July 30, 2024 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge you
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a play a store News Dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning, New Zealand. It is six after
five as you are waking up this morning. It's great
to be with you coming up on this show in
the next hour. They giveth with one hand and they
taketh with the other. Tax cuts kick in today, which
is great news. But if you are a homeowner, rates
rises some more than twenty percent are coming your way
(00:37):
and will probably wipe out any benefit from a tax cut.
You get local government New Zealand on why before six
and medals. They giveth with one hand, the women's sevens
this morning. Look to take gold or silver. At least
we'll get a medal. We'll keep you up to date
with that live throughout the morning. But have they taketh
a medal? From Hayden Wild with the Dirty River Sen
(01:01):
will have live updates from Paris this morning. It is
seven after five the agenda Wednesday, the thirty first of July,
New Zealand is just over an hour away from receiving
our first medal. In the Olympics. The Kiwi women sevens
are facing Canada cheats and the final and just under
forty five minutes time after beating the United States earlier
(01:23):
this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm excited we get to play in an Olympic final
round sixty five thousand people, which is pretty incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
And sec you're in New Zealand's first Olympic medal.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh, it's yeah, that'll be amazing for the team turns.
We're going for the one color.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The beautiful emotion in that voice. The sevens are guaranteed
a silver medal at least gold if they win. We'll
have the latest for you live throughout the show. That's game,
by the way, starts five forty five this morning. Protests
are underway in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas after President
Nicholas Maduro claimed victory in the country's election. People around
me are on our microphone that they want freedom and
(02:03):
that they want to leave the street to until Nikolas
Maduro is ousted. The opposition party has disputed the results,
saying that their candidate, ed Mondo Gonzalez, has clearly won.
The polls leading up to the election indicated a potential
win for him. Maduro has been in power since twenty
thirteen and in that time, get this, he has overseen
(02:24):
an economic meltdown to the point that seven point seven
million Venezuelans have left the country looking for work elsewhere.
That's a quarter of their population, a quarter back here.
Tax cuts are coming into force today for about three
and a half million people. We will see less tax
going out on our next pays. But whether they will
(02:44):
make that will make a difference for households, well, it's
to be debated. People are filling the squeeze. Those on
the lowest incomes will only be taking in four dollars
fifty extra a week. The opposition leader, Chris Hipkins says
we should be spending the money on things like health,
education and infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
News and views You trust to start your day's Billy
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a flying store. You's talk said the We'd.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Love to hear from you this morning. Nine two ninety
two is the number to text very quickly. Everyone's talking
about the River Sin and how filthy it is. In fact,
I think I just heard Andrew Alderson in Sport call
it the filth level of the sin. It's filled with
the coal ie because it rained on the weekend essentially,
and so they've had to cancel it. They will do
another check three o'clock roughly this afternoon our time, and
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then the men will have to go after the women.
So the men go eight am local time and we go.
The men would go eight forty five am local time.
I'm just wondering, and I know this is probably not
the right thing to say, but if you're you're an Olympian,
You've been training for what is it now, three years
for these games. You've put your heart and your soul
(03:57):
and all of your effort into this. And if swimming
is your strong suit and they cancel the swimming leg,
wouldn't you just swim in the river anyway? I mean, look,
it's a bit of a coal lie. You'll be sick
for a couple of days. But if it's sickness or
missing out on your chance at gold, wouldn't you go
for sickness? I think I would. Hey something to watch
(04:18):
for tonight the Federal Reserve in the United States, there
is a crunch meeting which will happen tonight on rate cuts.
Why do we care about this? While the biggest economy
in the world and what happens there matters to us.
They are expected to hold the rate at five point
twenty five to five point five percent. This is the
short term rate, but they will set a timetable the
(04:39):
pundits reckon for a series of cuts from September, hopefully
which will start to push things up. Obviously, they're going
to have to look at their inflation rate. The one
to watch in the United States tonight and ours, excuse me,
our next rate check in with our Reserve Bank is
the fourteenth of August. That's exactly two weeks away from now.
(05:00):
Now very quickly, I thought I would bring up to
speed on Kamala Harris. She has now raked in three
hundred and forty million New Zealand dollars in fundraising donations
since she got the not well, she hasn't even got
the nomination yet. Their Chicago convention is next month, but
lots of celebrities have gone and donated money through a
(05:24):
zoom call that was called white Duds for Harris. They
apparently raised former than US dollars. There's a really interesting
guy called Alan Lickman, and I'm hoping to get him
on the show tomorrow. He has correctly predicted nine of
the last ten US elections using a series of yes,
(05:44):
no question answers. Thirteen of them. He calls them his
keys to the White House, things like is it the
incumbent leader? Is there a third party involved? What does
the economy look like? Those sorts of things. Anyway, he
correctly predicted the one that was unpredictable, which was Trump
beating Hillary in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country, because you'd be in jail.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Secretary Quinton.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, it was a funny. It was a funny election,
and the pole said that she would win. He won.
So this guy gets it right. And I'll tell you
just after five point thirty this morning what he says
about this election. It is twelve after five.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture, beds and a playing store. News Talk said.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Be fourteen minutes after five on news Talk said, be
lots of feedback coming, and already this one from one
of our listeners, Ryan It's a bit rich for Chris
Hipkins bleting on about government policies when all the hardships
we're currently experiencing are wholly caused by their reckless overspending.
It has just gone quarter pass now the governments introducing
(06:59):
harsh rule for overseas online casinos. This while also allowing
them to advertise here. A limited number of licenses will
be available for three year terms, and the operators will
be required to meet certain standards before they can offer services.
Andre Food is with the Problem Gambling Foundation. She's with
(07:19):
me this morning, Andrew, thank you for being here. I
wonder with online hello, I wonder with online gambling, is
it actually just too hard to regulate? Period?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
But that's a really good question. I know that around
the world, you know, regulators have battled with this because
there are so many operators out there. But regulation is
the right approach, and we totally agree with regulation and
having a licensing system.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But obviously there's a.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Lot more detail to come yet, and we want to
make sure that there's really robust harmonimization and consumer protection
at the forefront of any approach to this regulation.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Because if you are a problem gambler and you really
want to gamble online, you I mean, where there's a will,
there's a way. Surely you'll get a VPN, you'll work
around our laws in New Zealand.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Well, it's not illegal for New Zealanders to gamble on
these sites. And what people don't generally understand is that
they're not protected by New Zealand law. So while they
can gamble on these sites, you know, if something happened
they couldn't get their money out or whatever the situation
might be, they don't they're not protected by our laws
(08:40):
and our Gambling Act.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And so these changes, they're going to be able to
advertise legally in New Zealand. Now, yes, yeah, so, because
I mean I get fed ads that are you know,
for gambling things, and when you go online. I think
everybody gets that through Google or whatever it is. Do
you think we're going to see more ads now that
it's legal or do you think it will just be
(09:02):
the same.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Look, we've been absolutely bombarded with ads in this country
and a lot of that has been because this market
here is largely unregulated. You know, in terms of online
gambling regulation. Where about the last country, you know, the
last cab off the rank in terms of that, so
we have been targeted. Even though it is illegal for
the advertising of online of overseas online gambling, at the moment,
(09:28):
we've still seen these ads. As you said, you know
social media, they're everywhere, so yes, we will see more
of it. But what we do hope is well, we'd
really like to see the advertising of gambling band completely.
