October 3, 2024 • 13 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Don't Say Super/Bouquets for the Bassoonist/You Bought What?/What Is a Landline?
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk. Z'd be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rerap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, all
the best bits from the mic Husking Breakfast on Newstalks.
I'd be in a Slayer package Heathers last day on
the show. For this time around, I am Glenn Hart
and today she's got some nice things to say about
Erica Stanford. Other ministers have been spending their credit ministerial
(00:47):
credit cards on some weird things.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And we'll finish up with some tech talk or some
census talk or where those two things collide.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Anyway, Before any of that, if you thought talking about
capital gains tacks for the last two weeks non stops boring.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Wait do you hear this?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Do you know what?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
What's more boring than talking about a capital gains tax
is talking about superannuation, isn't it? And yet here we
are again, we're talking about it again and how we
need to take the super off the sixty five year
olds again because of what happened yesterday. Now, what happened
yesterday was that, for a brief minute, the two major
political parties almost found consensus on super but it only
(01:24):
lasted a few hours. So Nicola from National said to
Barbara from Labor, we should have a chat, and Barbara said, okay,
we should have a chat. And then Barbara thought about
it over the next few hours and then she's like,
sh nah, don't really We'll have a chat by sheh nah,
don't really agree with that idea, which I think is
a wise move from Barbara actually, to be honest, because
taking super off sixty five year olds is unpopular and
(01:45):
it's probably always going to be unpopular as long as
we keep running a welfare system that's so generous in
this country that people are now pretty much expected to
spend an average of thirteen years on the doll. It
is very very hard to convince hard working tax payers
that when they get to their golden years they should
give up that little bonus that they get at the
end of their lives. They should give that up because
we need to save money. And then they look down
(02:07):
the road and they see some of them taking the
mickey in the sunshine forever on the doll. I think
it's a hard one to push that one. And by
the way, while we're on the consensus politics. I do
not rate this idea. I don't care whether it's in
super or housing or transport. I hate it. I think
voters deserve choices. I think you should be able to
decide if you want to cycle lane or if you
want to road. You might want to cycle lane. You
(02:28):
should have that choice. I might want to road. I
should have that choice. I think we should decide if
we want to have three story houses pop up next
to us on the property next door without any consent.
I think we should decide if we want super taking
away from us or not. I don't want the politicians
actually getting between themselves and stitching up a little deal
and then leaving us no choice and saying deals, mate,
we've reached a consensus, just gonna have to have it
(02:48):
this way. That's not what I want. It's counter to
the very idea of democracy, which is that you have
ideas running against each other, and you as the vote
to get to choose which one of the ideas you like. So, frankly,
good call from Babs. Consensus politics can frankly take a hike,
and good luck pushing that stupid super debate again.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
She sounds like she's talking about oven'ing by referendums, so
everything gets put up for a vote from the public,
in which case you don't really need.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The government at all, do you. And yeah, I don't
know about that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I thought that we elected these guys to act on
our behalves because we sort of got an idea about
the kinds of people they were from the election campaigns,
and then they could take it from there for the
next three years, and then if we don't like the
job they've been doing after that time, then we sift
them out and let the other guys ever go.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's what I.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Thought our version of democracy was. But I guess everybody's
got a different version of it, isn't it. And that's
where the problems lie.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Who could have a problem with an MP like Erica Stanford?
She plays the for soon.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I mean, come on, you know, I don't think that
we give enough credit these days, So here's a little
bit of credit. Erica Stanford fully deserves her ranking as
Cabinets MVP, Player of the Year, Player of the Day,
number one perform or whatever you want to give her.
