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The PSA’s taking ACC to the employment relations authority, PSA National Secretary, Fleur Fitzsimons says workers have been blindsided over new work-from-home rules.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
Early Erditia with r the Supercenter, explore r V successories
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
They'd be welcome wanting to you so ACC staff have
been told that they will have to work at least
three days in their office in a week instead of two,
which is the current deal. The union's outraged. We're going
to find out why in about five minutes time. A
great weekend of sport with a load of winds. Andrew
Ordison will wrap it up all in ten minutes time,
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including the retirement of King Williamson from T twenty. I'll
tell you which river in North Auckland is being systematically
ruined by water care and five reew wards are being
built at our hospitals. They're called rapid builds that look
suspiciously like prefabs. Will have Health Minister sim And Brown
to tell us about the plans and he'll be talking
to us just before six. We're off to the UK
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with Gavin Gray. We have correspondence from right around New
Zealand and you can have your say as well by
texting ninety two ninety two. A small change does apply
a good Morning tier. It's seven out of five.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, it's Funday, the third of November. A horrific scene
on a train from Doncaster to London, a mess stebbing lived,
eleven people in hospital and two fighting for their lives
at Both attackers are apparently in custody.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Within eight minutes of the nine to nine to nine
call being made, two men were brought into police custody,
where they remain this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
These are the first mail A thirty two year old male,
a black British national, and a thirty five year old man,
a British national of Caribbean descent. They were both arrested
on suspicion of attempted murder.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And authority say there's no sign that was terror related
to and Meanwhile, in the UK, the Royal cleanup continues.
The UK governments here as it's working to remove Prince
Andrews's former Prince Andrews last honorary title and they're doing
that at the King's request. He lost his title of
Prince last week. Meanwhile, over in the US, lawmakers are
digging into the Epstein case and they want Andrew to
(02:10):
finally front up and answer questions.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
He can absolutely do it remotely. He can have a lawyer.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
President.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
We have many options for him to tell us what
he knows.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And finally, two more had been charged over the Louver heist,
a man and a woman, both of course denying it completely.
They'll joined two others who have partially admitted some involvement.
The jewels worth one hundred million dollars. Well, they're still missing.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
When these five were picked up on the Wednesday, we
were told that one of them, one of the five,
was somebody who had been at the scene but not
gone into the loop, been down below and helped with
the getaway. So it seems likely that this other person charged,
a thirty seven year old man, was one of the
people on the ground on the road outside the loop
when all this took place.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's nine minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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Speaker 2 (03:11):
So this coming week in the twenty twenty five United
Nations Climate Change Conference gets underway in Brazil, and the
world will gather yet again to discuss the climate and
come up with not much at all. But America is
not going. They have decided not to send a representative
because Donald Trump thinks the climate change is a con job,
which I think is a cop out from the cop conference.
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If you don't believe in it, go and change the
world's mind. Don't sulk at home calling bs. If you
think the world is being conned, go and tell them how.
But no matter what you believe, the weather continues. The
headlines have been everywhere over the past week. New Zealand storms,
communities without power, the Caribbean being wrecked by a superpowered
hurricane fired on by superheated oceans. And then the UN
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Secretary General last week waited in saying we've to prevent
a one point five degree rise in temperatures, So world,
brace yourself for a bad climate. And then there was
Bill Gates. He released a memo ahead of this climate summit.
He argued that climate change is serious, but it's not apocalyptic,
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and he said let's talk innovation and not alarmism. So
when peoplehoard Bill say that, they argued that he's made
a one hundred and eighty degree turn against climate change.
But actually I don't think he said that at all
he reckoned. The focus should shift from strictly reducing emissions
and temperature targets to improving human lives in the face
of the climate, especially the poorest countries, that we should
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concentrate on surviving whatever comes our way. He didn't turn
his back on climate change mitigation on human activities. He's
just being pragmatic and rational, saying, well, where this is
pretty horrific, you're going to have to do something about it.
If you want to live in Jamaica, build homes that
can take two hundred kilometers in our winds and flooding.
And if you want to live in Kluther, make sure
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your infrastructure is strong enough to take some wild weather.
So that's what I think COP thirty should be about
as it arrives in Brazil this weekend, they should be
talking about how we get through, how we survive what's
already hitting us. And the States turning their back on
the conference is a bit like an ostriche bearing its head.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
As that be.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So apparently the people who run the ACC went to
the staff and gave them one hour notice and said, look,
from now on, you have to work three days in
the office, are not two and the workers were outraged,
and so are you. I can see already we've got
texts coming through ACC stuff should be in their office
Monday through Friday. So why is the union so outraged
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at what does not seem to be an onerous task
of being in an office three days of a week
in a five day working week. We'll find out in
a few moments time. Flurffit Simons will be joining us.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
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Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's coming up fifteen minutes after five. So the PSA
is taking the ACC to the EERA, that's the Employment
Relations Authority. They claim they've been blindsided over new work
from home rules ACC Todd staff. They now need to
be in the office three days a week. That's up
from two. And the Union's here is they got less
than one hour's notice of the change. So PSA National
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Secretary Flir fitz Simons is joining me. Now come on
into your flir.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What's the case you're taking?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Really? What we're asking the employments authority to do is
to suspend the new role and instead engage in some
proper consultation with ACC staff with an open mind. Because
many people have planned their whole lives around their current
working from home arrangements. And we've got a provision in
the employment agreement that says they meant to talk to
us before they make changes, just not announce them to staff.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Why should they get these rights because a lot of people,
and I'm seeing this happening already on our text, a
lot of people would say that working three days in
an office is not a hard ask.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well, actually, what many people at ACC did is they
saw the jobs that they've currently got advertised, and when
they were advertised, they said three days working from home.
So people applied for these jobs changed roles and now
they feel really deceived and consider it sort of false advertising.
But actually, when you can work from home, and when
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it can work for you and your employer, it can
be a very good thing. It can improve productivity, it
can mean better concentration, and we know that it does
improve staff morale as well.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But shouldn't the employer get the right to choose the
best way to improve productivity and if they believe it's
from working in the office three days a week. That's
the way. Why shouldn't they have that right, Well, the.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Reality is they agreed a provision in the con tracked
with us which says that they will consult with staff
on proposed policy changes, and then they recruited all these
workers on the basis that they could work from home
like that. So they're feeling really cheated and misled.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So if you got together and you had a bit
of a negotiation about it and they gave you more notice,
the one hour thing was I was a bit rough.
But if you got together had a bit of a
chat about it, is three days a week really such
a hard ask?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, there are two elements really. The first one is
they do need to talk to us. We will listen
and we expect them to listen to staff. Then there's
another element, which is that staff do have this agreed
commitment that's been made to them. Now, employers in New
Zealand can't simply change contractual commitments. They need to agree
them with the worker. So there's sort of two elements
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to it really, And we're asking the Employment Relations Authority
to tal ACC that they need to listen it's pretty unfortunate.
It's come to that we shouldn't need to tell an
employer through legal action that I need to listen to
their staff before they make it a decision.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But here we are all right, Flur, I thank you
so much for your time this Monday morning. Flir FitzSimons
as the PSA National Secretary, how do you feel about this?
You can textas ninety two ninety two small charge does apply.
