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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with one roof make your property search simple,
us dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Welcome to your Monday, the twenty fifth,
twenty sixth of May. Where are we, fellow Riley? We're
going to have him on the new benefits sanctions that
are kicking in today. Are they actually working? If you
look at the numbers of people who are going onto benefits,
onto job seeker in particular, the answer would seem to
be no. Is it more about the state of the economy?
(00:33):
So Norris is one, This is f one, Liam Lawson
finishing eighth, Andrew Orison on that, plus the warriors and
all the rest of the weekend sport Gavin Gray in
the UK for US this morning, Trump's back at it
with the EU another trades spat. You thought you had
ninety days to sort of Gail actually Trump saying you
don't right. It is seven minutes after five the agenda.
(00:56):
The Russia and Ukraine had the biggest prisoner of war
exchange so far over the weekend, with more than three
hundred servicemen returned on each side, but then Russia ramps
up at strikes on Ukraine the highest number of drones
and missiles launched and a single night, yet.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The sirens whents at midnight and there were explosions right
all the way through until sunrise. I mean, the skies
were lit up with search lights and you could hear
air defenses going off. You could see the occasional drone interceptor,
you could hear their motors.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
In Gaza thirty eight Dad and the latest strikes, and
this terrible story from the weekend, the doctor, his wife,
and then nine of the ten children killed.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
The father was quite seriously injured. We do know that
the sun has been operated on by a British surgeon
who is at the NASA hospital, and he has said
that the arm of the little boy, who was eleven
years old, his name is Adam, was nearly severed, but
he was able to save the arm.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So Trump wants to ben foreign student from enrolling at Harvard,
and a federal judges come out and said, Tyjoe, hold up,
it's the same judge considering the lawsuits on the frieze
of federal funding for Harvard.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
The government's action is unlawful. Harvard says, we are fully
committed to maintaining Harvard's ability to host international students and
scholars who held for more than one hundred and forty
countries and enrich the university and this nation immeasurably.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And finally to the Monaco Grand Prix Illium, Lawson secured
the best finish of his Formula One career to date.
He drove purposely slow, backing up the cars behind him
so that he could let his teammate in. Lawson came
in eighth, a place ahead of where he started, and
his teammate sixth, a place back from where he started.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
It's not often you have a plan, especially on a
race lay this where we have the opportunity to completely
control the race. Kinnah works out perfectly. So from our side,
there was obviously doubts because when you're dropping back pase
like that, you're only three from guys behind, but said
both guys and the says, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Very regod And that's your agenda for Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
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 Talk.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Said be yeah, so we're going to talk about the
sanctions and I'd love to know your thoughts. Nine two
nine to two talk about the sanctions just before six
o'clock with Philloiley. But just so that we're clear, I mean,
one of the sanctions is that you get half of
the money, half of your benefit put on a card
for four weeks. So it's not like you actually lose money.
You just have to spend half of it on a
(03:33):
card in which you can't buy certain things. You know anyway,
but here are the obligations. This is what you have
to do in order to actually get sanctioned. So your
obligations you look for full time work, full time employment.
I mean, if you're on a job seeker benefit. I
would have thought that would be a prerequisite. Turns out
it is. So you've got to attend and take part
(03:54):
in any suitable job interviews that we ask you to reasonable.
Attend and take part in interviews with working in come
as required reasonable. They're giving you the money, take part
in any other activities we require require, including job training courses.
That's not only is that good for you, it's good
for us. They might ask you to do work experience
(04:17):
whip do you do so? Basically, if you don't do
these things, there's a traffic. First of all, there's a
traffic light system with you know, green, yellow, red, and
you only then lose half of your money. You didn't
even lose it goes on a card. So I don't
know what is the big deal. The question I guess
is whether this is actually having any effect on a beneficiaries,
(04:38):
on the number of beneficiaries, because they're going up, and
that's more to do with the economy. Fillow Raleigh on
that later on the show leven after five. It is
ocr week this week and Wednesday. We'll get it good.
We should get a cut. Great if we've got a
mortgage I do. I would like the OCA to just
fall through the floor, thank you very much. So we'll
get to three and a half percent. It'll sorry, we're
(04:58):
at three and a half percent. We'll get down to
three point twenty five. What happens after that is the question.
Because you've got hawksby who's your caretaker in charge, all
said it would come down further to three by Christmas.
You got some people saying two and a half by Christmas.
You've got the market pricing in a sixty percent chance
of two point seven to five by Christmas. We will
find out more Wednesday because we'll get the monetary policy
(05:19):
statement on that as well. Right coming up next, it's
your teeth and yeah, your kid's teeth. How many are
waiting for on the surgery wait list for a dental operation?
And why are there so many kids on there? Is
it because their teeth are getting worse or their behavior?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and one roof Make Your Property Search Simple News
Talks be good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Nice to have your company retail sales data. This is
from Friday, but I thought i'd share it with you
in case you hadn't caught it. It was surprising, like
in a good way. Good surprising. Retail activity was up
for the March quarter. This is from stats n Z.
So the sales volume was upo point eight percent on December.
Sales value also up one point five percent to thirty
one billion dollars. The value up one point four percent
(06:07):
compared to March twenty twenty four, so up on a
year earlier as well. This is surprising. They were expecting.
The pundits, the economists were expecting, and we've had many
on this show. I pick up later in the year.
So is this recovery being brought forward? We're out spending
our money more so than we were in quarter four
last year and quarter one the year prior. It is
quarter past five, Brian Briefly, over half of children on
(06:31):
the dental surgery weight list have been waiting more than
four months. That's three thousand kids waiting more than one
hundred and twenty days health en zed data. They are
apparently in pain some of them. There's some complex issues.
Samuel Carrington, Faculty of Dentistry at Otago, Unied, Good morning,
Good morning, Ryan, how are you good? Thank you? What
are you going to do to get on the list.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Right? Well?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
By the time timebody, if you reach hospital care, they're
usually are quote in a lot of significant pain and
have multiple insected or edssteth So many of these sorry
men need several extractions and in some cases for dental
clearances under general. So the level of disease is not
about poor oral hygien alone. It's actually about deffer issues
like poverty and nutrition, lack of early access to the
(07:11):
community ooral health service. And if we had a system
that primarily focus on prevention, these children would be treated
much earlier with simpler and less traumatic procedures. But right
now their hospital dental surgery is often the end result
of a systemic failure.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So just stop feeding them coca cola.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Well, that's one part of it. But yeah, like I said,
it's a systemic issue. Unfortunately, our community ooralth service is
under resourced, understaff and this all leads to children waiting
on the list and leading hospital level care.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So when they're on the list, are they guaranteed to
be in pain? For those who are waiting four months,
presumably you would get the extreme cases out of the
way first. So those who are waiting more than form
I mean, are their kids out there literally every day
in pain waiting for a dental surgery more than four months?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Unfortunately there are and if you think about the wider issues,
So children in pain, you know, they can't do things
like concentrating school, They struggle to eat, they lose a
lot of sleep. They often go through multiple appointments to
the community or health service and even to private practices
in order to get antibiotics to kind of alleviate that pain.