She deserves it. The CEOs and the directors who gave
her that thinking in the mood of the boardroom yesterday,
can clearly see what we see, which is that she
is putting the common sense back into education. She's getting
(04:15):
rid of the weird stuff that's been going on there,
and she is doing it with absolute haste. It's not
an easy job to do, by the way. I mean,
she makes it look easy, but it isn't. Actually. The
education portfolio is a portfolio that ranks up there, kind
of not quite as high, but not far behind education
a sorry health as a no win portfolio. You know,
ministers are lucky if they can make it through the
(04:36):
term without being demonized, and that's largely because the teachers'
unions are some of the most obstructive players out there,
and us parents, frankly don't help. We've all got an
opinion on everything to do with our kids. But Eric
is almost taking the Roger Douglas approach of moving so
fast that opponents can hardly catch their breath long enough
to fight her properly. But then, it's not just the
politics that she's managing to do quite well on this.
(04:57):
She's actually got some wins under her belt already, and
that's impressive. It's less than a year into the term,
most noticeably the ban on phones and schools. I mean,
do you remember when they first pitched that and how
we Pope owed it and we kind of made a
mockery of it. Have a look at it now, look
at the success the thing has turned out to be.
But what I think is most important here is how
badly we all know that she needs to do what
(05:18):
she is doing. That's what really makes her the MVP
and cabinet. Education is vital. The Warehouse's chair, Joan Withers,
ranked education in her top three concerns for this country
because if we don't get it right, kids will not
have the same opportunities that we did to get ahead.
Regardless of where you start in life, education is your
way out, and we know that we're not getting it
right at the moment. You can't have more than half
(05:40):
the kids failing maths exams and thinking that you're getting
it right. So Erica deserves her ranking at number one
because she's good and she is fixing it clearly, and
we badly need her to fix it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, I'm sorry, it's just that.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Ever since the passume thing, I just hear Peter and
the Wolf playing in the background every time we talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What do you mean you don't know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Look it up, get some education, find out about the
bassoon and the obo and other call instrument's like that
and the danger of hanging out with wolves.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh we rap.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Actually we've got more musical instrument for you.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Stuff for you now, coming from the most unlikeliest of sources.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Or is it this is what's gone on the credit
card spending list? Okay? Prime Minister Christopher Luxen spent about
nine hundred and sixty four dollars, don't under sixty three
dollars and fifty cents. And I want to misquote the
man on money because you know he's in trouble with
that already in the news this week. So nine hundred
and sixty three dollars and fifty cents was what was
on his credit card for three months, right. The biggest,
(06:43):
biggest item a harmonica, definitely the most expensive and also
the weirdest thing that he bought. It's a super chro
monica three hundred ninety nine dollars from the rock Shop
in Albany. This week in Auckland, I feel like you
can buy a guitar for that price, So I feel
like that's an expensive harmonica. He brought it for this guy, Seitevini,
(07:03):
Rambooker of Fiji. So it's actually quite a thoughtful present
because Citavini turns out likes to record social media videos
of how he plays harmonica after a long day in cabinet.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I don't know about you, but most of us, after
we've dealt with our colleagues, like to go and punch
a bag, maybe run all our fears away and our
anger and just plays Christopher Luxon's lovely harmonica.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know, red Book has got a lot in common
with another popular leader of the past.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
You also like the harmonica.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
No, no, no, he played the accordion.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is him back in ninety seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Imagine having to work with these guys. They like, You're
just halfway through a cabinet paper and this stuff starts
up in the office next door.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Lord.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Okay, Well, so it just makes our politicians seem a
lot more bearable, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
See I've come quite the opposite standpoint. I think you
shouldn't be allowed to run for office unless you can
play an instrument. So it was a four hundred dollars harmonica.
Is it a lot for a harmonica? Like that sounds
like a lot for a I guess like everything you
can get cheap ones and expensive ones.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Anyway, of course we had to, you know, fossock through
everybody else's credit cards and see what they were spending
the government's money on as well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Didn't we?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, here go credit card spending. David seem more well done.