Already got a text in and it says Andrew. It
has become patently obvious that the labor friendly unions are
held bend on undermining this government. And it has been
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proven that our productivity is very low and working from
home is clearly not helping. So are they just causing trouble?
What do you think? Ninety two ninety two is the number?
It is eighteen minutes after five the marathon, the Auclad
Marathon was over the weekend. Seventeen thousand people went and
ran all round the streets of all beautiful weather for
it as well, and in the women's race, Bridget Dennahey,
(09:47):
who was the champion last year, was the champion again
this year and she broke the record. She ran that
marathon in two hours and thirty eight minutes and ten seconds,
which is a great time. She was on fire. And
I want to say a big ups to the guy
spotted on the side of the course who had a
big sign on as seventeen thousand people ran past and
the sign read I can call you an uber. Eighteen
(10:07):
after five Looking more sport with Andrew Ordison in just
a few moments.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
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Speaker 2 (10:22):
Andrew Ordison Cricket Tragic is in the studio with Mike
warning to you reading's Andrew so Cane quit yesterday from
T twenties for the internationals but not the money makers.
So was this a shock or not? I don't think so. Really,
I think it's been coming for a while.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I mean, as he is, he famously said back in
the day, I mean, was it with it that T
twenties wasn't as you know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That it was at least preferred of the three forms.
Thing not his thing. He likes to build a build
it slowly. Third favorite He's not whacking bash. So he's
still with us for the fifty Games, fifty overs, he's
still still with the one day to Nationals, and still
with tests, and you think about the test program coming up.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Well in the coming year they'll go to England, they'll
play India as well at home, and then they'll play Australia.
So there's still plenty on the horizon for came Williamson.
In that regard, you would think fitness pending. But thirty
five years old now and perhaps time just to step
back from one and it's just going to be one.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Absolutely and well what a great whitewash of England. And
now it happens all over again because Thursday West Indies. Yes,
so there's.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Your bumper spring of cricket.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
This continues, Andrew. I didn't like the idea of the
spring of cricket, but I'm actually begetting to quite enjoy
it well, especially when we went. The w's helped. I
also like watching rugby early on a Sunday morning, not
too early, so you can wake up, have a cup
of coffee and set down. That's a great time for
it is that and I knew that Island would be rough,
(11:53):
but I didn't expect the All Backs to be as
rough as they were.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Yeah it was, and it was sort of stop stars turnovers.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It was messy, was that first half.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
But they pulled it together thankfully, and I guess that's
that's what you want and expect those All Black teams
in the past to do it in the last twenty minutes,
what three tries and effectively turning the game around and
keeping the Grand Slam narrative.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We're going to hear a lot about in the next
few weeks. Everyone talked to me about, you know, all
Ireland is going to be the big challenge, but then
England just wasted Australia in the weekend and I've been
watching their Premiership and they're playing really beautiful football over there,
and I'm getting a bit concerned about this game.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I'm thinking England's probably the big the key to it,
I mean Scotland and going all right as well. I
mean Wales not so much and many of the last
last I guess Domino to four if you're going to
take out their fifth Grand Slam. But yeah, I good
to knock over Ireland, especially when you look back me
now that Soldier Field episode from twenty sixteen and et cetera.
(12:50):
It was a bit haunting, but they were able to
do it and move on through. But I mean, yeah,
just good to see the last twenty gets good to
see some of the other players coming in off the
bench after sudden injuries with the Jordian and Scott Barrett,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So and Live Sport, we've got a World Cup final happening. Yeah,
and last I saw fifty one for one in the tenth.
It's probably moved on a little bit now. But importantly
for South Africa against India and Mumbai, Laura vulbart Is
the opening bat of course, made that one sixty nine
off one hundred and forty three balls in the semi
absolute star player for them of eight and share.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
It's gonna be interesting. They're chasing two ninety nine to win.
So yeah, I think she could be another thriller. Keep
us up to potentially.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
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It's five twenty six. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Bryan Bridge.
He's back again. On Thursday, Heather was away on Friday.
She went to Oats in Melbourne and it was amazing.
So I was on the radio. So in the drivetime
show ran about six pm Friday, I interviewed representative of
oyster farmers in the Mahangi area who were outraged at
a wastewater dumped by Watercare that had poisoned all their oysters.
(14:03):
They have to close because of this dump. They have
to close for twenty eight days, close down their business.
One farmers had to dump eighty thousand oysters. That is
not good for business, that's not good for their cash flow.
And as the interview went on, I found out that
this is not an isolated incident. In fact, it's happened
wait for this, thirty nine times this year. And even worse,
apparently Watercare has the right to do a dump like
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this two hundred times every year. I was flabbergasted. That's
a lot of dumping into a river, of a lot
of wastewater that's killing the oysters and the mullets. And
then on the weekend I actually got a personal call
from a local MP and she told me the Watercare
basically wrote their own consent, they needed to involve public consultation.
Yet all they did was drop some leaflets at the
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walk with Library, so nobody knew this was happening. She
raised the issue with the mayor, the man who wants
to make Auckland a global city, and mister fix It
didn't seem at all interested in fixing it. And so
now they dumped the region's wastewater into the Muhoe Rangy
River and they're allowed to do that two hundred times
a year. It's killing the river, it's destroying the oyster business.
It's decibated commercial fishing in the area. So it's a
(15:10):
bit of a symptom of intensification because walkwiths going off.
It's a symptom of the infrastructure being unable to cope
with the new demand. We build the houses, we don't
make the infrastructure. And it's a symptom of a council
not having enough money to fix the problem and not
having enough desire to help the effective businesses and not
wanting to rescue a wrecked river. And honestly, I'd rather
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go and swim in the River Thames in London or
the sand in Paris than swim in the Maharangi in
rural North Auckland. And isn't that a shame? This issue
has been swept under the carpet by water Care and
the authorities. And it's frankly just not good enough because
day by day, clean green functioning New Zealand is becoming
a myth and a lie we all like to tell.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Zibby.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So the PSA up in arms at the ACC was
told that, oh, you're going to have to work three
days a week in the office now instead of two
one hour's notice, and so they're taking them to legal action.
All right, I said, how do you feel? Well? Nobody
is supporting the PSA. Everyone says a text and needs
to go back to work. That's why all these shops
and small businesses are failing in the business zones. There's
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no one out buying the sandwiches, pies and coffee. Marty Andrew,
I know an ACC worker. He's fine with three days
a week, but only if they don't mandate the days,
because he's petrified of losing his four day weekends. The
er better support ACC on this because workers are taking
the piss. Another Texas says, father them if they don't
want to drag themselves to the office at least three
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days a week. ACC is a cockcase anyway, and another
one says entitlement. This is appalling as we have low productivity.
Said at home if you want to, but yeah, Fleur
is so out of touch, so that issue will rumble on.
Speaking of issues rumbling on, Karen Ture said something to
Ryan Bridge bet a fortnight ago on this radio station,
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the numbers of people who have been abused in state care.