But if that's not going to happen, we really really
need to see strict measures in place to limit the
(09:49):
volume of advertising and put restrictions around the time when
gambling can be advertised. I mean it's age restricted. We
don't see ads on TV during peak time when children
might be watching, for example, with advertising or certainly not tobacco,
so gambling is no different and we need to see
much tougher restrictions around that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Andrew, thank you very much for your time this morning.
That's Andrew Freud, the Problem Gambling Foundation, about the government's
introducing introduction I should say of harsher rules for overseas
online casinos, but also allowing them to advertise. Here it
is eighteen after five. We're live to Paris.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Next the first Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's
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Speaker 2 (10:37):
News Talk ZEDB twenty outter five News talks zi'd be
Ryan councils. This is from Grant Councils need to rein
it in. It is disgusting how they just keep putting
rates up and up and up. People cannot afford to
keep these counselors in jobs. Well. Local government New Zealand
is heading back at some of the accusations about overspending
(10:58):
and some of the reasons for it, talking to them
just before six twenty one after five now the men's well,
that means we are less than half an hour away
from our first medal at the Olympics. It'll either be
a silver or gold from the women's seventeen seven's team
the men's triathlon, while meanwhile at the Olympics has been
postponed at the last minute due to the water quality.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
In the river.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Senn Hayden Wild and Dylan McCulloch were due to compete
forour New Zealand at six o'clock last night our time.
That's now moved to eight forty five pm our time today.
Hopefully they will be competing, but there are more checks
on the river's water quality to come. Joining me now
is Herald Sports supporter Michael Burgess, who is in Paris
(11:41):
for us. Good morning, good evening, afternoon to you, Michael,
tell us what's happening with the river.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Yeah, that's a big question, i'd say for a lot
of people, because we really don't know. I mean, what
I can tell you is that they've basically got three
more days to sort this out. Friday, as far as
we know, is the last day they could hold the
men's triathlon in the river. That's sort of their final day.
If they can't, it'll have to be a duathlon where
(12:09):
it's just the bike and the run. So they've got
a couple more days to sort it out. But yeah,
this morning Paris time is really unfortunate, especially for the athletes.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You mentioned.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
They woke up about five am because they're expecting a
race that starts at eight am, and they wake up,
set their alarm, and then they get the news on
their phone that oh, it's postponed. So that's really tough
for them, I imagine, because you know you're wanting to
sleep well then to perform. You wake up all excited
and the races and on. But basically there's still some
worries about the level of bacteria in the river. Even
(12:42):
though the French government spent one point four billion euros
on cleaning it up, it's not quite meeting the standard
of World Triathlon. So organizers are saying, look, there's been
a bit of rain, that's the issue. But it's been
sunny the last few days, so it should be fine
for tomorrow. As you said, the race forty five pm
(13:05):
New Zealand time, it should be fine. But we still
just don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They must be nervous recks. I mean, waking up every
morning and we're going to bed first of all, not
knowing if you're going to race tomorrow or not. It
must be hard. If they do go to a girafthon,
would that benefit Hayden Wild is swimming his strong suit
or is that one of his weaker parts of the race,
And is anyone thinking there to hell with it, let's
(13:30):
just swim with the coal II because you know I
would rather be sick with a gold medal.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
That's a good point, actually, right, because you're only going
to get sick later, aren't. You're not going to get
sick straight away. You know, you get sick a few
days later, So I guess there's a point where you
could you could always take that gamble. It's a good question,
you pose. I asked Hayden about that, you know, before
the Olympics, and yeah, it would help him. It would
(13:59):
help him if there was no swim, because he is
so good on the run and the bike, so he's
still good in the water, but he's really good in
the other two legs, so you take this warm out,
it only helps him. So it's only a good thing
in a way. But he also made an interesting point.
He said he wouldn't really like, you know, there'd be
a funny feeling about competing in a trithon at the
Olympics and maybe winning a medal, but it's not a trithlon.
(14:22):
Does it always be an asterisk attached to that? So
I'm sure he that's definitely not his preference. And as
you say, I can't imagine what these athletes are going
through because they've waited four years or three years for this,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Not sure when they're going to compete. No, and after
a billion dollars, you've still got a filthy river. Michael,
thank you very much for being with us this morning.
It's Michael Burgess, the Herald sports supporter in Paris, and
I can tell you that the Americans have just taken
bronze in the women's sevens competition.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Separating the fact from the fiction. Gad's Billing Edition with Smith's,
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Talk ZBI twenty seven after five income tax cuts kicking
for us, today, ninety four percent of us will get
a few extra bucks. Will it be swallowed up by
your mortgage or your insurance going up or your rates? Probably?
But better we get the money and decide what to
do with it than the politicians. Right. Also, today MPs
gets their first pay rise since twenty seventeen. And watch
(15:26):
closely watch those particularly who shout the loudest about equality
and fairness and justice and all those good things. Do
they put their money where their mouth is? Today Chris
Luxen for his sins, and I assume it's to stave
off the inevitable media storm about he's rich, he's hit,
he's got seven houses. He has promised to donate his
(15:47):
full tax cut twenty bucks a week to charity. Also,
the increase in his pay to Charity Hipkins. What's happening
over at Labor HQ. Well, Labor has apparently emailed their
supporters asking for the tax cut to be donated. It
sounds good not to women's refuge or kids can but
to labor. Yes, take your tax cut and give it
(16:09):
to labor to quote, really help create the better future
altered our needs? Shameless? And what about the Greens? Where
do they stand on this? What gesture are they making?
By their own estimates, they are the wealthy elite. Many
of them own homes. They are on salaries of more
than one hundred and seventy thousand bucks a year. They're
getting a close to three percent pay rise backdated to
(16:31):
last October, I might add, and Chloe Swarbrick, as the
co leader, will now get a nice bump to her
salary for that too. She'll be on well over two
hundred k. Where are the pledges to donate, madam and
Chloe fl Where are they? These tax cuts, according to
you guys, are cruel and dangerous and a national disgrace.
(16:53):
They benefit the wealthy elites. So the question is what
are you wealthy el le by your own definition, going
to do about it? Ryan Bridge twenty nine after five.
