June 16, 2025 • 33 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast 2025 Tuesday 17th of June, conflict continues between Iran and Israel, Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom has the latest on an Iranian TV studio struck by an Israeli airstrike.
A new survey from the Asia New Zealand Foundation shows our trust in China is slipping, Director of research and engagement, Dr Julia Macdonald tells Ryan Bridge what it means for our relationship with China.
Disposable vapes are out from today, Action for Smokefree 2025 Director, Ben Youdan shares his thoughts on how big of a difference it will make.
Plus Australian Correspondent Donna Demaio has the latest on what will the Australian Prime Minister and Trump will discuss in their first face to face meeting in Canada.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
an early edition with ex Pole insulation. Keeping Kiwi Holmes
warm and try this winter news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning to six after five, Tuesday, the
seventeenth of June. Great to have your company this morning.
They're still going out of this is Israel and Iran, but
Iran apparently starting to wave a white flag. We'll look
at that before six o'clock this morning. We don't trust China.
This is a new survey out this morning, a new
Pole result. We don't trust China us kiwis, but we're
not too hot on the American Zione. They will have
(00:32):
the numbers for you, baits. You won't see them at
your dairies from today and you won't be able to
get reusable ones. Is that going to make any difference?
We're here to Australia. Our Australia correspondent on Tomayo has
the latest on the shooting in Sydney. A couple of
guys sitting down for lunch, three of them shot in
broad daylight seven after five. The agenda Israel's military warning
(00:55):
people to evacuate the capital Tehran as its targets. A
military infrastructure. This was the moment the Iranian state TV
channel was taken off here by Israeli air strikes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh y.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, literally just blew up the background and debris started
pulling from the roof NITNYA who says, Israel is on
its way to quote achieving victory.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We are on the way to achieving our two goals,
elimination of the nuclear threat and elimination.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Of the missile threat.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
When we control the skies of Tehran, we strike these targets,
the regime's targets.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He could trust to the criminal regime of a ram.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That targets are civilians and comes to kill children and women.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To Canada, Trump and Khanni shaking hands out by the
trees in Calgary, and Trump telling reporters that previously excluding
Putin from the group was a mistake.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very
big mistake, even though it wasn't in politics, and I
was very loud about it. It was a mistake in
that you spend so much time talking about Russia. He's
no longer at the table.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and well he's still not there now. A man
has been arrested on suspicion of killing that Democratic senator
and her husband after a two day man hunter Minnesota
police chase came to an end after the suspects surrendered
and ended up crawling towards the offices.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
They were able to clause in and when we see
he's crawling towards us, these were in response to the
commands by the Swaite teams that were on seeing he
was cooperative and cooperated with law enforcement and gave up
peacefully at that time.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and ex fol Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and
dry this winter news talks, he'd be.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nine past five news talks. He'd been nine two nine
two is the number of TIX would love to hear
from you this morning. Nothing like a war in the
Middle East to put things in perspective here at home.
As families run from their apartment blocks or heighten their bunkers,
TV stations get blown up so that nobody knows what's
actually happening here. We're arguing about a pro rated sick day.
(02:59):
Allounce h goodness, sex, How good have we got it?
How good have we got it? In New Zealand PSA
union hited by flur fit Simon's She's the one that
managed to lose the safest seat of labors of all,
a wrong attiede to Julia and genter. She puts out
a press press release yesterday calling this very minor tweak
(03:20):
a quote war on women, which it's neither. In fact,
that is offensive to both wars and women. It's simple,
if you work fewer hours, you get less sick leave.
I really don't understand what the problem is with this.
I genuinely don't get what all the fuss is about. Factors.
They shouldn't even be a fuss. This is where Lucks
(03:42):
and Cox things up. And yesterday I just thought, get
your act together, mate. Yesterday he comes on with Mike.
He mentions changes are coming on sick leave, but then
couldn't remember what they were or when they were. And
just for clarity, this minor tweak was actually publicly announced
a year ago. He did the same thing with the
(04:02):
ute tax on my show yesterday morning. Anyway, the sickly
stuff literally old news, and yet here we are with
a war on women underway. Oh the bloodshed, the missile
of a zero point four reduction and pro rated sickly.
What a catastrophe is something sexist if the outcome affects
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one group more than the other, because that's what people say.
They say, if one group is affected or is put
off by a policy or particular program more than another,
then the policy itself must be sexist, which I think
is nonsense. But if that's true, then as time we
started calling all wars, and I mean real ones, wars
(04:48):
on men because the people going behind the front lines
with guns who end up getting shot and killed are
more often than not certainly not women, are they? Bran
nine two nine two the number of text would like
your thoughts on that this morning. Also, we're going to
get to this vaping situation. They're going to hide them
behind if you go to your dairy, they're going to
(05:09):
hide them behind either a curtain or a blacked out screen,
so you won't be able to see the vapes and
you won't be able to buy recyclable vapes. Does that
going to stop you vaping if you're a vapor or
stop your kid vaping if your kids vaping? Nine two
nine two. Will look at that next.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
News and views you trust to start your day.
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It's earlier this ship with.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Ryan Bridge at x Foole Insulation keeping Kiey Holmes ward
and dry this winter. News Talk said b.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Y fourteen on news Talk said, b this guy in
christ did you see this on the news last night?
Killed this woman. He was a gardener for her. She'd
hide him as a gardener and he kills her with
what they said on the news was an axe. I mean,
horrific stuff, right, horrific stuff. Guy is in a psych
ward as a site patient for most of his life.
(05:56):
He's obviously completely nuts. He killed his brother and then
we let him out on unsupervised day releases. I mean,
what is wrong with people? And he even said he
was emailing his cousin while he was being treated in
a sight would emailing his cousin saying I'm a danger
to people. They shouldn't let me near people because I'm dangerous.
(06:18):
And there we go with it. I mean, this is
why people when you hear the opposition crying foul about
the three strikes, lord, well, no one's really going to care,
are they when you see stories like that. And by
the way, three strikes returns from today from this morning,
it's just gone quarter past five. Read you're on news
talk said be smoking, well, not smoking, but vaping. Disposable
(06:41):
vapes are out from today. Advertising rules are being tight
and it's all about and effort to cut the teenage
vape rate of ten percent. Ben Yoden is Action for
Smoke Free twenty twenty five directive with us this morning.
Hey Ben, good morning. Good to have you on the show.
So we're never actually going to see vapes. If we
go into a deary from today, we're not actually going
to see them anymore, are we.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
No, Well, the rules are changing to get rid of
disposable vapes, as you say, but also to make them
less visible retail, so particularly in the specialist fake retailers
that as of today you're not supposed to be able
to see them from outside the store or even on
their websites as well, So trying to make them much
(07:25):
less appealing from outside the shops.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Does that actually work because we've put cigarettes behind a screen,
remember when we did that. Does that actually stop demand
or is it really just at the end of the
day price that does that?
Speaker 10 (07:39):
Well.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
I think with cigarette it's been a combination of lots
and lots of things, including price and putting out a
display and making the packages play with vapes, we're looking
at something slightly different because we do want them to
be available for adults who smoke, and they're using them
to stop smoking and have appeal compared to a cigarette.
