December 3, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Thursday the 4th of December 2025, Andrew Coster's resigned with immediate effect employment lawyer Gareth Abdinor shares his thoughts on why he was placed on leave for so long.
Ikea opens in Auckland today, First Retail Group Managing Director tells Ryan whether the hype will last.
Six60 and Synthony will play the first ever live show at Christchurch stadium, funded by the government's events fund, Duco Events promoter David Higgins tells Ryan what concert-goers can expect.
Plus, US Correspondent Mitch McCann has the latest on the US and Venezuela and the Kremlin saying it's wrong to suggest Putin rejected US proposals for peace in Ukraine.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Welcome to Thursday. We'll look at
the cost of payer for three months. Basically that's before
six Mitch, we can in the US for US the
IICRE traffic jam. Could this actually be a physit? Dave
Higgins on the first christ Stadium gig and I've got
numbers on the economy which you will like.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The agenda to stay.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
The fourth of.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
December, Ukraine talks of stall again. Putin doesn't like bits
of the deal. The EU has announced an end to
Russian gash and imports. They reckon by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
We're turning that peage and we're turning it for good.
This is the dawn of a new era, the era
of Europe's full energy independence from Russia.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Plus we're checking fifteen million bucks into a fund to
get the Ukrainians more weapons. Here's Russia than Ato, Boss.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
You heard from Australia and New Zealand who will also
come tribute to Pearl the first Natal partners to do
shop and this means the Dallas and partners have already
committed now really over four billion dollars two pearl getting
us on the track to the five billion for the
full year.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
They budget fireworks just keep going off. Over in the UK,
he is bad knock again, calling four raves to go.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
We know that there were endless Treasury briefings to justify
raising taxes on hard working people to pay for benefits,
and those briefings had real world consequences. Hundreds of thousands
of people drew down their pension, an irreversible act. So
the Prime Minister play tribute to the head of the OBR.
If the head of the OBR had to resign over
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market sensitive leaks, why is the Chancellor still.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
In her job?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, here's Starmer clapping back. Past year.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
They left us with a twenty two billion pound black
hole this year.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
This year the beginning of the process.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
The OBR did a productivity review.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
On their recording office.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
On that cost for additional well sixteen billion pound.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Just a bit of a heads up for you this
morning if you're looking at getting a bit of work done.
New research. One's face fillers can block arteries, causing skin
damage and even blindness. So you might look good, but
you won't be able to see it. So what's the point.
Ultrasound reviews of one hundred botched cases show the risk
is real. So clinics are now being told to carry
out ultrasounds before they inject.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
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Speaker 2 (02:35):
They'd be news talks. There'd be nine two nine two,
the number six eight minutes after five. The media narrative
has turned very south on the Government's all happened rather quickly.
Some of it it has deserved. Most of it, I
think is not. The journo's chomping at the bit for
a scandal, even where there is none, too quick to
buy one narrative over well, you know the truth. The
school lunch story is but one example this week. Smoking
(02:57):
is another Casey Costello's been coppying it in scrutiny week.
If you've been paying attention, The smoke's largely been coming
out of the fuming years of opposition MPs hell bent
on making her the evil tobacco lobbyist queen. When she's
managed to oversee another drop in smoking and vaping rates. Yes,
a drop, Rob beagle Hole, Professor Rob beagle Hole told
(03:18):
me this week that we effectively now have a smoke
free generation, which is what everybody wanted. That ought to
be celebrated. So why isn't it Erica Stamford painted as
a racist rather than rescuer of student achievement. Those results
speak for themselves. Same with Paul Goldsmith. Despite there being
twenty five thousand fewer mildy victims of crime in the
(03:39):
latest numbers. Chris Bishop coppying it too again. The latest
numbers show six percent more renters see ownership as a
real prospect this year compared to last. Rent tore the
cheapest they've been in years. Some tenants a knocking one
hundred bucks a week off. That's great news. How often
do you hear about that? Pacifica education leaders, Malori education providers.
(04:01):
They are excited about charter schools, but unions and labor
hate them. So what's the narrative? Well, it's not good.
This is not to say this government is perfect by
no means. They have failed to find out the economy
like they promised they would. They have failed on growth,
They have failed on jobs. You cannot deny that. But
the bad press doesn't match reality, which is part of
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the reason no one trusts the press.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Ryan Bridge talks them B.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Now we will get to Dave Higgins shortly on this,
and I'm very excited about the new concert that's coming
to Kenzie. You're going to go to that gig in
christ Church. She's a maybe, she's a maybe. I'm a definite.
I'm gonna lock it in. I want to check out
the new stadium. There's a buzz about christ Church. The
Symphony's great. Been to them in Auckland before. It's like sixties. Great,
gonna be a fen thirty seven thousand people. Why wouldn't
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you go? Dave Higgins live on that Next.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
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Speaker 2 (05:01):
Point thirteen on News TALKSB. This is how they're going
to fund the war against Putin for the next two years.
The Ukrainians need one hundred and eighty billion dollars that's
New Zealand dollars over the next two years. It's going
to be funded through the EU, borrowing money, raising money
on the capital markets. Then they will also use the
cash balances from those frozen Russian assets that we talk about.
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So you take some money from the Russians, you borrow
some money off the EU, and then you give that
basically the cash to Ukraine as a loan, and then
Ukraine has to pay this loan back if and when
Russia is paying reparation. So ultimately the goal is to
get Russia to pay for the war against itself, and
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we're putting fifteen million dollars into this effort. We've announced
that overnight from Collins and from Peters. Most of the
money will end up being spent on military hardware that
comes ironically from Europe in the first place.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Brian brigs see.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Five fourteen. And the first live show for the new
Christchurch Stadium has been revealed none other than these guys
iconic here we Ban. Six sixty Symphony is also going
to be performing alongside the May sixteenth is the date
with the doublehead of receiving funding through the government's Events
Boost fund. David Higgins is DUCO Events promoted with us
this morning. Good morning, Dave, Good morning, Ron Hey, no brainer.
(06:27):
The book six.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Sixty, Yeah, it was sort of serendipitous. So I've been
talking to Brent eccles for while since I got into
music with the symphony, and we've become friendly, and then
we were talking about some sort of collaboration. The government
funding came along the stadium. It was one of those
things where all the stars aligned and we've ended up
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with what I think is a magic occasion with the
two biggest bands in the country. One is Electronic Dance
with Orchestra, the other being six sixty, the biggest band
in the country together all sponsored by Minuca Fuel of
course and kiwibank. So they're delighted.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You don't have to convince me I'm coming. But how
much did you get from the government fund?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Well, I'm not to be honest, I'm not sure what
the rules are around whether I'm allowed to tell you
or not. So what I will say is what I
say is most AUSSI states will spend this sort of
money annually and have done for a long time. And
what it does is it creates visitor night's GDP into
the economy, spend, restaurant spas are full, hotels ripple effect.
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Plus young people want to go live there. You know,
you talk about the brain drain. If or New Zealand
and Auckland spend nothing on events and then all the
other states are spending fifty million a year, the brain
drain is going to accelerate big time, isn't it rain?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I don't disagree. Does would something like this happen without
that money?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
I personally wouldn't have put Synthony into this without the money.
