July 14, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Andrew Dickens Full Show Podcast Tuesday 15th of July 2025, Secondary Principals Council Chair and Aotea College Principal Kate Gainsford joins Andrew Dickens to discuss the number of students passing the NCEA literacy and numeracy co-requisite tests slowly on the rise.
Dr Sandra Grey, National Secretary of the Tertiary Education Union, shares her thoughts on the Government’s plan to replace Te Pūkenga and return to a more localised polytech model.
Kate Sutton, Future of Auckland Lead at Deloitte, breaks down a new global report comparing Auckland’s strengths and weaknesses on the world stage.
Plus, Australia Correspondent Donna Demaio has the incredible story of a German backpacker found alive after surviving 11 days lost in the harsh outback.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
early edition with ex pole insulation, Keeping Kimi Holmes warm
and try this winter news talk said b there's talk.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning to you and welcome to you Tuesday, and
thank you for choosing us. I'm Andrew Dickens. Now coming
up on earlier edition. More kids are passing their maths tests,
but don't get too excited. The numbers still aren't great.
We'll have that story for you in ten. A new
report messes the state of Auckland. So what is the
queen city doing right and what are they doing wrong?
We'll have that story in fifteen. New calor Donia is back, baby,
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but with a lot of work to do to clean
up the mess. More details after five point thirty and
welcome to the world of flip flop. Polytechs are going
back to what they were before. Almost will this work.
We'll have that story for you just before six. We'll
have correspondence from right around New Zealand. We'll have done
on tomorrow from Australia. We'll have news as it breaks.
You can have your say by texting me ninety two
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Co dot M said, it is seven after five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's Monday, the fifteenth of July, and Donald Trump has
been meeting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House.
So Donald Trump says he's very very unhappy with Russia
and we'll introduce very severe secondary tariffs of one hundred
percent if he doesn't get a six fire deal with
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the Ukraine within fifty days.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's a horrible war and it should be so. And
so if it's not done, if we don't have an
agreement that fifty days, that's what we're doing secondary tariffs.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And they're biting, and.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I hope we don't get to the point where we do.
But I've been hearing so much talk. It's all talk's
all talk, and then missiles go in to Kiev and
kill sixty people. It's it's better stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And this came after he confirmed that the United States
will send air defense missiles to Ukraine, but NATO will
have to pay for them first. Now to the UK
where we've got a verdict in the high profile case
of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. They have been found
guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after their baby Victoria was
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found dead in a shopping bag in Brighton. So the
couple spent two months on the run back in twenty
twenty three, ditching their burnt out car after Martin gave
birth in secret. They were hiding intense and were avoiding
CCTV and police and it sparked a nationwide man hunt.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Victoria's death was completely avoidable. The couple had plenty of
opportunities to do the right thing and come forward to
ask for help. They knew throughout the officers were looking
for them and baby Victoria. They also ignored medical professionals
who directly reached out to them to say that their
actions were put in baby Victoria at risk.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And the couple had already been convicted of concealing the
birth and perverting justice. So this was the verdict on
the manslaughter charge and staying with the UK and America.
Buckingham Powers has confirmed that Donald Trump has accepted King
Charles's invitation for a second state visit. It's going to
happen in September, joined by First Lady Milania Trump, hosted
at Windsor Castle. Donald Trump have informally accepted the invitation
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back when UKPM Secare Stamer visited the White House.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
The answer is yes, our wonderful First Lady Malania and myself.
The answer is yes, and we look forward to being
there and honoring the King and honoring early your country.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Good on you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Ten after five the first word on the News of
the Day Early edition with Andrew Dickens and x Fole
Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news
talks at me.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Also, we've got an election. Yesterday the Prime Minister confirmed
the by election date for the Tamaki Makoto Maori electorate
and this will, I think be an acid test for
the two major parties involved. So Labor and Tipati Mali
are the only major parties posting candidates. But don't forget
Hannah Tammock. She's standing again for Vision New Zealand. Last time, yes,
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Brian's wife got eight hundred and twenty nine votes. Anyway,
I can see why New Zealand person act to boycotting
the thing because of policy stuff. But it would have
been interesting to see National or the Greens having a crack.
But no matter. Last time the seat went to Tapati
Mali by the smallest margin, just forty two votes, So
Labor's standing. Penny Hanale he won it before, but he
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lost it last time. He is now a current list
of MP and Tabati Maori is standing Rini Kaiperer, who's
a former journalist who work with Brian Bridge. Apparently she's
very good. I don't really actually care too much about
the details of this because frankly, I'm not Malory, but
Penny Hanore and Labor I think has a lot to prove.
In their heart of hearts. They believe they are the
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ordained voice of Maori, the same way National believes they
are the ordained voice of farmers. But Labor lost that
mandate last time because they were too conservative. They were
too patriarchal, perhaps so even too But Labor, if they
ever got into government again, are capable of actually getting
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stuff done in the beehive. Unlike to Party Mari. They
are the voice of protesting Mari. Some like to say radical.
They don't work well with others. They will never get
a bill passed, they never even turn up to the House,
and they like to play stunts, and I don't get
too exercise about those stunts and their funky clothes and
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their outrageous statements. However, that behavior is good for a
protest rally, but not for the House, and it's not
good for getting policy passed. And I wonder if Mardy
know that their candidate Areni Kaipeer has a good head
on her shoulders, but frankly her classmates are clowns. So
Penny Hannaa has to prove to Maori that labor is
good for Mari, a feeling they've lost, and he has
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to win it to show that labor is still capable
of one day winning a general election and they actually
value Maori rather than just the votes that they get
from those people. It is twelve after five.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Zied B.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So all that worrying and angst about our education results,
well we've got some news through. We've got some results.
Some are good and some are unchanged. So what is
what and are we heading in the right direction. We'll
have that story for you next. Here are news talks ATB.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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and dry. This winter news talk set BYES.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's DOW five point fifteen, so fair cop I said
Tuesday at the beginning of the program, and then during
the agenda I said it was Monday. It is in
fact Tuesday. I can confirm that I blame the education system.
And speaking of which, we've got some good news on
the education front. For once, the amount of kids passing
NCEEA co requisite tests is slowly improving. Now these are
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the exam students must pass in order to pass the
year level move on up. Fifty seven percent of students
achieve maths up from forty five percent. Sixty one percent
pass reading up from fifty eight percent, so just three
percent there. Meanwhile, writing stayed unchanged at fifty five percent.
So Kate Gainsford is the secretary principal's council chair. She's
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also a principal. She's the principal at college and she
joins her now, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Kate, good morning, how are you today?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Very well, sour fifty eight morning, it is a Tuesday morning.
Thank you, thank you, principal, and don't give me detention.
So a fifty seven percent pass rate for maths is
not great, but it is up, so I guess you'll
take that.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Well, Yes, it's really happening to see that after all
of the effort that has gone into it. So what
we need to see, of course, is that effort continuing.
You know, there's been some things that have come together
very nicely around this. There's been cross party agreement on
the need to focus on these things and we haven't
seen that for some time, so that has lent some
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continuity to things. That's great. We've seen we've seen the
government and other agencies really listening to teachers and schools
and their feedback about some earlier poor performance of the
digital platform and even some of the assessments themselves, and
that's seen some improvements. And of course we've seen a
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little bit of extra resource in some schools to pay
for some additional tutoring and support. But we've got a
way to go yet to improve that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The funny thing you say, cross party supports you know,
everybody's supporting this, but reading, writing, and arithmetic was always
the very basis of our education. Why do we let
it slip?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, it hasn't been resourced in this way, certainly in
the primary schools with a common practice model, and then
they've structured literacy and their approach to maths. It hasn't
been resourced in anything like this way before with the
and the all of the rest of the professional development
that seaches have received. So it certainly has been a
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significant investment of money and that does make a difference.
