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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Monday, all the
best bits from the Mike Husking breakfast on News Talks
EDB in a sillier package. I am Glenn Hart, and
today there are a lot of jobs going in Hawk's Bay.
Come on, people, what are you doing? Climate policy? I'm
sure it's going to fix everything, and I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's all going well.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The CIA and MI six have joined up to warn
us about the Russians, and there's been some fine displays
of athleticism over the weekend, but not the ones you
might be expecting. But before any of that, what's with
all these businesses closing down?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Not a good look.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Last year was the first time in twenty years there
were fewer cafes in this country than the year before.
Now that isn't realble to you check on the state
of our economy, nothing is so Yes, we're starting to
see some light I think, some confidence here and interest
rate cut there. But the tail end, I hope it's
the tail end of what is likely three recessions and
two years has taken a catastrophic chunk out of the economy.
I read a piece on an international site over the
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weekend about the quote unquote economic refugees who are fleeing
New Zealand and record numbers. The most appressing stories about
this country are the ones written by offshore operators. We
only make the news around the world for exceptional stuff,
exceptionally good or in this case, exceptionally bad. Let's do
a piece on a basket case. Who's the basket case
we can find? Oh, oh, good, Old New Zealand. Pandoro
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announced on Friday that they're closing in Wellington. Now they
aren't the first, obviously, there's been a growing business lately
on stories about closing hospow businesses in the capitol. The
owner I thought was interesting though it seems for him
to be a mix of COVID as people went home
and not everyone came back. Also of cycle ways and
bus lanes killing the traffic, and road cones and construction
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who are actually closing roads and therefore access. So obviously
the economy is in there as well. So the question
then becomes just how badly do you want to hobble
your city's prospects, for goodness sake. In Wellington they are
laying them off left, right and center as well. So
a lot of people going home forced home, a lot
of people losing their job, a lot of places you
can't get to, an economy going backwards. I mean, good
luck selling chibata for goodness sake. On the hospital scene,
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a lot of people come and go, always have. Really
it's like construction. But when the names are a bit
well known, it always strikes me. It sort of catches
you a little bit, doesn't It remem Smith and Coey
or in Wellington's case, it was Cacaudy's Pandora. I mean
names that have been around, survived a lot, seen hard times,
and yet this time they can't do it. What's that
tell you about how badly this place has been wrecked?
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So badly in fact, we make international headlines out of it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I blame fads like intermittent fasting, paleo quito, all that
sort of stuff. People are too afraid to go to
a cafe in case you know it gives them a
heart attack.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I've got going to cafes twice as much to make
up for it. Oh what if I could rewrap.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So Yeah, so that's one side that signed that perhaps
the economy is not going very well. Meanwhile, you can't
even find anybody to do the.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Jobs that you've wanted to do. What's happening here?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Speak of regional New Zealand. One of the more interesting
pieces I've read in the Herald over the weekend was
the story about Hawk's Bay. And I'm sure it's applicable
all over the place, but all these jobs are available
in Hawk's Bay that you would think, why are they
still available? So, for example, you're looking for a boss
of the airport CEO of the airport. That job's been
opened for nine months. That's the point of this. This
is not just a job. It's a job that's been
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opened for nine months. Why is it taking nine months
to find a CEO for an airport? Is there something
wrong with the airport? Says something wrong with Hawk's Bay.
They're not a lot of people who want to get
into aviation generally. There's a cider maker who's looking for
a new chief executive called Zephyr. They can't find anybody
the Cape Kidnappers, which is a beautiful place, fabulous place.
They're looking for an executive assistant manager that they can't find.
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If you want to be a wildlife manager, do you
know for the Department of Conservation you were in one
hundred and sixty one thousand dollars a year as a
wildlife manager in Hawks Bay. That's good money to be
a wild I've managed. They can't fill a job. Why
not whole bunch of health roles, ear nose and throats specialist.
Can't find one for love nor money. Then I get
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round to Peter Hughes, who you won't remember, but he
was the head of the public service. He was the
Public Service Commissioner, and he left at the beginning of
the year. In fact, he told us he was leaving
last year and left at the beginning of the year.
They still haven't filled that job. Now, I mean, who
wants to be the head of the public service? I mean, really,
I think I can. You can see it if I
was going to be, if they said Mike pick a job,
I'd be the boss of the airport in Hawk's Bay.
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I reckon That'd be awesome, whereas being the head of
the public service, I'd be boring as But that's just
me and there must be people. So how is it
that we have the situation whereby we literally and I
don't assume it's not money. I'm assuming there's good money
to be head of the public service. How come we
can't find peace to do this job? What's going on there?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think the main problem is that some employers are
expecting people to turn up five days a week in
some cases, and even put in a full day's work
for each one of those five days, which is obviously
completely unreasonable.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And until they understand.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
A little bit more about work life balance, they won't
fill those positions.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Rewrapp, Okay, just a little chicken.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
With the climate crisis, have we solved that yet? With
all our great policies and things?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Surely I stand by now.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
The Bloomberg New Energy finance people have issued a warning
to Australians, and then that warning is the reality basically
of the whole world. To reach the climate target that
Australias set for itself by twenty thirty, i e. About
five years away, they will need to increase the share
of renewables that feeds the power grid by eighty seven percent,
not eight or seven eighty seven. Obviously they're not going
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to do it. It reminded me of a new Zealand's call
the other week in dropping some of the climate targets,
reality came knocking in. Instead of lying or greenwashing their
way around it, they told the truth, and the truth
is they can't do it. Small clue. Neither can Australia.
