Full Show Podcast: 24 January 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Zealand's home for trusted news and views.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Ryan Bridge on the Mike Hosking Breakfast with the Range
Rover vi La designed to intrigue and use.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Tom Sedb.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Good morning, it is seven after six. Welcome to your Friday.
The State of Mining Shane Jones on the show, Where
are we going to Drill, Baby Drill? Why foreign investors
don't give us their money? The Winter Game's being canceled.
Richard and Arnold is in the US for us in
Murray Olds.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
In Australia, Bryan Bridge.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
The Jandles were a dead giveaway and yesterday's Battle of
the Leaders if you took notice. Can you take a
guy seriously who turns up to his first major political
event of the year wearing jandles and khaki shorts? Seriously?
Hepkins didn't just arrive in jandles, he wore them during
his speech while his MPs were munching on club sandwiches

(00:50):
in the Distinction Hotel in Pami. I know it might
not seem important, but people do pay attention to this
kind of stuff, and after two years of recession, turning
up looking like you're still on holiday hardly inspires confidence
that you might be working hard to dig us out
of a hole in Auckland. Meanwhile, suited up, tie straightened,

(01:12):
shirt ironed, standing in front of two New Zealand flags,
delivering a State of the Nation's speech with our forty
second Prime minister. Not only did Luxon turn up with shoes,
but a plan to mine for minerals to help grow
us out of dodge.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
We're gonna we're gonna say yes to stuff, and I
appreciate that won't be everyone's cup of teap. I appreciate
people will have different views on that, but we're not
here to debate and discuss anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
We're here to get things done to grow the country.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Sounds quite good to me. Back in the Parmy Sunshine.
Squinting into the sunship, he was asked what his plan
was for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Our focus this year will be very much getting match
fit and ready for the next election campaign, which will
be next year.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Okay, you did just hear that correctly. Jandle's plan is
to come up with a plan for next year because
next year is an election year. Come on, bro and
other bad news. He still hasn't quite caught up with
a public mood on government spending and value for money,
while national's reorganizing spending on science to get better results
from a system that's clearly broken and not actually getting outcomes.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hickson says this, well, Ultimately, if you want more and
more better outcomes from the science sector, you've got to
invest more in the science sector.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Spend more, get more. Same goes for health, same goes
for pretty much any ministry that you ask them about.
Spend more money and the problem will be fixed. The
problem for him is that we all know that it won't.
They tried, that they couldn't deliver, and now we're up
shite creek. It's like pouring water into a bucket with
a hole at the bottom of it. So there was
day one of the political year for two leaders in

(02:41):
stark contrast, one with a plan, the other a pair
of jandles.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
News of the world in ninety seconds.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Quan Youw's still coming from Donald Trump's White House. First,
he's given his first television interview as president to Fox News,
listen to Hannity, and he's got a new country to
blame for the imgran crisis.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
These are countries from this Brands to Congo, the countries
that you don't even think of the Congo as emptying
their prisons out into the United States.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
The Congo didn't see that coming. Meanwhile, Russia says it's
ready for respectful dialogue. This after Trump threatened tariffs and
sanctions unless the war was ended. But there is some
skepticism about whether the fighting will actually come to an
end anytime soon.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
Chances are it's not going to draw to the negotiating
table in the near term. It might, it might work
over time, but probably not to help Trump me his
deadline of six months to achieve.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
An agreement in Syria. They're really hoping that Trump's going
to lift the sanctions soon. This after the Bashah al
Assad removal from office. The sanctions.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
Now it's turned into against the Citem people removing sanctions.
It's the key actor and the key to development vision
and also the key for the new rights for the city.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
We're hearing more from the January sixth rioters who Trump
has pardoned. The founder of Oath Keepers is still bitter.

Speaker 8 (04:01):
Multiple judges ascribed the DC people as the victim of
January sixth, and yet they insisted on pulling the jury
from that pool of people. The alleged are the victims,
very much as if you were accused of robbing a shop,
and then you have the people who worked in the
shop or were in the shop that day on the jury.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Remember Trump's promised to put astronauts on Mars during his
inauguration speech. You can probably not forget that. Now it
may not be as ridiculous as it seems.

Speaker 9 (04:26):
SpaceX is going to start standing starship rockets to Mars
in twenty twenty six. This is an opportunity to be
a force multiplier with what SpaceX is doing and allow
NASA and the US government to take advantage something that
SpaceX is already planning to do.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
To Britain with I've given a proper sentence to the
Southport Keller. He'll spend at least the next fifty two
years in prison. There's still questions over why he wasn't
charged as a terrorist.

Speaker 10 (04:49):
Though the individuals must have an ideological religious, racial view,
rut of Cabana has never ever been found to have
that particular element.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Finally, researchers have found the natural ozempic. Scientists from the
University of Virginia have found that high intensity exercise surprise
surprise like a spin class, may be an effective way
of suppressing the hunger hormone grellin, which is in the body.
That's the exact same hormone that ozepic targets. If you
thought a little bit of exercise may help, you'd be wrong,

(05:27):
as the research found that moderate exercise lead to increase
levels of grellin, so you actually get hungrier. So what
you have to go really really hard in order to
lose some weight. Is this shocking? Did we need a
study to tell us this? Honestly? It is twelve minutes
after six Business Next News TALKSB, the.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
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Speaker 3 (05:55):
Quarter past six, some thirty three thousand beneficiaries have had
their benefits canceled. They've moved into work over the past
five months. This is to December, and the government is
crying about this. Of course. However, the number of people
on a job seeker benefit is going up. It was
two hundred and thirteen thousand in December, up from one
hundred and ninety thousand in December twenty twenty three, So

(06:15):
the number's gone up. That's about a twelve percent increase.
They have seen some success though in moving those jobs
seekers into work. Christine Ranking with us on this after
six point thirty and it's time for business. Greg Smith,
Devon Funds Managements with us this morning, Greg, good morning morning.
Is you Ryan Kiwi's leaving in droves? This is the

(06:36):
new net migration figures. They're not good.

Speaker 11 (06:38):
Yeah, they're not good. Doesn't paint a great picture. So
there were one hundred and twenty seven tho eight hundred
migrant departures in the year November twenty four and that's
up twenty eight percent, highest on recording year. The sad
thing is on seventy three thousand new Zeon sitisens left
the country to go overseas during that period and guess
without a lot of them are heading fifty to six

(06:59):
percent across attestsment. I mean, this is just a serious problem.
And we've talked about this before. You know, the brain
drain appears to be accelerating a kiwis. We know they
came back on mass and COVID, but this proved to
be just a just a blip. Really, I suppose it
as a reflection the economy, you know where that's that
the labor market we've talked about that that's weakening and
basically people getting a lot more by heading across the
ditch and elsewhere. And we're also not getting the same

(07:21):
number of people moving to New Zealven overseas, so that
dropped one hundred and fifty eight thousand. It's down thirty
two percent on the same period in twenty twenty three,
and all went up to a net migration game for
the year of thirty thousand, six hundred and that is
about one hundred thousand or less than the same period
a year earlier. So you assulting the wounds is that
you fading migration tailwinds are actually a further nock to

(07:43):
our economy and actually compounding the very reason that people
aren't staying. So we really need to turn this around.
Me it was good to hear Chris Luxon obviously talk
up growth plans. Yes, stay, but as I've said, I
think the RBNS could also lend a bit more of
a helping hand and get rates down quicker, just more
positively short stay arrivals very much better. That's great news
for the tourism industry. So overseas visit arrivals they were

(08:04):
three hundred and twenty one thousand November that's up seventeen
eight hundred on November twenty twenty three, so back around
eighty six percent of pre COVID levels. And you look
at for the year three point twenty six million overseas
visit arrivals. That's up through in sixty thousand. So yeah,
at least people are staying for a good but not
a long time, it seems right.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, and still not back to pre COVID. And we've
got numbers globally on where the world is at back
to pre COVID, and we'll give those to you later
in the show. Sports brands some interesting numbers. So Puma
and Addidas have had quite different fortunes this week.

Speaker 11 (08:37):
Yeah, absolutely, So the gym deck is at a record
and part of it is Jude Dydess. It's up around
seven percent this week, had a stellar result. Sales for
the quarter jump by nineteen percent six billion euros. Operating
profit for the year was up fivefold one point four
billion euros. And it's a big recovery actually for them.
And twenty twenty three they had a lot of problems.
They just cut ties with rapper Ye he used to

(08:58):
be known as Kanye West and that sort of boording
into the yeasy shoeline. But it seems it's Puma's turned
out some troubled times. These shares overnight down twenty two
percent on their sales and profit result sales ten percent,
but that was lower in the tops and expected that
profit fell a two million euros.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
So several factors explain this. Ryan.

Speaker 11 (09:20):
So Puma's got relatively new management. They've been trying to
focus on higher price soccer, basketball and running gear and
the like. They've got motor racing inspired speedcats, but they
a peed of sacrificed, I suppose their cheaper merchandise, so
there's been a bit of loss of focus there. Meanwhile,
DSA in great shape, so there's Samba soccer trains are
flying at the door. Retro is in, it seems, and

(09:42):
the switch is also really yeah. But yeah, change in fortune.
So a few years ago Puma was doing very well.
They actually had a type with jay Z, but yeah,
fortunes have changed. And coincidentally enough, it was as Puma's
CEO left Forreddy. That also comes a little bit of
a cost. You look at the chair price as Puma's
they're on the back foot. Well, Eddie years are up
fifty percent over the past year.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
What's United doing so well that American Airlines isn't.

Speaker 11 (10:08):
Yeah, see United in the US is sort of focusing
on priceier seats, So seen some contrasting fortunes here as
well as they're doing well in business class international travel.
They've got a great loyalty program as well. Meanwhile, American,
they've come out here, they've actually downgraded their outlook. Look
that the numbers actually put out overnight went to bad Quarley.

