November 5, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Thursday the 6th of November 2025, youth unemployment is continuing to rise, Zainab Ali, CEO of Youth Inspire tells Ryan why the situation is so bad.
Kiwis are calling in sick more than ever and businesses are feeling it, the EMA's Alan McDonald shares his thoughts.
Back in 2020 the Government passed the law to ban smoking and vaping in the car with kids, but the Police say their computer systems can't issue fines for it, Police Minister Mark Mitchell tells Ryan what he's going to do about it.
Plus US Correspondent Jagruti Dave, has the latest on the US elections and Trump's reaction.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
They'd be good to be back with you on a
Thursday morning. This morning, coming up on the program, why
are so many young people doing nothing? We'll look at
youth unemployment. And we're in the US for Trump's reaction
to Mam Danny new numbers on how many sick days
we're taking. Plus Mark Mitchell with us in just a
few seconds.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning to you. It is Thursday to sixth and
November in the US. Bunch of elections have happened, didn't
go Trump's way. Here is the New York City mayor elect,
Mam Darmi.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching,
I have four words for you. Turn the volume.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Up all right. Our Democrats have won governor races in
both New Jersey and Virginia as well, and I.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Am proud that our campaign earned votes from Democrats, Republicans, independents,
and everyone in between. That's the Virginia I know. That's
the Virginia I love, and that's the Virginia I will
have the honor of serving as your next governor.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So even Trump saying, look, this is not great for
the Republicans.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
You read the.
Speaker 8 (01:23):
Valses and the shutdown was a big factor negative for
the Republicans, and that was a big factor. And they
say that I wasn't on the ballot was the biggest factor.
But I don't know about that, but I was honored
that they said that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
There's also a bit of a warning for the Democrats
not to overread into this. I'll tell you about that
shortly in the program. Finally, protesters have sworn the streets
of Paris. Is that's opened its first cut price machine store.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
And across the road from them Kepta part by police
as a group of I don't know, maybe one hundred,
maybe a few more protesters significantly right across the street
from Besvaz the hotel div and that's in fact where
the Ashley h three gets its name from. And that
they'll tell the the city Hall. They are vehemently opposed
to She, and they loathe she and all it stands for.
(02:09):
So you have a very physical reminder here of the
two sides in this in this.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Argument basically, don't bring your cheap crap to Paris please.
This is the home of fashion and that is a
crime against it. It's just gone eight minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
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Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sa'd be great to have your company. Nine two nine
two is the numbers text. You know, this homeless ban thing,
the talk that's going on. We had Hickens in the
house and then we had anywhere. It's been in the
media in the last twenty four hours. And I mean,
you can't ban homeless people, well you can, but how
do you actually do it? How do you define it?
You know who's homeless, who's just you know, asleep on
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the ground, you know what I mean? If they have
to really, if you're going to do this properly, you
have to look at probably like intimidating behavior, which I
would have thought would already have been illegal if you
go and intimidate people. But if groups of people are intimidating,
well it's a little more difficult. They passed the law
with the gang. So what do you do? Do you
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go and pass the law that says if there are
five or more people who are standing in a circle
on the side of a road, who look intimidating or
feel intimidating, then arrest them. I mean, it's very difficult,
kind of fraught territory, but I reckon they are basically four.
So you have homeless people that there's beggars. They're different, right,
There's people who being on the side of the road,
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and actually they're quite harmless most of the time, you know,
they're quite friendly. They might say please or have you
got something? They're not causing any trouble. So I don't
know what do you do about them? Is that a
different category we allow busking? You know? Is it that
different to busking? I don't think so. And then there's
rough sleepers. Look, no one with a heart wants to
(04:02):
see rough sleepers, you know, sleeping on the side of
the road with a sleeping bag. I personally don't blame them.
I mean, they clearly have addiction on mental health problems
that kind of stuff. But if it's so bad that
you can't shop in your CBD and the consumers are
starting to avoid the area like there's a plague on
then you probably have to do something about it. My
(04:23):
crescendo for you this morning is the window wipers. Okay, again,
different people, different people. Just we're just talking about things
we see around us in the car. Okay, when you
are at a very busy arterial route intersection and there
is somebody you know, with a water bottle in one
hand and a scrubbing brush in the other wandering through
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the lanes in rush hour traffic, they are putting themselves
as sales at risk and everybody else around them. Now
for those people, and it always blows my mind. The
car in front of me whine's the window down and
gives them money. I'm sorry that is That is not
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a smart idea. That is not a way to keep
the roads safe. So that should be illegal. Ryan Bridge,
time to eleven. If anything on News Talks, It'd be
great to have your company this morning. Nineteen nine two
is the number to text. We'll get to Mark Mitchell
from Police.
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Speaker 2 (05:33):
Be' thirteen on your Thursday morning, high Ryan. Why don't
people join the dots between all the holidays and the
sick days and the lack of productivity, says Steve. Steve,
we're going to talk to the employers and manufacturers about that.
And see Alan McDonald's the guy, he's a great guy.
He's come on this so many times. Ask him about it.
Because the average number of sick days that we're taking
is up. You know how we got more. We've got
a bigger allocation when we're using them. Give us an inch,
(05:57):
so I'll tell you by how much? And some reaction
from Alan shuw it's fourteen after five, Bryan. Remember in
twenty twenty when the government passed the law to ban
smoking and vaping in the car with kids, Remember that,
And they said they'd go out there and they would
slap you with a fine or I didn't know, drag
you off and arrest you. Well, it turns out not
a single person has been even fined. The cops said
(06:18):
a year ago that they've got computer system and problems.
Apparently computer says no won't allow them to issue fines,
and so they didn't. They also didn't believe it was
the right way. They were taking a health first approach
at the time. The minister told them to sort it out.
But it still hasn't happened. Apparently, Mark Mitchell is the
police minister with me this morning. Minister, good morning, good
(06:41):
morning Ron.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
And you're the only one that I get up at
quarter past five in the morning to discuss fape with.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Mate, I'll tell you that. Well, well, I'm happy. I'm
happy you're here. I'm happy you're here because because look,
I don't think you'll be listened to. It's important you
listened to. But what's going on listening to her?
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Right? I'm listening to her?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Right? Don't you worry?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
That have been the previous government's priority. My priority was
stopping ram raids, getting on top of aggravated robbery violent
crime which under the previous government six years as a
country would seen skyrockets.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The police are voping in cars, are smoking in cars.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
I'm just addressing the point that you're saying. Are the
police listening to me? Absolutely they are. They're responding to
my expectation that I released publicly.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
On this one. Are they listening on this one?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Well?
Speaker 9 (07:28):
The vaping is that you're going to talk to the police.
