April 21, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition Full Show Podcast Tuesday 22nd of April 2025, Italy Correspondent Jo McKenna has the latest on the death of Pope Francis.
Costco is looking to expand to outside of Auckland, Grocery Policy expert Ernie Newman tells Francesca Rudkin what this could mean for the grocery sector.
Elliot Smith has the latest on weekend sport.
Plus, Australian Correspondent Donna Demaio has the latest on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's response to the Pope's death.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
News Dogs B Good morning, Welcome to Ernie edition. I'm
Francesca Rudkin filling in for Ryan Bridge this morning. Hope
you had a great Easter, survived the weather at a
good to go for a short week. You might ast
welcome to contact me anytime this morning. You can flict
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at Francesca NEWSTALKSB dot co dot z. On the show today,
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is Copco about to expand around the country and what
impact might this have on the supermarket sector? Elliot Smith
has the Easter weekend Sports rap and the world has
been mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died overnight
aged eighty eight. We head to Rome before the end
of the hour to discuss his legacy and what happens next.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's Tuesday, twenty second of April and as mentioned, breaking
news overnight at seven thirty five am local time on
Easter Monday, the Vatican announced Pope Francis had died at
the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Dear brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow, I must announce
the death of our Holy Father Francis. His entire life
was dedicated to the service of the Lord and his Church.
He taught us to live the values of the Gospel
with fidelity, courage, and universal love.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Tributes have been flooding in from world leaders, including King Charles,
Italy's Georgia Maloney and j D Vance, who had just
met him on Easter Sunday. Prials have been gathering at
Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican to pay their respects.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It's a great disappointment, a great loss, a man who
has innovented the church, and a man who has left
at great mark.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And this, this absence causes great pain and then a
great emotion, a great emptiness. Yes, we will miss him.
Now to the US, where we've got more information on
the group chat saga. Turns out US Defense Secretary Pete
Hexeth had a second private group chat on the Signal app.
His wife, brother, and personal lawyer were all included in
(02:02):
the chat, which shared sensitive information about military operations in Yemen.
It comes a week after the first chat was revealed,
which also discussed sensitive information about military operations. Excess isn't
denying anything.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
This is what the media does.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They take anonymous sources from disgruntle former employees and then
they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Not going to work with me because we're changing the.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Defense department, putting the patagon back in the hands of
war fighters, and anonymous smears from distruntled former employees on
all news doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And back home police are having more trouble reaching the
government's goal of five hundred new cops within two years.
A main issue that's been raised does want to be
cops not being able to achieve the physical test, which
is contributing to a one percent drop in the applicant
success rate. And that's their agenda on your.
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You dog said the it's nine past five. So, as
you heard in the agenda, Pope Francis, the first Latin
American pope, died overnight. So what happens next, Well, the
public are going to be able to pay their respects
to the pope. Since the thirteenth century, the bodies of
popes have gone on public view, often with their embalmed
bodies placed on a raised pedestal, but Francis has chosen
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a simplest ceremony. A public viewing will take place directly
in s Peter's basilica, but his body will remain in
the coffin and it will not be on a raised pedestal.
The funeral and burial of the pope is supposed to
take place four to six days after his death, and
Francis has been asked has asked to be buried in
the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. So then within fifteen
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to twenty days of the Pope's death, the Dean of
the College of Cardinals will summon the cardinals to Rome
for what is known as the Conclave to elect Francis's successor.
And when the cardinals meet, they're going to gather in
the Sistine Chapel, and all cardinal electors must swear an
oath of secrecy and vote by secret ballot. Only cardinals
under the age of eighty are eligible to vote, and
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a two thirds majority is needed to elect a new pope.
And of course, if you watch the movies, politicking is
part of the process. After every vote, the ballot papers
are burnt on a stove along with an additive that
produces a color. You're probably familiar with this. The smoke
is released through a chimney that can be seen from
Saint Peter's Square, and of course there where a lot
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of crowds will form to watch and wait. If the
vote ends without a two thirds majority, the smoke is black,
and when a decision is reached, the smoke is white.
So that is what we can expect over the coming
month or so, and nearer the end of the hour,
we are going to be heading to Rhyme to talk
to our correspondent to find a little bit more about
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Pope Francis's legacy, not just within the Catholic Church, but
also the impact he had on the world. It is
eleven past five. You're with early edition news.
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Speaker 2 (05:04):
Youth Dog said the thirteen past five christ Church and
Wellington could be next in line for Costco stores. The
US retail chain says it's working on expansion outside of Auckland.
Costco's Westgates store gained one hundred and fifty thousand members
within a year of opening and just introduced home delivery
to both members and non members across Auckland through door dash.
(05:25):
So is this the new player in the grocery sector
that we're looking for? Grocery policy expert Ernie Newman joins me. Now,
thanks for your time, Ernie good O.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Do you think this expansion is likely to Wellington and
christ Church? I mean, now it would be the time,
right the government's all in for to make things happen.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I'd love to think so, but I'm not at all
convinced on this one. You know, Costco is an unusual
kind of retailer. It's very, very successful in the North
American market, mainly, I think because of the high density
housing over there and the think you can plug a
supermarket down and get huge numbers of people able to
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get there with a relatively short drive. New Zealand is
a much more fragmented sort of place, and somehow I
struggle to see how the cost home model will really
work in New Zealand, or in fact, there's a lot
of countries outside North America.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do you think the membership holds people back?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Not necessarily. I think the big problem is the concentration.
You know, most of the supermarkets in New Zealand are
spread out. They have a site in every suburb and
they basically go to where the consumers are. Costco expects
the consumers to get in their cars and travel long
distances to go to them. So I think if Nichola
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Willis really wants to make a breakthrough here and if
she wants Costco to be part of it, she needs
to persuade them to change their business model.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, and is Costco opening two more Is Costco opening
two more outlets going to have an impact or would
you also like to see the government still step up
and break up the current entities in place to make
an impact as well?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Absolutely, the government needs to still step up. You know
Costco and Australia for example, they've been going in Australia
ten years or so longer than they have here, and
they're still struggling to get to two percent market share
over there. You know, it's a very long, hard road,
and I think that's because their business model doesn't particularly
well suit the conditions in either Australia or New Zealand.
(07:31):
So if I was Nikola Willis, what I'd be doing
is legally requiring Woolworth Australia and food Stuff to each
sell off, say one hundred or so supermarkets and then
I'd be working with Costco to buy them, but to
run them in the way New Zealand super markets tend
to run, rather than try to impose the North American
model here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Do you think they'd be out for that.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I don't know, that's a question for them. But you know,
there's a big there's a good opportunity here for somebody.
This is a highly highly profitable market which is broken
and we really need somebody to come in with a
completely new approach and bring back competition.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean, I do know a lot of people in
Auckland who will drive the distance, you know, once a
month to do a big stock up of the non
perishables at Costco.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, but do you know any in Hamilton or wang
ger at will do that?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know, this is this is.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
A decentralized country. North America is very different and you
know the market figures in Australia sort of speak for
themselves that Costco, after all, is the decade or so
trying to get into that market are still really struggling
over there.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, it's the problem, isn't It's the long term plan,
isn't it Ernie.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
It's a very long term plan, but we have a
short term problem. You know, we've got kids going hungry here.
