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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge on
early edition with one roof Make Your Property Search Simple
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, you're on news Talks. He'd be just gone
six after five. Great to have your company this morning.
We're going to talk to an independent a Deeal out
of Australia as they go to the polls tomorrow. Vincent
Mcavannie's in the UK for US. Apparently Harod's is under
a cyber attack right now. A cyber attack right now.
I don't know who from, but somebody who likes nice things.
We're also going to talk to our reporters right around
(00:35):
the country. Obviously the weather has been affecting the South
Island over the weekend over the last twenty four hours,
and also the wind in Wellington meth We'll talk to
Mike Saber, remember he used to be a National MP,
former Detective Mike Saban up north about the myth not
just in the wastewater, but what they're seeing coming out
of hospitals is truly shocking. All ahead on your Friday morning,
(00:59):
the second and May of course, signal gates getting scalps
this morning. Reports that Trump's going to fire national security
advisor Mike Walls, the Boss was standing behind him as
recently as last week.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Do you think that Mike.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Walt made in the state and doesn't.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Need to apologize.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
No, I don't think he should apologize. I think he's
doing his best. It's equipment and technology that's not perfect,
and probably he won't be using it again.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Meanwhile, Levitt's boasting about the minerals deal that I've done
with the Ukraine looks as the one we told you
that they would sign yesterday and they did.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
His partnership establishes a fund that will receive fifty percent
of royalties, license fees, and other similar payments from natural
resource projects in Ukraine. President Trump has been clear from
the beginning he wants the killing in this brutal war
to end. This agreement shows how invested the President is
and securing a truly.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Lasting piece to the UK We go the football association
there in England football and have come to Ingham Netbulo,
I could say, have banned transgender women from competing in
their local competitions.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
I get a lot of my access to part community
being connected to my local kind of chiety. I've got
friends say to the team that I currently play for
and that's been taken away very very quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Apparently Cricket's going to be doing the same thing later
today or tomorrow. BENJAMINETTNYA who declaring a state of emergency
in Israel and its wildfires causing this. Thousands have been
evacuated forrests are being threatened along the main Jerusalem Tel
Aviv Highway and Harrod's as I said, the latest retail
victim of cyber attacks. The luxury stores had limited Internet
(02:44):
access after an attempt to gain access to its systems.
More with Vincent mcavenie later in the hour.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
News and Views You Trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Make your
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Speaker 9 (03:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It is nine after five. I noticed that the act
Party has taken a leaf out of my book. This
is about the size of not the size of the cabinet,
but the number of portfolios that we have in our cabinet.
It is outrageous and just so confusing and unnecessary. Anyway,
I did a piece for the Herald about this back
in February, and I basically argued, why is it that
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New Zealand has eighty one portfolios? You look at someone
like Ireland, similar size population, they've got seventeen. We have
eighty one portfolios. In fact, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Finland they
all have fewer than twenty. The UK, Canada, United States, Korea,
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they all have fewer than thirty. We have eighty one.
What on earth is going on here? Australia's population five
times larger than ours, but even they have almost half
the number of portfolios the Aussies now, way back in
nineteen twenty five, Prime Minister William Massey presided over a
(04:09):
cabinet of ten ministers and thirty portfolios. So in that time,
in the last one hundred years, we've gone from we've
doubled the size of the cabinet, sure, but we have
gone from thirty portfolios to eighty one. Too much overlap,
too much duplication.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
MB.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
For example, if you work at MB and you're listening
to this this morning, you'll be shaking your head because
you have to answer to seventeen ministers. Imagine having seventeen bosses.
No one wants one, let alone seventeen. What a nightmare.
It's portfolio overload basically, and how useful and effective are
(04:49):
some of these portfolios anyway. I mean, do we need
a minister for women? Do we need a minister for
veterans of fears? Do we need a minister for rural
e do we need a minister for ethnic communities? The
problem with these types of identity portfolios is that eventually
we'll all have one. Take women, for example, no question
(05:12):
there are disparities between men and women that warrant government attention,
no question about that. But there are also disparities that
go the other way. Men get sick more often and
die earlier than women. Four out of five Aucklanders living
without shelter and Auckland are male. Did you know that
men are three to five times more likely to die
(05:35):
by suicide? If we follow the logic of having a
ministry for women, should we not also have a ministry
for men? Where does the stop? The answer is it
doesn't and it should never have started. So what do
you do about it? Here's another example for you before
I finish. We have four portfolios covering Mardi Issues, Treaty
of White Tonguey Far No Order, Maldi Development and Maldi
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Crown Relations. We have three portfolios for young people, children,
child poverty, child poverty, reduction and youth. You know, shouldn't
veterans affairs sit under defense is family and sexual violence
not the purview of the police. If Luxon is serious
about getting his house in order, then he should do
(06:19):
it and start at the top.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Brian Bridge here on News Talks.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You'd be now the PSA has come on to talk
about this, which I find it slightly unusual because it's
not really their area of expertise. But if I was
the PSA, I would come on and I would say, yeah,
get rid oficent ministers, you know, put the show on
the other foot, give them the boot and clean their
house up. Anyway, was hear what further Simon's has got
(06:45):
to say? Next?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2 (06:55):
Quarter past five. Got numbers from GM and McDonald's international
for you in a second. Right now, Seymour wants to
clean out cabinet. We've got eighty one portfolios for ministers. Ireland,
similar sized country to US, has seventeen. Why do we
need a racing minister, a minister for Auckland, a minister
for child poverty, reduction flurfit Simon's PSA National secretary with
(07:16):
me this morning for good morning, good morning. Now, I
think you're going to agree with Seymour here. I think
you're going to come on here and you're going to say, actually,
there's too much double up. It's making life difficult for
public servants. Cut them back.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Not this morning. I actually just think it's a typical
ACT Party attack on the public service. And really our
populist dog was still not a serious proposal. He himself
recognizes that it's not something that he's actually proposing. He's
really just floating it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Be hand on, Helen, Well, how is this an attack
on the public service When he's saying the line there
are too many lines of communication, too many reporting lines.
It's making life harder for the public service to know
which master they're serving.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
He's also saying we should get rid of a whole
range of existing public service agencies. He's very clear about that,
and that's because the X Party don't actually believe in
proper funded public services that deliver for all New Zealanders.
They prefer a privatized model of delivery of public Sitting
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behind them.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Let's look at what he's saying he's saying, we have
eighty one portfolios for our cabinet of twenty ministers or
whatever it is. How many do you do you know
how many? Island has.
Speaker 10 (08:35):
A lot less seventeen not saying.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you know how many? Nay has fewer than twenty?
Finland's the same, The UK and Canada, for good mistakes,
and the US all have fewer than thirty. How does
this make sense?
