July 7, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Monday 8th of July, Newstalk ZB welcomes Ryan for his first programme.
It's looking likely the government will toll the new Roads of National Significance - Ryan found out that's something the freight industry supports.
Infometrics Chief Forecaster Gareth Kiernan speaks to the costs from suppliers to supermarkets are still increasing.
He challenges Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr to look at the "real economy" when the next OCR review comes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture bands and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talk said, be good morning, New Zealand. It is Monday,
the eighth of July. I'm Ryan Bridge. This is news Talk,
said be early edition, and I am very happy to
be here. This is my first show, so please bear
with me. I'm staring at the corner of the studio
and there is a vacuum cleaner with Mike Hoskins's name
on it. I'm very pleased to announce this morning that
(00:37):
Mike is actually away. He's having a well deserve break,
so I don't have to worry about cleaning the studio
when I when I finished today. Andrew Dickens is with
you this morning from six until nine. It is great
to be here. We're going to get straight into it
this morning with the agenda. The agenda. New data from
statsing z shows our population is rapidly aging. Hundred and
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fifty thousand people will be aged ninety or older by
the twenty sixties. Currently that number is thirty five thousand.
It's sparked concern from advocacy Group Aged Concern Chief executive
Karen Billings gents and says we're not building new homes
with older people in mind.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm talking multi story homes, access to public transport, flat
areas that people can move around and be connected to
their community.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Suburbs in Autland and Hamilton have faced the most burglaries
over the past four years. On average, a burglary is
supported every twelve minutes. This is across the country, so
that's one hundred and eighty thousand reports nationwide over the
last four years, but most in terms of suburbs have
taken place in Auckland's Tuckenenny South with one hundred and
seventy eight reported. It's not just an Auckland issue, though,
(01:48):
Herald head of Data Chris Knox says burglaries in Wellington
can be very localized.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
There was one block around Willison Victoria Street where where
they had fifty seven burglary supported.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The next block over from that block too, burg where
he's are reported.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You know which block you want to live in, don't you.
Warning from the Cardiac Society this morning, kiwis are being
hospitalized and dying too young because certain heart drugs aren't
funded they're calling on Farmac to fund the SGLT two
inhibitor drugs for all people with chronic heart failure, using
the recent government funding boost to pay for it. Society
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says patients shouldn't have to self fund drugs that are
available in other public health systems. And finally, this morning,
for the United States, we Go Wrestling star John Sena
has announced he's retiring from the sport. He says next
year's ww wrestle Mania will be his last. Over the
last twenty years, he's won the competition sixteen times. The
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forty seven year old first joined the WWE in two
thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swis City, New
Zealand's Furniture, Beds and Appliance Store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It'd be just gone nine minutes after five. A big
day or a big evening, i should say. In France,
the first exit poll from the election is expected around
six o'clock this morning, so Andrew will have details for
you on that. We'll also speak to Gavin Gray, who'll
be live at about quarter to six. The highest turnout,
this is what we can tell you so far. The
highest turnout in decades since nineteen eighty one, and they
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are still voting, so it's going to be a whopper.
We will find out, of course, just how far right
they have gone. Will the far right National Rally take
over the government. The majority they need is two hundred
and eighty nine. There are five hundred and one seats
in parliament in the French parliament now seventy six of
those have already been decided in the first round of voting.
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But the big swing to Lipen's National Rally in the
first round of voting to thirty three point four percent,
that could change because a couple of other things have changed.
Think the main thing that has changed is that people
pulled out, So two hundred candidates are pulled out, meaning
there are fewer three way races. And there's another word
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that the French use for a freeway, which I won't
mention on radio because it's just entirely inappropriate. What they're
trying to do this is the center and the left.
They are trying to run an anti far right campaign.
What they don't know, and what we don't know yet
is just how many people will actually vote accordingly. So
for this to work, you would have to get many
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centrist voters to vote for far left candidates. Do they
want to do that? You would need to get many
lefties voting for centrist candidates a Macrons or Macron's party.
So will that actually happen? Will it play out as they,
you know, intend it to the sort of strategy that
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they're running with pulling candidates out. We will find out.
We're going to talk to Gavin Gray as they say
it's a five forty four this morning. The other big question,
of course, is what happens if they don't get a majority.
How do they govern? What does that look like? We
will find out. The time now is eleven after five.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The First Word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
Beds and a play at store News Talk ZIB.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Good morning, it is thirteen after five. Great to be
with you here on z B. My name is Ryan
Bridge and this is my very first show on News
TALKB and I'm very excited about that and as some
of you are as well, which is which is very pleasing.
You can text nine to nine two. I am reliably
reliably informed as the number to text if you've got
something to share with us this morning, right now. Though
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new grocery data from Infometrics and food stuff costs from
supplies to supermarkets rose by two point seven percent in June.
Costs in all departments rupped this year compared to last year,
and around two thousand items increased in price between May
and June. Johnny VNAs And for Metrics, Chief forecast Gareth Cannon, Gareth,
good morning. Forgive me, Gareth, I've got to turn you
(06:10):
on myself. Gareth, Gareth, good morning.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Right, yeah, yeah, keeping comms on the first day.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, sorry about that. Good to have you on the show.
So tell me why is this still going up?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There are still a few pressures coming in from overseas
which have affected things in the last month. We're still
seeing higher prices for cooking oil, coffee, chocolate, those sort
of things. And there are also a few higher produce prices,
a few fruit rising and price this month as well.
But I guess the key trend is, Look, we're not
seeing the same extended price rises that we're getting eighteen
(06:47):
months ago when the index was up more than ten
percent on a year ago. So coming it's been moderating
over the last twelve months or so, and we're continuing
to see that trend happening.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Is that coming down at a steady pace or is
that are you seeing a sort of a reacceleration of
some of these items.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
There's a few individual items in there, but the overall
in that can it continuing to come down in a
fairly steady case, it's still sitting. I guess the growth
rate is above what we saw pre COVID, where prices
or costs were rising it you know, sort of one
to two percent prandom. So we're hoping for more moderation
to be coming through, but there are still a few
little bits of sort of stickiness and in terms of
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some of those prices.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yet, how important are these prices for the prices that
we pay at the supermarket?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah, there are a significant component, of course of what
ends up the cost coming through you in terms of
what you're paying at supermarket. They're not everything. Labor costs
and you know, commercial rent costs and electricity all those
sort of things also feed through into the costs that
supermarkets face and therefore the price that they charge you
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you have any indication, I mean, are you are
you able to take these numbers and put them into
a ansigraph and then work out when this will actually
start coming down, you know, or perhaps even turn the
other way and go negative.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, we're not expecting it to go negative. I guess
what we've seen across the whole economy is that what
we've had over the last two or three years through
the pandemic and the sort of aftermath of that, is
that you've almost had a step up in the level
of prices overall, and I think food prices are not
immune to that either. We are expecting now, I guess
over the rest of the course of this year and
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into early twenty twenty five that the sort of last
little bits of inflation that are still causing problems in
the system, that they will sort of be weeded out
and you will get price growth back to what we
were used to prior to COVID.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Gath, thank you very much for your time this morning.