That is an operational issue, and so they're very clear
about the fact that they prefer a health response around this,
and that is quite simply educating parents not to do it,
and I totally support them in that view. However, however,
there is legislation there they're looking at how they can
operationalize that. That does mean trying to come up with
(07:50):
a fines type system.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Here's the problem and do work on that. Okay, that's
all great, But here's the problem. The law was passed
back in twenty twenty. How is it that we're in
almost in twenty twenty six and they have never bothered
to come up with a system to introduce a fine
that Parliament said was a potential punishment.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Well, I think there's a couple of things. Number one,
I think that it is an operational question around how
the operational operational is it That is for police number
two to do it number two. But the important thing
is to your question is there was a change of
government with a different set of priorities. This stuff my
priorities the minister is the incoming minister. Is that we
had seen a massive increasing violent crime and communities were
(08:37):
no longer.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You are not wrong, and you're not wrong. But I
guess the thing is, is it sort of just up
to police what they do. I mean, Parliament can say yeah,
i'll pass this law. I want to do this, and
I want to do that, and here's the punishments, and
police are like, well, we like that one and we
don't like that one, so we'll make up our own minds.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
No, I think that Parliament size to give police powers
and then police have to use obviously have used judicial
use of those powers. I can't interfere operation. There is
a separation that's extremely important that is in place. I
don't get to tell the police questioner how or when
he's going to deploy his staff. What I do is
(09:19):
I set our policies in terms of public safety, which
I very clearly did, and I released my letter publicly
when I became minister, and there was a big focus
on increasing visibility, on getting on top of violent crime.
That was my propos were my priorities enough and the
police and the police are responding to those priorities.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, no, fair enough. Hey, just before we go this
idea of sort of banning that do police need more
powers to move on homeless people or beggars or rough sleepers.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Yeah, I mean this is this is the Labor Party
trying to create a whole lot of hysteria around the
fact that they're trying to create the impression that we
won't let people come into Auckland CVDS. That is not true.
Quite simply, what we are trying to do and working
hard on is making sure it's a really complex issue.
When I sort of when I was dealing with reducing
(10:10):
violent crime in ow Auckland CBD, which the police have
been very successful at doing, we had fifteen rough sleepers.
Most of them had somewhere to go and sleep, most
of them had the residents that they go and sleep.
They're making a community that they're making a decision to
congregate as a community in the CBD, and what There's
a whole lot of social issues there. There's intimidation issues,
(10:32):
there was risk to the public and there was risk
to themselves as well.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So did they have home, Yes, they had places to absolutely,
absolutely so.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
But what we're doing, as we're recognizing and saying that
there's a homelessness problem, I am I am reinstating in
one working very closely with with Simeon Brown on this
who's the Minister for Auckland And I'm reinstating my stakeholder
group which is the heart to the city, residence and
rape pass groups, social service providers, government agencies, local government, CPNZ,
(11:06):
Mary Warden's we all came together. It was very effective
and dealing with.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
The crime and did they want your homelessness man.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Well, there was a lot of discussion around there. Absolutely
when we were talking at when we're discussing this, that's
not part of the government agenda at the moment. It's
it is certainly We've got a private members bill in
the Biscuit team from Ryan Hamilton, a very good one
that he's brought forward, which is a move on order
which gives the police the ability to go and pick
someone up that is living on the street, that is
(11:36):
in danger, that it is current problems for members of
the public and move them to a safe location into
a house.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Not to the next over. Minister. I hope we have
to leave it there. I appreciate your time this morning.
That is Mark Mitchell, Police Minister. It's just gone five twenty.
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Speaker 2 (12:02):
They'b five twenty two news talks there be will go
stateside after five thirty news for an update on the
elections there Key, we is here calling in sick more
than ever businesses are feeling it. We're now averaging six
point seven six days a year. That is up from
five and a half in twenty twenty two. This has
come from a Business New Zealand and Southern Cross report.
They blame labour twenty twenty one move doubling the sick
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leaven titament from five to ten days. You'll remember that
Alan McDonald's with us from the Employees Manufacturers Association. Allen,
good morning, morning Roally. So is that how material is
that to a business's costs?
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Oh? Well, every day you're not working and you're paying
somebody for it. Obviously that is a cost, and that's
a bit of lost productivity. But I mean the flip
side is that I think most employers realize and manage
their workforces because it's better perhaps to not have them
there rather than coming and con checking other people of stuff,
(13:00):
which is what the change is made for in the
first place. Under COVID, but I think still applies with
everything else that's floating around as well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What are people saying when they you know, what's the
excuse when they call in sack these days that do
people say I'm just I need the day off, that
they say I'm sick. Do they say I'm taking a
personal day.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
It's generally genuine sickness, and I think most employers do
accept that that is the case. So, you know, I
think at the old days of malingerers, if you like,
you don't see much of that. There's always some of
that though, but it's a very small proportion.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So this increase is actually just better reflecting how sick
we do get in your average year.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Yeah, I think it better reflects the understanding in the
workplace that you know, people do get sick, they are
genuine about it, and it's better to haven't managed and
have them in the workplace. But do remember there's a
change coming for part time workers as well, that that
ten days. Yeah, entitlement is going with the news leave
(14:04):
that typic Reld's bringing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
In really interesting stuff. Ellen, thank you for that. Alan McDonald.
The employees of Manufacturer Association time now is twenty four
minutes after five you're on News TALKSZBB. Economic nimbiism. I'll
tell you about that next and before six we'll look
at the neats not an education training job, this is
young people. The number is now almost sixteen percent. News
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IB five twenty six News Talks VB. There's a form
of economic nimbiism that's going on in this country. You've
probably noticed it too. If we want to get ahead,
surely we are all aware that there must be trade offs.
There's no business, no growth, no economic miracle that comes
about without a cost to someone somewhere. Whether it's intensive
(14:56):
agriculture that can have an effect on the environment, whether
it's water to run the data centers that power your smartphones.
Every success cost you something. Generally, the trick is to
be reasonable, take risks, mitigate them, or just be willing
to wear the costs. The problem we have, I don't
think is necessarily a lack of opportunities of wherewithal or enthusiasm,
(15:19):
not even in many cases investment. I was just an Oago,
just recently beautiful place, stunning Central Otago, there's a gold
mine permit that's been issued there. You might have seen
that in the news. Sam Neil was dead against the
project when I was down there, as are many others.
You know, there's opposition, there's legal challenges, fair enough, you
know they've got houses in the area. Worried about trucks
(15:40):
on the road then what it looks like. But it's
also an area that would be serviced by this brand
new hospital that Dunedin is getting. Half the town's buildings
by the way, and Otarger wouldn't be there to begin
with if it not for gold mining. So the permits issued.
The rest is with fast track whatever. But how are
you going to pay for that hospital? How are you
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going to pay for that hospital? Wanaka said no to
a McDonald's in part due to concerns about healthy eating.
Residents objected to a solar farm in part because of
something called lunar reflection, that the moonlight might reflect off
a solar panel like it would I don't know a
lake or an ocean. I mean, come on, are we
clutching its straws here or what. It's all well and good,
(16:25):
but if we want stuff like new hospitals, highways and
potholes fixed, you have to pay for them somehow, And
there's a little too much economic nimbiism going on at
the moment, I think for anyone to be seriously complaining
about the state of things. Nine News Talk said, B,
this is on the sick leave, Ryan. We have full
(16:46):
staff who all use their ten days sickly every year.