Lots more to come here on the show this morning,
including our first medal, which will happen. The game starts
in fifteen minutes. This is the Women's Sevens. The Americans
(17:17):
have taken bronze. We are playing for either silver or gold,
and we'll have updates from Paris inside the next half hour.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Do I remind you of your daddy in.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
My form lambdor hanging out the passenger door?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on Early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Bids and a playing store News talk zid B.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Where against your truck breaks?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Did your put through money? Dider ex fun?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Good morning New Zealand. It is twenty four minutes away
from six o'clock. Inside the next half hour, we're live
to Paris. We are about to get our first medal.
Will it be gold? Will it be silver? The Women's
Sevens kicks off in about ten minutes time, but we
will keep you updated on this program. Don't you worry
about that. Also, this morning we've been talking about the
River sen and how filthy it is, and lots of
(18:23):
you are saying you don't think it would be right
to hold the competition as adiwathlon. It just wouldn't be fair.
If swimming was your leg and they take the swim
out and you beat that person, does that feel fair?
Kathy says no. Another says this is a disgusting bureaucratic mess.
This is Don Don's fight up. Ryan. It's not bloody
(18:46):
rocket science, is it. The river is contaminated. It was
before the Olympics. You add the tens of thousands more
people and they're sewage populating Paris for the Games. The
river can only be filthy. Typical, shiny assed brea ignorance
to have the triathlon where it is. Sack the clowns
that came up with that idea. Don, you're not minsing
(19:07):
your words. Good morning to you. Twenty three away.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
From sax Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We're going to Dunedin Cullum Proctors with us Callum Queenstown.
You're talking about house prices. What's going on?
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Well, it's more expensive than ever Ryan to buy a
house in Queenstown. The new one roof figures are out
which show the average property value in Queenstown has hit
a new peak of just over two million dollars for
the average property value, it's a fifty percent increase on
twenty nineteen one. Roof's editor Owen Vaughan says there was
doubt the tourist town whatever recover from the price drop
(19:39):
after the COVID lockdowns, but he says, apart from a
small blit last year, prices have kept climbing in the
tourist resort. Meanwhile, the national average has dropped to nine
hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Thousand and weather in Dunedin today Callum chowers ease this afternoon.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Easterly is easing as well, but the high still just
six today.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Thank you. We're in christ Church with Blake. Benny. Now, Blake,
how's the reaction been to that news. It's hard to
describe it as good news, but that police have found
the body of Jan Febaum.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Yes, so it's a bit of a sense of comfort
for both police and family. So, of course, as you say,
human remains believed to be Bowers were found at a
green Park property yesterday, discovered in a one hundred and
fifty milimeters deep grave along a tree line. So that
discovery came after new information led around sixty police searches
to the area and of course, follows the one year
anniversary of the forty four year old's disappearance just weeks ago.
(20:34):
A detective inspector, Nikola Reeves says they will now conduct
a scene examination and post mortem. She says it's satisfying
and comforting that police can give answers to Bao's family
that they couldn't previously. A trial for Boos murder accused
remained set for October.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Weather Blake, It's.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Going to be a rainy day down here in christ
Church with fresh southeasterlies, which will eyes this afternoon a
high of seven.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Thank you Max Tols and Wellington Max. The council chief
executives go on.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah, from what we've seen during Mayor Tori t Firfano's tenure,
perhaps the most important person in local politics and Wellington
is quitting at the end of her current contract. Barbara
Mcero leaving that chief executive role in March, not to
anything specific at this stage, just to pursue other interests.
As she says, we did a rip around of councilors
last night. No one seems to know why, but there
(21:22):
has certainly been increasing pressure on Mcerro this and last
year around infrastructure water around the council being perceived as
anti business around withholding ratepayer funded information from councilors. Regarding
that very controversial airport share sale that she lobbied hard for.
That's a vote that could likely be reversed with several
(21:44):
councilors changing their mind. She probably would not have got
the numbers in a council vote for another term. A
good chance she's just had enough.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Goodness, mate, heaven't the right payers too mix with it today?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Rubbish rain heavy at times strong Southerly's h I have ten.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Brilliant thank you. Neither is in the studio. Hey, you're watching.
You've got one eye on the seventh smatch, haven't you.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I can see it on his face.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yes, and I.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Must go out there in the music. Was going to
put the chairs out, get the snacks ready, you've got snacks. Well,
we don't have very many snacks, so it's just the
special people that will be able to get the nuts.
You're one of those special people. You're on my list.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
It's good to hear.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Hey very quickly. Smith and Coey's. It's obviously plans to
close it, but there is one green shoot of hope.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
That's right. There's a bit of a glimmer here. So
the company announced it's now weighing up two options over
its future. So it does include, as you say, the
original proposal this was to shut up shop nearly twenty
twenty five, as we all know. But a second one
just have a smaller presence in Queen Street, in that
Queen Street building with enhanced online offerings from February. It
still means that the newmarket shop will close. So what
(22:55):
we know now is that the cheer Tony Coey, he's
going to make a decision about this. Whether that will
happen by the end of next week.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Interesting, hopefully they can save something. How weather in Auckland.
Speaker 12 (23:05):
Today down with a feather. It's a mixed bag today.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Mixed bag, I say.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
We've got fine spells, isolated showers, morning fog pictures, showers
increasing from afternoon, heavy thunderstorms possible. Are high of seventeen.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
The Canadians are doing their Is it Canadians, aren't they?
Speaker 12 (23:22):
It's the Canadians.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
They're doing their anthem at the moment for the women's
sevens over in the Olympics.
Speaker 12 (23:27):
I must go get my snake, do you they're cheatings,
so they are cheating.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'll probably get gold just because they've cheated somehow.
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Keep saying that because they won't Yep, I think they're
going to win just because they're cheats.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Everyone thinks Canadians are so nice, don't they. I don't
think they're nice people. I think they're horrible little creatures.
Speaker 12 (23:47):
Have you been to Canada?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well no, I haven't. To be fair, I've seen enough
on the TV to say what you mean. People think
they're nice, just but it's because they live next to
the Americans. Ah, you know anyone would look good next
to them.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
We're doing our one now, I must.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
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I promise I'll tell you who's going to win the
US election according to Alan Lickman, who has correctly predicted
nine of the last ten. I'll get to that in
a second right now. Gavin Gray, our UK Europe correspondent,
is with us very quickly. What did you say, Leo?
Someone scored a try I think we might have scored
a try in the women's sevens. Anyway, we'll give you
some audio shortly. UK police continue to question that seventeen
(25:38):
year old man after three children were killed, seven and
others left critically injured after a stabbing Gavin.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Best toll increased by one, with one of the young
girls dying in hospital this morning, and we now know
the names and ages of the three victims, a nine
year old, a seven year old and a six year
old attacked at this Taylor Swift themed event in Southport
in northwest of England. At least five children and two
adults also very very seriously injured. They remain in critical condition.