(10:29):
Revenues for American were thirteen point seven billion. They're doing
pretty well domestic nationally, but yeah, forecasts left investors wanting
a bit more. They're also suffering from higher costs, so
they put pilot wages up by forty percent in twenty
twenty three. And the other thing, I suppose they're still
recovering from a strategy where they tried to circumvent travel
agents and there's a reason.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
For that model.

Speaker 11 (10:50):
They tried to sell direct customers and that just didn't
work and actually abandoned that initiative. They reckon it's going
to cost them one point five billion dollars if you
look at revenue last year. Yeah, quite different fortunes. And
this is all sort of reflected in the share prices.
See you look at Americans are issues up about twenty
percent of the past twelve months. United's they are up
one hundred and sixty percent.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
All right, just gone twenty out to six have what
are the numbers, Greg.

Speaker 11 (11:14):
So you've got the down up again point six percent,
four fourth four zero seven sent five hundred that's up
point one percent.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
That's a new record as well.

Speaker 11 (11:22):
Sixty nine to four Naarzach, that eas a little bit
down point three percent. For one hundred up point two percent,
the Nike up point eight percent, A six two hundred
down point six percent, eight three seven eight we were
up were insidex fifty with up point two percent, thirteen
zero sixty. Kimondi's gold up at you know it's down
a couple of bucks sorry now twenty seven and fifty

(11:42):
four US dollars an ounce oil down ninety cents, seventy
four spot fifty two Trumps called out for lower all
prices that at Davos. So that seems to be coming together.
In the currency markets, key against the US dollar up
point two percent fifty six point eight and we're even
against the A dollar and also the British pound ninety
point three against ustrander in forty six even against stealing brilliant.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Thanks so much for that, Greg. It has just gone
twenty one minutes after six. I'll tell you a world
where in the world tourists are going, and we will
hear from Trump and Davos.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
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Speaker 3 (12:21):
Six twenty four. Good Morning, New Zealand's tourism may not
have returned to pre COVID levels, but the worlds has
one point four billion people traveled internationally last year. That
was ninety nine percent of the number who did the
same in twenty nineteen. So in other words, we're back.
The world is back to ninety nine percent of pre
COVID levels of travel. Where are they going? France number one,

(12:41):
most visited, one hundred million tourists, but then they had
the Olympics, they had the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral,
et cetera. Number two was Spain ninety eight million terroists
hot on their heels. Interestingly, Spain's the place where they
don't want tourists. They up their fees for people to
visit lots of they were protests. We're in Barcelona. They
were squirting people with water pistols as they tourists.

Speaker 12 (13:04):
They said, A fun note, isn't it's like going to
watching the parade and the people in the parade squirt you.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
You know, maybe that's the thing. Maybe that's what we
need to do, is like treat a mean maybe that's
not terists into like neg people into like a Karen Diner,
but that the terrorist version. You know, maybe when people.

Speaker 12 (13:20):
Essentially what we're doing by having you know, terrible toilets,
they have to pay two dollars fifty years.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
But we need to up our game, you know, when
instead of a welcome sign at the airport, we need
a big f off sign. You know, that's what they're
telling us. The numbers don't lie anyway, Our numbers this
is from yesterday, still sixteen percent down on pre COVID.
That was the peak of four million trending.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now with Kimmer Square House of your home of summer Essentials.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Everybody's getting all excited about the Oscars. After being postponed
twice due to the LA wildfires, we have the nominations
this morning. One film leading the way it's Netflix. Is
Amelia Perez taking thirteen nominations. That tells the story of
an American, sorry, a Mexican drug lord who transitions to
a woman and starts a new life. If that sounds

(14:07):
like your idea of ideal weaking in viewing, here's a taste.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Are you English?

Speaker 6 (14:14):
No?

Speaker 13 (14:14):
I'm not English?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (14:17):
Because you you are pretty too.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
There's a little clan, have a name. He desires to
remain anonymous.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
If you're not willing to accept, I don't think it's
worth talking.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Just cut to the chase. To listen is to accept.
I mean it is.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
That was a merely a perierz Christine Rankin Next.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Setting the agenda and talking the big issues. Ryan Bridge
on the Mic Hosking Breakfast with Bailey's real Estate, finding
the buyers others can't use togs Head b.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Twenty four to seven. After seven, we're looking at two
major issues from the State of the Nation's speech yesterday.
One is mining with Shane Jones. The other an expert
on foreign investment. Why isn't more foreign direct investment being
directed our way? Ireland gets plenty of Singapore gets plenty.
Why don't we on the less substantive but still interesting

(15:33):
parts of it. The Eden Park debarcle Luxon says just
open it up. And Helen Clark is obviously a neighbor,
and she's come out this morning and said to the
Herald the Prime Minister's comment is consistent with this government's
rejection of sound planning, law, policy and practice. Honestly, just move,
move houses. Why would you suffer like that if it's

(15:56):
causing you so much distress? Time somebody says, put a
console on it, ed move to gray Lynn. It's the same.
There's nice cafes, there's tree lined streets, there's other people
who you know are just like you. Why would you
stay there and suffer through this? I don't understand it.
Just move, Just move and then we can enjoy a

(16:17):
nice concert or even give them. Just move houses, for
God's sakes. Twenty two away from seven.

Speaker 14 (16:24):
Jobs, ja.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Right, we have numbers for you. Tens of thousands of
jobs seeking beneficiaries have ended up in work. New numbers
from these Social Development Minister suggest thirty three thousand have
canceled their benefits in the five months to December. Yes,
canceled and for those not pulling their weight, the Government's
up to Benefit sanctions by one hundred and twenty six percent.
This all despite the state of the job market at

(16:48):
the moment. Christine Rankin is the former WINS boss.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Good morning, Good morning ran.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
So thirty three thousand beneficiaries back into work. That's got
to be a good thing.

Speaker 15 (16:58):
How fantastic is that? And doesn't it show you when
there is an incentive. You know, at the moment, the
economy is considered really bad and there are no jobs
out there, but thirty three thousand people in six months
have gone back to work.

Speaker 16 (17:13):
How good is that?

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Problem is like you look at the numbers for December
for job's seek at two hundred and thirteen thousand versus
one hundred and ninety thousand for the December prior to that,
it's an increase of about twelve percent. You've got to
have jobs for people to go to.

Speaker 15 (17:27):
Yes, you do, but look, they focused on young people
and the reality is benefit can feel very safe when
you go on it. It's hardly anything, but it's regular.
You don't have to do anything for it. Really, Look,
there is no doubt that there. Of course there are
other people on there, but young people cannot be left
to get into that habit. So in terms of that,

(17:49):
it's an absolute win. And if they keep those expectations
in the system and that the Department's done very well,
the Minister's done very well, and people have here did
the call. But certainly no one's going to sit on
a benefit now thinking that they're just going to be
able to do that as they have before. Some of them,
I think are taking their own action before the department

(18:11):
does anything to them at all.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Further change is coming this year. You'll only get the
job seekert for six months and then you'll have to reapply.
Is that an annoying thing to do? A significant thing.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
To have to do well?

Speaker 15 (18:25):
It doesn't really matter if it's annoying or not. I mean,
this benefit is designed to help you get for a
really tough time. It is not to pay you for
the rest of your life in style. So the fact
that there are more checks and balances in the system
is really really good for the recipient. Letting them rot
on a benefit, as I always say, because that's what happens.

(18:48):
Nobody takes any interest, there are no expectations, and this
is the first government in a long time that have
had the courage to do this. I cannot believe how
quickly or how well it's worked. And yes, there are
a lot of people still on benefit, but you watch
this space, it's not going to change. There are jobs
out there in my town, there are employees employers who

(19:10):
cannot get suitable people to work.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Who are these employers? What sort of jobs are you
talking about.

Speaker 15 (19:18):
I live in a town where are tourism topal, where
tourism is key, and so there are a lot of
retail jobs and a lot of tourism jobs. But the
reality is their first step jobs, and a lot of
the people on benefit are going into those base jobs.
There are some that more complicated than that, but a
lot of them are first line jobs and they can't

(19:40):
get appropriate people to turn up every day.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's the problem is turning up, turning up and turning
up consistently.

Speaker 15 (19:47):
Absolutely, and people get out of the good habits of
work when they've been on benefit for a short period
of time. And if they ever had any confidence, ryan
they lose it. So you've got to act quickly, and
that's why this system is very positive for job seekers,
very positive.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Christine Rankin, thank you very much for your time. That's
the former Winds boss Christine Rankin and Topel for US
nineteen to seven Bryan Bridge. So Trump has zoomed into Davos. Well,
I'm sure he uses a more secure line than zoom,
but he has video conferenced his way into Davos in Switzerland,
were the world's business and political Elita meeting, and he's
told the those who are listening to him that he's

(20:27):
achieved so much already.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
What the world is witnessed in the past seventy two
hours is nothing less than a revolution of common sense.
Our country will soon be stronger, wealthier, and more united
than ever before, and the entire planet will be more
peaceful and prosperous as a result of this incredible momentum.
And what we're doing and going to do my administration

(20:50):
is acting with unprecedented speed to fix the disasters we've
inherited from a totally inept group of people, and to
solve every single christ facing our country.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Despite what you might think of him, whether you like
him or whether you hate him, whether you like his
politics or not, you cannot argue with the fact that
he has come He is a man with a plan.
He's come in with a gazillion executive orders, He's even
come in with a direction for watchdogs of public sector
agencies to say, hey, if these guys aren't doing what

(21:22):
I tell them to do, you need to crack on
and get rid of them. I mean, it's it's that
kind of detail, the minutia that he's in. So Donald Trump,
I mean, yes, he's you know, verbose, but I think
he's probably on the money on that one. Seventeen minutes
away from seven, we're in the United States with Richard
Arnold before top of the our two the.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
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Speaker 3 (21:49):
It is fourteen minutes away from seven. News Talk, said
Bee yesterday, the Prime Minister asks why aren't we more
like Singapore when it comes to foreign investment. Dave says
New Zealand is not singing and the foreign investors want
to buy houses here. They're not into larger commercial type enterprises.
We don't have enough of them. We attract small foreign
investors like the Chinese who love housing, and that moves

(22:12):
the economic dial by getting construction going. Helen Clark, who
by the way, has come out against Luckson's plan to
just let Eden Park go for it Helen Clark, he says,
is indicative of the retirement village mentality. This country is
stuck in and that's why young people are.