If you put more into a system, you get more
out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So is it the resourcing or is it the government's
new curriculum?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Well it is it Iss said, this government and the
previous government had reached agreement on some approaches to literacy
that I think are proving to be fruitful. So the
curriculum focus is useful. What we have to make sure
we don't do is make sure that we neglect other
parts of the curriculum. We have too much of a
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focus on it's narrow so that we because the focus
has not been spread across other areas like science and
technology and languages and so forth, and those are also important.
Of course access to those is helped if you are
illiterate and numerate. So looking at the basics as useful, Well.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well done to the teach because all the all the
rates are over the fifty percent pass rate. But we
can do better and we still got a long way
to go, and that is Kate Gainsford, Secretary Principal's Council
chair and principal at Artair College. It is eighteen after five,
So there's a new report out about the state of Auckland.
It's not a new report, they do this every year,
but this one's interesting. It's got some good, got some bad.
(10:20):
I see that. Larry's already sent me a text saying
Auckland is a great place to live except for its
lousy bus service, which sucks. So what is Auckland doing
good and what is Auckland doing bad? That story for
your next.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
early dship with Andrew Dickins at Expol installation keeping Kiwi
Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talk said be.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Some dude took a gun to the MCG and we're
going to talk about that story with Donna DeMaio in
about twenty minutes time. But right now we've got a
new report out today comparing Auckland City's strengths and weaknesses
compared to the rest of the world. So the Queen
City is punching above its weight in diversity, sustainability and culture,
but serious action is needed in economic opportunities, skill set
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and innovation. So Kate Sutton is the lead for the
Future of Auckland at Deloitte and joins me. Now good
mording to your.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Ko Hi, how are you?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's a pleasure. Aucland's a lovely place to live, but
the economy is a bit stagnant. Is that fair? You
know what jumps out at you from this report.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
We've been we've been doing this report for three years
without partners, the Committee for Auckland and Auckland Council, and
this is the third year we've been running. It's benchmarking.
So what it does is that computers Auckland, as you said,
not just to the rest of the world, but to
comparable cities globally. So the whole thing is how are
we doing compared to our sort of peer cities. And certainly,
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although it shows we've had some green shoots over the
last year you talked about. You mentioned that the headline resilience, certainly,
sustainability and culture where we do well, that's right, our
kind of prosperity and economy pieces is particularly we've been
focusing this year on productivity in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, why is the productivity down? Why is the productivity
not good? How can we improve the city's business performance.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Yeah, so I mean for Auckland we're a forty percent
of the GDP, which is pretty good comparably globally, it
could be higher. However, our productivity per capita is lower
by about twenty percent from our kind of peer cities Copenhagen,
Vancouver often. So what does that mean. It means that
we're doing more for left and there's kind of some
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structural reasons behind that kind of low capital investment, an
efficient land use, which we know the council has been
doing quite a lot of work on export intensity and
unfortunately some of our kind of management capability, so there's
a step up that needs to be done. The report
does go into some recommendations around kind of structures that
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are required. A lot of this is around we've got
this great opportunity with the city regional deal. I'm not
sure if you've been following it. It's a bit wonky,
but it is important. The government have signed an MoU
with Auckland councils saying they're going to do a deal
to try and you know, turbo charge Auckland in terms
of it being supersific. Well, that is opportunities in.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That deal that is the big question. I mean who
is responsible for driving the change? Is it local government?
Is it Mayor Brown or is it the central government?
I mean who's in charge? Who should push this?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Well?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Very much so globally it shows that it has to
be triparth a or multi part a. So I know
that that can be a little bit inconvenient. We've got
the Minister Watts today, We've got Mayor Brown today, and
certainly we'll be saying to them what is the what
are the drivers for you and what what does deliverability
look like for you? But certainly the private sector play
a key role. So many of your listeners will get that.
You know, what are the things that the private sector
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needs to do, invest in in their businesses, invest in
people to ensure that they stay in New Zealand and
kind of reap the benefits from these great things, the
resilience and the sustainability and the culture side about cities.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Good South Kate Sutton, our future of Aucland lead at Deloitte,
Luke Reckons at Auckland doing well in what doesn't matter
and failing and what does. What the Orcand's doing well
is diversity, sustainability and culture. And you know the quality
of life of living in the place, nice speeches, you know,
all that sort of thing, but economic opportunities, skill set
and innovation, and as Larry points out, the bus service
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needs some help. And you sometimes wonder whether Orkanders are
their own worst enemy because they always rail against progress
and change. It is five twenty five. It's News Talks
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Speaker 2 (14:38):
News Talks at B five twenty seven. Here we go again.
The politics that were centralized by the last government are
going to be decentralized by the current mob. So we're
not quite going back to the future, but because it's
not going to be quite the same as we had
before the politicians started tinkering, there will now be ten
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polytechs run locally. Six others will have to prove their
financial viability. But it still feels like we're going back
to where we started from. And this ideological flip flop
that we've been going through is not free. So the
Labor government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over several
years to support the merger and transformation of the vocational
education sector. They started doing this back in twenty twenty.
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It's five years of it, hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now Nashal has budgeted another two hundred million dollars to
fund the reversal. The key cost drivers in this change
include swapping out the IT and systems integration across multiple institutions.
They centralize them, now they have to localize them. Obviously,
staff restructuring, which includes finding new staff for the polyteics
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and firing some staff created in the centralization that we're
in Wellington. Then there's branding and communications, and there's legal
and compliance costs. It ain't cheap. At the end of
the day, we're back to square one. Who knows if
the politics are going to be profitable. And the same
thing's happening over at Health New Zealand. In fact, it's
happening all over the country. As this government reverses the
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last government's changes, people are packing up their desks all
over the country that they first packed up four years ago.
So when you look at this, who's to blame well
Labor for coming up with the new ideas in the
first place, or is it national's dogged determination to reverse
everything the last mob did because they've built their brand
on not being labor. But I don't know about you.
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The whole thing feels like wasteful government spending and the
question we have to ask ourselves, after this five years
of change, are we substantially better off?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Zidy.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
A couple of years ago I went to New Caledonia,
not once in a year, but twice. I went once
for work and then I went another time for fun.
I'd already booked the fun trip and then the work
trip came in. Anyway, New Caledonia has had the most
amazing Bastille Day and the most amazing weekend, and I'll
tell you more about that in a few moments time.
We're going off to Donna Tomao in Australia. We're going
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to talk about the German back, you know how, the
one that got lost for eleven days. While she's been
talking and I reckon, she's got some awesome stories to tell.
And before the whole hour is out, we're going to
talk about this whole Politech monster created by Labor and
the new semi monster recreated by National. It's all to
come on earlier edition right here on News Talks NB.
