August 20, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 21st August 2024. How can Kiwibank become a better competitor for the big Aussie Banks? Banking expert David Tripe takes us through the options.
AA has found our learner driver licensing system is much more relaxed than Australia's - what improvements can we make to keep young drivers safer? Road safety campaigner Clive Matthew-Wilson speaks to Ryan.
Darleen Tana has formerly said they won't leave their seat in Parliament - what is the next move for the Greens? Political commentator Brigitte Morten joins the show to give her thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a player store.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talks B.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning, it is six half to five year on
News Talks B. I'm Ryan Bridge. Coming up an AA
report into driver licensing for learners and restricted drivers. Some
interesting recommendations. We'll look at that in a second. Also
Bridget Morton on Darling Tana. Yes, she's still there. Kiwibank?
Do we care if it's partially floated? Would you buy
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cheers and Kiwibank? You open to that? Would you care
if foreigners are allowed to buy shares and Keewi Bank.
We'll talk to David Tripe just before six o'clock this morning.
Welcome to your Wednesday. The Agenda the twenty first of August.
Israel says it's recovered the bodies of six hostages being
held in Gaza. It says they were held in tunnels
and carn unis, describing the recovery as a complex operation
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which didn't involve any fighting.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
The IDF had announced the deaths of five of them
in the months proceeding. Now they knew that some of
them had died, and they thought they had died potentially
from IDF fire, so most likely from air strikes.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Comes a day after the US Secretary of State Anthony
Blincoln met with Netanyahu. Apparently they have all agreed amongst
themselves to a proposal for a possible cease fire. They
just want Hamas to come on board. Boeing is back
in the headlines that've been forced to pause testing on
their new and long delay Triple seven X aircraft after
(01:37):
structural issues were found. The aircraft manufacturer said during a
test flight it identified a component that did not perform
as designed. Shares in the company drops two percent, which
I thought was not that much really, considering there are
structural designs in their new aircraft fleet, doesn't seem like much.
But then you take into account that they are already
down nearly thirty percent this year, so I guess how
(01:58):
low can you go. The Triple seven X was scheduled
to enter service in twenty twenty. Livestock numbers are continuing
to dwindle beef and Lamb's annual survey reckons three percent
drop in beef cattle four percent in sheep in the
year ending June issues according to the chair Kate Ackland,
week demand from China, conversion of farms to forestry and drought.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Getting rid of stock early, selling stock at lighter weights
and actually carrying less hoggots or less us.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and swith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store News talks'd be nine.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Two is the number to text eight after five. Gavin
Gray is our UK europe correspondent. He'll be with us
at five forty four this morning. The search continues for
any survivors. I mean, obviously it's long past that isn't
it in terms of survivors. But they're having trouble even
accessing that vessel. It's fifty meters dun underwater and there's
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furniture and all sorts of stuff in the way preventing
the divers from actually getting inside. So we'll get an
update from him a little later in the show. Surely
we'll talk to Clive Matthew Wilson Road Safety Campaign about
the recommended changes. Did you know that? Apparently, and this
is according to the AA report that's come out this morning.
Apparently a third of all of our fatalities on the
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roads are eighteen to twenty four year olds, a third
of them and the overwhelming majority of those they are
responsible for. So do we need to do something like
this in Australia, Well, in certain states in Australia you
have to have one hundred and twenty hours of driving logged.
It doesn't have to be with a supervisor. It can
be with mum. Well I suppose mum and Dad is
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the supervisor. So it's not like you have to pay
for it, but you have to actually fill in a
log book, which you don't have to do here anyway.
We'll talk about that in a minute. The Global Dairy
Trade auction held overnight good result up five point five percent,
which is very good considering that fall in July six.
On July second, I should save almost seven percent fall
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and most importantly, whole milk powder up seven point two
percent in the auction overnight, which is great news. And
that's the one we really care about because it's fourteen percent.
The value of all of our exports coming out of
New Zealand. Barth up three point seven percent, mozzarella five
percent and skim milk powder four percent. It has just
gone ten after five. We're back with Clivee Matthew Wilson
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a second.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
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 playing Store. News Talk zid B.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Twelve after five on news Talk zaid b. Biden had
a barn storm yesterday. I thought anyway, watching the DNC
in Chicago and have a listen to his It sounded
like he'd had a good rest, which he probably probably has.
Have a listen.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I stand before you now on this August night to
report that democracy has prevailed, Democracy, democracy has delivered, and
now democracy must be preserved.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
His voice was strong, no major slip ups, which is
I mean, if that's the best, we can do it
better than he has in the last couple of months.
I have to say that about him. You know, the
performance last night was pretty good. It really it just
seemed like he had had a sleep and he had
had a rest, and you know, and he had a
bit of vigor about him, which was which was good
(05:33):
to see. Still five months left in the White House,
can you believe it? Thirteen after five, Ryan Bridge right.
So a third of deaths on our roads are eighteen
to twenty four year olds involved eighteen to twenty four
year olds. Of the ninety six fatal crashes in twenty
twenty two, under twenty fives were responsible for eighty two
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of them. So that's much worse than in comparable countries
like Australia. And the AA has done a study into
learners and restricted systems here and compared them to overseas.
It was done by the University of Adelaide and they
reckon that we should extend the learner license period from
six months to twelve months. They reckon we should also
have mandatory supervised driving outs. Clive Matthew Wilson's the road
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safety campaign. He's with me this morning. High Clive, good morning.
