October 28, 2025 • 7 mins
Joseph Mooney looks at a busy time getting around the electorate after the recent weather events.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And the legal Land.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Joseph Moon is MP for Southland and starts off the
must of this afternoon. Joseph, good afternoon. It looks as
though you've had a pretty busy few days just getting
around the electroate and we just got to remember the
sheer size of what the Southland region entails.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, good afternoon. Yeah, no, cerainly has been a busy
few days for everyone actually since the storm hitting. Yeah,
and I think the first one of us nature really
in New Zealand where we've had so much of our
electricity network knocked out, which has then had flow on
effects for our communications systems, for our water infrastructure, and
(00:46):
you could say food as well on the back of
that because of the way that you know, our refrigeration
systems work, and then they're flowing effects everyone else with
milking operations, et cetera, et cetera. So it's been been
a big week for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What's the ladiest you've heard on the ground down here
in the South anyway, we're slowly but surely powering it.
They're doing a grand job. They're getting the power reinstalled,
but there's still people without power.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, the power that boys and girls been doing an
amazing job. And I've seen it, seen them everywhere, and
I've been over a pretty pretty slipant chunk of the
South of the Otago region of the last well since since Friday.
But you I've seen them just working their tails off,
cutting the trees away and reinstalling power poles and they
need and stringing up the lines again. And as I've
(01:33):
reconnected a lot of people who were just keeping but
there are I think the latest figs when they locked
off last night, we're three nine hundred still without power
in Southam and seventeen hundred still without power and the Targo,
so there's sill quite a bit of work to go.
And yeah, just just traveling around yes afternoon, you know,
talking to folks who are still just keeps them coming
(01:55):
and getting fuel for their generators, so keep it running. Look,
I think every run's everyone's a bit tired, but and
good spirits that you know, areware that everyone's working as
hard as they can to do what they can. And
I think our region's pulled really well together. So I
think everyone diseaves a lot of credit for the way
they responded to this.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Mark Mitchell, Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery, he's been
in the South. Are you keeping in close comms? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, No, he spent two days down here and I've
stayed in close contact with him from the very outset
and Paul Goldsmith actually the Communications Minister in contact with him.
There's obviously the comstowners are quite a big one, particularly
at the outset when we had no communications for a
lot of people, which made it challenging just to figure
(02:44):
out what was going on, you know, just by the
way of example and I you know, went showing on Friday.
He was still going and dropping seeing different people, and
you know there's people who had no idea state of emergency,
been declear because they had no way of getting communications.
But look, ye, it was awesome to have Mark Mitchell support.
(03:04):
He just said, you know, get you whatever you need
and so he helped you get more generators down here.
They've got the C one thirty down here. Bring more
supplies down and he came down and spent a day
in South and and then another day in the close
target region.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Can there be the catalyst for change regarding communication for
real New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, we'll look at I think we're gonna have a
lot of lessons coming out of this for a whole
raft different things actually, and just you know, there's a
I guess a identifies how important our electricity systems are
in the communication systems and how everything else flows off
the back of that. But we're gonna have, yeah, I
have a real deep think about how how things can
(03:47):
going forwards and if they're you know, the way to
be another incident like this or or more more significant,
even how we respond to it. But talking to the
guy who's oversees the telecommunication there with whole country, I
think this time next year we're probably going to see
a lot more satellite based systems. But obviously you need
(04:07):
power to make those work as well. Don't have to
be thinking about that. Well, look, I'll tell you one
interesting little little thing. I went to one of the
most remote communities down a Papatoay in the Catlands on Saturday.
And the guy there with the gypsy caravan, he's got
solar panels on his roof and he's got some batteries
(04:29):
and even though they don't see the sun from decent
chunks of time, he was able to have enough electricity
to be able to have a local place where the
community come and plugging their phones connect to the intent
finances going on in the world, and so these little
things on that to think different indication of you might
(04:49):
be fresh phrase of thinking about how we ensure continuity
if there were to be a destruction of this in
the future.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, I find a concerning you talked before about people
being unaware of it. A state of emergency declared and
like I was up in the basin over the weekend
and all your head was the radio churned into hawknow
to see what was going on, because there's no other ways.