But what we don't want is for them to be
(08:00):
marketed in a way or sold at a price point
that is appealing to young people and people have never
smoked as well. So it's about trying to get that
balance right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do we have it right? Because the thing is, with smoking,
they put the price up every year, what is it,
ten percent? I think they've paused it, but that's what
made people stop smoking. I thought, oh my god, I
literally can't afford their so I either have to steal
them or not smoke anymore. Whereas with vapor and they're
not moving the price right.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Well, I think pricing has definitely had a massive impact
with smoking, and actually we're probably the most expensive country
in the world relative to income to buy cigarettes now,
although the situation at the moment we still have smoking
very concentrated in our kind of lower income populations and
still much high rates for Maori and Pacific. So having
(08:49):
more affordable, less harmful al turn it's accessible to people
who are still smoking, I think is still really really important.
But for young people, doing things like getting rid of
the disposable vapes which are really cheap and accessible and
still have been at kind of pocket when the price
is really fibll ten dollars, and just leaving things that
are still cheap in cigarettes, but not so cheap that
(09:12):
they're very easy to buy. I think it's part of
trying to get that balance that we haven't necessarily had
right so far.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All right, Ben, appreciate your time, Ben Yoden, the you
didn't rather the Action for Smoke Free twenty twenty five director,
It is seventeen ourf for five. Y're on News Talks.
There'd be there's a new poll out this morning. How
do we feel about China and America? Do we think
they are our friends or do we think they are
our foes? The results next.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Ryan Bridge on Early edition with x Pole Insulation, Keeping
Kiwi Holmes warm and try this winter News Talks heavy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Good Morning Australia correspondent after the News at five point
thirty and we'll get to the Middle East before six.
Right now, Doctor Jillian McDonald, Director of Research and Engagement.
This is Asian New Zealand Foundation. They've got a new
survey out this morning, and it shows that our trust
in China are slipping. Forty percent cent of us see
China is a threat, and that is up from twenty
eight percent in November last year. We're not exactly loving
(10:07):
America either. By the way, I have hit print on
something in the studio and I don't know how to
stop it, and it's printing one word per page, So
you're just gonna have to put up with that for
a little bit. Sorry about that. Doctor Julia McDonald is
with the Asian New Zealand Foundation and is with me
this morning. Doctor Juli, Good morning, Good morning. Worry about
(10:28):
the printing noise?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
My bad, No, no, I can't even hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh good, okay, I shouldn't have mentioned it. Of us,
see China is a threat. That's up from twenty eight
percent November last year. Is this because of the live
firing drills? What do you put it down to?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. The events in the
world around us always impact our survey results. And at
the time of the Mini poll, which was the updated
survey in March, there was the live fire military drills
and China had also just signed the Comprehensive Strategic partnership
with the Cook Islands, and I think there's event, combined
with the events that were taking place in the US
and Washington, DC at the time, really impacted New Zealand's.
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New Zealander's perceptions.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, our perception not just of China but also the States.
What do we think about them?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, no, I mean that was the time where we
just had President Trump meeting with Zelenski in the Oval Office.
We had tariffs being put on Canada, Mexico, a lot
of unpredictability in the world, and so you see that
reflected in these spikes and stepperceptions and the drop and
prem perceptions especially these are each China and the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Interesting though, that we see China not as a friend necessarily,
you know, more as we're more skeptical of them, of
course than we are of America. But we also understand
the importance of our economic relationship to the point where
we're basically willing to suck it up, aren't we.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, I think we appreciate the importance of that economic relationship.
You're absolutely right, you know, a top of the list
of the most important countries for New Zealand future as
China by quite a significant margin. It's been top for
many years now, and it is because we have such
an important relationship with China. We understand the need to
continue to engage China and it's just vital to our
(12:13):
national interest to do so.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I really appreciate your time this morning, Julia, thanks for
coming on the program. That's doctor Julian McDonald from Asia
New Zealand Foundation. The print is still going. Can you
hear that? It's I don't know what's happened, but it's
printing one sentence per page, and then it's skipping a page.
So like this page says forty percent of US see
China as a threat, up from twenty eight percent last year.
(12:36):
Then there's a blank page, and then there's the next
page it says but we're not exactly loving America either.
So yeah, this is how much paper? Did you hear that? Anyway,
it is twenty three minutes after five. I don't know
what I've done, but I'll sort it out during the
break for you, and when we come back, a look
(12:57):
at some data, some economic data from the last couple
of days. What it could mean for our quarter two
because we'll get quarter one data out Thursday, of course,
But what does it mean for quarter two, the one
that we're actually currently in, and what could that mean
for your mortgage interest rates, which is the thing we
really care about. That's next the early.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
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Av News Talks b It is twenty five minutes after five.
If growth is the game that we're in, then the
Reserve Bank should keep cutting interest rates. The problem with
growth is it's not the game they're in. They're in
the business of taming inflation and that's about it. The
government ditched the dual mandate. Remember this introduced by the
last lot that saw Adrian Or and co. Also focus
(13:43):
on keeping people in jobs. They called it max Maximum
sustainable employment. That's now gone. And inflation is the aim
of the game, and inflation is in the band. So
the bank is going to take things slow. They're going
to ease the next few cuts over a longer period
of time, basically for fear that they'll overcook the whole
thing again. They'll be thinking, of course, about Trump and
(14:06):
his tariffs and the fear of price hikes, even though
these haven't materialized even in the data out of the
United States as yet. They'll be worried about the Middle East.
They'll be worried about the price of oil as a
result of the Middle East. It's an important cost, of course,
and it's in everything, not just our cars, transport of goods, production,
you name it. Directly and indirectly contributes up to thirty
(14:29):
percent of our inflation when the price is high, like
when somebody's dropping bombs in the Middle East. But that
wouldn't be my main concern if I was setting monetary policy,
not that anyone would let me. Sure, we'll get a
solid growth number of around zero point seven percent for
quarter one on Thursday. But there's been a couple of
signs this week, just a few little ones, that things
(14:51):
are a bit shaky for quarter two, the one we're
in now this year. Yesterday it was May Day calls
from the services sector going back goods for the month again,
this time a bigger drop than last and again way
out of whack with our trading partners. And our golden
dairy run will continue, don't worry. I'm not saying that won't.
(15:12):
But there are signs, early signs that production is going
to be ramping up around the world, and of course
that affects the price brings it down. Cutting rates sooner
and faster would help avoid any surgical complications as we
revive the economy which has been, let's face it, a
very sick patient for a very long time. Ryan Bridge,
(15:35):
twenty eight minutes after five, you're on news TALKSB. You'll
be pleased to know the printer Glenn has come in.
Thank you, Glenn kindly come in to stop the printer
from printing. And there's a good I don't know, there's
a good half a tree there, I think on the
desk at the moment. I said, the Greens are releasing
their physical policy today. So this isn't an ode to you, Chloe.
(15:57):
That's how much paper i'd is waste it. Twenty eight
minutes after five, So the Iran obviously it's still going
run as well. Nothing's changed there but potentially waving the
white flag. They are through Arab intermediaries are talking about
potential ceasefire, wanting to get back to the table on
the nuclear deal. They'll be worried about regime change, of course,
(16:20):
won't they, Because lots of Iranians would actually celebrate the
fact that their leaders downfall. Israel is knocking out State
TV as well, you would have heard that in the
agenda this morning. Started bombing State TV as they're alive
on here, the studio falling to pieces behind the presenter.
