1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: earlier ishow with one Route Love where you Live News talks. 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to Wednesday six after five, 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 2: coming up on the show before six. The ocr cutting 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: continues today? Will this result in further cuts? What are 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: we going to see next? That's the question. We've got 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 2: Kellya Cold on before six this morning and tinkering to 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 2: the electricity sector. Will it lower our prices? Most of 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 2: our kids can't write to standard. Gavin Gray in the 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 2: UK for us and an update on Ukraine for you too. 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: Good morning, the agenda. It's Wednesday, the twentieth of August. 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: Elensky and Staras seemed pretty happy with the way things 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 2: went at the White House. 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 3: The Coalition of Willing Countries that's thirty countries already working 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 3: together on security guarantees, will now work with the US 16 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 3: on those guarantees. 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 2: Crucially, Trump is ruling out boots on the ground, but 18 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: maybe maybe air support. 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 4: When it comes to security. They're willing to put people 20 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 4: on the ground, are willing to help them with things, 21 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 4: especially probably if you could talk about bay Air, because 22 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 4: as nobody has the kind of stuff we have. But 23 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 4: I think if a deal has made I think Russia's 24 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 4: had it. They've all had it, and for a very 25 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 4: extended period of time. I don't think there'll be a problem, 26 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 4: but so there'll be some form of security. 27 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 2: Of course, there's a war on. But everyone's looking at 28 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: Zelensky's suit. Remember last time he was ripped out for 29 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 2: not looking formal enough. Well he's had the take ticke 30 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: of approval from the White House. Priss Peck, you look 31 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: fabulous in that suit. Yeah, look you look good. I 32 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: said the same thing. Yeah, I said one that attacked 33 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: you less. I remember that. I apologize honestly to La 34 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 2: we Go. Now where the Kiddamine queen is pleading guilty 35 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: to supplying the drugs that killed Matthew Pierrey. This is 36 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 2: the Friends star. She's facing five charges. 37 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 5: She was expected to go on trial next month. She 38 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 5: was one of five individuals that were charged in connection 39 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 5: to Perry's death. 40 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: And she was the one that was holding out, that 41 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 2: was not accepting a plea deal. 42 00:01:58,560 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 6: But now she has. 43 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: And finally this morning, the sorry saga that was Trevor 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: Mallard representing US in Ireland as ambassador is over. He's out. 45 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: Gonski early not sure why yet, but probably shouldn't have 46 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 2: been there in the first place. 47 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early 48 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Route Love where you 49 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: live news. 50 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: Talks, I'd be eight after five great to have your company. 51 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: Nine two ninety two is the number to text. You've 52 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: got secondary teachers on strike today, about twenty thousand of them. 53 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 2: Union recons governments stingy and mingy, government reckons. Unions are 54 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: just having a tantrum. If you're a parent in the 55 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: middle of all of this, you really don't care, do 56 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: you. You just want your kid going to school and learning. 57 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: Exams are in November. Problem is it may not end here. 58 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: Of course, the union is threatening more striking, more rosted strikes, 59 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: even closer to exam times. So does missing a day 60 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 2: or two actually matter depending on which union you ask, 61 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 2: on which day you ask them, and what they're upset about. 62 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 2: Yes and no. Yesterday we had those woeful results for 63 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 2: primary kids. This is writing. Most of them can't write 64 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: to the new standard. And so Eric Stanford comes out 65 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 2: and says, we'll give you some extra training, extra training 66 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 2: for teachers. Teachers then say even taking a day one 67 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 2: day off class will disrupt the kids learning. Okay, all right, 68 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,119 Speaker 2: I hear that message. But then we have a principal 69 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: come out on the strikes for secondary school students saying no, 70 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: don't worry. One day off won't make a difference to 71 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: their exams. Which is it. Surely both things can't be 72 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 2: true at the same time. Nine minutes after five yr 73 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: own News Talk said B. Coming up next the electricity 74 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: Authority report. Is this tinkering or is this transformational? 75 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan 76 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love where you Live, News Talk 77 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: said B. 78 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: It is just gone. Twelve minutes after five news Talks there, B, 79 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: we've got your global dairy trade oction numbers from overnight 80 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: down slightly down three percent and butter down one percent, 81 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 2: which would be good for those who are struggling to 82 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: put it on their toast. Sadly for us, we look 83 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: at the milk powder and that's down. Whole milk powder 84 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: down point three percent and skim milk powder down one 85 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: point eight percent. Your mozzarella is down two point seven percent, 86 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 2: So yes, it is down, but it is down only 87 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 2: slightly overall. It's twelve after five Ryan brig More tweaks 88 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: for our electricity sector. As you've struggled to warm your 89 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: home up this morning, juice is freezing out there. Big 90 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 2: four gentailors have to sell power everyone at the same price, 91 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: not just themselves. Energy Minister Simon Watts reckons it'll level 92 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: the playing field and bring prices down. Eventually we'll see. 93 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 2: Margaret Cooney is Octopus Energy chief operating officer with us 94 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 2: this morning, Margaret, good morning, good morning. Will this lower prices? 