Great to have you on the program. Sixteen minutes after
find that was Gareth Kennan infameatric's chief forecaster, Bryan Bridge,
Joe Biden. He's eighty one years old and this is
not about his age. I want to make that really clear.
It's not a you know, is he eighty one? Can
he be president? Thing? It's how many marbles can a
(09:04):
president lose before? There aren't enough marbles left to be
president with the.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
COVID, I should be with dealing with everything we have
to do with. Look if we finally beat medicare.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, so look here's a fact. My grandmother is eighty
seven years old. Biden is eighty one. My grandmother just
delivered a beautiful speech at a wedding, my wedding, in
your wedding, at my wedding a week ago. So it's
not an age thing, you know, it's a it's a
competency thing. And there are new reports this morning about
(09:44):
doctors visiting the White House. There's a top neurologist. This
is a new report from the New York Post who
visited in January. Also, now reporters starting to pick apart
Biden's excuses as to why he performed so poorly during
the debate with Trump last week. He said, remember he said,
sort of off the cuff, I had a cold. I
(10:04):
had a cold. And so what the CNN reporters did,
quite rightly was go to the White House doctor and say,
did Biden go to you at this time and say
I had a cold, and the answer was no. He
went to tell them he had a cold a couple
of days after the debate. Convenient timing. It's interesting, isn't it,
(10:25):
Because you know there are others who were lining up
who want to one day be the leader of the
Democratic Party and be the leader of the free world.
And one of those people, undoubtedly is the California Governor
Gavin Newsoon, though that's highly unlikely this time around. You
would have to say. Anyway, he was asked at the
weekend if he would run if there was an open convention.
Have he listened to his answer, you help the convention,
(10:47):
will you run? No, It's not even that's ninety minutes.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
To me, it's the hypothetical that gets in the way
of progress in terms of promoting this candidacy. And I
think it's exactly where Trump and everyone that's a legit question,
but it's exactly where the other party as to be
is having this internal fate.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And I think it's extraordinarily unhelpful. Yeah. So, in other words,
not saying that no, he wouldn't put his hand up
or throw his hat in the ring, But the other
thing he had to take into account. So there are
now five Democrats are calling on him to step aside,
but for the rest of them, like Newsome, at some point,
You're going to start to look a little bit stupid,
aren't you. I mean, I mean, when public opinion is
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turning against Biden, and when it's turning against his competency
to be able to run the free world, and you're
not on side with that public opinion, how long can
you maintain that?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a planet store.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
News Talk said, be welcome back, good to have you.
Andrew Ordison's he was sport good morning, welcome in, thank you,
It's good to be here. It's very good to be here.
I'll bet it is. I'm a little bit nervous. I
guess perhaps in the same way Razor would have been
before the All Blacks test on Saturday nights.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I think so, yeah, certainly a valid comparison there, Scott Robinson.
I mean, I don't know if you saw Arthur's but
the candor demonstrated by Robertson in the aftermatch chat was
just was pretty entertaining in itself, but getting home sixteen
fifteen just in some nervous moments too, I think just
(12:29):
with the nature of that English performance. They were pretty tenacious,
they offered plenty of grit and yeah, he was his
word as self. He was relieved. So yeah, espepose of
the nerves too with Damien McKenzie with that penalty being
called off two minutes from time for taking too long
to kick it, and then still the English venturing into
(12:50):
the New Zealand, it would have been some nursy and
it was just I mean, part of the sideline was
watching Robertson actually react in the box.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Lilison is at Wimbledon.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
She is now, she is one set to love up
against Emmeratikara. Don't want to alarm anyone just yet, but
she is getting close to becoming a quarter finalist at
the Wimbledon Championships. The last news he wanted to make
the quarter final of any Grand Slam Blinda corbyll in
ninety eighty nine at the Australian Open, who went on
to make the semi finals. But soon is just showing
(13:23):
some tremendous showing there. It's three all in the second Withroicado,
but she has won the first set, so outstanding display.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Fantastic and Lewis Hamilton just cleaning up.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Lewis Hamilton back in the action at Silverston, the British
Grand Prix. He's won that race the ninth.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Time he's done so.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
He hasn't been on the podie hasn't won a race,
I don't think since twenty twenty one, something of that nature.
And beating current champion Max for STARp and out of
the glory there. So tremendous performance from Hamilton getting back
into the reckoning for Mercedes final time. He'll be driving
for Mercedes to win them.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And what about Liam Lawson this sort of talk of promotional.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Yeah, this is an amazing scenario for Lawson. He potentially
is going to get the drive for Red Bull, the
Racing Bull's sister syndicate there with Red Bull, he's going
to have two hundred k's. It will be about thirty
four laps at Silverston to test out after the Scrand
Prix and then they may do a shuffle depending on
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how he goes with that test drive, whether they push
out Sujo Perez who's with Vestav at the moment, they
might move Riccardo up or Sonoda into that second seat
with the starpin, or he takes the seat of Riccardo.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So he's been there for a year.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Ricardo hasn't done an awful lot, so Lawson twenty two
years old. Ryan, his career is on a tremendous trajectory.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Pretty cool, isn't it, Andreewlison, Thank you very much for
your time. That sport this morning. Coming up next it's
d Day for Green MP Darlene Tannum. More on that
in a second, separating the fact from the fiction.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Kid's Filling edition with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds
and Appliant Store Newstalg ZB.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Welcome back to Newstalk ZB with me Ryan Bridge. Great
to be with you, twenty seven minutes after five. Yes,
I am getting your text and I really appreciate them.
Thank you. Right, let's talk about the ocr It is
the elephant in the room at the moment for many people.
If you are I don't want to stay unfortunate enough
to have a mortgage, but if you have a mortgage.
Here it is is Adrian or walking in the same
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streets that we are walking in the real economy is battling.
They are not happy streets at the moment. I met
a retailer the other day who hadn't sold a single
thing in a week. Can you imagine being a retailer
sitting in a shop, not just for one day, for
half a day, but actually not selling anything for an
entire week. The NZDII quarterly survey was out the net
(15:51):
twenty five percent of firms cutting their head count, highest
proportion since the GFC. We've got people hurting, and we've
got the asben Ou predicting we need a cut this year.
We've got ben Z's Stephen Topless saying the latest Darter
quote screams that rates need to be cut sooner. And
we've got adriane Or stubbornly saying no, no, we have
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to wait till we get down to two percent. And
of course that's his job. I mean, it's to get
it between one and three percent. And he said that
two is the target, and inflation has slowed, but it's
still sitting at four percent, which is too high. Right,
So adriane Or will be nervous to cut the rates
too soon and risk keeping inflation fires burning. He arguably
(16:34):
helped light the fires in the first place by pumping
cash in during COVID and you don't want to be
the guy accused of helping start fire that you then
fail to properly put out. So I can see why
he's taking the track that he is. It's basically his job.
