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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
Seven after six Monday the twenty seventh is January. Great
to have your company coming up? Why no warning for
that tornado over the weekend? Peter had done on the
treaty Billets all kicking off at Parliament today, Senner takes
all at the Aussie Open. We've got reaction. Richard Arnold
in the US and Steve Price in Australia and bread
Brich Russia. How is Russia's economy still holding up? In fact,

(00:35):
not just holding up. Russia's economy in some ways is thriving.
It grew faster last year than the United States, faster
than all European countries, certainly faster than US, so that's
not hard. Unemployment there is at a record low. And
this is despite all the sanctions, all the threats, all
the tariffs, all the ostracizing and the excommunicating and tough

(00:57):
talk from the West over Ukraine. Russia's economy has basically
defied expectations. Does that not tell you that there's something
a bit buggered with the way that we punish rogue
states like that. Buggered as in, it doesn't work. Russia
started this war in twenty twenty two, it is twenty
twenty five. Shouldn't they be a little more wounded economically

(01:20):
than they are right now? Europe still gets for all
the blusters, still gets twenty percent of its gas from Russia.
On oil, China and India have swooped in to take
it off Russia's hands. Even the Europeans are still buying
Russian oil by just doing it secondhand through India, where
it's all been refined. This is despite the EU price

(01:40):
Camp that was designed to prevent this exact thing from happening.
If Russia can invade a sovereign country, grow its economy
more than ours, and carry on as if nothing's happened,
surely that's an indictment on the system itself, right If
China tried to do something like this, do we expect
that the system would be able to contain them. The
problem here, of course, is globalization and the fact that

(02:02):
we're also interconnected. We rely on each other for raw materials,
for goods and services, and that's to make our own fortunes,
and no matter how much we say we're against something
like war, we're only really against it to a point,
and that point is keeping the lights on or the
car running inside our own borders. To be fair, Moscow
does have some big problems coming. As Trump has been

(02:24):
saying over the last week. We've been reporting on that.
Inflation is high, interest rates just hit twenty one percent.
You thought we had it bad, twenty one percent. They've
got labor shortages, there's signs of a credit bubble looming,
and the fact is that a lot of that growth
is being jacked up by defense spending. So Putin may
need to make a deal and come to the table

(02:45):
sooner rather than later. But how much of that is
to do with the West's sanctions is debatable.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
News of the World in ninety seconds u.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
N kicking off an emergency meeting. It's all to do
with the Congo. They've got cut diplomatic ties with Rwanda
amidst the latest violence.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's very difficult to get footage from the outskirts of Goma,
but the frenzy that we're seeing here in the center
of Goma does indicate that people are acting on that
intel they feel that this is a full on invasion
in an all out war from Miranda.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Good news from Gaza. The ceasefiers holding Israel now thinks
Phase two will go ahead. There is a clear potential
of getting to the second phase.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
There is a desire.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
To get to the second phase.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
We meant it when we signed the agreement.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
In the US and u CII director outlining what Trump
wants out of his security agencies.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
We have China, Russia, North Korea and Iran cooperating in
a way that we've never seen before. So we have
difficult circumstances, great responsibility, and you know President Trump has
challenged me and the rest of his incoming cabinet to
do better.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
In the UK, Rachel Reaves, the Chancellor who does the
media rounds on a Sunday, thinks the Southport murders may
not havepened if the killer was on a potential tyr.

Speaker 7 (04:02):
List because they didn't think that the killer had an
ideology that therefore he wasn't at risk in the same
way that somebody who might have an ideological motive.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Night and a former Chief Crown Prosecutor, wants the TIRA
laws to go further.

Speaker 8 (04:19):
Thweat has changed there are now people in our communities
in this country globally who are motivated not by those things,
and very often they're motivated actually by misogyny.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Voting is underway in Belarus. Surprise, surprise, it'll be a
clean sweep for Lukashinko, considering his political allies have either
fled the country or been put in prison.

Speaker 9 (04:40):
Unlike most elections, we don't need to wait until the
polls closed to find out the result. The incumbent, Alexander Lukashenka,
a man often described as Europe's last dictator, will win
a seventh term and extend his thirty one years in power.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Finally, keen Anthropiles and Brooklyn, that is, those who love
so they're all flocking to the Brooklyn Botanic Flowers to
get a whip of the worst thing that they've ever smelled.
It's called the a Morpha Fellas. They're more for Fallaus
Gigas is a rare plant that arrived from Sumatra in

(05:18):
twenty eighteen. However, it's only bloomed for the first time
over the weekend, and so people wanted to get photos
of this big flower and smell. Why it's a relative
to the corpse flower that's the one we spoke about
on Friday in Sydney where everybody's been going. The reason
is because it has an infamously bad smell. Flower lovers
have described it as smelling like rotting flesh. Quite why

(05:40):
you would want to go and smell rotting fresh flesh
and Brooklyn, I'm not entirely sure.

Speaker 10 (05:45):
Also, how many people who are into flowers has smelt
rotting flesh to make that comparison.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, they obviously all of it. Something psychopathic going on.
There isn't there anthropiles. I didn't know that was a
lover of flowers. There we go. You learn something every mon.
It is twelve after six Business Next.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
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Speaker 3 (06:10):
It is quarter past six News TALKSB. Hi Ryan. This
is a text from one of our listeners. My wife
is currently in Russia. She reckons Russia's going great, not
phased by the ongoing sanctions that don't seem to be
having much of an effect on their industry. Interesting. Also,
we were talking about Belarus and this is my home
means comparable to Belarus, but Slovakia over the week in

(06:31):
big protests they're about how close they're getting to Russia.
Their Prime minister apparently took a secret trip to go
and see Putin at the Kremlin in December, which they're
not happy about. And Slovakia, unlike Belarus obviously is part
of NATO, Slovakia is part of the EU. And then
you've got the leader going and having at a little
mandate with Putin. Sixteen after six it is Monday morning.

(06:56):
Dregsmith here devon Funds Management, Greg, Good morning morning, you ride.
The PMI is a bit of a mixed bag. Stand
out the US.

