THE RE-WRAP: Money Makes the World Go Round

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Until it Kills It/This Story Is So Complicated, It Must Be Important/Two Sides of the Story/Australia Is a Weird Place/Fun for the Whole Family

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rerap.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday. All the
best but from the my casting breakfast on News Talks
eDV and A Silly A package I and Glen Hart
and today what is customary marine title? And why do
I have to care about it? Education stats? Maybe if
I was more education educated, i'd know how weird are

(00:47):
the Aussie unions and how weird is the notting Hill Festival.
But yes, let's actually we're speaking of Ossie. Let's compare
attitudes towards oil and gas here there, everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Here's the irony of ironies talking about oil and gas
across the tessment in Australia. There is quote unquote this
is what I'm reading just yesterday one of the fuel
giants in that particular part of the world web energy.
They own a Geelong oil refinery, they own Shell, they
owned Liberty petrol station chains. Anyway, they've got major Well,
let me explain growing recognition that time is running out

(01:23):
to stop crippling gas shortages heading homes and businesses as
it prepares to resubmit a bid for approval to start
importing liquefied gas into Geelong. Rapid declines from the giant
offshore gas fields and bas strait intensified warnings that supplies
the tightening in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and
Tasmania during winter and could be in deficit by twenty
twenty eight. Large volumes of Queensland production locked into long

(01:46):
term export contracts, Pipeline limitations restrict how much gas can
flow south on days of heavy demand, and gas from
Wa cannot be transported east. It was close to submitting
Fever resubmitting its environmental studies to extend a refinery peer
at Corrier Bay to park a vessel capable of receiving
LNG cargoes from other parts of Australia or overseas and

(02:07):
turn it back into vapor. So they've got a problem.
They've worked out the problem. They're trying to solve the problem. Meantime,
Old Dumpty Doo New Zealand has completely run out. Now
in relation to that, the LNG, the stuff that we're
looking at, I'm assuming we're looking to get it from Australia.
If we build the infrastructure, clear the regulatory hurdles and
get on with it. But you can see that they've
got problems. And if they've got problems and a lot

(02:28):
of their stuff is locked into long term contracts, we
might end up having problems getting access to it. So
that's a red flag. Remember where you heard it first.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, it's almost like it's not really a sustainable resource
and perhaps we should be trying to run things differently.
Too little, too late, Move on, Glenn, let it go.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Re wrap right.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Mike's become completely obsessed with this next story, and even
as I heard him talk about it, my head started
spinning around so fast it almost created its own gravitational feel.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Of course, it was never five percent, was it. It was
always spitballing what he was doing spitballing. Paul Goldsmith is
is the Treaty Minister. He's in a meeting with the
seafood people who are not happy about the lack have
been put into the government's foreshore plan to revert a
court ruling back to the original intent of the law
as it was passed in twenty eleven. Goldsmith, it was reported,
said customary title will drop to five percent. TV one

(03:19):
fell over themselves breathlessly reporting this as some sort of
scandal on Sunday. Come Monday, in the PM's post cabinet session,
they try and get more detail. The PM quite clearly
says the reason the government are doing what they're doing
is because the court is overreached and what the Government
of the day intended has been distorted. An amendment of
Section fifty eight is how they're going to address this.
The original law was simple, if you can prove you

(03:41):
had uninterrupted access to the foreshow since eighteen forty, you've
got a case. If you can't, you haven't. Groups who
didn't like the law or the government went to court.
The court, being activist, got overly involved and we ended
up where we are. All the government, as the PM was,
it pains to tell the assembled press wanted to do
was make the law the law. And why are because
they're the government and that's what governments do. As far

(04:01):
as I am aware as a consumer of the news,
that that wasn't reported by yesterday some media inite both
state funded fun we're still banging on about Goldsmith and
as five percent. The point they're missing, and I suspect
deliberately is courts don't make the law governments do. If
you want to mark Goldsmith down a bit, I mean
maybe he shouldn't free wheel with numbers given if you

(04:23):
apply just a little bit of brain power to it.
No one knows what the actual number by way of
a percentage will be when it comes to access. But
it wasn't a scandal, It wasn't a gotcha moment. It
was a passing comment in a meeting about the intent
of the government of the day and what they were
going to do to address what they see as an
activist court that had distorted intent around an increasingly fractious subject.