That's forty days of sickly every year. Nearly one staff
member off every week, and generally it's a Monday. Has
got really noticeable since the ten days came in. This
is from one of our listeners this morning. Another says, Ryan,
sick leave is a young person's thing. We just don't
take it. At News Talks, B, it is twenty nine
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minutes after five. We'll go stateside for the latest. Mam Damie.
He's out there in the cold. New York are doing
a press conference, so we'll hear what the new socialist
leader of New York City has to say. News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
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News Talks EDB. Pretty we're away from sex here on
News Talks EDB. Great to be back with you for
this Thursday morning, coming up before six, we'll look at
those unemployment numbers from yesterday, especially youth unemployment, and we'll
go live to the US because Ma'm Darni. This is
the mayor elect of New York City. He's giving a
press conference telling everyone he's going to do. The interesting
(18:04):
thing about this great campaign from him, obviously very slick
social media presence, but can he actually do anything? Can
he actually lead anything? We haven't found out yet. We
haven't found out yet, but we are going to because
he's going to have to get around the table, around
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the count and they are not exactly very powerful. Even
though it's the mayor of New York City, they still
have the same problem that our mayors here have where
they actually are basically just one vote on the table.
So whether he actually gets to do anything, it is
another thing. There there were glimmers of just Cinda adun
campaign here. You know, you've got a younger person, a
(18:45):
very slick social media presence, no experience really outside politics,
you know, no experience running an organization or a business.
This guy was a hip hop musician previously before he
became the Mayor of New York. Here's a little taste
of his hip. Hopie, why does the whole city are.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
If you sing?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's the mayor of New York City. In an earlier career,
he was a housing counselor for a short while, and
he is now going to be obviously mayor of New
York City. So good luck to him. He's going to
have some pretty big problems already. Trump's threatening funding. You've
got fellow Democrats who are already on you know, a
(19:34):
governor's saying coming out and saying that we don't think
you should be raising the kind of taxes that you
are talking about raising. So there'll be a hard road
ahead for him. We'll talk to a US corry about that.
Twenty two to six, Rayam Bridge your News Talk B.
We'll go to Callum Proctor and to need in first.
Colum good morning.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Oh no, you've got Courtney.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Courtney forgive me, Courtney love morning. You'll do Courtney. Good
to have you tell us what's going on there today.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
So.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
An Otaga University study shows young people with a neuro
developmental condition such as autism and an intellectual disability are
nearly five times more likely to die before the age
of twenty five than those without autistic Researcher and co
author Joanne Decombe says the main causes are medical issues,
(20:21):
injuries in suicide. She says it highlights the need for
improved medical intervention, mental health and crisis support services. All right,
how's the weather partly cloudy, a few showers before clearing
this afternoon afternoon southerly's high of twenty one.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Nice Courtney, Thank you, Claire Sherwood and christ Judge this morning. Morning, Claire,
good morning. What's the school that's going to be stuck
with some really old classrooms?
Speaker 12 (20:44):
Yeah, sixty five year old classrooms. In fact, this is
Burnside High School, in fact, our largest school here in
christ Church, which may be stuck with these old classrooms
for several years to come before its post quake rebuild
can be finished. We have more than one hundred schools
that have already been rebuilt or refurbished since twenty and thirteen.
(21:04):
More than one point sixty five billion dollars is in
this post quake repair program. It was originally due to
finish in twenty twenty. It's now been extended for various
reasons through to twenty twenty eight and Burnside High is
one of the twelve still waiting and several of their blocks,
including the admin block and some classrooms, were deemed quake
prone last year. Principal Scott Haynes says the students definitely
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are coping, but they are working in substandard facilities. He
says they're having to use spaces that are in line
for demolition in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Not a great outcomers that. How's the weather.
Speaker 12 (21:37):
Mainly fine, a bit of cloud increasing late this afternoon,
northwesterlies but warm.
Speaker 13 (21:41):
Twenty eight Thanks Claire Max, Good morning to you, good morning,
welcome back, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Good to be back. Most students at the school, this
is the Measles school. They're all bangers in class. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (21:52):
Kids and teachers at Wellington Girls College yesterday told they
could come back to classes today in person. A lot
of children years nine to eleven and a lot of
teachers have been doing online classes this week sort of
an abundance of cautioned thing health and Z advice basically
was they could come in if they if the school
deemed it okay, but the school taking a cautious approach
(22:13):
telling them to stay home. This week three cases of
measles at Girls College had been found a lot of
close contracts hundreds. They were trying to stamp this thing out,
I think before it really gets going. The big scare
around a prize giving ceremony a couple of weeks ago,
with some kids taking part who clearly had measles, the
most at risk identified as prize winners, teachers handing out awards.
(22:34):
A fear of measles spreading around this event, but most
back in school today. Still a handful staying home, but
essentially back to normal. Beyond school assemblies have been canceled
this week. The school's nurse has also been given swabs
to test students who are unwell. But yeah, fingers crusted.
They've tackled, tackled this well.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Certainly haws you with him.
Speaker 13 (22:54):
X mostly Cloudy's strong northerlyies today eighteen.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Hi, thank you very much Windy is and Orkland. This morning.
Good morning Wendy, lovely to see you. Our unemployment numbers
are right yesterday you've been taking a look at Auckland.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's right well. Simon Bridges says the government has been
heeding his call to grow Auckland's economy While the national
unemployment rate came out yesterday and it went from five
point two to five point three percent in the past quarter,
the Auckland unemployment rate has remained steady at six point
one percent and August Bridges told z B the government
needed to do more to address auckland surging unemployment. Three
(23:29):
months on, the Auckland Business Chamber chief executive says the
government has stepped up to the challenge. He says the
government's made announcements about tourism, Visa's events funding, ASB Tennis
Center funding and several other things that have helped the
Auckland economy.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
All right, thank you for that, Wendy. How's our weather?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
It was a warm yesterday.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Did you good?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I got home from being down south and I got
off the plane and I felt like I was in
Fiji's heat way.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah right, I know we're all talking about it. Yesterday
it was warm and sunny. Another one of those today
of an afternoon shower in northeasterlies and twenty four degrees.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Wendy, I've got this fan in my room because I'm
I'm renting a house at the moment. From a long story,
but in the bedroom with this fan, trying to work
out if it's a heater or if it's a heating
or a cooling device. Oh, very hard to tell.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
One of those ones that goes around and around.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It doesn't go around and around. It's like a tall thing. Yes,
and you can't change the temperature. But there's a temperature
read on the top, and I think what it's telling
you is that is the temperature in the room, all right,
But you don't actually know whether this thing is going
to make that go up or down.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Just give me a fan, I say, absolutely too confusing.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Wendy, good to see you. Have a nice morning. It
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talks hedb. It's fourteen minutes away from six now you
know that. A couple of weeks ago, there was a
story of over in the UK about a migrant sex
offender who was released from prison accidentally. Like whoopsie, guess
what they've done it again. I'm not even joking. This
has so a migrant prisoner. This is, according to the
papers over there, mistakenly freed from a scandal hit her
(26:07):
Majesty's prison, wan'sworth the Algerian convict twenty four and there
was trespassed, stealing, previously, committing sexual offenses, you name it,
and he's Scott free. It's thirteen to six.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Now international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Let's go state sides. Of course, we have a new
mayor of New York City who's garnering headlines, one because
he's the first Muslim mayor of New York City, but
also because in the financial capital of the world, arguably
we have a socialist mayor to Greutie Dave is with
me from Feature Story News this morning. Good morning morning.
