September 24, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Francesca Rudkin Full Show Podcast Thursday 25th of September 2025, Independent Economist Cameron Bagrie shares his thoughts on the new Reserve Bank Governor.
A new portable med-tech device from the company Nurochek claims it has the ability to diagnose concussions on the sidelines in just two minutes, Dr Doug King Sports Injury Research Specialist tells Francesca how much of a difference it could make.
Bigger, taller and newer buildings are on the way for Auckland, Former Mayor of Auckland Phill Goff shares his thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Francesca Ruggin on
earlier show with One Route Love where You Live, News Talk,
sa'd be good morning, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
To early edition. I'm Francisca Rudkins filling in for Ryan
who's on Drive this week. I hope your week is
going well. Good to have you with us. You're most
welcome to contact me anytime this morning. You inflict me
a text on ninety two to ninety two my email
at Francesca at NEWSTALKZB dot co dot nz. On the
show today, the Augrand Council decision to press on with
housing zone changes, we look at whether a new portable
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concussion device on the Rugby sideline actually works, and before
the end of the hour, we find out what economists
think of the new Reserve Bank governor.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's Thursday, the twenty fifth of September, and starting in
the US, two people are dead after a suspected sniper
attack at a Texas immigration facility. The gunman is also
dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The motive is unknown,
but it comes after a string of attacks on I
sight across the US.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
This is the.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Second time I've had to stand in front of you
and talk about a shooter at one of my facilities.
And I think that the takeaway from all of this
is that the rhetoric has to stop. There are people
out there who are seeing what is being placed online
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and they're coming and they're doing acts of violence against
ICE employees.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Zelensky's been addressing the U in General Assembly. He says
Putin will keep driving the Ukraine war wider and deeper
unless he has stopped.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
And as Russia's war against my country goes on, people
are still dying every week. Yet there is no ceasefire
because Russia refuses. Russia abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, and
we have brought some of them back, and I think,
I think everyone who's helped, but how long will it
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take to bring all of them home?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Meanwhile, Trump has shifted his position on the Russia Ukraine war,
saying for the first time that Ukraine could win all
of its land back. Typhoon Regasa has slammed into southern China,
forcing nearly two million evacuations at least seventeen a dead
in Taiwan after several flooding. Severe flooding earlier in the week.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
The authorities have taken it extremely serious, calling it the
King of Storms. And as we went around meeting people,
most said, look, we're not afraid. We are ready because
we are used to dealing with these kinds of typhoons,
but this one certainly is the strongest.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Regasa was downgraded from a super to a severe typhoon,
but it remains highly destructive with winds setting two hundred
and forty k's per hour. And that's the.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Agenda on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition
with Francesca Rudkin and one roof Love where you Live
News Talk.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Said me, so yesterday we spoke about the murder of
the Boardroom survey, and look, you can take the survey
with a grain of salt of your life if you're
but if you're a government that is all about growth
and economy, I'd think you'd have a quick glance at
the feedback from the country's biggest business leaders and take
it on board. It wasn't like they were completely off
the mark. And that's what I think Finance Minister Nikola
(03:21):
Willis did. But apparently, as I learned on Newstalks e'dbs
Drive last night, there was a bit of a fense
taken by those in business over comments the Finance Minister
made in response to the survey results. And it was
the bit when she said to Mike Cosking yesterday morning
that the survey was the opinion of one hundred and
fifty people and she serves five million people and needs
to consider a broader range of interests, including semes. I
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think we might be getting a little bit over sensitive hair.
I listened to that whole conversation and thought she was
very accepting of the survey results. She said, and I'm paraphrasing,
she's interested in what people have to say. She always
studies her report card hard and strives to be better,
and took responsibility for the economy and the fact we
haven't seen the recovery we all expect. I'm not sure
how else she's expected to respond. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
(04:05):
also said he was focused on more than just the
people who responded to the survey and shrugged off concerns
about his leadership. But surely, somewhere after more average feedback nationally,
MPAs are starting to worry about just how much longer
they can keep shrugging. Francisco Hey we're heading into a
weekend of rugby. The All Blacks are going to be
back with a vengeance against the Aussie side that will,
(04:28):
no doubt believe the All Blacks have some vulnerabilities. Early
kickoff five oh five pm on Saturday, Eden Park. The
All Blacks team will be announced today at twelve to
fifteen pm and of course news talks will be will
be all across that and then the Black Ferns are
playing for bronze later that night at eleven thirty our time.
So we've got a great weekend of rugby head But
for all that we love rugby, we want this game
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to be as safe as possible and we can't keep
ignoring the lasting impact head knocks and concussions can have
on players. So is this new portable concussion device that
checks the concussion on the side lie sideline going to
be any use? Is it going to be a game
changer when it comes to protecting and looking after our
rugby and league players a little bit better? We are
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going to find out shortly. But up next to Phil
Goff on Auckland Council's housing decision, it is eleven past five.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Francesca Rudkin and one roof love where
you live news talks. That'd be good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It is fourteen past five, right. Bigger, taller and newer
buildings are on the way for Auckland. After a seven
hour long meeting, the council voted to move ahead with
a plan which would see ten to fifteen story buildings
dotted around the city's rail stations. The motion one eighteen
to five over the current rules, which allows medium density
housing up to three stories anywhere in the wider city.
(05:51):
Phil Goff is the former mayor of Auckland, and he
joins me, now, thanks for your time, Phil, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, good morning Francesca.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Do you think this was the right decision for the
council to mate?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, it was definitely the better of the two alternatives.
The plan change that a combination of both Labor and
National foisted on the council a couple of years back,
which was Plan Change seventy eight, said that almost anywhere
in Auckland, you'd be able to take a normal section,
divide it into three and put three story buildings on
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each part. Each new section that you created, and you
can see some of those sort of developments around the
city already. The big problem with that was that that
applied even where there wasn't good public transport services. And
when you take the average sized section and you put
effectively three properties on it of three stories, you don't
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leave much room for parking. People park on the roads
and you go into some areas and I immediately think
of flat Bush and when people are home from work,
you literally cannot drive down the street because it's parking
on both sides of the street. So PC seventy eight
was a dumb idea forced on the council by government.
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This gives Auckland a little more option and it says
that first of all, you can down zone flood prone
areas and that's common sense and that should have happened.
And secondly, an area is where you've got transport to hubs.
You know, for example the city rail link, and would
have been around the light rail had that been allowed
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to go ahead. You can build high The higher you go,
the more green space you can create around the high
rise buildings. So rather than sausage flats everywhere, you can
create some real density and areas that have good transport
and other infrastructure and when you go higher, you can
also create a commensurate amount of green space, park playgrounds,
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and those sort of things that make a city a
good place to live.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So Phil, what about You know, we've got residents across
the city, including in places like Saint Mary's, in a
city they're worried about the character of the city. Are
they concerns valid or have they just bring them.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
These look to a degree that well, it's a little
bit of both, to tell you the truth, I think
you've got the opportunity to do overlays and to protect
areas that are of historic character and value. And frankly,
you know, I'm in favor of that. I don't want
to see a city that's blanned and that's lost all
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of its history. And you've got some beautiful streets of
the old turn of the century, turn of the nineteenth century,
twenty century villas, and I'd like to see those preserved
to give some character to the city as well. So
there's a potential to do that. Where those areas have
already been degraded because you've got different types of housing
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in them, then you're probably not going to have the
protection of those areas. And if people sell their villa.
