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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
an early edition with ex Pole insulation keeping Kimi Holmes
warm and dry.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This winter news talk z'd.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Be good morning, Welcome to Wednesday at six a half
to five. Winston Peter's issues, a travel band for two
of Netanya Who's senior ministers this morning, Gavin Gray's Live
in the UK for us because they're doing it too,
along with Norway, Canada, a bunch of others. Drugs overdose
deaths apparently have doubled since twenty sixteen. We'll have the
numbers for you later in the show. We'll head to
field days. How many tractors they're going to sell this year,
(00:33):
the group trying to electrify Queenstown and the thing you
do with your feet that can reveal the age of
your brain. All ahead on your early edition for Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Morning the Agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Eleven people have died in a shooting at a secondary
school in Austria, a twenty one year old former pupil.
Allegedly the gunman acted alone. Here's the Chancellor.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
A school is more than just to please. It is
a space for trust, for feeling comfortable and for having
a future. It is a safe space and triply a
safe space, and this safe space has been violated, which
makes us feel powerless. In moments like this, we have
to show unity.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hi seth over in the US is and lockstep with
Trump on sending the Marines and the National Guard to
Los Angeles that he says they're going to be there
for about sixty days.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We believe that ICE has the right to safely conduct
operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country,
especially after twenty one million illegals have crossed our border
under the previous administration.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We will art be able to do its job.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
We have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect
them in the execution of their duties.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Sorry, Pete, we will have more on these sanctions imposed
on the too far right Israeli ministers and I'll tell
you exactly what they have said as well that warrants
such a sanctioning the UK, Norway, Australia, Canada and New
Zealand were all signed up. Greta is back in Europe
after her summer Vaca through the med ending in Israel.
She's now in France.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
They did an illegal act by kidnapping us on international
waters and against our will, bringing us to Israel, keeping us.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
In the bottom of the thought love, letting us for getting.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Ours and so on.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The news you need this morning, and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl installation,
keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
News talks at.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
B eight after five News Talks at B So the
two ministers that are being sanctioned by our government and
by a bunch of others, the National Security Minister and
the Finance Minister. Now both of those are from a
different party to Netanya, who's a more extreme settler party,
but both of them are part of his cabinet, part
of his government, and so the action is not one
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taken lightly. These guys have said. And I went back
and had a look at stuff that they've said. Back
in twenty twenty three, they were getting heat from even
the US, although it was under Biden, but getting heat
for things that they had said about wiping out entire
Palestinian villages in the West Bank. The Finance minister said that,
(03:17):
he said, I think it should be wiped off the
face of the planet, and so you know, and they've
been saying stuff like this for a while. So our
government has come out and said in Winston Peters is
in Rome at the moment. He's just been in France
doing other business, but he's in Rome for a bilateral
He's come out and said this morning, along with other
countries including Norway and Australia, that we will stand for
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a two state solution. These guys have severely and deliberately
undermined that by personally advocating for the annexation of Palestinian
land and the expansion of the illegal settlements while inciting
violence and force displacement. He says, we have a history
of doing this to people who say stuff like this.
We did it to the Russians, did it to the Belarussians,
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we did it in Myanmar, and we are doing it here.
So there's Winston Peters for you this morning, coming out
quite strong. I think the tide I mean, you see
the images coming out of Gaza. If you're a human being,
you feel disgusted, you know, you feel helpless, you feel like,
you know, this has got to be sorted. So maybe
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the tide is starting to turn because these guys have been,
you know, saying awful crap for a long time. So
maybe this is just part of you know, the international
community starting to realize that perhaps those images of starving
children in Gaza are turning public sentiment. It's just gone
ten after eleven after five year. On news Talk said
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B we're off to field Days. We'll get there next.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and
dry this winter, News Talk said, be.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Five point thirteen on news Talk said, B, high frequency
data for you this morning. This is from A and Z.
This is their card spending. So it's fallen point one
percent in May from April. This is seasonally adjusted spending
up one point one percent compared to the same time
last year. So it's fallen month on month, but up
year on year. Durables spending is recovering. It's yeah, hospitality
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remains soft, apparel still a problem, but the decline is
easing for most categories, which is I suppose a good
thing in the long run, but in the short run
it's down. It's sitting up to five. Hopefully they'll have
a different experience field Days this year. Thousands of visitors
are expected in Hamilton today, attracting a big international crowd
(05:43):
this year. The Germans are coming for the first time apparently.
I'm sure there have been one or two Germans who
have attended before, but there is some contingent coming. Former
sheep farmer Reece Gardner is going to be at the
event with his VR driving simulation company and he's with us. Now, Hey, rees,
how are you good? Thank you? You excited about today?
What do you think the farmers will have their wallets out?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure. There's a lot
of rain overnight, so maybe maybe everyone's keen to sort
of get cracking this morning and get into it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I'm not sure. What is the you've obviously there now?
Is the weather being quite bad? How bad overnight? How
much rain? We're talking lots.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I drove down from Workland last night and kind of
a monsoon, it seems, so, I don't know, it's probably
it felt like sort of Gimbridge kind of weather last night.
But yeah, I'm not sure. It seems to happen some years,
doesn't it. It just gets it just gets really wet here.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, what are you offering at field Days this year?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
So we're bringing some of the some of the vitality
stuff that we've been doing in the States with ATVs.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Okay, and what it to explain what that is?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I guess sort of virtuality is a way that you
can that you make mistakes and not get hurt. I'm
one of those sort of people that struggles to learn
from people telling me what to do. I kind of
need to do it myself. Often I'll be told what
to do and then and then kind of do the
opposite and then realize what I was supposed to do,
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what the sort of expert or the experienced person is suggesting.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You learn by doing so. You're I think I've seen
you in one of your exhibitions. Your virtual reality headsets
basically allow you to do the driving the truck or
the tractor or whatever it is in a controlled environment
and then hopefully go out and do it better in
the real world. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
What we're doing now is recreating sort of actual accidents
or near misses and actual locations and putting those together
into scenarios where someone sort of makes it decision or
presents the situation and gives them a chance to make
a decision and then experience the outcomes of that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
What is the experiencing the outcomes feel like? Obviously not
like a real accident, but does it simulate that.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
What we do is you make the decision from the
in the cab of the vehicle or whatever that vehicle
happens to be, and then sometimes we'll shift you outside
that vehicle so that you can see how that decision
is going to play out.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Interesting stuff, Reese. I appreciate your time this morning. I
have a great day a field days. It's Res Garden,
a former sheep farmer, co founder of g Factor Edge.
It sounds like it's been raining a lot there. Sixteen
after five news talks, you'd be We're going to talk
about Queenstown. There's a group and I want to find
out who's funding them, but there's a group that wants
to electrify Queenstown, well the whole country, but Queenstown in particular.
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We'll find out way next.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio, Belly edition with
Ryan Bridge and ex full installation Keeping Kiey Holmes Warm
and Dry this winter news Talk, saidb.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
There's five nineteen on news Talk ZIBB Winston Peters's band. Well,
the government here has banned a couple of Israeli ministers
from ever traveling here. While traveling here, while they're on
a sanctioned list and the UK is drawing this action.
