August 4, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Monday the 5th of August - the Government has unveiled their maths action plan, a new curriculum for primary and intermediate school students from next year. Ryan speaks to a principal about the changes.
Kidscan have the longest waitlist in their 19-year history. Chief Executive Julie Chapman is on the show.
It's been another busy weekend in Paris - Andrew Alderson has the latest in weekend sport.
Violence is continuing in the UK after the Southport stabbings. We cross live to UK and Europe Correspondent Kay Oliver.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interview and the inside Ryan Bridge you
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Morning, New Zealand. It is six after five. Great to
be with you, Monday, the fifth of August. Swiss spending.
We're about to spend twenty million dollars to teach our teachers'
basic maths. We have a principle on why they're pushing
back against this. That's just before six this morning. Also,
the US is moving fighter jets and navy destroyers. This
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is in response to threats from Iran to retaliate after
Israel when in shot one of the Hezbuller guys. A
lot going on also they got to a Hamas leader
in Tehran as well, So a lot going on in
this space. What is Winston Peters saying. We'll let you
know during the show. Right now, it is seven after
five the agenda, Monday, the fifth of August. Tensions are
(01:03):
continuing to rise in the Middle East. Kiwis have been
warned to get out of Lebanon and Iran before it
gets too hard to leave. Iran has vowed to retaliate
following an attack last week which killed a senior HUMMAS leader.
Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli Palestinian
Affairs Andrew Miller says it's likely there will be a
(01:24):
revenge attack.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Iran arguably has a greater incentive to respond strongly this
time because of the degree to which they were embarrassed frankly.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And rockets have already been fired. We'll have more on
that soon. Meanwhile, more than seventy people have died in
anti government clashes between protesters and police in Bangladesh. The
protests started last month when students demanded the removal of
quotas and civil service jobs, but they are now demanding
the Prime minister steps down as well. It's been reported
that ten thousand people have been detained by police in
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the last two weeks. By the way they want the
reinstatement of these quotas versed, it basically reserves thirty percent
of government jobs for kids of war veterans, and critics
say that that actually is just supporters of the ruling party,
so it's a have that's why they're so upset. New
Zealand's debt has risen nearly five percent from last year
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to eight hundred and twenty seven billion dollars at the
end of May. Crown debts risen by eleven percent, while
private debt is growing at a lower pace. Herald Business
editor Liam Dan says the COVID aftermath is mostly responsible,
as it is for so many things, for blowing out
our crown debt and account deficit, adding that their global
rating agencies should be reasonably comfortable with where we're at.
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Given the context, they would.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Have a bit of caution about the government debt and
they want to see the current account deficit coming down.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a Planet Store News talk sai'd be.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Nine minutes out to five. We've been following the situation
in the Middle East, well, we definitely last week we're
talking about this, the potential for a more direct conflict
between Iran and the United States. It is a real
worry and I think Winston Peters, I think there must
be some intelligence that we're not quite aware of at
the moment, because just in the last twenty four hours,
a number of crucial things have happened. There's now a
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fresh warning from Winston Peters and a tweet saying get
out now. And you'd have to say, there aren't many
kiwis probably in Iran right now. Apparently there are eighteen
in Lebanon, get out now. And they're saying to those
in Israel, think about whether it's necessary that you stay there.
This is the latest from our government. Also the US,
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the UK, Sweden, France, Italy, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
they are all saying leave and that's fresh. So you know,
last week we told you about the warnings from them.
Now there are fresh warnings, so obviously something is afoot.
The US is moving its military assets, fighter jets and
navy destroyers with missiles. This is Sabrina sing from the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Additional measures to include ongoing and future defensive force pasture
changes that the Department will take to support the defense
of Israel.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The question is what's next. In the north of Israel.
There are parts of northern Israel that are like ghost towns.
Apparently no one there because of the fighting and the
threat from his Bulla across the border. And you know,
the analyst are saying, well, what do you do about that?
You need to push his buller back further away from
the border so Israel can reclaim those bits of land.
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And if the world doesn't help them do it, they'll
just deal themselves. And then where does that lead? So
that's what we're looking at this morning. But also education
is the big one this morning. Why do we need
to spend twenty million dollars teaching teachers basic maths?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture,
It's and a playing store. News Talk said, be.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Thirteen after five. News Talks said, be welcome to your
Monday morning. Karmala Harris hasn't had a press conference in
fourteen days. We'll ask why what she's scared of. Also
this morning, just before six, a principal on the government's
changes to primary education what it means for your kids.
And we're staying on education right now because the number
of kids needing food and clothing from Kids Can has
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reached a record. More than ten thousand students from two
hundred and sixty schools across the country are on the
charity's wait list. It is the longest since they're founding
in two thousand and five. Kids Can Chief executive Julie
Chapman is with me this morning. Julie, good morning.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Good to have you on the show. You're seeing quite
a stark change. I mean, those are the numbers, but
you're seeing a change in the poverty line. It's shifting, yeah,
And what.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
We're finding is that more and more of the schools
that are applying to us are you know, in middle
income areas, so that that cost of living and everything
that's sort of going on right now is starting to
bite in those areas, and families that were just getting
by are now the ones that are actually needing help
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for their children.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
What are they needing help with?
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Gosh, it's just a real basics. So it's food. You know,
a lot of schools are reporting to us that you know,
children are going home to nothing to eat. So sometimes
you know, at school is the only time they're getting something.
You know, they're delaying replacing uniforms, pairs of shoes, you know,
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shoes are being held together with duct tape. You know,
it's it's taking longer for people to be able to
afford those things that their kids really need to be
able to get on with learning.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
How long is your you know, in terms of not
numbers weight list, but how long are people on the
wait list?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
How long do people have to wait to get those things?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, so at this time last year, we had over
one hundred schools waiting and now there's one hundred and
fifty more of those schools and early childhood centers.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
And I guess the real challenge for us is being
able to get the funding to be able to take
them off the weight list, because when we do that,
we also want to make sure that you know, we're
not taking them off for a short time. We're able
to support them for as long as then as they
need it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I know you guys have partners that you work with
and stuff like that, but you'll obviously be doing an appeal.
Can you let people know about that, Julie.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Look, when it is the toughest time for kids, especially
the ones that we support, so we've launched an urgent
appeal asking people to sign up to support a child's
for fifty dollars a month or just donate what they can.
And our goal with this is to get as many
kids on that waiting list off as possible so they
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can have what they need to get to school and learn.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
How do people help? What's the website, Julie.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
They can go to KidsCan dot org dot nz and
have a lot there at all the ways that they
can help and lock Also, if you're not able to donate,
just spread the words. You know, it's really important that
we support the education of all children in New Zealand
and they really, you know, the kids that are waiting
really need that support right now.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Keep up the good work, Julie, Thank you for your time.
