March 13, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Full Show Podcast Friday 14th of March 2025, Newstalk ZB Political Editor Jason Walls tells Andrew Dickens what came out of the Government's Investment Summit.
The Formula one Grand Prix kicks off in Melbourne this weekend where Kiwi race car driver, Liam Lawson will be racing for RedBull, Motorsport Commentator James Allen tells Andrew how he expects it to go.
The Act Party is calling for Auckland University to scrap a compulsory traditional Maori knowledge course for international students.
Europe Correspondent Vincent McAviney tells Andrew the latest on Trump's envoy meeting with Russia is in Moscow for talks on a ceasefire deal.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickens on
early edition with one roof make your Property Search Simple
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be good morning and welcome to the end of
the week. You made it. Coming up in the next hour,
International students are getting hit big bucks for a mandatory
course in Tikanga Maori. Now is this necessary? And as
it a rat We'll have that story for you in five.
The Melvin Grand Prix revs up this weekend and we
have a dog in the fights. Is Liam Lawson ready?
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We'll have that story in ten. And the investment conference
wraps up today and the question I have is labor
in the waka. These stories plus correspondence from right around
New Zealand and the world. Vincent Macaveni's joining us a
bit later on. We'll have news as it breaks and
you can have your say by texting me anytime you like.
Ninety two ninety two is the text number of small
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charge applies. It's eight minutes after five. The agenda, It's Friday,
the Think, the marchin and breaking news. Vladimir Putin has
been meeting with Belarus's leader Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow and
he says it will be good for Ukraine to achieve
a thirty day ceasefire, saying that Russia is in favor
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of it. However, he says they need to negotiate with
the Americans, including a possible phone call with President Trump.
At Donald Trump's envoy Steve wickcoffers in Mexico, I'm sorry,
Moscow is a moscow to meet with Putin for talks
on the deal.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We agree with the proposal to ces hostilities, but we
have to bear in mind that this says far must
be dolgas aimed at a long lasting piece, and it
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must look at the root causes of the crosis.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, it's nice to hear from Ladimir. You can say
that at least right the trade war and the escalation
is slowing down anytime soon now. Donald Trump has threatened
a two hundred percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries
unless it stops a fifty percent tariff on whiskey shares
in Some European alcohol producers have already fallen after the threat.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Whatever they charge us, we're charging them. Nobody can complain
about that. Whatever it is, it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
What it is.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
If they charge us, If they charge us twenty five,
twenty percent, ten percent or two percent or two hundred percent,
then that's what we're charging them. And so I don't
know why people get upset about that, because there's nothing
more fairer than that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And to Australia, where their Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi has
been the latest to criticize a US influencer who posted
a video of her taking a wild baby wom bat
away from its distressed mother. The woman, Sam Jones, who
calls herself an outdoor enthusiast and hunter, was filmed picking
up the joey by the road, running across to a
car while his mother ran after them, and man filming
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can be heard laughing, you're making jokes.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Is to take a baby wombat from its mother and
clearly causing distress from the mother is just an outrage.
And you know, I suggest that this so called influencer
maybe she might try some other Australian animals take a
baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And isn't one bat such a satisfying word to say?
It's ten out five.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
News and views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof make your
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Speaker 6 (03:39):
New thoughts.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It'd be goodbody to you and thank you for choosing us. Look,
I really don't get the fluoride debate. I've had fluoride
in my water ever since I arrived in Auckland at
the age of two. I have had no so called
side effects. My teeth are in a lot better shape
than my grandparents. It seems to me to be a
health intervention that works. It's been looking for a long
(04:00):
time and scientists keep telling me that that's all true.
But a fluoride battle has broken out in fung Array.
They've chosen not to fluoridate, while Health New Zealand says
you must. Now the High Court is involved. Furthermore, it's
all got political, as New Zealand First leader Winston Peters
has described, ordering fung Array to fluoridate its water supply
(04:20):
is a despotic Soviet era disgrace. So I understand that
some people view their body as a temple and they
don't like chemicals in their water supply or chemicals in
their bread. But then again, chemicals are everywhere and you
are ingesting them through your mouth, your lungs and other
holes in your body. And there's so much science and
(04:41):
so much empirical data about fluoride that I just don't
get the uproar. And I didn't appreciate Winston Peters who
could spot a headline grabbing contrarian view a mile away
knowing that there might be a vote in it. So
this whole rear guard action being undertaken by fung Array
seems to me to be a waste of ratepayers money
(05:03):
and of counselor's time. It's twelve half to five right now.
Here's atruism. There's always inflation. Nothing ever goes down in
the battle of against inflation. The debate is always how
much is going to go up? And inflation is core
conquered if it doesn't go up too much. But it's
always there. The latest inflation is the price of SkyTV.
(05:26):
Sky is to lift the price of its sports package
by twelve percent in May. The package will go from
forty two dollars a month to forty seven bucks. And
this is after a similar price rise in February of
twenty twenty four. So we are in a period of
sports rights inflation. Headline sports are doing well, that's attracting
eyeballs as we seek to distract ourselves from all the
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awful stuff around us. And look at all the hype
over this weekend's Melvin Grand Prix. We're talking about that
in the moment. Association football is rising in this country.
Look at the attendances for AUCKLANDEFC League seems are parennally
popular despite it never being the Warrior's year. Super Rugby's
enjoying a purple patch. So we like to watch the sports,
but it all costs, particularly as other players stick their
(06:09):
nos in liked zone, which is ferreting around the rugby rights.
We don't realize in this country just how easy it
has been having Sky so dominant in sports coverage. One
sub to watch them all. But those days are changing
and I feel a subscription audit coming on because there
comes a limit. It's thirteen minutes after five. So if
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you're an international student, you come to the New Zealand
and you have to do a compulsory course in learning
how to live in this country, and most of it
is all about ti kanga maori or you know how
Mali like to undertake stuff. It costs a lot of
money and there's a bit of Argibardi about it from
the ACT Party. We're going to talk about this in
a few moments time with a student's association president, just
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to see whether this is a rout, whether this is necessary,
and whether it's turning off international students. This is News
Talks at.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
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Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's sixteen out of five reaction to the breaking news
that Putin has talked. Textas says Putin is the root
cause of the underlying crisis and he won't live up
to the end of his deal. He's a two face
backstaving serial killer. I thought USA policy was we do
not negotiate with terrorists, which Putin definitely is. Thank you
for your text and another person rights. Do you think
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Trump will get any praise for ending this war? I
doubt any media will. Well no, if it's fair and equitable,
he definitely will. And can I say he's already achieved
more than anyone else Right ACT Parties palme Jit palm
Mah has called for Auckland UNI to scrap a wipe
up a tomato course now what's that in English? It's
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a course that teaches us about New Zealand life and
traditional knowledge to international students. Seven thousand of them have
been forced to do the course in twenty twenty five.