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Those portfolios are political calls which are up to prime
ministers and leaders, and I'd say it's a bit hypocritical
for David Seymour to be saying he wants to reduce
the Both Times Act the being in government. Recently they've
created agencies, firstly the Productivity Commission and more recently the
Ministry for Regulation. But actually, if we think about this
(09:10):
problems facing New Zealand, do we need to invest more
in public services like health and education, law and order
and defense or do we need to invest less? They
are investing significantly less. On top of job cuts that
they imposed last.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Year, They're putting more into health. They're putting more into
health than labor promise to.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
They are not putting more into health than previous governments.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They are not putting more into health than labor promise to.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Everyone puts more. That is not correct. They already cut
jobs and how health already.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Tell that to a.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Worker that's lost their jobs. That to somebody, I'm not
vacancy feel I'm not saying true.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So I'm not saying people aren't losing their jobs. Money
is being reprioritized. You cannot tell me yes it is.
You cannot tell me that the health.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Budget that people are buying on to fun text cut.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay, tell me what his borrowing. Tell me what flir.
Tell me what the health budget is, and tell me
how different it is to what labor promised.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Our health budget has been cut by the skin.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No, no, tell me tell me how much the health
budget is and how different it is to what labor promised.
Because you said that it's different. You said that it's
lest Okay, I.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Will tell you first of all, if I've impost cuts
on data and digital on all of them.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I want a number, Flur, I want a number. You can't.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
I don't know today, okay, how the problem is, but
I can tell you it's okay.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, that's going on a hope and a dream where
we have to leave it there because I'm running out
of time. But that's first that Simon's from the PSA
see you next time for eighteen minutes after five News Talks,
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Speaker 1 (10:46):
The first Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
It is twenty one minutes after five News Talks. There
be so new charta from Health New Zealand release to
News Talks. There be patients being discharged from hospital with
meth as part of their diagnosis has quadrupled in the
last decade. The amount of the waistwater testing doubled, but
since twenty nineteen as well, which is obviously not great.
Mike saban Form, a detective and drug educator on the
(11:17):
show Mike Good Morning. Ll Right, where's it all coming from?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
The mess? Yeah, Southeast Asia and now South America.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And then does it go to the five oh one
gangs and then to Northland.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Well, we've had a triple tripling in the last twelve
months in actual effect, so a fair bit of it
will be. But I think the five ones have had
certainly had a hand to play. I think that's probably
largely where the American South American connections now come in.
But we're a country that has a large empetype for
a drug that we pay a lot more for than
anyone else. So it's not surprising that, you know, the
(11:57):
problem with bad bubbling away for the last twenty five
years is continuing on with a heat esteem.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Now, are you confident in those wastewater numbers that they
I mean they're terrible, but are they accurate?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Well, they're much better indicator than probably what we've had before,
But in a place like Northam, for example, there's a
lot of people obviously that are on septic tank, so
it's not picking them up, so it's not entirely accurate.
But if you look across a number of the other
indicators that certainly because they're pretty good indication that usage
is just steadily increasing and now exponentially increasing in recent years.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So what do you do about it? I mean, we've
been banging our heads against the wall trying to stop
us at the border. Clearly we're not stopping it. I
mean we're doing all we can and we're spending a
lot of money trying to do it, but it's not working.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
What do we do well, I guess The question is
if there's a demand, will always be a supply. It's
like any other commodity. It's just that this particular commodity,
you know, people get addicted to the stuff. They can't
not use it, and so you know, for the suppliers,
it's a really really made customers that just keep buying more.
(13:10):
So demand reduction really is the key. I mean, fundamentally,
you've got to turn the tap off on the supply
because otherwise people are going to keep supplying it, and
we don't really address that, haven't done so for the
twenty five years. We've had the problem largely because our
policy is centered around the notion of harmonimization or problem limitation,
(13:30):
which accepts that use is going to happen and tries
to manage it, which is the wrong way to go
about it. Anywhere that's seen any reductions has really had
a focus on prevention, which we do with tobacco, we
do with you know, diabetes and other health issues. I'm
not sure why drug use we say, well, let's just
try and manage the problem instead of preventing it from
(13:50):
starting an affairs.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Interesting, Mike, appreciate your time this morning. Mike Sabin Form
a detective drug educator of course nationally MP as well.
You're on news Talk ZB twenty four minutes half to five.
Some thoughts on Weiss and confessions for you actually next
the early.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
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News Talks HEB twenty six minutes after five. All Right,
it is Friday, and it is Friday confessional time with
all the pope passing away and focus on Catholicism. I'm
feeling quite repentant this morning. There are two things I
predicted would happen last December as I was signing off,
merely signing off for Christmas here at News TALKSB. One
(14:33):
of those things hasn't happened, and the other one is
about to not happen. Yev winning the Canadian election and
Elbow losing Australia's We all know who's to blame. You
know who it is, the wild card, the Camick, Carzee,
the outlaw. It was the Trump bump that did it
for these guys. Carney, while he's won, will have a
(14:53):
very tough term in office given the whole rally around
the Flagpole effect and support of the Canadian sovereignty movement,
will fizzle out as quickly as just Sinda's COVID election
high did. The underlying problems Canadians felt before this month
long lovin' will remain, will persist, and this will surely
be his high tide mark. But that's no excuse I
(15:14):
got it wrong, fair cop. And as for Dutton, who's
now been well looking behind the couch, looking under every
rock and every nook and cranny he can for something
relevant to say, he's now beating up on the return
to country, which during a cost of living crisis people
want not really to hear about, Thank you very much,
sort of like when Judith Collins went on the attack
(15:37):
about fat people and that ill fated twenty twenty election campaign.
Remember that if you want to lose weight, then eat less.
Actually not unreasonable thing to say for most people. But
it's the timing, isn't it. It's the timing in the
middle of an election campaign. It's the focus on that
when you should be talking about bigger things. And that
(15:57):
brings us to the elephant in the White House. Trump.
While I predicted he would win last November, I think
most of us underestimated just what America First would mean
for the rest of the world. When somebody comes first,
somebody loses, and both Elbow and Karney have been the
benefactors of that. His power, of course, has swung global
political pendulums before. Remember his rise and international the rise,
(16:21):
i should say, an international star power of Jasinda Adern
that was really born out of an anti Trump backlash
from his first term. The liberal, young female prime minister
banning assault weapons and a country post mass shooting becomes
the darling of the global left, just the tonic for
(16:42):
those who not only dislike but actually despise Trump and
his band of Mary Maga supporters. So the political lesson
is don't underestimate the Trump bump or the Trump dump
on any foreign election. The question is what does this
mean for our election next. We're less affected by the
tariffs unless China implodes. We're not yet being threatened with invasion,
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though don't rule that out. And unlike the Aussies and
the Canadians, our incumbents aren't bent to the right. So
the risk of a Trump bump getting chippy over the
line here if you start singing from Phil Gof's songbook,
is perhaps more limited, but not nonexistent. When Washington cofts
somebody gets a cold. How Luxeon and Winston to an
(17:29):
extent navigate the next eighteen months will determine whether it's them.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That catches it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Twenty nine after five.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Get ahead of the headlines on early editions with Ryan
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Speaker 3 (17:52):
Me good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It is twenty four minutes away from six year old.