We need something to happen in the next year or two,
not in another generation. And that's why I think Nichola
Willison's answer is to work with Costco, but as part
of a breakup of the supermarkets we already have.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Do you think an expansion would enable other players to
look at New Zealand a good place to potentially into
the market.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I think divestment, yes, I think it's the Nichola Willis
made has said some very good things, like she's indicated
that she is open to an enforced breakup of the
existing structure of the market. That's really really positive. So
I think there will be a lot of other people
sniffing around the market at the moment. But what we
need now is to move from the words phase to
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the action phase and show that she's serious about that.
But again, you know, it's divesting what we already have
that'll unlock the potential.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Thanks so much for your time this morning. That was
Ernie Newman. I tend to agree with Ernie. I think
this is a nice step in the right direction, but
it's a long term solution and I don't think there
is one solution for this, oh, this long running debate
that we have on how we break up the duopoly
of foodstuffs and will Worth. I think he's right. I
think it's going to need a variety of steps and
(10:02):
actions taken kind of across the board to see a difference.
Love to hear what you think you can text on
ninety two ninety two right. It was a busy long
Easter weekend on the sports front. Elliott Smith is with
me next with some of his highlights. It's eighteen past five.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
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It's five twenty and to talk us through his highs
and lows of the weekend in sport. Elliott Smith is
with us morning Morning. Good weekend for the Warriors.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Very good and I think this will give him a
lot of confidence. I mean, when was the last time
you saw a team taker penalty shot at goal in
rugby league from fifty meters out lidlone and golden. It
was a very odd game out of the Warriors had
it in control and the end I don't know whether
it was the conditions, but the Broncos sort of came
back into it right at the end, sent it to
golden point and then dear old Reese Walshoe obviously left
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the Warriors makes the era from the kickoff and Luke
metcalffho had been shopping off the tee comes in nail?
Is it from fifty meters? You don't really see that
in rugby league either, but it kind of when that,
you know, on the back of that poor game against
a storm last week, might just give the Warriors a
little bit of confidence in christ Church this week for
the ANZACT day game. So quick question turn around, but
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the Knights are certainly beatable and hopefully this will swing
the Warriors back into the winning ways.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
He's a special game, the ANZACT game. Who are they
playing new cast on?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Yes, so they've changed it round. So I've got a
home game. It's in christ Church, sold out weeks ago.
Should be a pretty special occasional.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now a lot of super rugby taking place over the weekend. Geez,
my heart bled for Minor Pacifica because they've been playing
so well and with such heart and it wasn't a
great game against it.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
It was terrible commentated this game actually, and it was
nil all with forty minutes on the clock and it
was five and a half time, and then Mina just
couldn't get into the game and they clearly missed Ardie Savia,
which shows how big his impact has been. But also
when he's not in the team he was on rest
on the weekend, how much they still struggle without him,
and they just didn't have it defensively, didn't have it
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on attack. And now you know they're on the outside
looking in, as are the Blues, as other Hurricanes trying
to chase these playoff spots and Super Rugby that are
whittling down by the week. It's becoming very very tight
this race and you can't really afford to drop too
many points. And unfortunately for Mowana they did on the weekend.
They've got a drew this weekend back at home at
North Harbor Stadium. That's now really a must win for them.
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But there's a lot of ground that these teams still
have to make up. The Force and Hurricanes. They drew
both teams in the playoff mix, the Blues obviously losing
to the Crusaders on Good Friday.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So the depressing start to Easter.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, not so much for our Canterbury list as I'm sure,
but for you obviously. And yeah, look, I think it's
really really tight in super rugby, which is what we
want going into these last few weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Of course checks did well against the.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Very good Yeah, came back really well after a pool
couple of weeks, but have kind of just looked a
little bit off that lost to the Waratas just swipt
the Highlanders.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I love the way you walk in here without any notes,
but you seem to have the rugby schedule for your
heat with the person I know I need to text on. Hey, look,
let's touch briefly on the form the one Liam Lawson.
Not quite in the points yet, but good to see
him sort of steadying.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Yeah, I think so. And look it was such as
shock to the system. I'm sure he would have been
expecting that full season and Red Bull now he has
and it's kind of the mindset shift and it's going
to take him a few races to go. Actually, I'm
back in racing bulls. I've got to start from behind
on the grid because that's the nature of you know,
being in the development team. So look, he was capped
that time penalty yesterday and that then the race he
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should have been probably eleventh, finished in twelfth.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
I think there's some positive signs there that the building
and maybe just some time out of the spotlight in
terms of that international spotlight might actually be good for him.
Hopefully he can just you know, now the spotlight's gone
and it's now on Yuki Snoda and everyone else, and
the way the McLaren's going up the top of the
grid and the standings, Maybe just some time out of
the spotlight for Liamlawson might be a good thing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I think so too. Just leave him alone and it
exactly see what as well. Thank you so much, Elliott,
appreciate your time this morning. It is twenty four past five.
You're with early addition edition.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
Talks at b It is twenty six past five. According
to an article in the New Zealand Herald this morning,
fewer people want to be teachers. Teacher education is still
a really popular field of study, but both Canterbury and
Tiger Universities have seen a decline in teaching student enrollments
over the past four years. So initial data shows that
Canterbury has nine hundred and sixty four students enrolled in
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a course in twenty twenty five, down from one thousand,
two hundred and eighty one four years ago. A Tigo
has followed a similar trend, with student numbers dropping from
six hundred and twenty to four hundred and ninety five
in the same period. Our national Politech has seen the
lowest number of first year teaching students since it formed
in twenty twenty. So it is not the best news
when we're facing a teacher shortage, is it. PPTA president
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Chris Abercrombie said the downward trend is extremely worrying, but
I'm not surprised by this. All we seem to hear
about our issues around pay conditions and the challenge the
challenge of changes to the curriculum. And then there are
the parents who don't have the time to support their
children in their education but complain about teachers when their
children don't reach their expectations. Look, I can understand paying
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conditions being a red flag for someone heading into teaching,
but teachers have worked hard advocating for themselves when it
comes to pay, and the government has accepted conditions need
to improve, but it's in all our best interests that
we attract good people passionate about education to the profession.
And while we may not be able to do much
about the paying conditions outside a general election, we can
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do something to push back on the shift and attitude
towards teachers which has crept up in recent years, preventing
some from considering the idea of becoming a teacher. Chris
Abercronbie said that one of the things they often hear
is the lack of respect from the community from politicians,
and people are like, well, why do I want to
go into a profession that has that. As in any industry,
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there are great teachers, good and some who may be
a bit useless, but we need to be championing our teachers.
Teachers play a massive formulative role in our children's lives.
Some even change a young person's life or what our
kids believe is possible. Just over three years ago, a
young lady rather close to me started at high school,
had a bit of a hiccup and was at school
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for about half of years nine and ten. In year
eleven she started a new school and this year she
aims to wrap up school and complete year thirteen, a
year early before heading to university to do a science degree.