The developer can then move in if it's not an
overlay of protection and develop there. You know, Look, I
don't want to make light of it. I recall going
to Brisbane actually one time, and I've got a niece
living there. She's in a one story bungalow and right
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next to her she has a six story building, you know,
and it's kind of it's that sort of transitional development
does make for difficult living for people that wanted to
live in a traditional way. So I think there are
areas that you should choose deliberately to protect. But you
cannot have nimbiism just because you're a wealthy person living
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in a leafy suburb. If you're living in an area
where it doesn't have that degree of character, and you are,
you know, right next to a railway station or within
several hundred meters of it, but I think you've got
to expect to see that high rise development. You know,
when I ran in twenty sixteen, for me the first time,
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I said we had to go up as a city
and out because there were so many planning restrictions, that
land was so hard to get that you were getting
rapid movement in prices if you've got plenty of land
to develop, then you can this one factor in helping
keep prices down and giving a fair go for the
first time buyer.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Phil God thanks so much for your time this morning.
Appreciate your thoughts. It is eighteen past five.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Francesca Rudkin and One Room
Love Where You Live news talks, that'd be.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Twenty one past five, right. Could this be the end
of concussions as we know it? A new portable med
tech device from the company in Eurotech claims it has
the ability to diagnose concussions on the sideline in just
two minutes. Doctor Doug King is a sports injury research
specialist and he's with me now. Good morning, Doug, Thanks
for your.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Time, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Okay, do you think this is legit?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I think that the concept of legit the research backing
it isn't.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Okay. So this tech has been approved by the FDA
in America. If their stamp isn't good enough, why would.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That be the FDA that says that it's not going
to hurt you? It doesn't say that it's been researched
and it doesn't say it's been validated.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
How easy is it for a human to detect concussion
on a sideline?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's it's one of the most complex things you can
try and detect. People that have never had a concussion
don't even know they've actually suffering the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So what do we need tech to do? How would
this particularly how does this claim to work?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
This is claiming to work that it uses a signal
that is sent through to the eyes and detect at
the back of the head what you do with an EEG.
The problem is that the research that was done out
of Waka University last year by a PhD student identify
that and I quote, no evidence was found to support
neurocheck's use in the assessment or management for concussion in
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rugby athletes.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, so we really do just need to stick with
the the human plan at the moment.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean, the science is there, the concept is
in there, it's just that we haven't got to that
point yet.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So it could be realistic at some point in the future.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Most definitely, But as it currently stands, no.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Okay, is there aside from what we're currently doing. If
this isn't the solution to solving a you know, this
increase in concussion injuries. We're seeing what else could be.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, they're doing blood tests at the moment. We've just
commenced that through the hospital here in the Hut and
through aut University, and we're looking to see whether that
is viable. I mean, there's a lot of stuff going
on worldwide to look at how we can detect it
other than someone coming up and saying I think they
have a concussion. So the work is going on. We're
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just not at the finish line yet to.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Say yes, this is it soniw Dennant Rugby says that
they'll proceed with caution using this tech. Should they not
at least give it a go or do you think
it's waste of time?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Well, if they're to receive a caution, then I would
be asking what research they've seen or what research they're
going to do, because I think too based on searching
through all the databases that I did last night, there
wasn't anything published talking specifically of this technology that is
specific to euro Check.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thanks so much for your thoughts, Doug, appreciate that. Well,
there we go. I thought that was going to be
a winner, but maybe not quite yet but hopefully sometimes
near in the future. Up next, my thoughts on the
direction of Auckland housing. It's twenty four past five.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
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Speaker 3 (13:40):
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Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay, so it was a big day at Auckland Council
yesterday and I think a good day. The Policy and
Planning Committee met for most of yes day to thrash
out the future of Auckland's housing, debating where and how
Auckland is going to plan for more homes, and the
Council voted eighteen to five to discard the PC seventy
eight and notify the PC one twenty or vote for
the PC one twenty, which basically means the three story
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townhouse is seen increasingly all over Auckland. Suburbs are on
the way out, and the high rises and greater intensification
around key CRL stations and transport corridors are in. This is,
of course, highly contentious and where you lean in the
debate may depend on what neighborhood you live in. Residents
of wealthy inner city suburbs like Mount Eden, Parnell, Herne
Bay and Green Bay will likely have reservations about more
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high rise apartments in their neighborhoods, citing a loss of character,
loss of light, and an increasing demand on infrastructure. The
new plan does retain seventy three percent of all the
special character areas established under the twenty sixteen Auckland Unitary Plans,
so that isn't too bad. The new plan is also
about allowing the Council to down zone in some areas,
and the twenty third twenty twenty three flooding taught us
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that it's well past time we stopped further housing development
in areas we know are prone to flooding and coastal erosion.
This is a no brainer. Also cheaper to build where
goods supporting infrastructure already exists, rather than it is to
create new housing areas where infrastructure has to be developed
from scratch. In particular, given the cost of the CRL,
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it makes sense to have as many people living near
it and benefiting from it as possible, or, as the
Mayor said, there's no point in spending six billion on
something if there's nobody on the damn thing. Even though
the council meeting voted in favor eighteen five, it doesn't
mean there wasn't plenty of discussion around the council table.
Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson asked for conditions around high towers
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and I think this was a sensible thing to do.
She suggested tall apartments need to be set back and
have communal areas and facilities. The Mayor supported the amendment,
saying there needs to be parking and commercial activity on
the lower levels, and so that was incorporated into the
main motion. I mean car parking is essential, right. Councilor
Christine Fletcher, though, didn't have quite the same luck with
her amendment when she asked for greater consultation and for
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the plan change to be publicly notified. At present, public
consultation will begin on November third clothes on December nineteen.
It is quick Fletcher's amendment would have drad consultation out
until the middle of next year. To be honest, yesterday
I thought the Council would take the safe option and
extend consultation, but after much debate about what Minister Chris
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Bishop would think about all this, I think there was
a bit of mind reading going on. This amendment was
voted down fifteen to eight. So while debate was generally
a bit dry, the day did come with some interesting rhetoric.
Councilor Morris Williams thought both options were unacceptable, saying it's
a choice between a firing squad and a lethal injection.