95 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 7: Look? 96 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 6: I think the idea behind this, which is that the 97 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 6: big four gent tailors need to deal with competing terms 98 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 6: on a level playing field, is really important that what 99 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 6: we're concerned about is how it's executed. So the idea 100 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 6: at the moment is to put this in as principles. 101 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 6: I know from dealing with my four year old that 102 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 6: I final leave a bag of lollies in front of him, 103 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 6: he'll eventually go and grab the lollies. So I think 104 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 6: we need more than just principles. We need some robust 105 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 6: rules to ensure that discrimination doesn't keep happening, because ultimately 106 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 6: that really damages competition, which leads to a lack of 107 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 6: responsiveness in the market, which leads to a lack of investment, 108 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 6: which ultimately impacts the prices for end consumers. 109 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 2: Do they need to grow some balls, Margaret? 110 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 6: There's one way of putting it. But I think there 111 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 6: are some solutions that they can pick up quite easily 112 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 6: and implement. But it requires some decisiveness and it also helpful. 113 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 2: Because the thing is, I mean, you look at the 114 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 2: super peak hedge contracts that they've talked about. Yesterday in 115 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 2: August they came out and they said, let's do this 116 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 2: voluntary thing. Didn't work now that gent tailors must offer 117 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 2: minimum quantities. But then if that doesn't work, then they 118 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 2: might face regulation. I mean, it all sounds a bit 119 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 2: Spider's Ways, doesn't it. Well. 120 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 6: I think this is the thing. We've had lots of 121 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 6: small iterative steps and I think it would be good 122 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 6: to get to the nub of some of these issues, 123 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 6: and something which addresses the structural elements would be helpful. 124 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 6: And so I think with the frontier of you going on, 125 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 6: there's this opportunity for government to use that to make 126 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 6: sure that the settings work really well rather than doing 127 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 6: lots of little tinkers are here and there. 128 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: What's the big nuclear option? Is it splitting up the 129 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 2: gen Taylor's. 130 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 6: So I think one of There won't be a single 131 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 6: silver bullet to this, but one of the things that 132 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 6: we've suggested is basically requiring these large players to operate 133 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 6: their retail and generation businesses at arms link because part 134 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 6: of the problem at the moment has been a real 135 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 6: lack of transparency around the trading behavior, and so that 136 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 6: would help resolve that, and then if those businesses are 137 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 6: behaving in the market, it will help stimulate all of 138 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 6: that investment that's sitting in the pipeline with independent generators 139 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 6: and things. Additionally, we think we're in such an acute 140 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 6: energy shortage that actually the government should look at doing 141 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 6: something immediately, like a tender for new generation to come 142 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 6: into market more quickly. We think there needs to be 143 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 6: this comprehensive set of actions and rather than the access 144 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 6: conditions for the market, is one ingredient for. 145 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 2: It, rather than more tinkering around the edges. Margaret, appreciate 146 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 2: your time this morning. Margaret Kearney, Octopus Energy Chief operating Officer, 147 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: reporting to that Aletris. The authority report out yesterday just 148 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 2: gone sixteen minutes after five on News Talks, B Can 149 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: the kids write, read and write? We'll look at that 150 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 2: next On. 151 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan 152 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love where You Live News Talks 153 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: d B. 154 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 2: Five eighteen on News Talk, said b Ryan the teacher's 155 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 2: unions a disgrace, what a terrible example to our kids. 156 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 2: Says Steve. This is on the strikes. Ryan, as a 157 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 2: parent of four school aged children at three different schools. Oh, 158 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 2: that's confusing. How do you get them there? I suppose 159 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 2: I just get themselves there? At that point the absence 160 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 2: from school is compounding all having teacher only days over 161 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 2: the last week on different days, and now the strike 162 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: for our secondary school child today. I was under the 163 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 2: impression this government was to move all professional development days 164 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 2: into turn breaks to short good point. It is nineteen 165 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 2: and a half to five showing with education only a 166 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 2: quarter of year eights that's age eleven or twelve can 167 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 2: write at the level the new curriculum expects, which is 168 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: pretty bleak, sixty one percent more than a year behind. 