There isn't a person who knows what she's been through
who isn't stunned by this turnaround. A lot of it
is down to this remarkable young lady. She's worked hard
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to get back on track and look, she loves loves
to study. But it's also thanks to a series of
extraordinary teachers who also just happen to be extraordinary humans
that she is where she is today. So if we
want the best outcome for our children and their future,
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maybe we should all just stop whining about teachers. Maybe
we should start by showing some respect, z me. I
do think it is time we all start winging about teachers.
That we're always talking about how many holidays and things
they have. But I think we've just shown a little
bit appreciation, a little bit more. It might be all
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of our best interests, because we want people to become
teachers and to love it and to nurture our children.
Ninety two ninety two is the text keen to hear
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Speaker 2 (18:11):
Good morning. This is early edition on Newstalk VV. I'm
franchise for Raking filling in for Ryan today. Thanks for
being with us. In the next half hour we head
to Australia where they've had their worst Easter ever for drownings,
and we had to roam this hour as well. We
all knew that Pope Frances had been unwell recently, but
his appearance on Sunday at the Easter Sunday Mass in
the Vatican, I think it had given people hope that
he'd turned a corner. However, overnight Pope France has passed
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away aged eighty eight. So we're going to look at
the impact the Pope had not just on the Catholic
Church but the world. A little later in the hour,
thank you very much for your feedback. One A little
a lot on the supermarkets. Why would a third player
feel comfortable entering into the New Zealand supermarket space if
they know that the government will likely just want to
break them up as well? If they should get too big. Yeah,
(18:57):
it's a good point, but I think there'd be a
little way to go before that happened, and the enthusiasm
to force private businesses to break up may work against
trying to attract overseas investment in this country. So Brian
makes the same point. Somebody else said the best option
is the warehouse converted into a supermarket chain. They already
have the store fronts and the key locations, and I
think that this is a thing, and this is why
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cost Co might be a good idea. They're already here,
they know our environment, feed on the ground, and I
think that's where we have to go if we're going
to have a third player. You don't want to be
having conversations with people for years about potentially coming to
New Zealand. It needs to be somebody who is here
and already active. So thank you very much for your text.
Keep the feedback coming. You can text on ninety two
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ninety two said be right, let's head around the country
and joining us from deneed In this morning Jordan done, good.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Morning, good morning, how are you very good?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Thank you. A coronial hearing at the disappearance of John
and Mike Beckinridge continues.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
YEA, so the p have vanished after John broke a
court order and took the eleven year old from his
Invicargo school. In twenty fifteen. Beckinridge's car was found in
the sceneior Curio Bay a week later, below an eighty
eight meter cliff with no bodies. Now Cooraen and Marcus
Elliott is reconvening a hearing in christ Church to consider
whether the peer are dead or alive. Several submissions, including
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a woman who believed she saw them overseas she was
heard during a two week hearing in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And weather interneding today.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
The cloudy periods, rain developing this evening, then turning to
showers overnight, the high sixteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Thank you so much, Jordan, and we're off to christ Church. Now,
Courtney Winter joins me. And Courtney, we've just been talking
about the drop and the number of people wanting to
study to become a teacher and this is impacting Canterbury University.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Yes, good morning.
Speaker 12 (20:39):
Provisional data shows there are nine hundred and sixty four
students enrolled in an education course this year, down from
almost a one thousand, three hundred four years ago. It's
part of a wider trend like you mentioned, reflected in
Ministry of Education data. Overall, the number of people studying
at least one education course was thirty four thousand in
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twenty fifteen, but has dropped to twenty seven and a
half thousand last year. PEPTA and President Chris Abercrombie says
there's also been a cultural shift in the attitude towards
teachers as well as pay issues. The Teaching Council says
it's committed to addressing current and future workforce challenges.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And the weather today in christ Church Courtney.
Speaker 12 (21:21):
Cloudy was impossible drizzle clearing to find this morning. Southwesterlies
high on fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Thank you. And in Wellington Max told good morning, good morning.
A pay bump for the new council CEO.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, the post this morning has Matt Prosser. He's the
new head honcho at the Wellington City Council. His paypacket
it's enviable to five hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
year for him. That's a personal pay rise of more
than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars on his previous
role in the UK. He's British as the chief executive
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of the Doriset Council, Dorset. On top of that, the
council's paying tens of thousands of dollars to relocate him
and his family forty fifty thousand plus, perhaps an indictment
of the process that there wasn't apparently a local applicant
good enough. It's obviously more than his predecessor as well,
Barbara mcerro it's more than the Prime Minister, almost three
times as much as the Wellington mayor, and yet process
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so far declining requests for an interview.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, I have no words. Wellington's where the today macs
not too bad?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Find spells developing a higher fifteen central.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thank you so much and joining us in the Auckland studio.
Need a britty manner. Good morning, good morning, welcome back,
a community leader says this weekend's fatal assault at an
Auckland bus stop, it's tragic for local this was local community.
This is a horrible story, horrible.
Speaker 13 (22:39):
You're absolutely right. So a thirty three year old died
in hospital. Now, this was after the attack which happened
on Saint John's Road and Meadow Bank Saturday about ten pm.
Now police say they're on the hunt for the two offenders.
The motor for the attack is unclear. They're urgently seeking
any information from anyone in the area at the time,
So if you were around that area, particularly drivers with
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dash cam footage, you know, contact the police. Scott Milne
is Ordarki's local board chair.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
He says, this was.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
An unnerving attack and it was you know, provoked unprovoked
rather so you know, yeah, one of these horrible at techs.
So hopefully they find these guys.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And what is the weather doing today and all? Well,
are there any improvement?
Speaker 13 (23:20):
A lot of improvement?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Jarsley Easter.
Speaker 13 (23:22):
Oh, thank goodness, there's an improvement here. We've got partly
cloudy conditions, a few shells, but mainly find from the
afternoon still warm. Twenty one is the high.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Now were you one of the lucky ones? Did you
have power? Did you have I did so?
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Did I? I mean I read my heart and went
out to those that went for days without that. Kie
Wooden was one of them.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh, dear right, we're going to hear about that, aren't we.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
She had to throw out all the food in a fridge.
I should have gone down there because she would have
had gorgeous This was one of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The cold This is one of the complaints that she
had that I read about in the newspaper. She said,
if they've given her good information, she wouldn't instead of
having to throw it all out because they kept saying
it to be on later, beyond later, so you can
keep your food going. That's okay, that won't thaw, and
then it didn't. She said she would have given it away.
I know I must have waited for a text. I
would have chopped in the car. You would have been
in lovely to see you. Thank you very much for
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popping in. Next off, we are off to Australia. It
is seventeen to.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Six International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance Peace of
Mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Donna De Mayo joins US now from Australia. Good morning, Donna.
Did you get a small break from election campaigning over easter?
Speaker 11 (24:32):
H personally you mean.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (24:38):
The election campaign does continue and early voting starts today.
They believe that up to forty percent of Australians will
actually put in an early vote ahead of the May
third election, which I thought was fascinating. And a poll
has just come out and there's been a surge in
the polls for Albanize for our prime minister, and there's
(24:58):
even talk that he be able to get a majority government.
The Liberals polled to a lower primary vote than under
the Scott Morrison government at last election. So the news
poll in the Australian shows that Labor what could be
turning the tide apparently, So they're saying that perhaps these
policy promises like restoring GP bulk building and what Alba
(25:22):
has said is modest income tax with cuts could be
impressing voters. So the Labour's primary vote as they call it,
is the highest in more than a year.