But boy does it feel hard to swallow that at
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the moment. The time is twenty nine minutes after five,
Ryan Bridge, Green MP, Darlene Taner, here is some a
couple of numbers to throw at you this morning. One
hundred and fifteen that is the number of days that
she has been suspended. That is half of her political career. Yeah,
half her political career. One hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars.
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That's her salary. Forty thousand that's the number of dollars
that she's earned while on suspension. Zero the amount of
detail we've got from Chloe and co. On what exactly
that investigation has found. But today is d Day, apparently
we will get answers on Darlene Tanna.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
News and Views you trust to start your days early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
Beds and a Playing Store.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
News talk said be twenty four minutes away from six o'clock.
You'll listen the Newstalks. They'd be with me, Ryan Bridge,
Great to have you with me, speaking of slowing things down. Consultation.
(18:16):
Who loves that? No one ever loves consultation. But the
government's doing more of it. Simeon Brown actually put an
email yesterday to National Party supporters. Someone forwarded that to me,
and this is about reversing the blanket ban on the
speed limits, that whole thing. Didn't we just vote them in?
Can't they just do it? Do? We need to consult
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people about everything every time we want to do something,
surveys and submissions and all that kind. It used to
infuriate me when the council would build these dumb cycle ways.
And I'm not an anti cycleway person. In every instance
there are good cycle ways and bad cycle ways, but
when they do dumb ones and spend millions of dollars
and there's nobody on them, it's very frustrating. And then
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they would turn around and they would say to you,
that's what the community he wanted. Really did they who
exactly are you referring to there? And they'll say on
ninety percent of people who responded to our survey said
they support a safer cycle way. Okay, did you tell
them that that cycle way would come at the cost
of ten car parks and their local dairy and florist.
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You know how much context did you put around this
question that you were asking? So anyway, there's consultation going
out this week, I should say on the reversing the
blanket band for speed limits which Labor brought in sim
and Brown emailing his supporters to say submit this way.
Apparently the Greens emailing their supporters to say submit that way.
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How useful is it really? I asked. It's twenty two
away from six m Bridge and we're going to christ
Church now with Claire Sherwood, who's with us this morning? Clear,
Good morning, Good morning. What's happening?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Well, this is an interesting story. There's been a christ
Rich barber who's had this big dream Ryan of opening
a mini adult amusement park. Unfortunately though, that has fallen
by the wayside. So Beny's barbershop owner Ben Scott had
been planning to turn an eighteen hundred square meter hangar
in Wigram into this center of fun for all ages.
But despite construction being about eighty percent complete. Both of
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his businesses have now gone into liquidation. He did try
to crowdfund to meet the bills that were due, but
that failed to hit its goal. On the Facebook page
over the weekend, Scott confirmed the barbershop will continue operating
business as usual under some new management and he will
be an employee. He says a lot of learning has
come from it. He acknowledges he gave it as all,
(20:43):
but he did come up short.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It sounds like how's the weather today, Claire Frosty.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Out there to start, but will clear to a fine day,
some light winds. The maximum is twelve and overnight low
of minus one.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you very much. It's got to Cullum in Dunedin.
Cullum Ah, I'm doing this again one second. Colum there
you are. Good morning, Hello, Hello morning Ryan.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Well, the city's recovering from a big Test match weekend.
It's sold out to a Test match weekend, proving to
be a win for both the All Blacks and the
local hospitality businesses. The city hosting the first Test of
the year at Forsyth Bass Stadium Saturday night, twenty thousand
fans coming to town, so as normal, the city was
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heaving both Friday and Saturday nights or big nights for
the bars and restaurants around town. Pub owner is welcoming
the big events. One popular city pub, the Crake Irish Tavern,
says they were busy from when the doors first open
right through until closing and it was a much needed boost,
they say to the local hospitality industry and what is
normally an off peak tourism season. Looks like the fans
(21:49):
will well behaved to Ryan Police reporting just the one
arrest for disorderly behavior.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Fantastic in the weather today.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Comem fine for us today a fresh westerly and eleven fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Go to Wellington. Now we've got mex toll on the line.
Max opposition at Victoria University to an anti trans event.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Yeah, this is so called women's right speaker Sal Grover
who's appearing at vix Pibutier Campus tomorrow. She's a business woman,
a woman previously worked in the film industry in Australia.
She's talking about the legal ramification for transgender related legal cases.
She well, for much of her career has spoken out
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against a trans women being included in certain spaces. Students
are going to protest. They don't like that this is
happening on campus. The university says, look, anyone can book
an events at Rutherford House. They're not in control of that.
Security staff will be there. This is just another free
speech issue. We've had quite a bit of student outcry
lately at VICAR around free speech, most recently a panel discussion.
(22:52):
I'm not sure if you remember. Some students thought had
too many right leaning speakers on the panel. Two was
too many. Apparently LGBT group You Need Q has spoken
out against this. They say there's a big issue at
play around a lack of vetting for university events.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
All right, Max, how's the weather today, Julie.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Start, but should just be partly cloudy? Would like wednes
High thirteen in the city.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Thank you very much, And we're coming out to my
new best friend at news took CV never, who is
with us in our Aukland studio.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Good morning, Good morning, and welcome to News Talks. You'd
be on your first day, Ryan. We just thought, you know,
we're throwing you a bit of a party. And I've
walked and we've got a theme. I am Queen of Costumes.
So because you only got married listened two weeks ago.
I've got my Mother of the Groom sash and lots
of other little we you know, paraphernalia here on on
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my costumes.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Here you've got a flag. I've got a flag. You
look beautiful.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
I didn't know which one to choose, so I thought
I'll bring them all in and food.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I understand that there's food.
Speaker 11 (23:52):
There's muffins, and they're not stale, they're fresh. So that
means you're my best friend because people here, like Mike Hosking,
everyone used to get reduced to clear muths. But you
are very very popular. But yes, so consultation on the
future representation in Auckland that opens today. The initial proposal
includes boundary changes for the Central Auckland and nor shore
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Wards and also the Rodney Local Board areas. There's going
to be a final decision Ryan, that's going to be
made in September.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Fantastic, Nev, great to have you here. It has just
gone eighteen away from six o'clock here on News Talk
said b Coming up next, we are Live to the
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Speaker 1 (25:20):
Well International Correspondence with Insit Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Fourteen to six Now and Gavin Gray's with Us Live
from the UK. The French election big turnout indeed.
Speaker 12 (25:36):
Looks like it, Ryan, Yeah, so a very important next
sort of fifteen minutes when the polls will close and
then we should get some sort of an exit poll
coming out shortly after that, and then of course we
will know what's going on in the hours after that.
