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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, New Zealand. It is great to have you
on ZB this morning, just gone six after five. Welcome
to your Wednesday morning. We're going to talk about gas
prices this morning. Are these spot prices are skyrocketing? Apparently
there is a gas crisis, did you know? And the
government is looking at using emergency powers to keep the
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power on. We'll talk about that in just a few seconds.
Also this morning, by your batch. Now, if you are
ever thinking of buying a holiday home in Northland, I
think now is the time. The government says it's going
to accelerate a four lane highway up to Fugade, which
would cut your journey time, you'd have to say by
a significant margin. Also this morning, the case for interest
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rates to fall hard and fast, and the list at
drugs that sharks are ingesting in Brazil. It's just gone
seven after five.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Wednesday, the twenty fourth of July. The Secret Service Director
Kimberly Cheetle has resigned after admitting the service fell short
of its duty when a gunman attempted to kill former
President Donald Trump. It comes just a day after Cheatle
was ripped into by lawmakers at the House Oversight Committee.
I don't think she should resign. I think she should
have been fired. Ma'am, you're a the horror story.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Would you like to use my five minutes to draft
your resignation letter?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yes or no?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
If you want to be in charge, then answer the
question or step aside.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Wow, she was in charge when a president was shot,
so you can kind of understand that. Joe Biden says
he is going to appoint a new director soon. Biden,
by the way, is going to speak for the first
time on Thursday, our time about his decision to no
longer seek reelection. His address to the nation will take
place at the White House, where he is set to
return today after recovering from COVID at his beach house
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in Delaware. Former Green MP Darling Tana has returned to
Parliament as an independent following investigation into her involvement with
her husband's business, which is accused of exploiting migrants. The
Greens have pleaded for her to just bug her off,
but Tana remains defined.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I'm here now in doing the mahy for as long
as this place follow.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Out 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 player store News Talk zid be.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Everybody's doing the mhy, aren't they, and getting the treats.
And it's the treats you need to you need to
think about because why is she there? The answer lies
in the liquidata's report which we found yesterday into her
husband's business at bike shop. They are ird the taxman
and creditors four hundred thousand dollars cash on hand from
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the liquidata's report one hundred and eighty eight dollars. So
she's not there because she's a martyr for the people
or any great public service need. This is about money,
isn't it? Follow the money trail she's on about one
hundred and seventy k year. When you've got your husband's
businesses is basically up up the creek. What do you
do while you sit in the library. Apparently she set
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up her an office in the library at Doment. You
sit in the library and you get the salary, don't you.
It's just gone nine after five Bridge. Also this morning,
Genesis Energy, they're in a bit of a spot of
bother over gas prices. So there's an interesting report from
Business Desk. It says that government officials are talking about
emergency powers to make sure that gas is supplied to
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critical users. This is quite major stuff. There's a bill
that was passed in two thousand and eight that gives
the government the power to make sure that critical users
get the gas that they need. Forsythe Bar has downgraded
its rating on Genesis Energy because of its uncertain gas outlook.
Demand is our exceeding supply as sorry, is exceeding supply,
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and there's no solution insight. That's according to forsythe Bar
spot gas prices are at record levels. They're trading above
thirty eight dollars thirty eight dollars gigajuels. That's four hundred
percent more than a year ago, four hundred percent. And
let's not forget that Genesis announced in May, remember we
spoke about this last week, that it's burning through half
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a million tons of imported coal right now this winter,
and when this winter is over, they will order three
hundred and fifty thousand more tons of coal from overseas
just to keep the lights on. Great news, Let's burn
the coal, let's demonize the gas. Excellent, just go on.
Ten minutes after five. Coming up next, we're going to
talk about that secret service agent boss a little bit more.
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Also later in the show, the New Zealand Collective of
Abused in State Care Charitable Trust. This report is out today.
Apparently it's three thousand pages long and fourteen kilograms. That
will be a big talking point today, so we'll keep
you up to date with that right now. It is
eleven after five.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
News and Views You Trust has done. Your day is
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture,
beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
News Talk said be thirteen after five on news Talk
said b there is a case being made for interest
rates to fall hard and fast. We'll talk about that
in a second. That's from the Economist Ed mc knight
and the Herald. Right now, though, we could be missing
out on two hundred and fifty million dollars a year
due to payWave and online credit card fees. That's according
to the ComCom the Commerce Commission, who say that there
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needs to be more regulation to stop retailers unnecessarily overcharging
their customers. They are consulting on the changes that they
want to make. They've also set a goal to see
SURD charges for contact lists or online payments fall between
one and a half and two percent. Caroen Young is
from retail end Z and she's with me this morning. Carolyn,
good morning. What do you think of what do you
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think is a reasonable fee to charge?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Look, I think it's an early days to recare what
would be a reasonable fee to charge with what we
do now is as pretty complicated system, and there's a
lot of players with their hands in the till while
we're working through the process and when we want it
to be much more simpler, more straightforward, easy for retailers
and consumers to follow, something that's open and transparent so
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that everyone understands how it looks and what's reasonable to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So do the shop owners get charged? Do they all
get charged a different amount from that merchant service fee
that they pay or is that a uniform fee across everyone?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
There are lots of differencies within the payment gateways that
you pay, depending on the type of card, the banks
you're with, the terminal provider, the card transaction that goes through.
You know, there's lots of different ways in which that
comes through, and what we're one of the one of
the things we're looking for is to make sure that
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it's all streamlined so that everybody's bank statement clearly states
what their total SEE is at the end of each month.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Are we getting ripped off? Is the ComCom right?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
There's probably an element of the fees that could certainly
be trims, that's for sure, and that sits with the
financial services system within that space, and that's passed on
to retailers and often passed on to consenters.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So you're saying it's not the retailers are who are
adding a bit of fat in there. It's the visas
and the master cards.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Well, there are times when some of the fees that
are passed on to consumers are probably not as accurately
reflected as they could be. And part of that, from
the conversations we've had with people, is through lack of
knowledge through a really complicated system. So we want system
to be a lot more pall and straightforward so that
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everyone can follow it and that all of the players
in that space. There's always bad actors that operate in
spaces that they are providing good advice to businesses, you know,
both retailers and hospitality businesses, and we're working alongside hospitality
to jointly go out to our members and come back.
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We're pretty aligned on where we see things and we
want to see improvements across the board.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, Carolyn, thanks so much of your time. It's
Carolyn Young from Retailing Z sixteen after five and not
every day you get Retailing ZED saying basically, yes, some
retailers probably are overcharging. Whether they know that overcharging or not. Well,
I guess that's up to interpretation, isn't it? Interesting article
from Ed McKnight, The Economist and the heralds Oh, sorry,
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I should say one roof dot co, dot and Z
go and check it out. Fixed rates of five percent. Gosh,
that got my heart of flutter ah. Yes, please like
to go back to those days. And he's basically making
the case for interest rates to fall hard and fast,
as you know, inflation at three point three percent. Hopefully
we're going to hit our target by Christmas of one
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to three percent. Wholesale interest rates are down. That is good.