News talkszb will get your across the weather in just
a few moments or with our reporters. Loads of feedback
to Furfit Simon's from the PSA, Ryan, your guest was outrageous,
screaming words and false claims like Ginny Anderson. Ryan, the
PSA is part of the problems with the portfolios. Would
you perform prefer more at the top or more people
(18:17):
on the front lines? Which is it? It's a good point.
Another here just says linking the meth story. Should they
test the bee hive wastewater for me? Right? It is
twenty four minutes away from six. We'll get to Australia
on good poll Out of Australia, get to the teal
candidate with us before top of the hour, Bridge shin
(18:38):
out to our reporters around the country and calum is
with US first and Junedin clum the time might soon
run out for changing at Saint Clair, Espinard and Dunedin. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
Look, the surf is here in particular won't be too
happy about this news. All day parking space is at
the popular beach front and also nearby roads or remarks
have become time restricted space. This is under a council proposal.
It's all day free parking there at the moment, but
the time restrictions are now being proposed, ranging from five minutes,
(19:08):
two hours and four hours. The council says a lack
of restrictions in the past has limited the amount of
short term parking available for visitors especially. They say changes
aim to increased turnover and availability to help businesses at
the esplanade. Public submissions on this are open until May
twenty third.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Excellent. How's your weather? Shall is clear to find this afternoon?
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Here?
Speaker 11 (19:30):
For US South Esterly's the high fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Claire Surewood with a state of emergency in place for
christ Church Banks Peninsula and Selwyn. How is the weather clear?
Speaker 12 (19:39):
Good morning, Ryan, Well, most of the actual weather warnings
have been lifted late last night however, we do still
have some in place for the south Island, more near
Kaikoda Way and then of course a lower north But
despite that, we still have rain here in christ Church
this morning. It is a little later, but the remnants
of the bad weather are still well and truly with
us confirming at the moment with Met Service, but it
(20:02):
looks like this rainfall event has been a record breaker
for christ Church. It looks like it's in the top
five wettest days recorded since Met Service records began. We
still have localized flooding. The Avon River is particularly bad,
while councils also keeping a close eye on the Heathkeet River.
The Salwyn River has also been of concern. We've started
(20:23):
to see some slips as well. Three homes evacuated in
Akadowa due to the threat of one last night, while
there was a slip in a street in Littleton. The
residents of one home self evacuated there. We've also had
a request for residents in Old Tai Tapu Road to
begin voluntarily evacuating due to river levels. So for many
others it's sort of more about mop up, but some
(20:45):
concern today as well about the potential contamination of the floodwaters.
Plumbing systems are struggling, and of course the rain's continuing,
but it will start to eat throughout the day. Souther
Lees with it two and a high.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Twelve stay so clear, maxis and willing to max. Good morning.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
The wind for you guys, yeah, exactly, Not so much
the rain but the wind. Thankfully that def Con wind
red wind warning we had yesterday has been downgraded to orange,
but that still means that the wind is very strong today.
It is going to slowly ease, but people should still
be cautious. Steady rain this morning as well. Still some
cancelations at Wellington Airport in and out. The ferries are
(21:23):
still not running this morning. Power is back to most homes,
but there are still some outages, for instance up the
coast in Carpeti Foxton, a few dozen homes in wided
Upper Cape Palliser was badly affected yesterday. Road closures overnight
as well, mostly coastal roads where the worst of the
surface flooding was Unsurprisingly, they're aim to reopen this morning hopefully,
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still be careful on the roads around trees, power lines,
debris may still be flying around. Very strong southerly and
check transport as well. Bus replacements are likely on the
hud Valley and wided app rail lines. There was a
track washout near Pittawney Pets as well, to take care
of them. The worst has passed, but caution the key today.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
All right, take care out there, everybody, Max, thank you
for that. Neihvas and Auckland never good morning, good morning.
The Auckland Council voting on this Western Springs thing and
the public going to have a say.
Speaker 14 (22:12):
Yes now we've got the stormy conditions indoors. So the
Auckland Council it didn't endorse either the Orkan FC back
proposal or the joint effort by Pons and b Rugby
Club and the music promoter c S Records. You know,
like yesterday there was a lot of discussion on whether
the speedway could be revived there as well. So all
three of these options are on the table for consultation.
(22:35):
There was a debate on this motion alone that talk.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 14 (22:39):
Four hours saw two amendments shot down, multiple heated clashes
between the councils everyone. There were a few people yelling
there loud objections support us from both sides, you know
of the Auckland f C proposal and that included Elie
Williams and those who wanted to save the speedway.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Wayne Brown walked out at one point too. I did yeah,
all on for young and old, Oh for goodness now.
Speaker 14 (23:00):
With her yea we much come and competer the rest
of the country rain no possible thunderstorms, but it will
be fined by the afternoon. Eighteen is a high.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Brilliant Nava, thank you, loving to see your happy Friday.
It is nineteen minutes away from top of the nineteen
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Live international correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance Peace of mind
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Sixteen away from six news Talks, Heb. Vincent Mecavini a
UK europe correspondent. Vince and welcome to the program. European
leaders cautiously welcoming this minerals deal. This is the one
between the US and Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Good morning, Yeah, this breakthrough through deal between the US
and Ukraine, which comes after the two leaders, Vladimirzelenski and
President Trump met here in Europe in the Vatican for
the Pope's funeral on Saturday. This deal has now been
struck many months in the making, it was meant to
be signed, remember in that disastrous Oval Office meeting. It
(23:59):
has now been signed, and European leaders are cautiously optimistic
about it. They think that Ukraine has been able to
negotiate a good deal. Some of the demands that the
Americans had about repaying all the money that had been
three hundred and fifty billion dollars spent trying to help
Ukraine defend itself, that is now gone. There's no hindrance
to Ukraine joining the EU. That was another concern that
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they had, but that still seems fully open. And indeed
there are provisions saying that when they come to joining
the EU things need to be looked at. In this deal.
The Americans are happy to do that, and that the
profits will be potentially of it will be reinvested in
Ukraine without anyone who's been cooperating with Russia over the
past couple of years able to help in any way
(24:45):
with the reconstruction. So the EU seems pretty happy so
far with what they're seeing.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
What about this lockdown, sorry, the Sir cyber attack that's
hit Herod's in London.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, this is the latest cyber attack on big retailers
here in Britain. It's taken out Marks and Spencer this week.
