May 15, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 16th of May 2025, Social investment is getting a boost, Belinda Himiona from Social Service Providers Aotearoa CEO shares her thoughts on $190 million going towards a new social investment fund.
Putin didn't turn up for peace talks with Ukraine, Kyiv based foreign policy and security analyst Jimmy Rushton tells Ryan Bridge what happens from here.
it's all go this weekend for Auckland FC ahead of the semi-final clash against Melbourne Victory on Saturday, Auckland FC Boss Nick Becker tells Ryan what we can expect.
Plus UK/Europe Correspondent Vincent McAviney has the latest on the UK PM is in talks about sending failed asylum seekers abroad.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to Friday, good morning, just gone six after five.
We'll talk the government spending to target the kids who've
got the worst lives in New Zealand. We're talking kids,
one of whom their parent is likely in jail, one
of their parents will likely be on a benefit. These
kids have the worst lives in New Zealand and the
government says that their new plan is going to do
something about it. We'll talk about there. Just before six
(00:34):
this morning, we're live in the Ukraine. Is this all
just talk? This potential meeting that's happening the UK. Vincent
mcavanne will join us Starma and bit embarrassed in Albania
today and we've got Auckland FC in the semifinals this
weekend in Melbourne. Then they will be coming to Auckland.
We'll talk to the CEO about ticket prices when they
return to our shows in a week's time. Seven after five.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It is Friday, the Sea exteenth of May. Zolenski now
a no show and estanbul Too Putin was a no show.
Of course Trump was a no show, Zelensky sending his
defense minister instead, but not holding his breath.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
If there is a signal from Russian Federation that we
heard that unconditional cease fire and such things must be
decided during the direct talks or between the leaders, I
am here. We are ready for a direct negotiations.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Meanwhile, typical Trump fashion, he says nothing will happen until
he's there.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Nothing's gonna happen until Putten and I get together.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, he wasn't going if I wasn't there, and I
don't believe anything's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
With your lankat or not until he and I get together.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But we're gonna have to get a show up because
too many people to day.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's like when you go to the bar and with
your friends, is you know, is Sally going? Oh well,
I don't want to go. If Sally's not going, if
Tracey is coming, I'm not coming. Just get on with it,
would you? Today? Did his ex girlfriend Cassy Ventura gets
the cross examination? Yesterday? She detailed the alleged abuse.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
We have a very difficult task of trying to discredit her,
but also not riling her up too much to get
her visibly more upset, and that would lend itself to
her being more sympathetic to the jury.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
So it's a top.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's the topause the UK and talks with other countries
about sending the failed asylum seekers abroad.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
We are in talks with a number of countries about
return hubs and I see them as a really important innovation.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He's saying that standing to the Albanian President, who then says,
we're not going to be a return hub. No, thank
you don't want your failed asylum seekers. We'll talk to
Vincent mcavenny about that later in the show. Eight minutes now,
nine minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
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Speaker 2 (02:52):
It'd be is Friday. If anyone's an Auckland f C fan,
you are going to have to pay probably double the
ticket price. But we'll talk to the CEO of the
team just before just about five twenty this morning, that's
Nick Becker about why they have to double their ticket prices.
If the I mean to be fair, you would expect
to pay more for a semi final game than you
would a regular season, wouldn't you. But there's a good
(03:13):
reason why they're charging more. We'll tell you about that
at five twenty. Now, before you roll your eyes when
I say ordering a tamadiki and criticized. And another report,
This one's actually quite interesting. This is John Ryan, the
Orders General. He did a report. Remember when the government
told everybody last year to find savings, you know, go
and get us six and a half percent from behind
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the couch. Well, ordering a tamidiki did that. But according
to Ryan, they basically went too far, too fast, didn't
give the providers enough of a heads up, so the
process was flawed. That's the problem. The process was flawed, which,
let's face it, this is ot we're talking about. Au surprised, no,
But the actual theory behind it, I think was the
(03:54):
right one. To make savings to invest in other arguably
better services. They decided to fully recover unspent costs from
contract providers. So up until this change, any provider comes
in and says, ah, do XYZ for you five million
bucks a year. Okay, great, go away and do that.
(04:16):
If they only spent four million, they kept the rest
of the money. They kept the other million. Anyway, even
if they didn't meet their targets, they kept the money.
And what business or even on what planet would that
be a sustainable or a responsible way to operate? So
fair cop to them from Ryan, they moved too quickly
(04:37):
with this. The providers basically got a big surprise. They
weren't financially prepared for the shortfall. That is fair, But
the idea was I think the right one. I mean,
how long can you go on throwing money, our money
at problems with little or no result before someone takes
the credit card and chops it up with a pair
of scissors. It might have happened too quickly, but it
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was a long time coming in my mind. Ryan Bridge
given after five on news Talk sad B. So we're
going to talk to Jimmy Rushton next. He's in Kiev.
He's a security analyst there. I mean, is this all
just talk? Do we stop paying attention to what's going
on in estand Bull now because the big dogs, the
big players aren't in town, or are we actually expecting
that slowly, inch by inch we are creeping closer to
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some sort of deal with Russia and Ukraine. That's next.
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Speaker 2 (05:35):
Good morning. It's five point thirteen. We've had retail sales
data out of the United States which is starting to show,
just a little bit by bit, starting to show the
impact of those tariffs on the US consumer. This is
you're spending on shops and restaurants and stuff like that.
So retail sales rose zero point one percent in April
from a month earlier. Sales that electronic and appliance stores
were up point three percent, gaining one point five percent
(05:58):
in the previous month. Sales of cars fell to zero
point one percent, this after they rose five point five
percent in March, and that was people front loading. I
better get my car now before the tariffs come. So
you are starting to see a bit of that trickle
to the numbers, but it's going to take they reckon
another few months before you see the full effects. Fourteen
(06:19):
after five now, so surprise, surprise, person didn't turn up
for peace talks in Ukraine. Kremlin confirming Russia's delegation is
instead being led by Presidential aid of Vladimir Medinsky. Zelensky
is also pulled out sending his Defense minister Russia.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Allfored in the media that Puttin is ready for Iraq negotiations,
and then are there information rules that it's not decided yet,
So it's it's just stocks.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now, Yeah, what does that mean? Jimmy Rushton is and
Kiev's a foreign policy and securely security analyst with me
this morning. Jimmy, good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Hi, good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What does what does he mean Zelensky? By now they're
just talks?
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Actually, what Putin had said in this rather hasty press
conpence that he arranged about a week ago was that
he challenged Zelensky to come to Turkey and have a
conversation face to face. As Zelensky took him up on
the offer, he turned up in Turkey, but obviously Putin
has not, and he sent Medinsky, who is a very
low level official really in the Kremlin. He's also the
(07:22):
same Russian official that led the peace talks in early
twenty twenty two, and to be honest, peace talks is
a generous term because at that point Midinsky was essentially
saying that the Ukrainians should unconditionally surrender. So it's really
seen by the Ukrainian side as a slap in the
face and a sign that Russia continues their maximalist goals
of subjugating Ukraine and making it into a Russian puppet state.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is there anyone No one's preparing, even in the background,
behind the scenes, for there to be some kind of
serious ceasefire or peace agreement. I mean, Russia's still building
new explosives facilities to build more drug build more bombs.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Absolutely, I mean it's clear that the Russians are planning
for this war to continue for some time. And it's
pretty clear if you look at some of their recent
build ups is that they're you know, they're building up
forces along the Finnish border, and they're building up forces
along the Estonian board and some of the other Baltic
states as well. So it's pretty clear that they're not
ready for any sort of sustainable peace with Europe. They're
(08:24):
alone Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Jimmy, what do Ukrainians think of Donald Trump's you know,
he's come out today over night and said nothing will
happen until I'm in the room with Persian. What did
Ukrainians think when he's stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Well, initially, Ukrainians had a relatively favorable or at least
a more generous opinion of Trump. Around forty percent of
Ukrainians back in November of last year we're willing to
give him a chance, and that's dropped around seven percent
of Ukrainians having any form of positive opinion of him now.