This is a huge moment for France. The National Rally Party,
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the far right party got one in three of the
votes of the first round last week. But since then
the left wing and centrist parties have got together to
try and basically some of them stand down in order
to hope that their supporters will then support the other
left wing or centrist candidates to freeze out the far right.
The question is will it work. The tempers have been
(26:17):
frayed over the last week with dozens of reports of
verbal and physical assaults of both candidates and activists and
those putting up posters and so forth. So lots of
police as on the street, thirty thousand police deployed, five
thousand of them in Paris alone. Things very very tense there,
so obviously we'll need to keep up to date with that.
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Here in the UK we've just had our election, of course,
and already the new Prime Minister, Sakirstana visiting the Four Nations,
so going currently up in Scotland, going to Northern Ireland
and to Wales as well, trying to sort of, as
it were, seal the deal and to show the irrespective
leaders of those different places that he is looking for
(26:58):
a conversation and support and co operation very quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
What is wrong with a kiss? This French cyclist has
been fine.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
Ah yeah, what a good question. So this is referring
to the Tour de France. There was a time trial
when one of the riders, a French cyclist, was quite
cycling quite near his home and out pop supporters and
his wife, and it was a time trial if it
just stopped briefly to kiss his wife. And he's been
fined two hundred Swiss francs roughly three hundred and eighty
(27:27):
New Zealand dollars for the privilege, saying that the sports
governing body said it was unseemly or inappropriate behavior during
the race and damage to the image of the sport.
Who'd have thought it ran?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It's a lot of money. I hope it was a
French kiss. Thanksgevin over Us from the UK. Bryan Bridge right.
It has just gone now twelve minutes away from six
o'clock and it's looking more likely the fast tracked roads
of national significance are going to be told. Procurement and
construction will start in the next three years, but time
(28:00):
frames and costs are still not yet known. So what
does it mean for our freight and transport companies joining
me now? Is Transporting New Zealand Interim Chief Executive Dom Calasi, Dom,
Welcome to the show. What do you make of this?
The fact that, I mean, we always knew that there
was going to be tolls? Right? Does this surprise you.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Morning, Ryan? Well, successly. Absolutely, it doesn't surprise us. It's
been signaled for a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And how do you feel about it? You'd rather the
roads would get built, presumably.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Absolutely, Look the efficient movement afraid it's essential and is
connecting communities, which allows people to connect. And we are
in a bit of a hole at the moment.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
The AAS reckons that the cost of congestion and ortment
alone is over a billion dollars and our current routing
system simply can't cope and we need to do something
about it sooner rather than later. And there's clear evidence
that Tolan can help there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There's a whole list of expressways and motorways and we
won't go through them all, but belfast to Pegasus for example,
the hawks By Expressway. You've got Walkworth to Wellsford. Do
you guys have a priority list?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We think the list that has been provided is actually
pretty good. You know, there's always going to be more
than what can be done at any good time, but
we can that list is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Do you have a preference in terms of order? Because
from what I have read, from what the minister's statement,
it sounds like they're going to try and do them
all at once.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh right, sorry, Now, I think doing them in parallel
is the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Why is that.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Because given all the parts, construction and consenting, it's all
a complex approach, right, And if you only did one
at a time, right, then it's going to actually take
much longer to deliver them all than doing them in parallel.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
How much do you think Let's assume let's look into
the future and think of a beautiful world where all
of these projects have been completed. How much more efficient
would we be would you be?
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Sorry, I haven't done the math on it, but it
would be significant. I mean, just off the top of
my head, right, in a lot of those areas, there
will be not just hours, but tens of hours every
year saved for truckers, right, And if you talk a
rough number of say two hundred to two hundred and
(30:42):
fifty dollars an hour, that's what truck and cough right,
then you're talking about millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Don thanks very much for your time. That's done, CLASSI.
He's the Transport of New Zealand Interim Chief Executive talking
about the word there that and then the Minister hasn't said,
just so that we're clear, every single road of national
significance that's been fast tracked will be told. He's just
saying the government is very open to it and if
NZTA recommends it, then basically they'll they'll do it. And
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wouldn't you rather have some wouldn't you rather have a decent, safe,
quick road to drive on? I suppose it's the question.
It is eight minutes away from six.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Ryan Bridge, New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing
store news dog Zidby.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Good morning, Welcome to your Monday. It's great to be
with you. I'm Ryan Bridge and it's just gone six
away from six o'clock. And coming up next is Andrew
Dickens on the mic, hosting breakfast this morning. Good morning,
good morning. So what are we looking at? Well, you
have been looking. I have a question.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
Now I have a I have a question.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Did you vacuum? No? I didn't that vankims in the corner.
It should be vacuum. I didn't think I had to. Andrew,
I was relaxing because you were here. You'll have you
had fun. I've had fun. I've had fun. There are
so many buttons to press. Yes, that's true. I was
going to say it's like trying to fine. I have fine,
But it's not like that at all. I haven't been listening.
I've been watching Lulu Soun at Wimbledon. She's just lost
(32:16):
the second set. It's now one set. All.
Speaker 13 (32:18):
This woman has gone further Wimbledon than any other woman
from New Zealand before Belinda corp Will made it to
the semis of the Australian Open. So this is a
great thing. So I happy watching a bit of tennis.
But from what I hear, your show is just fine.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And you've got you are going to have actually the
jump on the French election too.
Speaker 13 (32:33):
Yeah, well that's all happening. Catherine Field is going to
join us from France. We've got Christi de Luxan off
to Washington today, so Stephen Holey will talk about his challenges.
And as you were just talking about Simmey, I was
listening to see I lied. You were just talking about
simmyon Brown and the Seven Roads of National Significance, where
you're talking to Simeon about the tolls, how they're going
to do it, how they're going to pay up front,
(32:53):
how much it's going to cost. When's it going to
start where we have a road by the end of
their first term of power. So yeah, roads.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, So I think, great idea. I would rather have
a road than not have a road, and I would
rather pay. You know, I don't I don't mind paying
a little bit for it. The one complaint I have
about tolls is that they send you every time you
drive through them, they send you a piece of paper
to tell you that you and they send you one
for going that way and one for coming back. That's right, No, No.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
In Australia, they go They've got a little thing that
goes up on your on your on your sun vis
it goes bing binging, and every time you hear ping,
there's more money coming out of your bank account going
to the government.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, but at least it's not like you know, you're
not paying for paper every time, you know, ping ping.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
Well, look, get used to ping, ping ping. It's a
user pay world.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
And you dickens with us and just a few moments,
thank you very much for that, and thank you for listening.
I feel like this hour has gone very very quickly.