It's compulsory and here is the rub. It's expensive. It
costs five seven hundred and thirty dollars. So I got
the president with the of the Yakland University Students Association
with me right now, Gabriel Boyd, welcome to the showmate, A.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Thank you for having men Joe.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Why is this thing so expensive and why is it mandatory?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
I think it's a little unfair to single out the
WTR course being particularly expensive. It's pretty in line with
the standard prices for international students, which they're well aware
of before they come to the University of Auckland. And
even with those prices, we're still by far the most
attended university by international students, which hasn't been changing. And
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why is it mandatory? It's an essential knowledge course for
all incoming first years. I don't set the course requirements
for students, but looking at the course description and the
course reviews of the science class that was piloted last year,
it was incredibly popular with the first year students.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Does this happen in universities around the world or is
this just a New Zealand thing.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
This being teaching cultural competency.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, I think it does happen around the world. Obviously,
it is going to be university specific as to which
what localized to knowledge is taught. I think part of
what makes New Zealand so special is the focus that
we do have on indigenous studies, coming from the United States,
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where our indigenous populations are largely ignored. I think this
is the course I would have loved as a first
year and I would have gotten a lot more out
of it than my genet which I just took the
easy course option.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Even though it would have cost you five thousand, seven
hundred and thirty dollars extra on top of what you're
already paying, and already international students are paying a lot, so.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Again, it is replacing a jed ed requirement which they
would also be paying a similar amount for. So this
isn't going to add another five seven hundred on top
of what they were already paying.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So you believe that this is going to increase and
enhance the university's reputation or will it infect turn international
students away.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I can't say for sure what it'll do. Obviously we're
piloting the full roll out this year, or the university
is piloting the full roll out this year. I would
hope it would be appealing to international students, many of
whom do want to learn about New Zealand, even if
they're only here just for their degree. But I guess
we'll see with time.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
All right, Gabriel, I thank you for your time. More
on This is the Mike Hosking Breakfast Show with leader
David Seymour talking about this text already from Adrian. It's
a ripoff. Come on, we all know it and someone
else is. Of course, these students coming should be given
the option. Why is it mandatory?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Good question?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
How will Liam Lawson do? That's another good question which
we'll try and answer the next here on News Talks.
Here'b it's five twenty the first.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
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Speaker 2 (11:20):
It'd be twenty two. It's the Formula one Grand Prix
and Melbourne this weekend and our own Liam Lawson is
on debut. It's his first Grand Prix in the main
seat instead of driving in somebody else's car. He's driving
for red Ball and he's been on the telly this week.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
It's more excitement than anything. More excited for this and
I've been really for anything. It's quite a hard track
this weekend. It's meant to be thirty eight degrees on Saturday,
which to start the year like that is quite tough.
Like normally we go to those races later in the
year and it's you sort of a bit more race
fit for that because you've done a lot of Grand Prix.
But to start the year with a really high downforced track,
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high G track, hot it's going to be very, very tough.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So motors Boar commentator James Allen, we had a New
York right now, Hella, James, Hey, how you doing this?
I'm doing great. This hypeer is huge, this event to
sell out and Liam seems to be the center of attention.
How are you expecting him to go?
Speaker 11 (12:13):
It's a really good question. I mean, you know, there's
no question he's got the talent. He's definitely earned his opportunity.
He's been very, very patient over the last couple of years.
I was incredibly impressed with him. When he deputized for
Daniel Ricardo at the back end of twenty twenty three.
He put in some stunning performances, particularly remember one in Japan.
I think you and I spoke around that time actually
(12:34):
about it, and he showed he's got the minerals. As
Mark Webber would say, to cut it at the top
end of a Formula one, so as I say, he's
had to be very patient, and that doesn't mean just
doing nothing and kicking his heels. He's obviously been able
to get on the simulator a lot of these. What
makes these young drivers ready and so prepared nowadays is
they have the time at the race track, at the
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race factory, team factory to get on the simulators which
are very very realistic, and really learn how everything works,
how the controls work, and how to improve the car.
Of course, it's not the real thing, it's not the
same as the real thing, but the best drivers are
able to narrow the gap between the virtual world and
the real world. And so a lot of Liam's preparation
is there, and I'm sure he'll do fine this season.
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I wouldn't judge him too much on how he performs
his first time out in the big team, as you
put it, because Melbourne is a unique circuit, has very
very strange characteristics and it doesn't reflect anything really of
the season ahead. It's just a great place to start
the new Season's colorful, it's a huge crowd. The Aussies
love their and the Kiwis love their racing. But I
think you know, you judge him after three or four
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races as to how he's getting on.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What I loved about the quote that I just played
is that he already knows exactly what's ahead of him.
He knows it's going to be hot, he knows there's
lots of heavy breaking in the whole thing. He knows
it's going to be very, very physical. So the question
is do you think he's fit and really enough for it?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:57):
Yeah, absolutely, these guys, like I said before, you know
he's one of I mean, I still think Liam's a rookie.
He'd done twelve races, but he's not done a whole season,
and in my book, that makes him still a rookie.
And you've got six rookies in the field this year.
It's unprecedented. Why is twenty twenty five the year that
Formula One trusts in rookies for the reasons I just
said that they are so well prepared now in the
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virtual world and with testing the two year old cars
that they can come in. Oliver behn And jumped into
the Ferrari in Saudi Arabia last year with no practice
and finished seventh in the Grand Prix. That made everybody
in Formula One, the team bosses look it again and say,
hang on a second, We've got this great talent in
are cheaper, you don't have to pay them as much money.
And so you've seen people like Botas leaving the sport,
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the more experienced drivers who cost more and perhaps past
their peak, and they're bringing in these rookies who are faster, exciting,
and Liam is right amongst them, and it's up to
him now to show he's obviously got the most along
with Antonelli and the Mercedes. He's the rookie with the
most competitive car in the field, and I think you
have to judge him as a rookie, not as someone
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who's going to go toe to toe with probably the
best driver in the world right now. His teammate match
for Staffan if Liam's smart, he'll just focus on himself
and not worry about what Steffan's doing.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Great stuff, and I thank you James James Allen joining
us about a sport commentator. It appears as though New
Zealanders also in the headlines because McLaren at the moment
we know Bruce McLaren has a really good car, and
Lando Norris appears to be on fire. It's going to
be a great weekend. This is Newstalks it B. It's
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B Newstalks it B. It is now five twenty eight.
So Barbara Edmunds from the Labor Party, the Finance spokesperson,
is in front of the Investment conference today representing the
Labor Party who may or may not be in charge
of Treasury benches in the future. Now the conference will
be waiting to see if Labor is on the infrastructure bus,
if they will support the projects the National League government
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are into and proposing right now, and if they're on
board with foreign investments in our infrastructure plans. Barbara's is
actually the critical address of the weekend, because yesterday we
heard The big concern is pipelines, the pipelines of work overseas.
Investors don't want to set up shop in New Zealand
for a project only to find that we back out
later and there's no more work for them, leaving them
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with a big investment and nowhere to go. And to
be fair, National has done that with the cancelation of
big projects like the ferries. Labor also did it with
a moratorium on road development. So look, it is time
for a bipartisan accord on what we need to do
in this country. But that will be hard to find
as our parties have used infrastructure as a way to
differentiate between themselves and that's done. For instance, roads are
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neither left wing nor right wing. Labour's anti road sentiment
has been based on faulty logic. Somehow they think that
building roads means more missions, which is ridiculous. It means
the same emissions but on bad roads. In fact, it
means more emissions as traffic gets stalled. A good road
is an efficient road, and an efficient road helps with
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both emissions and productivity. And I wonder whether the Labor
Party sees this. So today all eyes on Barbara to
see if she's logical or ideological.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Andrew Dickens all.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Right, Putin has spoken just a few moments ago, and
he's in support of this. He is far, but there
are conditions. We'll talk more about this with Vincent mcavenny
in a few moments time. This is early edition. I'm
Andrew Dickinson for Yan Bridge.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Good by to you.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Put some Mazie.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition. Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 4 (17:36):
It'd be.