And once you start doing that, you knock out the
(16:40):
propaganda arm. You start to get yourself in a bit
of trouble. So they will be worried about that, which
is why they are apparently through some Arab intermediaries talking
to the US and talking to the Israelis about a
potential ceasefire. We'll have the latest from the G seven
over in Canada, our Australia correspondent, our reporters around the country,
and we will get an update on Israel Iran before
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six o'clock. All Ahead News Talk said B.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
I thank you your far.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Pol
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Talk set B.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Good morning, twenty four minutes away from the sexy News Talks. B.
We'll get to the Middle East just before six o'clock
this morning. Donald Demo out of Australia. Next albanize A
getting a face to face sit down, handshake, gripp and
grin pull and squeeze whatever you want to call it.
Where Trump over the G seven summit in Canada, so
we'll get the lowdown on exactly what he's going to
(18:04):
get out of that. Ryan. This is on the pay equity.
So you had pay equity and then now you got
well at the same time. Actually that they even a
year earlier that they then they announced pay equity, they
announced these changes the pro ratering of sickly. Right, it's
hard to imagine. This is from Harry. Good morning, Harry, Ryan.
Hard to imagine that the smashing of pay equity and
(18:26):
the changes to workers sick pay is anything but a
war on women. I've seen it nurses, teachers, sales staff,
bank staff, supermarket et cetera, all mostly women. I'm a
man and I've seen it all. Harry. This is a war, Harry.
It's not a war on women. If you make a
change and it so happens to affect one group of
people more than another, does that mean you're at war
(18:46):
with that group of people. Does that mean you're targeting
those people or does it mean you're trying to save
employers money? Because the cost of sickly for a part
time worker is completely unreasonable. I mean if you work
lez then you won't need as much sickly Is that not?
Is that not common sense? Am I going crazy here?
(19:08):
Nine two nine two? It is twenty two to six.
Bryan Bridge, Our reporters around the country. Calm, I nearly
said a naughty word. Our reporters around the country. Carlum
Proctor with us now, Calum, good morning, good morning, right
good Davy on the show and the big step forward
for Dunedin's new hospital. What's happening?
Speaker 11 (19:30):
A Crown manager has been appointed to oversee this project.
Health Minister Simeon Brown making the announcement even Davies will
lead the delivery of this impatient facility, which includes confirming
the procurement approach and finalizing this construction contract. This is
the one point eight billion dollar project here. He has
more than thirty years of senior leadership experience. He was
(19:51):
the chair of the christ Church Hospital Redevelopment Partnership Group
for a decade. Simeon Brown says this step will help
ensure the project remains on track and as a well
class facility. Work on the building set to resume soon
and be completed by twenty thirty one.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
How's your weather minus four at.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
The airport at the moment, such a frosty one, but
a fine day had a high of eleven today.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
All right, stay warm, callum, thank you? Clearis in Christich
Hey Claire morning, good to see hear from you. How's
your weather? First of all, is it as chilly there
as it is in Needin this morning?
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Cold here too, but it's looking like it's about minus
two at the moment to getting up to eleven today.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right. And this story, man, it was hard to
watch on the news last night, but the guy who
killed this poor woman in her garden actually had killed before.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
Eighty three year old Francis Phelps, who was known as Fay,
was murdered in her a garden, as you say, at
Mount Pleasant in October last year. The gardener, Elliott Cameron,
was responsible for that. We've known that he was a
mental health patient. He was voluntarily living at Hilmorton Hospital
at the time, and he was sentenced last week to
a minimum non parole period of ten years. But otherwise
(20:59):
at life in prison today or as of last night,
we can reveal it wasn't the first time he had killed.
Our newsroom has been applying to the courts for the
lifting of a fifty year old suppression order so we
can report that Cameron in fact killed his brother, shooting
him while he slept while they were both in their twenties.
That was back in nineteen seventy five. He was found
not guilty on insanity grounds. The daughter of his second victim,
(21:24):
Karen Phelps, says her mother simply had no way of
knowing the risk and someone with his history should never
have been allowed to be unsupervised. She says, yes, he
was an odd character, but nothing about him had indicated
the violence that he might inflict on their mother. Phelps
now wants Hilmoton Hospital to release the to realize rather
the impact of their decisions around his care.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Thanks so much for that, clear Maxis and Wellington This morning, Max,
good morning, Good morning. Now this floating cafe for sale.
This is at Orangel Bit next to the swimming pool.
I've been there for one of my grandma's birthdays and man,
was it nice. Nut.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
It does look like a bit of a tub from
the outside, doesn't it, But good harbor views at least.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well no, because they've got the small portholes on the side.
You can literally you canrently see anything. And it's one
of those places with a cellard bar. You know that's
never a good sign anyway. What's happening with it?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah, well it is for sale, perhaps not coincidentally. Yeah,
sixty six year old restaurant and cafe two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. The catch is you're just paying for
the venue if you want to buy it, rather than
the boat itself. It's a as you say, decommissioned old
tug boat. So submarine trust I suppose will be your landlord.
In other news in the Capitol this morning, genuine I
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saw the abandoned Gordon Wilson Flats, probably by Shade, the
city's ugliest building, This towering monstrosity up on the terrace.
It's been the subject of a long, long running heritage battle.
It's quake prone, abandoned. The good news is that the
heritage protection is today to be stripped by the Housing Minister,
which does finally clear the way for its demolition. A
(23:00):
good story in the Post this morning, Frustrated owners Victoria
University can now go ahead and build new accommodation for students.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Is that the one up by the Uni?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it overlooks the entire city, giant Soviet
looking flat, exactly brutalism and it's worse Max.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Thanks Max, Max toll and Wellington. Thanks Matt oh hang
on you weather, your.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Weather overcast sou easterlyas thirteen the high Central.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Cheers Max, neighbors and Auckland hay Nava, you.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Too should do stand up you and Max.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
It's Milt, It's all Max there, Google ahead them. Hey,
Auckland's Top one hundred dishes. Shoot, that's a lot one
hundred dishes, so not even restaurants, but just dishes of
the year, dishes.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Of the year, that's right.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
There was a record number of nominations. This was presented
by Auckland Unlimited Iconic Auckland Eats.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
They had seventy seven new dishes on the list, with
thirty nine businesses debuting. More than three thousand nominations came
in from the public, which was up by sixty seven
percent on last year. Now, some of these ones you'll
probably know these places. Was Bar Magda's Charcoal Steak made
the cut. That's near k Roade. Apparently Bari's Pizza Deluxe
(24:09):
Pepperoni Pizza haven't been there Eden noodles, dumplings and spicy sawce.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah that's good and yes, and I.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Used to go there Quittament. This is several years ago.
This was because you know how the original shop there,
there's only like four or five tables.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Yes, and I got.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
This big bowl. I was with a friend, big bowl
of dumplings. It was super, super spicy. I had a
coughing fit. It was so embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh the Sish run pepper, yes, down my.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Throat and I was trying to throw all these dumplings
in at the same time. The staff had to come
running around. They felt so sorry for me because I
was coughing. I actually had to go outside. Thank goodness,
are only four tables.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
People saw me and they I don't know how they've
kept their prices at twelve dollars for twelve of them,
but they still the price hasn't changed. And there's always
a queue out the door.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
There was always a cue from eleven am.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yep, all right to needles, everybody house our weather.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Neiva fine fine fifteen is a high, brilliant thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I like this text from Die. It says Ryan, if
it's a war against women, it must be a war
against men not to treat full time workers like part
time workers. In other words, the current situation must be
a war on men. Well that's a very good point.