Julie Chapman, the CEO, Chief executive at kids Can they
do brilliant work and help out if you can. There
will also be a correlation, I'm sure between the terrible
maths stats that we're about to tell you just before six,
the number of our primary school aged kids who just
don't know how to do maths. I'm sure there'll be
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a correlation between that and what Julie has been talking
about too. Back in a.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Second Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early
edition with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a
playing Store, News talk zid Bey.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Good morning. It is nineteen minutes after five Sport with
Andrew Ordison. Djokovic has had a good win at the Olympics.
Let's have a listen to that win now.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
And a beautiful cross court fourhand winner from Djokovic. It
was low, it was powerful, it was fast. He asks
the crowd to give him the biggest round of the
round of the pause as possible for.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That win.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And the first medal for Serbia at the Olympics this
Olympics too. Andrew, good morning.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Reading's right, yep, that's a terrific win. And I guess
put in the context of history, there's now only five
players who have achieved what they call the Golden Slam,
which is to won all four majors and an Olympic
title in the singles, so Djokovic joins stephie Graff, Andrea
agascy Rafael o'dale and Serena w So it's pretty alites company.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Pretty And it was a special moment too, wasn't. I
mean he was on his hands and knees, he was
looking up to I don't know god, he was crying.
Great scenes.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yeah, that's right. And another cracking dual with Carlos Alcareth.
So the you know, the I guess the champion and
the and the new guard coming through in Alcarath and
he went seven six, seven six. Neither neither of them
broke serve over the course of the match. So yeah,
just a couple of tie breaks to sort out the difference.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
How's Ryan Fox done?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Ryan Fox thirty fifth in the end in the golf,
So just so Simon, I thank you. You know, there
was some outstanding golf out there today. I mean, if
you look at the world number one Scottie Scheffley, he's
number one for a reason and he's now the Olympic
gold medalist with a nine underpass sixty two, just blitzing
the field on the final day, so winning by a stroke,
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taking it away from Tommy Fleetwood, Hedecki match Yama in
the bronze midle position. But I think to the key
that John Raham led by four strokes with nine holes
to play, but four bogus in a double in the
last nine, so slipped away for the Spaniard.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hey, women's road race, you've got an.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Update for us yep, So just seeing that commentated that
through this morning. So cyclist, the American Kristen Faulkner has
won the race just one hundred and fifty eight kilometers
that went down to the southwest of Paris and showcased
at the best of the French countryside, and then back
into the city for a few loops around the Montmartre region,
and then they took it down to the Seine and
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Faulkner broke away in those final few k's and took
it out.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Dramatic scenes to me. In the French they love their
cycling tour to France et cetera. It's the greatest race
in the world and all that. But yeah, four or
five deep on a Sunday and in the streets and
beyond the barricades, it just was a terrific atmosphere by
locks of things. See, they showcase it well.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
They do in the city. Looks beautiful, doesn't it It does.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Nothing has been everything's framed, is it. Nothing has happened
by accident there.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I just love it. That's that it looks just so natural.
You just know that has been There's some of the
most beautiful buildings and everything has been blocked off, you know,
so there's no people making it look ugly. You know
when you.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Look at the bridges, someone's had the water blast rout.
I was on the gold and the paint's been all
done and everything.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's just good on them. I think that's that's the
way you need to host a gate totally. And hey,
good on Emma Twig getting silver at the weekend. It
was it was a little you know, you wanted her
to get the gold, but as she called time on
the career too.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah, well she started all in a twig. Yeah, and
yeah she's and she's I guess, come back from Hughes
to supportment as well, a couple of fourths there, and
you know she retired once before, came back one gold
and now she's into silver as well. So it's a
it's a tremendous career.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Brilliant Andrew good. See, yeah, she's tried with zib sport.
This morning, just gone twenty three, after five lots of
texts coming in from parents who are worried about their kids' education.
Actually this one will rile up teachers. Hi, Ryan, the unions,
I see you're already worried about the teacher work. With
what the government's proposing. I thought that they could do
that extra professional development work during their twelve weeks holiday.
(13:09):
You're asking for it, John. I think that was from
Hi Ran enjoying the show. My girls have just finished
school and the standard of teaching was not great. Some
were great, but the school itself was dreadful, says one another.
He has a story about eight year old grandaughter. We
might get to these a little later on. We are
speaking to a principal just before.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Six, separating the fact from the fiction. Kid's Billy edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and Appliant Store
News Talk ZBI.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
What are councils, local councils, regional councils. It's a simple well,
it should be a simple question. What is their purpose?
I've always believed take away my rubbish, put the street
lights on. You know when I go to the toilet.
You can take that away too, That's part of your job. Roads, rubbish, sewerage,
swimming pools. Maybe a library, although I think we've got
(14:04):
the internet now, so why do we need libraries. But
that's a debate for another day. A big scrap in.
I was reading this over the weekend over Gaza. Yeah,
Notices of motion petitions, meetings interrupted, staff involved, and I
asked myself, what has rotrou Lake's council got to do
(14:26):
with Gaza. They're calling for a ceasefire and they're one
of dozens of councils across the country who are doing this.
Listen to the mayor, Tania Tapsle's interaction with Counselor Maxwell,
who was trying to get this over the line.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Could I have the answer from No, that is not
counselor Maxwell.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Counselor Maxwell, I thought counselors Counselor Maxwell, I rule that
that is not an urgent item.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
This clips of parent gone viral, probably the first time
anything from a council has gone viral. And don't get
me wrong, please, deaths and the extent of the retaliation
by Israel completely out of whack, heartbreaking, unimaginable, suffering. Please,
I am not casting judgment here on the issue at hand.
(15:22):
I'm simply asking, is Netanyahu is Biden listening to the
thoughts of Baltado A Lakes Council and if not, should
they be talking about things like this? You know, if
councils were on top of their core business, this wouldn't
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matter to me. But you've got budget blowouts. This is
just it, or to do it, by the way, budget
blowouts on a sewage scheme. You've got in Buller thirty
one percent rate increases. In Hamilton, you've got nineteen percent
rate increases. You've got an average of fifteen percent rate
increases across the country. You've got infrastructure problems, you've got
sewage running into the ocean and Toto and they've just
(16:04):
held an election the first time they could vote, I
think in five years and they were in the thirties
and turnout and you wonder why. I mean, people obviously
don't have a lot of faith in their councils and
what are they doing? And it's not just garsa. There
are other issues that councils often jump on, like things
to do with the UN. And I mean, is that
(16:26):
your purview. We've got a representative, We've got a permanent
representative on the Security Council, the UN Security Council, a
permanent representative who can make statements on our behalf, on
behalf of the government. Isn't that where you do it?