But what happens is it affects their development and their
ability to thrive. And it also it's not impacting the child,
(08:25):
it's also impacting on the family. So that family carries
a huge emotional and financial burdens to take time off work,
to trope travel to appointments.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's terrible. Nobody wants that. So what this backlog was
caused by the lockdowns? Was it? So we locked down,
then we had couldn't do any of the surge. Reason
then that the backlog we haven't caught up.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
That's correct, Yeah, but it's also an outcome of the
system itself. So children were being pushed back for their exams,
their dentaliti gay got worse, the list got bigger, and
then factor adam with the fact that we were having
staff shortages. People were leaving, they were retiring. We were
(09:05):
having new graduates graduate from both universities Otago and aut
and a lot of them were going to Australia.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Are they still going there?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Absolutely? I also worked at the dental school and I
think about our graduating class last year, I'd say about
a quarter of them went over to Australia. What would
it normally be, Well, the public system actually cries out
for a lot of our graduates. We had around about
one hundred and forty oral health therapists graduating every year,
but last year was the first time in my ten
(09:34):
years of working at the university that I've seen a
big chunk of our graduates actually go to Australia because
they couldn't find jobs here.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Sam, appreciate your time, Sam Carrington, a senior lecture of
Faculty Dentistry at the Unusity of Otago. I mean joined
the Q who isn't leaving? I suppose it has just
gone eighteen after five news talks.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He'd be on your radio and online on iHeartRadio earlier
this year with Ryan Bridge and One Roof to make
your property search simple news talk said these.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's five twenty, Good morning, Ryan. Why do the parents
never get a mention? We did mention the parents. This
is on dentistry. There are how many kids, three thousand
New Zealand kids waiting for dental surgery and they've been
waiting more than four months and a lot of them
are in pain. We imagine I've been four months in
pain and a child not good for their education, I
(10:25):
mean not good for anything. Ryan. If kids weren't being
given fizzy drinks and juice constantly, their teeth would be fine.
Give them water in milk and healthy choices. I completely
agree with you, but The question is from a dentistry
point of view, is do you couts all very well,
you can say the dentists can say, hey, stop giving
a kid fizzy drink, and then they don't, and then
they end up back there and what do you do?
(10:45):
Just not treat them? You know? The number six twenty
one minutes after five. Let's get to Andrew Ortison's sport
good morning.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Greeting's Ryan big morning, busy morning, this morning. If we
start with Lian Lawson, if there's one more of the year,
it's the busiest. It's this one Monday morning, which is great.
So yeah, Lea Lawson let's start their eighth place at
Monico gets himself four points, Leder Norris winning the race
and in the principality on the streets in Monte Carlo.
(11:14):
It's it's quite the scene, amazing to watch.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And he's basically that gives what does one for the team,
doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, let's us mate come past.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Yes, Isaac Hadget is sixth, so he's in points as well,
So good day for racing bulls and well great day
from McLaren too. Oscar Piastrian third, so two places on
the podium, but Norris now within three of Pastree at
the top of the driver's standings. Not much space in
Monico though, right, well, he happens and various pieces like that.
But great to watch down there on the waterfront.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And the Warrior has got a bit raided.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
They did, indeed, yeah sixteen ten, I see you did there,
you know at home too that yeah, yeah, I mean
they had this five run winning streak. But it's come
to an end. And Andrew Webster's talking about two sinbonings,
one to the Raiders in the first half, and they
still the Warriors still try as a result of that,
and then lead to try on the sixty fourth minute,
(12:10):
which effectively decided the game. Jabal Foggery coming across to score.
So your disappointment for the Warriors, I suppose it's a
it's all good round because numbers are depleted because of
the state of origin. Of course, the Warriors missing a
couple of key players as well as a result. And yeah,
they're still I think it's third now they're equal with
the Raiders on eighteen points, but they're third on points differential.
(12:31):
So the Warrior is still very much part of the
wrecking Bulldogs losing. But they're on twenty still the top.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's what we'd like to hear. Now, Alan, they say
the hot water, What did you think of it?
Speaker 9 (12:42):
I think is the rule off it goes out of play.
I mean, I think the linesman is in a decent
position there and therefore they have to copy it. But
you can understand, given the circumstances and what's on the line,
how tension would be high in that instance. And they've
done so well what gaes youmo may crossing and Rogerson
putting it in, but you know, and that would have leveled.
(13:03):
That would have made things pretty exciting in terms of
I suppose the way goals, home goals, et cetera, and
they would hit it towards extra time, penalty showed out.
Potentially all that sort of stuff would be high drama
at Mounts Smart but not to be. And the victory
of gone ahead and played in the circumstances I thought,
just from what I saw of it, maybe that the
(13:24):
Aucle left Sea were a bit flat and maybe the
occasion got to them. But you know, nonetheless, outstanding season,
first season to actually take the well to win the
regulation table anyway, but just not able to take it
to the final.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Absolutely. I'm actually talking to Steve on the on the
on the Herald program later on.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Oh yes, yes, good luck with that today. By the way,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It's I mean, it's sport, isn't it. It's refs calls
go your way or sometimes they don't.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Just got it and come back next season do better,
I suppose, but you know, hard to argue with their difference.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Out Andrew, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Go to the desk. Busy, busy are enty five hundred
way as well.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You've got a lot on this morning, Andrew Ordison the sport.
It is twenty four minutes after five. You're on News TALKSVB,
the early.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio. How It by News.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Talks EB five twenty six News Talks B. Can We
Save It? I was thinking about this over the weekend.
I get why. I get why the government is doing
the old switcheroo. You know, I get it means tests
the government sweetener, have it for everyone else, save yourself
a bunch of money. Then we workers and our employers
(14:34):
will slowly put more into the scheme over the time,
and you build up to that so that when it
all comes out in the wash, we're at least no
worse off than before budget day. All right, I get it,
except that we will be worse off because it's us
and our employers paying for it. Right, We pay more upfront,
Our employers pay more upfront. That's added cost. Businesses recover
(14:59):
cost by putting up p which we end up paying,
or by lowering costs like wages, which is how most
of us make a living. Right, So the net effect
is worse for us and better for the government. Now again,
I get why they need to slash spending, but the
problem with tinkering with Kiwi Saver is this, for your
average working, hard saving planning for retirement, that's what we're
(15:23):
told to do. These changes throw all your calculations out
of whack. You plan on a long term, predictable set
of circumstances. When they're changed without warning and at random,
it punishes the very people who are trying to do
the right thing. We need more of a heads up
(15:45):
on changes to KIW Saver, thank you very much, and
more importantly on NZ super. It's not a matter of if,
but when. That also gets a means test, even if
the when is post Winston Peters Nikola Willis says she's
been giving this some thought. The future of superannuation I
would like to know, and other hard working key we
(16:07):
savers I'm sure would also like to know sooner rather
than later, what those thoughts are. Brian Bridge eight minutes
after five year on newstalksb our Funniest news from the weekend.
Remember I told you Kamala Harris was going to go
talk at a real estate conference in Brisbane, because they
must have. I don't know what her fee is, but anyway,
(16:28):
she ends up at a real estate conference in Brisbane.
Have a listen about you.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
You're invested in it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You're invested in doing the well.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
You'll develop a professional reputation.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
More than four thousand agents paying upwards of one thousand dollars.
Harris covering her upbringing Korea and advice.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
She also gave them advice on the Australian property market,
because that's her area of expertise. Apparently. Twenty nine after
five you're on Newstalk ZB. We'll get to Gavin Gray
are UK europe correspondent next. The Germans quite freaked out
about the latest spat between Trump and the EU. You're
on News Talks FB. No, sorry, tell me what acome.
Speaker 12 (17:13):
Cckle Comackle.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof make your
Property search Simple. News Talks B this year.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Good morning, it is Monday, the twenty sixth of May.
It is twenty five minutes away from six and you're
listening to News Talk SB. We're going to get to
Gavin Gray out of the UK shortly. More on the spats. Yes,
it's reignited between Trump and the EU on trade and terrorists.
