September 7, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Monday 8th of September 2025, The Government's patting itself of it's back for new data showing it’s smashed elective surgery targets, Health Minister Simeon Brown gives an update on surgery wait times.
Former Labour leader Stuart Nash makes his pitch for becoming a NZ first MP.
Andrew Alderson has the latest on the weekend's sport.
Plus UK/Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey has the latest on UK police arresting thousands at an ongoing demonstration against the government's ban of the campaign group Palestine Action.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
earlier show with One roof Love where you Live news Talks,
there'd be.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, Welcome to your Monday. Stuart Nash on the
New Zealand first Conference at the weekend. He's with us.
We're in London. Mass arrests over Gaza, the blackburns of
Thumped Ireland, and Simon Brown has an update on surgeries
for us this morning and it's pretty good news. The
agenda Monday, the eight of September, great had your company.
Russia's biggest air attack on Ukraine since the war began,
(00:30):
eight hundred drones and they've hit the Cabinet Minister's offices
in Kiev.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We've been talking to residents here who were also at
home also as sleep when the blasts suddenly came, very
rapidly and quick succession. Several blasts. People didn't have time.
They told me to get down.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
To the shelter.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
To London. Cops have arrested nine hundred Palestinian protesters. This
is over the Palestine Action Group. You'll know that Starmer
made them a terror group back in July.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
People turned up with empty placards and big fat felt pens.
And then wrote words in support of Palestine action or
on the stroke of a clock. And then, of course
the police, who'd already warned them that this would be
effectively breaking the terrorism laws, then moved in to arrest
them on masts. So a big, big operation for the
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METS used twelve hundred officers to arrest eight hundred plus people.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
This big unicular crash and Lisbon on Friday. Investigators say
a cable snapped, They tried to hit the brakes that
didn't work.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The statement also said the carriage was traveling at about
thirty seven miles per hour when it hit the building,
but the investigators said no valid conclusions have yet been reached.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and One roof Love, where you Live News Talks,
it'd be good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good to be back with you, and some inconvenient truths
for your Monday morning about the prime of groceries. I
was in Australia last week and which everybody loves to
talk about. Oh Man, so much cheaper over there, and
I kept an eye on the news from New Zealand
while I was away. Breathless articles you would have seen
them about the cost of groceries, and no doubt it's expensive.
But one said that your average family of four pays
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fourteen thousand dollars a year on groceries in Australia, while
we pay twenty four thousand dollars, and you think that's outrageous.
I put that to some Australians. They laughed at the
fourteen thousand dollars figure. No way that is accurate. No
mention in the headline either that we pay fifteen percent
GST on our groceries and Australians don't, nor does Ireland
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or the UK. By the way, I was while I
was there, bought two hundred and fifty grams of butter
because you don't need much when you're on holiday, but
you do need a bit. That was four Australian dollars.
At Woolworths. You can get five hundred grams for seven
dollars fifty New Zealand a pack and safe. So it
just depends where your shop, doesn't it. Another thing they
don't talk about we pay. This is from the latest
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Commerce Commission report. We pay three percent more than the
OECD average for groceries. Three percent. Now, if we were
to take three percent off the cost. Would everyone be happy, No,
we wouldn't. We live at the bottom of the world.
For goodnessakes, We're on two long islands with five million people.
Our land mass is bigger than the UK they have
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a population seventy million. It costs money to transport goods.
We have green tape, we have red tape. We've outlawed
cheap battery cage eggs. Remember that for environmental reasons. You
can't have your cake and eat it too. There's no doubt.
Don't get me wrong. Competition is needed in the grocery sector,
and we'll talk about that more later on the show
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this week. Planning, consenting competition regulations. They are all being
given the tweak, been given a tune up. But don't
for a second that we can think we can shave
ten twenty thirty percent off the cost of a shop.
It's delusional. It's a sort of stuff pedal by desperate
politicians who don't know really how to crank economic growth.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Is government's Ryan Bridge just.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
One five to ten. Has anyone seen the blood moon yet?
Big who are made about this yesterday? Apparently the best
time to view it will be when Mike's here at
six eleven am. But it started at three point thirty,
so you should have a little partial creep over your
moon at the moment by five thirty am, So in
twenty minutes time, it'll be a total eclipse. Nine two
nine two the number to text. Good to be back
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with you. We'll get to Sime and Brown.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Next, news and views you trust to start your day.
It's early ediship with Ryan Bridge and one roofe love
where you live news talks.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That'd be five twelve. Iran says is ready to do
a deal. This is months now after Trump sent those
stealth bombers to unload on the nuclear sites. Foreign minister says,
if you lift the sanctions, please lift the sanctions. If
you do that, we will allow monitoring of our nuclear program. Basically,
you can get guys in there to watch the uranium
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enrichment happen and then report back to the UN. Now,
this is all happening because more UN sanctions are going
to kick in at the end of the month. So
is this just a tactic from them? Like Putin? They
are trying to and hoping that Europe will splinter from
the US and they'll be able to divide and conquer
its just as a tactic from them. We'll have to
wait and see, but certainly they are keen to avoid
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more sanctions. Thirteen after five Ryan to Andrew Orlison on
one and black Fern's results overnight. Shortly first, the government's
panning itself on the back for new data showing it
smashed its elective surgery targets. Sixteen thousand procedures were done
in June by June thirty, I should say that is
far above the ten and a half thousand that they promised.
It includes more than five thousand cataracts, six hundred and
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thirty eight hips, and seven hundred and fifty one new knees.
Simon Brown is the Health Minister with us this morning. Minister,
good morning, good morning. So yeah, you're ahead of target.
What does it mean for your overall elective surgery target?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Well, overall, too many key are still waiting too long.
Those are the number of people waiting on those wait
lists grew significantly in recent years and so the elective
boost is designed to reduce those targets. Over All, though
we've seen a nine percent reduction in the overall number
of people waiting and an importantly a twenty two percent
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reduction in the number of people waiting more than four months,
and that's where we're really putting the effort into try
and make sure people can get seen in a more
timely manner. And that's where this outsourcing arrangements of private
hospitals has been able to help support get those people
who have been waiting too long getting them seen sooner
so we can reduce those weightless.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So the target's ninety five percent of patients within four
months by twenty thirty. What are you at now, correct?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So we're still a long way from that target. So
ninety five percent of patient's being seen within four months
by twenty thirty. This puts us on track to meet
this year's milestone of sixty three percent. So, as I
said at the start, too many people still waiting too long,
and that's why we've sent another target for this year
of twenty one thousand additional surgeries this year to continue
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making progress so against those targets.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So what was sixty three percent now? Is that what
you're saying, correct? And what was it when you came in, Well.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
It dropped down to the Well Unfortunately, the list kept
growing until about the beginning of this year, so it
dropped down to about fifty eight percent, and so this
has helped us to be able to catch up, but
we need to make we need to make significant progress
in order to give keys that confidence that elective surgeries
can be delivered in a timely manner. And that's why
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we're partnering with private hospitals and making sure we're maximizing
what's delivered across both public hospitals and private hospitals so
that keys can get the treatment. And as I say,
I don't think many people really care who's delivering it.
They just want I.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Don't think so either. I think you're right on that,
But the question couldn't get done. The question has been
around the private versus public pulling, you know, the private
pulling resources from the public. Has the public kept up
its selective surgery rates? So are they dropping as the
private picks up the slack?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Now what we're seeing is we're seeing is additional surgery
is being delivered by making sure we're maximizing what's being delivered.