Speaker 11 (25:32):
It's about thirty.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
Four percent, and the Coalition primary vote has dropped to
about thirty five percent, which is lower, as I mentioned,
than quite a few years ago. Interesting, but we're also
heard from the Prime Minister after.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
The pope's death. Just a few words he gave.
Speaker 14 (25:48):
He obviously sent his condolences and we know now that
the flags will fly half mass today on all Commonwealth
buildings and he sent his sincere condolences and saying it
was be a very difficult evening.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
For all Australians.
Speaker 14 (26:02):
And we also got a statement from Peter Dubbin and
the opposition leader who said the pope was driven by
christ values of mercy and forgiveness.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Donna, you've just had a terrible Easter break at Ossie Beach's. Yeah,
I think it's been. You've had your worst seats ever
from drowning at this time of the year.
Speaker 11 (26:21):
Yes, so much, so much tragedy.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
A nine year old was trapped between rocks at a
popular holiday spot in New South Wales mid North Coast.
Now police did try to free the boy but sadly
he died at the scene. Now we know that hordes
of holidaymakers have headed to the beach. It's been glorious
weather right across the East Coast and Surf Life Saving
is saying that you know there've been countless rescues because
of these powerful swells. But we know that there's two
(26:46):
men missing since Friday. A twenty four year old was
swept off rocks in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. A forty one
year old in Victoria was missing, is missing. Sorry, three
friends were not into the water, and the missing man's
wife has rowned. Two people were swept off rocks while
fishing on the weekend as well.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
One saved one passed away.
Speaker 14 (27:07):
Sadly, a fifty eight year old fisherman was swept into
water over the weekend, and another has drowned in New
South Wales, and then another fisherman, so absolutely devastating, the tragic.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thank you for all the good news this morning, Donna.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Sorry about that. It's quite grim, quite grim.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Take care, have a good day. Thank you so much
for your time. It is eleven to six, said. The
world has been mourning the death of Pope Francis, who
died overnight at the age of eighty eight. He was
the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
And it comes as a shock as just the day before,
on Easter Sunday, the Pope had greeted a crowd of
tens of thousands at the Easter Sunday Mass in the Vatican. Right,
(27:51):
Rome correspondent Joe McKenna has the latest for us. She
joins us, Now, are you there, Joe, we'll just get
rid of the yes, Sex, can you me okay, Yes,
I can. Where are you There's a lot of bustle
around you. Are you out and amongst the people? Yes,
good morning, Francesca.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I'm at the Vatican right now, and thousands of people
are pouring into Saint Peter's Square as we speak for
a special rosary in memory of Pope Francis. People are
shocked and shaken, as you can imagine, just a day
after seeing him in this same square greeting the faithful
and blessing everyone for Easter Sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It has been a shock. Even though we know he
hasn't been well, his health seemed to be improving.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yes, after thirty eight days in hospital and some very
dangerous moments there where the doctor said they almost lost him.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There were hopes that he would recover.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
But as we probably as you probably saw, you know,
he was looking very weak and frail, and his voice
was struggling. I think we still saw that he was
struggling to get over that double pneumonia. And in a
short time tonight we're about to learn what.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
The cause of death was.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
There was a speculation that he died of a stroke overnight,
but some other speculations suggesting that it might have been
a pulmonary embolism. So just waiting for some results from
the Vatican on that tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, how much of an impact did Pope Francis have,
not just on the Catholic Church, but the whole world.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Joe. Look, I think it goes back to that first
night Francesco I was here in the square when he
was elected twenty thirteen, and he set the tone immediately
with his informality, his friendliness. And then soon after that
his first official visit, which many people may not remember,
(29:47):
was to the island of Lampadusa off the coast of Sicily,
where he wanted to reach out to all those migrants
who were struggling to make the voyage across the Mediterranean.
So really about informality, reaching out to the poor and
the underprivileged. He took a strong stand on climate change
and saving the planet, and was really against the trappings
(30:12):
of capitalism, status and all those things that we all
get caught up in consumerism and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And we can see that, can't we. Just in the
way that he's decided to have his public viewing at
the Basilica, you know, he doesn't want he wants to
be in the coffin, he doesn't want to be on
a raised podium. He wants to keep it simple.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, I think that's a very good message, and he
doesn't want to be buried at the Vatican. Like many
other poets, he has chosen his burial place in a
basilica on the other side of Rome called Saint Mary Major,
where he would often go and say a prayer to
the Madonna before he went traveling on his overseas trips,
(30:56):
many many overseas trips to faraway places from including a rack,
the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and again emphasizing that outreach
that he felt so strongly about.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
What happens now, so tonight there will be a ritual
inside his apartment inside the Vatican, the Kaza Marta apartment
where he lived. They will, I think, smash the ring
and seal his room, and then his body will be
(31:30):
moved into a coffin and moved into the basilica, probably
Wednesday morning, and he will lie in state there and
hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come into Rome.
I think we'll see the sort of reaction that we
saw with Pope John Paul's funeral way back in two
(31:50):
thousand and five. People will come from all over the
world for this viewing. Then the funeral is likely to
be held Friday or Sunday next weekend. Then there'll be
a break, There'll be days of several days of morning,
and then the conclave will begin inside the Systeine Chapel
to elect the new Pope.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Joe mckinna. Thank you so much for your time, really
appreciate this morning. It is seven to six you with
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Speaker 1 (32:19):
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Speaker 2 (32:28):
Coming up at six, of course, is Mike Hosking with
Mike Costing breakfast. It is with me now, good morning morning.
Do you think six a m. Is too early for
me to call the police on one I five to
let them know that someone stole my car license plates.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Just the plates, just the plan. Was something wrong with
the car?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
No, well, wouldn't we take it?
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Take it personally? So you obviously worried. I'm worried about
your car on the street.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It is on the street that one.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
So they came along and simply unscrewed your plates and
moved on.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm worried that they've been used from the serious.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Oh as opposed to what franchisca? What do you think
they took?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I don't know, I don't know why they I think they.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Probably I think the people who took them probably took
them for nefarious.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Because it possibility I could be in the headlines by
midday because I'm associated with.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
It is what the crime is, you're fair enough to
I would have already called. I wouldn't have gone five.
Wuld have gone one one. Absolutely, you can't go on one.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You don't for a stolen car that you call one.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Of those it's a crime. Well how many cans if
you had stolen? I have no experience.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I don't expect the police to rush out and deal
with it. It's not a one one one.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
No, it's just a you would log it so technically
make me.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Never should have I done that at three o'clock?
Speaker 9 (33:34):
I way too late?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Now, don't say that way too late.
Speaker 9 (33:37):
I would have gone through this thing because imagine if
something was committed on four point fifteen and they go,
we'll hold on the plates, and they're trying to get
hold of me.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Now I will refer them back to five point fifty
sixty am on news storks what you mentioned.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
What are you going to do if you get home
and they're waiting for you, and you're going to do
that hole. It has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
I would never clue.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Do you want to give the plates out on here? Now?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Now you've blonde. That Prime Minister's with us later.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
By the way, fantastic. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Mike hosking with you at six. Have a great day.