Die sixteen to six News Talks, said b Donna de
Mayo out of Australia.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Next international correspondence with ends in eye insurance peace of
mind for New Zealand business, New.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Talks said is fourteen away from six. We'll get to
some of your texts just before six o'clock. Also we'll
have the latest on the Middle East. Then right now,
Donna Demeyo, Australia correspondent, Good morning.
Speaker 13 (25:37):
Donna, good morning.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Now the situation in Sydney, these guys sit down for lunch,
three people get shot in broad daylight.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Yes, mass gunman shot three people at a Sydney kebub shop.
And the word brazen has been used a lot because yes,
it was a daylight attack. It was the middle of
the afternoon in southwest Sydney. And what are the three
victims of this horrifying shooting in Auburn has had two
previous attempts on his life, according to police. We've heard
(26:07):
from the acting New South Wales Police Commissioner Peter Thurtle,
and he says it's beyond comprehension that three people could
be gunned down in Sydney in daylight. Eight shots were fired.
Now the three people wounded, a twenty six year old man,
another yet to be identified, and a fifty year old
woman who is a shop employee. Now all of them
are in hospital. The twenty six year old had reported
(26:28):
to police on bail an hour earlier. So the acting
Police Commissioner says it's outrageous that, as he put it,
these people have taken their fight to the streets of Sydney.
Now we know about a task force that was set
up about six or seven months ago, and it's a
task force for about one hundred and fifty detectives and
(26:48):
they're going to investigate this latest shooting. But it was
set up, as I mentioned, a few months ago, after
nine shootings between warring criminal gains and as we heard
from the acting Police Commissioner, as I said, it's not
what we expect in this city, all right, And.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What about Trump and Albanese's a meeting, I should say
in Canada, the G seven, What are they going to
talk about? What does Albanese want any minute?
Speaker 13 (27:17):
Now? Any minute? So I think it's going to be
tomorrow morning, very very very early our time, and it
is the first face to face meeting between Albanzi and
Donald Trump. Now they have had three, as Albanese put it,
constructive phone conversations in the past. These phone chats have happened,
(27:38):
but the PM says that there are many issues the
US president is dealing with at the moment, but he
does expect to have a constructive engagement with Trump. Now
we know that Albanesi has previously said that Trump's tariff
regime is an act of economic self harm, so we
can only imagine that of course, the proposed tariffs on's
(28:00):
Ozzie Steele, they're going to come up, and he hopes
to revisit those and also discuss the benefits of the
ORCUST agreement, saying that of course he believes that all
three nations, the US, Australia and the UK all benefit
from ORCUST, so he's hoping to talk that up as well.
So let's wait and see how it all pans out
(28:21):
between the Prime Minister and Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
All right, Donald, appreciate your time this morning, Donald to
Mayo our Australia, corresponding he's already met Carney, of course,
over in Canada, they've had little gripp and grinnin and
a smile for the cameras. By the way, it is
what are we the seventeenth of June. And remember by
July ninth Trump said he would have dozens of deals signed,
dozens of trade deals signed, and he's basically got half
(28:45):
of well, a narrow one with the UK, and he's
got a truce with China and very little else to
show for it. So is the G seven the place
to get the business done? It's ten to six, Bryan Bridge.
This is the sound of an Iranian state TV broadcaster
interrupted by an Israeli missile live on the ear. Oh ye,
(29:10):
you could see the debris falling and the screens crashing
behind you. The bombardment both sides continuing overnight. Greg Calstrom
is Middle East correspondent with US This morning, Greg, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Hi, good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We're hearing we might be close to some sort of
talks of the Iranians apparently waving a bit of a
white flag through some Arab allies. What are you hearing, well.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
I'm not sure I would read it quite as a
white flag. The Iranians are willing to talk about a
mutual ceasefire where both sides would stop shooting. But I
don't think either Israel or the United States are at
a point where they're going to push for that. The
Israelis have been planning this war for years. Obviously, they're
not willing to stop after just a few days with
(29:56):
money of their military goals on met, so they will
want the press ahead. And the Americans are insisting that
they're going to talk to the Iranians. They want to
talk about a nuclear deal, something that will impose restrictions
on Iran's nuclear program. As far as I can tell,
Iran is not willing to make any concessions yet around
its nuclear program. So I think we're actually still some
(30:18):
ways away from any kind of serious negotiations starting.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Are we any closer to this expanding into a more
regional war or for bigger pliers, other pliers getting involved,
or do you think this will stay contained?
Speaker 10 (30:33):
I think so long as the United States does not
get involved, it will stay contained. I don't think Iran
is going to, for example, strike at Arab states and
the Gulf, or strike at American bases in the region
right now, because it doesn't want to draw America into
the war, but Israel has asked the US to join
the fighting to help carry out air strikes on four
(30:55):
dou which is this enrichment facility in Iran, dug into
the side of a mountain. It's very far underground. It's
hard for Israeli planes to reach it with their bombs.
You need American bombers that can deliver much heavier bombs.
So Israel has asked the United States to help with
those strikes. I think if Donald Trump goes along with that,
if there is an offensive American role in this war,
(31:18):
at that point, you could see Iran try to widen
the war, strike at regional targets and hope that countries
in the region will put pressure on America and Israel
to stop.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Interesting analysis. Really appreciate your time, Greg, Greg Calstrom and
Middle East correspondent with us this morning. It is seven
minutes away from six year on News Talk said, be
a micro say with us.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
Next the first word on the News of the Day
early edition with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping
Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter, News Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Loads of takes from women business owners this morning, five
away from six Ryan, I'm a female hospitality business owner
with fifteen staff. Six of them work two days a week.
They are all students, both male and female. Should they
really all get ten days sick leave? Or and do
they really need it? It is not a war on women.
For goodness, sakes five away from six Brian Bread Mike's here,
(32:14):
Good morning Mike.
Speaker 14 (32:15):
That the whole thing yesterday was the funniest story. So
it came out of my show. Yes, I listened because Paul,
my tech guy, came round.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Do you know what annoyed me about the story is
the fact that Luxon dug an unnecessary hole for himself.
This policy was announced a year ago. Yeah, not all
of it.
Speaker 14 (32:34):
Though the pro rata thing wasn't the one to eighty thousand, No, the.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Pro rata was it was four in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 14 (32:40):
Because one of the things we've learned about Luxon is
that he can't hide himself visually. No, as soon as
I told him the story and I said what are
we doing about this?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
His face it goes flushed.
Speaker 14 (32:51):
It flushed, and he went fearful.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
But also he's not across He's not across the detail
of things as I think a prime minister should.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
Be it's funny say that. I tend to agree in
terms of it, and I've always seen him as I
think he would argue, he's a details person. If you said,
are you cross numbers and details, I think he would say, yes,
I am. But the number of times I have asked
him about stuff we goes, I'm just not sure when
that's coming.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
But I think it's so exactly. It's got that about it,
and he gets almost a bit embarrassed because he knows
he doesn't know. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 14 (33:23):
Hey listening and Foster this morning is back, so I'm
looking forward to catching up with him and Nico Portius,
who at the grand old age of twenty three, has
decided there's a big, wide world of other stuff out
moving on.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
So I'm good luck to look forward to it. Mica said,
your next have a fantastic day, everybody, man, me and
and woman, no matter who you are, Part time, full time.
