1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes warm 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: and try this winter. 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,239 Speaker 2: News Talk said, be good morning, it is six alf 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: to five year on news Talk said, be coming up 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 2: this morning. Two scandals with taxpayer money this morning, both 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 2: involving Farno order. One is about funding the Muana pacifica 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 2: rugby team, and another is about funding what some people 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: are calling an election ad. And the comment from metepecat 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: Okawa take yesterday that I'll play for you, which is 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: I think sackable at best. Another day, another list of 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 2: infrastructure projects from the government. 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 3: Is this an. 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: Announcement about an announcement when there's somebody actually going to 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: build something? Mitch McCann is in the US for US, 16 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 2: Trump and NATO go for five percent and fifteen story 17 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: buildings in Auckland. Sounds pretty reasonable for a city, doesn't it. 18 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 2: We'll look at that as well. The agenda first day, 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: the twenty sixth of June. So NATO has agreed to 20 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: five percent defense spending. Trump very happy, calling it a 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: big win. 22 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 4: It's a monumental win for the United States because we 23 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 4: were carrying much more than our fair share. But this 24 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 4: is a big win for Europe and for actually Western civilization. 25 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 2: Pete higsaid, he's saying that report about the US strikes 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 2: on Iran only setting the program back, the nuclear program 27 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 2: back by a few months, as nonsense when. 28 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 3: You actually look at the report. 29 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 5: By the way, it was a top secret report, it. 30 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 6: Was preliminary, it was low confidence, all right, So this. 31 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 7: Is a you make assessments based on what you know 32 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 7: that it said. 33 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 4: It could be very devastating, very honoring, a severe and 34 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 4: we believe far more likely severe and obliterated. 35 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 1: So this is a political motive here. 36 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 2: In Australia, the journalist Antoinette Latooth she's won her case 37 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: against the ABC, the court ruling she was unfairly sacked 38 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: over a social media post about the war in Gaza. 39 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 3: This after lobbying from pro Israel groups. 40 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 8: The ABC rejected and offer last July to settle the 41 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 8: case for eighty five thousand dollars, instead blowing over one 42 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 8: million dollars in taxpayer month money to discredit itself. 43 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with 44 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and x fol Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm 45 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: and dry this winter news talks a't b good morning. 46 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 3: You can get me on nine two ninety two this 47 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 3: morning fickus of text. 48 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 2: Now the Prime Minister is coming home what is today, Thursday, 49 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: coming home tomorrow, but has been at NATO, and you know, 50 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: gripp and grinning left, right and center. He's put out 51 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: a statement saying that basically, the reason that we should 52 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 2: be so interested in what's happening in you know, the 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 2: euro Atlantic region is because of what's happening here the 54 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 2: link between Russia and Ukraine and North Korea. So he says, 55 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: the links between the euro Atlantic and Indo Pacific and 56 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 2: North Korea's in North Korea's support of Russia's invasion of 57 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: Ukraine and in Russia's technical expertise that can help North 58 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 2: Korea develop its nuclear program. In other words, basically, the 59 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 2: Russians are helping Rocketman with his nukes, and North Korea 60 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: is providing cannon fodder for Russia and Ukraine or supporting 61 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 2: the war effort in Ukraine. 62 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 3: So that's why we should care. 63 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: They've released a communicay, which is honestly so, I mean, 64 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: those communicators never make any sense because they're written by 65 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: pen pushes, but you know, they and they purposely don't 66 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: kind of tell you what's going on because they don't 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 2: want to tell you what's going on. But suffice to 68 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 2: say they're getting closer on the procurement of military equipment 69 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: whatever that means. Ten minutes half to five. And this 70 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 2: business with medipek at Okawa Tate. And I've known Medipekka 71 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: for many years and I like medipek at Okawa Tate. 72 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: But she has to either resign or the agency that 73 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 2: she oversees has to have its funding pulp because of 74 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: what she said yesterday is just completely out of whack. 75 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 3: It's completely wrong. 76 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: This is taxpayer money going to Pharno Order Funding Agency. 77 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 2: She's the head of the Pharo Order Commissioning Agency. This 78 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: is government money. This is taxpayer money, and it's going 79 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 2: to fund an ad including tama Eti, where they encourage 80 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 2: people to go onto the Maldi role, which is not 81 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 2: the job of a Pharo Order Commissioning Agency, right, And 82 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 2: this is how she justified it in an interview on 83 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 2: r NZ yesterday. 84 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 5: If you're going to go on the general role, what 85 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 5: you're doing is you're going into well basically the mainstream parties. 86 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: Now your Mali issues never come to the four on 87 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: the mainstream parties. 