the Treaty, including partnership. There is no partnership guarantee
in the treaty. It was a judge's comment that was

(42:19):
made in the mid eightes. It was subsequently misinterpreted to
now mean partnership. He apparently, this is the Raperteur apparently
also claims that Maori have been excluded from consultation, which
again is not true because we've just had a full
week of consultation through Select Committee hearings and that included
submissions from Yeah you guessed it, Mari. Both of these

(42:40):
facts could have been discovered with a simple Google search.
Unfortunately for the UN, they didn't do it, and it
just makes the case again for the thing, this being
the UN being scaled back to what it was originally
set up for, which was preventing World War three, and
getting out of everything else, getting out of climate change,
getting out of indigenous rights, getting out of advocating for
things like wealth tax. It has gone the UN way

(43:01):
beyond its original remit. It is now too political and
frankly not very good at what it's doing. Just look
at the fact that it's been harping on about climate
change forever and have we stopped it. No, climate change
is just accelerating. So thank you to David Seymour for
giving the UN a well overdue slapdown, even if he
wasn't supposed.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Together do for see Ellen.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, I don't know how this is going to go
with Oh, by the way, politics were Oh by the way,
by the way, happy birthday to Ginny Anderson. Hoo's gonna
be with us on politics Wednesday after eight o'clock. Now
it may surprise you to know Ginny is in fact
fifty one years old. Fifty fifty one, fifty fifty. I
think who cares? She's a hot bait. Hoo looks like

(43:42):
she's forty. Let's be honest, about us. Anyway, We're gonna
we'll absolutely tell her that to her face when she's
in with us later on, and we're gonna chat to
Sonny Bill Williams about that fight with Paul Gallon. I'm
looking forward to the fight tonight just so that we
can stop them smack talking each other becose. I'm not
sure if it's if the hatred is real or not. Anyway,
on the doctors, I don't know if they're going to
have much luck fast tracking thesetors. These doctors from Luxembourg,

(44:07):
for example. I mean, you know, I applaud us for
having ambition, but how many doctors are you going to
attract from Luxembourg which has a population of six hundred
and sixty thousand people, and where a GP earns a
roundabout between two hundred and forty and three hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. I don't know about you, but that
feels like a particularly sweet deal to me. Specialists three

(44:30):
hundred and forty to four hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Speaker 20 (44:32):
Now, maybe we could target Greenland because obviously people will
want to get out of Greenland if Trump takes it over.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Spit all a bit more. You know, why stop at Greenland?

Speaker 22 (44:41):
Why not?

Speaker 20 (44:42):
Well, you know, although I'm not I'm wondering with a
population of fifty six thousand whether they've got that many
speed doctors there, But they only start on one hundred thousand,
so yeah, they might be ready for a change.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Think that's right for us to be able to get
some doctors from there. Anyway, you know, good luck to
us on that one. News is next and then.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
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Heather duple s Allen on the mic hasking Breakfast with

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Speaker 2 (45:26):
If you saw Winston talking to the press gallery last
night on the six PM News, which I did, it
was obvious Winston was passed, probably because David got the
letter off first, which I think actually is a fair point,
isn't it, Because let's be let's let's see this for
what it is. David and Winston are chasing exactly the
same voter, So this is this is yeah, this is
a case of one actually cutting the other's lunch here. Unfortunately,

(45:47):
by the way, what about k we Rail with the malatonin?
That's weird. Isn't it. So we'll talk to the EMA
about that before eight o'clock, twenty two away from eight.
So it all goes down in Sydney tonight. Sunny Bill
Williams steps into the ring against Shallows, forty star turned
boxer Full Gallant. There is no love lost between the pair.
They've been wanting to fight each other for close to

(46:07):
ten years and sunny Bill Williams is with me now morning, Sunny.

Speaker 22 (46:09):
How, I'm very well, thank you? Now?

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Is all of this hate actually real?

Speaker 22 (46:14):
I don't know about hate, hate such such a strong word,
but animosity. I'm not liking each other, Yeah, that definitely is.
We're just not We're two totally different people who look
at I guess life in a total different way. I
think for myself, you know, I'm not the trash talk best,

(46:35):
not my go but you know, if someone's going to
keep pushing, pushing, pushing, eventually you're going to push back,
you know. And for myself, I haven't. I don't consider
it trash talk. I kind of just spoke some truth.
And I think with this bloke, every fight that he's had,
he's made it personal. He's been the victim because the
guy that he's fought, has done something that he shouldn't have.

(46:57):
But the reality is, all I've done is spoke some
truth back, and I think has rolled them up quite
a bit.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
When you say he's a drug cheat, do you really
mean that?

Speaker 22 (47:08):
Well, that's the truth, you know, that's the truth. He
got caught, They got caught taking supplements, things that shouldn't
be in this system, and they took a band. He
took a band, and he was a captain of that
club at that time. So you know, it's not like
I'm telling any lies. He did charge his mate to
come around his house for a barbecue. You know, I

(47:30):
think I can't remember what else I said, But it's
not that I haven't been, you know, talking trash. It's
just telling truth.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Well I imagine it's going to feel pretty good to
get in the ring then and sort it out once
and for all.

Speaker 16 (47:42):
Is it?

Speaker 22 (47:43):
Yeah? I think so?

Speaker 10 (47:44):
I think.

Speaker 22 (47:44):
You know, it's been a long nine weeks. He's even
said it himself. He just wants to get in and
get this fight done. And that's what I want to do,
you know. Yeah, so night couldn't come quick enough.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Now tell me, Look, you're what thirty nine or forty,
you must be feeling your body in this training.