Winston Peters, I've just been told he's in Rome right now,
not doing any media on this, but Gavin gray is
he's our UK europe correspondence, so we'll speak to him
just before six. Right. It is now nineteen after five.
(09:31):
Bryan Bridge with a group called Rewiring Altiera. They're posing
a serious challenge to the residents of Queenstown. They want
to see the city become the world's most electrified destination.
To help with this, they've launched the Queenstown Electrification Accelerator
to help homes and businesses save money while switching to electric.
Mike Case is the CEO with me this morning. Get
(09:51):
a Mike, Good morning, Ryan. How are you very well?
Thank you, good to have you on the program. First
of all, your group Rewiring al Here. Why have you
started this group? Where do you get your funding? What's
going on with it? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
So, I'm an originally electric cherry farmer from central Otago.
So I electrified my entire farm twenty one electric machines
and started jumping up and down about the savings opportunities
on farm and eventually expanded into creating or helping to
create an NGO that is funded by a lot of
philanthropers in New Zealand now, which is all about helping
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the rest of New Zealand to sort of realize the
huge savings potential from converting off Saudi Arabian molecules and
onto New Zealand homegrown electrons.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Why have you picked Queenstown? Why are you picking on Queenstown.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
I We're not picking on Queenstown. We think Queenstown is
possibly the best opportunity we have to start doing the
real world action to start trying out all the things
that need to happen to massively or quickly electrify a
particular place. We think the business community is really aligned
under their carbon zero twenty thirty targets that were set
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by the council. The councilor is really aligned and we
have a lot of very active community members in the
space that are super excited about the opportunity that's available.
Queenstown has some of the highest energy prices in New Zealand,
so it's a really good place to start. And also
it's got a lot of problems with potential resilience issues
from things like the Southern Alpine fault. So having Queenstown
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generate and store a lot of its energy itself and
having machine the Queenstown that can use the energy that
it can generate and store itself is pretty good stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It sounds like a great idea. The only problem is
how much it costs to actually do that, right, I mean,
otherwise we'd all have solar panels on our roofs totally.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
And so this is one of the key things about
why we're focusing very closely now on a particular community
is we want to make sure that everything from group
buying deals are set up to going and negotiating on
behalf of the community for things like financing deals. One
of the biggest barriers to overcome is that upfront capital
cost of say putting solt panels on your roof and
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a battery in your garage and getting gas out of
the home. But we're now at a position, especially in
places like Queenstown, where the capital repayments and the interest
repayments on financing new electric technology may end up actually
being cheaper than your current energy costs. So it means
people can save money from day one.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Do you think that because I've looked at doing this
myself in Auckland. But do you think people just maybe
aren't aware of that fact yet and once you tell
them they will do something.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Well, I've got to challenge to you. My secret goal
has been to get solar panels on like Hoskin's roof.
But maybe I should change that to riot and we'll
sit down together and I will run you through the details,
and I reckon within half an hour to forty five minutes,
we can convince you of the economics of it. And yes,
did John your wade?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Do you know what? It would be easy to get
me across the line and someone hopefully will throw in
something free and I'll do it. I'll do it tomorrow.
Hosking is a different kettle of fish because I don't know,
I feel like putting solar panels on his roof would
be some sort of existential crisis for him.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
You know, I think at the end of the day,
I'm doing a lot of this with farmers of New Zealand.
And you know, there's a lot of people who you know,
might approach this with a level of suspicion, and I
think rightly so, because there has been a lot of
virtue signaling in this space for a long time. But
even now I reckon you know, you give him a
spreadsheet and he looks at it, He'll be like, Okay,
I can see the value in doing this. Well, so does.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The other problem we've had, I think with climate change
and with with renewable energy in general, is just that
there's there's people who just come across as tosses who
espouse it. Now I'm not there's not you might obviously,
but I'm just saying it's it's had a bad rap
I think with Middle New Zealand. Is that fair to say.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
I think that's one hundred percent fair to say. And
I've caught my fierce air of flack as a result
of that. You know, you kind of get tired with
the same brush. But when you start to, you know,
talk about economics rather than emissions, and start talking about,
you know, the benefits to the actual individual from doing
this rather than the you know so much about, say
climate and the emissions associated with it, you start to
win people over. And I've been doing it, one farmer
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at a time on farm. I'm off the field days
today very excited because there's some major packages that are
being announced for solar and electrification of farms in general.
And yeah, now it's about doing it at the same
thing at the residential levels, starting in Queenstown.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Good on you, Mike, and I think that nothing ventured,
nothing gained, and what's the harm. You know, someone wants
to put a solar panel on there, who cares? They're
not paying for it, and that I think is the
important message and all of this. Mike, thank you very
much for coming on the program. They're enthusiastic about field days,
was Mike, and that is great to hear. Mike Casey
rewiring Alto's CEO. Just go one twenty four minutes after
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five year on news talk ship. There has been some
funny texts about our previous kiss rees and Reeson. If
you're listening, you were fantastic. But there was a couple
of people who just said that poor old Reesa un
like he'd just woken up. Maybe he wasn't ready for
the for the experience. Paul and Ross and John and Sally,
I hear you. Thank you. Twenty five minutes after find
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via on news talk ship. Coming up next, talk about
the councils and their rates. You know, your house value dropping,
not your CV, because that's not real, but your real
house value dropping and your rate's going up. What's up
with that?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
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Talks ITV News Talks eb is twenty seven minutes after five.
If you're in Auckland and waking up this morning feeling poorer,
it's because you are. It's because we all are. Cvs
down nine percent, rates up six percent at the start
of the month. That's an extra two hundred and twenty
three bucks a year.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
The cvs aren't the market value, obviously, but the market
value of our houses has also dropped, and so it's
right that we feel poorer. We are. But SPIRITHO for Wellington,
cvs down twenty four percent, rates up seventeen percent. No
thank you. Everyone's asking why are we paying more when
our houses are worthless. The answer is just because it's
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how councils collect money and they have few options to
do it any other way. I saw a graph yesterday
in defensive councils. This is a tax as a percentage
of GDP since for over the last one hundred and
thirty years, since the eighteen hundreds, the blue line was
central government. They tax us through income you know, spending
by a GST a whole bunch of stuff was up
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around thirty percent, peaked at about thirty five percent of GDP. Greedy, disgraceful,
poor old in Orange. Your councils basically flatlining for the
last seventy years at two percent of GDP. This is
why they want more options to make money, like charging
rates on government buildings in their districts, because yes, the
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government doesn't pay rates at present. But rude, isn't it.
We have to. It's why Wayne Brown wants other leavers
to pull like bed taxes. But here's the problem. They
have a good argument for more funding streams, but they
keep blowing up their sympathy with dumb, expensive, useless stuff
like cycle ways and raised estring crossings and road coming
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measures and food scrap bins we have to pay for.
The list goes on. The problem councils have is that
nobody wants to give more money to somebody who wastes it.
For as long as that keeps happening, their sympathy tank
is on empty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
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Speaker 3 (17:18):
Nine minutes after five our reporters around the country. Next
and Gavin Gray on the United Front against these Israeli ministers.