88 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 5: So this is what I'm saying, this is why it 89 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 5: is necessary. 90 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 3: She's a former Malori Party candidate. I'm sorry. You can't 91 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 3: do that. You can't. 92 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 2: You cannot say that main stream parties, as in Labor 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: and National don't support Maori development or don't support the 94 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: Maori population and then fund an add which tries to 95 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 2: get them onto a different role if it's political. You 96 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 2: can't do that with taxpayer money. So something's going to 97 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 2: have to happen there. It's going to have to have 98 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 2: him quick, quicker than Tama Pawtucker's investigation into this, which 99 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 2: was launched yesterday just gone eleven minutes after five year. 100 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 2: On news talks AB in Auckland, they're looking at fifteen 101 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 2: story buildings, shock horror around train stations for the city 102 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 2: rail Link. 103 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 3: We'll get to that next. 104 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: Brian Bridge on early edition with Expole insulation, keeping Kiwi 105 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: owns warm and try this winter news talksb. 106 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 3: More good news on the export front. We had our 107 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: May exports surging. 108 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: This is goods trade and we've got another surplus worth 109 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: more than a billion dollars one point two billion dollars 110 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 2: for May. Imports were down and that so exports up 111 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: nine point seven percent, imports down seven point two percent 112 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 2: for the month, which means we had a monthly goods 113 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: trade surplus of one point two billion dollars similar to April, 114 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 2: first time outside of the pandemic that we've had two 115 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 2: consecutive months of a billion plus surplus. And your culprits, 116 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: you guessed it. It's your dairy year on year up 117 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: seventeen percent, meat ten percent, fruit forty one percent, but 118 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 2: also interestingly gold twenty nine percent. And medical equipment Fisher 119 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 2: and Pikell Health medical equipment up seventeen percent. 120 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 3: It is quarter past five, Ryan Jentleman. 121 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 2: Announcing yesterday it's going to force at coand Council to 122 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: allow new developments of at least fifteen stories next to 123 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: key stations for the City Rail Link. The new rules 124 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 2: will apply to developments within walking distance of Munga Foe, 125 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 2: which is the new station Kingsland Morningside. A ten story 126 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 2: limit would apply around Mount Albert and Baldwin av stations. 127 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: Campbell Dunoon is head of Network at AL J. 128 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 3: Hooker and with me this morning. Campbell, good morning, good morning, Ryan. 129 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 3: Is this what people want? 130 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 9: Well? 131 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 6: Well, hopefully Look, I think it's a positive move by 132 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 6: the government. We need to do something to address it. 133 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 6: But I think we have to accept we need consultation 134 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 6: here and we need to I guess, a balanced approach 135 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 6: to the development. 136 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 2: What do we need to consult about. I mean, does 137 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: it not make sense to go up given the traffic, 138 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: given all the problems we've gotten this city. If we're 139 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: going to build spend billions building a city rolling, then 140 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 2: you know it doesn't not make sense to have big 141 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 2: buildings to house people next to them. 142 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 10: Yeah, look it does. 143 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 6: I mean, yes, you have to go up. There's not 144 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 6: the land to go side away, so to speak. But 145 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 6: I think people and our research shows this is the key. 146 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 6: We certainly want to have living accommodation that gives them 147 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 6: some sort of green space and practical amenities and so 148 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 6: on and so forth. And I'm also slightly concerned about 149 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 6: the parking issue as well, because you don't want cars 150 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 6: all parked during the evening on what is it, New 151 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 6: North Road. So it'd be interesting to see what sort 152 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 6: of the detail is in these plans. 153 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, and whether the government will force the council to 154 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: do that, because if you leave leave it up to 155 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: the council. 156 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 3: They don't like car parks. 157 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: Do they? 158 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 10: No, they don't. 159 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 6: But look at the end of the day, it's about, 160 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 6: you know, do you want to force this on people? 161 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 6: Do you want to work with them? And I would 162 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 6: prefer to see the latter. But all in all, I 163 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 6: think it's a pretty good idea and it's something we need. 164 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 6: We just have to be pretty careful how we manage 165 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 6: the implementation of it. 166 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Campbell, appreciate your time this morning. Cambell deon 167 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,599 Speaker 3: noonhead of network at al J. Hooker. They did a 168 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 3: survey interestingness. 169 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 8: Al J. 170 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 2: Hooker did a survey finding eighty four percent of key 171 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 2: we still dream of owning a standalone home, outdoor living 172 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 2: high on the wish list. You don't get much outdoor 173 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 2: living in a fifteen story apartment building, do you That's 174 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 2: part of the problem. Seventeen after five news Talks said, 175 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 2: be the story about Muana Pacifica, the rugby team and 176 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: how it's funded and the role that you play in 177 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: that next news. 178 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis earlier 179 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: this year with Ryan Branch at ex Bowl installation keeping 180 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. 