I mean, he's largely viewed as as someone who's definitely
not favorable to Ukraine and probably more favorable to Putin
(09:02):
and of a strong man, you know, people like Kim
Jong mun President she of China, and he's he's not
recent as is kind of a friend of the Western
democracies at all. I think for Ukrainians they feel that
they need to manage him as best they can. Kind
of placated as ego. That was one of the reasons
why they signed this mineral steal, to give him something
that he could boast about. But yeah, I think they're
(09:24):
really taking it day to day, trying to keep him
on side as best they can. But they're aware that he's,
you know, incredibly temperamental and he can change his opinion
pretty much on the spot.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He's a hard dog to keep on the porch. Jimmy,
appreciate your time, Jimmy, Rushton, Kiev based foreign policy security
security analyst with us this morning seventeen minutes after five,
We're going to get to Nick Becker, CEO of aucklandy OFC.
Next big semi final match for them in Melbourne this
weekend on.
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Speaker 2 (09:57):
Be imagine there'll be a few planes full of key
We's particularly Auckland is DApp is heading over to Melbourne
this week in Auckland see the semi final clash against
Melbourne victory on Saturday. Simmis are played over two legs,
so you have an away game and then we will
have a home game. The team that scores the most
goals across both matches we'll move on to the grand
(10:18):
final that's coming at the end of May. Auckland FC
CEO Nick becket with me this morning. Nick, Good morning morning, right,
How you doing really good? Thank you? You must be
feeling pretty good about yourself right now. Tell us how
important this first league is because it's two legs you've
got to get through, right.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Yeah, absolutely so, Yeah, we're away first and then and
finishing first. Then we should have a home semi final
on the second leg. But you know, we want to
go go there and tomorrow night and really kind of
like lay down, you know, our intentions. You know, the
boys aren't going to take anything for granted, I don't
want to speak too many sporting cliches, but they know
(10:54):
that they've kind of they've kind of you know, beaten
victory in the last time.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
That we met them.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Know what they do, we did it there at Avia Park,
So they're going to go in with a bit of
confidence there and hopefully but of a muscle memory reminds
them of how to win there. And you know, if
we get at least a draw or preferably a win,
we'll be in a good position for the following week when.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
We're at home.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
How do you get a group of people to come
together and perform like this in such a short space
of time.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
I think this comes very much from our ownership group,
you know, sort of right at the start, we sat
down myself, trim at Form, the football director, and Steve
Corok and the coach and talked about, you know, the
type of players that we wanted to time for what
we wanted to play, but Bill was really clear with us,
and he sort of said, you know, like obviously get
the right technically the right players, and make sure that
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they are good humans. I think that's a really good
point to how we've managed to build up a good
culture in the dressing room. We've we've managed to get
players who they go out and play for each other
rather than there's no real sort of individuals. There's no
egos in the dressing room. So there's this really great
team spirit and it just comes out of the fact
that they're all good humans, right, And we've been We've
been really lucky in that sense. And I think, you know,
(12:04):
we intentionally went out to get good people and we've
been really lucky and getting a bunch of Greig guys.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Some people, and I want to emphasize some, but some
on social media have been complaining in the past week
about the ticket prices. This is for the second League,
obviously at go Media Stadium at double twenty seven dollars
fifty to forty five dollars upward. I'm assuming the league
is taking a cut here are they?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
They're taking one hundred percent cut?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
So yeah, So how the A League works.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Is once you get to the final stage, and this
is an ideal for us. The league actually take control
of the game so they they can control of the
ticket price. I mean, they did consult with us, and
their position was that they wanted to keep it. Our
requests to keep it at go Media. They supported us
on this and they and I think they set their
(12:54):
ticket prices posted accordingly. We didn't have any real input
into into what they could charge of than sort of saying, look,
you know, don't go crazy with it. I appreciate it
from a fans point of view, they are more expensive
than your regular season. I guess the league's position on
it is it's a big game, it's a semi final,
it's a knockout match, and you know they I guess
(13:17):
they believe in and they're rightly so that the tickets
have been flying off the shower. So we've already sold
well over twenty thousands, and I imagine that the whole
stadium will be sold out by probably the end of
this weekend. So I guess they got that bit right.
But yeah, I hear and I can sive both sides
of the stories.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, I can, having seen some of those fans up
close and personal. I don't think you have any trouble
filling out the stadium. Nick, thank you very much and
best luck for this weekend.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Thanks very I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's Nick Becker Hazy Aukland, their c' ceo. The semi
final clash in Melbourne on Saturday. Very cool. I mean,
how do they? How did they do it? The number
of records they've broken in one season and to take
out the regular season. They're on their way to Glauria.
Surely it has just gone twenty four minutes after five
your on News Talks heb So the America's Cup. We're
(14:05):
not getting it? Are you sad this morning? We're not
getting the America's Cup? But it is going somewhere. I'll
tell you where. And what a guff about that?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Next the Early Edition Full Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 2 (14:20):
Twenty six News talksb bonjul No. Italia is going to
host the thirty eighth America's Cup in summer twenty twenty seven.
At least that's when they think it will happen. The
old Mug again heading to European waters. The first time
the Italians will play hosts. I've had the World Series before,
but never the big one before. So it'll be Mount
Vesuvius in the background, not Range Tooto. It'll be pizza
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in the balleys of fans, not fish and chips. Auckland
missed out, which we already knew. Athens missed out. Georgia
Maloney very excited, Luna Rossa obviously pumped. But the question
for you this morning, do you wake up feeling jealous?
Is there a pit of disappointment in your stomach? Do
we lambassed our measly stingy government for not prioritizing a
(15:06):
sailing race. My feelings, well, it's nice that they have
somewhere to sail, and good luck to them, but I
feel zero fomo. We were on the hook for tens
of millions of dollars Waigino hasn't got his bed tax yet.
Politically it was the right call too. Imagine with this
announcement coming a week out from budget day, Imagine the
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outcry from the unions and the opposition and the media.
You're spending how much money on men sailing around the
harbor while cutting women's pay. Can you just imagine that?
Plus when we debated all of this a few months back.
We didn't know at that point that Dalton was quietly
walking away from contract negotiations with Peter Burling, So we
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would have spent millions on a race for a boat
with an Aussie at the helm, not our beloved Burling.
Not that that matters. That is fine, We've had one
before in glen Ashby, but there's no The preference was
for Burling to continue. Grant Dalton told me that at
the time. But there's a bigger point here. When times
are tough, when the kitties running low, you can't afford
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the nice to haves. For Team New Zealand, that was Burling.
