There's hope the PM's trip to Japan could bring more investment opportunities to New Zealand.
Chris Luxon, a high-ranking business delegation, and travelling media left for Tokyo this morning on the Defence Force 757.
NZ Herald political editor Claire Trevett says the Prime Minister curated his the delegate list to what he's calling the A-team.
"He's taking the heads of Air New Zealand, the ANZ Chair, Rocket Lab, Fonterra, the Super Fund investment people, Xero, Zespri - all the big names."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talk ZEDB joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now we have got he sell and here Political editor
Clare Trevette.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's quite busy at the moment, isn't it. The Prime
Minister leaves for Japan today and he's been quite vocal
about this trip before he leaves.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, he's done his usual pre trip round of interviews.
He's off to Japan today and back at the end
of the week. He is predominantly the start of it
is predominantly a business trip. And because that Christopher Lutson
likes to pretend or not for tend, but likes to
talk up how everything he's doing is better than how
(00:50):
people will forded it. He's done the same with his
business delegation in his pre trip interviews where he's taking
their heads of their New Zealand, the A and Z chair,
Rocket Lab, Fronterra Sit, the Superfund, investment people, Zero Zestri,
all their big names, and he's claiming that his list
is the a list of the business delegation. And in
(01:12):
the past he's had concerns that the business delegations going
on the Prime Minister's trips have been quote b list.
I'm not sure that quite steps up. You usually have
a max actually of the big names and their boutique names.
But his primary aim, because he is quite a business
driven prime Minister, is to try and get investment, basically
(01:33):
investment in New Zealand, and he's taking the companies over
for basically to build on their investment message and cut
their deals that he wants them to cut and stuff
like that. So he's apparently told his officials that on
all of these trips he wants at least a two
hour lunch with the big investment funds. Someone remember just
and Radurn and New York met with Black Rock and
(01:54):
that bore fruits to New Zealand. They fronted up a
bit later with billions of dollars actually in facilities for
renewable energy projects and stuff. So he's off to that
and then at the end of the week he will
have his The political part of his delegation was meeting
with Japan's Prime Minister Formio Kasheda, who's actually i think
in Ukraine at the moment for the peace summit before
(02:16):
he goes back to Japan, and that will be where
he focuses more on the kind of relationship, the defense
and security relationship with Kasheda and building his own personal
relationships with them, which can come in handy it subsequent
massive international summits and stuff like that. So a bit
of a mix.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Clear you mentioned the Ukraine Peace Summit. Mirk Mitchell has
been sent to that. I'm presuming that the Prime Minister
or our foreign Minister or Minister of Defense hasn't gone
because they're unavailable.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I assume, so I'm actually one hundred percent well, I
mean Luxon of course said is Japan tripin. I think
Winston Peter's only got back yesterday the day before from
his Southeast Asia one. I think it was actually the
foreign Winston Peters, who are smart natural to go on it.
He's not necessarily a bad fit. I think that some
people would like to see a more senior minister there,
(03:10):
like the Defense or Foreign Affairs or the Prime Minister
at that summit. But in terms of picking, he picked
map Nature because of his own background. He has been
a defense minister in the past, but more socially he
was involved in his previous life and kind of logistics
in war zones around getting humanitarian aid and all that
(03:31):
kind of stuff, so, which is one of the focuses
of the Ukraine Summit. So because New Zealand's a small country,
it's basically Ukraine's attempt to try and get as many
international voices as they can behind their own hopes and
dreams for a peace plan in that war against Russia
and Ukraine. Russia wasn't invited, China has decided not to go,
(03:54):
and so they're kind of talking now, I think today
or later tonight when they meet, they'll be talking about
the logistics of humanitarian aid and all that kind of stuff.
Yesterday was more general talk and yeah, so Matt Matchell's there,
so it's kind of good to have. It's about nineteen
ninety countries going. So yeah, there was some some pressure
(04:18):
here from the Ukrainian community, quite understandably for New Zealand
to go. In New Zealand should be there. So he's
not necessarily the level of minister that people might have wanted,
but nonetheless a relatively appropriate one. So he was supposed
to ring me before I came on here, but he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So I'm sure you'll track him. I'm sure you'll track
him down throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Claire.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You're also at the Labor reginal conference today. You're going
to be covering Chris Hipkin's speech, which is going to
be around eleven fifteen am this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What are you expecting, Yes, the last of the regional
conferences before they go into the general conference. So this
is him talking to the troops while they sought out
what they want to talk about at the at the
main conference. He's come straight off the back of Your
Days where he issued yet another one of his long
(05:11):
trail of sorrows, admitting that Labor had kind of its
relationship with the primary sector had soured significantly and he
took some flax for that. He's done it before on
a number of issues around Labour's promises, around transport and
stuff like that, just the stuff that's he's kind of
in admitting their wrong stage of things before he moves
(05:33):
on to what they're going to do next time. Talking
to the party base is a lot different from talking
to your critics, so he will be hopefully kind of
more listening than talking. We're not exactly sure what he's
going to talk about and specific, but he is expected
to give a slightly different speech to that the one
he's delivered in the past. Before they go into that,
(05:54):
there's some talk about so the members will all be
sorting out what they want to pass and the form
of remits at the national conference. There's some talk from
the Auckland one that they want to be able to
do away with the lead. It is right to make
the so called captain's calls. Whether that one makes it
onto the floor will be interesting to see. That was
the process set to Sindra do news too. It's not
(06:16):
really a process, it's just a political reality means we
have to rule out doing this, ruling out the capital
gains text and stuff like that. So there'll be a
lot of talk about the kind of text. But it
is his home region, so he should have a fairly
a pretty friendly audience there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Thanks Claire, good to catch up with you.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin. Listen
live to News Talks there'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talk ZEDB joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Now we have got he sell and here Political editor
Clare Trevette.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's quite busy at the moment, isn't it. The Prime
Minister leaves for Japan today and he's been quite vocal
about this trip before he leaves.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, he's done his usual pre trip round of interviews.