Here all ahead on news Talk said, byam.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
For you person over again.
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News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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America E two prting twenty four away from six zero
on news Talk said be happy Field Days everybody to
whoever's heading there morning, Ryan and Hamilton says Peter. There's
one hundred and seventy seven thousand customers paying rates to
the council. They still can't live within their means. It's
the only business in the world where you give more money,
you pay thousands of dollars more and they still can't
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live within their means. It just keeps expanding. Best business
in the world. Yeah, I understand that, and I think
problem for them is they spend money on dumb stuff.
And I mean in Hamilton, what about those those cones
they put in the middle of the road. They have
a funny name like Checrone or something. Their new traffic
calming measures. I've been reading about those in the last week.
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They put put them up in three different places, one
in Tamaheiti. Just dumb places and locals don't want them.
Locals tried to pull them out, rip them out themselves
at night. That's how much they hated them. Anyway, the
councils now remove them. How much did that cost?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
You know?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Just stop doing dumb stuff, thank you very much. Twenty
three away from six. Just get to our reporters around
the country, cullumproc and needing for us this morning. Come
good morning. You've got a plea from firefighters at the
South Yeah, morning, Ryan.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
They're urging the public here to take more care when
driving around accident scenes amid arise and staff being put
in unsafe positions.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Fire and emergencies say.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
It's a big problem across the country, but particularly here
in Otago and Southland. They say recent incidents include a
car speeding through a traffic accident site near Clyde, showing
no regard for the safety of emergency service personnel there
and listen to. This is also a case of a
member of the public driving on the wrong side of
the road past firefighters managing traffic before a confrontation where
(19:37):
a man attempted to pull a firefighter out of the
cab of a fire truck. So Fians are saying, look,
these people are endangering themselves, motorists, emergency services and of
course the people involved in the emergency.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
They're responding to goodness me, they don't touch a fireman.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
How's the weather they're colum showers turned to rain today
here strong easterly as the highest ten.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Brilliant, Thank you please. In christ Church, hey clear, good morning,
good morning. Now you've got a new alcohol well talking
about a new alcohol.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
Policy there, Yeah, Christchurch City Counselors are going to be
talking this local alcohol policy today. It's part of our
draft annual plan. This would set the rules around the number,
location and opening hours of any licensed premises, as well
as some other regulations. There are three proposals that they
are considering. They include limiting the trading hours of off
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licenses to nine pm, freezing new off licenses in high
deprivation areas, and there's also one which would restrict bottle
stores near sensitive sites so those sites are the likes
of addiction centers or schools. Thirty groups and individuals who
have had their say during submissions will be heard at
Council today. Council will then consider that feedback alongside recommendations
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from the likes of police and health officials, with a
final decision due in August.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Okay, how's your weather clip?
Speaker 12 (20:56):
More rain for.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Christ Church today, easterly strengthening too and a high of
nine degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm interested in this idea that Clears just mentioned that
you hide things from people. You know, if you don't
put an alcohol store near a school, then kids won't
want to drink alcohol. I was talking to my dairy
only you say. She said that we have to hide
the vapes from the streets. Soon when they in a
couple of weeks, they're going to have to. If you
can see a vape from the street, you'll be arrested
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and thrown in jail. So she does that stop you?
I mean, if you're somebody who likes to smoke or
vapor drink, the fact that it's hidden behind a curtion,
is that going to really think?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
So?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Anyway? Max Is and Wellington, Good morning, Max, good morning.
Now you've had quite a tragic case in the capital
and questions about safety now on the waterfront.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Yeah, so this was last year Jareth Calhoun. He died
after jumping from the thirty eight meters floating crane that's
permanently moored in the harbor of the Hicky Tea. It
doesn't look very high from the harbour side, but it's
the equivalent of a twelve story building. This guy was
He had meth and alcohol in his system, which a
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coroner has now found was ultimately the reason he died,
but he hit the water at an estimated one hundred
kilometers an hour. Quite a few people around it was
the MANU World Championships that day, which I'm sure probably
spurred him to get up there as well and try
to emulate that. A coroner blaming that substance abuse as well.
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The coldness of the water also a factor in the death,
not for the first time. The lack of safety measures
around the waterfront has also been criticized. That is being
looked down at the council at the moment. Fencing's gone
up and they're looking at other measures as well.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
You can it is tragic, but I mean, if somebody
has got myth and booze in their system and is
jumping off a twelve story thing could be anything, couldn't it.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, there was a sign up at the time that said,
you know, cautioned warning, don't come aboard. Basically, don't climb
the crane, but the coroner did say that other safety
measures were probably necessary as well.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Okay, as you're with her.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
For much of the day. Thunderstorms possible fifteen the high Central.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Enjoy that, Max Neighvas and Auckland. Hey, Neva, good morning.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Did you spill more water? Because you've got a raft
of papers on your desk. Here's about fifty pieces of paper.
And I thought the only time you have a lot
of papers is when you've spilled. You've spiled something.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I have a lot of papers every morning.
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Oh you're channeling Mike.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I don't come in just this smart, I need support, right,
I forgot right. What it is is that I've got
a whole bunch of these are from the last few
days and quite messily put together because they were late
my little man bag, right, so they look scruffy. They
do probably just making the situation.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Look, oh, you look really smart, like it's all over
the show, and leave it there, because you know how
Mike will come in and he'll go get a folder.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Put them nicely. He has his own little bag, yes,
but also his papers are all very neat.
Speaker 13 (23:54):
Yes, look at the your papers need to be iron
It's something you'd looks like something big driven over. I
was just about to say that something that's kind of
like lasted a thunderstorm outside.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Nev You've talked so much we can't get to your story.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
Okay, what about the weather.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It's to that.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Fine fine of uprom isolated showers confined to the western
mid day.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
This is too funny.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
So warm nineteen is a high happy Auckland days.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Was that fine as in the weather's final fine? As
in you were being sasy fine, I was being sexy.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Good.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That is Neva in Auckland for US seventeen away from
six News. Talk to Big Gavin Gray in the UK.
Next the government moving to ban these two extremists. Their
words Israeli ministers straight.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Ahead, international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You talk to Big Gavin Gray is our UK. You're
correspondent with me this morning. Gavin, Good morning, Hi, there
are and eleven people have died following this shooting. It's
had a secondary school in Austria. What more do we know?
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Yeah, the second largest city in our Austria. Gratz happened
at ten am local time, and in the last ninety
minutes that death toll has risen in total to eleven.
That's ten victims plus the suspect. It is believed that
the killer was twenty one years old, lived in the
city and he killed himself in the toilet of the school,
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having used two guns which he legally owned. Now we
don't know yet his name, but we do know he
was a former student. He'd never finished his studies there
and apparently the local media are reporting he left a
message at his home. We don't know a great deal
about the victims so far, but the death toll was increased,
it's said by the death of an adult in hospital.