For us, it was the competition itself. And if you're
worried that Dalton has regrets about Auckland failing to get
a look in, take a look at the press release
for today's announcement come out overnight. He says Italians, not
us Kiwis. Italians are quote the most passionate and engaged
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America's Cup audience in the world. This city is the
best option for growing global audiences. It's a summer in Europe,
so if you're a sailing mad person then it might
be time to book some flights little midwinter get away.
Some difficult captain's calls have to be made and have
been made. But for us and for Team New Zealand,
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it sounds like they were the necessary ones and the
necessary three choices are pretty much always the right ones.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ryan Bridge said.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Twenty nine minutes after five, and Nicola Willis and her
Social Investment Agency will look at that before six and
we'll get to our reporters around the country.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
News, news and views you trust to start your day.
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It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof make
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Simple News Talk said, be by, good morning, Welcome to Friday.
It is twenty four minutes away from six. Year on
News Talk said, b you know, we had those numbers
out on migration this week and everyone went, oh, but
you know, why is everyone leaving to Australia. Well, we
had data out of Australia yesterday that tells you why.
(18:07):
They've got jobs, heaps of them. The job market they're booming,
growing much more than expected in April, so total number
of employed people increased by eighty nine thousand, almost ninety thousand.
They were expecting twenty thousand. So it's going gang bus
is the participation rate at sixty seven point one percent
of the economy now, putting it within spitting distance of
(18:29):
historic highs. This means the Reserve Bank may not need
to cut interest rates, or may not have to cut
interest rates, or maybe silly to do so. They've got
a meeting next week. It's interesting because yes, the economic
growth there is slowing, but the labor market is really ted.
Inflation is coming down back there. They've got a meeting
(18:50):
on that next week. But that answers your question, why
is everyone going there? Well, your wages are high and
you've got more jobs. It's quite simple, isn't it. Twenty
three to six Bryan Bridge, our Reporters Around the Country
column in Dneedin this morning. Calm, good morning. We've got
a developed Dunedin developed app that is helping people with dementia.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Yeah, and it's about to get a big funding boost.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Ryan.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
This is an app by social enterprise Ali Keres Ali
Keres Ebleli. That's what you search for in on your
phones for this app. It's active in forty countries. It
offers personalized reminders, caregiver alerts and location tracking tools. The
Selwyn Foundation has just an out significant funding for it,
saying it's the country's first ever impact investments in the
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older person's well being market. The founder of ali Keres
is Angela Edwards from Dunedin. She says this investment will
help scale up their technology and reach, as well as
supporting their role out of AI driven engagement tools.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's what was it called again?
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Ali cares search for el Ali cares.
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Downloaded writting it down for Mike Costking now has either
today callum it's.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Good here fine apart from Morning Cloud nor Westeries in eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Brilliant, Thank you. Let's go to Clear and christ Church Clear,
good morning, always a good morning in christ Church.
Speaker 12 (20:09):
Ah, a bit of a grumpy morning in christ Church
from this morning script.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Ryan, Oh what's going wrong?
Speaker 12 (20:15):
Well, the residents here are very annoyed, well, at least
on the east side, very annoyed at council's decision to
reject a petition which was calling for a ban on
freedom camping around New Brighton Beach. So in the space
of two weeks, eight hundred and sixty six people signed
to this petition saying we're sick of it. They say
that these car parks are overrun with freedom campers. Day
and day out. They say it puts pressure on facilities.
(20:38):
The public bathrooms there are getting wrecked. There's always rubbish
left behind, and it's really hard to find a park
that was handed to council. It was, unfortunately for them,
rejected by the Chief Executive. Now, Council says they believe
the current systems are sufficient. There's also these nation wide
changes coming in next year, meaning the vehicles will have
to comply to a higher standard, which they say will
(20:59):
help Hostal Community Board member Joe Zervos, though, says residents
are frustrated. They feel ignored and not heard, and they
say that it's a case of council not listening to
the community.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
All right, okay, well that is a bit of a
depressing end of the week from crashes. Hey how about
your weather?
Speaker 12 (21:16):
Clear great for freedom camping, fine, northerlyist and a high
of twenty brilliant.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Thank you very much. Have a great day anyway, Max,
I've just been told as awell, Max, what are you doing?
He's maybe he got so depressed giving yesterday's Wellington update
that he's decided to just throw in the towel today. Anyway,
We'll come to him if we find him. Neva's here
in the meantime, Neva, good morning.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I'm a little bit upset that Mex isn't here for
a fun Friday.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I know he's always fun, but first time he's missed one.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
I think, Yes, maybe he's not happy with you from yesterday.
He's probably no, I'll get it down. Tools he's some
technical issue. I mean, do we tell him to press you.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Know, he'll be at his microphone on. He'll be at
one of the few He'll be at one of the
few cafes left in Wellington having breakfast.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, they will be too.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, He's always at some sort of cafe or restaurant. Now,
the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is going to be marching
on Eden Park.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Exciting times next year. So this military showcase bands, dancers, performers.
It draws in more than about two hundred and thirty
thousand spectators. This is in Scotland every year, but for
the first time it's going to Grace Auckland in February
for seventy fifth anniversary. Now don't know this is huge,
but yes, and so Jason Barrett, he's the CEO. He
(22:31):
says it's quite ambitious because they're going to fly about
one thousand performers around the globe. They will perform at
Eden Park for thirty thousand people. This is over four nights.
I remember when I was growing up in a Vicago,
my auntie was huge into marching and they used to,
you know, like fundraise with the tattoo every year and
so you know, go round, you know what regional New Zealand's.
(22:53):
I'd go around selling Leamington's door knocking and those cheese
rolls in Southland. So she'd get me into it. I'd
do it, but she'd you wouldn't pay me, but in
cheese roles. That's why I said, Yes, it's like it's kilts,
and yes, bagpipe kill bag pipes and much get you
into that marching.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
If it's here, you be silly not to go and
see it because it's such a phenomenon. I know, you know,
I've got friends and family who love it. Yeah, so
you'd be silly not too. I think, how's our weather,
Neva for our weekend?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Well, cloudy periods. That's a good day for marching.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I have twenty oh excellent. Apparently he's here Max.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Well, actually I'm going down to Wellington tomorrow. I'm there
for the weekend, so maybe I should go find.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It a wealthy check I will, I will Max Max,
Are you there? No, I'll find him tomorrow. Go find
them please. That is Neva in Auckland, No, Max and Wellington,
Clear in christ Church and callumenton Eden. It is eighteen
minutes away from six year on News Talks. Here'd be
we'll talk about the social investment thing because Bill England.
This was Bill English as Big Baby. It's going to
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target those you know, you find those children who've got
these you know, these five indicators. One is a parent
who's in jail, one is a parent who's on a benefit.
Another is an interaction with sefzor ordering a tamadiki. Now,
you know, you find those children who've got all of
those red flags and you pump the money in the
support around them. And the theory is that in years
(24:18):
from now, a decade from now or more, that investment
will pay off if you do it right. Is Nikola
willis doing it right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That's before six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance,
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Speaker 2 (24:36):
And it's called it to six News Talk to b
We'll get to the social investment stuff in just a second,
right now, Vincent Macaviny our UK europe correspondents in good morning,
Good morning, great to have you. So the UK is well,
economy growing by more than expected. That's a good thing.
But the Starmer getting a bit of a hard time
about this Albania trip. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's the next day for the prime so but definitely
some good news. The UK now has the fastest rate
of growth in the G seven group of developed economies.
