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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge you
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture Vans and a player's store, Us Dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning. It is Friday six after five.
Great to be with you. Coming up on the show,
Judith Collins is signing a space packed What is the threat?
It's all to do with defense. What is the threat
to us from space? We'll find out. That's just before
five thirty this morning, the start of the real Razor
eraror we look at the squad naming, Plus Harvey Weinstein
(00:35):
off the hook in the UK. Vince and Macavney with
us after five point thirty. Plus how many meth lollies
are still out there in circulation in the community. I'll
tell you before six.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It is Friday, the sixth of August. Hunter Biden's lawyer
says he will change his plea to guilty in his
federal tax case, could see him avoid a trial and
head straight to sentencing, which obviously would be good pr wise.
Biden's accused of not paying about two point two million
New Zealand dollars in federal tax over four years The
indictment says he spent the money on drugs, escorts, girlfriends,
luxury hotels, and rental properties. In short, it says everything
(01:11):
but his taxes. Job openings in the US have fallen
by around two hundred and thirty thousand to a new
three and a half year low.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The labor market is loosening up for employers million, six
hundred and seventy three thousand job openings in the month
of July, but it is down from seven million, nine
hundred and ten thousand on a revised basis.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Still awaiting a decision from the Fed on whether they
will cut interest rates, which is due later in the month.
Broadcaster and psychologist Nigel Latter has revealed he's in a
battle with stomach cancer. He's fifty seven years old. He
posted on Facebook he's going through chemotherapy. It's working well
and the tumor has reduced in size, but initially he
was given a diagnosis of six to twelve months.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
He said, look, it's inoperable because the tumor has spread
out kind of too far through the stomach line and
it's also incurable.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The News you Need this Morning and the in depth
Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swift City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
News talks that'd be there.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Was a shooting near my house last night. I'll tell
you about that soon. The BAYSI and this is the
super yacht in Sicily. Our new news overnight on the autopsies.
So four of the seven who died died of what
they call dry drowning or non typical drowning. Now we
might be thinking, what is that. There's no water on
the lungs, there's no water in the stomachs. From the autopsies,
(02:33):
it suggests that they found an air pocket in the
boat as it went down. In the cabin they found
an air pocket consumed all the oxygen. The air turns
toxic due to the carbon dioxide, and that is how
they believed that at least four of the seven who died.
There was no physical injuries on any of them, no
broken bones, nothing like that. So they we'll have more
(02:54):
about that news. I'm sure just gone nine after five,
Ryan Bridge last night on the news, and you could
even see headline about it this morning. North Korea flies
balloon over prime Minister's motorcade. You're like, wow, North Korea
has targeted Luxon. He's visiting South Korea at the moment.
What an amazing thing.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
No sooner had our interview finished.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Appreciate it, thanks Ben.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Then this North Korean trash balloon flew right over the
top of his motorcade.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So it just happened to be over the top of
his motorcade. They weren't targeting Luckson's motorcade. They sent about
two hundred balloons over yesterday, apparently because they there's the
little tip for tat that they have. One of them
plays music, the other scends balloons with trash and feces
and all sorts of fun things in it. So anyway,
for those who thought that Christopher Luxon had been the
(03:45):
target of a balloon flyover by North Korea, it was
more circumstance. Just gone ten after five, Ry and Bridge
very hard to sort out what's going on in France.
I think they're having a bit of a hard time
figuring out what's going on in France. You know that
they had the election. She was two months ago, which
is when I started doing the show, which the first
(04:05):
thing we talked about was the French election. Done that.
Now Macron has picked his Prime Minister and it is
the man they call Monsieur Brexit, Michel Barnier. I'm probably
saying it wrong anyway, he's right wing, he's from the
Republican Party. So two months after the snap election, finally
(04:25):
he picks his guy. And now whether he gets a
vote of confidence from MPs from politicians is crucial. So
he needs to get the support of enough a majority
in order to actually stay in the job, keep the job.
And then they've got a budget coming up. He has
to have a draft in by the first of October.
(04:47):
What a stupid system. So he's got three weeks at
most from when he is appointed to when he has
to have a draft of his first budget for twenty
twenty five. That's going to like it's enough. You know,
it's going to be a good enough time to prepare,
isn't it. Nine two nine two is the number to text.
Just gone eleven minutes after five, we're talking Judith Collins
(05:09):
and her plan for our space defense.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Next, the First Word on the News of the Day
Early edition.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
With Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's furniture Beds
and a play at store News Talk Zippy.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We'll get Vincent mcavinie to give us an update on
the French Prime minister, the new French Prime minister who's
been appointed overnight. That is coming away just after the
news at five thirty thirteen after five Now, New Zealand
has accepted an invitation to join the US lead multinational
space initiative, Operation Olympic Defender. It's about defense, it's about
deterring what they call hostile actions in space. The US,
(05:53):
the UK, Canada and Australia all part of the group.
Judith Colins says, we'll deploy a defense Force liaison officer
to the US Space Command and Colorado for the next
two years. Doctor Maria Potza is a lawyer and international
space law expert, and she joins me this morning. Good
morning to you.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
What a right how are you?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm very well, thank you. Tell me how serious the
threat is a defense threat from space or in space.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Look, there's always threats in space, but those threats tend
to be posed mainly by space debris, so as opposed
to the hostile nature that you speak of a little
bit earlier. Look, we don't have huge threats of that
nature to be terribly terribly concerned about. It is though
(06:37):
the sustainability and space debris that we're seeing a rise of.
That does make us a little bit more concerned when
we think about threats because of course, if you've got
a lot of space debris in space, then you've got
a problem of accessing space. Now, NASA and there's a
couple of other organizations around the world do monitor space
(06:58):
debris particles, but we need to have clear pathways to
space and order to get assets up there for both
military purposes, commercial purposes, as well as human exploration. So
I'm hoping that that helps a little bit, because that
is what so this is focusing on.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This is like rubbish collection.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Well, hopefully we'll get there soon. But the really important
thing about this program and us joining this program is
it's not just about safe, responsible, secure use of space.
It's about sustainable use of space and resilience of the
space structure. So it's much much more than just the
one idea.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Right, how many pieces of space junk are up there
A good question.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
I have no idea, but there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So someone told me it was more than more than
half a billion pieces. Will that all be from us?
Things that we have put up there and that are
flying around and how do you how do you go
about cleaning up space?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
All right, look, big, big complex questions. First of all,
because we know exactly I haven't had coffee yet, so
I'll do my best. Look, I wouldn't know exactly how
many pieces of space debrusy there are floating us up there,
because we've got something called the Kesler syndrome, and that's
whereby you've got one piece of space debris that could
(08:19):
collide with another piece of space debrary and cause lots
and lots of more space debris, and it becomes really
hard to monitor that new space debrary because of course
most of our suchllites are pointing out the Earth, so
we can make estimations and we can make an estimate
of trajectory of that new space debris and what it
might be and where it's heading to. But that's why
(08:41):
I say, I'm just not sure, because we may have
had lots of collision pieces and they may just be
floating up all around up there. Now you said about
you asked a question about space junk and space debris collection.