169 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 2: Education Minister Erica Stanford's plan well fund a teacher in 170 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 2: every school to upskill on structured literacy. Question is is 171 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 2: that going to be enough? Will it work? Kyl Bruton 172 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: is the remu weer intermediate school Principle on the phone 173 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 2: this morning, Carl, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Pretty shocking numbers. 174 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 7: Yeah, as a sector, we're struggling to make sense of 175 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 7: those figures. 176 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 2: At the moment. 177 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 7: We obviously have a relatively new curriculum. We're still transitioning 178 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 7: to the new curriculum. We don't have access to the 179 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 7: specific metrics that they're using to assess that writing, and 180 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 7: we don't have exemplars of what that writing looks like. 181 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 7: So it's it's hard for us to really sort of 182 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 7: have confidence in those numbers. We're not disagree necessarily, but 183 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 7: it's just really hard to. 184 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 2: Have that confidence. Who marks them. 185 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 7: So, you know, well, it's done through a study basically 186 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 7: that's been run for many, many years. And teachers, if 187 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 7: you like a trained up, they go into this, into 188 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 7: the study, they go into schools, they work with kids, 189 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 7: and then they take that marketing that that work back 190 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 7: and then they market. But as I say, the sector 191 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 7: as a whole doesn't see that marketing schedule, doesn't see 192 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 7: the exemplars that that's been aligned against. 193 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: I think we're all mean to you that does that mean, Kyle, 194 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: that you teachers have never seen that before? So then 195 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 2: you've never trusted them or never known the detail on 196 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 2: the numbers. 197 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 7: We've known that there's an issue in literacy, and no 198 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 7: one's disagreeing with that. It's just the degree of that 199 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 7: need that's been sort of highlighted. To your point about 200 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 7: the marketing schedule or the you know, whatever you want 201 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 7: to call it. No, we don't have access to that 202 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 7: particular one because it's an evaluation study that's done across 203 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 7: the country, So to give it sort of so's they're 204 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 7: sort of trying to avoid people almost like if you like, test, 205 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 7: teaching to the test, but without knowing exactly what it 206 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 7: is that is being sort of measured against it. As 207 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 7: I say, it's just hard for us to be able 208 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 7: to align what we're seeing at our schools with what 209 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 7: we're being told. 210 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 2: Does how is it that you can be kids are 211 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 2: almost going backwards? You've got forty one percent of year 212 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 2: three students that expected curriculum benchmark, thirty three percent in 213 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 2: year six, and then just twenty four percent in year eight. Yeah. 214 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,559 Speaker 7: Well, I mean the bottom line is if those numbers 215 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 7: are accurate, and that is indeed the case, there's a 216 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 7: pretty compelling reason for it. When you look at the 217 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 7: way our school system is designed, we put the least 218 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 7: amount of resource and we have our highest class sizes 219 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 7: in years four to eight. So we start off reasonably well, 220 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 7: and then we suddenly ramp up everything up. We have 221 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 7: these big classes, we have very little in the way 222 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 7: of staffing, and then sort of we get to high 223 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 7: school and think, oh my gosh, we need to sort 224 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 7: this out, and we start to increase all our staffing. Again, 225 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 7: we reduce the class sizers and we put a lot 226 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 7: more resource in. So common sense would suggest that if 227 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 7: this has been a long standing issue, why are we 228 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 7: not keeping our resourcing quite high in those junior years, 229 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 7: getting that foundation rock solid, getting those kids to where 230 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 7: they need to be so they can really really thrive 231 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 7: in high school. 232 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 2: Kyle, appreciate your time this morning. Carl Briton remu are 233 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: intermediate school principal. On those numbers. Yesterday, twenty two minutes 234 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 2: after five, you're on News Talk SEBB. We just talked 235 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 2: about the Electricity Authority report. What does that tell us 236 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 2: about the future for supermarkets. We'll look at that next. 237 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 2: Also Todd McLay today, he's a busy man. He's been 238 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia and He's now on his way to 239 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 2: the United States. He's going to meet with his He's 240 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 2: been invited by the Trade Rep. Jamison Greer, and he's 241 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 2: going to meet with a whole bunch of other industry leaders. 242 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 2: He's going to talk agriculture. There's going to some think tanks. 243 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: He's doing a whole bit. He's talking to Secretary of 244 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 2: Agriculture Brook Rollins while he's over there. Big issue, obviously, 245 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 2: is the fifteen, big, fat, juicy fifteen percent tariff that 246 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 2: they've slapped on our goods andy. Is he going to 247 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: turn it around? He's going to make the argument about, well, yes, 248 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 2: we might have a surplus or a deficit in trade now, 249 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 2: but it varies and you know, over the long run, 250 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 2: she's pretty even. Do we expect you'll get much out 251 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 2: of this? I know Mike's talking to him later on 252 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 2: during breakfast. It is twenty three after five News Talks VB, 253 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 2: the early. 