And Ryan held her up on that.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Over the weekend on Q and A talking to Jack Tame,
Karen came out and said, made it an apology. So
I'll tell you the full details about this and the
Karen Schuer back down because of the Ryan Bridge interview,
which took two weeks for her to do that. That's
coming up and we'll go right around the country. We'll
hear the latters from Gavin Gray about that terrible stabbing
in Doncaster on a train. It's here the addition, I'm
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Andrew Dickins. This is News TALKSB.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
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Speaker 2 (18:08):
According Welcome to the Working Week. I Maderew Dickinson for
Ryan Bridge, and he's back by Thursday. So everyone's getting
stuck into the PSA. Everyone's getting stuck into the acc
workers who are outraged that they were told they have
to come to the office three days a week instead
of two. But every now and then a few people
are actually saying, well, actually, it's not that bad. Andrew
(18:30):
writes a texta, instead of vilifying the people who work
from home, why don't you animize the benefits of a
modern approach enabled by technology in terms of work? Okay,
thank you, and someone else says I'm tired of hearing
people go on about public servants not being productive because
they have a working from home option. There is no
evidence other than someone's opinion. Statistically staff for breaking records
weekly where I work, which is immigration and working from
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home doing it fighting for their contractual rights while no
pay rises is in sight. So stop saying they're fighting
the current government. Our union is standing up for the
injustice of public opinion. And if it was your employer
changing the terms of your contract with an hour's notice,
you'd be rightfully upset as well. So thank you for
your texts. It is twenty two to six now if
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you cast your mind back a couple of weeks to
this radio show. Ryan Bridge was interviewing Karen Ture and
they were talking about the abuse in state care and
she was touting a fourteen percent drop and abuse in
state care residences, but unfortunately she left out the part
where overall abuse and care hit record levels. Have I listen,
(19:36):
are you cherry putting here?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (19:39):
So the harm that you were speaking to around that
could be anything so low level high level. The harm
that I'm talking about in the decrease in residences is
as serious harm.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And now two weeks later, talking to Jack Tame on
Q and A, she finally admitted she got it wrong.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Reflecting on those comments in that interview, do you accept
they would have mislead people?
Speaker 9 (20:07):
I accept that that people may have thought that, and
I apologize if they have. My intention was never that.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
How about that? I think, ladies and gentlemen, that's what's
called the media holding power to account. It's twenty one to.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Six Newstalk Sidby.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Let's go right around the country. We're going to Dunedin
and Jamie Cunningham joins me. Hello, good morning. No longer
free to park in Dunedin City Center.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Yeah, that's right. The city Council's introducing parking fees seven
days a week to multiple streets in the CBD after
consulting with the public twice. Sundays used to be free
for residents, but council says not paying an overstaying time
limits means others can't use these spaces and freeing up
parks allows for more customer turnover and benefits local businesses.
(20:55):
But parts of George and Prince's Street will remain free
of charge with time life it's still enforced.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right. How's the weather for Rotago today?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Mainly fine, high cloud from this evening with westerly's turning
northeasterly this afternoon and a high of twenty one to
christ Church.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We go closse sure with good morning, Good morning, So
we know the Chrastach has got a number of abandoned
mansions because of what happened back in the day. Now
one of those mansions is going to be renovated.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Yeah, and lots of people will know Rickitton's Antonio Hall.
It is really badly earthquake damage. It's also been the
scene of multiple fires and there have been numerous problems
with it being overridden by rodents and homeless people squatting
in there, for example, for several years. Now we finally
have confirmation there is plans to transform Antonio Hall into
student accommodation. It is less than a kilometer from Canterbury University.
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We've reported on it extensively, but around a third of
applicants for the Canterbury Uni halls are missing out on
a spot. Spokesperson for Mainland Capital Director Ben Bridge says
the hall will target students beyond first year and we'll
hope to open in twenty twenty eight. He says residents
will have their own defined house and also shares some
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communal facilities on site.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
How to weather a bit cloudy early, otherwise fine.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Northeasterly is turning northwest at a high twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Speaking of weather, Wellington looked beautiful yesterday, Max Toll.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Yes, the tides have turned. It's just sun here, sun
and sea. Wonderful times, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And somebody's fallen off a balcony.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah, bit of drama yesterday afternoon on Brooklyn Roads. What
we do know, and it's not a great deal at
this stage, is that there was a gunshot heard yesterday
afternoon and then a person then fell from a balcony
from an apartment complex. Police were told about the gunshot
when they arrived. They haven't definitively confirmed it was a
shot from a gun. They are investigating armed officers, but
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there yesterday. Thankfully the fallen person has moderate injuries. I say, thankfully,
only moderate injuries. Brooklyn Road is, of course, the windy
street leading up from the city toward the suburb of
Brooklyn Water. Come on, I'm sure, and.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Will your golden weather continue?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Certainly well, mainly find today some stronger wind, but that's
just Wellington sixteen.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Today's high and I thank you. Neither read your money
From Auklan. Good morning, good morning. We've got an electric
bus catching fire.
Speaker 12 (23:13):
Yes now, look what's happened is that this overbridge was
hit by an electric bus which then caught fire. Now
the overbridge will remain closed until it's been assessed by
a structural engineer the emergency services. They were called to
the Constellation Bus station. This is obviously on the North Shore.
This happened yesterday afternoon. We know the bus was out
of service at the time. No passengers on board. The
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driver got out safely, thank goodness. A number of bus
routes are being detoured until the overpass is deemed safe.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, everyone's going Was it the battery? Was it the battery?
Is it because of the battery?
Speaker 12 (23:48):
Well, look, I know people will be saying things like that,
but there will be an investigation. Nothing has been said yet, Skamer.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But yes, how's hawkand's weather? Okay?
Speaker 12 (23:56):
Well, Auckland is you can brace yourself a hot, hot,
hot fine weather this week today fine twenty one is
a high. It's going to be like that for the
rest of the week and it's going to climb to
up to twenty three by midweek.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Beautiful, And I thank you to seventeen minutes to six. Now,
speaking about overpasses, there's a brand new overpass and Auckham
built by AT It's called the Reeves Road Flyover and
it's part of that whole eastern busway around Pacoranga area
and it just opened the other day and everyone went hurrah,
particularly the local MP Simmy and Brown. Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem as though the flyover works perfectly, particularly on the
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afternoon drive home. So I'm going to talk to Simmy
and Brown about that because he is the local MP
and he was very rare rah about that flyover and
it opened and then it's half a disaster, So we'll
talk about that shortly with Symyan Plus he's come up
with this idea of a rapid builled ward for hospitals,
which sounds awfully like prefabs, and we know what prefabs
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are like. They get trucked in and after a little
while they suddenly become permanent. And you know it's not
the world's greatest architecture nor fit for purpose. So what
the new rapid build wards and where are they're going
to be built? Simeon Brown just before six right here
on News TALKSB but Gavin Gray from the UK is
next every day. Well, Melford has gone and done it again.
(25:11):
They've got a clean sweep in twenty twenty five, taking
out not one, but two, no actually three can Star
Kiwisaver awards. So now they've taken home Canstar's keisave a
Provider of the Year for the sixth year in a row,
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Zid Kevin Gray from the UK, Good morning, Mine there Andrew.