Tell me do you think that this supervised driving thing
as a go is a good idea up.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
To a point. You've got to reread the statistics. One
of the reasons that the road toll involving young people
is so high is people from poor areas. The AA
represents the sort of last of a big group of
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white middle class people in adare and it does a
very good job with those people. Everything they say makes
perfect sense. If you're dealing with white, middle class people
with organized caring families who pay for the kids to
have proper driver education, that all works. The people most
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likely to have the accidents are young and poor and
coming from messy families, poor formal education, and they have
because of that poor outcomes on all levels. So you know,
and one of the problems.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So you just don't try. You just say, well, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
No, not all. But you face reality, right. The reality
is that people, the young Mary in particular, may not
have a license at all when they crash. So the
harder that you make it to get a license, the
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more likely they're are to drive without one.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Do we know how many people of these ninety six
fatal crashes, how many of them had a license? I
don't know, But wouldn't it be important if you're saying
that it's all young Malori kids without licensing.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Just bear with me for a moment, not looking at
a both o'clock in the morning, and I got up
specially for this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No, I appreciate it, but I'm just making sure that you.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Know I bear with I do under licensed driver MARTI
drivers and fatal crashes have a forty two percent of
them have full current full driver's licenses, compared to seventy
percent of non MARDI. But among people who young people
who have fatal crashes significant percentage in every country that
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at least ten percent don't have licenses to start with,
and they're very high risk drivers.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So what do you think we should do about that?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Then?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
If the issue is not that the restricted or learning
system is broken, but that there are a bunch of
young people whatever you know, color that desk and might
be who don't even have a license, then what do
you do about that?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Well, the magic bullet here is formal education. But you
know what they used to call reading, writing, arithmetic. People
with a people are compared to people with college education,
and this has been noted since the nineteen fifties. People
without a formal education are about four times more likely
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to die on the roads. So I would put in really,
really really big incentives for families to get education. And
I'm talking about formal education. It's also important, obviously to
learn how to drive, and hopefully to go to a
driving school and learn all the rules to get a license.
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That's great, but the most important factor is basically the
whether or not you understand the world around you.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm not quite sure how that translates, but thank you
very much for your time, and I do appreciate you
getting nice and early for us. That's Clive Matthew Wilson,
who is a road safety campaigner. Eighteen minutes after five,
News Talk said, be on.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a
playing store. On News Talk said.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Be welcome to your Wednesday morning. It's just gone twenty
after five. Former Green MP Darling Tana has responded to
the party co leader's formal request to resign, saying she
has no intention of doing so. Are we saying she
or are we saying they? From memory? Last time we
did this story, they she had said that she was
(10:38):
only a theay because she didn't walk alone. I don't
think it was necessarily a gender thing. And we checked
with her office or her office. We checked with her,
she didn't really have an office anymore anyway, and she
said she said that she didn't mind whether we use
they or she, So anyway, we're using she.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
So.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Tana has par a lengthy letter to the Green Party
arguing why she doesn't think the Greens can reasonably invoke
the walker jumping law against her, and doing so, she
quotes Rod Donald, which gets interesting. Brojette Morton is political commentator.
She's with us good Morning, good Morning, to tell me
about the Rod Donald thing, because I think that's interesting.
(11:19):
She's basically leaning on his interpretation of why walker jumping
ain't good.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, she's reminding the Greens that they
have always opposed this walker jumping legislation and they've a
posted on the basis that they think it's undemocratic that
if somebody disagrees with the party that they should not
be kicked out on that basis. So they should be
able to basically vote on their morals or their values.
I think the problem is, though, is that she is
(11:49):
not actually delivering on some of those that said those
principles because of the activities that her and her husband
engaged in which go completely against what the Green stands for.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, she's not taking a moral stand, and isn't she
even in bringing up Rod Donald? Is she not conceding
that there is no moral stand or or dispute that
she's got. It's just it's more of a character issue.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Absolutely. In the course she dispute that there is a
character issue, she says obviously that she's done nothing wrong
and that she's been a victim of an unfair process.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So what happens from here, Brigitte, So.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
They've got that vote. I think it's about two weeks
time to the Green's membership. It's quite This puts there
on quite a collision course in quite dangerous territory for
the Green's leadership, the entire caucus. You know, Yunanos. We
agree that they should use the walker jumping legislation, and
therefore if the Green's membership does not agree with that,
that means they're going to be quite out of set
(12:49):
with their grassroots membersIt.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Thank you very much for that update. We will wait
and see what happens. Something tells me this is going
to Whatever happens, it's going to take a very very
long time. Bridget Morton. Our political commentation just gone twenty
three minutes after five A lot of people texting in
about the interview just after five ten with Clive Matthew Wilson.
I do think Clive for getting up early and talking
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to us, it's very much appreciated. But I just think
the point being made about driver licensing and young people
was maybe a little off peace to put it mildly,
A lot of people texting and saying, this is madness.
What on earth are we talking about this for? What
does a college education or a university education have to
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do with knowing how to drive a car? I suppose
in the US they do teach you that. In high school,
they teach you how to drive a car, don't They
Like you go out during school hours in some schools
and learn how to drive a car. So maybe there's
a link there. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway,
I would have thought the most important thing is that
you know how to drive a car, and probably more importantly,
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that you know when you get into trouble. You know
what to do. You know whether you should swerve or
break or you know, And to be honest, I'm not
entirely sure what to do if you are in trouble
going one hundred k's an hour.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I did do the defensive driving course, which I don't
believe is a requirement, but perhaps it should be. Anyway,
we'd love to know what you think. Nine two nine two.
Also a very quick update on our energy crunch or
our energy crisis, probably more accurately, our energy shortage. Transpower
is going to decide this week if the generators can
take more water from the hydro lakes. This is the
(14:33):
grid operator, Transpower. The levels are obviously very low at
the moment, and if they drop too low then they
breach resource consent. So the argument as well, if there's
a such a shortage, then perhaps we should actually look
at increasing the allowance. Twenty four minutes, twenty five minutes
after five the early.
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Speaker 3 (14:55):
News Talks at me Just Go on twenty seven after
five year on news Talk said B David's anymore. You
might have seen him on the news last night or
in the Herald yesterday basically calling Christopher Luxen and the
government undemocratic for refusing to support this Treaty Principle's bill
past the first reading when it gets to Select committee.
Have you listened to what he said on the news
(15:16):
last night? Well, I think its a disrespectful and antidemocratic
to tell people that, no matter what they think, you're
not open to changing your mind. Is this the issue
you want to dine and ditch over let's face that
the Treaty Principle's Bill is dead in the water anyway.