Phill O'Reilly who was on the work of the Welfare
Working Group. He's on the program just before six o'clock.
Benefit sanctions kicking in today. So if you are listening
(18:01):
to this and you're on a benefit, go and do something.
That's the message basically, isn't it. Philo Rileigh will explain
actually why they're not a big deal. But if they're
not that big of a deal, will they change anything?
That's the question this morning, and Tim has checked the
program just in the last couple of seconds. Ryan. If
National can play with Kiwisaver, then so can labor and
(18:22):
this plays with people's confidence in the kiwisaver system overall, Tim,
I agree with you. I completely agree with you, And
I think if you're going to mess with keysaver, if
you're going to make changes in the same way that
you know with superannuation, they should be very well signaled
ahead of time because good, fastidious people like you tim
plan in advance, and when plans change, you need to
(18:46):
know about it so you can factor that in. But
trying to explain this to a politician to get them
to all sing kumbai r on superannuation or kiwisaver is
like trying to end the war in Gaza, isn't it?
Twenty two away from six Ray and Bridge, Color Practice
and deneed for us this morning, Color, Good morning to you.
How's the hospital coming together? Yeah, look it's coming along here.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Health New Zealand and the City Council Ryan issuing a
joint media really mediate release on this one point eight
eight billion dollar projects, saying excited about the progress, et cetera,
et cetera, but also detailing the numbers of beds that
will be available in this new and patient building. The
ODT here reporting over the weekend cuts across the board
for all categories of beds, most significantly the number of
(19:31):
overnight beds cut by forty nine from what was originally promised.
But Health and z though say forty three beds actually
will be reserved for future upgrades and the sixth floor
of this build will be space for further expansion over time.
The Health Minister Simeon Brown saying the government is delivering
on its promise, and our Mayor Jules Raddick says this
new hospital will be transformative and he's pleased. Now the
(19:53):
southern community has been heard. How's your weather rain clearing
this morning? Chances of showers the saft though and a
high of eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Nice one and clears and christ clear. Good morning, Good morning.
Now what's going on with the new Metro Sports Center?
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Wow, We've been watching this for some years now, Ryan,
and we can now reveal that its cost effectively has
blown out big time. This is the Paddokyode Recreation and
Sports Center. It's located in town on Morehouse Save just
near the hospital. Really, we know that it's ninety percent complete.
It very much looks ready to open, but we now
know the cost has doubled to half a billion dollars
(20:30):
before its scheduled opening. There are eleven pools and spas,
there hydroslides, some sports courts for netball and the like.
The complex was meant to open a few years ago,
but was delayed because of a legal dispute between the
government delivery agency and the contractor. Sports Canterbury CEO Julian
Falloone says this massive cost blowout doesn't come as a
shock to them. He says, because of the time frame
(20:51):
basically how long it's taken and the complexity of the site,
there's no surprises that the build project was going to
end up costing more.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And we're the cleip mainly fine.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
A bit of patchy rain early today then northeries.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
At a high of nineteen Hey, good one mix in
Wellington MAXs good morning morning. Now Wellington Water is main
a shambles, but you've got a new model coming in
an update on this. Yeah.
Speaker 14 (21:14):
So we interviewed the mayor on Friday. Her claim is
that Wellington's ahead of the game now by agreeing to
form this new joint regional entity, as you say, in
lieu of the disastrous Wellington Water. While the council here
is pledging one point eight billion dollars over the next decade,
that spending has got to be looked at again anyway.
By all these councils when they do come together. But
look good. Story in the post this morning highlighting that
(21:37):
these rusty old pipes that keep breaking are actually costing
residents in different parts of the region vastly different amounts
per capita of rate payer money. Six hundred and eighty
six dollars per capita last year spent by Pottydoer's Council
three hundred and ninety one per person in Lower had
one hundred and seventy nine in Wellington City, So that's
(21:57):
quite incredible. If you're in Pottidoa, I'd be furious that
this change can't come soon enough. Roughly the same total
length of pipe was fixed in Podidor last year as Wellington,
but it cost them four times as much. The main
issue remains there's just no transparency as to where rate
payer money is going.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And competition. Yeah, and as you say, someone going over
the numbers with a fine tooth comb.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
How's your with the max not good morning showers turning
to heavy rain and very strong wind, particularly this morning
as well seventeen the high Central.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
All right, take here, neither good morning till good morning.
Now we're going to be able to put our foot
down and go north.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
Put our foot down, but only for five point five kilometers.
So what's happening is that from today the speed limit
has been raised to one hundred and ten kilometers per hour.
This is on the Northern Gateway toll road from north
of Audio Work to south of the Johnston's Hill Tunnel
Johnstone's Hill Tunnels. So that's a distance of yeah five
point five k Joe Carr, he's the Northern Council Regional
(22:56):
Transport Committee, cheersies. This is great news, important steep to
improving connectivity with Auckland. I was on that road. I
went to Metakana Markets for the first time on Saturday before.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
But you do you do notice because once you get
onto the new expressway on the other side, you just
go for it. You do powerful weather. But before that
it does feel slow.
Speaker 11 (23:16):
It does feel slow, right, so you've got to remember, yeah,
put your foot down and then ease it off againner
for that five point because I'm quite a slow driver actually,
so yes, I felt like I.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Was to that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
If you're going a hunt, and we know what one
hundred and ten means, don't we one hundred and fifteen
that's right, that's what people do.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
That's what people do.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
How's our weather?
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Few shells from afternoon, periods of rain from tonight, still
warm twenty the high here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Have a good one. Never it's neither. For Auckland News.
It's eighteen minutes away from six year on news talks,
you'll be we'll get to Gavin Gray out of the
UK Europe of course, this big back and forth between
Trump and the EU. Plus there's been a terrible outcome
to a rescue in Switzerland on a luxury ski resort.
We'll get to that as well. And Phil O'Riley before
six on the benefit sanctions kicking in today news talks.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It'd be international correspondence with ins and eye insurance, peace
of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You're only talks to a big quarter to sex will
get you across the benefit sanctions coming in today in
just a second. Right now at Devin Gray are UK
europe correspondent. Given this terrible story about the snow resort
in Switzerland. What's going on?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yeah, so the bodies of five skiers have been discovered
there and Ryan this is all at the very exclusive
luxury zoomat resort. But high up from where normally skiers
would venture. The five bodies were discovered a day after
emergency services were alerted by a group of climbers ascending
(24:47):
what's called the Rivshish on a four two hundred meter
peak in the Valet Alps. They had discovered several pairs
of skis left unattended near the summit, and then using
air and ground searches, they on the bodies. The victims
were at varying altitudes on avalanche debris in high altitude
areas near the Swiss Italian border. Obviously, at the moment
(25:10):
we don't yet know the names the identities of those,
but as I said, this is a luxury resort, very
popular with British and other European skiers, and there's been
some unusual weather there. Actually, in a separate incident on
Friday night, they were involved in a challenging mountain rescue,
rescuing four who were stranded amid fog and high winds,
(25:30):
but they thankfully were all brought to safety.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And the European Union Trump going at it again, well,
Trump going at the European Union over the terriffs. Turns
out the ninety day pause could just be ripped up
next week.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Yes, all eyes I think really focused on America when
it wakes up on Monday and what Donald Trump has
to say. He's now threatening to slap a fifty percent
tariff on all goods sent to the US from the
European Union in response, had a pretty robust response from
the EU Trade Commissioner Maras Sefkovich. He's saying the EU
(26:07):
US trade must be guided by mutual respect and not threats,
and that we stand ready to defend our interests. But
this will really concern the EU because it is one
of Washington's largest trading partners, sending roughly eight hundred and
ninety billion New Zealand dollars worth in goods last year
(26:28):
and buying though just sort of eight hundred billion New
Zealand dollars worth, So a big, big difference in the discrepancy,
and that is something that Donald Trump is obviously very
very angry about it, and.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I can see the Germans are getting a quite exercise
about it this morning as well. Thank you so much
for that, Kevin Gray, are UK euro correspondent. It's twelve
minutes to six brand new benefit sanctions coming to force
from today. They're non financial, so half of your benefit
will be put on a payment card for four weeks.