That's ahead of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, in Japan.
And that's because the figures for the first three months
of the year have been revised up from point six
to point seven percent growth. Now that might not sound
a lot, but it's better, as I said, than those
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other countries are doing. But it's also a sign that
things are shifting here in the UK. The sort of
stagnation that we've seen after the pandemic years is somewhat
going away. We've got inflation falling, we've got interest rates
coming down as well. Now this figure is actually from
before the Trump tariffs came into effect, but already we
have a tariff deal with the US. It's still not
as good as you know, trading terms as we had
(25:42):
when these figures were calculated, but it's better than a
lot of the rest of the world. And we're also
seeing early signs that the UK is actually benefiting from
what's called product dumping, so a lot of stuff that
was on its way to the US which is now
being rediverted to Europe is coming in here, which means
prices are also falling slightly because there's more availability of
product coming from for instance, China. So some economic good
(26:04):
news for the government. But on that key issue of immigration,
the Prime Minister is in Albania. He's there, he says
he wants to do talks about sending failed asylum seekers
to other nations in what are called return hubs. Albania
says it's not interested in that, but most we think
of the gangs involved with people smuggling across Europe are
Albanian based, and he's managed to get a new deal
(26:26):
with Albania in terms of sort of prosecuting and intelligent
sharing to try and crack down on this horrible trade.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Can you discive us so the failed asylum seekers people
to try to seek asylum in the Britain right now
that aren't being seen, you know, because there's no deals
going abroad at the moment. Where are they staying right now?
Where where are they well?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
At the moment, the UK is spending millions every day
in fact housing asylum seekers in hotels up and down
the country. This was actually a legacy policy though inherited
from the Conservatives. They signed these long term agreements until
about twenty twenty nine people in hotels and it's had
a huge impact right across the country. A lot of
people in small towns and villages across the country angry
(27:08):
that their local hotel, which you know, used to host
functions or bring in tourists, is now being taken up
by people coming across some small boats from France, but
thens again anger. There's been more video in the last
few days of French authorities, despite the UK now paying
them tens of millions of pounds, not doing anything to
stop these boats launching from the north of France. So
(27:30):
it's a tricky situation. But the government still thinks if
it cracks down on the gangs themselves, that people doing
the trade, that they'll be able to stem the flow.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because you pay them.
You British textpayers are paying the French police to basically
do the border patrolling for them on the other side.
But then those very sign police officers, yeah, they're.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Basically standing there with cigarettes saying I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Exactly exactly. They have a national self interest in not leading.
Are stopping the boats letting them go across the the channel.
Thanks for your time this morning. That's Vincent macaviney a UK.
You're a correspondent just gone eleven away from six Bridge.
Social investments getting a boost. This is billinglish Is Baby
now carried by Nikola Willis pre budget announcement two hundred
(28:14):
and seventy five million dollars. One hundred and ninety of
that goes to the new Social Investment Fund.
Speaker 12 (28:19):
It will invest in services that deliver measurable improvements in
the lives of those.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Who need our help, guided by data and evidence.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You contract directly to providers for you contracts the idea
you target problems earlier for better results long term. Belinda
hem Hemiwana is the social services provider out he at
our CEO with me this morning. Blinda, good morning, oh
good morning. Good to have you on the show. Can
you just tell us what is the main difference? Is
it the length of the contract here? What is the
(28:50):
main difference for you with how this will work?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Yeah, sure. So we're really heartened by this announcement and
I think definitely the the vision to have longer term contracting,
sustainable funding with community sector organizations to work together to
develop outcomes framework so we all know that we are
delivering the best for the kids INFARNO that are receiving services.
(29:16):
Just an example, I represent over two hundred and fifty
community based providers and they work over seventeen government departments.
So you can just imagine all of the separate contracting arrangements,
the different reporting. There's some inconsistency in how providers need
to report on results in timeframes. So we're really hoping
(29:38):
for some good administrative burden reductions.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
One, so one provider might have to deal with seventeen
different government agencies.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Yeah, or you know at least five to six. We
often have multiple year and many of.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
You renewing every year, so you're having to go through
these proces, jump through these service So admin up the
I'm imagining for you with this new scheme. Do you
have have do they set KPIs you have to meet, yes, and.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
I think most contracting relationships at the moment there are
performance indicators and volumes or expected outcomes or outputs. Well,
I think this really pushes it to the next level.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Though what how does it push it to the next level?
Because the problem with the word tamade thing and I
know we've had that report from the Order to General,
but the problem was that the providers were not meeting
KPIs but still getting all the money and even when
there was an underspend, we're keeping the underspend too.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Yes, So I think there's obviously the so I just
answered answer the first part of the question I think,
which is about how will this be different from the
kp and then we can move into some of those
observations from the Amadikey process. I think one of the
really valuable spect of social investments. You'll take it out
of one government agency, so we know kids in Faro
(31:05):
are complicated. You don't just have a health issue or
an education issue or a well being issue. Often these
are quite interconnected. And what I like about the model
is it will allow cross government results and indicators, so
you can really tackle those hard cases and not just
(31:27):
be in in one contract dealing with one aspect like
a health or an education and another dealing with the
counseling or the youth work. So it's a really nice,
elegant way to tackle these big issues. So we really,
you know, we think it will work. We want to
see it on the ground obviously, and we would have
liked to see more than one hundred and ninety million
(31:48):
because that's spread over four years. But the Minister has
talked about scaling it up. So this is a good chance.
Just to your point about do we know what's working
and are we funding it? This is a great chance
to put the results on the table into in partnership
with government to do things that are really impactful.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Which is exactly what we want to happen all of us. Belinda,
appreciate your time, keep up the good work. Belinda Hemi
one O with us this morning. Social Service Providers altered
our CEO on the changes the government's and out well
the funding boosts the governments and now it's for social investment.
Seven minutes away from six on your Friday morning, we'll
get to mic next.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Ryan Bridge on Eily edition with one room Make your
Property Search Simple used doorg zibby.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Speaking of property just gone five minutes away from six
Core Logic data out yesterday, nine percent of sales nationally
made a loss, as in, they sold for less than
they were purchased for. Fourteen percent in Auckland making a loss.
So the seller's coming to meet the market. Finally, Mike's
here now, Mike, good morning morning.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
Our numbers out this morning actually from the Real Estate Institute.
Prices are up, still a buyer's market. And look by
how much for the month of April zero point I'm
guessing zero point six I think a month. Annualize it out, Yeah,
you're talking over six percent a year.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Now, I've got something at present for you today.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Okay, what is that? Is that one of those things
you rip off at the bottom? Did did you find
that the means toilet?
Speaker 10 (33:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I found it on the way to the men's toilet,
so it hasn't been in a bathroom. Okay, So this
is for those tear one off. It says it's a
pink piece of paper, a paper, give a free compliment,
share some other heart today.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
From who who is this?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
From the Pink Shirt Day dot org Dott Mental Health Foundation.
So you're gonna give me a compliment. I'm going to
give you a compliment.
Speaker 13 (33:28):
Okay, what's the compliment?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, you got well, you got to.
Speaker 13 (33:30):
Oh you don't even think of your own compliments for
the good.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
They're prepared for you. Because we're not capable anymore.
Speaker 13 (33:36):
There's only two left.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
One is you are strong, which I think you. You're
neat all right. You're kidding me?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (33:45):
No?