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Rather surprisingly, he voted for the plan. I'm not sure
which option he considered this to be.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Franchiers good, So to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Be honest with you, Good on the council for getting
on with it. Let's make Auckland a more livable modern city,
a lot less ugly townhouses all crammed into our suburbs
and exchange for some modern rises. Let's go and hey,
look if you don't like it. Public consultation will begin
on November third and close on November nineteenth. Keep that
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in mind, you're an early edition will be back shortly.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
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Speaker 8 (17:18):
Don't your mom back the Sacco.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
The first word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Frank Yesca, Rudjim and one roof love Where
you live?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
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Rid abitsama at you? What is a phil like?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
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Speaker 10 (17:43):
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Speaker 4 (17:46):
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Speaker 11 (17:49):
You good?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
This is early edition on Newswork VP. I'm Francisco, bud
Ken filling and for Ryan who was on Drive today,
thanks for being with us. Now, Jimmy Kimmel is back
on air. He chose his words carefully, as you'd expect
in his first monologue back, saying his comments about Charlie
Kirk's death had been ill timed or unclear or maybe both.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Have a listen.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
I'm not sure who had a weirder forty eight hours,
me or the CEO of TYL and all. But I
do want to make something clear because it's important to
me as a human, and that is you understand that
it was never my intention to make light of the
murder of a young man.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I don't I don't think there's anything funny about it.
Speaker 11 (18:34):
I posted a message on Instagram of the daves killed,
sending love to his family and asking him for a compassion,
and I meant it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I still do, Kim.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'll also find back at Trump. He said Trump tried
to cancel him, but it only boosted his right.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
He said Trump tried to cancel him, but it only
boosted his writings, and he joked he might have to
release the Epstein files Epstein files to distract from it.
So that kind of went as expected. Anyway. Katie Fisher
is with us shortly from the US. She is all
over this. A lot of jokes yesterday about the Swedish invasion,
first Ikea and now the governor of the Reserve Bank.
But what do we know about the new governor and
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the approach she might take. Cameron Baggray is with me
just before six, and thanks for your feedback this morning
on Nikola Willis and her reaction to the survey. If
that one hundred and fifty are criticizing them, but are
criticizing them both, you can be damn sure the five
million are. That's their prime audience, and none of which
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will be feeling it in their pockets like the five million,
fifty percent of which we get to vote next year.
Auckland's new song in the Ghetto. I don't know. I'm
going to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Phil Goff was saying there that you know, we're starting
to see townhouses popping up. I am seeing them everywhere,
and you know what, a lot of them are quite cheap,
and a lot of them a quite ugly, and they're
just cramming them in and everyone's parking on the road.
So we are possibly already in the ghetto. Francesca. It's
a mistake of building accommodation without spaces for cars, even
when close to amenities. Too many clogged streets, especially for emergencies.
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You're absolutely right, which is if we build anything with
any height, it must have those car park spaces built underneath. Right,
That's just kind of got to be a no brainer.
It is twenty one.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
To six, Francisco.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Okay, let's head around the country now and joining me
from Dunedin. Callum Proctor and oh On Maru is in
the news quite a bit this week.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Callum yes again this morning for a new community transport
trial which is coming to the town and the region.
The original councils contributing twenty five thousand dollars towards the
six month trial of a not for profit transport service.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
This will provide.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Access for locals there to places where traditional public transport
is not feasible. It happens in other parts of New Zealand.
The council says Zamoru is the best place to trial
this in the South given the exceptional community support. There
details about who can use the service, the cost and
where it will go exactly are still to be worked through,
but this trial is expected to be launched in the
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next few months.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And the weather in terned and today Callum.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Some early rain eases to afternoon showers. We still ease
today's high fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Thank you so much. Clais Surewood is in christ Church.
Good morning, Claire, good morning. So we see some new
limits are being put in place to protect endangered Hector's dolphins.
Speaker 12 (21:17):
Yes, this is specifically at Arcadoa Harbor, Francesca. The Department
of Conservation has set restrictions on six permitted operators to
reduce swimming and viewing trips in the harbor to twenty
per day over the summer period. Of course, we know
that there's research that reveals that vessels can disturb dolphin behavior.
DOC Operations manager Andy Thompson says Arcadola is flourishing with
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hectors and this gives them time to rest, forage and
protect their young. He says it will also help with
the sustainability of the tourism industry, because if we don't
do this, the dolphins will continue to be pushed out
of the harbor and exposed to further risk.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Weather in christ Church today, Claire, mostly.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
Cloudy, but we will have some showers about mid day,
could be a bit thundery with hail this afternoon, then
clear by evening nor the least changing south west and
a high of sixteen.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Thanks so much. Clear, have a good day. Mixed hold
is with us in Wellington, go and morning.
Speaker 13 (22:10):
Megs good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So ACC workers are putting back on working from home.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Yes, story in the post this morning. ACC has just
had a culture review working from home, hybrid working etc.
It may not be working surprisingly, leading to less teamwork,
more hierarchy silos, fragmented departments, etc. Anyway, ACC wants to
tackle the problem. It says it sounds like some people
are working from home more days than not, one team
in fact coming in less than a day a week
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on average. The union the PSA says, though this is
really putting the wind up stuff. People have been living,
planning their lives around working from home and apparently we've
gone quite comfortable. Yeah, I've gotten quite comfortable doing it.
And this is I think an issue a lot of
the public sector is facing that people may be becoming
a bit entitled when it comes to entitlements. Some never
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want to return to the office ever, and we wonder
away Wellington's day and it's not just the odd Friday
ACC is having to come up with a new strategy.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Please tell me the weather is better today, Max.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
Cloudy period, strong winds are typical Wellington Day fifteen. The
hay love it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Thanks so much, Max and neither. Britty Manho was in
the Auckland studio.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Good morning, gre Meetings, Good morning. I'm glad we didn't
work from home, you know, because radio people, I mean,
we're essential. We have to come up, are essential exactly.
I would like I just would not like working from home.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I need to be in an office. Yeah, but then
normally I only come in once or twice a week.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
So even though they're testing the fire alarms for the
last two hours in the newsroom, I can bear with that,
you know, I can deal with that.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's all right. I don't know, it was starting to
grade a little on me, to be honest with your neighbor.
Police are calling on landlords to be vigilant. I just
like to say to the bosses, though they're working and
they're fine, and we all heard them and the lights
of flashing, and it's all good to go.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Well while you're in here back, just while it's still going,
Oh you're joking. No, no, it's still going and lucky
we can, you know, like remove ourselves and go and
hide in our studios. Oh, I shouldn't say hide work
in our studios. But the rest of the journos in
the newsroom are going, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Tell me about the police. They're calling on landlords to
be vigilant.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, Now, what's happened is that there've been sweeping rates
in Auckland one hundred and twenty cannabis growhouses now over
a month, the officers they sees more than ten tons
of cannabis, estimated to be worth more than fifty eight
million dollars. They've arrested thirty people. So what the police
is saying is that they're saying that these growhouses they
were largely hidden in plain sight and average looking rental properties.
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So what they're saying to the landlords, you know what, landlords,
you need to treat prospective tenants with caution, the red
flags if they want to pay weekly with cash or
offering to pay above market value to stop the landlord inspecting.
There you go, couple of red flags there. So that's
the police morning here in Auckland. Auckland with today isolated
Charles mainly around midday again early evening today's high seventeen franciscat.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Thank you very much, love for green now Polish thank you.
Feel free to hide out in here if that had
alarm starting to get it is sixteen to six.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
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Speaker 2 (25:12):
Katie Fisher is with us now from the UIs. Good morning, Katie,
good morning. What is the latest from the Yuen General Assembly.
Speaker 14 (25:21):
Well, yeah, world leaders are continuing to take to the
floor to speak at this huge meeting of every global leader.