You can only buy essential stuff. You can't buy things
like alcohol and tobacco. You can also be made to
(27:03):
do up to five hours of community work experience, but
it's only if you breach your obligations. Right. Philo Riley
is the former Welfare Expert Advisory Group member with US
This Morning fel Good morning money. Right does this actually work?
This stuff?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Certainly, sanctions do work. Exactly how well they work has
always open to debate. They work for two reasons. One
is they encourage people to get off the benefit. But secondly,
very importantly for people like you and me who are
paying tax in order to give persons a benefit, they
keep our face in the system too, that if you're
going to be you know, if you're not going to
play by the rules, there's going to be a bit
(27:39):
of a sanction on you. So they do actually work
in mostly context here and.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
If you read the news you would get the impression
that everybody is going to be put on a payment
card tomorrow. In fact, only ninety eight wealth ninety eight
percent of beneficiaries are actually fine. Only two percent tend
to breach their obligations.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah, that's right. I mean most people. What we found
in the Welfare Expert advisor we work a few years
ago was most people actually do try and get a job,
and of course right now it's harder to get a job,
so it's finning up to interviews and so on, and
so I think you know that this is quite a
small minority, very small minority, as matter of fact, and
it's only one part of the sanction regime. And what
I like about the card issue, Ryan in particular, is
(28:16):
in the past, taking money off of beneficiary often means
you're actually taking it off the kid of the beneficiary,
the child or the wife or the husband of the
beneficiary of the partner. This way, you're not taking any
money away, you're simply sort of proscribing how it might
be spent. And I think that's actually a very sensible
way of doing it, because the worriesome thing about taking
money off dealers it might as she hurt kids, and
that's always problematic. The work obligation piece is a little
(28:39):
bit more interesting in the sense that in order to work,
obligation to work, you've got an employer who wants to
employ you. And if you're forced to go to work
for a community organization. That might be a little more problematic,
I think, But certainly those two things alone, used expeditiously
and new sensibly, I think we'll have an impact.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Job's thinking numbers have gone up, of course, twenty one
eleven point six percent in March on the same time
last year. Looking at the budget unemployment data that they're projecting,
it's I mean, it's going it's coming down, but it's
taking its time, right, So we will rightly see more
on the job seeker benefit or no massive increase for
a while.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
That's correct, And that's the whole point about the unemployment
benefit system. More generally, it's a shopping zorber in the economy.
As you get the economy slowing down, as you get
more people out of work, of course we should all
support those people and make sure that they're not left
on the street and all the rest of it. And
so that's really what's happening with the job seeker benefit.
It's simply an indication that the jobs in the economy
are hard to come by. What should hope is that
(29:36):
as we see interest rates reductions, as we see changes
to that, capital gains, So the capital tax issue coming through.
Over the next few months, hopefully we'll see the economy
start to pick up. And that's exactly when you get
those job numbers coming down. Nothing much you can do about.
It's just the nature of the economy.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
There was a faux pat don't say capital gains tax.
Thank you for betting with us this morning, former Welfare
Expert Advisory Group member. It is eleven minutes away from
six News Talk ZB.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Bryan Bridge on early edition with one roof Make your
Property Search Simple, Youth Talk Zibby.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You're on News TALKSB seven minutes away from six. The
ski field in Switzerland where five skiers have lost their
lives overnight. There's been a rescue. Well, it's now a
recovery of bodies. And Neil says he's skied this particular
ski field before. The altitude is so high that some
skiers you just watch them collapse on the lift on
the way up. Neil said, yeah, I had to ski
down about one hundred meters before I could steady my
(30:36):
feet and actually stand up again. Sounds dangerous, Neil. Six,
And turns out it it's six way away from.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Now, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 15 (30:44):
Sounds like the pomber at Porter heightsn't about that.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Hey, do you ski much?
Speaker 15 (30:50):
I used to ski when I was in christ Juch.
Love when you live, when you live close to a
ski field like it's in christ Urge like an hour
our hour bit if you're lucky. And then when you
move to the North Island, you got to spend three
or four hours on the road and share it with
the entire island. Why would you bother the same?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
That was the appeal. It's four and a half hours
and I was actually looking on the weekend because we
were thinking of going this winter.
Speaker 15 (31:11):
It's a long way to get it's a long way
to go so far to Goo, it's four and a
half there, it's four and a half back issues.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And you're also not guaranteed to ski because why not
the weather.
Speaker 15 (31:19):
If you book it an advance, you one hundred cent.
We used to go made of Mine. Used to go
to Mount Cheeseman, which is a beautiful feeling. It's a club.
They're all in the same sort of beer. In Mount Hart,
Porter Heights. Mount Cheeseman Cheeseman was a club. They had
a couple of toes. There's no one there. You drive
up Chess Fantesta. Absolutely, Brian, best skiing I ever did.
Thanks for asking, right? Is I got flown up onto
the Tasman Glacier. Hell, and so you leave, you leave
(31:42):
from Mount Cook and you get flown up onto the
glacier and I thought, oh my god, I'm not good
enough to do this.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You got down?
Speaker 15 (31:51):
No, well, of course I got down. I'm sitting here
telling you the story now. But what you don't realize
when you ski up on the Tasman Glacier is it's
like knee deep powder and so in fact, as you ski,
you're not actually ever going that fast. It's not like
being on a ski field where it's all sort of
slider and icy. It's like literally you're up to your
knees and powder, just going.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Can I just brag about skiing in the Andes? Sure
you can't.
Speaker 15 (32:14):
Is that power in the Andes?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No? It wasn't. Actually it was. It was quite slippery.
I wasn't. Well, it wasn't the best skin. Did you
pull over? And what do you get up on my ass?
Did you?
Speaker 15 (32:27):
Did you get it off the rope?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Toe? The little least I got off the rope?
Speaker 15 (32:30):
Did you get past the pomer?
Speaker 12 (32:32):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (32:32):
I got past the pomer So you got onto a
chair lift, yes, got it on you did you freak
out with the lack of oxygen?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
You sound like? Although what they do over there is
you chew coca leaves and alkaline. Yeah. So when you
get to the to the you know, the altitude, when
you start to feel a bit sick, they give it
to you and you chew the.
Speaker 15 (32:51):
Are you sure you're actually on a ski field or
were you just chewing coca?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
No, no, this is this is This is in the
Andes and generally in general they do it all the
time there. It's a it's a it's like an anti climate,
you know, altitude sickness, medicine, a natural one at that
you'd like natural things? I reckon good? What do you
got today?
Speaker 15 (33:11):
Well, none of that now the Prime minister. Now listen
to this. The Prime Minister is not on this morning.
You're sick because you know they said he's got a cold.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, is that exceptable?
Speaker 15 (33:22):
That's not sick?
Speaker 11 (33:24):
I'm cold?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
What's that about? Anyway? Nicola Willis is doing the business
all right, Mike's here next. Have a great morning, everybody.