(25:40):
Another adult has critical injuries. It is thought those were
staff members, possibly teachers. Three hundred police officers attended the
scene after the shooting to ensure that the school was
evacuated and it looks like Austria is going to be
having three days of morning over the coming few days.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Meanwhile, the UK has joined us, the Australian, the Canadians
of the Norwegians and placing travel bands on these two
extremist Israeli politicians.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Yes so it Ama Bengivier and Bezalal Smartrik are both
being banned from entering the countries named and will have
any assets in those countries frozen. They are the National
Security Minister and the Finance Minister of the Israeli government respectively,
and both the according to the Group of Nations in
(26:27):
this gathering, that is New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Norway and
the UK. Both are saying that they have incited extremist
violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights. Both ministers
oppose allowing aid into Gaza, and they both called for
Palestinians there to be resettled outside the territory. Now in
(26:49):
response to this, Israel is fuming. They are saying it's
outrageous that elected representatives and members of the government are
subjected to these kinds of measures. But let's not forget
within the Israeli government, it is a coalition and these
ministers led ultra nationalist parties in the governing coalition, holding
a total of some thirteen seats between them.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Gavin, appreciate your analysis this morning. As always, Gavin Gray
are UK europe Correspondent twelve away from six Ryan Bridge.
Back home. You report out this morning from the Mental
Health and Wellbeing commissioned. Drug overdose deaths here have almost
doubled in under a decade, and the amount of people
accessing specialist mental health and addiction intervention, in other words, help,
(27:31):
is continuing to trend downward. So what's up with that?
Sarah Helm, the NZID Drug Foundation Executive Director, with me
this morning.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Sarah, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
How do those two things compute? You've got more death
and you've got less help.
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Yeah, actually that's true across a couple of different areas.
So we've had a really concern and growth of overdose
fatalities over a number of years now, and we lose
three New Zealanders every week to entirely prevent accidental drug overdose.
Alongside that, we know that there's a certain part of
(28:06):
the population, particularly middle aged people, who if they experience
and overdose, aren't seeking help, they aren't turning up to hospital.
And also we've had a decline and access to addiction services,
so that really spells some problems for our community.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
So how many people dive overdose in a year.
Speaker 14 (28:29):
One hundred and eighty eight in twenty twenty three, and
now just for comparison, that's over half the road toll
and more than twice the number of people that we
lose to drowning, and that compares about the same over
a number of years now.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And how does that compare to other countries.
Speaker 14 (28:51):
Yeah, well, we've historically been so lucky compared to other
countries that I think that we just haven't really paid
attention to this. So our organization over a few years
now have been compiling statistics ourselves out of coronial data
and out of hospitalizations, and it's really showing that we
(29:12):
need to be genuinely concerned about this. And we know
that we also are at risk and do have already
some of the potent opioids that are causing the problems
in North America. We need to act to make sure
that we don't continue to exacerbate this.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What drug are they taking to odeon? Generally? What is it? Heroin?
Speaker 14 (29:34):
The leading types of substances so often is more than
one two thirds of cases of medicine is involved. We're
talking opioids. Alcohol and benzodiazepines are the main culprits. That
might be anything from tramadol to you morphine in the mix,
so legal stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Interesting. Sarah, appreciate your time. This morning. Thanks so much
for coming on. Sarah, how means in Drug FUNDA an
executive director That report out this morning from the Mental
Health and Well Being Commissioned nine away from six on
News Talk ZB. Coming up next, I'll tell you about
Michael be here obviously, but I'll tell you about the
what the speed at which you walk can tell you
about your brain.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Ryan Bridge on earlier issue with ex pole insulation keeping
Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Talks IB it is seven away from six. Ryan, the
problem with vape sellers because I was saying earlier my
local dairy owner. She's complaining because the regulations are changing.
So at the moment if you walk past the dairy
you can look in and see a vape for sale,
it will change. So they have to basically put curtains
up or a big wall or something you cannot see
(30:44):
it from the road. Ryan, problem with vape sellers is
you now have shops with really bright lights and the
demeanor of the shop is obviously to attract customers. Vaping
is obviously just another poison and they should be hidden
from view. But will that stop people from using them?
You know, hiding alcohol behind a curtain stop people from
wanting it. I didn't think it would.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Six to six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Mike's here, Good morning, Mike.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
That's what they do in supermarkets. You realize on certain days,
like an Easter, they hide the booze behind them.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
But that's because you can't buy it.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
No, that's what I'm saying. But I mean, and answering
to your question, if it's hidden behind a curtain on
Easter Sunday, do you suddenly go cool, I'll give up drinking.
Of course you don't.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, No, that's right, No, you don't.
Speaker 12 (31:26):
What franchise if you were going to buy a franchise?
What franchise would you buy? I'm sorry, this is what
I do. Come and don't give.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Me your arm.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Here's another weird from Mike.
Speaker 12 (31:39):
So what what franchise would you buy? Are you interested
in buying franchise at all?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Just generally?
Speaker 12 (31:46):
Yeah, just generally.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Are you Robert Wayne or something exactly?
Speaker 12 (31:50):
Are you an entrepreneur?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, I don't think I would be here if I was.
Speaker 12 (31:56):
Okay, So if you were, then so say they lay
you off here? So things don't go that well. And
I wouldn't listen to the rumors at the moment.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Just stick with it. But if you intended up in
the market for a franchise, yes, what would you buy? Yeah,
maybe a hair salon a franchise like Rodney Wayne. So
I know. I think what I do is because people
talk about laundromats been quite good little money spinners. Yeah.
So and I've got a friend who owns a bunch
(32:25):
of laundromats and he's quite rich. So maybe I'd do
a laund WELLNIMM minimal effort. Minimal eff My answer, they
do themselves and bring in the cash.
Speaker 12 (32:33):
You'd have a little bit of maintenance and stuff like
that because you go on you know, number sevens broken,
so you have to do something about that. People for that,
I would that's a that's a better answer tonight. I'd
go practical like Jim's mowing, so we can all mow,
we can all do line.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
So labor intensive.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
Fitness outdoors and keeps you happy. Whereas your laundry thing,
I think is better.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
But do you mow your lawns now?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Of course I don't.
Speaker 12 (32:57):
So why because well, because it's people buying a franchise.
Why would you buy a franchise? Which is the next
interesting thing? Are you naturally an entrepreneur or are you're
finding yourself given the economic circumstances out of work and
you think.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I might the latter people, it's like the Avon people
become Avon ladies.
Speaker 12 (33:14):
There's no such thing as an a lady, No they do.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
They just such.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
There's no such thing as tupple weir, and there's no
such thing as.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
A well they did exist.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I think it's people who want to do something different. Yeah. Second,
having a boss, and this is sort of a middle step.
Speaker 12 (33:27):
You see a lot of it in the corporate cab
world and they go, I used to work at X
for forty years and I got sick of it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Now I drive a corporate cab. You see a lot
of it. I wanted to talk to you about something
to do with age and you should have got a ship.
Speaker 12 (33:40):
Well mine's big and I'm old. So there you go.