Speaker 11 (07:03):
Yeah, absolutely, this is manufacturing and services activity globally, so
we've seen a number of prints here. So EU US
is going pretty well. That will will be pleasing to Trump.
The manufacturing sector that's no longer going backwards. Services sector
at nine months low, but still an expansion territory. So yeah,
optimism is pretty high in the US. You know, the
Trump appears to be wide ranging. If you look at

(07:24):
the joint services and manufacturing outlock, it's actually the highest
since May twenty twenty two. So yeah, US based businesses
have got a positive view of things. A little bit
of a different story in Europe. This is activity did
get back to grow for the first time in five months.
But yeah, bit of a mixed bag. Germany doing well,
France less so the factory sector still in contraction mode

(07:45):
but a little bit less than it was in the UK.
Things in positive territory, but again just obviously concerns over
the budgets still and a bit of a case of
the manufacturing sector remaining contraction in the services sector expanding more.

Speaker 12 (07:58):
So.

Speaker 11 (07:58):
It's a bit of a theme outside of the US
generally Japanese factory activity that contracted a bit more, services
did a bit better than expected. This has given the
central making a bit more wiggor into raised rates that
they did so on Friday, increased rates to zero point
five percent, but that's the highest in seventy years. China
is still a picture of weakness, particular in the manufacturing sectors.

(08:19):
That's a little bit of odds of some of the
positive data that I've seen lately on those stimulus impacts.
And looking across the Tasman the factory PM in Australia
contracted lease in January and in fact it's barely contracting
at all now. Services sector expanded at a slower pace,
and then we all compare this to a least positive situation.

(08:39):
Of course, New Zealand we talked about that last week.
Manufacturing sector year in contraction for twenty two consecutive amonths.
Services sector is a bit of a standout amongst their partners,
but in a bad way, and that it's still going
backwards for ten months now. So let's get those rate
cats going.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
On I'm speaking my language berbery. Their demand is up
for their goods and their share price has jumped as well.
Obviously the husk has been busy on his holiday clearly
has been.

Speaker 11 (09:04):
Yes, she's a ten percent there on Friday year back
back in vogue. It's had a bit of a checkered
time of it over the last year or so. But
sales in three months to decend but they declined four percent,
but they had forecast to a decline of twelve percent,
so that was a lot better than expected. The festive
shopping period went pretty well, and again I suppose, consistent
with some of the avadad and just talked about sales

(09:26):
ticked up in America.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
America.

Speaker 11 (09:29):
This is a bit of a resurgency here across the
luxury goods set down. As a view that you know
Trump's initials will keep that spending go. I mean, when
we look at Bary in particular, it's had four CEOs
of the past decade, literally been around for in the
nearly one hundred and seventy years, so they've got another
CEO having a crack at trying to reinvigorate things. I mean,
of course, very much an iconic brand, but it did

(09:50):
get dealt a bit of a blow to its image
as the working class sort of got into the check
and stuff in nineties and two thousands. But they're looking
to appeal to wider market. Seams, are lowering pricing, they're
focusing on promoting quality in the heritage.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Of its products. So we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 11 (10:05):
But generally the actually a good sector. RYND appears to
be turning around here Cartiown and Richmond also have the
highest quarterly sales ever, so yeah, things are turning around
a bit.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Interesting back home, things looking up for the red meat sector. Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 11 (10:19):
So yeah, we know that pricing is going pretty well
in the dairy sector, but it's also looking up for
red meats. This is Rubbobanks twenty twenty five Global Animal
Protein Outlook, and it's just talked about pricing picking up
on a lot of production. Smaller herds sees beef production
declining six percent, and twenty twenty five points out that
beef was a money maker for New Zealand red meat

(10:40):
exports last year. Farm gate returns climb to twenty percent
above five yearverages. It's on tractor remain there this year.
There's some mostual drivers here to production in the US
that's contracting, also slowing the likes of Brazil and Chinas.
That's good news for our red meat farmer is going
to help them.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
On a little bit of a different story.

Speaker 11 (10:58):
For sheep, meat returns were down seven percent last year
despite volumes being up. Prices at are cyclical low. In fact,
there are as much as twenty percent below five averages.
But yeah, good news here as well. Ryan pricing has
improved recently, and we've also got higher volumes going to
markets outside of China, particularly the US, Europe and the UK.

(11:18):
And also we've got declining cheap numbers as well, so
that's sort of flying through to pricing. They also point
out that animal production animal protein production overall this year
set to grow, driven by poultry also a bit of
a rebound in seafood, and he guess a week of
Kiwi dollar is also good news for our exporters. The
wild card and all this. You know, what does Trump
do and what have had a protections measures play out? Well,

(11:40):
I guess we have to wait and see there.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, we'll take the good news for now, though, won't we.
Let's take a look at the numbers green.

Speaker 11 (11:45):
Yeah, so the use markets paused on Friday in terms
of the rally, but you had a good week back
to back weekly gains. So downdown point three percent, forty
four four to two four s and P five hundred
also down point three percent. Now's that down half percent?
Foot Sea down points seven percent percent, The nick A
was down point one percent in Japan, the ASEX two
hundred was down point four percent. Across the Tasman INSX

(12:07):
fifty we were down point three percent thirteen zero two four.
Notable Movie was similarly it was up nineteen percent. Back
to profitability, it seems. And the commodities market's goal is
up fifteen dollars twenty seven hundred and seventy and ounce
oil flat seventy four spots sixty six a barrel. Just
in the currency market, it's the key. We was up
against the US fifty seven point one, also up against

(12:27):
Ozzie ninety point four, and against stealing. We're down half
percent forty five point seven. This week, plenty going on.
We've got trade data, business consume conference reads. It's naturally.
We've got OS inflation, US inflation, European g GDP. We've
got the ECB rate decision. Of course, we've got the
FED meeting as well, and you look at earnings. Lots
going on in big tech thereon. We've got numbers from Microsoft, Meta,