I know that there's quite a few nations around the
world looking at this. We've even got a un Organization Committee,
(09:02):
who are looking at the question of and yeah, we
are looking at organized you know, how how we com
mitigate space. Every don't have a crystal ball, but it's
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I guess the thing is, if we can't clean
up the ocean, how can we clean up space?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
These are all good questions, all good questions.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So the threat from other countries, you know, the defense three,
you're saying that that's not such a serious thing, like
people countries aren't trying at the moment to be able
to hit Earth from space or can they already.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Gosh, again, a lot of good questions there. Whether or
not they have the capability to do so. I don't
think actually anyone knows. But what I will say is this,
our joining the program, the Olympic program, is not necessarily
a response to some imminent hostile threat that's happening at
the moment. What I'm getting at is our joining this
(09:56):
program is a really important step for New Zealand on
a range of issues, and Minister Collins has really got
us going in the right direction when you think about
how we are shirting ourselves on that space stage of
the space faring nation.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Good to have it good to be at the table
as things get underway, doctor Maria Potts, So thank you
very much for your time this morning. Really appreciate it.
Sorry about the questions lawyer and international space law expert.
I don't know because at Russia and China, what are
they doing up there? I imagine something, you know, they'll
be They'll be eyeing something, and are we worried about that?
(10:32):
Do you want to make sure that we're with our
five Eyes partners up there making sure, you know, patrolling
space not only there with the hoover vacuuming up the
debris that we've left up there, but also you know,
protecting it. Just gone nineteen minutes after five nine ninety
two is the number to text.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
Foot Your Beds and a Planet Store News Talk, said.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Be I can't say I'm not disappointed that the microphones
will be off while the other person is talking. This
is the US election debate happening next Wednesday afternoon at
one pm our time. By the way, in Philadelphia, ABC
is in charge of this one, and they were debating
back and forth about whether the microphones would be on
or whether the microphones would be off. I always like
the microphones on because then you can get interactions like
(11:25):
this one with Trump and Hillary.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Because you'd be in jail.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Secretary Quintin.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Brian Bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, so there'll be none of that. It'll be Microsoft
while the others talking. Just gone twenty two minutes after five.
Is it redemption time for the All Blacks? They lost
against the spring Box in South Africa last week. They're
playing them again early Sunday morning. Scott Robertson has made
some changes to the squad, you could say, including adding
the youngest All Black in this year's squad to the
starting line up, twenty one year old Wallace to Titi.
(12:06):
This will be his second test for the All Blacks.
Kevin Partzer, former Springbok and rugby commentator, he's with us
this morning. Get Kevin, Good morning, Ryan, good morning. Good
to have you on the show again. Tell me is
this a bold, brave mood moved from Razor.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
I think it is, but it's also necessary. They had
no impact from their bench last week. I guess they
had the option of starting with the same fifteen. But
what they've done is they've brought in the person they
probably looked for a bit of impact on the bench
and they've said, well, here you go, young man, have
a go, and they put him wrong right from the start.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Some people are saying this is the start of the
real start of the Robertson era, where you know he's
setting us up for the next World Cup.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Oh you know, he's sort of he's got to play
that hand. Now South Africa have sort of won the
Four Nations competition. Now that opportunity where put away the result.
Now he's got to start shaping and get some real
value out of this. The good news is he doesn't
just need to try and win games to please the public.
(13:09):
He now needs to shape a team that's going to
be good for the future. And you see a young Rasima,
you see tit on the blind side, and people are
joking that it might be the bomb disposal units with
the likes of Barrett. It's coming from the bench as well,
who's an outstanding finisher in any game he's paid previously.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What about the veterans, if you can call them that
of the squad. What is the message to them.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Well, I've got to be honest. I think it's a
good message. He's shown you loyalty to have brought back
a guy like Caine and kept them in the squad.
I thought we were very good last week. That is
a very tough place to go and to win, and
we found that out. You can't win. But he's also
very short of personnel. And that, by the way, that's
a New Zealand problem. That's not a Scott Robin some problem.
(14:01):
Very short of person now. And what he's done is
he's kept the nucleus but said right, we've got to
just shape this up for the future a little bit.
There's a few changes.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Kevin, thank you very much for your time this morning.
Go the abs come Sunday morning. That's Kevin Park, former
Springbok and rugby commentator. It is twenty four after five
News talksb.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio. How
It By News Talks be.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
An update for you on the police investigation into those
meth lollies that were handed out in parcels by the
City Mission. This is three weeks ago it happened, and
remember in one single lollie there were three hundred doses
of methan fetamine. It was pure myth. And the police
are calling them not actually lollies, but blocks. That's what
(14:44):
they are. They're blocks of pure myth. So we asked
them for an update and it's quite interesting what they
have come back with. So Operation Tirade is what they
call it, and they can account for sixty one blocks,
so sixty one lollies of meth that were disguised as
Rinda branded confectionery. If they say this includes thirty four
(15:06):
blocks that have been recovered by police, does that mean
twenty seven blocks or lollies are still at large. If so,
that would be about eight thousand doses worth about thirty
two thousand dollars on the street. Basically, it means on
the face of it, at least they've only recovered half
the myth they know about. And then there's the meth
(15:28):
blocks that they don't know about. Are they on Facebook marketplace?
We saw a report that one of them apparently went
up there soon after they were handed out, So we
still don't know a couple of things. One where they are,
but two who donated them, and why did the person
know what they were doing or was it done by accident,
and if so, how did the lollies the confectionery get
(15:48):
into their hands. The police say that they're talking to
the Rinda Company Malaysia. They are being very cooperative by
the sounds of it, but at this stage the mystery continues.
Twenty eight after five shellicopters hovering above my house or
around my house. Last night, there was a shooting. This
is near Western Springs Park. You know you might have
(16:09):
gone to a concert there and someone was well. A
couple of people were shot. They reckoned, multiple injuries and
one person died, which is very sad, and family were
outside crying and grieving the loss of their loved one.
Lots of this lately. It feels like anyway. There was
the one granddad in the van in Packardanger just a
(16:30):
couple of weeks ago who was shot. Still haven't found
who did that? Still no idea, I wondered, is it
that it's happening more often or are we hearing more
about it because we have alerts on our phones and
things like that. I guess we'll find out when the
stats come out. But in the meantime, it does feel
like there's an awful lot of that going on, especially
when it's close to home. Twenty nine after five, we're
(16:52):
going to go to Vincent mcavenni. After the news. We'd
also get our round up from our reporters and we're
talking about building products making them cheaper. Get this, it's
fifty percent more expensive to build a house here in
New Zealand and Australia.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Wine News and Views you trust to start your day.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture bids at a flying store. News Talk sid be.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Good morning. It is twenty If were away from six
year on news Talk said, be welcome to your Friday morning.
Hope you're feeling good. Do you know who's feeling good
this morning is Elon Musk because Donald Trump is offering
him a job if he is elected president. He will
be in charge of wait for it, drum roll please,
has just come out in the last couple of minutes.