A couple of reasons for that. Number one, and most importantly,
your coalition partners have said, nah, we don't want to
(15:39):
support it past the first reading. And even if they
agreed to it, the debate and the media attention would
surely from a political perspective, purely political perspective, would drown
out the next two years of potentially good headlines about
economic growth and all the stuff the government, the other
stuff the government's trying to do. And even if, as
you say, it's a principal thing to do it for democracy,
(16:02):
to have the debate, etc. The next government will just
undo it anyway, won't they. Whoever, and whenever that government
might be, the more oxygen you give this, the sooner
that day might arrive. In reality, I don't think David
Seymour is a stupid man or a stupid politician. He's not,
and he knows this is going nowhere. It's probably more
(16:23):
about positioning for a plank to balance a campaign on
In twenty twenty six f and Bridge twenty eight minutes
after five lots of text coming in about the AA
and the recommendations you can imagine and the recommendations from them. Interestingly,
it's not just the extension of your learners from six
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months to twelve months that they are recommending, but also
that you have supervised hours. So in New South Wales
you have one hundred and twenty hours supervised driving before
you can move on to the next stage of your license,
and that includes nighttime drive, which I actually think is
quite important because it is very hard. You know, if
you're not used to driving at nighttime. I know my
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grandma has stopped driving at nighttime because it's too dark,
can't see the road anyway, that would probably be a
very helpful thing to do. Twenty nine minutes after five
News is next. We've got Gavin Gray out of the
UK and we're also talking Kiwi bank and whether you
would buy shears. Just before six.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
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Speaker 3 (18:04):
Good morning. It is twenty four minutes away from six
News Talk sa'd be Wednesday, the twenty first of August.
If you're just joining us, great to have you would
have heard in the news just then Wendy talking about
AA this report out this morning where they recommend a
bunch of things to try and improve the lot of
our young drivers who are crashing and dying on our
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roads at a higher rate than our cousins across the
ditch in Australia. And one of the things they want
to that they talk about is basically clamping down or
making it harder to get a license, things like a
learner's license and a restricted license, and to keep them
things like log booking, supervised driving for young people. And
(18:45):
we had a guest on who was talking, well, what
was he saying? That is the question. Lots of you
have text in a lot of people supporting our guest
that we had on just before just after five o'clock Ryan.
What the guy was saying is that it is the
lesser educated people drivers that don't even bother getting a
license so they have no idea how to safely drive
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a car, that are potentially involved in crashes on our roads.
He actually went a step further and said they have
bad outcomes across the board. I tend to agree, says Graham.
It is the less educated that are in court for
all sorts of offenses, including driving offenses. Regards Graham. Yeah,
I think there's two issues. One is how do you
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get better drivers on the roads. The other one was
that the AA was some sort of representing white, wealthy drivers.
That was the part I thought was maybe a little
off pieced anyway, It has just gone twenty two minutes
away from six Bridge. Going to our reporters around the country.
(19:51):
Calum Proctor is in Dunedin this morning. Calum, a former
Southland local board chair, has got concerns for the community
after he was given the boot.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Yeah, this is Colin Smith we're talking about. He's removed
as the Ariti Community Board chair at a large public
meeting on Monday. Reports of more than one hundred people
attending this meeting at the Winton Town Hall, and his
removal comes on the back of a July request from
four members to have him removed. Smith says there were
other agendas on the board after it voted against CCTV
(20:23):
upgrades which went against the community's wishes and a police recommendation.
He says the response to the meeting was overwhelming and
shows the community has no trust in the board going forward.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Has the weather inned today.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
It's fine apart from sir Morning Cloud and rdly this
afternoon and fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thank you and Claire Sherwoods and christ Church this morning.
Good morning, Claire. Tell us about that obviously, the cathedral.
We've spoken about this in the last couple of weeks.
Is it going to dent faith in the city do
you think?
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Well belief that it won't, at least from some of
the big players down here. Ryan, the project has, if
you haven't been aware, been paused indefinitely, and that's because
of an eighty five million dollar funding shortfall. Business Canterbury
Chief executively Anne Watson has spoken with our newsroom. She says, Look,
it is really disappointing, but christ Church as city is buzzing.
We've got new businesses and facilities constantly popping up. She
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says the cathedral isn't the only thing that makes us
a city and doesn't reflect the progress that has been
made post quake. Christ Church Central MP Duncan Web though,
says he would be surprised if a better alternative for
the cathedral could be found.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
How's your weather today, Claire.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Another frosty star northeasterlies will develop as it clears up
later thirteen degrees the high with minus two overnight brilliant Thank.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You, Max. Toll is in Wellington, Max, Sir Peter Jackson
is buying up more land.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Well Yes, a good story in the Post this morning.
A massive block of land in Lyell Bay has new
owners and it is believed that they are Sir Peter
and Dame fran Walsh. This block of land, it was
to be a new metlink busty poets next to the waterfront.
It's next to the airport and it would add to
the power couple's growing portfolio of land, which also includes,
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of course, the abandoned mega development on the peninsula that
was shelved when they bought it from Ian Castle's. Plenty
of rumors continuing about Sopia Jackson's long proposed film museum.
Where's that going to be? As usual, he is not
answering questions.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I thought that the film museum was going to be
in Lyle Bay, right opposite the beach.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
That's right, and the Post is speculating that this may
now be a new option for that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Okay, so they might be changing tech. How's it wheel
that today?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Max?
Speaker 11 (22:41):
A very cold start here, but should turn out fine
with Northerlees a high thirteenth Central.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Thank you. Wendy Pictree is with us in Auckland this morning.
Good morning man, good morning, good morning. Tell us about
the pool, the Newmarket Olympic Pool.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Yes, so it's a little bit of a complicated one.
The Auckland Local Board has refused to temporarily extend the
license of a popular central city pool, being the Olympic
Pools in Newmarket. They opened in nineteen thirty nine. Uncertainly,
uncertainty surrounds its future because it's least with the Auckland councilors,
due to expire in November. The council, though, was pawned
the decision to the White Matar Local Board, which heard
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the pools director yesterday morning. However, that director says that
the board voted against a six month leaks extension. So
everything is a little bit up in the air for
the Olympic Pools, and of course the board, the chairman,
no one knows what's going on, and they say that
the decision is very disappointing and lacks empathy for the
people who depend on the pools and for the staff
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that work there.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Gosh, well, it sounds like they're swimming around in circles,
doesn't it. It's quite Have you been to that pool.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Because it's a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's a fifty meter so it's quite good and quite central.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
It is right in the heart of Newmarket.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, so it would be a shame if it was
to go.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, I think in a lot of recreational swimmers do
use it. I've got competitive swimmers, so they don't use
they don't use that pool, but I think a lot
of recreational swimmers use it.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, yeah, all right. And weather today, Wendy.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Yeah, we look it's looking pretty good at party. Cloudy
with isolated showers, but it will become fine this evening Southwesterlys.
They will ease in a high fifteen brilliant.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Thank you very much. Wendy Petrie in Auckland has just
gone eighteen minutes away from Sex Ryan Bridge. Now I've
got a story for you. This is from Spain and
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We're going to Gavin draya UK and Europe correspondent now
for an update on that vessel, the super yacht that's
sunk off the coast of Sicily.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Gevin, Yes, Ryan.