We will do it all again tomorrow right here on
news Talk sead be you get a fat cow.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
Here's a fasten of so we can fly away, steal,
go to make a decision, leave not a live die
this way.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
For more from us Talks at b Listen live on
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The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture bands and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talk said, be good morning, New Zealand. It is Monday,
the eighth of July. I'm Ryan Bridge. This is news Talk,
said be early edition, and I am very happy to
be here. This is my first show, so please bear
with me. I'm staring at the corner of the studio
and there is a vacuum cleaner with Mike Hoskins's name
on it. I'm very pleased to announce this morning that
(00:37):
Mike is actually away. He's having a well deserve break,
so I don't have to worry about cleaning the studio
when I when I finished today. Andrew Dickens is with
you this morning from six until nine. It is great
to be here. We're going to get straight into it
this morning with the agenda. The agenda. New data from
statsing z shows our population is rapidly aging. Hundred and
(01:00):
fifty thousand people will be aged ninety or older by
the twenty sixties. Currently that number is thirty five thousand.
It's sparked concern from advocacy Group Aged Concern Chief executive
Karen Billings gents and says we're not building new homes
with older people in mind.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm talking multi story homes, access to public transport, flat
areas that people can move around and be connected to
their community.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Suburbs in Autland and Hamilton have faced the most burglaries
over the past four years. On average, a burglary is
supported every twelve minutes. This is across the country, so
that's one hundred and eighty thousand reports nationwide over the
last four years, but most in terms of suburbs have
taken place in Auckland's Tuckenenny South with one hundred and
seventy eight reported. It's not just an Auckland issue, though,
(01:48):
Herald head of Data Chris Knox says burglaries in Wellington
can be very localized.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
There was one block around Willison Victoria Street where where
they had fifty seven burglary supported.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
The next block over from that block too, burg where
he's are reported.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You know which block you want to live in, don't you.
Warning from the Cardiac Society this morning, kiwis are being
hospitalized and dying too young because certain heart drugs aren't
funded they're calling on Farmac to fund the SGLT two
inhibitor drugs for all people with chronic heart failure, using
the recent government funding boost to pay for it. Society
(02:25):
says patients shouldn't have to self fund drugs that are
available in other public health systems. And finally, this morning,
for the United States, we Go Wrestling star John Sena
has announced he's retiring from the sport. He says next
year's ww wrestle Mania will be his last. Over the
last twenty years, he's won the competition sixteen times. The
(02:46):
forty seven year old first joined the WWE in two
thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swis City, New
Zealand's Furniture, Beds and Appliance Store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It'd be just gone nine minutes after five. A big
day or a big evening, i should say. In France,
the first exit poll from the election is expected around
six o'clock this morning, so Andrew will have details for
you on that. We'll also speak to Gavin Gray, who'll
be live at about quarter to six. The highest turnout,
this is what we can tell you so far. The
highest turnout in decades since nineteen eighty one, and they
(03:24):
are still voting, so it's going to be a whopper.
We will find out, of course, just how far right
they have gone. Will the far right National Rally take
over the government. The majority they need is two hundred
and eighty nine. There are five hundred and one seats
in parliament in the French parliament now seventy six of
those have already been decided in the first round of voting.
(03:46):
But the big swing to Lipen's National Rally in the
first round of voting to thirty three point four percent,
that could change because a couple of other things have changed.
Think the main thing that has changed is that people
pulled out, So two hundred candidates are pulled out, meaning
there are fewer three way races. And there's another word
(04:10):
that the French use for a freeway, which I won't
mention on radio because it's just entirely inappropriate. What they're
trying to do this is the center and the left.
They are trying to run an anti far right campaign.
What they don't know, and what we don't know yet
is just how many people will actually vote accordingly. So
for this to work, you would have to get many
(04:32):
centrist voters to vote for far left candidates. Do they
want to do that? You would need to get many
lefties voting for centrist candidates a Macrons or Macron's party.
So will that actually happen? Will it play out as they,
you know, intend it to the sort of strategy that
(04:54):
they're running with pulling candidates out. We will find out.
We're going to talk to Gavin Gray as they say
it's a five forty four this morning. The other big question,
of course, is what happens if they don't get a majority.
How do they govern? What does that look like? We
will find out. The time now is eleven after five.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The First Word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
Beds and a play at store News Talk ZIB.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Good morning, it is thirteen after five. Great to be
with you here on z B. My name is Ryan
Bridge and this is my very first show on News
TALKB and I'm very excited about that and as some
of you are as well, which is which is very pleasing.
You can text nine to nine two. I am reliably
reliably informed as the number to text if you've got
something to share with us this morning, right now. Though
(05:45):
new grocery data from Infometrics and food stuff costs from
supplies to supermarkets rose by two point seven percent in June.
Costs in all departments rupped this year compared to last year,
and around two thousand items increased in price between May
and June. Johnny VNAs And for Metrics, Chief forecast Gareth Cannon, Gareth,
good morning. Forgive me, Gareth, I've got to turn you
(06:10):
on myself. Gareth, Gareth, good morning.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Right, yeah, yeah, keeping comms on the first day.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, sorry about that. Good to have you on the show.
So tell me why is this still going up?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There are still a few pressures coming in from overseas
which have affected things in the last month. We're still
seeing higher prices for cooking oil, coffee, chocolate, those sort
of things. And there are also a few higher produce prices,
a few fruit rising and price this month as well.
But I guess the key trend is, Look, we're not
seeing the same extended price rises that we're getting eighteen
(06:47):
months ago when the index was up more than ten
percent on a year ago. So coming it's been moderating
over the last twelve months or so, and we're continuing
to see that trend happening.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Is that coming down at a steady pace or is
that are you seeing a sort of a reacceleration of
some of these items.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
There's a few individual items in there, but the overall
in that can it continuing to come down in a
fairly steady case, it's still sitting. I guess the growth
rate is above what we saw pre COVID, where prices
or costs were rising it you know, sort of one
to two percent prandom. So we're hoping for more moderation
to be coming through, but there are still a few
little bits of sort of stickiness and in terms of
(07:27):
some of those prices.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yet, how important are these prices for the prices that
we pay at the supermarket?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah, there are a significant component, of course of what
ends up the cost coming through you in terms of
what you're paying at supermarket. They're not everything. Labor costs
and you know, commercial rent costs and electricity all those
sort of things also feed through into the costs that
supermarkets face and therefore the price that they charge you
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you have any indication, I mean, are you are
you able to take these numbers and put them into
a ansigraph and then work out when this will actually
start coming down, you know, or perhaps even turn the
other way and go negative.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, we're not expecting it to go negative. I guess
what we've seen across the whole economy is that what
we've had over the last two or three years through
the pandemic and the sort of aftermath of that, is
that you've almost had a step up in the level
of prices overall, and I think food prices are not
immune to that either. We are expecting now, I guess
over the rest of the course of this year and
(08:31):
into early twenty twenty five that the sort of last
little bits of inflation that are still causing problems in
the system, that they will sort of be weeded out
and you will get price growth back to what we
were used to prior to COVID.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Gath, thank you very much for your time this morning.