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I'm Andrew Dickens.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Excise for.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Andrew Dickens on early edition with ex bowl insulation keeping
Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news talks it.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
B where you going, ladies and gentlemen, he is you.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Know, I continue here.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
This is mister Justin Bieber. You've got miss so that
he grew up anyway. It's his single Daisies and comes
from a brand new album called Swag, which apparently is
very good according to Scooter Braun. Now, Scooter Braun used
to be Justin's manager, and he's posted saying this album
Swagged by the guy I used to run. It is
the most authentically Justin Bieber album to date. It's beautiful,
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raw and truly him. The interesting thing about Scooter Braun
and Justin Bieber is that Scooter just got paid thirty
million dollars by Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber owed the money
after the cancelation of his Justice tour. And this is
because Justin, because Justin Bieber got singles singles back in
twenty twenty three and canceled the concert and now owed
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thirty million to Scooter Braun. And then Scooter Braun says
his album's really sweet. Gee, I wonder if that's payover anyway,
three years ago I went to New Caledonia, not once,
but twice, once for we're once for fun. It was lovely,
but after the troubles last year, I wondered how the
place was faring because no one was going anymore, and
not well is the answer. Last year's violence claimed the
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lives of fourteen people, and it's estimated to have cost
New Caledonia two billion euros. That's four billion bucks. The
nickel production stopped, the tourism stopped, to shave ten percent
of its gross domestic product. It's two hundred and seventy
thousand people living there, about ten thousand miles from Paris.
But New Caledonia was, of course run by Paris. It's
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been ruled by Paris since the eighteen hundreds. And of
course many indigenous Cannects resented France's power over the islands
and they wanted full autonomy and independence. Well, guess what,
over the weekend they got it. They'll get a new
New Caledonia government which can do what it wants, but
it has to act in the interests of France. Citizens
are going to get dual citizenship. It took ten days
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of talk, so they decided that New Caledonia will become
our state but will remain French. And they announced it
just time for Beastie All Day, which I thought was
nicely symbolic. And so the new New Caledonia is much
like New Zealand being declared a dominion within the Commonwealth
back in the day. And I don't know if this
is going to work or not, but I hope it
does because frankly, it's a lovely place to visit and
I hope the bar is humming once again at La
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Maldien Hotel, which has a lovely lawn facing the perfect
sunset and has been empty for the last two years.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
News talks'ed B.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Twenty one to SIXSS go around the country of Lochland.
Ranny joins me from duneed and good morning to.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Your Lockland morning.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
New hospital for Otago Central Lakes District.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Yeah, Health New Zealand's developing a clinical services plan for
QUEENSTOWND Lakes in Central Otigo to keep up with the
booming population growth. The only emergency department in the region
is nearly forty years old and was built when the
population was at thirty thousand. Now it's closer to eighty thousand.
The new facility could also become New Zealand's first largely
privately owned and publicly operated hospital. South Island MP Joseph
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mooney'sys seventy percent of New Zealand's population live more than
a two hours drive from the base hospital live in
the area. He says this will bring public health care
closer to home and ease the pressure on hospital.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's got to jump Aroundlachlan. I mean, how's your weather today.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, it's partly clouded here with the chance of showers
late this evening. Northerly winds also turned a strong South
Wesley in the evening. It's seven degrees here, so not
actually too bad for Dunedin in a high eleven degrees today.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Nice stuff, Thank you. Claire Shrewd joins this from Christis.
Good morning to you.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The good people of some are getting a bit worried
about climate change.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
They are, indeed, and look this is very timely, isn't it, Andrew.
The Environment Canterbury study recently shows that the seaside suburb
of christ Church, which is Sumner, as you said, is
one of the fastest subsiding areas we have. The local
residents Association is now working alongside Council's Coastal Adaptation Team
in order to open up some discussion around how to
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prepare for the extreme weather events and ultimately sea level rise.
The Association chair Andrea Davis says it's crucial to consider
how and where we're building homes. She says if Sumner
suffered the same ragin events at the top of the
South has had, for example, over the last couple of weeks,
there would most definitely be flooding. She says, they I'd
like to see adaptation measures like wetlands put in place
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as well as ongoing and for the community discussion.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, how's you weather?
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Frosty and foggy to start, but otherwise clearing to mainly fine,
some light wins and a high of twelve degrees.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Thank you, Max told Joy is you from Wellington?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Morning?
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Max, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So the infamous ray Chung email about Tory Farno, the
Prime Minister yesterday called it vile and now raised apologized.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Yeah, he has an almighty storm at the moment around
mister ray Chung after this historic email he lost his
main backer as well. We should add Sir Mark Dnaiachik,
Prominence of Wellington philanthropist calls for him to drop out
of the mayoral race, but he says he won't. Instead
blaming dirty politics. He blames one of his council mates
for clearly forward affording this email onto the mayor, who
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then sent it to a journalist who then published it.
The crow of the council's Crown Observer has raised the
issue with the local government Minister's office. The council's CEO
is investigating a possible code of conduct breach. The CEO
has received a few complaints. He says that he's reviewing.
Chun Chung had also posted a two a three minute
video on social media, clearly trying to front foot this
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issue on the attack, but it has been revealed in
the post this morning that his first real apology has
come in the form of an email to Fano. He's
email Torri Fano. He's apologized to her directly, the whole
thing CD dirty. No one comes out looking clean. Chung
at this point, just hoping the cloud's clear.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yes, dirty politics to the left of us, dirty politics
to the right of us, dirty politics everywhere. How's you
with her?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Cloud?
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Increasing a few showers This afternoon fourteen, the High Central, and.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I thank you to or can we go and eve
a written man A good morning morning an na shocking
development orcan train services are running at one hundred percent today.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
Shock me to the court, right right, this is great
news because the back to full steam ahead. They've finished,
they have completed the winter upgrades, so now you know
the trains they reopened yesterday. This was after being partially
close for work over the school holidays and as we
all know, it was part of this ongoing prep for
the city rail link opening next to you now. Kiwi
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Rail says the upgrades were successful. Teams were working at
more than a dozen sites to rebuild the foundations under
the rail lines and install new drainage.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And how's orcas weather?
Speaker 12 (24:28):
Okay, not so great rain possibly heavy squarely thunderstorms turning
to showers by evening, strong westerlies, gales gusting ninety kilometers
per hour and exposed places until evening.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Batten down the hatches Auckland size sixteen.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And I thank you very much at seventeen to six
email sorry no texts reaction on ninety two ninety two
small charge suppliers and poor old Raycheng, writes my texture
castigator for being honest and telling the truth. I think
that was part of the problem of it. Some of
the truths he told had been unsubstantiated and so we're
not determined to be the truth. Whatever the Prime Minister
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called it vile, it is sixteen to six. We're off
to Australia in a few moments time, and then we're
going to talk about this new Polytech d merger. After
the big Polytech merger, we'll talk to Dr Sandra Gray
right here on News Talks AB.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business fourteen to six.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Hey, remember to Zeal Pettico, the French woman who was
drug by her husband and he then let the village raper,
who then earned international praise and recognition after publicly testifying
at her rape trial last year. Well, yesterday she was
given France's top honor. She was named Knight of the
Lesion Donner on a list announced Sebastial Day, which is
a small reward for very big bravery. And now to
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Donna DeMaio in Australia. Good morning to your Donna.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
So the German backpacker lost in the outback for eleven
days has been talking well.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
She's released a statement, so we have had words from her.
Carolina Wilga, that twenty six year old she was found
alive in wa outback after she crashed her van which
she lost control of it and rolled down a slope.
She hid her head and she started wandering away in
a confused state. She was found after eleven nights in
freezing conditions. She had a little bit of food and
(26:18):
the water she got was from the rain and from
puddles and so forth. But she was found limping and
barefoot by a farmer about thirty k's from her car.