He's one of the lowest spenders, only seventy five bucks
on his work credit card for three months. Seventy five
bucks compared to hold on old on.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So does that mean just twenty five bucks a month?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Twenty five bucks a month in contrast to old big
spender Judith Collins at ten thousand dollars. So just to
show how much restraint he which she's got a lot
of portfolios and she had an overseas trip. But he
is trying to be the low spending guy and it's
working and well done on that one. Winnie p spent
seventy nine dollars on getting his Twitter account verified. You know,
(09:03):
anybody who gets sucked in by Elon Musk's scheme, it's
not a good thing. And that's that's the vanity of
that situation. However, I'm going to give him some credit
because he went out. He went out to a New
York restaurant with three others and the four of them
put on their credit card only four drinks, two Goose
Silence and two Stellar Drafts. And I was well impressed
with the level of restraint going on there. From Winnie
(09:23):
Nikola Willis, the Finance Minister spent six hundred dollars on
an economists subscription. But I thought that's okay because you
are actually supposed to be running the finances, so there's
probably okay. Shane Retti also bought some magazines, so didn't
He bought two copies of the same North and South
magazine for twenty one dollars sixty three. The reason he
bought two was because he was in them, so he
bought one for him and one for his mum, which
(09:45):
is how you shirt. You should always do that if
you're in.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
He gets really bad if you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Then he also find out that he also spent money
on frames for the covers of them.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Is that bad? If you've been in a North and
South and you're on the cover, don't you what it's like?
New Zealand's version of time, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Casey Costello made a trip to London. She bought four
toasties in all days and that is an honorable mention
of a toasty, because a toasty, I'll tell you what,
toasties are underrated and so God on her at least
she's getting that bit right. And finally, Chris Bishop three
times in three days March ten, March eleven, and March twelve,
he goes to McDonald's, doesn't He with his staff member
(10:25):
goes to McDonald's and has whatever that they're having at McDonald's.
His office was asked about this in the office said,
the minister takes seriously his responsibility to be a prudent
guardian of taxpayer money. He also really likes fast food
and his waistliners proof of that. And I think if
you're a connoisseur of fast food, I want to know
from Chris Bishop, what is it that you're eating that
you're loving so much.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Just going back to Shane Retty and the North and
South magazines, f what wasn't Why why should the public
money be spent on the magazines that had an article
about him and them?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What's the benefit to us? Out of that.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I was not quite sure how I mean, I know
it's not much money, it's the principle of the thing.
It's an odd one to me.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's the one that.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Really stands out, so rerap did any of them pay
their their phone bills with their credit cards?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So I've been going through the sense of Starter because
there's some interesting stuff in them. And it's the first
time that we've counted the Rainbow community, so we know
one in five people are part of the Rainbow community.
And we've got you know, the tide Almardi speakers increasing.
It's about two hundred thousand people now. Got siggy smoking
rates down half since twenty thirteen, so you can kind
of get a snapshot of what's going on in the country.
This is I can't get my head around this. Landline
(11:41):
use has dropped dramatically, right, It's halved. It's halved in
the space of five years, which is pretty significant. In
twenty eighteen, we had sixty two percent of people with
a landline. We currently have thirty one percent of people
with a landline who has a landline, who actually is
rolling a landline in their house. I haven't had a
(12:02):
landline since I moved out of my mum's house and
what was that? I was eighteen year I went back
a few times, didn't I to get more washing done?
So twenty one years older, moved out and they have
not had a landline number since then. And I don't
understand in what like Okay, I can understand if you're
sort of a certain age you still need to have
one because that's that, you know, the cell phones are complicated.
(12:23):
I get that, But thirty one percent what's going on
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Again, it's one of those things that you know, two
different people hear that stat and they have two different
complete But I thought thirty odd percent having a landline
was relatively low.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In Canada it's seventy percent.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Apparently it's about seventy percent of households had to have landlines.
And yet right next door in the US that's only
about a quarter of those households have So.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yep, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I guess it'll we'll get there in the end, won't we.
Maybe phone plans just need to be a little bit cheaper. Still,
maybe that's that's the problem as well.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think that wasn't actually brought up today. I am
Glen Heart. That was the rerap with Heather. Let's do
it with Mike Hosking.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
See if we can give him on the go on
the mic class being briefast next week and see how
that goes.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rerap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, all
the best bits from the mic Husking Breakfast on Newstalks.