Notably today we've heard from President Volodimir Lensky of Ukraine,
who was speaking after yesterday Donald Trump, US President appeared
to suggest he kind of u turned on the war
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in Ukraine, suggesting that Ukraine could now reclaim all of
the land that Russia have annexed from it. So that's
a different kind of mood music from the White House,
and so everyone was watching Volosimiir Zlensky to see how
he would kind of respond, and he basically implored the
(26:04):
international community to keep supporting Ukraine by providing more weapons.
Essentially saying that he cannot push back Russia without them,
and explaining to everybody that he to quote him, we're
now living through the most destructive arms race in human history,
suggesting that you know, the use of drones and so
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on is going to only mean as they get technologically
more advanced, it will only mean that terrorists or adversarial
states will be able to even perhaps use a nuclear
device on a drone. So it was one message of police,
help us more and the other be warned. Warfare is
only going to get more dangerous.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
When does the General Assembly rip up, Katie?
Speaker 14 (26:50):
The end of this week? So the high level meetings
will be over by the end of this week. Yeah,
and see week in New York.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yes, it is just quickly. What's the reaction being Tojimmy
kimmelsfoth to show Beck.
Speaker 14 (27:02):
Well, really interesting obviously a lot of people tuning in
to see what he would say, and they got a
bit of everything. Really. He was defiant and joky, but
also somber, almost crying at one point, his voice certainly
breaking as he kind of you know, said that he
have no intention of ever making light of the murder
(27:23):
of a young man, and also paying tribute to Erica Kirk,
Charlie Kirk's widow, and saying that her message of forgiveness
should be the one that is taken from all of
this and nothing else. But he also had defiant words
for Donald Trump and said that a government threaten to
silence a comedian that a president does not like is
(27:44):
quite simply anti American. So yeah, a bit of everything
in that opening monologue from him. But I'm sure relieved
to be back on the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Katie Fishure, thank you so much. It is ten to six.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Friend here is good.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So, after scanning three hundred candidates, the Reserve Bank has
finally set on a New York governor. Doctor Anna Breman Bremen,
who has been deputy governor of Sweden's Rex Bank since
twenty nineteen, will step into the role from December. She's
the first woman to be named as governor in the
bank's ninety one year history.
Speaker 15 (28:18):
Have listened to this, their serve Bank should and it
will remain a source of strength and stability for the
New Zealand economy. And together with the board and with staff,
we will achieve this by focusing on our core mandate.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Cameron Bakery, independent economist, is with me. Now, thanks for
your time this morning, Cameron, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
O, good border.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Right, what do we know about her?
Speaker 16 (28:51):
Oh, she's got a pretty extensive CV, she's got central
bank experience, she's worked diversitis, she takes pretty all the
boxes that you want of a credible central bank governs. So, yeah,
it's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Do you think this is the kind of job that
people want?
Speaker 16 (29:07):
Well, if the media reports are correct, there are an
awful lot of cvs that were thrown in a few
pretty high credibly candidates in Uzilla had a crack at
the job as well and best person one.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
What do you think her interest in taking the job
in New Zealanders Yes, if you.
Speaker 16 (29:26):
Have yes, she was repeated for your tipity head well
next day down and management at the risk bank. You know, so,
I think most people work for those of the jobs.
Ultimately you wanted the top job. They had a central bank.
Obviously New Zealand's a way way away from where she
sort of was. But yeah, the reserve banks had a
pretty esteemed institution. Obviously they've got knocked around in the
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past of the six months in regard to what's going on,
but if you go back, they have a look at
the rezive Bank over the past of the thirty to
thirty five years. In that era we've had low inflation.
So I've been highly credible they've done a very good
job overall.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Cameron, how big a mess does she have to clean
up here? What should be her priorities?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Miss?
Speaker 16 (30:09):
I think is the wrong for a word, if you
look at obviously at the epicenter of the central bank,
they sort of got three board functions price stability, we
don't like high inflation, we're like low inflation. We've learned
that lesson very sevidly over the past sort of a
few years. And she's come out and obviously fired a
(30:29):
couple of shots in regard that they're going to be
focused on inflation and the center of any central bank
is your credibility. So she's been straight out of the
blocks in regard to say needs are what the focus
is going to be. She'll be focused on prudential supervision
and of course oversight of the pavement system. Now are
we going to see any groundbreaking changes in regard to
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the operation of the Reserve Bank.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I think the answer is known.
Speaker 16 (30:51):
You know, the Reserve Bank, there's more than the governor.
The governor does not decide where interest rates are. All
the OCO is going to be, it's decided by it
commits a very transparent process where I think we're going
to see some change. The Reserve Bank is perhaps within culture,
so what's the space going forward?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Okay, you don't happen to know how while Sweden is
doing economically, I mean, what does this tell us anything
about the way she might approach things here?
Speaker 16 (31:19):
Well, central bank, sweetest central bank had incredibly lower interest
rates and they were quite pleased to get back into
positive regist rate territory. But once again, she's going to
be laser focus on the key priorities because the eb
center of any central bank is credibility, and that's credibility
(31:39):
of the framework. That's credibility, and the governor. It's credibility
in the governance. And when you lose a governor and
you lose a cheer within six months, you're going to
take a bit of a reputational hat. So the Reserve
Bank needs to address some of those reputational aspects. And
I think it'll be not too fan of the the
term because the government gets on trying a back I
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think it's going to be getting back to good old
fashioned basis.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Thank you, Yeah, Cameron Bakery. Always appreciate your thoughts. Thanks
so much for your time. It is six to six.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Get ahead of the Headlines on an early edition with
Francesca Rudkin and one roof Love where you Live, News.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Talks at Me.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
It is four to sex and coming up at six
Mike Hosking is with.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
You and he is with me.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Now, good morning, greetings to you. Do you watch Slow
Horses on Apple? The TV show or Slow Horse?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
I discovered that I can't remember, say, a couple of
months ago.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Season five just down, yes, I know.
Speaker 9 (32:36):
And so once we get through the Girlfriend, which is
well worth watching, it's on Prime and that's that's surprisingly good.
And so once we get through that, then we're.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Onto the slow watching not on Apple through Prime.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Now I'm watching it on Prime Prime because Prime Video.
I'm going straight to Prime. Don't even get me started
on the on the streaming. But once we get through
the Girlfriend, then we'll go to the Slow Horse.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So, okay, so you haven't you haven't started season five? Okay,
do it? The Guardian see that it is a bit average,
a bit of a mess, and he gave it through
out of five stars, but I think.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
No time for reviewers.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's fun. It's gone back to being a bit silly
and a bit absurd and a bit fun.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
So if you.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Serious, I thought the.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
Last season, I like the main guy. He's good, and
we started the morning show and that's just absurd, so bad.