(04:43):
This would be another example I think of an activist
media taking the side of an activist court and trying
to drum up scandal around a government they don't like
on a law they like even less. And if you
apply logic and follow it as I have failing.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Like the sound of this activist media business. Am I
activist media? With my had the way I just continually
moan and drone on about now nobody else on the
station seems to care of about the environment or the
planet and just wants everybody to make money at all costs.
Does that make me an activist? Am Mine? The media.
Maybe so rewrap it. Mike wasn't done there with his

(05:20):
view of weird reporting, and this indeed does sound a
bit weird.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Tailor of two stories. So a little bit of reportage
just handed to me this morning from our very good
friends at the state funded Radio and New Zealand headline.
Low pass rates in new online NCEEA Literacy numeracy and
tests worry secondary teachers. So I go to the story.
This is the latest NCEEA literacy and numeracy tests. A
lot of people have failed. Most recent round of testing

(05:48):
was in May in maths four hundred and sixty eight
set the test. Thirty one hundred and ninety six failed,
or in other words, fifty four percent failed in reading.
This is the second part of the story. In reading,
fifty four percent of MARI students and sixty three percent
of Pacific students failed. In writing, fifty five and fifty
six percent failed. So I'm immediately looking for where are
all the rest of the people. And this is the

(06:09):
tale of the two stories. One the reportage on the
failure rates or pass rates if you like, of the
latest NCEEA literacy reading testing, and two the media's ongoing
fascination worth culture and race. So one I'm suggesting to
you is I'm immediately looking for all the other students
who don't happen to be Maria Pacific Island. Where are
their results? And there aren't any. You cannot see them
in the story. They have disappeared from the story because

(06:30):
they were never there. So what is this ongoing? So
in other words, the media's problem is they immediately hone
into the negative, hence low pass rates in new online
NCA literacy. So according to Radio New Zealand, all you
need to know about is how Mari have done and
how Pacific Island, fact how everyone else has done. It
is completely irrelevant because it's not in the story. So

(06:51):
I say to the appropriate people on this program, go
find me the real facts. So here are the real facts.
In reading, European sixty eight percent pass rate, Asian fifty
six percent, Mari forty six and Pacific Island thirty seven.
That's a complete picture. That's what you want? Is that
not what you want? Do you want the complete picture
or do you just want the Radio New Zealand version
which is just the cultural picture? In writing European sixty

(07:12):
two percent, Asian fifty three percent, Marray forty five, Pacific
forty four, numerously European fifty three, Asian fifty two, Marray
twenty nine, Pacific twenty three. Now, the interesting thing about
those numbers is this is the part that's open to interpretation.
At a pass rate of sixty eight percent, are you
going to yourself not bad or are you going jeez?
There's still a long way to go. That's up to

(07:32):
you to decide for yourself. But at least it gives
you a comprehensive picture. So if you want to write
a story about how Mari and Pacific are failing, fair enough,
if that's all you're interested in doing, or if you're
more interested in the whole picture, then maybe things are
starting to improve. This is the important part here. Maybe
things are starting to improve. The next testing is coming
in September, so it'll be fascinating to see if things

(07:53):
are improving. Some of the changes being made at the
moment in education are whether or not in the curriculum
and the testing, whether or not that's coming or bearing fruit.
So writing European pass rate of sixty two percent, is
that reasonable? You mean when I was at school, if
I got sixty two percent, I mean little ChIL of mirror,
I'll be happy Asian fifty three percent, So you've you've
got a race to based problem. I fully accept that,

(08:14):
but it's not the whole picture, and you need to
know the whole picture. So, in other words, what they
try and paint is a story of a failing education
system of people who, if they go to school, go
to fail, And when you look at the complete numbers,
doesn't appear to be as bad as they've made out.
Maybe things are on the improve. A pass rate to
my eye of sixty eight percent not bad, in writing