See tomorrow
Speaker 1 (33:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Welcome to your Monday, the twenty fifth,
twenty sixth of May. Where are we, fellow Riley? We're
going to have him on the new benefits sanctions that
are kicking in today. Are they actually working? If you
look at the numbers of people who are going onto benefits,
onto job seeker in particular, the answer would seem to
be no. Is it more about the state of the economy?
(00:33):
So Norris is one, This is f one, Liam Lawson
finishing eighth, Andrew Orison on that, plus the warriors and
all the rest of the weekend sport Gavin Gray in
the UK for US this morning, Trump's back at it
with the EU another trades spat. You thought you had
ninety days to sort of Gail actually Trump saying you
don't right. It is seven minutes after five the agenda.
(00:56):
The Russia and Ukraine had the biggest prisoner of war
exchange so far over the weekend, with more than three
hundred servicemen returned on each side, but then Russia ramps
up at strikes on Ukraine the highest number of drones
and missiles launched and a single night, yet.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The sirens whents at midnight and there were explosions right
all the way through until sunrise. I mean, the skies
were lit up with search lights and you could hear
air defenses going off. You could see the occasional drone interceptor,
you could hear their motors.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
In Gaza thirty eight Dad and the latest strikes, and
this terrible story from the weekend, the doctor, his wife,
and then nine of the ten children killed.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
The father was quite seriously injured. We do know that
the sun has been operated on by a British surgeon
who is at the NASA hospital, and he has said
that the arm of the little boy, who was eleven
years old, his name is Adam, was nearly severed, but
he was able to save the arm.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So Trump wants to ben foreign student from enrolling at Harvard,
and a federal judges come out and said, Tyjoe, hold up,
it's the same judge considering the lawsuits on the frieze
of federal funding for Harvard.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
The government's action is unlawful. Harvard says, we are fully
committed to maintaining Harvard's ability to host international students and
scholars who held for more than one hundred and forty
countries and enrich the university and this nation immeasurably.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And finally to the Monaco Grand Prix Illium, Lawson secured
the best finish of his Formula One career to date.
He drove purposely slow, backing up the cars behind him
so that he could let his teammate in. Lawson came
in eighth, a place ahead of where he started, and
his teammate sixth, a place back from where he started.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
It's not often you have a plan, especially on a
race lay this where we have the opportunity to completely
control the race. Kinnah works out perfectly. So from our side,
there was obviously doubts because when you're dropping back pase
like that, you're only three from guys behind, but said
both guys and the says, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Very regod And that's your agenda for Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
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 Talk.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Said be yeah, so we're going to talk about the
sanctions and I'd love to know your thoughts. Nine two
nine to two talk about the sanctions just before six
o'clock with Philloiley. But just so that we're clear, I mean,
one of the sanctions is that you get half of
the money, half of your benefit put on a card
for four weeks. So it's not like you actually lose money.
You just have to spend half of it on a
(03:33):
card in which you can't buy certain things. You know anyway,
but here are the obligations. This is what you have
to do in order to actually get sanctioned. So your
obligations you look for full time work, full time employment.
I mean, if you're on a job seeker benefit. I
would have thought that would be a prerequisite. Turns out
it is. So you've got to attend and take part
(03:54):
in any suitable job interviews that we ask you to reasonable.
Attend and take part in interviews with working in come
as required reasonable. They're giving you the money, take part
in any other activities we require require, including job training courses.
That's not only is that good for you, it's good
for us. They might ask you to do work experience
(04:17):
whip do you do so? Basically, if you don't do
these things, there's a traffic. First of all, there's a
traffic light system with you know, green, yellow, red, and
you only then lose half of your money. You didn't
even lose it goes on a card. So I don't
know what is the big deal. The question I guess
is whether this is actually having any effect on a beneficiaries,
(04:38):
on the number of beneficiaries, because they're going up, and
that's more to do with the economy. Fillow Raleigh on
that later on the show leven after five. It is
ocr week this week and Wednesday. We'll get it good.
We should get a cut. Great if we've got a
mortgage I do. I would like the OCA to just
fall through the floor, thank you very much. So we'll
get to three and a half percent. It'll sorry, we're
(04:58):
at three and a half percent. We'll get down to
three point twenty five. What happens after that is the question.
Because you've got hawksby who's your caretaker in charge, all
said it would come down further to three by Christmas.
You got some people saying two and a half by Christmas.
You've got the market pricing in a sixty percent chance
of two point seven to five by Christmas. We will
find out more Wednesday because we'll get the monetary policy
(05:19):
statement on that as well. Right coming up next, it's
your teeth and yeah, your kid's teeth. How many are
waiting for on the surgery wait list for a dental operation?
And why are there so many kids on there? Is
it because their teeth are getting worse or their behavior?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and one roof Make Your Property Search Simple News
Talks be good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Nice to have your company retail sales data. This is
from Friday, but I thought i'd share it with you
in case you hadn't caught it. It was surprising, like
in a good way. Good surprising. Retail activity was up
for the March quarter. This is from stats n Z.
So the sales volume was upo point eight percent on December.
Sales value also up one point five percent to thirty
one billion dollars. The value up one point four percent
(06:07):
compared to March twenty twenty four, so up on a
year earlier as well. This is surprising. They were expecting.
The pundits, the economists were expecting, and we've had many
on this show. I pick up later in the year.
So is this recovery being brought forward? We're out spending
our money more so than we were in quarter four
last year and quarter one the year prior. It is
quarter past five, Brian Briefly, over half of children on
(06:31):
the dental surgery weight list have been waiting more than
four months. That's three thousand kids waiting more than one
hundred and twenty days health en zed data. They are
apparently in pain some of them. There's some complex issues.
Samuel Carrington, Faculty of Dentistry at Otago, Unied, Good morning,
Good morning, Ryan, how are you good? Thank you? What
are you going to do to get on the list.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Right? Well?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
By the time timebody, if you reach hospital care, they're
usually are quote in a lot of significant pain and
have multiple insected or edssteth So many of these sorry
men need several extractions and in some cases for dental
clearances under general. So the level of disease is not
about poor oral hygien alone. It's actually about deffer issues
like poverty and nutrition, lack of early access to the
(07:11):
community ooral health service. And if we had a system
that primarily focus on prevention, these children would be treated
much earlier with simpler and less traumatic procedures. But right
now their hospital dental surgery is often the end result
of a systemic failure.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So just stop feeding them coca cola.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Well, that's one part of it. But yeah, like I said,
it's a systemic issue. Unfortunately, our community ooralth service is
under resourced, understaff and this all leads to children waiting
on the list and leading hospital level care.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So when they're on the list, are they guaranteed to
be in pain? For those who are waiting four months,
presumably you would get the extreme cases out of the
way first. So those who are waiting more than form
I mean, are their kids out there literally every day
in pain waiting for a dental surgery more than four months?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Unfortunately there are and if you think about the wider issues,
So children in pain, you know, they can't do things
like concentrating school, They struggle to eat, they lose a
lot of sleep. They often go through multiple appointments to
the community or health service and even to private practices
in order to get antibiotics to kind of alleviate that pain.