That covers it, doesn't it. You look like you want
to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Every day or just today. Just Mike is here next
the lawn mower with the motor mouth. I'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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Listen live to News Talks at b from five am weekdays,
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The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
This winter news talk z'd.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Be good morning, Welcome to Wednesday at six a half
to five. Winston Peter's issues, a travel band for two
of Netanya Who's senior ministers this morning, Gavin Gray's Live
in the UK for us because they're doing it too,
along with Norway, Canada, a bunch of others. Drugs overdose
deaths apparently have doubled since twenty sixteen. We'll have the
numbers for you later in the show. We'll head to
field days. How many tractors they're going to sell this year,
(00:33):
the group trying to electrify Queenstown and the thing you
do with your feet that can reveal the age of
your brain. All ahead on your early edition for Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Morning the Agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Eleven people have died in a shooting at a secondary
school in Austria, a twenty one year old former pupil.
Allegedly the gunman acted alone. Here's the Chancellor.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
A school is more than just to please. It is
a space for trust, for feeling comfortable and for having
a future. It is a safe space and triply a
safe space, and this safe space has been violated, which
makes us feel powerless. In moments like this, we have
to show unity.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hi seth over in the US is and lockstep with
Trump on sending the Marines and the National Guard to
Los Angeles that he says they're going to be there
for about sixty days.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We believe that ICE has the right to safely conduct
operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country,
especially after twenty one million illegals have crossed our border
under the previous administration.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We will art be able to do its job.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
We have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect
them in the execution of their duties.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Sorry, Pete, we will have more on these sanctions imposed
on the too far right Israeli ministers and I'll tell
you exactly what they have said as well that warrants
such a sanctioning the UK, Norway, Australia, Canada and New
Zealand were all signed up. Greta is back in Europe
after her summer Vaca through the med ending in Israel.
She's now in France.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
They did an illegal act by kidnapping us on international
waters and against our will, bringing us to Israel, keeping us.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
In the bottom of the thought love, letting us for getting.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Ours and so on.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The news you need this morning, and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl installation,
keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
News talks at.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
B eight after five News Talks at B So the
two ministers that are being sanctioned by our government and
by a bunch of others, the National Security Minister and
the Finance Minister. Now both of those are from a
different party to Netanya, who's a more extreme settler party,
but both of them are part of his cabinet, part
of his government, and so the action is not one
(02:55):
taken lightly. These guys have said. And I went back
and had a look at stuff that they've said. Back
in twenty twenty three, they were getting heat from even
the US, although it was under Biden, but getting heat
for things that they had said about wiping out entire
Palestinian villages in the West Bank. The Finance minister said that,
(03:17):
he said, I think it should be wiped off the
face of the planet, and so you know, and they've
been saying stuff like this for a while. So our
government has come out and said in Winston Peters is
in Rome at the moment. He's just been in France
doing other business, but he's in Rome for a bilateral
He's come out and said this morning, along with other
countries including Norway and Australia, that we will stand for
(03:39):
a two state solution. These guys have severely and deliberately
undermined that by personally advocating for the annexation of Palestinian
land and the expansion of the illegal settlements while inciting
violence and force displacement. He says, we have a history
of doing this to people who say stuff like this.
We did it to the Russians, did it to the Belarussians,
(04:01):
we did it in Myanmar, and we are doing it here.
So there's Winston Peters for you this morning, coming out
quite strong. I think the tide I mean, you see
the images coming out of Gaza. If you're a human being,
you feel disgusted, you know, you feel helpless, you feel like,
you know, this has got to be sorted. So maybe
(04:23):
the tide is starting to turn because these guys have been,
you know, saying awful crap for a long time. So
maybe this is just part of you know, the international
community starting to realize that perhaps those images of starving
children in Gaza are turning public sentiment. It's just gone
ten after eleven after five year. On news Talk said
(04:44):
B we're off to field Days. We'll get there next.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and
dry this winter, News Talk said, be.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Five point thirteen on news Talk said, B, high frequency
data for you this morning. This is from A and Z.
This is their card spending. So it's fallen point one
percent in May from April. This is seasonally adjusted spending
up one point one percent compared to the same time
last year. So it's fallen month on month, but up
year on year. Durables spending is recovering. It's yeah, hospitality
(05:21):
remains soft, apparel still a problem, but the decline is
easing for most categories, which is I suppose a good
thing in the long run, but in the short run
it's down. It's sitting up to five. Hopefully they'll have
a different experience field Days this year. Thousands of visitors
are expected in Hamilton today, attracting a big international crowd
(05:43):
this year. The Germans are coming for the first time apparently.
I'm sure there have been one or two Germans who
have attended before, but there is some contingent coming. Former
sheep farmer Reece Gardner is going to be at the
event with his VR driving simulation company and he's with us. Now, Hey, rees,
how are you good? Thank you? You excited about today?
What do you think the farmers will have their wallets out?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure. There's a lot
of rain overnight, so maybe maybe everyone's keen to sort
of get cracking this morning and get into it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I'm not sure. What is the you've obviously there now?
Is the weather being quite bad? How bad overnight? How
much rain? We're talking lots.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I drove down from Workland last night and kind of
a monsoon, it seems, so, I don't know, it's probably
it felt like sort of Gimbridge kind of weather last night.
But yeah, I'm not sure. It seems to happen some years,
doesn't it. It just gets it just gets really wet here.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, what are you offering at field Days this year?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
So we're bringing some of the some of the vitality
stuff that we've been doing in the States with ATVs.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Okay, and what it to explain what that is?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I guess sort of virtuality is a way that you
can that you make mistakes and not get hurt. I'm
one of those sort of people that struggles to learn
from people telling me what to do. I kind of
need to do it myself. Often I'll be told what
to do and then and then kind of do the
opposite and then realize what I was supposed to do,
(07:22):
what the sort of expert or the experienced person is suggesting.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You learn by doing so. You're I think I've seen
you in one of your exhibitions. Your virtual reality headsets
basically allow you to do the driving the truck or
the tractor or whatever it is in a controlled environment
and then hopefully go out and do it better in
the real world. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
What we're doing now is recreating sort of actual accidents
or near misses and actual locations and putting those together
into scenarios where someone sort of makes it decision or
presents the situation and gives them a chance to make
a decision and then experience the outcomes of that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
What is the experiencing the outcomes feel like? Obviously not
like a real accident, but does it simulate that.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
What we do is you make the decision from the
in the cab of the vehicle or whatever that vehicle
happens to be, and then sometimes we'll shift you outside
that vehicle so that you can see how that decision
is going to play out.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Interesting stuff, Reese. I appreciate your time this morning. I
have a great day a field days. It's Res Garden,
a former sheep farmer, co founder of g Factor Edge.
It sounds like it's been raining a lot there. Sixteen
after five news talks, you'd be We're going to talk
about Queenstown. There's a group and I want to find
out who's funding them, but there's a group that wants
to electrify Queenstown, well the whole country, but Queenstown in particular.
(08:53):
We'll find out way next.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio, Belly edition with
Ryan Bridge and ex full installation Keeping Kiey Holmes Warm
and Dry this winter news Talk, saidb.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
There's five nineteen on news Talk ZIBB Winston Peters's band. Well,
the government here has banned a couple of Israeli ministers
from ever traveling here. While traveling here, while they're on
a sanctioned list and the UK is drawing this action.