Speaker 13 (33:46):
Deliverate better? No, no deliverate better than that.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You're neat all right because you are a next person
as a tidy go away. Have a great day, everyone,
See you Monday.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to Friday, good morning, just gone six after five.
We'll talk the government spending to target the kids who've
got the worst lives in New Zealand. We're talking kids,
one of whom their parent is likely in jail, one
of their parents will likely be on a benefit. These
kids have the worst lives in New Zealand and the
government says that their new plan is going to do
something about it. We'll talk about there. Just before six
(00:34):
this morning, we're live in the Ukraine. Is this all
just talk? This potential meeting that's happening the UK. Vincent
mcavanne will join us Starma and bit embarrassed in Albania
today and we've got Auckland FC in the semifinals this
weekend in Melbourne. Then they will be coming to Auckland.
We'll talk to the CEO about ticket prices when they
return to our shows in a week's time. Seven after five.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It is Friday, the Sea exteenth of May. Zolenski now
a no show and estanbul Too Putin was a no show.
Of course Trump was a no show, Zelensky sending his
defense minister instead, but not holding his breath.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
If there is a signal from Russian Federation that we
heard that unconditional cease fire and such things must be
decided during the direct talks or between the leaders, I
am here. We are ready for a direct negotiations.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Meanwhile, typical Trump fashion, he says nothing will happen until
he's there.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Nothing's gonna happen until Putten and I get together.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, he wasn't going if I wasn't there, and I
don't believe anything's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
With your lankat or not until he and I get together.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But we're gonna have to get a show up because
too many people to day.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's like when you go to the bar and with
your friends, is you know, is Sally going? Oh well,
I don't want to go. If Sally's not going, if
Tracey is coming, I'm not coming. Just get on with it,
would you? Today? Did his ex girlfriend Cassy Ventura gets
the cross examination? Yesterday? She detailed the alleged abuse.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
We have a very difficult task of trying to discredit her,
but also not riling her up too much to get
her visibly more upset, and that would lend itself to
her being more sympathetic to the jury.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
So it's a top.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's the topause the UK and talks with other countries
about sending the failed asylum seekers abroad.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
We are in talks with a number of countries about
return hubs and I see them as a really important innovation.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He's saying that standing to the Albanian President, who then says,
we're not going to be a return hub. No, thank
you don't want your failed asylum seekers. We'll talk to
Vincent mcavenny about that later in the show. Eight minutes now,
nine minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Make
your Property Search Simple News Talks.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It'd be is Friday. If anyone's an Auckland f C fan,
you are going to have to pay probably double the
ticket price. But we'll talk to the CEO of the
team just before just about five twenty this morning, that's
Nick Becker about why they have to double their ticket prices.
If the I mean to be fair, you would expect
to pay more for a semi final game than you
would a regular season, wouldn't you. But there's a good
(03:13):
reason why they're charging more. We'll tell you about that
at five twenty. Now, before you roll your eyes when
I say ordering a tamadiki and criticized. And another report,
This one's actually quite interesting. This is John Ryan, the
Orders General. He did a report. Remember when the government
told everybody last year to find savings, you know, go
and get us six and a half percent from behind
(03:34):
the couch. Well, ordering a tamidiki did that. But according
to Ryan, they basically went too far, too fast, didn't
give the providers enough of a heads up, so the
process was flawed. That's the problem. The process was flawed, which,
let's face it, this is ot we're talking about. Au surprised, no,
But the actual theory behind it, I think was the
(03:54):
right one. To make savings to invest in other arguably
better services. They decided to fully recover unspent costs from
contract providers. So up until this change, any provider comes
in and says, ah, do XYZ for you five million
bucks a year. Okay, great, go away and do that.
(04:16):
If they only spent four million, they kept the rest
of the money. They kept the other million. Anyway, even
if they didn't meet their targets, they kept the money.
And what business or even on what planet would that
be a sustainable or a responsible way to operate? So
fair cop to them from Ryan, they moved too quickly
(04:37):
with this. The providers basically got a big surprise. They
weren't financially prepared for the shortfall. That is fair, But
the idea was I think the right one. I mean,
how long can you go on throwing money, our money
at problems with little or no result before someone takes
the credit card and chops it up with a pair
of scissors. It might have happened too quickly, but it
(05:01):
was a long time coming in my mind. Ryan Bridge
given after five on news Talk sad B. So we're
going to talk to Jimmy Rushton next. He's in Kiev.
He's a security analyst there. I mean, is this all
just talk? Do we stop paying attention to what's going
on in estand Bull now because the big dogs, the
big players aren't in town, or are we actually expecting
that slowly, inch by inch we are creeping closer to
(05:23):
some sort of deal with Russia and Ukraine. That's next.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 2 (05:35):
Good morning. It's five point thirteen. We've had retail sales
data out of the United States which is starting to show,
just a little bit by bit, starting to show the
impact of those tariffs on the US consumer. This is
you're spending on shops and restaurants and stuff like that.
So retail sales rose zero point one percent in April
from a month earlier. Sales that electronic and appliance stores
were up point three percent, gaining one point five percent
(05:58):
in the previous month. Sales of cars fell to zero
point one percent, this after they rose five point five
percent in March, and that was people front loading. I
better get my car now before the tariffs come. So
you are starting to see a bit of that trickle
to the numbers, but it's going to take they reckon
another few months before you see the full effects. Fourteen
(06:19):
after five now, so surprise, surprise, person didn't turn up
for peace talks in Ukraine. Kremlin confirming Russia's delegation is
instead being led by Presidential aid of Vladimir Medinsky. Zelensky
is also pulled out sending his Defense minister Russia.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Allfored in the media that Puttin is ready for Iraq negotiations,
and then are there information rules that it's not decided yet,
So it's it's just stocks.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Now, Yeah, what does that mean? Jimmy Rushton is and
Kiev's a foreign policy and securely security analyst with me
this morning. Jimmy, good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Hi, good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What does what does he mean Zelensky? By now they're
just talks?
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Actually, what Putin had said in this rather hasty press
conpence that he arranged about a week ago was that
he challenged Zelensky to come to Turkey and have a
conversation face to face. As Zelensky took him up on
the offer, he turned up in Turkey, but obviously Putin
has not, and he sent Medinsky, who is a very
low level official really in the Kremlin. He's also the
(07:22):
same Russian official that led the peace talks in early
twenty twenty two, and to be honest, peace talks is
a generous term because at that point Midinsky was essentially
saying that the Ukrainians should unconditionally surrender. So it's really
seen by the Ukrainian side as a slap in the
face and a sign that Russia continues their maximalist goals
of subjugating Ukraine and making it into a Russian puppet state.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is there anyone No one's preparing, even in the background,
behind the scenes, for there to be some kind of
serious ceasefire or peace agreement. I mean, Russia's still building
new explosives facilities to build more drug build more bombs.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Absolutely, I mean it's clear that the Russians are planning
for this war to continue for some time. And it's
pretty clear if you look at some of their recent
build ups is that they're you know, they're building up
forces along the Finnish border, and they're building up forces
along the Estonian board and some of the other Baltic
states as well. So it's pretty clear that they're not
ready for any sort of sustainable peace with Europe. They're
(08:24):
alone Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Jimmy, what do Ukrainians think of Donald Trump's you know,
he's come out today over night and said nothing will
happen until I'm in the room with Persian. What did
Ukrainians think when he's stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Well, initially, Ukrainians had a relatively favorable or at least
a more generous opinion of Trump. Around forty percent of
Ukrainians back in November of last year we're willing to
give him a chance, and that's dropped around seven percent
of Ukrainians having any form of positive opinion of him now.