I will see you tomorrow morning at five am, if
I'm not in prison or somewhere else. Take care, Louie.
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is Copco about to expand around the country and what
impact might this have on the supermarket sector? Elliot Smith
has the Easter weekend Sports rap and the world has
been mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died overnight
aged eighty eight. We head to Rome before the end
of the hour to discuss his legacy and what happens next.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's Tuesday, twenty second of April and as mentioned, breaking
news overnight at seven thirty five am local time on
Easter Monday, the Vatican announced Pope Francis had died at
the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Dear brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow, I must announce
the death of our Holy Father Francis. His entire life
was dedicated to the service of the Lord and his Church.
He taught us to live the values of the Gospel
with fidelity, courage, and universal love.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Tributes have been flooding in from world leaders, including King Charles,
Italy's Georgia Maloney and j D Vance, who had just
met him on Easter Sunday. Prials have been gathering at
Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican to pay their respects.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It's a great disappointment, a great loss, a man who
has innovented the church, and a man who has left
at great mark.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And this, this absence causes great pain and then a
great emotion, a great emptiness. Yes, we will miss him.
Now to the US, where we've got more information on
the group chat saga. Turns out US Defense Secretary Pete
Hexeth had a second private group chat on the Signal app.
His wife, brother, and personal lawyer were all included in
(02:02):
the chat, which shared sensitive information about military operations in Yemen.
It comes a week after the first chat was revealed,
which also discussed sensitive information about military operations. Excess isn't
denying anything.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
This is what the media does.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They take anonymous sources from disgruntle former employees and then
they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Not going to work with me because we're changing the.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Defense department, putting the patagon back in the hands of
war fighters, and anonymous smears from distruntled former employees on
all news doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And back home police are having more trouble reaching the
government's goal of five hundred new cops within two years.
A main issue that's been raised does want to be
cops not being able to achieve the physical test, which
is contributing to a one percent drop in the applicant
success rate. And that's their agenda on your.
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Speaker 2 (03:00):
You dog said the it's nine past five. So, as
you heard in the agenda, Pope Francis, the first Latin
American pope, died overnight. So what happens next, Well, the
public are going to be able to pay their respects
to the pope. Since the thirteenth century, the bodies of
popes have gone on public view, often with their embalmed
bodies placed on a raised pedestal, but Francis has chosen
(03:22):
a simplest ceremony. A public viewing will take place directly
in s Peter's basilica, but his body will remain in
the coffin and it will not be on a raised pedestal.
The funeral and burial of the pope is supposed to
take place four to six days after his death, and
Francis has been asked has asked to be buried in
the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. So then within fifteen
(03:43):
to twenty days of the Pope's death, the Dean of
the College of Cardinals will summon the cardinals to Rome
for what is known as the Conclave to elect Francis's successor.
And when the cardinals meet, they're going to gather in
the Sistine Chapel, and all cardinal electors must swear an
oath of secrecy and vote by secret ballot. Only cardinals
under the age of eighty are eligible to vote, and
(04:05):
a two thirds majority is needed to elect a new pope.
And of course, if you watch the movies, politicking is
part of the process. After every vote, the ballot papers
are burnt on a stove along with an additive that
produces a color. You're probably familiar with this. The smoke
is released through a chimney that can be seen from
Saint Peter's Square, and of course there where a lot
(04:25):
of crowds will form to watch and wait. If the
vote ends without a two thirds majority, the smoke is black,
and when a decision is reached, the smoke is white.
So that is what we can expect over the coming
month or so, and nearer the end of the hour,
we are going to be heading to Rhyme to talk
to our correspondent to find a little bit more about
(04:46):
Pope Francis's legacy, not just within the Catholic Church, but
also the impact he had on the world. It is
eleven past five. You're with early edition news.
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Speaker 2 (05:04):
Youth Dog said the thirteen past five christ Church and
Wellington could be next in line for Costco stores. The
US retail chain says it's working on expansion outside of Auckland.
Costco's Westgates store gained one hundred and fifty thousand members
within a year of opening and just introduced home delivery
to both members and non members across Auckland through door dash.
(05:25):
So is this the new player in the grocery sector
that we're looking for? Grocery policy expert Ernie Newman joins me. Now,
thanks for your time, Ernie good O.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Do you think this expansion is likely to Wellington and
christ Church? I mean, now it would be the time,
right the government's all in for to make things happen.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I'd love to think so, but I'm not at all
convinced on this one. You know, Costco is an unusual
kind of retailer. It's very, very successful in the North
American market, mainly, I think because of the high density
housing over there and the think you can plug a
supermarket down and get huge numbers of people able to
(06:02):
get there with a relatively short drive. New Zealand is
a much more fragmented sort of place, and somehow I
struggle to see how the cost home model will really
work in New Zealand, or in fact, there's a lot
of countries outside North America.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do you think the membership holds people back?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Not necessarily. I think the big problem is the concentration.
You know, most of the supermarkets in New Zealand are
spread out. They have a site in every suburb and
they basically go to where the consumers are. Costco expects
the consumers to get in their cars and travel long
distances to go to them. So I think if Nichola
(06:44):
Willis really wants to make a breakthrough here and if
she wants Costco to be part of it, she needs
to persuade them to change their business model.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, and is Costco opening two more Is Costco opening
two more outlets going to have an impact or would
you also like to see the government still step up
and break up the current entities in place to make
an impact as well?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Absolutely, the government needs to still step up. You know
Costco and Australia for example, they've been going in Australia
ten years or so longer than they have here, and
they're still struggling to get to two percent market share
over there. You know, it's a very long, hard road,
and I think that's because their business model doesn't particularly
well suit the conditions in either Australia or New Zealand.
(07:31):
So if I was Nikola Willis, what I'd be doing
is legally requiring Woolworth Australia and food Stuff to each
sell off, say one hundred or so supermarkets and then
I'd be working with Costco to buy them, but to
run them in the way New Zealand super markets tend
to run, rather than try to impose the North American
model here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Do you think they'd be out for that.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I don't know, that's a question for them. But you know,
there's a big there's a good opportunity here for somebody.
This is a highly highly profitable market which is broken
and we really need somebody to come in with a
completely new approach and bring back competition.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean, I do know a lot of people in
Auckland who will drive the distance, you know, once a
month to do a big stock up of the non
perishables at Costco.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah, but do you know any in Hamilton or wang
ger at will do that?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know, this is this is.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
A decentralized country. North America is very different and you
know the market figures in Australia sort of speak for
themselves that Costco, after all, is the decade or so
trying to get into that market are still really struggling
over there.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, it's the problem, isn't It's the long term plan,
isn't it Ernie.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
It's a very long term plan, but we have a
short term problem. You know, we've got kids going hungry here.
We need something to happen in the next year or two,
not in another generation. And that's why I think Nichola
Willison's answer is to work with Costco, but as part
of a breakup of the supermarkets we already have.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Do you think an expansion would enable other players to
look at New Zealand a good place to potentially into
the market.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
I think divestment, yes, I think it's the Nichola Willis
made has said some very good things, like she's indicated
that she is open to an enforced breakup of the
existing structure of the market. That's really really positive. So
I think there will be a lot of other people
sniffing around the market at the moment. But what we
need now is to move from the words phase to
(09:32):
the action phase and show that she's serious about that.