Are they focusing on local issues? Shouldn't they only focus
on local issues? After all? Aren't they local.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Councils, Ryan Bridge, twenty.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Nine minutes after five, coming up just before six. It's
a principle on the government's education changes. They announced those
at the weekend. Also, we're going to Kay Oliver, who's
our UK and Europe correspondent, because the fights and the
riots that have been kicking off in Southport, apparently it's
not just the far right that's getting involved. It's guys
(17:13):
who are sitting at the pub on a Sunday outternoon,
getting drunk and then seeing the right and just joining in.
We'll talk about that in just a few moments too.
You're on zb.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's Furniture Beds had a playing store news Talk zid B.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Good morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six o'clock.
This is You probably don't often hear the North Korean
national anthem. The reason we're playing the North Korean national
anthem is that they're making a bit of a splash
at the gymnastics arena at the Olympics. Of course, they
didn't send this is North Korea didn't send anyone to
Tokyo because COVID and they locked themselves down. But they
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reckon that they're on a charm offensive. These North Korean
athletes at the gymnastics arena, they're doing some diplomatic acrobatics
on the sidelines as they compete, not just performing on
the vault. So Simone Biles is going for a third
gold medal there right, And one of those applauding the
loudest and smiling and standing and clapping and cheering was
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none other than Anne Chung Uk, who is her rival
from North Korea. They were grinning and waving for the
TV cameras they hugged a fellow finalist. This is unusual
behavior for North Korean athletes. Two of them get this,
even posed for selfies with the South Koreans. Very unusual.
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So people are saying, is this a planned, staged offensive
or is this just a twenty one year old athlete
who is very excited to be in Paris. I don't know.
You can be the judge. Twenty three minutes away from
six Friday and bread Brech, we're going to Callum Proctor
and Dunedin. Our Coastguard has a fresh warning after this
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triple fatality in Southland callum.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
In morning, Ryan, this is a Riveton on Saturday. The
towns in shock after this tragedy. Emergency services called to
the Riverton Bar after a boat capsized Saturday afternoon while
attempting to return from a fishing trip.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Two were pulled from the water alive, but three died.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Coastcard Rivetons on guard scene or on scene controller as
Noel Anderson.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He's told us that look, there was white water across
the bar on Saturday.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Mister Anderson says, normally the Riveton bars fairly tamed, but
Saturday's conditions were tricky but not too dangerous. Weather today
come a light rain this morning, then fine westerlies and
thirteen today.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Thank you. Clichurewood is in christ Church for us this morning.
Clear The coronial inquest into the Mosk attacks is resuming today.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
That's right, Ryan, Deputy Chief at corner Bridget Windley is
hearing from experts about whether an al Noor mosque emergency
door had failed to function while the worshippers were fleeing
the terrorist The issue potentially affected eleven of the fifty
one attack victims, as worshippers were eventually forced to break
the door glass in order to get out. In May,
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the court heard that the door's manual lock could be
very tricky to use. Some witnesses also said the door's
electronic lock was not yet connected. Hearings on this second
lot of evidence on the issue are expected to take just.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Over a week.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Run your weather today, Claire, Well, it's.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Very frosty here this morning. Some high cloud about the
frost returns tonight, light winds a high of thirteen with
minus two.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Oh all right, enjoy that, Maxis and Wellington Heymax. You've
got calls for bitter safety on and around the harbor.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
This has been a talking point in the city for
some years, as periodically someone might fall into the water
around the city. They might get blown in by a
particularly strong gust. Perhaps they've been out and about having
a few drinks at town, often at night. A coroner's
inquest starts today in relation to the death of thirty
year old Sandy Calcin in July twenty twenty one, to
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figure out what happened there. Teacher Isaac Levings was found
dead in the harbor last year. The Council's keeping up
temporary fencing as it tries to figure out a permanent
answer previous reports highlighting the area around Tippapa as being
of a particular risk.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah. When I was at university there there were a
couple who went missing and then they were found in
the harbor. You can't cordon off the whole harbor though,
can you. I mean, yeah, no exactly.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
And another issue, who is obviously people have climbed up
the boat that's board in the harbor and jump off
that and that can lead to fatalities as well.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
How's your weather today, Max? It was freezing when I
was visiting there on the weekend.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
Oh, horrific. A lot better today morning cloud than fine
Northerlys A high of twelve. I think the current temperature
is seven in the city.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Brilliant, Thank you. It is seven point two in Auckland.
Need us here, Hi, Neiva, good morning, good weekend for you.
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
Was in Gisbine. I've just heard you. So you're in Wellington.
We were out of Auckland.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yes, we were in you know, more important places. How
was it freezing there?
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Gisbine was gorgeous. I mean it was freezing cool and
chrisp But that was my first time there in Gisbon,
so it was just the weekend I was doing touristy
things with the friend. We had a bore.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's a beautiful place, it is.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
What about Wellington?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Lovely? Actually went to My sister in law is running
a play at the Wided Upper College, which was brilliant.
I went, We went and watched, went down and watched
that lovely school of rock.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
You didn't want to get on the stage yourself?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I did. It made me want. We want to get
up there and get the guitar out at nineteen minutes
away from six. What are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Neither?
Speaker 10 (23:05):
We are talking about rats, your favorite subject. So what's
happening is that this restaurant aiming to bring affordable Malaysian
meals to Auckland's North shore devastated rats have come to
spoil the party. So Lankawi Malaysian restaurant on the shore
being slept with a D grade by Auckland Council. Now
this follows a complaint by a customer came face to
face with the rat in the toilet. So Auckland Council
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got their food safety people there visited the restaurant last
week and then they identified evidence of rodent droppings cleaning
maintenance issues, hence the d rating. Now, this customer posted
on Facebook and Google, so that's how this all came about, saying,
you know, that's what it's happening these days, isn't it?
Posting this and saying, look, it was the most traumatic
(23:50):
experience in her life. But I was just saying, there's
a person out here in the newsroom who she is
a rat catcher, like she's caught rats in her house.
She's she's amazing, she's no fear. I have a fear
of rats.
Speaker 12 (24:04):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
What does she do with him?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Well, she well she just kills them.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
She's not catching them for I tell you what.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
She has her little weed traps and she said it
depends on the cheese, you know, and she puts Pasan
cheese and she gets them and kills them.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
So I thought, there you go, Well send them Malaysian
restaurants and parmesan cheese. Why don't we outsource her, I know,
we don't want to probably don't want to name her.