Speaker 22 (48:00):
Yeah, definitely, definitely. I just want to get home to
my kids now, my wife. I'm thirty nine, I'll be
forty a couple of weeks after the fight, so it's
definitely the last, the last hurrah.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
So is this the last fight you're going to do, Sonny, Yes,
for sure. What's the difference between what you're feeling in
your body now, what hurts or what doesn't work the
way that you might have wanted it to work properly?
Maybe let's say ten years ago.

Speaker 22 (48:23):
I think that you know, the fire, the hunger, the heart,
it's all still there. But you know, age catches up
up with you. You can't outrun age. And it's just
the biggest thing that I've noticed is just the recovery aspect. So,
you know, being away from the family has been tough,

(48:44):
but at least I've been able to get some good
sleep without the kids running in the room.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
You know how many kids have you got now?

Speaker 3 (48:50):
I've got five, sister, one of them is quite small.

Speaker 22 (48:52):
A yes, they go from ten to one year old,
ten to Yeah, my youngest Mohammad, he will be one
a day after the fight, So he came four years
after the second youngest. So we head at the stage
there we were five under five. I think, yeah, four

(49:12):
under five.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Excuse me, man, you're a sucker for punishment. Do you
ever end up with a whole bloody lot of them
in bed with you?

Speaker 18 (49:18):
Sometimes?

Speaker 22 (49:18):
Sometimes?

Speaker 10 (49:19):
And I love it.

Speaker 18 (49:19):
I'm not going to lie.

Speaker 10 (49:20):
I really love it.

Speaker 22 (49:21):
I enjoy the aspect of being a father. But you know,
it's been a long couple of months in my life.
Say now you've got to get home, now, get it done,
get home now and come to help me.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Absolutely.

Speaker 16 (49:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Look, I can't imagine you don't strike me as the
kind of person who's going to let the scrudge and
this animosity between yourself and Gallon Linga. Are you going
to make up after this fight?

Speaker 10 (49:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (49:44):
Well he said he doesn't want to shake my hands afterwards,
So it's no, it's water off a ducks back for myself.
You know, I'm not a guy that, like you said,
hangs on to hate or hangs on to anger. I'm
usually the guy on my own household that will let
things go and try and be the bigger person and
talk to my wife after a big argument. But at

(50:07):
the same time. I'm not fuss either way. So I
just want to get the dub the next two days
with this media press conference way, and it's not probably
high on the agenda for me. I don't couldn't have,
couldn't care too. I couldn't have two kids about it.
I just want to get in the ring and get
the job done. That's where my focus is lying.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Sonny Bill, thank you for your time. Good luck with
the fight, Sonny Bill Williams Ellen. Okay. Oh, by the way,
can I just say my baby turned six months yesterday?

Speaker 22 (50:36):
So happy?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Why is it not a thing? It's a big thing
for me.

Speaker 20 (50:39):
It's like celebrating a you know, we've been going out
for a month anniversary.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
It's a big thing for me because now I can
stop sterilizing the bottles and I can start feeding her solids.
Well I'm already feeding her solids. I can start doing
all these freeze me is good.

Speaker 6 (50:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (50:53):
It is a thing.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
It's a thing for me anyway. And she's still alive,
so that's good. Have you been following that trial and
Wellington where the daughter is accused of murdering the mother,
the Candala case. I haven't really been following it, but
I want like, not in great, great detail. But one
thing that has occurred to me worth pointing out to
you is what's going on with the makeover. I don't

(51:14):
know if you've noticed this, but the daughter when she
appeared in the first appearance, turned up at court not
looking that great. She wasn't wearing a lot of makeup.
She had kind of like shortish bobbish length blonde hair
kind of tucked behind the ears and parted in the side.
It was no effort had really been made. Orange top
head tilted down, didn't cut a great figure. But boy,

(51:36):
oh boy, when she turned up and caught for her
first appearance at the trial, I was like, hoh's that
is it? Even the same person she's got now her
hair has grown out to kind of like, you know,
below the what is this thing clavical? I suppose you
could say clavical length hair if you like. It's nicely straightened,
nicely done, parted down the middle, got lots of lovely

(51:57):
makeup on, red lipstick, white shirt, buttoned up right to
the top, olive green jacket, straight posture, hands in front.
Very Gwyneth Paltrow in the Ski Crash Crut Trial. I
don't know if you remember that, but Gwyneth Paltrow she
had to appear in the ski and you know, she
needed to look a certain way, and she basically launched

(52:18):
the court look for women as a result of that.
In fact, the look that the daughter in the Kendala
case is running in court is very similar to the
look that Gwyneth ran out in March the thirtieth, twenty
twenty three, which is when she wore the buttoned up
shirt and the blue jacket. Hers was a navy blue
jacket as opposed to an olive green jacket. But the
whole thing is supposed to kind of convey just quiet confidence,

(52:42):
stealth wealth they call it, or maybe I don't know,
you know, like a confident but quiet woman. Anyhow, it's
not the first time, I should say, this is not
the first time that anybody's obviously changed their look for
court or made an effort to look nice at court.
I think it might be though, the most obvious case
of a makeover. Keep an eye on that.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
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Speaker 2 (53:10):
Hither You're right, the glow up in the court case
is insane. It's why I've been following it. The Maori Party, now,
the Marti Party, I was surprised to read, has once
again failed to file its financial statements it was supposed to.
It hasn't filed its financial statements for twenty twenty three
at all, and now it's supposed to have filed its

(53:30):
financial statements for twenty twenty four, and they would do
more than two weeks ago and they haven't arrived. Now
the Marty Party saying that they're going to file the
statements betweenty twenty three. When they filed the statements for
twenty twenty four. We'll see if that happens. Police have
already had a chat to them about the twenty twenty
three statements. So anyway, we'll talk to Jenny and Mark
about that when they are with us after eight o'clock,
just really briefly. By the way, it's twenty two away