Winston Peters, I've just been told he's in Rome right now,
not doing any media on this, but Gavin gray is
he's our UK europe correspondence, so we'll speak to him
just before six. Right. It is now nineteen after five.
(09:31):
Bryan Bridge with a group called Rewiring Altiera. They're posing
a serious challenge to the residents of Queenstown. They want
to see the city become the world's most electrified destination.
To help with this, they've launched the Queenstown Electrification Accelerator
to help homes and businesses save money while switching to electric.
Mike Case is the CEO with me this morning. Get
(09:51):
a Mike, Good morning, Ryan. How are you very well?
Thank you, good to have you on the program. First
of all, your group Rewiring al Here. Why have you
started this group? Where do you get your funding? What's
going on with it? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:06):
So, I'm an originally electric cherry farmer from central Otago.
So I electrified my entire farm twenty one electric machines
and started jumping up and down about the savings opportunities
on farm and eventually expanded into creating or helping to
create an NGO that is funded by a lot of
philanthropers in New Zealand now, which is all about helping
(10:26):
the rest of New Zealand to sort of realize the
huge savings potential from converting off Saudi Arabian molecules and
onto New Zealand homegrown electrons.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Why have you picked Queenstown? Why are you picking on Queenstown.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
I We're not picking on Queenstown. We think Queenstown is
possibly the best opportunity we have to start doing the
real world action to start trying out all the things
that need to happen to massively or quickly electrify a
particular place. We think the business community is really aligned
under their carbon zero twenty thirty targets that were set
(10:59):
by the council. The councilor is really aligned and we
have a lot of very active community members in the
space that are super excited about the opportunity that's available.
Queenstown has some of the highest energy prices in New Zealand,
so it's a really good place to start. And also
it's got a lot of problems with potential resilience issues
from things like the Southern Alpine fault. So having Queenstown
(11:21):
generate and store a lot of its energy itself and
having machine the Queenstown that can use the energy that
it can generate and store itself is pretty good stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It sounds like a great idea. The only problem is
how much it costs to actually do that, right, I mean,
otherwise we'd all have solar panels on our roofs totally.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
And so this is one of the key things about
why we're focusing very closely now on a particular community
is we want to make sure that everything from group
buying deals are set up to going and negotiating on
behalf of the community for things like financing deals. One
of the biggest barriers to overcome is that upfront capital
cost of say putting solt panels on your roof and
(11:57):
a battery in your garage and getting gas out of
the home. But we're now at a position, especially in
places like Queenstown, where the capital repayments and the interest
repayments on financing new electric technology may end up actually
being cheaper than your current energy costs. So it means
people can save money from day one.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Do you think that because I've looked at doing this
myself in Auckland. But do you think people just maybe
aren't aware of that fact yet and once you tell
them they will do something.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Well, I've got to challenge to you. My secret goal
has been to get solar panels on like Hoskin's roof.
But maybe I should change that to riot and we'll
sit down together and I will run you through the details,
and I reckon within half an hour to forty five minutes,
we can convince you of the economics of it. And yes,
did John your wade?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Do you know what? It would be easy to get
me across the line and someone hopefully will throw in
something free and I'll do it. I'll do it tomorrow.
Hosking is a different kettle of fish because I don't know,
I feel like putting solar panels on his roof would
be some sort of existential crisis for him.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
You know, I think at the end of the day,
I'm doing a lot of this with farmers of New Zealand.
And you know, there's a lot of people who you know,
might approach this with a level of suspicion, and I
think rightly so, because there has been a lot of
virtue signaling in this space for a long time. But
even now I reckon you know, you give him a
spreadsheet and he looks at it, He'll be like, Okay,
I can see the value in doing this. Well, so does.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
The other problem we've had, I think with climate change
and with with renewable energy in general, is just that
there's there's people who just come across as tosses who
espouse it. Now I'm not there's not you might obviously,
but I'm just saying it's it's had a bad rap
I think with Middle New Zealand. Is that fair to say.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
I think that's one hundred percent fair to say. And
I've caught my fierce air of flack as a result
of that. You know, you kind of get tired with
the same brush. But when you start to, you know,
talk about economics rather than emissions, and start talking about,
you know, the benefits to the actual individual from doing
this rather than the you know so much about, say
climate and the emissions associated with it, you start to
win people over. And I've been doing it, one farmer
(14:00):
at a time on farm. I'm off the field days
today very excited because there's some major packages that are
being announced for solar and electrification of farms in general.
And yeah, now it's about doing it at the same
thing at the residential levels, starting in Queenstown.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Good on you, Mike, and I think that nothing ventured,
nothing gained, and what's the harm. You know, someone wants
to put a solar panel on there, who cares? They're
not paying for it, and that I think is the
important message and all of this. Mike, thank you very
much for coming on the program. They're enthusiastic about field days,
was Mike, and that is great to hear. Mike Casey
rewiring Alto's CEO. Just go one twenty four minutes after
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five year on news talk ship. There has been some
funny texts about our previous kiss rees and Reeson. If
you're listening, you were fantastic. But there was a couple
of people who just said that poor old Reesa un
like he'd just woken up. Maybe he wasn't ready for
the for the experience. Paul and Ross and John and Sally,
I hear you. Thank you. Twenty five minutes after find
(14:58):
via on news talk ship. Coming up next, talk about
the councils and their rates. You know, your house value dropping,
not your CV, because that's not real, but your real
house value dropping and your rate's going up. What's up
with that?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
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Talks ITV News Talks eb is twenty seven minutes after five.
If you're in Auckland and waking up this morning feeling poorer,
it's because you are. It's because we all are. Cvs
down nine percent, rates up six percent at the start
of the month. That's an extra two hundred and twenty
three bucks a year.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
The cvs aren't the market value, obviously, but the market
value of our houses has also dropped, and so it's
right that we feel poorer. We are. But SPIRITHO for Wellington,
cvs down twenty four percent, rates up seventeen percent. No
thank you. Everyone's asking why are we paying more when
our houses are worthless. The answer is just because it's
(15:58):
how councils collect money and they have few options to
do it any other way. I saw a graph yesterday
in defensive councils. This is a tax as a percentage
of GDP since for over the last one hundred and
thirty years, since the eighteen hundreds, the blue line was
central government. They tax us through income you know, spending
by a GST a whole bunch of stuff was up
(16:19):
around thirty percent, peaked at about thirty five percent of GDP. Greedy, disgraceful,
poor old in Orange. Your councils basically flatlining for the
last seventy years at two percent of GDP. This is
why they want more options to make money, like charging
rates on government buildings in their districts, because yes, the
(16:39):
government doesn't pay rates at present. But rude, isn't it.
We have to. It's why Wayne Brown wants other leavers
to pull like bed taxes. But here's the problem. They
have a good argument for more funding streams, but they
keep blowing up their sympathy with dumb, expensive, useless stuff
like cycle ways and raised estring crossings and road coming
(17:01):
measures and food scrap bins we have to pay for.
The list goes on. The problem councils have is that
nobody wants to give more money to somebody who wastes it.