So he's just had a press conference. What's he's saying,
do we know?
Speaker 14 (26:48):
Well, he has essentially been talking about the reasons why
he's won. He's been taking questions and he is really
you know, I think playing on that victory speech that
he gave where he was talking about, you know how
his campaign has defeated a dynasty, a political dynasty, talking
about Andrew Coomo, his major rival, who got the backing
(27:10):
of Donald Trump. Despite that Coomo didn't get you know,
enough Republicans to go on board and you know, go
vote for Coomo. And so, you know, I think this
is a real shift in for the Democrats in many
ways because they've been kind of in the wilderness a
little bit since Donald Trump's election, and they're getting a
(27:31):
little bit of you know, wind under their sales as
looking forward to the midterms. And I think this is
just sort of the momentum in New York. You know,
it's this is what he's really been talking about. The
cost of living is what zoron Mum Danny really rode on.
And it's an indication that that is really what elections
ride on. It's the economy, stupid, That's what we're always
(27:51):
told and I think this election proves that that is
still the case.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And yet the Democrats aren't running towards some arms open,
are they. I mean, this is the awkward thing for them.
They He's quite radical in terms of the political spectrum
in the UIs so trying to present that and this
is why the Republicans are trying to paint him as
the defecto leader of the Democrats, right because it's better
for them.
Speaker 14 (28:16):
Yeah, this is the Democrats have always had this issue,
you know, when you look at in primaries when Bernie
Sanders was running, You've always had the left of the
party and the so called moderates of the party wrestling
as to the identity of the Democratic Party as a whole,
and the things are on. Mum Danny is part of
that conversation that the Democrats are going to be having.
(28:38):
You know, people like Chuck Schumer didn't endorse Mumdani before,
openly endorse Mumdany before his victory, and now is talking
about how this is his victory and there's results results
as a whole of Democratic candidates winning on different ballots
in different ballots is a repudiation of Donald Trump. So
they're really juggling with this idea of somebody who calls
(28:59):
an unashamingly a Democratic socialist, who is you know, the
city's first Muslim mayor, who is a prop immigrant. All
of this is an identity. How do they grapple that
with the moderates who are saying, well, we need to
be making talking points they're going to be bringing over.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, exactly. Andrew Gritty appreciate that reporting this morning. Thank
you Degreety Dave for US feature story in News US Correspondent.
It is ten to.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Unemployment up to five point three percent here at home Hire.
Since twenty sixteen, one hundred and sixty thousand people jobless,
fifteen to twenty four year olds fifteen point two percent.
That's up from thirteen, just over thirteen in the year. Prior.
Zenab Ali is CEO of Youth Inspired with me this morning, Zaynab,
Good to have you on the show. Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
Economists are saying this is the bottom of the rutch.
(29:46):
We will come up from here. What are you seeing?
Speaker 15 (29:52):
Look, that's not how it feels on the ground at
the moment, Ryan, So it's one to look at it.
I suppose from a more academic point of view. We
know these things are cyclic. It doesn't feel like it.
We still have our local business partners and in the
(30:15):
business community is still really struggling quarter at a time.
We know that for us here in our region, a
local business survey last month indicated that only twenty percent
of businesses are hiring. So yeah, I hope that that's true.
(30:39):
I've heard similar things in the past and it's gotten worse.
But we're really feeling it on the ground at the moment,
especially with our young rang Atahi.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
But that's the problem, isn't it that you've got We've
been told so many times now that things are going
to get better. It's almost like the boy who Cried.
Speaker 15 (30:55):
Wolf, you know, yeah, exactly, and it's all in hindsight.
Oh well, you know this factor this situation. But I
think it's not to make the situation, you know, a
bad news story or for business confidence to go down.
(31:15):
On the ground. Real people every day are really struggling,
and I think I think there's a rhetoric out there
Ryan there it's like, if you want to work, there's
a job for you, and I can promise you that
it's not the case.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, not in all cases, one hundred percent. Zam Ali,
really appreciate your time. This morning. It's CEO Youth Inspire.
It's eight to sex. News Talks mb.
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Thirty six on News Talks MB. SO the Chinese sent
three astronauts into space on the Shenzo twenty mission, and
they have flown to the Chinese Space Station and April,
and they were expected to come back today or yesterday.
They're not coming. Something's gone wrong. Apparently they had a
piece of space to breed. There's quite a lot of
it in space, and that means that they have no
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return date to Earth and they're going to have to
send someone from down here to go pick them up apparently,
so good luck with that. It is five to.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
Six, Bread Bread Morning, Mike morning.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you believe that that someone will pick them up?
Speaker 16 (32:25):
Well, it's just that Kim Kardashian, I note the other
day if you've seen her new TV.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Show, I've read the reviews. Apparently it's terrible.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
Shocking anyway, but lean close. I mean, it's not like
they haven't pulled some big names now anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
But one bad apple can bring down your whole back.
Speaker 16 (32:39):
Couldn't agree more Ryan anyway. Anyway. Anyway, Kim Kardashian doesn't
believe in the moon landing. So I'm just wondering whether
people If you don't believe in the moon landings, do
you believe in people being up at space stations?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, I suppose not.
Speaker 16 (32:53):
Well exactly, why do you bore us with a story?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Well, I know it's I think it's real, or you
think you and Kim Kardashian, I'm not saying I'm Chinese. Reckon.
They're going to get to the moon and land a
man there by twenty thirty. They haven't got long.
Speaker 16 (33:05):
No, they haven't. And that's the point. But for years
and what's the point. What is the point? So you
land land land of men?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So what it's all the rare earth minerals.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
No they're not.
Speaker 16 (33:17):
They're not mining them.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
The plan is to mine the moon.
Speaker 16 (33:20):
They can't even land on them, if you believe Kim,
they've never even gone.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Do you know why they're taking so long? Because they're
going to land with a massive dyson.
Speaker 16 (33:29):
Who will hoover up the uranium and bring it all back.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
It's not a spaceman. It's a mining mission.
Speaker 16 (33:35):
That's fantastic. Anyway. David Cohen, you know the book on Jinda.