Great to have you on the program. Sixteen minutes after
find that was Gareth Kennan infameatric's chief forecaster, Bryan Bridge,
Joe Biden. He's eighty one years old and this is
not about his age. I want to make that really clear.
It's not a you know, is he eighty one? Can
he be president? Thing? It's how many marbles can a
(09:04):
president lose before? There aren't enough marbles left to be
president with the.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
COVID, I should be with dealing with everything we have
to do with. Look if we finally beat medicare.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, so look here's a fact. My grandmother is eighty
seven years old. Biden is eighty one. My grandmother just
delivered a beautiful speech at a wedding, my wedding, in
your wedding, at my wedding a week ago. So it's
not an age thing, you know, it's a it's a
competency thing. And there are new reports this morning about
(09:44):
doctors visiting the White House. There's a top neurologist. This
is a new report from the New York Post who
visited in January. Also, now reporters starting to pick apart
Biden's excuses as to why he performed so poorly during
the debate with Trump last week. He said, remember he said,
sort of off the cuff, I had a cold. I
(10:04):
had a cold. And so what the CNN reporters did,
quite rightly was go to the White House doctor and say,
did Biden go to you at this time and say
I had a cold, and the answer was no. He
went to tell them he had a cold a couple
of days after the debate. Convenient timing. It's interesting, isn't it,
(10:25):
Because you know there are others who were lining up
who want to one day be the leader of the
Democratic Party and be the leader of the free world.
And one of those people, undoubtedly is the California Governor
Gavin Newsoon, though that's highly unlikely this time around. You
would have to say. Anyway, he was asked at the
weekend if he would run if there was an open convention.
Have he listened to his answer, you help the convention,
(10:47):
will you run? No, It's not even that's ninety minutes.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
To me, it's the hypothetical that gets in the way
of progress in terms of promoting this candidacy. And I
think it's exactly where Trump and everyone that's a legit question,
but it's exactly where the other party as to be
is having this internal fate.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And I think it's extraordinarily unhelpful. Yeah. So, in other words,
not saying that no, he wouldn't put his hand up
or throw his hat in the ring, But the other
thing he had to take into account. So there are
now five Democrats are calling on him to step aside,
but for the rest of them, like Newsome, at some point,
You're going to start to look a little bit stupid,
aren't you. I mean, I mean, when public opinion is
(11:25):
turning against Biden, and when it's turning against his competency
to be able to run the free world, and you're
not on side with that public opinion, how long can
you maintain that?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a planet store.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
News Talk said, be welcome back, good to have you.
Andrew Ordison's he was sport good morning, welcome in, thank you,
It's good to be here. It's very good to be here.
I'll bet it is. I'm a little bit nervous. I
guess perhaps in the same way Razor would have been
before the All Blacks test on Saturday nights.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I think so, yeah, certainly a valid comparison there, Scott Robinson.
I mean, I don't know if you saw Arthur's but
the candor demonstrated by Robertson in the aftermatch chat was
just was pretty entertaining in itself, but getting home sixteen
fifteen just in some nervous moments too, I think just
(12:29):
with the nature of that English performance. They were pretty tenacious,
they offered plenty of grit and yeah, he was his
word as self. He was relieved. So yeah, espepose of
the nerves too with Damien McKenzie with that penalty being
called off two minutes from time for taking too long
to kick it, and then still the English venturing into
(12:50):
the New Zealand, it would have been some nursy and
it was just I mean, part of the sideline was
watching Robertson actually react in the box.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Lilison is at Wimbledon.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
She is now, she is one set to love up
against Emmeratikara. Don't want to alarm anyone just yet, but
she is getting close to becoming a quarter finalist at
the Wimbledon Championships. The last news he wanted to make
the quarter final of any Grand Slam Blinda corbyll in
ninety eighty nine at the Australian Open, who went on
to make the semi finals. But soon is just showing
(13:23):
some tremendous showing there. It's three all in the second Withroicado,
but she has won the first set, so outstanding display.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Fantastic and Lewis Hamilton just cleaning up.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Lewis Hamilton back in the action at Silverston, the British
Grand Prix. He's won that race the ninth.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Time he's done so.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
He hasn't been on the podie hasn't won a race,
I don't think since twenty twenty one, something of that nature.
And beating current champion Max for STARp and out of
the glory there. So tremendous performance from Hamilton getting back
into the reckoning for Mercedes final time. He'll be driving
for Mercedes to win them.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And what about Liam Lawson this sort of talk of promotional.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Yeah, this is an amazing scenario for Lawson. He potentially
is going to get the drive for Red Bull, the
Racing Bull's sister syndicate there with Red Bull, he's going
to have two hundred k's. It will be about thirty
four laps at Silverston to test out after the Scrand
Prix and then they may do a shuffle depending on
(14:27):
how he goes with that test drive, whether they push
out Sujo Perez who's with Vestav at the moment, they
might move Riccardo up or Sonoda into that second seat
with the starpin, or he takes the seat of Riccardo.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So he's been there for a year.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Ricardo hasn't done an awful lot, so Lawson twenty two
years old. Ryan, his career is on a tremendous trajectory.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Pretty cool, isn't it, Andreewlison, Thank you very much for
your time. That sport this morning. Coming up next it's
d Day for Green MP Darlene Tannum. More on that
in a second, separating the fact from the fiction.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Kid's Filling edition with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds
and Appliant Store Newstalg ZB.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Welcome back to Newstalk ZB with me Ryan Bridge. Great
to be with you, twenty seven minutes after five. Yes,
I am getting your text and I really appreciate them.
Thank you. Right, let's talk about the ocr It is
the elephant in the room at the moment for many people.
If you are I don't want to stay unfortunate enough
to have a mortgage, but if you have a mortgage.
Here it is is Adrian or walking in the same
(15:31):
streets that we are walking in the real economy is battling.
They are not happy streets at the moment. I met
a retailer the other day who hadn't sold a single
thing in a week. Can you imagine being a retailer
sitting in a shop, not just for one day, for
half a day, but actually not selling anything for an
entire week. The NZDII quarterly survey was out the net
(15:51):
twenty five percent of firms cutting their head count, highest
proportion since the GFC. We've got people hurting, and we've
got the asben Ou predicting we need a cut this year.
We've got ben Z's Stephen Topless saying the latest Darter
quote screams that rates need to be cut sooner. And
we've got adriane Or stubbornly saying no, no, we have
(16:14):
to wait till we get down to two percent. And
of course that's his job. I mean, it's to get
it between one and three percent. And he said that
two is the target, and inflation has slowed, but it's
still sitting at four percent, which is too high. Right,
So adriane Or will be nervous to cut the rates
too soon and risk keeping inflation fires burning. He arguably
(16:34):
helped light the fires in the first place by pumping
cash in during COVID and you don't want to be
the guy accused of helping start fire that you then
fail to properly put out. So I can see why
he's taking the track that he is. It's basically his job.