I'd be in a Slayer package Heathers last day on
the show. For this time around, I am Glenn Hart
and today she's got some nice things to say about
Erica Stanford. Other ministers have been spending their credit ministerial
(00:47):
credit cards on some weird things.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And we'll finish up with some tech talk or some
census talk or where those two things collide.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Anyway, Before any of that, if you thought talking about
capital gains tacks for the last two weeks non stops boring.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Wait do you hear this?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Do you know what?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
What's more boring than talking about a capital gains tax
is talking about superannuation, isn't it? And yet here we
are again, we're talking about it again and how we
need to take the super off the sixty five year
olds again because of what happened yesterday. Now, what happened
yesterday was that, for a brief minute, the two major
political parties almost found consensus on super but it only
(01:24):
lasted a few hours. So Nicola from National said to
Barbara from Labor, we should have a chat, and Barbara said, okay,
we should have a chat. And then Barbara thought about
it over the next few hours and then she's like,
sh nah, don't really We'll have a chat by sheh nah,
don't really agree with that idea, which I think is
a wise move from Barbara actually, to be honest, because
taking super off sixty five year olds is unpopular and
(01:45):
it's probably always going to be unpopular as long as
we keep running a welfare system that's so generous in
this country that people are now pretty much expected to
spend an average of thirteen years on the doll. It
is very very hard to convince hard working tax payers
that when they get to their golden years they should
give up that little bonus that they get at the
end of their lives. They should give that up because
we need to save money. And then they look down
(02:07):
the road and they see some of them taking the
mickey in the sunshine forever on the doll. I think
it's a hard one to push that one. And by
the way, while we're on the consensus politics. I do
not rate this idea. I don't care whether it's in
super or housing or transport. I hate it. I think
voters deserve choices. I think you should be able to
decide if you want to cycle lane or if you
want to road. You might want to cycle lane. You
(02:28):
should have that choice. I might want to road. I
should have that choice. I think we should decide if
we want to have three story houses pop up next
to us on the property next door without any consent.
I think we should decide if we want super taking
away from us or not. I don't want the politicians
actually getting between themselves and stitching up a little deal
and then leaving us no choice and saying deals, mate,
we've reached a consensus, just gonna have to have it
(02:48):
this way. That's not what I want. It's counter to
the very idea of democracy, which is that you have
ideas running against each other, and you as the vote
to get to choose which one of the ideas you like. So, frankly,
good call from Babs. Consensus politics can frankly take a hike,
and good luck pushing that stupid super debate again.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
She sounds like she's talking about oven'ing by referendums, so
everything gets put up for a vote from the public,
in which case you don't really need.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The government at all, do you. And yeah, I don't
know about that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I thought that we elected these guys to act on
our behalves because we sort of got an idea about
the kinds of people they were from the election campaigns,
and then they could take it from there for the
next three years, and then if we don't like the
job they've been doing after that time, then we sift
them out and let the other guys ever go.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's what I.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Thought our version of democracy was. But I guess everybody's
got a different version of it, isn't it. And that's
where the problems lie.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Who could have a problem with an MP like Erica Stanford?
She plays the for soon.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I mean, come on, you know, I don't think that
we give enough credit these days, So here's a little
bit of credit. Erica Stanford fully deserves her ranking as
Cabinets MVP, Player of the Year, Player of the Day,
number one perform or whatever you want to give her.