Now what she's done is thanked her rescuers.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Of course, a.
Speaker 13 (26:30):
Lot of people were looking for her, and she's written,
I am simply grateful to have survived. She's called her rescuer,
her angel. She was absolutely ravaged by mosquitos apparently as well.
But we have heard from a bush survival expert, Kelly Jackson,
who said that there's a number one rule, stay with
your car, but a lot of people don't do that
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because they're go into shock and they do.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Act rationally, so that possibly what is what happened with you.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can't walk out in the car has a roof
and that's quite handy and the burning out back. Now,
some bloke brought a gun to the football at the MCG.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
Yes, the twenty seven year old man has been sentenced
to twenty one months in prison for carrying a firearm
into the g early this year. His name is Mohammad Nouri.
Pleaded guilty to dozens of firearms and motor vehicle offenses
and the court was told he carried this loaded, unregistered
gun with an altered serial number into the stadium during
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an AFL match. You know how footy mad we are.
It was between Collingwood and Carlton. Don't know if that
means anything to you, but eighty two thousand fans were
at the footy at the time and so we know
now that security systems at the sporting ground, yes, they
have been upgraded. He will serve twenty one months and
twelve months non parole.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I certainly know Collingwood. I was cursed with going on
the Ottaga rail trail with a bunch of tourists from
Australia who were all Collingwood supporters, and boy did I
get it in the ear all weekend long. And then
there's a big argument about what's better rugby or Australian football.
With it, there we go, hey Donald, Oh.
Speaker 13 (28:07):
That's a perennial argument, will never ever.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Go away, Donna. I thank you very much, Donna. Donald
to my out of Australia. Now on US news on
Ukraine and NATO, Donald Trump, after overnight has confirmed that
he has agreed to send weapons to Ukraine. And it's
quite an amazing piece of audio because he both surprised
that the United States makes the greatest military equipment in
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the world. So the new equipment will be made for
NATO and NATO will have to pay for it and
then available to be sent onwards to Ukraine. Donald strikes
a deal, does he not? Meanwhile, of course he's promised
a harsh tariff regime for Russia if Putin doesn't end
the war within fifty days, one hundred percent tariffs. I
think Trump's finally realizing that that Vladimi is not as mate.
(28:53):
It is ten after six. It's news talksb Now. The
big news today is the inflation's coming back. Grocery supplies,
their supplies two supermarkets have increased by two point one
percent in June. Okay, so that's just up a little bit,
but it was going down, so it's starting to go up,
(29:13):
So it's increased slightly. It reflects underlying increases to a
number of key items. Higher international food and export prices
for items like dairy products are contributing to domestic costs.
So the big thing here, frozen costs rows two percent
are from point six, driven by higher pastry and dessert costs,
and that is all related to the higher dairy costs.
(29:36):
And higher dairy is really at the core of a
lot of what is happening in our supermarkets. They push
up the costs of chilled foods. We're talking about a
four point three percent average annual increase.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
There.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
A number of produce items including cabbage, mandarins, and grapes
were higher in June belt that is seasonal, but then
again you got chocolate. Chocolate's going through the roof. Noodle
Noodle's got higher in June as well, and all of
this comes together to make our food shopping two point
one percent higher. And most gallingly, it's higher because of
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one of the very very products that we make ourselves, dairy,
and that's because of higher international prices. Good for the farmers,
not good for anyone going to the supermarket, so we'll
have more coverage of the grocery supplier index as the
day goes on. Right here on News TALKSB it is
now coming up eight minutes to six.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Andrew Dickens and x full
Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
This winter News Talks in me they're going to text
through here that says all this Wellington mayor or Shenanigans
is making Andrew Little look fantastic. Andrew the man whose
weakness gave us to cinder Adourn took about out of
the frying padded into the fire. Now, yeah, I get
your point. And here's the point about Andrew Little. He
is actually an experienced politician and he knows how to
play the game. Ray Chung is not an experienced politician,
(31:00):
and he doesn't know how to play the game. The
email went a bit too far, far enough that the
Prime Minister decided to call it vile. So Little ends
out looking good because he's barely proficient compared to everybody
else in the race who appeared to be clowns. But anyway,
the one thing about it is. It's good entertainment. Now
joining me is hither to per se Allen, just looking
(31:20):
at your schedule for your show today, and you're talking
to Andrew Hoare, who is the CEO of the Blues,
And am I right in saying here that they're talking
possibly about moving from eden Park to Mount Smart?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Do you go to the Blues at Mount Smart? At
Eden Park?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I used to, but I don't anymore because I'm off
Rugby and it's on the telly.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah, why are you off Rugby?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Oh no no, I was off live Rugby because it
was cold and wet and you had to travel there.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
And Mount Smart is not going to change a single fing.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
No, no, no, not at all. However, there's something about
Mount Smart. There's a magic about Mount Smart right now,
which was seen with orkand FC, We're seen it with
the Warriors. It's a twenty five to thirty thousand seater.
It can look full, it looks like it's got an
atmosph and it's got one big area where they put
slides and pubs and bars and it looks like fun,
whereas Eden Park looks like a big concrete bob. But
I love Eating Park. I love it. I love it
for concerts, I love it for tests. I love Eating Park.
(32:11):
It's actually a fine facility. Yeah, I mean, Sound Smart
is so crappy. So why is everybody leaving the Rolls
Royce to go and travel in the Toyota Corolla.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
I mean it's a very you ask a very good question,
and I just wonder. I wonder if actually what we
ought to be doing as a city, like there doesn't
seem to be proper coordination between you know, over things
like stadia. We've got a bunch of stadium Why don't
you make Mount Small. Oh, this is what I would do.
I'm not an expert. I would make Mount Smart the
stadium that does all the kind of cruddy stuff, right,
you do all the regular season stuff, Just do the
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normal games, and then you make make Eden Park the
glory place. You go there for the playoffs, you go
there to the finals. You have them in the concerts.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
The Warriors have disproved that because every time they go
to Eden Park they don't get the same sorts of
crowds that they get at Mount Smart.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And the other thing is Mount Smart. Mount Smart zonned
by the people of Auckland, and that's in the City
Winding Park is owned by a trust that's actually a
private enterprise, that's our own thing. So in a way,
the rate payers would be going, oh hurrah, Yeah, we're
actually using the stuff that we've paid for. Meanwhile, North
Harbor Stadium is sitting in Albany not being used for anything.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Totally. We're going to talk about this on the show. Actually,
as you say, we're going to talk to Andrew Krorr
about it closer to eight o'clock. But also the NCAA.
Do you see the NCAA results have come through on
the pass rates for the exams. This is the corequisite.
You have to pass the corequisite to get your NCAA qualification.
I am shocked at how few kids can read and
write at year ten. I mean, I think it was
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the reading. It was like fifty five percent pass rate.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I can tell you, I can I can tell.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
You forty five percent failure rate.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I know, people were saying we're doing so well. Fifty
seven percent of students achieved maths.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Wahoo.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yes, that's up from forty five, but it's still fifty seven. Yeah,
forty didn't sixty one pass reading? I should hope, so
up from fifty eight and meanwhile writing and changed at
fifty five.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
I mean, Jesu's a slog like, if this is the
increase from year to year, it's going to take us
a very long time to get like eighty five.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
A woman earlier in the program, so reading, writing, arithmetic,
you know, how come suddenly this revelation that everybody has
the same way of learning it, and they go, oh, well,
I don't know. Hey, thank you, I'm back tomorrow. Enjoy
your day.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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and try this winter news talk said b there's talk.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning to you and welcome to you Tuesday, and
thank you for choosing us. I'm Andrew Dickens. Now coming
up on earlier edition. More kids are passing their maths tests,
but don't get too excited. The numbers still aren't great.