These events are very expensive put on. It's a multimillion
dollar production. Secondly, you're making a risk return judgment if
it's your own neck on the line, your own house.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And when New Zealand.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Promoters New Zealand owned, we're deciding, hey, can we sell
enough to gets in this market. So having support from
sponsors like Nuca Fuel, Kerry Bang and government is very
helpful and it enables us to confidently go big and
put on massive rasumtaz shows that otherwise might not happen.
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And it makes New Zealand a nice place to live.
And I think the overall money is a drop in
the ocean of what the government's spending. When as a kid,
I might have thought spending fifty seventy million a year
on of interaction was a lot of money. And then
they spend fifty billion on COVID or whatever it was.
And then I realized, how we you know, imagine if feel.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's exactly pay jump very quickly. But Takahas Stadium is
it expensive to put gigs on there? I mean this
is abviously the first one that's been put on. And
how does that compare to say an Eden Park?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Yeah, good question. Every dealer is different. Every stadium has
a different border, different CEO. Some are not for profit,
some are losing money, some are very profitable. I've done
deals with some Corps Stadium, Brisbane, Eden Park. This deal,
you know, I think they were firm but fair, like
they wanted an exciting product for their first event. Where
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good negotiators. I think we'd land in a place that
was fear to them and fear to us. But big
stadiums are always expensive. It's not just the rental. You've
got to pay for generators and ambulance staff, and security
and ushers and you know, just traffic management and about
one hundred budget lines the public would not think about
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on top of the rental.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Dave, appreciate your time this morning, looking forward to the gig.
Dave Higgins Duco Events promoter time is eighteen minutes after five.
News Talk said, be next the IKA thing? Will it
be potentially in a good way? Bit of a physicist?
Car park traffic problem, that's next.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
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One News Talks AV five twenty So some numbers for
you on the economic outlook, which is looking good. Business
New Zealand's forecasts they reckon we will grow it just
under three percent a year out twenty twenty seven. This
is their Economic Conditions Index. Economic Indicators stands at plus
or positive thirteen for the December twenty twenty five quarter.
That's up nine points from the previous quarter, two points
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higher than a year ago. Above zero. We're on the up,
so that's good news. And we will go faster next year.
Excuse me, you have to believe the forecast to believe this,
but we will grow faster next year than the Australians,
than the Brits, than the Americans. We will grow faster
next year and the following year than most developed countries.
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And I think for the government they need to say
when the timing is right. Can't do it now because
people are still struggling to pay for meat and butter.
But when the time is right, you say, don't put
that all at risk. With a labor government. They are
on track for six of their nine targets that they
set at the last election, so there's room to move.
Twenty one after five, Ryan Bridge. Today IQ is big
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opening eleven o'clock, the car park opening eight point thirty
this morning. Apparently Auckland Transports warned of forty minute ques
to exit the motor Mount Wellington cues of up to
an hour to enter the shop's car parks. Chris Wilkinson
is with us this morning from Retail First Retail Group.
Good morning, Chris, Good morning Ryan. Do you reckon this
could be a phizzit because we haven't seen the type
of interest in retail just over the last wee while
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that we would like to have seen.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
No, definitely not. This is probably the most anticipated retail
opening New Zealand scene.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Do you reckon people will travel from around the country
for this?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, we already know they are, and you know it's
developed a phenomenal following.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
What do people like like?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Difference? They like something that's unique. We hadn't seen anyone
knows about Ikea in New Zealander is well traveled, but
we haven't had that within reach, and now we've finally
come of age.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Essentially, how does it perform Ikea in countries like it,
like Australia.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh, extremely well, it's it's been very popular. They continue
to put stores in and and that demand continues to grow.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm told they have five hundred car parks at I Care.
Does that sound like enough to you? Does that sound
like the right number of car parks for the size
of the store?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Good point. But in the old days, of course, people
traveled to ikeas. Now more and more we've seeing people
shopping online. And of course there's great rail and transport
connections to Sylvia Park, and that's a key reason of
chosen that site is.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Just generally with retail. How important these days is parking
because you know, we've had this idea that you rip
up car parks and you put in cycle ways, and
you put in bus lanes and stuff like that, which
drives people nuts. But the idea is that you will
actually get more foot traffic into these areas. You'll get
more people into these areas. Does that work? Is that working?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Getting a balance right is important in many cases. You know,
if you've got good public transport connections, leverage them. City centers,
we need to slow people down and better engage them
with their retail and hospitality environments. But in provincial areas,
you know where you really need that connection to that
wide attachment. Absolutely you need parking.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group, appreciate your time this morning,
five twenty three, Ryan Bred Mike says, Hey, Ryan, have
you seen how small the car park outside is. It's
incredibly small. Yeah, but doesn't sound like a lot to me.
Five hundred covered car parks. Maybe there's uncovered parks that
they're not talking about, but I'm sure they would have
told us about uncovered and covered. So there's five hundred
car parks. Good luck, everybody, Good luck. We've got your
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most googled search terms coming in a minute for twenty
twenty five. Also, we've got higher timber prices that's starting
to hit residential construction costs. This is a qv cost
builder data out. Construction costs starting to get on the
march again. They've been you know, we've been talking about
this falling off flat for a while.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Average cost of building a standard home in the main
centre is up half a percent over the three months
to the end of November, but up just over one
percent over the year to the end of November. What's up, well,
Timber five point two percent, cladding five percent, concrete four
and a half percent, diesel three percent. Then you're painting
two point three percent. Not a surge, you know, it
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is not a broad based increase, and some costs have
actually come down, But timber the one to watch, obviously,
because that's what we make our houses out of. It
is five twenty four News TALKSVB, the early.
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
Five twenty six Andrew cost Is three weeks of silence
and negotiating, I think speaks volumes about the sincerity of
the apology we got yesterday. If you really felt that way,
if you hadn't until yesterday realized what had gone on,
which he had, of course, because he saw the report
long before any of us did, then surely you would
have come straight out the starting blocks with an apology
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to miss z and the front line officers, by the way,
who've been copping flak. Wouldn't that be a bit more credible.
As for the government, they've obviously been trying to get
him out without paying him too much. The bill is
three months paid out essentially gardening leave and crucially a
statement from the government that there was no cover up.
Roach said, no collusion of officers. That's despite the IPCA
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report having the strong whiff of one or as Judith
Collins put it, the walk talk and quack of one.
Cost has obviously done the CLCS in his head on
this and the longer you stay on and fight the
mess here it gets reputation wise. He'll be thinking about
the next job, of course, whatever and wherever that may be.
He strikes me as the sort of guy with a
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plan to maybe one day go into politics, you know,
local cop boss, top cop boss, new modern approach to
police scis, champion of progressive policing. That sort of resume
would get you pretty close to the top of a
left landing party pretty quickly. I would have thought he's
not stupid, But this scandal will rule him out of
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politics and pretty much all top public sector jobs in
New Zealand pretty much for life. As for the Police Association,
while the boss there told us yesterday on this program
that frontline officers are being taunted over this association with
that sort of damage doesn't evaporate quickly. And the mayor
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Kupper the sorry wasn't quick enough. Five eight. Speaking of Sory's,
we're going to need one from Ingud Larry over. Did
you see one news last night? She's using not that
she will admit it to you, Chat GPT to come
up with questions for ministers.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
I do not directly use chat GTP to ask questions.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
To use AI to help generate questions.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
I use AI to help me analyze documents.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I formulate my own questions.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ingrid, you got caught red handed pants down and you
just didn't own up to it. Did you question a
number of times? I didn't say no, I didn't do that.