Speaker 12 (26:22):
Just within the last couple of hours we now know
the identity of the man found dead near that coast.
It's a Canadian Antiguan chef who was working on board
the boat which sank just off Sicily near the Palermo,
the capitol. The name of the chef Ricaldo Thomas. This
was a yachting trip for a very very wealthy British
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man called Mike Lnchy was described as the Bill Gates
of Britain by selling a software company that he built
from scratch for several billion pounds, and it appears that
he might have been entertaining on board some of the
lawyers that helped him in a legal case subsequent to
that when he was accused of overvaluing his company incorrectly
(27:08):
doing that and then the court actually ruled in his
favor and he went on this yacht it's believed to celebrate.
British investigators have now arrived on the site, so we
now believe there are six still missing, one confirmed dead
and a number of those have survived. But that man
Miche Linch, the British Bill Gates as he's been described,
(27:29):
and also the chair of Morgan Stanley Bank are still.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Missing, interestingly, and I can only imagine given what the
conspiracy theorist will do with this. But the code defendant
in their case, his code offendant also passed away, was
hit by a car and died in the UK.
Speaker 12 (27:46):
Yes, so you're quite right. Social media is an absolute
buzz with that, but there's no proof, I mean, apart
from anything. The yacht sank in a freak storm, and
that was eyewitnessed from the land. But yeah, you're right,
the conspirators having a wonderful time about this.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Tell us about Scotland what seems to be going on
there with the overdose drugged overdose use death.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
Yes, so I'm afraid to say that the number of
people who died in Scotland knowing to drug misuse has
risen sharply. So the latest figures that are on record,
which is for the year twenty twenty three, revealed that
one one hundred and seventy two people died. That's up
one hundred and twenty one or a twelve percent increase.
Now that actually sounds well quite a bit, doesn't it.
(28:28):
But it's even worse when you consider that it is
the worst record in Europe. It is more than double
the number of deaths seen in England and Northern Ireland,
and indeed it is significantly more than the next highest
within Europe. So it really is a huge leap in
the Scottish authorities trying to obviously do something about this.
(28:51):
Now it is thought cocaine was a factor in forty
one percent of deaths. That's been up six percent from
fifteen years ago. And the data that people living in
the most deprived areas of Scotland were more than fifteen
times as likely to drive to die from drug missuse
has got government ministers in Scotland scratching their heads, all.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Right, Kevin, thanks for that. Gavin Gray, a UK and
Europe correspondent. It is ten away from six, Ryan Bridge.
She would have seen the recommendations the final report from
the ComCom the Commerce Commission yesterday fourteen recommendations to make
our banking sector more competitive. Among those was an idea
to beef up Kiwibank, and this is something the government
is looking at. Nikola Willis says she's investigating, and she
(29:33):
was on this show last Thursday and asked her about
whether she would float, potentially float partially float Keybank on
the Stock Exchange and what she thought about foreign ownership.
Would you rule out foreign investment in Qwibank?
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Well, look, I'm taking advice on what is needed to
get investment into Kiwibank.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Can ever say I've said, let's look at what the
options are.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
So how could these options shake down? David Trump as
massive university banking expertise with us this morning. David, Good morning,
Good morning, Ryan. How do you best help Chevy Bank
raise capital? What is the what would be the smartest approach?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Do you think, oh, certainly some partial sale to the
New Zealand public would be one way of going ahead
with that. It wouldn't It will take some time to
absorb a large amount of capital, so that's probably better
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done as a relatively slow process. On the other hand,
just giving them small and providing some more amounts of capital,
it isn't going to mean that they're going to grow
very rapidly, but kind of have them them to have
a bank grow rapidly as usually a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
True, what has Kii Bank done in the past, Because
when they have had access to extra capital in the past,
have they used it for expandingly?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
On the other hand, they got small capital August last
year and they they've only partially used that so far,
so that processes that process has been relatively slow. Now
I've read something about how they're spending money on digitalization
again that that's that's not necessarily a bad thing and
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that's one of the things that they would need to
do if they were to expand significantly.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Anyway, does in your mind, does Kiwi Bank need to
be key we owned.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
There's no necessity for any bank to be under any
particular country's ownership. What has happened in recent years is
that operating banks across borders has become has been made
more challenging by international regulation. So that may that might
(31:58):
that might limit foreigners willing stood by Kiev Bank out right,
but that's a step down the road that we haven't
got to yet.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
All right, thanks so much for your time this morning.
David Trump, Mass University banking expert talking about the ComCom recommendations,
one of which is to give Kewi Bank a big
boost so that they can be more of a player
on the local market. Just gone seven to six.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds had a playing
store a News Talk Sidby.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
He's gone five away from six on news Talk, said
b Maria Branyis, Marera is her name? What was her name?
She's just died. She was one hundred and seventeen years old,
the oldest person in the world and she's now dead. Mike,
good morning morning. Would you like to be one hundred and.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
Seventy now, Well, it depends now I've always said, and
the closer you get to that age, the more you
think about it. I've always said that you want to
go out living life you want. As opposed to being
one hundred and seventeen game jees I wish I wasn't
one hundred and seventeen. See, I'd rather peg out at
eighty seven. Yeah, you know, five all in a deciding
set on the tennis court and go out in one
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hundred percent as opposed to being in a retirement home
for would you say.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Twenty years into years?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I mean, nothing wrong with.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
The retirement home.
Speaker 13 (33:20):
If you want to be in a retirement home for
twenty fantastic, But live your life.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And she used a voice to text device in the
last few years of her life because she couldn't. Well,
don't we all that's got to sell.
Speaker 13 (33:31):
Half the people who text my show do the voice
to text in the morning at half comes. You should
see it doesn't work. The technology doesn't work anyway, Joe Biden,
I thought you a little bit hard on, Joe. I
watched that yesterday. It was brilliant he was, and it
was one of those moments you thought, where was all this?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
For the last two or three years. Where was it?
Speaker 13 (33:48):
Because that standing ovation he got, but that was four
or five minutes long. They were like, you could see
why they did it on day one, because it would
have if it was day three or four, just ahead
of her. I started a little bit embarrassing because they
were loving them.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It was brilliant. Anyway, more on that, it had a
good sleep, Yes had Mike's next s to mine.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
For more from News Talks at b Listen live on
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The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talks B.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning, it is six half to five year on
News Talks B. I'm Ryan Bridge. Coming up an AA
report into driver licensing for learners and restricted drivers. Some
interesting recommendations. We'll look at that in a second. Also
Bridget Morton on Darling Tana. Yes, she's still there. Kiwibank?