(12:49):
Tesla and Apple.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
All the big ones. Thanks so much, Greg, Greg Smith,
Devins Funds Management. Just gone twenty two minutes after six.
Coming up, I'll tell you what the CIA reckons about
the COVID outbreak and where it came from.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
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Speaker 3 (13:07):
Twenty five after six. All kicks off at Parliament today.
This is the Treaty Principal's Bill. It's going before the
Select Committee and the public will have their say. It
is oral submissions. Guests who submitted Number one is going
to be David Seymour. Yeah, the guy who came up
with the whole thing. He's the first one to submit,
So we'll talk to Peter Dunn about that.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
After seven trending.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Now we're chemist wells keeping Kiwi's healthy all year round.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It was way back in nineteen ninety nine that Tony Hawk,
you know, the skateboarder, put himself into legend status when
he pulled off the first ever nine hundred wat's a
nine hundred two and a half spins on a skateboard
on the half pipe. And people credit that moment with
changing the X Games and its history. Since then, athletes
and all X game sports have been pushing themselves. They've

(13:53):
created big air and big ramp competitions to all our
athletes to go higher and to spin more. And that's
exactly what happened over the weekend, from Tony Hawk's nine
hundred and nineteen ninety nine to the first ever two
to three point forty in any sport.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Take off three here, how was it twenty three forty?

Speaker 10 (14:15):
That was six and a half full times round?

Speaker 1 (14:20):
How do you?

Speaker 13 (14:21):
How do you create.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
History and then go up there and do it again?
How do you do that?

Speaker 14 (14:25):
Brando's ninety seven point three.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Three very exciting that was the X Games and Aspen
over the weekend and New Zealand's Rucker Jamison actually got
the bronze medal in that event. Lots of history being made,
pretty impressive stuff. Twenty six minutes after six, I struggled
just to go in a straight line down the mountain,
Skiz personally on the skis.

Speaker 10 (14:47):
I've gone on straight line down the mountain often my skis.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Let alone on a board. I find that very difficult
to twenty seven after six News talks.

Speaker 15 (14:55):
Have been.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Setting the agenda and talking the big issues.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Ryan Bridge on the mic Hosking Breakfast with al Vida
Retirement Communities, Life Your Way news talk said.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Good morning, twenty four away from seven. Micha will be
back with you tomorrow. Today's public holiday in Auckland. For
those of you around the rest of the country. The
Danes are pulling their hair out this morning in Copenhagen.
They're having full meltdown. They had a call. This is
the Danish Prime Minister, met Friedrichson. She had a call
with Trump, had him on the blower over the weekend
and apparently didn't go very well at all. She's a

(15:40):
social Democrat, so she's you know, the other side of
politics to Trump. Can you just imagine how that call went.
He rings and says I'm buying Greenland. Now she says
no or actually no in Denmark and Danish's NG, so
it would have gone yes ng yes, ng yes NG
back if they go. The Financial Times reporting that, according

(16:02):
to five current and formulat former senior European officials have
been briefed on the call, the conversation was quote horrendous.
One person said he was very firm. It was a
cold shower before. It was hard to take it seriously,
but I do think it is serious and potentially very dangerous.
Another person briefed on the call said the intent was
very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in

(16:22):
crisis mode. The Danes are utterly freaked out by this.

Speaker 16 (16:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (16:26):
I don't know about you, though, Ryan, I don't really
like talking on the phone.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
If you're a prime minister or president sort of a prerequisite,
isn't it. You can't always be faced?

Speaker 10 (16:36):
Is that why I'm not a prime minister or a president?

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Potentially, and for a radio guy, surely you'd spent a
lot of time on the phone. Glenn. Anyway, the reason
he wants Greenland is Greenland, by the way, is a
bit like Scotland. It's an autonomous region, but it's politics,
it's foreign affairs, et cetera. All run out of Denmark,
out of Copenhagen, a lot of oil, lot of gas lord,

(17:00):
a lot of raw minerals, a lot of raw minerals
for green tech as well. Which actually, the more I
talk about that, the more I think it actually sounds
a little bit like New Zealand, just that we don't
get the minerals out of the ground. Maybe Trump will
want to buy us. Maybe we should put a full
sale sign on our country twenty two away from seven.
It's the gust of living, right, Yes, it is the

(17:22):
cost of living. Dairy becoming more expensive for consumers. This
as the global dairy trade auction increase the last week
one point four percent. The whole milk powder was up
five percent. We told you about that. Farmer payouts are
expected to be up massively. As it stands, a three
liter bottle of milk will cost you and I at
the supermarket almost seven dollars, butter and yoga at ten bucks.

(17:44):
Why other prices continue to trend up? Brad Olson Informetrics
principal economists. Good morning, Brad, Good morning. What do you
reckon about selling New Zealand.

Speaker 17 (17:53):
Well, I think there's two parts going on to this.
You've got both supply and demand, which is of course
the classic economist response. On the supply side, you look
around the world and the likes of the US and
the Europeans aren't producing quite as much milk, certainly not
as much as they might have been expecting or hoping for,
so there's less going into the production cycle. But at

(18:13):
the same time, on the demand side, there's still quite
a bit of demand out there. People are wanting to
buy this stuff, and in particular, I mean it's across
the entire dairy chain, but you look particularly at some
of the sort of fattier options, your butters and the
lake quite a bit more demands to those over time.

Speaker 18 (18:31):
Even China, which hadn't.

Speaker 17 (18:32):
Been all of that strong of a buyer through parts
of last year, have been coming back a bit more recently,
and so all of a sudden you've got this position
globally where everyone wants more dairy is not necessarily a
huge amount more dairy, and that's pushing prices.

Speaker 18 (18:46):
Up now for New Zealand, farmers.

Speaker 17 (18:49):
That's actually sort of the best position that we can
find ourselves in at the moment, because our dairy production
is up one point three percent over the last twelve months,
so we've got more product we can start to send
the way.

Speaker 18 (19:01):
We've got a lower exchange.

Speaker 17 (19:03):
Rate, which means that effectively we're able to make a
bit more money as we go forward. All of that
means that payouts delivering. I think it's close to three
point four three point five billion dollars more than last
season's payouts over the year head. I mean, that's good
for producers, it's good for farmers. But at the flip side,
the double edged sword here is that, as you've been highlighting,

(19:24):
consumers are wearing that as well.