So anyway, so it'll be the girlfriends, slow horses. So
excellent recommendation.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
By the way, is coming in to see us, so
we last time we talked to him, he was on
the road winning. He's had a very good season, of course,
but he's coming in to see us this morning after eight.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
It's fantastic because and you were just telling me season's over.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Well it is, and time to rest and recuperate here
and check your swing and going to the tarting stance
and all that sort of stuff. So he's with us
after right.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Brilliant. Thank you very much for your company today. Have
a great Thursday. For my costume is with your next
Take care, I think.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
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to Newstalk SETB from five am weekdays, or follow the
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The issues, the interviews and the inside. Francesca Ruggin on
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sa'd be good morning, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
To early edition. I'm Francisca Rudkins filling in for Ryan
who's on Drive this week. I hope your week is
going well. Good to have you with us. You're most
welcome to contact me anytime this morning. You inflict me
a text on ninety two to ninety two my email
at Francesca at NEWSTALKZB dot co dot nz. On the
show today, the Augrand Council decision to press on with
housing zone changes, we look at whether a new portable
(00:33):
concussion device on the Rugby sideline actually works, and before
the end of the hour, we find out what economists
think of the new Reserve Bank governor.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's Thursday, the twenty fifth of September, and starting in
the US, two people are dead after a suspected sniper
attack at a Texas immigration facility. The gunman is also
dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The motive is unknown,
but it comes after a string of attacks on I
sight across the US.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
This is the.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Second time I've had to stand in front of you
and talk about a shooter at one of my facilities.
And I think that the takeaway from all of this
is that the rhetoric has to stop. There are people
out there who are seeing what is being placed online
(01:23):
and they're coming and they're doing acts of violence against
ICE employees.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Zelensky's been addressing the U in General Assembly. He says
Putin will keep driving the Ukraine war wider and deeper
unless he has stopped.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
And as Russia's war against my country goes on, people
are still dying every week. Yet there is no ceasefire
because Russia refuses. Russia abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, and
we have brought some of them back, and I think,
I think everyone who's helped, but how long will it
(02:00):
take to bring all of them home?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Meanwhile, Trump has shifted his position on the Russia Ukraine war,
saying for the first time that Ukraine could win all
of its land back. Typhoon Regasa has slammed into southern China,
forcing nearly two million evacuations at least seventeen a dead
in Taiwan after several flooding. Severe flooding earlier in the week.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
The authorities have taken it extremely serious, calling it the
King of Storms. And as we went around meeting people,
most said, look, we're not afraid. We are ready because
we are used to dealing with these kinds of typhoons,
but this one certainly is the strongest.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Regasa was downgraded from a super to a severe typhoon,
but it remains highly destructive with winds setting two hundred
and forty k's per hour. And that's the.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Agenda on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition
with Francesca Rudkin and one roof Love where you Live
News Talk.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Said me, so yesterday we spoke about the murder of
the Boardroom survey, and look, you can take the survey
with a grain of salt of your life if you're
but if you're a government that is all about growth
and economy, I'd think you'd have a quick glance at
the feedback from the country's biggest business leaders and take
it on board. It wasn't like they were completely off
the mark. And that's what I think Finance Minister Nikola
(03:21):
Willis did. But apparently, as I learned on Newstalks e'dbs
Drive last night, there was a bit of a fense
taken by those in business over comments the Finance Minister
made in response to the survey results. And it was
the bit when she said to Mike Cosking yesterday morning
that the survey was the opinion of one hundred and
fifty people and she serves five million people and needs
to consider a broader range of interests, including semes. I
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think we might be getting a little bit over sensitive hair.
I listened to that whole conversation and thought she was
very accepting of the survey results. She said, and I'm paraphrasing,
she's interested in what people have to say. She always
studies her report card hard and strives to be better,
and took responsibility for the economy and the fact we
haven't seen the recovery we all expect. I'm not sure
how else she's expected to respond. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
(04:05):
also said he was focused on more than just the
people who responded to the survey and shrugged off concerns
about his leadership. But surely, somewhere after more average feedback nationally,
MPAs are starting to worry about just how much longer
they can keep shrugging. Francisco Hey we're heading into a
weekend of rugby. The All Blacks are going to be
back with a vengeance against the Aussie side that will,
(04:28):
no doubt believe the All Blacks have some vulnerabilities. Early
kickoff five oh five pm on Saturday, Eden Park. The
All Blacks team will be announced today at twelve to
fifteen pm and of course news talks will be will
be all across that and then the Black Ferns are
playing for bronze later that night at eleven thirty our time.
So we've got a great weekend of rugby head But
for all that we love rugby, we want this game
(04:49):
to be as safe as possible and we can't keep
ignoring the lasting impact head knocks and concussions can have
on players. So is this new portable concussion device that
checks the concussion on the side lie sideline going to
be any use? Is it going to be a game
changer when it comes to protecting and looking after our
rugby and league players a little bit better? We are
(05:11):
going to find out shortly. But up next to Phil
Goff on Auckland Council's housing decision, it is eleven past five.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Francesca Rudkin and one roof love where
you live news talks. That'd be good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It is fourteen past five, right. Bigger, taller and newer
buildings are on the way for Auckland. After a seven
hour long meeting, the council voted to move ahead with
a plan which would see ten to fifteen story buildings
dotted around the city's rail stations. The motion one eighteen
to five over the current rules, which allows medium density
housing up to three stories anywhere in the wider city.
(05:51):
Phil Goff is the former mayor of Auckland, and he
joins me, now, thanks for your time, Phil, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, good morning Francesca.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Do you think this was the right decision for the
council to mate?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, it was definitely the better of the two alternatives.
The plan change that a combination of both Labor and
National foisted on the council a couple of years back,
which was Plan Change seventy eight, said that almost anywhere
in Auckland, you'd be able to take a normal section,
divide it into three and put three story buildings on
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each part. Each new section that you created, and you
can see some of those sort of developments around the
city already. The big problem with that was that that
applied even where there wasn't good public transport services. And
when you take the average sized section and you put
effectively three properties on it of three stories, you don't
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leave much room for parking. People park on the roads
and you go into some areas and I immediately think
of flat Bush and when people are home from work,
you literally cannot drive down the street because it's parking
on both sides of the street. So PC seventy eight
was a dumb idea forced on the council by government.
(07:08):
This gives Auckland a little more option and it says
that first of all, you can down zone flood prone
areas and that's common sense and that should have happened.
And secondly, an area is where you've got transport to hubs.
You know, for example the city rail link, and would
have been around the light rail had that been allowed
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to go ahead. You can build high The higher you go,
the more green space you can create around the high
rise buildings. So rather than sausage flats everywhere, you can
create some real density and areas that have good transport
and other infrastructure and when you go higher, you can
also create a commensurate amount of green space, park playgrounds,
(07:52):
and those sort of things that make a city a
good place to live.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So Phil, what about You know, we've got residents across
the city, including in places like Saint Mary's, in a
city they're worried about the character of the city. Are
they concerns valid or have they just bring them.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
These look to a degree that well, it's a little
bit of both, to tell you the truth, I think
you've got the opportunity to do overlays and to protect
areas that are of historic character and value. And frankly,
you know, I'm in favor of that. I don't want
to see a city that's blanned and that's lost all
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of its history. And you've got some beautiful streets of
the old turn of the century, turn of the nineteenth century,
twenty century villas, and I'd like to see those preserved
to give some character to the city as well. So
there's a potential to do that. Where those areas have
already been degraded because you've got different types of housing
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in them, then you're probably not going to have the
protection of those areas. And if people sell their villa.