254 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio Power by NEWSTALKSB. 255 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 2: News TALKSBB twenty five minutes after five. Electricity and groceries 256 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 2: are your two big ticket inflation targets. Punters want to 257 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 2: pay less for both, and there are nuclear options available. 258 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: Cut the gent tailors in half by force. Those who 259 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 2: are pro wrecking ball argue, if you force them to 260 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 2: separate out the generation side of the business from the 261 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 2: retail side, you'd create more competition, lower prices. You could 262 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 2: do a similar thing with the supermarkets. You force Foodstuffs 263 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 2: and Woollies to sell one hundred and twenty supermarkets sell 264 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 2: two of their six distribution centers to a third player, 265 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 2: and haypresto, that giopol is dead. Long live Queen Nicola. 266 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 2: Now we're still waiting to see exactly what cat she's 267 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 2: going to pull out of her shopping bag on this. 268 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: She has advice, considering the options all that stuff. Here's 269 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 2: what I think she will do. We can get clues 270 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 2: from the way that they're handling electricity, the regulators and 271 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 2: the government, which is basically minor changes to bits and 272 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: pieces around the edges on stuff like these super peak 273 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 2: hedging contracts, and if things don't change, look out, we'll regulate, 274 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 2: will be meaner, will be tougher. There's still the Frontier Report, 275 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 2: of course, which Cabinet is considering right now, and we'll 276 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 2: decide on by the end of the month. In other words, 277 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: you tinker and you threaten you sound tough enough that 278 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 2: voters know you serious, but not actually go deaf con 279 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: one and risk spooking mark in which you're actually trying 280 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 2: to attract investment and particularly offshore plus. Chris Quinn told 281 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 2: my show the other day, they would lawyer up to 282 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 2: high heaven and fight anything like this, so it gets messy. 283 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 2: So I reckon they'll tinker on supermarkets options on the cards. 284 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: You can put supermarkets on the fast track list, get 285 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: them built quicker. You can ban pocketbook pricing. You can 286 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 2: empower the existing franchises to be more independent, buying their 287 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 2: stock from wherever they like, setting their own prices, et cetera, 288 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: et cetera. Slap a threat to legislate for the nuclear 289 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 2: option across the headline of your press release. If the 290 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 2: tinkering doesn't happen or isn't working, throw the ball back 291 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 2: in the duopolies court. This would simultaneously satisfy ACT which 292 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 2: hates the nuclear option, and the politics of perception. It 293 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 2: goes further than Labor went, but doesn't risk the court 294 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: battles the potential for major changes not actually working and 295 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 2: bringing down prices, which is the whole point right things 296 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 2: certain whether it's electricity bills or check out prices. The 297 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 2: chances of a return to the good old days of 298 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 2: pre COVID prices when we could butter the toast and 299 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 2: fire up the heated towel rail with gay abandon Well, 300 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: they're slim to none, Bredi, there'd be twenty eight minutes 301 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 2: after five, quick update for you on Gaza. So twenty 302 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 2: hostages left in Gaza and sixty two thousand Palestinians killed. 303 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 2: Those are the sad numbers for you. Now Hummas has 304 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: accepted this new cease fire deal sixty days, half the 305 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 2: hostages swapped for one hundred and fifty Palestinians in jail 306 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 2: right now. Then there'd be a second phase and the 307 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 2: remainder of the bodies. Israel has come out overnight and 308 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 2: said they will tell us. They will give us their 309 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 2: answer now that Hummas has agreed by Friday. However, just 310 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 2: remember that Netanya who has said he's not interested in 311 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 2: partial deals. He wants to go after Gaza city this 312 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: big new offensive. So we will hear from the Israelis 313 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 2: on Friday. But I wouldn't be holding your breath. Twenty 314 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 2: nine minutes after five news talks Hebb We'll get to 315 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: our reporters around the country. Gavin Gray is in the 316 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: UK for US and a big OCR decision today. How 317 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 2: many more of those will we get this year? US 318 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: Talk set b Gams for new person on Over. 319 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: Again News and Views you Trust to start your day. 320 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love 321 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:51,120 Speaker 1: Where you Live News Talks edb all this Cleveland talking. 322 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 7: On it. 323 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes away from six year on 324 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 2: News Talks, heb. We'll get to Kelly you Cold from 325 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 2: Westpac on THEBNZ rate cut expected today. It'll be a 326 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: full rundown from them. Won't just be the announcement of 327 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 2: a twenty five basis point cut, which is what we're expecting. 