A and Z westpack A whole bunch of others slashing
the one year rates. That is good, A and Z
predicting a one year rate of five point seven percent
by June twenty twenty five. That is good. But then
you've got non tradable inflation being sticky, still sticky according
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to the Reserve Bank. And also the Aussies. Remember they
cut their rates, inflation came back up and they had
to put it back on again. And then you've got
Adrian or who it's a bit like waiting for Santa
to give you your presents at Christmas. I feel that
that's the way I feel about Adrian all right now,
because it's just you're just paying, you know, an arm
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and a leg to service your mortgage. He's probably gave
us too many presents last Christmas, and he's probably going
to be a little stingy for a while longer yet,
because he doesn't want to be the guy who didn't
properly put the fire out that he kind of started. Anyway,
we'll look more into that later on the show. It's
just gone eighteen after five, coming up next four lane
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expressway and you believe it from Auckland all the way
to Fungaday.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But when ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on
early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and
a playing store.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
News Talk Zidby, Good morning, Welcome to early edition twenty
after five. The government is accelerating work on a four
lane expressway from Auckland all the way up to fung Ada.
There's already the Poohoy to Welsford, beautiful stretch of road
that is in place now. It's been classed as a
road of National Significance and is set to give better
and safer access to Northland which is regularly cut off
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at the brim Dowbins. Not cut off. You can go around,
but gosha AD's journey time, doesn't it. We're going to
go to Darren Fisher, now the chief executive of North Chamber.
Good morning Darren. You're obviously excited about this, but are
you skeptical about the date because we haven't got one yet, right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah, good morning, right, Yeah, obviously very excited here at
Northend that you know, we've heard this, we've heard this
before and getting getting a digger bucket in the ground
is probably the second most important thing that's ever happened
in North and i'd say.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Can you tell me what have they told you privately
as the government told you privately any dates.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
No, they haven't, and I think there's still some work
to go on there as far as consents and obtaining
land and business cases go. But you as a as
a community, we're here to make sure we accelerate that
as quickly as we can.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
N CTA did resilience work on the brindurwins. Do you
think there was? It's resilient.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Well, I think the events of the weekend show us
that it's not. No, I think someone's relatively lucky that
they weren't killed in that extra slip that happened on
the weekend. And it's still very fragile, and you know
we're still susceptible to being cut off. So no, in
the Papara Oakley Road, which is one of the diversion
roads you mentioned, that was also not up to scratch either.
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So you know, there's a lot of work to do
to make sure that not only Northend but all of
New Zealand benefits from this four.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Lane highlight because in the meantime, because let's be honest,
it's going to take at least a decade you would
say before anything, actually before we can actually drive on
this thing. So in the meantime we're going to have
this brindeau and open closed, open clothes, open clothes.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, that's what I would expect to see.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Rhyme.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
I think that's a fair assessment. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Do you have any idea of the economic benefit to
the region if they were to fall laneo Fang a day.
Has anyone put a number on it?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
The Northern Corporate Group, you know, very nicely put a
business case together that shows significant growth for the region.
But I think it's it's a great opportunity for our
population to grow. And I think people take this current
business case and they say, oh, it's only two hundred
thousand people and it's a holiday highway. Well, you know,
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that couldn't be further from the truth. North and it's
a very strategic asset for all of New Zealand, and
I think our population will grow significantly on the back
of having a good connection to Auckland and that's our
biggest economic zone of New Zealand, being Auckland and where
it's neighbor so everyone can benefit from this road too.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right, Darren, thank you very much for your time. Darren Fisher,
the North Chamber Chief Executive with us this morning. Hope
you know fingers crossed that that road gets built as
soon as it possibly can. It's just gone twenty three
after five year old News Talk said, be coming up
next to the shambles that is Health New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Separating the fact from the section ad Spurling edition with
Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and applied store.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
News Talk ZB twenty five after five news Talk said,
be the press conference yesterday for Health New Zealand. Boy
oh boy, what a doozy. So they've appointed Lester Levy
as the commissioner. The CEO, Margie Arper was there alongside him.
She's been in the job two years. That's how long
the organization's been set up for. And they're over spending
one hundred and thirty million dollars a month. We know
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that that can be nothing more than mismanagement. If you
take Levy's word for it, he says they don't need
more money, They basically just don't know how to spend
efficiently within the organization as it stands. So I mean
that's mismanagement, short and simple. Start to finish and the
whole thing for me was a farce. They said, we
need to push into the regions. That's where the decision
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making is made. What isn't it that what we said
we didn't need. We needed more centralization, we needed a
national service. And now we're going out to the regions again,
apparently hiring four regionals. Oars. Why did we spend all
this money to set this organization up? It's so frustrating
to listen to. They also said, we're never going to
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achieve the proper transition from the DHBs to this new
organization in two years. Are you serious? Imagine a private
business changing its operating model and two in saying oh,
the change hasn't worked, but it's still early days. It
just wouldn't happen. And then there was this Levy who
sits on a whole bunch of boards and knows what
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he's talking about. Casually said that their spending controls and
checks and balances are not up to scratch.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Internal and management controls are much weaker than I would
have expected. So we have spending problems all over the show.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What an absolute cluster. I hate to be negative, I
really do. I know it's early in the morning. I
hate to be negative, but I just lost all the
will to live yesterday. Just as simple we request from me,
let's make sure that when we appoint boards and executives
that they actually know what they're doing. They can read
a spreadsheet. Good luck, Lester, I think you'll need it.
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Bryan Bridge, twenty seven after five. Anyway, let's move on
to some good news. It's not actually it's terrible. Sunday
was the hottest day in recorded history. Scene n's just
put a story out. Leo has just handed me the story,
our producer to preliminary data from a climate tracking agency
monitoring temperatures. So since the mid nineteen hundreds, it's the
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second consecutive year average global temperatures have crashed through shocking
climate records and will not be the last, as planet
warming fossil fuel pollution drives temperatures to shocking new highs.
Do you know what, I'm not shocked, and I don't
really care. I just think, oh, better for some bathing
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in summer. You know, I just don't really care when
I hear you hear so many stories like this now,
I think it's almost like overkill, you know. I mean,
obviously we have got to do something about it. Blah
blah blah. I mean, here's the thing. I don't have children,
so I actually have a reason not to care. I mean,
I'm not leaving the planet in any state for anyone
behind me. Am I you know, I'm just worried about,
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you know, my tan in the European summer, and it's
looking pretty good. Still to come on the program, We've
got lots of talk. We still will get to the
Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheetle who has resigned, also a
netball coach in a bit of hot water for using
the word feral, and the drug that sharks are ingesting
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in Brazil. We'll get to all of that, plus the
abuse in steak here inquiring the big report being released today.