(53:51):
from eight on That news, very sad news that the
three people in Wyoku died when the car rolled. It's
now it's understood that it's a mum and two kids,
so I think you can probably draw the conclusion. And
it was half as threeish in the afternoon. You could
draw the conclusion after school run and stuff terrible, and
what appears to have happened is that the car has
hit some sort of a culvid type thing, rolled and

(54:12):
then ended up in the mud. And the first person
there to help somewhere down the road, something like a
mechanic or something it ran over, just couldn't get the
doors open because it was that far in the mud.
I don't I'm not saying that this would have helped,
But can I give you a tip because it made
me think, geez, I did this, and I need to
tell people to do this. Buy a life hammer for

(54:33):
your car. Go and get a life hammer for your car. Now,
if you haven't heard of one of these things, what
a life hammer is is it's basically got a little
pointy bit so you can smash the window, and then
it's got a little cutty bit so you can cut
the seatbelts. Because I don't know if you know this,
but in modern cars, and I think it's anything after
two thousand and five, if you try to smash the
window of your car, you will not be able to
smash the window of your car. You can use your elbows,

(54:54):
you can try as hard, you can try kicking it.
It's not going to work. You need something like a hammer,
which is why you buy one of these little hammers.
You stay them in the center console or the glove
box or something where the kids aren't going to find
it and do it for you and you're not expecting it,
so put it somewhere. But then also as well as that,
it's got a little cutty thing for your seat belt,
because I don't know if you know this, but the
seat belts are fantastic at saving your life and a crash,
and then they keep you there and you cannot get

(55:15):
out of that seat buckers and jams, so you want
to be and who wants to be trying to get
kids out of booster seats and stuff. So you need
the little cutty thing. You cut yourself free, you cut
your kids free. Get everybody ready, smash the windows and
out the car and listen. Every rescue person that I
ever speak to about this and say have you got
a RISKU your hammer in the car, they say they've
got a life hammer in the car, so go. And

(55:35):
I bought three the other day. It would just occurred
to me in the middle of the night. It's like, oh,
I need life hammer. I bought one for one car,
one for the other car, and one for my mum
because I love her. Ate away from eight.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
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Bailey's Real Estate News Dogs they'd be hither.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
My dad bought the emergency hammer tool when my sister
and I started driving. Never had to use it, but
got to have it A six away from eight now.
Key we Rail has banned around two and a half
thousand of its workers from using sleeping pills or melatonin.
This is an advance of all of us being able
to buy the melatonin over the counter soon. They say
workers in safety sensitive roles will be stood down if
they found using it. Paul Javi is EMA's workplace safety

(56:14):
manager and with us Morning, Paul Good. Do you think
this is necessary?

Speaker 23 (56:20):
Look, I think there's competing issues here. One is there's
the imploment relations side of thing, and that there's also
the health and safety aspect. So the health to safety
aspect obviously is to provide a safe workplace and that's
for the employees and the public. In case of q
Rail and from the from the era side of the
implement relations side, employees need to be able to a

(56:43):
team work or front to work in a fit, running
enable state. So that's that's the kind of ground rules.
So in terms of taking melatonin, I mean, it's been
around for a long time, it's been prescribed by GPS
for a long long time. Mid safe are quite risk averse,
so for them to release it from a from a
GP's prescription into public over over counter by interpretation would

(57:08):
mean that they are seeing it as being kind of safe.
I guess the real question is is understanding what maltonin is.
So meltonin isn't a sedative, it's a hormone. It's a
hormone which is what your body produces. And so the

(57:28):
hormone meltonin is secreted when it goes dark to help
you get to sleep. And that's where the problem arises
because if your shift workers in the start, that's when
you're spoically be waking up and going to work. So
so they have to sleep during the day, which is
the opposite of.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Look, I can understand that there may be some concerns
about somebody with a zoplocone hangover coming in. You know
that stuff is pretty potent if you've seen it hit someone,
But surely, surely it is better that that a shift
worker gets a good, good amount of sleep before they
can to work, rather than coming to work sleep deprived.

Speaker 23 (58:03):
Well, absolutely, it means you die if you don't get
no sleep, and sleep deprivation is probably worse than feeling
a bit bit groggy. But maltona, and if you have
have it in the kind of prescribed doses, there's only
in your body for four or five hours, So if
you're seven for eight, it's probably gone the time you
wake up. I mean, there's always going to be veriability

(58:23):
within the population. That's absolutely vital.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
We all know that.

Speaker 23 (58:27):
But other other medications can make your drastic, things like antistamines, antidepressants,
pain pain reliefs, blood pressure pills, they can also make
you go. So it's really about trying to understand all
what it is about maltona and keep rail that they
come to this choice.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Very good. Well, I think we're all a little bit
confused by it. Don't we pull this and we're gonna
have to leave it there. Thanks mate, I do appreciate
It's Paul javi Ema, workplace safety manager. Don't tell key
we rail about what the person did at the hospital.
The other day with the cannabis cake, because jeez, if
you want to fall asleep, just hand it and your
hand your colleagues a chocolate cake. Don't tell them there's
cannabis and that, and then we've got real trouble anyway. Politics,

(59:07):
w oh, we so many texts about where you can
buy the life hammer. Listen, go to any of your
like car shops, you know, like a rip cl something
like that. They'll have it there. And also you can
pull out your head rests and you can use the
point of it's your headdress to get out. But hey,
are you gonna get out of the seat belt? You
still need the cutting thing. Okay, get one of those things.
Save your life. Politics Wednesday next.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
Yes, we can dance. We can dance on that.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
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Speaker 2 (59:44):
Head be took f to get Dark to the summer
Skys Finisters. This is Alo Darling told me I've been
looking time. If you if you a fan of Alo Darling,
you'll be like, what is this? Because yes, they broke
up in twenty sixteen, and then they became friends with

(01:00:05):
each other again during COVID started having some zoom calls,
as you do when you're like, oh, what am I
going to do to fill my time? I'll talk to
my friend I haven't seen for ages ago I used
to be in a band with. And so then they
decided to reunite. In twenty twenty three, announced a pair
of UK shows. They sold out in minutes and as
a result, they decided, let's do another album, first one
in eleven years. Bright Nights, It's quite nice. Politics Wednesday,

(01:00:29):
Mark Mitchell, Ginny Anderson with us.

Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
Hello you two, Good morning birthday to Junie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Happy birthday, Jenny.

Speaker 24 (01:00:37):
Thank you, goog five, thank you but scary a yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Have you got a celebration planned?

Speaker 24 (01:00:44):
Well, I'm very lucky. I've got al Malad out of
Parliament tonight. So I'm going with my mom and my
dad and my husband and kids. Two local restaurant and
Patoni for a nice family dinner Rouchie, very nice Indian
place for dinner. But then I'm having a bit of
a birthday besh with mate at the but Toni Rugby
club rooms over the weekends.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Nice no kids allowed of that one.

Speaker 24 (01:01:05):
I suppose, oh my kids will make it in the air,
but probably it'd be more adult to that one. That
will be a couple of years in a band, so
we have a bit of a dance, so a fun
night hopefully.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
I've been told I've been told by somebody on the
text I'm not allowed to tell you that you look
awesome at fifty.

Speaker 24 (01:01:22):
N thank you very much, audience.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
They told me because I said she is a hot babe,
and they said, don't tell Jinny that she is a
hot babe. That's not a nice thing to do to
a woman. But I feel like it is Jenny that'll
fill your cap. I'm fine with that, totally okay with
that now much have you?

Speaker 10 (01:01:38):
Brigade? The PC brigadees out by the way.

Speaker 13 (01:01:41):
By the way, congratulations six months. You know that is
we're celebrated.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Thank you mate.

Speaker 13 (01:01:46):
I thought Glenn has been a bit tough on it there,
but I just note that it sent a stage. I
was an event last year where he was front row
for his daughter who was a very very talented musician,
and you couldn't see a proud of day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
So like likes to pretend.

Speaker 13 (01:02:04):
Absolutely yeah, and that.

Speaker 24 (01:02:06):
First six months is the hardest. Often it's when that's
not getting sleep and that sort of stuff. So I
think that's a good milestone to get, oh Sam says.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Oh Sam Sam says, is it a thing to celebrate
the fact that his dog Storm has made it to
sixteen weeks?

Speaker 10 (01:02:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:02:22):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah, it's absolutely sixteen weeks to Storm.
And by the way, let's not forget Barry. Barry's doing
his peak on this as well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Berry's doing everything. When you were talking about it was
eugen he just said something about lack of sleep. I
was like, no, I don't know anything about that. That's
that's all maternity leave over there. They sleep in a
different room or have been. I don't know what's going
on there. Listen, Mitch, anything down to Nelson Tasman to
check out how it's going down there.

Speaker 13 (01:02:47):
Yes, I if you have been down there three times,
I've been hit very hard. Obviously, we've all seen that
they just had a rolling wall of weather even before
we sort of weather. It's the orange and reds that
had weather for weeks, and it meant that the ground
just couldn't absorb water anymore, and so, you know, messive
issues around h you know, surface flooding, but also on

(01:03:07):
top of that heavy heavy rain and.

Speaker 10 (01:03:09):
The river's breaking as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Is the slash a problem?

Speaker 13 (01:03:13):
So I have seen that there is definitely slash on
the ground. I mean, it's all relevant. I remember being
over in Gabriel, you know, Opra the day after Gabriel
came through, and there's just the slash was just mind
boggling in terms of the amount of it that.

Speaker 10 (01:03:25):
Was there and had to be dealt with.

Speaker 13 (01:03:26):
But there is definitely, without a doubt, where you've got
forest thry, you've got a bit of slash. So there
are are some issues here around cleaning up with the
slash as well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Okay, Ginny, do you reckon that? David Seymour really didn't
know that he wasn't supposed to be the one that
wrote to the un.

Speaker 24 (01:03:39):
Of course he knew that. He's aid Deputy Prime Minister.
He's been in politics a long time, so I'm sure
he was aware of that. But yeah, it's interesting that
in the regulatory standards that's two things in a week
which him and Winston are sparking on. So it'll be
interesting to see what the actual letter that gets officially
seent looks like and how is it different.

Speaker 13 (01:03:58):
Yeah, so it should be great, a great letter.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
What makes you so confident?

Speaker 24 (01:04:03):
Match, Well, I have a picture from David David and
this is my picture how you should deal with.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
That's why are you so confident it's going to be.

Speaker 13 (01:04:15):
I've had my own personal experiences with the UN and
so I'm probably not the best person to talk about that.
When I was overseas in the Middle East for ten years,
often the UN would call up and so we need
some help. And it's because they hadn't had the focus
in the right areas, for example Mogadishu when they had
frustrated cargo there. So I'm not I'm not going to
get into the detail on it. I just think that

(01:04:37):
the Foreign Minister is definitely the right person to respond.
He will respond to the Deputy Prome Minister has got
his own clear views onored as well, and I'm sure
the letter will reflect.

Speaker 22 (01:04:48):
All of that.

Speaker 24 (01:04:49):
Christopher likes and Lister Rain the man though he's the
prime minister, he should sort this out. These guys are
making him, are they.

Speaker 10 (01:04:56):
Not at all?