328 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 2: We'll also get some meat on the bones. Gavin Graham 329 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 2: the UK for US shortly too. Did you know across 330 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 2: the world sperm counts have been declining for the past 331 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 2: fifty years one percent per year. Collectively, our sperm count 332 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 2: is down at a rate of about one percent a 333 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 2: year for the past fifty years. We're way less fertile 334 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: than we used to be. Our swimmers wouldn't make it 335 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: to the Olympics, would they? And what happens in another 336 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: fifty years, is what is there anything left? It's a 337 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 2: bit grim, it's a bit bleak. And you ask why, 338 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 2: and the scientists say, well, obesity. We're basically all getting 339 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 2: fat and aging because you don't get to produced as 340 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 2: much the older you get because you don't need it. 341 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 2: So those are two reasons. But there's a scientist by 342 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 2: the name of doctor Sharmas Swan, professor of Environmental Medicine 343 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 2: and Public Health at the Aiken University of Medicine in 344 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 2: Mount Sinai in New York City, and they say it's 345 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 2: environmental factors, largely but not entirely, due to the toxins 346 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 2: in the environment. In other words, plastic So the microplastics 347 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 2: when you eat the fish, and the fish have got microplastics, 348 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 2: and then when you drink the water, and the water's 349 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 2: got microplastics and them it gets into your system and 350 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 2: nothing comes out at the other end. Twenty three to six, Brian, 351 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 2: We's go to our reporters around the country, color proper 352 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 2: and dneed in this morning color, good morning morning right. 353 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 2: This mother the case of a sportsman at the center 354 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: of an assault on a baby in Dunedin. The mother 355 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 2: is adamant that this person didn't injure her baby. 356 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what has been heard in the Deneed and 357 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 8: District Court here Ryan, this trial is underway. The defendants 358 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 8: accused of allegedly causing multiple rib fractures to an infants 359 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,719 Speaker 8: in July twenty twenty three, and he has named suppression. 360 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 8: The jury has been played a recording of a police 361 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 8: interview with the infant's mother. This was recorded a month 362 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 8: after the incident. During that interview, the woman was adamant 363 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 8: the was not intentionally injured, and she expressed frustration in 364 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 8: the doctors who initially claimed the injuries were caused by trauma. 365 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 8: And this trials scheduled for up to three weeks here. 366 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,719 Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? Are mostly cloudy? 367 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 8: Chants of a shower today, sou Easteries and thirteenth, all right. 368 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 2: Have a good day there, Calum and Claire's and christ 369 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 2: Church Claar, good morning. 370 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 3: Good morning. 371 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,400 Speaker 2: What's the story you're talking erebus memorial this morning? 372 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 6: Yeah? 373 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 9: Well, christich to the counselors are going to discuss it 374 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 9: today at their meeting. This is a memorial that would 375 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 9: commemorate the two hundred and fifty seven people who died 376 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 9: in the plane crash at Mount Erebus back in nineteen 377 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 9: seventy nine. Now the Ministry for Culture and Heritage has 378 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 9: laid out several options for a memorial here in christ Church. 379 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 9: This is after years of contention over possibly having a 380 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 9: memorial site in Auckland. Interestingly, more than half of the 381 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 9: families of the Arabis victims say they don't actually want 382 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 9: it here in christ Church. But nonetheless, our counselors will 383 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 9: be deciding today on whether or not we will offer 384 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 9: Craycroft Reserve, which is in Cashmire near the sign of 385 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 9: the taka Hey, as a place to house a memorial. 386 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? 387 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 9: Clear, cloudy, more showers today, southwesterlies and eleven degrees. 388 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 2: Thank you. Max is then going to Max, good morning, 389 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 2: good morning. Now, well, this plan for a new bus 390 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 2: depot bit dubious. 391 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 10: Yes, story in the post this morning the Greater Wellington 392 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 10: Regional Council spending sixty four million dollars on a new 393 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 10: mostly uncovered bus depot that's going to use a massive 394 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 10: amount of power getting electricity to the site. It's in 395 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 10: Merramar on the peninsula near the airport. Not really fame 396 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 10: for its still dry conditions, but that's okay. You'll have 397 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 10: to bring a brolly while you're waiting for a bus. 398 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 10: And all this power that's going to be needed, it's 399 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 10: equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to power all 400 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 10: of the surrounding three suburbs that's Mirra, mar Strathmore Seatoon. 401 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 10: It's equivalent to all of the power needed to run 402 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 10: Fielding as a town, massive, massive amount, and that's just 403 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 10: to charge the buses, the electric buses. The they're going 404 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 10: to be housed there. Wellington Electricity even warning that at 405 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 10: some point it may need to invest in a new 406 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 10: high voltage cables and a new substation. But there's also 407 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 10: some fear with the tender process for new bus operators. 