We'll talk about that just before six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swiss City, New
Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
News Talk sid be your bootsto working?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Did your trug brigs?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Did you put through my dix fun?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Good morning, twenty four minutes away from six year on
News Talk, sa'd be I'm Rhyan Bridge, Great to have
your company this morning as you wake up to what
should be a pretty good day for most otherwise. The
Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle, the boss has resigned. Talk about
a bad day at the office. I mean, how did
she hang on really for a couple of weeks since
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former President Trump the assassination attempt on his life. I mean,
that's her job. She's the boss of the Secret Service.
A bullet managed to hit a nominee for president. You
have to resign, don't you.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
She was.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It's a bad day at the office. What can you say?
So she's gone, and Biden's going to appoint a new one. Sharks.
You know, when you're swimming, what is worse than a
shark in the water. A shark on cocaine. I would
wager it's been found in sharks off the coast of
Rio de Janeiro at alarming rates, high levels in their
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muscles and their liver one hundred times higher than in
other animals. And I know what you're thinking, how do
they snort it underwater? They don't. People. This is how
it happens. The researchers reckon people use cocaine in Rio Degenio.
They do their number ones and their number two's and
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the sewerage outflows hit the ocean and the sharks ingest
it that way, there you go. Just nothing more frightening
than shark on cocaine. I suppose if the shark was
on marijuana and they got the munchies. You wouldn't want
that either, would you. You probably don't want your sharks
on anything. Actually, just gone twenty two minutes away from
six Bread Rich Duneda now with Callum Proctor, the South
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Otago town that's celebrating after winning a six sixty concert. Yeah,
morning right.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
This is bell Kluth, population four thousand. It's been revealed
as the winning town of six sixties one More Show contest,
so sitement levels pretty high there.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
As you can imagine.
Speaker 10 (20:02):
Fans had to vote to decide the winning venue that
would host the last concert of the band's grassroots small
town tour, and after some pretty vigorous campaigning, Bellcluther's come
out on top from four others, beating out fangarre Rotru,
Palmerston North and Raglan. The band says it will play
a matinee and a night show in Bellcluther on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
August thirty first.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
The mayor Brian Caddigan says they're absolutely stoked and look
forward to hosting in true Southern style.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's called They're good guys. And the weather today come
mainly fine, high cloud westerlies and seventeen the high today,
thank you. Claire Sherwood is in christ Church for us
this morning. It's d Day for the environment Canterbridge here,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Ryan Counselors are expected to meet today to discuss Peter
Scott's future in the organization following an investigation and a
formal warning into unconsented farm irrigation. Of course, he revealed
that during an interview right here on News Talk SeeDB
councilor John sunk Now says he backs Scott and he's
been intimately involved in conversations with the government around issues
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including public transport and resilience. He says the council needs
Scott's leadership and knowledge to continue those discussions for the
betterment of Canterbury, and if he's no longer there, someone
else will have to start again.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Clear weather today.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Nice here in christ Church, fine with light, wins are
higher fifteen with two overnight.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Beautiful, thank you, and we're going to max Tole and Wellington.
Now you've got an update on rates rises. Max.
Speaker 11 (21:29):
Yes, some unexpected swings for some this week, higher than
expected rates rises, lower than expected for some as well.
To be fair, the city Council's rate rise was voted
on as eighteen point five percent, the regional council nineteen
point eight percent. The overall figure is a combination of both,
but for some in the city it's going to equate
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to more than twenty one percent. That's because there are
different ratings districts around the region getting their valuations at
different times. The cities was done at a round market
peak podlydof for instance, skinning a lower rates rise than
expected probably do are done near the market bottom, so
swings in roundabouts, says the City Council. The shoe could
be on the other foot in a few years regardless,
tough times for many.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, you would be pretty upset with that, wouldn't you. Max,
than we're there for today in the capitol.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Mainly fine thirteen the high Central brilliant.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Thank you never any manager in Auckland, good morning, good morning,
tell me the Auckland City rail Link. Where are we
at progress wise?
Speaker 12 (22:25):
Well, let's get excited because the finish line is in sight.
Speaker 13 (22:29):
Can you believe it? Auckland is Oh my goodness.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
So CRL's targeting to have its first test trains running
by November.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
I kid you not.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
So all the heavy constructions finished, the tracks are installed,
you know, the overhead lines are in apparently you know
it's only taken what how many twenty years or so? No,
so now it's moving into this testing and commissioning phase.
I was having a bit of a chuckle with your
producer Leo because as I was walking through, he was like, oh, yeah,
I followed them on Facebook.
Speaker 13 (22:58):
I'm with the I've joined the City Rail Link Facebook pa.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
I mean, how old are you twenty two?
Speaker 13 (23:03):
What are you doing following those guys?
Speaker 12 (23:05):
But I was just telling him that we're thinking about
getting a group together in the newsroom to ride to
go to the subway.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
We're going to pretend we're in New York.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's open. Well, do you know what. I've actually been
down there for a story. I did a couple I
don't know, a year ago or so. The testing phase
is actually going to take a long time, they said,
because they haven't used this type of equipment in New
Zealand before. So the testing phase I think could take
at least six months to a year.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Are you Are you trying to boost my bubble a
little bit?
Speaker 12 (23:32):
Well, look there, we'll give us plenty of time to
practice as buskers, because we want to be the first buskers.
I'm going to be playing the recorder. Leo is going
to be holding our container. We've got a couple of singers.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
What can you do?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I all won't be there. I'll be driving my car.
Speaker 13 (23:45):
I'll give you the tambourine. You can knock on the timboureine.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
How's the weather above ground today?
Speaker 12 (23:51):
We have ground occasional showers hmm, possibly heavy, but easing
by the afternoon.
Speaker 13 (23:55):
Auckland's high fifteen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Thank you, Neva eighteen minutes away from sex News talk,
said b the netball coach in hot Water, for using
the word feral. We'll get to that, Winston Peters using
the word retarded in parliament. Also that abuse and State
Care inquiry. Will get to that just before six as well.
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Fourteen to six News talk to b Gevin Gray is
ow UK and Europe correspondence. A radical preacher has been
found guilty under UK terra laws.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Gevin, Yeah, that's right, Ran. Now, the name and jam
Chowdry might not be well known to many people, but
it is well known in the UK, and that is
because he's a man who's continually gone very close, sailing
to the wind, very close when it comes to supporting
Islamic state and supporting Islamic terrorism. At least that's what
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his opponents say. Today, he's been found guilty of directing
a group banned under UK terror laws and also encouraging
support for it online. The group is called al Mahahadji
Ruhn and it's said to be something that he founded
and now he faces life in prison for that. The
group is effectively someone that has been linked to all
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sorts of different action here in the UK. Three attackers
that killed eight people at London Bridge in twenty seventeen
were led by a former member of the group. The
murder of five people at Westminster Bridge earlier that year
was by a man who'd spent years associating with the group,
and another member killed two people at London's Fishmongers Hall
back in twenty nineteen. So the police say this group
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has a clear linked terrorist attacks, and they believe as
well and have now proven it in a court of law.