Speaker 17 (22:27):
Leaving international correspondence with ends and eye insurance.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Peace of mind for New Zealand business.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Rickard Arnold in the United States, for US, this morning,
good morning, good morning. Right the wild weather all over
the place. You've got wild wildfires again in LA. And
you've got snow deep South.

Speaker 13 (22:47):
Extreme weather everywhere you look. Heah. Big new fires are
erupting in California, bringing more mass evacuations near Los Angeles,
and with record snows in the South, bringing sites to
the just bizarre. That includes people ice skating on the
streets in New Orleans. This is crazy. In LA, the
series of devastating bushfires wildfires continues and more than fifty

(23:08):
thousand people are under evacuation orders as a huge blaze,
which has been called the Hughes Fire, broke out north
of LA. Within a few hours, it has burned through
more than forty square kilometers of brush near a recreation
spot known as Lake a Steak. Once again, the fire
has been pushed by high winds, just as we saw
with the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon blazes the other

(23:28):
day that destroyed around fourteen thousand homes and other buildings
led to twenty seven deaths. Those winds are gusting right
now between seventy and one hundred kilometers an hour, so
they're ferocious. Fire Chief Anthony Morone says of the situation.

Speaker 18 (23:42):
The weather is what's predominantly driving this fire, and it's
spread right now.

Speaker 13 (23:47):
But how did the fire start?

Speaker 6 (23:48):
We still do not know.

Speaker 13 (23:49):
What is suspicious is that many of these California blazes
began at about eight in the morning with a deliberate arson.
Teams are investigating hope they can sort this out. One
of the main freeways into LA from the north was
shut down as fire as came close to it last night.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
We have the fire burning the high rate of speed.

Speaker 16 (24:09):
It is crossing the road at Lakes Hugh.

Speaker 13 (24:11):
Yeah, schools have been evacuated, school buses taking small children
out of their classes as a result of these threats ongoing.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I was really scared because I thought I was gonna
get really hurt.

Speaker 13 (24:22):
Some rain is in the forecast for this weekend in
southern California, first rains in about eight months, but that
could lead to mud slides, so folks are on edge
over that as well. Meantime, across the South, thirteen people
have died so far in snowstorms, which are just setting records.
It's been snowing in spots where it never snows or
the levels they have never seen before. There is chaos
on the roads. And Georgia they had in one instance

(24:44):
a twenty car pile up, all kinds of problems. Other
roads came to a standstill. One driver says she was
forced to spend the night just huddling in a car. Yeah,
I had. In Alabama, the roof of the civic set
had collapsed. In New Orleans, they set new snow records.
These places do not have snowplows and have equipment to
deal with this stuff. More than twelve thousand flights have

(25:05):
been canceled or delayed, says one would be passenger.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
It's like nothing I've ever seen before.

Speaker 13 (25:11):
And these frigid temperatures are even hitting some of the
coastal areas not supposed to snow at the beach. Yeah,
sound and snow not what they want to see.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
No, it's certainly not.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
The Oscars nominations are out and Amelia Periz has done
quite well.

Speaker 13 (25:26):
Yeah, it's very interesting this Oscar year. Nominations for the
ninety seventh Academy Awards just announced. What are the political
issues of the moment, Well, they're immigration, right, transgender concerns, authoritarianism.
They are also among those subjects to see some of
the most nominated movies out of Hollywood this year. The
fire has led to a couple of delays in the

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Oscar announcements, but today they gave the most nods to,
as you mentioned, the movie Amelia Perez, which is a
musical exploration of transidentity. And here is a brief clip
from that film.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Are you English?

Speaker 13 (26:02):
No, I'm not English?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Not because you have Pete.

Speaker 13 (26:08):
It's star Carlos Sophia Gasconna has made Oscar history, being
the first openly transperson ever nominated in an acting category.
The film has thirteen nods in all, including Best Picture.
Another film on the immigrant experience, The Brutalist, is about
a foreign bought architect trying to adjust to life in
the USA.

Speaker 14 (26:27):
Tell me why is an accomplished foreign architect shavelin coll
here in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
I love it.

Speaker 13 (26:35):
It is not so sim starring Adrian Brody, that has
ten nominations, as does the blockbuster Wicked, which also has
messages about the dangers of authoritarianism. It's drawn ten nods,
but not for Best Director. Then there is Conclaves, The
Vatigan's thriller, which also looks at identity politics not to
give the story away here, and a Brazilian drummer about
family life and political oppression. I'm Still Here So, a

(26:57):
foreign language film, which is among the Best Picture choices.
Its director Walter salizas a very personal story.

Speaker 19 (27:04):
It's a story for a family I'm very close to
and the befriended when I was thirteen years old in
Brazil during the military dictatorship, and in the house of
that family, you had the reverse angle of that dictatorship.
There was music playing all the time. Political discussions were

(27:25):
three yeah.

Speaker 13 (27:26):
The Best Actor category includes Adrian Brody, Colmen Domingo, Ray Fines,
Timothy Challomey and the Bob Dylan bio pick a complete
unknown which is a strong field all round. And Chalo
May is pretty remarkable, not only playing Dylan but sounding
a lot like him when he sings.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
If you're traveling in the North Country, fair I see
no one wants to hear when he can't roll last month, Well,
I like your songs with the winds hit heavy.

Speaker 13 (27:54):
The boardline Oscars will take place so on Marshall thirty
Your Time, hosted by Colonel O'Brien and most see the
best Picture race is pretty wide open this year, right.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Brilliant Richard, Thank you for that. Richard Arnold in the
US for US eight to seven News Talks at.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
B Bryan Bridge on the Mike Hosking Breakfast with the
Range Rover Villa News Talks.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Headb Really interested to see what David Siema has got
to say on the show After seven thirty. He's doing
an alternative state of the Nation for you today and
he's looking specifically at how much we spend on health
and how much we spend on our kids' education and
whether you should just get that money is cash. It's
just gone five to seven.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Pull the ins and the outs.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
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to the next level.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Queen's Town we all know it as the adrenaline capital
of New Zealand. You go down there to do a bungee,
but there are plans afoot to also make it the
relaxation mecha of New Zealand. We have a selection of spa,
sauna and plunge pool complexes that have been proposed in
and near the center of town. One will include nine
small spars, a larger communal spa, two plunge pools and

(29:00):
changing rooms. Another is a two sauna, two plunge pool
and shower complex. This is near the wharf in central Queenstown.
Another is a floating sauna building at the Queenstown Marina
that would include two sauna rooms, changing rooms, covered breakout
deck for you, an outdoor shower and an open bottomed
plunge pool into the lake hanging. I have to think

(29:21):
about that, So just what is that just a jumping
in the lake If it's an open bottom plunge pool, well,
I guess there's walls though, right to keep the sharks house,
I mean, why do you need wolves just jump in
the lake? Anyway? Who am I to judge? Those behind
the proposals say this is another avenue to attract tourists
to the area, which already hosts three hundred and sixty

(29:42):
eight thousand visitors each and every year.

Speaker 14 (29:46):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
It's great jumping in there, especially if you've had a
big night the night before, go and jump in the lake.
You're a whole new man you can take on the
day in Queenstown, would you just tell everybody to go
jump in the lake? Well, if only with a hand over.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
The breakfast show Kiwi's Trust to stay in the Know.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Brian Bridge on the mic asking Breakfast with a Vida, Retirement, Communities, Life,
Your Way News.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Togs Head be good morning. It is seven after seven
on Rine Bridge. Mike is back with you. On Tuesday,
the gates to overseas investment are now open, declared Christopher
lux And yesterday and the State of the Nation's speech,
a new agency invest New Zealand is being established. It
wants to drive growth be a one stop shop for
international capital. The concepts being modeled apparently off successful schemes

(30:36):
in Singapore and in Ireland. Marcus Beveridge is with Queen's
City Law. He's the managing director of Foreign Investment Specialist Marcus.
Good morning, morning, Ryan. Do you like what you hear?

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (30:48):
Mate, it's fantastic and it's overdue. We're even for business.
On a cynical note, sort of nothing you knew under
the sun. It's always what was former The MZT trade
ends were meant to do, which can increase our exporting
penetration of overseas markets and encourage foreign direct investment into
New Zealand. But it's about time New Zealand came up

(31:10):
with this message and started broadcasting it.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Does it worry you that they're keeping the same end
ZTE staff that have been doing the same job up
until now.

Speaker 18 (31:20):
I'm the wrong guy to talk about that, because I
think the whole government bureaucracy needs a really swift kick
up to JACKSI that's iron z Dia just they really need.
They've got some plunkers in there who take forever to
make decisions. Trade ends or NZTU traditionally has had some
of the smartest guys in the room.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
It's a government department for the smart guys want to
be in And this.