408 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 10: The last time around the Regional Council did this, it 409 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 10: was completely slammed. It was criticized for letting down commuters. 410 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 10: So plenty of weight to see in this case. 411 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 2: So when people are waiting for the bus, they won't 412 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 2: be under shelter, that is my understanding. 413 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 10: Yeah, ridiculous that you would build something from scratch and 414 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 10: not consider that. 415 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: Maybe they saw the public reaction to those stupid toilets 416 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 2: in Courtney Place and went to the other way, Well. 417 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 10: There's there's a sense of naivety in Wellington. Let's introduce 418 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 10: everyone's going to eat outside all year round. Let's have 419 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 10: everyone bicycling to work. But if you've lived in Wellington, 420 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 10: it's forty k wins and it's a good conditions, maybe 421 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 10: two weeks out of the year. 422 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 2: So yeah, you need courage shoes just not to be 423 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: blown off the ground. How exactly. Speaking of how's your 424 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 2: weather bad? 425 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 10: Very strong Southerly's a bit of snow as well to 426 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 10: five hundred meters showers high of just ten central. 427 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 2: Keep on keeping on, Max Neivas and Auckland, Hey, Neva, greetings, 428 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: much beter up here, of course, but not a few're 429 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 2: paying rates. 430 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 5: Oh correct, the rural rate pays up and arms rural 431 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 5: rate pays here on the war path against Auckland Council. 432 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 5: Now this is after being blindsided by steep rate rises. 433 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 5: So what we know is that the council offices they're 434 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 5: scrambling to contain the anger. Now there's going to be 435 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 5: an online session planned with rural sections of the supercity. 436 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 5: This is happening tomorrow. One of the councilors is calling 437 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 5: for a camp on rates hikes. Look In the past fortnight, 438 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 5: our newsrooms reported complaints of the staggering rate increases. They 439 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 5: include a seventy two percent jump on a family home 440 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 5: in Audeirwa which was rezoned for new housing that basically 441 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 5: can't be developed for several years. So apparently there's a 442 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 5: Rodney Rates shock action Facebook page set up. It was 443 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 5: set up ten days ago and it's already retreated about 444 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 5: eight hundred and fifty members, so you can imagine that'll 445 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 5: just keep climbing. 446 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 2: They're on the wallpath. 447 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 11: Correct. 448 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 5: How's our weather mainly fine morning frost and shelter places 449 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 5: are high of thirteen here in or you don't have to. 450 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 2: Say before you go, Neva, lovely matching of the lippy 451 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 2: with the blazer today. 452 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:16,239 Speaker 4: Thank you? 453 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 6: Can you are. 454 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 5: The only one future would you call this my blazer fushure? 455 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 2: You can say purple or oh ye? 456 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 5: Well you you are the only one who mentioned that. 457 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 5: I'll be running. 458 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: Around and I wonder why that is, but you refashion easter. 459 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 2: That's why good to see Neva. It has just gone 460 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 2: seventeen minutes away from six. You're on news talk. Creb 461 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 2: so Zolenski quickly embraced the idea of the three way 462 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 2: summit Trump Zelenski Putin. However, Trump has since posted on 463 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 2: true Social actually there's going to have to be a 464 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 2: two way before there would be a three way. Not 465 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 2: quite sure where the poutin in. Which are those options? 466 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: Putin's actually on board with At this stage we'll get 467 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 2: to Gavin Gray in the UK next. If you run 468 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 2: a small business, you know the pain of waiting to 469 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 2: get paid. You finish the job, you send the invoice, 470 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 2: then you spend weeks chasing people up like some sort 471 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 2: of debt collector. Zero's Tap to Pay, which is powered 472 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 2: by Stripe. It changes all of this changes everything. Your 473 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 2: customer taps their card on your phone and boom, you're 474 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 2: paid on the spot. No fancy payment terminal needed, just 475 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 2: the Zero accounting app. So this is a game changer. 476 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 2: And here's the really smart but once the payment goes through, 477 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 2: the invoice is automatically marked as paid in zero. This 478 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: is ready to be reconciled. This means less admin less 479 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 2: mucking around with paperwork, more time running your actual business, 480 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 2: which is what you actually need to be doing. It's secure, 481 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,479 Speaker 2: it's instant, and it keeps your cash flow moving instead 482 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 2: of grinding to a holt every month. Accept payments on 483 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 2: the spot as soon as the job's complete. No more awkward. 484 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 2: I'll get that invoice to you. Conversations for small businesses. 485 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 2: This could genuinely be a game changer. 486 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind 487 00:25:59,320 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: for New Zealand. 