So we're a huge focused internally as well around making
sure we're maximizing theater rates sat a utilization, making sure
those surgeries are being done internally as well as making
sure we're outsourcing and maximizing what's being delivered, so the
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r the same.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Are they doing the same or more surgeries in public
as they were previously pre private outsourcing.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Well, they're continuing to deliver what they planned within the
public system. This is about making sure we're delivering more
by utilizing our private hospitals. But also some of the
investment we're making is actually into some of Health New
Zealand's own surgical elective surgical hospitals as well. So Health
New Zealand has some of its own dedicated surgical hospitals
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which aren't competing with its acute work. They've got two
in Auckland, they've got a hom I do on the
North Shore. They've got the Manicow Health Park. It's also
Burward Hospital in christ Church. As some of those investments,
you're going also into our own surgical hospitals to expand
what they can deliver, which are dedicated to getting as
much elector surgery done through the public system as well.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
SimMan Brown, I appreciate your time this morning, Health Minister.
Sixty three percent targets ninety percent. There's still a way
to go, though they've given themselves a few years to
get there. It is five seventeen on News Talk ZEBB.
Lisa is Ryan. It's turning Red. Lee's from the Why
can I River, beautiful river, grew up swimming in that
turning red. The moon in why can I on the
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Covery Coast this morning, So finally this blood moon thing's happening.
Eighteen minutes after five News Talks ZB we'll get to
Sport with Andrew, next.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The news you Need this morning and the in depth
analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
Where You Live.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
News Talks EDB NEWSTALK'SZBB. It is five twenty high run.
I went to my local New World yesterday a leg
of Lamb eighty one dollars last Sunday was seventy one
dollars this week, says Tony. So there you go. Are
we going to thank Nicola Willis for that? You're on
his talks? He'd be Andrew Orlison's here was support Andrew.
Good morning, Gretting's Ryan Jesus has a lot to get through,
(10:14):
So let's start with the All Blacks water performance.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Yes, yes, convincing and lived up to the narrative. Really
didn't it? Well done? And yeah, it just it was
taking us along, taking us for quite a ride. And
in the spring.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Box, well I thought they were. They were a bit less.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Disciplined and there's a few more errors than perhaps usual and.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Probably rattled by the All Blacks.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
And yeah, there's some powerful displays at Artie Savira among
them for that New Zealand side and keeping the the
Eden Park legacy alive.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It was quite funny watching Razor in the box just
trying to contain himself. He sort of let himself go
a little bit and passionate. There was that, Yeah, there was. Yeah,
that's great and that bodes well.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
I mean just even if you look at the wider
context the rugby championship now, I mean Rugby needed that
exhibition is as a I suppose, and Jack's really for
the game at the present time. But the wall of
the is against Argentina as well, so it's shaping up
probably the tightest rugby championship at least in recent memory.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, everyone's getting when everyone's getting a lost kind of thing. Yeah,
it's that they've totally improved the game by speeding it
our pay you know, it just night and day. It
looks much better. Yeah, Yeah, black Ferns thumping Island last.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Year speaking of I mean, that's that's convincing. Forty nierl
given that, well, I think Ireland had beaten New Zealand twice.
He's beaten them once in the past, Ireland beating them
even last year. But New Zealand has turned there around.
Peaking at the right time would seem at the World
Cup in Brighton today. And yeah, just even to try
at the end from Maya Joseph, just length of the fields,
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I think it must have gone through five or six
sets of hands in New Zealand, just looking really really
polished at the stage and getting that top seeding into
the quarters.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I love the black Ferns. I love the characters in
the black Ferns and the characters the black Ferns have produced.
But being honest, is it great watching when you've got
such massive point differentials.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I don't think it's been a great advertisement so far. No,
although just having seen some of the I haven't seen
the whole game of sporting, seen some of the highlights
New Zealand. I mean their defense alone was pretty powerful
to be able to keep Ireland to score us across
the game. But yeah, I think from now on is
really the business end of the competition and hopefully we'll
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see I guess better contests in those games.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Update on F one for US this morning.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Yeah, not so good for Liam Lawson the strategy, I mean,
he had to be was forced to the back of
the grid anyway, going on softer tires, so he's finished
in fifteenth. Teammate Isaac Hadger getting a point max with
Starpan for Red Bull getting the winning or getting the
top of the podium with the lader Norris in second
and Oscar Piastri in the third for McLaren and McLaren
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still leading the way in the constructors and getting two
places on the podium. But good for RedBull to be
able to get that victory for Starvan.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Nice one, Andrew. Good to see you. Andrew Ordison a
sports right of course. Update US at five thirty and
six and throughout the morning. It is five twenty three
here on News Talk MB. Just something I wanted to
bring to your attention. This is from Friday, so after
the show would have come off here, although I wasn't
actually here. Odds are on now for a FED rate
cut in September. It was tending that way but it's
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now almost a certainty according to the markets. Twenty five
points they reckon, plus they'll get another one by Christmas.
The August job numbers, so they were forecasting to add
seventy five thousand for August, they actually only added twenty
two thousand, So jobs numbers not good, well below forecast.
Total jobs added for May, June, July, and August of
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this year were the same as was added in just
August last year. And it gets worse. Manufacturing jobs there
fell twelve thousand in August. Now all of this stuff
has an impact on us of course, exchange rate, you know,
inflation keeping that intation inflation beast tamed. They're currently at
two point seven percent over there, and they are tipped
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to hit three by Christmas. So will this help tip
it further if they cut twenty four after which is
not a certainty, but markets are pricing in it is
five point twenty four News TALKSVB the early edition.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
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Speaker 2 (14:19):
Talks v News Talks HEIRB five twenty six. As you know,
I've been saying for some time this election is Nationals
to lose, the economy will pick up and government's only
two years in kiwis like to give incumbents the benefit
of the doubt, and I still think this holds true.
But as we've been reporting since April, Trump's tariffs, which
took everybody, including the markets by surprise, making a bear
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of a bull, hammered consumer confidence just as we were
showing signs of those early green shoots that the pundits
loved talking about. This has shortened Luxeon's window for a
real economic recovery, which is the platform he's relying on
for reelection. Right. Talk of a leadership coup yet again
by Christmas is in my view completely daft. Any national
(15:03):
MP who thinks they can outpoll Luxon in the current
climate's got to be dreaming a short term bump maybe,
but there are political costs, namely instability. Remember Muller. Then
this newly elected leader has to go cap in hand
to Winston and David and no doubt relitigate all in
Sundry just after the latter began firing up for a showdown.
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Winston and Shamer in full flight at the weekend, you
would have seen that It's only September twenty twenty five.
Timing is everything and That is Luckson's card to play.
In twelve months from now, the country will likely feel
a much different place to live, and that means a
later election. If the Nats are smart, they'll stick with
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the devil they know and wait for brighter days ahead.
The risks outweigh the benefits at this point in the cycle.
If needs be, a transition can happen in pretty short order.
Just ask just in the Redoon Brian Bridge. It is
five twenty eight. How's that blood moon looking? Another update
from Lisa is truly amazing. Now, Greta Thunberg, she's on
(16:10):
another mission. She's on another adventure with her friends, this
time back to trying to get back to Gaza with
another floatiller. And there is potentially a meeting happening between
Starma and the Israeli president over the in the coming days,
though Number ten is not confirming anything and his MPs
are saying, don't meet with the Israelis, don't meet with them,
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and Number ten saying, well, we might, but we might not.