Speaker 12 (17:39):
Want you made it?
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Mean to see tonight go crazy?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Are you gonna do?
Speaker 13 (17:48):
Is this meet me at.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Good morning to you and welcome to your Friday. I'm
Andrew Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. You made it now.
A couple of warnings for you.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
First.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Cameron Bagriy, the economist, is warning that the drums are
beating for a credit rating downgrade. Writing a business desk,
he says it's been coming for a while. He also
says it's not something to be worried about. He considers
it a margin of excellence tweak. Now S and P
have already downgraded credit ratings for local authorities. Cameron reckins
it will be ironic if we got one. Given the
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ballooning debt levels and so many other OECD nations such
as the United States and the UK, everybody's in the
same boat. But that's here. If it does happen, it
we'll have repercussions on our debt repayments, making life more
expensive for a government that prides itself on getting on
top of the cost of living crisis. So we'll wait
to see what happens there. And here is a friendly reminder,
your local opshop is not a tip. An Orcand woman
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could face a four hundred dollars fine after Augand Council's
CCTV cameras caught a leaving a box of donations outside
an opshop a charity store, unaware that out of opening
ours donations are considered dumping. Galena from Meadow Bank is
monthly donated to the GLEAR in a Salvation Army family store,
and at the end of February she left a box
of glassware and some clothes in a shopping bag on
(19:06):
a ledge next to the store entrance, out of the way.
She said, it wasn't dumped, it wasn't in the walking area,
and it wasn't a mess. But that's not the point
Galina from Meta Bank. When you dump like that, stuff
gets nicked, stuff ends out strewn across the footpath. And honestly, Gallina,
who really wants some glassware that's spent the night on
the street. So here's the morning. Don't do it. There
(19:28):
are rules and consequences are four hundred dollars fine. And
also you should consider if your stuff actually has any value. Frankly,
glassware does not. Holy shirts do not. So drop your
stuff off during shop hours and do not be offended
if the shop doesn't actually want your crap. After all,
you're throwing it out, so why would anyone want it?
The op shop is out of dump and the people
(19:49):
there are not refuse workers, sickens. It's twenty one to six.
Let's go right around the country. Callum Proctor joins us
from duned and Halle Callum, good morning. We all know
that South Dunedin has flood prone, so what are they
doing about it?
Speaker 12 (20:01):
Well, the Council yesterday released seven options to protect South
Donedan from flooding and climate change impacts. The city and
regional councils combining here to release two reports analyzing the
risks facing the low lying area of South Donedan. There's
a lot of details in these reports, but basically they
include keeping the land dry, allowing space for water or
(20:24):
letting the water in, and retreating heavy rain calls flooding.
You'll remember up to half a meter deep in South
Donedan last October.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
That's just the latest of.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The floods program.
Speaker 12 (20:34):
Manager Jonathan Rose says implementation could cost up to seven
billion dollars. The costs spread over seventy five years. It
won't necessarily fall on ratepayers, and consultation begins in the
coming weeks. How's your weather, Callum, fine but cloudy periods
easteries and eighteen today.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And we go to chrasts now and Blake Betty joins
us for one of the last times because he's after
another job.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Hello Blake, and good morning Andrea, and.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Congratulations to you.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So we've got a coroner verdict on a death of
a guy in Gloria Vale.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
Yes, so the coroner's rule the sudden death of young
Glorivale man Sincere Stantrue was an accident. Now we can't
actually report the specifics of his death, but coroner Alexandre
Cunningham says it was caused by blacking himself out and
wasn't actually a suicide. So Stantru was found with critical
injuries at the Christian community in November twenty eighteen. The
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twenty year old was deaf and suffered other physical and
intellectual challenges. The coroner found young people at Gloria Vale
played what she described as blacking out games, which Standre
had actually mentioned in the year before his death. In
light of this, the coroners urged the community leaders to
take action so similar incidences can be prevented in the future.
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Standrew's sister Rose says the inquest overlooked the religious doctrine
in Gloriavale, and she's actually considering legal advice about options
to take in this space going forward.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
How's your weather.
Speaker 13 (22:00):
It's a fine Friday here northeastill is in the afternoon
and evening. HI have eighting.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
If we don't speak again, good luck, Congratulations and I
thank you now to Adam Cooper and Wellington. Hello, Adam, morning, Andrew.
We got Homegrown Festival happening this weekend and it's a
bit bittersweet it is.
Speaker 14 (22:14):
Indeed, more than twenty thousand people expected to head to
the Wellington waterfront tonight and all day tomorrow to hear
the country's top local artists perform. Now it's been running
in Wellington since two thousand and eight, right across the waterfront,
but festival director Andrew Tuck says he's made the hard
decision to leave Wellington after this year's event. He says,
when the final curtain comes down tonight, there will bear
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tomorrow night, I should say there will be some tears.
Now it's been increased to a two day festival for
the final time, so tonight's Stan Walker and the orchestra
dance music collab Synthhony will take to the stage. Then
tomorrow there are five stages right across the waterfront, headlined
by Shape Shifter, said Dave Dobbin, local boys Drax Project,
but the big one is Sheehad's final ever performance. They
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started in Wellington at high school back in nineteen eighty five,
so they'll bring the curtain down at home growing tomorrow
in their hometown. As for where the festival is heading
to next, no confirmation from organizers yet, but Hamilton's name
is getting thrown around a bit, so watch the space there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I thank you so much. And John too Good, the
lead singer of she Had is on with Mike Hosking
a bit later on that band's on fire and now
to Auckland. Never reach to mind and good morning to you.
Good morning. So Auckland Transport is being told to pull
its finger out about lowering speed limits.
Speaker 15 (23:25):
Yes, that's right. So look what's happened is that there's
a coalition of transport groups and it's calling on Auckland
Transports stand up for its award winning safety program. So
this is Bike Auckland Break, Living Streets Altered or and
all aboard alti ad or. They're saying that reversing the
speed limits it's going to lead to more debts and
less safe streets. That's the raising the speed limits from
thirty to fifty k. Living Streets Altered Or says that
(23:49):
the government obviously has a lot of control over Auckland
Transport President Tim Jones says that doesn't mean that AT
can't make its position clear. So he says, you know
what they need to advocate for the safety of.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Alfrind is more very good. There is there's a motorway
offram where I come screaming off at eighty k which
is a limit, and immediately I have to get down
to thirty and you said they're going, Wow, that's pretty heavy.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
But there we are.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
How's THATU with it?
Speaker 14 (24:11):
Fine?
Speaker 15 (24:11):
Apart from some evening clouds, still warm here in Auckland,
al High today twenty five have.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
A great big Kim leav Thank you so much, babe.
Now on the opshop dumping, I've cat Texture and Nelson
clothes are left outside the Salvation Army family store. They
get used as a toilet for the homeless. I feel
sorry for the two ladies who have to come to
work and clean this up every morning. Don't dump your
stuff and don't go to the loo on the stuff.
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It is sixteen to six. Vincent mcavenny from Europe on
the big stories, including the breaking news that Vladimir Putin
has taught and he's taught in favor of a seas
fire but with the whole heap of conditions. And later
we'll be talking the investment conference which wraps up today,
which all our hopes are on sixteen to six.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
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Speaker 2 (25:03):
Business at the time is now fifteen to six. I'm
Andrew Dickens. So there's meetings in Moscow. Putin has spoken.