Oh yes, that's out and so he's giving his first
interview this morning on that. So I'm in it extensively.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well congratulations, Well it'd.
Speaker 16 (33:47):
Be bestseller because of that, I suspect.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Anyway. Good to have you back, Thank you, good to
be back, Mike. Enjoy your day, everybody, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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They'd be good to be back with you on a
Thursday morning. This morning, coming up on the program, why
are so many young people doing nothing? We'll look at
youth unemployment. And we're in the US for Trump's reaction
to Mam Danny new numbers on how many sick days
we're taking. Plus Mark Mitchell with us in just a
few seconds.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Good morning to you. It is Thursday to sixth and
November in the US. Bunch of elections have happened, didn't
go Trump's way. Here is the New York City mayor elect,
Mam Darmi.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching,
I have four words for you. Turn the volume.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Up all right. Our Democrats have won governor races in
both New Jersey and Virginia as well, and I.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Am proud that our campaign earned votes from Democrats, Republicans, independents,
and everyone in between. That's the Virginia I know. That's
the Virginia I love, and that's the Virginia I will
have the honor of serving as your next governor.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So even Trump saying, look, this is not great for
the Republicans.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
You read the.
Speaker 8 (01:23):
Valses and the shutdown was a big factor negative for
the Republicans, and that was a big factor. And they
say that I wasn't on the ballot was the biggest factor.
But I don't know about that, but I was honored
that they said that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
There's also a bit of a warning for the Democrats
not to overread into this. I'll tell you about that
shortly in the program. Finally, protesters have sworn the streets
of Paris. Is that's opened its first cut price machine store.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
And across the road from them Kepta part by police
as a group of I don't know, maybe one hundred,
maybe a few more protesters significantly right across the street
from Besvaz the hotel div and that's in fact where
the Ashley h three gets its name from. And that
they'll tell the the city Hall. They are vehemently opposed
to She, and they loathe she and all it stands for.
(02:09):
So you have a very physical reminder here of the
two sides in this in this.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Argument basically, don't bring your cheap crap to Paris please.
This is the home of fashion and that is a
crime against it. It's just gone eight minutes after five.
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Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sa'd be great to have your company. Nine two nine
two is the numbers text. You know, this homeless ban thing,
the talk that's going on. We had Hickens in the
house and then we had anywhere. It's been in the
media in the last twenty four hours. And I mean,
you can't ban homeless people, well you can, but how
do you actually do it? How do you define it?
You know who's homeless, who's just you know, asleep on
(02:59):
the ground, you know what I mean? If they have
to really, if you're going to do this properly, you
have to look at probably like intimidating behavior, which I
would have thought would already have been illegal if you
go and intimidate people. But if groups of people are intimidating,
well it's a little more difficult. They passed the law
with the gang. So what do you do? Do you
(03:20):
go and pass the law that says if there are
five or more people who are standing in a circle
on the side of a road, who look intimidating or
feel intimidating, then arrest them. I mean, it's very difficult,
kind of fraught territory, but I reckon they are basically four.
So you have homeless people that there's beggars. They're different, right,
There's people who being on the side of the road,
(03:41):
and actually they're quite harmless most of the time, you know,
they're quite friendly. They might say please or have you
got something? They're not causing any trouble. So I don't
know what do you do about them? Is that a
different category we allow busking? You know? Is it that
different to busking? I don't think so. And then there's
rough sleepers. Look, no one with a heart wants to
(04:02):
see rough sleepers, you know, sleeping on the side of
the road with a sleeping bag. I personally don't blame them.
I mean, they clearly have addiction on mental health problems
that kind of stuff. But if it's so bad that
you can't shop in your CBD and the consumers are
starting to avoid the area like there's a plague on
then you probably have to do something about it. My
(04:23):
crescendo for you this morning is the window wipers. Okay, again,
different people, different people. Just we're just talking about things
we see around us in the car. Okay, when you
are at a very busy arterial route intersection and there
is somebody you know, with a water bottle in one
hand and a scrubbing brush in the other wandering through
(04:45):
the lanes in rush hour traffic, they are putting themselves
as sales at risk and everybody else around them. Now
for those people, and it always blows my mind. The
car in front of me whine's the window down and
gives them money. I'm sorry that is That is not
(05:06):
a smart idea. That is not a way to keep
the roads safe. So that should be illegal. Ryan Bridge,
time to eleven. If anything on News Talks, It'd be
great to have your company this morning. Nineteen nine two
is the number to text. We'll get to Mark Mitchell
from Police.
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Be' thirteen on your Thursday morning, high Ryan. Why don't
people join the dots between all the holidays and the
sick days and the lack of productivity, says Steve. Steve,
we're going to talk to the employers and manufacturers about that.
And see Alan McDonald's the guy, he's a great guy.
He's come on this so many times. Ask him about it.
Because the average number of sick days that we're taking
is up. You know how we got more. We've got
a bigger allocation when we're using them. Give us an inch,
(05:57):
so I'll tell you by how much? And some reaction
from Alan shuw it's fourteen after five, Bryan. Remember in
twenty twenty when the government passed the law to ban
smoking and vaping in the car with kids, Remember that,
And they said they'd go out there and they would
slap you with a fine or I didn't know, drag
you off and arrest you. Well, it turns out not
a single person has been even fined. The cops said
(06:18):
a year ago that they've got computer system and problems.
Apparently computer says no won't allow them to issue fines,
and so they didn't. They also didn't believe it was
the right way. They were taking a health first approach
at the time. The minister told them to sort it out.
But it still hasn't happened. Apparently, Mark Mitchell is the
police minister with me this morning. Minister, good morning, good
(06:41):
morning Ron.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
And you're the only one that I get up at
quarter past five in the morning to discuss fape with.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Mate, I'll tell you that. Well, well, I'm happy. I'm
happy you're here. I'm happy you're here because because look,
I don't think you'll be listened to. It's important you
listened to. But what's going on listening to her?
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Right? I'm listening to her?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Right? Don't you worry?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
That have been the previous government's priority. My priority was
stopping ram raids, getting on top of aggravated robbery violent
crime which under the previous government six years as a
country would seen skyrockets.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The police are voping in cars, are smoking in cars.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
I'm just addressing the point that you're saying. Are the
police listening to me? Absolutely they are. They're responding to
my expectation that I released publicly.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
On this one. Are they listening on this one?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Well?
Speaker 9 (07:28):
The vaping is that you're going to talk to the police.
That is an operational issue, and so they're very clear
about the fact that they prefer a health response around this,
and that is quite simply educating parents not to do it,
and I totally support them in that view. However, however,
there is legislation there they're looking at how they can
operationalize that. That does mean trying to come up with
(07:50):
a fines type system.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Here's the problem and do work on that. Okay, that's
all great, But here's the problem. The law was passed
back in twenty twenty. How is it that we're in
almost in twenty twenty six and they have never bothered
to come up with a system to introduce a fine
that Parliament said was a potential punishment.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Well, I think there's a couple of things. Number one,
I think that it is an operational question around how
the operational operational is it That is for police number
two to do it number two. But the important thing
is to your question is there was a change of
government with a different set of priorities. This stuff my
priorities the minister is the incoming minister. Is that we
had seen a massive increasing violent crime and communities were
(08:37):
no longer.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You are not wrong, and you're not wrong. But I
guess the thing is, is it sort of just up
to police what they do. I mean, Parliament can say yeah,
i'll pass this law. I want to do this, and
I want to do that, and here's the punishments, and
police are like, well, we like that one and we
don't like that one, so we'll make up our own minds.