The sort of famous co supermarket here. They've been left
with their website offline, shelves going empty, warehouses shut because
this ransomware attack on their operations, which is costing them
millions of pounds a day. Another supermarket here, the Cooperative,
(25:19):
They've also been attacked but have managed to fend some
of it off. And now Harrod's struggling as well. It's
had to lock down its computer systems because it detected
a similar attack was going on. It seems like its
operations are still ongoing, but they think that they are
still under attack. And what's really interesting about this is
that the co Op, one of the supermarkets attacked, has
(25:40):
brought in a new measure where when anyone goes onto
a Zoom or team's call, they have to have their
cameras on and identify themselves. There's a suspicion amongst the
IT experts here in the UK that hackers have been
able to lurk in the background of Zoom and teams
calls and find out crucial data and get access into
(26:02):
the systems that keep these stores going creepy.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You need a pass code or something, a safe word
when you go on a zoom call. Vincent, thank you
for that, Vincent mcavenie, our UK europe correspondent. It is
thirteen away from six Ryan Bridge. So the Aussies going
to the polls tomorrow. It was close, was close, elbows
now pulled ahead. Will he lose his majority though? Will
he need the Greens? Does he need to do some
kind of deal the Tials? Who know about the Tills?
(26:26):
A very big movement over there, the founding member Zarlie Steegel,
she took the seat from Tony Abbtt, remember that who
had it for twenty five years. Azarie's with me this morning,
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Good morning, line.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So how do you think this is going to play out?
What chance do the Tills have? Do you think of
holding the balance of power after this?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Ah, that's a million dollar question. Many journalists go asking, Look,
I think what we can see is in austrange politics,
the confidence in the major parties keeps decreasing. People are
frustrated and over the old you know, politics for power.
They want to see a focus on policy on people
and communities, and so that primary vote keeps dropping for
(27:04):
the major parties, and we're seeing the rise of community
independence you know, sometimes labeled teals, but all around the
country in many, many communities. And I think it's about
thirty five candidates around the country now that have really
decent shots at changing the narratives in those people.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Who would you be most comfortable dealing with.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Look, I'm not particularly open to a deal per se.
I think I will look obviously the will of the
australand people. I will look at. An essential element for
me is stability, making sure we have good function in government.
The Australian people have very real issues they need dealing
cost of living, climate risk, insurance, you know, our national security,
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all these issues need a stable hand. So I think
transition is really important to look for stability, but ultimately
I will tackle the issues as they come and on
their merits. So I have a very clear pitch to
my community around the issues that I will check right
from fiscal discipline and integrity, climate risk, and these are
(28:05):
things that I will continue to look to legislation from
either major party to how we can best progress that Now.
Obviously convention in Parliament has evolved towards this by you know,
polarized system of the two party politics. But our convention
doesn't talk about political parties. It actually talks of a
health of representatives. So the constitution actually allows for a
(28:28):
very different model of politics to evolve. And I think
that's what a mature Australian Parliament can look like, is
actually having more genuine debate and genuinely looking at the
big issues we need to do for the best interest
of austrange people.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So you don't actually want to do a deal with anyone,
You don't want to be in a coalition. You don't
want to do confidence and supplier. You basically want to
sit on the cross benches and vote by vote.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I will tackle legislation on its merits looking at those issues. Obviously,
the question of supply and confidence will come down to
numbers as a result of the election capacity to pass
legislation from one side or the other. When it comes
to money bills, there's a lot of I guess convention
that is not actually required Constitutionally. A party can go
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to the Government General to form government without having a
signed deal per se. It is just a question of
whether they would be able to survive a no confidence motion.
Now again I would not for me. You know, it's
very important to have stable operating government, and I think
that again will be part of the consideration post the election.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Just give us a sense of who the teals are.
You're fysically conservative, but you obviously got a climate leans
on you. What does your voter base want from you?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Look, I guess we're very representative of our communities, but
what it is is actually communities frustrated with old style politics,
you know, the old school of the major parties slanging
it out against each other, a lot of negative advertising,
always really spreading smear and fear, but very little vision
(30:05):
or positive proposals for our community. So we are not
a party, so we vote very independently of one another.
That we're very aligned on values around merit based policy,
around fact base, around sound and good law, around integrity, equality,
addressing the big issues, having political courage to talk about
(30:28):
the things that are hard to do but that currently
our political system are just kicking the can down the
road and not addressing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Can you just make this really clear for key, we's
listening to this this morning. If it's really tight and
you've got Labor and the Greens on one side, and
you've got the Coalition on the other, and neither of
them can actually govern them without support from some tialsome independence.
Who do you go with?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, again, I don't think that will be the question.
Keeping in mind coalition is already an agreement between the
Liberal Party and the National Time so that is already
a coalition itself. I want to understand the terms of
that agreement. I think there'll be a question of is
there a mandate for change of government or not, depending
on the will of the Australian people. And I will
(31:11):
be guided by the numbers and there are so many
variations of what could be possible.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But however Australians support more, you would lean.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Towards I would because again that shows a capacity for stability,
which I think is an essense, That is an essential aspect.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
All right, Zali, appreciate you coming on the program. That's
Zali Stegel. She's the MP for w Ringer. She replaced
Tony Abbott who had the seat for twenty five years.
She's a teel and independent. And since that interviewed is
a u gav bol poll and if you believe the
polls and certainly that wasn't the case when scomo Surprise
Surprise one in twenty nineteen. But it has the Coalition
(31:50):
on track for their worst result in eighty years. Elbow
actually expanding his majority eighty four seats in the Parliament,
well above, of course, the seventy six that you need
the Coalition and drops seventy forty seven seats, a net
loss of eleven. You're on news Talk, said B seven
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A O.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Britain's factories are in trouble, so the Bank of England's
going to come in and cut the rates. Next week
they reckon the slashing begins. So this is for April
British factory activity, fastest slump in export orders in five years.
This is the S and P Global Survey of Manufacturers.
That's not really a surprise. Mike is here with you
next on your Friday morning. Good morning, Mike morning. You
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gripped by the mushroom case. I gripped ish because I
think we all know what happened.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
See That's what's funny. You should say that because I'm
not gripped by crime in any way, shape or form.
You know how the media fascinates themselves with trials, most trials.
You know what happened, Yeah, don't you. And it's a
very very rare day that to genuine who done it?
This doesn't as strike me as a who done it
because we know we know who.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Just look at the plates, you know, it's got different
colored plates. I mean, that's a dead give a detail.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yesterday on the phones she was googling death cap mushrooms.
On the phone tracks her to the death cap mush
I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And also she doesn't normally have that number of plates
in the house, correct, somebody was.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Unusual, didn't have a lot of plates, and she spent
a fortune quote unquote on beef Wellington.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I mean, look at her.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Her estranged ex husband to dinner or lunch would have been,
whatever the case was. You know, I was just checking
out that. It just seems this is hard to lose. Yeah,
I'm thinking anyway, the David Seymour thing, I suppose if
you don't want to get exercised about, we've got the
CEO salary thing out this morning, and I don't you're
(33:53):
not on it. I know you're not a CEO, but.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
I'm not on it.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I know what you were, and it's there there with
the big boys. Might up there with the big boys.
Why anyway?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
More shortly, have a great day to run. See you
on Monday. Stay safe out there.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, you're on news Talks. He'd be just gone
six after five. Great to have your company this morning.