He says he supports a ceasefire, but he sees a
whole lot of other stuff. We're joined now by Vincent mcavinie. Hello, Vincent,
good morning. What's going down.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Well, we're having to decrypt what exactly I Vladimir Putin means.
In the past twenty four hours, he's visited the Cursk
region of Russia, which has been held for several months
by Ukrainian forces, but they seem to be struggling to
keep the territory. Putin appeared very rarely for him, addressed
in military uniform, saying that now Russia had control of
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its own territory. This was thought to be a sort
of key bargaining chip that Zelensky had in negotiations for
territory which Russia controls. Now, what we've heard in this
press conference, we know that this US envoy, having got
agreement from the Ukrainian team, was on its way to
moss Putin has said that he agrees with peace proposal,
(26:04):
but says it needs to lead to an enduring peace.
There was some sort of diplomatic circus sire acts going
on in this press conference, talking about the need to
make sure the underlying causes of the crisis are resolved
for that enduring peace, So it'll be up to the
Trump team to try to unpick what exactly that means.
(26:25):
But for now, the bombardment between the two nations continues,
big strikes on Moscow this week by the Ukrainians.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's such a process, isn't it. You have to negotiate
the negotiations, then you have to negotiate a ceasefire, and
then you can go and negotiate a possible lasting peace.
Is Putin asking for too much too soon?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Well, I think he feels pretty emboldened at this point.
He's drawn barely a word of condemnation from the Trump
administration versus the treatment that presidents Lensky and the Ukrainians
have faced. That's always worth reistrating that if Bladimir Putin
wanted to end this today tomorrow, he could do. He
could pull his forces out. It was his fault. He
invaded the territory, it was an act of war. They've
(27:06):
committed war crimes in the territory. So maybe once PC
he could simply pull his troops back. But he's not
doing that, So we'll see where this goes now.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Now, Meanwhile, Donald Trump has written the EU with a
two hundred percent tariff. It's a big number. It's on alcohol.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Yeah, that's right. So the EU was hit earlier in
this week by the latest round of Trump tariffs, particularly
on steel and aluminium are twenty five percent tariff. They
got hit by that, so they have struck back with
sort of retaliatory tariffs, but particularly citing sort of US
good So those were for instance, Harley Davidson motorbikes and
(27:44):
Bourbon of course, which is you know, American whiskey. So
the Donald Trump has now sort of responded to that
particular front saying he's going to put a two hundred
percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries and of course
that will be you know, wines from France and Italy,
champagne as well, spirits. I mean, it would be absolutely drastic,
(28:04):
so the prices of those products which are big EU exports,
but also there is you know, high demand and great
love for in America as well.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, of course, and I thank you for your time today.
Vincent mcavenie bringing the time to ten to six.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Andrew Dickens.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
All right, it is the last day of the Investment
Conference where the Government has been trying to impress foreign
investors at the summit. We had some announcements already doing
up christ Jurich Men's prison, maybe building some new courthouses
the Northern Expressway. They're asking for registrations of interest theres.
The Italians are quite interested. It all wraps up today
(28:40):
and Jason Walls is covering it. Are you there?
Speaker 16 (28:44):
I am indeed. Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I mean, are you there at the conference?
Speaker 16 (28:48):
Oh right, not quite yet. I'm heading along later this morning,
but yes, I'll be there today.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
How do you think it's going?
Speaker 14 (28:54):
You know, it's hot.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 16 (28:57):
It's hard for us to kind of say. We're locked
in a little room. I think little media room is
actually quite a nice media room, but we're locked in there, nonetheless,
and we can't actually get access to the delegates or
anybody on the floor of the actual venue. We have
this little TV screen that we watch everything going in from.
But we get ministers coming in fairly regularly to give
(29:18):
us little updates of how things are going, and you know,
it does seem to be going well. We've had a
couple of investors come in and tell us how keen
they are to invest in New Zealand assets. We had
the Italians come in, for example, and say that they're
keen on the Northern Expressway. So you know, it's looking
good for the government in terms of the amount of
investment they're going to receive. Chris lux And telling us
(29:40):
yesterday he's expecting all he's hoping for tens of billions
of dollars worth of investments. So we'll have to wait
to see if the proof is in the pudding.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Absolutely, and the one thing that came out of yesterday
is that all foreign investors are worried about the pipeline
of work. They don't want to sit up shop here
and then run out of work and then have to
re trench and leave the place again. And so the
big question about that is what Barbara Edmund, the Labor
for that spokesperson, is going to say today and whether
she supports a pipeline of work.
Speaker 16 (30:11):
Well, it's going to be interesting to see what Labour
say because they've already come out and said that they
don't support public private partnerships and places like prisons. And
that's a big deal because obviously the government wants work
to be done in those areas and one of the
big themes in the summit is bipartisanship. In the past,
we've had so much shopping and changing of governments, and
(30:32):
it means that key infrastructure projects are being green lit
and then cut, and then green lit again and then cut.
And that's just not very good for business consistency. So
having labor there is good because it means that there
is some sort of semblance of consistency to say that
that both parties are going to be working together for
the long term to get these in infrastructure pipeline developed.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
All right, well, Jason, we look forward to your coverage today.
We look forward to hearing what Barbara Edmond has to say,
and let's hope something works from all of this and
this news talks here B is coming up seven minutes to.
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Speaker 2 (31:17):
It's five to six. Dave sent me a text after
Adam and I talked about Seahard briefly at Homegrown this
weekend that Dave says, I'm going to miss Sheehart, but
the concert area for them is far too small at Homegrown,
which is their very last concert in their hometown, and
so Dave sees crowd issues and Dave says it should
have been at the TSB Arena, and I think I
have to agree with you. I mean, tonight they play Spark.
(31:39):
They've sold that out, twelve thousand tickets, biggest gig they've
ever done, and I'm sure they could have sold out
the TSB. But still farewell to Seahard and Mike Hoskin
joins me, and you're talking to John Tug.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Yeah, I am. He's a nice guy, isn't it. I
mean you I assume you know, yeah, very likely he's
on fire.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I saw the band in a paddock in the Coramandel
three weeks ago and I've never heard them better.
Speaker 9 (31:58):
Oh good.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I don't know why to quit.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
What does that mean? That means you've never heard them better?
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That means?
Speaker 9 (32:03):
Okay, well you're saying it. You're getting a vibe.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, you would have the vibe. They were technically magnificent,
and the sound mix was awesome, The light was amazing.
It was a full, full stadium experience, and it's had
a really, really good and I took people who normally
like cold chisel, and I said, be warned, it's heavy,
and they loved it.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
You know, he's on the program today. We're also talking
about the there's a bloke. I don't know if you
followed the story, but it's sort of there are two
stories in one. So there's a health crisis in this country.
There was a report out a week and a bit ago,
right Deloitte wrote at seventy seven pages, and what it
says is like so worrying. It's embarrassing that doubtails him
with a bloke who was a senior manager within Health
(32:43):
New Zealand who's been stood down for other issues unrelated
to a contract that was not advertised, and it was
not advertised and it was a two million dollar contract.
This bloke who's been stood down had a connection with
the company in Britain wasn't ad ties because they claimed
the company was the only one in the world who
(33:05):
could provide the services that they needed, which is complete
and upper crap. And so you've got this bloke stood down,
you've got a contract that wasn't tended for, and you've
got millions of dollars worth of our money floating about
and the whole thing's just just a shambles and a
scandal anyway, Health Minister front size for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Increasingly a slight taint of corruption.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
There's it gets worse and worse it does, like you
could you get an insight into the extent of what
they've actually had to pick up and run with as
part of is part of the problem. And we'll look
at the speak to which that investment thing today is.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Awesome, very good, and I thank you and I think
producer Kenzie and my name's Andrew Dickens, and I'll see
you on Monday and have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be good morning and welcome to the end of
the week. You made it. Coming up in the next hour,
International students are getting hit big bucks for a mandatory
course in Tikanga Maori. Now is this necessary? And as
it a rat We'll have that story for you in five.