We should have her sauce here to go and sort
it out. Neither weather today.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
Mainly find cloud increasing Auckland High fourteen.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Brilliant, Thank you seventeen away from six. It has just
gone quarter to six. You're on news talk, said b
Karmala Harris is going to apparently Wednesday our time, announce
who her pick for vice presidential nominee is, and that
the announcement is going to be made in Pennsylvania. And
people are saying, oh, well, a little be Shapiro, then who's
(24:55):
the government in Pennsylvania? And she says, don't read into it,
don't read into the location. But anyway, Wednesday our time
will be the day, and I expect that she will
do a press conference, will at least taste some take
some questions from the media because she is copying flak
full going fourteen days without holding a formal press conference
with the press since becoming the presumptive nominee, and you
(25:17):
know they're piling on to her. Now, when is Kamala
Harris going to hold a press conference? The RNC says
she only does teleprompt to speeches. So that you go
Wednesday our time, I bet you'll get a VP nominee
and you'll get a press conference.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It is fourteen to six International correspondence with ends and
eye insurance, Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Kay Oliver is with us our UK and europe correspondents,
k thank you for being with us. Violent outbreaks. This
is continuing in Southport, but also now Belfast and other
places around the UK.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Absolutely, Ryan, We've got a Britain in the middle of
a summer of chaos. Here, we've got a new labor
government and for care. Stalovany Primar has just said this
is violence, not protests. We have seen riots on the
streets here. We've got people in Rotheram, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol.
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The latest breaking news is that lots of the media
have been urged on these streets to put their cameras away.
It is a dangerous place. We've had protesters attempting to
get into the holiday in Express in Rotherham where assylum
seekers are being housed. That's just been confirmed by the
Home Secretary of at Coober. They've gone through and they
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are trying literally to break up this hotel. The asylum
seekers are hiding in their bedrooms. They're a chance of
stop the boats. We want our country back. We've got
Hamza Yusuf, he's a former First Minister of Scotland saying
this situation is so out of control now that the
army should be brought in. We've got politicians from all
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sides saying this is actual violence. They're condemn it, condemning
it and saying that it has to be brought under control.
We've got a second man has been charged with a
city center violent disorder in Liverpool. He's been remarded in custody,
but there are around about one hundred people now who've
been arrested. They obviously are going to have to go
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through the legals and the legal and prison system which
is quite overstretched here anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And move.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
They're going to have to be made to clear clear
the decks so that these people can be processed. But
basically it's a situation where Malaysia has become the first
country to actually advise its citizens over travel to the UK.
I mean, all this violent protests, so it really is
building up to be something unimaginable. We haven't seen riots
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here since twenty eleven nine and this really is actually
the lid has come off here.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I'm just looking at a live FAEDE from Rotherham where
the police are being vetted by projectiles. They're trying to
hold the line in front of the hotel where these
poor asylum seekers are being housed. I mean this is unreal.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Well, absolutely, the police have become the targets. They're in
the middle of this. You've got on one side, you've
got the far right. On the other side, you've got
the anti racist protesters. The police are in the middle
and they're getting it from all sides. A number of
police officers have been taken to hospital. We've seen a
female police officer officer who literally had a table hold
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into her face. So they really are taking a battering
here and it's getting worse. The situation is not dying.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Down, No, certainly not. Kay. Thank you very much for
your report. K all Over our UK and Europe correspondent.
The violent outbreaks in Southport now spreading across the UK, Belfast,
you name it. Honestly, these images that we're seeing is shocking.
It has just gone now ten away from six Ryan Bridge,
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A new math curriculum is on the way for our
primary and intermediate school students and new structured maths will
be based on curriculums from Singapore and Australia, altered for
Kiwi students and it comes into the classroom from term
one next year. So it is soon. Twenty million dollars
will be spent on teacher training ahead of the introduction
and the Teaching Council will raise the maths entry requirement
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for new teachers so they will have to be at
least competent in NCAA Level two. The Langholm School Principal,
Martin weather Well, it's a primary school in Auckland, is
with us this morning. Martin, thank you for being on
the show. Good morning, Good to have you on. What
do you make of this announcement.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It's an announcement that was not unexpected. We are obviously
concerned about the workload that it's going to create the teachers.
I mean, the proposals are going to add incredibly to
teachers and principals workload with the short turnaround of five months,
the requirement that we continue to meet all the government
other expectations and requirements, and of course this is the
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second curriculum that has been announced. We are currently undergoing
to training for the literacy program announced earlier in the year.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
It's a lot of work, but when twenty two percent
of year eights on are at benchmark level four maths,
we've got to do something, don't.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
We oh, don't disagree with that. No teacher, no parent
is going to disagree with that. But let's address the
fundamental issue. Thirty years of chronic and systemic underfunding of
the primary education system cannot be solved by throwing twenty
million dollars and five months at the program. The issue
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that we have right the way through this is that
political interference in the teaching practice has caused the problem.
Now politicians are saying political interference in teaching practice will
solve the problem. I don't see how that's possible.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Do your teach no basic maths?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
My teachers do my teachers actually teach one of the
Singapore Structured maths programs. The issue is not teacher competence.
The issue is I physically do not have the money
to buy the resources that I need to teach maths.
This is a resourcing is it's not an education This ye.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Right, But the government has said that those resources are coming.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I am old enough to remember BSM maths, and we
will promise the resources were coming. Thirty five years later,
we've never seen them. I'm old enough to remember the
Numeracy Project and we will promised resources and we've never
seen them. With all due respect to the current minister.
I'll believe that statement when I see it in fruition.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
If Erica Stanford produces these these resources at the start
of next year, will you eat your.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Hat If those resources are available and they are adequate,
and those resources are available to meet the needs of
my diverse rate of needs. Now, remember my children are
not one size fit Saul. This approach is one size
fit Saul. Those resources must meet the needs of neurodiverse students.
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They must meet the needs of students who's English is
not their first language. They must meet the needs of
our indigenous learners. They must need the needs of all
of our learners. You cannot supply a resource for a
single cohort of people and say your job is done, as.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Minister Langholm School Principal Martin weather Or reacting to It's
an Auckland Primary School reacting to the governments announcement at
the weekend. It is seven to six.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and filth City, New Zealand's furniture
bids and a playing store New Talk City.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Five to six. Mike Hosking here next, Mike, I was
surprised to learn that teachers don't have to know INCA
Level two before they can teach.
Speaker 12 (32:56):
Yeah, that's the depressing thing. I think if you look
at the overall problem, the the quality of teachers in
this country for a number of years hasn't been particularly high.
You don't have to be a genius, unfortunately, to be
a teacher. And that's the sadness of it all. And
part of it comes back to, you know, money, If
you paid them better, you might get a better quality
of person, workload, all of that. I've got element of
sympathy with that, but you can't hide from the numbers.
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And the problem is that there's no point in arguing,
as your mate just did. Yeah, and that's all they've
got to say is a lot of money. We just
want more money. It's there was another person on the news,
busy saying that, you know, and that's what they're paid
to do, and they do it well. Well, you know,
the facts are clearly not for themselves. You can't you
can't have kids a year behind and you're sitting there going, oh, no,
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we're doing, what a great job we're doing.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So my mom put the Times table on the back
of the toilet door. So when you're sitting doing your
business you can be learning.