So just a great reminder as well about having something
in place if an emergency does come about.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I suppose yeah, yea one hundred percent and you know,
you know the sort of talking to people around the
region and what would happen. So the a f E,
which when people been talking about for years and least
hope it doesn't happen, but you need to need to
think about hair respond. And this was something that we
haven't had quite like this, and Easie only before this
was you know, so many trees coming down and knocking
(05:35):
out so much of the power infrastructure or the transmission infrastructure.
So yeah, it was it was It was really interesting,
Like I shout out to you guys at Hockinui. So
I think it's been a really important communication mechanism for
a lot of people who didn't have any any other
way to connect to the outside. Well for a while
(05:55):
and you're talking to the folks and they they you know,
I dropped us of folks who had the radio they'd
hold out of storage on their kitchen table. So you
guys have played a really important role. But the other
side of that, tho, was that talking of other folks
they hadn't you know, they didn't have a trains of
(06:15):
the radio, they didn't have a bettery power radio. They
didn't have a radio because it's sort of old school technology.
And even getting in the car wasn't ideal because we
wanted to conserve guests and the guest guest stations weren't
able to operate either, so they didn't want to waste
their guests run in the car to listen to the radio.
So there's yeah, quite a few things we'll need to
(06:37):
think about, and you know, everyone need to make their
own choices to some degree. But I think something with
taking taking or keeping in mind what would happen if
the power system, mean until a communication system goes down
the future.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Joseph Mooney, MP for south And appreciated your time on
the master of this afternoon. We know you're doing a
lot of key's at the moment, so you always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I got anyway, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Betnam Culture. Joseph Mooney, MP for Southland. This is the
muster up next. Jared Stockman from Darry and Z
And the legal Land.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Joseph Moon is MP for Southland and starts off the
must of this afternoon. Joseph, good afternoon. It looks as
though you've had a pretty busy few days just getting
around the electroate and we just got to remember the
sheer size of what the Southland region entails.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, good afternoon. Yeah, no, cerainly has been a busy
few days for everyone actually since the storm hitting. Yeah,
and I think the first one of us nature really
in New Zealand where we've had so much of our
electricity network knocked out, which has then had flow on
effects for our communications systems, for our water infrastructure, and
(00:46):
you could say food as well on the back of
that because of the way that you know, our refrigeration
systems work, and then they're flowing effects everyone else with
milking operations, et cetera, et cetera. So it's been been
a big week for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What's the ladiest you've heard on the ground down here
in the South anyway, we're slowly but surely powering it.
They're doing a grand job. They're getting the power reinstalled,
but there's still people without power.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, the power that boys and girls been doing an
amazing job. And I've seen it, seen them everywhere, and
I've been over a pretty pretty slipant chunk of the
South of the Otago region of the last well since since Friday.
But you I've seen them just working their tails off,
cutting the trees away and reinstalling power poles and they
need and stringing up the lines again. And as I've
(01:33):
reconnected a lot of people who were just keeping but
there are I think the latest figs when they locked
off last night, we're three nine hundred still without power
in Southam and seventeen hundred still without power and the Targo,
so there's sill quite a bit of work to go.
And yeah, just just traveling around yes afternoon, you know,
talking to folks who are still just keeps them coming
(01:55):
and getting fuel for their generators, so keep it running. Look,
I think every run's everyone's a bit tired, but and
good spirits that you know, areware that everyone's working as
hard as they can to do what they can. And
I think our region's pulled really well together. So I
think everyone diseaves a lot of credit for the way
they responded to this.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Mark Mitchell, Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery, he's been
in the South. Are you keeping in close comms? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, No, he spent two days down here and I've
stayed in close contact with him from the very outset
and Paul Goldsmith actually the Communications Minister in contact with him.