Speaker 10 (33:47):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, Listen live
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The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
an early edition with ex Pole insulation. Keeping Kiwi Holmes
warm and try this winter news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning to six after five, Tuesday, the
seventeenth of June. Great to have your company this morning.
They're still going out of this is Israel and Iran, but
Iran apparently starting to wave a white flag. We'll look
at that before six o'clock this morning. We don't trust China.
This is a new survey out this morning, a new
Pole result. We don't trust China us kiwis, but we're
not too hot on the American Zione. They will have
(00:32):
the numbers for you, baits. You won't see them at
your dairies from today and you won't be able to
get reusable ones. Is that going to make any difference?
We're here to Australia. Our Australia correspondent on Tomayo has
the latest on the shooting in Sydney. A couple of
guys sitting down for lunch, three of them shot in
broad daylight seven after five. The agenda Israel's military warning
(00:55):
people to evacuate the capital Tehran as its targets. A
military infrastructure. This was the moment the Iranian state TV
channel was taken off here by Israeli air strikes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh y.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, literally just blew up the background and debris started
pulling from the roof NITNYA who says, Israel is on
its way to quote achieving victory.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
We are on the way to achieving our two goals,
elimination of the nuclear threat and elimination.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Of the missile threat.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
When we control the skies of Tehran, we strike these targets,
the regime's targets.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He could trust to the criminal regime of a ram.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
That targets are civilians and comes to kill children and women.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To Canada, Trump and Khanni shaking hands out by the
trees in Calgary, and Trump telling reporters that previously excluding
Putin from the group was a mistake.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very
big mistake, even though it wasn't in politics, and I
was very loud about it. It was a mistake in
that you spend so much time talking about Russia. He's
no longer at the table.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and well he's still not there now. A man
has been arrested on suspicion of killing that Democratic senator
and her husband after a two day man hunter Minnesota
police chase came to an end after the suspects surrendered
and ended up crawling towards the offices.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
They were able to clause in and when we see
he's crawling towards us, these were in response to the
commands by the Swaite teams that were on seeing he
was cooperative and cooperated with law enforcement and gave up
peacefully at that time.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and ex fol Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and
dry this winter news talks, he'd be.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nine past five news talks. He'd been nine two nine
two is the number of TIX would love to hear
from you this morning. Nothing like a war in the
Middle East to put things in perspective here at home.
As families run from their apartment blocks or heighten their bunkers,
TV stations get blown up so that nobody knows what's
actually happening here. We're arguing about a pro rated sick day.
(02:59):
Allounce h goodness, sex, How good have we got it?
How good have we got it? In New Zealand PSA
union hited by flur fit Simon's She's the one that
managed to lose the safest seat of labors of all,
a wrong attiede to Julia and genter. She puts out
a press press release yesterday calling this very minor tweak
(03:20):
a quote war on women, which it's neither. In fact,
that is offensive to both wars and women. It's simple,
if you work fewer hours, you get less sick leave.
I really don't understand what the problem is with this.
I genuinely don't get what all the fuss is about. Factors.
They shouldn't even be a fuss. This is where Lucks
(03:42):
and Cox things up. And yesterday I just thought, get
your act together, mate. Yesterday he comes on with Mike.
He mentions changes are coming on sick leave, but then
couldn't remember what they were or when they were. And
just for clarity, this minor tweak was actually publicly announced
a year ago. He did the same thing with the
(04:02):
ute tax on my show yesterday morning. Anyway, the sickly
stuff literally old news, and yet here we are with
a war on women underway. Oh the bloodshed, the missile
of a zero point four reduction and pro rated sickly.
What a catastrophe is something sexist if the outcome affects
(04:25):
one group more than the other, because that's what people say.
They say, if one group is affected or is put
off by a policy or particular program more than another,
then the policy itself must be sexist, which I think
is nonsense. But if that's true, then as time we
started calling all wars, and I mean real ones, wars
(04:48):
on men because the people going behind the front lines
with guns who end up getting shot and killed are
more often than not certainly not women, are they? Bran
nine two nine two the number of text would like
your thoughts on that this morning. Also, we're going to
get to this vaping situation. They're going to hide them
behind if you go to your dairy, they're going to
(05:09):
hide them behind either a curtain or a blacked out screen,
so you won't be able to see the vapes and
you won't be able to buy recyclable vapes. Does that
going to stop you vaping if you're a vapor or
stop your kid vaping if your kids vaping? Nine two
nine two. Will look at that next.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
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Ryan Bridge at x Foole Insulation keeping Kiey Holmes ward
and dry this winter. News Talk said b.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Y fourteen on news Talk said, b this guy in
christ did you see this on the news last night?
Killed this woman. He was a gardener for her. She'd
hide him as a gardener and he kills her with
what they said on the news was an axe. I mean,
horrific stuff, right, horrific stuff. Guy is in a psych
ward as a site patient for most of his life.
(05:56):
He's obviously completely nuts. He killed his brother and then
we let him out on unsupervised day releases. I mean,
what is wrong with people? And he even said he
was emailing his cousin while he was being treated in
a sight would emailing his cousin saying I'm a danger
to people. They shouldn't let me near people because I'm dangerous.
(06:18):
And there we go with it. I mean, this is
why people when you hear the opposition crying foul about
the three strikes, lord, well, no one's really going to care,
are they when you see stories like that. And by
the way, three strikes returns from today from this morning,
it's just gone quarter past five. Read you're on news
talk said be smoking, well, not smoking, but vaping. Disposable
(06:41):
vapes are out from today. Advertising rules are being tight
and it's all about and effort to cut the teenage
vape rate of ten percent. Ben Yoden is Action for
Smoke Free twenty twenty five directive with us this morning.
Hey Ben, good morning. Good to have you on the show.
So we're never actually going to see vapes. If we
go into a deary from today, we're not actually going
to see them anymore, are we.
Speaker 9 (07:04):
No, Well, the rules are changing to get rid of
disposable vapes, as you say, but also to make them
less visible retail, so particularly in the specialist fake retailers
that as of today you're not supposed to be able
to see them from outside the store or even on
their websites as well, So trying to make them much
(07:25):
less appealing from outside the shops.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Does that actually work because we've put cigarettes behind a screen,
remember when we did that. Does that actually stop demand
or is it really just at the end of the
day price that does that?
Speaker 10 (07:39):
Well.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
I think with cigarette it's been a combination of lots
and lots of things, including price and putting out a
display and making the packages play with vapes, we're looking
at something slightly different because we do want them to
be available for adults who smoke, and they're using them
to stop smoking and have appeal compared to a cigarette.
But what we don't want is for them to be
(08:00):
marketed in a way or sold at a price point
that is appealing to young people and people have never
smoked as well. So it's about trying to get that
balance right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Do we have it right? Because the thing is, with smoking,
they put the price up every year, what is it,
ten percent? I think they've paused it, but that's what
made people stop smoking. I thought, oh my god, I
literally can't afford their so I either have to steal
them or not smoke anymore. Whereas with vapor and they're
not moving the price right.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Well, I think pricing has definitely had a massive impact
with smoking, and actually we're probably the most expensive country
in the world relative to income to buy cigarettes now,
although the situation at the moment we still have smoking
very concentrated in our kind of lower income populations and
still much high rates for Maori and Pacific. So having
(08:49):
more affordable, less harmful al turn it's accessible to people
who are still smoking, I think is still really really important.