For as long as that keeps happening, their sympathy tank
is on empty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
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whoever's heading there morning, Ryan and Hamilton says Peter. There's
one hundred and seventy seven thousand customers paying rates to
the council. They still can't live within their means. It's
the only business in the world where you give more money,
you pay thousands of dollars more and they still can't
(18:14):
live within their means. It just keeps expanding. Best business
in the world. Yeah, I understand that, and I think
problem for them is they spend money on dumb stuff.
And I mean in Hamilton, what about those those cones
they put in the middle of the road. They have
a funny name like Checrone or something. Their new traffic
calming measures. I've been reading about those in the last week.
(18:36):
They put put them up in three different places, one
in Tamaheiti. Just dumb places and locals don't want them.
Locals tried to pull them out, rip them out themselves
at night. That's how much they hated them. Anyway, the
councils now remove them. How much did that cost?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
You know?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Just stop doing dumb stuff, thank you very much. Twenty
three away from six. Just get to our reporters around
the country, cullumproc and needing for us this morning. Come
good morning. You've got a plea from firefighters at the
South Yeah, morning, Ryan.
Speaker 10 (19:06):
They're urging the public here to take more care when
driving around accident scenes amid arise and staff being put
in unsafe positions.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Fire and emergencies say.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
It's a big problem across the country, but particularly here
in Otago and Southland. They say recent incidents include a
car speeding through a traffic accident site near Clyde, showing
no regard for the safety of emergency service personnel there
and listen to. This is also a case of a
member of the public driving on the wrong side of
the road past firefighters managing traffic before a confrontation where
(19:37):
a man attempted to pull a firefighter out of the
cab of a fire truck. So Fians are saying, look,
these people are endangering themselves, motorists, emergency services and of
course the people involved in the emergency.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
They're responding to goodness me, they don't touch a fireman.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
How's the weather they're colum showers turned to rain today
here strong easterly as the highest ten.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Brilliant, Thank you please. In christ Church, hey clear, good morning,
good morning. Now you've got a new alcohol well talking
about a new alcohol.
Speaker 11 (20:06):
Policy there, Yeah, Christchurch City Counselors are going to be
talking this local alcohol policy today. It's part of our
draft annual plan. This would set the rules around the number,
location and opening hours of any licensed premises, as well
as some other regulations. There are three proposals that they
are considering. They include limiting the trading hours of off
(20:27):
licenses to nine pm, freezing new off licenses in high
deprivation areas, and there's also one which would restrict bottle
stores near sensitive sites so those sites are the likes
of addiction centers or schools. Thirty groups and individuals who
have had their say during submissions will be heard at
Council today. Council will then consider that feedback alongside recommendations
(20:49):
from the likes of police and health officials, with a
final decision due in August.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Okay, how's your weather clip?
Speaker 12 (20:56):
More rain for.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Christ Church today, easterly strengthening too and a high of
nine degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm interested in this idea that Clears just mentioned that
you hide things from people. You know, if you don't
put an alcohol store near a school, then kids won't
want to drink alcohol. I was talking to my dairy
only you say. She said that we have to hide
the vapes from the streets. Soon when they in a
couple of weeks, they're going to have to. If you
can see a vape from the street, you'll be arrested
(21:21):
and thrown in jail. So she does that stop you?
I mean, if you're somebody who likes to smoke or
vapor drink, the fact that it's hidden behind a curtion,
is that going to really think?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
So?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Anyway? Max Is and Wellington, Good morning, Max, good morning.
Now you've had quite a tragic case in the capital
and questions about safety now on the waterfront.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Yeah, so this was last year Jareth Calhoun. He died
after jumping from the thirty eight meters floating crane that's
permanently moored in the harbor of the Hicky Tea. It
doesn't look very high from the harbour side, but it's
the equivalent of a twelve story building. This guy was
He had meth and alcohol in his system, which a
(22:04):
coroner has now found was ultimately the reason he died,
but he hit the water at an estimated one hundred
kilometers an hour. Quite a few people around it was
the MANU World Championships that day, which I'm sure probably
spurred him to get up there as well and try
to emulate that. A coroner blaming that substance abuse as well.
(22:24):
The coldness of the water also a factor in the death,
not for the first time. The lack of safety measures
around the waterfront has also been criticized. That is being
looked down at the council at the moment. Fencing's gone
up and they're looking at other measures as well.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
You can it is tragic, but I mean, if somebody
has got myth and booze in their system and is
jumping off a twelve story thing could be anything, couldn't it.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, there was a sign up at the time that said,
you know, cautioned warning, don't come aboard. Basically, don't climb
the crane, but the coroner did say that other safety
measures were probably necessary as well.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Okay, as you're with her.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
For much of the day. Thunderstorms possible fifteen the high Central.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Enjoy that, Max Neighvas and Auckland. Hey, Neva, good morning.
Speaker 13 (23:06):
Did you spill more water? Because you've got a raft
of papers on your desk. Here's about fifty pieces of paper.
And I thought the only time you have a lot
of papers is when you've spilled. You've spiled something.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I have a lot of papers every morning.
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Oh you're channeling Mike.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I don't come in just this smart, I need support, right,
I forgot right. What it is is that I've got
a whole bunch of these are from the last few
days and quite messily put together because they were late
my little man bag, right, so they look scruffy. They
do probably just making the situation.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Look, oh, you look really smart, like it's all over
the show, and leave it there, because you know how
Mike will come in and he'll go get a folder.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Put them nicely. He has his own little bag, yes,
but also his papers are all very neat.
Speaker 13 (23:54):
Yes, look at the your papers need to be iron
It's something you'd looks like something big driven over. I
was just about to say that something that's kind of
like lasted a thunderstorm outside.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Nev You've talked so much we can't get to your story.
Speaker 13 (24:10):
Okay, what about the weather.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It's to that.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Fine fine of uprom isolated showers confined to the western
mid day.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
This is too funny.
Speaker 13 (24:18):
So warm nineteen is a high happy Auckland days.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Was that fine as in the weather's final fine? As
in you were being sasy fine, I was being sexy.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Good.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That is Neva in Auckland for US seventeen away from
six News. Talk to Big Gavin Gray in the UK.
Next the government moving to ban these two extremists. Their
words Israeli ministers straight.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Ahead, international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You talk to Big Gavin Gray is our UK. You're
correspondent with me this morning. Gavin, Good morning, Hi, there
are and eleven people have died following this shooting. It's
had a secondary school in Austria. What more do we know?
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Yeah, the second largest city in our Austria. Gratz happened
at ten am local time, and in the last ninety
minutes that death toll has risen in total to eleven.
That's ten victims plus the suspect. It is believed that
the killer was twenty one years old, lived in the
city and he killed himself in the toilet of the school,
(25:18):
having used two guns which he legally owned. Now we
don't know yet his name, but we do know he
was a former student. He'd never finished his studies there
and apparently the local media are reporting he left a
message at his home. We don't know a great deal
about the victims so far, but the death toll was increased,
it's said by the death of an adult in hospital.