He's off to Japan today and back at the end
of the week. He is predominantly the start of it
is predominantly a business trip. And because that Christopher Lutson
likes to pretend or not for tend, but likes to
talk up how everything he's doing is better than how
(00:50):
people will forded it. He's done the same with his
business delegation in his pre trip interviews where he's taking
their heads of their New Zealand, the A and Z chair,
Rocket Lab, Fronterra Sit, the Superfund, investment people, Zero Zestri,
all their big names, and he's claiming that his list
is the a list of the business delegation. And in
(01:12):
the past he's had concerns that the business delegations going
on the Prime Minister's trips have been quote b list.
I'm not sure that quite steps up. You usually have
a max actually of the big names and their boutique names.
But his primary aim, because he is quite a business
driven prime Minister, is to try and get investment, basically
(01:33):
investment in New Zealand, and he's taking the companies over
for basically to build on their investment message and cut
their deals that he wants them to cut and stuff
like that. So he's apparently told his officials that on
all of these trips he wants at least a two
hour lunch with the big investment funds. Someone remember just
and Radurn and New York met with Black Rock and
(01:54):
that bore fruits to New Zealand. They fronted up a
bit later with billions of dollars actually in facilities for
renewable energy projects and stuff. So he's off to that
and then at the end of the week he will
have his The political part of his delegation was meeting
with Japan's Prime Minister Formio Kasheda, who's actually i think
in Ukraine at the moment for the peace summit before
(02:16):
he goes back to Japan, and that will be where
he focuses more on the kind of relationship, the defense
and security relationship with Kasheda and building his own personal
relationships with them, which can come in handy it subsequent
massive international summits and stuff like that. So a bit
of a mix.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Clear you mentioned the Ukraine Peace Summit. Mirk Mitchell has
been sent to that. I'm presuming that the Prime Minister
or our foreign Minister or Minister of Defense hasn't gone
because they're unavailable.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I assume, so I'm actually one hundred percent well, I
mean Luxon of course said is Japan tripin. I think
Winston Peter's only got back yesterday the day before from
his Southeast Asia one. I think it was actually the
foreign Winston Peters, who are smart natural to go on it.
He's not necessarily a bad fit. I think that some
people would like to see a more senior minister there,
(03:10):
like the Defense or Foreign Affairs or the Prime Minister
at that summit. But in terms of picking, he picked
map Nature because of his own background. He has been
a defense minister in the past, but more socially he
was involved in his previous life and kind of logistics
in war zones around getting humanitarian aid and all that
(03:31):
kind of stuff, so, which is one of the focuses
of the Ukraine Summit. So because New Zealand's a small country,
it's basically Ukraine's attempt to try and get as many
international voices as they can behind their own hopes and
dreams for a peace plan in that war against Russia
and Ukraine. Russia wasn't invited, China has decided not to go,
(03:54):
and so they're kind of talking now, I think today
or later tonight when they meet, they'll be talking about
the logistics of humanitarian aid and all that kind of stuff.
Yesterday was more general talk and yeah, so Matt Matchell's there,
so it's kind of good to have. It's about nineteen
ninety countries going. So yeah, there was some some pressure
(04:18):
here from the Ukrainian community, quite understandably for New Zealand
to go. In New Zealand should be there. So he's
not necessarily the level of minister that people might have wanted,
but nonetheless a relatively appropriate one. So he was supposed
to ring me before I came on here, but he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So I'm sure you'll track him. I'm sure you'll track
him down throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Claire.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You're also at the Labor reginal conference today. You're going
to be covering Chris Hipkin's speech, which is going to
be around eleven fifteen am this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What are you expecting, Yes, the last of the regional
conferences before they go into the general conference. So this
is him talking to the troops while they sought out
what they want to talk about at the at the
main conference. He's come straight off the back of Your
Days where he issued yet another one of his long
(05:11):
trail of sorrows, admitting that Labor had kind of its
relationship with the primary sector had soured significantly and he
took some flax for that. He's done it before on
a number of issues around Labour's promises, around transport and
stuff like that, just the stuff that's he's kind of
in admitting their wrong stage of things before he moves
(05:33):
on to what they're going to do next time. Talking
to the party base is a lot different from talking
to your critics, so he will be hopefully kind of
more listening than talking. We're not exactly sure what he's
going to talk about and specific, but he is expected
to give a slightly different speech to that the one
he's delivered in the past. Before they go into that,
(05:54):
there's some talk about so the members will all be
sorting out what they want to pass and the form
of remits at the national conference. There's some talk from
the Auckland one that they want to be able to
do away with the lead. It is right to make
the so called captain's calls. Whether that one makes it
onto the floor will be interesting to see. That was
the process set to Sindra do news too. It's not
(06:16):
really a process, it's just a political reality means we
have to rule out doing this, ruling out the capital
gains text and stuff like that. So there'll be a
lot of talk about the kind of text. But it
is his home region, so he should have a fairly
a pretty friendly audience there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Thanks Claire, good to catch up with you.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin. Listen
live to News Talks there'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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