We're going to talk to an independent a Deeal out
of Australia as they go to the polls tomorrow. Vincent
Mcavannie's in the UK for US. Apparently Harod's is under
a cyber attack right now. A cyber attack right now.
I don't know who from, but somebody who likes nice things.
We're also going to talk to our reporters right around
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the country. Obviously the weather has been affecting the South
Island over the weekend over the last twenty four hours,
and also the wind in Wellington meth We'll talk to
Mike Saber, remember he used to be a National MP,
former Detective Mike Saban up north about the myth not
just in the wastewater, but what they're seeing coming out
of hospitals is truly shocking. All ahead on your Friday morning,
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the second and May of course, signal gates getting scalps
this morning. Reports that Trump's going to fire national security
advisor Mike Walls, the Boss was standing behind him as
recently as last week.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Do you think that Mike.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Walt made in the state and doesn't.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Need to apologize.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
No, I don't think he should apologize. I think he's
doing his best. It's equipment and technology that's not perfect,
and probably he won't be using it again.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Meanwhile, Levitt's boasting about the minerals deal that I've done
with the Ukraine looks as the one we told you
that they would sign yesterday and they did.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
His partnership establishes a fund that will receive fifty percent
of royalties, license fees, and other similar payments from natural
resource projects in Ukraine. President Trump has been clear from
the beginning he wants the killing in this brutal war
to end. This agreement shows how invested the President is
and securing a truly.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Lasting piece to the UK We go the football association
there in England football and have come to Ingham Netbulo,
I could say, have banned transgender women from competing in
their local competitions.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
I get a lot of my access to part community
being connected to my local kind of chiety. I've got
friends say to the team that I currently play for
and that's been taken away very very quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Apparently Cricket's going to be doing the same thing later
today or tomorrow. BENJAMINETTNYA who declaring a state of emergency
in Israel and its wildfires causing this. Thousands have been
evacuated forrests are being threatened along the main Jerusalem Tel
Aviv Highway and Harrod's as I said, the latest retail
victim of cyber attacks. The luxury stores had limited Internet
(02:44):
access after an attempt to gain access to its systems.
More with Vincent mcavenie later in the hour.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
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Speaker 9 (03:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It is nine after five. I noticed that the act
Party has taken a leaf out of my book. This
is about the size of not the size of the cabinet,
but the number of portfolios that we have in our cabinet.
It is outrageous and just so confusing and unnecessary. Anyway,
I did a piece for the Herald about this back
in February, and I basically argued, why is it that
(03:27):
New Zealand has eighty one portfolios? You look at someone
like Ireland, similar size population, they've got seventeen. We have
eighty one portfolios. In fact, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Finland they
all have fewer than twenty. The UK, Canada, United States, Korea,
(03:48):
they all have fewer than thirty. We have eighty one.
What on earth is going on here? Australia's population five
times larger than ours, but even they have almost half
the number of portfolios the Aussies now, way back in
nineteen twenty five, Prime Minister William Massey presided over a
(04:09):
cabinet of ten ministers and thirty portfolios. So in that time,
in the last one hundred years, we've gone from we've
doubled the size of the cabinet, sure, but we have
gone from thirty portfolios to eighty one. Too much overlap,
too much duplication.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
MB.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
For example, if you work at MB and you're listening
to this this morning, you'll be shaking your head because
you have to answer to seventeen ministers. Imagine having seventeen bosses.
No one wants one, let alone seventeen. What a nightmare.
It's portfolio overload basically, and how useful and effective are
(04:49):
some of these portfolios anyway. I mean, do we need
a minister for women? Do we need a minister for
veterans of fears? Do we need a minister for rural
e do we need a minister for ethnic communities? The
problem with these types of identity portfolios is that eventually
we'll all have one. Take women, for example, no question
(05:12):
there are disparities between men and women that warrant government attention,
no question about that. But there are also disparities that
go the other way. Men get sick more often and
die earlier than women. Four out of five Aucklanders living
without shelter and Auckland are male. Did you know that
men are three to five times more likely to die
(05:35):
by suicide? If we follow the logic of having a
ministry for women, should we not also have a ministry
for men? Where does the stop? The answer is it
doesn't and it should never have started. So what do
you do about it? Here's another example for you before
I finish. We have four portfolios covering Mardi Issues, Treaty
of White Tonguey Far No Order, Maldi Development and Maldi
(05:59):
Crown Relations. We have three portfolios for young people, children,
child poverty, child poverty, reduction and youth. You know, shouldn't
veterans affairs sit under defense is family and sexual violence
not the purview of the police. If Luxon is serious
about getting his house in order, then he should do
(06:19):
it and start at the top.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Brian Bridge here on News Talks.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You'd be now the PSA has come on to talk
about this, which I find it slightly unusual because it's
not really their area of expertise. But if I was
the PSA, I would come on and I would say, yeah,
get rid oficent ministers, you know, put the show on
the other foot, give them the boot and clean their
house up. Anyway, was hear what further Simon's has got
(06:45):
to say? Next?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
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Speaker 2 (06:55):
Quarter past five. Got numbers from GM and McDonald's international
for you in a second. Right now, Seymour wants to
clean out cabinet. We've got eighty one portfolios for ministers. Ireland,
similar sized country to US, has seventeen. Why do we
need a racing minister, a minister for Auckland, a minister
for child poverty, reduction flurfit Simon's PSA National secretary with
(07:16):
me this morning for good morning, good morning. Now, I
think you're going to agree with Seymour here. I think
you're going to come on here and you're going to say, actually,
there's too much double up. It's making life difficult for
public servants. Cut them back.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Not this morning. I actually just think it's a typical
ACT Party attack on the public service. And really our
populist dog was still not a serious proposal. He himself
recognizes that it's not something that he's actually proposing. He's
really just floating it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Be hand on, Helen, Well, how is this an attack
on the public service When he's saying the line there
are too many lines of communication, too many reporting lines.
It's making life harder for the public service to know
which master they're serving.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
He's also saying we should get rid of a whole
range of existing public service agencies. He's very clear about that,
and that's because the X Party don't actually believe in
proper funded public services that deliver for all New Zealanders.
They prefer a privatized model of delivery of public Sitting
(08:23):
behind them.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Let's look at what he's saying he's saying, we have
eighty one portfolios for our cabinet of twenty ministers or
whatever it is. How many do you do you know
how many? Island has.
Speaker 10 (08:35):
A lot less seventeen not saying.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you know how many? Nay has fewer than twenty?
Finland's the same, The UK and Canada, for good mistakes,
and the US all have fewer than thirty. How does
this make sense?