(26:13):
Police are saying it's a seventeen year old boy they
believe is arrested on suspicion of murder, and it's being
reported that the teenage suspect, whose parents are from Rwanda,
was born in Cardiff and moved to that area of
Southport about a decade ago. Currently, there is a vigil
going on at the site, hundreds if not thousands of
(26:34):
people attending there with lots of flowers marking the spot
where the attack took place, and also Taylor Swift that
she's completely in shock after the horror of the knife attack.
Her fans have raised more than four hundred thousand New
Zealand dollars for the families of the victims.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That's just awful, Gevin, thank you for that update. That's
our UK in Europe correspondent Devin Gray with us. It's
just gone twelve minutes away from six rain Bridge. Right.
We have some audio for you now. The black Ferns
are competing for well, we hope it's a gold medal.
They will definitely get a medal, either silver or gold.
(27:12):
Here's the latest from Paris.
Speaker 14 (27:15):
They're running ball for New Zealand. Poorty Lane that we
start a step looking to link up Party Lane, through
the line racy Porty Lane. Put the foot down and
racy Porty Lane. We'll put New Zealand up five mil.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
This is the gold medal match. We got the conversion,
so currently seven nil to New Zealand. Right and back here,
double digit rate rises. You would have seen this. If
you live in say, Hamilton, you got nineteen point nine
percent increases. Wellington you're getting about sixteen percent to need
in seventeen and a half percent. It hurts, right, and
(27:51):
there are big issues like infrastructure and climate resilience that
need to be paid for. But a new report out
this morning from Local Government New Zealand and nzier say
is that government policy changes are costing council's millions. They
say that one size fit all policies from central government
don't consider the impact and the cost for local government.
(28:11):
It's death by a thousand cuts. Joining me this morning,
Campbell Barry, Vice President of Local Government New Zealand and
Lower Hut Mayor Campbell, thanks for being with me. Can
you give us an example of one of these issues
that central throws onto you and you guys have to
pay for.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, good morning. The best example I can give you
is the speed restriction changes that were brought in by
the previous government for us at a Lower Hut that
cost US five hundred and seventy thousand over three years
to implement. We're now being told by the new government
to reverse that or to go through a process to
confirm our position, which will cost another five hundred and
(28:48):
seventy thousand dollars over three years to implement. In my mind,
that's just the definition of insanity and a waste of money.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's madness. Can you not just why does it cost
so much to change speeds? Can you not just rip
the old signs down?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Basically, the National Policy Statement in that space, or the
policy that the government put forward, requires us to go
through a certain process and implementation. Then there's a range
of different things that's part of it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I mean, that's incredibly frustrating. I feel immediately annoyed just
hearing you say it, and what a waste. So do
you what are you asking for that? When government makes
changes like this, they actually cost it and then reimburse you.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah, they should fund it. We need to put an
end to unfunded mandates. They are having a serious impact
on the bottom line, either they contribute towards the rate
increases that we're seeing or simply councils suck it up.
They absorbed that cost, and it means that there's an
impact on services and other places which communities are expecting
us to do things. So another example I could give
(29:54):
you is the National Policy Statement on Urban Development seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for us to employment and
also delayed our full district flan review by eighteen months,
which had a number of other fly on effects. We
could go on all day and councils have been feeling
this for decades.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Do you have a total figure? Have you worked out
how much these death by a thousand cuts changes are
costing local government in total?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
What the report found? It was really difficult to put
a number on that, but it undoubtedly is in the
tens of millions. We know it's a lot. The reason
for not being able to put a number on it
is because so often councils just suck it up, They
absorbed that cost and it has an impact on other
areas of council services. So we don't necessarily we aren't
(30:41):
exactly able to point to it, but there are a
number of anecdotal examples which councils could give you of
this happening over such a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
All right, thanks so much for your time this morning.
Campbell Barry with us from Local Government, New Zealand. Eight
minutes away from six. Apparently we've just got a yellow
card in the women's sevens game.
Speaker 14 (30:59):
Heaviless Cherry Williams was going low into the tackle play by.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
New Zealand number eleven.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
This contact with the head there is mitigation of my
recommendation as a yellow card.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
So yellow cards and New Zealand without portioning Woodmen Whittler
for two minutes, closing in on halftime.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's portion Woodman has been given a yellow card. The
score remains seven ZERL New Zealand up on Canada. This
is a gold medal match back with Mike Hosking in
a second on.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a
playing store news talk zid.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Be Good Morning New Zealand. It is six minutes away
from six. Some bad news. Canada has just scored twice,
meaning though we are now he'd had he a listen.
This is the first try.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
Apps gets past Herony, drags off a couple other defenders,
pops up a pass and Canada I King of responds.
Chloe Daniels scores under the sticks for.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Canada, and they got another one after that intercepting a pass. Yeah,
so currently the score is Mike Hoskins in the studio,
you're able to help me?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Twelve?
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Fourteen?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Seven? Fourteen seven?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I think they got the conversion?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Okay, fourteen. It's such a random.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Game, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Sevens?
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Have you watched a lot of sevens. I find that
I find the whole thing. Hang on, did they get
that we'll miss it?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is that we're playing for our first medal here, this.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Is this is the unfortunate thing. The unfortunate thing here
is medals are so interesting, aren't they. So first of all,
we're all down at the moment because we haven't got any.
Now we're desperate. Then this unless we get a.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Gold, then as we will be pressed, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
So silver's not acceptable in women's sevens, and we were
expecting a goal from the men's seven so that's gone
TETs up as well. And so but then you get
somebody who you weren't expecting scrapes and for a bronze
and you go, oh my god, performance of a lifetime.
And then we're all collectively together.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
As a nation.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
So it just it depends on what the event is.
And that's before you get to this trick. We've got
the head of triathlon. I w heard you're talking about
it earlier.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
It's unforgivable.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
It is at the highest level of sport to go.
It could be try, it could be due. There's actually
quite a bit of a difference there is.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And also if you just think about those athletes going
to bed every night, the stress of it one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
This is for many of these people, this is their
moment in life and for you to go, look, I
know you're used to the five meter board, but today
it's it's the springboard. Because you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's pathetic. It is pathetic.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Anyway, So who are you talking to. We're talking to
the head of triath well, I mean we're calling them
the head of triathlon. It might be the head of
du Flon by the time, by the time they wake
up and make that decision. Anyway, that another matters.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Is brilliant and we will have a result in the
next few minutes. Currently it is twelve seven Canada up
in this gold medal match in Paris.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
See tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
For more from Newstalk st B. Listen live on air
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning, New Zealand. It is six after
five as you are waking up this morning. It's great
to be with you coming up on this show in
the next hour. They giveth with one hand and they
taketh with the other. Tax cuts kick in today, which
is great news. But if you are a homeowner, rates
rises some more than twenty percent are coming your way
(00:37):
and will probably wipe out any benefit from a tax cut.