We're not sure anyway. This is what she's saying to Starma.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
These governments, these people in power, have a legal duty
to act to prevent a genocide. And specifically to this case,
the international arrestaurant that has been issued for Nathaniel. The
countries then have a legal responsibility to arrest him, which
is not our personal opinion in langon international law.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
There you go. I was also going to give you,
potentially give you a justinder a durn hot take today,
but I thought it's too much, Gretta and just send
it all on one show. Nope, can't do that. Twenty
nine after five, News Talks said, B We're in London
more on those protests and Stuart Nash. Before six.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you live.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
News Talk said, be well, I love you, good morning.
It is twenty four away from six on News Talks said, B,
We'll get to London shortly. We're one thousand protests, protests
have been arrested. Stuart Nash, this New Zealand first conference.
Business is an interesting question. He's with us just before six.
It's an interesting question. Jan, Sorry, John is this emailed
(18:00):
to say Ryan. The main thing I remember about Stuart
Nash is that he endorsed usinta or doing every chance
he could get, And so the question that I really
want to ask Stuart Nash this morning is what is
his understanding of Winston ruling out Labor? Is it just
if Chris Hipkins is in charge? Is he the guy
that's going to be the bridge between New Zealand first
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and Labor? Could Winston do it again and go with
Labor even though he indicated he wouldn't. Is is it
conditional on Chippy being in charge? Can you trust him
if you don't want a left lot in power? That's
the question this morning. It is twenty three to six.
Interesting note from Kelly Ecole. This is at Westpac over
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the weekend. He says that whoever the new Reserve Bank
governor isn't. Apparently they've had strong interest. Whoever it is,
they should change a couple of things. One is front
of house, have more press conferences, make the Monetary Policy
Committee votes public, and hold an extra meeting every year.
Now those will sound like pretty sensible things given where
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the Reserve Bank has been in the last few years,
but he also suggests that you know because at the
moment their remit is one to three percent, with a
goal of two percent, so the midpoint, he says that
needs to change. The Aussies target two to three percent.
Our average over the last twenty five years is two
point six percent. It's been above or below two percent,
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which remember is our goal fifty percent of that time.
So be realistic, he says, allow more relief. This would
give you a greater propensity to lower rates and people
go out and spend and fix the economic mess. That
sort of thing. This is a job for the Minister
of Finance setting that rate, which can be done relatively easily.
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The only question though, is if you say two point
five percent, do they drift to three given that at
two percent we've drifted to two point six. Ryan Bridge,
go to our reporters around the country, Color, Proctor and
darned this morning. Color, good morning, morning. Right, you've got
an update on this prominent sportsman on trial in Dunedin. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Look, this high profile figure is accused of causing thirteen
rib fractures and a broken collar bone to an infant in.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
July twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
His defense says the man would never risk a child's
safety and insists the baby could have been hurt through
a severe vitamin D deficiency or an underlying bone fragility.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
The court heard both the Crown.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
And defense's closing arguments on Friday, and Judge David Robinson
is set to sum up the case today before it's
in the hands of the jury. The man's pleaded not
guilty to these charges of injuring with reckless disregard and assault.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
How's your weather?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Frosty, foggy start, Ryan for us, But a fine day today,
strong northerly this afternoon, the high fourteenth, Nice one, Thank you,
Clais and christ this morning.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Claire, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hey. Mobile emergency alerts we know about them from the tsunamis,
but more could be used for missing persons cases.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
Yeah, well, there certainly seems to be a case for that, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
This week.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
Actually, four years ago, eighty five year old Shirley Warrington
went missing from christ Church. Despite a huge, large scale search,
her body was only found eight weeks later. Now it's
believed that a mobile emergency alert, which was successfully used
to find a missing elderly woman here earlier this year,
could have helped to find Shirley. Newstalk Seedb's requested some
(21:26):
data from NIMA which shows that the system has only
been used five times for missing persons since it was
established in twenty seventeen, Shirley Warrington's granddaughter Alisha Hoffman says
social media was very helpful as they looked for her grandmother,
but it did take a while for people to be
able to sort of spread the word. She says, sending
a mobile alert would have meant people could have gone
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out searching quicker.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I think it's I don't have to really have
a problem with it because it would only be a
specific area you can target, as well as sal sites.
How's the weather clear? Fine?
Speaker 11 (21:56):
A little bit prosty here as well. Southwesterly should turn
northeaster bit nighter and twelve degrees.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
All right, thank you, Mix and Wellington Homes, Good morning.
You got a tunnel update. Well, a bit of secrecy
about the tunnel.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Yeah, that's what the story says. This is a story
from our newsroom. Seven million dollars apparently spent so far
on consultants and contractors working on these two new tunnels
in the central Wellington, the Mount Vick Option, the second
Terrorist Tunnel. But what exactly that money is going toward.
We're not too sure. A lot of information being withheld
for now. What is in the back of everyone's minds
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is the government's commitment to stunning construction on that Mountvick
tunnel before next year's election seven million dollars. Chris Bishop
calls it a drop in the bucket ultimately, and he
says be patient. The Transport Agency and the Government will
announce more in due course once the agency's board looks
at these investment cases specialist expertise. He calls the consultants
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spent labor adamant that this is shaping as a broken promise.
Perhaps too early to say that though the suburba Victoria
getting a little frustrated. No one knows what's going on anything. Obviously,
a majority of probably against a massive construction project currently
that traffic skirts around Mount vic Two point two billion
in total is the price tag, but it might be
difficult to stay under that.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I think it will be two. How's your weather?
Speaker 12 (23:14):
Some early showers clearing to find southerlyast twelve the hay
and Neiva's in the studio.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Good morning, the morning, Welcome bed.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Look at you. This is the first time I've laid
eyes on you today, and you are so brown. You're
browner than me.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Look at you.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Top button has undone and your chest is becauseron is
your face.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Only because id it to show you? Neva? I know
you love a hearing chest.
Speaker 14 (23:37):
I do.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
So where have you been?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I was over in Australia.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Oh my, well you deceive that break.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Oh man, it's good to sleep. Yes, hey, Penny Henadi.
Three thousand votes. Sure it's a by election, Sure it's
a moldy electric but three thousand votes that's like local
government territory.
Speaker 13 (23:54):
Look, I tell you, I mean, this is what's happening
here now. Like Lara Griefs, she's come out swinging. She
said she's the Victoria University political scientist. She said, look,
it's important not to extrapolate too far from just this
one race, because she said, look, the center left it's struggling,
you know, like around the world. So she reckons it
a change of technics, maybe on the cards.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You know.
Speaker 13 (24:17):
She's also saying that the young voters and Tamaki Makoto,
they're probably looking for more radical policies.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So yeah, which, let's remember, is exactly what I said
would happen.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Oh you're always oh you had to get that one
and didn't you.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But it's interesting. Yeah. It's hard though for Penny because
he also had no policies because Slavery's got this policy
of no policies. So you've got a guy out there
talking about nothing. Yeah, you know, it's it's a hard.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
And I think for ordinary kipitter as well, you know,
like the it's the young voters, young Mardy you know there.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And social media is working so exactly. Hey, how's that weather?
Speaker 13 (24:52):
I was going to say, how's that blood moon?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Have you seen?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're not?
Speaker 13 (24:55):
Said, well, I mean it's a bit cloudy. I mean
I've been listening overnight to the call c B. So
in other parts of the country they could see it.