But boy does it feel hard to swallow that at
(16:56):
the moment. The time is twenty nine minutes after five,
Ryan Bridge, Green MP, Darlene Taner, here is some a
couple of numbers to throw at you this morning. One
hundred and fifteen that is the number of days that
she has been suspended. That is half of her political career. Yeah,
half her political career. One hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars.
(17:16):
That's her salary. Forty thousand that's the number of dollars
that she's earned while on suspension. Zero the amount of
detail we've got from Chloe and co. On what exactly
that investigation has found. But today is d Day, apparently
we will get answers on Darlene Tanna.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
News and Views you trust to start your days early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
Beds and a Playing Store.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
News talk said be twenty four minutes away from six o'clock.
You'll listen the Newstalks. They'd be with me, Ryan Bridge,
Great to have you with me, speaking of slowing things down. Consultation.
(18:16):
Who loves that? No one ever loves consultation. But the
government's doing more of it. Simeon Brown actually put an
email yesterday to National Party supporters. Someone forwarded that to me,
and this is about reversing the blanket ban on the
speed limits, that whole thing. Didn't we just vote them in?
Can't they just do it? Do? We need to consult
(18:36):
people about everything every time we want to do something,
surveys and submissions and all that kind. It used to
infuriate me when the council would build these dumb cycle ways.
And I'm not an anti cycleway person. In every instance
there are good cycle ways and bad cycle ways, but
when they do dumb ones and spend millions of dollars
and there's nobody on them, it's very frustrating. And then
(18:59):
they would turn around and they would say to you,
that's what the community he wanted. Really did they who
exactly are you referring to there? And they'll say on
ninety percent of people who responded to our survey said
they support a safer cycle way. Okay, did you tell
them that that cycle way would come at the cost
of ten car parks and their local dairy and florist.
(19:23):
You know how much context did you put around this
question that you were asking? So anyway, there's consultation going
out this week, I should say on the reversing the
blanket band for speed limits which Labor brought in sim
and Brown emailing his supporters to say submit this way.
Apparently the Greens emailing their supporters to say submit that way.
(19:47):
How useful is it really? I asked. It's twenty two
away from six m Bridge and we're going to christ
Church now with Claire Sherwood, who's with us this morning? Clear,
Good morning, Good morning. What's happening?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Well, this is an interesting story. There's been a christ
Rich barber who's had this big dream Ryan of opening
a mini adult amusement park. Unfortunately though, that has fallen
by the wayside. So Beny's barbershop owner Ben Scott had
been planning to turn an eighteen hundred square meter hangar
in Wigram into this center of fun for all ages.
But despite construction being about eighty percent complete. Both of
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his businesses have now gone into liquidation. He did try
to crowdfund to meet the bills that were due, but
that failed to hit its goal. On the Facebook page
over the weekend, Scott confirmed the barbershop will continue operating
business as usual under some new management and he will
be an employee. He says a lot of learning has
come from it. He acknowledges he gave it as all,
(20:43):
but he did come up short.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It sounds like how's the weather today, Claire Frosty.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Out there to start, but will clear to a fine day,
some light winds. The maximum is twelve and overnight low
of minus one.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you very much. It's got to Cullum in Dunedin.
Cullum Ah, I'm doing this again one second. Colum there
you are. Good morning, Hello, Hello morning Ryan.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Well, the city's recovering from a big Test match weekend.
It's sold out to a Test match weekend, proving to
be a win for both the All Blacks and the
local hospitality businesses. The city hosting the first Test of
the year at Forsyth Bass Stadium Saturday night, twenty thousand
fans coming to town, so as normal, the city was
(21:27):
heaving both Friday and Saturday nights or big nights for
the bars and restaurants around town. Pub owner is welcoming
the big events. One popular city pub, the Crake Irish Tavern,
says they were busy from when the doors first open
right through until closing and it was a much needed boost,
they say to the local hospitality industry and what is
normally an off peak tourism season. Looks like the fans
(21:49):
will well behaved to Ryan Police reporting just the one
arrest for disorderly behavior.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Fantastic in the weather today.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Comem fine for us today a fresh westerly and eleven fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Go to Wellington. Now we've got mex toll on the line.
Max opposition at Victoria University to an anti trans event.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Yeah, this is so called women's right speaker Sal Grover
who's appearing at vix Pibutier Campus tomorrow. She's a business woman,
a woman previously worked in the film industry in Australia.
She's talking about the legal ramification for transgender related legal cases.
She well, for much of her career has spoken out
(22:30):
against a trans women being included in certain spaces. Students
are going to protest. They don't like that this is
happening on campus. The university says, look, anyone can book
an events at Rutherford House. They're not in control of that.
Security staff will be there. This is just another free
speech issue. We've had quite a bit of student outcry
lately at VICAR around free speech, most recently a panel discussion.
(22:52):
I'm not sure if you remember. Some students thought had
too many right leaning speakers on the panel. Two was
too many. Apparently LGBT group You Need Q has spoken
out against this. They say there's a big issue at
play around a lack of vetting for university events.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
All right, Max, how's the weather today, Julie.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Start, but should just be partly cloudy? Would like wednes
High thirteen in the city.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Thank you very much, And we're coming out to my
new best friend at news took CV never, who is
with us in our Aukland studio.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Good morning, Good morning, and welcome to News Talks. You'd
be on your first day, Ryan. We just thought, you know,
we're throwing you a bit of a party. And I've
walked and we've got a theme. I am Queen of Costumes.
So because you only got married listened two weeks ago.
I've got my Mother of the Groom sash and lots
of other little we you know, paraphernalia here on on
(23:43):
my costumes.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Here you've got a flag. I've got a flag. You
look beautiful.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
I didn't know which one to choose, so I thought
I'll bring them all in and food.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I understand that there's food.
Speaker 11 (23:52):
There's muffins, and they're not stale, they're fresh. So that
means you're my best friend because people here, like Mike Hosking,
everyone used to get reduced to clear muths. But you
are very very popular. But yes, so consultation on the
future representation in Auckland that opens today. The initial proposal
includes boundary changes for the Central Auckland and nor shore
(24:13):
Wards and also the Rodney Local Board areas. There's going
to be a final decision Ryan, that's going to be
made in September.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Fantastic, Nev, great to have you here. It has just
gone eighteen away from six o'clock here on News Talk
said b Coming up next, we are Live to the
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Speaker 1 (25:20):
Well International Correspondence with Insit Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Fourteen to six Now and Gavin Gray's with Us Live
from the UK. The French election big turnout indeed.
Speaker 12 (25:36):
Looks like it, Ryan, Yeah, so a very important next
sort of fifteen minutes when the polls will close and
then we should get some sort of an exit poll
coming out shortly after that, and then of course we
will know what's going on in the hours after that.