But for young people, doing things like getting rid of
the disposable vapes which are really cheap and accessible and
still have been at kind of pocket when the price
is really fibll ten dollars, and just leaving things that
are still cheap in cigarettes, but not so cheap that
(09:12):
they're very easy to buy. I think it's part of
trying to get that balance that we haven't necessarily had
right so far.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
All right, Ben, appreciate your time, Ben Yoden, the you
didn't rather the Action for Smoke Free twenty twenty five director,
It is seventeen ourf for five. Y're on News Talks.
There'd be there's a new poll out this morning. How
do we feel about China and America? Do we think
they are our friends or do we think they are
our foes? The results next.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Ryan Bridge on Early edition with x Pole Insulation, Keeping
Kiwi Holmes warm and try this winter News Talks heavy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Good Morning Australia correspondent after the News at five point
thirty and we'll get to the Middle East before six.
Right now, Doctor Jillian McDonald, Director of Research and Engagement.
This is Asian New Zealand Foundation. They've got a new
survey out this morning, and it shows that our trust
in China are slipping. Forty percent cent of us see
China is a threat, and that is up from twenty
eight percent in November last year. We're not exactly loving
(10:07):
America either. By the way, I have hit print on
something in the studio and I don't know how to
stop it, and it's printing one word per page, So
you're just gonna have to put up with that for
a little bit. Sorry about that. Doctor Julia McDonald is
with the Asian New Zealand Foundation and is with me
this morning. Doctor Juli, Good morning, Good morning. Worry about
(10:28):
the printing noise?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
My bad, No, no, I can't even hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh good, okay, I shouldn't have mentioned it. Of us,
see China is a threat. That's up from twenty eight
percent November last year. Is this because of the live
firing drills? What do you put it down to?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. The events in the
world around us always impact our survey results. And at
the time of the Mini poll, which was the updated
survey in March, there was the live fire military drills
and China had also just signed the Comprehensive Strategic partnership
with the Cook Islands, and I think there's event, combined
with the events that were taking place in the US
and Washington, DC at the time, really impacted New Zealand's.
(11:06):
New Zealander's perceptions.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, our perception not just of China but also the States.
What do we think about them?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, no, I mean that was the time where we
just had President Trump meeting with Zelenski in the Oval Office.
We had tariffs being put on Canada, Mexico, a lot
of unpredictability in the world, and so you see that
reflected in these spikes and stepperceptions and the drop and
prem perceptions especially these are each China and the United States.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Interesting though, that we see China not as a friend necessarily,
you know, more as we're more skeptical of them, of
course than we are of America. But we also understand
the importance of our economic relationship to the point where
we're basically willing to suck it up, aren't we.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, I think we appreciate the importance of that economic relationship.
You're absolutely right, you know, a top of the list
of the most important countries for New Zealand future as
China by quite a significant margin. It's been top for
many years now, and it is because we have such
an important relationship with China. We understand the need to
continue to engage China and it's just vital to our
(12:13):
national interest to do so.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I really appreciate your time this morning, Julia, thanks for
coming on the program. That's doctor Julian McDonald from Asia
New Zealand Foundation. The print is still going. Can you
hear that? It's I don't know what's happened, but it's
printing one sentence per page, and then it's skipping a page.
So like this page says forty percent of US see
China as a threat, up from twenty eight percent last year.
(12:36):
Then there's a blank page, and then there's the next
page it says but we're not exactly loving America either.
So yeah, this is how much paper? Did you hear that? Anyway,
it is twenty three minutes after five. I don't know
what I've done, but I'll sort it out during the
break for you, and when we come back, a look
(12:57):
at some data, some economic data from the last couple
of days. What it could mean for our quarter two
because we'll get quarter one data out Thursday, of course,
But what does it mean for quarter two, the one
that we're actually currently in, and what could that mean
for your mortgage interest rates, which is the thing we
really care about. That's next the early.
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Av News Talks b It is twenty five minutes after five.
If growth is the game that we're in, then the
Reserve Bank should keep cutting interest rates. The problem with
growth is it's not the game they're in. They're in
the business of taming inflation and that's about it. The
government ditched the dual mandate. Remember this introduced by the
last lot that saw Adrian Or and co. Also focus
(13:43):
on keeping people in jobs. They called it max Maximum
sustainable employment. That's now gone. And inflation is the aim
of the game, and inflation is in the band. So
the bank is going to take things slow. They're going
to ease the next few cuts over a longer period
of time, basically for fear that they'll overcook the whole
thing again. They'll be thinking, of course, about Trump and
(14:06):
his tariffs and the fear of price hikes, even though
these haven't materialized even in the data out of the
United States as yet. They'll be worried about the Middle East.
They'll be worried about the price of oil as a
result of the Middle East. It's an important cost, of course,
and it's in everything, not just our cars, transport of goods, production,
you name it. Directly and indirectly contributes up to thirty
(14:29):
percent of our inflation when the price is high, like
when somebody's dropping bombs in the Middle East. But that
wouldn't be my main concern if I was setting monetary policy,
not that anyone would let me. Sure, we'll get a
solid growth number of around zero point seven percent for
quarter one on Thursday. But there's been a couple of
signs this week, just a few little ones, that things
(14:51):
are a bit shaky for quarter two, the one we're
in now this year. Yesterday it was May Day calls
from the services sector going back goods for the month again,
this time a bigger drop than last and again way
out of whack with our trading partners. And our golden
dairy run will continue, don't worry. I'm not saying that won't.
(15:12):
But there are signs, early signs that production is going
to be ramping up around the world, and of course
that affects the price brings it down. Cutting rates sooner
and faster would help avoid any surgical complications as we
revive the economy which has been, let's face it, a
very sick patient for a very long time. Ryan Bridge,
(15:35):
twenty eight minutes after five, you're on news TALKSB. You'll
be pleased to know the printer Glenn has come in.
Thank you, Glenn kindly come in to stop the printer
from printing. And there's a good I don't know, there's
a good half a tree there, I think on the
desk at the moment. I said, the Greens are releasing
their physical policy today. So this isn't an ode to you, Chloe.
(15:57):
That's how much paper i'd is waste it. Twenty eight
minutes after five, So the Iran obviously it's still going
run as well. Nothing's changed there but potentially waving the
white flag. They are through Arab intermediaries are talking about
potential ceasefire, wanting to get back to the table on
the nuclear deal. They'll be worried about regime change, of course,
(16:20):
won't they, Because lots of Iranians would actually celebrate the
fact that their leaders downfall. Israel is knocking out State
TV as well, you would have heard that in the
agenda this morning. Started bombing State TV as they're alive
on here, the studio falling to pieces behind the presenter.
And once you start doing that, you knock out the
(16:40):
propaganda arm. You start to get yourself in a bit
of trouble. So they will be worried about that, which
is why they are apparently through some Arab intermediaries talking
to the US and talking to the Israelis about a
potential ceasefire. We'll have the latest from the G seven
over in Canada, our Australia correspondent, our reporters around the country,
and we will get an update on Israel Iran before
(17:01):
six o'clock. All Ahead News Talk said B.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
I thank you your far.