Didn't I might have to talk to my staff, and
then later comes back and says, actually, yet it was me.
It was me sending this email accidentally with AI generated
questions at eleven o'clock at night. What are you doing
(17:22):
at eleven o'clock at night that you can't remember what
you've got emails you've sent? Hm hm us talk said
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Speaker 1 (17:39):
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Speaker 2 (17:55):
Twet fore away from six News Talks zid B. Great
to have your company this morning. We would get to
the US of Mitch mccannon shortly and employment lawyer on Costa.
Twenty twenty five's Google searches for the year people care.
I mean you sort of care what other people are
thinking about, don't you. And this is not necessarily the
most search terms, but the stuff that has had the
(18:17):
biggest increase over twenty twenty five as opposed to twenty
twenty four. Whether I know it affects us all. It's
always a raterer, always rates its tits off when it
comes to news, when tsunami warning, cyclone tam They dominated
the searches for the year. The All Blacks v. France
one of the biggest moments of the year. Charlie Kirk
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That obviously the assassination Bell Gibson. She's that cancer fraud
stiff from Australia. One of the most searched people globally
and local names Joseph Parker Lord cost of living. We
searched how to make butter. We searched how to invest
money in shares, which has actually got to be a
good thing and revenge saving this financial trend and this
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sort of I think will be the story of the
next couple of years. You've got a whole bunch of
young people. We've got people my age. You've got people
younger who haven't been through an inflationary period before, who
haven't felt the grinch that is inflation, the thief that
is inflation before, and they'll be trying to invest money.
They'll be trying to be a bit more prudent with
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their finances in the years to come. Minecraft movie was
the other thing that people searched through twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Bryan Bridge, you've.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Got to Clum Procter and Dnedan Cullum. Good morning morning, ryots.
Now at gorse of the Sea, you've got a new
sort of approach to managing the seaweed.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Look, it's cool to undaria, this invasive seaweed and it's
prominent in fieldland, marine areas, environments south and dock and
biosecurity in New Zealand have been working to try and
contain it since it was first detected in Fieldland in
twenty seventeen. Now new populations of it have been discovered
in break Sea Sound, also in Dusky Sound, and sadly
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the experts say, look, it's no longer possible to contain
the weed with the current resources we have, so their
focus is now on just stopping its spreading, targeting high
risk areas like key anchorages and moorings, and also increasing
their surveillance.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
All right, how's your weather?
Speaker 11 (20:15):
I find but partly cloudy mate this afternoon here at
eighteen the high nice one.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Thanks Calum and Clears and christ Church clear good morning,
Good morning. Are you going to go to that concert
next year?
Speaker 12 (20:25):
Oh you bet, I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, sounds awesome. You've got a new lane way, Oh yes.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
How fancy. This is actually just up the road from
end me christ Church, a new laneway that will connect
Avon River with the favorite at christ Church location, which
is New Regent Street. Christchurch City Council have confirmed they've
purchased a piece of land directly opposite New Regent from
the Catholic Diocese. The diocese has been holding onto this
plot effectively trying to decide where to build their new cathedral.
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That decision's made. It's returning to Barbados Street. So now
they've offered a twelve meter wide lot to council to
connect effectively New Regent with the Avon River the Merefield.
Major says New Regent Streets already a hive of activity.
There's lots of eateries there. It's also near the Performing
Arts Precinct and the Margaret Mayhew Playground. He says this
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investment will be a starting point for some further development
to come to the area. And you already know this, Ryan,
But he says, christ Church is already the country's coolest
city and we're just getting started.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm not going to argue with that. I think you're right.
How's your weather fine?
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Aside from some areas of early morning cloud, southwesterly is
easing and the high will be twenty from the heights of.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The mountaintops to the bottom of a ditch. Here's Max
and Wellington. Good morning, mor morning. And your tunnel project's delayed.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
Yeah, Look, we have something of a time frame now
for this second Mount Victoria tunnel. The State Highway one
stuff as well, the terrace tunnel. Six to eight years
is the estimate of work and touch wood it doesn't
turn into a transmission gully type shamozzle, which for all
merit hasn't even finished yet, so that's a lot of
disruption which is expected. Main construction won't start until twenty
(22:06):
twenty nine either. Also worth mentioning, a new survey has
found two thirds of us Wellingtonians are keen to see
that second month Victoria Tunnel be built, which is a
pretty good result for the government. Three quarters also supporting
the plan to improve the roading around the Basin Reserve.
That's a survey commissioned by Wellington Airport. It's a CEO
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says trips to and from the airport right now just
take a little too long. So we do want this thing.
Hopefully everyone remembers that when they're being diverted at a
crawl around the waterfront for about a decade.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's going to be tough. Fe six to eight years
doesn't sound like the end of the world. The curl
which they're going to open here next year, second half
of next year. The actually started I didn't realize, but
way back in twenty sixteen, so by then it'll be
eleven years to drill underground anyway, how's you wear the max?
Speaker 13 (22:54):
Yeah, it's just how long these things take. Early showers,
strong Southerly's clearing later sixteen the High.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Great Day Neva's and Auckland Hay Neva Greetings, nearly half drivers.
These are the ones who failed or who have to
reset the practical test after that bribery scandal. What's happened
with you?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Yes, that's right, that's at Auckland VT and Z bribery scandal.
So earlier in the year we knew that staff. This
was at the High Brook branch. Now they took money
to pass driving applicants from at least twenty twenty three,
So five employ years have since been sacked. More than
three hundred people have been required to reset practical driving
(23:30):
tests and this is by next Friday. So NZTA says
two hundred and twenty drivers have been retested so far,
ninety one failing.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Oh that's not great.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I know.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
So what police have done? You know they've now showved
their investigation into this branch because it's now been handled
by the Series Fraud Office.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
My goodness, I mean, so that proves that they did
need to bribe, didn't they well, did say we're going
to fail anyway?
Speaker 10 (23:53):
I know, And I was saying to the ones out
here in the newsroom, I remember, you know, like when
we all when we had to sit our drivers test
in out of the practice see, because back in the
day in nineteen twenty, I was I got my license
in a the cargo and of course you know they
had the wide streets and you had to do your
three point two, you know, your turn and your easy
isat it was easy pasy.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Do you know when I sat my SRIP for the
full license, my practical driving test because I was going
away that New Year's with my friends on a road
trip and I really wanted to get it, and I
was driving my dad's car and I backed. You had
to back into a car park, and I scraped the
side of the car against defense and I passed. Had
you passed? The guy goes. The guy goes, oh, oh,
(24:35):
well that's not great, and he said is there any damage?
And I opened the door. There was a big straight
and I said, no, no, it's fine. Anyway, what did
your dad say? Oh he was gussy. Made me pay
for it, and how's that?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
We a Neva cloudy showers clearing though in the afternoon
we've got increasing fine spells, but there will be a
bit of winter today. I can tell you twenty one
is high here in Auckland, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Seventeen away from six News talks they'd be and says Ryan,
public transport and biking to Yeah, sounds like a great idea.
How on earth do you get your big packages home?
Good question and seventeen to six. You know, there's nothing
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Talk to an employment law about cost in a second.