But what happens is it affects their development and their
ability to thrive. And it also it's not impacting the child,
(08:25):
it's also impacting on the family. So that family carries
a huge emotional and financial burdens to take time off work,
to trope travel to appointments.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's terrible. Nobody wants that. So what this backlog was
caused by the lockdowns? Was it? So we locked down,
then we had couldn't do any of the surge. Reason
then that the backlog we haven't caught up.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
That's correct, Yeah, but it's also an outcome of the
system itself. So children were being pushed back for their exams,
their dentaliti gay got worse, the list got bigger, and
then factor adam with the fact that we were having
staff shortages. People were leaving, they were retiring. We were
(09:05):
having new graduates graduate from both universities Otago and aut
and a lot of them were going to Australia.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Are they still going there?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Absolutely? I also worked at the dental school and I
think about our graduating class last year, I'd say about
a quarter of them went over to Australia. What would
it normally be, Well, the public system actually cries out
for a lot of our graduates. We had around about
one hundred and forty oral health therapists graduating every year,
but last year was the first time in my ten
(09:34):
years of working at the university that I've seen a
big chunk of our graduates actually go to Australia because
they couldn't find jobs here.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Sam, appreciate your time, Sam Carrington, a senior lecture of
Faculty Dentistry at the Unusity of Otago. I mean joined
the Q who isn't leaving? I suppose it has just
gone eighteen after five news talks.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He'd be on your radio and online on iHeartRadio earlier
this year with Ryan Bridge and One Roof to make
your property search simple news talk said these.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's five twenty, Good morning, Ryan. Why do the parents
never get a mention? We did mention the parents. This
is on dentistry. There are how many kids, three thousand
New Zealand kids waiting for dental surgery and they've been
waiting more than four months and a lot of them
are in pain. We imagine I've been four months in
pain and a child not good for their education, I
(10:25):
mean not good for anything. Ryan. If kids weren't being
given fizzy drinks and juice constantly, their teeth would be fine.
Give them water in milk and healthy choices. I completely
agree with you, but The question is from a dentistry
point of view, is do you couts all very well,
you can say the dentists can say, hey, stop giving
a kid fizzy drink, and then they don't, and then
they end up back there and what do you do?
(10:45):
Just not treat them? You know? The number six twenty
one minutes after five. Let's get to Andrew Ortison's sport
good morning.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Greeting's Ryan big morning, busy morning, this morning. If we
start with Lian Lawson, if there's one more of the year,
it's the busiest. It's this one Monday morning, which is great.
So yeah, Lea Lawson let's start their eighth place at
Monico gets himself four points, Leder Norris winning the race
and in the principality on the streets in Monte Carlo.
(11:14):
It's it's quite the scene, amazing to watch.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And he's basically that gives what does one for the team,
doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, let's us mate come past.
Speaker 9 (11:23):
Yes, Isaac Hadget is sixth, so he's in points as well,
So good day for racing bulls and well great day
from McLaren too. Oscar Piastrian third, so two places on
the podium, but Norris now within three of Pastree at
the top of the driver's standings. Not much space in
Monico though, right, well, he happens and various pieces like that.
But great to watch down there on the waterfront.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And the Warrior has got a bit raided.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
They did, indeed, yeah sixteen ten, I see you did there,
you know at home too that yeah, yeah, I mean
they had this five run winning streak. But it's come
to an end. And Andrew Webster's talking about two sinbonings,
one to the Raiders in the first half, and they
still the Warriors still try as a result of that,
and then lead to try on the sixty fourth minute,
(12:10):
which effectively decided the game. Jabal Foggery coming across to score.
So your disappointment for the Warriors, I suppose it's a
it's all good round because numbers are depleted because of
the state of origin. Of course, the Warriors missing a
couple of key players as well as a result. And yeah,
they're still I think it's third now they're equal with
the Raiders on eighteen points, but they're third on points differential.
(12:31):
So the Warrior is still very much part of the
wrecking Bulldogs losing. But they're on twenty still the top.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's what we'd like to hear. Now, Alan, they say
the hot water, What did you think of it?
Speaker 9 (12:42):
I think is the rule off it goes out of play.
I mean, I think the linesman is in a decent
position there and therefore they have to copy it. But
you can understand, given the circumstances and what's on the line,
how tension would be high in that instance. And they've
done so well what gaes youmo may crossing and Rogerson
putting it in, but you know, and that would have leveled.
(13:03):
That would have made things pretty exciting in terms of
I suppose the way goals, home goals, et cetera, and
they would hit it towards extra time, penalty showed out.
Potentially all that sort of stuff would be high drama
at Mounts Smart but not to be. And the victory
of gone ahead and played in the circumstances I thought,
just from what I saw of it, maybe that the
(13:24):
Aucle left Sea were a bit flat and maybe the
occasion got to them. But you know, nonetheless, outstanding season,
first season to actually take the well to win the
regulation table anyway, but just not able to take it
to the final.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Absolutely. I'm actually talking to Steve on the on the
on the Herald program later on.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Oh yes, yes, good luck with that today. By the way,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
It's I mean, it's sport, isn't it. It's refs calls
go your way or sometimes they don't.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Just got it and come back next season do better,
I suppose, but you know, hard to argue with their difference.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Out Andrew, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Go to the desk. Busy, busy are enty five hundred
way as well.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You've got a lot on this morning, Andrew Ordison the sport.
It is twenty four minutes after five. You're on News TALKSVB,
the early.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio. How It by News.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Talks EB five twenty six News Talks B. Can We
Save It? I was thinking about this over the weekend.
I get why. I get why the government is doing
the old switcheroo. You know, I get it means tests
the government sweetener, have it for everyone else, save yourself
a bunch of money. Then we workers and our employers
(14:34):
will slowly put more into the scheme over the time,
and you build up to that so that when it
all comes out in the wash, we're at least no
worse off than before budget day. All right, I get it,
except that we will be worse off because it's us
and our employers paying for it. Right, We pay more upfront,
Our employers pay more upfront. That's added cost. Businesses recover
(14:59):
cost by putting up p which we end up paying,
or by lowering costs like wages, which is how most
of us make a living. Right, So the net effect
is worse for us and better for the government. Now again,
I get why they need to slash spending, but the
problem with tinkering with Kiwi Saver is this, for your
average working, hard saving planning for retirement, that's what we're
(15:23):
told to do. These changes throw all your calculations out
of whack. You plan on a long term, predictable set
of circumstances. When they're changed without warning and at random,
it punishes the very people who are trying to do
the right thing. We need more of a heads up
(15:45):
on changes to KIW Saver, thank you very much, and
more importantly on NZ super. It's not a matter of if,
but when. That also gets a means test, even if
the when is post Winston Peters Nikola Willis says she's
been giving this some thought. The future of superannuation I
would like to know, and other hard working key we
(16:07):
savers I'm sure would also like to know sooner rather
than later, what those thoughts are. Brian Bridge eight minutes
after five year on newstalksb our Funniest news from the weekend.
Remember I told you Kamala Harris was going to go
talk at a real estate conference in Brisbane, because they
must have. I don't know what her fee is, but anyway,
(16:28):
she ends up at a real estate conference in Brisbane.
Have a listen about you.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
You're invested in it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
You're invested in doing the well.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
You'll develop a professional reputation.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
More than four thousand agents paying upwards of one thousand dollars.
Harris covering her upbringing Korea and advice.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
She also gave them advice on the Australian property market,
because that's her area of expertise. Apparently. Twenty nine after
five you're on Newstalk ZB. We'll get to Gavin Gray
are UK europe correspondent next. The Germans quite freaked out
about the latest spat between Trump and the EU. You're
on News Talks FB. No, sorry, tell me what acome.
Speaker 12 (17:13):
Cckle Comackle.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof make your
Property search Simple. News Talks B this year.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Good morning, it is Monday, the twenty sixth of May.
It is twenty five minutes away from six and you're
listening to News Talk SB. We're going to get to
Gavin Gray out of the UK shortly. More on the spats. Yes,
it's reignited between Trump and the EU on trade and terrorists.
Phill O'Reilly who was on the work of the Welfare
Working Group. He's on the program just before six o'clock.