I think you can see it here in Auckland, but
as you well know, here it enzed me. I've been
running around now we don't have any windows, so I've
gone from one end of the newsroom say no, no,
the blood moons over the side, Neva. So I still
can't see it. I think I saw a slither slither
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slither Ryan.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah. Lots of people saying it's now fully dark, bring
on the sunlight. Oh okay, so maybe yeah, maybe that's
the way you can't see. Thank you, sixteen to six
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
International correspondent with Endsit Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind for
New Zealand business Stewart Nash.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Next. First, almost one thousand arrested demonstrations in London. Gavin Gray,
a UK correspondent, Gavin what for.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Ryan?
Speaker 15 (26:51):
This is all for showing support for a group called
Palestine Action because the government prescribed them, in other words,
identified the more category them as a terrorist group and
showing support for or being a member of Palestine Action
can mean you spend fourteen years in jail because it
comes under terrorism law. The police there said that overall
(27:14):
twenty thousand people took part in different gatherings in support
of Gaza and Palestine. However, of that this group, Palestine Action,
about one and a half thousand people took part in
their march simply holding up sains saying I support Palestine
Action and also warning of course of the action within
(27:36):
Gaza itself. Now, the problem is that of those eight
hundred and ninety arrests, police said this time there was
intolerable abuse, as they're calling it. They say there were
punch kicks, spat on and had objects thrown at them.
The organizers of that march said that did not happen.
They're disagreeing with the police. But twenty five well, the
(27:56):
figures of varying a bit actually run, but roughly twenty
people were arrested for assaults on police, and police are
saying that these weekly marches are simply getting out of control.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, it sounds like a two Gavin, thank you for that.
Kevin Gray are UK correspondent. It is eleven away.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
From six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
A few things came out of the New Zealand first
Annual meeting at the weekend. Winston wants Kiwi Savia contributions
at ten percent funded by tax cuts. No detail on that.
Also on the wish list they want new migrants to
sign a value statement. Stuart Nash, formal Labor Cabinet minister,
was there. He was speaking. He's with us now. Good morning, Brian,
how are you? Good morning? Very good, thank you.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
The text machines lit up when I mentioned you were
coming on the show. I just wants to get back
into Parliament. He's desperate and we can't trust Winston not
to go with labor again. Are you the bridge that's
going to connect the two.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
Oh god, I don't know about that, but you know
all the stuff that that can't wait to get back
into palm in these desk, but people tend to forget that. Well,
if they even you in the first place, then if
you're a cabinet minister and only get into Parliment to
be cabinet minister, because it's how effect changed. It's eighty
to one hundred hours a week continuous, that includes you know,
that's seven days a week. It's not a job for
the faint heart. And you lose contact with your mates,
(29:06):
and you know, you don't see much time with your family.
So you know, I'm not I want to pay a
sub story here, but I do want to say, you know,
I've got a business I've started. I'm really enjoying it.
I'm loving the fact that I can go ahead and
beer with my mates and not have some clown with
a cell phone take a photo of them and put
it up on social media. So the reason if I
get back in department, the reason I am is just
(29:27):
un finished business. I think the stuff that needs to
be done to make this country better than it is,
and you know, and the opportunity to do that exists are.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
You actually have you officially have you put a submission
in to be you know, is there an official consideration
actually happening.
Speaker 14 (29:44):
No, it's with every party. There's a nomination process. They
haven't open with the Jilm First yet, so you know
there's a process to go through. Obviously, by attending in
Gilm first conference, I said the pretty clear message that
that's when my politics live these days. And if I
have to go back into part but that's it would be.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
What is your understanding of Winston ruling out working with labor?
Is it just on the chippy?
Speaker 14 (30:06):
Well, he my understands he's never actually ruled out working
with labor. He's ruled out working with Hipkins, and so
you know it presents an instant dilemma for Labor if
they end up with say thirty six percent and zero
Thirsty end up with sixteen. But you know that's obviously
a discussion way above my pay grade. I mean, I'm
not even one.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But such an important question, isn't it? Because the right
felt they were completely dicked over by Winston Peters when
he went with just Sinda return.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
Well, again, that's that's a question you'll have to put
to Winston The bottom line is is that there's a
lot of water going to the bridge. I think there's
a whole lot of people on the left or no,
not the left or the center, which is where my
politics sort of stands. That they look at the party
marriage they're just a protest movement. They really are. You
look at the Greens and what Chloe wants to do,
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you know, Hipkins, Hipkinsesster come out and say, you know,
show some balls and say, okay, am I going to
rule out working putting a capital gains text? And am
I going to rule out putting a wealth text? In
Chloe wants to increase the text rate for corporates at
a point in time when our economy needs priming, not stifling.
There's a whole lot of questions that hip contested will
answer question for voters before anyone would I think even
(31:20):
consider the left. But again that's a decision for Winston.
There's a lot of water to go onto the bridge
at that point.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
To Stuet, appreciate your times. Stuart Nash, Formal Labor Cabinet,
mister potential future in New Zealand First Minister. Time is
eight minutes away from sex Ryan. The blood moon is
a fizz. This is from Hillsborough. Blood moon is a fizz. Yeah,
but it's an eclipse, isn't it? So it does go
dark at some point. Mike's next get ahead of the
headlines on an early edition with.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Ryan Bridge and one roof love.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Where you live, News Talks B, two powerball players. You're
on news Talks THEREB in Missouri and Texas have one
wait for it, three billion New Zealand dollars. This is
a lottery jack and I was over in Australia last
week and got a seven of them. I think it
was eighty million dollars. Was their Thursday draw anyway, didn't win.
Mike's here now, Good morning Mike. You went and bought
(32:10):
a ticket. I did. Four people won, so it was
eighty million. Four people won twenty million each.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Right, that's a massive once you play for your ticket.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I think it was twenty five.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Australian dollars, so about eighty seven New Zealand dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So yes, but I saw eighty million dollar Thursday draw
and how can you walk past that?
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And then I went, actually, you'll love this, Mike. I
went online last night and looked at the website to
see whether i'd won, because I thought, if I do it,
if I went, I don't have to go to work tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
Would you not?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
No? I would? I would because I loved doing this
job for things other than money.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
But I see that doesn't come across as credible.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And it is credible. But I anyway, I was looking
at it. And you can actually buy tickets to the
Australian Lottery from New Zealand. You did, so.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
Why are you going to buy some?
Speaker 14 (33:00):
Now?
Speaker 13 (33:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But why would you bother with New Zealand's pitarly one
million a week?
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Or it's a fair point. Did you pick your own numbers?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
No? Which I think we just got random? Yeah, random
they pick.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Do you regret it now?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I do? Yes.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
So you spent a lot of money, You're lost and
you should have done it differently.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Came home unhappy.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Un least you came home and the flight flight was
on time?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, flight was.
Speaker 10 (33:23):
The airport is an experience.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Aukland Airport is a work in progress as always. But no,
actually generally you're pretty good. There's a lot of construction
still happening obviously, so it's halfway house.
Speaker 10 (33:37):
I suppose at this point I say something like we
missed you. Well, is that what you're supposed to say? Well, no,
you don't have again. Disingenuous. Christopher Laxen is with us
a smoke and we've got razor on because after you know,
you've got to celebrate that, don't you That rugby of old,
wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Great? Results? All right? Looking forward to Mike next see
them I over run have a great day.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
to Newstalk SETB from five am weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
earlier show with One roof Love where you Live news Talks,
there'd be.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, Welcome to your Monday. Stuart Nash on the
New Zealand first Conference at the weekend. He's with us.