I mean, he's largely viewed as as someone who's definitely
not favorable to Ukraine and probably more favorable to Putin
(09:02):
and of a strong man, you know, people like Kim
Jong mun President she of China, and he's he's not
recent as is kind of a friend of the Western
democracies at all. I think for Ukrainians they feel that
they need to manage him as best they can. Kind
of placated as ego. That was one of the reasons
why they signed this mineral steal, to give him something
that he could boast about. But yeah, I think they're
(09:24):
really taking it day to day, trying to keep him
on side as best they can. But they're aware that he's,
you know, incredibly temperamental and he can change his opinion
pretty much on the spot.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He's a hard dog to keep on the porch. Jimmy,
appreciate your time, Jimmy, Rushton, Kiev based foreign policy security
security analyst with us this morning seventeen minutes after five,
We're going to get to Nick Becker, CEO of aucklandy OFC.
Next big semi final match for them in Melbourne this
weekend on.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
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Speaker 2 (09:57):
Be imagine there'll be a few planes full of key
We's particularly Auckland is DApp is heading over to Melbourne
this week in Auckland see the semi final clash against
Melbourne victory on Saturday. Simmis are played over two legs,
so you have an away game and then we will
have a home game. The team that scores the most
goals across both matches we'll move on to the grand
(10:18):
final that's coming at the end of May. Auckland FC
CEO Nick becket with me this morning. Nick, Good morning morning, right,
How you doing really good? Thank you? You must be
feeling pretty good about yourself right now. Tell us how
important this first league is because it's two legs you've
got to get through, right.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Yeah, absolutely so, Yeah, we're away first and then and
finishing first. Then we should have a home semi final
on the second leg. But you know, we want to
go go there and tomorrow night and really kind of
like lay down, you know, our intentions. You know, the
boys aren't going to take anything for granted, I don't
want to speak too many sporting cliches, but they know
(10:54):
that they've kind of they've kind of you know, beaten
victory in the last time.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
That we met them.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Know what they do, we did it there at Avia Park,
So they're going to go in with a bit of
confidence there and hopefully but of a muscle memory reminds
them of how to win there. And you know, if
we get at least a draw or preferably a win,
we'll be in a good position for the following week when.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
We're at home.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
How do you get a group of people to come
together and perform like this in such a short space
of time.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
I think this comes very much from our ownership group,
you know, sort of right at the start, we sat
down myself, trim at Form, the football director, and Steve
Corok and the coach and talked about, you know, the
type of players that we wanted to time for what
we wanted to play, but Bill was really clear with us,
and he sort of said, you know, like obviously get
the right technically the right players, and make sure that
(11:42):
they are good humans. I think that's a really good
point to how we've managed to build up a good
culture in the dressing room. We've we've managed to get
players who they go out and play for each other
rather than there's no real sort of individuals. There's no
egos in the dressing room. So there's this really great
team spirit and it just comes out of the fact
that they're all good humans, right, And we've been We've
been really lucky in that sense. And I think, you know,
(12:04):
we intentionally went out to get good people and we've
been really lucky and getting a bunch of Greig guys.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Some people, and I want to emphasize some, but some
on social media have been complaining in the past week
about the ticket prices. This is for the second League,
obviously at go Media Stadium at double twenty seven dollars
fifty to forty five dollars upward. I'm assuming the league
is taking a cut here are they?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
They're taking one hundred percent cut?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:30):
So yeah, So how the A League works.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Is once you get to the final stage, and this
is an ideal for us. The league actually take control
of the game so they they can control of the
ticket price. I mean, they did consult with us, and
their position was that they wanted to keep it. Our
requests to keep it at go Media. They supported us
on this and they and I think they set their
(12:54):
ticket prices posted accordingly. We didn't have any real input
into into what they could charge of than sort of saying, look,
you know, don't go crazy with it. I appreciate it
from a fans point of view, they are more expensive
than your regular season. I guess the league's position on
it is it's a big game, it's a semi final,
it's a knockout match, and you know they I guess
(13:17):
they believe in and they're rightly so that the tickets
have been flying off the shower. So we've already sold
well over twenty thousands, and I imagine that the whole
stadium will be sold out by probably the end of
this weekend. So I guess they got that bit right.
But yeah, I hear and I can sive both sides
of the stories.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, I can, having seen some of those fans up
close and personal. I don't think you have any trouble
filling out the stadium. Nick, thank you very much and
best luck for this weekend.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Thanks very I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's Nick Becker Hazy Aukland, their c' ceo. The semi
final clash in Melbourne on Saturday. Very cool. I mean,
how do they? How did they do it? The number
of records they've broken in one season and to take
out the regular season. They're on their way to Glauria.
Surely it has just gone twenty four minutes after five
your on News Talks heb So the America's Cup. We're
(14:05):
not getting it? Are you sad this morning? We're not
getting the America's Cup? But it is going somewhere. I'll
tell you where. And what a guff about that?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Next the Early Edition Full Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 2 (14:20):
Twenty six News talksb bonjul No. Italia is going to
host the thirty eighth America's Cup in summer twenty twenty seven.
At least that's when they think it will happen. The
old Mug again heading to European waters. The first time
the Italians will play hosts. I've had the World Series before,
but never the big one before. So it'll be Mount
Vesuvius in the background, not Range Tooto. It'll be pizza
(14:41):
in the balleys of fans, not fish and chips. Auckland
missed out, which we already knew. Athens missed out. Georgia
Maloney very excited, Luna Rossa obviously pumped. But the question
for you this morning, do you wake up feeling jealous?
Is there a pit of disappointment in your stomach? Do
we lambassed our measly stingy government for not prioritizing a
(15:06):
sailing race. My feelings, well, it's nice that they have
somewhere to sail, and good luck to them, but I
feel zero fomo. We were on the hook for tens
of millions of dollars Waigino hasn't got his bed tax yet.
Politically it was the right call too. Imagine with this
announcement coming a week out from budget day, Imagine the
(15:27):
outcry from the unions and the opposition and the media.
You're spending how much money on men sailing around the
harbor while cutting women's pay. Can you just imagine that?
Plus when we debated all of this a few months back.
We didn't know at that point that Dalton was quietly
walking away from contract negotiations with Peter Burling, So we
(15:48):
would have spent millions on a race for a boat
with an Aussie at the helm, not our beloved Burling.
Not that that matters. That is fine, We've had one
before in glen Ashby, but there's no The preference was
for Burling to continue. Grant Dalton told me that at
the time. But there's a bigger point here. When times
are tough, when the kitties running low, you can't afford
(16:11):
the nice to haves. For Team New Zealand, that was Burling.
For us, it was the competition itself. And if you're
worried that Dalton has regrets about Auckland failing to get
a look in, take a look at the press release
for today's announcement come out overnight. He says Italians, not
us Kiwis. Italians are quote the most passionate and engaged
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America's Cup audience in the world. This city is the
best option for growing global audiences. It's a summer in Europe,
so if you're a sailing mad person then it might
be time to book some flights little midwinter get away.