Speaker 12 (33:49):
Right, and so what's eighteen times seven? There you go.
What a waste of time that was?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Wasn't that three to six? Mykett missed.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
Morning, New Zealand. It is six after five. Great to
be with you, Monday, the fifth of August. Swiss spending.
We're about to spend twenty million dollars to teach our teachers'
basic maths. We have a principle on why they're pushing
back against this. That's just before six this morning. Also,
the US is moving fighter jets and navy destroyers. This
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is in response to threats from Iran to retaliate after
Israel when in shot one of the Hezbuller guys. A
lot going on also they got to a Hamas leader
in Tehran as well, So a lot going on in
this space. What is Winston Peters saying. We'll let you
know during the show. Right now, it is seven after
five the agenda, Monday, the fifth of August. Tensions are
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continuing to rise in the Middle East. Kiwis have been
warned to get out of Lebanon and Iran before it
gets too hard to leave. Iran has vowed to retaliate
following an attack last week which killed a senior HUMMAS leader.
Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli Palestinian
Affairs Andrew Miller says it's likely there will be a
(01:24):
revenge attack.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Iran arguably has a greater incentive to respond strongly this
time because of the degree to which they were embarrassed frankly.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And rockets have already been fired. We'll have more on
that soon. Meanwhile, more than seventy people have died in
anti government clashes between protesters and police in Bangladesh. The
protests started last month when students demanded the removal of
quotas and civil service jobs, but they are now demanding
the Prime minister steps down as well. It's been reported
that ten thousand people have been detained by police in
(01:56):
the last two weeks. By the way they want the
reinstatement of these quotas versed, it basically reserves thirty percent
of government jobs for kids of war veterans, and critics
say that that actually is just supporters of the ruling party,
so it's a have that's why they're so upset. New
Zealand's debt has risen nearly five percent from last year
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to eight hundred and twenty seven billion dollars at the
end of May. Crown debts risen by eleven percent, while
private debt is growing at a lower pace. Herald Business
editor Liam Dan says the COVID aftermath is mostly responsible,
as it is for so many things, for blowing out
our crown debt and account deficit, adding that their global
rating agencies should be reasonably comfortable with where we're at.
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Given the context, they would.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Have a bit of caution about the government debt and
they want to see the current account deficit coming down.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
Furniture Beds and a Planet Store News talk sai'd be.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Nine minutes out to five. We've been following the situation
in the Middle East, well, we definitely last week we're
talking about this, the potential for a more direct conflict
between Iran and the United States. It is a real
worry and I think Winston Peters, I think there must
be some intelligence that we're not quite aware of at
the moment, because just in the last twenty four hours,
a number of crucial things have happened. There's now a
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fresh warning from Winston Peters and a tweet saying get
out now. And you'd have to say, there aren't many
kiwis probably in Iran right now. Apparently there are eighteen
in Lebanon, get out now. And they're saying to those
in Israel, think about whether it's necessary that you stay there.
This is the latest from our government. Also the US,
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the UK, Sweden, France, Italy, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
they are all saying leave and that's fresh. So you know,
last week we told you about the warnings from them.
Now there are fresh warnings, so obviously something is afoot.
The US is moving its military assets, fighter jets and
navy destroyers with missiles. This is Sabrina sing from the Pentagon.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Additional measures to include ongoing and future defensive force pasture
changes that the Department will take to support the defense
of Israel.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The question is what's next. In the north of Israel.
There are parts of northern Israel that are like ghost towns.
Apparently no one there because of the fighting and the
threat from his Bulla across the border. And you know,
the analyst are saying, well, what do you do about that?
You need to push his buller back further away from
the border so Israel can reclaim those bits of land.
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And if the world doesn't help them do it, they'll
just deal themselves. And then where does that lead? So
that's what we're looking at this morning. But also education
is the big one this morning. Why do we need
to spend twenty million dollars teaching teachers basic maths?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture,
It's and a playing store. News Talk said, be.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Thirteen after five. News Talks said, be welcome to your
Monday morning. Karmala Harris hasn't had a press conference in
fourteen days. We'll ask why what she's scared of. Also
this morning, just before six, a principal on the government's
changes to primary education what it means for your kids.
And we're staying on education right now because the number
of kids needing food and clothing from Kids Can has
(05:24):
reached a record. More than ten thousand students from two
hundred and sixty schools across the country are on the
charity's wait list. It is the longest since they're founding
in two thousand and five. Kids Can Chief executive Julie
Chapman is with me this morning. Julie, good morning.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Good to have you on the show. You're seeing quite
a stark change. I mean, those are the numbers, but
you're seeing a change in the poverty line. It's shifting, yeah,
And what.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
We're finding is that more and more of the schools
that are applying to us are you know, in middle
income areas, so that that cost of living and everything
that's sort of going on right now is starting to
bite in those areas, and families that were just getting
by are now the ones that are actually needing help
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for their children.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
What are they needing help with?
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Gosh, it's just a real basics. So it's food. You know,
a lot of schools are reporting to us that you know,
children are going home to nothing to eat. So sometimes
you know, at school is the only time they're getting something.
You know, they're delaying replacing uniforms, pairs of shoes, you know,
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shoes are being held together with duct tape. You know,
it's it's taking longer for people to be able to
afford those things that their kids really need to be
able to get on with learning.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
How long is your you know, in terms of not
numbers weight list, but how long are people on the
wait list?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
How long do people have to wait to get those things?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, so at this time last year, we had over
one hundred schools waiting and now there's one hundred and
fifty more of those schools and early childhood centers.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
And I guess the real challenge for us is being
able to get the funding to be able to take
them off the weight list, because when we do that,
we also want to make sure that you know, we're
not taking them off for a short time. We're able
to support them for as long as then as they
need it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I know you guys have partners that you work with
and stuff like that, but you'll obviously be doing an appeal.
Can you let people know about that, Julie.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Look, when it is the toughest time for kids, especially
the ones that we support, so we've launched an urgent
appeal asking people to sign up to support a child's
for fifty dollars a month or just donate what they can.
And our goal with this is to get as many
kids on that waiting list off as possible so they
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can have what they need to get to school and learn.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
How do people help? What's the website, Julie.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
They can go to KidsCan dot org dot nz and
have a lot there at all the ways that they
can help and lock Also, if you're not able to donate,
just spread the words. You know, it's really important that
we support the education of all children in New Zealand
and they really, you know, the kids that are waiting
really need that support right now.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Keep up the good work, Julie, Thank you for your time.
Julie Chapman, the CEO, Chief executive at kids Can they
do brilliant work and help out if you can. There
will also be a correlation, I'm sure between the terrible
maths stats that we're about to tell you just before six,
the number of our primary school aged kids who just
don't know how to do maths. I'm sure there'll be
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a correlation between that and what Julie has been talking
about too. Back in a.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Second Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early
edition with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a
playing Store, News talk zid Bey.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Good morning. It is nineteen minutes after five Sport with
Andrew Ordison. Djokovic has had a good win at the Olympics.