The developer can then move in if it's not an
overlay of protection and develop there. You know, Look, I
don't want to make light of it. I recall going
to Brisbane actually one time, and I've got a niece
living there. She's in a one story bungalow and right
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next to her she has a six story building, you know,
and it's kind of it's that sort of transitional development
does make for difficult living for people that wanted to
live in a traditional way. So I think there are
areas that you should choose deliberately to protect. But you
cannot have nimbiism just because you're a wealthy person living
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in a leafy suburb. If you're living in an area
where it doesn't have that degree of character, and you are,
you know, right next to a railway station or within
several hundred meters of it, but I think you've got
to expect to see that high rise development. You know,
when I ran in twenty sixteen, for me the first time,
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I said we had to go up as a city
and out because there were so many planning restrictions, that
land was so hard to get that you were getting
rapid movement in prices if you've got plenty of land
to develop, then you can this one factor in helping
keep prices down and giving a fair go for the
first time buyer.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Phil God thanks so much for your time this morning.
Appreciate your thoughts. It is eighteen past five.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Francesca Rudkin and One Room
Love Where You Live news talks, that'd be.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Twenty one past five, right. Could this be the end
of concussions as we know it? A new portable med
tech device from the company in Eurotech claims it has
the ability to diagnose concussions on the sideline in just
two minutes. Doctor Doug King is a sports injury research
specialist and he's with me now. Good morning, Doug, Thanks
for your.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Time, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Okay, do you think this is legit?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I think that the concept of legit the research backing
it isn't.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Okay. So this tech has been approved by the FDA
in America. If their stamp isn't good enough, why would.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
That be the FDA that says that it's not going
to hurt you? It doesn't say that it's been researched
and it doesn't say it's been validated.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
How easy is it for a human to detect concussion
on a sideline?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's it's one of the most complex things you can
try and detect. People that have never had a concussion
don't even know they've actually suffering the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So what do we need tech to do? How would
this particularly how does this claim to work?
Speaker 4 (11:32):
This is claiming to work that it uses a signal
that is sent through to the eyes and detect at
the back of the head what you do with an EEG.
The problem is that the research that was done out
of Waka University last year by a PhD student identify
that and I quote, no evidence was found to support
neurocheck's use in the assessment or management for concussion in
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rugby athletes.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, so we really do just need to stick with
the the human plan at the moment.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean, the science is there, the concept is
in there, it's just that we haven't got to that
point yet.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So it could be realistic at some point in the future.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Most definitely, But as it currently stands, no.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Okay, is there aside from what we're currently doing. If
this isn't the solution to solving a you know, this
increase in concussion injuries. We're seeing what else could be.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, they're doing blood tests at the moment. We've just
commenced that through the hospital here in the Hut and
through aut University, and we're looking to see whether that
is viable. I mean, there's a lot of stuff going
on worldwide to look at how we can detect it
other than someone coming up and saying I think they
have a concussion. So the work is going on. We're
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just not at the finish line yet to.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Say yes, this is it soniw Dennant Rugby says that
they'll proceed with caution using this tech. Should they not
at least give it a go or do you think
it's waste of time?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Well, if they're to receive a caution, then I would
be asking what research they've seen or what research they're
going to do, because I think too based on searching
through all the databases that I did last night, there
wasn't anything published talking specifically of this technology that is
specific to euro Check.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Thanks so much for your thoughts, Doug, appreciate that. Well,
there we go. I thought that was going to be
a winner, but maybe not quite yet but hopefully sometimes
near in the future. Up next, my thoughts on the
direction of Auckland housing. It's twenty four past five.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
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Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay, so it was a big day at Auckland Council
yesterday and I think a good day. The Policy and
Planning Committee met for most of yes day to thrash
out the future of Auckland's housing, debating where and how
Auckland is going to plan for more homes, and the
Council voted eighteen to five to discard the PC seventy
eight and notify the PC one twenty or vote for
the PC one twenty, which basically means the three story
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townhouse is seen increasingly all over Auckland. Suburbs are on
the way out, and the high rises and greater intensification
around key CRL stations and transport corridors are in. This is,
of course, highly contentious and where you lean in the
debate may depend on what neighborhood you live in. Residents
of wealthy inner city suburbs like Mount Eden, Parnell, Herne
Bay and Green Bay will likely have reservations about more
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high rise apartments in their neighborhoods, citing a loss of character,
loss of light, and an increasing demand on infrastructure. The
new plan does retain seventy three percent of all the
special character areas established under the twenty sixteen Auckland Unitary Plans,
so that isn't too bad. The new plan is also
about allowing the Council to down zone in some areas,
and the twenty third twenty twenty three flooding taught us
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that it's well past time we stopped further housing development
in areas we know are prone to flooding and coastal erosion.
This is a no brainer. Also cheaper to build where
goods supporting infrastructure already exists, rather than it is to
create new housing areas where infrastructure has to be developed
from scratch. In particular, given the cost of the CRL,
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it makes sense to have as many people living near
it and benefiting from it as possible, or, as the
Mayor said, there's no point in spending six billion on
something if there's nobody on the damn thing. Even though
the council meeting voted in favor eighteen five, it doesn't
mean there wasn't plenty of discussion around the council table.
Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson asked for conditions around high towers
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and I think this was a sensible thing to do.
She suggested tall apartments need to be set back and
have communal areas and facilities. The Mayor supported the amendment,
saying there needs to be parking and commercial activity on
the lower levels, and so that was incorporated into the
main motion. I mean car parking is essential, right. Councilor
Christine Fletcher, though, didn't have quite the same luck with
her amendment when she asked for greater consultation and for
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the plan change to be publicly notified. At present, public
consultation will begin on November third clothes on December nineteen.
It is quick Fletcher's amendment would have drad consultation out
until the middle of next year. To be honest, yesterday
I thought the Council would take the safe option and
extend consultation, but after much debate about what Minister Chris
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Bishop would think about all this, I think there was
a bit of mind reading going on. This amendment was
voted down fifteen to eight. So while debate was generally
a bit dry, the day did come with some interesting rhetoric.
Councilor Morris Williams thought both options were unacceptable, saying it's
a choice between a firing squad and a lethal injection.
(16:40):
Rather surprisingly, he voted for the plan. I'm not sure
which option he considered this to be.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Franchiers good, So to.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Be honest with you, Good on the council for getting
on with it. Let's make Auckland a more livable modern city,
a lot less ugly townhouses all crammed into our suburbs
and exchange for some modern rises. Let's go and hey,
look if you don't like it. Public consultation will begin
on November third and close on November nineteenth. Keep that
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in mind, you're an early edition will be back shortly.
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Ken filling and for Ryan who was on Drive today,
thanks for being with us. Now, Jimmy Kimmel is back
on air. He chose his words carefully, as you'd expect
in his first monologue back, saying his comments about Charlie
Kirk's death had been ill timed or unclear or maybe both.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Have a listen.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
I'm not sure who had a weirder forty eight hours,
me or the CEO of TYL and all. But I
do want to make something clear because it's important to
me as a human, and that is you understand that
it was never my intention to make light of the
murder of a young man.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I don't I don't think there's anything funny about it.