Some difficult captain's calls have to be made and have
been made. But for us and for Team New Zealand,
(16:56):
it sounds like they were the necessary ones and the
necessary three choices are pretty much always the right ones.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Ryan Bridge said.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Twenty nine minutes after five, and Nicola Willis and her
Social Investment Agency will look at that before six and
we'll get to our reporters around the country.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
News, news and views you trust to start your day.
(17:40):
It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof make
your property Sturge.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Simple News Talk said, be by, good morning, Welcome to Friday.
It is twenty four minutes away from six. Year on
News Talk said, b you know, we had those numbers
out on migration this week and everyone went, oh, but
you know, why is everyone leaving to Australia. Well, we
had data out of Australia yesterday that tells you why.
(18:07):
They've got jobs, heaps of them. The job market they're booming,
growing much more than expected in April, so total number
of employed people increased by eighty nine thousand, almost ninety thousand.
They were expecting twenty thousand. So it's going gang bus
is the participation rate at sixty seven point one percent
of the economy now, putting it within spitting distance of
(18:29):
historic highs. This means the Reserve Bank may not need
to cut interest rates, or may not have to cut
interest rates, or maybe silly to do so. They've got
a meeting next week. It's interesting because yes, the economic
growth there is slowing, but the labor market is really ted.
Inflation is coming down back there. They've got a meeting
(18:50):
on that next week. But that answers your question, why
is everyone going there? Well, your wages are high and
you've got more jobs. It's quite simple, isn't it. Twenty
three to six Bryan Bridge, our Reporters Around the Country
column in Dneedin this morning. Calm, good morning. We've got
a developed Dunedin developed app that is helping people with dementia.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
Yeah, and it's about to get a big funding boost.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Ryan.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
This is an app by social enterprise Ali Keres Ali
Keres Ebleli. That's what you search for in on your
phones for this app. It's active in forty countries. It
offers personalized reminders, caregiver alerts and location tracking tools. The
Selwyn Foundation has just an out significant funding for it,
saying it's the country's first ever impact investments in the
(19:35):
older person's well being market. The founder of ali Keres
is Angela Edwards from Dunedin. She says this investment will
help scale up their technology and reach, as well as
supporting their role out of AI driven engagement tools.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's what was it called again?
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Ali cares search for el Ali cares.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Downloaded writting it down for Mike Costking now has either
today callum it's.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Good here fine apart from Morning Cloud nor Westeries in eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Brilliant, Thank you. Let's go to Clear and christ Church Clear,
good morning, always a good morning in christ Church.
Speaker 12 (20:09):
Ah, a bit of a grumpy morning in christ Church
from this morning script.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Ryan, Oh what's going wrong?
Speaker 12 (20:15):
Well, the residents here are very annoyed, well, at least
on the east side, very annoyed at council's decision to
reject a petition which was calling for a ban on
freedom camping around New Brighton Beach. So in the space
of two weeks, eight hundred and sixty six people signed
to this petition saying we're sick of it. They say
that these car parks are overrun with freedom campers. Day
and day out. They say it puts pressure on facilities.
(20:38):
The public bathrooms there are getting wrecked. There's always rubbish
left behind, and it's really hard to find a park
that was handed to council. It was, unfortunately for them,
rejected by the Chief Executive. Now, Council says they believe
the current systems are sufficient. There's also these nation wide
changes coming in next year, meaning the vehicles will have
to comply to a higher standard, which they say will
(20:59):
help Hostal Community Board member Joe Zervos, though, says residents
are frustrated. They feel ignored and not heard, and they
say that it's a case of council not listening to
the community.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
All right, okay, well that is a bit of a
depressing end of the week from crashes. Hey how about
your weather?
Speaker 12 (21:16):
Clear great for freedom camping, fine, northerlyist and a high
of twenty brilliant.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Thank you very much. Have a great day anyway, Max,
I've just been told as awell, Max, what are you doing?
He's maybe he got so depressed giving yesterday's Wellington update
that he's decided to just throw in the towel today. Anyway,
We'll come to him if we find him. Neva's here
in the meantime, Neva, good morning.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I'm a little bit upset that Mex isn't here for
a fun Friday.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I know he's always fun, but first time he's missed one.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
I think, Yes, maybe he's not happy with you from yesterday.
He's probably no, I'll get it down. Tools he's some
technical issue. I mean, do we tell him to press you.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Know, he'll be at his microphone on. He'll be at
one of the few He'll be at one of the
few cafes left in Wellington having breakfast.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, they will be too.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, He's always at some sort of cafe or restaurant. Now,
the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is going to be marching
on Eden Park.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Exciting times next year. So this military showcase bands, dancers, performers.
It draws in more than about two hundred and thirty
thousand spectators. This is in Scotland every year, but for
the first time it's going to Grace Auckland in February
for seventy fifth anniversary. Now don't know this is huge,
but yes, and so Jason Barrett, he's the CEO. He
(22:31):
says it's quite ambitious because they're going to fly about
one thousand performers around the globe. They will perform at
Eden Park for thirty thousand people. This is over four nights.
I remember when I was growing up in a Vicago,
my auntie was huge into marching and they used to,
you know, like fundraise with the tattoo every year and
so you know, go round, you know what regional New Zealand's.
(22:53):
I'd go around selling Leamington's door knocking and those cheese
rolls in Southland. So she'd get me into it. I'd
do it, but she'd you wouldn't pay me, but in
cheese roles. That's why I said, Yes, it's like it's kilts,
and yes, bagpipe kill bag pipes and much get you
into that marching.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
If it's here, you be silly not to go and
see it because it's such a phenomenon. I know, you know,
I've got friends and family who love it. Yeah, so
you'd be silly not too. I think, how's our weather,
Neva for our weekend?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Well, cloudy periods. That's a good day for marching.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I have twenty oh excellent. Apparently he's here Max.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Well, actually I'm going down to Wellington tomorrow. I'm there
for the weekend, so maybe I should go find.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It a wealthy check I will, I will Max Max,
Are you there? No, I'll find him tomorrow. Go find
them please. That is Neva in Auckland, No, Max and Wellington,
Clear in christ Church and callumenton Eden. It is eighteen
minutes away from six year on News Talks. Here'd be
we'll talk about the social investment thing because Bill England.
This was Bill English as Big Baby. It's going to
(23:55):
target those you know, you find those children who've got
these you know, these five indicators. One is a parent
who's in jail, one is a parent who's on a benefit.
Another is an interaction with sefzor ordering a tamadiki. Now,
you know, you find those children who've got all of
those red flags and you pump the money in the
support around them. And the theory is that in years
(24:18):
from now, a decade from now or more, that investment
will pay off if you do it right. Is Nikola
willis doing it right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That's before six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance,
Peace of Mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And it's called it to six News Talk to b
We'll get to the social investment stuff in just a second,
right now, Vincent Macaviny our UK europe correspondents in good morning,
Good morning, great to have you. So the UK is well,
economy growing by more than expected. That's a good thing.
But the Starmer getting a bit of a hard time
about this Albania trip. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's the next day for the prime so but definitely
some good news. The UK now has the fastest rate
of growth in the G seven group of developed economies.
That's ahead of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, in Japan.