She deserves it. The CEOs and the directors who gave
her that thinking in the mood of the boardroom yesterday,
can clearly see what we see, which is that she
is putting the common sense back into education. She's getting
(04:15):
rid of the weird stuff that's been going on there,
and she is doing it with absolute haste. It's not
an easy job to do, by the way. I mean,
she makes it look easy, but it isn't. Actually. The
education portfolio is a portfolio that ranks up there, kind
of not quite as high, but not far behind education
a sorry health as a no win portfolio. You know,
ministers are lucky if they can make it through the
(04:36):
term without being demonized, and that's largely because the teachers'
unions are some of the most obstructive players out there,
and us parents, frankly don't help. We've all got an
opinion on everything to do with our kids. But Eric
is almost taking the Roger Douglas approach of moving so
fast that opponents can hardly catch their breath long enough
to fight her properly. But then, it's not just the
politics that she's managing to do quite well on this.
(04:57):
She's actually got some wins under her belt already, and
that's impressive. It's less than a year into the term,
most noticeably the ban on phones and schools. I mean,
do you remember when they first pitched that and how
we Pope owed it and we kind of made a
mockery of it. Have a look at it now, look
at the success the thing has turned out to be.
But what I think is most important here is how
badly we all know that she needs to do what
(05:18):
she is doing. That's what really makes her the MVP
and cabinet. Education is vital. The Warehouse's chair, Joan Withers,
ranked education in her top three concerns for this country
because if we don't get it right, kids will not
have the same opportunities that we did to get ahead.
Regardless of where you start in life, education is your
way out, and we know that we're not getting it
right at the moment. You can't have more than half
(05:40):
the kids failing maths exams and thinking that you're getting
it right. So Erica deserves her ranking at number one
because she's good and she is fixing it clearly, and
we badly need her to fix it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, I'm sorry, it's just that.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Ever since the passume thing, I just hear Peter and
the Wolf playing in the background every time we talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What do you mean you don't know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Look it up, get some education, find out about the
bassoon and the obo and other call instrument's like that
and the danger of hanging out with wolves.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh we rap.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Actually we've got more musical instrument for you.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Stuff for you now, coming from the most unlikeliest of sources.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Or is it this is what's gone on the credit
card spending list? Okay? Prime Minister Christopher Luxen spent about
nine hundred and sixty four dollars, don't under sixty three
dollars and fifty cents. And I want to misquote the
man on money because you know he's in trouble with
that already in the news this week. So nine hundred
and sixty three dollars and fifty cents was what was
on his credit card for three months, right. The biggest,
(06:43):
biggest item a harmonica, definitely the most expensive and also
the weirdest thing that he bought. It's a super chro
monica three hundred ninety nine dollars from the rock Shop
in Albany. This week in Auckland, I feel like you
can buy a guitar for that price, So I feel
like that's an expensive harmonica. He brought it for this guy, Seitevini,
(07:03):
Rambooker of Fiji. So it's actually quite a thoughtful present
because Citavini turns out likes to record social media videos
of how he plays harmonica after a long day in cabinet.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I don't know about you, but most of us, after
we've dealt with our colleagues, like to go and punch
a bag, maybe run all our fears away and our
anger and just plays Christopher Luxon's lovely harmonica.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know, red Book has got a lot in common
with another popular leader of the past.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
You also like the harmonica.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
No, no, no, he played the accordion.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is him back in ninety seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Imagine having to work with these guys. They like, You're
just halfway through a cabinet paper and this stuff starts
up in the office next door.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Lord.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Okay, Well, so it just makes our politicians seem a
lot more bearable, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
See I've come quite the opposite standpoint. I think you
shouldn't be allowed to run for office unless you can
play an instrument. So it was a four hundred dollars harmonica.
Is it a lot for a harmonica? Like that sounds
like a lot for a I guess like everything you
can get cheap ones and expensive ones.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Anyway, of course we had to, you know, fossock through
everybody else's credit cards and see what they were spending
the government's money on as well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Didn't we?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, here go credit card spending. David seem more well done.