Do we care if it's partially floated? Would you buy
(00:36):
cheers and Kiwibank? You open to that? Would you care
if foreigners are allowed to buy shares and Keewi Bank.
We'll talk to David Tripe just before six o'clock this morning.
Welcome to your Wednesday. The Agenda the twenty first of August.
Israel says it's recovered the bodies of six hostages being
held in Gaza. It says they were held in tunnels
and carn unis, describing the recovery as a complex operation
(01:00):
which didn't involve any fighting.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
The IDF had announced the deaths of five of them
in the months proceeding. Now they knew that some of
them had died, and they thought they had died potentially
from IDF fire, so most likely from air strikes.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Comes a day after the US Secretary of State Anthony
Blincoln met with Netanyahu. Apparently they have all agreed amongst
themselves to a proposal for a possible cease fire. They
just want Hamas to come on board. Boeing is back
in the headlines that've been forced to pause testing on
their new and long delay Triple seven X aircraft after
(01:37):
structural issues were found. The aircraft manufacturer said during a
test flight it identified a component that did not perform
as designed. Shares in the company drops two percent, which
I thought was not that much really, considering there are
structural designs in their new aircraft fleet, doesn't seem like much.
But then you take into account that they are already
down nearly thirty percent this year, so I guess how
(01:58):
low can you go. The Triple seven X was scheduled
to enter service in twenty twenty. Livestock numbers are continuing
to dwindle beef and Lamb's annual survey reckons three percent
drop in beef cattle four percent in sheep in the
year ending June issues according to the chair Kate Ackland,
week demand from China, conversion of farms to forestry and drought.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Getting rid of stock early, selling stock at lighter weights
and actually carrying less hoggots or less us.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and swith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store News talks'd be nine.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Two is the number to text eight after five. Gavin
Gray is our UK europe correspondent. He'll be with us
at five forty four this morning. The search continues for
any survivors. I mean, obviously it's long past that isn't
it in terms of survivors. But they're having trouble even
accessing that vessel. It's fifty meters dun underwater and there's
(03:02):
furniture and all sorts of stuff in the way preventing
the divers from actually getting inside. So we'll get an
update from him a little later in the show. Surely
we'll talk to Clive Matthew Wilson Road Safety Campaign about
the recommended changes. Did you know that? Apparently, and this
is according to the AA report that's come out this morning.
Apparently a third of all of our fatalities on the
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roads are eighteen to twenty four year olds, a third
of them and the overwhelming majority of those they are
responsible for. So do we need to do something like
this in Australia, Well, in certain states in Australia you
have to have one hundred and twenty hours of driving logged.
It doesn't have to be with a supervisor. It can
be with mum. Well I suppose mum and Dad is
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the supervisor. So it's not like you have to pay
for it, but you have to actually fill in a
log book, which you don't have to do here anyway.
We'll talk about that in a minute. The Global Dairy
Trade auction held overnight good result up five point five percent,
which is very good considering that fall in July six.
On July second, I should save almost seven percent fall
(04:05):
and most importantly, whole milk powder up seven point two
percent in the auction overnight, which is great news. And
that's the one we really care about because it's fourteen percent.
The value of all of our exports coming out of
New Zealand. Barth up three point seven percent, mozzarella five
percent and skim milk powder four percent. It has just
gone ten after five. We're back with Clivee Matthew Wilson
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a second.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
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 playing Store. News Talk zid B.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Twelve after five on news Talk zaid b. Biden had
a barn storm yesterday. I thought anyway, watching the DNC
in Chicago and have a listen to his It sounded
like he'd had a good rest, which he probably probably has.
Have a listen.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I stand before you now on this August night to
report that democracy has prevailed, Democracy, democracy has delivered, and
now democracy must be preserved.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
His voice was strong, no major slip ups, which is
I mean, if that's the best, we can do it
better than he has in the last couple of months.
I have to say that about him. You know, the
performance last night was pretty good. It really it just
seemed like he had had a sleep and he had
had a rest, and you know, and he had a
bit of vigor about him, which was which was good
(05:33):
to see. Still five months left in the White House,
can you believe it? Thirteen after five, Ryan Bridge right.
So a third of deaths on our roads are eighteen
to twenty four year olds involved eighteen to twenty four
year olds. Of the ninety six fatal crashes in twenty
twenty two, under twenty fives were responsible for eighty two
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of them. So that's much worse than in comparable countries
like Australia. And the AA has done a study into
learners and restricted systems here and compared them to overseas.
It was done by the University of Adelaide and they
reckon that we should extend the learner license period from
six months to twelve months. They reckon we should also
have mandatory supervised driving outs. Clive Matthew Wilson's the road
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safety campaign. He's with me this morning. High Clive, good morning.
Tell me do you think that this supervised driving thing
as a go is a good idea up.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
To a point. You've got to reread the statistics. One
of the reasons that the road toll involving young people
is so high is people from poor areas. The AA
represents the sort of last of a big group of
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white middle class people in adare and it does a
very good job with those people. Everything they say makes
perfect sense. If you're dealing with white, middle class people
with organized caring families who pay for the kids to
have proper driver education, that all works. The people most
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likely to have the accidents are young and poor and
coming from messy families, poor formal education, and they have
because of that poor outcomes on all levels. So you know,
and one of the problems.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So you just don't try. You just say, well, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
No, not all. But you face reality, right. The reality
is that people, the young Mary in particular, may not
have a license at all when they crash. So the
harder that you make it to get a license, the
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more likely they're are to drive without one.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Do we know how many people of these ninety six
fatal crashes, how many of them had a license? I
don't know, But wouldn't it be important if you're saying
that it's all young Malori kids without licensing.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Just bear with me for a moment, not looking at
a both o'clock in the morning, and I got up
specially for this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No, I appreciate it, but I'm just making sure that you.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Know I bear with I do under licensed driver MARTI
drivers and fatal crashes have a forty two percent of
them have full current full driver's licenses, compared to seventy
percent of non MARDI. But among people who young people
who have fatal crashes significant percentage in every country that
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at least ten percent don't have licenses to start with,
and they're very high risk drivers.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So what do you think we should do about that?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Then?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
If the issue is not that the restricted or learning
system is broken, but that there are a bunch of
young people whatever you know, color that desk and might
be who don't even have a license, then what do
you do about that?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Well, the magic bullet here is formal education. But you
know what they used to call reading, writing, arithmetic. People
with a people are compared to people with college education,
and this has been noted since the nineteen fifties. People
without a formal education are about four times more likely
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to die on the roads. So I would put in really,
really really big incentives for families to get education. And
I'm talking about formal education. It's also important, obviously to
learn how to drive, and hopefully to go to a
driving school and learn all the rules to get a license.