And Jim Chowdry has a clear link and is a
member of.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
It, all right, Kevin the very quickly. The Hungary has
kind of got itself on a spot of bothered with
the European Union.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, shrugging it off though so of course, the European
Union presidency is on a rotation among the members of
the EU. It's Hungary's turn, and Hungary has really led
the way in completely disagreeing with EU policy when it
comes to Ukraine and Russia. The Prime Minister Victor Auban
is currently holding that EU presidency and yet on an
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unofficial meeting when to meet President Putin, and also has
in the past said that the EU kind of provoked
the war in Ukraine. Anyway, he's now been wrapped on
the knuckles, but it's a very small rap. He was
due to host the EU Foreign and Defense ministers in
formal meetings which take place every six month. It was
going to take place in Hungary. It's now not and
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Hungry won't be holding the chair post either that's going
to be given to another country. It all sounds very
small beer and indeed Hungry's described the move as completely childish,
but it certainly shows just how fed up the EU
is with the Hungarian presidency so far.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Kevin, thank you for that. Kevin Gray, UK europe correspondent
with us this morning. It is eleven to six, Ryan Bridge,
Big day today. Royal Commission report into abuse in state
care is set to be released after a five year inquiry.
The Prime Minister says he's read about half of the
three thousand page report and it is due to given
apology to victims in November. Carl Tody is an abuse
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and state care survivor also the founder of the Collective
of Abused in State Care Charitable Trust, and he's with
us this morning. Carl, good morning, Thank you for being
with me. What are you expecting today? Have you have
you had a look at the report yet? Have they've
given you a copy?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
No, they haven't ever managed to have a look at
before report. But I was privy to the final recommendations
prior to the report being released. But first of all,
I just want to just acknowledge all my brothers and
sisters that have passed, you know, I liking it to
the antics where a lot of our a lot of
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the soldiers were I've never forgotten. Where's a lot of
our soldiers always have been forgotten? And I just want
to just pay homage to them, first and foremost. And
I also want to pay to a big shout out
to all the brothers and sisters that are making their
way down here to Wontington to attend the final report.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
What are you hoping will come of the report? Because
it's not about compensation that the Royal Commission, it's about recommendations.
What do you what's what's the one thing you hope
changes or happens.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Well, First and foremost, I want I want the crimes
to be acknowledged, the crimes that were committed against children
and the genocide of children. And I and I and
I call it for what it really is, genocide because
the many that have just that were that were that
were abused, and a lot of that it's not actually
just been acknowledged and the perpetrators haven't been named or
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or brought to account to the public honor really, and
it's that's the main thing, And importantly is the Crown
to acknowledge the crimes that were committed against children.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You want names, detail dates, you want organizations called out.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Exactly while you know they're all trying a sidestep. The
most important part is that acknowledgement or the crimes committed.
It's easy to give an apology, but please acknowledge the
crimes committed against.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Judn wel thank you for your time. That report has
been released today after as we've said, a five year
long inquiry. The Royal Commission Report into Abuse in State
Here is three thousand pages long, apparently weighs fourteen kilograms.
The government making its way through it and due to
apologize in November. That was Carl Tody, the survivor and
founder of the New Zealand Collective of Abused in State
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Care Charitable Trust. It is nine minutes away from six
on newstalk, said b the Netball. We will get to
that comment by a netball coach in just a few moments. Also,
we'll talk to Mike Costing ahead of his show. It
is eight two six.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a playing store news talks.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You might have seen this in the news Mary and
Delaney Hoshick. She's the tactics coach. This is netball. A
story yesterday she was in a bit of hot water
or getting slammed for saying that the other team that
they were playing, they were playing a bit feral was
the word that she used. He listen, this is when
she's rallying the troops at halftime. Have a listen.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
Take fee all of that.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
She's she's literally trying to rally the troops, you know,
get them all excited and get some I mean, you
don't want to say, go and elbow your opponents in
the ribs. But it happens, doesn't It a netball a
bit of argie bargie, but a bit of rough and tumble.
That's just sport. I would have thought five minutes away
from six o'clock on news Talk, sebb Ryan Bridge Mike
Hosking is next. Good morning morning.
Speaker 14 (31:55):
I'm worried about the Olympics because I'm reading this morning
that there's a group of people who work out who's
going to be winning medals and how many medals are.
First of all, there's been a rape in France overnight
with an Australian. Two of the Channel nine people have
been attacked. They're saying, if you're an athlete, don't go out,
preferably don't go out beyond the village, and if you do,
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certainly don't wear a uniform because that immediately identifies you
as some sort of athlete. So it's a cool start
and that's where you get to the dirty river and
all that sort of thing. Anyway, these people do this
thing whereby they work out who's going to be winning
medals and how many of them and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
They've got us winning fourteen. Is that good?
Speaker 14 (32:34):
No, because in Tokyo we won twenty, which was quite good.
We're only going to win four gold apparently, I mean
obviously who are these people? Well, they work it out
from history and they look at the competition as to
where people are at currently. But two of the four
golds are the rugby and the seven. So the men
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and the women they pick to win gold. So that's
two immediately, Lisa Carrington's going to win one. Yeah, so
being done, Liz Krington wins another one in the car
things the K two could be the K four doesn't matter. Anyway,
fourteen medals is not many medals.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Let's hope they're wrong. Well, you know, let's improve them wrong. Well,
yeah you could, Yeah you could do that. Good on
you're right now, let's proved them wrong. You know, we're
a little country that could. And I hope all that
that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, that's
going to be a lot of watching, isn't it, Because
there's always that anticipation that we start watching things we
don't normally watch in the hope that somehow someone's going
to do something miraculous for us and we all as
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a nation, you know, bond together and it's a it's
a great time, et cetera. Anyway, so I thought there
was somewhat worrying.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
That is worrying, but you're right about I mean, Paris
has always been pretty dangerous. I found it very angsty.
Speaker 14 (33:41):
I've only been there one yea.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's got pushed over in your handbag, stolen when we're there,
nubs one time.
Speaker 14 (33:46):
So well, it's a good way to start the years.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, there you go, Mike Costing with you after six
Thank you so much for being with me this morning.