Speaker 18 (01:04:57):
Not at all?

Speaker 13 (01:04:58):
Well, the opposite, you know, like.

Speaker 24 (01:05:00):
The government, if a cabinet minister was writing official blitters
without being signed off and agreed to by Cabnet. It's
pretty serious. It seems like they get away with a
whole lot more than others would matched.

Speaker 13 (01:05:14):
I completely totally refute. I think that you've got three
outstanding leaders. You look at them, know they're not at all,
not at all in this government is actually I love
with your discoverment. This is the second second go round
for me, and we've got great relations through all of
the parties. We're all focused on what we need to
be doing and delivering for the country, and you've got

(01:05:34):
three passionate, smart leaders that are working together to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Match.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
I think Ginny's got a point here. I mean, we
can all see why David. It doesn't take a rocket
scientist to figure out that he wrote the letter because
he wanted to be able to be seen to be
the one giving the una well deserved slap down. But
that and that's fine when you're in opposition, but when
you're actually in government, it does start to look a
little bit like the thing is not well. I don't know,
it's a little ill disciplined, don't you think well, I.

Speaker 13 (01:05:59):
Think that I'm not going to speculate at all in
terms of what David has written and what he's putting forward.
But obviously there was a it was decided I was
in that cabinet this week, but it was there was
a discussion. It was decided that Winston, rightly so, is
the one that received the letter. He is the Foreign
Minister and he'll respond to it. And it's as simple
as that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Has he got a point though, Ginny has David actually
got a point that they need to pull their head
and if they don't know what they're talking about.

Speaker 24 (01:06:23):
Well, the point if that when I was in Keebnet,
if another minister had written a letter in someone else's
area and sent it, there would be hell to pay
for it. There's a serious problem, Like there would be
discipline happening within Keebnet if that had could and there
would be talks worth the PM or chief of staff
because that's breaking discipline. And it seems like there's a
whole new set of rules that had just apply to
Winston and David.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
It's very hard to have the same it's very hard
to have the same set of rules if you're dealing
with different parties. Right, guys, let's take a quick break.
We'll come back in just to tickets fourteen past eight.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
It be seventeen past that You're back with Mark Mitchell,
Jinny Anderson. Jinny. Are you going to win the by election?

Speaker 24 (01:07:06):
We're aiming to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Yeah, we're doing everything that's not that doesn't sound confident.
Are you going to win it?

Speaker 10 (01:07:12):
Yes? We are.

Speaker 24 (01:07:13):
I mean, you don't want to be too light cocky,
you know, I don't think he's like being like but
you know, Penny is an excellent candidate. He is, He's
had a lot of experience, he's a strong campaigner, he's
excellent speaking to a room full of people. So look,
I have a lot of confidence that he's the right
guy to do it. And it's going to be really exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
I mean, Mitch, I know you don't want to back
either of these horses because they're not your horse, But
what do you reckon? Who do you reckon? Is actually
going to take this out?

Speaker 13 (01:07:41):
I mean, on mates with Penny and it being for
a while, so you know, I just think it'll be
an interesting competition. I think, you know, at the moment,
the thing they should be focused on is getting their
audits and and getting their fears of order. Well you're
in labor as well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Oh yeah, labor.

Speaker 13 (01:08:03):
How do you focus on that?

Speaker 24 (01:08:05):
I think we did get ours in. It's just the
uderitor thing, the next thing which is coming.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Yeah, what happened to what happened to the orders report?

Speaker 24 (01:08:12):
I understand that there is a new system in place,
and so that's helpings up a bit. But it's what
they've discussed it with with the Electoral Commission and these
agreement there to get it. It's not that thinks not.
I think Nationals also had some issues that your Mark
I think, I.

Speaker 10 (01:08:30):
Think is pretty good.

Speaker 13 (01:08:31):
But if you want to go in the country, you've
got to go in yourself first.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Now, now, Jenny, it's your birthday, so I don't want
it to start. You know, I want to go too hard.

Speaker 24 (01:08:39):
Do I get free hits on Mark because.

Speaker 10 (01:08:43):
It is a birthday? Is true?

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
I already let you get away with not answering the
U N question. Are you going to back up? You're
going to back up what National has done here?

Speaker 24 (01:08:53):
No, say that game?

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
What are you going to back up what you just
said about National that they've had some issues.

Speaker 24 (01:08:59):
Yeah, I was going to find it, but I'm on
my phone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
But I have had GPT while you're talking to you
can come out.

Speaker 13 (01:09:07):
You can't come out and say, hey you got this
is not actually have the facts that you or no
talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
We'll away with it, okay, yeah, what it is.

Speaker 24 (01:09:19):
I'll give you the link later here there is also.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Okay, I will when you flick me the link, I
will make sure that I tell everybody who now wants
to know about this. Do you know to you, Mitch,
listen what happened to the satellite? Because Judith has been
weird about it?

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Did you know?

Speaker 10 (01:09:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:09:41):
I probably don't about as much as you. They lost
contact with What I do understand though, is that it's
says she been. There has been benefits of the country,
without doubt, in terms of the amount of data it's
been collected, and there's also investment into Auckland University to
make sure that they've got their own control set to
now that's able to monitor the a satellite that is
up there. So there were definitely some upsides and benefits

(01:10:01):
to it. But yeah, I mean, all I know is
that they've lost contact with it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
So like, what Jenny, why is she being weird about it?
I didn't I wouldn't have even cared about this, but
then when she got weird about it, and now I
care about it.

Speaker 24 (01:10:11):
Well, what's even weird is when they ask Chris for
lux and he said, labor did it like we were
up in space and kind of kicked it or something.

Speaker 13 (01:10:20):
That's a good idea we could space.