We'll have that story for you in ten. A new
report messes the state of Auckland. So what is the
queen city doing right and what are they doing wrong?
We'll have that story in fifteen. New calor Donia is back, baby,
(00:35):
but with a lot of work to do to clean
up the mess. More details after five point thirty and
welcome to the world of flip flop. Polytechs are going
back to what they were before. Almost will this work.
We'll have that story for you just before six. We'll
have correspondence from right around New Zealand. We'll have done
on tomorrow from Australia. We'll have news as it breaks.
You can have your say by texting me ninety two
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ninety two. You can email Dickens at newstalk SETB dot
Co dot M said, it is seven after five.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's Monday, the fifteenth of July, and Donald Trump has
been meeting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House.
So Donald Trump says he's very very unhappy with Russia
and we'll introduce very severe secondary tariffs of one hundred
percent if he doesn't get a six fire deal with
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the Ukraine within fifty days.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's a horrible war and it should be so. And
so if it's not done, if we don't have an
agreement that fifty days, that's what we're doing secondary tariffs.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And they're biting, and.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I hope we don't get to the point where we do.
But I've been hearing so much talk. It's all talk's
all talk, and then missiles go in to Kiev and
kill sixty people. It's it's better stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And this came after he confirmed that the United States
will send air defense missiles to Ukraine, but NATO will
have to pay for them first. Now to the UK
where we've got a verdict in the high profile case
of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. They have been found
guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after their baby Victoria was
(02:14):
found dead in a shopping bag in Brighton. So the
couple spent two months on the run back in twenty
twenty three, ditching their burnt out car after Martin gave
birth in secret. They were hiding intense and were avoiding
CCTV and police and it sparked a nationwide man hunt.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Victoria's death was completely avoidable. The couple had plenty of
opportunities to do the right thing and come forward to
ask for help. They knew throughout the officers were looking
for them and baby Victoria. They also ignored medical professionals
who directly reached out to them to say that their
actions were put in baby Victoria at risk.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And the couple had already been convicted of concealing the
birth and perverting justice. So this was the verdict on
the manslaughter charge and staying with the UK and America.
Buckingham Powers has confirmed that Donald Trump has accepted King
Charles's invitation for a second state visit. It's going to
happen in September, joined by First Lady Milania Trump, hosted
at Windsor Castle. Donald Trump have informally accepted the invitation
(03:13):
back when UKPM Secare Stamer visited the White House.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
The answer is yes, our wonderful First Lady Malania and myself.
The answer is yes, and we look forward to being
there and honoring the King and honoring early your country.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Good on you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Ten after five the first word on the News of
the Day Early edition with Andrew Dickens and x Fole
Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news
talks at me.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Also, we've got an election. Yesterday the Prime Minister confirmed
the by election date for the Tamaki Makoto Maori electorate
and this will, I think be an acid test for
the two major parties involved. So Labor and Tipati Mali
are the only major parties posting candidates. But don't forget
Hannah Tammock. She's standing again for Vision New Zealand. Last time, yes,
(04:04):
Brian's wife got eight hundred and twenty nine votes. Anyway,
I can see why New Zealand person act to boycotting
the thing because of policy stuff. But it would have
been interesting to see National or the Greens having a crack.
But no matter. Last time the seat went to Tapati
Mali by the smallest margin, just forty two votes, So
Labor's standing. Penny Hanale he won it before, but he
(04:26):
lost it last time. He is now a current list
of MP and Tabati Maori is standing Rini Kaiperer, who's
a former journalist who work with Brian Bridge. Apparently she's
very good. I don't really actually care too much about
the details of this because frankly, I'm not Malory, but
Penny Hanore and Labor I think has a lot to prove.
In their heart of hearts. They believe they are the
(04:46):
ordained voice of Maori, the same way National believes they
are the ordained voice of farmers. But Labor lost that
mandate last time because they were too conservative. They were
too patriarchal, perhaps so even too But Labor, if they
ever got into government again, are capable of actually getting
(05:07):
stuff done in the beehive. Unlike to Party Mari. They
are the voice of protesting Mari. Some like to say radical.
They don't work well with others. They will never get
a bill passed, they never even turn up to the House,
and they like to play stunts, and I don't get
too exercise about those stunts and their funky clothes and
(05:27):
their outrageous statements. However, that behavior is good for a
protest rally, but not for the House, and it's not
good for getting policy passed. And I wonder if Mardy
know that their candidate Areni Kaipeer has a good head
on her shoulders, but frankly her classmates are clowns. So
Penny Hannaa has to prove to Maori that labor is
good for Mari, a feeling they've lost, and he has
(05:50):
to win it to show that labor is still capable
of one day winning a general election and they actually
value Maori rather than just the votes that they get
from those people. It is twelve after five.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Zied B.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So all that worrying and angst about our education results,
well we've got some news through. We've got some results.
Some are good and some are unchanged. So what is
what and are we heading in the right direction. We'll
have that story for you next. Here are news talks ATB.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Andrew Dickens and X Full Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
and dry. This winter news talk set BYES.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's DOW five point fifteen, so fair cop I said
Tuesday at the beginning of the program, and then during
the agenda I said it was Monday. It is in
fact Tuesday. I can confirm that I blame the education system.
And speaking of which, we've got some good news on
the education front. For once, the amount of kids passing
NCEEA co requisite tests is slowly improving. Now these are
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the exam students must pass in order to pass the
year level move on up. Fifty seven percent of students
achieve maths up from forty five percent. Sixty one percent
pass reading up from fifty eight percent, so just three
percent there. Meanwhile, writing stayed unchanged at fifty five percent.
So Kate Gainsford is the secretary principal's council chair. She's
(07:14):
also a principal. She's the principal at college and she
joins her now, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Kate, good morning, how are you today?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Very well, sour fifty eight morning, it is a Tuesday morning.
Thank you, thank you, principal, and don't give me detention.
So a fifty seven percent pass rate for maths is
not great, but it is up, so I guess you'll
take that.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Well, Yes, it's really happening to see that after all
of the effort that has gone into it. So what
we need to see, of course, is that effort continuing.
You know, there's been some things that have come together
very nicely around this. There's been cross party agreement on
the need to focus on these things and we haven't
seen that for some time, so that has lent some
(08:01):
continuity to things. That's great. We've seen we've seen the
government and other agencies really listening to teachers and schools
and their feedback about some earlier poor performance of the
digital platform and even some of the assessments themselves, and
that's seen some improvements. And of course we've seen a
(08:21):
little bit of extra resource in some schools to pay
for some additional tutoring and support. But we've got a
way to go yet to improve that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The funny thing you say, cross party supports you know,
everybody's supporting this, but reading, writing, and arithmetic was always
the very basis of our education. Why do we let
it slip?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Well, it hasn't been resourced in this way, certainly in
the primary schools with a common practice model, and then
they've structured literacy and their approach to maths. It hasn't
been resourced in anything like this way before with the
and the all of the rest of the professional development
that seaches have received. So it certainly has been a
(09:03):
significant investment of money and that does make a difference.