Speaker 11 (18:34):
I posted a message on Instagram of the daves killed,
sending love to his family and asking him for a compassion,
and I meant it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I still do, Kim.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'll also find back at Trump. He said Trump tried
to cancel him, but it only boosted his right.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
He said Trump tried to cancel him, but it only
boosted his writings, and he joked he might have to
release the Epstein files Epstein files to distract from it.
So that kind of went as expected. Anyway. Katie Fisher
is with us shortly from the US. She is all
over this. A lot of jokes yesterday about the Swedish invasion,
first Ikea and now the governor of the Reserve Bank.
But what do we know about the new governor and
(19:07):
the approach she might take. Cameron Baggray is with me
just before six, and thanks for your feedback this morning
on Nikola Willis and her reaction to the survey. If
that one hundred and fifty are criticizing them, but are
criticizing them both, you can be damn sure the five
million are. That's their prime audience, and none of which
(19:27):
will be feeling it in their pockets like the five million,
fifty percent of which we get to vote next year.
Auckland's new song in the Ghetto. I don't know. I'm
going to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Phil Goff was saying there that you know, we're starting
to see townhouses popping up. I am seeing them everywhere,
and you know what, a lot of them are quite cheap,
and a lot of them a quite ugly, and they're
just cramming them in and everyone's parking on the road.
So we are possibly already in the ghetto. Francesca. It's
a mistake of building accommodation without spaces for cars, even
when close to amenities. Too many clogged streets, especially for emergencies.
(20:02):
You're absolutely right, which is if we build anything with
any height, it must have those car park spaces built underneath. Right,
That's just kind of got to be a no brainer.
It is twenty one.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
To six, Francisco.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Okay, let's head around the country now and joining me
from Dunedin. Callum Proctor and oh On Maru is in
the news quite a bit this week.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Callum yes again this morning for a new community transport
trial which is coming to the town and the region.
The original councils contributing twenty five thousand dollars towards the
six month trial of a not for profit transport service.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
This will provide.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Access for locals there to places where traditional public transport
is not feasible. It happens in other parts of New Zealand.
The council says Zamoru is the best place to trial
this in the South given the exceptional community support. There
details about who can use the service, the cost and
where it will go exactly are still to be worked through,
but this trial is expected to be launched in the
(20:59):
next few months.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And the weather in terned and today Callum.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Some early rain eases to afternoon showers. We still ease
today's high fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Thank you so much. Clais Surewood is in christ Church.
Good morning, Claire, good morning. So we see some new
limits are being put in place to protect endangered Hector's dolphins.
Speaker 12 (21:17):
Yes, this is specifically at Arcadoa Harbor, Francesca. The Department
of Conservation has set restrictions on six permitted operators to
reduce swimming and viewing trips in the harbor to twenty
per day over the summer period. Of course, we know
that there's research that reveals that vessels can disturb dolphin behavior.
DOC Operations manager Andy Thompson says Arcadola is flourishing with
(21:40):
hectors and this gives them time to rest, forage and
protect their young. He says it will also help with
the sustainability of the tourism industry, because if we don't
do this, the dolphins will continue to be pushed out
of the harbor and exposed to further risk.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Weather in christ Church today, Claire, mostly.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
Cloudy, but we will have some showers about mid day,
could be a bit thundery with hail this afternoon, then
clear by evening nor the least changing south west and
a high of sixteen.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Thanks so much. Clear, have a good day. Mixed hold
is with us in Wellington, go and morning.
Speaker 13 (22:10):
Megs good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So ACC workers are putting back on working from home.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Yes, story in the post this morning. ACC has just
had a culture review working from home, hybrid working etc.
It may not be working surprisingly, leading to less teamwork,
more hierarchy silos, fragmented departments, etc. Anyway, ACC wants to
tackle the problem. It says it sounds like some people
are working from home more days than not, one team
in fact coming in less than a day a week
(22:37):
on average. The union the PSA says, though this is
really putting the wind up stuff. People have been living,
planning their lives around working from home and apparently we've
gone quite comfortable. Yeah, I've gotten quite comfortable doing it.
And this is I think an issue a lot of
the public sector is facing that people may be becoming
a bit entitled when it comes to entitlements. Some never
(22:58):
want to return to the office ever, and we wonder
away Wellington's day and it's not just the odd Friday
ACC is having to come up with a new strategy.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Please tell me the weather is better today, Max.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
Cloudy period, strong winds are typical Wellington Day fifteen. The
hay love it.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Thanks so much, Max and neither. Britty Manho was in
the Auckland studio.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Good morning, gre Meetings, Good morning. I'm glad we didn't
work from home, you know, because radio people, I mean,
we're essential. We have to come up, are essential exactly.
I would like I just would not like working from home.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I need to be in an office. Yeah, but then
normally I only come in once or twice a week.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
So even though they're testing the fire alarms for the
last two hours in the newsroom, I can bear with that,
you know, I can deal with that.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's all right. I don't know, it was starting to
grade a little on me, to be honest with your neighbor.
Police are calling on landlords to be vigilant. I just
like to say to the bosses, though they're working and
they're fine, and we all heard them and the lights
of flashing, and it's all good to go.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
Well while you're in here back, just while it's still going,
Oh you're joking. No, no, it's still going and lucky
we can, you know, like remove ourselves and go and
hide in our studios. Oh, I shouldn't say hide work
in our studios. But the rest of the journos in
the newsroom are going, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
All right?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Tell me about the police. They're calling on landlords to
be vigilant.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, Now, what's happened is that there've been sweeping rates
in Auckland one hundred and twenty cannabis growhouses now over
a month, the officers they sees more than ten tons
of cannabis, estimated to be worth more than fifty eight
million dollars. They've arrested thirty people. So what the police
is saying is that they're saying that these growhouses they
were largely hidden in plain sight and average looking rental properties.
(24:33):
So what they're saying to the landlords, you know what, landlords,
you need to treat prospective tenants with caution, the red
flags if they want to pay weekly with cash or
offering to pay above market value to stop the landlord inspecting.
There you go, couple of red flags there. So that's
the police morning here in Auckland. Auckland with today isolated
Charles mainly around midday again early evening today's high seventeen franciscat.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Thank you very much, love for green now Polish thank you.
Feel free to hide out in here if that had
alarm starting to get it is sixteen to six.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
New Stalks International correspondence with Insigne Eye Insurance Peace of
Mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Katie Fisher is with us now from the UIs. Good morning, Katie,
good morning. What is the latest from the Yuen General Assembly.
Speaker 14 (25:21):
Well, yeah, world leaders are continuing to take to the
floor to speak at this huge meeting of every global leader.
Notably today we've heard from President Volodimir Lensky of Ukraine,
who was speaking after yesterday Donald Trump, US President appeared
to suggest he kind of u turned on the war
(25:43):
in Ukraine, suggesting that Ukraine could now reclaim all of
the land that Russia have annexed from it. So that's
a different kind of mood music from the White House,
and so everyone was watching Volosimiir Zlensky to see how
he would kind of respond, and he basically implored the
(26:04):
international community to keep supporting Ukraine by providing more weapons.