The Melvin Grand Prix revs up this weekend and we
have a dog in the fights. Is Liam Lawson ready?
(00:32):
We'll have that story in ten. And the investment conference
wraps up today and the question I have is labor
in the waka. These stories plus correspondence from right around
New Zealand and the world. Vincent Macaveni's joining us a
bit later on. We'll have news as it breaks and
you can have your say by texting me anytime you like.
Ninety two ninety two is the text number of small
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charge applies. It's eight minutes after five. The agenda, It's Friday,
the Think, the marchin and breaking news. Vladimir Putin has
been meeting with Belarus's leader Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow and
he says it will be good for Ukraine to achieve
a thirty day ceasefire, saying that Russia is in favor
(01:15):
of it. However, he says they need to negotiate with
the Americans, including a possible phone call with President Trump.
At Donald Trump's envoy Steve wickcoffers in Mexico, I'm sorry,
Moscow is a moscow to meet with Putin for talks
on the deal.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
We agree with the proposal to ces hostilities, but we
have to bear in mind that this says far must
be dolgas aimed at a long lasting piece, and it
(01:51):
must look at the root causes of the crosis.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, it's nice to hear from Ladimir. You can say
that at least right the trade war and the escalation
is slowing down anytime soon now. Donald Trump has threatened
a two hundred percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries
unless it stops a fifty percent tariff on whiskey shares
in Some European alcohol producers have already fallen after the threat.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Whatever they charge us, we're charging them. Nobody can complain
about that. Whatever it is, it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
What it is.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
If they charge us, If they charge us twenty five,
twenty percent, ten percent or two percent or two hundred percent,
then that's what we're charging them. And so I don't
know why people get upset about that, because there's nothing
more fairer than that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And to Australia, where their Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi has
been the latest to criticize a US influencer who posted
a video of her taking a wild baby wom bat
away from its distressed mother. The woman, Sam Jones, who
calls herself an outdoor enthusiast and hunter, was filmed picking
up the joey by the road, running across to a
car while his mother ran after them, and man filming
(03:00):
can be heard laughing, you're making jokes.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Is to take a baby wombat from its mother and
clearly causing distress from the mother is just an outrage.
And you know, I suggest that this so called influencer
maybe she might try some other Australian animals take a
baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And isn't one bat such a satisfying word to say?
It's ten out five.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
News and views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof make your
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Speaker 6 (03:39):
New thoughts.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It'd be goodbody to you and thank you for choosing us. Look,
I really don't get the fluoride debate. I've had fluoride
in my water ever since I arrived in Auckland at
the age of two. I have had no so called
side effects. My teeth are in a lot better shape
than my grandparents. It seems to me to be a
health intervention that works. It's been looking for a long
(04:00):
time and scientists keep telling me that that's all true.
But a fluoride battle has broken out in fung Array.
They've chosen not to fluoridate, while Health New Zealand says
you must. Now the High Court is involved. Furthermore, it's
all got political, as New Zealand First leader Winston Peters
has described, ordering fung Array to fluoridate its water supply
(04:20):
is a despotic Soviet era disgrace. So I understand that
some people view their body as a temple and they
don't like chemicals in their water supply or chemicals in
their bread. But then again, chemicals are everywhere and you
are ingesting them through your mouth, your lungs and other
holes in your body. And there's so much science and
(04:41):
so much empirical data about fluoride that I just don't
get the uproar. And I didn't appreciate Winston Peters who
could spot a headline grabbing contrarian view a mile away
knowing that there might be a vote in it. So
this whole rear guard action being undertaken by fung Array
seems to me to be a waste of ratepayers money
(05:03):
and of counselor's time. It's twelve half to five right now.
Here's atruism. There's always inflation. Nothing ever goes down in
the battle of against inflation. The debate is always how
much is going to go up? And inflation is core
conquered if it doesn't go up too much. But it's
always there. The latest inflation is the price of SkyTV.
(05:26):
Sky is to lift the price of its sports package
by twelve percent in May. The package will go from
forty two dollars a month to forty seven bucks. And
this is after a similar price rise in February of
twenty twenty four. So we are in a period of
sports rights inflation. Headline sports are doing well, that's attracting
eyeballs as we seek to distract ourselves from all the
(05:46):
awful stuff around us. And look at all the hype
over this weekend's Melvin Grand Prix. We're talking about that
in the moment. Association football is rising in this country.
Look at the attendances for AUCKLANDEFC League seems are parennally
popular despite it never being the Warrior's year. Super Rugby's
enjoying a purple patch. So we like to watch the sports,
but it all costs, particularly as other players stick their
(06:09):
nos in liked zone, which is ferreting around the rugby rights.
We don't realize in this country just how easy it
has been having Sky so dominant in sports coverage. One
sub to watch them all. But those days are changing
and I feel a subscription audit coming on because there
comes a limit. It's thirteen minutes after five. So if
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you're an international student, you come to the New Zealand
and you have to do a compulsory course in learning
how to live in this country, and most of it
is all about ti kanga maori or you know how
Mali like to undertake stuff. It costs a lot of
money and there's a bit of Argibardi about it from
the ACT Party. We're going to talk about this in
a few moments time with a student's association president, just
(06:56):
to see whether this is a rout, whether this is necessary,
and whether it's turning off international students. This is News
Talks at.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
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Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's sixteen out of five reaction to the breaking news
that Putin has talked. Textas says Putin is the root
cause of the underlying crisis and he won't live up
to the end of his deal. He's a two face
backstaving serial killer. I thought USA policy was we do
not negotiate with terrorists, which Putin definitely is. Thank you
for your text and another person rights. Do you think
(07:35):
Trump will get any praise for ending this war? I
doubt any media will. Well no, if it's fair and equitable,
he definitely will. And can I say he's already achieved
more than anyone else Right ACT Parties palme Jit palm
Mah has called for Auckland UNI to scrap a wipe
up a tomato course now what's that in English? It's
(07:57):
a course that teaches us about New Zealand life and
traditional knowledge to international students. Seven thousand of them have
been forced to do the course in twenty twenty five.