You get local government New Zealand on why before six
and medals. They giveth with one hand, the women's sevens
this morning. Look to take gold or silver. At least
we'll get a medal. We'll keep you up to date
with that live throughout the morning. But have they taketh
a medal? From Hayden Wild with the Dirty River Sen
(01:01):
will have live updates from Paris this morning. It is
seven after five the agenda Wednesday, the thirty first of July,
New Zealand is just over an hour away from receiving
our first medal. In the Olympics. The Kiwi women sevens
are facing Canada cheats and the final and just under
forty five minutes time after beating the United States earlier
(01:23):
this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm excited we get to play in an Olympic final
round sixty five thousand people, which is pretty incredible.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
And sec you're in New Zealand's first Olympic medal.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh, it's yeah, that'll be amazing for the team turns.
We're going for the one color.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The beautiful emotion in that voice. The sevens are guaranteed
a silver medal at least gold if they win. We'll
have the latest for you live throughout the show. That's game,
by the way, starts five forty five this morning. Protests
are underway in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas after President
Nicholas Maduro claimed victory in the country's election. People around
me are on our microphone that they want freedom and
(02:03):
that they want to leave the street to until Nikolas
Maduro is ousted. The opposition party has disputed the results,
saying that their candidate, ed Mondo Gonzalez, has clearly won.
The polls leading up to the election indicated a potential
win for him. Maduro has been in power since twenty
thirteen and in that time, get this, he has overseen
(02:24):
an economic meltdown to the point that seven point seven
million Venezuelans have left the country looking for work elsewhere.
That's a quarter of their population, a quarter back here.
Tax cuts are coming into force today for about three
and a half million people. We will see less tax
going out on our next pays. But whether they will
(02:44):
make that will make a difference for households, well, it's
to be debated. People are filling the squeeze. Those on
the lowest incomes will only be taking in four dollars
fifty extra a week. The opposition leader, Chris Hipkins says
we should be spending the money on things like health,
education and infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
News and views You trust to start your day's Billy
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a flying store. You's talk said the We'd.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Love to hear from you this morning. Nine two ninety
two is the number to text very quickly. Everyone's talking
about the River Sin and how filthy it is. In fact,
I think I just heard Andrew Alderson in Sport call
it the filth level of the sin. It's filled with
the coal ie because it rained on the weekend essentially,
and so they've had to cancel it. They will do
another check three o'clock roughly this afternoon our time, and
(03:36):
then the men will have to go after the women.
So the men go eight am local time and we go.
The men would go eight forty five am local time.
I'm just wondering, and I know this is probably not
the right thing to say, but if you're you're an Olympian,
You've been training for what is it now, three years
for these games. You've put your heart and your soul
(03:57):
and all of your effort into this. And if swimming
is your strong suit and they cancel the swimming leg,
wouldn't you just swim in the river anyway? I mean, look,
it's a bit of a coal lie. You'll be sick
for a couple of days. But if it's sickness or
missing out on your chance at gold, wouldn't you go
for sickness? I think I would. Hey something to watch
(04:18):
for tonight the Federal Reserve in the United States, there
is a crunch meeting which will happen tonight on rate cuts.
Why do we care about this? While the biggest economy
in the world and what happens there matters to us.
They are expected to hold the rate at five point
twenty five to five point five percent. This is the
short term rate, but they will set a timetable the
(04:39):
pundits reckon for a series of cuts from September, hopefully
which will start to push things up. Obviously, they're going
to have to look at their inflation rate. The one
to watch in the United States tonight and ours, excuse me,
our next rate check in with our Reserve Bank is
the fourteenth of August. That's exactly two weeks away from now.
(05:00):
Now very quickly, I thought I would bring up to
speed on Kamala Harris. She has now raked in three
hundred and forty million New Zealand dollars in fundraising donations
since she got the not well, she hasn't even got
the nomination yet. Their Chicago convention is next month, but
lots of celebrities have gone and donated money through a
(05:24):
zoom call that was called white Duds for Harris. They
apparently raised former than US dollars. There's a really interesting
guy called Alan Lickman, and I'm hoping to get him
on the show tomorrow. He has correctly predicted nine of
the last ten US elections using a series of yes,
(05:44):
no question answers. Thirteen of them. He calls them his
keys to the White House, things like is it the
incumbent leader? Is there a third party involved? What does
the economy look like? Those sorts of things. Anyway, he
correctly predicted the one that was unpredictable, which was Trump
beating Hillary in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country, because you'd be in jail.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Secretary Quinton.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, it was a funny. It was a funny election,
and the pole said that she would win. He won.
So this guy gets it right. And I'll tell you
just after five point thirty this morning what he says
about this election. It is twelve after five.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture, beds and a playing store. News Talk said.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Be fourteen minutes after five on news Talk said, be
lots of feedback coming, and already this one from one
of our listeners, Ryan It's a bit rich for Chris
Hipkins bleting on about government policies when all the hardships
we're currently experiencing are wholly caused by their reckless overspending.
It has just gone quarter pass now the governments introducing
(06:59):
harsh rule for overseas online casinos. This while also allowing
them to advertise here. A limited number of licenses will
be available for three year terms, and the operators will
be required to meet certain standards before they can offer services.
Andre Food is with the Problem Gambling Foundation. She's with
(07:19):
me this morning, Andrew, thank you for being here. I
wonder with online hello, I wonder with online gambling, is
it actually just too hard to regulate? Period?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
But that's a really good question. I know that around
the world, you know, regulators have battled with this because
there are so many operators out there. But regulation is
the right approach, and we totally agree with regulation and
having a licensing system.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But obviously there's a.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Lot more detail to come yet, and we want to
make sure that there's really robust harmonimization and consumer protection
at the forefront of any approach to this regulation.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Because if you are a problem gambler and you really
want to gamble online, you I mean, where there's a will,
there's a way. Surely you'll get a VPN, you'll work
around our laws in New Zealand.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Well, it's not illegal for New Zealanders to gamble on
these sites. And what people don't generally understand is that
they're not protected by New Zealand law. So while they
can gamble on these sites, you know, if something happened
they couldn't get their money out or whatever the situation
might be, they don't they're not protected by our laws
(08:40):
and our Gambling Act.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And so these changes, they're going to be able to
advertise legally in New Zealand. Now, yes, yeah, so, because
I mean I get fed ads that are you know,
for gambling things, and when you go online. I think
everybody gets that through Google or whatever it is. Do
you think we're going to see more ads now that
it's legal or do you think it will just be
(09:02):
the same.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Look, we've been absolutely bombarded with ads in this country
and a lot of that has been because this market
here is largely unregulated. You know, in terms of online
gambling regulation. Where about the last country, you know, the
last cab off the rank in terms of that, so
we have been targeted. Even though it is illegal for
the advertising of online of overseas online gambling, at the moment,
(09:28):
we've still seen these ads. As you said, you know
social media, they're everywhere, so yes, we will see more
of it. But what we do hope is well, we'd
really like to see the advertising of gambling band completely.