(09:43):
That's great, but the most important factor is basically the
whether or not you understand the world around you.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm not quite sure how that translates, but thank you
very much for your time, and I do appreciate you
getting nice and early for us. That's Clive Matthew Wilson,
who is a road safety campaigner. Eighteen minutes after five,
News Talk said, be on.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a
playing store. On News Talk said.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Be welcome to your Wednesday morning. It's just gone twenty
after five. Former Green MP Darling Tana has responded to
the party co leader's formal request to resign, saying she
has no intention of doing so. Are we saying she
or are we saying they? From memory? Last time we
did this story, they she had said that she was
(10:38):
only a theay because she didn't walk alone. I don't
think it was necessarily a gender thing. And we checked
with her office or her office. We checked with her,
she didn't really have an office anymore anyway, and she
said she said that she didn't mind whether we use
they or she, So anyway, we're using she.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
So.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Tana has par a lengthy letter to the Green Party
arguing why she doesn't think the Greens can reasonably invoke
the walker jumping law against her, and doing so, she
quotes Rod Donald, which gets interesting. Brojette Morton is political commentator.
She's with us good Morning, good Morning, to tell me
about the Rod Donald thing, because I think that's interesting.
(11:19):
She's basically leaning on his interpretation of why walker jumping
ain't good.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, she's reminding the Greens that they
have always opposed this walker jumping legislation and they've a
posted on the basis that they think it's undemocratic that
if somebody disagrees with the party that they should not
be kicked out on that basis. So they should be
able to basically vote on their morals or their values.
I think the problem is, though, is that she is
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not actually delivering on some of those that said those
principles because of the activities that her and her husband
engaged in which go completely against what the Green stands for.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, she's not taking a moral stand, and isn't she
even in bringing up Rod Donald? Is she not conceding
that there is no moral stand or or dispute that
she's got. It's just it's more of a character issue.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Absolutely. In the course she dispute that there is a
character issue, she says obviously that she's done nothing wrong
and that she's been a victim of an unfair process.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So what happens from here, Brigitte, So.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
They've got that vote. I think it's about two weeks
time to the Green's membership. It's quite This puts there
on quite a collision course in quite dangerous territory for
the Green's leadership, the entire caucus. You know, Yunanos. We
agree that they should use the walker jumping legislation, and
therefore if the Green's membership does not agree with that,
that means they're going to be quite out of set
(12:49):
with their grassroots membersIt.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Thank you very much for that update. We will wait
and see what happens. Something tells me this is going
to Whatever happens, it's going to take a very very
long time. Bridget Morton. Our political commentation just gone twenty
three minutes after five A lot of people texting in
about the interview just after five ten with Clive Matthew Wilson.
I do think Clive for getting up early and talking
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to us, it's very much appreciated. But I just think
the point being made about driver licensing and young people
was maybe a little off peace to put it mildly,
A lot of people texting and saying, this is madness.
What on earth are we talking about this for? What
does a college education or a university education have to
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do with knowing how to drive a car? I suppose
in the US they do teach you that. In high school,
they teach you how to drive a car, don't They
Like you go out during school hours in some schools
and learn how to drive a car. So maybe there's
a link there. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway,
I would have thought the most important thing is that
you know how to drive a car, and probably more importantly,
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that you know when you get into trouble. You know
what to do. You know whether you should swerve or
break or you know, And to be honest, I'm not
entirely sure what to do if you are in trouble
going one hundred k's an hour.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I did do the defensive driving course, which I don't
believe is a requirement, but perhaps it should be. Anyway,
we'd love to know what you think. Nine two nine two.
Also a very quick update on our energy crunch or
our energy crisis, probably more accurately, our energy shortage. Transpower
is going to decide this week if the generators can
take more water from the hydro lakes. This is the
(14:33):
grid operator, Transpower. The levels are obviously very low at
the moment, and if they drop too low then they
breach resource consent. So the argument as well, if there's
a such a shortage, then perhaps we should actually look
at increasing the allowance. Twenty four minutes, twenty five minutes
after five the early.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
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News Talks at me Just Go on twenty seven after
five year on news Talk said B David's anymore. You
might have seen him on the news last night or
in the Herald yesterday basically calling Christopher Luxen and the
government undemocratic for refusing to support this Treaty Principle's bill
past the first reading when it gets to Select committee.
Have you listened to what he said on the news
(15:16):
last night? Well, I think its a disrespectful and antidemocratic
to tell people that, no matter what they think, you're
not open to changing your mind. Is this the issue
you want to dine and ditch over let's face that
the Treaty Principle's Bill is dead in the water anyway.
A couple of reasons for that. Number one, and most importantly,
your coalition partners have said, nah, we don't want to
(15:39):
support it past the first reading. And even if they
agreed to it, the debate and the media attention would
surely from a political perspective, purely political perspective, would drown
out the next two years of potentially good headlines about
economic growth and all the stuff the government, the other
stuff the government's trying to do. And even if, as
you say, it's a principal thing to do it for democracy,
(16:02):
to have the debate, etc. The next government will just
undo it anyway, won't they. Whoever, and whenever that government
might be, the more oxygen you give this, the sooner
that day might arrive. In reality, I don't think David
Seymour is a stupid man or a stupid politician. He's not,
and he knows this is going nowhere. It's probably more
(16:23):
about positioning for a plank to balance a campaign on
In twenty twenty six f and Bridge twenty eight minutes
after five lots of text coming in about the AA
and the recommendations you can imagine and the recommendations from them. Interestingly,
it's not just the extension of your learners from six
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months to twelve months that they are recommending, but also
that you have supervised hours. So in New South Wales
you have one hundred and twenty hours supervised driving before
you can move on to the next stage of your license,
and that includes nighttime drive, which I actually think is
quite important because it is very hard. You know, if
you're not used to driving at nighttime. I know my
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grandma has stopped driving at nighttime because it's too dark,
can't see the road anyway, that would probably be a
very helpful thing to do. Twenty nine minutes after five
News is next. We've got Gavin Gray out of the
UK and we're also talking Kiwi bank and whether you
would buy shears. Just before six.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Where news and Views you trust to start your day
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is Early Edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New
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be So.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Good morning. It is twenty four minutes away from six
News Talk sa'd be Wednesday, the twenty first of August.