And that's because the figures for the first three months
of the year have been revised up from point six
to point seven percent growth. Now that might not sound
a lot, but it's better, as I said, than those
(25:18):
other countries are doing. But it's also a sign that
things are shifting here in the UK. The sort of
stagnation that we've seen after the pandemic years is somewhat
going away. We've got inflation falling, we've got interest rates
coming down as well. Now this figure is actually from
before the Trump tariffs came into effect, but already we
have a tariff deal with the US. It's still not
as good as you know, trading terms as we had
(25:42):
when these figures were calculated, but it's better than a
lot of the rest of the world. And we're also
seeing early signs that the UK is actually benefiting from
what's called product dumping, so a lot of stuff that
was on its way to the US which is now
being rediverted to Europe is coming in here, which means
prices are also falling slightly because there's more availability of
product coming from for instance, China. So some economic good
(26:04):
news for the government. But on that key issue of immigration,
the Prime Minister is in Albania. He's there, he says
he wants to do talks about sending failed asylum seekers
to other nations in what are called return hubs. Albania
says it's not interested in that, but most we think
of the gangs involved with people smuggling across Europe are
Albanian based, and he's managed to get a new deal
(26:26):
with Albania in terms of sort of prosecuting and intelligent
sharing to try and crack down on this horrible trade.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Can you discive us so the failed asylum seekers people
to try to seek asylum in the Britain right now
that aren't being seen, you know, because there's no deals
going abroad at the moment. Where are they staying right now?
Where where are they well?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
At the moment, the UK is spending millions every day
in fact housing asylum seekers in hotels up and down
the country. This was actually a legacy policy though inherited
from the Conservatives. They signed these long term agreements until
about twenty twenty nine people in hotels and it's had
a huge impact right across the country. A lot of
people in small towns and villages across the country angry
(27:08):
that their local hotel, which you know, used to host
functions or bring in tourists, is now being taken up
by people coming across some small boats from France, but
thens again anger. There's been more video in the last
few days of French authorities, despite the UK now paying
them tens of millions of pounds, not doing anything to
stop these boats launching from the north of France. So
(27:30):
it's a tricky situation. But the government still thinks if
it cracks down on the gangs themselves, that people doing
the trade, that they'll be able to stem the flow.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because you pay them.
You British textpayers are paying the French police to basically
do the border patrolling for them on the other side.
But then those very sign police officers, yeah, they're.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Basically standing there with cigarettes saying I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Exactly exactly. They have a national self interest in not leading.
Are stopping the boats letting them go across the the channel.
Thanks for your time this morning. That's Vincent macaviney a UK.
You're a correspondent just gone eleven away from six Bridge.
Social investments getting a boost. This is billinglish Is Baby
now carried by Nikola Willis pre budget announcement two hundred
(28:14):
and seventy five million dollars. One hundred and ninety of
that goes to the new Social Investment Fund.
Speaker 12 (28:19):
It will invest in services that deliver measurable improvements in
the lives of those.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Who need our help, guided by data and evidence.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You contract directly to providers for you contracts the idea
you target problems earlier for better results long term. Belinda
hem Hemiwana is the social services provider out he at
our CEO with me this morning. Blinda, good morning, oh
good morning. Good to have you on the show. Can
you just tell us what is the main difference? Is
it the length of the contract here? What is the
(28:50):
main difference for you with how this will work?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Yeah, sure. So we're really heartened by this announcement and
I think definitely the the vision to have longer term contracting,
sustainable funding with community sector organizations to work together to
develop outcomes framework so we all know that we are
delivering the best for the kids INFARNO that are receiving services.
(29:16):
Just an example, I represent over two hundred and fifty
community based providers and they work over seventeen government departments.
So you can just imagine all of the separate contracting arrangements,
the different reporting. There's some inconsistency in how providers need
to report on results in timeframes. So we're really hoping
(29:38):
for some good administrative burden reductions.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
One, so one provider might have to deal with seventeen
different government agencies.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Yeah, or you know at least five to six. We
often have multiple year and many of.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
You renewing every year, so you're having to go through
these proces, jump through these service So admin up the
I'm imagining for you with this new scheme. Do you
have have do they set KPIs you have to meet, yes, and.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
I think most contracting relationships at the moment there are
performance indicators and volumes or expected outcomes or outputs. Well,
I think this really pushes it to the next level.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Though what how does it push it to the next level?
Because the problem with the word tamade thing and I
know we've had that report from the Order to General,
but the problem was that the providers were not meeting
KPIs but still getting all the money and even when
there was an underspend, we're keeping the underspend too.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Yes, So I think there's obviously the so I just
answered answer the first part of the question I think,
which is about how will this be different from the
kp and then we can move into some of those
observations from the Amadikey process. I think one of the
really valuable spect of social investments. You'll take it out
of one government agency, so we know kids in Faro
(31:05):
are complicated. You don't just have a health issue or
an education issue or a well being issue. Often these
are quite interconnected. And what I like about the model
is it will allow cross government results and indicators, so
you can really tackle those hard cases and not just
(31:27):
be in in one contract dealing with one aspect like
a health or an education and another dealing with the
counseling or the youth work. So it's a really nice,
elegant way to tackle these big issues. So we really,
you know, we think it will work. We want to
see it on the ground obviously, and we would have
liked to see more than one hundred and ninety million
(31:48):
because that's spread over four years. But the Minister has
talked about scaling it up. So this is a good chance.
Just to your point about do we know what's working
and are we funding it? This is a great chance
to put the results on the table into in partnership
with government to do things that are really impactful.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Which is exactly what we want to happen all of us. Belinda,
appreciate your time, keep up the good work. Belinda Hemi
one O with us this morning. Social Service Providers altered
our CEO on the changes the government's and out well
the funding boosts the governments and now it's for social investment.
Seven minutes away from six on your Friday morning, we'll
get to mic next.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Ryan Bridge on Eily edition with one room Make your
Property Search Simple used doorg zibby.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Speaking of property just gone five minutes away from six
Core Logic data out yesterday, nine percent of sales nationally
made a loss, as in, they sold for less than
they were purchased for. Fourteen percent in Auckland making a loss.
So the seller's coming to meet the market. Finally, Mike's
here now, Mike, good morning morning.
Speaker 13 (32:45):
Our numbers out this morning actually from the Real Estate Institute.
Prices are up, still a buyer's market. And look by
how much for the month of April zero point I'm
guessing zero point six I think a month. Annualize it out, Yeah,
you're talking over six percent a year.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Now, I've got something at present for you today.
Speaker 13 (33:05):
Okay, what is that? Is that one of those things
you rip off at the bottom? Did did you find
that the means toilet?
Speaker 10 (33:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I found it on the way to the men's toilet,
so it hasn't been in a bathroom. Okay, So this
is for those tear one off. It says it's a
pink piece of paper, a paper, give a free compliment,
share some other heart today.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
From who who is this?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
From the Pink Shirt Day dot org Dott Mental Health Foundation.
So you're gonna give me a compliment. I'm going to
give you a compliment.
Speaker 13 (33:28):
Okay, what's the compliment?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, you got well, you got to.
Speaker 13 (33:30):
Oh you don't even think of your own compliments for
the good.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
They're prepared for you. Because we're not capable anymore.
Speaker 13 (33:36):
There's only two left.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
One is you are strong, which I think you. You're
neat all right. You're kidding me?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (33:45):
No?
Speaker 13 (33:46):
Deliverate better? No, no deliverate better than that.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
You're neat all right because you are a next person
as a tidy go away. Have a great day, everyone,
See you Monday.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
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