August 29, 2024 • 5 mins
ZB Political Editor Jason Walls joins Hamish McKay to chat the politics of the week
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now to look at the week in politics. Was
ZB Political editor Jason Walls, Good morning, Jason.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Hamish.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
A sad day, isn't it passing of the Maori king.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, indeed, a lot of Ques will be waking up
learning the news of the death of ke to Hettier,
who died this morning. There has already been a number
of statements coming out from Prime Minister Chris Luxon who
basically talked of about what a great man he was
and saying with Acting Prime Minister Winston Pedias. Of course,
Prime Minister Chris Luckson is still overseas at the Pacific
(00:35):
Island Forum, and even former Prime Minister Jacinda A. Durn
has taken to social media to pass along her condolences.
So quite a sad day for Martydom, quite a sad
day for the country. Of course. Kuhtia has made his
mark in a lot of corners of the country, whether
it be political or just when it comes to a
number of other things. Of course, he had a great
(00:56):
love of kapahaka among a number of other things. So
he's now going to basically lie in state for a
few days before before there is an official funeral, and
I can imagine that would be very well attended from
basically a political standpoint and from many other people across
the country as well.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, and sad too. As Winston Peter said just sixty nine,
it's not an old age in today's world.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's not, no And I know that he was battling
with a number of health complications, but it doesn't make
the news any easier. And just after his eighteenth anniversary
of his eighteenth coronation where lawmakers and politicians descended upon
where he was, where he was his home at the time.
So yeah, a very sad day and the next few
(01:42):
days will of course be filled with people giving their
well wishes to the family and looking as to what's next.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Jason Zidb politically editor, what have you had your teeth
and do this week?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh? Well, there's been a number of things, I mean,
working backwards. The Dahali and Karna saga has kept us
all quite busy, and the number of twists and turned there.
I mean, most people are probably sick of hearing about
this now. It seems like it's extremely belt way and
it doesn't really matter compared to you know, we're facing
an energy crisis right now and there's a number of
other important things, such as the government laying out their
(02:15):
thirty year infrastructure plan. But part of this darling ton
of stuff isn't interesting at least to talk about. I mean,
given the fact that she divorced her part, was forced
to leave her party so dramatically, and there's this week
engaged in court action to push out that special general
meeting that the party was supposed to have to vote
about Walker jumping her out of parliament, essentially trying to
(02:36):
kick her out of parliament. And she seems to have
won this round in terms of getting that special General
meeting delayed. So we'll wait and see what happens next
in terms of the legality of her claim. But still
a lot more water to go under the bridge on
this one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Absolutely, she's claiming a lot of colamnser's the thirty year
infrastructure plan. What's your take on that and where will
it finally sit? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, that's an interesting one, and I think that it's
important and it's a good move from the government because
you know, if we're wanting to do infrastructure well in
this country, it needs to be a bipartisan approach. We
can't keep chopping and changing every three to six years
in terms of which projects that we're doing because of
political convenience. And it's not just labors that have done this,
it's the nets that have done it as well. So
(03:21):
having a thirty year pipeline and an agency that takes
a big holistic view on the sort of projects that
we want and how we want to deliver them without
the political, independent interference rather, I think it's a very
very good idea. I was recently with the Prime Minister
in Australia where he was on a bit of an
infrastructure fact finding mission over in Sydney, and this is
(03:42):
the key call that there are a lot of the
lawmakers over there and a lot of the infrastructure top
brass we're making is that you need to take the
politics out of this. If you need to build a bridge,
you need to build a bridge. If you need to frankly,
if you need to build some cycle ways, you need
to build some cycle ways, and it needs to be
a political.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Exactly. And of course the PM, as you said, has
been a way at the Pacific on Forum anything of
note out of there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's been a little bit quiet from the PM actually,
I mean it hasn't been and it wasn't never going
to be a big news worthy song and to dance
over there. I mean, there's been some very important things
that they've discussed. Of course, this big policing deal that
Australia have with the Pacific Islands has been quite groundbreaking
(04:26):
for them in terms of getting more all the cops
trained in the Pacific region. And I asked the Prime
Minister before he left that this something that you're going
to consider with New Zealand training Kiwi cops over there,
and he was basically saying, you know, we'll wait and see.
We might have something up our sleeve on that one.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of
announcement around that today. But then again he might decide that, oh,
(04:48):
you know, the Australians have already done that, we can
help in other areas. But it's all about combating the
Chinese influence in the Pacific. And interestingly enough, Judith Collins
gave quite an interesting speech this week when it came
into her government's or the government's defense priorities and her
ambitions for that lied and she made this really interesting
comment when she talked about China and the US having
(05:10):
this sort of soft tension at the moment. She said,
when two elephants wrestle, it's the ants that tend to
get squashed. Of course, we much as we like to
think our cells as an elephant, we're probably more of
an ant. And she warned everybody in the room that
New Zealand are nobody's fools. So it's interesting times on
the defense front.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Exactly, Thank you very much. Jason will Zidby, Political Editor,
joining us there with the Week in Politics.