If you're just joining us, great to have you would
have heard in the news just then Wendy talking about
AA this report out this morning where they recommend a
bunch of things to try and improve the lot of
our young drivers who are crashing and dying on our
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roads at a higher rate than our cousins across the
ditch in Australia. And one of the things they want
to that they talk about is basically clamping down or
making it harder to get a license, things like a
learner's license and a restricted license, and to keep them
things like log booking, supervised driving for young people. And
(18:45):
we had a guest on who was talking, well, what
was he saying? That is the question. Lots of you
have text in a lot of people supporting our guest
that we had on just before just after five o'clock Ryan.
What the guy was saying is that it is the
lesser educated people drivers that don't even bother getting a
license so they have no idea how to safely drive
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a car, that are potentially involved in crashes on our roads.
He actually went a step further and said they have
bad outcomes across the board. I tend to agree, says Graham.
It is the less educated that are in court for
all sorts of offenses, including driving offenses. Regards Graham. Yeah,
I think there's two issues. One is how do you
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get better drivers on the roads. The other one was
that the AA was some sort of representing white, wealthy drivers.
That was the part I thought was maybe a little
off pieced anyway, It has just gone twenty two minutes
away from six Bridge. Going to our reporters around the country.
(19:51):
Calum Proctor is in Dunedin this morning. Calum, a former
Southland local board chair, has got concerns for the community
after he was given the boot.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Yeah, this is Colin Smith we're talking about. He's removed
as the Ariti Community Board chair at a large public
meeting on Monday. Reports of more than one hundred people
attending this meeting at the Winton Town Hall, and his
removal comes on the back of a July request from
four members to have him removed. Smith says there were
other agendas on the board after it voted against CCTV
(20:23):
upgrades which went against the community's wishes and a police recommendation.
He says the response to the meeting was overwhelming and
shows the community has no trust in the board going forward.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Has the weather inned today.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
It's fine apart from sir Morning Cloud and rdly this
afternoon and fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thank you and Claire Sherwoods and christ Church this morning.
Good morning, Claire. Tell us about that obviously, the cathedral.
We've spoken about this in the last couple of weeks.
Is it going to dent faith in the city do
you think?
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Well belief that it won't, at least from some of
the big players down here. Ryan, the project has, if
you haven't been aware, been paused indefinitely, and that's because
of an eighty five million dollar funding shortfall. Business Canterbury
Chief executively Anne Watson has spoken with our newsroom. She says, Look,
it is really disappointing, but christ Church as city is buzzing.
We've got new businesses and facilities constantly popping up. She
(21:17):
says the cathedral isn't the only thing that makes us
a city and doesn't reflect the progress that has been
made post quake. Christ Church Central MP Duncan Web though,
says he would be surprised if a better alternative for
the cathedral could be found.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
How's your weather today, Claire.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Another frosty star northeasterlies will develop as it clears up
later thirteen degrees the high with minus two overnight brilliant Thank.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You, Max. Toll is in Wellington, Max, Sir Peter Jackson
is buying up more land.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Well Yes, a good story in the Post this morning.
A massive block of land in Lyell Bay has new
owners and it is believed that they are Sir Peter
and Dame fran Walsh. This block of land, it was
to be a new metlink busty poets next to the waterfront.
It's next to the airport and it would add to
the power couple's growing portfolio of land, which also includes,
(22:07):
of course, the abandoned mega development on the peninsula that
was shelved when they bought it from Ian Castle's. Plenty
of rumors continuing about Sopia Jackson's long proposed film museum.
Where's that going to be? As usual, he is not
answering questions.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I thought that the film museum was going to be
in Lyle Bay, right opposite the beach.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
That's right, and the Post is speculating that this may
now be a new option for that.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Okay, so they might be changing tech. How's it wheel
that today?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Max?
Speaker 11 (22:41):
A very cold start here, but should turn out fine
with Northerlees a high thirteenth Central.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Thank you. Wendy Pictree is with us in Auckland this morning.
Good morning man, good morning, good morning. Tell us about
the pool, the Newmarket Olympic Pool.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Yes, so it's a little bit of a complicated one.
The Auckland Local Board has refused to temporarily extend the
license of a popular central city pool, being the Olympic
Pools in Newmarket. They opened in nineteen thirty nine. Uncertainly,
uncertainty surrounds its future because it's least with the Auckland councilors,
due to expire in November. The council, though, was pawned
the decision to the White Matar Local Board, which heard
(23:15):
the pools director yesterday morning. However, that director says that
the board voted against a six month leaks extension. So
everything is a little bit up in the air for
the Olympic Pools, and of course the board, the chairman,
no one knows what's going on, and they say that
the decision is very disappointing and lacks empathy for the
people who depend on the pools and for the staff
(23:35):
that work there.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Gosh, well, it sounds like they're swimming around in circles,
doesn't it. It's quite Have you been to that pool.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Because it's a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's a fifty meter so it's quite good and quite central.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
It is right in the heart of Newmarket.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, so it would be a shame if it was
to go.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, I think in a lot of recreational swimmers do
use it. I've got competitive swimmers, so they don't use
they don't use that pool, but I think a lot
of recreational swimmers use it.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, yeah, all right. And weather today, Wendy.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Yeah, we look it's looking pretty good at party. Cloudy
with isolated showers, but it will become fine this evening Southwesterlys.
They will ease in a high fifteen brilliant.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Thank you very much. Wendy Petrie in Auckland has just
gone eighteen minutes away from Sex Ryan Bridge. Now I've
got a story for you. This is from Spain and
it's about our The world's oldest person has died. It's
very said. One hundred and seventeen years old. She was
(24:29):
born in nineteen oh seven, lived through two World Wars
Spanish Civil War, died peacefully in her sleep. Dear old thing.
She spent two decades in a nursing home. Can you
believe that she's got a Twitter account? I think her
family types for her. But this was her final message.