181 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 2: This winter, news Talks had been it is nineteen after 182 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: five News Talks, he'd be revelations this morning. Super Rugby's 183 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: Muana Pacifica team is being propped up to buy a 184 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 2: taxpayer cash to the tune of about eight million dollars. Yes, so, 185 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 2: through its inception and first three seasons, the team receiving 186 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 2: eight million dollars in New Zealand government help. About five 187 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 2: million were grants, three million dollars was a Sport New 188 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 2: Zealand loan. First repayments of that made in March and 189 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 2: the rest now due. Apparently three hundred thousand dollars of 190 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: the loan has been written off already and another use 191 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 2: of money through Farno Order funds has come via the 192 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 2: Pacifica Medical Association Group, which is a charity which is 193 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: the primary backer of the team. Now this money is 194 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: going to dry up under government changes. Jason Pine News Talks, 195 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 2: he'd be week in Sport host with me this morning. 196 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: This is a story in the Herald. 197 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 11: Jason, good morning, Yeah, morning, right, what does this mean 198 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 11: for the team, Well, it can't be good news, can it. 199 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 11: When money dries up, that's never a good thing. And 200 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 11: as you've outlined, the owners of the team, Pacifica Medical 201 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 11: Association Group, the charity that owns mo Onana pacific are 202 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 11: going to lose that fun to order contract. Not all 203 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 11: of that money obviously went to Majana Pacifica, but their 204 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 11: funds the rugby teams that have been bolstered significantly in 205 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 11: the last couple of years through that money, as well 206 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,599 Speaker 11: as broadcast, which we know is also going to be 207 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 11: reduced when the new Sky ideal comes out. Sponsorship is 208 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 11: never easy to come by, so there's a lot of 209 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 11: revenue streams here, Ryan, and none of them are increasing. 210 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,719 Speaker 11: So yeah, it's got to be it's got to be 211 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 11: furrowing the brow of those that Wana Pacifica HQ. 212 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 2: Absolutely. How are rugby teams super rugby teams normally funded 213 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 2: like it would it be normal for government money to 214 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 2: be involved in stuff like this. 215 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 11: No, And I think Winna Pacifica was a special case 216 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 11: when they were stood up. You know, it was an 217 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 11: idea that I think most people agreed with. Another super 218 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 11: rugby team with pathways through to the Tongan and some 219 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 11: Mouran national teams. They take part in a competition with 220 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 11: all of the other New Zealand sides. So I think 221 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 11: a New Zealand rugby. New Zealand Rugby were their biggest 222 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,599 Speaker 11: backer in the first season of their existence, along with 223 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 11: government money. But no, I mean you must remember that 224 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 11: that they're not one of New Zealand Rugby's teams. You know, 225 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 11: despite what I've just said, there are New Zealand players. 226 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 11: They're arlisav the best example. But no, it wouldn't be 227 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 11: common for, for example, New Zealand Rugby to ride and 228 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 11: on a white horse here and save the franchise if 229 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 11: it came to that. 230 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,599 Speaker 2: Right, So they're sort of on their own without and 231 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 2: if this government money does dry up, it looks like 232 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: perhaps the team what. 233 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 3: May not continue. 234 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 11: Well, I mean that's the worst case scenario. You hope 235 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 11: that they find a way. There's broadcast, there's sponsorship, there's 236 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 11: ticket sales, and there's obviously the owner's own funds and 237 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 11: perhaps money from New Zealand Rugby and World Rugby might 238 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 11: be forthcoming if it meant that the franchise could continue. 239 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 11: As we know, Ryan, they had an excellent season, their 240 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 11: best season you know, by far, and almost made the playoffs. 241 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 11: So it would be a great shame if they were 242 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 11: to dissolve. But yeah, there's some thinking to do with 243 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 11: as I say, these revenue streams maybe not quite what 244 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 11: they were in previous years. 245 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, good on you, thanks for coming on the 246 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 3: show this morning. Good to hear you. 247 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 2: Jason Pine, News Talks, he'd be week in sports hosts 248 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 2: with us and it's twenty two minutes twenty three minutes 249 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 2: after five on News Talks, he'd be interesting the Fiji 250 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 2: and Drewer supported by fifteen on Ireland sponsors and Super 251 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 2: Rugby's highest merchandising sales for Fiji and Drawer. It is 252 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 2: financially impossible for one of PACIFICA to be based in 253 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 2: Samoa or Tonga. So basically their countries are too small 254 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: and it just they don't have the infrastructure, they don't 255 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 2: have the facilities, they don't have the high performance sports, 256 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: so they have to be based here. It is twenty 257 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 2: three minutes after five year on News Talk, said b 258 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: coming up next another report confirming something we already knew, 259 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 2: but do we need to actually seriously start thinking about 260 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 2: a solution. This is the aging population. This is the 261 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 2: cost of the pension, and it's the cost of the healthcare. 