We're in London. Mass arrests over Gaza, the blackburns of
Thumped Ireland, and Simon Brown has an update on surgeries
for us this morning and it's pretty good news. The
agenda Monday, the eight of September, great had your company.
Russia's biggest air attack on Ukraine since the war began,
(00:30):
eight hundred drones and they've hit the Cabinet Minister's offices
in Kiev.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We've been talking to residents here who were also at
home also as sleep when the blasts suddenly came, very
rapidly and quick succession. Several blasts. People didn't have time.
They told me to get down.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
To the shelter.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
To London. Cops have arrested nine hundred Palestinian protesters. This
is over the Palestine Action Group. You'll know that Starmer
made them a terror group back in July.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
People turned up with empty placards and big fat felt pens.
And then wrote words in support of Palestine action or
on the stroke of a clock. And then, of course
the police, who'd already warned them that this would be
effectively breaking the terrorism laws, then moved in to arrest
them on masts. So a big, big operation for the
(01:19):
METS used twelve hundred officers to arrest eight hundred plus people.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
This big unicular crash and Lisbon on Friday. Investigators say
a cable snapped, They tried to hit the brakes that
didn't work.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
The statement also said the carriage was traveling at about
thirty seven miles per hour when it hit the building,
but the investigators said no valid conclusions have yet been reached.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and One roof Love, where you Live News Talks,
it'd be good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Good to be back with you, and some inconvenient truths
for your Monday morning about the prime of groceries. I
was in Australia last week and which everybody loves to
talk about. Oh Man, so much cheaper over there, and
I kept an eye on the news from New Zealand
while I was away. Breathless articles you would have seen
them about the cost of groceries, and no doubt it's expensive.
But one said that your average family of four pays
(02:17):
fourteen thousand dollars a year on groceries in Australia, while
we pay twenty four thousand dollars, and you think that's outrageous.
I put that to some Australians. They laughed at the
fourteen thousand dollars figure. No way that is accurate. No
mention in the headline either that we pay fifteen percent
GST on our groceries and Australians don't, nor does Ireland
(02:38):
or the UK. By the way, I was while I
was there, bought two hundred and fifty grams of butter
because you don't need much when you're on holiday, but
you do need a bit. That was four Australian dollars.
At Woolworths. You can get five hundred grams for seven
dollars fifty New Zealand a pack and safe. So it
just depends where your shop, doesn't it. Another thing they
don't talk about we pay. This is from the latest
(03:01):
Commerce Commission report. We pay three percent more than the
OECD average for groceries. Three percent. Now, if we were
to take three percent off the cost. Would everyone be happy, No,
we wouldn't. We live at the bottom of the world.
For goodnessakes, We're on two long islands with five million people.
Our land mass is bigger than the UK they have
(03:21):
a population seventy million. It costs money to transport goods.
We have green tape, we have red tape. We've outlawed
cheap battery cage eggs. Remember that for environmental reasons. You
can't have your cake and eat it too. There's no doubt.
Don't get me wrong. Competition is needed in the grocery sector,
and we'll talk about that more later on the show
(03:42):
this week. Planning, consenting competition regulations. They are all being
given the tweak, been given a tune up. But don't
for a second that we can think we can shave
ten twenty thirty percent off the cost of a shop.
It's delusional. It's a sort of stuff pedal by desperate
politicians who don't know really how to crank economic growth.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Is government's Ryan Bridge just.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
One five to ten. Has anyone seen the blood moon yet?
Big who are made about this yesterday? Apparently the best
time to view it will be when Mike's here at
six eleven am. But it started at three point thirty,
so you should have a little partial creep over your
moon at the moment by five thirty am, So in
twenty minutes time, it'll be a total eclipse. Nine two
nine two the number to text. Good to be back
(04:26):
with you. We'll get to Sime and Brown.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Next, news and views you trust to start your day.
It's early ediship with Ryan Bridge and one roofe love
where you live news talks.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That'd be five twelve. Iran says is ready to do
a deal. This is months now after Trump sent those
stealth bombers to unload on the nuclear sites. Foreign minister says,
if you lift the sanctions, please lift the sanctions. If
you do that, we will allow monitoring of our nuclear program. Basically,
you can get guys in there to watch the uranium
(04:58):
enrichment happen and then report back to the UN. Now,
this is all happening because more UN sanctions are going
to kick in at the end of the month. So
is this just a tactic from them? Like Putin? They
are trying to and hoping that Europe will splinter from
the US and they'll be able to divide and conquer
its just as a tactic from them. We'll have to
wait and see, but certainly they are keen to avoid
(05:21):
more sanctions. Thirteen after five Ryan to Andrew Orlison on
one and black Fern's results overnight. Shortly first, the government's
panning itself on the back for new data showing it
smashed its elective surgery targets. Sixteen thousand procedures were done
in June by June thirty, I should say that is
far above the ten and a half thousand that they promised.
It includes more than five thousand cataracts, six hundred and
(05:43):
thirty eight hips, and seven hundred and fifty one new knees.
Simon Brown is the Health Minister with us this morning. Minister,
good morning, good morning. So yeah, you're ahead of target.
What does it mean for your overall elective surgery target?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Well, overall, too many key are still waiting too long.
Those are the number of people waiting on those wait
lists grew significantly in recent years and so the elective
boost is designed to reduce those targets. Over All, though
we've seen a nine percent reduction in the overall number
of people waiting and an importantly a twenty two percent
(06:18):
reduction in the number of people waiting more than four months,
and that's where we're really putting the effort into try
and make sure people can get seen in a more
timely manner. And that's where this outsourcing arrangements of private
hospitals has been able to help support get those people
who have been waiting too long getting them seen sooner
so we can reduce those weightless.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So the target's ninety five percent of patients within four
months by twenty thirty. What are you at now, correct?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So we're still a long way from that target. So
ninety five percent of patient's being seen within four months
by twenty thirty. This puts us on track to meet
this year's milestone of sixty three percent. So, as I
said at the start, too many people still waiting too long,
and that's why we've sent another target for this year
of twenty one thousand additional surgeries this year to continue
(07:04):
making progress so against those targets.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So what was sixty three percent now? Is that what
you're saying, correct? And what was it when you came in, Well.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
It dropped down to the Well Unfortunately, the list kept
growing until about the beginning of this year, so it
dropped down to about fifty eight percent, and so this
has helped us to be able to catch up, but
we need to make we need to make significant progress
in order to give keys that confidence that elective surgeries
can be delivered in a timely manner. And that's why
(07:34):
we're partnering with private hospitals and making sure we're maximizing
what's delivered across both public hospitals and private hospitals so
that keys can get the treatment. And as I say,
I don't think many people really care who's delivering it.
They just want I.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Don't think so either. I think you're right on that,
But the question couldn't get done. The question has been
around the private versus public pulling, you know, the private
pulling resources from the public. Has the public kept up
its selective surgery rates? So are they dropping as the
private picks up the slack?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Now what we're seeing is we're seeing is additional surgery
is being delivered by making sure we're maximizing what's being delivered.