Let's go to the US. Note now, though, where Trump's
facing just as much pressure from the Republicans as he
is the Democrats. This is on Venezuela. Mitch McCanns man
in the US, Mitch, what's se copping? What's the heat
he is copping?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Well.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Lawmakers on both sides are actually growing increasingly concerned by
his actions in the Caribbean and toward Venezuela. Of course,
eighty three people have been killed in around twenty one
strikes in recent months, and it's possible that Donald Trump's
going to look to land strikes in Venezuela in the
coming days or weeks, and there are still question marks.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Around what the end goal is here.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Is it to stop the flow of drugs, is it
oil or is it something else altogether. Now, two senators
from opposing party say that if Donald Trump launches any
type of strike on land, they'll introduce a resolution where
lawmakers will vote in the Senate to try and stop
any further attacks, And in the House of Representatives, different
officials are already trying to do the same. So I
think there's growing alarm across both Republicans and Democrats and
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increase concern over where the innocent people are being killed
in these strikes on the sea.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Meanwhile, we don't have much progress in stopping the other
wall that's in Ukraine. Putins just putting his foot down again.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Donald Trump's peace envoy, Steve Witkoff,
met with Putin yesterday in Moscow for more than five
hours to discuss the latest iteration of this US backed
Ukrainian peace plan. In the end, they haven't been able
to reach an agreement. This is a proposal Russia initially
had input on, then Ukraine had it say as well,
Now it's back to Moscow. The Kremlin says there are
(27:41):
points that accepts and others it doesn't. It's likely those
to do with seeding territory or Ukraine not wanting to
seed territory. But at the moment they're not revealing exactly
which points they don't agree on.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
All right, much appreciate that, Thanks so much for your time.
Mitch McCann our, US correspondent. It's eleven to six lare
On News Talks. There be Airbus the latest more plane
delivery problems. Basically this time it's the Airbus, but we've
had some from Boeing of course you know about those.
We've got our Rolls Royce engine issues. So Airbus overnight
has announced that they have a problem with their fuselage panels.
(28:17):
And this is their A three twenties, which is their
best selling aircraft, the aircraft most of us will fly
on when we're traveling internationally. Now they are cutting their
plane delivery forecast for this year. They were going to
deliver around eight hundred and twenty of these planes. Now
they think it will be thirty less at seven hundred
and ninety, which is not great. Is it getting harder
and harder to keep yourself in the air back home.
(28:40):
Did you see this yesterday from Scrutiny Week. So there's
a you know, you get your alcohol excise, so when
you buy a pack of beer, when you buy a
bottle of wine or whatever, you're paying excise on the booze. Well,
there's also a portion that is called a levy in
an alcohol levee and that money goes towards ad campaigns
(29:01):
and you know, harm minimization all that kind of stuff. Anyway,
that went up last year from about eleven million to
sixteen million, and they reckon it should be more like
forty million. And the Greens were asking Doosey about it,
and it sounds like Doocey's going to put this up. Now,
that's not the main thrust of the tax take that
you get on your booze that you buy on a
Friday evening of hopefully just a Friday evening. You know,
(29:25):
that's about one point three billion dollars actually excise. But
they reckon the harm from booze is nine billion a year,
probably because there's a lot more people doing that than
there are doing other things. But booze is not like
cigarettes or like food when it comes to taxing stuff.
It's harder to tax. You know. Some people drink a
(29:45):
few red wines and it's fine. In fact, it's probably
good for them. Some people eat a few bits of
chocolate and it's fine. It's probably good for them. Whereas smoking,
No amount of smoking is okay, is it? No amount
of smoking is good for you. So it's a different
kettle of fish when it comes to taxi anyway, Costa
it's about three months that they're paying out, basically his
(30:06):
notice period. Three months, we're paying out and he's gone.
So the story is kind of basically over now, isn't it.
Nine minutes away from Sex News Talks, there'd be Mike next.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Brian
Bridge and r V Supercenter explore r v's accessories and
servicing all in one news talk, said be.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Seven to six on news Talks. He'd be great to
have your company this morning. So we've given you the
good economic news, but Mike is going to have more
of it for you later this morning. Actually, there's a
text that's coming Mike. Good morning, greetings, Mike. This is
addressed to you, though it's coming a little bit early,
and it's not sent from my mum. Ryan. Please let Mike,
please let Ryan know that I'm not happy with him.
I'm having to get up an hour early to catch
(30:48):
his show as it's very good. Just thought it passed
that on for me. It's to you to let you know.
Speaker 14 (30:56):
Gets up because you're so entertaining and gripping and you're
excited by that, because that's the first text of that
nature you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You know, I get lots of those made. I'm too
demure to is that what it is?
Speaker 14 (31:11):
We've done the good economic thing. Lamb got some stats
on land, which is good. We've done a deal with
the Chinese skiers. Do you think of Chinese as skis?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No? But although I have skied in China, no way.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
You just get more interesting every day up early Exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I was skied in China and it was a terrible
experience because it wasn't because you're not very good. No, no, no,
I can ski, but not fantast to what level? Well,
I would say intermediate. Okay, so you're on the pomber, yeah,
and I'm not falling over.
Speaker 14 (31:42):
I'm not still do that.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You're going down memory lane.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
Here, memory that wreaked that story wreaked of memory lane.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
But what the problem was in China when you're lining
up for things because I lived there for a while,
when they don't do lines, so you're lining up for
your ski poles and your boots and all that kind
of stuff, and you could be there all day unless
you get pushy. That was the biggest problem.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
It's it's a trait with the Chinese, isn't it. There's
a there's a certain level of aggression in their desire
to get stuff done, isn't that.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Well, they just don't have the same well, I mean,
this is going to probably sound terrible, but they just
don't have the same sort.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Of they're doing the Palm's queue Chinese nunte.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 14 (32:20):
The interesting thing that the other thirteen million, of course
there's not that's not many. If you think about the
population one point two billion, it's like next to no
one's ski.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
This is the ski deal.
Speaker 14 (32:29):
Yeah yeah, and so anyway, so we've done that and
that's nice for tourists. What sort of field was it
do they have a like, is it a sophisticated field
that they're chairs? Just there was chairs a little club
field or a.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Remember they had the winter Games. Did they Winter Olympics
just outside of Beijing, which is where I went skiing?
But before they had that were you and the Olympics?
Speaker 14 (32:48):
I just can't remember? So right right, Bridge went up
the Pomber to win the bronze.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And just came home moaning about the queues we also
speaking of before.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
We've got the drawer on the Rugby World couple of
years made in Sydney last night, and we seem to
be in what I would loosely call the worst group
because of all the groups, there's no competitions. There's one
decent side and a whole lot of useless sides. We've
got Australia. Yes, so that which could be the opening game,
which apparently we're excited about as an opening game is
(33:21):
a big thrill. But apart from that, that sort of
then gets into the problem what do we lose to
Australia and therefore we've got it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, but we won't when we lose to Australia, well,
and then we do South Africa after that do we
in the final?
Speaker 14 (33:33):
In theory we go to South Africa in the in
the quarterfinal, which makes it, But that's twenty twenty seven.
We've got other stuff to worry about in the ensuing period.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
A lot of stuff. Although hey, next year we're going
to grow faster than the Aussiest, than the Brits and
the Americans.