He will be the head of the Government Efficiency Commission
(18:21):
if he is elected. Such as the man crush that
Trump has on Musk. Do you know what we're talking
about space this morning? As well? Because Judith Collins is
signing us up to a bit of a five eyes
pat to go and look after out of space. Musk
can get the hell out of space as far as
I'm concerned. Have you ever looked up at the stars
lately and seen the satellites, the Link, the Starlink satellites.
(18:45):
It's space junk, It's debris. In my mind, it's cluttering
what would be a beautiful natural thing. Elon Musk is
up there. You cannot escape this guy, whether it's in
the government or whether it's in the skies. Away from me.
Elon Musk. Nine two is the number of text has
gone twenty two minutes away from six o'clock. Bill Shorten
(19:07):
is on his way out, the former Labor Australian Labor leader.
Of course, he was came in after Rudds who lost
to Abbott, and then he was beaten by Turnbull. He's
done a robber of Grant Robertson. He's going to a university,
getting a million dollars a year at this university as
a pro vice chancellor or whatever they call it. Anyway,
they compile a list of his zingers. Some of them
(19:29):
are quite good.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
The government says the term Team Australia a lot. I'm
worried about the emergence of Team idiot.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Bill Shortens up there in his ill fitting suit, puffing
his chepst up and saying we need to thump the table.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
I think the problem is that Australia's got an ill
fitting treasurer for the Prime Minister's addressed this in a
press conference in Turkey in the last few hours. I
haven't seen what she said, but let me say I support.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
What it is that she said, but you don't know
what that is.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
I'm sure she's right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Ryan Bridge, Right, we're going to our reporters right around
the country. Jordan Done is with us this morning. Good morning, Jordan,
good morning, right, how are you good? Thank you. You've
got an update on the Otago Regional Council. This is
the response to the Minister about land and water plans.
Speaker 13 (20:10):
That's right, well, theF Otago Regional Council has finalized this response,
but it won't be sharing it right away. Earlier this year,
Minister Penny Simmons requested information around the plans cost. Federated
Farmers Otago suggested the plan would cost more than one
hundred and ten million for two towns demanding the draft
be made public. Council chairperson Gretchen Robertson says they understand
(20:32):
the public interest, but due to the information's nature, it
can't be made public yet. CEO Richard Saunders says this
is based on legal advice, but there were released as
much as they can on the website soon.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
All right. How's the weather in Dunedin today, Jordan.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
Clytie periods it's with a few afternoon showers, possibly heavy
and thundery.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Northwesterlies eighteen degrees brilliant, thank you. Claire Stuward is in
chrish Each this morning. Clear and an abrupt end to
the season for one of the Canterbury ski fells.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
Yeah, there'll be a few disappointed with this Ryan. Recent
rain and strong warm winds have just hammered the porter's
past site and it's decimated their snowpack there. So Alpine
Resort will be hoping to open today, but looks like
tomorrow's forecast will spell the end to their season. This
would be two weeks ahead of last year, which was
already well ahead of their plans. Indeed, ski chief executive
(21:23):
Paul Anderson says skiing's really popular in Canterbury, and it
is important that the Canterbury fields do well for the
whole industry. The fields further south in Queenstown now doing
okay for now, while Mount Hart, our other local one
is still expecting to be open till closing day in October.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Right, and your weather today clear fine.
Speaker 14 (21:43):
Aside from a bit of fog about this morning, high
cloud increasing, Westerly's turning Northerlys and the high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Thank you Max Tollers and Wellington Max. Parliament's got a
new wan, that's right.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
I yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:54):
A few months ago while Newsroom revealed that the Parliamentary
Service was looking to partner with a few wineries and
sell their own branded wine at Parliament in them in
the bar u Scoff. But it's done in the UK
for and since the House of Lords has quite a
successful wine range, Parliament would sell it in the bar,
in the restaurant, in the gift shop. It'd be served
(22:15):
to foreign dignitaries at parliamentary events. We've learned now exactly
what those wines will be. If you're interested. A chardonnay
from Leverette Estate and Mills Reef Serrah Mills Reef Merlow
Malbeck a leverette brutes that you've got a pino from
Marlborough of course, lunar estate pino agree from twenty seven
seconds and a Savignon blanc from Eva Pemper.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And will just have parliaments branding and logo on that.
Speaker 15 (22:42):
It will, yes, very prominently.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, how's you with it today?
Speaker 15 (22:46):
Max, Too early to think about wine though, fine today.
Northwesterly is fifteen the High Central.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Thank you neighbors in the studio this morning. Good morning,
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. The shooting in Greenland last night.
Speaker 16 (23:00):
This is terrible because you looked close.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
By, you would have heard the helicops, yes, dad, yeah.
Speaker 16 (23:06):
And I could hear the cars whizzing past two Yeah,
the police cars whizzing passed. So what we know is
that one person is believed to be dead, a number injured. Now,
this is in Auckland's Gray Lynn last night in the suburb.
If you're not from Auckland, it's quite you know, in
the CBD, more or less it's quite well, not the CBD,
but very quite close to the residential and Ponsonby Road area.
(23:28):
It happened at ten to seven in the evening on
to a Dungey Road, so we know that at least
fifteen police vehicles with their multiple ambulances. A man told
our newsroom that his grandson had been killed in the incident.
Our news director drove past there this morning, past the
scene at about four said a group of family members
is still gathered outside that cordon area. Not much information
(23:50):
obviously at this stage, but the police will be giving
us more later on in the morning. But very sad.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It is sad, but frightening when it's close to home too,
isn't it.
Speaker 16 (23:58):
Yeah, and the crime is just going up there, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It feels that way, Niva, it feels that way. We
all need a bit of Parliament's wine. I reckon for
a Friday. Hey, what's happening with the weather today or Bartley?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Cloudy?
Speaker 16 (24:09):
We've got the showers though they'll be clearing this evening.
I'm still a bit springing. Auckland's high seventeen.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Thank you Neva and Orkland for us this morning seventeen
away from six Vincent mcavinny with US Live. Next is
our correspondent talking about French eleection sorry the French Prime Minister,
but also in decent assault charges that have been dropped
against Harvey Weinstein fourteen minutes away from six News Talk said,
be in a second the labor MP calling Christopher Luxen
(24:37):
an idiot? Yeah, I mean, can you imagine if when
just Sinda a Dumas in power someone called her an idiot,
what the blowback would be? Anyway, No such blowback this time.