Speaker 9 (08:57):
No, I think that Parliament size to give police powers
and then police have to use obviously have used judicial
use of those powers. I can't interfere operation. There is
a separation that's extremely important that is in place. I
don't get to tell the police questioner how or when
he's going to deploy his staff. What I do is
(09:19):
I set our policies in terms of public safety, which
I very clearly did, and I released my letter publicly
when I became minister, and there was a big focus
on increasing visibility, on getting on top of violent crime.
That was my propos were my priorities enough and the
police and the police are responding to those priorities.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, no, fair enough. Hey, just before we go this
idea of sort of banning that do police need more
powers to move on homeless people or beggars or rough sleepers.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Yeah, I mean this is this is the Labor Party
trying to create a whole lot of hysteria around the
fact that they're trying to create the impression that we
won't let people come into Auckland CVDS. That is not true.
Quite simply, what we are trying to do and working
hard on is making sure it's a really complex issue.
When I sort of when I was dealing with reducing
(10:10):
violent crime in ow Auckland CBD, which the police have
been very successful at doing, we had fifteen rough sleepers.
Most of them had somewhere to go and sleep, most
of them had the residents that they go and sleep.
They're making a community that they're making a decision to
congregate as a community in the CBD, and what There's
a whole lot of social issues there. There's intimidation issues,
(10:32):
there was risk to the public and there was risk
to themselves as well.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So did they have home, Yes, they had places to absolutely,
absolutely so.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
But what we're doing, as we're recognizing and saying that
there's a homelessness problem, I am I am reinstating in
one working very closely with with Simeon Brown on this
who's the Minister for Auckland And I'm reinstating my stakeholder
group which is the heart to the city, residence and
rape pass groups, social service providers, government agencies, local government, CPNZ,
(11:06):
Mary Warden's we all came together. It was very effective
and dealing with.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
The crime and did they want your homelessness man.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Well, there was a lot of discussion around there. Absolutely
when we were talking at when we're discussing this, that's
not part of the government agenda at the moment. It's
it is certainly We've got a private members bill in
the Biscuit team from Ryan Hamilton, a very good one
that he's brought forward, which is a move on order
which gives the police the ability to go and pick
someone up that is living on the street, that is
(11:36):
in danger, that it is current problems for members of
the public and move them to a safe location into
a house.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Not to the next over. Minister. I hope we have
to leave it there. I appreciate your time this morning.
That is Mark Mitchell, Police Minister. It's just gone five twenty.
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They'b five twenty two news talks there be will go
stateside after five thirty news for an update on the
elections there Key, we is here calling in sick more
than ever businesses are feeling it. We're now averaging six
point seven six days a year. That is up from
five and a half in twenty twenty two. This has
come from a Business New Zealand and Southern Cross report.
They blame labour twenty twenty one move doubling the sick
(12:24):
leaven titament from five to ten days. You'll remember that
Alan McDonald's with us from the Employees Manufacturers Association. Allen,
good morning, morning Roally. So is that how material is
that to a business's costs?
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Oh? Well, every day you're not working and you're paying
somebody for it. Obviously that is a cost, and that's
a bit of lost productivity. But I mean the flip
side is that I think most employers realize and manage
their workforces because it's better perhaps to not have them
there rather than coming and con checking other people of stuff,
(13:00):
which is what the change is made for in the
first place. Under COVID, but I think still applies with
everything else that's floating around as well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What are people saying when they you know, what's the
excuse when they call in sack these days that do
people say I'm just I need the day off, that
they say I'm sick. Do they say I'm taking a
personal day.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
It's generally genuine sickness, and I think most employers do
accept that that is the case. So, you know, I
think at the old days of malingerers, if you like,
you don't see much of that. There's always some of
that though, but it's a very small proportion.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So this increase is actually just better reflecting how sick
we do get in your average year.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Yeah, I think it better reflects the understanding in the
workplace that you know, people do get sick, they are
genuine about it, and it's better to haven't managed and
have them in the workplace. But do remember there's a
change coming for part time workers as well, that that
ten days. Yeah, entitlement is going with the news leave
(14:04):
that typic Reld's bringing.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
In really interesting stuff. Ellen, thank you for that. Alan McDonald.
The employees of Manufacturer Association time now is twenty four
minutes after five you're on News TALKSZBB. Economic nimbiism. I'll
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IB five twenty six News Talks VB. There's a form
of economic nimbiism that's going on in this country. You've
probably noticed it too. If we want to get ahead,
surely we are all aware that there must be trade offs.
There's no business, no growth, no economic miracle that comes
about without a cost to someone somewhere. Whether it's intensive
(14:56):
agriculture that can have an effect on the environment, whether
it's water to run the data centers that power your smartphones.
Every success cost you something. Generally, the trick is to
be reasonable, take risks, mitigate them, or just be willing
to wear the costs. The problem we have, I don't
think is necessarily a lack of opportunities of wherewithal or enthusiasm,
(15:19):
not even in many cases investment. I was just an Oago,
just recently beautiful place, stunning Central Otago, there's a gold
mine permit that's been issued there. You might have seen
that in the news. Sam Neil was dead against the
project when I was down there, as are many others.
You know, there's opposition, there's legal challenges, fair enough, you
know they've got houses in the area. Worried about trucks
(15:40):
on the road then what it looks like. But it's
also an area that would be serviced by this brand
new hospital that Dunedin is getting. Half the town's buildings
by the way, and Otarger wouldn't be there to begin
with if it not for gold mining. So the permits issued.
The rest is with fast track whatever. But how are
you going to pay for that hospital? How are you
(16:01):
going to pay for that hospital? Wanaka said no to
a McDonald's in part due to concerns about healthy eating.
Residents objected to a solar farm in part because of
something called lunar reflection, that the moonlight might reflect off
a solar panel like it would I don't know a
lake or an ocean. I mean, come on, are we
clutching its straws here or what. It's all well and good,
(16:25):
but if we want stuff like new hospitals, highways and
potholes fixed, you have to pay for them somehow, And
there's a little too much economic nimbiism going on at
the moment, I think for anyone to be seriously complaining
about the state of things. Nine News Talk said, B,
this is on the sick leave, Ryan. We have full
(16:46):
staff who all use their ten days sickly every year.