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Those portfolios are political calls which are up to prime
ministers and leaders, and I'd say it's a bit hypocritical
for David Seymour to be saying he wants to reduce
the Both Times Act the being in government. Recently they've
created agencies, firstly the Productivity Commission and more recently the
Ministry for Regulation. But actually, if we think about this
(09:10):
problems facing New Zealand, do we need to invest more
in public services like health and education, law and order
and defense or do we need to invest less? They
are investing significantly less. On top of job cuts that
they imposed last.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Year, They're putting more into health. They're putting more into
health than labor promise to.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
They are not putting more into health than previous governments.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They are not putting more into health than labor promise to.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Everyone puts more. That is not correct. They already cut
jobs and how health already.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Tell that to a.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
Worker that's lost their jobs. That to somebody, I'm not
vacancy feel I'm not saying true.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
So I'm not saying people aren't losing their jobs. Money
is being reprioritized. You cannot tell me yes it is.
You cannot tell me that the health.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Budget that people are buying on to fun text cut.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Okay, tell me what his borrowing. Tell me what flir.
Tell me what the health budget is, and tell me
how different it is to what labor promised.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Our health budget has been cut by the skin.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No, no, tell me tell me how much the health
budget is and how different it is to what labor promised.
Because you said that it's different. You said that it's
lest Okay, I.
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Will tell you first of all, if I've impost cuts
on data and digital on all of them.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I want a number, Flur, I want a number. You can't.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
I don't know today, okay, how the problem is, but
I can tell you it's okay.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, that's going on a hope and a dream where
we have to leave it there because I'm running out
of time. But that's first that Simon's from the PSA
see you next time for eighteen minutes after five News Talks,
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It is twenty one minutes after five News Talks. There
be so new charta from Health New Zealand release to
News Talks. There be patients being discharged from hospital with
meth as part of their diagnosis has quadrupled in the
last decade. The amount of the waistwater testing doubled, but
since twenty nineteen as well, which is obviously not great.
Mike saban Form, a detective and drug educator on the
(11:17):
show Mike Good Morning. Ll Right, where's it all coming from?
Speaker 9 (11:23):
The mess? Yeah, Southeast Asia and now South America.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And then does it go to the five oh one
gangs and then to Northland.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Well, we've had a triple tripling in the last twelve
months in actual effect, so a fair bit of it
will be. But I think the five ones have had
certainly had a hand to play. I think that's probably
largely where the American South American connections now come in.
But we're a country that has a large empetype for
a drug that we pay a lot more for than
anyone else. So it's not surprising that, you know, the
(11:57):
problem with bad bubbling away for the last twenty five
years is continuing on with a heat esteem.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Now, are you confident in those wastewater numbers that they
I mean they're terrible, but are they accurate?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Well, they're much better indicator than probably what we've had before,
But in a place like Northam, for example, there's a
lot of people obviously that are on septic tank, so
it's not picking them up, so it's not entirely accurate.
But if you look across a number of the other
indicators that certainly because they're pretty good indication that usage
is just steadily increasing and now exponentially increasing in recent years.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So what do you do about it? I mean, we've
been banging our heads against the wall trying to stop
us at the border. Clearly we're not stopping it. I
mean we're doing all we can and we're spending a
lot of money trying to do it, but it's not working.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
What do we do well, I guess The question is
if there's a demand, will always be a supply. It's
like any other commodity. It's just that this particular commodity,
you know, people get addicted to the stuff. They can't
not use it, and so you know, for the suppliers,
it's a really really made customers that just keep buying more.
(13:10):
So demand reduction really is the key. I mean, fundamentally,
you've got to turn the tap off on the supply
because otherwise people are going to keep supplying it, and
we don't really address that, haven't done so for the
twenty five years. We've had the problem largely because our
policy is centered around the notion of harmonimization or problem limitation,
(13:30):
which accepts that use is going to happen and tries
to manage it, which is the wrong way to go
about it. Anywhere that's seen any reductions has really had
a focus on prevention, which we do with tobacco, we
do with you know, diabetes and other health issues. I'm
not sure why drug use we say, well, let's just
try and manage the problem instead of preventing it from
(13:50):
starting an affairs.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Interesting, Mike, appreciate your time this morning. Mike Sabin Form
a detective drug educator of course nationally MP as well.
You're on news Talk ZB twenty four minutes half to five.
Some thoughts on Weiss and confessions for you actually next
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News Talks HEB twenty six minutes after five. All Right,
it is Friday, and it is Friday confessional time with
all the pope passing away and focus on Catholicism. I'm
feeling quite repentant this morning. There are two things I
predicted would happen last December as I was signing off,
merely signing off for Christmas here at News TALKSB. One
(14:33):
of those things hasn't happened, and the other one is
about to not happen. Yev winning the Canadian election and
Elbow losing Australia's We all know who's to blame. You
know who it is, the wild card, the Camick, Carzee,
the outlaw. It was the Trump bump that did it
for these guys. Carney, while he's won, will have a
(14:53):
very tough term in office given the whole rally around
the Flagpole effect and support of the Canadian sovereignty movement,
will fizzle out as quickly as just Sinda's COVID election
high did. The underlying problems Canadians felt before this month
long lovin' will remain, will persist, and this will surely
be his high tide mark. But that's no excuse I
(15:14):
got it wrong, fair cop. And as for Dutton, who's
now been well looking behind the couch, looking under every
rock and every nook and cranny he can for something
relevant to say, he's now beating up on the return
to country, which during a cost of living crisis people
want not really to hear about, Thank you very much,
sort of like when Judith Collins went on the attack
(15:37):
about fat people and that ill fated twenty twenty election campaign.
Remember that if you want to lose weight, then eat less.
Actually not unreasonable thing to say for most people. But
it's the timing, isn't it. It's the timing in the
middle of an election campaign. It's the focus on that
when you should be talking about bigger things. And that
(15:57):
brings us to the elephant in the White House. Trump.
While I predicted he would win last November, I think
most of us underestimated just what America First would mean
for the rest of the world. When somebody comes first,
somebody loses, and both Elbow and Karney have been the
benefactors of that. His power, of course, has swung global
political pendulums before. Remember his rise and international the rise,
(16:21):
i should say, an international star power of Jasinda Adern
that was really born out of an anti Trump backlash
from his first term. The liberal, young female prime minister
banning assault weapons and a country post mass shooting becomes
the darling of the global left, just the tonic for
(16:42):
those who not only dislike but actually despise Trump and
his band of Mary Maga supporters. So the political lesson
is don't underestimate the Trump bump or the Trump dump
on any foreign election. The question is what does this
mean for our election next. We're less affected by the
tariffs unless China implodes. We're not yet being threatened with invasion,
(17:06):
though don't rule that out. And unlike the Aussies and
the Canadians, our incumbents aren't bent to the right. So
the risk of a Trump bump getting chippy over the
line here if you start singing from Phil Gof's songbook,
is perhaps more limited, but not nonexistent. When Washington cofts
somebody gets a cold. How Luxeon and Winston to an
(17:29):
extent navigate the next eighteen months will determine whether it's them.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That catches it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
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Me good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It is twenty four minutes away from six year old.