Speaker 18 (19:26):
So it's a tricky balance here.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, we just pay the world price, don't we. I mean,
we don't get special treatment here in New Zealand, and
nor should we.

Speaker 18 (19:34):
Well, it's difficult. I mean, if we did get special treatment,
you'd be.

Speaker 17 (19:37):
Saying to farmers, please leave some pretty seriously good money
on the table and sell it for cheap in New Zealand.
I mean, you're not going to double exports like that.
So but I think as well, what you do generally
see is that there's different types of products that go
into different types of markets. But yeah, the New Zealand
price is tasted to a degree by that international price,

(19:58):
making sure there's not too much much of a big
gap that starts to come through, because if there did
start to be that big gap, that's where you start
to see effectively New Zealand give up some of those
international gains.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
There was a lot of talk about this at the weekend,
but other number is actually that bad. So one kilo
block of mild cheddar was up from ten dollars twelve
to This was December twenty twenty three versus December twenty
twenty four. So cheddar from ten dollars twelve to eleven
dollars and one cent butter from four dollars forty eight

(20:29):
to six dollars sixty six, and yoga a six pack
of yogat from seven dollars sixty nine to seven dollars
seventy four. I mean is that is that is, you know,
when you consider the price of everything else that went.

Speaker 17 (20:42):
Up well, and that's so I think the important comparison.

Speaker 18 (20:46):
You're right that in general, for.

Speaker 17 (20:48):
Most products in the dairy space, they haven't increased over
the sort of a longer period of time as much
as inflation more generally has pitched up. Now that's of
course cold comfort when people are going, Yeah, but I'm
still paying more for my bottle of milk, my butter,
my cheese, and everything else. And of course there's a
lot of variation.

Speaker 18 (21:06):
In those prices.

Speaker 17 (21:06):
You'll get some brands that cost more or less, You'll
get different parts of the country with different prices. So
I think, you know, for households, it still doesn't I mean,
even if you make a good economic explanation, it doesn't
make going and doing your shopping any easier. But I
think here there are you know, clear global competition pieces
that have come through, and looking through some of those prices,

(21:27):
it seems clear that you should shop around.

Speaker 18 (21:29):
A bit if you're able to.

Speaker 17 (21:31):
If you're doing a huge amount of baking and you
need a whole lot of butter all at once, you know,
it is probably worth checking out when the deals are
coming through rather than just buying whatever's first there, because
there are there is quite a bit of variation.

Speaker 18 (21:42):
Around the traps.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, good on your Brad brad Elson informtric's principal economists.
Thanks so much for your time this morning, seventeen minutes
away from seven News Talk, said B. We'll get to
Richard Arnold in the US.

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Speaker 3 (21:58):
Talks B News Talks d be fourteen minutes away from
seven the I'm surprised a number of people who are
texting and saying, morning Ryan. Maybe we should get preferential
treatment from the farmers when it comes to dairy, Ryan,
shouldn't we get special treatment because it's our country and
we're working to produce the dairy products that have been
sold overseas. We of course pay the international price because

(22:20):
we are a country of traders. We sell our commodity overseas.
If we were to offer a domestic price, we would
essentially be cutting into the profits of all of our
dairy companies, shaving their profits. That would make us less productive.
It would make us less competitive overseas, which undermines the
point of us selling there in the first place. I
would have thought fourteen.

Speaker 19 (22:40):
To seven International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace
of mind for New Zealand business.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Richard Arnold in the US with us this morning, Richard,
good morning, and good morning Ryan. Trump's first week down
California may become independent.

Speaker 20 (22:57):
This is a proposal of what it's been a furious
to Trump two point zero with no end to the
presidential orders and presidential proposals, anything that comes out of
the man's mind, I guess, and that is leading to
much the same political divisions that feature during the election.
California Secretary of State has just approved yes, an effort
to gather signatures for a vote in twenty twenty eight

(23:18):
on whether the state should leave the US and become
an independent country. So what is it? Greenland, inn California
out Both Extremely unlikely, I would have to say, but
it shows the ongoing divisions. There was just a poll
done in swing states and one Republican voter in Ohio says,
quote Trump is being bold and thinking big, while a
Democrat in Wisconsin says, quote, the man is unhinged. Some

(23:40):
of the initial Trump moves have even his own party
reps squirming a little bit. Leading among them are those
pardons for the fifteen hundred from the January the six riots,
including some of those who beat the police. One of
those riot planners, the boss of the Oathkeepers group. Stuart
Rhodes was in prison for eighteen years for seditious conspiracy
when he was freed by Trump with all the others.

(24:02):
He says he was convicted only on a show trial.
He's still barred by the courts from going anywhere near
the US capital, but he turned up last night in
Las Vegas at a Trump rally, leading Republican Senator Lindsay
Graham to say this, I don't.

Speaker 12 (24:15):
Think there's a restriction on him being there.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't like this. He says.

Speaker 20 (24:19):
He thinks Trump pardoning violent January the sixth defendants was
a mistake. Another small presidential order that has drawn I
guess little attention in the rush of scenes is that
Trump ordered to remove a diversity program in the military
here where recruits would be shown videos of military history,
including female pilots and African American pilots in the Air Force.
So no videos to be shown of the Tuskegee em

(24:41):
And now these were the famed Black aviators four hundred
and fifty African American pilots who fought in World War
Two in segregated units, and their combat successes at the
time led Truman back in nineteen forty eight. We're talking
to serve equally in the American military. Now that story
is not to be told. No videos in basic training
now of Black Malie history. I mean, seriously, folks. President

(25:02):
Trump now says he wants to quote clean out Gaza
as well, that is, removed Palestinians from the area, and
I guess seed the territory to Israel with Jordan and
Egypt taking the Palestinians. There is no indication zip that
Egypt and Jordan would ever endorse such a thing. In fact,
history suggests the exact opposite. Senator Graham says he doesn't
know what Trump is talking about with that. Meantime, Trump

(25:24):
has ended the Biden ban on two thousand pound US
bunker busting bombs to Israel. Most of the weapons Israel
has used in that catastrophic fighting were American made, but
Biden drew a line on those most powerful bombs, and
now President Trump is allowing them in again. The confirmation
hearings for the Trump Cabinet will continue this week after
Peter Hegsath Pete Heigsath scraped in as Defense Secretary despite

(25:48):
having no experience of leading any large organization and having
his history as we know rellegid sexual and alcohol abuse,
including stories about him having on one occasion three Gin
and Tonics for breakfas.