262 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: The early edition full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio powered 263 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: by News Talks. 264 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: B five twenty five News Talk said b it's obvious 265 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 2: to anyone paying attention that in the coming decades, and 266 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 2: even if you're not paying attention, it's just logical in 267 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: the coming decades we're not going to have enough young 268 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 2: people working to support the cost of health and super 269 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: for the elderly. All this is spelled out in a 270 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 2: Treasury report which Thomas Coglan published in The Herald today. 271 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 2: This is not new, We've known this for a long time. 272 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: Future governments will either have to take a sledge hammer 273 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: to spending on health or raise the age of super. 274 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 2: The obvious answer, I think is to raise the age 275 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 2: of super. Don't worry, not immediate, not tomorrow, but raise 276 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 2: the age of super not going to happen of course, 277 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 2: of all. Winston's around. But the other thing we could 278 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 2: cut is our expectations boys born. This is stats in 279 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: his head data. Boys born in the early nineteen sixties 280 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 2: who were reaching sixty five now wish could expect to 281 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 2: live to around seventy nine years on average, and girls 282 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 2: eighty three. Boys born in the early twenty twenties, so 283 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 2: you're freshies could expect to live to eighty eight years 284 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: on average, girls ninety one years on average, so we've 285 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: added about ten years to our lives. This is very 286 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: expensive and it's only going to get better or worse, 287 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: depending on how you look at this problem. 288 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 10: Now. 289 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: I was speaking to a woman in whose seventies this 290 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 2: week now I won't name, who firmly believes that when 291 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 2: you reach the age of eighty, you must choose. 292 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 3: The pension or healthcare. We can't afford both. 293 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 2: How can we afford to fill our hospitals keeping eighty 294 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: plus year olds alive and keeping paying their pensions and 295 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 2: not send the country bankrupts her point, and she's older, 296 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 2: closer to eighty than I am, much closer. I know 297 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 2: it sounds jarring. I know it sounds cruel, But isn't 298 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: it fair to ask how we plan to fund the 299 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 2: very expensive long lives that we are now planning to live, which, 300 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 2: by the way, was not the intention when the pension 301 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: was set up when it was universal. 302 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 3: The age has blown out massively, hasn't it? 303 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: So I think it's fair to ask the question at least, 304 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: how do we confront that problem? Twenty eight minutes after five, Ryan, 305 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 2: we live in so many people on the tall buildings 306 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: in Auckland, Ryan, we live in an earthquake prone nation, 307 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 2: says Harry, what fools would build housing ten to fifteen 308 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 2: stories high. So do the Japanese and they go pretty high. Ryan, 309 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: consultation on high rise buildings nonsense, just do it. Some 310 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 2: countries build cities in five years. We take the same 311 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 2: time to consult and report back, and look how expensive 312 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: and delayed our projects have become. Seas Graham. Yeah, I'm 313 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 2: sort of in your camp, Graham. I think if we're 314 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 2: going to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars 315 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 2: on a new city rail link, you've got to get 316 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 2: your bang for you, but you've got to get the 317 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 2: most out of it. And if that means building up 318 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: around the stations, then I think that makes a lot 319 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: of sense. This is from Cameron on the one of 320 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 2: pacifica Ryan, but bring back cigarette sponsorship for sport. It's 321 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 2: endless money. I don't think we can do that, but 322 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 2: you could go for you McDonald's, because I do wonder sometimes, 323 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 2: you know, with the All Blacks and they've finally got 324 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 2: themselves a new sponsor, but do they turn their nose 325 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 2: up it? You know, has KFC come in and offered 326 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 2: money and they've turned their nose. 327 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 3: Up at it because it's fast food. You know, we've 328 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 3: been a bit snobby with that sports funding. I don't know. 329 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 2: On the aging population, Ryan, I completely agree. We have 330 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 2: to cut our cloth in order to afford the very 331 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 2: and by historical standards, the very luxurious lives that we 332 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 2: currently lead. 333 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 3: You're on News Talks VB. Get to our reporters around 334 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 3: the country. 335 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 9: Next games for you person over again. 336 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early 337 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Keighley 338 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry. This winter News Talks ed B 339 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: and then. 340 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 3: Look morning twenty four minutes away from six. News Talks 341 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 3: EDB is Thursday, the twenty sixth of June. 342 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 2: Before six, we'll get to Nick Leggett Infrastructure, New Zealand 343 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 2: on this new plan that's been running. How many plans 344 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: do you want before you actually start building something? Do 345 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 2: we like pile all the plans on top of each 346 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 2: other and hope that a sky rise appears? 