The London train from Doncaster was a horror show.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
So it's a great deal of shock in this country
actually over what happens. So this was a train traveling
from Doncaster in the North of England and to London
on a Saturday night, and all of a sudden, after
it had stopped at its sort of last big stop
at Peterborough. It was then supposed to be running direct
through to London on a fast line. Sadly, two men
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are then believed to have got up with knives and
started stabbing people. At the moment, we have been told
that two are being held. They are British nationals and
being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder. We now know
that there are two in hospital with life threatening conditions.
Earlier today it was said to be up to nine,
so that's a more positive figure, and now four have
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been discharged from hospital. A quick thinking train driver, when
he was alerted that there was a crisis on board,
moved phone ahead to the control center and moved the
train from the fast line which he wouldn't have been
able to stop on, and they were diverted to the
slower line and then the train stopped at an unscheduled
(27:19):
stopped at Huntingdon, about one hundred and fifty kilometers north
of London, and there at the platform the police met
the train, everyone poured off and two men there were arrested. Now,
originally counter terrorism police were investigating this. We are now
being told it is likely not to be terror related.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yes, and indeed the people who are against immigration have
been going on about them being immigrants, but they're British born,
aren't they, And so the question will be how many
generations do you have to live in England and before
you become not an immigrant?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
More details are coming out of this pair, but at
the at the moment, just that bald statement as it were,
just saying they are British nationals and they are being questioned.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
All right, I think for your time, Gavin Gray from
the UK. It is now eleven Minister six, all right.
The government's adding one hundred and forty new hospital beds
across five hospitals from mid next year. Health Minister Simy
and Brown says Middlemore, White Cattle, Wellington and Nelson will
get new wards along with Hawk's Bay. They announced the
Hawks Bay ward earlier this year. The wards will be
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built off site and then installed at each hospital. They're
calling them rapids build units and so the Health Minister
Simyon Brown joins, we now get barding to U Simion.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So by rapid build you mean prefabs emergency stop gaps.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
No, this is a different way of delivering hospital wards effectively.
It's building them off site means they can be built
a lot faster, but they're built to a fifty year
life expectancy, which is effectively the same as any any
build of any major infrastructure. It's built to the Building Code.
So these are high quality modern hospital wards. But by
(28:58):
delivering them through modular design, build off site, then deliver
and install, we can deliver this a lot faster, meaning
we get the benefits for patients and the staff a
lot sooner, so.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
They won't need to be replaced in the short term.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
But these are designs as are said to the Building Code,
modern standards. But we have to do things differently as
a country if we want to get the infrastructure we
need much faster and also more cost effectively. And that's
the other benefit of doing things this way, and we're
open to looking at that through infrastructure. You've seen that
with the work Ericus Stanford's been doing with school classrooms
(29:37):
as well. How do we bring the cost down, how
do we deliver faster so that people actually benefit from
the infrastructure sooner, which is actually what we want to
build the infrastructure for now.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Will these one hundred and forty beds materially alter our
capacity and do they improve the core problem which at
the end of the day, is a shortage of staff.
Speaker 13 (29:55):
Look at the same time, howth New Zealand will be
investing in additional staff for these new wards because ultimately
we need to make sure that they're there for to
be able to provide their extra care to patients. But
ultimately the purpose of these wards and these hospitals is
to do two things. One is to improve the number
of hospital beds but also to help support additional hospital
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flow through from the emergency department into the hospital. So
they've been around the hospitals has been identifying what the
critical pinch points are, what the key areas of need are,
and that's where the focus of these new wards will be,
so that we can make sure people are being seen sooner,
getting a treatment in any faster.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So this is the future, this is how we're going
to see our hospitals built in the future.
Speaker 13 (30:39):
Well, I think this is a new opportunity and this
is a different way of doing things. You know, when
it comes to some of the larger builds, this tension
are as well around modular design, construction and build as well. Ultimately,
though we want these buildings to be long lasting, they
need to be to high standards and to be able
to meet care that patients need. But we absolutely as
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a country need to be looking at what is the
most cost effective way to deliver the infrastructure we need
so we can get it done quickly. We spend far
too long as a country talking about infrastructure and not
enough time delivering it. And so it's it's ways to
do things faster and cheaper, more cost effectively, so we
actually get the infrastructure delivered. We should absolutely before that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So while we're talking about infrastructure, and while I've got
to hear the new Reefs Road lyover in Pakaranga, which
is an AT project that you've been very supportive of
for quite some time, but they opened it up. It
turns out it's got traffic flow problems for the afternoon
drive time. So what's wrong with it? And what are
you going to do?
Speaker 13 (31:37):
Oh if it's working very effectively for traffic going to
the city, I met someone the other days said they
used to spend forty minutes going to work. It's now
fifteen minutes, so that's fantastic. But all the way home,
it used to have the intert Key, the key intersection
where the traffic met used to have three lanes of throughput.
Now it's down to two and so the simple message
to Opland transporters we need a third lane in the
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intersection redesigned. Ultimately, if you reduce the number of lanes,
you reduce the flow and the traffic backs up. So
we meet with Allking Transport on Friday. They're going to
have a relook at it, and my message to them
as we need to look at it changes urgently.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And it's an early start for you. How are we
going with a wage negotiations.
Speaker 13 (32:19):
In terms of the negotiations with the unions around the
bargaining bargaining does continue and my message to both parties
is to negotiate in good faith and find a resolution
so that we can continue to provide the care that
patients need.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Syrian, I thank you very much for your time. Simon
joining us from the airport. He's taking the brand new
Red Eye which happens at six o'clock to Wellington right now,
getting into work early. It is six to six.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
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Speaker 2 (32:54):
That'd be so my costumes in the circle, what is
now John sent me a text already and yes, very
good question. Can you ask Mike what is the point
in interviewing Dame no Lan when she is under contract
and New Zealand Netball management. I'm damn sure that she
will not be allowed to comment on the appalling process
that has been treating her and heaps the staff are
leaving the organization, but she'll be staying stull. She's talking
(33:15):
with you today. Will she say anything?
Speaker 14 (33:18):
Well, I don't know. That's why we're having her on
a program. That's that's the whole point of the exercise.
If where if we canceled or didn't do things simply
because we're sitting there in the morning going I don't
think she'll say anything, So we won't ask any questions.
We wouldn't actually do.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Anything, would we do?
Speaker 14 (33:30):
And so I'll be I'm I mean, the interesting thing
about the interview is she hasn't spoken. Everybody I think
is in some way, shope or form interested in what's happened.
How it happened, why it happened hasn't been resolved to
her satisfaction. Is she genuinely happy?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, that's the very big thing. Because they all talked
about you know, the player's mental, wealth, health and well being.
What about no leagons.