Let's have a listen to that win now.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
And a beautiful cross court fourhand winner from Djokovic. It
was low, it was powerful, it was fast. He asks
the crowd to give him the biggest round of the
round of the pause as possible for.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That win.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And the first medal for Serbia at the Olympics this
Olympics too. Andrew, good morning.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Reading's right, yep, that's a terrific win. And I guess
put in the context of history, there's now only five
players who have achieved what they call the Golden Slam,
which is to won all four majors and an Olympic
title in the singles, so Djokovic joins stephie Graff, Andrea
agascy Rafael o'dale and Serena w So it's pretty alites company.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Pretty And it was a special moment too, wasn't. I
mean he was on his hands and knees, he was
looking up to I don't know god, he was crying.
Great scenes.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yeah, that's right. And another cracking dual with Carlos Alcareth.
So the you know, the I guess the champion and
the and the new guard coming through in Alcarath and
he went seven six, seven six. Neither neither of them
broke serve over the course of the match. So yeah,
just a couple of tie breaks to sort out the difference.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
How's Ryan Fox done?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Ryan Fox thirty fifth in the end in the golf,
So just so Simon, I thank you. You know, there
was some outstanding golf out there today. I mean, if
you look at the world number one Scottie Scheffley, he's
number one for a reason and he's now the Olympic
gold medalist with a nine underpass sixty two, just blitzing
the field on the final day, so winning by a stroke,
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taking it away from Tommy Fleetwood, Hedecki match Yama in
the bronze midle position. But I think to the key
that John Raham led by four strokes with nine holes
to play, but four bogus in a double in the
last nine, so slipped away for the Spaniard.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hey, women's road race, you've got an.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Update for us yep, So just seeing that commentated that
through this morning. So cyclist, the American Kristen Faulkner has
won the race just one hundred and fifty eight kilometers
that went down to the southwest of Paris and showcased
at the best of the French countryside, and then back
into the city for a few loops around the Montmartre region,
and then they took it down to the Seine and
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Faulkner broke away in those final few k's and took
it out.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Dramatic scenes to me. In the French they love their
cycling tour to France et cetera. It's the greatest race
in the world and all that. But yeah, four or
five deep on a Sunday and in the streets and
beyond the barricades, it just was a terrific atmosphere by
locks of things. See, they showcase it well.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
They do in the city. Looks beautiful, doesn't it It does.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Nothing has been everything's framed, is it. Nothing has happened
by accident there.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I just love it. That's that it looks just so natural.
You just know that has been There's some of the
most beautiful buildings and everything has been blocked off, you know,
so there's no people making it look ugly. You know
when you.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Look at the bridges, someone's had the water blast rout.
I was on the gold and the paint's been all
done and everything.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's just good on them. I think that's that's the
way you need to host a gate totally. And hey,
good on Emma Twig getting silver at the weekend. It
was it was a little you know, you wanted her
to get the gold, but as she called time on
the career too.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah, well she started all in a twig. Yeah, and
yeah she's and she's I guess, come back from Hughes
to supportment as well, a couple of fourths there, and
you know she retired once before, came back one gold
and now she's into silver as well. So it's a
it's a tremendous career.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Brilliant Andrew good. See, yeah, she's tried with zib sport.
This morning, just gone twenty three, after five lots of
texts coming in from parents who are worried about their kids' education.
Actually this one will rile up teachers. Hi, Ryan, the unions,
I see you're already worried about the teacher work. With
what the government's proposing. I thought that they could do
that extra professional development work during their twelve weeks holiday.
(13:09):
You're asking for it, John. I think that was from
Hi Ran enjoying the show. My girls have just finished
school and the standard of teaching was not great. Some
were great, but the school itself was dreadful, says one another.
He has a story about eight year old grandaughter. We
might get to these a little later on. We are
speaking to a principal just before.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Six, separating the fact from the fiction. Kid's Billy edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and Appliant Store
News Talk ZBI.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
What are councils, local councils, regional councils. It's a simple well,
it should be a simple question. What is their purpose?
I've always believed take away my rubbish, put the street
lights on. You know when I go to the toilet.
You can take that away too, That's part of your job. Roads, rubbish, sewerage,
swimming pools. Maybe a library, although I think we've got
(14:04):
the internet now, so why do we need libraries. But
that's a debate for another day. A big scrap in.
I was reading this over the weekend over Gaza. Yeah,
Notices of motion petitions, meetings interrupted, staff involved, and I
asked myself, what has rotrou Lake's council got to do
(14:26):
with Gaza. They're calling for a ceasefire and they're one
of dozens of councils across the country who are doing this.
Listen to the mayor, Tania Tapsle's interaction with Counselor Maxwell,
who was trying to get this over the line.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Could I have the answer from No, that is not
counselor Maxwell.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Counselor Maxwell, I thought counselors Counselor Maxwell, I rule that
that is not an urgent item.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
This clips of parent gone viral, probably the first time
anything from a council has gone viral. And don't get
me wrong, please, deaths and the extent of the retaliation
by Israel completely out of whack, heartbreaking, unimaginable, suffering. Please,
I am not casting judgment here on the issue at hand.
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I'm simply asking, is Netanyahu is Biden listening to the
thoughts of Baltado A Lakes Council and if not, should
they be talking about things like this? You know, if
councils were on top of their core business, this wouldn't
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matter to me. But you've got budget blowouts. This is
just it, or to do it, by the way, budget
blowouts on a sewage scheme. You've got in Buller thirty
one percent rate increases. In Hamilton, you've got nineteen percent
rate increases. You've got an average of fifteen percent rate
increases across the country. You've got infrastructure problems, you've got
sewage running into the ocean and Toto and they've just
(16:04):
held an election the first time they could vote, I
think in five years and they were in the thirties
and turnout and you wonder why. I mean, people obviously
don't have a lot of faith in their councils and
what are they doing? And it's not just garsa. There
are other issues that councils often jump on, like things
to do with the UN. And I mean, is that
(16:26):
your purview. We've got a representative, We've got a permanent
representative on the Security Council, the UN Security Council, a
permanent representative who can make statements on our behalf, on
behalf of the government. Isn't that where you do it?
Are they focusing on local issues? Shouldn't they only focus
on local issues? After all? Aren't they local.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Councils, Ryan Bridge, twenty.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Nine minutes after five, coming up just before six. It's
a principle on the government's education changes. They announced those
at the weekend. Also, we're going to Kay Oliver, who's
our UK and Europe correspondent, because the fights and the
riots that have been kicking off in Southport, apparently it's
not just the far right that's getting involved. It's guys
(17:13):
who are sitting at the pub on a Sunday outternoon,
getting drunk and then seeing the right and just joining in.