347 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 8: You know? 348 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll talk to Neglegant about that much we can 349 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 2: is in the US for US after the Trump at 350 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 2: the NATO summit, they've got to five percent. Good morning, Ryan, 351 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: Paul Luxon looked as important as someone trying to sell 352 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 2: people a vacuum cleaner at the NATO meeting, says George, 353 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 2: I mean that's essentially what you're the equivalent of when 354 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 2: you come from the Pacific, isn't it? And you're at NATO. 355 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: So give I mean, give them a bit of a break. 356 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 2: And on pension or healthcare, loads of feedback on this, 357 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 2: as you can imagine, Ryan, taking away healthcare from people 358 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: would just increase you sorry, taking away the pension from 359 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 2: people would increase your health care costs because you're not 360 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 2: eating good food, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The 361 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 2: things we can't afford to do it all, can we 362 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 2: with an aging population? And no one is suggesting even 363 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 2: if we change the age of entitlement for superannuation, no 364 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,239 Speaker 2: one's going to do it tomorrow, And it's not going 365 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 2: to affect anyone who's even. 366 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 3: Remotely close to it. 367 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: It's going to be people who are probably my age 368 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: or younger who will be affected by any change that's made. 369 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 2: It's not going to affect anyone who's close to it. 370 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 2: But you have to admit, don't you, that there's a 371 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 2: bit of a problem, you know, little elephant in the room. 372 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 2: Twenty three to two six our reporters around the country 373 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 2: this morning, Callum Proctor and needing for us. This morning, 374 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 2: Calum doubts a major growth is on the cards for 375 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 2: won Aca Airport. 376 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Ryan. 377 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 12: Public consultation has opened now on the future of Wonaka 378 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 12: Airport and locals are encouraged to submit feedback on their 379 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 12: vision for its future. It was only last year the 380 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 12: District Council first signals it's intent to begin this process 381 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 12: to develop a long term plan for Wonaca Airport. The 382 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 12: Mayor's Glenn lewis he isn't ruling out community interest and 383 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 12: expanding the airport domestically or maybe even for international flights. 384 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 12: He says all options are on the table. He doesn't 385 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 12: think though, there'll be much support for growing the airport. 386 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 3: And how's your weather? 387 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 12: Early rain pleas to find this morning northeasterlyes die out 388 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 12: the high sixteen. 389 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 2: Today, nice one, thank you and clears and christ Church 390 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 2: this morning, Hey clear, good morning. Now we've got more 391 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 2: evidence that christ Church is well and truly left its 392 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: post quake struggles in the past. 393 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 10: I'm just here to. 394 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 13: Skute again Ryan Look. Demand is taking off at Christchurch Airport. 395 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 13: We've got another new announcement from an airline. This time 396 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 13: it's China Southern Airlines announcing a twenty six percent boost 397 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,959 Speaker 13: in capacity as well as a longer operating window this summer. 398 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 13: So the Guangzhouta christ Church service will initially operate five 399 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 13: times a week, then we'll become daily from mid December. 400 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 13: This is after we've already heard about Quantus and Singapore 401 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 13: Airlines increasing capacity to and from christ Church. We've spoken 402 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 13: with Christchurch inz It's destination and Attraction manager Lauren Aberhart. 403 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 13: She says the airline connectivity is changing the way people 404 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 13: use the city. She said christ Church is now seen 405 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 13: as a destination rather than a gateway into the South. 406 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 13: The city's seen a big increase in international visitor nights 407 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 13: here as a result. Meanwhile, some good news from venues 408 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 13: Auto Tahi yesterday as well. That's provided a twenty eight 409 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 13: million dollar boost to the local economy between last July 410 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 13: and March of this year. 411 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 3: Brilliant. How's your wear? 412 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 7: The clear, cloudy with a bit of. 413 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 13: Rain expected later northeasterlies is quite strong this morning, a 414 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 13: high of fourteen. 415 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 2: Nice one, thank you and Max's and Wellington Haymax, good morning. 416 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: Now council has received some freeback on public satisfaction. 417 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 3: How's that going? 418 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 14: Every year the City Council quizzes residence on their satisfaction 419 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 14: with council affairs. It was once, indeed, known as the 420 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 14: Wellington Residence Satisfaction Survey. It's now rather tellingly the Residence 421 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 14: Monitoring Survey because there are fewer people satisfied. The really 422 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 14: story in the post this morning. More than half us 423 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 14: either somewhat or very dissatisfied with the council matters twenty 424 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 14: three percent. Just twenty three percent agree that the Council 425 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,400 Speaker 14: made decisions in the best interests of the city US year, 426 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 14: shockingly or not. The biggest gripe is the perception that 427 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 14: the Council's spending on the unnecessaries, the nice to have 428 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 14: other than the essentials. Following that, infrastructure like water, the 429 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 14: performance of the Mayor and councilors cycle ways as well. 430 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 14: Rates obviously shooting up seems like a bit of a 431 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 14: water of October. 