But again, you know, it's divesting what we already have
that'll unlock the potential.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Thanks so much for your time this morning. That was
Ernie Newman. I tend to agree with Ernie. I think
this is a nice step in the right direction, but
it's a long term solution and I don't think there
is one solution for this, oh, this long running debate
that we have on how we break up the duopoly
of foodstuffs and will Worth. I think he's right. I
think it's going to need a variety of steps and
(10:02):
actions taken kind of across the board to see a difference.
Love to hear what you think you can text on
ninety two ninety two right. It was a busy long
Easter weekend on the sports front. Elliott Smith is with
me next with some of his highlights. It's eighteen past five.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
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It's five twenty and to talk us through his highs
and lows of the weekend in sport. Elliott Smith is
with us morning Morning. Good weekend for the Warriors.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Very good and I think this will give him a
lot of confidence. I mean, when was the last time
you saw a team taker penalty shot at goal in
rugby league from fifty meters out lidlone and golden. It
was a very odd game out of the Warriors had
it in control and the end I don't know whether
it was the conditions, but the Broncos sort of came
back into it right at the end, sent it to
golden point and then dear old Reese Walshoe obviously left
(10:55):
the Warriors makes the era from the kickoff and Luke
metcalffho had been shopping off the tee comes in nail?
Is it from fifty meters? You don't really see that
in rugby league either, but it kind of when that,
you know, on the back of that poor game against
a storm last week, might just give the Warriors a
little bit of confidence in christ Church this week for
the ANZACT day game. So quick question turn around, but
(11:16):
the Knights are certainly beatable and hopefully this will swing
the Warriors back into the winning ways.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
He's a special game, the ANZACT game. Who are they
playing new cast on?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Yes, so they've changed it round. So I've got a
home game. It's in christ Church, sold out weeks ago.
Should be a pretty special occasional.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Now a lot of super rugby taking place over the weekend. Geez,
my heart bled for Minor Pacifica because they've been playing
so well and with such heart and it wasn't a
great game against it.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
It was terrible commentated this game actually, and it was
nil all with forty minutes on the clock and it
was five and a half time, and then Mina just
couldn't get into the game and they clearly missed Ardie Savia,
which shows how big his impact has been. But also
when he's not in the team he was on rest
on the weekend, how much they still struggle without him,
and they just didn't have it defensively, didn't have it
(11:58):
on attack. And now you know they're on the outside
looking in, as are the Blues, as other Hurricanes trying
to chase these playoff spots and Super Rugby that are
whittling down by the week. It's becoming very very tight
this race and you can't really afford to drop too
many points. And unfortunately for Mowana they did on the weekend.
They've got a drew this weekend back at home at
North Harbor Stadium. That's now really a must win for them.
(12:20):
But there's a lot of ground that these teams still
have to make up. The Force and Hurricanes. They drew
both teams in the playoff mix, the Blues obviously losing
to the Crusaders on Good Friday.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So the depressing start to Easter.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, not so much for our Canterbury list as I'm sure,
but for you obviously. And yeah, look, I think it's
really really tight in super rugby, which is what we
want going into these last few weeks of the season.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Of course checks did well against the.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Very good Yeah, came back really well after a pool
couple of weeks, but have kind of just looked a
little bit off that lost to the Waratas just swipt
the Highlanders.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I love the way you walk in here without any notes,
but you seem to have the rugby schedule for your
heat with the person I know I need to text on. Hey, look,
let's touch briefly on the form the one Liam Lawson.
Not quite in the points yet, but good to see
him sort of steadying.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Yeah, I think so. And look it was such as
shock to the system. I'm sure he would have been
expecting that full season and Red Bull now he has
and it's kind of the mindset shift and it's going
to take him a few races to go. Actually, I'm
back in racing bulls. I've got to start from behind
on the grid because that's the nature of you know,
being in the development team. So look, he was capped
that time penalty yesterday and that then the race he
(13:26):
should have been probably eleventh, finished in twelfth.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
I think there's some positive signs there that the building
and maybe just some time out of the spotlight in
terms of that international spotlight might actually be good for him.
Hopefully he can just you know, now the spotlight's gone
and it's now on Yuki Snoda and everyone else, and
the way the McLaren's going up the top of the
grid and the standings, Maybe just some time out of
the spotlight for Liamlawson might be a good thing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I think so too. Just leave him alone and it
exactly see what as well. Thank you so much, Elliott,
appreciate your time this morning. It is twenty four past five.
You're with early addition edition.
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Talks at b It is twenty six past five. According
to an article in the New Zealand Herald this morning,
fewer people want to be teachers. Teacher education is still
a really popular field of study, but both Canterbury and
Tiger Universities have seen a decline in teaching student enrollments
over the past four years. So initial data shows that
Canterbury has nine hundred and sixty four students enrolled in
(14:26):
a course in twenty twenty five, down from one thousand,
two hundred and eighty one four years ago. A Tigo
has followed a similar trend, with student numbers dropping from
six hundred and twenty to four hundred and ninety five
in the same period. Our national Politech has seen the
lowest number of first year teaching students since it formed
in twenty twenty. So it is not the best news
when we're facing a teacher shortage, is it. PPTA president
(14:50):
Chris Abercrombie said the downward trend is extremely worrying, but
I'm not surprised by this. All we seem to hear
about our issues around pay conditions and the challenge the
challenge of changes to the curriculum. And then there are
the parents who don't have the time to support their
children in their education but complain about teachers when their
children don't reach their expectations. Look, I can understand paying
(15:12):
conditions being a red flag for someone heading into teaching,
but teachers have worked hard advocating for themselves when it
comes to pay, and the government has accepted conditions need
to improve, but it's in all our best interests that
we attract good people passionate about education to the profession.
And while we may not be able to do much
about the paying conditions outside a general election, we can
(15:33):
do something to push back on the shift and attitude
towards teachers which has crept up in recent years, preventing
some from considering the idea of becoming a teacher. Chris
Abercronbie said that one of the things they often hear
is the lack of respect from the community from politicians,
and people are like, well, why do I want to
go into a profession that has that. As in any industry,
(15:54):
there are great teachers, good and some who may be
a bit useless, but we need to be championing our teachers.
Teachers play a massive formulative role in our children's lives.
Some even change a young person's life or what our
kids believe is possible. Just over three years ago, a
young lady rather close to me started at high school,
had a bit of a hiccup and was at school
(16:16):
for about half of years nine and ten. In year
eleven she started a new school and this year she
aims to wrap up school and complete year thirteen, a
year early before heading to university to do a science degree.
There isn't a person who knows what she's been through
who isn't stunned by this turnaround. A lot of it
is down to this remarkable young lady. She's worked hard
(16:37):
to get back on track and look, she loves loves
to study. But it's also thanks to a series of
extraordinary teachers who also just happen to be extraordinary humans
that she is where she is today. So if we
want the best outcome for our children and their future,
(16:57):
maybe we should all just stop whining about teachers. Maybe
we should start by showing some respect, z me. I
do think it is time we all start winging about teachers.