News talkszb will get your across the weather in just
a few moments or with our reporters. Loads of feedback
to Furfit Simon's from the PSA, Ryan, your guest was outrageous,
screaming words and false claims like Ginny Anderson. Ryan, the
PSA is part of the problems with the portfolios. Would
you perform prefer more at the top or more people
(18:17):
on the front lines? Which is it? It's a good point.
Another here just says linking the meth story. Should they
test the bee hive wastewater for me? Right? It is
twenty four minutes away from six. We'll get to Australia
on good poll Out of Australia, get to the teal
candidate with us before top of the hour, Bridge shin
(18:38):
out to our reporters around the country and calum is
with US first and Junedin clum the time might soon
run out for changing at Saint Clair, Espinard and Dunedin. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
Look, the surf is here in particular won't be too
happy about this news. All day parking space is at
the popular beach front and also nearby roads or remarks
have become time restricted space. This is under a council proposal.
It's all day free parking there at the moment, but
the time restrictions are now being proposed, ranging from five minutes,
(19:08):
two hours and four hours. The council says a lack
of restrictions in the past has limited the amount of
short term parking available for visitors especially. They say changes
aim to increased turnover and availability to help businesses at
the esplanade. Public submissions on this are open until May
twenty third.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Excellent. How's your weather? Shall is clear to find this afternoon?
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Here?
Speaker 11 (19:30):
For US South Esterly's the high fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Claire Surewood with a state of emergency in place for
christ Church Banks Peninsula and Selwyn. How is the weather clear?
Speaker 12 (19:39):
Good morning, Ryan, Well, most of the actual weather warnings
have been lifted late last night however, we do still
have some in place for the south Island, more near
Kaikoda Way and then of course a lower north But
despite that, we still have rain here in christ Church
this morning. It is a little later, but the remnants
of the bad weather are still well and truly with
us confirming at the moment with Met Service, but it
(20:02):
looks like this rainfall event has been a record breaker
for christ Church. It looks like it's in the top
five wettest days recorded since Met Service records began. We
still have localized flooding. The Avon River is particularly bad,
while councils also keeping a close eye on the Heathkeet River.
The Salwyn River has also been of concern. We've started
(20:23):
to see some slips as well. Three homes evacuated in
Akadowa due to the threat of one last night, while
there was a slip in a street in Littleton. The
residents of one home self evacuated there. We've also had
a request for residents in Old Tai Tapu Road to
begin voluntarily evacuating due to river levels. So for many
others it's sort of more about mop up, but some
(20:45):
concern today as well about the potential contamination of the floodwaters.
Plumbing systems are struggling, and of course the rain's continuing,
but it will start to eat throughout the day. Souther
Lees with it two and a high.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Twelve stay so clear, maxis and willing to max. Good morning.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
The wind for you guys, yeah, exactly, Not so much
the rain but the wind. Thankfully that def Con wind
red wind warning we had yesterday has been downgraded to orange,
but that still means that the wind is very strong today.
It is going to slowly ease, but people should still
be cautious. Steady rain this morning as well. Still some
cancelations at Wellington Airport in and out. The ferries are
(21:23):
still not running this morning. Power is back to most homes,
but there are still some outages, for instance up the
coast in Carpeti Foxton, a few dozen homes in wided
Upper Cape Palliser was badly affected yesterday. Road closures overnight
as well, mostly coastal roads where the worst of the
surface flooding was Unsurprisingly, they're aim to reopen this morning hopefully,
(21:45):
still be careful on the roads around trees, power lines,
debris may still be flying around. Very strong southerly and
check transport as well. Bus replacements are likely on the
hud Valley and wided app rail lines. There was a
track washout near Pittawney Pets as well, to take care
of them. The worst has passed, but caution the key today.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
All right, take care out there, everybody, Max, thank you
for that. Neihvas and Auckland never good morning, good morning.
The Auckland Council voting on this Western Springs thing and
the public going to have a say.
Speaker 14 (22:12):
Yes now we've got the stormy conditions indoors. So the
Auckland Council it didn't endorse either the Orkan FC back
proposal or the joint effort by Pons and b Rugby
Club and the music promoter c S Records. You know,
like yesterday there was a lot of discussion on whether
the speedway could be revived there as well. So all
three of these options are on the table for consultation.
(22:35):
There was a debate on this motion alone that talk.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Can you believe it?
Speaker 14 (22:39):
Four hours saw two amendments shot down, multiple heated clashes
between the councils everyone. There were a few people yelling
there loud objections support us from both sides, you know
of the Auckland f C proposal and that included Elie
Williams and those who wanted to save the speedway.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Wayne Brown walked out at one point too. I did yeah,
all on for young and old, Oh for goodness now.
Speaker 14 (23:00):
With her yea we much come and competer the rest
of the country rain no possible thunderstorms, but it will
be fined by the afternoon. Eighteen is a high.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Brilliant Nava, thank you, loving to see your happy Friday.
It is nineteen minutes away from top of the nineteen
minutes away from six year on News Talks. Herb next
Herod's the subject of a cybertech house correspondence.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Live international correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance Peace of mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sixteen away from six news Talks, Heb. Vincent Mecavini a
UK europe correspondent. Vince and welcome to the program. European
leaders cautiously welcoming this minerals deal. This is the one
between the US and Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Good morning, Yeah, this breakthrough through deal between the US
and Ukraine, which comes after the two leaders, Vladimirzelenski and
President Trump met here in Europe in the Vatican for
the Pope's funeral on Saturday. This deal has now been
struck many months in the making, it was meant to
be signed, remember in that disastrous Oval Office meeting. It
(23:59):
has now been signed, and European leaders are cautiously optimistic
about it. They think that Ukraine has been able to
negotiate a good deal. Some of the demands that the
Americans had about repaying all the money that had been
three hundred and fifty billion dollars spent trying to help
Ukraine defend itself, that is now gone. There's no hindrance
to Ukraine joining the EU. That was another concern that
(24:23):
they had, but that still seems fully open. And indeed
there are provisions saying that when they come to joining
the EU things need to be looked at. In this deal.
The Americans are happy to do that, and that the
profits will be potentially of it will be reinvested in
Ukraine without anyone who's been cooperating with Russia over the
past couple of years able to help in any way
(24:45):
with the reconstruction. So the EU seems pretty happy so
far with what they're seeing.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
What about this lockdown, sorry, the Sir cyber attack that's
hit Herod's in London.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, this is the latest cyber attack on big retailers
here in Britain. It's taken out Marks and Spencer this week.