I'll tell you why and exactly what's going on there
in just a second.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Vinton mcavini are UK and europe correspondents with US. Vincent,
good morning, Nice to be with you. The indecent assault
chargers in the UK against Harvey Weinstein discontinued. Why, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Well, the CPS says they've made the decision because there
is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction now. Weinstein
was charged in twenty twenty two with two counts of
indecent assault against a woman in London for alleged defenses
in nineteen ninety six. The alleged woman victim is now
in her fifties, but the head of the Special Crime
(25:30):
and counter Terrorism Division at the CPS said that they
have continuously reviewed this case and explained their decision to
all parties. They would still encourage any potential victims to
come forward, but they're saying now that they will not
continue with this. Weinstein was of course jailed in twenty
twenty in New York for twenty three years for rape
(25:51):
and sexual assault a former assistant and an actress as well,
many women coming out to testify against him in addition
to those alleged various things. But he is of course
in a protracted legal battle in the US and now
trying to overturn those convictions, so that may have played
a part in what's here in the UK and.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
In France, Macron has pict as Prime minister.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yes, that's right. After a couple of months of turmoil
in France. Off that snap election, Michelle Barnier, a veteran
French Conservative politician, will take over.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Now.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
That is a name that people might remember from Brexit.
He was the EU's former Brexit negotiator. He was incredibly
tough and formidable, as the UK Brexit side saw. He's
hoping to put an end of the two months of
paralysis and deadlock in France. The right the Marine La
Penn says that she will wait to see whether or
not he can do that, what his platform will be.
(26:46):
The left though, aren't happy with his selection, but we'll
see whether or not it will get France going again
after this sort of stalemate they've been in and this
sort of truth that they've had through the Olympics and
the Paralympics. So the Paralympics they've set to end, of course,
in the next week, so it'll be back to school
in France and we'll see whether or not they can
get their parliament back up and running. There are some
(27:07):
rumors circulating that perhaps President Macron might simply throw in
the toll, resign and potentially trigger a fresh presidential election
a few years early in order to try and wrong
foot Marine Lapenn and the far right in the hope
that they might not be prepared yet for that race.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Wow, Okay, that would be a big move, wouldn't it.
It's either you let the fire far right in and
you include them somehow, or they're probably eventually going to
take over, aren't they, whether it's now or whether it's
in two years. That's Vincent mcavinio. U can you're a
correspondent just gone eleven away.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
From six Ryan Bridge the.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Government's making it easier to import a bigger range of
building products. It is fifty percent more expensive to build
a standalone home in New Zealand than it is in Australia.
Now Minister Chris Pink he's introduced legislation that will open
up the market in theory and bring in more competition.
But should we be worried about faulty products being led
in leaky building et cetera. Building Industry Federation Chief executive
(28:06):
Julian Lasers with me this morning. Julian, good morning, Good
morning Ryan. What products do we need a better range of?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Well, it's interesting, I think was what the goverment has
identified is they can look for equal or equivalent standards
where there are costs concentrations in construction. So they're looking
for products such as internal linings, external clannings, windows, plumbing
products and insulation and because that's where often some of
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the you know, the biggest costs are and that they're
going to focus on those things. And for example, Watermark,
which is an Australian certification, has I think two hundred
thousand products that are certified that meet our building code.
Those sorts of things will be you know, able to
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be brought into the market and and provide much more choice,
and there should be little risk of not betting our
building code.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Right, So if it's good enough for the Aussies, it's
good enough for us. When you say little risk of
not meeting our building code, is there a chance that
these products might perform differently here than over there?
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Well, it's a great question, because of course it's not.
You know, products are never just they never just act
in isolation in a building that we know. Building systems
based on the performance of many different criteria. So if
you take a wall, you know that's made up of
a frame and trust insulation, class board, ventilation, all that
sort of thing. Yeah, I think I think the devil
(29:40):
is always in the detail our would be as I regulate,
it's going to have to be very clear in what
those standards are, and so they, i think, will only
peck standards and products specifically from those of trusted overseas
jurisdictions that are as close to our kinds as possible.
That's the only way they can avoid any trouble.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Julian, is this going to shift the dial in terms
of how much a cost to build a home in
New Zealand a standalone home being fifty percent more expensive
to build here in Australia. Is it going to shift
the dial?
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I don't look, I think it's going to shift the dial.
The building materials made for about twenty percent of the
cost of a house overall. I think it will certainly
reduce some cost and bring those costs down over time,
which is what we're all aiming for. You know, anything's
better than nothing, right, so if we can get more
(30:34):
choice and more competition, that that's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thanks for your time this morning, Julian Lay's Building Industry
Federation Chief Executive. It is eight minutes away from sexy
on News Talk said big coming up next, which labor
MP is calling Christopher Luxen an idiot.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
News Talks, it'd be good.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Morning, Welcome to your Friday six away from six. Remember
when Shane Retti and the Prime Minister came out and
said there were fourteen layers of bureaucracy between the Chief
Executive and the patient and they made a big announcement
and they said there was an organizational chart to back
it all up.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well, the advice I've been given is fourteen, fourteen layers
of management. I think there's other cosignals of corporate services
and things that may or may not have been included.
But I just say to you, as obvious to anybody,
go talk someone of the system and find out how
bureaucratic it is. And it's incredibly bureaucratic.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It turns out the organizational chart and it doesn't exist,
never existed OaaS have been done. Reporters are in a
half as you can imagine, as is the opposition. In fact,
Aisha Verral says that the Prime Minister was made to
look like an idiot by Shane Letti, by his minister,
quite strong language from her. The thing is, this is
(31:51):
a bit of a ber story because it's essentially right.
It may not be fourteen layers of bureaucray. I think
it's twelve. And just because they don't have a chart
showing that it's true, it doesn't mean it's not true.
I would have saved my idiot torpedo for something a
little more consequential. I would have thought five minutes away
from six now, Mike Costking is here next. You've got
Razor on the show today?
Speaker 12 (32:12):
Yeah, no, don't you love Razor? Oh? Okay, okay, So
Ryan Bridge doesn't like No, it's not that I don't
like it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I love him.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
I think he's a genius, do you Yeah, I do.
I think he's a people person. And the fruition of
that will be when we win the next World Cup.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, I hope you're right, and hopefully this is day
one squad naming, is day one of a new era? Well,
the year has begun.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
I mean you can argue, you can raise the record
against four and two so far, two losses out of
six games. If we win this that makes it five
and two.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
But it matters less how many we win now, right,
this is about metting up for the future.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
We lent this a number of cycles ago, and that
was it really doesn't matter what happens. Is like, it's
nice to win the Bledislow and the Rugby Championship and
all that stuff, but as long as we win the
World Cup, that's really all the camera.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Because when we win the World.
Speaker 12 (33:04):
Cup, you forget about all the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Now it is about a world chance, mind you.
Speaker 12 (33:08):
It's a it's a it's a baptism of fire, isn't
it mean? When you're in South Africa one you got
a loss, so the pressure is on.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You'd be feeling it, wouldn't you.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
Have you seen there is at dinner at the moment,
by the way, that's really right now is at dinner,
and you'll be thinking, jeez, I hope this week's well.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I hope, I hope it does. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, you
feel a bit bad for the old veterans been given
the heave hoye ship to the sign.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
Yeah, Hey, listen, I know you like a Friday, and
you know I love a Monday too. Do you really
do you want to leave now just because you love
a week anyway, you have a good weekend, well.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
You too, and have a great day everybody. I will
see you again on Monday.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
For more from News Talks B listen live on air
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The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge you
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture Vans and a player's store, Us Dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning. It is Friday six after five.