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We'll get to the Middle East just before six o'clock
this morning. Donald Demo out of Australia. Next albanize A
getting a face to face sit down, handshake, gripp and
grin pull and squeeze whatever you want to call it.
Where Trump over the G seven summit in Canada, so
we'll get the lowdown on exactly what he's going to
(18:04):
get out of that. Ryan. This is on the pay equity.
So you had pay equity and then now you got
well at the same time. Actually that they even a
year earlier that they then they announced pay equity, they
announced these changes the pro ratering of sickly. Right, it's
hard to imagine. This is from Harry. Good morning, Harry, Ryan.
Hard to imagine that the smashing of pay equity and
(18:26):
the changes to workers sick pay is anything but a
war on women. I've seen it nurses, teachers, sales staff,
bank staff, supermarket et cetera, all mostly women. I'm a
man and I've seen it all. Harry. This is a war, Harry.
It's not a war on women. If you make a
change and it so happens to affect one group of
people more than another, does that mean you're at war
(18:46):
with that group of people. Does that mean you're targeting
those people or does it mean you're trying to save
employers money? Because the cost of sickly for a part
time worker is completely unreasonable. I mean if you work
lez then you won't need as much sickly Is that not?
Is that not common sense? Am I going crazy here?
(19:08):
Nine two nine two? It is twenty two to six.
Bryan Bridge, Our reporters around the country. Calm, I nearly
said a naughty word. Our reporters around the country. Carlum
Proctor with us now, Calum, good morning, good morning, right
good Davy on the show and the big step forward
for Dunedin's new hospital. What's happening?
Speaker 11 (19:30):
A Crown manager has been appointed to oversee this project.
Health Minister Simeon Brown making the announcement even Davies will
lead the delivery of this impatient facility, which includes confirming
the procurement approach and finalizing this construction contract. This is
the one point eight billion dollar project here. He has
more than thirty years of senior leadership experience. He was
(19:51):
the chair of the christ Church Hospital Redevelopment Partnership Group
for a decade. Simeon Brown says this step will help
ensure the project remains on track and as a well
class facility. Work on the building set to resume soon
and be completed by twenty thirty one.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
How's your weather minus four at.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
The airport at the moment, such a frosty one, but
a fine day had a high of eleven today.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
All right, stay warm, callum, thank you? Clearis in Christich
Hey Claire morning, good to see hear from you. How's
your weather? First of all, is it as chilly there
as it is in Needin this morning?
Speaker 12 (20:23):
Cold here too, but it's looking like it's about minus
two at the moment to getting up to eleven today.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right. And this story, man, it was hard to
watch on the news last night, but the guy who
killed this poor woman in her garden actually had killed before.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (20:38):
Eighty three year old Francis Phelps, who was known as Fay,
was murdered in her a garden, as you say, at
Mount Pleasant in October last year. The gardener, Elliott Cameron,
was responsible for that. We've known that he was a
mental health patient. He was voluntarily living at Hilmorton Hospital
at the time, and he was sentenced last week to
a minimum non parole period of ten years. But otherwise
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at life in prison today or as of last night,
we can reveal it wasn't the first time he had killed.
Our newsroom has been applying to the courts for the
lifting of a fifty year old suppression order so we
can report that Cameron in fact killed his brother, shooting
him while he slept while they were both in their twenties.
That was back in nineteen seventy five. He was found
not guilty on insanity grounds. The daughter of his second victim,
(21:24):
Karen Phelps, says her mother simply had no way of
knowing the risk and someone with his history should never
have been allowed to be unsupervised. She says, yes, he
was an odd character, but nothing about him had indicated
the violence that he might inflict on their mother. Phelps
now wants Hilmoton Hospital to release the to realize rather
the impact of their decisions around his care.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Thanks so much for that, clear Maxis and Wellington This morning, Max,
good morning, Good morning. Now this floating cafe for sale.
This is at Orangel Bit next to the swimming pool.
I've been there for one of my grandma's birthdays and man,
was it nice. Nut.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
It does look like a bit of a tub from
the outside, doesn't it, But good harbor views at least.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Well no, because they've got the small portholes on the side.
You can literally you canrently see anything. And it's one
of those places with a cellard bar. You know that's
never a good sign anyway. What's happening with it?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah, well it is for sale, perhaps not coincidentally. Yeah,
sixty six year old restaurant and cafe two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. The catch is you're just paying for
the venue if you want to buy it, rather than
the boat itself. It's a as you say, decommissioned old
tug boat. So submarine trust I suppose will be your landlord.
In other news in the Capitol this morning, genuine I
(22:38):
saw the abandoned Gordon Wilson Flats, probably by Shade, the
city's ugliest building, This towering monstrosity up on the terrace.
It's been the subject of a long, long running heritage battle.
It's quake prone, abandoned. The good news is that the
heritage protection is today to be stripped by the Housing Minister,
which does finally clear the way for its demolition. A
(23:00):
good story in the Post this morning, Frustrated owners Victoria
University can now go ahead and build new accommodation for students.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Is that the one up by the Uni?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it overlooks the entire city, giant Soviet
looking flat, exactly brutalism and it's worse Max.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Thanks Max, Max toll and Wellington. Thanks Matt oh hang
on you weather, your.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Weather overcast sou easterlyas thirteen the high Central.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Cheers Max, neighbors and Auckland hay Nava, you.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Too should do stand up you and Max.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
It's Milt, It's all Max there, Google ahead them. Hey,
Auckland's Top one hundred dishes. Shoot, that's a lot one
hundred dishes, so not even restaurants, but just dishes of
the year, dishes.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Of the year, that's right.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
There was a record number of nominations. This was presented
by Auckland Unlimited Iconic Auckland Eats.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
They had seventy seven new dishes on the list, with
thirty nine businesses debuting. More than three thousand nominations came
in from the public, which was up by sixty seven
percent on last year. Now, some of these ones you'll
probably know these places. Was Bar Magda's Charcoal Steak made
the cut. That's near k Roade. Apparently Bari's Pizza Deluxe
(24:09):
Pepperoni Pizza haven't been there Eden noodles, dumplings and spicy sawce.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah that's good and yes, and I.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Used to go there Quittament. This is several years ago.
This was because you know how the original shop there,
there's only like four or five tables.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Yes, and I got.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
This big bowl. I was with a friend, big bowl
of dumplings. It was super, super spicy. I had a
coughing fit. It was so embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh the Sish run pepper, yes, down my.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Throat and I was trying to throw all these dumplings
in at the same time. The staff had to come
running around. They felt so sorry for me because I
was coughing. I actually had to go outside. Thank goodness,
are only four tables.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
People saw me and they I don't know how they've
kept their prices at twelve dollars for twelve of them,
but they still the price hasn't changed. And there's always
a queue out the door.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
There was always a cue from eleven am.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yep, all right to needles, everybody house our weather.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Neiva fine fine fifteen is a high, brilliant thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I like this text from Die. It says Ryan, if
it's a war against women, it must be a war
against men not to treat full time workers like part
time workers. In other words, the current situation must be
a war on men. Well that's a very good point.