488 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: Fifteen away from six we'll talk the ICR and a 489 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 2: second first. Gaven Gray are UK europe correspondent. The Coalition 490 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 2: of the Willing phone call that our Prime minister ditched 491 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 2: but we had officials on has obviously been held. Given 492 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 2: what's come of this call, Ran. 493 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 11: We don't have a huge amount of details, but I 494 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 11: think very significantly a group from the so called Coalition 495 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 11: of the of the Willing will now meet their US 496 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 11: counterparts over the coming days to prepare for the deployment 497 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 11: of a so called reassurance force were hostilities to come 498 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 11: to an end. So, in other words, if a peace 499 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 11: is declared, Ukraine would have a security blanket of knowing 500 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 11: that there is a reassurance force. Now. Boots on the 501 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 11: ground will not be coming from America. We know that, 502 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 11: So that looks like France, Germany, probably the UK will 503 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 11: have those boots on the ground but this is a 504 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 11: reassurance in a sense like NATO, but it'll mean that 505 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 11: Ukraine won't join NATO. That please Russia. And what Europe, however, 506 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 11: is disappointed with is that they've given up really on hope, 507 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 11: I think of a cease fire. So they're moving straight 508 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 11: onto trying to get the peace underway. And I think 509 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 11: as well, they're hoping that the idea that Ukraine could 510 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 11: be secure will mean that a lot of missilins can 511 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 11: be slightly more flexible when it comes to perhaps giving 512 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 11: up some of the land which Russia has so far invaded. 513 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: And we just heard from the White House that pos 514 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 2: has agreed to meet with Zelenski, which has obviously progress. 515 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,679 Speaker 11: Yeah, very much so. And Europe been really pushing this 516 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 11: bilateral trilateral idea where Ukraine is front and center of 517 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 11: those negotiations. 518 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning. That's Kevin Gray at UK 519 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 2: Europe Correspondent. Time is twelve away from six Bryan Bridge. 520 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 2: The cutting cycle continues this morning. Economists expecting the Reserve 521 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 2: Bank to cut the OCR twenty five basis points that 522 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 2: will get us down to three percent. We'll also get 523 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 2: a deeper look into inflation, unemployment, do we get a 524 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 2: monetary policy statement, which basically means you get a bit 525 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 2: more meat on the bones. Kelly Ekolda's Westpac chief economs 526 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 2: with me this morning, good morning, good morning. So yes, 527 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 2: we will get a twenty five basis point cut today, 528 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 2: say most economists, how far? How many more you reckon? 529 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 12: Well, after that, I think they're going to be a 530 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 12: bit more cagey. I think they'll have a bias towards 531 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 12: looking at another interstrate cut. But I think that's probably 532 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 12: about it for now. There might be another one in them, 533 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 12: depending on how the data rolls between now and Christmas, 534 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 12: but I think that's probably about all we should reasonably 535 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 12: expect for now. 536 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 2: They don't want to go too low and then and 537 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 2: risk over cooking later. 538 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 12: Well that's right. I mean, if you've looked at the 539 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 12: commentary in the Reserve Bank the last couple of meetings, 540 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 12: you've said, there's been arguments on both sides of this. 541 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 12: There was somebody who didn't even want to do the 542 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 12: last cut, and then there's a couple of others talking about, well, 543 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 12: if we do a little bit more cutting and we 544 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 12: put a bit more guard rails against weaker growth, we 545 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 12: know when you've got those sort of debates going on. 546 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 12: It isn't a slam duck that you just keep on 547 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 12: getting our rates. 548 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 2: That's the fact that we've got a temporary you know, 549 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank, and we've got Christian hawksby and there 550 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 2: the fact we haven't got a permanent replacement. Does that 551 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 2: mean that they'll be more cautious or is that just talk? 552 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 12: Well, I think you should probably reasonably assume that they 553 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 12: can't tie themselves into a future strategy too much, because 554 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 12: you know, if there's a new boss coming in a 555 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 12: couple of months, well they need to tell our a 556 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 12: little bit of room for them to work out what 557 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 12: they want to do. But you know, the data itself 558 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 12: also doesn't lend it as being too committed about what 559 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 12: happens next, because you don't know how things are going 560 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 12: to evolve. So hence that's why I think they should 561 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 12: be just a bit cagy. 562 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 2: We've had positive signs from manufacturing and services just in 563 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 2: the last week, and they are you know, the high 564 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 2: frequency data that you talk about. Do you think these 565 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 2: are positive enough? Are we finally cracking the back of 566 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 2: this blip in our recovery? 