Great to be with you. Coming up on the show,
Judith Collins is signing a space packed What is the threat?
It's all to do with defense. What is the threat
to us from space? We'll find out. That's just before
five thirty this morning, the start of the real Razor
eraror we look at the squad naming, Plus Harvey Weinstein
(00:35):
off the hook in the UK. Vince and Macavney with
us after five point thirty. Plus how many meth lollies
are still out there in circulation in the community. I'll
tell you before six.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It is Friday, the sixth of August. Hunter Biden's lawyer
says he will change his plea to guilty in his
federal tax case, could see him avoid a trial and
head straight to sentencing, which obviously would be good pr wise.
Biden's accused of not paying about two point two million
New Zealand dollars in federal tax over four years The
indictment says he spent the money on drugs, escorts, girlfriends,
luxury hotels, and rental properties. In short, it says everything
(01:11):
but his taxes. Job openings in the US have fallen
by around two hundred and thirty thousand to a new
three and a half year low.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
The labor market is loosening up for employers million, six
hundred and seventy three thousand job openings in the month
of July, but it is down from seven million, nine
hundred and ten thousand on a revised basis.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Still awaiting a decision from the Fed on whether they
will cut interest rates, which is due later in the month.
Broadcaster and psychologist Nigel Latter has revealed he's in a
battle with stomach cancer. He's fifty seven years old. He
posted on Facebook he's going through chemotherapy. It's working well
and the tumor has reduced in size, but initially he
was given a diagnosis of six to twelve months.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
He said, look, it's inoperable because the tumor has spread
out kind of too far through the stomach line and
it's also incurable.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The News you Need this Morning and the in depth
Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swift City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
News talks that'd be there.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Was a shooting near my house last night. I'll tell
you about that soon. The BAYSI and this is the
super yacht in Sicily. Our new news overnight on the autopsies.
So four of the seven who died died of what
they call dry drowning or non typical drowning. Now we
might be thinking, what is that. There's no water on
the lungs, there's no water in the stomachs. From the autopsies,
(02:33):
it suggests that they found an air pocket in the
boat as it went down. In the cabin they found
an air pocket consumed all the oxygen. The air turns
toxic due to the carbon dioxide, and that is how
they believed that at least four of the seven who died.
There was no physical injuries on any of them, no
broken bones, nothing like that. So they we'll have more
(02:54):
about that news. I'm sure just gone nine after five,
Ryan Bridge last night on the news, and you could
even see headline about it this morning. North Korea flies
balloon over prime Minister's motorcade. You're like, wow, North Korea
has targeted Luxon. He's visiting South Korea at the moment.
What an amazing thing.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
No sooner had our interview finished.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Appreciate it, thanks Ben.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Then this North Korean trash balloon flew right over the
top of his motorcade.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So it just happened to be over the top of
his motorcade. They weren't targeting Luckson's motorcade. They sent about
two hundred balloons over yesterday, apparently because they there's the
little tip for tat that they have. One of them
plays music, the other scends balloons with trash and feces
and all sorts of fun things in it. So anyway,
for those who thought that Christopher Luxon had been the
(03:45):
target of a balloon flyover by North Korea, it was
more circumstance. Just gone ten after five, Ry and Bridge
very hard to sort out what's going on in France.
I think they're having a bit of a hard time
figuring out what's going on in France. You know that
they had the election. She was two months ago, which
is when I started doing the show, which the first
(04:05):
thing we talked about was the French election. Done that.
Now Macron has picked his Prime Minister and it is
the man they call Monsieur Brexit, Michel Barnier. I'm probably
saying it wrong anyway, he's right wing, he's from the
Republican Party. So two months after the snap election, finally
(04:25):
he picks his guy. And now whether he gets a
vote of confidence from MPs from politicians is crucial. So
he needs to get the support of enough a majority
in order to actually stay in the job, keep the job.
And then they've got a budget coming up. He has
to have a draft in by the first of October.
(04:47):
What a stupid system. So he's got three weeks at
most from when he is appointed to when he has
to have a draft of his first budget for twenty
twenty five. That's going to like it's enough. You know,
it's going to be a good enough time to prepare,
isn't it. Nine two nine two is the number to text.
Just gone eleven minutes after five, we're talking Judith Collins
(05:09):
and her plan for our space defense.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Next, the First Word on the News of the Day
Early edition.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
With Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's furniture Beds
and a play at store News Talk Zippy.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We'll get Vincent mcavinie to give us an update on
the French Prime minister, the new French Prime minister who's
been appointed overnight. That is coming away just after the
news at five thirty thirteen after five Now, New Zealand
has accepted an invitation to join the US lead multinational
space initiative, Operation Olympic Defender. It's about defense, it's about
deterring what they call hostile actions in space. The US,
(05:53):
the UK, Canada and Australia all part of the group.
Judith Colins says, we'll deploy a defense Force liaison officer
to the US Space Command and Colorado for the next
two years. Doctor Maria Potza is a lawyer and international
space law expert, and she joins me this morning. Good
morning to you.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
What a right how are you?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm very well, thank you. Tell me how serious the
threat is a defense threat from space or in space.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Look, there's always threats in space, but those threats tend
to be posed mainly by space debris, so as opposed
to the hostile nature that you speak of a little
bit earlier. Look, we don't have huge threats of that
nature to be terribly terribly concerned about. It is though
(06:37):
the sustainability and space debris that we're seeing a rise of.
That does make us a little bit more concerned when
we think about threats because of course, if you've got
a lot of space debris in space, then you've got
a problem of accessing space. Now, NASA and there's a
couple of other organizations around the world do monitor space
(06:58):
debris particles, but we need to have clear pathways to
space and order to get assets up there for both
military purposes, commercial purposes, as well as human exploration. So
I'm hoping that that helps a little bit, because that
is what so this is focusing on.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This is like rubbish collection.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Well, hopefully we'll get there soon. But the really important
thing about this program and us joining this program is
it's not just about safe, responsible, secure use of space.
It's about sustainable use of space and resilience of the
space structure. So it's much much more than just the
one idea.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Right, how many pieces of space junk are up there
A good question.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
I have no idea, but there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So someone told me it was more than more than
half a billion pieces. Will that all be from us?
Things that we have put up there and that are
flying around and how do you how do you go
about cleaning up space?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
All right, look, big, big complex questions. First of all,
because we know exactly I haven't had coffee yet, so
I'll do my best. Look, I wouldn't know exactly how
many pieces of space debrusy there are floating us up there,
because we've got something called the Kesler syndrome, and that's
whereby you've got one piece of space debris that could
(08:19):
collide with another piece of space debrary and cause lots
and lots of more space debris, and it becomes really
hard to monitor that new space debrary because of course
most of our suchllites are pointing out the Earth, so
we can make estimations and we can make an estimate
of trajectory of that new space debris and what it
might be and where it's heading to. But that's why
(08:41):
I say, I'm just not sure, because we may have
had lots of collision pieces and they may just be
floating up all around up there. Now you said about
you asked a question about space junk and space debris collection.