Speaker 12 (01:10:22):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 24 (01:10:25):
Yes, we funded it, Yes we funded it, but it
was launched in that under under this government. But it's
not an area where you need to blame people. I mean,
we know space is a high risk environment, but it's
really important that we can capture any lessons learned and
openly and honestly and say you know, okay, this went wrong,
let's not do it again. But that's an area we
want to do some more investigations. And so I don't

(01:10:46):
understand why Judith, because she's really excited about being the
Minister for Space and talking that out and this is
something that people want to know a bit more about.
So I don't understand why she's not responding.

Speaker 13 (01:10:55):
To Well, I think she has she has responded. I
think the point that she made is it was signed up.
This was a labor satellite, so maybe it started off
somewhere to fix its orders and.

Speaker 10 (01:11:05):
Get it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Before you go. So tell me. So you weren't in
cabinet on Monday, Mitch, but did anybody tell you about
the massive showdown between Shane Jones and Tama Pawtucker over
the lizards?

Speaker 17 (01:11:20):
The lizards?

Speaker 24 (01:11:20):
Yeah, what's a goss tell us, no, not at all.

Speaker 13 (01:11:25):
Are they work really well together, those guys, But yeah, absolutely,
And I think it's landed in a pretty good place,
hasn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Okay, Well, yeah, well there was a showdown anyway.

Speaker 13 (01:11:34):
Look, I mean, look, I'll tell you Change Change trying
to fix the economic vandalism that was done by the
previous government.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
And that's a hard job. But he's definitely getting there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Well, the doc's doing a pretty good job of it. Okay. Anyway,
So Genny, you're gonna go away. You're gonna get me
the link about what National has done. Mitch, you go
away that call the other members of cabinet, find out
what happened at the showdown, and give me a tinkle
and then we can talk about it. Eight twenty two, Politics, Wednesday,
Go well, you guys, Mark Mitchell, Ginny Anderson.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Heather Duper c Allen on the Mic asking Breakfast with
Vida Retirement Communities News togs Head.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Be Jinny has come through. She has sent me the thing.
It's a business desk account business desk story that points
out that National did submit its auditor accounts for twenty
twenty four to the Electoral Commission, but the auditor BDO
has had to attach a note saying it could not
verify the completeness of the two point two million dollars
that was raised in fundraising donations and party donations and

(01:12:28):
so on and so on. Just can't be absolutely clear
if everything recorded as being raised at things like those
fundraisers was the full amount actually raised. However, as the
article points out, what they did was far less egregious
than what the other side did, which is no auditors
report from Labor and then just absolutely crickets from the
Maori Party. Anyway, good from Ginny. She does what she

(01:12:51):
says she's going to do. Over in Australia, listen, there
are more allegations against Mark Latham, who's the former One
Nation MP. This is from his ex girlfriend. She's now
accused him of driving his car at her with his
side mirror, hitting her and causing a bruise. Hopefully, talk
to Steve Price about it when he's with us.

Speaker 20 (01:13:08):
Sure Woods, isn't it sort of scenario?

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
It's pretty Gram twenty six now told you I needed
to run you through the detail with what's gone on
in the UK's absolute balls up there with the data breach.
So it's been revealed that Britain has now offered asylum secretly.
This is the important thing, secretly to about twenty four
thousand Afghan soldiers in their families. That is a huge number, right,
And the reason they did that is because of one

(01:13:31):
of the most serious breaches, if not the most serious
data breach in history. They've kept it a secret for years.
It happened in February twenty twenty two. A Royal Marine
sent an email to a group of Afghans and he
attached a spreadsheet accidentally that I think that spreadsheet named
twenty five thousand Afghans who were applying for asylum because
they had worked with the British Army and stuff, and

(01:13:51):
if their names got out, the Taliban would come for them.

Speaker 23 (01:13:53):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
A year later, somebody on Facebook anonymously starts posting extracts
of the data. The Ministry of Defense and the UK
flips out starts getting in touch with Facebook, tries to
get it deleted. They get it deleted after three days.
But now they need to do something about this. They
try to keep it a secret. They've been fighting in
courts for two years to hide the leak. They've got
a superinjunction that has just been lifted. Now we find

(01:14:15):
out they're going to offer asylum to twenty four thousand
of these Afghan soldiers. It's going to cost them seven
billion pounds. News is next.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
The only report you need to start your day. Heather
duper c Allen on the mic, asking Breakfast with a Vida,
Retirement Communities, Life your Way News, togs Head b How.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Did the Poms get the list of twenty four thousand
Afghan soldiers in the first place, Well, because they were
the Afghan soldiers actually helping the Poms against the tully Bun.
By the way, the tully Bun's already come out and said,
oh no, already had that that stuff. Have had that
list for years, going around trying to kill people. That's
what they've said. So you can understand why all of
a sudden they are really wanting to very quickly get

(01:15:02):
those people out of Afghanistan. Listen, we've got to talk.
There's a coronial inquiry going on at the moment into
the death of that little five year old boy. We'll
talk about it shortly. It's twenty two away from nine.

Speaker 15 (01:15:11):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand business.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
With US out of Australia. We have Steve Price.

Speaker 18 (01:15:19):
Hi, Steve, Nice to talk to you again, Heather.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
So Albanesi's in China and they've got talking about the
military action, have they all?

Speaker 16 (01:15:27):
I have?