Die sixteen to six News Talks, said b Donna de
Mayo out of Australia.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Next international correspondence with ends in eye insurance peace of
mind for New Zealand business, New.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Talks said is fourteen away from six. We'll get to
some of your texts just before six o'clock. Also we'll
have the latest on the Middle East. Then right now,
Donna Demeyo, Australia correspondent, Good morning.
Speaker 13 (25:37):
Donna, good morning.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Now the situation in Sydney, these guys sit down for lunch,
three people get shot in broad daylight.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Yes, mass gunman shot three people at a Sydney kebub shop.
And the word brazen has been used a lot because yes,
it was a daylight attack. It was the middle of
the afternoon in southwest Sydney. And what are the three
victims of this horrifying shooting in Auburn has had two
previous attempts on his life, according to police. We've heard
(26:07):
from the acting New South Wales Police Commissioner Peter Thurtle,
and he says it's beyond comprehension that three people could
be gunned down in Sydney in daylight. Eight shots were fired.
Now the three people wounded, a twenty six year old man,
another yet to be identified, and a fifty year old
woman who is a shop employee. Now all of them
are in hospital. The twenty six year old had reported
(26:28):
to police on bail an hour earlier. So the acting
Police Commissioner says it's outrageous that, as he put it,
these people have taken their fight to the streets of Sydney.
Now we know about a task force that was set
up about six or seven months ago, and it's a
task force for about one hundred and fifty detectives and
(26:48):
they're going to investigate this latest shooting. But it was
set up, as I mentioned, a few months ago, after
nine shootings between warring criminal gains and as we heard
from the acting Police Commissioner, as I said, it's not
what we expect in this city, all right, And.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What about Trump and Albanese's a meeting, I should say
in Canada, the G seven, What are they going to
talk about? What does Albanese want any minute?
Speaker 13 (27:17):
Now? Any minute? So I think it's going to be
tomorrow morning, very very very early our time, and it
is the first face to face meeting between Albanzi and
Donald Trump. Now they have had three, as Albanese put it,
constructive phone conversations in the past. These phone chats have happened,
(27:38):
but the PM says that there are many issues the
US president is dealing with at the moment, but he
does expect to have a constructive engagement with Trump. Now
we know that Albanesi has previously said that Trump's tariff
regime is an act of economic self harm, so we
can only imagine that of course, the proposed tariffs on's
(28:00):
Ozzie Steele, they're going to come up, and he hopes
to revisit those and also discuss the benefits of the
ORCUST agreement, saying that of course he believes that all
three nations, the US, Australia and the UK all benefit
from ORCUST, so he's hoping to talk that up as well.
So let's wait and see how it all pans out
(28:21):
between the Prime Minister and Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
All right, Donald, appreciate your time this morning, Donald to
Mayo our Australia, corresponding he's already met Carney, of course,
over in Canada, they've had little gripp and grinnin and
a smile for the cameras. By the way, it is
what are we the seventeenth of June. And remember by
July ninth Trump said he would have dozens of deals signed,
dozens of trade deals signed, and he's basically got half
(28:45):
of well, a narrow one with the UK, and he's
got a truce with China and very little else to
show for it. So is the G seven the place
to get the business done? It's ten to six, Bryan Bridge.
This is the sound of an Iranian state TV broadcaster
interrupted by an Israeli missile live on the ear. Oh ye,
(29:10):
you could see the debris falling and the screens crashing
behind you. The bombardment both sides continuing overnight. Greg Calstrom
is Middle East correspondent with US This morning, Greg, Good morning.
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Hi, good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We're hearing we might be close to some sort of
talks of the Iranians apparently waving a bit of a
white flag through some Arab allies. What are you hearing, well.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
I'm not sure I would read it quite as a
white flag. The Iranians are willing to talk about a
mutual ceasefire where both sides would stop shooting. But I
don't think either Israel or the United States are at
a point where they're going to push for that. The
Israelis have been planning this war for years. Obviously, they're
not willing to stop after just a few days with
(29:56):
money of their military goals on met, so they will
want the press ahead. And the Americans are insisting that
they're going to talk to the Iranians. They want to
talk about a nuclear deal, something that will impose restrictions
on Iran's nuclear program. As far as I can tell,
Iran is not willing to make any concessions yet around
its nuclear program. So I think we're actually still some
(30:18):
ways away from any kind of serious negotiations starting.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Are we any closer to this expanding into a more
regional war or for bigger pliers, other pliers getting involved,
or do you think this will stay contained?
Speaker 10 (30:33):
I think so long as the United States does not
get involved, it will stay contained. I don't think Iran
is going to, for example, strike at Arab states and
the Gulf, or strike at American bases in the region
right now, because it doesn't want to draw America into
the war, but Israel has asked the US to join
the fighting to help carry out air strikes on four
(30:55):
dou which is this enrichment facility in Iran, dug into
the side of a mountain. It's very far underground. It's
hard for Israeli planes to reach it with their bombs.
You need American bombers that can deliver much heavier bombs.
So Israel has asked the United States to help with
those strikes. I think if Donald Trump goes along with that,
if there is an offensive American role in this war,
(31:18):
at that point, you could see Iran try to widen
the war, strike at regional targets and hope that countries
in the region will put pressure on America and Israel
to stop.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Interesting analysis. Really appreciate your time, Greg, Greg Calstrom and
Middle East correspondent with us this morning. It is seven
minutes away from six year on News Talk said, be
a micro say with us.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
Next the first word on the News of the Day
early edition with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping
Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter, News Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Loads of takes from women business owners this morning, five
away from six Ryan, I'm a female hospitality business owner
with fifteen staff. Six of them work two days a week.
They are all students, both male and female. Should they
really all get ten days sick leave? Or and do
they really need it? It is not a war on women.
For goodness, sakes five away from six Brian Bread Mike's here,
(32:14):
Good morning Mike.
Speaker 14 (32:15):
That the whole thing yesterday was the funniest story. So
it came out of my show. Yes, I listened because Paul,
my tech guy, came round.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Do you know what annoyed me about the story is
the fact that Luxon dug an unnecessary hole for himself.
This policy was announced a year ago. Yeah, not all
of it.
Speaker 14 (32:34):
Though the pro rata thing wasn't the one to eighty thousand, No, the.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Pro rata was it was four in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 14 (32:40):
Because one of the things we've learned about Luxon is
that he can't hide himself visually. No, as soon as
I told him the story and I said what are
we doing about this?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
His face it goes flushed.
Speaker 14 (32:51):
It flushed, and he went fearful.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
But also he's not across He's not across the detail
of things as I think a prime minister should.
Speaker 14 (32:59):
Be it's funny say that. I tend to agree in
terms of it, and I've always seen him as I
think he would argue, he's a details person. If you said,
are you cross numbers and details, I think he would say, yes,
I am. But the number of times I have asked
him about stuff we goes, I'm just not sure when
that's coming.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
But I think it's so exactly. It's got that about it,
and he gets almost a bit embarrassed because he knows
he doesn't know. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 14 (33:23):
Hey listening and Foster this morning is back, so I'm
looking forward to catching up with him and Nico Portius,
who at the grand old age of twenty three, has
decided there's a big, wide world of other stuff out
moving on.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
So I'm good luck to look forward to it. Mica said,
your next have a fantastic day, everybody, man, me and
and woman, no matter who you are, Part time, full time.
Speaker 10 (33:47):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
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