If you put more into a system, you get more
out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So is it the resourcing or is it the government's
new curriculum?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Well it is it Iss said, this government and the
previous government had reached agreement on some approaches to literacy
that I think are proving to be fruitful. So the
curriculum focus is useful. What we have to make sure
we don't do is make sure that we neglect other
parts of the curriculum. We have too much of a
(09:40):
focus on it's narrow so that we because the focus
has not been spread across other areas like science and
technology and languages and so forth, and those are also important.
Of course access to those is helped if you are
illiterate and numerate. So looking at the basics as useful, Well.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Well done to the teach because all the all the
rates are over the fifty percent pass rate. But we
can do better and we still got a long way
to go, and that is Kate Gainsford, Secretary Principal's Council
chair and principal at Artair College. It is eighteen after five,
So there's a new report out about the state of Auckland.
It's not a new report, they do this every year,
but this one's interesting. It's got some good, got some bad.
(10:20):
I see that. Larry's already sent me a text saying
Auckland is a great place to live except for its
lousy bus service, which sucks. So what is Auckland doing
good and what is Auckland doing bad? That story for
your next.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
early dship with Andrew Dickins at Expol installation keeping Kiwi
Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talk said be.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Some dude took a gun to the MCG and we're
going to talk about that story with Donna DeMaio in
about twenty minutes time. But right now we've got a
new report out today comparing Auckland City's strengths and weaknesses
compared to the rest of the world. So the Queen
City is punching above its weight in diversity, sustainability and culture,
but serious action is needed in economic opportunities, skill set
(11:06):
and innovation. So Kate Sutton is the lead for the
Future of Auckland at Deloitte and joins me. Now good
mording to your.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Ko Hi, how are you?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's a pleasure. Aucland's a lovely place to live, but
the economy is a bit stagnant. Is that fair? You
know what jumps out at you from this report.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
We've been we've been doing this report for three years
without partners, the Committee for Auckland and Auckland Council, and
this is the third year we've been running. It's benchmarking.
So what it does is that computers Auckland, as you said,
not just to the rest of the world, but to
comparable cities globally. So the whole thing is how are
we doing compared to our sort of peer cities. And certainly,
(11:45):
although it shows we've had some green shoots over the
last year you talked about. You mentioned that the headline resilience, certainly,
sustainability and culture where we do well, that's right, our
kind of prosperity and economy pieces is particularly we've been
focusing this year on productivity in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, why is the productivity down? Why is the productivity
not good? How can we improve the city's business performance.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Yeah, so I mean for Auckland we're a forty percent
of the GDP, which is pretty good comparably globally, it
could be higher. However, our productivity per capita is lower
by about twenty percent from our kind of peer cities Copenhagen,
Vancouver often. So what does that mean. It means that
we're doing more for left and there's kind of some
(12:35):
structural reasons behind that kind of low capital investment, an
efficient land use, which we know the council has been
doing quite a lot of work on export intensity and
unfortunately some of our kind of management capability, so there's
a step up that needs to be done. The report
does go into some recommendations around kind of structures that
(12:55):
are required. A lot of this is around we've got
this great opportunity with the city regional deal. I'm not
sure if you've been following it. It's a bit wonky,
but it is important. The government have signed an MoU
with Auckland councils saying they're going to do a deal
to try and you know, turbo charge Auckland in terms
of it being supersific. Well, that is opportunities in.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That deal that is the big question. I mean who
is responsible for driving the change? Is it local government?
Is it Mayor Brown or is it the central government?
I mean who's in charge? Who should push this?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Well?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Very much so globally it shows that it has to
be triparth a or multi part a. So I know
that that can be a little bit inconvenient. We've got
the Minister Watts today, We've got Mayor Brown today, and
certainly we'll be saying to them what is the what
are the drivers for you and what what does deliverability
look like for you? But certainly the private sector play
a key role. So many of your listeners will get that.
You know, what are the things that the private sector
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needs to do, invest in in their businesses, invest in
people to ensure that they stay in New Zealand and
kind of reap the benefits from these great things, the
resilience and the sustainability and the culture side about cities.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Good South Kate Sutton, our future of Aucland lead at Deloitte,
Luke Reckons at Auckland doing well in what doesn't matter
and failing and what does. What the Orcand's doing well
is diversity, sustainability and culture. And you know the quality
of life of living in the place, nice speeches, you know,
all that sort of thing, but economic opportunities, skill set
and innovation, and as Larry points out, the bus service
(14:23):
needs some help. And you sometimes wonder whether Orkanders are
their own worst enemy because they always rail against progress
and change. It is five twenty five. It's News Talks
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Speaker 1 (14:32):
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News Talks at B five twenty seven. Here we go again.
The politics that were centralized by the last government are
going to be decentralized by the current mob. So we're
not quite going back to the future, but because it's
not going to be quite the same as we had
before the politicians started tinkering, there will now be ten
(14:59):
polytechs run locally. Six others will have to prove their
financial viability. But it still feels like we're going back
to where we started from. And this ideological flip flop
that we've been going through is not free. So the
Labor government allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over several
years to support the merger and transformation of the vocational
education sector. They started doing this back in twenty twenty.
(15:20):
It's five years of it, hundreds of millions of dollars.
Now Nashal has budgeted another two hundred million dollars to
fund the reversal. The key cost drivers in this change
include swapping out the IT and systems integration across multiple institutions.
They centralize them, now they have to localize them. Obviously,
staff restructuring, which includes finding new staff for the polyteics
(15:42):
and firing some staff created in the centralization that we're
in Wellington. Then there's branding and communications, and there's legal
and compliance costs. It ain't cheap. At the end of
the day, we're back to square one. Who knows if
the politics are going to be profitable. And the same
thing's happening over at Health New Zealand. In fact, it's
happening all over the country. As this government reverses the
(16:03):
last government's changes, people are packing up their desks all
over the country that they first packed up four years ago.
So when you look at this, who's to blame well
Labor for coming up with the new ideas in the
first place, or is it national's dogged determination to reverse
everything the last mob did because they've built their brand
on not being labor. But I don't know about you.
(16:24):
The whole thing feels like wasteful government spending and the
question we have to ask ourselves, after this five years
of change, are we substantially better off?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Zidy.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
A couple of years ago I went to New Caledonia,
not once in a year, but twice. I went once
for work and then I went another time for fun.
I'd already booked the fun trip and then the work
trip came in. Anyway, New Caledonia has had the most
amazing Bastille Day and the most amazing weekend, and I'll
tell you more about that in a few moments time.
We're going off to Donna Tomao in Australia. We're going
(16:58):
to talk about the German back, you know how, the
one that got lost for eleven days. While she's been
talking and I reckon, she's got some awesome stories to tell.
And before the whole hour is out, we're going to
talk about this whole Politech monster created by Labor and
the new semi monster recreated by National. It's all to
come on earlier edition right here on News Talks NB.