(08:37):
sixty two percent not bad. Numeracy is a problem, fifty
three percent your best number. That's not good, but maybe
not as bad as they make out. So once again,
the more you know, the better off you are.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah. Unfortunately, it's exactly this kind of story I find
so hard to follow or indeed listen to, or take
any notice of, because it's got something to do with school.
And as we've established pretty firmly on this podcast and
my other very successful news dooks have been forodcast, I
really hated school, hated it, didn't want to be there

(09:11):
every single second, and so I certainly never want to
think about it ever again, so rewrap. Now we go
back across the Tasman for more weird stuff, weird Australian stuff,
this time involving the unions. It's all come to a head.
And what a crazy head it is.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
What a weird old world. I'm watching mass protests in
Australia yesterday from unionists right. The CFMU has been put
into administration by the Australian government. There's a very big
controversial step for a couple of reasons. One governments don't
normally take over businesses unions or otherwise. And two laborers
and lockstep of course with the union movement and their
mates and bedfellows. A lot of people as a result

(09:52):
of lost their job. So if they go yesterday tools
down and the major cities, all the major cities protesting
about what's happened now the reason that's happened, if you
haven't followed the story, is the union or a bunch
of crooks. Basically, there have been extensive and gobsmacking reporting
by the Sydney Morning Herald and Channel nine and just
what this union's been up over the years in terms
of stand ab a tactics and bribery. In essence, you

(10:12):
don't get anything done unless you pay them, hire them
and do as you're told. This, when uncovered with such
graphic and incontrovertible proof, got exceedingly embarrassing for the government.
Given it's not like everyone didn't know this was going
on anyway, It's just they didn't want to do anything
about it until of course they had to because they
didn't they were all going down together. But ask yourself this,
how is it that you work for crocs? How is

(10:34):
it you know you belong to a group that's involved
in skulduggerish behavior and you're happy to pay your SUPs
to them each and every year, and then when tipped
into administration because of the jig's up, you then go
and down tools and launch protest to protest what your
love of dodgy behavior. It seems Australia knows it's dodgy,
accepts it's dodgy, wants to belong to dodgy groups, and

(10:56):
get upset when the dodginess is exposed. How mad is that?
How do you explain that what's gone so spectacularly wrong
for that to be seen as normal? But there it
was on the main streets of every Australian city yesterday
the defense of crooked business practice. Go figure, you.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Do think that Australia, just when they've got a bit
of momentum, they do tend to hold themselves back with
the whole union stuff sometimes, don't they. I guess that's
what it looks like from here anyway, the rewrap. What
do we know? Mind you? It could be worst. It
could be Britain right.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Notting Hill Carnival has just wrapped up. They had a
long weekend in Britain. I know this because our son
lives on the route to the notting Hill Carnibal and
a lot of stuff gets boarded up in that particular
part of the world because it's a family day and
family days in Britain are really cool. That's where they
roll out lots of police and they bought up the
shops because things get slightly out of control on family days.
Fourth person's been stabbed this year? What can I tell

(11:52):
you about? The arrest Sixteen people held for assaulting emergency workers,
for for sexual offenses, one for a firearm. Good family
day out. Thousands of officers deployed seize forty one weapons.
One of the people arrested was a man wanted for
attempted murder. Mett Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Aide Lakin said

(12:12):
the Cannibal was supposed to be a family day but
was marred by unacceptable bars.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
It sounds like there was quite a range of activities
and it would have been fun for the entire family.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Cool place Britain.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yes, it's no different to their extreme extreme tourism suggestion
that I made a few months back with Queen Street.
You know we should be marketing Queen Street after dark
as you know, a real that's one for the thrill seekers.
You know, it's our guess. You could say the same
about the notting Hill Festival as well. I am Glen Hart.

(12:43):
We'll be there for another thrilling episode of the re
Wrap tomorrow. Else mitcha here event.

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