Speaker 18 (31:44):
Weekend at the Sale GP we attended an event there
where the Minister of Immigration released the new Investor program
which will become effective on the tenth of March, and
that should encourage a sort of tsunami, possibly billions of
dollars out of primarily China coming into New Zealand because
they're dispensing with the English Language test and allowing investment

(32:08):
back into property. So you know the statement property market
may get a bit of a jab in the arm.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
What about infrastructure and tech? Those are the avenues we
desperately need to open up. What is standing in the way. Well,
you know when people say, oh, there's roadblocks to foreign
investment in those areas, what are they?

Speaker 18 (32:29):
Well, those I think a lot of them are about
perception and they're looking at you know, the state of
our credit rating, our population, exchange rates, because they if
they dispose of their assets, they're in New Zealand dollars
and they're converting back into US. Political stability, you know,
you look at the shutdown of oil exploration, the rule

(32:50):
of law and the stability of the country as well
as all the commercial terms. So you know, for these
sovereign funds to look at New Zealand peraps for infrastructure.
You know, we have a small population. We seem to
build things slowly. These political are these legislative changes in
the regulatory framework. If you look at Sir Donald Trump,

(33:12):
he's up there signing off on these edicts within seconds
of taking office. You know, the truth is the coalition's
been in power for what over a year now, and
it does seem like a bit of a you know,
slow boat to China in terms of releasing this sort
of thing. But if they do adopt all of government
approach to attract this investment, you know, it could put

(33:35):
us back up where we should be in terms of
OECD rankings, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Marcus, thank you. Marcus Beveridge, Queen City Law is a
managing director foreign investment specialist. It sounds like we're going
to get some movement on at least property in the
near tom which is good news. Just gone ten seven
after sorry ten up to seven rain Bridge. Let's go
now to mining because the Prime Minister mentioned that in
his address yesterday too, shared the importance of minerals in
New Zealand and our bid for growth, this drive for growth,

(34:02):
and it's an endorsement that Luxon says that won't be
to everyone's liking. Shane Jones is the Resources Minister Minister.

Speaker 20 (34:08):
Good morning, Yeah, greediness fuks.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
We just heard there from Marcus about the oil and
gas band. You guys were in government when that happened,
won't you.

Speaker 20 (34:18):
Worst decision I was ever associated with was sprung on
us by Sinda Adern. Fortunately it's in the dim pass,
and I can guarantee if it is covered up in
her unwanted new book, I'll be the first to criticize it.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
If it's not factual, no doubt you'll be doing a
deep dime on that. Let's talk about the opportunities for mining.
We were now about the fast Track. We've got the
list of fast tracks. I've been looking this morning at
your list of minerals, your critical minerals. Are you going
to announce this year new areas that you'll open up
for mining.

Speaker 20 (34:56):
Thirty fist of January or be it y he making
a major speech related to the mining industry and related
economic matters. I'll remind everyone there's an additional two point
five billion dollars worth of export revenue, probably another two
thy five hundred jobs just on the projects associated with

(35:17):
the fast Track alone.

Speaker 16 (35:19):
But I'm going to do a big.

Speaker 20 (35:21):
Dive and say to Kiwis, we have an inordinately large
dock estate, much of which is overrun with weasels and
rats and stoakes and noxious weeds. Much of that dock
estate is suitable for quirrying and mining, and we need
to get over ourselves, because if we want the surplus

(35:42):
income and the revenue. We should identify which areas are
really precious to the birthright of Kiwis and which areas
can be used for economic purposes including mining.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Are you talking about stewardship land? That land that's on
the conservation estate but hasn't yet been categorized.

Speaker 20 (36:00):
Land is not dockland. Stewardship land is land that should
and will be made available for economic purposes. Sadly, it's
been weaponized and captured by these green fusspots who could
testrifizey Utann every example of mining.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Just so weirkly, So you're talking about opening up stewardship land,
which is nine percent of our land area, to mining
as well as dockland as well as conservation estate.

Speaker 20 (36:27):
Stewardship dockland is already used in some cases for mining.
That's already effect. Stewardship land can be made available not
only for mining but for other economic purposes. But a
lot of the fast track proposals are not on dockland.
For example, there's Santana project is on private land on

(36:50):
the Bendigo station. These are all projects that will generate
not only jobs but highly sought after economic revenue. Look
the day before yesterday I was with seven or eight
international analysts coming out of London and Toronto and they
said to me, and they've been down here to sign
off a major transaction and extension of capital for existing projects.

(37:13):
They said to me, if the fast track is implemented
in the vein that the legislation was passed, you will
drown an avalanche of North American capital. There is no
other regime that they know of in either the States
of the States of Australia or the States of the
US that will have the capacity to allocate with this

(37:35):
efficiency statute reconsense.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
All right, minister, thanks for your time. This morning was
ALSOS Minister Shane Jones saying it's all on for young
and old. Thirty first of January, he'll be making announcement
in ye and it sounds like dot Land stewardship land,
doesn't really matter what it's called. It's all up for grabs.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
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Speaker 3 (37:55):
B seven seventeen, getting an inside look at just how
hard it is to get foreign investment into New Zealand.
Lots of your texts coming in. This one says I'm
currently involved in a deal that involves foreign investment into
New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Europe and Singapore. The New
Zealand portion will hold the entire deal up the longest
and leave it unconditional because of our OIO consent requirements.

(38:17):
But there you go, just gone seventeen after seven end
of an era. This is for Queenstown's iconic Winter Games.
After fifteen years, it's all over why untenable economic factors.
Nick Cavana is the Snow Sports New Zealand CEO. He's
with me this morning. Nick, Good morning, Good morning Ryan.
This is a devastating news for not just the region

(38:37):
but also for the athletes.

Speaker 16 (38:39):
Yeah, it's like you've just said, it's the d of
an era and the news no one really wanted. But
I suppose it's just signals that sport's not immune to
the tough times we're going through. And I don't have
the specifics, but anyone out there at the moment in
Sportland trying to raise commercial partnerships and sponsorships is finally
incredibly challenging.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Do you think it'll come back? Look?

Speaker 16 (39:01):
I hope, So you know they are looking at coming
back in some way shape or form in the future,
and well, you know, we'll certainly be interested in seeing
what that looks like. But you know, the you know,
the way that the World Cups are set up at
the moment currently are just untenable.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Because of the funding and the way that it works.

Speaker 16 (39:23):
Yep, look at progression. When they started at snow Sports
sometime ago, you know, judges sat in a little booth
at the bottom of the of the course and just
looked at it. Now that's all done by live feeds
and television, live broadcasts, so the costs have just gone
up and up and up. Prize money has gone up
as well, which has been benchmarking. This is you know,
this is some of the reasons why that they're they

(39:46):
found it not possible to run this year.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
The Aspen X Games are on this weekend, so a
lot of the athletics presumably are going to be competing.
There are those types of events. Why how are they
able to keep going?

Speaker 16 (40:01):
So good question, right, you are right. X ESPINEX game
starts today with Zoe at two forty five and it's
our biggest crew that we've ever had at X Games
of succesthlete. So we're excited about that. Like, yeah, X
Games has been around for a long time as well,
US based, So yeah, our athletes are looking forward to

(40:23):
competing there and we're looking forward to watch them as well.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Yeah, and I suppose that while they're all over there together,
they'll be getting the sad news about Queenstown.

Speaker 16 (40:33):
They will do. We have kept it pretty low key
obviously in competition mode. We'll try to allow them to
focus on their performances at the moment rather than talking
about what's coming up and our domestic winter. But yeah,
all of our team forty odd people are overseas at
the moment in qualification mode for the Olympics and Paralympics,
and it's going pretty well so far.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Nick, thank you very much for that. Nick Kevin, a Snowsport,
New Zealand CEO. It is twenty alfter seven News Talk said,
coming up next, why a lot of those movies that
you heard that were nominated for the Oscars actually just
shouldn't have been.

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Licensed under the ARIA Act two thousand and eight. Ryan Bridge,
it is Friday morning and it's twenty four minutes after seven,

(42:18):
so the oscars nooms have come out and guess what. Wicked,
the musical with Ariana Grande is on the list for
Best Picture. It's two hours and forty minutes long. It
doesn't have an ending because there's two parts, so you
get half a story and it takes half your life
to watch. We should not be encouraging this type of

(42:38):
time wasting people. Cinemas are not comfortable places. I've got
a bad back, I've got a low tolerance for people
bursting into song. Sitting in a cinema seat for almost
three hours listening to Ariana Grande singing her feelings is like, well,
it's like being held in a small torture chamber. In
three hours, you can achieve many things. You can fly

(42:58):
to Australia, you could run a mant marathon. Hell, you
can even get an operation in three hours. My grandma's
knee replacements, she had it done recently, took less than
three hours. Actually, I would rather get my knee replaced
than listen and watch Wicked, because it's a two parter.
You could actually get both knees done. And it's not

(43:18):
just Wicked that's dragging on June, did you see that
the sci fi space through it approximately six hundred hours
in length. And I know what you're thinking. If you
don't like a movie, Ryan, just don't go and see it.

Speaker 11 (43:29):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
I never wanted to see June. My partner did. And
as a married man, as you will know, if you're married,
some things you do even though you don't want to do.
And directors, arrogant, self indulgent Hollywood types don't think about us,
do they. They just think about themselves. They just think
about this amazing, emotional movie that they've created, inspired piece

(43:51):
of art that they'll happily dump on the world's cinemas
and expect everybody else to love. The brutalist that's also
on the list three and a half hours long, nominated
for Best Picture, Poked Me in the Eyes, brutalist by
name and brutalist by nature. I estimate half of cinemas
are filled with people who don't want to be there,
trapped in their own little torture chambers, battling through musicals

(44:14):
and rom comms and war biopics, all for the sake
of their marriage or to please a friend. Our attention
spans are far too short for this. Now we have TikTok,
we have Instagram, we have small brains, we have Twitter.
What used to be a novel is now one hundred
and forty characters. People abbreviate their speech because we can't
be asked with full sentences. To goodness, as Hollywood and

(44:35):
today's Oscars nods have totally missed the public mood, I
propose a new category best Picture in under ninety minute.
Bryan Bridge took me a while to say that, which
probably undermined the message. I just assume you are being satirical.
I got so woked up writing it. I just got

(44:57):
away with myself, which must be what happens to the directors.
You know, how can I possibly take that bit out?
It's too brilliant.