432 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: Yeah it does. How's your weather? 433 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 14: Cloudy and drizzly with a strong wind all day sixteen 434 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 14: Today's high that's fun. 435 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 3: Thanks Max and they have a good morning. 436 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: Good morning. 437 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 2: Now Auckland War Memorial Legium. We've got a couple of 438 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: attractions there. 439 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 3: What's going on? 440 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,479 Speaker 5: Yes, now two popular attractions. Apparently they could remain closed 441 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 5: for a few years. Ryan, Now, look, the museum was 442 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 5: forced to shut I think everyone will remember this. This 443 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 5: was in early May after asbestos was detected, and then 444 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 5: it reopened in stages twenty four days later. However, now 445 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 5: we know that timuri Atia Mauldi Court specific galleries in 446 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 5: the grand foyer are still closed. This was for remediation work. 447 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 5: But apparently only two sources are saying that this could 448 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 5: last for four years, that these you know ones here 449 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 5: could be closed for four years, which is like wow. 450 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 5: And I think the museum that back when you know, 451 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 5: the asbestos was there, that it lost more than four 452 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 5: hundred and fifty thousand in potential revenue in May. So 453 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 5: if this is true that you know these other ones 454 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 5: exhibitions are closed for four years. But if our money 455 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 5: will be lost there, I suspect absolutely. 456 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 3: How's our weather today? 457 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 5: Many showers mainly this evening. Those showers. Nineteen is the 458 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,360 Speaker 5: high year in Auckland. 459 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 3: Brilliant, Thank you very much Neiva. It's eighteen minutes away 460 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 3: from six. Very quickly. 461 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 2: This was a story from overnight. South Korean government banned 462 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 2: and you might remember they did this a couple of 463 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: years ago, banned the sale of dog meat for consumption. 464 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:52,959 Speaker 2: And now the wait for it, Korean Association of Edible Dogs, 465 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 2: this is the dog farmers have come out and said 466 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 2: that there are half a million dogs in Korea that 467 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 2: they will basically, what do you do with them? You 468 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 2: can't rehome them all, you can no longer sell them, 469 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 2: so half a million dogs they reckon might need to 470 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: be euthanized as a result of that. I mean, is 471 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 2: that the outcome you want? 472 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 5: It? 473 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 2: Probably not, but that's what happens when you banned stuff. 474 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 2: Eighteen away from six news talks b will get to. 475 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 2: Mitch McCann stateside. 476 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 3: Next, we've got. 477 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 2: Businesses here in New Zealand who, when they say they 478 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 2: care about the environment and the planet, are actually doing 479 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 2: something real about it, and who is leading the way. 480 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 3: It's ex Pole, the warmest feet in the world. People, 481 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 3: you'll know them. 482 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 2: They've got something called the Expole Earth Initiative and it's 483 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: quite impressive. All seven of their factories across the country 484 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 2: fitted with recycling machines, not just for their own offcuts, 485 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 2: but for waste collected from building sites and even households 486 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 2: around the country. They're recycling more than five hundred tons 487 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 2: of polysty ring every year, five hundred tons, and they've 488 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 2: set up recycling bins through building merchants nationwide taking back 489 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 2: packaging waste as well. That's one thousand cubic of waste 490 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: each month, roughly ten truck and trailer loads. Even better, 491 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 2: seventy five percent of their products now contain recycled content. 492 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: So if you're building or renovating and you want to 493 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 2: be a bit kinder on the planet, go to expole 494 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 2: dot co dot NZ your home and the environment will thank. 495 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 6: You for it. 496 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: International correspondence with enzed Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for 497 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: New Zealand Business. 498 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 2: Fourteen away from six News Talk ZVB and Mitch McCann 499 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: is stateside for US this morning. Mitch Trump pushing back. 500 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 2: This is at NATO pushing back on that report, early 501 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 2: report on Iran and bombing the nukes. 502 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. I think Donald Trump 503 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 7: was hoping to take a bit of a victory lap 504 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 7: at the Hague for this conference at the moment. At 505 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 7: the NATO conference, of course, yesterday it came out that 506 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 7: a preliminary report show that maybe these nuclear science in 507 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 7: Iran hadn't been completely obliterated as Donald Trump claimed they had, 508 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 7: and he's not happy about that early reporting. He's going 509 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 7: the press about it. He says, these reports are demeaning 510 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 7: to the bomber pilots that flew to Iran. 511 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 3: He sees the report was. 512 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 7: Something that wasn't finished. He sees it since then, they've 513 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 7: collected additional intelligence, he says. He's also spoken to people 514 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 7: who have seen the site and it's obliterated, and he thinks, 515 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 7: doubt everything down there was the nuclear the nuclear content 516 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 7: that Iran has. So Donald Trump thinks it was a 517 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,360 Speaker 7: very successful bombing, but some of the intelligence may suggest otherwise. 