Speaker 18 (01:15:27):
It's the fourth visit he's made there. I mean, just
to put this in some sort of context, Anthony Albanize
has been unable to get a one on one place
to place meeting with Donald Trump. He's had four meetings
with Jijimping and there's a lot of people in Washington
who are not particularly happy about that because you have
the hole issue over what would happen if China decided
to invade Taiwan. America is the Australia's greatest ally. The

(01:15:51):
Americans have said they would militarily respond and they would
expect the ally Australia to do so. And that's put
Anthony Albanese in a very stick position. He was in
the Great Hall of the People on Tuesday, and the
Australians reporting this morning that unusually, he and his fiance
Jerdy Hayden were then invited hither to go to a

(01:16:12):
lunch inside the Great Hall. That doesn't happen to everyone
who's come visiting. On the issue of those live fire drills. Now,
he might recall, these happened between Australia and New Zealand.
A naval ship from China completely circumnavigated Australia and they
started live fire exercises the Chinese midway between your country

(01:16:34):
and ours, and we didn't know about it. Anthony albniz
He said, oh, well, you know it's normal. They let
us know. They said they might do live fire. Well,
the only reason anyone found out about it was a
Virgin pilot flying from New Zealand to Sydney actually saw
this happen and had the radio HQ to tell them,
which seemed very odd. Anyway, it was brought up by

(01:16:56):
Anthony Albanizian. He asked you what was going on there?
In response, President g said, look, China engages in exercises
in international waters, just like Australia engages in those sorts
of exercises and we will do it anywhere we want
in the world, in international waters. So that didn't happen.
That didn't help too much. The other issues brought up

(01:17:19):
were trade. They want China wants to expand free trade
of Australia. Also the ownership of the Port of Darwin,
which some years ago was leased to a Chinese company.
Labor would like to get that back. That's not been
resolved either. There's an Australian in jail up there accused
of sparring. That doesn't seem to have been fixed up either.
But as you know, they're with these things. What always

(01:17:40):
happens is it's the diplomats and the background and what
they sought out that really in the end, we'll find
out in a few weeks time whether anything was really achieved.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
I imagine the biggest news of the day with you
guys is going to be the fact that the Outback
killer is dead.

Speaker 18 (01:17:54):
Yeah, Bradley John Murdock. This was the murder of Peter Falconio.
Now Murdoch was sixty seven. He'd been transferred in prison
to palliadic care. He died in Alice Springs Hospital. Now
he was serving a lengthy jail sentence for the murder
of Falconio twenty eight Now, Peter Falconio's body has never
been found. A few days ago and he was British.

(01:18:15):
He was here, of course, with Joe and Leeds's girlfriend
made world news at the time. She escaped, hid behind
some bushes, terrifying for her. Falconio tried to find her
with a torchlight and eventually gave up and drove away.
She was then rescued. Sadly, Falconio's father in the last
couple of weeks has asked whether Murdoch would tell him

(01:18:37):
where the remains of his son was. Murdoch has always
refused to do that. He maintained his innocence, but he's
now died in jail. The mystery now never ever be solved.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
How much trouble do you reckon Mark lathamism.

Speaker 18 (01:18:51):
Well, he's denied all of these allegations from a former girlfriend.
Let's just put that on the table right now now.
Mark Latham is a controversial figure. Tried to sue me
once because I referred to something that happened at his
Bucks party that she denied. He's now been had police
orders against him over domestic violence by a former partner.

(01:19:12):
This story was broken by The Australian yesterday. There's some
follow ups today. She's made a series of allegations. Natalie
Matthews is her name, to report it this morning that
at one point Latham had asked her to marry him.
I won't go into the full details because of the
time of the day we are speaking, but it did
refer to incidents where Latham had thrown plates at this

(01:19:34):
young woman, had been physically aggressive, plus had been psychologically demanding,
saying that she call him master. And there was other
acts that we won't go into. She's gone back to
police again in the last twenty four hours. She's alleged
physical violence, pushing up against the wall, forcing me out
of door, as I said, throwing plates. So it's now

(01:19:57):
going to be in the hands of the police whether
they issue that order for Latham to keep away from her.
Latham again, as I said, has denied it, or we'll
see where it goes. But it's pretty ugly.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
It really is ugly. Steve Enjoy your day, Steve Price,
Australia correspondent. Involves poop. You can go and read about
it yourself. Now somebody has got their hands on unreleased
Beyond Say music. Hard to know whether that they may
not even know that they've got it, but they do.
What happened is last week, July the eighth, she and
her crew were turned up in Atlanta because they're doing

(01:20:28):
some shows there, and as a couple of days before
her first show in Atlanta, there was a theft from
a vehicle. It was a jeep Wagoneer driven by her
choreographer and one of her dances. They parked up outside
of food hall, gone inside, obviously had a bit of
a snack or something. When they came back, the vehicle's
rear window had been smashed and two suitcases were missing. Inside.
The suitcases were heard drives on the heart. Drives were

(01:20:51):
unreleased Beyond Say songs and also show plans and passed
in future set lists for her tour and some footage
plans and stuff like that. But the most important thing
is there is music on there from Beyonce. I ain't
nobody heard yet, and she's quite she's quite private about
the stuff and really guards her stuff really really tightly,
as you can well imagine. Anyway, the cops then used

(01:21:13):
and this is important. Inside the bags were designer clothes,
a laptop and Apple airport pods, and the cops used
the laptop and the Apple air pods. This it's got
like a tracking thing on it, you know, like find
my phone type stuff. Use that found out where the
stuff is. They've should an arrest warrant. They won't say
who the suspect is, but by the looks of things,
they know who's got the music, even if the person
who's got the music doesn't realize they've got the music.

(01:21:35):
Sixteen away from nine The Mic.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Hey, before you get too excited about the West Indies,
because the West Indies is the only thing that you
can get excited about in this upcoming cricket season, because
it's the only test that the Black Apps are going
to be playing.