That we're always talking about how many holidays and things
they have. But I think we've just shown a little
bit appreciation, a little bit more. It might be all
(17:19):
of our best interests, because we want people to become
teachers and to love it and to nurture our children.
Ninety two ninety two is the text keen to hear
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Speaker 9 (17:40):
Something made me bad in the middle not only needs
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God there, it's like crazy jousness at the.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Good morning. This is early edition on Newstalk VV. I'm
franchise for Raking filling in for Ryan today. Thanks for
being with us. In the next half hour we head
to Australia where they've had their worst Easter ever for drownings,
and we had to roam this hour as well. We
all knew that Pope Frances had been unwell recently, but
his appearance on Sunday at the Easter Sunday Mass in
the Vatican, I think it had given people hope that
he'd turned a corner. However, overnight Pope France has passed
(18:34):
away aged eighty eight. So we're going to look at
the impact the Pope had not just on the Catholic
Church but the world. A little later in the hour,
thank you very much for your feedback. One A little
a lot on the supermarkets. Why would a third player
feel comfortable entering into the New Zealand supermarket space if
they know that the government will likely just want to
break them up as well? If they should get too big. Yeah,
(18:57):
it's a good point, but I think there'd be a
little way to go before that happened, and the enthusiasm
to force private businesses to break up may work against
trying to attract overseas investment in this country. So Brian
makes the same point. Somebody else said the best option
is the warehouse converted into a supermarket chain. They already
have the store fronts and the key locations, and I
think that this is a thing, and this is why
(19:18):
cost Co might be a good idea. They're already here,
they know our environment, feed on the ground, and I
think that's where we have to go if we're going
to have a third player. You don't want to be
having conversations with people for years about potentially coming to
New Zealand. It needs to be somebody who is here
and already active. So thank you very much for your text.
Keep the feedback coming. You can text on ninety two
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ninety two said be right, let's head around the country
and joining us from deneed In this morning Jordan done, good.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Morning, good morning, how are you very good?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Thank you. A coronial hearing at the disappearance of John
and Mike Beckinridge continues.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
YEA, so the p have vanished after John broke a
court order and took the eleven year old from his
Invicargo school. In twenty fifteen. Beckinridge's car was found in
the sceneior Curio Bay a week later, below an eighty
eight meter cliff with no bodies. Now Cooraen and Marcus
Elliott is reconvening a hearing in christ Church to consider
whether the peer are dead or alive. Several submissions, including
(20:12):
a woman who believed she saw them overseas she was
heard during a two week hearing in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And weather interneding today.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
The cloudy periods, rain developing this evening, then turning to
showers overnight, the high sixteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Thank you so much, Jordan, and we're off to christ Church. Now,
Courtney Winter joins me. And Courtney, we've just been talking
about the drop and the number of people wanting to
study to become a teacher and this is impacting Canterbury University.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Yes, good morning.
Speaker 12 (20:39):
Provisional data shows there are nine hundred and sixty four
students enrolled in an education course this year, down from
almost a one thousand, three hundred four years ago. It's
part of a wider trend like you mentioned, reflected in
Ministry of Education data. Overall, the number of people studying
at least one education course was thirty four thousand in
(21:00):
twenty fifteen, but has dropped to twenty seven and a
half thousand last year. PEPTA and President Chris Abercrombie says
there's also been a cultural shift in the attitude towards
teachers as well as pay issues. The Teaching Council says
it's committed to addressing current and future workforce challenges.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And the weather today in christ Church Courtney.
Speaker 12 (21:21):
Cloudy was impossible drizzle clearing to find this morning. Southwesterlies
high on fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Thank you. And in Wellington Max told good morning, good morning.
A pay bump for the new council CEO.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, the post this morning has Matt Prosser. He's the
new head honcho at the Wellington City Council. His paypacket
it's enviable to five hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
year for him. That's a personal pay rise of more
than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars on his previous
role in the UK. He's British as the chief executive
(21:54):
of the Doriset Council, Dorset. On top of that, the
council's paying tens of thousands of dollars to relocate him
and his family forty fifty thousand plus, perhaps an indictment
of the process that there wasn't apparently a local applicant
good enough. It's obviously more than his predecessor as well,
Barbara mcerro it's more than the Prime Minister, almost three
times as much as the Wellington mayor, and yet process
(22:16):
so far declining requests for an interview.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay, I have no words. Wellington's where the today macs
not too bad?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Find spells developing a higher fifteen central.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thank you so much and joining us in the Auckland studio.
Need a britty manner. Good morning, good morning, welcome back,
a community leader says this weekend's fatal assault at an
Auckland bus stop, it's tragic for local this was local community.
This is a horrible story, horrible.
Speaker 13 (22:39):
You're absolutely right. So a thirty three year old died
in hospital. Now, this was after the attack which happened
on Saint John's Road and Meadow Bank Saturday about ten pm.
Now police say they're on the hunt for the two offenders.
The motor for the attack is unclear. They're urgently seeking
any information from anyone in the area at the time,
So if you were around that area, particularly drivers with
(23:00):
dash cam footage, you know, contact the police. Scott Milne
is Ordarki's local board chair.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
He says, this was.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
An unnerving attack and it was you know, provoked unprovoked
rather so you know, yeah, one of these horrible at techs.
So hopefully they find these guys.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And what is the weather doing today and all? Well,
are there any improvement?
Speaker 13 (23:20):
A lot of improvement?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Jarsley Easter.
Speaker 13 (23:22):
Oh, thank goodness, there's an improvement here. We've got partly
cloudy conditions, a few shells, but mainly find from the
afternoon still warm. Twenty one is the high.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Now were you one of the lucky ones? Did you
have power? Did you have I did so?
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Did I? I mean I read my heart and went
out to those that went for days without that. Kie
Wooden was one of them.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh, dear right, we're going to hear about that, aren't we.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
She had to throw out all the food in a fridge.
I should have gone down there because she would have
had gorgeous This was one of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The cold This is one of the complaints that she
had that I read about in the newspaper. She said,
if they've given her good information, she wouldn't instead of
having to throw it all out because they kept saying
it to be on later, beyond later, so you can
keep your food going. That's okay, that won't thaw, and
then it didn't. She said she would have given it away.
I know I must have waited for a text. I
would have chopped in the car. You would have been
in lovely to see you. Thank you very much for
(24:12):
popping in. Next off, we are off to Australia. It
is seventeen to.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Six International correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance Peace of
Mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Donna De Mayo joins US now from Australia. Good morning, Donna.
Did you get a small break from election campaigning over easter?
Speaker 11 (24:32):
H personally you mean.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (24:38):
The election campaign does continue and early voting starts today.
They believe that up to forty percent of Australians will
actually put in an early vote ahead of the May
third election, which I thought was fascinating. And a poll
has just come out and there's been a surge in
the polls for Albanize for our prime minister, and there's
(24:58):
even talk that he be able to get a majority government.
The Liberals polled to a lower primary vote than under
the Scott Morrison government at last election. So the news
poll in the Australian shows that Labor what could be
turning the tide apparently, So they're saying that perhaps these
policy promises like restoring GP bulk building and what Alba
(25:22):
has said is modest income tax with cuts could be
impressing voters. So the Labour's primary vote as they call it,
is the highest in more than a year.