518 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in New York City, the mayoral candidate the Democrats 519 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 2: have elected were voted on. They haven't confirmed that the vote, 520 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 2: but this thirty three year old they've gone quite hard 521 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 2: left with this candidate. 522 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, they have very progressive. 523 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 7: A man named Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo, the former 524 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 7: governor of New York who was governor for about six years, 525 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 7: before he had to resign over sexual harassment claims. Now 526 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 7: ma'mdani is leading the vote. It's almost completely counted, by 527 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 7: forty three percent to thirty six percent. He ran on 528 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 7: a campaign promising to freeze rent, the attacks the red Which, 529 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 7: and create city. 530 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 3: Owned grocery stores. 531 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 7: He is very far left of the Democratic Party here 532 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 7: and he will likely be the nominee. But it is 533 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 7: important for many reasons for the fact that the Democratic 534 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 7: Party more nationally could be impacted by this. It may 535 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 7: signal that they're ready for a group of younger candidates 536 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 7: away from some of those older candidates, like we've seen 537 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 7: people like Joe Biden. 538 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 3: Appreciate you time thisawning, Mitch. Thank you very much much. 539 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 2: McCann, our US correspondent. It is twelve minutes away from 540 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 2: six ran. We're not getting banged for our buck when 541 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 2: it comes to spending on infrastructure. I mean, tell us 542 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 2: something we don't know. This is according to the Infrastructure 543 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 2: Commission's first draft for the first National Infrastructure Plan. It 544 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 2: reckons we're spending and the spending we are doing at 545 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 2: the moment puts US in the top ten percent of 546 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 2: developed countries. But what we're getting for it puts us 547 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: in the bottom ten percent. Nick Leggett is Infrastrucure New 548 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 2: Zealand CEO with us this morning. Hey Nick, Hi Ryan, 549 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 2: are you getting sick of hearing reports and list of 550 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 2: things we need to be doing? 551 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 3: I mean, why don't we just do something? 552 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 10: I think that is a bloody good point, Brian. Look, 553 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 10: this is a good report. There's a lot in here, 554 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 10: and what we've got to do is act on it, 555 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 10: as you say, because if plans and reports were the answer, 556 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 10: New Zealand would have solved all its problems. Right, we 557 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 10: have to as a as a nation, I think, grab 558 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 10: the ball by the horns. You know, we don't look 559 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 10: after what we've got, and you know we will often 560 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 10: talk about that infrastructure New Zealand, this infrastructure deficit. Not 561 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 10: this report plainly points out is that the majority of 562 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 10: that deficit is actually were the assets that we have 563 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 10: that we already own and that we don't look after 564 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 10: and we don't invest in their maintenance and renewals. And 565 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 10: you know, I think New Zealanders know that because they 566 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 10: fell in roads and rail and water and schools and hospitals. 567 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 10: The plan also notes quite prominently that big parts of 568 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 10: government don't actually even have a record of what they own, 569 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 10: and therefore they don't have a plan about how they're 570 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 10: going to maintain it. So we build stuff. We're very 571 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 10: good at that, and then we don't fix up. And 572 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 10: then then then then you go to the questions, well 573 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 10: what do you do about all this? To be conscious? 574 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 3: Do we not build stuff? Then? I mean, do we 575 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 3: just stick with what we've got and fix it up? 576 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 10: Well, that's a big there's a big part. That's a 577 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 10: big part of it. I think it's we're always onto 578 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 10: the next thing, right, which is not bad, but if 579 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 10: you want to get the best value out of what 580 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 10: you build, maintaining it is a good start. So we 581 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 10: we're not we're not good at that, and part of 582 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 10: it is because we just lack of focus and we 583 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 10: move on to the next thing. So we've got to 584 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 10: change that, and we've got to get into asset management planning, 585 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 10: which is a term that obviously those people that do 586 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 10: assets are interested in. Most of us don't know what 587 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 10: that means, but it is about knowing what you own, 588 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 10: investing in it, and then putting the money aside and 589 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 10: not spending the money. Because it is what we do. 590 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 10: We raid the piggy bank. Every time something comes along, 591 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 10: it's more exciting, and we spend it on that. We 592 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 10: don't spend it back on the assets that you often 593 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 10: can't see a big part of what the country's got 594 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 