Speaker 10 (01:21:55):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Before you get too excited, just just if you haven't
caught up on it. They did get Bold Australia for
twenty seven yesterday, so maybe just temper the excitement. Twelve
away from nine. Now, this is very important, especially if
you care about the fact that we seem to have
inexplicable problem with adults killing kids in this country. This

(01:22:16):
is very important. The coronial inquest that's going on at
the moment into the death of Malachi shue Besh. Now,
I'm not going to give you any detail here because frankly,
it is just too upsetting. I don't know about you,
but I don't want anybody telling me this stuff unless
I go and read it myself, because I have to
almost mentally prepare myself for it. And even then, when

(01:22:37):
I read it for your sake, I read it, I
still found it incredibly difficult, and I find myself constantly
wanting to cry about this, if not actually crying that
that people can be so cruel to children. And this
is particularly hard because this boy is five and loved
police officers, and my boys three and a half and
loved police officers, and I just can't imagine anybody would
do it. But anyway, this particular coronial inquest is very

(01:23:00):
because I think it is probably the worst case that
I have seen of ortung A Tamidiki aka Siff's being
really crap at its job. Because the job of ordoon
A Timideke is to look after kids, and so we're
supposed to report to them. They were worried about this
kid and then they're supposed to look after that kid.
They didn't do that. They knew there was something wrong
because they were warned about this, and they didn't do
anyth What happened was some years ago, Malachi's mom went

(01:23:23):
to jail and dad doesn't seem to have been much
on the scene, so she puts Malachi with her friend
and in the care of her friend, he is tortured
and he dies. His cousin was worried about the situation.
She knew something was wrong, so she told ortung A Tamidiki, please,
you've I'm desperately worried about this boy. You've got to
do something, she told She raised the alarm ten times

(01:23:46):
in three days. The doctor who saw him at Starship
when it was really too late, said it was pretty
clear that he had been quite significantly abused, and somehow
this was missed by orton Atamidiki. The doctor said, it
is not a normal that it is missed by an
agency like audo Atomatic or Atomatically will routinely look at
child abuse and then make an assessment without any advice

(01:24:08):
from doctors who know what they're talking about. Ot will
look at it and go hmm, no, it's all good,
nothing to see here, and the police apparently do that
as well. And the doctor is sounds incredibly frustrated about
that and would like them to actually take the advice
of medical professionals who would be able to go, know
that's something you should worry about, go and do something
about it. Anyway, this inquest is important because coronial in

(01:24:31):
quests my preferred form of an inquest. They just they
cut through the bs, they get to the chase. They
don't dick around with stuff. They'll tell you if something
bad is happening here, and they will propose changes. And
from what I've seen, OT is too often involved, by
the way, when a kid dies, OT already knows about it.
They need to be sorted out. And I want to
know what this coroner has got to.

Speaker 19 (01:24:49):
Say about it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
So keep an eye on that. Ten away from nine.

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do hey, I've got to tell you that. Listen, if
you're in christ Church at eleven today and you're thinking

(01:26:02):
what am I going to do with my day, I've
got something for you. The Taxpayers Union are going to
be holding a little little protest. Regardless of what you
think about these people, their's political stunts are quite funny,
aren't they. What they've done is they've got themselves a
giant truck. It's massive, and the truck they've taken it
to the convention I think it's the Convention Center in
christ Church. They're having a local government New Zealand conference

(01:26:22):
and the truck is just whoops, broken down outside. But
the problem with it is on the side of the truck, well,
not the problem, problem for the local government politicians, not
a problem for the rest of us. On the side
of the truck, it says cap rates now and then
it's got the faces of the mayors with the highest
rates in the country, and how much they're putting your
rates up by, like Fakatane twelve percent, Central Otago twelve

(01:26:44):
and a half, Westland thirteen, Tatanuky thirteen, Hastings fifteen, Hamilton
fifteen and a half, in all little mayor's faces and stuff,
just to embarrass them. Anyway. They said to me they
would give me a chocolate fish if I told you
about the protest. I said, I don't need a chocolate fish.
I'm going to tell you about the protest anyway, because
there's few things in the country that wind me up
as much as a local government politician at the moment,

(01:27:06):
and the rates going up, so I will be very happy.
The more people who turn up to protest, the happier
I will be at about eleven o'clock today. So yeah,
never mind the chocolate, Never mind the chocolate fish.

Speaker 23 (01:27:17):
Can I have it?

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Send it to Glenn five away from nine.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Hattier think things are going for Ray Chung now after
his scandal that he calls a political attack that all
of US media are willingly involved in. He has kept
campaigning and he had a campaign rally last night where
things got a little out of control. Wow, that wasn't

(01:27:56):
even the worst of it. A woman then allegedly had
a drink pulled on her because she asked Ray about
his stance on Israel, and then the chairs literally got
picked up and swung about. Wow. I mean, look, I

(01:28:29):
don't know why you wouldn't want to protest local government
because look at it, it's just a winner. Hey, heads up,
Macribb's back in New Zealand. I'm told by saying I don't,
I don't. I can't remember the last time I've been
to McDonald's. It's not because I'm a snob. I love McDonald's.
It's just because I don't know. I don't know what happened.
I'm busy, But apparently macrub is the thing that everybody's
talking about, and they're just going to be absolutely fizzing

(01:28:50):
for the fact that the mcribb is back, and I'm
looking at a picture of it and I'm thinking, I
really want one right now.

Speaker 20 (01:28:56):
What good news for you is they have this thing
called drive through where you can literally, I know, it
sounds crazy that you could drive your cab sort of
past the restaurant and they'll throw food at you into
the car.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Starting to quickly formulate a plan for how my morning's
going to shape up. We're gonna get you know what
I'm gonna do, I'm again rib and then sit down
to watch the live stream at eleven. How about that
you have a lovely morning. See tomorrow.

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