Great to have your company. We will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, New Zealand. It is great to have you
on ZB this morning, just gone six after five. Welcome
to your Wednesday morning. We're going to talk about gas
prices this morning. Are these spot prices are skyrocketing? Apparently
there is a gas crisis, did you know? And the
government is looking at using emergency powers to keep the
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power on. We'll talk about that in just a few seconds.
Also this morning, by your batch. Now, if you are
ever thinking of buying a holiday home in Northland, I
think now is the time. The government says it's going
to accelerate a four lane highway up to Fugade, which
would cut your journey time, you'd have to say by
a significant margin. Also this morning, the case for interest
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rates to fall hard and fast, and the list at
drugs that sharks are ingesting in Brazil. It's just gone
seven after five.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Wednesday, the twenty fourth of July. The Secret Service Director
Kimberly Cheetle has resigned after admitting the service fell short
of its duty when a gunman attempted to kill former
President Donald Trump. It comes just a day after Cheatle
was ripped into by lawmakers at the House Oversight Committee.
I don't think she should resign. I think she should
have been fired. Ma'am, you're a the horror story.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Would you like to use my five minutes to draft
your resignation letter?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yes or no?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
If you want to be in charge, then answer the
question or step aside.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Wow, she was in charge when a president was shot,
so you can kind of understand that. Joe Biden says
he is going to appoint a new director soon. Biden,
by the way, is going to speak for the first
time on Thursday, our time about his decision to no
longer seek reelection. His address to the nation will take
place at the White House, where he is set to
return today after recovering from COVID at his beach house
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in Delaware. Former Green MP Darling Tana has returned to
Parliament as an independent following investigation into her involvement with
her husband's business, which is accused of exploiting migrants. The
Greens have pleaded for her to just bug her off,
but Tana remains defined.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I'm here now in doing the mahy for as long
as this place follow.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Out 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 player store News Talk zid be.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Everybody's doing the mhy, aren't they, and getting the treats.
And it's the treats you need to you need to
think about because why is she there? The answer lies
in the liquidata's report which we found yesterday into her
husband's business at bike shop. They are ird the taxman
and creditors four hundred thousand dollars cash on hand from
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the liquidata's report one hundred and eighty eight dollars. So
she's not there because she's a martyr for the people
or any great public service need. This is about money,
isn't it? Follow the money trail she's on about one
hundred and seventy k year. When you've got your husband's
businesses is basically up up the creek. What do you
do while you sit in the library. Apparently she set
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up her an office in the library at Doment. You
sit in the library and you get the salary, don't you.
It's just gone nine after five Bridge. Also this morning,
Genesis Energy, they're in a bit of a spot of
bother over gas prices. So there's an interesting report from
Business Desk. It says that government officials are talking about
emergency powers to make sure that gas is supplied to
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critical users. This is quite major stuff. There's a bill
that was passed in two thousand and eight that gives
the government the power to make sure that critical users
get the gas that they need. Forsythe Bar has downgraded
its rating on Genesis Energy because of its uncertain gas outlook.
Demand is our exceeding supply as sorry, is exceeding supply,
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and there's no solution insight. That's according to forsythe Bar
spot gas prices are at record levels. They're trading above
thirty eight dollars thirty eight dollars gigajuels. That's four hundred
percent more than a year ago, four hundred percent. And
let's not forget that Genesis announced in May, remember we
spoke about this last week, that it's burning through half
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a million tons of imported coal right now this winter,
and when this winter is over, they will order three
hundred and fifty thousand more tons of coal from overseas
just to keep the lights on. Great news, Let's burn
the coal, let's demonize the gas. Excellent, just go on.
Ten minutes after five. Coming up next, we're going to
talk about that secret service agent boss a little bit more.
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Also later in the show, the New Zealand Collective of
Abused in State Care Charitable Trust. This report is out today.
Apparently it's three thousand pages long and fourteen kilograms. That
will be a big talking point today, so we'll keep
you up to date with that right now. It is
eleven after five.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
News and Views You Trust has done. Your day is
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture,
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Speaker 2 (05:10):
News Talk said be thirteen after five on news Talk
said b there is a case being made for interest
rates to fall hard and fast. We'll talk about that
in a second. That's from the Economist Ed mc knight
and the Herald. Right now, though, we could be missing
out on two hundred and fifty million dollars a year
due to payWave and online credit card fees. That's according
to the ComCom the Commerce Commission, who say that there
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needs to be more regulation to stop retailers unnecessarily overcharging
their customers. They are consulting on the changes that they
want to make. They've also set a goal to see
SURD charges for contact lists or online payments fall between
one and a half and two percent. Caroen Young is
from retail end Z and she's with me this morning. Carolyn,
good morning. What do you think of what do you
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think is a reasonable fee to charge?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Look, I think it's an early days to recare what
would be a reasonable fee to charge with what we
do now is as pretty complicated system, and there's a
lot of players with their hands in the till while
we're working through the process and when we want it
to be much more simpler, more straightforward, easy for retailers
and consumers to follow, something that's open and transparent so
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that everyone understands how it looks and what's reasonable to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So do the shop owners get charged? Do they all
get charged a different amount from that merchant service fee
that they pay or is that a uniform fee across everyone?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
There are lots of differencies within the payment gateways that
you pay, depending on the type of card, the banks
you're with, the terminal provider, the card transaction that goes through.
You know, there's lots of different ways in which that
comes through, and what we're one of the one of
the things we're looking for is to make sure that
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it's all streamlined so that everybody's bank statement clearly states
what their total SEE is at the end of each month.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Are we getting ripped off? Is the ComCom right?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
There's probably an element of the fees that could certainly
be trims, that's for sure, and that sits with the
financial services system within that space, and that's passed on
to retailers and often passed on to consenters.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So you're saying it's not the retailers are who are
adding a bit of fat in there. It's the visas
and the master cards.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Well, there are times when some of the fees that
are passed on to consumers are probably not as accurately
reflected as they could be. And part of that, from
the conversations we've had with people, is through lack of
knowledge through a really complicated system. So we want system
to be a lot more pall and straightforward so that
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everyone can follow it and that all of the players
in that space. There's always bad actors that operate in
spaces that they are providing good advice to businesses, you know,
both retailers and hospitality businesses, and we're working alongside hospitality
to jointly go out to our members and come back.
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We're pretty aligned on where we see things and we
want to see improvements across the board.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, Carolyn, thanks so much of your time. It's
Carolyn Young from Retailing Z sixteen after five and not
every day you get Retailing ZED saying basically, yes, some
retailers probably are overcharging. Whether they know that overcharging or not. Well,
I guess that's up to interpretation, isn't it? Interesting article
from Ed McKnight, The Economist and the heralds Oh, sorry,
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I should say one roof dot co, dot and Z
go and check it out. Fixed rates of five percent. Gosh,
that got my heart of flutter ah. Yes, please like
to go back to those days. And he's basically making
the case for interest rates to fall hard and fast,
as you know, inflation at three point three percent. Hopefully
we're going to hit our target by Christmas of one
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to three percent. Wholesale interest rates are down. That is good.