But if that's not going to happen, we really really
need to see strict measures in place to limit the
(09:49):
volume of advertising and put restrictions around the time when
gambling can be advertised. I mean it's age restricted. We
don't see ads on TV during peak time when children
might be watching, for example, with advertising or certainly not tobacco,
so gambling is no different and we need to see
much tougher restrictions around that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Andrew, thank you very much for your time this morning.
That's Andrew Freud, the Problem Gambling Foundation, about the government's
introducing introduction I should say of harsher rules for overseas
online casinos, but also allowing them to advertise. Here it
is eighteen after five. We're live to Paris.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Next the first Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's
furniture beds and a player store.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
News Talk ZEDB twenty outter five News talks zi'd be
Ryan councils. This is from Grant Councils need to rein
it in. It is disgusting how they just keep putting
rates up and up and up. People cannot afford to
keep these counselors in jobs. Well. Local government New Zealand
is heading back at some of the accusations about overspending
(10:58):
and some of the reasons for it, talking to them
just before six twenty one after five now the men's well,
that means we are less than half an hour away
from our first medal at the Olympics. It'll either be
a silver or gold from the women's seventeen seven's team
the men's triathlon, while meanwhile at the Olympics has been
postponed at the last minute due to the water quality.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
In the river.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Senn Hayden Wild and Dylan McCulloch were due to compete
forour New Zealand at six o'clock last night our time.
That's now moved to eight forty five pm our time today.
Hopefully they will be competing, but there are more checks
on the river's water quality to come. Joining me now
is Herald Sports supporter Michael Burgess, who is in Paris
(11:41):
for us. Good morning, good evening, afternoon to you, Michael,
tell us what's happening with the river.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Yeah, that's a big question, i'd say for a lot
of people, because we really don't know. I mean, what
I can tell you is that they've basically got three
more days to sort this out. Friday, as far as
we know, is the last day they could hold the
men's triathlon in the river. That's sort of their final day.
If they can't, it'll have to be a duathlon where
(12:09):
it's just the bike and the run. So they've got
a couple more days to sort it out. But yeah,
this morning Paris time is really unfortunate, especially for the athletes.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You mentioned.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
They woke up about five am because they're expecting a
race that starts at eight am, and they wake up,
set their alarm, and then they get the news on
their phone that oh, it's postponed. So that's really tough
for them, I imagine, because you know you're wanting to
sleep well then to perform. You wake up all excited
and the races and on. But basically there's still some
worries about the level of bacteria in the river. Even
(12:42):
though the French government spent one point four billion euros
on cleaning it up, it's not quite meeting the standard
of World Triathlon. So organizers are saying, look, there's been
a bit of rain, that's the issue. But it's been
sunny the last few days, so it should be fine
for tomorrow. As you said, the race forty five pm
(13:05):
New Zealand time, it should be fine. But we still
just don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
They must be nervous recks. I mean, waking up every
morning and we're going to bed first of all, not
knowing if you're going to race tomorrow or not. It
must be hard. If they do go to a girafthon,
would that benefit Hayden Wild is swimming his strong suit
or is that one of his weaker parts of the race,
And is anyone thinking there to hell with it, let's
(13:30):
just swim with the coal II because you know I
would rather be sick with a gold medal.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
That's a good point, actually, right, because you're only going
to get sick later, aren't. You're not going to get
sick straight away. You know, you get sick a few
days later, So I guess there's a point where you
could you could always take that gamble. It's a good question,
you pose. I asked Hayden about that, you know, before
the Olympics, and yeah, it would help him. It would
(13:59):
help him if there was no swim, because he is
so good on the run and the bike, so he's
still good in the water, but he's really good in
the other two legs, so you take this warm out,
it only helps him. So it's only a good thing
in a way. But he also made an interesting point.
He said he wouldn't really like, you know, there'd be
a funny feeling about competing in a trithon at the
Olympics and maybe winning a medal, but it's not a trithlon.
(14:22):
Does it always be an asterisk attached to that? So
I'm sure he that's definitely not his preference. And as
you say, I can't imagine what these athletes are going
through because they've waited four years or three years for this,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Not sure when they're going to compete. No, and after
a billion dollars, you've still got a filthy river. Michael,
thank you very much for being with us this morning.
It's Michael Burgess, the Herald sports supporter in Paris, and
I can tell you that the Americans have just taken
bronze in the women's sevens competition.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Separating the fact from the fiction. Gad's Billing Edition with Smith's,
The New Zealand's Furniture Beds and Appliant Store News.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Talk ZBI twenty seven after five income tax cuts kicking
for us, today, ninety four percent of us will get
a few extra bucks. Will it be swallowed up by
your mortgage or your insurance going up or your rates? Probably?
But better we get the money and decide what to
do with it than the politicians. Right. Also, today MPs
gets their first pay rise since twenty seventeen. And watch
(15:26):
closely watch those particularly who shout the loudest about equality
and fairness and justice and all those good things. Do
they put their money where their mouth is? Today Chris
Luxen for his sins, and I assume it's to stave
off the inevitable media storm about he's rich, he's hit,
he's got seven houses. He has promised to donate his
(15:47):
full tax cut twenty bucks a week to charity. Also,
the increase in his pay to Charity Hipkins. What's happening
over at Labor HQ. Well, Labor has apparently emailed their
supporters asking for the tax cut to be donated. It
sounds good not to women's refuge or kids can but
to labor. Yes, take your tax cut and give it
(16:09):
to labor to quote, really help create the better future
altered our needs? Shameless? And what about the Greens? Where
do they stand on this? What gesture are they making?
By their own estimates, they are the wealthy elite. Many
of them own homes. They are on salaries of more
than one hundred and seventy thousand bucks a year. They're
getting a close to three percent pay rise backdated to
(16:31):
last October, I might add, and Chloe Swarbrick, as the
co leader, will now get a nice bump to her
salary for that too. She'll be on well over two
hundred k. Where are the pledges to donate, madam and
Chloe fl Where are they? These tax cuts, according to
you guys, are cruel and dangerous and a national disgrace.
(16:53):
They benefit the wealthy elites. So the question is what
are you wealthy el le by your own definition, going
to do about it? Ryan Bridge twenty nine after five.