Speaker 14 (33:46):
Had time, I'd text you and say how it's been
really worth getting up earlier to listen to this.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Thanks Mike has lived in the next Newstalk senb.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Welcome to Thursday. We'll look at
the cost of payer for three months. Basically that's before
six Mitch, we can in the US for US the
IICRE traffic jam. Could this actually be a physit? Dave
Higgins on the first christ Stadium gig and I've got
numbers on the economy which you will like.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The agenda to stay.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
The fourth of.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
December, Ukraine talks of stall again. Putin doesn't like bits
of the deal. The EU has announced an end to
Russian gash and imports. They reckon by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
We're turning that peage and we're turning it for good.
This is the dawn of a new era, the era
of Europe's full energy independence from Russia.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Plus we're checking fifteen million bucks into a fund to
get the Ukrainians more weapons. Here's Russia than Ato, Boss.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
You heard from Australia and New Zealand who will also
come tribute to Pearl the first Natal partners to do
shop and this means the Dallas and partners have already
committed now really over four billion dollars two pearl getting
us on the track to the five billion for the
full year.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
They budget fireworks just keep going off. Over in the UK,
he is bad knock again, calling four raves to go.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
We know that there were endless Treasury briefings to justify
raising taxes on hard working people to pay for benefits,
and those briefings had real world consequences. Hundreds of thousands
of people drew down their pension, an irreversible act. So
the Prime Minister play tribute to the head of the OBR.
If the head of the OBR had to resign over
(01:42):
market sensitive leaks, why is the Chancellor still.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
In her job?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, here's Starmer clapping back. Past year.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
They left us with a twenty two billion pound black
hole this year.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
This year the beginning of the process.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
The OBR did a productivity review.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
On their recording office.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
On that cost for additional well sixteen billion pound.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Just a bit of a heads up for you this
morning if you're looking at getting a bit of work done.
New research. One's face fillers can block arteries, causing skin
damage and even blindness. So you might look good, but
you won't be able to see it. So what's the point.
Ultrasound reviews of one hundred botched cases show the risk
is real. So clinics are now being told to carry
out ultrasounds before they inject.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore r these accessories
and servicing more than one news talks?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
They'd be news talks. There'd be nine two nine two,
the number six eight minutes after five. The media narrative
has turned very south on the Government's all happened rather quickly.
Some of it it has deserved. Most of it, I
think is not. The journo's chomping at the bit for
a scandal, even where there is none, too quick to
buy one narrative over well, you know the truth. The
school lunch story is but one example this week. Smoking
(02:57):
is another Casey Costello's been coppying it in scrutiny week.
If you've been paying attention, The smoke's largely been coming
out of the fuming years of opposition MPs hell bent
on making her the evil tobacco lobbyist queen. When she's
managed to oversee another drop in smoking and vaping rates. Yes,
a drop, Rob beagle Hole, Professor Rob beagle Hole told
(03:18):
me this week that we effectively now have a smoke
free generation, which is what everybody wanted. That ought to
be celebrated. So why isn't it Erica Stamford painted as
a racist rather than rescuer of student achievement. Those results
speak for themselves. Same with Paul Goldsmith. Despite there being
twenty five thousand fewer mildy victims of crime in the
(03:39):
latest numbers. Chris Bishop coppying it too again. The latest
numbers show six percent more renters see ownership as a
real prospect this year compared to last. Rent tore the
cheapest they've been in years. Some tenants a knocking one
hundred bucks a week off. That's great news. How often
do you hear about that? Pacifica education leaders, Malori education providers.
(04:01):
They are excited about charter schools, but unions and labor
hate them. So what's the narrative? Well, it's not good.
This is not to say this government is perfect by
no means. They have failed to find out the economy
like they promised they would. They have failed on growth,
They have failed on jobs. You cannot deny that. But
the bad press doesn't match reality, which is part of
(04:22):
the reason no one trusts the press.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Ryan Bridge talks them B.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Now we will get to Dave Higgins shortly on this,
and I'm very excited about the new concert that's coming
to Kenzie. You're going to go to that gig in
christ Church. She's a maybe, she's a maybe. I'm a definite.
I'm gonna lock it in. I want to check out
the new stadium. There's a buzz about christ Church. The
Symphony's great. Been to them in Auckland before. It's like sixties. Great,
gonna be a fen thirty seven thousand people. Why wouldn't
(04:49):
you go? Dave Higgins live on that Next.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Ryan Bridge on Early Edition with r VS Supercenter explore
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Speaker 2 (05:01):
Point thirteen on News TALKSB. This is how they're going
to fund the war against Putin for the next two years.
The Ukrainians need one hundred and eighty billion dollars that's
New Zealand dollars over the next two years. It's going
to be funded through the EU, borrowing money, raising money
on the capital markets. Then they will also use the
cash balances from those frozen Russian assets that we talk about.
(05:21):
So you take some money from the Russians, you borrow
some money off the EU, and then you give that
basically the cash to Ukraine as a loan, and then
Ukraine has to pay this loan back if and when
Russia is paying reparation. So ultimately the goal is to
get Russia to pay for the war against itself, and
(05:42):
we're putting fifteen million dollars into this effort. We've announced
that overnight from Collins and from Peters. Most of the
money will end up being spent on military hardware that
comes ironically from Europe in the first place.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Brian brigs see.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Five fourteen. And the first live show for the new
Christchurch Stadium has been revealed none other than these guys
iconic here we Ban. Six sixty Symphony is also going
to be performing alongside the May sixteenth is the date
with the doublehead of receiving funding through the government's Events
Boost fund. David Higgins is DUCO Events promoted with us
this morning. Good morning, Dave, Good morning, Ron Hey, no brainer.
(06:27):
The book six.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Sixty, Yeah, it was sort of serendipitous. So I've been
talking to Brent eccles for while since I got into
music with the symphony, and we've become friendly, and then
we were talking about some sort of collaboration. The government
funding came along the stadium. It was one of those
things where all the stars aligned and we've ended up
(06:48):
with what I think is a magic occasion with the
two biggest bands in the country. One is Electronic Dance
with Orchestra, the other being six sixty, the biggest band
in the country together all sponsored by Minuca Fuel of
course and kiwibank. So they're delighted.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You don't have to convince me I'm coming. But how
much did you get from the government fund?
Speaker 9 (07:12):
Well, I'm not to be honest, I'm not sure what
the rules are around whether I'm allowed to tell you
or not. So what I will say is what I
say is most AUSSI states will spend this sort of
money annually and have done for a long time. And
what it does is it creates visitor night's GDP into
the economy, spend, restaurant spas are full, hotels ripple effect.
(07:35):
Plus young people want to go live there. You know,
you talk about the brain drain. If or New Zealand
and Auckland spend nothing on events and then all the
other states are spending fifty million a year, the brain
drain is going to accelerate big time, isn't it rain?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I don't disagree. Does would something like this happen without
that money?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
I personally wouldn't have put Synthony into this without the money.
These events are very expensive put on. It's a multimillion
dollar production. Secondly, you're making a risk return judgment if
it's your own neck on the line, your own house.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And when New Zealand.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Promoters New Zealand owned, we're deciding, hey, can we sell
enough to gets in this market. So having support from
sponsors like Nuca Fuel, Kerry Bang and government is very
helpful and it enables us to confidently go big and
put on massive rasumtaz shows that otherwise might not happen.
(08:32):
And it makes New Zealand a nice place to live.