A and Z westpack A whole bunch of others slashing
the one year rates. That is good, A and Z
predicting a one year rate of five point seven percent
by June twenty twenty five. That is good. But then
you've got non tradable inflation being sticky, still sticky according
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to the Reserve Bank. And also the Aussies. Remember they
cut their rates, inflation came back up and they had
to put it back on again. And then you've got
Adrian or who it's a bit like waiting for Santa
to give you your presents at Christmas. I feel that
that's the way I feel about Adrian all right now,
because it's just you're just paying, you know, an arm
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and a leg to service your mortgage. He's probably gave
us too many presents last Christmas, and he's probably going
to be a little stingy for a while longer yet,
because he doesn't want to be the guy who didn't
properly put the fire out that he kind of started. Anyway,
we'll look more into that later on the show. It's
just gone eighteen after five, coming up next four lane
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expressway and you believe it from Auckland all the way
to Fungaday.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But when ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on
early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and
a playing store.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
News Talk Zidby, Good morning, Welcome to early edition twenty
after five. The government is accelerating work on a four
lane expressway from Auckland all the way up to fung Ada.
There's already the Poohoy to Welsford, beautiful stretch of road
that is in place now. It's been classed as a
road of National Significance and is set to give better
and safer access to Northland which is regularly cut off
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at the brim Dowbins. Not cut off. You can go around,
but gosha AD's journey time, doesn't it. We're going to
go to Darren Fisher, now the chief executive of North Chamber.
Good morning Darren. You're obviously excited about this, but are
you skeptical about the date because we haven't got one yet, right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah, good morning, right, Yeah, obviously very excited here at
Northend that you know, we've heard this, we've heard this
before and getting getting a digger bucket in the ground
is probably the second most important thing that's ever happened
in North and i'd say.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Can you tell me what have they told you privately
as the government told you privately any dates.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
No, they haven't, and I think there's still some work
to go on there as far as consents and obtaining
land and business cases go. But you as a as
a community, we're here to make sure we accelerate that
as quickly as we can.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
N CTA did resilience work on the brindurwins. Do you
think there was? It's resilient.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Well, I think the events of the weekend show us
that it's not. No, I think someone's relatively lucky that
they weren't killed in that extra slip that happened on
the weekend. And it's still very fragile, and you know
we're still susceptible to being cut off. So no, in
the Papara Oakley Road, which is one of the diversion
roads you mentioned, that was also not up to scratch either.
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So you know, there's a lot of work to do
to make sure that not only Northend but all of
New Zealand benefits from this four.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Lane highlight because in the meantime, because let's be honest,
it's going to take at least a decade you would
say before anything, actually before we can actually drive on
this thing. So in the meantime we're going to have
this brindeau and open closed, open clothes, open clothes.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, that's what I would expect to see.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Rhyme.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
I think that's a fair assessment. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Do you have any idea of the economic benefit to
the region if they were to fall laneo Fang a day.
Has anyone put a number on it?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
The Northern Corporate Group, you know, very nicely put a
business case together that shows significant growth for the region.
But I think it's it's a great opportunity for our
population to grow. And I think people take this current
business case and they say, oh, it's only two hundred
thousand people and it's a holiday highway. Well, you know,
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that couldn't be further from the truth. North and it's
a very strategic asset for all of New Zealand, and
I think our population will grow significantly on the back
of having a good connection to Auckland and that's our
biggest economic zone of New Zealand, being Auckland and where
it's neighbor so everyone can benefit from this road too.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Right, Darren, thank you very much for your time. Darren Fisher,
the North Chamber Chief Executive with us this morning. Hope
you know fingers crossed that that road gets built as
soon as it possibly can. It's just gone twenty three
after five year old News Talk said, be coming up
next to the shambles that is Health New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
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Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and applied store.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
News Talk ZB twenty five after five news Talk said,
be the press conference yesterday for Health New Zealand. Boy
oh boy, what a doozy. So they've appointed Lester Levy
as the commissioner. The CEO, Margie Arper was there alongside him.
She's been in the job two years. That's how long
the organization's been set up for. And they're over spending
one hundred and thirty million dollars a month. We know
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that that can be nothing more than mismanagement. If you
take Levy's word for it, he says they don't need
more money, They basically just don't know how to spend
efficiently within the organization as it stands. So I mean
that's mismanagement, short and simple. Start to finish and the
whole thing for me was a farce. They said, we
need to push into the regions. That's where the decision
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making is made. What isn't it that what we said
we didn't need. We needed more centralization, we needed a
national service. And now we're going out to the regions again,
apparently hiring four regionals. Oars. Why did we spend all
this money to set this organization up? It's so frustrating
to listen to. They also said, we're never going to
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achieve the proper transition from the DHBs to this new
organization in two years. Are you serious? Imagine a private
business changing its operating model and two in saying oh,
the change hasn't worked, but it's still early days. It
just wouldn't happen. And then there was this Levy who
sits on a whole bunch of boards and knows what
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he's talking about. Casually said that their spending controls and
checks and balances are not up to scratch.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Internal and management controls are much weaker than I would
have expected. So we have spending problems all over the show.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What an absolute cluster. I hate to be negative, I
really do. I know it's early in the morning. I
hate to be negative, but I just lost all the
will to live yesterday. Just as simple we request from me,
let's make sure that when we appoint boards and executives
that they actually know what they're doing. They can read
a spreadsheet. Good luck, Lester, I think you'll need it.
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Bryan Bridge, twenty seven after five. Anyway, let's move on
to some good news. It's not actually it's terrible. Sunday
was the hottest day in recorded history. Scene n's just
put a story out. Leo has just handed me the story,
our producer to preliminary data from a climate tracking agency
monitoring temperatures. So since the mid nineteen hundreds, it's the
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second consecutive year average global temperatures have crashed through shocking
climate records and will not be the last, as planet
warming fossil fuel pollution drives temperatures to shocking new highs.
Do you know what, I'm not shocked, and I don't
really care. I just think, oh, better for some bathing
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in summer. You know, I just don't really care when
I hear you hear so many stories like this now,
I think it's almost like overkill, you know. I mean,
obviously we have got to do something about it. Blah
blah blah. I mean, here's the thing. I don't have children,
so I actually have a reason not to care. I mean,
I'm not leaving the planet in any state for anyone
behind me. Am I you know, I'm just worried about,
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you know, my tan in the European summer, and it's
looking pretty good. Still to come on the program, We've
got lots of talk. We still will get to the
Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheetle who has resigned, also a
netball coach in a bit of hot water for using
the word feral, and the drug that sharks are ingesting
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in Brazil. We'll get to all of that, plus the
abuse in steak here inquiring the big report being released today.