Speaker 16 (26:00):
But there you go.

Speaker 20 (26:01):
Chelsey Gabbard has her nomination hearing coming up soon. She
met with Syria's assade before Syrian people finally dumped the dictator,
and she's voiced pro Russian sentiments on foreign policy, which
have raised doubts about her being chosen as National Intelligence Director.
So we'll see on that. President Trump is returning from
his California trip, where he said there would be federal

(26:21):
support for fire recovery with the natural disasters that the
state has seen, but he said this would all be
contingent on California putting in a voter id system. Now
that's been pressed by some Republican politicos who think it
would increase the Republican Party vote. So that's the backdrop
to the California independence idea, with some Dems saying if
the federal government wants to tie political strings to disaster aid,

(26:45):
maybe California could go it alone since California provides so
much of the tax money that the federal government deals.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
With goodness in massive day for NFL conference, championship day
to day.

Speaker 20 (26:55):
Yeah, it's going to be huge in football. The final
playoffs before the Super Bowl in a couple of weeks.
The Caner City Chiefs are looking for a three peter
third successive Super Bowl. They're matched against the Buffalo Bills,
Go Bills. Well, the Washington Commanders, where they're amazing. Rookie
quarterback Jade and Daniels are hoping to create some history
with him being becoming the first rookie QB to make

(27:15):
the Super Bowl. Some of the Commanders have taken over
a Philly Hard Rock Cafes Philadelphia weather game's being played
today as the Eagles have been chanting for their team. Yeah, well,
at least they did better than their own city's mayor,
Cherrell Parker, who tried to do this chat for.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Supporters the other day.

Speaker 20 (27:41):
Oh let's go bird, You get that elgk Es.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
I don't know what kind of birds you was thinking of.
Brilliant Richard, Thank you for that. Richard Arnold, US correspondent
with us this morning, just gone eight away from seven
on your Monday morning. Coming up next, Boeing. We just
spoke about them a lot last year and they've released
their report. There what am I talking about. They've released
their financial report for the year. We'll have the numbers

(28:12):
for you next.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Even Bryan Bridge on the Mic Hosking Breakfast with a
Vida Retirement Communities News Talks had b.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Yes, News Talks WD been great to have you at
five to seven. Where did COVID come from? And how
on earth do we not know where it came from?

Speaker 16 (28:26):
Yet?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Don't you find that strange? We can find the origin
of black holes out in the universe, but not know
where COVID came from, despite all the scientists in the
world looking for it. The CIA over the weekend has
said that they think, although they're not one hundred percent certain,
they think it's most likely it was a lab leak,
rather than from some bat in a Wuhan animal market.

(28:48):
It was more of a lab leak, though they're not
very certain. I just think find it strange that we
still don't really know. You know, we've got every scientist
in the world looking for the answer.

Speaker 10 (28:56):
Do we know where all the other diseases came from?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Though, monkeys, all sorts of animals, I mean, sometimes from
a lab. But this one, this one the one that
matters most. We have no idea really do we It
is four to seven, all.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
The ins and the ouse.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
It's the fizz with business favor take your business productivity
to the next level.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
New year, Same old problems for Boeing. First off, they've
said that they are most likely because all the companies
are doing their quarterfall results at the moment and their
expectations for the year ahead, et cetera. Boeing says that
they've likely lost about seven billion New Zealand dollars. This
is for the fourth quarter alone. They expect revenue to
be twenty six billion New Zealand dollars, which is well

(29:40):
down on the analyst expectations, and they've managed to burn
through more than six billion dollars in cash reserves. What
does it all mean, Well, the biggest plane manufacturing company
in the world will again not post a profit. They
haven't done so since twenty eighteen. They currently have negative
operating margins forty four percent. And that tells you how

(30:00):
much room for era they've got. I e. Not much.
They'll be hoping for no more strikes, having solved the
major one in late November last year.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
The Breakfast show Kiwi's trust to stay in the know.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Bryan Bridge on the mic asking breakfast with the range Rover,
the LA designed to intrigue and use.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Togs d B seven past seven, Good morning, Welcome to
your Monday. Big cleanup happening in Munga Fire this after
the what they think was a tornado ripped through Sunday
morning about three o'clock. Two people seriously injured. Around fifty
homes and buildings damaged. We party Henwod's Fire and Emergency
Northern District Manager, Good morning, Good morning. Any damage overnight,

(30:47):
any rain to existing damage.

Speaker 12 (30:49):
Yeah, a couple of showers overnight, but I think I
don't think it worsens anything much. You know, for the
current state of some of those properties.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
How did that woman get sucked out of her home?
It was an incredible story.

Speaker 21 (31:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (31:07):
I mean I wasn't there at the time, but obviously
our crews when they arrived there, you know, she had
some considerable injuries. So I don't disagree with what happened.
And if you looked at the house, you know it's
been totally devastated. So if it was a tornado, then
you know, I'm not disagreeing. But yeah, there was carnage

(31:31):
on her property and the neighboring properties did you.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Guys expect the tornado? Were you expecting bad weather? I've
had a look at the met Service reports and there
was nothing mentioning, you know, severe thunderstorms from what I
could see.

Speaker 12 (31:45):
Yeah, no, I mean we will always monitor the weather.
And I suppose that's the one fickle thing about thunderstorms,
you know, you can never determine the location or the
in intensity. Yeah, it was out of the ordinary and
definitely cooked this part of the community.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Did you have enough staff.