The sort of famous co supermarket here. They've been left
with their website offline, shelves going empty, warehouses shut because
this ransomware attack on their operations, which is costing them
millions of pounds a day. Another supermarket here, the Cooperative,
(25:19):
They've also been attacked but have managed to fend some
of it off. And now Harrod's struggling as well. It's
had to lock down its computer systems because it detected
a similar attack was going on. It seems like its
operations are still ongoing, but they think that they are
still under attack. And what's really interesting about this is
that the co Op, one of the supermarkets attacked, has
(25:40):
brought in a new measure where when anyone goes onto
a Zoom or team's call, they have to have their
cameras on and identify themselves. There's a suspicion amongst the
IT experts here in the UK that hackers have been
able to lurk in the background of Zoom and teams
calls and find out crucial data and get access into
(26:02):
the systems that keep these stores going creepy.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You need a pass code or something, a safe word
when you go on a zoom call. Vincent, thank you
for that, Vincent mcavenie, our UK europe correspondent. It is
thirteen away from six Ryan Bridge. So the Aussies going
to the polls tomorrow. It was close, was close, elbows
now pulled ahead. Will he lose his majority though? Will
he need the Greens? Does he need to do some
kind of deal the Tials? Who know about the Tills?
(26:26):
A very big movement over there, the founding member Zarlie Steegel,
she took the seat from Tony Abbtt, remember that who
had it for twenty five years. Azarie's with me this morning,
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Good morning, line.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So how do you think this is going to play out?
What chance do the Tills have? Do you think of
holding the balance of power after this?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Ah, that's a million dollar question. Many journalists go asking, Look,
I think what we can see is in austrange politics,
the confidence in the major parties keeps decreasing. People are
frustrated and over the old you know, politics for power.
They want to see a focus on policy on people
and communities, and so that primary vote keeps dropping for
(27:04):
the major parties, and we're seeing the rise of community
independence you know, sometimes labeled teals, but all around the
country in many, many communities. And I think it's about
thirty five candidates around the country now that have really
decent shots at changing the narratives in those people.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Who would you be most comfortable dealing with.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Look, I'm not particularly open to a deal per se.
I think I will look obviously the will of the
australand people. I will look at. An essential element for
me is stability, making sure we have good function in government.
The Australian people have very real issues they need dealing
cost of living, climate risk, insurance, you know, our national security,
(27:45):
all these issues need a stable hand. So I think
transition is really important to look for stability, but ultimately
I will tackle the issues as they come and on
their merits. So I have a very clear pitch to
my community around the issues that I will check right
from fiscal discipline and integrity, climate risk, and these are
(28:05):
things that I will continue to look to legislation from
either major party to how we can best progress that Now.
Obviously convention in Parliament has evolved towards this by you know,
polarized system of the two party politics. But our convention
doesn't talk about political parties. It actually talks of a
health of representatives. So the constitution actually allows for a
(28:28):
very different model of politics to evolve. And I think
that's what a mature Australian Parliament can look like, is
actually having more genuine debate and genuinely looking at the
big issues we need to do for the best interest
of austrange people.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So you don't actually want to do a deal with anyone,
You don't want to be in a coalition. You don't
want to do confidence and supplier. You basically want to
sit on the cross benches and vote by vote.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I will tackle legislation on its merits looking at those issues. Obviously,
the question of supply and confidence will come down to
numbers as a result of the election capacity to pass
legislation from one side or the other. When it comes
to money bills, there's a lot of I guess convention
that is not actually required Constitutionally. A party can go
(29:14):
to the Government General to form government without having a
signed deal per se. It is just a question of
whether they would be able to survive a no confidence motion.
Now again I would not for me. You know, it's
very important to have stable operating government, and I think
that again will be part of the consideration post the election.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Just give us a sense of who the teals are.
You're fysically conservative, but you obviously got a climate leans
on you. What does your voter base want from you?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Look, I guess we're very representative of our communities, but
what it is is actually communities frustrated with old style politics,
you know, the old school of the major parties slanging
it out against each other, a lot of negative advertising,
always really spreading smear and fear, but very little vision
(30:05):
or positive proposals for our community. So we are not
a party, so we vote very independently of one another.
That we're very aligned on values around merit based policy,
around fact base, around sound and good law, around integrity, equality,
addressing the big issues, having political courage to talk about
(30:28):
the things that are hard to do but that currently
our political system are just kicking the can down the
road and not addressing.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Can you just make this really clear for key, we's
listening to this this morning. If it's really tight and
you've got Labor and the Greens on one side, and
you've got the Coalition on the other, and neither of
them can actually govern them without support from some tialsome independence.
Who do you go with?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, again, I don't think that will be the question.
Keeping in mind coalition is already an agreement between the
Liberal Party and the National Time so that is already
a coalition itself. I want to understand the terms of
that agreement. I think there'll be a question of is
there a mandate for change of government or not, depending
on the will of the Australian people. And I will
(31:11):
be guided by the numbers and there are so many
variations of what could be possible.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But however Australians support more, you would lean.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Towards I would because again that shows a capacity for stability,
which I think is an essense, That is an essential aspect.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
All right, Zali, appreciate you coming on the program. That's
Zali Stegel. She's the MP for w Ringer. She replaced
Tony Abbott who had the seat for twenty five years.
She's a teel and independent. And since that interviewed is
a u gav bol poll and if you believe the
polls and certainly that wasn't the case when scomo Surprise
Surprise one in twenty nineteen. But it has the Coalition
(31:50):
on track for their worst result in eighty years. Elbow
actually expanding his majority eighty four seats in the Parliament,
well above, of course, the seventy six that you need
the Coalition and drops seventy forty seven seats, a net
loss of eleven. You're on news Talk, said B seven
to six.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof to make your property search simple,
Youth Talk, said B.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Five to six. News Talk said B.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
A O.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Britain's factories are in trouble, so the Bank of England's
going to come in and cut the rates. Next week
they reckon the slashing begins. So this is for April
British factory activity, fastest slump in export orders in five years.
This is the S and P Global Survey of Manufacturers.
That's not really a surprise. Mike is here with you
next on your Friday morning. Good morning, Mike morning. You
(32:39):
gripped by the mushroom case. I gripped ish because I
think we all know what happened.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
See That's what's funny. You should say that because I'm
not gripped by crime in any way, shape or form.
You know how the media fascinates themselves with trials, most trials.
You know what happened, Yeah, don't you. And it's a
very very rare day that to genuine who done it?
This doesn't as strike me as a who done it
because we know we know who.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Just look at the plates, you know, it's got different
colored plates. I mean, that's a dead give a detail.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yesterday on the phones she was googling death cap mushrooms.
On the phone tracks her to the death cap mush
I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And also she doesn't normally have that number of plates
in the house, correct, somebody was.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Unusual, didn't have a lot of plates, and she spent
a fortune quote unquote on beef Wellington.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I mean, look at her.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Her estranged ex husband to dinner or lunch would have been,
whatever the case was. You know, I was just checking
out that. It just seems this is hard to lose. Yeah,
I'm thinking anyway, the David Seymour thing, I suppose if
you don't want to get exercised about, we've got the
CEO salary thing out this morning, and I don't you're
(33:53):
not on it. I know you're not a CEO, but.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
I'm not on it.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I know what you were, and it's there there with
the big boys. Might up there with the big boys.
Why anyway?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
More shortly, have a great day to run. See you
on Monday. Stay safe out there.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
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