We'll talk about that just before six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swiss City, New
Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
News Talk sid be your bootsto working?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Did your trug brigs?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Did you put through my dix fun?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Good morning, twenty four minutes away from six year on
News Talk, sa'd be I'm Rhyan Bridge, Great to have
your company this morning as you wake up to what
should be a pretty good day for most otherwise. The
Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle, the boss has resigned. Talk about
a bad day at the office. I mean, how did
she hang on really for a couple of weeks since
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former President Trump the assassination attempt on his life. I mean,
that's her job. She's the boss of the Secret Service.
A bullet managed to hit a nominee for president. You
have to resign, don't you.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
She was.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It's a bad day at the office. What can you say?
So she's gone, and Biden's going to appoint a new one. Sharks.
You know, when you're swimming, what is worse than a
shark in the water. A shark on cocaine. I would
wager it's been found in sharks off the coast of
Rio de Janeiro at alarming rates, high levels in their
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muscles and their liver one hundred times higher than in
other animals. And I know what you're thinking, how do
they snort it underwater? They don't. People. This is how
it happens. The researchers reckon people use cocaine in Rio Degenio.
They do their number ones and their number two's and
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the sewerage outflows hit the ocean and the sharks ingest
it that way, there you go. Just nothing more frightening
than shark on cocaine. I suppose if the shark was
on marijuana and they got the munchies. You wouldn't want
that either, would you. You probably don't want your sharks
on anything. Actually, just gone twenty two minutes away from
six Bread Rich Duneda now with Callum Proctor, the South
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Otago town that's celebrating after winning a six sixty concert. Yeah,
morning right.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
This is bell Kluth, population four thousand. It's been revealed
as the winning town of six sixties one More Show contest,
so sitement levels pretty high there.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
As you can imagine.
Speaker 10 (20:02):
Fans had to vote to decide the winning venue that
would host the last concert of the band's grassroots small
town tour, and after some pretty vigorous campaigning, Bellcluther's come
out on top from four others, beating out fangarre Rotru,
Palmerston North and Raglan. The band says it will play
a matinee and a night show in Bellcluther on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
August thirty first.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
The mayor Brian Caddigan says they're absolutely stoked and look
forward to hosting in true Southern style.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's called They're good guys. And the weather today come
mainly fine, high cloud westerlies and seventeen the high today,
thank you. Claire Sherwood is in christ Church for us
this morning. It's d Day for the environment Canterbridge here,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Ryan Counselors are expected to meet today to discuss Peter
Scott's future in the organization following an investigation and a
formal warning into unconsented farm irrigation. Of course, he revealed
that during an interview right here on News Talk SeeDB
councilor John sunk Now says he backs Scott and he's
been intimately involved in conversations with the government around issues
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including public transport and resilience. He says the council needs
Scott's leadership and knowledge to continue those discussions for the
betterment of Canterbury, and if he's no longer there, someone
else will have to start again.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Clear weather today.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Nice here in christ Church, fine with light, wins are
higher fifteen with two overnight.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Beautiful, thank you, and we're going to max Tole and Wellington.
Now you've got an update on rates rises. Max.
Speaker 11 (21:29):
Yes, some unexpected swings for some this week, higher than
expected rates rises, lower than expected for some as well.
To be fair, the city Council's rate rise was voted
on as eighteen point five percent, the regional council nineteen
point eight percent. The overall figure is a combination of both,
but for some in the city it's going to equate
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to more than twenty one percent. That's because there are
different ratings districts around the region getting their valuations at
different times. The cities was done at a round market
peak podlydof for instance, skinning a lower rates rise than
expected probably do are done near the market bottom, so
swings in roundabouts, says the City Council. The shoe could
be on the other foot in a few years regardless,
tough times for many.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, you would be pretty upset with that, wouldn't you. Max,
than we're there for today in the capitol.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Mainly fine thirteen the high Central brilliant.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Thank you never any manager in Auckland, good morning, good morning,
tell me the Auckland City rail Link. Where are we
at progress wise?
Speaker 12 (22:25):
Well, let's get excited because the finish line is in sight.
Speaker 13 (22:29):
Can you believe it? Auckland is Oh my goodness.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
So CRL's targeting to have its first test trains running
by November.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
I kid you not.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
So all the heavy constructions finished, the tracks are installed,
you know, the overhead lines are in apparently you know
it's only taken what how many twenty years or so? No,
so now it's moving into this testing and commissioning phase.
I was having a bit of a chuckle with your
producer Leo because as I was walking through, he was like, oh, yeah,
I followed them on Facebook.
Speaker 13 (22:58):
I'm with the I've joined the City Rail Link Facebook pa.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
I mean, how old are you twenty two?
Speaker 13 (23:03):
What are you doing following those guys?
Speaker 12 (23:05):
But I was just telling him that we're thinking about
getting a group together in the newsroom to ride to
go to the subway.
Speaker 13 (23:11):
We're going to pretend we're in New York.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's open. Well, do you know what. I've actually been
down there for a story. I did a couple I
don't know, a year ago or so. The testing phase
is actually going to take a long time, they said,
because they haven't used this type of equipment in New
Zealand before. So the testing phase I think could take
at least six months to a year.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Are you Are you trying to boost my bubble a
little bit?
Speaker 12 (23:32):
Well, look there, we'll give us plenty of time to
practice as buskers, because we want to be the first buskers.
I'm going to be playing the recorder. Leo is going
to be holding our container. We've got a couple of singers.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
What can you do?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I all won't be there. I'll be driving my car.
Speaker 13 (23:45):
I'll give you the tambourine. You can knock on the timboureine.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
How's the weather above ground today?
Speaker 12 (23:51):
We have ground occasional showers hmm, possibly heavy, but easing
by the afternoon.
Speaker 13 (23:55):
Auckland's high fifteen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Thank you, Neva eighteen minutes away from sex News talk,
said b the netball coach in hot Water, for using
the word feral. We'll get to that, Winston Peters using
the word retarded in parliament. Also that abuse and State
Care inquiry. Will get to that just before six as well.
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Fourteen to six News talk to b Gevin Gray is
ow UK and Europe correspondence. A radical preacher has been
found guilty under UK terra laws.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Gevin, Yeah, that's right, Ran. Now, the name and jam
Chowdry might not be well known to many people, but
it is well known in the UK, and that is
because he's a man who's continually gone very close, sailing
to the wind, very close when it comes to supporting
Islamic state and supporting Islamic terrorism. At least that's what
(25:49):
his opponents say. Today, he's been found guilty of directing
a group banned under UK terror laws and also encouraging
support for it online. The group is called al Mahahadji
Ruhn and it's said to be something that he founded
and now he faces life in prison for that. The
group is effectively someone that has been linked to all
(26:13):
sorts of different action here in the UK. Three attackers
that killed eight people at London Bridge in twenty seventeen
were led by a former member of the group. The
murder of five people at Westminster Bridge earlier that year
was by a man who'd spent years associating with the group,
and another member killed two people at London's Fishmongers Hall
back in twenty nineteen. So the police say this group
(26:35):
has a clear linked terrorist attacks, and they believe as
well and have now proven it in a court of law.