That's forty days of sickly every year. Nearly one staff
member off every week, and generally it's a Monday. Has
got really noticeable since the ten days came in. This
is from one of our listeners this morning. Another says, Ryan,
sick leave is a young person's thing. We just don't
take it. At News Talks, B, it is twenty nine
(17:09):
minutes after five. We'll go stateside for the latest. Mam Damie.
He's out there in the cold. New York are doing
a press conference, so we'll hear what the new socialist
leader of New York City has to say. News Talk SEDB.
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News Talks EDB. Pretty we're away from sex here on
News Talks EDB. Great to be back with you for
this Thursday morning, coming up before six, we'll look at
those unemployment numbers from yesterday, especially youth unemployment, and we'll
go live to the US because Ma'm Darni. This is
the mayor elect of New York City. He's giving a
press conference telling everyone he's going to do. The interesting
(18:04):
thing about this great campaign from him, obviously very slick
social media presence, but can he actually do anything? Can
he actually lead anything? We haven't found out yet. We
haven't found out yet, but we are going to because
he's going to have to get around the table, around
(18:24):
the count and they are not exactly very powerful. Even
though it's the mayor of New York City, they still
have the same problem that our mayors here have where
they actually are basically just one vote on the table.
So whether he actually gets to do anything, it is
another thing. There there were glimmers of just Cinda adun
campaign here. You know, you've got a younger person, a
(18:45):
very slick social media presence, no experience really outside politics,
you know, no experience running an organization or a business.
This guy was a hip hop musician previously before he
became the Mayor of New York. Here's a little taste
of his hip. Hopie, why does the whole city are.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
If you sing?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's the mayor of New York City. In an earlier career,
he was a housing counselor for a short while, and
he is now going to be obviously mayor of New
York City. So good luck to him. He's going to
have some pretty big problems already. Trump's threatening funding. You've
got fellow Democrats who are already on you know, a
(19:34):
governor's saying coming out and saying that we don't think
you should be raising the kind of taxes that you
are talking about raising. So there'll be a hard road
ahead for him. We'll talk to a US corry about that.
Twenty two to six, Rayam Bridge your News Talk B.
We'll go to Callum Proctor and to need in first.
Colum good morning.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Oh no, you've got Courtney.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Courtney forgive me, Courtney love morning. You'll do Courtney. Good
to have you tell us what's going on there today.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
So.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
An Otaga University study shows young people with a neuro
developmental condition such as autism and an intellectual disability are
nearly five times more likely to die before the age
of twenty five than those without autistic Researcher and co
author Joanne Decombe says the main causes are medical issues,
(20:21):
injuries in suicide. She says it highlights the need for
improved medical intervention, mental health and crisis support services. All right,
how's the weather partly cloudy, a few showers before clearing
this afternoon afternoon southerly's high of twenty one.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Nice Courtney, Thank you, Claire Sherwood and christ Judge this morning. Morning, Claire,
good morning. What's the school that's going to be stuck
with some really old classrooms?
Speaker 12 (20:44):
Yeah, sixty five year old classrooms. In fact, this is
Burnside High School, in fact, our largest school here in
christ Church, which may be stuck with these old classrooms
for several years to come before its post quake rebuild
can be finished. We have more than one hundred schools
that have already been rebuilt or refurbished since twenty and thirteen.
(21:04):
More than one point sixty five billion dollars is in
this post quake repair program. It was originally due to
finish in twenty twenty. It's now been extended for various
reasons through to twenty twenty eight and Burnside High is
one of the twelve still waiting and several of their blocks,
including the admin block and some classrooms, were deemed quake
prone last year. Principal Scott Haynes says the students definitely
(21:27):
are coping, but they are working in substandard facilities. He
says they're having to use spaces that are in line
for demolition in the meantime.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Not a great outcomers that. How's the weather.
Speaker 12 (21:37):
Mainly fine, a bit of cloud increasing late this afternoon,
northwesterlies but warm.
Speaker 13 (21:41):
Twenty eight Thanks Claire Max, Good morning to you, good morning,
welcome back, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Good to be back. Most students at the school, this
is the Measles school. They're all bangers in class. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (21:52):
Kids and teachers at Wellington Girls College yesterday told they
could come back to classes today in person. A lot
of children years nine to eleven and a lot of
teachers have been doing online classes this week sort of
an abundance of cautioned thing health and Z advice basically
was they could come in if they if the school
deemed it okay, but the school taking a cautious approach
(22:13):
telling them to stay home. This week three cases of
measles at Girls College had been found a lot of
close contracts hundreds. They were trying to stamp this thing out,
I think before it really gets going. The big scare
around a prize giving ceremony a couple of weeks ago,
with some kids taking part who clearly had measles, the
most at risk identified as prize winners, teachers handing out awards.
(22:34):
A fear of measles spreading around this event, but most
back in school today. Still a handful staying home, but
essentially back to normal. Beyond school assemblies have been canceled
this week. The school's nurse has also been given swabs
to test students who are unwell. But yeah, fingers crusted.
They've tackled, tackled this well.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Certainly haws you with him.
Speaker 13 (22:54):
X mostly Cloudy's strong northerlyies today eighteen.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Hi, thank you very much Windy is and Orkland. This morning.
Good morning Wendy, lovely to see you. Our unemployment numbers
are right yesterday you've been taking a look at Auckland.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's right well. Simon Bridges says the government has been
heeding his call to grow Auckland's economy While the national
unemployment rate came out yesterday and it went from five
point two to five point three percent in the past quarter,
the Auckland unemployment rate has remained steady at six point
one percent and August Bridges told z B the government
needed to do more to address auckland surging unemployment. Three
(23:29):
months on, the Auckland Business Chamber chief executive says the
government has stepped up to the challenge. He says the
government's made announcements about tourism, Visa's events funding, ASB Tennis
Center funding and several other things that have helped the
Auckland economy.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
All right, thank you for that, Wendy. How's our weather?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
It was a warm yesterday.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
Did you good?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I got home from being down south and I got
off the plane and I felt like I was in
Fiji's heat way.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah right, I know we're all talking about it. Yesterday
it was warm and sunny. Another one of those today
of an afternoon shower in northeasterlies and twenty four degrees.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Wendy, I've got this fan in my room because I'm
I'm renting a house at the moment. From a long story,
but in the bedroom with this fan, trying to work
out if it's a heater or if it's a heating
or a cooling device. Oh, very hard to tell.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
One of those ones that goes around and around.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It doesn't go around and around. It's like a tall thing. Yes,
and you can't change the temperature. But there's a temperature
read on the top, and I think what it's telling
you is that is the temperature in the room, all right,
But you don't actually know whether this thing is going
to make that go up or down.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Just give me a fan, I say, absolutely too confusing.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Wendy, good to see you. Have a nice morning. It
is seventeen minutes away from sixty. You're on news talk
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talks hedb. It's fourteen minutes away from six now you
know that. A couple of weeks ago, there was a
story of over in the UK about a migrant sex
offender who was released from prison accidentally. Like whoopsie, guess
what they've done it again. I'm not even joking. This
has so a migrant prisoner. This is, according to the
papers over there, mistakenly freed from a scandal hit her
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Majesty's prison, wan'sworth the Algerian convict twenty four and there
was trespassed, stealing, previously, committing sexual offenses, you name it,
and he's Scott free. It's thirteen to six.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Now international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Let's go state sides. Of course, we have a new
mayor of New York City who's garnering headlines, one because
he's the first Muslim mayor of New York City, but
also because in the financial capital of the world, arguably
we have a socialist mayor to Greutie Dave is with
me from Feature Story News this morning. Good morning morning.