Speaker 11 (25:32):
It's about thirty.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
Four percent, and the Coalition primary vote has dropped to
about thirty five percent, which is lower, as I mentioned,
than quite a few years ago. Interesting, but we're also
heard from the Prime Minister after.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
The pope's death. Just a few words he gave.
Speaker 14 (25:48):
He obviously sent his condolences and we know now that
the flags will fly half mass today on all Commonwealth
buildings and he sent his sincere condolences and saying it
was be a very difficult evening.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
For all Australians.
Speaker 14 (26:02):
And we also got a statement from Peter Dubbin and
the opposition leader who said the pope was driven by
christ values of mercy and forgiveness.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Donna, you've just had a terrible Easter break at Ossie Beach's. Yeah,
I think it's been. You've had your worst seats ever
from drowning at this time of the year.
Speaker 11 (26:21):
Yes, so much, so much tragedy.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
A nine year old was trapped between rocks at a
popular holiday spot in New South Wales mid North Coast.
Now police did try to free the boy but sadly
he died at the scene. Now we know that hordes
of holidaymakers have headed to the beach. It's been glorious
weather right across the East Coast and Surf Life Saving
is saying that you know there've been countless rescues because
of these powerful swells. But we know that there's two
(26:46):
men missing since Friday. A twenty four year old was
swept off rocks in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. A forty one
year old in Victoria was missing, is missing. Sorry, three
friends were not into the water, and the missing man's
wife has rowned. Two people were swept off rocks while
fishing on the weekend as well.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
One saved one passed away.
Speaker 14 (27:07):
Sadly, a fifty eight year old fisherman was swept into
water over the weekend, and another has drowned in New
South Wales, and then another fisherman, so absolutely devastating, the tragic.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thank you for all the good news this morning, Donna.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Sorry about that. It's quite grim, quite grim.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Take care, have a good day. Thank you so much
for your time. It is eleven to six, said. The
world has been mourning the death of Pope Francis, who
died overnight at the age of eighty eight. He was
the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
And it comes as a shock as just the day before,
on Easter Sunday, the Pope had greeted a crowd of
tens of thousands at the Easter Sunday Mass in the Vatican. Right,
(27:51):
Rome correspondent Joe McKenna has the latest for us. She
joins us, Now, are you there, Joe, we'll just get
rid of the yes, Sex, can you me okay, Yes,
I can. Where are you There's a lot of bustle
around you. Are you out and amongst the people? Yes,
good morning, Francesca.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I'm at the Vatican right now, and thousands of people
are pouring into Saint Peter's Square as we speak for
a special rosary in memory of Pope Francis. People are
shocked and shaken, as you can imagine, just a day
after seeing him in this same square greeting the faithful
and blessing everyone for Easter Sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It has been a shock. Even though we know he
hasn't been well, his health seemed to be improving.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yes, after thirty eight days in hospital and some very
dangerous moments there where the doctor said they almost lost him.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There were hopes that he would recover.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
But as we probably as you probably saw, you know,
he was looking very weak and frail, and his voice
was struggling. I think we still saw that he was
struggling to get over that double pneumonia. And in a
short time tonight we're about to learn what.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
The cause of death was.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
There was a speculation that he died of a stroke overnight,
but some other speculations suggesting that it might have been
a pulmonary embolism. So just waiting for some results from
the Vatican on that tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, how much of an impact did Pope Francis have,
not just on the Catholic Church, but the whole world.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Joe. Look, I think it goes back to that first
night Francesco I was here in the square when he
was elected twenty thirteen, and he set the tone immediately
with his informality, his friendliness. And then soon after that
his first official visit, which many people may not remember,
(29:47):
was to the island of Lampadusa off the coast of Sicily,
where he wanted to reach out to all those migrants
who were struggling to make the voyage across the Mediterranean.
So really about informality, reaching out to the poor and
the underprivileged. He took a strong stand on climate change
and saving the planet, and was really against the trappings
(30:12):
of capitalism, status and all those things that we all
get caught up in consumerism and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And we can see that, can't we. Just in the
way that he's decided to have his public viewing at
the Basilica, you know, he doesn't want he wants to
be in the coffin, he doesn't want to be on
a raised podium. He wants to keep it simple.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, I think that's a very good message, and he
doesn't want to be buried at the Vatican. Like many
other poets, he has chosen his burial place in a
basilica on the other side of Rome called Saint Mary Major,
where he would often go and say a prayer to
the Madonna before he went traveling on his overseas trips,
(30:56):
many many overseas trips to faraway places from including a rack,
the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and again emphasizing that outreach
that he felt so strongly about.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
What happens now, so tonight there will be a ritual
inside his apartment inside the Vatican, the Kaza Marta apartment
where he lived. They will, I think, smash the ring
and seal his room, and then his body will be
(31:30):
moved into a coffin and moved into the basilica, probably
Wednesday morning, and he will lie in state there and
hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come into Rome.
I think we'll see the sort of reaction that we
saw with Pope John Paul's funeral way back in two
(31:50):
thousand and five. People will come from all over the
world for this viewing. Then the funeral is likely to
be held Friday or Sunday next weekend. Then there'll be
a break, There'll be days of several days of morning,
and then the conclave will begin inside the Systeine Chapel
to elect the new Pope.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Joe mckinna. Thank you so much for your time, really
appreciate this morning. It is seven to six you with
News Talks b.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
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Speaker 2 (32:28):
Coming up at six, of course, is Mike Hosking with
Mike Costing breakfast. It is with me now, good morning morning.
Do you think six a m. Is too early for
me to call the police on one I five to
let them know that someone stole my car license plates.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Just the plates, just the plan. Was something wrong with
the car?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
No, well, wouldn't we take it?
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Take it personally? So you obviously worried. I'm worried about
your car on the street.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It is on the street that one.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
So they came along and simply unscrewed your plates and
moved on.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm worried that they've been used from the serious.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
Oh as opposed to what franchisca? What do you think
they took?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I don't know, I don't know why they I think they.
Speaker 9 (33:03):
Probably I think the people who took them probably took
them for nefarious.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Because it possibility I could be in the headlines by
midday because I'm associated with.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
It is what the crime is, you're fair enough to
I would have already called. I wouldn't have gone five.
Wuld have gone one one. Absolutely, you can't go on one.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You don't for a stolen car that you call one.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
Of those it's a crime. Well how many cans if
you had stolen? I have no experience.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I don't expect the police to rush out and deal
with it. It's not a one one one.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
No, it's just a you would log it so technically
make me.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Never should have I done that at three o'clock?
Speaker 9 (33:34):
I way too late?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Now, don't say that way too late.
Speaker 9 (33:37):
I would have gone through this thing because imagine if
something was committed on four point fifteen and they go,
we'll hold on the plates, and they're trying to get
hold of me.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Now I will refer them back to five point fifty
sixty am on news storks what you mentioned.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
What are you going to do if you get home
and they're waiting for you, and you're going to do
that hole. It has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
I would never clue.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Do you want to give the plates out on here? Now?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Now you've blonde. That Prime Minister's with us later.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
By the way, fantastic. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Mike hosking with you at six. Have a great day.
I will see you tomorrow morning at five am, if
I'm not in prison or somewhere else. Take care, Louie.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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