(25:40):
Another adult has critical injuries. It is thought those were
staff members, possibly teachers. Three hundred police officers attended the
scene after the shooting to ensure that the school was
evacuated and it looks like Austria is going to be
having three days of morning over the coming few days.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Meanwhile, the UK has joined us, the Australian, the Canadians
of the Norwegians and placing travel bands on these two
extremist Israeli politicians.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Yes so it Ama Bengivier and Bezalal Smartrik are both
being banned from entering the countries named and will have
any assets in those countries frozen. They are the National
Security Minister and the Finance Minister of the Israeli government respectively,
and both the according to the Group of Nations in
(26:27):
this gathering, that is New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Norway and
the UK. Both are saying that they have incited extremist
violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights. Both ministers
oppose allowing aid into Gaza, and they both called for
Palestinians there to be resettled outside the territory. Now in
(26:49):
response to this, Israel is fuming. They are saying it's
outrageous that elected representatives and members of the government are
subjected to these kinds of measures. But let's not forget
within the Israeli government, it is a coalition and these
ministers led ultra nationalist parties in the governing coalition, holding
a total of some thirteen seats between them.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Gavin, appreciate your analysis this morning. As always, Gavin Gray
are UK europe Correspondent twelve away from six Ryan Bridge.
Back home. You report out this morning from the Mental
Health and Wellbeing commissioned. Drug overdose deaths here have almost
doubled in under a decade, and the amount of people
accessing specialist mental health and addiction intervention, in other words, help,
(27:31):
is continuing to trend downward. So what's up with that?
Sarah Helm, the NZID Drug Foundation Executive Director, with me
this morning.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Sarah, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
How do those two things compute? You've got more death
and you've got less help.
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Yeah, actually that's true across a couple of different areas.
So we've had a really concern and growth of overdose
fatalities over a number of years now, and we lose
three New Zealanders every week to entirely prevent accidental drug overdose.
Alongside that, we know that there's a certain part of
(28:06):
the population, particularly middle aged people, who if they experience
and overdose, aren't seeking help, they aren't turning up to hospital.
And also we've had a decline and access to addiction services,
so that really spells some problems for our community.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
So how many people dive overdose in a year.
Speaker 14 (28:29):
One hundred and eighty eight in twenty twenty three, and
now just for comparison, that's over half the road toll
and more than twice the number of people that we
lose to drowning, and that compares about the same over
a number of years now.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And how does that compare to other countries.
Speaker 14 (28:51):
Yeah, well, we've historically been so lucky compared to other
countries that I think that we just haven't really paid
attention to this. So our organization over a few years
now have been compiling statistics ourselves out of coronial data
and out of hospitalizations, and it's really showing that we
(29:12):
need to be genuinely concerned about this. And we know
that we also are at risk and do have already
some of the potent opioids that are causing the problems
in North America. We need to act to make sure
that we don't continue to exacerbate this.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What drug are they taking to odeon? Generally? What is it? Heroin?
Speaker 14 (29:34):
The leading types of substances so often is more than
one two thirds of cases of medicine is involved. We're
talking opioids. Alcohol and benzodiazepines are the main culprits. That
might be anything from tramadol to you morphine in the mix,
so legal stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Interesting. Sarah, appreciate your time. This morning. Thanks so much
for coming on. Sarah, how means in Drug FUNDA an
executive director That report out this morning from the Mental
Health and Well Being Commissioned nine away from six on
News Talk ZB. Coming up next, I'll tell you about
Michael be here obviously, but I'll tell you about the
what the speed at which you walk can tell you
about your brain.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Ryan Bridge on earlier issue with ex pole insulation keeping
Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Talks IB it is seven away from six. Ryan, the
problem with vape sellers because I was saying earlier my
local dairy owner. She's complaining because the regulations are changing.
So at the moment if you walk past the dairy
you can look in and see a vape for sale,
it will change. So they have to basically put curtains
up or a big wall or something you cannot see
(30:44):
it from the road. Ryan, problem with vape sellers is
you now have shops with really bright lights and the
demeanor of the shop is obviously to attract customers. Vaping
is obviously just another poison and they should be hidden
from view. But will that stop people from using them?
You know, hiding alcohol behind a curtain stop people from
wanting it. I didn't think it would.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Six to six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Mike's here, Good morning, Mike.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
That's what they do in supermarkets. You realize on certain days,
like an Easter, they hide the booze behind them.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
But that's because you can't buy it.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
No, that's what I'm saying. But I mean, and answering
to your question, if it's hidden behind a curtain on
Easter Sunday, do you suddenly go cool, I'll give up drinking.
Of course you don't.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, No, that's right, No, you don't.
Speaker 12 (31:26):
What franchise if you were going to buy a franchise?
What franchise would you buy? I'm sorry, this is what
I do. Come and don't give.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Me your arm.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Here's another weird from Mike.
Speaker 12 (31:39):
So what what franchise would you buy? Are you interested
in buying franchise at all?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Just generally?
Speaker 12 (31:46):
Yeah, just generally.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Are you Robert Wayne or something exactly?
Speaker 12 (31:50):
Are you an entrepreneur?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, I don't think I would be here if I was.
Speaker 12 (31:56):
Okay, So if you were, then so say they lay
you off here? So things don't go that well. And
I wouldn't listen to the rumors at the moment.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Just stick with it. But if you intended up in
the market for a franchise, yes, what would you buy? Yeah,
maybe a hair salon a franchise like Rodney Wayne. So
I know. I think what I do is because people
talk about laundromats been quite good little money spinners. Yeah.
So and I've got a friend who owns a bunch
(32:25):
of laundromats and he's quite rich. So maybe I'd do
a laund WELLNIMM minimal effort. Minimal eff My answer, they
do themselves and bring in the cash.
Speaker 12 (32:33):
You'd have a little bit of maintenance and stuff like
that because you go on you know, number sevens broken,
so you have to do something about that. People for that,
I would that's a that's a better answer tonight. I'd
go practical like Jim's mowing, so we can all mow,
we can all do line.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
So labor intensive.
Speaker 12 (32:49):
Fitness outdoors and keeps you happy. Whereas your laundry thing,
I think is better.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
But do you mow your lawns now?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Of course I don't.
Speaker 12 (32:57):
So why because well, because it's people buying a franchise.
Why would you buy a franchise? Which is the next
interesting thing? Are you naturally an entrepreneur or are you're
finding yourself given the economic circumstances out of work and
you think.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I might the latter people, it's like the Avon people
become Avon ladies.
Speaker 12 (33:14):
There's no such thing as an a lady, No they do.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
They just such.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
There's no such thing as tupple weir, and there's no
such thing as.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
A well they did exist.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I think it's people who want to do something different. Yeah. Second,
having a boss, and this is sort of a middle step.
Speaker 12 (33:27):
You see a lot of it in the corporate cab
world and they go, I used to work at X
for forty years and I got sick of it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Now I drive a corporate cab. You see a lot
of it. I wanted to talk to you about something
to do with age and you should have got a ship.
Speaker 12 (33:40):
Well mine's big and I'm old. So there you go.
That covers it, doesn't it. You look like you want
to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Every day or just today. Just Mike is here next
the lawn mower with the motor mouth. I'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
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Speaker 1 (34:06):
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