(17:19):
I'm Andrew Dickens.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Excise for.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Andrew Dickens on early edition with ex bowl insulation keeping
Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news talks it.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
B where you going, ladies and gentlemen, he is you.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Know, I continue here.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
This is mister Justin Bieber. You've got miss so that
he grew up anyway. It's his single Daisies and comes
from a brand new album called Swag, which apparently is
very good according to Scooter Braun. Now, Scooter Braun used
to be Justin's manager, and he's posted saying this album
Swagged by the guy I used to run. It is
the most authentically Justin Bieber album to date. It's beautiful,
(18:28):
raw and truly him. The interesting thing about Scooter Braun
and Justin Bieber is that Scooter just got paid thirty
million dollars by Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber owed the money
after the cancelation of his Justice tour. And this is
because Justin, because Justin Bieber got singles singles back in
twenty twenty three and canceled the concert and now owed
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thirty million to Scooter Braun. And then Scooter Braun says
his album's really sweet. Gee, I wonder if that's payover anyway,
three years ago I went to New Caledonia, not once,
but twice, once for we're once for fun. It was lovely,
but after the troubles last year, I wondered how the
place was faring because no one was going anymore, and
not well is the answer. Last year's violence claimed the
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lives of fourteen people, and it's estimated to have cost
New Caledonia two billion euros. That's four billion bucks. The
nickel production stopped, the tourism stopped, to shave ten percent
of its gross domestic product. It's two hundred and seventy
thousand people living there, about ten thousand miles from Paris.
But New Caledonia was, of course run by Paris. It's
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been ruled by Paris since the eighteen hundreds. And of
course many indigenous Cannects resented France's power over the islands
and they wanted full autonomy and independence. Well, guess what,
over the weekend they got it. They'll get a new
New Caledonia government which can do what it wants, but
it has to act in the interests of France. Citizens
are going to get dual citizenship. It took ten days
(19:54):
of talk, so they decided that New Caledonia will become
our state but will remain French. And they announced it
just time for Beastie All Day, which I thought was
nicely symbolic. And so the new New Caledonia is much
like New Zealand being declared a dominion within the Commonwealth
back in the day. And I don't know if this
is going to work or not, but I hope it
does because frankly, it's a lovely place to visit and
I hope the bar is humming once again at La
(20:15):
Maldien Hotel, which has a lovely lawn facing the perfect
sunset and has been empty for the last two years.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
News talks'ed B.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Twenty one to SIXSS go around the country of Lochland.
Ranny joins me from duneed and good morning to.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Your Lockland morning.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
New hospital for Otago Central Lakes District.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Yeah, Health New Zealand's developing a clinical services plan for
QUEENSTOWND Lakes in Central Otigo to keep up with the
booming population growth. The only emergency department in the region
is nearly forty years old and was built when the
population was at thirty thousand. Now it's closer to eighty thousand.
The new facility could also become New Zealand's first largely
privately owned and publicly operated hospital. South Island MP Joseph
(20:56):
mooney'sys seventy percent of New Zealand's population live more than
a two hours drive from the base hospital live in
the area. He says this will bring public health care
closer to home and ease the pressure on hospital.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's got to jump Aroundlachlan. I mean, how's your weather today.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah, it's partly clouded here with the chance of showers
late this evening. Northerly winds also turned a strong South
Wesley in the evening. It's seven degrees here, so not
actually too bad for Dunedin in a high eleven degrees today.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Nice stuff, Thank you. Claire Shrewd joins this from Christis.
Good morning to you.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The good people of some are getting a bit worried
about climate change.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
They are, indeed, and look this is very timely, isn't it, Andrew.
The Environment Canterbury study recently shows that the seaside suburb
of christ Church, which is Sumner, as you said, is
one of the fastest subsiding areas we have. The local
residents Association is now working alongside Council's Coastal Adaptation Team
in order to open up some discussion around how to
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prepare for the extreme weather events and ultimately sea level rise.
The Association chair Andrea Davis says it's crucial to consider
how and where we're building homes. She says if Sumner
suffered the same ragin events at the top of the
South has had, for example, over the last couple of weeks,
there would most definitely be flooding. She says, they I'd
like to see adaptation measures like wetlands put in place
(22:11):
as well as ongoing and for the community discussion.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
All right, how's you weather?
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Frosty and foggy to start, but otherwise clearing to mainly fine,
some light wins and a high of twelve degrees.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Thank you, Max told Joy is you from Wellington?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Morning?
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Max, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So the infamous ray Chung email about Tory Farno, the
Prime Minister yesterday called it vile and now raised apologized.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Yeah, he has an almighty storm at the moment around
mister ray Chung after this historic email he lost his
main backer as well. We should add Sir Mark Dnaiachik,
Prominence of Wellington philanthropist calls for him to drop out
of the mayoral race, but he says he won't. Instead
blaming dirty politics. He blames one of his council mates
for clearly forward affording this email onto the mayor, who
(22:57):
then sent it to a journalist who then published it.
The crow of the council's Crown Observer has raised the
issue with the local government Minister's office. The council's CEO
is investigating a possible code of conduct breach. The CEO
has received a few complaints. He says that he's reviewing.
Chun Chung had also posted a two a three minute
video on social media, clearly trying to front foot this
(23:21):
issue on the attack, but it has been revealed in
the post this morning that his first real apology has
come in the form of an email to Fano. He's
email Torri Fano. He's apologized to her directly, the whole
thing CD dirty. No one comes out looking clean. Chung
at this point, just hoping the cloud's clear.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yes, dirty politics to the left of us, dirty politics
to the right of us, dirty politics everywhere. How's you
with her?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Cloud?
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Increasing a few showers This afternoon fourteen, the High Central, and.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I thank you to or can we go and eve
a written man A good morning morning an na shocking
development orcan train services are running at one hundred percent today.
Speaker 12 (23:58):
Shock me to the court, right right, this is great
news because the back to full steam ahead. They've finished,
they have completed the winter upgrades, so now you know
the trains they reopened yesterday. This was after being partially
close for work over the school holidays and as we
all know, it was part of this ongoing prep for
the city rail link opening next to you now. Kiwi
(24:18):
Rail says the upgrades were successful. Teams were working at
more than a dozen sites to rebuild the foundations under
the rail lines and install new drainage.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And how's orcas weather?
Speaker 12 (24:28):
Okay, not so great rain possibly heavy squarely thunderstorms turning
to showers by evening, strong westerlies, gales gusting ninety kilometers
per hour and exposed places until evening.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Batten down the hatches Auckland size sixteen.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And I thank you very much at seventeen to six
email sorry no texts reaction on ninety two ninety two
small charge suppliers and poor old Raycheng, writes my texture
castigator for being honest and telling the truth. I think
that was part of the problem of it. Some of
the truths he told had been unsubstantiated and so we're
not determined to be the truth. Whatever the Prime Minister
(25:03):
called it vile, it is sixteen to six. We're off
to Australia in a few moments time, and then we're
going to talk about this new Polytech d merger. After
the big Polytech merger, we'll talk to Dr Sandra Gray
right here on News Talks AB.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business fourteen to six.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Hey, remember to Zeal Pettico, the French woman who was
drug by her husband and he then let the village raper,
who then earned international praise and recognition after publicly testifying
at her rape trial last year. Well, yesterday she was
given France's top honor. She was named Knight of the
Lesion Donner on a list announced Sebastial Day, which is
a small reward for very big bravery. And now to
(25:46):
Donna DeMaio in Australia. Good morning to your Donna.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
So the German backpacker lost in the outback for eleven
days has been talking well.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
She's released a statement, so we have had words from her.
Carolina Wilga, that twenty six year old she was found
alive in wa outback after she crashed her van which
she lost control of it and rolled down a slope.
She hid her head and she started wandering away in
a confused state. She was found after eleven nights in
freezing conditions. She had a little bit of food and
(26:18):
the water she got was from the rain and from
puddles and so forth. But she was found limping and
barefoot by a farmer about thirty k's from her car.
Now what she's done is thanked her rescuers.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Of course, a.