This is a huge moment for France. The National Rally Party,
(25:56):
the far right party got one in three of the
votes of the first round last week. But since then
the left wing and centrist parties have got together to
try and basically some of them stand down in order
to hope that their supporters will then support the other
left wing or centrist candidates to freeze out the far right.
The question is will it work. The tempers have been
(26:17):
frayed over the last week with dozens of reports of
verbal and physical assaults of both candidates and activists and
those putting up posters and so forth. So lots of
police as on the street, thirty thousand police deployed, five
thousand of them in Paris alone. Things very very tense there,
so obviously we'll need to keep up to date with that.
(26:38):
Here in the UK we've just had our election, of course,
and already the new Prime Minister, Sakirstana visiting the Four Nations,
so going currently up in Scotland, going to Northern Ireland
and to Wales as well, trying to sort of, as
it were, seal the deal and to show the irrespective
leaders of those different places that he is looking for
(26:58):
a conversation and support and co operation very quickly.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
What is wrong with a kiss? This French cyclist has
been fine.
Speaker 12 (27:05):
Ah yeah, what a good question. So this is referring
to the Tour de France. There was a time trial
when one of the riders, a French cyclist, was quite
cycling quite near his home and out pop supporters and
his wife, and it was a time trial if it
just stopped briefly to kiss his wife. And he's been
fined two hundred Swiss francs roughly three hundred and eighty
(27:27):
New Zealand dollars for the privilege, saying that the sports
governing body said it was unseemly or inappropriate behavior during
the race and damage to the image of the sport.
Who'd have thought it ran?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It's a lot of money. I hope it was a
French kiss. Thanksgevin over Us from the UK. Bryan Bridge right.
It has just gone now twelve minutes away from six
o'clock and it's looking more likely the fast tracked roads
of national significance are going to be told. Procurement and
construction will start in the next three years, but time
(28:00):
frames and costs are still not yet known. So what
does it mean for our freight and transport companies joining
me now? Is Transporting New Zealand Interim Chief Executive Dom Calasi, Dom,
Welcome to the show. What do you make of this?
The fact that, I mean, we always knew that there
was going to be tolls? Right? Does this surprise you.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Morning, Ryan? Well, successly. Absolutely, it doesn't surprise us. It's
been signaled for a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And how do you feel about it? You'd rather the
roads would get built, presumably.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Absolutely, Look the efficient movement afraid it's essential and is
connecting communities, which allows people to connect. And we are
in a bit of a hole at the moment.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
The AAS reckons that the cost of congestion and ortment
alone is over a billion dollars and our current routing
system simply can't cope and we need to do something
about it sooner rather than later. And there's clear evidence
that Tolan can help there.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There's a whole list of expressways and motorways and we
won't go through them all, but belfast to Pegasus for example,
the hawks By Expressway. You've got Walkworth to Wellsford. Do
you guys have a priority list?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We think the list that has been provided is actually
pretty good. You know, there's always going to be more
than what can be done at any good time, but
we can that list is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Do you have a preference in terms of order? Because
from what I have read, from what the minister's statement,
it sounds like they're going to try and do them
all at once.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Oh right, sorry, Now, I think doing them in parallel
is the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Why is that.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Because given all the parts, construction and consenting, it's all
a complex approach, right, And if you only did one
at a time, right, then it's going to actually take
much longer to deliver them all than doing them in parallel.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
How much do you think Let's assume let's look into
the future and think of a beautiful world where all
of these projects have been completed. How much more efficient
would we be would you be?
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Sorry, I haven't done the math on it, but it
would be significant. I mean, just off the top of
my head, right, in a lot of those areas, there
will be not just hours, but tens of hours every
year saved for truckers, right, And if you talk a
rough number of say two hundred to two hundred and
(30:42):
fifty dollars an hour, that's what truck and cough right,
then you're talking about millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Don thanks very much for your time. That's done, CLASSI.
He's the Transport of New Zealand Interim Chief Executive talking
about the word there that and then the Minister hasn't said,
just so that we're clear, every single road of national
significance that's been fast tracked will be told. He's just
saying the government is very open to it and if
NZTA recommends it, then basically they'll they'll do it. And
(31:13):
wouldn't you rather have some wouldn't you rather have a decent, safe,
quick road to drive on? I suppose it's the question.
It is eight minutes away from six.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Ryan Bridge, New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing
store news dog Zidby.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Good morning, Welcome to your Monday. It's great to be
with you. I'm Ryan Bridge and it's just gone six
away from six o'clock. And coming up next is Andrew
Dickens on the mic, hosting breakfast this morning. Good morning,
good morning. So what are we looking at? Well, you
have been looking. I have a question.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
Now I have a I have a question.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Did you vacuum? No? I didn't that vankims in the corner.
It should be vacuum. I didn't think I had to. Andrew,
I was relaxing because you were here. You'll have you
had fun. I've had fun. I've had fun. There are
so many buttons to press. Yes, that's true. I was
going to say it's like trying to fine. I have fine,
But it's not like that at all. I haven't been listening.
I've been watching Lulu Soun at Wimbledon. She's just lost
(32:16):
the second set. It's now one set. All.
Speaker 13 (32:18):
This woman has gone further Wimbledon than any other woman
from New Zealand before Belinda corp Will made it to
the semis of the Australian Open. So this is a
great thing. So I happy watching a bit of tennis.
But from what I hear, your show is just fine.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And you've got you are going to have actually the
jump on the French election too.
Speaker 13 (32:33):
Yeah, well that's all happening. Catherine Field is going to
join us from France. We've got Christi de Luxan off
to Washington today, so Stephen Holey will talk about his challenges.
And as you were just talking about Simmey, I was
listening to see I lied. You were just talking about
simmyon Brown and the Seven Roads of National Significance, where
you're talking to Simeon about the tolls, how they're going
to do it, how they're going to pay up front,
(32:53):
how much it's going to cost. When's it going to
start where we have a road by the end of
their first term of power. So yeah, roads.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, So I think, great idea. I would rather have
a road than not have a road, and I would
rather pay. You know, I don't I don't mind paying
a little bit for it. The one complaint I have
about tolls is that they send you every time you
drive through them, they send you a piece of paper
to tell you that you and they send you one
for going that way and one for coming back. That's right, No, No.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
In Australia, they go They've got a little thing that
goes up on your on your on your sun vis
it goes bing binging, and every time you hear ping,
there's more money coming out of your bank account going
to the government.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, but at least it's not like you know, you're
not paying for paper every time, you know, ping ping.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
Well, look, get used to ping, ping ping. It's a
user pay world.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
And you dickens with us and just a few moments,
thank you very much for that, and thank you for listening.
I feel like this hour has gone very very quickly.
We will do it all again tomorrow right here on
news Talk sead be you get a fat cow.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
Here's a fasten of so we can fly away, steal,
go to make a decision, leave not a live die
this way.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
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