Time now to look at the week in politics. Was
ZB Political editor Jason Walls, Good morning, Jason.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Hamish.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
A sad day, isn't it passing of the Maori king.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, indeed, a lot of Ques will be waking up
learning the news of the death of ke to Hettier,
who died this morning. There has already been a number
of statements coming out from Prime Minister Chris Luxon who
basically talked of about what a great man he was
and saying with Acting Prime Minister Winston Pedias. Of course,
Prime Minister Chris Luckson is still overseas at the Pacific
(00:35):
Island Forum, and even former Prime Minister Jacinda A. Durn
has taken to social media to pass along her condolences.
So quite a sad day for Martydom, quite a sad
day for the country. Of course. Kuhtia has made his
mark in a lot of corners of the country, whether
it be political or just when it comes to a
number of other things. Of course, he had a great
(00:56):
love of kapahaka among a number of other things. So
he's now going to basically lie in state for a
few days before before there is an official funeral, and
I can imagine that would be very well attended from
basically a political standpoint and from many other people across
the country as well.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, and sad too. As Winston Peter said just sixty nine,
it's not an old age in today's world.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's not, no And I know that he was battling
with a number of health complications, but it doesn't make
the news any easier. And just after his eighteenth anniversary
of his eighteenth coronation where lawmakers and politicians descended upon
where he was, where he was his home at the time.
So yeah, a very sad day and the next few
(01:42):
days will of course be filled with people giving their
well wishes to the family and looking as to what's next.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Jason Zidb politically editor, what have you had your teeth
and do this week?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh? Well, there's been a number of things, I mean,
working backwards. The Dahali and Karna saga has kept us
all quite busy, and the number of twists and turned there.
I mean, most people are probably sick of hearing about
this now. It seems like it's extremely belt way and
it doesn't really matter compared to you know, we're facing
an energy crisis right now and there's a number of
other important things, such as the government laying out their
(02:15):
thirty year infrastructure plan. But part of this darling ton
of stuff isn't interesting at least to talk about. I mean,
given the fact that she divorced her part, was forced
to leave her party so dramatically, and there's this week
engaged in court action to push out that special general
meeting that the party was supposed to have to vote
about Walker jumping her out of parliament, essentially trying to
(02:36):
kick her out of parliament. And she seems to have
won this round in terms of getting that special General
meeting delayed. So we'll wait and see what happens next
in terms of the legality of her claim. But still
a lot more water to go under the bridge on
this one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Absolutely, she's claiming a lot of colamnser's the thirty year
infrastructure plan. What's your take on that and where will
it finally sit? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, that's an interesting one, and I think that it's
important and it's a good move from the government because
you know, if we're wanting to do infrastructure well in
this country, it needs to be a bipartisan approach. We
can't keep chopping and changing every three to six years
in terms of which projects that we're doing because of
political convenience. And it's not just labors that have done this,
it's the nets that have done it as well. So
(03:21):
having a thirty year pipeline and an agency that takes
a big holistic view on the sort of projects that
we want and how we want to deliver them without
the political, independent interference rather, I think it's a very
very good idea. I was recently with the Prime Minister
in Australia where he was on a bit of an
infrastructure fact finding mission over in Sydney, and this is
(03:42):
the key call that there are a lot of the
lawmakers over there and a lot of the infrastructure top
brass we're making is that you need to take the
politics out of this. If you need to build a bridge,
you need to build a bridge. If you need to frankly,
if you need to build some cycle ways, you need
to build some cycle ways, and it needs to be
a political.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Exactly. And of course the PM, as you said, has
been a way at the Pacific on Forum anything of
note out of there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's been a little bit quiet from the PM actually,
I mean it hasn't been and it wasn't never going
to be a big news worthy song and to dance
over there. I mean, there's been some very important things
that they've discussed. Of course, this big policing deal that
Australia have with the Pacific Islands has been quite groundbreaking
(04:26):
for them in terms of getting more all the cops
trained in the Pacific region. And I asked the Prime
Minister before he left that this something that you're going
to consider with New Zealand training Kiwi cops over there,
and he was basically saying, you know, we'll wait and see.
We might have something up our sleeve on that one.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of
announcement around that today. But then again he might decide that, oh,
(04:48):
you know, the Australians have already done that, we can
help in other areas. But it's all about combating the
Chinese influence in the Pacific. And interestingly enough, Judith Collins
gave quite an interesting speech this week when it came
into her government's or the government's defense priorities and her
ambitions for that lied and she made this really interesting
comment when she talked about China and the US having
(05:10):
this sort of soft tension at the moment. She said,
when two elephants wrestle, it's the ants that tend to
get squashed. Of course, we much as we like to
think our cells as an elephant, we're probably more of
an ant. And she warned everybody in the room that
New Zealand are nobody's fools. So it's interesting times on
the defense front.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Exactly, Thank you very much. Jason will Zidby, Political Editor,
joining us there with the Week in Politics.
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