Speaker 14 (33:53):
I mean, that's that's a tough in our I think
the general consensus is she's been treated abysmally, yes, and
she may come on and go, I was treated abysmally
but it's sorted.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Or she may come on and go, look I'm happy
and we all move forward.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
So you will never know that unless you ask the
question of seven o'clock, seven o'clock, seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The leader lead, no lead. On the Mike Husking Breakfast,
my name is Andrew Dickinson.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Here.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
It's all Wednesday, and Ryan's back on Thursday. Yes, mister
Husking never takes holidays.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
They'd be welcome wanting to you so ACC staff have
been told that they will have to work at least
three days in their office in a week instead of two,
which is the current deal. The union's outraged. We're going
to find out why in about five minutes time. A
great weekend of sport with a load of winds. Andrew
Ordison will wrap it up all in ten minutes time,
(00:33):
including the retirement of King Williamson from T twenty. I'll
tell you which river in North Auckland is being systematically
ruined by water care and five reew wards are being
built at our hospitals. They're called rapid builds that look
suspiciously like prefabs. Will have Health Minister sim And Brown
to tell us about the plans and he'll be talking
to us just before six. We're off to the UK
(00:54):
with Gavin Gray. We have correspondence from right around New
Zealand and you can have your say as well by
texting ninety two ninety two. A small change does apply
a good Morning tier. It's seven out of five.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, it's Funday, the third of November. A horrific scene
on a train from Doncaster to London, a mess stebbing lived,
eleven people in hospital and two fighting for their lives
at Both attackers are apparently in custody.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Within eight minutes of the nine to nine to nine
call being made, two men were brought into police custody,
where they remain this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I can tell you that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
These are the first mail A thirty two year old male,
a black British national, and a thirty five year old man,
a British national of Caribbean descent. They were both arrested
on suspicion of attempted murder.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And authority say there's no sign that was terror related
to and Meanwhile, in the UK, the Royal cleanup continues.
The UK governments here as it's working to remove Prince
Andrews's former Prince Andrews last honorary title and they're doing
that at the King's request. He lost his title of
Prince last week. Meanwhile, over in the US, lawmakers are
digging into the Epstein case and they want Andrew to
(02:10):
finally front up and answer questions.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
He can absolutely do it remotely. He can have a lawyer.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
President.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
We have many options for him to tell us what
he knows.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And finally, two more had been charged over the Louver heist,
a man and a woman, both of course denying it completely.
They'll joined two others who have partially admitted some involvement.
The jewels worth one hundred million dollars. Well, they're still missing.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
When these five were picked up on the Wednesday, we
were told that one of them, one of the five,
was somebody who had been at the scene but not
gone into the loop, been down below and helped with
the getaway. So it seems likely that this other person charged,
a thirty seven year old man, was one of the
people on the ground on the road outside the loop
when all this took place.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's nine minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
Dickens and R The Supercenter explore are these accessories and
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Speaker 2 (03:11):
So this coming week in the twenty twenty five United
Nations Climate Change Conference gets underway in Brazil, and the
world will gather yet again to discuss the climate and
come up with not much at all. But America is
not going. They have decided not to send a representative
because Donald Trump thinks the climate change is a con job,
which I think is a cop out from the cop conference.
(03:33):
If you don't believe in it, go and change the
world's mind. Don't sulk at home calling bs. If you
think the world is being conned, go and tell them how.
But no matter what you believe, the weather continues. The
headlines have been everywhere over the past week. New Zealand storms,
communities without power, the Caribbean being wrecked by a superpowered
hurricane fired on by superheated oceans. And then the UN
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Secretary General last week waited in saying we've to prevent
a one point five degree rise in temperatures, So world,
brace yourself for a bad climate. And then there was
Bill Gates. He released a memo ahead of this climate summit.
He argued that climate change is serious, but it's not apocalyptic,
(04:20):
and he said let's talk innovation and not alarmism. So
when peoplehoard Bill say that, they argued that he's made
a one hundred and eighty degree turn against climate change.
But actually I don't think he said that at all
he reckoned. The focus should shift from strictly reducing emissions
and temperature targets to improving human lives in the face
of the climate, especially the poorest countries, that we should
(04:41):
concentrate on surviving whatever comes our way. He didn't turn
his back on climate change mitigation on human activities. He's
just being pragmatic and rational, saying, well, where this is
pretty horrific, you're going to have to do something about it.
If you want to live in Jamaica, build homes that
can take two hundred kilometers in our winds and flooding.
And if you want to live in Kluther, make sure
(05:03):
your infrastructure is strong enough to take some wild weather.
So that's what I think COP thirty should be about
as it arrives in Brazil this weekend, they should be
talking about how we get through, how we survive what's
already hitting us. And the States turning their back on
the conference is a bit like an ostriche bearing its head.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
As that be.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So apparently the people who run the ACC went to
the staff and gave them one hour notice and said, look,
from now on, you have to work three days in
the office, are not two and the workers were outraged,
and so are you. I can see already we've got
texts coming through ACC stuff should be in their office
Monday through Friday. So why is the union so outraged
(05:50):
at what does not seem to be an onerous task
of being in an office three days of a week
in a five day working week. We'll find out in
a few moments time. Flurffit Simons will be joining us.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
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Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's coming up fifteen minutes after five. So the PSA
is taking the ACC to the EERA, that's the Employment
Relations Authority. They claim they've been blindsided over new work
from home rules ACC Todd staff. They now need to
be in the office three days a week. That's up
from two. And the Union's here is they got less
than one hour's notice of the change. So PSA National
(06:36):
Secretary Flir fitz Simons is joining me. Now come on
into your flir.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What's the case you're taking?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Really? What we're asking the employments authority to do is
to suspend the new role and instead engage in some
proper consultation with ACC staff with an open mind. Because
many people have planned their whole lives around their current
working from home arrangements. And we've got a provision in
the employment agreement that says they meant to talk to
us before they make changes, just not announce them to staff.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Why should they get these rights because a lot of people,
and I'm seeing this happening already on our text, a
lot of people would say that working three days in
an office is not a hard ask.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well, actually, what many people at ACC did is they
saw the jobs that they've currently got advertised, and when
they were advertised, they said three days working from home.
So people applied for these jobs changed roles and now
they feel really deceived and consider it sort of false advertising.
But actually, when you can work from home, and when
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it can work for you and your employer, it can
be a very good thing. It can improve productivity, it
can mean better concentration, and we know that it does
improve staff morale as well.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But shouldn't the employer get the right to choose the
best way to improve productivity and if they believe it's
from working in the office three days a week. That's
the way. Why shouldn't they have that right, Well, the.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Reality is they agreed a provision in the con tracked
with us which says that they will consult with staff
on proposed policy changes, and then they recruited all these
workers on the basis that they could work from home
like that. So they're feeling really cheated and misled.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So if you got together and you had a bit
of a negotiation about it and they gave you more notice,
the one hour thing was I was a bit rough.
But if you got together had a bit of a
chat about it, is three days a week really such
a hard ask?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, there are two elements really. The first one is
they do need to talk to us. We will listen
and we expect them to listen to staff. Then there's
another element, which is that staff do have this agreed
commitment that's been made to them. Now, employers in New
Zealand can't simply change contractual commitments. They need to agree
them with the worker. So there's sort of two elements
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to it really, And we're asking the Employment Relations Authority
to tal ACC that they need to listen it's pretty unfortunate.
It's come to that we shouldn't need to tell an
employer through legal action that I need to listen to
their staff before they make it a decision.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But here we are all right, Flur, I thank you
so much for your time this Monday morning. Flir FitzSimons
as the PSA National Secretary, how do you feel about this?
You can textas ninety two ninety two small charge does apply.
Already got a text in and it says Andrew. It
has become patently obvious that the labor friendly unions are
held bend on undermining this government. And it has been
(09:24):
proven that our productivity is very low and working from
home is clearly not helping. So are they just causing trouble?