Speaker 12 (45:04):
I got a parking ticket when I went to the
last Evatar movie because you know how you can only
park for three hours at the shopping center.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
That's terrible.

Speaker 12 (45:12):
And so I wrote the letter and I said, hey,
the reason I was parking there is because I went
to your movie theater to watch a movie and then
and they said, oh, okay, don't worry about it.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Then blame Hollywood. I say, blame Hollywood. Twenty seven after seven.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
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Speaker 3 (45:42):
Tom's dead b twenty four minutes away from eight o'clock.
After eight o'clock, Trishuson and Tim Wilson rapped the week
with us. Right now in Davos, all the elites are
meeting and Trump has zoomed in. He's making some claims
about US inflation, which may not be accurate.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
The inflationary we are inheriting remains fifty percent higher than
the historic target. It was the highest inflation probably in
the history of our country. That's why from the moment
I took off, as I've taken rapid action to reverse
each and every one of these radical left policies that
created this calamity.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
So in nineteen seventy nine it was more than nineteen percent.
This is after the oil shocks. After World War One,
it was twenty three percent. To be fair, he does
say probably it was probably the worst. You know, that's
an exit for me, that's an outclause. So in these
uncertain times, what is it exactly that will save us?

Speaker 5 (46:36):
The United States is the largest amount of oil and
gas of any country on Earth, and we're going to
use it. Not only will this reduce the cost of
virtually all goods and services, it'll make the United States say,
manufacturing superpower and the world capital of artificial intelligence and crypto.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
So big agenda. He's in the White House, he's getting
his plans out there. What does the world think?

Speaker 5 (47:03):
They say that there's light shining all over the world
since the election, and even countries that we aren't particularly
friendly with are happy because they understand what there is
a future and how great the future will be under
our leadership.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Oh, you've got love them, don't you. Twenty two minutes
away from eight o'clock, Acts Today is going to deliver
its own State of the Nation's speech while other political
parties gather for a Artana celebrations at Artona Parks. Understood,
one of the key themes will be around the idea
of privatization. For example, around six thousand dollars is being
spent on health care per citizen each year in this country.

(47:43):
Could there be an option David Seymour will ask to
put that money directly into kiwi's pockets to free up
space in the public system. It's an interesting question, David Seamoa,
is the each Party leader, David How are you great? Thanks?
David did's art with privatization because that's one of the
big themes of your speech. What do you want to sell?

Speaker 21 (48:01):
I don't think it's a big theme of my speech.
I see as soon as you mentioned the P word,
people get completely hooked on it. I just make the
point in my speech that New Zealand's at a tipping
point one hundred and sixteen thousand people leaving.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
That's two percent of the population.

Speaker 21 (48:16):
That's early nineteen eighties kind of numbers, highest numbers on
record according to stats in z We need to start
asking bigger questions, like the government owns five hundred and
seventy billion dollars worth of assets, and yet we can't
afford the core infrastructure and cities to build more homes
for the next generation. Now do we need to ask

(48:36):
ourselves do we own the right stuff? So I'm not
there to tell you exactly what to sell. I'm just
there to say over the next year or two, we're
going to have to start asking some bigger questions otherwise
people are going to keep leaving. And the net result
of that politically, as we end up with a majority
for mediocrity.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
I think that you know cases like Landcorp and TV
and ZED. I mean there are clear cases to be
made for the sale of some assets. Isn't your problem
going to be if you have to get back in
bed with Winston he doesn't want any of this to happen.

Speaker 21 (49:07):
Well, ultimately, it won't be about any politician. It will
be about do we want to remain a first world
country that attracts and retains the people that grow up
here with first world expectations.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Because we're at a tipping point.

Speaker 21 (49:20):
You know, things are going to get better this year
thanks to lower interest rates, and that's welcome and the
governors of a lot of hard work on that, but
cast your mind out a few years. We're at a
point where if we don't make this place more attractive
to stay, then the people who are motivated leave. And
that's where I talk about that majority for mediocrity.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
It's not far off.

Speaker 21 (49:41):
I'll be voting for Chloe Swarbrook, who says your problems
are caused by someone else, and if you vote for me,
I'll tax their house to solve your problems.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
It won't work, but it sounds good. You talk about
the public service, and you in the election promise to
cut fourteen thousand public sector jobs. We know we're near
that number, and we've still got the likes of the
Ministry for Women, around which you promised to get rid of.
How are you going to convince national to go further
with that if you haven't already. I think it's.

Speaker 21 (50:07):
Ultimately the circumstances that persuade people. The ACT Party is
pretty clear on where it stands. We published a fully
costed alternative budget every year in opposition. We said there's
no points in these ministries, there's no point in there's
extra sixteen thousand people. You can probably guess we make
those arguments within government, and I'd say the government hasn't

(50:28):
gone as far as we'd goes, but it has gone
further than it would go without us. The next thing
that changes as people recognize we've got official cut bait
in this country. It's not good enough just to say
that everything's fixed.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
It's not. We've got a huge amount of work to do.
Have we caught you on a run, David? Sounds like
your little bread No, I'm just I'm walking.

Speaker 21 (50:49):
If it sounds like I'm running, I must be even
less fit than I realized.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Hey, we're all allowed a little leeway in the new year.
Health and education. You talk about those we spend a
lot on individuals. You've broken the cost down per person,
and you're saying, well, maybe we should just give you
the cash.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (51:08):
I think again, it's an example of a kind of
bigger thinking that we need if we want to make
this whole dream of first world country island paradise kind
of thing work out.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I just make the observation. You know, thirty billion dollars
on health.

Speaker 21 (51:23):
Five years ago it was twenty billion dollars, So you
know we've gone up ten billion in the last five years,
and yet health has one of, if not the biggest
political issues these days.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Clearly what we're doing is not working.

Speaker 21 (51:36):
I mean, I see Shane Ready move on on papers,
probably the best health minister we've ever had, and he
couldn't make it work. So I just say to people, look,
thirty billion bucks, five million people.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Do the maths.

Speaker 21 (51:48):
That's six thousand dollars each. How many people if I
said you have the option of saying no more entitlement
to publicly funded healthcare, but here's six thousand dollars that
you can take to a private insurance company. I think
a lot of people might say, well, we need to
explore that option. What would the rules be around it?
You know, obviously the healthcare companies would have to take

(52:11):
any patient that applied. They couldn't reject anyone. And I
know they'll be saying, this guy's nuts, it's privatization, it's
a secret conspiracy out of Washington, d C. Well, actually,
what I'm describing is not too far off the way
they do healthcare in France.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
David Seymour, thank you very much for your time this morning.
Please go and have us sit down and arrest after that.
David Seymour, the Act Party leader who was on a walk.
For those who've been texting and saying, why is he panting?
Why is he breathless? He's out on a walk this morning,
getting in some steps in some k kazin. Before he
gets into his state of his alternative State of the
Nation address which he is delivering today, some quite interesting

(52:46):
suggestions there. We do own as a country half a
trillion dollars in public assets. That includes things like land Corp.
Land Corp worth two billion dollars to us if we
flicked it off. Last year made a loss of twenty
six million. A report from a couple of years ago
showed that outfit is performing way under what it could

(53:07):
if it was if it was potentially privatized. I mean,
why not. If we've got farmers who do a good
job of their business, why wouldn't they do a good
job with that one? Why do we own a farm?
Nine two nine two the number to text sixteen to eight.
We're in Melbourne for the Australian Open.

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A B thirteen away from nine. You want to hear
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Beck from Rocket Lab. Rocketman has been taking off in
the last couple of days. This is his US outfit.
Minds you, but this is all to do with Donald Trump.
So Donald Trump comes out in the inauguration and says,
we're going to Mars. We're going to have astronauts on Mars. Here.

(53:49):
I went, well, that's a bit crazy, except for investors
who went and piled their money into space and space
exploration adjacent companies like Rocket Labs. Sore. Trump shares were
trading around twenty four dollars post Trump, thirty two dollars
a year shot up thirty percent off the back of
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(54:10):
Now it has come back since then, it's come back
by around eight percent. But Peter Beeks spoke to a
podcast in the US overnight. Have listened to what he
had to say.