There's obviously the comstowners are quite a big one, particularly
at the outset when we had no communications for a
lot of people, which made it challenging just to figure
(02:44):
out what was going on, you know, just by the
way of example and I you know, went showing on Friday.
He was still going and dropping seeing different people, and
you know there's people who had no idea state of emergency,
been declear because they had no way of getting communications.
But look, ye, it was awesome to have Mark Mitchell support.
(03:04):
He just said, you know, get you whatever you need
and so he helped you get more generators down here.
They've got the C one thirty down here. Bring more
supplies down and he came down and spent a day
in South and and then another day in the close
target region.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Can there be the catalyst for change regarding communication for
real New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, we'll look at I think we're gonna have a
lot of lessons coming out of this for a whole
raft different things actually, and just you know, there's a
I guess a identifies how important our electricity systems are
in the communication systems and how everything else flows off
the back of that. But we're gonna have, yeah, I
have a real deep think about how how things can
(03:47):
going forwards and if they're you know, the way to
be another incident like this or or more more significant,
even how we respond to it. But talking to the
guy who's oversees the telecommunication there with whole country, I
think this time next year we're probably going to see
a lot more satellite based systems. But obviously you need
(04:07):
power to make those work as well. Don't have to
be thinking about that. Well, look, I'll tell you one
interesting little little thing. I went to one of the
most remote communities down a Papatoay in the Catlands on Saturday.
And the guy there with the gypsy caravan, he's got
solar panels on his roof and he's got some batteries
(04:29):
and even though they don't see the sun from decent
chunks of time, he was able to have enough electricity
to be able to have a local place where the
community come and plugging their phones connect to the intent
finances going on in the world, and so these little
things on that to think different indication of you might
(04:49):
be fresh phrase of thinking about how we ensure continuity
if there were to be a destruction of this in
the future.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, I find a concerning you talked before about people
being unaware of it. A state of emergency declared and
like I was up in the basin over the weekend
and all your head was the radio churned into hawknow
to see what was going on, because there's no other ways.
So just a great reminder as well about having something
in place if an emergency does come about.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I suppose yeah, yea one hundred percent and you know,
you know the sort of talking to people around the
region and what would happen. So the a f E,
which when people been talking about for years and least
hope it doesn't happen, but you need to need to
think about hair respond. And this was something that we
haven't had quite like this, and Easie only before this
was you know, so many trees coming down and knocking
(05:35):
out so much of the power infrastructure or the transmission infrastructure.
So yeah, it was it was It was really interesting,
Like I shout out to you guys at Hockinui. So
I think it's been a really important communication mechanism for
a lot of people who didn't have any any other
way to connect to the outside. Well for a while
(05:55):
and you're talking to the folks and they they you know,
I dropped us of folks who had the radio they'd
hold out of storage on their kitchen table. So you
guys have played a really important role. But the other
side of that, tho, was that talking of other folks
they hadn't you know, they didn't have a trains of
(06:15):
the radio, they didn't have a bettery power radio. They
didn't have a radio because it's sort of old school technology.
And even getting in the car wasn't ideal because we
wanted to conserve guests and the guest guest stations weren't
able to operate either, so they didn't want to waste
their guests run in the car to listen to the radio.
So there's yeah, quite a few things we'll need to
(06:37):
think about, and you know, everyone need to make their
own choices to some degree. But I think something with
taking taking or keeping in mind what would happen if
the power system, mean until a communication system goes down
the future.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Joseph Mooney, MP for south And appreciated your time on
the master of this afternoon. We know you're doing a
lot of key's at the moment, so you always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I got anyway, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Betnam Culture. Joseph Mooney, MP for Southland. This is the
muster up next. Jared Stockman from Darry and Z
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