Lots more to come here on the show this morning,
including our first medal, which will happen. The game starts
in fifteen minutes. This is the Women's Sevens. The Americans
(17:17):
have taken bronze. We are playing for either silver or gold,
and we'll have updates from Paris inside the next half hour.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Do I remind you of your daddy in.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
My form lambdor hanging out the passenger door?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on Early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Bids and a playing store News talk zid B.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Where against your truck breaks?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Did your put through money? Dider ex fun?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Good morning New Zealand. It is twenty four minutes away
from six o'clock. Inside the next half hour, we're live
to Paris. We are about to get our first medal.
Will it be gold? Will it be silver? The Women's
Sevens kicks off in about ten minutes time, but we
will keep you updated on this program. Don't you worry
about that. Also, this morning we've been talking about the
River sen and how filthy it is, and lots of
(18:23):
you are saying you don't think it would be right
to hold the competition as adiwathlon. It just wouldn't be fair.
If swimming was your leg and they take the swim
out and you beat that person, does that feel fair?
Kathy says no. Another says this is a disgusting bureaucratic mess.
This is Don Don's fight up. Ryan. It's not bloody
(18:46):
rocket science, is it. The river is contaminated. It was
before the Olympics. You add the tens of thousands more
people and they're sewage populating Paris for the Games. The
river can only be filthy. Typical, shiny assed brea ignorance
to have the triathlon where it is. Sack the clowns
that came up with that idea. Don, you're not minsing
(19:07):
your words. Good morning to you. Twenty three away.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
From sax Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We're going to Dunedin Cullum Proctors with us Callum Queenstown.
You're talking about house prices. What's going on?
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Well, it's more expensive than ever Ryan to buy a
house in Queenstown. The new one roof figures are out
which show the average property value in Queenstown has hit
a new peak of just over two million dollars for
the average property value, it's a fifty percent increase on
twenty nineteen one. Roof's editor Owen Vaughan says there was
doubt the tourist town whatever recover from the price drop
(19:39):
after the COVID lockdowns, but he says, apart from a
small blit last year, prices have kept climbing in the
tourist resort. Meanwhile, the national average has dropped to nine
hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Thousand and weather in Dunedin today Callum chowers ease this afternoon.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Easterly is easing as well, but the high still just
six today.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Thank you. We're in christ Church with Blake. Benny. Now, Blake,
how's the reaction been to that news. It's hard to
describe it as good news, but that police have found
the body of Jan Febaum.
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Yes, so it's a bit of a sense of comfort
for both police and family. So, of course, as you say,
human remains believed to be Bowers were found at a
green Park property yesterday, discovered in a one hundred and
fifty milimeters deep grave along a tree line. So that
discovery came after new information led around sixty police searches
to the area and of course, follows the one year
anniversary of the forty four year old's disappearance just weeks ago.
(20:34):
A detective inspector, Nikola Reeves says they will now conduct
a scene examination and post mortem. She says it's satisfying
and comforting that police can give answers to Bao's family
that they couldn't previously. A trial for Boos murder accused
remained set for October.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Weather Blake, It's.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Going to be a rainy day down here in christ
Church with fresh southeasterlies, which will eyes this afternoon a
high of seven.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Thank you Max Tols and Wellington Max. The council chief
executives go on.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
Yeah, from what we've seen during Mayor Tori t Firfano's tenure,
perhaps the most important person in local politics and Wellington
is quitting at the end of her current contract. Barbara
Mcero leaving that chief executive role in March, not to
anything specific at this stage, just to pursue other interests.
As she says, we did a rip around of councilors
last night. No one seems to know why, but there
(21:22):
has certainly been increasing pressure on Mcerro this and last
year around infrastructure water around the council being perceived as
anti business around withholding ratepayer funded information from councilors. Regarding
that very controversial airport share sale that she lobbied hard for.
That's a vote that could likely be reversed with several
(21:44):
councilors changing their mind. She probably would not have got
the numbers in a council vote for another term. A
good chance she's just had enough.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Goodness, mate, heaven't the right payers too mix with it today?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Rubbish rain heavy at times strong Southerly's h I have ten.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Brilliant thank you. Neither is in the studio. Hey, you're watching.
You've got one eye on the seventh smatch, haven't you.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I can see it on his face.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yes, and I.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
Must go out there in the music. Was going to
put the chairs out, get the snacks ready, you've got snacks. Well,
we don't have very many snacks, so it's just the
special people that will be able to get the nuts.
You're one of those special people. You're on my list.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
It's good to hear.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Hey very quickly. Smith and Coey's. It's obviously plans to
close it, but there is one green shoot of hope.
Speaker 12 (22:33):
That's right. There's a bit of a glimmer here. So
the company announced it's now weighing up two options over
its future. So it does include, as you say, the
original proposal this was to shut up shop nearly twenty
twenty five, as we all know. But a second one
just have a smaller presence in Queen Street, in that
Queen Street building with enhanced online offerings from February. It
still means that the newmarket shop will close. So what
(22:55):
we know now is that the cheer Tony Coey, he's
going to make a decision about this. Whether that will
happen by the end of next week.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Interesting, hopefully they can save something. How weather in Auckland.
Speaker 12 (23:05):
Today down with a feather. It's a mixed bag today.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Mixed bag, I say.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
We've got fine spells, isolated showers, morning fog pictures, showers
increasing from afternoon, heavy thunderstorms possible. Are high of seventeen.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
The Canadians are doing their Is it Canadians, aren't they?
Speaker 12 (23:22):
It's the Canadians.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
They're doing their anthem at the moment for the women's
sevens over in the Olympics.
Speaker 12 (23:27):
I must go get my snake, do you they're cheatings,
so they are cheating.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'll probably get gold just because they've cheated somehow.
Speaker 12 (23:36):
Keep saying that because they won't Yep, I think they're
going to win just because they're cheats.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Everyone thinks Canadians are so nice, don't they. I don't
think they're nice people. I think they're horrible little creatures.
Speaker 12 (23:47):
Have you been to Canada?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well no, I haven't. To be fair, I've seen enough
on the TV to say what you mean. People think
they're nice, just but it's because they live next to
the Americans. Ah, you know anyone would look good next
to them.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
We're doing our one now, I must.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
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I promise I'll tell you who's going to win the
US election according to Alan Lickman, who has correctly predicted
nine of the last ten. I'll get to that in
a second right now. Gavin Gray, our UK Europe correspondent,
is with us very quickly. What did you say, Leo?
Someone scored a try I think we might have scored
a try in the women's sevens. Anyway, we'll give you
some audio shortly. UK police continue to question that seventeen
(25:38):
year old man after three children were killed, seven and
others left critically injured after a stabbing Gavin.