So we're a huge focused internally as well around making
sure we're maximizing theater rates sat a utilization, making sure
those surgeries are being done internally as well as making
sure we're outsourcing and maximizing what's being delivered, so the
(08:25):
r the same.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Are they doing the same or more surgeries in public
as they were previously pre private outsourcing.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Well, they're continuing to deliver what they planned within the
public system. This is about making sure we're delivering more
by utilizing our private hospitals. But also some of the
investment we're making is actually into some of Health New
Zealand's own surgical elective surgical hospitals as well. So Health
New Zealand has some of its own dedicated surgical hospitals
(08:54):
which aren't competing with its acute work. They've got two
in Auckland, they've got a hom I do on the
North Shore. They've got the Manicow Health Park. It's also
Burward Hospital in christ Church. As some of those investments,
you're going also into our own surgical hospitals to expand
what they can deliver, which are dedicated to getting as
much elector surgery done through the public system as well.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
SimMan Brown, I appreciate your time this morning, Health Minister.
Sixty three percent targets ninety percent. There's still a way
to go, though they've given themselves a few years to
get there. It is five seventeen on News Talk ZEBB.
Lisa is Ryan. It's turning Red. Lee's from the Why
can I River, beautiful river, grew up swimming in that
turning red. The moon in why can I on the
(09:37):
Covery Coast this morning, So finally this blood moon thing's happening.
Eighteen minutes after five News Talks ZB we'll get to
Sport with Andrew, next.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The news you Need this morning and the in depth
analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
Where You Live.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
News Talks EDB NEWSTALK'SZBB. It is five twenty high run.
I went to my local New World yesterday a leg
of Lamb eighty one dollars last Sunday was seventy one
dollars this week, says Tony. So there you go. Are
we going to thank Nicola Willis for that? You're on
his talks? He'd be Andrew Orlison's here was support Andrew.
Good morning, Gretting's Ryan Jesus has a lot to get through,
(10:14):
So let's start with the All Blacks water performance.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Yes, yes, convincing and lived up to the narrative. Really
didn't it? Well done? And yeah, it just it was
taking us along, taking us for quite a ride. And
in the spring.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Box, well I thought they were. They were a bit less.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Disciplined and there's a few more errors than perhaps usual and.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Probably rattled by the All Blacks.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
And yeah, there's some powerful displays at Artie Savira among
them for that New Zealand side and keeping the the
Eden Park legacy alive.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It was quite funny watching Razor in the box just
trying to contain himself. He sort of let himself go
a little bit and passionate. There was that, Yeah, there was. Yeah,
that's great and that bodes well.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
I mean just even if you look at the wider
context the rugby championship now, I mean Rugby needed that
exhibition is as a I suppose, and Jack's really for
the game at the present time. But the wall of
the is against Argentina as well, so it's shaping up
probably the tightest rugby championship at least in recent memory.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, everyone's getting when everyone's getting a lost kind of thing. Yeah,
it's that they've totally improved the game by speeding it
our pay you know, it just night and day. It
looks much better. Yeah, Yeah, black Ferns thumping Island last.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Year speaking of I mean, that's that's convincing. Forty nierl
given that, well, I think Ireland had beaten New Zealand twice.
He's beaten them once in the past, Ireland beating them
even last year. But New Zealand has turned there around.
Peaking at the right time would seem at the World
Cup in Brighton today. And yeah, just even to try
at the end from Maya Joseph, just length of the fields,
(11:44):
I think it must have gone through five or six
sets of hands in New Zealand, just looking really really
polished at the stage and getting that top seeding into
the quarters.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I love the black Ferns. I love the characters in
the black Ferns and the characters the black Ferns have produced.
But being honest, is it great watching when you've got
such massive point differentials.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I don't think it's been a great advertisement so far. No,
although just having seen some of the I haven't seen
the whole game of sporting, seen some of the highlights
New Zealand. I mean their defense alone was pretty powerful
to be able to keep Ireland to score us across
the game. But yeah, I think from now on is
really the business end of the competition and hopefully we'll
(12:22):
see I guess better contests in those games.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Update on F one for US this morning.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Yeah, not so good for Liam Lawson the strategy, I mean,
he had to be was forced to the back of
the grid anyway, going on softer tires, so he's finished
in fifteenth. Teammate Isaac Hadger getting a point max with
Starpan for Red Bull getting the winning or getting the
top of the podium with the lader Norris in second
and Oscar Piastri in the third for McLaren and McLaren
(12:50):
still leading the way in the constructors and getting two
places on the podium. But good for RedBull to be
able to get that victory for Starvan.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Nice one, Andrew. Good to see you. Andrew Ordison a
sports right of course. Update US at five thirty and
six and throughout the morning. It is five twenty three
here on News Talk MB. Just something I wanted to
bring to your attention. This is from Friday, so after
the show would have come off here, although I wasn't
actually here. Odds are on now for a FED rate
cut in September. It was tending that way but it's
(13:17):
now almost a certainty according to the markets. Twenty five
points they reckon, plus they'll get another one by Christmas.
The August job numbers, so they were forecasting to add
seventy five thousand for August, they actually only added twenty
two thousand, So jobs numbers not good, well below forecast.
Total jobs added for May, June, July, and August of
(13:40):
this year were the same as was added in just
August last year. And it gets worse. Manufacturing jobs there
fell twelve thousand in August. Now all of this stuff
has an impact on us of course, exchange rate, you know,
inflation keeping that intation inflation beast tamed. They're currently at
two point seven percent over there, and they are tipped
(14:02):
to hit three by Christmas. So will this help tip
it further if they cut twenty four after which is
not a certainty, but markets are pricing in it is
five point twenty four News TALKSVB the early edition.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Full the show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by News.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Talks v News Talks HEIRB five twenty six. As you know,
I've been saying for some time this election is Nationals
to lose, the economy will pick up and government's only
two years in kiwis like to give incumbents the benefit
of the doubt, and I still think this holds true.
But as we've been reporting since April, Trump's tariffs, which
took everybody, including the markets by surprise, making a bear
(14:42):
of a bull, hammered consumer confidence just as we were
showing signs of those early green shoots that the pundits
loved talking about. This has shortened Luxeon's window for a
real economic recovery, which is the platform he's relying on
for reelection. Right. Talk of a leadership coup yet again
by Christmas is in my view completely daft. Any national
(15:03):
MP who thinks they can outpoll Luxon in the current
climate's got to be dreaming a short term bump maybe,
but there are political costs, namely instability. Remember Muller. Then
this newly elected leader has to go cap in hand
to Winston and David and no doubt relitigate all in
Sundry just after the latter began firing up for a showdown.
(15:25):
Winston and Shamer in full flight at the weekend, you
would have seen that It's only September twenty twenty five.
Timing is everything and That is Luckson's card to play.
In twelve months from now, the country will likely feel
a much different place to live, and that means a
later election. If the Nats are smart, they'll stick with
(15:46):
the devil they know and wait for brighter days ahead.
The risks outweigh the benefits at this point in the cycle.
If needs be, a transition can happen in pretty short order.
Just ask just in the Redoon Brian Bridge. It is
five twenty eight. How's that blood moon looking? Another update
from Lisa is truly amazing. Now, Greta Thunberg, she's on
(16:10):
another mission. She's on another adventure with her friends, this
time back to trying to get back to Gaza with
another floatiller. And there is potentially a meeting happening between
Starma and the Israeli president over the in the coming days,
though Number ten is not confirming anything and his MPs
are saying, don't meet with the Israelis, don't meet with them,
(16:33):
and Number ten saying, well, we might, but we might not.