Benefit sanctions kicking in today. So if you are listening
(18:01):
to this and you're on a benefit, go and do something.
That's the message basically, isn't it. Philo Rileigh will explain
actually why they're not a big deal. But if they're
not that big of a deal, will they change anything?
That's the question this morning, and Tim has checked the
program just in the last couple of seconds. Ryan. If
National can play with Kiwisaver, then so can labor and
(18:22):
this plays with people's confidence in the kiwisaver system overall, Tim,
I agree with you. I completely agree with you, And
I think if you're going to mess with keysaver, if
you're going to make changes in the same way that
you know with superannuation, they should be very well signaled
ahead of time because good, fastidious people like you tim
plan in advance, and when plans change, you need to
(18:46):
know about it so you can factor that in. But
trying to explain this to a politician to get them
to all sing kumbai r on superannuation or kiwisaver is
like trying to end the war in Gaza, isn't it?
Twenty two away from six Ray and Bridge, Color Practice
and deneed for us this morning, Color, Good morning to you.
How's the hospital coming together? Yeah, look it's coming along here.
Speaker 12 (19:09):
Health New Zealand and the City Council Ryan issuing a
joint media really mediate release on this one point eight
eight billion dollar projects, saying excited about the progress, et cetera,
et cetera, but also detailing the numbers of beds that
will be available in this new and patient building. The
ODT here reporting over the weekend cuts across the board
for all categories of beds, most significantly the number of
(19:31):
overnight beds cut by forty nine from what was originally promised.
But Health and z though say forty three beds actually
will be reserved for future upgrades and the sixth floor
of this build will be space for further expansion over time.
The Health Minister Simeon Brown saying the government is delivering
on its promise, and our Mayor Jules Raddick says this
new hospital will be transformative and he's pleased. Now the
(19:53):
southern community has been heard. How's your weather rain clearing
this morning? Chances of showers the saft though and a
high of eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Nice one and clears and christ clear. Good morning, Good morning.
Now what's going on with the new Metro Sports Center?
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Wow, We've been watching this for some years now, Ryan,
and we can now reveal that its cost effectively has
blown out big time. This is the Paddokyode Recreation and
Sports Center. It's located in town on Morehouse Save just
near the hospital. Really, we know that it's ninety percent complete.
It very much looks ready to open, but we now
know the cost has doubled to half a billion dollars
(20:30):
before its scheduled opening. There are eleven pools and spas,
there hydroslides, some sports courts for netball and the like.
The complex was meant to open a few years ago,
but was delayed because of a legal dispute between the
government delivery agency and the contractor. Sports Canterbury CEO Julian
Falloone says this massive cost blowout doesn't come as a
shock to them. He says, because of the time frame
(20:51):
basically how long it's taken and the complexity of the site,
there's no surprises that the build project was going to
end up costing more.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And we're the cleip mainly fine.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
A bit of patchy rain early today then northeries.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
At a high of nineteen Hey, good one mix in
Wellington MAXs good morning morning. Now Wellington Water is main
a shambles, but you've got a new model coming in
an update on this. Yeah.
Speaker 14 (21:14):
So we interviewed the mayor on Friday. Her claim is
that Wellington's ahead of the game now by agreeing to
form this new joint regional entity, as you say, in
lieu of the disastrous Wellington Water. While the council here
is pledging one point eight billion dollars over the next decade,
that spending has got to be looked at again anyway.
By all these councils when they do come together. But
look good. Story in the post this morning highlighting that
(21:37):
these rusty old pipes that keep breaking are actually costing
residents in different parts of the region vastly different amounts
per capita of rate payer money. Six hundred and eighty
six dollars per capita last year spent by Pottydoer's Council
three hundred and ninety one per person in Lower had
one hundred and seventy nine in Wellington City, So that's
(21:57):
quite incredible. If you're in Pottidoa, I'd be furious that
this change can't come soon enough. Roughly the same total
length of pipe was fixed in Podidor last year as Wellington,
but it cost them four times as much. The main
issue remains there's just no transparency as to where rate
payer money is going.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And competition. Yeah, and as you say, someone going over
the numbers with a fine tooth comb.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
How's your with the max not good morning showers turning
to heavy rain and very strong wind, particularly this morning
as well seventeen the high Central.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
All right, take here, neither good morning till good morning.
Now we're going to be able to put our foot
down and go north.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
Put our foot down, but only for five point five kilometers.
So what's happening is that from today the speed limit
has been raised to one hundred and ten kilometers per hour.
This is on the Northern Gateway toll road from north
of Audio Work to south of the Johnston's Hill Tunnel
Johnstone's Hill Tunnels. So that's a distance of yeah five
point five k Joe Carr, he's the Northern Council Regional
(22:56):
Transport Committee, cheersies. This is great news, important steep to
improving connectivity with Auckland. I was on that road. I
went to Metakana Markets for the first time on Saturday before.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
But you do you do notice because once you get
onto the new expressway on the other side, you just
go for it. You do powerful weather. But before that
it does feel slow.
Speaker 11 (23:16):
It does feel slow, right, so you've got to remember, yeah,
put your foot down and then ease it off againner
for that five point because I'm quite a slow driver actually,
so yes, I felt like I.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Was to that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
If you're going a hunt, and we know what one
hundred and ten means, don't we one hundred and fifteen
that's right, that's what people do.
Speaker 11 (23:36):
That's what people do.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
How's our weather?
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Few shells from afternoon, periods of rain from tonight, still
warm twenty the high here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Have a good one. Never it's neither. For Auckland News.
It's eighteen minutes away from six year on news talks,
you'll be we'll get to Gavin Gray out of the
UK Europe of course, this big back and forth between
Trump and the EU. Plus there's been a terrible outcome
to a rescue in Switzerland on a luxury ski resort.
We'll get to that as well. And Phil O'Riley before
six on the benefit sanctions kicking in today news talks.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It'd be international correspondence with ins and eye insurance, peace
of mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You're only talks to a big quarter to sex will
get you across the benefit sanctions coming in today in
just a second. Right now at Devin Gray are UK
europe correspondent. Given this terrible story about the snow resort
in Switzerland. What's going on?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yeah, so the bodies of five skiers have been discovered
there and Ryan this is all at the very exclusive
luxury zoomat resort. But high up from where normally skiers
would venture. The five bodies were discovered a day after
emergency services were alerted by a group of climbers ascending
(24:47):
what's called the Rivshish on a four two hundred meter
peak in the Valet Alps. They had discovered several pairs
of skis left unattended near the summit, and then using
air and ground searches, they on the bodies. The victims
were at varying altitudes on avalanche debris in high altitude
areas near the Swiss Italian border. Obviously, at the moment
(25:10):
we don't yet know the names the identities of those,
but as I said, this is a luxury resort, very
popular with British and other European skiers, and there's been
some unusual weather there. Actually, in a separate incident on
Friday night, they were involved in a challenging mountain rescue,
rescuing four who were stranded amid fog and high winds,
(25:30):
but they thankfully were all brought to safety.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And the European Union Trump going at it again, well,
Trump going at the European Union over the terriffs. Turns
out the ninety day pause could just be ripped up
next week.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Yes, all eyes I think really focused on America when
it wakes up on Monday and what Donald Trump has
to say. He's now threatening to slap a fifty percent
tariff on all goods sent to the US from the
European Union in response, had a pretty robust response from
the EU Trade Commissioner Maras Sefkovich. He's saying the EU
(26:07):
US trade must be guided by mutual respect and not threats,
and that we stand ready to defend our interests. But
this will really concern the EU because it is one
of Washington's largest trading partners, sending roughly eight hundred and
ninety billion New Zealand dollars worth in goods last year
(26:28):
and buying though just sort of eight hundred billion New
Zealand dollars worth, So a big, big difference in the discrepancy,
and that is something that Donald Trump is obviously very
very angry about it, and.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I can see the Germans are getting a quite exercise
about it this morning as well. Thank you so much
for that, Kevin Gray, are UK euro correspondent. It's twelve
minutes to six brand new benefit sanctions coming to force
from today. They're non financial, so half of your benefit
will be put on a payment card for four weeks.