It's compulsory and here is the rub. It's expensive. It
costs five seven hundred and thirty dollars. So I got
the president with the of the Yakland University Students Association
with me right now, Gabriel Boyd, welcome to the showmate, A.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Thank you for having men Joe.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Why is this thing so expensive and why is it mandatory?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
I think it's a little unfair to single out the
WTR course being particularly expensive. It's pretty in line with
the standard prices for international students, which they're well aware
of before they come to the University of Auckland. And
even with those prices, we're still by far the most
attended university by international students, which hasn't been changing. And
(08:51):
why is it mandatory? It's an essential knowledge course for
all incoming first years. I don't set the course requirements
for students, but looking at the course description and the
course reviews of the science class that was piloted last year,
it was incredibly popular with the first year students.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Does this happen in universities around the world or is
this just a New Zealand thing.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
This being teaching cultural competency.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, I think it does happen around the world. Obviously,
it is going to be university specific as to which
what localized to knowledge is taught. I think part of
what makes New Zealand so special is the focus that
we do have on indigenous studies, coming from the United States,
(09:44):
where our indigenous populations are largely ignored. I think this
is the course I would have loved as a first
year and I would have gotten a lot more out
of it than my genet which I just took the
easy course option.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Even though it would have cost you five thousand, seven
hundred and thirty dollars extra on top of what you're
already paying, and already international students are paying a lot, so.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Again, it is replacing a jed ed requirement which they
would also be paying a similar amount for. So this
isn't going to add another five seven hundred on top
of what they were already paying.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So you believe that this is going to increase and
enhance the university's reputation or will it infect turn international
students away.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
I can't say for sure what it'll do. Obviously we're
piloting the full roll out this year, or the university
is piloting the full roll out this year. I would
hope it would be appealing to international students, many of
whom do want to learn about New Zealand, even if
they're only here just for their degree. But I guess
we'll see with time.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
All right, Gabriel, I thank you for your time. More
on This is the Mike Hosking Breakfast Show with leader
David Seymour talking about this text already from Adrian. It's
a ripoff. Come on, we all know it and someone
else is. Of course, these students coming should be given
the option. Why is it mandatory?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Good question?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
How will Liam Lawson do? That's another good question which
we'll try and answer the next here on News Talks.
Here'b it's five twenty the first.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
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Speaker 2 (11:20):
It'd be twenty two. It's the Formula one Grand Prix
and Melbourne this weekend and our own Liam Lawson is
on debut. It's his first Grand Prix in the main
seat instead of driving in somebody else's car. He's driving
for red Ball and he's been on the telly this week.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
It's more excitement than anything. More excited for this and
I've been really for anything. It's quite a hard track
this weekend. It's meant to be thirty eight degrees on Saturday,
which to start the year like that is quite tough.
Like normally we go to those races later in the
year and it's you sort of a bit more race
fit for that because you've done a lot of Grand Prix.
But to start the year with a really high downforced track,
(11:55):
high G track, hot it's going to be very, very tough.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So motors Boar commentator James Allen, we had a New
York right now, Hella, James, Hey, how you doing this?
I'm doing great. This hypeer is huge, this event to
sell out and Liam seems to be the center of attention.
How are you expecting him to go?
Speaker 11 (12:13):
It's a really good question. I mean, you know, there's
no question he's got the talent. He's definitely earned his opportunity.
He's been very, very patient over the last couple of years.
I was incredibly impressed with him. When he deputized for
Daniel Ricardo at the back end of twenty twenty three.
He put in some stunning performances, particularly remember one in Japan.
I think you and I spoke around that time actually
(12:34):
about it, and he showed he's got the minerals. As
Mark Webber would say, to cut it at the top
end of a Formula one, so as I say, he's
had to be very patient, and that doesn't mean just
doing nothing and kicking his heels. He's obviously been able
to get on the simulator a lot of these. What
makes these young drivers ready and so prepared nowadays is
they have the time at the race track, at the
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race factory, team factory to get on the simulators which
are very very realistic, and really learn how everything works,
how the controls work, and how to improve the car.
Of course, it's not the real thing, it's not the
same as the real thing, but the best drivers are
able to narrow the gap between the virtual world and
the real world. And so a lot of Liam's preparation
is there, and I'm sure he'll do fine this season.
(13:18):
I wouldn't judge him too much on how he performs
his first time out in the big team, as you
put it, because Melbourne is a unique circuit, has very
very strange characteristics and it doesn't reflect anything really of
the season ahead. It's just a great place to start
the new Season's colorful, it's a huge crowd. The Aussies
love their and the Kiwis love their racing. But I
think you know, you judge him after three or four
(13:40):
races as to how he's getting on.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What I loved about the quote that I just played
is that he already knows exactly what's ahead of him.
He knows it's going to be hot, he knows there's
lots of heavy breaking in the whole thing. He knows
it's going to be very, very physical. So the question
is do you think he's fit and really enough for it?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (13:57):
Yeah, absolutely, these guys, like I said before, you know
he's one of I mean, I still think Liam's a rookie.
He'd done twelve races, but he's not done a whole season,
and in my book, that makes him still a rookie.
And you've got six rookies in the field this year.
It's unprecedented. Why is twenty twenty five the year that
Formula One trusts in rookies for the reasons I just
said that they are so well prepared now in the
(14:18):
virtual world and with testing the two year old cars
that they can come in. Oliver behn And jumped into
the Ferrari in Saudi Arabia last year with no practice
and finished seventh in the Grand Prix. That made everybody
in Formula One, the team bosses look it again and say,
hang on a second, We've got this great talent in
are cheaper, you don't have to pay them as much money.
And so you've seen people like Botas leaving the sport,
(14:39):
the more experienced drivers who cost more and perhaps past
their peak, and they're bringing in these rookies who are faster, exciting,
and Liam is right amongst them, and it's up to
him now to show he's obviously got the most along
with Antonelli and the Mercedes. He's the rookie with the
most competitive car in the field, and I think you
have to judge him as a rookie, not as someone
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who's going to go toe to toe with probably the
best driver in the world right now. His teammate match
for Staffan if Liam's smart, he'll just focus on himself
and not worry about what Steffan's doing.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Great stuff, and I thank you James James Allen joining
us about a sport commentator. It appears as though New
Zealanders also in the headlines because McLaren at the moment
we know Bruce McLaren has a really good car, and
Lando Norris appears to be on fire. It's going to
be a great weekend. This is Newstalks it B. It's
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B Newstalks it B. It is now five twenty eight.
So Barbara Edmunds from the Labor Party, the Finance spokesperson,
is in front of the Investment conference today representing the
Labor Party who may or may not be in charge
of Treasury benches in the future. Now the conference will
be waiting to see if Labor is on the infrastructure bus,
if they will support the projects the National League government
(15:53):
are into and proposing right now, and if they're on
board with foreign investments in our infrastructure plans. Barbara's is
actually the critical address of the weekend, because yesterday we
heard The big concern is pipelines, the pipelines of work overseas.
Investors don't want to set up shop in New Zealand
for a project only to find that we back out
later and there's no more work for them, leaving them
(16:15):
with a big investment and nowhere to go. And to
be fair, National has done that with the cancelation of
big projects like the ferries. Labor also did it with
a moratorium on road development. So look, it is time
for a bipartisan accord on what we need to do
in this country. But that will be hard to find
as our parties have used infrastructure as a way to
differentiate between themselves and that's done. For instance, roads are
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neither left wing nor right wing. Labour's anti road sentiment
has been based on faulty logic. Somehow they think that
building roads means more missions, which is ridiculous. It means
the same emissions but on bad roads. In fact, it
means more emissions as traffic gets stalled. A good road
is an efficient road, and an efficient road helps with
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both emissions and productivity. And I wonder whether the Labor
Party sees this. So today all eyes on Barbara to
see if she's logical or ideological.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Andrew Dickens all.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Right, Putin has spoken just a few moments ago, and
he's in support of this. He is far, but there
are conditions. We'll talk more about this with Vincent mcavenny
in a few moments time. This is early edition. I'm
Andrew Dickinson for Yan Bridge.
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Good by to you.
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Mean to see tonight go crazy?
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Speaker 2 (17:51):
Good morning to you and welcome to your Friday. I'm
Andrew Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. You made it now.