So he's just had a press conference. What's he's saying,
do we know?
Speaker 14 (26:48):
Well, he has essentially been talking about the reasons why
he's won. He's been taking questions and he is really
you know, I think playing on that victory speech that
he gave where he was talking about, you know how
his campaign has defeated a dynasty, a political dynasty, talking
about Andrew Coomo, his major rival, who got the backing
(27:10):
of Donald Trump. Despite that Coomo didn't get you know,
enough Republicans to go on board and you know, go
vote for Coomo. And so, you know, I think this
is a real shift in for the Democrats in many
ways because they've been kind of in the wilderness a
little bit since Donald Trump's election, and they're getting a
(27:31):
little bit of you know, wind under their sales as
looking forward to the midterms. And I think this is
just sort of the momentum in New York. You know,
it's this is what he's really been talking about. The
cost of living is what zoron Mum Danny really rode on.
And it's an indication that that is really what elections
ride on. It's the economy, stupid, That's what we're always
(27:51):
told and I think this election proves that that is
still the case.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And yet the Democrats aren't running towards some arms open,
are they. I mean, this is the awkward thing for them.
They He's quite radical in terms of the political spectrum
in the UIs so trying to present that and this
is why the Republicans are trying to paint him as
the defecto leader of the Democrats, right because it's better
for them.
Speaker 14 (28:16):
Yeah, this is the Democrats have always had this issue,
you know, when you look at in primaries when Bernie
Sanders was running, You've always had the left of the
party and the so called moderates of the party wrestling
as to the identity of the Democratic Party as a whole,
and the things are on. Mum Danny is part of
that conversation that the Democrats are going to be having.
(28:38):
You know, people like Chuck Schumer didn't endorse Mumdani before,
openly endorse Mumdany before his victory, and now is talking
about how this is his victory and there's results results
as a whole of Democratic candidates winning on different ballots
in different ballots is a repudiation of Donald Trump. So
they're really juggling with this idea of somebody who calls
(28:59):
an unashamingly a Democratic socialist, who is you know, the
city's first Muslim mayor, who is a prop immigrant. All
of this is an identity. How do they grapple that
with the moderates who are saying, well, we need to
be making talking points they're going to be bringing over.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, exactly. Andrew Gritty appreciate that reporting this morning. Thank
you Degreety Dave for US feature story in News US Correspondent.
It is ten to.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Six Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Unemployment up to five point three percent here at home Hire.
Since twenty sixteen, one hundred and sixty thousand people jobless,
fifteen to twenty four year olds fifteen point two percent.
That's up from thirteen, just over thirteen in the year. Prior.
Zenab Ali is CEO of Youth Inspired with me this morning, Zaynab,
Good to have you on the show. Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
Economists are saying this is the bottom of the rutch.
(29:46):
We will come up from here. What are you seeing?
Speaker 15 (29:52):
Look, that's not how it feels on the ground at
the moment, Ryan, So it's one to look at it.
I suppose from a more academic point of view. We
know these things are cyclic. It doesn't feel like it.
We still have our local business partners and in the
(30:15):
business community is still really struggling quarter at a time.
We know that for us here in our region, a
local business survey last month indicated that only twenty percent
of businesses are hiring. So yeah, I hope that that's true.
(30:39):
I've heard similar things in the past and it's gotten worse.
But we're really feeling it on the ground at the moment,
especially with our young rang Atahi.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
But that's the problem, isn't it that you've got We've
been told so many times now that things are going
to get better. It's almost like the boy who Cried.
Speaker 15 (30:55):
Wolf, you know, yeah, exactly, and it's all in hindsight.
Oh well, you know this factor this situation. But I
think it's not to make the situation, you know, a
bad news story or for business confidence to go down.
(31:15):
On the ground. Real people every day are really struggling,
and I think I think there's a rhetoric out there
Ryan there it's like, if you want to work, there's
a job for you, and I can promise you that
it's not the case.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, not in all cases, one hundred percent. Zam Ali,
really appreciate your time. This morning. It's CEO Youth Inspire.
It's eight to sex. News Talks mb.
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Thirty six on News Talks MB. SO the Chinese sent
three astronauts into space on the Shenzo twenty mission, and
they have flown to the Chinese Space Station and April,
and they were expected to come back today or yesterday.
They're not coming. Something's gone wrong. Apparently they had a
piece of space to breed. There's quite a lot of
it in space, and that means that they have no
(32:12):
return date to Earth and they're going to have to
send someone from down here to go pick them up apparently,
so good luck with that. It is five to.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
Six, Bread Bread Morning, Mike morning.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do you believe that that someone will pick them up?
Speaker 16 (32:25):
Well, it's just that Kim Kardashian, I note the other
day if you've seen her new TV.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Show, I've read the reviews. Apparently it's terrible.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
Shocking anyway, but lean close. I mean, it's not like
they haven't pulled some big names now anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
But one bad apple can bring down your whole back.
Speaker 16 (32:39):
Couldn't agree more Ryan anyway. Anyway. Anyway, Kim Kardashian doesn't
believe in the moon landing. So I'm just wondering whether
people If you don't believe in the moon landings, do
you believe in people being up at space stations?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, I suppose not.
Speaker 16 (32:53):
Well exactly, why do you bore us with a story?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Well, I know it's I think it's real, or you
think you and Kim Kardashian, I'm not saying I'm Chinese. Reckon.
They're going to get to the moon and land a
man there by twenty thirty. They haven't got long.
Speaker 16 (33:05):
No, they haven't. And that's the point. But for years
and what's the point. What is the point? So you
land land land of men?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So what it's all the rare earth minerals.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
No they're not.
Speaker 16 (33:17):
They're not mining them.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
The plan is to mine the moon.
Speaker 16 (33:20):
They can't even land on them, if you believe Kim,
they've never even gone.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Do you know why they're taking so long? Because they're
going to land with a massive dyson.
Speaker 16 (33:29):
Who will hoover up the uranium and bring it all back.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
It's not a spaceman. It's a mining mission.
Speaker 16 (33:35):
That's fantastic. Anyway. David Cohen, you know the book on Jinda.
Oh yes, that's out and so he's giving his first
interview this morning on that. So I'm in it extensively.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well congratulations, Well it'd.
Speaker 16 (33:47):
Be bestseller because of that, I suspect.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Anyway. Good to have you back, Thank you, good to
be back, Mike. Enjoy your day, everybody, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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