And I think the overall money is a drop in
the ocean of what the government's spending. When as a kid,
I might have thought spending fifty seventy million a year
on of interaction was a lot of money. And then
they spend fifty billion on COVID or whatever it was.
And then I realized, how we you know, imagine if feel.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's exactly pay jump very quickly. But Takahas Stadium is
it expensive to put gigs on there? I mean this
is abviously the first one that's been put on. And
how does that compare to say an Eden Park?
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Yeah, good question. Every dealer is different. Every stadium has
a different border, different CEO. Some are not for profit,
some are losing money, some are very profitable. I've done
deals with some Corps Stadium, Brisbane, Eden Park. This deal,
you know, I think they were firm but fair, like
they wanted an exciting product for their first event. Where
(09:26):
good negotiators. I think we'd land in a place that
was fear to them and fear to us. But big
stadiums are always expensive. It's not just the rental. You've
got to pay for generators and ambulance staff, and security
and ushers and you know, just traffic management and about
one hundred budget lines the public would not think about
(09:47):
on top of the rental.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Dave, appreciate your time this morning, looking forward to the gig.
Dave Higgins Duco Events promoter time is eighteen minutes after five.
News Talk said, be next the IKA thing? Will it
be potentially in a good way? Bit of a physicist?
Car park traffic problem, that's next.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
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One News Talks AV five twenty So some numbers for
you on the economic outlook, which is looking good. Business
New Zealand's forecasts they reckon we will grow it just
under three percent a year out twenty twenty seven. This
is their Economic Conditions Index. Economic Indicators stands at plus
or positive thirteen for the December twenty twenty five quarter.
That's up nine points from the previous quarter, two points
(10:35):
higher than a year ago. Above zero. We're on the up,
so that's good news. And we will go faster next year.
Excuse me, you have to believe the forecast to believe this,
but we will grow faster next year than the Australians,
than the Brits, than the Americans. We will grow faster
next year and the following year than most developed countries.
(10:56):
And I think for the government they need to say
when the timing is right. Can't do it now because
people are still struggling to pay for meat and butter.
But when the time is right, you say, don't put
that all at risk. With a labor government. They are
on track for six of their nine targets that they
set at the last election, so there's room to move.
Twenty one after five, Ryan Bridge. Today IQ is big
(11:18):
opening eleven o'clock, the car park opening eight point thirty
this morning. Apparently Auckland Transports warned of forty minute ques
to exit the motor Mount Wellington cues of up to
an hour to enter the shop's car parks. Chris Wilkinson
is with us this morning from Retail First Retail Group.
Good morning, Chris, Good morning Ryan. Do you reckon this
could be a phizzit because we haven't seen the type
of interest in retail just over the last wee while
(11:39):
that we would like to have seen.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
No, definitely not. This is probably the most anticipated retail
opening New Zealand scene.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Do you reckon people will travel from around the country
for this?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, we already know they are, and you know it's
developed a phenomenal following.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
What do people like like?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Difference? They like something that's unique. We hadn't seen anyone
knows about Ikea in New Zealander is well traveled, but
we haven't had that within reach, and now we've finally
come of age.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Essentially, how does it perform Ikea in countries like it,
like Australia.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh, extremely well, it's it's been very popular. They continue
to put stores in and and that demand continues to grow.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm told they have five hundred car parks at I Care.
Does that sound like enough to you? Does that sound
like the right number of car parks for the size
of the store?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Good point. But in the old days, of course, people
traveled to ikeas. Now more and more we've seeing people
shopping online. And of course there's great rail and transport
connections to Sylvia Park, and that's a key reason of
chosen that site is.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Just generally with retail. How important these days is parking
because you know, we've had this idea that you rip
up car parks and you put in cycle ways, and
you put in bus lanes and stuff like that, which
drives people nuts. But the idea is that you will
actually get more foot traffic into these areas. You'll get
more people into these areas. Does that work? Is that working?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Getting a balance right is important in many cases. You know,
if you've got good public transport connections, leverage them. City centers,
we need to slow people down and better engage them
with their retail and hospitality environments. But in provincial areas,
you know where you really need that connection to that
wide attachment. Absolutely you need parking.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group, appreciate your time this morning,
five twenty three, Ryan Bred Mike says, Hey, Ryan, have
you seen how small the car park outside is. It's
incredibly small. Yeah, but doesn't sound like a lot to me.
Five hundred covered car parks. Maybe there's uncovered parks that
they're not talking about, but I'm sure they would have
told us about uncovered and covered. So there's five hundred
car parks. Good luck, everybody, Good luck. We've got your
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most googled search terms coming in a minute for twenty
twenty five. Also, we've got higher timber prices that's starting
to hit residential construction costs. This is a qv cost
builder data out. Construction costs starting to get on the
march again. They've been you know, we've been talking about
this falling off flat for a while.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Average cost of building a standard home in the main
centre is up half a percent over the three months
to the end of November, but up just over one
percent over the year to the end of November. What's up, well,
Timber five point two percent, cladding five percent, concrete four
and a half percent, diesel three percent. Then you're painting
two point three percent. Not a surge, you know, it
(14:30):
is not a broad based increase, and some costs have
actually come down, But timber the one to watch, obviously,
because that's what we make our houses out of. It
is five twenty four News TALKSVB, the early.
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
Five twenty six Andrew cost Is three weeks of silence
and negotiating, I think speaks volumes about the sincerity of
the apology we got yesterday. If you really felt that way,
if you hadn't until yesterday realized what had gone on,
which he had, of course, because he saw the report
long before any of us did, then surely you would
have come straight out the starting blocks with an apology
(15:07):
to miss z and the front line officers, by the way,
who've been copping flak. Wouldn't that be a bit more credible.
As for the government, they've obviously been trying to get
him out without paying him too much. The bill is
three months paid out essentially gardening leave and crucially a
statement from the government that there was no cover up.
Roach said, no collusion of officers. That's despite the IPCA
(15:30):
report having the strong whiff of one or as Judith
Collins put it, the walk talk and quack of one.
Cost has obviously done the CLCS in his head on
this and the longer you stay on and fight the
mess here it gets reputation wise. He'll be thinking about
the next job, of course, whatever and wherever that may be.
He strikes me as the sort of guy with a
(15:50):
plan to maybe one day go into politics, you know,
local cop boss, top cop boss, new modern approach to
police scis, champion of progressive policing. That sort of resume
would get you pretty close to the top of a
left landing party pretty quickly. I would have thought he's
not stupid, But this scandal will rule him out of
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politics and pretty much all top public sector jobs in
New Zealand pretty much for life. As for the Police Association,
while the boss there told us yesterday on this program
that frontline officers are being taunted over this association with
that sort of damage doesn't evaporate quickly. And the mayor
(16:32):
Kupper the sorry wasn't quick enough. Five eight. Speaking of Sory's,
we're going to need one from Ingud Larry over. Did
you see one news last night? She's using not that
she will admit it to you, Chat GPT to come
up with questions for ministers.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
I do not directly use chat GTP to ask questions.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
To use AI to help generate questions.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
I use AI to help me analyze documents.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I formulate my own questions.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ingrid, you got caught red handed pants down and you
just didn't own up to it. Did you question a
number of times? I didn't say no, I didn't do that.
Didn't I might have to talk to my staff, and
then later comes back and says, actually, yet it was me.