Neither will the United States or China, or India or
Brazil or any number of other major polluters who either
can't or won't, which then brings in the age old question,
doesn't it How hard should a country like ours try
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to do something that will, in all reality make no difference. Now,
up to this point, I've largely argued we should at
least try, and we should be seen to be trying
and be seen to be doing our part. It's good
to be a good citizen, to be on the right
side of history. But as each day passes and each
report is produced, and each alarmist utterance is issued by
people like a terrace at the UN about the world burning.
As problematic as the environment might be, it's increasingly clear
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a lot of people will not be walking the walk old.
The talk was easy, the rest is falling by the wayside.
It's like the twenty twenty argument, remember that turned into
a farce, how different everything would be by the time
we got to twenty twenty, until, of course, it wasn't
twenty thirty, as the next twenty twenty In Australia, our neighbor,
one of our biggest trading partners, needs to boost the
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renewables by an amount they are simply not able to. Obviously,
the argument will be repeated as we reach the famed
Paris twenty to fifty target. So if we can, but
it counts for nothing. Should we if we pay an
economic price for doing the right thing while others don't, should.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We, Yes, yes we should, but we won't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I was always taught that you've got to do the
right thing, even if it gets you in trouble or
gets your punched in the head and thrown down a bank.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Actually, I don't think that there was anything to do
with it doing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
The right thing that time that man through me, tounch
me in the head and through me down the bank.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I think I was just getting smart. And when I
think of it, so we shouldn't get smart either. The
re wrap smart.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Now We're going to move on now to more dire warnings,
not about the climate but Russia.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Unprecedented the heads of Six and CIA over the weekend.
Both countries stand together in resisting an assert of Russia
and Putin's war of progression in the Ukraine. What were
they talking about. They're wried about the global order under
threaten the way that we haven't seen since the Cold War.
This was a Financial Times event, our first ever joint
article written for the Financial Times by Sir Richard Moore
and William Burns, who had the Six and the CIA. Basically,
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there is no question they say that the international world order,
the balance system that has led to relative peace and
stability and delivered rising living standards, opportunities and prosperity, is
under threat in a way we haven't seen since the
Cold War. And I suspect they're probably right.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, that's certainly a bit of a bummer quest for
Gus rush off on our Russian guys. Hopefully we'll be
able to fit in and not get thrown down a
bank the rerap. We're going to finish up with some
fine examples of athleticism. No, not till about the rugby
over the weekend, not even the tennis, something else entirely.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Doug what was Dougie's last name, Dougie Martin. Dougie Martin
has just broken the world record for pull ups? Is
that the same as chin ups? So he's done nine thousand,
two hundred and fifty of them in twenty four hours,
which obviously what you then do is go, well, cheez,
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that sounds like a like how many is that an hour?
And the answer is three hundred and eighty five, three
hundred and eighty five an hour. Once you've done three
hundred and eighty five an hour, Yes, that seems like
that seems quite How many is that a minute? It's
six a minute? Six a minute? Is I mean you
want to.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Do it's doable for a minute, one every.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Ten seconds for a minute, and after that you're starting
to work a bit of a sweat up. You want
to drink, you want to pause, and really the second
minutes touch and go. I mean that's that's me speaking
to be.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Honest, I wouldn't have made it through the first minute,
But congratulations to but Dougie.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Dougie's done hours of it for twenty four hours. And
he's what's he look like? You had a photo?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Does he look like he's quite wide at the top?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, and he's got and his hands are not in
good shape at the moment.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I'm not surprised they're blisters. Was he wearing gloves, well,
I don't know, bare hand chin ups? Which does remind me.
I need you to watch that video again of Simone Biles,
who is married to what's his name, doesn't matter, she's
married to a football player, NFL football player. They were
at the gym with the rope hanging rope from the ceiling,
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and they did a contest whereby they pulled themselves up
just with their arms, nothing else, pulled themselves up the
rope to the top. And she not only won. And
remember he's an elite athlete and strong and powerful, or
so you would think. And so she not only won,
but she won by so far it was embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, but he'd way heats more than her, wouldn't he.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, he's got bigger arms than so.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I've been more impressed as she had pulled
him out the rope.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You don't know that they don't do that for fun,
But anyway, on this particular video, she is just a freak.
It's incredible. It's uplifting to watch. You get puffed watching it.
You wear yourself out just looking at it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I mean, if he only had to carry her weight
and she had to carry his weight, you know what
I'm saying, it's not a fair contest. And if both
of them had to carry my weight, because I wouldn't
be carrying any.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Whatever you're watching, I hope you enjoy it over the
next twenty four hours, and then you can be back
here listening to me, Bright and Bushytail tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
See then.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
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