Speaker 18 (54:19):
We think this new administration will be very very good
for us, to be good for the space industry.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
It's very pro very pro space, very pro defense. And
these are two big sectors.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Pretty cool. Space X, which is Elon Musk. Their shares
jumped from one hundred and eighteen dollars to more than
two hundred dollars two hundred and thirty five dollars a year,
almost doubled, and Ship. It's incredible, isn't it. So you
ask why did Peter Becks, why did SpaceX go sorry,
why did Rocket Lab go up but then come back down?
The analyst on this particular podcast reckons it's because although

(54:53):
he's a space company, he's not as close to Trump
as Bezos and Musca. You know, they've got the inside,
the inside word, and they've got the air of the president.
So therefore their companies their evaluations go through the roof
thirteen billion dollars is what rocket Lab is now market
cap thirteen billion dollars, which is, you know, almost what

(55:16):
we've spent on education a year in this country in
a third of our health budget. And that's come from
one guy from Invercargo. Good on you, eleven away from
eight nine eight CNN. Trump will love this news, and
it's got nothing to do with the fact that he's
been elected. But CNN is laying off a whole bunch
hundreds of employees, and they're preparing for the roll out

(55:36):
of a new stream So this is obviously to do
with cable television. No one's watching it anymore. In fact,
the number the average audience for CNN and America five
hundred and seventy eight thousand primetime viewers. This is for
the three months through to December last year. Guess how
much that has reduced by seventy five percent from quarter

(55:58):
four of twenty twenty. So in the last full five
years they have lost seventy five percent of their viewers
because everyone's going to streaming. So anyway, they're getting rid
of a couple of hundred employees. Two hundred employees six
percent of their workforce, and they're going digital. They're introducing
a three dollars ninety nine monthly fee for unlimited access

(56:20):
to Seann dot com. So we'll see how that goes
for them. I mean, that's obviously going to bring a
smile to Trump's face, isn't it, But not so much
for those employees who are losing their jobs at the moment.
Just gone ten to.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Eight, Ryan Bridge on the Mic Hosking Breakfast with Bailey's
Real Estate News Dogs.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
They'd be seven to eight. We've reached the pointy end
of the Australian Open. There's been plenty happening on the
court and just as much happening off it as we've
been covering this week. Madison Keys, Arena Saberlenka. They've progressed
to the women's singles finals, which are on Saturday. The
men's semis play out this evening, with their championship happening Sunday.
Craig Gabriel the Australian Open commentators with US. Craig, good morning,

(57:00):
good to.

Speaker 22 (57:00):
Be with you at this ridiculous hour that we've been
putting with the hours we've been putting through over here
was another excruciatingly, excruciatingly late.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Night over here.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Yeah, tell us about it.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
Well.

Speaker 22 (57:14):
Arina Saberlenka helped us all by getting through her match
relatively well six four six two, defeating Pala Badosa, a
very good friend. Then we got the match of the tournament.
In fact, I would even say it's going to be
a match of the Year candidate. There was such an
extraordinary clash between Ego srion Tech and Madison Keys. It

(57:42):
was the sixth meeting between them, and srion Tek was
a hot favorite to go through to the final of
the Australian Open for the first time.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
And it just went totally the other way.

Speaker 22 (57:54):
And it was just breathtaking tennis at times, and Keys
saved him a at a match point and ended up
winning five seven six one seven six to reach her
first Australian Open final and the second time she's reached
the final of a major in her career. The last
time was nearly eight years ago in twenty seventeen at

(58:14):
the US Open. She lost to her very good friend
Sloan Stevens on that occasion. But this was just, I mean,
superb tennis. I was lost for words on a number
of occasions with the shots that were played and the
atmosphere and the excitement that was.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
On show brilliant. So Keys gets through in Seberlinka. That's Saturday,
and today Jokovic.

Speaker 22 (58:37):
Today we've got the men semifinals and it'll be Yanick
Sinner against Ben Shelton, and then Novak Djokovic will be
playing Alexander Zverev. So going into the Sinner Shelton match,
Yannick leads for to one on their head to head. Sorry,
Shelton beat Sinner the first time they played, which was
in October twenty three in Shanghai. They've played four time

(59:00):
since and Shelton has not won a set from Sinner
in those matches. And then going in on the Djokovic
Zverev match, Novak leads their series eight to four. He
won the last time that they played. The last time
is Verev won over Djokovic was twenty twenty one, So,
I look, this is going to be another interesting match,

(59:22):
and depending on how Novak pulls up after the injury
that happened in his previous round against Carlos al Karaz,
will be curious to see. But you know, at the
moment he's probably favored on that one slightly.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Craig, thank you for that. Craig Gabriel, Australian open commentator
with US Life from Melbourne, just four minutes away from eight.
Now coming up after eight, Tris Shuson and Tim Wilson
wrapped the Wik.

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Review with two degrees bringing smart business solutions to the table.

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Good morning, Trishurs and Hirson. WILLI pr great to have you.
Good morning, Happy Friday. Tim Wilson's here too. From the
maximums to uote Happy Friday, Tim.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Happy Friday, Ryan and Tresham Gee was talking about naked emotions.
That editorial what was it nuclear bomb that you unleashed
on Hollywood this morning had me laughing.

Speaker 23 (01:01:17):
In the car.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
So this is about the Oscars nominations which have come out.
I mean, how many how many movies nowadays are you
know more than three hours long? And our attention spans
are shrinking, but the movies are getting longer.

Speaker 24 (01:01:33):
Well, I loved it. And as someone who's just about
to take over a quarter of a century of marriage, Ryan,
I've got one word for you that's going to save
you from these movies. And that word is no very
important word in marriage. I can't tell you the amount
of times I have had my loved one droning on
about June is the most amazing thing? And why won't

(01:01:58):
I watch it? And I think I can spare you
from some of that some of that self indulgence from Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Do you know the problem is, especially with June, that
there are three it's a three parter, so that that's
that's nine hours minimum.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Yeahs.

Speaker 24 (01:02:13):
And with all that sand, you'll make an oyster and
make a pearl by the time you come out of
the movie theater up betting.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
Can I just can I just say, though, I think
you know, to be honest, you had me until you're
saying our brains are getting smaller. I can't accept that diagnosis.
That offends my pride and vanity. I think we actually
what we're looking for are oases of reflection. We just
don't want to have to sit for two and a
half hours in a sea of crap. So I think
it's like, yeah, take time out, but don't you know,

(01:02:42):
just don't don't don't blame Hollywood, Ryan, Hollywood's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
You're the solution.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Yeah, I just need to relax and probably stop being
cheap and fork out for one of the more comfortable seats,
because then it's a more enjoyable experience for everyone. Now,
this is a difficult question to answer, Tim, because which
will be I'm clear when I ask it. But does
New Zealand have a culture of saying no?

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
I think to some extent it does. I guess the
question is what we're saying no to and what we're
saying yes to. So a successful country or ostensibly successful
like Singapore, says no to a whole bunch of things
like petty crime like chewing gum in public. It's a
bit like Auckland Airport in that way. But let's not
go down that road.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
It's a question.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
I think we need to decide what we're saying yes
to and what we're saying no to. And I think
this is the beginning of a discussion about what our
actual vision for the country over the next two decades
looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Yeah, this is obviously from Luxon and his State of
the Nation yesterday saying we're just not ambitious enough. Trish
he's saying mining. And we had Shane Jones on this morning.
He's got a big announcement he said thirty first of
January about areas of New Zealand like the Dockland, basically
that we will open up for mining. But we are
used to saying no a little bit here, aren't we.

Speaker 24 (01:03:56):
Well I thought it was really interesting that luck was
talking to business yes yesterday, But the real question is
is Wellington listening. I mean, the bureaucracy in Wellington has
become like New Zealand's one giant road cone that just
gets plunked down whenever any any progress needs to be made,

(01:04:17):
and so I think it's a big culture shift in Wellington.
Luxon has nailed a couple of points here. I mean,
we are desperate for growth in New Zealand, but look
at you know, for decades the OIO Overseas Investment Act
has been politicized, so every time someone from overseas wants
to buy a farm or something else, it's major headlines

(01:04:38):
for months. So we've got to get over ourselves and
open up to the world. But I do have a
bone to pick with you on this, Ryan, because yesterday
Luxon talked about one of the reasons where we're hampered
in growth is because we haven't got enough concerts at
Eden Park. I heard you suggest this morning that Helen
Clark should move to Graylynn because she doesn't like the.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
In the easy solution.

Speaker 24 (01:05:02):
And let me just say this, Graylan is not a
suburb of wet blankets, nor do we want to be
a suburb of wet blankets. And in fact, around here,
if anyone here's a party going on at night, you
just open the windows and enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
All right, Well, there's a suburb we can see Helen Clark.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
I've seen Helen Clark on the Reds. Sh'd add to
your party Trisia. So it's no worries in that department.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
It is wildboa, tim, Isn't it just on the Eden
Park and lax and saying let's open it up and
just let them go for it helpful if you? I mean,
Eden Park's been around since like nineteen hundred, it's you know,
obviously grown and what it can do and stuff. But
if you've bought a house there, you know that it's there,
you know, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Yeah, it's and look actually was I was speaking of eating.
I was at the Luke Combs concert last week and
there were people who'd flown there from Tasmania because they
were missing out on the OSS concerts. So I mean
he's right in that sense. And if you buy a
house in eden Park, you know, when Luke Colmbs is playing,
go outside, open a cold one and suck it up.

Speaker 24 (01:06:10):
Do you know what what this reminded me of was
I went to a speech by one of the governmentister's
last year and one of the steps that stuck out
to me was that that New Zealand's pipeline of major
events literally is completely empty, and that that is not
a great thing for New Zealand. But also the Eden
Park thing brings us back to the bigger point about

(01:06:32):
not being ambitious enough. You know the cost of not
having an amazing purpose built stadium that's in an area
where it's you know, good for everyone to be at.
You can have a concert seven days a week. That's
our bigger problem here. So you know, we just we
do need to get more ambitious and back.

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True Shurson Sherson, Willis PR and Tim Wilson Maximum Institute
back with us. We have we can't ignore Donald Trump.
He's had a big week obviously returning to the White House.
But you have to admit Tim that you know, like him,
all low them his politics whatever. He's come in with
a plan. The man has a plan. He obviously had
these executive orders up the wazoo ready to go. He

(01:07:32):
also had plans to make sure that the civil servants
in Washington, d C. Would enact them, and if they
don't that there'd be consequences.