Speaker 12 (32:05):
On so initially when now, when we started getting the call,
so you know, shortly after three o'clock in the morning,
it wasn't how many staff it was getting staff to
the to the residents. So for an example, mung A
fire station got the first call. The chief of us

(32:29):
was deming there waiting for his people are tune up
and they couldn't get there. And so our common in
realized that straightaway he started sending appliances from all other
locations from around the district to help respond so they
could actually gain access, so from kaiwaker monitor to walk

(32:49):
work in hs but to try and to try different
alternate routes and so yeah, it was it took a
long time to actually get to get anywhere. For some
of the residents BIP i'd have said to get out
of their trucks and walk just because of the you know,
the damage it was left by the wake of the

(33:09):
tornado going through, trees down and power lines.

Speaker 22 (33:12):
All over the place.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Speaking of power lines, what do you know about people
cutting the cutting the power lines on their own driveways?

Speaker 12 (33:19):
Look what we I had to drive yourself, I mean
I didn't. That wasn't obvious to me. You know north
power where there were going in the Yesiday afternoon. So
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but there was you know,
it was all I can tell you. There were power
lines everywhere.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Sounds like it we party, thank you for that. We Party.
Henwould fire an emergency Northland. It is ten outer seven.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Ryan Bridge, Big Dame.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Parliament back in business today. The first question time won't
be to tomorrow, but top of the agenda is oral
submissions on the Treaty Principals Bill. It is the start
of a full week process. David Seymour is kicking things
off the set this morning. Peter Done as the political
commentator with us from a Leader of the United Future
pet Good morning, But what Ryan so are we expecting

(34:07):
fireworks today? What's going to happen?

Speaker 21 (34:09):
Oh, look, I think from the likely list of submitters,
it's going to be pretty predictable the positions that they'll take.
I think the question that's going to sort of dog
this whole process will be just how it is handled,
because there will be strong views expressed, and just how
the committee deals with those as it works through the process.
Over the next few weeks.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
We've got today Tea mocks in there, Andrew Little Hobson's pledged,
David seam or Dennis O'Reilly form a Black Power member.
Do they have they've got ten minutes to talk? Is
there then time for questions?

Speaker 21 (34:39):
Well, ideally there should be, but the timetable left sets
pretty tough signs expecting there's probably only going to be
about fifteen to twenty minutes per submission, which means the
ten minutes to talk and maybe only ten five ten
minutes for questions. If I was a witness and being smart,
I think I've limited my verbal presentation to about five
minutes for our more time for questioning. But it's going

(35:00):
to be a very tight process all the way through.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Who's allowed in the room to watch.

Speaker 21 (35:06):
Well, as I understand that it's being held in public.
All select committees normally meet in public, so basically whoever
can fit will be allowed in the room. Now, that
could be interesting what tends to happen in these things
as groups of supporters arrive for particular submissions and then
depart once those have been heard. But there could be
some people who want to stay the entire distance, and

(35:27):
I think there'll just be some usual logistical problems of
fitting them all in.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Lux And of course wants nothing to do with this.
How does he play this? He's got post, gave this
afternoon in parliament, be in the house tomorrow presumably, how
does he handle it?

Speaker 17 (35:40):
Well?

Speaker 21 (35:40):
I think he's got to carry on doing what he's doing,
and that is trying and keep some distance from it.
The problem here is that he's got an issue that
there's not of his making, but he's committed to seeing
through to a certain stage which is going to take
some time yet, and yet he bears all the flak
from the negativity associated with it. So he's in a
no win position. But having said that, like all the

(36:00):
other parties have backed themselves into corners on their respective
positions before, in the case of actor or against in
the case of everyone else, and I don't think any
of them can really afford to change their position over
the next few months.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Peter, thank you so much for that. Peter dunnpolitical commentator.
It's all kicking off the Justice Select Committee in Wellington
today thirteen minutes after seven Ryan, did you see the
story of the weekend? So police have arrested thirteen people
and managed to return forty five trolleys and to do
this is from supermarkets. So people have been taking the trolleys,
apparently homeless people taking the trolleys and then using them

(36:34):
to put their bits and pieces in and also ramming
members of the public or being showing intimidation to members
of the public with their trolleys. Now, I found it
really interesting what the police response was to this, because
can you, first of all, just take yourself back to
I don't know, just post COVID laborers and power. Can
you imagine the police doing this anyway while being homeless

(36:56):
is not a crime. This is the police statement in
and of itself. Police have recently received complaints in regards
to homeless people in possession of trolleys, intimidating members of
the public and workers as they walk through the CBD.
Any anti social or unlawful behavior will not be tolerated.
So they've gone and arrested homeless people for stealing trolleys.

Speaker 17 (37:17):
I want to get there.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
This is a very different, very different type of person
with a trolley. That was a so called Karen with
a trolley over in the UK. But I say good
on the cops here, especially the local police, who are
doing their job and actually enforcing the law. There is
a slightly concerning line in this press release from the
police on it, though, and it talks about the fact

(37:45):
that police have a responsibility to help find a home
for the homeless. No they don't. That is not their job.
And this is what Brian Roach was talking about. Who's
the former business exec. He's the new head of our
public service mission. He was talking about this mission creep.
You know, every public service feels like they owe everybody

(38:05):
everything and in doing so, achieve nothing. This is an
example of that. Just stick to your knitting, do what
you're supposed to do and force the law. Arrest people
and someone else will deal with that problem because that'll
be their job. Quarter past seven The Like.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
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Seven to seventeen News TALKSB. So Yanick Sinner has taken
at the Italian, defending his first ever Grand Slam title.
This in Melbourne overnight on Saturday evening. It was Madison
Keys upsetting Ariana Sebelenka to claim her first Grand Slam title.
David was sorry. David Worsley is with us this morning. Dave,
good morning, good morning, right, yeah, good to have you on.

(38:51):
So what happened last night.