It was me sending this email accidentally with AI generated
questions at eleven o'clock at night. What are you doing
(17:22):
at eleven o'clock at night that you can't remember what
you've got emails you've sent? Hm hm us talk said
B we're live in the US afternoons.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The first Word on the News of the Day Early
edition with Ryan Bridge and r V supersetor explore r
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Speaker 2 (17:55):
Twet fore away from six News Talks zid B. Great
to have your company this morning. We would get to
the US of Mitch mccannon shortly and employment lawyer on Costa.
Twenty twenty five's Google searches for the year people care.
I mean you sort of care what other people are
thinking about, don't you. And this is not necessarily the
most search terms, but the stuff that has had the
(18:17):
biggest increase over twenty twenty five as opposed to twenty
twenty four. Whether I know it affects us all. It's
always a raterer, always rates its tits off when it
comes to news, when tsunami warning, cyclone tam They dominated
the searches for the year. The All Blacks v. France
one of the biggest moments of the year. Charlie Kirk
(18:37):
That obviously the assassination Bell Gibson. She's that cancer fraud
stiff from Australia. One of the most searched people globally
and local names Joseph Parker Lord cost of living. We
searched how to make butter. We searched how to invest
money in shares, which has actually got to be a
good thing and revenge saving this financial trend and this
(18:58):
sort of I think will be the story of the
next couple of years. You've got a whole bunch of
young people. We've got people my age. You've got people
younger who haven't been through an inflationary period before, who
haven't felt the grinch that is inflation, the thief that
is inflation before, and they'll be trying to invest money.
They'll be trying to be a bit more prudent with
(19:21):
their finances in the years to come. Minecraft movie was
the other thing that people searched through twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Bryan Bridge, you've.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Got to Clum Procter and Dnedan Cullum. Good morning morning, ryots.
Now at gorse of the Sea, you've got a new
sort of approach to managing the seaweed.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
Look, it's cool to undaria, this invasive seaweed and it's
prominent in fieldland, marine areas, environments south and dock and
biosecurity in New Zealand have been working to try and
contain it since it was first detected in Fieldland in
twenty seventeen. Now new populations of it have been discovered
in break Sea Sound, also in Dusky Sound, and sadly
(20:00):
the experts say, look, it's no longer possible to contain
the weed with the current resources we have, so their
focus is now on just stopping its spreading, targeting high
risk areas like key anchorages and moorings, and also increasing
their surveillance.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
All right, how's your weather?
Speaker 11 (20:15):
I find but partly cloudy mate this afternoon here at
eighteen the high nice one.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Thanks Calum and Clears and christ Church clear good morning,
Good morning. Are you going to go to that concert
next year?
Speaker 12 (20:25):
Oh you bet, I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, sounds awesome. You've got a new lane way, Oh yes.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
How fancy. This is actually just up the road from
end me christ Church, a new laneway that will connect
Avon River with the favorite at christ Church location, which
is New Regent Street. Christchurch City Council have confirmed they've
purchased a piece of land directly opposite New Regent from
the Catholic Diocese. The diocese has been holding onto this
plot effectively trying to decide where to build their new cathedral.
(20:54):
That decision's made. It's returning to Barbados Street. So now
they've offered a twelve meter wide lot to council to
connect effectively New Regent with the Avon River the Merefield.
Major says New Regent Streets already a hive of activity.
There's lots of eateries there. It's also near the Performing
Arts Precinct and the Margaret Mayhew Playground. He says this
(21:14):
investment will be a starting point for some further development
to come to the area. And you already know this, Ryan,
But he says, christ Church is already the country's coolest
city and we're just getting started.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm not going to argue with that. I think you're right.
How's your weather fine?
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Aside from some areas of early morning cloud, southwesterly is
easing and the high will be twenty from the heights of.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The mountaintops to the bottom of a ditch. Here's Max
and Wellington. Good morning, mor morning. And your tunnel project's delayed.
Speaker 13 (21:43):
Yeah, Look, we have something of a time frame now
for this second Mount Victoria tunnel. The State Highway one
stuff as well, the terrace tunnel. Six to eight years
is the estimate of work and touch wood it doesn't
turn into a transmission gully type shamozzle, which for all
merit hasn't even finished yet, so that's a lot of
disruption which is expected. Main construction won't start until twenty
(22:06):
twenty nine either. Also worth mentioning, a new survey has
found two thirds of us Wellingtonians are keen to see
that second month Victoria Tunnel be built, which is a
pretty good result for the government. Three quarters also supporting
the plan to improve the roading around the Basin Reserve.
That's a survey commissioned by Wellington Airport. It's a CEO
(22:26):
says trips to and from the airport right now just
take a little too long. So we do want this thing.
Hopefully everyone remembers that when they're being diverted at a
crawl around the waterfront for about a decade.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's going to be tough. Fe six to eight years
doesn't sound like the end of the world. The curl
which they're going to open here next year, second half
of next year. The actually started I didn't realize, but
way back in twenty sixteen, so by then it'll be
eleven years to drill underground anyway, how's you wear the max?
Speaker 13 (22:54):
Yeah, it's just how long these things take. Early showers,
strong Southerly's clearing later sixteen the High.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Great Day Neva's and Auckland Hay Neva Greetings, nearly half drivers.
These are the ones who failed or who have to
reset the practical test after that bribery scandal. What's happened
with you?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Yes, that's right, that's at Auckland VT and Z bribery scandal.
So earlier in the year we knew that staff. This
was at the High Brook branch. Now they took money
to pass driving applicants from at least twenty twenty three,
So five employ years have since been sacked. More than
three hundred people have been required to reset practical driving
(23:30):
tests and this is by next Friday. So NZTA says
two hundred and twenty drivers have been retested so far,
ninety one failing.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Oh that's not great.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I know.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
So what police have done? You know they've now showved
their investigation into this branch because it's now been handled
by the Series Fraud Office.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
My goodness, I mean, so that proves that they did
need to bribe, didn't they well, did say we're going
to fail anyway?
Speaker 10 (23:53):
I know, And I was saying to the ones out
here in the newsroom, I remember, you know, like when
we all when we had to sit our drivers test
in out of the practice see, because back in the
day in nineteen twenty, I was I got my license
in a the cargo and of course you know they
had the wide streets and you had to do your
three point two, you know, your turn and your easy
isat it was easy pasy.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Do you know when I sat my SRIP for the
full license, my practical driving test because I was going
away that New Year's with my friends on a road
trip and I really wanted to get it, and I
was driving my dad's car and I backed. You had
to back into a car park, and I scraped the
side of the car against defense and I passed. Had
you passed? The guy goes. The guy goes, oh, oh,
(24:35):
well that's not great, and he said is there any damage?
And I opened the door. There was a big straight
and I said, no, no, it's fine. Anyway, what did
your dad say? Oh he was gussy. Made me pay
for it, and how's that?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
We a Neva cloudy showers clearing though in the afternoon
we've got increasing fine spells, but there will be a
bit of winter today. I can tell you twenty one
is high here in Auckland, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
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Talk to an employment law about cost in a second.