Speaker 4 (01:07:42):
Yeah, and look, I think I think there's a sense
of and yeah, we were talking about New Zealand earlier.
What we're seeing from the Trump administration as a kind
of dynamism. Now, you may may not like the direction
it's going in, but at least there's a plan, and
there's a sequence of events and orders. And look that
plethora what was it, one hundred executive orders signed after

(01:08:05):
the inauguration That was a response though to Joe Biden's
what is a blizzard of executive orders that he signed
before he left? I guess my one pause is the
sort of like he signed those executive orders at a rally.
So there's a performative nature here, and I think, you know,
you know, with the holes, I guess the social media thing.

(01:08:26):
There's so much performance these days, and particularly in politics,
and I don't you know, you want to do things
because they're the right thing to do. You don't want
to do things because a crowd of people will starts
shouting and cheering your name.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Yeah. I think the reason that he did that particular
stunt was because the whole thing was moved indoors, so
there was there was no you know, on Capitol Hill
normally to have it outside and the big crowds can
come and joining. And I think that was more a
response to the weather than anything else. But I take
your point true, he is a performer. He is a

(01:08:58):
more consummate performer. Trish, what are your thoughts on Trump's
this wig?

Speaker 24 (01:09:03):
Well, it's wild, isn't it. Every day you turn in
and you think, Wow, what's going to happen now? I mean,
the performative nature is Trump of Trump is amazing. Everyone
knows they are better prepared this time around. They were
as shambles in twenty seventeen, but they've had all this
time to do the work. As Tim said, whether you

(01:09:24):
like it or not, a couple of things I think
are interesting translating back here to New Zealand. To Tim's
point around the performative nature of things, I had this
thought at the end of last year. It's more of
a plea, probably to our New Zealand politicians to remember
you are in Wellington to make law, not tiktoks. And

(01:09:45):
then the other sort of slightly hopeful note I take
out of what Trump has just told the luminaries that
Davos overnight is that this is a revolution of common sense.
And as you know, Ryan, one of my personal brands
is around common sense, or as my husband would say,
more of my right wing clap clap so positive this

(01:10:09):
year that we're entering a revolution of common sense.

Speaker 22 (01:10:12):
Bring it on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
The other thing you like to harp on about, because
you do have a long list, is being capable, capable people,
and you'll love this. Gen Z apparently don't want to
change their own light bulbs. They are quite happy to
outsource DIY tasks, so they will actually pay a professional

(01:10:35):
to change the light bulbs in their house, raising concerns
about self reliance among young people. Tim, I mean I'm
not a particularly capable person, but a light bulb.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Yeah, yeah, And look, you know that there is a
mode here at work. Remember when we used to bag
millennials for being useless. Well, millennials are breathing a sign
of relief because the algorithm now says it's time to
gang up on. Gen Z. Can't change your light bulb?
What a bunch of silker bubbers. Actually it was like
one quarter outsourcer. Okay, that's lame. But that means seventy

(01:11:06):
five percent is still changing their own light bulb. That's
quite good. Maybe they should gang up on the one
quarter who don't want to do it, get over with
the ladders, show them how to go. I don't think
we should succumb to this demographic divide.

Speaker 6 (01:11:18):
We are one.

Speaker 24 (01:11:19):
Let's unite well well, sometimes completely ignored the question as usual,
but I mean to the broader point. Yes, I value,
among among any everything else, people who are practical and capable.
And what I've learned in life, and again this is
back back to a quarter of a century, have been
roped into the great institution of marriage that if you

(01:11:41):
are not practical and capable in some areas which I
am not it for instance, or changing tires, marry someone
who is. It's all about the division of labor.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
That's why you sit.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
That's why you have to sit in cinemas to movies
like doing that you don't like because habi change the tires.

Speaker 24 (01:12:01):
No, there's no value exchange in this relationship.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
You just do stuff because you have to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Oh, brilliant guys, A great end of the week, Thank
you for that. That is the week with Trish Jurson Cherson,
Willis PR Tim Wilson, the Maximum Institute. Twenty one after
eight news Talk, said B.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
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Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
B eight twenty four News Talk said B. In the UK,
this is in a Sainsbury's supermarket on Saturday, there was
a real RGI bargie because there's some vegan protesters. Remember
they used to do it here in New Zealand and
the meat aisle. They would cover themselves in fake blood
and run around the meatile and stop people from getting
to their meat.

Speaker 6 (01:12:43):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
In the UK and a Sainbury's and a Sainsbury's a
supermarket on the in the meatile, there's an old man,
there's there's an elderly man, I should say a senior gentleman,
and there's an elderly woman as well. I'm now trying
to get through this line of vegan protesters who are
sitting on the ground and blocking them from getting to
the you know, pork sausages for goodness, saxcuse me.

Speaker 23 (01:13:10):
To excuse me, we're not moving. I asked her to
excuse you and she said no, she said no, I
don't care. I don't control my passage anywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:13:24):
She don't belong.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
So these smug little vegans on the ground and the
and then there's a woman who comes along as well.
So they've both got trolleys and they're trying to push
the trolleys. They are pushing the trolleys into the vegans.

Speaker 11 (01:13:38):
I want to get passed here.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
No, I'm not going ound you're.

Speaker 13 (01:13:44):
Well, I'm just not may.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
I just knocked you having away with my trolley.

Speaker 12 (01:13:50):
I love her because she sounds exactly like one of
Monty Python's pepperpot women.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
She does, she does no very funny. I mean, if
you're going to sit on the floor in the supermarket
to get hit by a senior citizen, that's the moral
of the story, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:14:03):
Yeah, it's kind of like slowly rammed, Yeah, slowly but
intently rammed, while somebody's saying.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Excuse me, a gentle ram raid, Yeah, a gentle ram raid.
At twenty six minutes after eight, I've got the numbers
for you on our pack Keewis who are leaving New Zealand.
It's not good news. I'll run you through those after
eight thirty plus, but with Murray olds who is ahead
and the latest preferred PM polls over there. Obviously they're
heading to an election before mid year. All Ahead on

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Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
Togs dB twenty four to nine. Already the court's trying
to undo, starting to undo what Donald Trump has done
in the last couple of days. Firstly, this is the
blatantly unconstitutional is what a judge is called it. This
is birthright citizenship, where if a baby is born on
US soil, it becomes automatically a citizen of the country.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump's executive order to

(01:15:38):
redefine birthright citizenship, and as I said, he called it
blatantly unconstitutional. This is US District Judge John Kona. The
case is one of five lawsuits being brought by twenty
two states and a number of immigants rights groups across
the country who are upset at this US citizens by birthright.
And also they are naming in these cases pregnant women

(01:15:59):
who are free that their children won't become US citizens
because they're in the country obviously, and they are pregnant,
and if they give birth there, the child's citizen. If
they have to leave then it's not. And if they
change the law before it's born, and if this executive
order stands up, then they're not citizens. So they're worried
about that. Twenty two to.

Speaker 17 (01:16:18):
Nine International correspondence with ends an Eye Insurance Peace of
Mind for New Zealand Business.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Murray Old and Australia Murray, good morning, Good morning, arego.
The Australian police finally making some moves against the anti
Semitism attacks.

Speaker 14 (01:16:34):
Yeah, well, look it's been done mainly in Sydney. They've
been I think nine or ten now since October ten
attacks targeting Sydney's a Jewish population. There have been two
attacks on synagogue's, one on a childcare center. They've all
been torched or attempted to be torched. You've had sundry
attacks on cars and so on, breweries and look, there's

(01:16:57):
been a couple of really interesting developments in the last
forty eight hours. Police are now saying that it's either
foreign actors or local criminals here in Sydney who are
hiring people air tasker. Is that a thing you've got
in New Zealand where people come around and mow your
lawn and stuff. Well, you've got air task at criminals

(01:17:18):
who are getting In one case, the allegation is from
a fellow who's been charged with trying to fire bombers
a brewery. I think it is. He said, well, listen,
I had a drug debt and I was told that
if I don't go and bombers joint, I will be
my family will be targeted, and I'll be I could

(01:17:39):
be in very serious trouble. The federal police this week
have suggested it could even be international criminals who are
air tasking these attacks on synagogues and the like. So
that's one element of all of this. The other one,
of course, as you say, Ryan, that you've naggered all
the police commissioners, federal police and all the state and

(01:18:00):
territory federal police commissioners, they are now going to get
together once a month to see where we're at on
all of this. You've got fifteen separate investigations underway from
the Australian Federal Police and as I say, we've got
it's ten offenses and nine people arrested.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
I think it is.

Speaker 14 (01:18:20):
There's mean so many to be frank it's very difficult
to keep up. But suffice to say that the temperature
in Sydney is very very high, is very februal, and
people are saying, listen, if this keeps going, it's only
a matter of time before someone's hurt or possibly killed,
because you know, you've got five bombs in the middle
of the night, you know, hooking into homes and cars

(01:18:44):
in garages and the like. So it's a very very
scary situation.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Yeah, it is. In Albanese looking a bit weak on
it is that part of the reason he's slipping behind
in the polls.

Speaker 14 (01:18:54):
Could be, I think more likely its cost of living,
because that is really biting. It's biting here big time,
has done the last eighteen months, and as we head
to an election, not sure exactly when it's going to
be cost of living, but certainly Peter Dutton in the
opposition leader, not missing a chance to put the boot
into Albanisi. He's being very very effective as well. The

(01:19:16):
latest poll this week Peter Dutton has a very significant
leader of Anthony ovineasiest preferred prime minister thirty nine to
thirty four.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Percent.