And Jim Chowdry has a clear link and is a
member of.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
It, all right, Kevin the very quickly. The Hungary has
kind of got itself on a spot of bothered with
the European Union.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, shrugging it off though so of course, the European
Union presidency is on a rotation among the members of
the EU. It's Hungary's turn, and Hungary has really led
the way in completely disagreeing with EU policy when it
comes to Ukraine and Russia. The Prime Minister Victor Auban
is currently holding that EU presidency and yet on an
(27:13):
unofficial meeting when to meet President Putin, and also has
in the past said that the EU kind of provoked
the war in Ukraine. Anyway, he's now been wrapped on
the knuckles, but it's a very small rap. He was
due to host the EU Foreign and Defense ministers in
formal meetings which take place every six month. It was
going to take place in Hungary. It's now not and
(27:35):
Hungry won't be holding the chair post either that's going
to be given to another country. It all sounds very
small beer and indeed Hungry's described the move as completely childish,
but it certainly shows just how fed up the EU
is with the Hungarian presidency so far.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Kevin, thank you for that. Kevin Gray, UK europe correspondent
with us this morning. It is eleven to six, Ryan Bridge,
Big day today. Royal Commission report into abuse in state
care is set to be released after a five year inquiry.
The Prime Minister says he's read about half of the
three thousand page report and it is due to given
apology to victims in November. Carl Tody is an abuse
(28:14):
and state care survivor also the founder of the Collective
of Abused in State Care Charitable Trust, and he's with
us this morning. Carl, good morning, Thank you for being
with me. What are you expecting today? Have you have
you had a look at the report yet? Have they've
given you a copy?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
No, they haven't ever managed to have a look at
before report. But I was privy to the final recommendations
prior to the report being released. But first of all,
I just want to just acknowledge all my brothers and
sisters that have passed, you know, I liking it to
the antics where a lot of our a lot of
(28:50):
the soldiers were I've never forgotten. Where's a lot of
our soldiers always have been forgotten? And I just want
to just pay homage to them, first and foremost. And
I also want to pay to a big shout out
to all the brothers and sisters that are making their
way down here to Wontington to attend the final report.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
What are you hoping will come of the report? Because
it's not about compensation that the Royal Commission, it's about recommendations.
What do you what's what's the one thing you hope
changes or happens.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Well, First and foremost, I want I want the crimes
to be acknowledged, the crimes that were committed against children
and the genocide of children. And I and I and
I call it for what it really is, genocide because
the many that have just that were that were that
were abused, and a lot of that it's not actually
just been acknowledged and the perpetrators haven't been named or
(29:46):
or brought to account to the public honor really, and
it's that's the main thing, And importantly is the Crown
to acknowledge the crimes that were committed against children.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You want names, detail dates, you want organizations called out.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Exactly while you know they're all trying a sidestep. The
most important part is that acknowledgement or the crimes committed.
It's easy to give an apology, but please acknowledge the
crimes committed against.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Judn wel thank you for your time. That report has
been released today after as we've said, a five year
long inquiry. The Royal Commission Report into Abuse in State
Here is three thousand pages long, apparently weighs fourteen kilograms.
The government making its way through it and due to
apologize in November. That was Carl Tody, the survivor and
founder of the New Zealand Collective of Abused in State
(30:45):
Care Charitable Trust. It is nine minutes away from six
on newstalk, said b the Netball. We will get to
that comment by a netball coach in just a few moments. Also,
we'll talk to Mike Costing ahead of his show. It
is eight two six.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a playing store news talks.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You might have seen this in the news Mary and
Delaney Hoshick. She's the tactics coach. This is netball. A
story yesterday she was in a bit of hot water
or getting slammed for saying that the other team that
they were playing, they were playing a bit feral was
the word that she used. He listen, this is when
she's rallying the troops at halftime. Have a listen.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
Take fee all of that.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
She's she's literally trying to rally the troops, you know,
get them all excited and get some I mean, you
don't want to say, go and elbow your opponents in
the ribs. But it happens, doesn't It a netball a
bit of argie bargie, but a bit of rough and tumble.
That's just sport. I would have thought five minutes away
from six o'clock on news Talk, sebb Ryan Bridge Mike
Hosking is next. Good morning morning.
Speaker 14 (31:55):
I'm worried about the Olympics because I'm reading this morning
that there's a group of people who work out who's
going to be winning medals and how many medals are.
First of all, there's been a rape in France overnight
with an Australian. Two of the Channel nine people have
been attacked. They're saying, if you're an athlete, don't go out,
preferably don't go out beyond the village, and if you do,
(32:18):
certainly don't wear a uniform because that immediately identifies you
as some sort of athlete. So it's a cool start
and that's where you get to the dirty river and
all that sort of thing. Anyway, these people do this
thing whereby they work out who's going to be winning
medals and how many of them and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
They've got us winning fourteen. Is that good?
Speaker 14 (32:34):
No, because in Tokyo we won twenty, which was quite good.
We're only going to win four gold apparently, I mean
obviously who are these people? Well, they work it out
from history and they look at the competition as to
where people are at currently. But two of the four
golds are the rugby and the seven. So the men
(32:55):
and the women they pick to win gold. So that's
two immediately, Lisa Carrington's going to win one. Yeah, so
being done, Liz Krington wins another one in the car
things the K two could be the K four doesn't matter. Anyway,
fourteen medals is not many medals.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Let's hope they're wrong. Well, you know, let's improve them wrong. Well,
yeah you could, Yeah you could do that. Good on
you're right now, let's proved them wrong. You know, we're
a little country that could. And I hope all that
that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, that's
going to be a lot of watching, isn't it, Because
there's always that anticipation that we start watching things we
don't normally watch in the hope that somehow someone's going
to do something miraculous for us and we all as
(33:30):
a nation, you know, bond together and it's a it's
a great time, et cetera. Anyway, so I thought there
was somewhat worrying.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
That is worrying, but you're right about I mean, Paris
has always been pretty dangerous. I found it very angsty.
Speaker 14 (33:41):
I've only been there one yea.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's got pushed over in your handbag, stolen when we're there,
nubs one time.
Speaker 14 (33:46):
So well, it's a good way to start the years.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, there you go, Mike Costing with you after six
Thank you so much for being with me this morning.
Great to have your company. We will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
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