Let's go to the US. Note now, though, where Trump's
facing just as much pressure from the Republicans as he
is the Democrats. This is on Venezuela. Mitch McCanns man
in the US, Mitch, what's se copping? What's the heat
he is copping?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Good morning, Ryan.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Well.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Lawmakers on both sides are actually growing increasingly concerned by
his actions in the Caribbean and toward Venezuela. Of course,
eighty three people have been killed in around twenty one
strikes in recent months, and it's possible that Donald Trump's
going to look to land strikes in Venezuela in the
coming days or weeks, and there are still question marks.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Around what the end goal is here.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Is it to stop the flow of drugs, is it
oil or is it something else altogether. Now, two senators
from opposing party say that if Donald Trump launches any
type of strike on land, they'll introduce a resolution where
lawmakers will vote in the Senate to try and stop
any further attacks, And in the House of Representatives, different
officials are already trying to do the same. So I
think there's growing alarm across both Republicans and Democrats and
(27:09):
increase concern over where the innocent people are being killed
in these strikes on the sea.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Meanwhile, we don't have much progress in stopping the other
wall that's in Ukraine. Putins just putting his foot down again.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Donald Trump's peace envoy, Steve Witkoff,
met with Putin yesterday in Moscow for more than five
hours to discuss the latest iteration of this US backed
Ukrainian peace plan. In the end, they haven't been able
to reach an agreement. This is a proposal Russia initially
had input on, then Ukraine had it say as well,
Now it's back to Moscow. The Kremlin says there are
(27:41):
points that accepts and others it doesn't. It's likely those
to do with seeding territory or Ukraine not wanting to
seed territory. But at the moment they're not revealing exactly
which points they don't agree on.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
All right, much appreciate that, Thanks so much for your time.
Mitch McCann our, US correspondent. It's eleven to six lare
On News Talks. There be Airbus the latest more plane
delivery problems. Basically this time it's the Airbus, but we've
had some from Boeing of course you know about those.
We've got our Rolls Royce engine issues. So Airbus overnight
has announced that they have a problem with their fuselage panels.
(28:17):
And this is their A three twenties, which is their
best selling aircraft, the aircraft most of us will fly
on when we're traveling internationally. Now they are cutting their
plane delivery forecast for this year. They were going to
deliver around eight hundred and twenty of these planes. Now
they think it will be thirty less at seven hundred
and ninety, which is not great. Is it getting harder
and harder to keep yourself in the air back home.
(28:40):
Did you see this yesterday from Scrutiny Week. So there's
a you know, you get your alcohol excise, so when
you buy a pack of beer, when you buy a
bottle of wine or whatever, you're paying excise on the booze. Well,
there's also a portion that is called a levy in
an alcohol levee and that money goes towards ad campaigns
(29:01):
and you know, harm minimization all that kind of stuff. Anyway,
that went up last year from about eleven million to
sixteen million, and they reckon it should be more like
forty million. And the Greens were asking Doosey about it,
and it sounds like Doocey's going to put this up. Now,
that's not the main thrust of the tax take that
you get on your booze that you buy on a
Friday evening of hopefully just a Friday evening. You know,
(29:25):
that's about one point three billion dollars actually excise. But
they reckon the harm from booze is nine billion a year,
probably because there's a lot more people doing that than
there are doing other things. But booze is not like
cigarettes or like food when it comes to taxing stuff.
It's harder to tax. You know. Some people drink a
(29:45):
few red wines and it's fine. In fact, it's probably
good for them. Some people eat a few bits of
chocolate and it's fine. It's probably good for them. Whereas smoking,
No amount of smoking is okay, is it? No amount
of smoking is good for you. So it's a different
kettle of fish when it comes to taxi anyway, Costa
it's about three months that they're paying out, basically his
(30:06):
notice period. Three months, we're paying out and he's gone.
So the story is kind of basically over now, isn't it.
Nine minutes away from Sex News Talks, there'd be Mike next.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Brian
Bridge and r V Supercenter explore r v's accessories and
servicing all in one news talk, said be.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Seven to six on news Talks. He'd be great to
have your company this morning. So we've given you the
good economic news, but Mike is going to have more
of it for you later this morning. Actually, there's a
text that's coming Mike. Good morning, greetings, Mike. This is
addressed to you, though it's coming a little bit early,
and it's not sent from my mum. Ryan. Please let Mike,
please let Ryan know that I'm not happy with him.
I'm having to get up an hour early to catch
(30:48):
his show as it's very good. Just thought it passed
that on for me. It's to you to let you know.
Speaker 14 (30:56):
Gets up because you're so entertaining and gripping and you're
excited by that, because that's the first text of that
nature you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You know, I get lots of those made. I'm too
demure to is that what it is?
Speaker 14 (31:11):
We've done the good economic thing. Lamb got some stats
on land, which is good. We've done a deal with
the Chinese skiers. Do you think of Chinese as skis?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No? But although I have skied in China, no way.
Speaker 14 (31:24):
You just get more interesting every day up early Exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I was skied in China and it was a terrible
experience because it wasn't because you're not very good. No, no, no,
I can ski, but not fantast to what level? Well,
I would say intermediate. Okay, so you're on the pomber, yeah,
and I'm not falling over.
Speaker 14 (31:42):
I'm not still do that.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You're going down memory lane.
Speaker 14 (31:45):
Here, memory that wreaked that story wreaked of memory lane.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
But what the problem was in China when you're lining
up for things because I lived there for a while,
when they don't do lines, so you're lining up for
your ski poles and your boots and all that kind
of stuff, and you could be there all day unless
you get pushy. That was the biggest problem.
Speaker 14 (32:04):
It's it's a trait with the Chinese, isn't it. There's
a there's a certain level of aggression in their desire
to get stuff done, isn't that.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Well, they just don't have the same well, I mean,
this is going to probably sound terrible, but they just
don't have the same sort.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
Of they're doing the Palm's queue Chinese nunte.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 14 (32:20):
The interesting thing that the other thirteen million, of course
there's not that's not many. If you think about the
population one point two billion, it's like next to no
one's ski.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
This is the ski deal.
Speaker 14 (32:29):
Yeah yeah, and so anyway, so we've done that and
that's nice for tourists. What sort of field was it
do they have a like, is it a sophisticated field
that they're chairs? Just there was chairs a little club
field or a.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Remember they had the winter Games. Did they Winter Olympics
just outside of Beijing, which is where I went skiing?
But before they had that were you and the Olympics?
Speaker 14 (32:48):
I just can't remember? So right right, Bridge went up
the Pomber to win the bronze.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And just came home moaning about the queues we also
speaking of before.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
We've got the drawer on the Rugby World couple of
years made in Sydney last night, and we seem to
be in what I would loosely call the worst group
because of all the groups, there's no competitions. There's one
decent side and a whole lot of useless sides. We've
got Australia. Yes, so that which could be the opening game,
which apparently we're excited about as an opening game is
(33:21):
a big thrill. But apart from that, that sort of
then gets into the problem what do we lose to
Australia and therefore we've got it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, but we won't when we lose to Australia, well,
and then we do South Africa after that do we
in the final?
Speaker 14 (33:33):
In theory we go to South Africa in the in
the quarterfinal, which makes it, But that's twenty twenty seven.
We've got other stuff to worry about in the ensuing period.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
A lot of stuff. Although hey, next year we're going
to grow faster than the Aussiest, than the Brits and
the Americans.
Speaker 14 (33:46):
Had time, I'd text you and say how it's been
really worth getting up earlier to listen to this.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Thanks Mike has lived in the next Newstalk senb.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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