He's one of the lowest spenders, only seventy five bucks
on his work credit card for three months. Seventy five
bucks compared to hold on old on.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So does that mean just twenty five bucks a month?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Twenty five bucks a month in contrast to old big
spender Judith Collins at ten thousand dollars. So just to
show how much restraint he which she's got a lot
of portfolios and she had an overseas trip. But he
is trying to be the low spending guy and it's
working and well done on that one. Winnie p spent
seventy nine dollars on getting his Twitter account verified. You know,
(09:03):
anybody who gets sucked in by Elon Musk's scheme, it's
not a good thing. And that's that's the vanity of
that situation. However, I'm going to give him some credit
because he went out. He went out to a New
York restaurant with three others and the four of them
put on their credit card only four drinks, two Goose
Silence and two Stellar Drafts. And I was well impressed
with the level of restraint going on there. From Winnie
(09:23):
Nikola Willis, the Finance Minister spent six hundred dollars on
an economists subscription. But I thought that's okay because you
are actually supposed to be running the finances, so there's
probably okay. Shane Retti also bought some magazines, so didn't
He bought two copies of the same North and South
magazine for twenty one dollars sixty three. The reason he
bought two was because he was in them, so he
bought one for him and one for his mum, which
(09:45):
is how you shirt. You should always do that if
you're in.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
He gets really bad if you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Then he also find out that he also spent money
on frames for the covers of them.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Is that bad? If you've been in a North and
South and you're on the cover, don't you what it's like?
New Zealand's version of time, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Casey Costello made a trip to London. She bought four
toasties in all days and that is an honorable mention
of a toasty, because a toasty, I'll tell you what,
toasties are underrated and so God on her at least
she's getting that bit right. And finally, Chris Bishop three
times in three days March ten, March eleven, and March twelve,
he goes to McDonald's, doesn't He with his staff member
(10:25):
goes to McDonald's and has whatever that they're having at McDonald's.
His office was asked about this in the office said,
the minister takes seriously his responsibility to be a prudent
guardian of taxpayer money. He also really likes fast food
and his waistliners proof of that. And I think if
you're a connoisseur of fast food, I want to know
from Chris Bishop, what is it that you're eating that
you're loving so much.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Just going back to Shane Retty and the North and
South magazines, f what wasn't Why why should the public
money be spent on the magazines that had an article
about him and them?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What's the benefit to us? Out of that.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I was not quite sure how I mean, I know
it's not much money, it's the principle of the thing.
It's an odd one to me.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's the one that.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Really stands out, so rerap did any of them pay
their their phone bills with their credit cards?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So I've been going through the sense of Starter because
there's some interesting stuff in them. And it's the first
time that we've counted the Rainbow community, so we know
one in five people are part of the Rainbow community.
And we've got you know, the tide Almardi speakers increasing.
It's about two hundred thousand people now. Got siggy smoking
rates down half since twenty thirteen, so you can kind
of get a snapshot of what's going on in the country.
This is I can't get my head around this. Landline
(11:41):
use has dropped dramatically, right, It's halved. It's halved in
the space of five years, which is pretty significant. In
twenty eighteen, we had sixty two percent of people with
a landline. We currently have thirty one percent of people
with a landline who has a landline, who actually is
rolling a landline in their house. I haven't had a
(12:02):
landline since I moved out of my mum's house and
what was that? I was eighteen year I went back
a few times, didn't I to get more washing done?
So twenty one years older, moved out and they have
not had a landline number since then. And I don't
understand in what like Okay, I can understand if you're
sort of a certain age you still need to have
one because that's that, you know, the cell phones are complicated.
(12:23):
I get that, But thirty one percent what's going on
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Again, it's one of those things that you know, two
different people hear that stat and they have two different
complete But I thought thirty odd percent having a landline
was relatively low.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In Canada it's seventy percent.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Apparently it's about seventy percent of households had to have landlines.
And yet right next door in the US that's only
about a quarter of those households have So.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yep, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I guess it'll we'll get there in the end, won't we.
Maybe phone plans just need to be a little bit cheaper. Still,
maybe that's that's the problem as well.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think that wasn't actually brought up today. I am
Glen Heart. That was the rerap with Heather. Let's do
it with Mike Hosking.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
See if we can give him on the go on
the mic class being briefast next week and see how
that goes.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
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