We'll talk about that in just a few moments too.
You're on zb.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 3 (18:00):
Good morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six o'clock.
This is You probably don't often hear the North Korean
national anthem. The reason we're playing the North Korean national
anthem is that they're making a bit of a splash
at the gymnastics arena at the Olympics. Of course, they
didn't send this is North Korea didn't send anyone to
Tokyo because COVID and they locked themselves down. But they
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reckon that they're on a charm offensive. These North Korean
athletes at the gymnastics arena, they're doing some diplomatic acrobatics
on the sidelines as they compete, not just performing on
the vault. So Simone Biles is going for a third
gold medal there right, And one of those applauding the
loudest and smiling and standing and clapping and cheering was
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none other than Anne Chung Uk, who is her rival
from North Korea. They were grinning and waving for the
TV cameras they hugged a fellow finalist. This is unusual
behavior for North Korean athletes. Two of them get this,
even posed for selfies with the South Koreans. Very unusual.
(19:06):
So people are saying, is this a planned, staged offensive
or is this just a twenty one year old athlete
who is very excited to be in Paris. I don't know.
You can be the judge. Twenty three minutes away from
six Friday and bread Brech, we're going to Callum Proctor
and Dunedin. Our Coastguard has a fresh warning after this
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triple fatality in Southland callum.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
In morning, Ryan, this is a Riveton on Saturday. The
towns in shock after this tragedy. Emergency services called to
the Riverton Bar after a boat capsized Saturday afternoon while
attempting to return from a fishing trip.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Two were pulled from the water alive, but three died.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Coastcard Rivetons on guard scene or on scene controller as
Noel Anderson.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He's told us that look, there was white water across
the bar on Saturday.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Mister Anderson says, normally the Riveton bars fairly tamed, but
Saturday's conditions were tricky but not too dangerous. Weather today
come a light rain this morning, then fine westerlies and
thirteen today.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Thank you. Clichurewood is in christ Church for us this morning.
Clear The coronial inquest into the Mosk attacks is resuming today.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
That's right, Ryan, Deputy Chief at corner Bridget Windley is
hearing from experts about whether an al Noor mosque emergency
door had failed to function while the worshippers were fleeing
the terrorist The issue potentially affected eleven of the fifty
one attack victims, as worshippers were eventually forced to break
the door glass in order to get out. In May,
(20:37):
the court heard that the door's manual lock could be
very tricky to use. Some witnesses also said the door's
electronic lock was not yet connected. Hearings on this second
lot of evidence on the issue are expected to take just.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
Over a week.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Run your weather today, Claire, Well, it's.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Very frosty here this morning. Some high cloud about the
frost returns tonight, light winds a high of thirteen with
minus two.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Oh all right, enjoy that, Maxis and Wellington Heymax. You've
got calls for bitter safety on and around the harbor.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
This has been a talking point in the city for
some years, as periodically someone might fall into the water
around the city. They might get blown in by a
particularly strong gust. Perhaps they've been out and about having
a few drinks at town, often at night. A coroner's
inquest starts today in relation to the death of thirty
year old Sandy Calcin in July twenty twenty one, to
(21:29):
figure out what happened there. Teacher Isaac Levings was found
dead in the harbor last year. The Council's keeping up
temporary fencing as it tries to figure out a permanent
answer previous reports highlighting the area around Tippapa as being
of a particular risk.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah. When I was at university there there were a
couple who went missing and then they were found in
the harbor. You can't cordon off the whole harbor though,
can you. I mean, yeah, no exactly.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
And another issue, who is obviously people have climbed up
the boat that's board in the harbor and jump off
that and that can lead to fatalities as well.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
How's your weather today, Max? It was freezing when I
was visiting there on the weekend.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
Oh, horrific. A lot better today morning cloud than fine
Northerlys A high of twelve. I think the current temperature
is seven in the city.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Brilliant, Thank you. It is seven point two in Auckland.
Need us here, Hi, Neiva, good morning, good weekend for you.
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
Was in Gisbine. I've just heard you. So you're in Wellington.
We were out of Auckland.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yes, we were in you know, more important places. How
was it freezing there?
Speaker 10 (22:28):
Gisbine was gorgeous. I mean it was freezing cool and
chrisp But that was my first time there in Gisbon,
so it was just the weekend I was doing touristy
things with the friend. We had a bore.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's a beautiful place, it is.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
What about Wellington?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Lovely? Actually went to My sister in law is running
a play at the Wided Upper College, which was brilliant.
I went, We went and watched, went down and watched
that lovely school of rock.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
You didn't want to get on the stage yourself?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I did. It made me want. We want to get
up there and get the guitar out at nineteen minutes
away from six. What are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Neither?
Speaker 10 (23:05):
We are talking about rats, your favorite subject. So what's
happening is that this restaurant aiming to bring affordable Malaysian
meals to Auckland's North shore devastated rats have come to
spoil the party. So Lankawi Malaysian restaurant on the shore
being slept with a D grade by Auckland Council. Now
this follows a complaint by a customer came face to
face with the rat in the toilet. So Auckland Council
(23:30):
got their food safety people there visited the restaurant last
week and then they identified evidence of rodent droppings cleaning
maintenance issues, hence the d rating. Now, this customer posted
on Facebook and Google, so that's how this all came about, saying,
you know, that's what it's happening these days, isn't it?
Posting this and saying, look, it was the most traumatic
(23:50):
experience in her life. But I was just saying, there's
a person out here in the newsroom who she is
a rat catcher, like she's caught rats in her house.
She's she's amazing, she's no fear. I have a fear
of rats.
Speaker 12 (24:04):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
What does she do with him?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Well, she well she just kills them.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
She's not catching them for I tell you what.
Speaker 10 (24:11):
She has her little weed traps and she said it
depends on the cheese, you know, and she puts Pasan
cheese and she gets them and kills them.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
So I thought, there you go, Well send them Malaysian
restaurants and parmesan cheese. Why don't we outsource her, I know,
we don't want to probably don't want to name her.
We should have her sauce here to go and sort
it out. Neither weather today.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
Mainly find cloud increasing Auckland High fourteen.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Brilliant, Thank you seventeen away from six. It has just
gone quarter to six. You're on news talk, said b
Karmala Harris is going to apparently Wednesday our time, announce
who her pick for vice presidential nominee is, and that
the announcement is going to be made in Pennsylvania. And
people are saying, oh, well, a little be Shapiro, then who's
(24:55):
the government in Pennsylvania? And she says, don't read into it,
don't read into the location. But anyway, Wednesday our time
will be the day, and I expect that she will
do a press conference, will at least taste some take
some questions from the media because she is copying flak
full going fourteen days without holding a formal press conference
with the press since becoming the presumptive nominee, and you
(25:17):
know they're piling on to her. Now, when is Kamala
Harris going to hold a press conference? The RNC says
she only does teleprompt to speeches. So that you go
Wednesday our time, I bet you'll get a VP nominee
and you'll get a press conference.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It is fourteen to six International correspondence with ends and
eye insurance, Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Kay Oliver is with us our UK and europe correspondents,
k thank you for being with us. Violent outbreaks. This
is continuing in Southport, but also now Belfast and other
places around the UK.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Absolutely, Ryan, We've got a Britain in the middle of
a summer of chaos. Here, we've got a new labor
government and for care. Stalovany Primar has just said this
is violence, not protests. We have seen riots on the
streets here. We've got people in Rotheram, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol.