We're not sure anyway. This is what she's saying to Starma.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
These governments, these people in power, have a legal duty
to act to prevent a genocide. And specifically to this case,
the international arrestaurant that has been issued for Nathaniel. The
countries then have a legal responsibility to arrest him, which
is not our personal opinion in langon international law.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
There you go. I was also going to give you,
potentially give you a justinder a durn hot take today,
but I thought it's too much, Gretta and just send
it all on one show. Nope, can't do that. Twenty
nine after five, News Talks said, B We're in London
more on those protests and Stuart Nash. Before six.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you live.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
News Talk said, be well, I love you, good morning.
It is twenty four away from six on News Talks said, B,
We'll get to London shortly. We're one thousand protests, protests
have been arrested. Stuart Nash, this New Zealand first conference.
Business is an interesting question. He's with us just before six.
It's an interesting question. Jan, Sorry, John is this emailed
(18:00):
to say Ryan. The main thing I remember about Stuart
Nash is that he endorsed usinta or doing every chance
he could get, And so the question that I really
want to ask Stuart Nash this morning is what is
his understanding of Winston ruling out Labor? Is it just
if Chris Hipkins is in charge? Is he the guy
that's going to be the bridge between New Zealand first
(18:21):
and Labor? Could Winston do it again and go with
Labor even though he indicated he wouldn't. Is is it
conditional on Chippy being in charge? Can you trust him
if you don't want a left lot in power? That's
the question this morning. It is twenty three to six.
Interesting note from Kelly Ecole. This is at Westpac over
(18:43):
the weekend. He says that whoever the new Reserve Bank
governor isn't. Apparently they've had strong interest. Whoever it is,
they should change a couple of things. One is front
of house, have more press conferences, make the Monetary Policy
Committee votes public, and hold an extra meeting every year.
Now those will sound like pretty sensible things given where
(19:05):
the Reserve Bank has been in the last few years,
but he also suggests that you know because at the
moment their remit is one to three percent, with a
goal of two percent, so the midpoint, he says that
needs to change. The Aussies target two to three percent.
Our average over the last twenty five years is two
point six percent. It's been above or below two percent,
(19:28):
which remember is our goal fifty percent of that time.
So be realistic, he says, allow more relief. This would
give you a greater propensity to lower rates and people
go out and spend and fix the economic mess. That
sort of thing. This is a job for the Minister
of Finance setting that rate, which can be done relatively easily.
(19:50):
The only question though, is if you say two point
five percent, do they drift to three given that at
two percent we've drifted to two point six. Ryan Bridge,
go to our reporters around the country, Color, Proctor and
darned this morning. Color, good morning, morning. Right, you've got
an update on this prominent sportsman on trial in Dunedin. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Look, this high profile figure is accused of causing thirteen
rib fractures and a broken collar bone to an infant in.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
July twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
His defense says the man would never risk a child's
safety and insists the baby could have been hurt through
a severe vitamin D deficiency or an underlying bone fragility.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
The court heard both the Crown.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
And defense's closing arguments on Friday, and Judge David Robinson
is set to sum up the case today before it's
in the hands of the jury. The man's pleaded not
guilty to these charges of injuring with reckless disregard and assault.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
How's your weather?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Frosty, foggy start, Ryan for us, But a fine day today,
strong northerly this afternoon, the high fourteenth, Nice one, Thank you,
Clais and christ this morning.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Claire, good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Hey. Mobile emergency alerts we know about them from the tsunamis,
but more could be used for missing persons cases.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
Yeah, well, there certainly seems to be a case for that, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
This week.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
Actually, four years ago, eighty five year old Shirley Warrington
went missing from christ Church. Despite a huge, large scale search,
her body was only found eight weeks later. Now it's
believed that a mobile emergency alert, which was successfully used
to find a missing elderly woman here earlier this year,
could have helped to find Shirley. Newstalk Seedb's requested some
(21:26):
data from NIMA which shows that the system has only
been used five times for missing persons since it was
established in twenty seventeen, Shirley Warrington's granddaughter Alisha Hoffman says
social media was very helpful as they looked for her grandmother,
but it did take a while for people to be
able to sort of spread the word. She says, sending
a mobile alert would have meant people could have gone
(21:47):
out searching quicker.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, I think it's I don't have to really have
a problem with it because it would only be a
specific area you can target, as well as sal sites.
How's the weather clear? Fine?
Speaker 11 (21:56):
A little bit prosty here as well. Southwesterly should turn
northeaster bit nighter and twelve degrees.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
All right, thank you, Mix and Wellington Homes, Good morning.
You got a tunnel update. Well, a bit of secrecy
about the tunnel.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Yeah, that's what the story says. This is a story
from our newsroom. Seven million dollars apparently spent so far
on consultants and contractors working on these two new tunnels
in the central Wellington, the Mount Vick Option, the second
Terrorist Tunnel. But what exactly that money is going toward.
We're not too sure. A lot of information being withheld
for now. What is in the back of everyone's minds
(22:28):
is the government's commitment to stunning construction on that Mountvick
tunnel before next year's election seven million dollars. Chris Bishop
calls it a drop in the bucket ultimately, and he
says be patient. The Transport Agency and the Government will
announce more in due course once the agency's board looks
at these investment cases specialist expertise. He calls the consultants
(22:50):
spent labor adamant that this is shaping as a broken promise.
Perhaps too early to say that though the suburba Victoria
getting a little frustrated. No one knows what's going on anything. Obviously,
a majority of probably against a massive construction project currently
that traffic skirts around Mount vic Two point two billion
in total is the price tag, but it might be
difficult to stay under that.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I think it will be two. How's your weather?
Speaker 12 (23:14):
Some early showers clearing to find southerlyast twelve the hay
and Neiva's in the studio.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Good morning, the morning, Welcome bed.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Look at you. This is the first time I've laid
eyes on you today, and you are so brown. You're
browner than me.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Look at you.
Speaker 13 (23:29):
Top button has undone and your chest is becauseron is
your face.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Only because id it to show you? Neva? I know
you love a hearing chest.
Speaker 14 (23:37):
I do.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
So where have you been?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I was over in Australia.
Speaker 13 (23:40):
Oh my, well you deceive that break.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Oh man, it's good to sleep. Yes, hey, Penny Henadi.
Three thousand votes. Sure it's a by election, Sure it's
a moldy electric but three thousand votes that's like local
government territory.
Speaker 13 (23:54):
Look, I tell you, I mean, this is what's happening
here now. Like Lara Griefs, she's come out swinging. She
said she's the Victoria University political scientist. She said, look,
it's important not to extrapolate too far from just this
one race, because she said, look, the center left it's struggling,
you know, like around the world. So she reckons it
a change of technics, maybe on the cards.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You know.
Speaker 13 (24:17):
She's also saying that the young voters and Tamaki Makoto,
they're probably looking for more radical policies.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So yeah, which, let's remember, is exactly what I said
would happen.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Oh you're always oh you had to get that one
and didn't you.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But it's interesting. Yeah. It's hard though for Penny because
he also had no policies because Slavery's got this policy
of no policies. So you've got a guy out there
talking about nothing. Yeah, you know, it's it's a hard.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
And I think for ordinary kipitter as well, you know,
like the it's the young voters, young Mardy you know there.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And social media is working so exactly. Hey, how's that weather?
Speaker 13 (24:52):
I was going to say, how's that blood moon?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Have you seen?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're not?
Speaker 13 (24:55):
Said, well, I mean it's a bit cloudy. I mean
I've been listening overnight to the call c B. So
in other parts of the country they could see it.