I know that there's quite a few nations around the
world looking at this. We've even got a un Organization Committee,
(09:02):
who are looking at the question of and yeah, we
are looking at organized you know, how how we com
mitigate space. Every don't have a crystal ball, but it's
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, I guess the thing is, if we can't clean
up the ocean, how can we clean up space?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
These are all good questions, all good questions.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So the threat from other countries, you know, the defense three,
you're saying that that's not such a serious thing, like
people countries aren't trying at the moment to be able
to hit Earth from space or can they already.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Gosh, again, a lot of good questions there. Whether or
not they have the capability to do so. I don't
think actually anyone knows. But what I will say is this,
our joining the program, the Olympic program, is not necessarily
a response to some imminent hostile threat that's happening at
the moment. What I'm getting at is our joining this
(09:56):
program is a really important step for New Zealand on
a range of issues, and Minister Collins has really got
us going in the right direction when you think about
how we are shirting ourselves on that space stage of
the space faring nation.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Good to have it good to be at the table
as things get underway, doctor Maria Potts, So thank you
very much for your time this morning. Really appreciate it.
Sorry about the questions lawyer and international space law expert.
I don't know because at Russia and China, what are
they doing up there? I imagine something, you know, they'll
be They'll be eyeing something, and are we worried about that?
(10:32):
Do you want to make sure that we're with our
five Eyes partners up there making sure, you know, patrolling
space not only there with the hoover vacuuming up the
debris that we've left up there, but also you know,
protecting it. Just gone nineteen minutes after five nine ninety
two is the number to text.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
Foot Your Beds and a Planet Store News Talk, said.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Be I can't say I'm not disappointed that the microphones
will be off while the other person is talking. This
is the US election debate happening next Wednesday afternoon at
one pm our time. By the way, in Philadelphia, ABC
is in charge of this one, and they were debating
back and forth about whether the microphones would be on
or whether the microphones would be off. I always like
the microphones on because then you can get interactions like
(11:25):
this one with Trump and Hillary.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in
our country.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Because you'd be in jail.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Secretary Quintin.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Brian Bridge.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, so there'll be none of that. It'll be Microsoft
while the others talking. Just gone twenty two minutes after five.
Is it redemption time for the All Blacks? They lost
against the spring Box in South Africa last week. They're
playing them again early Sunday morning. Scott Robertson has made
some changes to the squad, you could say, including adding
the youngest All Black in this year's squad to the
starting line up, twenty one year old Wallace to Titi.
(12:06):
This will be his second test for the All Blacks.
Kevin Partzer, former Springbok and rugby commentator, he's with us
this morning. Get Kevin, Good morning, Ryan, good morning. Good
to have you on the show again. Tell me is
this a bold, brave mood moved from Razor.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
I think it is, but it's also necessary. They had
no impact from their bench last week. I guess they
had the option of starting with the same fifteen. But
what they've done is they've brought in the person they
probably looked for a bit of impact on the bench
and they've said, well, here you go, young man, have
a go, and they put him wrong right from the start.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Some people are saying this is the start of the
real start of the Robertson era, where you know he's
setting us up for the next World Cup.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Oh you know, he's sort of he's got to play
that hand. Now South Africa have sort of won the
Four Nations competition. Now that opportunity where put away the result.
Now he's got to start shaping and get some real
value out of this. The good news is he doesn't
just need to try and win games to please the public.
(13:09):
He now needs to shape a team that's going to
be good for the future. And you see a young Rasima,
you see tit on the blind side, and people are
joking that it might be the bomb disposal units with
the likes of Barrett. It's coming from the bench as well,
who's an outstanding finisher in any game he's paid previously.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What about the veterans, if you can call them that
of the squad. What is the message to them.
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Well, I've got to be honest. I think it's a
good message. He's shown you loyalty to have brought back
a guy like Caine and kept them in the squad.
I thought we were very good last week. That is
a very tough place to go and to win, and
we found that out. You can't win. But he's also
very short of personnel. And that, by the way, that's
a New Zealand problem. That's not a Scott Robin some problem.
(14:01):
Very short of person now. And what he's done is
he's kept the nucleus but said right, we've got to
just shape this up for the future a little bit.
There's a few changes.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Kevin, thank you very much for your time this morning.
Go the abs come Sunday morning. That's Kevin Park, former
Springbok and rugby commentator. It is twenty four after five
News talksb.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio. How
It By News Talks be.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
An update for you on the police investigation into those
meth lollies that were handed out in parcels by the
City Mission. This is three weeks ago it happened, and
remember in one single lollie there were three hundred doses
of methan fetamine. It was pure myth. And the police
are calling them not actually lollies, but blocks. That's what
(14:44):
they are. They're blocks of pure myth. So we asked
them for an update and it's quite interesting what they
have come back with. So Operation Tirade is what they
call it, and they can account for sixty one blocks,
so sixty one lollies of meth that were disguised as
Rinda branded confectionery. If they say this includes thirty four
(15:06):
blocks that have been recovered by police, does that mean
twenty seven blocks or lollies are still at large. If so,
that would be about eight thousand doses worth about thirty
two thousand dollars on the street. Basically, it means on
the face of it, at least they've only recovered half
the myth they know about. And then there's the meth
(15:28):
blocks that they don't know about. Are they on Facebook marketplace?
We saw a report that one of them apparently went
up there soon after they were handed out, So we
still don't know a couple of things. One where they are,
but two who donated them, and why did the person
know what they were doing or was it done by accident,
and if so, how did the lollies the confectionery get
(15:48):
into their hands. The police say that they're talking to
the Rinda Company Malaysia. They are being very cooperative by
the sounds of it, but at this stage the mystery continues.
Twenty eight after five shellicopters hovering above my house or
around my house. Last night, there was a shooting. This
is near Western Springs Park. You know you might have
(16:09):
gone to a concert there and someone was well. A
couple of people were shot. They reckoned, multiple injuries and
one person died, which is very sad, and family were
outside crying and grieving the loss of their loved one.
Lots of this lately. It feels like anyway. There was
the one granddad in the van in Packardanger just a
(16:30):
couple of weeks ago who was shot. Still haven't found
who did that? Still no idea, I wondered, is it
that it's happening more often or are we hearing more
about it because we have alerts on our phones and
things like that. I guess we'll find out when the
stats come out. But in the meantime, it does feel
like there's an awful lot of that going on, especially
when it's close to home. Twenty nine after five, we're
(16:52):
going to go to Vincent mcavenni. After the news. We'd
also get our round up from our reporters and we're
talking about building products making them cheaper. Get this, it's
fifty percent more expensive to build a house here in
New Zealand and Australia.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
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It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 2 (17:58):
Good morning. It is twenty If were away from six
year on news Talk said, be welcome to your Friday morning.
Hope you're feeling good. Do you know who's feeling good
this morning is Elon Musk because Donald Trump is offering
him a job if he is elected president. He will
be in charge of wait for it, drum roll please,
has just come out in the last couple of minutes.