Essentially saying that he cannot push back Russia without them,
and explaining to everybody that he to quote him, we're
now living through the most destructive arms race in human history,
suggesting that you know, the use of drones and so
(26:25):
on is going to only mean as they get technologically
more advanced, it will only mean that terrorists or adversarial
states will be able to even perhaps use a nuclear
device on a drone. So it was one message of police,
help us more and the other be warned. Warfare is
only going to get more dangerous.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
When does the General Assembly rip up, Katie?
Speaker 14 (26:50):
The end of this week? So the high level meetings
will be over by the end of this week. Yeah,
and see week in New York.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yes, it is just quickly. What's the reaction being Tojimmy
kimmelsfoth to show Beck.
Speaker 14 (27:02):
Well, really interesting obviously a lot of people tuning in
to see what he would say, and they got a
bit of everything. Really. He was defiant and joky, but
also somber, almost crying at one point, his voice certainly
breaking as he kind of you know, said that he
have no intention of ever making light of the murder
(27:23):
of a young man, and also paying tribute to Erica Kirk,
Charlie Kirk's widow, and saying that her message of forgiveness
should be the one that is taken from all of
this and nothing else. But he also had defiant words
for Donald Trump and said that a government threaten to
silence a comedian that a president does not like is
(27:44):
quite simply anti American. So yeah, a bit of everything
in that opening monologue from him. But I'm sure relieved
to be back on the airwaves.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Katie Fishure, thank you so much. It is ten to six.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Friend here is good.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So, after scanning three hundred candidates, the Reserve Bank has
finally set on a New York governor. Doctor Anna Breman Bremen,
who has been deputy governor of Sweden's Rex Bank since
twenty nineteen, will step into the role from December. She's
the first woman to be named as governor in the
bank's ninety one year history.
Speaker 15 (28:18):
Have listened to this, their serve Bank should and it
will remain a source of strength and stability for the
New Zealand economy. And together with the board and with staff,
we will achieve this by focusing on our core mandate.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Cameron Bakery, independent economist, is with me. Now, thanks for
your time this morning, Cameron, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
O, good border.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Right, what do we know about her?
Speaker 16 (28:51):
Oh, she's got a pretty extensive CV, she's got central
bank experience, she's worked diversitis, she takes pretty all the
boxes that you want of a credible central bank governs. So, yeah,
it's going on.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Do you think this is the kind of job that
people want?
Speaker 16 (29:07):
Well, if the media reports are correct, there are an
awful lot of cvs that were thrown in a few
pretty high credibly candidates in Uzilla had a crack at
the job as well and best person one.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
What do you think her interest in taking the job
in New Zealanders Yes, if you.
Speaker 16 (29:26):
Have yes, she was repeated for your tipity head well
next day down and management at the risk bank. You know, so,
I think most people work for those of the jobs.
Ultimately you wanted the top job. They had a central bank.
Obviously New Zealand's a way way away from where she
sort of was. But yeah, the reserve banks had a
pretty esteemed institution. Obviously they've got knocked around in the
(29:49):
past of the six months in regard to what's going on,
but if you go back, they have a look at
the rezive Bank over the past of the thirty to
thirty five years. In that era we've had low inflation.
So I've been highly credible they've done a very good
job overall.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Cameron, how big a mess does she have to clean
up here? What should be her priorities?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Miss?
Speaker 16 (30:09):
I think is the wrong for a word, if you
look at obviously at the epicenter of the central bank,
they sort of got three board functions price stability, we
don't like high inflation, we're like low inflation. We've learned
that lesson very sevidly over the past sort of a
few years. And she's come out and obviously fired a
(30:29):
couple of shots in regard that they're going to be
focused on inflation and the center of any central bank
is your credibility. So she's been straight out of the
blocks in regard to say needs are what the focus
is going to be. She'll be focused on prudential supervision
and of course oversight of the pavement system. Now are
we going to see any groundbreaking changes in regard to
(30:49):
the operation of the Reserve Bank.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I think the answer is known.
Speaker 16 (30:51):
You know, the Reserve Bank, there's more than the governor.
The governor does not decide where interest rates are. All
the OCO is going to be, it's decided by it
commits a very transparent process where I think we're going
to see some change. The Reserve Bank is perhaps within culture,
so what's the space going forward?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Okay, you don't happen to know how while Sweden is
doing economically, I mean, what does this tell us anything
about the way she might approach things here?
Speaker 16 (31:19):
Well, central bank, sweetest central bank had incredibly lower interest
rates and they were quite pleased to get back into
positive regist rate territory. But once again, she's going to
be laser focus on the key priorities because the eb
center of any central bank is credibility, and that's credibility
(31:39):
of the framework. That's credibility, and the governor. It's credibility
in the governance. And when you lose a governor and
you lose a cheer within six months, you're going to
take a bit of a reputational hat. So the Reserve
Bank needs to address some of those reputational aspects. And
I think it'll be not too fan of the the
term because the government gets on trying a back I
(32:00):
think it's going to be getting back to good old
fashioned basis.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Thank you, Yeah, Cameron Bakery. Always appreciate your thoughts. Thanks
so much for your time. It is six to six.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Get ahead of the Headlines on an early edition with
Francesca Rudkin and one roof Love where you Live, News.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Talks at Me.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
It is four to sex and coming up at six
Mike Hosking is with.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
You and he is with me.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Now, good morning, greetings to you. Do you watch Slow
Horses on Apple? The TV show or Slow Horse?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
I discovered that I can't remember, say, a couple of
months ago.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Season five just down, yes, I know.
Speaker 9 (32:36):
And so once we get through the Girlfriend, which is
well worth watching, it's on Prime and that's that's surprisingly good.
And so once we get through that, then we're.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Onto the slow watching not on Apple through Prime.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
Now I'm watching it on Prime Prime because Prime Video.
I'm going straight to Prime. Don't even get me started
on the on the streaming. But once we get through
the Girlfriend, then we'll go to the Slow Horse.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So, okay, so you haven't you haven't started season five? Okay,
do it? The Guardian see that it is a bit average,
a bit of a mess, and he gave it through
out of five stars, but I think.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
No time for reviewers.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's fun. It's gone back to being a bit silly
and a bit absurd and a bit fun.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
So if you.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Serious, I thought the.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
Last season, I like the main guy. He's good, and
we started the morning show and that's just absurd, so bad.
So anyway, so it'll be the girlfriends, slow horses. So
excellent recommendation.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
By the way, is coming in to see us, so
we last time we talked to him, he was on
the road winning. He's had a very good season, of course,
but he's coming in to see us this morning after eight.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
It's fantastic because and you were just telling me season's over.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Well it is, and time to rest and recuperate here
and check your swing and going to the tarting stance
and all that sort of stuff. So he's with us
after right.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Brilliant. Thank you very much for your company today. Have
a great Thursday. For my costume is with your next
Take care, I think.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
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to Newstalk SETB from five am weekdays, or follow the
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