A couple of warnings for you.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
First.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Cameron Bagriy, the economist, is warning that the drums are
beating for a credit rating downgrade. Writing a business desk,
he says it's been coming for a while. He also
says it's not something to be worried about. He considers
it a margin of excellence tweak. Now S and P
have already downgraded credit ratings for local authorities. Cameron reckins
it will be ironic if we got one. Given the
(18:20):
ballooning debt levels and so many other OECD nations such
as the United States and the UK, everybody's in the
same boat. But that's here. If it does happen, it
we'll have repercussions on our debt repayments, making life more
expensive for a government that prides itself on getting on
top of the cost of living crisis. So we'll wait
to see what happens there. And here is a friendly reminder,
your local opshop is not a tip. An Orcand woman
(18:43):
could face a four hundred dollars fine after Augand Council's
CCTV cameras caught a leaving a box of donations outside
an opshop a charity store, unaware that out of opening
ours donations are considered dumping. Galena from Meadow Bank is
monthly donated to the GLEAR in a Salvation Army family store,
and at the end of February she left a box
of glassware and some clothes in a shopping bag on
(19:06):
a ledge next to the store entrance, out of the way.
She said, it wasn't dumped, it wasn't in the walking area,
and it wasn't a mess. But that's not the point
Galina from Meta Bank. When you dump like that, stuff
gets nicked, stuff ends out strewn across the footpath. And honestly, Gallina,
who really wants some glassware that's spent the night on
the street. So here's the morning. Don't do it. There
(19:28):
are rules and consequences are four hundred dollars fine. And
also you should consider if your stuff actually has any value. Frankly,
glassware does not. Holy shirts do not. So drop your
stuff off during shop hours and do not be offended
if the shop doesn't actually want your crap. After all,
you're throwing it out, so why would anyone want it?
The op shop is out of dump and the people
(19:49):
there are not refuse workers, sickens. It's twenty one to six.
Let's go right around the country. Callum Proctor joins us
from duned and Halle Callum, good morning. We all know
that South Dunedin has flood prone, so what are they
doing about it?
Speaker 12 (20:01):
Well, the Council yesterday released seven options to protect South
Donedan from flooding and climate change impacts. The city and
regional councils combining here to release two reports analyzing the
risks facing the low lying area of South Donedan. There's
a lot of details in these reports, but basically they
include keeping the land dry, allowing space for water or
(20:24):
letting the water in, and retreating heavy rain calls flooding.
You'll remember up to half a meter deep in South
Donedan last October.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
That's just the latest of.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
The floods program.
Speaker 12 (20:34):
Manager Jonathan Rose says implementation could cost up to seven
billion dollars. The costs spread over seventy five years. It
won't necessarily fall on ratepayers, and consultation begins in the
coming weeks. How's your weather, Callum, fine but cloudy periods
easteries and eighteen today.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And we go to chrasts now and Blake Betty joins
us for one of the last times because he's after
another job.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Hello Blake, and good morning Andrea, and.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Congratulations to you.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So we've got a coroner verdict on a death of
a guy in Gloria Vale.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
Yes, so the coroner's rule the sudden death of young
Glorivale man Sincere Stantrue was an accident. Now we can't
actually report the specifics of his death, but coroner Alexandre
Cunningham says it was caused by blacking himself out and
wasn't actually a suicide. So Stantru was found with critical
injuries at the Christian community in November twenty eighteen. The
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twenty year old was deaf and suffered other physical and
intellectual challenges. The coroner found young people at Gloria Vale
played what she described as blacking out games, which Standre
had actually mentioned in the year before his death. In
light of this, the coroners urged the community leaders to
take action so similar incidences can be prevented in the future.
(21:49):
Standrew's sister Rose says the inquest overlooked the religious doctrine
in Gloriavale, and she's actually considering legal advice about options
to take in this space going forward.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
How's your weather.
Speaker 13 (22:00):
It's a fine Friday here northeastill is in the afternoon
and evening. HI have eighting.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
If we don't speak again, good luck, Congratulations and I
thank you now to Adam Cooper and Wellington. Hello, Adam, morning, Andrew.
We got Homegrown Festival happening this weekend and it's a
bit bittersweet it is.
Speaker 14 (22:14):
Indeed, more than twenty thousand people expected to head to
the Wellington waterfront tonight and all day tomorrow to hear
the country's top local artists perform. Now it's been running
in Wellington since two thousand and eight, right across the waterfront,
but festival director Andrew Tuck says he's made the hard
decision to leave Wellington after this year's event. He says,
when the final curtain comes down tonight, there will bear
(22:34):
tomorrow night, I should say there will be some tears.
Now it's been increased to a two day festival for
the final time, so tonight's Stan Walker and the orchestra
dance music collab Synthhony will take to the stage. Then
tomorrow there are five stages right across the waterfront, headlined
by Shape Shifter, said Dave Dobbin, local boys Drax Project,
but the big one is Sheehad's final ever performance. They
(22:56):
started in Wellington at high school back in nineteen eighty five,
so they'll bring the curtain down at home growing tomorrow
in their hometown. As for where the festival is heading
to next, no confirmation from organizers yet, but Hamilton's name
is getting thrown around a bit, so watch the space there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I thank you so much. And John too Good, the
lead singer of she Had is on with Mike Hosking
a bit later on that band's on fire and now
to Auckland. Never reach to mind and good morning to you.
Good morning. So Auckland Transport is being told to pull
its finger out about lowering speed limits.
Speaker 15 (23:25):
Yes, that's right. So look what's happened is that there's
a coalition of transport groups and it's calling on Auckland
Transports stand up for its award winning safety program. So
this is Bike Auckland Break, Living Streets Altered or and
all aboard alti ad or. They're saying that reversing the
speed limits it's going to lead to more debts and
less safe streets. That's the raising the speed limits from
thirty to fifty k. Living Streets Altered Or says that
(23:49):
the government obviously has a lot of control over Auckland
Transport President Tim Jones says that doesn't mean that AT
can't make its position clear. So he says, you know
what they need to advocate for the safety of.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Alfrind is more very good. There is there's a motorway
offram where I come screaming off at eighty k which
is a limit, and immediately I have to get down
to thirty and you said they're going, Wow, that's pretty heavy.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
But there we are.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
How's THATU with it?
Speaker 14 (24:11):
Fine?
Speaker 15 (24:11):
Apart from some evening clouds, still warm here in Auckland,
al High today twenty five have.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
A great big Kim leav Thank you so much, babe.
Now on the opshop dumping, I've cat Texture and Nelson
clothes are left outside the Salvation Army family store. They
get used as a toilet for the homeless. I feel
sorry for the two ladies who have to come to
work and clean this up every morning. Don't dump your
stuff and don't go to the loo on the stuff.
(24:40):
It is sixteen to six. Vincent mcavenny from Europe on
the big stories, including the breaking news that Vladimir Putin
has taught and he's taught in favor of a seas
fire but with the whole heap of conditions. And later
we'll be talking the investment conference which wraps up today,
which all our hopes are on sixteen to six.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
International correspondence with INSI inn Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
for New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Business at the time is now fifteen to six. I'm
Andrew Dickens. So there's meetings in Moscow. Putin has spoken.
He says he supports a ceasefire, but he sees a
whole lot of other stuff. We're joined now by Vincent mcavinie. Hello, Vincent,
good morning. What's going down.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Well, we're having to decrypt what exactly I Vladimir Putin means.