He will be the head of the Government Efficiency Commission
(18:21):
if he is elected. Such as the man crush that
Trump has on Musk. Do you know what we're talking
about space this morning? As well? Because Judith Collins is
signing us up to a bit of a five eyes
pat to go and look after out of space. Musk
can get the hell out of space as far as
I'm concerned. Have you ever looked up at the stars
lately and seen the satellites, the Link, the Starlink satellites.
(18:45):
It's space junk, It's debris. In my mind, it's cluttering
what would be a beautiful natural thing. Elon Musk is
up there. You cannot escape this guy, whether it's in
the government or whether it's in the skies. Away from me.
Elon Musk. Nine two is the number of text has
gone twenty two minutes away from six o'clock. Bill Shorten
(19:07):
is on his way out, the former Labor Australian Labor leader.
Of course, he was came in after Rudds who lost
to Abbott, and then he was beaten by Turnbull. He's
done a robber of Grant Robertson. He's going to a university,
getting a million dollars a year at this university as
a pro vice chancellor or whatever they call it. Anyway,
they compile a list of his zingers. Some of them
(19:29):
are quite good.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
The government says the term Team Australia a lot. I'm
worried about the emergence of Team idiot.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
Bill Shortens up there in his ill fitting suit, puffing
his chepst up and saying we need to thump the table.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
I think the problem is that Australia's got an ill
fitting treasurer for the Prime Minister's addressed this in a
press conference in Turkey in the last few hours. I
haven't seen what she said, but let me say I support.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
What it is that she said, but you don't know
what that is.
Speaker 11 (19:55):
I'm sure she's right.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Ryan Bridge, Right, we're going to our reporters right around
the country. Jordan Done is with us this morning. Good morning, Jordan,
good morning, right, how are you good? Thank you. You've
got an update on the Otago Regional Council. This is
the response to the Minister about land and water plans.
Speaker 13 (20:10):
That's right, well, theF Otago Regional Council has finalized this response,
but it won't be sharing it right away. Earlier this year,
Minister Penny Simmons requested information around the plans cost. Federated
Farmers Otago suggested the plan would cost more than one
hundred and ten million for two towns demanding the draft
be made public. Council chairperson Gretchen Robertson says they understand
(20:32):
the public interest, but due to the information's nature, it
can't be made public yet. CEO Richard Saunders says this
is based on legal advice, but there were released as
much as they can on the website soon.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
All right. How's the weather in Dunedin today, Jordan.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
Clytie periods it's with a few afternoon showers, possibly heavy
and thundery.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Northwesterlies eighteen degrees brilliant, thank you. Claire Stuward is in
chrish Each this morning. Clear and an abrupt end to
the season for one of the Canterbury ski fells.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
Yeah, there'll be a few disappointed with this Ryan. Recent
rain and strong warm winds have just hammered the porter's
past site and it's decimated their snowpack there. So Alpine
Resort will be hoping to open today, but looks like
tomorrow's forecast will spell the end to their season. This
would be two weeks ahead of last year, which was
already well ahead of their plans. Indeed, ski chief executive
(21:23):
Paul Anderson says skiing's really popular in Canterbury, and it
is important that the Canterbury fields do well for the
whole industry. The fields further south in Queenstown now doing
okay for now, while Mount Hart, our other local one
is still expecting to be open till closing day in October.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Right, and your weather today clear fine.
Speaker 14 (21:43):
Aside from a bit of fog about this morning, high
cloud increasing, Westerly's turning Northerlys and the high of twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Thank you Max Tollers and Wellington Max. Parliament's got a
new wan, that's right.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
I yeah.
Speaker 15 (21:54):
A few months ago while Newsroom revealed that the Parliamentary
Service was looking to partner with a few wineries and
sell their own branded wine at Parliament in them in
the bar u Scoff. But it's done in the UK
for and since the House of Lords has quite a
successful wine range, Parliament would sell it in the bar,
in the restaurant, in the gift shop. It'd be served
(22:15):
to foreign dignitaries at parliamentary events. We've learned now exactly
what those wines will be. If you're interested. A chardonnay
from Leverette Estate and Mills Reef Serrah Mills Reef Merlow
Malbeck a leverette brutes that you've got a pino from
Marlborough of course, lunar estate pino agree from twenty seven
seconds and a Savignon blanc from Eva Pemper.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And will just have parliaments branding and logo on that.
Speaker 15 (22:42):
It will, yes, very prominently.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, how's you with it today?
Speaker 15 (22:46):
Max, Too early to think about wine though, fine today.
Northwesterly is fifteen the High Central.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Thank you neighbors in the studio this morning. Good morning,
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. The shooting in Greenland last night.
Speaker 16 (23:00):
This is terrible because you looked close.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
By, you would have heard the helicops, yes, dad, yeah.
Speaker 16 (23:06):
And I could hear the cars whizzing past two Yeah,
the police cars whizzing passed. So what we know is
that one person is believed to be dead, a number injured. Now,
this is in Auckland's Gray Lynn last night in the suburb.
If you're not from Auckland, it's quite you know, in
the CBD, more or less it's quite well, not the CBD,
but very quite close to the residential and Ponsonby Road area.
(23:28):
It happened at ten to seven in the evening on
to a Dungey Road, so we know that at least
fifteen police vehicles with their multiple ambulances. A man told
our newsroom that his grandson had been killed in the incident.
Our news director drove past there this morning, past the
scene at about four said a group of family members
is still gathered outside that cordon area. Not much information
(23:50):
obviously at this stage, but the police will be giving
us more later on in the morning. But very sad.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It is sad, but frightening when it's close to home too,
isn't it.
Speaker 16 (23:58):
Yeah, and the crime is just going up there, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It feels that way, Niva, it feels that way. We
all need a bit of Parliament's wine. I reckon for
a Friday. Hey, what's happening with the weather today or Bartley?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Cloudy?
Speaker 16 (24:09):
We've got the showers though they'll be clearing this evening.
I'm still a bit springing. Auckland's high seventeen.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Thank you Neva and Orkland for us this morning seventeen
away from six Vincent mcavinny with US Live. Next is
our correspondent talking about French eleection sorry the French Prime Minister,
but also in decent assault charges that have been dropped
against Harvey Weinstein fourteen minutes away from six News Talk said,
be in a second the labor MP calling Christopher Luxen
(24:37):
an idiot? Yeah, I mean, can you imagine if when
just Sinda a Dumas in power someone called her an idiot,
what the blowback would be? Anyway, No such blowback this time.