You can only buy essential stuff. You can't buy things
like alcohol and tobacco. You can also be made to
(27:03):
do up to five hours of community work experience, but
it's only if you breach your obligations. Right. Philo Riley
is the former Welfare Expert Advisory Group member with US
This Morning fel Good morning money. Right does this actually work?
This stuff?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Certainly, sanctions do work. Exactly how well they work has
always open to debate. They work for two reasons. One
is they encourage people to get off the benefit. But secondly,
very importantly for people like you and me who are
paying tax in order to give persons a benefit, they
keep our face in the system too, that if you're
going to be you know, if you're not going to
play by the rules, there's going to be a bit
(27:39):
of a sanction on you. So they do actually work
in mostly context here and.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
If you read the news you would get the impression
that everybody is going to be put on a payment
card tomorrow. In fact, only ninety eight wealth ninety eight
percent of beneficiaries are actually fine. Only two percent tend
to breach their obligations.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
Yeah, that's right. I mean most people. What we found
in the Welfare Expert advisor we work a few years
ago was most people actually do try and get a job,
and of course right now it's harder to get a job,
so it's finning up to interviews and so on, and
so I think you know that this is quite a
small minority, very small minority, as matter of fact, and
it's only one part of the sanction regime. And what
I like about the card issue, Ryan in particular, is
(28:16):
in the past, taking money off of beneficiary often means
you're actually taking it off the kid of the beneficiary,
the child or the wife or the husband of the
beneficiary of the partner. This way, you're not taking any
money away, you're simply sort of proscribing how it might
be spent. And I think that's actually a very sensible
way of doing it, because the worriesome thing about taking
money off dealers it might as she hurt kids, and
that's always problematic. The work obligation piece is a little
(28:39):
bit more interesting in the sense that in order to work,
obligation to work, you've got an employer who wants to
employ you. And if you're forced to go to work
for a community organization. That might be a little more problematic,
I think, But certainly those two things alone, used expeditiously
and new sensibly, I think we'll have an impact.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Job's thinking numbers have gone up, of course, twenty one
eleven point six percent in March on the same time
last year. Looking at the budget unemployment data that they're projecting,
it's I mean, it's going it's coming down, but it's
taking its time, right, So we will rightly see more
on the job seeker benefit or no massive increase for
a while.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
That's correct, And that's the whole point about the unemployment
benefit system. More generally, it's a shopping zorber in the economy.
As you get the economy slowing down, as you get
more people out of work, of course we should all
support those people and make sure that they're not left
on the street and all the rest of it. And
so that's really what's happening with the job seeker benefit.
It's simply an indication that the jobs in the economy
are hard to come by. What should hope is that
(29:36):
as we see interest rates reductions, as we see changes
to that, capital gains, So the capital tax issue coming through.
Over the next few months, hopefully we'll see the economy
start to pick up. And that's exactly when you get
those job numbers coming down. Nothing much you can do about.
It's just the nature of the economy.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
There was a faux pat don't say capital gains tax.
Thank you for betting with us this morning, former Welfare
Expert Advisory Group member. It is eleven minutes away from
six News Talk ZB.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Bryan Bridge on early edition with one roof Make your
Property Search Simple, Youth Talk Zibby.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You're on News TALKSB seven minutes away from six. The
ski field in Switzerland where five skiers have lost their
lives overnight. There's been a rescue. Well, it's now a
recovery of bodies. And Neil says he's skied this particular
ski field before. The altitude is so high that some
skiers you just watch them collapse on the lift on
the way up. Neil said, yeah, I had to ski
down about one hundred meters before I could steady my
(30:36):
feet and actually stand up again. Sounds dangerous, Neil. Six,
And turns out it it's six way away from.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Now, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 15 (30:44):
Sounds like the pomber at Porter heightsn't about that.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Hey, do you ski much?
Speaker 15 (30:50):
I used to ski when I was in christ Juch.
Love when you live, when you live close to a
ski field like it's in christ Urge like an hour
our hour bit if you're lucky. And then when you
move to the North Island, you got to spend three
or four hours on the road and share it with
the entire island. Why would you bother the same?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
That was the appeal. It's four and a half hours
and I was actually looking on the weekend because we
were thinking of going this winter.
Speaker 15 (31:11):
It's a long way to get it's a long way
to go so far to Goo, it's four and a
half there, it's four and a half back issues.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And you're also not guaranteed to ski because why not
the weather.
Speaker 15 (31:19):
If you book it an advance, you one hundred cent.
We used to go made of Mine. Used to go
to Mount Cheeseman, which is a beautiful feeling. It's a club.
They're all in the same sort of beer. In Mount Hart,
Porter Heights. Mount Cheeseman Cheeseman was a club. They had
a couple of toes. There's no one there. You drive
up Chess Fantesta. Absolutely, Brian, best skiing I ever did.
Thanks for asking, right? Is I got flown up onto
the Tasman Glacier. Hell, and so you leave, you leave
(31:42):
from Mount Cook and you get flown up onto the
glacier and I thought, oh my god, I'm not good
enough to do this.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You got down?
Speaker 15 (31:51):
No, well, of course I got down. I'm sitting here
telling you the story now. But what you don't realize
when you ski up on the Tasman Glacier is it's
like knee deep powder and so in fact, as you ski,
you're not actually ever going that fast. It's not like
being on a ski field where it's all sort of
slider and icy. It's like literally you're up to your
knees and powder, just going.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Can I just brag about skiing in the Andes? Sure
you can't.
Speaker 15 (32:14):
Is that power in the Andes?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No? It wasn't. Actually it was. It was quite slippery.
I wasn't. Well, it wasn't the best skin. Did you
pull over? And what do you get up on my ass?
Did you?
Speaker 15 (32:27):
Did you get it off the rope?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Toe? The little least I got off the rope?
Speaker 15 (32:30):
Did you get past the pomer?
Speaker 12 (32:32):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (32:32):
I got past the pomer So you got onto a
chair lift, yes, got it on you did you freak
out with the lack of oxygen?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
You sound like? Although what they do over there is
you chew coca leaves and alkaline. Yeah. So when you
get to the to the you know, the altitude, when
you start to feel a bit sick, they give it
to you and you chew the.
Speaker 15 (32:51):
Are you sure you're actually on a ski field or
were you just chewing coca?
Speaker 10 (32:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
No, no, this is this is This is in the
Andes and generally in general they do it all the
time there. It's a it's a it's like an anti climate,
you know, altitude sickness, medicine, a natural one at that
you'd like natural things? I reckon good? What do you
got today?
Speaker 15 (33:11):
Well, none of that now the Prime minister. Now listen
to this. The Prime Minister is not on this morning.
You're sick because you know they said he's got a cold.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, is that exceptable?
Speaker 15 (33:22):
That's not sick?
Speaker 11 (33:24):
I'm cold?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
What's that about? Anyway? Nicola Willis is doing the business
all right, Mike's here next. Have a great morning, everybody.
See tomorrow
Speaker 1 (33:39):
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