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We're going to Gavin draya UK and Europe correspondent now
for an update on that vessel, the super yacht that's
sunk off the coast of Sicily.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Gevin, Yes, Ryan.
Speaker 12 (26:22):
Just within the last couple of hours we now know
the identity of the man found dead near that coast.
It's a Canadian Antiguan chef who was working on board
the boat which sank just off Sicily near the Palermo,
the capitol. The name of the chef Ricaldo Thomas. This
was a yachting trip for a very very wealthy British
(26:45):
man called Mike Lnchy was described as the Bill Gates
of Britain by selling a software company that he built
from scratch for several billion pounds, and it appears that
he might have been entertaining on board some of the
lawyers that helped him in a legal case subsequent to
that when he was accused of overvaluing his company incorrectly
(27:08):
doing that and then the court actually ruled in his
favor and he went on this yacht it's believed to celebrate.
British investigators have now arrived on the site, so we
now believe there are six still missing, one confirmed dead
and a number of those have survived. But that man
Miche Linch, the British Bill Gates as he's been described,
(27:29):
and also the chair of Morgan Stanley Bank are still.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Missing, interestingly, and I can only imagine given what the
conspiracy theorist will do with this. But the code defendant
in their case, his code offendant also passed away, was
hit by a car and died in the UK.
Speaker 12 (27:46):
Yes, so you're quite right. Social media is an absolute
buzz with that, but there's no proof, I mean, apart
from anything. The yacht sank in a freak storm, and
that was eyewitnessed from the land. But yeah, you're right,
the conspirators having a wonderful time about this.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Tell us about Scotland what seems to be going on
there with the overdose drugged overdose use death.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
Yes, so I'm afraid to say that the number of
people who died in Scotland knowing to drug misuse has
risen sharply. So the latest figures that are on record,
which is for the year twenty twenty three, revealed that
one one hundred and seventy two people died. That's up
one hundred and twenty one or a twelve percent increase.
Now that actually sounds well quite a bit, doesn't it.
(28:28):
But it's even worse when you consider that it is
the worst record in Europe. It is more than double
the number of deaths seen in England and Northern Ireland,
and indeed it is significantly more than the next highest
within Europe. So it really is a huge leap in
the Scottish authorities trying to obviously do something about this.
(28:51):
Now it is thought cocaine was a factor in forty
one percent of deaths. That's been up six percent from
fifteen years ago. And the data that people living in
the most deprived areas of Scotland were more than fifteen
times as likely to drive to die from drug missuse
has got government ministers in Scotland scratching their heads, all.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Right, Kevin, thanks for that. Gavin Gray, a UK and
Europe correspondent. It is ten away from six, Ryan Bridge.
She would have seen the recommendations the final report from
the ComCom the Commerce Commission yesterday fourteen recommendations to make
our banking sector more competitive. Among those was an idea
to beef up Kiwibank, and this is something the government
is looking at. Nikola Willis says she's investigating, and she
(29:33):
was on this show last Thursday and asked her about
whether she would float, potentially float partially float Keybank on
the Stock Exchange and what she thought about foreign ownership.
Would you rule out foreign investment in Qwibank?
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Well, look, I'm taking advice on what is needed to
get investment into Kiwibank.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Can ever say I've said, let's look at what the
options are.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
So how could these options shake down? David Trump as
massive university banking expertise with us this morning. David, Good morning,
Good morning, Ryan. How do you best help Chevy Bank
raise capital? What is the what would be the smartest approach?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Do you think, oh, certainly some partial sale to the
New Zealand public would be one way of going ahead
with that. It wouldn't It will take some time to
absorb a large amount of capital, so that's probably better
(30:32):
done as a relatively slow process. On the other hand,
just giving them small and providing some more amounts of capital,
it isn't going to mean that they're going to grow
very rapidly, but kind of have them them to have
a bank grow rapidly as usually a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
True, what has Kii Bank done in the past, Because
when they have had access to extra capital in the past,
have they used it for expandingly?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
On the other hand, they got small capital August last
year and they they've only partially used that so far,
so that processes that process has been relatively slow. Now
I've read something about how they're spending money on digitalization
again that that's that's not necessarily a bad thing and
(31:25):
that's one of the things that they would need to
do if they were to expand significantly.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Anyway, does in your mind, does Kiwi Bank need to
be key we owned.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
There's no necessity for any bank to be under any
particular country's ownership. What has happened in recent years is
that operating banks across borders has become has been made
more challenging by international regulation. So that may that might
(31:58):
that might limit foreigners willing stood by Kiev Bank out right,
but that's a step down the road that we haven't
got to yet.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
All right, thanks so much for your time this morning.
David Trump, Mass University banking expert talking about the ComCom recommendations,
one of which is to give Kewi Bank a big
boost so that they can be more of a player
on the local market. Just gone seven to six.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds had a playing
store a News Talk Sidby.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
He's gone five away from six on news Talk, said
b Maria Branyis, Marera is her name? What was her name?
She's just died. She was one hundred and seventeen years old,
the oldest person in the world and she's now dead. Mike,
good morning morning. Would you like to be one hundred and.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
Seventy now, Well, it depends now I've always said, and
the closer you get to that age, the more you
think about it. I've always said that you want to
go out living life you want. As opposed to being
one hundred and seventeen game jees I wish I wasn't
one hundred and seventeen. See, I'd rather peg out at
eighty seven. Yeah, you know, five all in a deciding
set on the tennis court and go out in one
(33:14):
hundred percent as opposed to being in a retirement home
for would you say.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Twenty years into years?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I mean, nothing wrong with.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
The retirement home.
Speaker 13 (33:20):
If you want to be in a retirement home for
twenty fantastic, But live your life.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And she used a voice to text device in the
last few years of her life because she couldn't. Well,
don't we all that's got to sell.
Speaker 13 (33:31):
Half the people who text my show do the voice
to text in the morning at half comes. You should
see it doesn't work. The technology doesn't work anyway, Joe Biden,
I thought you a little bit hard on, Joe. I
watched that yesterday. It was brilliant he was, and it
was one of those moments you thought, where was all this?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
For the last two or three years. Where was it?
Speaker 13 (33:48):
Because that standing ovation he got, but that was four
or five minutes long. They were like, you could see
why they did it on day one, because it would
have if it was day three or four, just ahead
of her. I started a little bit embarrassing because they
were loving them.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It was brilliant. Anyway, more on that, it had a
good sleep, Yes had Mike's next s to mine.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
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