Speaker 13 (26:30):
Lot of people were looking for her, and she's written,
I am simply grateful to have survived. She's called her rescuer,
her angel. She was absolutely ravaged by mosquitos apparently as well.
But we have heard from a bush survival expert, Kelly Jackson,
who said that there's a number one rule, stay with
your car, but a lot of people don't do that
(26:52):
because they're go into shock and they do.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Act rationally, so that possibly what is what happened with you.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You can't walk out in the car has a roof
and that's quite handy and the burning out back. Now,
some bloke brought a gun to the football at the MCG.
Speaker 13 (27:08):
Yes, the twenty seven year old man has been sentenced
to twenty one months in prison for carrying a firearm
into the g early this year. His name is Mohammad Nouri.
Pleaded guilty to dozens of firearms and motor vehicle offenses
and the court was told he carried this loaded, unregistered
gun with an altered serial number into the stadium during
(27:29):
an AFL match. You know how footy mad we are.
It was between Collingwood and Carlton. Don't know if that
means anything to you, but eighty two thousand fans were
at the footy at the time and so we know
now that security systems at the sporting ground, yes, they
have been upgraded. He will serve twenty one months and
twelve months non parole.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I certainly know Collingwood. I was cursed with going on
the Ottaga rail trail with a bunch of tourists from
Australia who were all Collingwood supporters, and boy did I
get it in the ear all weekend long. And then
there's a big argument about what's better rugby or Australian football.
With it, there we go, hey Donald, Oh.
Speaker 13 (28:07):
That's a perennial argument, will never ever.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Go away, Donna. I thank you very much, Donna. Donald
to my out of Australia. Now on US news on
Ukraine and NATO, Donald Trump, after overnight has confirmed that
he has agreed to send weapons to Ukraine. And it's
quite an amazing piece of audio because he both surprised
that the United States makes the greatest military equipment in
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the world. So the new equipment will be made for
NATO and NATO will have to pay for it and
then available to be sent onwards to Ukraine. Donald strikes
a deal, does he not? Meanwhile, of course he's promised
a harsh tariff regime for Russia if Putin doesn't end
the war within fifty days, one hundred percent tariffs. I
think Trump's finally realizing that that Vladimi is not as mate.
(28:53):
It is ten after six. It's news talksb Now. The
big news today is the inflation's coming back. Grocery supplies,
their supplies two supermarkets have increased by two point one
percent in June. Okay, so that's just up a little bit,
but it was going down, so it's starting to go up,
(29:13):
So it's increased slightly. It reflects underlying increases to a
number of key items. Higher international food and export prices
for items like dairy products are contributing to domestic costs.
So the big thing here, frozen costs rows two percent
are from point six, driven by higher pastry and dessert costs,
and that is all related to the higher dairy costs.
(29:36):
And higher dairy is really at the core of a
lot of what is happening in our supermarkets. They push
up the costs of chilled foods. We're talking about a
four point three percent average annual increase.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
There.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
A number of produce items including cabbage, mandarins, and grapes
were higher in June belt that is seasonal, but then
again you got chocolate. Chocolate's going through the roof. Noodle
Noodle's got higher in June as well, and all of
this comes together to make our food shopping two point
one percent higher. And most gallingly, it's higher because of
(30:08):
one of the very very products that we make ourselves, dairy,
and that's because of higher international prices. Good for the farmers,
not good for anyone going to the supermarket, so we'll
have more coverage of the grocery supplier index as the
day goes on. Right here on News TALKSB it is
now coming up eight minutes to six.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Andrew Dickens and x full
Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
This winter News Talks in me they're going to text
through here that says all this Wellington mayor or Shenanigans
is making Andrew Little look fantastic. Andrew the man whose
weakness gave us to cinder Adourn took about out of
the frying padded into the fire. Now, yeah, I get
your point. And here's the point about Andrew Little. He
is actually an experienced politician and he knows how to
play the game. Ray Chung is not an experienced politician,
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and he doesn't know how to play the game. The
email went a bit too far, far enough that the
Prime Minister decided to call it vile. So Little ends
out looking good because he's barely proficient compared to everybody
else in the race who appeared to be clowns. But anyway,
the one thing about it is. It's good entertainment. Now
joining me is hither to per se Allen, just looking
(31:20):
at your schedule for your show today, and you're talking
to Andrew Hoare, who is the CEO of the Blues,
And am I right in saying here that they're talking
possibly about moving from eden Park to Mount Smart?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Do you go to the Blues at Mount Smart? At
Eden Park?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I used to, but I don't anymore because I'm off
Rugby and it's on the telly.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah, why are you off Rugby?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Oh no no, I was off live Rugby because it
was cold and wet and you had to travel there.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
And Mount Smart is not going to change a single fing.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
No, no, no, not at all. However, there's something about
Mount Smart. There's a magic about Mount Smart right now,
which was seen with orkand FC, We're seen it with
the Warriors. It's a twenty five to thirty thousand seater.
It can look full, it looks like it's got an
atmosph and it's got one big area where they put
slides and pubs and bars and it looks like fun,
whereas Eden Park looks like a big concrete bob. But
I love Eating Park. I love it. I love it
for concerts, I love it for tests. I love Eating Park.
(32:11):
It's actually a fine facility. Yeah, I mean, Sound Smart
is so crappy. So why is everybody leaving the Rolls
Royce to go and travel in the Toyota Corolla.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
I mean it's a very you ask a very good question,
and I just wonder. I wonder if actually what we
ought to be doing as a city, like there doesn't
seem to be proper coordination between you know, over things
like stadia. We've got a bunch of stadium Why don't
you make Mount Small. Oh, this is what I would do.
I'm not an expert. I would make Mount Smart the
stadium that does all the kind of cruddy stuff, right,
you do all the regular season stuff, Just do the
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normal games, and then you make make Eden Park the
glory place. You go there for the playoffs, you go
there to the finals. You have them in the concerts.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
The Warriors have disproved that because every time they go
to Eden Park they don't get the same sorts of
crowds that they get at Mount Smart.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And the other thing is Mount Smart. Mount Smart zonned
by the people of Auckland, and that's in the City
Winding Park is owned by a trust that's actually a
private enterprise, that's our own thing. So in a way,
the rate payers would be going, oh hurrah, Yeah, we're
actually using the stuff that we've paid for. Meanwhile, North
Harbor Stadium is sitting in Albany not being used for anything.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Totally. We're going to talk about this on the show. Actually,
as you say, we're going to talk to Andrew Krorr
about it closer to eight o'clock. But also the NCAA.
Do you see the NCAA results have come through on
the pass rates for the exams. This is the corequisite.
You have to pass the corequisite to get your NCAA qualification.
I am shocked at how few kids can read and
write at year ten. I mean, I think it was
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the reading. It was like fifty five percent pass rate.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I can tell you, I can I can tell.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
You forty five percent failure rate.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I know, people were saying we're doing so well. Fifty
seven percent of students achieved maths.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Wahoo.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Yes, that's up from forty five, but it's still fifty seven. Yeah,
forty didn't sixty one pass reading? I should hope, so
up from fifty eight and meanwhile writing and changed at
fifty five.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
I mean, Jesu's a slog like, if this is the
increase from year to year, it's going to take us
a very long time to get like eighty five.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
A woman earlier in the program, so reading, writing, arithmetic,
you know, how come suddenly this revelation that everybody has
the same way of learning it, and they go, oh, well,
I don't know. Hey, thank you, I'm back tomorrow. Enjoy
your day.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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