What do you think? Ninety two ninety two is the number?
It is eighteen minutes after five the marathon, the Auclad
Marathon was over the weekend. Seventeen thousand people went and
ran all round the streets of all beautiful weather for
it as well, and in the women's race, Bridget Dennahey,
(09:47):
who was the champion last year, was the champion again
this year and she broke the record. She ran that
marathon in two hours and thirty eight minutes and ten seconds,
which is a great time. She was on fire. And
I want to say a big ups to the guy
spotted on the side of the course who had a
big sign on as seventeen thousand people ran past and
the sign read I can call you an uber. Eighteen
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after five Looking more sport with Andrew Ordison in just
a few moments.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
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Speaker 2 (10:22):
Andrew Ordison Cricket Tragic is in the studio with Mike
warning to you reading's Andrew so Cane quit yesterday from
T twenties for the internationals but not the money makers.
So was this a shock or not? I don't think so. Really,
I think it's been coming for a while.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
I mean, as he is, he famously said back in
the day, I mean, was it with it that T
twenties wasn't as you know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That it was at least preferred of the three forms.
Thing not his thing. He likes to build a build
it slowly. Third favorite He's not whacking bash. So he's
still with us for the fifty Games, fifty overs, he's
still still with the one day to Nationals, and still
with tests, and you think about the test program coming up.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Well in the coming year they'll go to England, they'll
play India as well at home, and then they'll play Australia.
So there's still plenty on the horizon for came Williamson.
In that regard, you would think fitness pending. But thirty
five years old now and perhaps time just to step
back from one and it's just going to be one.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Absolutely and well what a great whitewash of England. And
now it happens all over again because Thursday West Indies. Yes,
so there's.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Your bumper spring of cricket.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
This continues, Andrew. I didn't like the idea of the
spring of cricket, but I'm actually begetting to quite enjoy
it well, especially when we went. The w's helped. I
also like watching rugby early on a Sunday morning, not
too early, so you can wake up, have a cup
of coffee and set down. That's a great time for
it is that and I knew that Island would be rough,
(11:53):
but I didn't expect the All Backs to be as
rough as they were.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Yeah it was, and it was sort of stop stars turnovers.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It was messy, was that first half.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
But they pulled it together thankfully, and I guess that's
that's what you want and expect those All Black teams
in the past to do it in the last twenty minutes,
what three tries and effectively turning the game around and
keeping the Grand Slam narrative.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
We're going to hear a lot about in the next
few weeks. Everyone talked to me about, you know, all
Ireland is going to be the big challenge, but then
England just wasted Australia in the weekend and I've been
watching their Premiership and they're playing really beautiful football over there,
and I'm getting a bit concerned about this game.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I'm thinking England's probably the big the key to it,
I mean Scotland and going all right as well. I
mean Wales not so much and many of the last
last I guess Domino to four if you're going to
take out their fifth Grand Slam. But yeah, I good
to knock over Ireland, especially when you look back me
now that Soldier Field episode from twenty sixteen and et cetera.
(12:50):
It was a bit haunting, but they were able to
do it and move on through. But I mean, yeah,
just good to see the last twenty gets good to
see some of the other players coming in off the
bench after sudden injuries with the Jordian and Scott Barrett,
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So and Live Sport, we've got a World Cup final happening. Yeah,
and last I saw fifty one for one in the tenth.
It's probably moved on a little bit now. But importantly
for South Africa against India and Mumbai, Laura vulbart Is
the opening bat of course, made that one sixty nine
off one hundred and forty three balls in the semi
absolute star player for them of eight and share.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
It's gonna be interesting. They're chasing two ninety nine to win.
So yeah, I think she could be another thriller. Keep
us up to potentially.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
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It's five twenty six. I'm Andrew Dickinson for Bryan Bridge.
He's back again. On Thursday, Heather was away on Friday.
She went to Oats in Melbourne and it was amazing.
So I was on the radio. So in the drivetime
show ran about six pm Friday, I interviewed representative of
oyster farmers in the Mahangi area who were outraged at
a wastewater dumped by Watercare that had poisoned all their oysters.
(14:03):
They have to close because of this dump. They have
to close for twenty eight days, close down their business.
One farmers had to dump eighty thousand oysters. That is
not good for business, that's not good for their cash flow.
And as the interview went on, I found out that
this is not an isolated incident. In fact, it's happened
wait for this, thirty nine times this year. And even worse,
apparently Watercare has the right to do a dump like
(14:25):
this two hundred times every year. I was flabbergasted. That's
a lot of dumping into a river, of a lot
of wastewater that's killing the oysters and the mullets. And
then on the weekend I actually got a personal call
from a local MP and she told me the Watercare
basically wrote their own consent, they needed to involve public consultation.
Yet all they did was drop some leaflets at the
(14:47):
walk with Library, so nobody knew this was happening. She
raised the issue with the mayor, the man who wants
to make Auckland a global city, and mister fix It
didn't seem at all interested in fixing it. And so
now they dumped the region's wastewater into the Muhoe Rangy
River and they're allowed to do that two hundred times
a year. It's killing the river, it's destroying the oyster business.
It's decibated commercial fishing in the area. So it's a
(15:10):
bit of a symptom of intensification because walkwiths going off.
It's a symptom of the infrastructure being unable to cope
with the new demand. We build the houses, we don't
make the infrastructure. And it's a symptom of a council
not having enough money to fix the problem and not
having enough desire to help the effective businesses and not
wanting to rescue a wrecked river. And honestly, I'd rather
(15:31):
go and swim in the River Thames in London or
the sand in Paris than swim in the Maharangi in
rural North Auckland. And isn't that a shame? This issue
has been swept under the carpet by water Care and
the authorities. And it's frankly just not good enough because
day by day, clean green functioning New Zealand is becoming
a myth and a lie we all like to tell.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Zibby.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So the PSA up in arms at the ACC was
told that, oh, you're going to have to work three
days a week in the office now instead of two
one hour's notice, and so they're taking them to legal action.
All right, I said, how do you feel? Well? Nobody
is supporting the PSA. Everyone says a text and needs
to go back to work. That's why all these shops
and small businesses are failing in the business zones. There's
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no one out buying the sandwiches, pies and coffee. Marty Andrew,
I know an ACC worker. He's fine with three days
a week, but only if they don't mandate the days,
because he's petrified of losing his four day weekends. The
er better support ACC on this because workers are taking
the piss. Another Texas says, father them if they don't
want to drag themselves to the office at least three
(16:38):
days a week. ACC is a cockcase anyway, and another
one says entitlement. This is appalling as we have low productivity.
Said at home if you want to, but yeah, Fleur
is so out of touch, so that issue will rumble on.
Speaking of issues rumbling on, Karen Ture said something to
Ryan Bridge bet a fortnight ago on this radio station,
(17:00):
the numbers of people who have been abused in state care.
And Ryan held her up on that.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Well.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Over the weekend on Q and A talking to Jack Tame,
Karen came out and said, made it an apology. So
I'll tell you the full details about this and the
Karen Schuer back down because of the Ryan Bridge interview,
which took two weeks for her to do that. That's
coming up and we'll go right around the country. We'll
hear the latters from Gavin Gray about that terrible stabbing
in Doncaster on a train. It's here the addition, I'm
(17:27):
Andrew Dickins. This is News TALKSB.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The news you need this morning and the in depth analysis.