Speaker 14 (01:19:26):
Now they were tied at Christmas time on this So
in the last well less than three weeks or three weeks,
Peter Dutton's jumped ahead of Anthony Albanisi. You've got Labour's
primary vote twenty seven percent. Now that's way down from
the last election, which wasn't very strong anyway. But you
look at the coalition side of things, the opposition steady
at thirty eight percent. Now you've got the coalition. But

(01:19:50):
the time you distribute preferences as we do over here,
the coalition has its nose in front as we head
into election season. So I mean, all of a sudden,
you you got Peter Dutton. It's not really all of
a sudden either. Dutton's been gnawing away, gnawing away, and
this time last year, for example, I mean a lot
of people were saying he's just unelectable. No one's going

(01:20:11):
to like this hard assed, hard nosed ex Queensland copper.
All of a sudden people are saying, yes we do.
We certainly like him a lot more than Anthi alban Easy.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Yeah. Especially you know when you're in a cost of
living crisis and your backs against the wall, you kind
of want a scrapper, don't you you want to you
want a bit of a hard nosed type.

Speaker 14 (01:20:28):
Hey, that's what people are saying.

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
Yeah, what about the pole. What are they saying about
the Australia Day changing the date.

Speaker 14 (01:20:36):
Well, there's a clear majority now who are saying January
twenty six must stay as the national day.

Speaker 6 (01:20:42):
Now.

Speaker 14 (01:20:43):
For indigenous people and those on the left of politics
over here, January twenty six is invasion day. That's today
when white Europeans arrived in prison ships, jumped the shore
and say well this is ours now, thanks very much.
You've been looking out for sixty five years. You can
bugger off and the Conservative I mean that this whole date,

(01:21:04):
it's been a lightning rod for debate, you know, for
nearly one hundred years. They were arguing about this back
in the nineteen thirties. And what we've got now this
latest poll support for January twenty six I'm just reading
now out of the City Morning Herald sixty one percent
has jumped from forty seven percent to keep January twenty
six to sixty one percent over the last two years.

(01:21:25):
So what this has also done, of course, is coincide
with the national referendum that labor initiated when Albanizi won
the last election on the you know, the treaty debate
about should we you know, have a special place in
the Constitution for additionals Australians. So that was voted down
and ever since then, Anthony Albanese's a star if you like,

(01:21:49):
has been waning. Peter Dutton is saying if he gets elected,
he's going to enshrine Australia Day January twenty six, within
the first hundred days, and we're seeing a lot of
this Peter Dutton pitching stuff from Donald Trump, you know,
the first one hundred days, make Australia great again, bagga,
you know, all this stuff. So it's very interesting. We've

(01:22:09):
got Australia Day on Sunday, you're going to have you know,
all over the country, you'll have people becoming citizens. There's
been this enormously silly debate about should Woolworth be forced
to stop made in China bloody plastic hats with Australian
flags on them. I mean, is that what we're reduced to.
It's just ridiculous. I mean, the stuff's made in China's

(01:22:30):
even made here. You know, let's get some assie Jandles
made in Shanghai.

Speaker 4 (01:22:35):
Great.

Speaker 14 (01:22:36):
Yeah, that's a wonderful idea. Just dark.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Yeah, it does sound a bit dark. Murray, thank you
for that. Murray Old's our Australia correspondent. Just gone sixteen
away from nine here on News Talks. But we didn't
get to talk about Patricia the flower over in Sydney
at the Botanic Gardens. People are at lining up three
and a half hours to see this flower blossom. I'll
tell you more about that shortly.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
The Mike Asking Breakfast Falls Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
by News talksb.

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
It is thirteen to nine News Talks ZB. There's a
flower that's blossoming. It's called a corpse flower over at
Sydney's Botanic Gardens at the moment, and there are thousands
of people lining up to see this happen. The queue.
I mean, forget long movies that we were talking about earlier.
It's three and a half hours long to go and
see a flower that's in bloom at the moment. It
looks like if you were to pull the banana, the

(01:23:27):
skin down on a banana halfway and make that human
sized as tall as a tall man. That is what
you're looking at. Essentially make it smell like Vomit smells
like abps, like putrid. Yeah, hence the name. I guess
the what's it called the putricia in full bloom at
Sydney's Botanic Gardens. Yeah, so it takes like a couple

(01:23:47):
of years and then it's in bloom for twenty four hours.
So the smell, apparently it's one of the most foul
things you can possibly imagine, and happens for twenty four hours.
Thousands of people line up, have a look, have a sniff,
and then go home. Sounds like fun. Just gone twelve
minutes away from nine. Now, I told you I'll give
you the numbers on our migration, and we may not

(01:24:08):
be going to smell the stench of the putricia, but
we're certainly leaving from New Zealand and heading to Australia
in great numbers. So seventy two thousand New Zealand citizens
left this country to go and live overseas in the
year two November seventy two thousand, nine hundred fifty six
percent of them went to Australia, so more than half.

(01:24:31):
And here's the thing about these numbers that came out
yesterday when it's when it passed the whole we're moving
because we've been in lockdown and we're released from COVID
and we're going on some sort of oe or magical
experience that that's not what's going on here now there
these are They're fleeing because of the economy, aren't they.

(01:24:51):
It's the cost of living, It's the lack of a job,
or the lack of a well paid job, or just
the lack of any hope that thinks will get better
in the future, that this country might turn itself around,
dig itself out of a hole and actually get somewhere.
That is what these numbers are about, which is why
you saw lux And give that speech yesterday and why

(01:25:12):
you will see Seymour give his later today. He was
on the show a little earlier. You can catch that
on the podcast on the Mic Costing Breakfast. It's coming
up to ten away from nine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
News talksvb Ryan Bridge on the Mike Hosking Breakfast with
the Range Rover Villa News Talks headb.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
Eight to nine. We haven't touched this this morning, but
Golras Garaman in the pack and save tope bag shoplifting
situation The police put out a press statement yesterday saying
that a shoplifting event had occurred, so that no charges
have been laid, but a shoplifting event had occurred. Okay,
the item that was taken was less worth less than

(01:25:51):
forty dollars from Pack and Save and which is also
an odd thing to say. I mean, does that mean
it was worth two dollars or does that mean it
was worth you know, between the thirty nine. It wasn't
a bottle of mum for example. No, it couldn't have
been a bottle of mum or mum whatever however you say,
But you know it's less than forty dollars. Does that
mean it was two dollars? Or does that mean it
was between thirty nine and forty? You know what I mean?

(01:26:13):
I think I'm assuming she wasn't buying any meat, been
a green former green MP. So it either has to
be what at Pack and Save it was a single
item what a Pack and Save costs forty dollars or
thereabouts bottle of wine cheese, although cheese is not vegan.
I'm just trying to think, can you think of anything?

(01:26:36):
Nine is the number to text anyway if you have
any ideas statements was weird from police. No charges have
been laid and the item worth less than forty dollars. Basically,
this is the end of the matter.

Speaker 12 (01:26:48):
There's some quite pricey boxes of flash chocolates, isn't there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Oh yep, one of the big ones of roses would
get up there? Yeah, yea, because when did it happen?
Was it October last year?

Speaker 12 (01:26:59):
Oh yeah, early early Christmas present maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:27:02):
True?

Speaker 12 (01:27:03):
Yeah, one of those you know, sampler sort of boxes
of biscuits.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Yeah, the biscuits packs. Would you get them in a
toe bag because it's got that's the other requirement, it's
got in a tope bag.

Speaker 20 (01:27:16):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
So people are saying, yeah, of course all of the
beauty products and smellies from that's Oh they're all quite expensive.

Speaker 12 (01:27:23):
Yeah, many super maggots have pharmacies in them now as well,
of course, true electric toothbrush, Bryan face cream, lots of things. Yeah,
I didn't think of those. Oh yeah, appliance is like
you know, yeah, airfri and stuff. Sometimes they're on special
for our under forty dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
Someone says collagen packets or protein formulas are all thirty
nine ninety nine. Ah, there it is it's Collagen right,
just gone five away from.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
Nine trending now with Gems Warehouse stop paying too much.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
As you know, we've been talking plenty about movies this
morning off the back of the OSCARS nominations, and I've
taken particular aim at the Best Picture nominee, The Brutalist,
because it's three hours and thirty five minutes in length,
and that is too long for me anyway. If that
doesn't put you off, here is the synopsis. Escaping post
war Europe, A visionary architect comes to America to rebuild

(01:28:13):
his life, his career, and his marriage. On his way,
on his own, on his own, sorry, in a strange
new country. He settles in Pennsylvania, where a wealthy and
prominent industrialist recognizes his talent. If he's still interested, here's
a taste that look.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
Talk, isn't that you?

Speaker 24 (01:28:29):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Tell me why?

Speaker 14 (01:28:33):
He is an accomplished foreign architect shovel and call here
in Philadelphia.

Speaker 16 (01:28:37):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
It is an also center.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
Join me in looking for it toward the future.

Speaker 13 (01:28:46):
Over eight hundred thousand square feet of surface area.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Sambistis so you can, so you cannot, Yes.

Speaker 23 (01:28:56):
I can.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
Quiet Tromp.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Beautiful just being released in New Zealand cinemas, and make
sure that you book a recliner, one of the comfortable ones.

Speaker 12 (01:29:17):
I reckon Mike asking you'd be into this season into
movies about architects?

Speaker 20 (01:29:21):
Is he yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:29:22):
Is it really?

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
Does he into? God? I can't imagine him actually going
to a cinema in the first place. They'd have to
get home.

Speaker 12 (01:29:30):
Some people have been saying this way, he hasn't been
here this week because he's still waiting to get to
the end of the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Well, any movie frankly that's been nominated for an oscar
because they're all about four hours long. Lots of text
on Golra's garment. And yeah, for those who are saying
she never quite made it to the checkout, she didn't.
And she had a tote bag that was either in
a trolley or not in a trolley. It's all a
bit uncertain, but anyway, no charges have been made against her,
And yes, I agree, it probably is about time we

(01:29:58):
just moved on us. They'd be see you on Monday
for one last day before the host returns

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
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