Speaker 13 (25:48):
Best toll increased by one, with one of the young
girls dying in hospital this morning, and we now know
the names and ages of the three victims, a nine
year old, a seven year old and a six year
old attacked at this Taylor Swift themed event in Southport
in northwest of England. At least five children and two
adults also very very seriously injured. They remain in critical condition.
(26:13):
Police are saying it's a seventeen year old boy they
believe is arrested on suspicion of murder, and it's being
reported that the teenage suspect, whose parents are from Rwanda,
was born in Cardiff and moved to that area of
Southport about a decade ago. Currently, there is a vigil
going on at the site, hundreds if not thousands of
(26:34):
people attending there with lots of flowers marking the spot
where the attack took place, and also Taylor Swift that
she's completely in shock after the horror of the knife attack.
Her fans have raised more than four hundred thousand New
Zealand dollars for the families of the victims.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That's just awful, Gevin, thank you for that update. That's
our UK in Europe correspondent Devin Gray with us. It's
just gone twelve minutes away from six rain Bridge. Right.
We have some audio for you now. The black Ferns
are competing for well, we hope it's a gold medal.
They will definitely get a medal, either silver or gold.
(27:12):
Here's the latest from Paris.
Speaker 14 (27:15):
They're running ball for New Zealand. Poorty Lane that we
start a step looking to link up Party Lane, through
the line racy Porty Lane. Put the foot down and
racy Porty Lane. We'll put New Zealand up five mil.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
This is the gold medal match. We got the conversion,
so currently seven nil to New Zealand. Right and back here,
double digit rate rises. You would have seen this. If
you live in say, Hamilton, you got nineteen point nine
percent increases. Wellington you're getting about sixteen percent to need
in seventeen and a half percent. It hurts, right, and
(27:51):
there are big issues like infrastructure and climate resilience that
need to be paid for. But a new report out
this morning from Local Government New Zealand and nzier say
is that government policy changes are costing council's millions. They
say that one size fit all policies from central government
don't consider the impact and the cost for local government.
(28:11):
It's death by a thousand cuts. Joining me this morning,
Campbell Barry, Vice President of Local Government New Zealand and
Lower Hut Mayor Campbell, thanks for being with me. Can
you give us an example of one of these issues
that central throws onto you and you guys have to
pay for.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, good morning. The best example I can give you
is the speed restriction changes that were brought in by
the previous government for us at a Lower Hut that
cost US five hundred and seventy thousand over three years
to implement. We're now being told by the new government
to reverse that or to go through a process to
confirm our position, which will cost another five hundred and
(28:48):
seventy thousand dollars over three years to implement. In my mind,
that's just the definition of insanity and a waste of money.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's madness. Can you not just why does it cost
so much to change speeds? Can you not just rip
the old signs down?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Basically, the National Policy Statement in that space, or the
policy that the government put forward, requires us to go
through a certain process and implementation. Then there's a range
of different things that's part of it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I mean, that's incredibly frustrating. I feel immediately annoyed just
hearing you say it, and what a waste. So do
you what are you asking for that? When government makes
changes like this, they actually cost it and then reimburse you.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah, they should fund it. We need to put an
end to unfunded mandates. They are having a serious impact
on the bottom line, either they contribute towards the rate
increases that we're seeing or simply councils suck it up.
They absorbed that cost, and it means that there's an
impact on services and other places which communities are expecting
us to do things. So another example I could give
(29:54):
you is the National Policy Statement on Urban Development seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for us to employment and
also delayed our full district flan review by eighteen months,
which had a number of other fly on effects. We
could go on all day and councils have been feeling
this for decades.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Do you have a total figure? Have you worked out
how much these death by a thousand cuts changes are
costing local government in total?
Speaker 4 (30:19):
What the report found? It was really difficult to put
a number on that, but it undoubtedly is in the
tens of millions. We know it's a lot. The reason
for not being able to put a number on it
is because so often councils just suck it up, They
absorbed that cost and it has an impact on other
areas of council services. So we don't necessarily we aren't
(30:41):
exactly able to point to it, but there are a
number of anecdotal examples which councils could give you of
this happening over such a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
All right, thanks so much for your time this morning.
Campbell Barry with us from Local Government, New Zealand. Eight
minutes away from six. Apparently we've just got a yellow
card in the women's sevens game.
Speaker 14 (30:59):
Heaviless Cherry Williams was going low into the tackle play by.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
New Zealand number eleven.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
This contact with the head there is mitigation of my
recommendation as a yellow card.
Speaker 14 (31:09):
So yellow cards and New Zealand without portioning Woodmen Whittler
for two minutes, closing in on halftime.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
That's portion Woodman has been given a yellow card. The
score remains seven ZERL New Zealand up on Canada. This
is a gold medal match back with Mike Hosking in
a second on.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 2 (31:34):
Be Good Morning New Zealand. It is six minutes away
from six. Some bad news. Canada has just scored twice,
meaning though we are now he'd had he a listen.
This is the first try.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
Apps gets past Herony, drags off a couple other defenders,
pops up a pass and Canada I King of responds.
Chloe Daniels scores under the sticks for.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Canada, and they got another one after that intercepting a pass. Yeah,
so currently the score is Mike Hoskins in the studio,
you're able to help me?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Twelve?
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Fourteen?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Seven? Fourteen seven?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
I think they got the conversion?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Okay, fourteen. It's such a random.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Game, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Sevens?
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Have you watched a lot of sevens. I find that
I find the whole thing. Hang on, did they get
that we'll miss it?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
This is that we're playing for our first medal here, this.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Is this is the unfortunate thing. The unfortunate thing here
is medals are so interesting, aren't they. So first of all,
we're all down at the moment because we haven't got any.
Now we're desperate. Then this unless we get a.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Gold, then as we will be pressed, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
So silver's not acceptable in women's sevens, and we were
expecting a goal from the men's seven so that's gone
TETs up as well. And so but then you get
somebody who you weren't expecting scrapes and for a bronze
and you go, oh my god, performance of a lifetime.
And then we're all collectively together.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
As a nation.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
So it just it depends on what the event is.
And that's before you get to this trick. We've got
the head of triathlon. I w heard you're talking about
it earlier.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
It's unforgivable.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
It is at the highest level of sport to go.
It could be try, it could be due. There's actually
quite a bit of a difference there is.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And also if you just think about those athletes going
to bed every night, the stress of it one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
This is for many of these people, this is their
moment in life and for you to go, look, I
know you're used to the five meter board, but today
it's it's the springboard. Because you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's pathetic. It is pathetic.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Anyway, So who are you talking to. We're talking to
the head of triath well, I mean we're calling them
the head of triathlon. It might be the head of
du Flon by the time, by the time they wake
up and make that decision. Anyway, that another matters.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Is brilliant and we will have a result in the
next few minutes. Currently it is twelve seven Canada up
in this gold medal match in Paris.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
See tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
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