Speaker 22 (38:53):
Well, pretty dramatic in a sense that dramatic that we
saw Yanick Sinner when his third Grand Slam overall and
to think the second seed alexandre Verev to set very close.
But then it was really you saw Cinner just up
his level and Cera have just struggled to keep up.
But it was a It was a great final in

(39:14):
the sense of the hitting was just so powerful, the
way they played each other around the court, and the
way that just had an answer to everything. So we
are seeing potentially a great player here in Janick ciner As.
He took his well second Grand Slam in a row
after winning US Open last year, and of course the
Australian opened early last year as well, and the Italian

(39:38):
is just looking looking like he's going to be adding
a lot of Grand Slam titles to his tally. So
that that was last night.

Speaker 12 (39:46):
It was.

Speaker 22 (39:47):
It was a good final, but Alexander vera third time
he's been runner up in a Grand Slam now.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
And spare I thought quite quite an honest assessment from
him post match saying basically, Sinner's better.

Speaker 22 (40:00):
Yeah, yeah, and that was the most honest thing he
could say. It was that, yes, Sinnat is just too good.
Al in the court there the devastation for Zeev. He
was about to talk in front of everybody and he
had his shield, not the trophy, and he struggled. You
could see the emotion coming out, and eventually he was

(40:20):
able to say something and basically it was Younix Cinna
was too good tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to actually
win that trophy in the future, but tonight definitely too good.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
The anti doping issue that's sort of been plaguing Senna
could come back again. Does it have the potential to
affect his French Open and whether he could even get
on the court.

Speaker 22 (40:44):
Yes, the French Open in particular because Wada is having
I guess I could say having another go at him
and protesting about negligence rather than the actual fact that
he had something in the system, albeit a very minor something.
So they're going to try to put negligence on this one,
and likely they could come through and get a ban

(41:07):
on Sinner. Well, this is the predictions anyway. Albeit it
could be a retrospective band, which is a band without
having a band basically, So what it could be, for instance,
is that he gets a month that is not allowed
to play on the tour instead of potentially six months,
and they'll say, well, because it's taken so long, we'll

(41:28):
say that you've actually served part of this band even
though you haven't, and will mean that you can take
a month off and you won't be able to play,
say the French Open. So that's all the delicate things
that happen around the drugs, non drugs, doping, etc. And
that's the protection that we'll probably see coming through because

(41:48):
what are out to get something because they are very
annoyed that they didn't get him initially.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
All right, Dave, thank you so much for that update.
I guess he'll just save the win while he's got it. Dave,
Worsley keyw Tennis Journal, Melbourne. It is twenty one after
seven coming up next, Why this year shaping up to
be a great one for political debate?

Speaker 2 (42:09):
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Speaker 3 (42:14):
Talks EV seven twenty three on your Monday Morning, twenty
twenty five is shaping up to be a fantastic year
for political debate in this country. In the space of
twenty seven days, we've already got more politicians debating more
serious and credible policies to change the course of our
country's future than we had in the entire six years
of the previous government. And if that sounds like a

(42:36):
cherry thing to say on a Monday morning, it's because
it is Monday morning. And who wants to listen to
Wingjing on a Monday. If it was Tuesday, I would
just tell you the cold, hard, miserable truth. The latest
update from HSBC Senior economist Paul Bloxham. This is the
guy who spoke about our rockstar economy. New Zealand's economy
had the largest contraction in GDP in twenty twenty four. Yes,

(43:00):
we took the biggest hit in the developed world last year.
We all know this bad news. We felt it. It
was money printing, high spending government inflation, then aggressive interest
rate hikes and then lights out, a year of pain.
But that was then, and this is now the good
news so far in twenty twenty five, at least for
from where I'm sitting. The arguments about tax and spend,

(43:21):
borrow and spend, spend more get more there Over, we're
now having genuine debates about the mix of state owned assets,
for example, that we own, why the hell do we
own them? Especially the ones making a loss. I've mentioned
Land Corp for a while now, but there are many others.
Luxen on this program last week open to the idea

(43:42):
of faster depreciation on machine assets purchased by businesses. This
would increase productivity, it would increase wages, it would increase growth,
all things that we desperately need. We're looking at PPPs
for infrastructure, cutting, red tape and regulation, loosening foreign investment rules.
What about tax breaks for multinationals if we really want
to be like Ireland, Because if we don't, the departure

(44:04):
a lounge at Auckland International Airport will only get more full.
Young people will only see opportunity elsewhere, and we will
become a backwater retirement village that no one with no
one left working to pay for the things that we
want to need, like healthcare. The biggest obstacle in the
way of government throwing dead weight overboard, taking unpopular but

(44:24):
necessary decisions to improve growth in making the Walker go
quicker is actually the composition of the government itself if
you think about it. And this is where we come in.
Nationals in the middle Libertarian act on one side, and
then you've got the economic nationalism of New Zealand first
on the other. These are hard times and surely would

(44:45):
call for one direction on the economy, not three. At
next year's election, keewis to need to pick a side,
and we need to do it in great numbers otherwise
we risk and are at risk of treading water muddling
through for an another three years are three years we
can ill afford to waste. Bryan Bridge, twenty six minutes

(45:07):
after seven on news Talks MB Diamonds. I'll tell you
about those when we come back as well. Because if
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your girlfriend or your boyfriend or whatever you might want,
hold off a couple of weeks before you buy it.
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Deadb twenty four minutes away from eight o'clock. Coming up
after eight, The commentary Box lots to talk about, including
the Australian Open over in Melbourne, a really weird story
also about Sebolenka, who lost in the women's final on Saturday,
really weird story about what she did with her trophy.
We'll talk to the commentary box about that. Diamonds, if
you're thinking of proposing to your boyfriend or your girlfriend

(46:14):
or whatever, never a better time. Apparently obviously make sure
you love them. That's the main reason you would want
to propose to someone, but also a bargain time if
you're in the market for a diamond, So natural diamonds
they are down twenty six percent on two years ago.
Lab grown diamonds down seventy four percent on twenty twenty.