I think you can see it here in Auckland, but
as you well know, here it enzed me. I've been
running around now we don't have any windows, so I've
gone from one end of the newsroom say no, no,
the blood moons over the side, Neva. So I still
can't see it. I think I saw a slither slither
(25:16):
slither Ryan.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah. Lots of people saying it's now fully dark, bring
on the sunlight. Oh okay, so maybe yeah, maybe that's
the way you can't see. Thank you, sixteen to six
news Talk sab Thanks Neva. We will get Stuart Nash
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
International correspondent with Endsit Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind for
New Zealand business Stewart Nash.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Next. First, almost one thousand arrested demonstrations in London. Gavin Gray,
a UK correspondent, Gavin what for.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Ryan?
Speaker 15 (26:51):
This is all for showing support for a group called
Palestine Action because the government prescribed them, in other words,
identified the more category them as a terrorist group and
showing support for or being a member of Palestine Action
can mean you spend fourteen years in jail because it
comes under terrorism law. The police there said that overall
(27:14):
twenty thousand people took part in different gatherings in support
of Gaza and Palestine. However, of that this group, Palestine Action,
about one and a half thousand people took part in
their march simply holding up sains saying I support Palestine
Action and also warning of course of the action within
(27:36):
Gaza itself. Now, the problem is that of those eight
hundred and ninety arrests, police said this time there was
intolerable abuse, as they're calling it. They say there were
punch kicks, spat on and had objects thrown at them.
The organizers of that march said that did not happen.
They're disagreeing with the police. But twenty five well, the
(27:56):
figures of varying a bit actually run, but roughly twenty
people were arrested for assaults on police, and police are
saying that these weekly marches are simply getting out of control.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, it sounds like a two Gavin, thank you for that.
Kevin Gray are UK correspondent. It is eleven away.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
From six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
A few things came out of the New Zealand first
Annual meeting at the weekend. Winston wants Kiwi Savia contributions
at ten percent funded by tax cuts. No detail on that.
Also on the wish list they want new migrants to
sign a value statement. Stuart Nash, formal Labor Cabinet minister,
was there. He was speaking. He's with us now. Good morning, Brian,
how are you? Good morning? Very good, thank you.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
The text machines lit up when I mentioned you were
coming on the show. I just wants to get back
into Parliament. He's desperate and we can't trust Winston not
to go with labor again. Are you the bridge that's
going to connect the two.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
Oh god, I don't know about that, but you know
all the stuff that that can't wait to get back
into palm in these desk, but people tend to forget that. Well,
if they even you in the first place, then if
you're a cabinet minister and only get into Parliment to
be cabinet minister, because it's how effect changed. It's eighty
to one hundred hours a week continuous, that includes you know,
that's seven days a week. It's not a job for
the faint heart. And you lose contact with your mates,
(29:06):
and you know, you don't see much time with your family.
So you know, I'm not I want to pay a
sub story here, but I do want to say, you know,
I've got a business I've started. I'm really enjoying it.
I'm loving the fact that I can go ahead and
beer with my mates and not have some clown with
a cell phone take a photo of them and put
it up on social media. So the reason if I
get back in department, the reason I am is just
(29:27):
un finished business. I think the stuff that needs to
be done to make this country better than it is,
and you know, and the opportunity to do that exists are.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
You actually have you officially have you put a submission
in to be you know, is there an official consideration
actually happening.
Speaker 14 (29:44):
No, it's with every party. There's a nomination process. They
haven't open with the Jilm First yet, so you know
there's a process to go through. Obviously, by attending in
Gilm first conference, I said the pretty clear message that
that's when my politics live these days. And if I
have to go back into part but that's it would be.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
What is your understanding of Winston ruling out working with labor?
Is it just on the chippy?
Speaker 14 (30:06):
Well, he my understands he's never actually ruled out working
with labor. He's ruled out working with Hipkins, and so
you know it presents an instant dilemma for Labor if
they end up with say thirty six percent and zero
Thirsty end up with sixteen. But you know that's obviously
a discussion way above my pay grade. I mean, I'm
not even one.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But such an important question, isn't it? Because the right
felt they were completely dicked over by Winston Peters when
he went with just Sinda return.
Speaker 14 (30:35):
Well, again, that's that's a question you'll have to put
to Winston The bottom line is is that there's a
lot of water going to the bridge. I think there's
a whole lot of people on the left or no,
not the left or the center, which is where my
politics sort of stands. That they look at the party
marriage they're just a protest movement. They really are. You
look at the Greens and what Chloe wants to do,
(30:56):
you know, Hipkins, Hipkinsesster come out and say, you know,
show some balls and say, okay, am I going to
rule out working putting a capital gains text? And am
I going to rule out putting a wealth text? In
Chloe wants to increase the text rate for corporates at
a point in time when our economy needs priming, not stifling.
There's a whole lot of questions that hip contested will
answer question for voters before anyone would I think even
(31:20):
consider the left. But again that's a decision for Winston.
There's a lot of water to go onto the bridge
at that point.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
To Stuet, appreciate your times. Stuart Nash, Formal Labor Cabinet,
mister potential future in New Zealand First Minister. Time is
eight minutes away from sex Ryan. The blood moon is
a fizz. This is from Hillsborough. Blood moon is a fizz. Yeah,
but it's an eclipse, isn't it? So it does go
dark at some point. Mike's next get ahead of the
headlines on an early edition with.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Ryan Bridge and one roof love.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Where you live, News Talks B, two powerball players. You're
on news Talks THEREB in Missouri and Texas have one
wait for it, three billion New Zealand dollars. This is
a lottery jack and I was over in Australia last
week and got a seven of them. I think it
was eighty million dollars. Was their Thursday draw anyway, didn't win.
Mike's here now, Good morning Mike. You went and bought
(32:10):
a ticket. I did. Four people won, so it was
eighty million. Four people won twenty million each.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Right, that's a massive once you play for your ticket.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I think it was twenty five.
Speaker 10 (32:21):
Australian dollars, so about eighty seven New Zealand dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
So yes, but I saw eighty million dollar Thursday draw
and how can you walk past that?
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And then I went, actually, you'll love this, Mike. I
went online last night and looked at the website to
see whether i'd won, because I thought, if I do it,
if I went, I don't have to go to work tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
Would you not?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
No? I would? I would because I loved doing this
job for things other than money.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
But I see that doesn't come across as credible.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And it is credible. But I anyway, I was looking
at it. And you can actually buy tickets to the
Australian Lottery from New Zealand. You did, so.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
Why are you going to buy some?
Speaker 14 (33:00):
Now?
Speaker 13 (33:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
But why would you bother with New Zealand's pitarly one
million a week?
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Or it's a fair point. Did you pick your own numbers?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
No? Which I think we just got random? Yeah, random
they pick.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Do you regret it now?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I do? Yes.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
So you spent a lot of money, You're lost and
you should have done it differently.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Came home unhappy.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Un least you came home and the flight flight was
on time?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yes, flight was.
Speaker 10 (33:23):
The airport is an experience.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Aukland Airport is a work in progress as always. But no,
actually generally you're pretty good. There's a lot of construction
still happening obviously, so it's halfway house.
Speaker 10 (33:37):
I suppose at this point I say something like we
missed you. Well, is that what you're supposed to say? Well, no,
you don't have again. Disingenuous. Christopher Laxen is with us
a smoke and we've got razor on because after you know,
you've got to celebrate that, don't you That rugby of old,
wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Great? Results? All right? Looking forward to Mike next see
them I over run have a great day.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
to Newstalk SETB from five am weekdays, or follow the
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