(26:12):
The latest breaking news is that lots of the media
have been urged on these streets to put their cameras away.
It is a dangerous place. We've had protesters attempting to
get into the holiday in Express in Rotherham where assylum
seekers are being housed. That's just been confirmed by the
Home Secretary of at Coober. They've gone through and they
(26:33):
are trying literally to break up this hotel. The asylum
seekers are hiding in their bedrooms. They're a chance of
stop the boats. We want our country back. We've got
Hamza Yusuf, he's a former First Minister of Scotland saying
this situation is so out of control now that the
army should be brought in. We've got politicians from all
(26:53):
sides saying this is actual violence. They're condemn it, condemning
it and saying that it has to be brought under control.
We've got a second man has been charged with a
city center violent disorder in Liverpool. He's been remarded in custody,
but there are around about one hundred people now who've
been arrested. They obviously are going to have to go
(27:16):
through the legals and the legal and prison system which
is quite overstretched here anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And move.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
They're going to have to be made to clear clear
the decks so that these people can be processed. But
basically it's a situation where Malaysia has become the first
country to actually advise its citizens over travel to the UK.
I mean, all this violent protests, so it really is
building up to be something unimaginable. We haven't seen riots
(27:46):
here since twenty eleven nine and this really is actually
the lid has come off here.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I'm just looking at a live FAEDE from Rotherham where
the police are being vetted by projectiles. They're trying to
hold the line in front of the hotel where these
poor asylum seekers are being housed. I mean this is unreal.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Well, absolutely, the police have become the targets. They're in
the middle of this. You've got on one side, you've
got the far right. On the other side, you've got
the anti racist protesters. The police are in the middle
and they're getting it from all sides. A number of
police officers have been taken to hospital. We've seen a
female police officer officer who literally had a table hold
(28:28):
into her face. So they really are taking a battering
here and it's getting worse. The situation is not dying.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Down, No, certainly not. Kay. Thank you very much for
your report. K all Over our UK and Europe correspondent.
The violent outbreaks in Southport now spreading across the UK, Belfast,
you name it. Honestly, these images that we're seeing is shocking.
It has just gone now ten away from six Ryan Bridge,
(28:57):
A new math curriculum is on the way for our
primary and intermediate school students and new structured maths will
be based on curriculums from Singapore and Australia, altered for
Kiwi students and it comes into the classroom from term
one next year. So it is soon. Twenty million dollars
will be spent on teacher training ahead of the introduction
and the Teaching Council will raise the maths entry requirement
(29:20):
for new teachers so they will have to be at
least competent in NCAA Level two. The Langholm School Principal,
Martin weather Well, it's a primary school in Auckland, is
with us this morning. Martin, thank you for being on
the show. Good morning, Good to have you on. What
do you make of this announcement.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It's an announcement that was not unexpected. We are obviously
concerned about the workload that it's going to create the teachers.
I mean, the proposals are going to add incredibly to
teachers and principals workload with the short turnaround of five months,
the requirement that we continue to meet all the government
other expectations and requirements, and of course this is the
(30:04):
second curriculum that has been announced. We are currently undergoing
to training for the literacy program announced earlier in the year.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
It's a lot of work, but when twenty two percent
of year eights on are at benchmark level four maths,
we've got to do something, don't.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
We oh, don't disagree with that. No teacher, no parent
is going to disagree with that. But let's address the
fundamental issue. Thirty years of chronic and systemic underfunding of
the primary education system cannot be solved by throwing twenty
million dollars and five months at the program. The issue
(30:43):
that we have right the way through this is that
political interference in the teaching practice has caused the problem.
Now politicians are saying political interference in teaching practice will
solve the problem. I don't see how that's possible.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Do your teach no basic maths?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
My teachers do my teachers actually teach one of the
Singapore Structured maths programs. The issue is not teacher competence.
The issue is I physically do not have the money
to buy the resources that I need to teach maths.
This is a resourcing is it's not an education This ye.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Right, But the government has said that those resources are coming.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I am old enough to remember BSM maths, and we
will promise the resources were coming. Thirty five years later,
we've never seen them. I'm old enough to remember the
Numeracy Project and we will promised resources and we've never
seen them. With all due respect to the current minister.
I'll believe that statement when I see it in fruition.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
If Erica Stanford produces these these resources at the start
of next year, will you eat your.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Hat If those resources are available and they are adequate,
and those resources are available to meet the needs of
my diverse rate of needs. Now, remember my children are
not one size fit Saul. This approach is one size
fit Saul. Those resources must meet the needs of neurodiverse students.
(32:12):
They must meet the needs of students who's English is
not their first language. They must meet the needs of
our indigenous learners. They must need the needs of all
of our learners. You cannot supply a resource for a
single cohort of people and say your job is done, as.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Minister Langholm School Principal Martin weather Or reacting to It's
an Auckland Primary School reacting to the governments announcement at
the weekend. It is seven to six.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and filth City, New Zealand's furniture
bids and a playing store New Talk City.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Five to six. Mike Hosking here next, Mike, I was
surprised to learn that teachers don't have to know INCA
Level two before they can teach.
Speaker 12 (32:56):
Yeah, that's the depressing thing. I think if you look
at the overall problem, the the quality of teachers in
this country for a number of years hasn't been particularly high.
You don't have to be a genius, unfortunately, to be
a teacher. And that's the sadness of it all. And
part of it comes back to, you know, money, If
you paid them better, you might get a better quality
of person, workload, all of that. I've got element of
sympathy with that, but you can't hide from the numbers.
(33:18):
And the problem is that there's no point in arguing,
as your mate just did. Yeah, and that's all they've
got to say is a lot of money. We just
want more money. It's there was another person on the news,
busy saying that, you know, and that's what they're paid
to do, and they do it well. Well, you know,
the facts are clearly not for themselves. You can't you
can't have kids a year behind and you're sitting there going, oh, no,
(33:40):
we're doing, what a great job we're doing.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So my mom put the Times table on the back
of the toilet door. So when you're sitting doing your
business you can be learning.
Speaker 12 (33:49):
Right, and so what's eighteen times seven? There you go.
What a waste of time that was?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Wasn't that three to six? Mykett missed.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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