Earlier edition with Andrew Dickens and r V Supercenter explore
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Speaker 2 (18:08):
According Welcome to the Working Week. I Maderew Dickinson for
Ryan Bridge, and he's back by Thursday. So everyone's getting
stuck into the PSA. Everyone's getting stuck into the acc
workers who are outraged that they were told they have
to come to the office three days a week instead
of two. But every now and then a few people
are actually saying, well, actually, it's not that bad. Andrew
(18:30):
writes a texta, instead of vilifying the people who work
from home, why don't you animize the benefits of a
modern approach enabled by technology in terms of work? Okay,
thank you, and someone else says I'm tired of hearing
people go on about public servants not being productive because
they have a working from home option. There is no
evidence other than someone's opinion. Statistically staff for breaking records
weekly where I work, which is immigration and working from
(18:52):
home doing it fighting for their contractual rights while no
pay rises is in sight. So stop saying they're fighting
the current government. Our union is standing up for the
injustice of public opinion. And if it was your employer
changing the terms of your contract with an hour's notice,
you'd be rightfully upset as well. So thank you for
your texts. It is twenty two to six now if
(19:14):
you cast your mind back a couple of weeks to
this radio show. Ryan Bridge was interviewing Karen Ture and
they were talking about the abuse in state care and
she was touting a fourteen percent drop and abuse in
state care residences, but unfortunately she left out the part
where overall abuse and care hit record levels. Have I listen,
(19:36):
are you cherry putting here?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (19:39):
So the harm that you were speaking to around that
could be anything so low level high level. The harm
that I'm talking about in the decrease in residences is
as serious harm.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And now two weeks later, talking to Jack Tame on
Q and A, she finally admitted she got it wrong.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Reflecting on those comments in that interview, do you accept
they would have mislead people?
Speaker 9 (20:07):
I accept that that people may have thought that, and
I apologize if they have. My intention was never that.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
How about that? I think, ladies and gentlemen, that's what's
called the media holding power to account. It's twenty one to.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Six Newstalk Sidby.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Let's go right around the country. We're going to Dunedin
and Jamie Cunningham joins me. Hello, good morning. No longer
free to park in Dunedin City Center.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
Yeah, that's right. The city Council's introducing parking fees seven
days a week to multiple streets in the CBD after
consulting with the public twice. Sundays used to be free
for residents, but council says not paying an overstaying time
limits means others can't use these spaces and freeing up
parks allows for more customer turnover and benefits local businesses.
(20:55):
But parts of George and Prince's Street will remain free
of charge with time life it's still enforced.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All right. How's the weather for Rotago today?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Mainly fine, high cloud from this evening with westerly's turning
northeasterly this afternoon and a high of twenty one to
christ Church.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
We go closse sure with good morning, Good morning, So
we know the Chrastach has got a number of abandoned
mansions because of what happened back in the day. Now
one of those mansions is going to be renovated.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Yeah, and lots of people will know Rickitton's Antonio Hall.
It is really badly earthquake damage. It's also been the
scene of multiple fires and there have been numerous problems
with it being overridden by rodents and homeless people squatting
in there, for example, for several years. Now we finally
have confirmation there is plans to transform Antonio Hall into
student accommodation. It is less than a kilometer from Canterbury University.
(21:45):
We've reported on it extensively, but around a third of
applicants for the Canterbury Uni halls are missing out on
a spot. Spokesperson for Mainland Capital Director Ben Bridge says
the hall will target students beyond first year and we'll
hope to open in twenty twenty eight. He says residents
will have their own defined house and also shares some
(22:05):
communal facilities on site.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
How to weather a bit cloudy early, otherwise fine.
Speaker 11 (22:10):
Northeasterly is turning northwest at a high twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Speaking of weather, Wellington looked beautiful yesterday, Max Toll.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Yes, the tides have turned. It's just sun here, sun
and sea. Wonderful times, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And somebody's fallen off a balcony.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah, bit of drama yesterday afternoon on Brooklyn Roads. What
we do know, and it's not a great deal at
this stage, is that there was a gunshot heard yesterday
afternoon and then a person then fell from a balcony
from an apartment complex. Police were told about the gunshot
when they arrived. They haven't definitively confirmed it was a
shot from a gun. They are investigating armed officers, but
(22:48):
there yesterday. Thankfully the fallen person has moderate injuries. I say, thankfully,
only moderate injuries. Brooklyn Road is, of course, the windy
street leading up from the city toward the suburb of
Brooklyn Water. Come on, I'm sure, and.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Will your golden weather continue?
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Certainly well, mainly find today some stronger wind, but that's
just Wellington sixteen.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Today's high and I thank you. Neither read your money
From Auklan. Good morning, good morning. We've got an electric
bus catching fire.
Speaker 12 (23:13):
Yes now, look what's happened is that this overbridge was
hit by an electric bus which then caught fire. Now
the overbridge will remain closed until it's been assessed by
a structural engineer the emergency services. They were called to
the Constellation Bus station. This is obviously on the North Shore.
This happened yesterday afternoon. We know the bus was out
of service at the time. No passengers on board. The
(23:35):
driver got out safely, thank goodness. A number of bus
routes are being detoured until the overpass is deemed safe.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Okay, everyone's going Was it the battery? Was it the battery?
Is it because of the battery?
Speaker 12 (23:48):
Well, look, I know people will be saying things like that,
but there will be an investigation. Nothing has been said yet, Skamer.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But yes, how's hawkand's weather? Okay?
Speaker 12 (23:56):
Well, Auckland is you can brace yourself a hot, hot,
hot fine weather this week today fine twenty one is
a high. It's going to be like that for the
rest of the week and it's going to climb to
up to twenty three by midweek.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Beautiful, And I thank you to seventeen minutes to six. Now,
speaking about overpasses, there's a brand new overpass and Auckham
built by AT It's called the Reeves Road Flyover and
it's part of that whole eastern busway around Pacoranga area
and it just opened the other day and everyone went hurrah,
particularly the local MP Simmy and Brown. Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem as though the flyover works perfectly, particularly on the
(24:29):
afternoon drive home. So I'm going to talk to Simmy
and Brown about that because he is the local MP
and he was very rare rah about that flyover and
it opened and then it's half a disaster, So we'll
talk about that shortly with Symyan Plus he's come up
with this idea of a rapid builled ward for hospitals,
which sounds awfully like prefabs, and we know what prefabs
(24:51):
are like. They get trucked in and after a little
while they suddenly become permanent. And you know it's not
the world's greatest architecture nor fit for purpose. So what
the new rapid build wards and where are they're going
to be built? Simeon Brown just before six right here
on News TALKSB but Gavin Gray from the UK is
next every day. Well, Melford has gone and done it again.
(25:11):
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Zid Kevin Gray from the UK, Good morning, Mine there Andrew.