I'll tell you why and exactly what's going on there
in just a second.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Vinton mcavini are UK and europe correspondents with US. Vincent,
good morning, Nice to be with you. The indecent assault
chargers in the UK against Harvey Weinstein discontinued. Why, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Well, the CPS says they've made the decision because there
is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction now. Weinstein
was charged in twenty twenty two with two counts of
indecent assault against a woman in London for alleged defenses
in nineteen ninety six. The alleged woman victim is now
in her fifties, but the head of the Special Crime
(25:30):
and counter Terrorism Division at the CPS said that they
have continuously reviewed this case and explained their decision to
all parties. They would still encourage any potential victims to
come forward, but they're saying now that they will not
continue with this. Weinstein was of course jailed in twenty
twenty in New York for twenty three years for rape
(25:51):
and sexual assault a former assistant and an actress as well,
many women coming out to testify against him in addition
to those alleged various things. But he is of course
in a protracted legal battle in the US and now
trying to overturn those convictions, so that may have played
a part in what's here in the UK and.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
In France, Macron has pict as Prime minister.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yes, that's right. After a couple of months of turmoil
in France. Off that snap election, Michelle Barnier, a veteran
French Conservative politician, will take over.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Now.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
That is a name that people might remember from Brexit.
He was the EU's former Brexit negotiator. He was incredibly
tough and formidable, as the UK Brexit side saw. He's
hoping to put an end of the two months of
paralysis and deadlock in France. The right the Marine La
Penn says that she will wait to see whether or
not he can do that, what his platform will be.
(26:46):
The left though, aren't happy with his selection, but we'll
see whether or not it will get France going again
after this sort of stalemate they've been in and this
sort of truth that they've had through the Olympics and
the Paralympics. So the Paralympics they've set to end, of course,
in the next week, so it'll be back to school
in France and we'll see whether or not they can
get their parliament back up and running. There are some
(27:07):
rumors circulating that perhaps President Macron might simply throw in
the toll, resign and potentially trigger a fresh presidential election
a few years early in order to try and wrong
foot Marine Lapenn and the far right in the hope
that they might not be prepared yet for that race.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Wow, Okay, that would be a big move, wouldn't it.
It's either you let the fire far right in and
you include them somehow, or they're probably eventually going to
take over, aren't they, whether it's now or whether it's
in two years. That's Vincent mcavinio. U can you're a
correspondent just gone eleven away.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
From six Ryan Bridge the.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Government's making it easier to import a bigger range of
building products. It is fifty percent more expensive to build
a standalone home in New Zealand than it is in Australia.
Now Minister Chris Pink he's introduced legislation that will open
up the market in theory and bring in more competition.
But should we be worried about faulty products being led
in leaky building et cetera. Building Industry Federation Chief executive
(28:06):
Julian Lasers with me this morning. Julian, good morning, Good
morning Ryan. What products do we need a better range of?
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Well, it's interesting, I think was what the goverment has
identified is they can look for equal or equivalent standards
where there are costs concentrations in construction. So they're looking
for products such as internal linings, external clannings, windows, plumbing
products and insulation and because that's where often some of
(28:36):
the you know, the biggest costs are and that they're
going to focus on those things. And for example, Watermark,
which is an Australian certification, has I think two hundred
thousand products that are certified that meet our building code.
Those sorts of things will be you know, able to
(28:58):
be brought into the market and and provide much more choice,
and there should be little risk of not betting our
building code.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Right, So if it's good enough for the Aussies, it's
good enough for us. When you say little risk of
not meeting our building code, is there a chance that
these products might perform differently here than over there?
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Well, it's a great question, because of course it's not.
You know, products are never just they never just act
in isolation in a building that we know. Building systems
based on the performance of many different criteria. So if
you take a wall, you know that's made up of
a frame and trust insulation, class board, ventilation, all that
sort of thing. Yeah, I think I think the devil
(29:40):
is always in the detail our would be as I regulate,
it's going to have to be very clear in what
those standards are, and so they, i think, will only
peck standards and products specifically from those of trusted overseas
jurisdictions that are as close to our kinds as possible.
That's the only way they can avoid any trouble.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Julian, is this going to shift the dial in terms
of how much a cost to build a home in
New Zealand a standalone home being fifty percent more expensive
to build here in Australia. Is it going to shift
the dial?
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I don't look, I think it's going to shift the dial.
The building materials made for about twenty percent of the
cost of a house overall. I think it will certainly
reduce some cost and bring those costs down over time,
which is what we're all aiming for. You know, anything's
better than nothing, right, so if we can get more
(30:34):
choice and more competition, that that's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Thanks for your time this morning, Julian Lay's Building Industry
Federation Chief Executive. It is eight minutes away from sexy
on News Talk said big coming up next, which labor
MP is calling Christopher Luxen an idiot.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
News Talks, it'd be good.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Morning, Welcome to your Friday six away from six. Remember
when Shane Retti and the Prime Minister came out and
said there were fourteen layers of bureaucracy between the Chief
Executive and the patient and they made a big announcement
and they said there was an organizational chart to back
it all up.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well, the advice I've been given is fourteen, fourteen layers
of management. I think there's other cosignals of corporate services
and things that may or may not have been included.
But I just say to you, as obvious to anybody,
go talk someone of the system and find out how
bureaucratic it is. And it's incredibly bureaucratic.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It turns out the organizational chart and it doesn't exist,
never existed OaaS have been done. Reporters are in a
half as you can imagine, as is the opposition. In fact,
Aisha Verral says that the Prime Minister was made to
look like an idiot by Shane Letti, by his minister,
quite strong language from her. The thing is, this is
(31:51):
a bit of a ber story because it's essentially right.
It may not be fourteen layers of bureaucray. I think
it's twelve. And just because they don't have a chart
showing that it's true, it doesn't mean it's not true.
I would have saved my idiot torpedo for something a
little more consequential. I would have thought five minutes away
from six now, Mike Costking is here next. You've got
Razor on the show today?
Speaker 12 (32:12):
Yeah, no, don't you love Razor? Oh? Okay, okay, So
Ryan Bridge doesn't like No, it's not that I don't
like it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I love him.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
I think he's a genius, do you Yeah, I do.
I think he's a people person. And the fruition of
that will be when we win the next World Cup.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, I hope you're right, and hopefully this is day
one squad naming, is day one of a new era? Well,
the year has begun.
Speaker 12 (32:37):
I mean you can argue, you can raise the record
against four and two so far, two losses out of
six games. If we win this that makes it five
and two.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
But it matters less how many we win now, right,
this is about metting up for the future.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
We lent this a number of cycles ago, and that
was it really doesn't matter what happens. Is like, it's
nice to win the Bledislow and the Rugby Championship and
all that stuff, but as long as we win the
World Cup, that's really all the camera.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Because when we win the World.
Speaker 12 (33:04):
Cup, you forget about all the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Now it is about a world chance, mind you.
Speaker 12 (33:08):
It's a it's a it's a baptism of fire, isn't
it mean? When you're in South Africa one you got
a loss, so the pressure is on.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You'd be feeling it, wouldn't you.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
Have you seen there is at dinner at the moment,
by the way, that's really right now is at dinner,
and you'll be thinking, jeez, I hope this week's well.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I hope, I hope it does. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, you
feel a bit bad for the old veterans been given
the heave hoye ship to the sign.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 12 (33:31):
Yeah, Hey, listen, I know you like a Friday, and
you know I love a Monday too. Do you really
do you want to leave now just because you love
a week anyway, you have a good weekend, well.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
You too, and have a great day everybody. I will
see you again on Monday.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
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