In the past twenty four hours, he's visited the Cursk
region of Russia, which has been held for several months
by Ukrainian forces, but they seem to be struggling to
keep the territory. Putin appeared very rarely for him, addressed
in military uniform, saying that now Russia had control of
(25:44):
its own territory. This was thought to be a sort
of key bargaining chip that Zelensky had in negotiations for
territory which Russia controls. Now, what we've heard in this
press conference, we know that this US envoy, having got
agreement from the Ukrainian team, was on its way to
moss Putin has said that he agrees with peace proposal,
(26:04):
but says it needs to lead to an enduring peace.
There was some sort of diplomatic circus sire acts going
on in this press conference, talking about the need to
make sure the underlying causes of the crisis are resolved
for that enduring peace, So it'll be up to the
Trump team to try to unpick what exactly that means.
(26:25):
But for now, the bombardment between the two nations continues,
big strikes on Moscow this week by the Ukrainians.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's such a process, isn't it. You have to negotiate
the negotiations, then you have to negotiate a ceasefire, and
then you can go and negotiate a possible lasting peace.
Is Putin asking for too much too soon?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Well, I think he feels pretty emboldened at this point.
He's drawn barely a word of condemnation from the Trump
administration versus the treatment that presidents Lensky and the Ukrainians
have faced. That's always worth reistrating that if Bladimir Putin
wanted to end this today tomorrow, he could do. He
could pull his forces out. It was his fault. He
invaded the territory, it was an act of war. They've
(27:06):
committed war crimes in the territory. So maybe once PC
he could simply pull his troops back. But he's not
doing that, So we'll see where this goes now.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Now, Meanwhile, Donald Trump has written the EU with a
two hundred percent tariff. It's a big number. It's on alcohol.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Yeah, that's right. So the EU was hit earlier in
this week by the latest round of Trump tariffs, particularly
on steel and aluminium are twenty five percent tariff. They
got hit by that, so they have struck back with
sort of retaliatory tariffs, but particularly citing sort of US
good So those were for instance, Harley Davidson motorbikes and
(27:44):
Bourbon of course, which is you know, American whiskey. So
the Donald Trump has now sort of responded to that
particular front saying he's going to put a two hundred
percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries and of course
that will be you know, wines from France and Italy,
champagne as well, spirits. I mean, it would be absolutely drastic,
(28:04):
so the prices of those products which are big EU exports,
but also there is you know, high demand and great
love for in America as well.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, of course, and I thank you for your time today.
Vincent mcavenie bringing the time to ten to six.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Andrew Dickens.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
All right, it is the last day of the Investment
Conference where the Government has been trying to impress foreign
investors at the summit. We had some announcements already doing
up christ Jurich Men's prison, maybe building some new courthouses
the Northern Expressway. They're asking for registrations of interest theres.
The Italians are quite interested. It all wraps up today
(28:40):
and Jason Walls is covering it. Are you there?
Speaker 16 (28:44):
I am indeed. Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I mean, are you there at the conference?
Speaker 16 (28:48):
Oh right, not quite yet. I'm heading along later this morning,
but yes, I'll be there today.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
How do you think it's going?
Speaker 14 (28:54):
You know, it's hot.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 16 (28:57):
It's hard for us to kind of say. We're locked
in a little room. I think little media room is
actually quite a nice media room, but we're locked in there, nonetheless,
and we can't actually get access to the delegates or
anybody on the floor of the actual venue. We have
this little TV screen that we watch everything going in from.
But we get ministers coming in fairly regularly to give
(29:18):
us little updates of how things are going, and you know,
it does seem to be going well. We've had a
couple of investors come in and tell us how keen
they are to invest in New Zealand assets. We had
the Italians come in, for example, and say that they're
keen on the Northern Expressway. So you know, it's looking
good for the government in terms of the amount of
investment they're going to receive. Chris lux And telling us
(29:40):
yesterday he's expecting all he's hoping for tens of billions
of dollars worth of investments. So we'll have to wait
to see if the proof is in the pudding.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Absolutely, and the one thing that came out of yesterday
is that all foreign investors are worried about the pipeline
of work. They don't want to sit up shop here
and then run out of work and then have to
re trench and leave the place again. And so the
big question about that is what Barbara Edmund, the Labor
for that spokesperson, is going to say today and whether
she supports a pipeline of work.
Speaker 16 (30:11):
Well, it's going to be interesting to see what Labour
say because they've already come out and said that they
don't support public private partnerships and places like prisons. And
that's a big deal because obviously the government wants work
to be done in those areas and one of the
big themes in the summit is bipartisanship. In the past,
we've had so much shopping and changing of governments, and
(30:32):
it means that key infrastructure projects are being green lit
and then cut, and then green lit again and then cut.
And that's just not very good for business consistency. So
having labor there is good because it means that there
is some sort of semblance of consistency to say that
that both parties are going to be working together for
the long term to get these in infrastructure pipeline developed.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
All right, well, Jason, we look forward to your coverage today.
We look forward to hearing what Barbara Edmond has to say,
and let's hope something works from all of this and
this news talks here B is coming up seven minutes to.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
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Speaker 2 (31:17):
It's five to six. Dave sent me a text after
Adam and I talked about Seahard briefly at Homegrown this
weekend that Dave says, I'm going to miss Sheehart, but
the concert area for them is far too small at Homegrown,
which is their very last concert in their hometown, and
so Dave sees crowd issues and Dave says it should
have been at the TSB Arena, and I think I
have to agree with you. I mean, tonight they play Spark.
(31:39):
They've sold that out, twelve thousand tickets, biggest gig they've
ever done, and I'm sure they could have sold out
the TSB. But still farewell to Seahard and Mike Hoskin
joins me, and you're talking to John Tug.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Yeah, I am. He's a nice guy, isn't it. I
mean you I assume you know, yeah, very likely he's
on fire.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I saw the band in a paddock in the Coramandel
three weeks ago and I've never heard them better.
Speaker 9 (31:58):
Oh good.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I don't know why to quit.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
What does that mean? That means you've never heard them better?
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That means?
Speaker 9 (32:03):
Okay, well you're saying it. You're getting a vibe.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, you would have the vibe. They were technically magnificent,
and the sound mix was awesome, The light was amazing.
It was a full, full stadium experience, and it's had
a really, really good and I took people who normally
like cold chisel, and I said, be warned, it's heavy,
and they loved it.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
You know, he's on the program today. We're also talking
about the there's a bloke. I don't know if you
followed the story, but it's sort of there are two
stories in one. So there's a health crisis in this country.
There was a report out a week and a bit ago,
right Deloitte wrote at seventy seven pages, and what it
says is like so worrying. It's embarrassing that doubtails him
with a bloke who was a senior manager within Health
(32:43):
New Zealand who's been stood down for other issues unrelated
to a contract that was not advertised, and it was
not advertised and it was a two million dollar contract.
This bloke who's been stood down had a connection with
the company in Britain wasn't ad ties because they claimed
the company was the only one in the world who
(33:05):
could provide the services that they needed, which is complete
and upper crap. And so you've got this bloke stood down,
you've got a contract that wasn't tended for, and you've
got millions of dollars worth of our money floating about
and the whole thing's just just a shambles and a
scandal anyway, Health Minister front size for us this morning.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Increasingly a slight taint of corruption.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
There's it gets worse and worse it does, like you
could you get an insight into the extent of what
they've actually had to pick up and run with as
part of is part of the problem. And we'll look
at the speak to which that investment thing today is.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Awesome, very good, and I thank you and I think
producer Kenzie and my name's Andrew Dickens, and I'll see
you on Monday and have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
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