The London train from Doncaster was a horror show.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
So it's a great deal of shock in this country
actually over what happens. So this was a train traveling
from Doncaster in the North of England and to London
on a Saturday night, and all of a sudden, after
it had stopped at its sort of last big stop
at Peterborough. It was then supposed to be running direct
through to London on a fast line. Sadly, two men
(26:36):
are then believed to have got up with knives and
started stabbing people. At the moment, we have been told
that two are being held. They are British nationals and
being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder. We now know
that there are two in hospital with life threatening conditions.
Earlier today it was said to be up to nine,
so that's a more positive figure, and now four have
(26:59):
been discharged from hospital. A quick thinking train driver, when
he was alerted that there was a crisis on board,
moved phone ahead to the control center and moved the
train from the fast line which he wouldn't have been
able to stop on, and they were diverted to the
slower line and then the train stopped at an unscheduled
(27:19):
stopped at Huntingdon, about one hundred and fifty kilometers north
of London, and there at the platform the police met
the train, everyone poured off and two men there were arrested. Now,
originally counter terrorism police were investigating this. We are now
being told it is likely not to be terror related.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yes, and indeed the people who are against immigration have
been going on about them being immigrants, but they're British born,
aren't they, And so the question will be how many
generations do you have to live in England and before
you become not an immigrant?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
More details are coming out of this pair, but at
the at the moment, just that bald statement as it were,
just saying they are British nationals and they are being questioned.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
All right, I think for your time, Gavin Gray from
the UK. It is now eleven Minister six, all right.
The government's adding one hundred and forty new hospital beds
across five hospitals from mid next year. Health Minister Simy
and Brown says Middlemore, White Cattle, Wellington and Nelson will
get new wards along with Hawk's Bay. They announced the
Hawks Bay ward earlier this year. The wards will be
(28:20):
built off site and then installed at each hospital. They're
calling them rapids build units and so the Health Minister
Simyon Brown joins, we now get barding to U Simion.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So by rapid build you mean prefabs emergency stop gaps.
Speaker 13 (28:36):
No, this is a different way of delivering hospital wards effectively.
It's building them off site means they can be built
a lot faster, but they're built to a fifty year
life expectancy, which is effectively the same as any any
build of any major infrastructure. It's built to the Building Code.
So these are high quality modern hospital wards. But by
(28:58):
delivering them through modular design, build off site, then deliver
and install, we can deliver this a lot faster, meaning
we get the benefits for patients and the staff a
lot sooner, so.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
They won't need to be replaced in the short term.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 13 (29:13):
But these are designs as are said to the Building Code,
modern standards. But we have to do things differently as
a country if we want to get the infrastructure we
need much faster and also more cost effectively. And that's
the other benefit of doing things this way, and we're
open to looking at that through infrastructure. You've seen that
with the work Ericus Stanford's been doing with school classrooms
(29:37):
as well. How do we bring the cost down, how
do we deliver faster so that people actually benefit from
the infrastructure sooner, which is actually what we want to
build the infrastructure for now.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Will these one hundred and forty beds materially alter our
capacity and do they improve the core problem which at
the end of the day, is a shortage of staff.
Speaker 13 (29:55):
Look at the same time, howth New Zealand will be
investing in additional staff for these new wards because ultimately
we need to make sure that they're there for to
be able to provide their extra care to patients. But
ultimately the purpose of these wards and these hospitals is
to do two things. One is to improve the number
of hospital beds but also to help support additional hospital
(30:18):
flow through from the emergency department into the hospital. So
they've been around the hospitals has been identifying what the
critical pinch points are, what the key areas of need are,
and that's where the focus of these new wards will be,
so that we can make sure people are being seen sooner,
getting a treatment in any faster.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So this is the future, this is how we're going
to see our hospitals built in the future.
Speaker 13 (30:39):
Well, I think this is a new opportunity and this
is a different way of doing things. You know, when
it comes to some of the larger builds, this tension
are as well around modular design, construction and build as well. Ultimately,
though we want these buildings to be long lasting, they
need to be to high standards and to be able
to meet care that patients need. But we absolutely as
(31:01):
a country need to be looking at what is the
most cost effective way to deliver the infrastructure we need
so we can get it done quickly. We spend far
too long as a country talking about infrastructure and not
enough time delivering it. And so it's it's ways to
do things faster and cheaper, more cost effectively, so we
actually get the infrastructure delivered. We should absolutely before that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So while we're talking about infrastructure, and while I've got
to hear the new Reefs Road lyover in Pakaranga, which
is an AT project that you've been very supportive of
for quite some time, but they opened it up. It
turns out it's got traffic flow problems for the afternoon
drive time. So what's wrong with it? And what are
you going to do?
Speaker 13 (31:37):
Oh if it's working very effectively for traffic going to
the city, I met someone the other days said they
used to spend forty minutes going to work. It's now
fifteen minutes, so that's fantastic. But all the way home,
it used to have the intert Key, the key intersection
where the traffic met used to have three lanes of throughput.
Now it's down to two and so the simple message
to Opland transporters we need a third lane in the
(31:59):
intersection redesigned. Ultimately, if you reduce the number of lanes,
you reduce the flow and the traffic backs up. So
we meet with Allking Transport on Friday. They're going to
have a relook at it, and my message to them
as we need to look at it changes urgently.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And it's an early start for you. How are we
going with a wage negotiations.
Speaker 13 (32:19):
In terms of the negotiations with the unions around the
bargaining bargaining does continue and my message to both parties
is to negotiate in good faith and find a resolution
so that we can continue to provide the care that
patients need.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Syrian, I thank you very much for your time. Simon
joining us from the airport. He's taking the brand new
Red Eye which happens at six o'clock to Wellington right now,
getting into work early. It is six to six.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
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Speaker 2 (32:54):
That'd be so my costumes in the circle, what is
now John sent me a text already and yes, very
good question. Can you ask Mike what is the point
in interviewing Dame no Lan when she is under contract
and New Zealand Netball management. I'm damn sure that she
will not be allowed to comment on the appalling process
that has been treating her and heaps the staff are
leaving the organization, but she'll be staying stull. She's talking
(33:15):
with you today. Will she say anything?
Speaker 14 (33:18):
Well, I don't know. That's why we're having her on
a program. That's that's the whole point of the exercise.
If where if we canceled or didn't do things simply
because we're sitting there in the morning going I don't
think she'll say anything, So we won't ask any questions.
We wouldn't actually do.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Anything, would we do?
Speaker 14 (33:30):
And so I'll be I'm I mean, the interesting thing
about the interview is she hasn't spoken. Everybody I think
is in some way, shope or form interested in what's happened.
How it happened, why it happened hasn't been resolved to
her satisfaction. Is she genuinely happy?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, that's the very big thing. Because they all talked
about you know, the player's mental, wealth, health and well being.
What about no leagons.
Speaker 14 (33:53):
I mean, that's that's a tough in our I think
the general consensus is she's been treated abysmally, yes, and
she may come on and go, I was treated abysmally
but it's sorted.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Or she may come on and go, look I'm happy
and we all move forward.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
So you will never know that unless you ask the
question of seven o'clock, seven o'clock, seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
The leader lead, no lead. On the Mike Husking Breakfast,
my name is Andrew Dickinson.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Here.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
It's all Wednesday, and Ryan's back on Thursday. Yes, mister
Husking never takes holidays.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
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