567 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 4: Oh? 568 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 12: I think it's encouraging. I mean, what we sort of 569 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 12: saw was some actually pretty decent growth right at the 570 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 12: start of the year. If you sort of were talking 571 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 12: to me about six weeks ago, would have looked a 572 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 12: lot more negative than that. Probably looks like it's somewhere 573 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 12: in the middle now, So we're expecting to be back 574 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 12: onto that kind of path of trend growth quite soon. 575 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 12: This sort of indicators have seen the last month or 576 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 12: so encouraging science that that's still a good view to have. 577 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 2: Was reading yesterday that in order to hit the Reserve 578 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 2: Bank estimates for growth this year, the manufacturing and the 579 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: services indicators need to be fifty three. I mean, obviously 580 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 2: fifty and above is growing, and we had services still 581 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 2: below fifty, but improving manufacturing finally cracked it. To hit 582 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 2: those we need to hit fifty three. Is that true? 583 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 12: Oh, I think that's a pretty rough estimate, to be honest, right, 584 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 12: I don't really abide by those numbers. A few draw 585 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 12: graphs of these sorts of things against growth, you'll see 586 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 12: that it's a rougher relationship with that. I mean, if 587 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 12: I look at where those purchasing manager in the seas 588 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 12: are there, if you average them out, then they're probably 589 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 12: not too far short of where they were in the 590 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 12: first quarter, and we got zero point eight percent growth 591 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 12: in that quarter, which is enough. Basically right now. 592 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 2: Good stuff, Kelly, appreciate your time this morning, Kelly echoled 593 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 2: Westpac teap economists. That decision all about two o'clock This afternoon, 594 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 2: it is eight to six News Talk s MB the 595 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 2: news you need. 596 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: This morning and the in depth analysis early edition with 597 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Root Love Where you Live News TALKSB. 598 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 2: Loads of good text from parents this morning six away 599 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 2: from six morning, Ryan, but ironic that the teachers are 600 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 2: saying there won't be much of an impact on learning 601 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 2: from the strike. Here's the message that we get from 602 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 2: Long Bay College if our child is late by even 603 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 2: a minute, and the dramatic impact that it can have. 604 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 2: I'm sorry it's a bit long, she says, but here 605 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 2: it is. You might think it's only five minutes. Here's 606 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 2: the full impact. Five minutes late every day equals twenty 607 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 2: five minutes every week, four hours of miss school every term, 608 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 2: three full days of a school year. After ten years, 609 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 2: that's thirty days, which is six complete weeks of school. 610 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 2: One hour of lateness daily equals five hours of school 611 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 2: the equivalent of a full school day every week over 612 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 2: one term. This equates to ten school days. Two weeks missed. 613 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 2: Over a full school year, this equates to eight weeks. 614 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 2: Go figure cry bread. Later, six news talks, he'd be 615 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 2: and Mike saiy, Hey. 616 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 3: Mike, i'd have to say, I mean, one percent isn't 617 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 3: a lot, is it? 618 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 2: What are you talking about pay rises? Oh no, no 619 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 2: it's not. 620 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 3: That's what they've been off. 621 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, I was thinking about times. And also we 622 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 2: mentioned sperm count. We're losing one percent of our sperm 623 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: count every year, which we've just reported on too. One 624 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 2: percent is not inflation, No, no, it is not. 625 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 3: Hey, listen, trade minister you mentioned earlier on he's he's 626 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 3: literally in Saudi as we speak, so we'll ring him 627 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 3: and he's on his way to Washington. And so I 628 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 3: don't I would have thought me, let me put this 629 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 3: to you as an idea. So there's a surplus, right, 630 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 3: So their whole mechanism, First of all, they don't know 631 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 3: who we are and nor do they care, right, So 632 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 3: they just had a big long list of countries that 633 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 3: had a surplus. We have a surplus because you know, 634 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 3: et cetera. So we sell more to them than they 635 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 3: sell to us. Why don't we just buy something? Just 636 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 3: go up and say the surplus is a couple hundred 637 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 3: million dollars, will buy a plane. 638 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: Funly you say that this was a suggestion I made 639 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 2: quite early on Mike, the one because we need in 640 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 2: New Zealand needs some planes. We've got some engine issues. 641 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 3: Why don't we just go buy some brow a couple more, order, 642 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 3: a couple more, balance the ledger. Everyone else's slice the 643 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 3: tariff down from fifteen to ten. How hard can it be? 644 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 3: Why is it us running the country? Righty? Why is 645 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 3: it us running the country? 646 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 11: Well? 647 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 2: Do you know what? Who would buy them? In New Zealand? 648 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 12: Oh? 649 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 2: Buy the government? 650 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 3: Government need a new planes up and down the country. 651 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 2: Government doesn't want to spend money on anything big. 652 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 3: Save your money from the money you didn't give to 653 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 3: the teachers. Put it into planes. 654 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 2: Oh there's an idea. Todd McClay on with Mike today, 655 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 2: Have a great day. Run See tomorrow. 656 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,959 Speaker 1: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge. 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