10: to do is get beyond political cycles and build the 595 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 10: system that supports of the structure, you know, planning it, 596 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 10: making the decisions, sticking to the decision. What we do 597 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 10: very well is, you know, there's an election, there's a 598 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 10: change of government, and everything stops or gets canceled. But 599 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 10: the money that we spend on stuff that never happens 600 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 10: costs us dearly. You talk about that bottom we get 601 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 10: the bottom ten percent of value in the OECD. A 602 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 10: big part of it, not all of it, is because 603 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 10: we don't stick to things, and so we do have 604 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 10: to build more cross part and support for the system 605 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 10: and the plan into the future about what we've got 606 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 10: to stick to that. 607 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 2: And we've been saying honestly, like I appreciate what you're 608 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: saying and for you coming on the show, but honestly, 609 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 2: I feel like I've. 610 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 3: Heard this a thousand times, you know, yeah, and a 611 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 3: thousand times I know, But. 612 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 10: But Ryan, do you know where the changes it's not 613 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 10: with politicians, although they do have to change. It's it's 614 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 10: us as members of the public citizens demanding that politicians 615 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 10: behave differently and that we build a proper system and 616 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 10: we take a much more long term view about what 617 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 10: we own and what we need to build on how 618 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 10: we get how we get there. 619 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 3: Nick, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you for coming on. 620 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 2: Nick Leggett, Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive. It's eight to 621 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 2: six news Talk, said B. And Mike is in the studio. 622 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: Next get ahead of the headlines on early edition with 623 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi, Holmes, Warm 624 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: and Drey. 625 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 3: This winter news Talk, said B. 626 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 2: It is six minutes away from six news Talk, said B. 627 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 2: People have been really mean to Chris lux In this morning. 628 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: Someone says he would be more popular on the world 629 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 2: stage if he had. 630 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 3: A hair piece. Honestly, who cares what whether. 631 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 2: He's got here or not. Half of them don't have 632 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 2: here at NATO, do they. Mike's got lots of here 633 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 2: and he's in the studio. Hey Mike, nice to see 634 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 2: Nice to see you. 635 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,719 Speaker 9: So there's two scandals here. One scandal is the business 636 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 9: of Farna Aura and the electioneering. The other scandal is 637 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 9: the business of Farna Aura and Moana Pacifica. 638 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 3: Did you know that they were funded, of course, not 639 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 3: the million dollars. No one does. 640 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 9: And that's the other scandal associated with the scandal though, 641 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 9: And we've got a couple of people who can well 642 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 9: they should be sacked. One of them is Nikola Willis. 643 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 9: Is the fact that this government, rightly or wrongly, but 644 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 9: this government campaigned on getting rid of race based policy. 645 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 9: That's what they campaigned on and they're failing miserably. So 646 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 9: to watch Tama Potarka yesterday to go oh, well, we'll 647 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 9: need to investigate this electioneering nonsense. A thirty minute add 648 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 9: we never heard of a thirty minute. 649 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 2: And the goal that when they were asked how much 650 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 2: did it cost, the response was well we're not you'll 651 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 2: find out in a year when we publish our financials. 652 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 9: And so that's what they promised to get rid of. Now, 653 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 9: the I think the biggest scandal is the Moana Pacifica thing. 654 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 9: Money goes from feigner or to an agency who's. 655 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 3: Meant to be doing health work. 656 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 9: Uplift the community in some way. So you uplift your 657 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 9: community by sponsoring a professional rugby team. Are you serious? 658 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 3: It's pretty outrageous. 659 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 9: And then because that agency has now lost the contract, 660 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 9: they don't have any money. They owe money to the state, 661 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 9: which they've alreadyd some of it's already been ritre one. 662 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 3: Hundred thousand dollars rushing off already. 663 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 9: Team goes west because they're going to need to find 664 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 9: money from somewhere, and suddenly super Rugby is affected. One 665 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 9: of the most talked about sides in the competition is gone, 666 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 9: potentially because the money from the state that you didn't 667 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 9: even know was being funded into professional rugby in the 668 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 9: first place. The whole things are scandal. 669 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it is quite scandalous because no other team would 670 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 2: be getting money from the state. 671 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 9: Right well, well please don't say that, because we'll probably 672 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 9: find they are. And this against the backdrop of the 673 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 9: fact we have no money in the first place. So anyway, 674 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 9: this disint brilliant. Looking forward to it, Mike, have a 675 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 9: great morning everyone. 676 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 3: It's three to six you tomorrow Friday night. 677 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: Talking for more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen 678 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: live to News Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, 679 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.