(46:37):
Why inflation. Fewer weddings are happening because everyone went after COVID,
everyone went out and bought diamonds and got married, and
now that's kind of been pulled back. Also, the competition
from the lab grown diamonds is obviously affecting the price
of the real diamonds, and demand in China apparently as down.
So a few people getting married. All of these things
come together and to Bears, you know, this is the

(47:00):
biggest name in diamonds. They began last year with a stockpile,
a two billion dollar stockpile of diamonds. By the end
of last year they'd barely moved it. So they've cut
production in their minds by twenty percent as a result.
And the long and the short of all of that
for you is, if you're in the market now, it's
the time to buy twenty two to eight and you're

(47:27):
on news talks. A new University of Otago study, first
of it's kind study in New Zealand revealing worrying misconceptions
amongst our teenagers about vaping. Around fifteen percent of fourteen
to fifteen year olds of vape monthly, and that's despite
those who were interviewed being well aware of the risks.
Dr Jude Ballers with US University of Otago, Senior of

(47:47):
Search Fellow, Jude, good morning, Good morning. What are the
misconceptions that the teenagers who do vape have?

Speaker 17 (47:55):
Well.

Speaker 23 (47:55):
I do want to emphasize that the majority of young
people don't vape, and as you said, most young people
are quite clued up about the risks of vaping. But
we did find a widespread misconception not only among those
who ape, but also some who didn't, who thought that
use of vaping was going to help them with stress
and anxiety, and we're using it as a coping tool.

(48:18):
And that's concerning because there's overseas evidence that medium to
long term use of high doses of nicotine actually is
likely to make mental health problems worse.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
That's an interesting one because if I mean, isn't their
self reporting the only way to tell whether it relieves
their stress or anxiety? I mean, if they say it
relieves their stress and anxiety, are they not right?

Speaker 16 (48:41):
Sure?

Speaker 23 (48:41):
They are right in the moment, certainly that russia of
dopamine can make you feel calm, and once you've become addicted,
of course, having a vape reduces the you know, the
agitation that you have when you feel like you really
need a vape, But it's the long term impacts that's
likely to be problematic. You know, just like drinking to

(49:02):
relieve stress might feel good in the moment, but you know,
it can get out of controlling, can become Actually, part
of the problem is.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Vaping as widespread with young people as smoking was when
smoking was that it's worse for you know, their parents.

Speaker 23 (49:19):
It's similar, if not higher. So we've got really high
rates of use vaping in New Zealand, higher than Australia,
the US, England, and so although the rates have gone
down slightly in the last couple of years, it's still
a major issue here.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
What did they say about their mates and vaping? If
you're you know, if you if your friends are vaping,
are you more likely to or is there that pre
pressure sort of not exist like it used to.

Speaker 23 (49:43):
I think kind of both. So what we found is
that vaping kind of happened within peer groups, so either
everyone vaked or no one baked, typically, but there is
a subtle peer pressure to vape. And partly that's because
there's a perception that everybody vapes among people who say
I don't vape, my friends don't vape, but they still

(50:04):
had a sense that vaping was totally normalized in their
age group.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Are we talking about it too much? Then? Do we
need to just shut up about vaping?

Speaker 23 (50:14):
I think that's not the issue. I think the issue
is it's so visible, it's so everywhere. And some of
the moves that the government have made to ban disposable
vapes and to make vates less visible in shops, I
think that's a good move in a step in the
right direction. But we do need a more comprehensive approach,
in particularly one that addresses the fact that vap stores

(50:37):
are everywhere. Most suburbs have got at least two or
three vaate stores, and they're in young people's face every day.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah. I mean they're not supposed to get them from there, though,
are they. That's the point that they're meant to be
rat But I mean, clearly they're not.

Speaker 23 (50:52):
It's not working, is it. I mean it's only supposed
to be those stores that sell the frugi flavors, but
we know that those Fridgie flavor or what young people
are using, so they're certainly getting them somehow.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
All right, Dr jud Ball appreciate your time. University of
Otago Senior Research Fellow. It is eighteen minutes away from
eight to The big question for me is whether or
not our kids are healthier now than their parents were
at that age. I think it's a really interesting question
to ask because if you look at it, you know,
they're probably adding a bit more processed food. They're probably

(51:25):
doing less physical exercise than their parents were when they
were at that age. They've probably got more mental health
problems than their parents did at that age. But then
they're smoking less. I mean, they're not smoking cigarettes. They
might be vaping, but that's slightly better for you. They're
not drinking as much booze. We're always told. So, is
your average teenager right now healthier than their parents when

(51:49):
they were teenagers?

Speaker 10 (51:50):
Are they still not having sex as well?

Speaker 3 (51:52):
They're still not having sex, so they're not I mean,
there's no teen pregnancies, so that's changed. Not that that
makes you unhealthy, but I mean obviously has a big
impact on your life, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (52:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (52:03):
Do I don't know.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Interesting, I think it's give or take. I think it's
an interesting question to us, like the researchers that do
all of this stuff. Do they ever look at that?
You know, I know that as a species we are,
for the first time in the Western world, our life
expectancy is starting to come down because of all the
fast food and everything that we're itting, We're getting more

(52:25):
colon cancer and stuff like that. So for the first
time in modern history, our life expectancy is actually decreasing
in the Western world. But when it comes to teenagers,
are they healthier? Nine two ninety two. It is seventeen
to eight News Talks d.

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Speaker 3 (52:47):
B fourteen to eight. You might have seen in the news.
In fact, you would have heard in our news at
the top of the hour that Boyd Swinburne, University of
Auckland's School of Population Health. This is Boyd Swinburne, who
you often hear talking about wanting free dental care for
our young people, who's also into doubling the number of
kids who are getting free lunch in schools. At the moment,

(53:08):
he has come out with a couple of his colleagues
and said that they've done a study they reckon that
the learning gap this is for those who are being
well fed students who have been well fed versus those
who are hungry. It equated to a learning gap equivalent
for hungry students trailing two to four years behind those

(53:28):
who are being well fed in subjects like maths and
reading by the age of fifteen. So by the time
you turn fifteen, if you have not had a good,
you know, well balanced and nutritious meal in your stomach
every day, then you will be on average two to
four years behind those who have. And the argument here is, well,
therefore you should have free lunch in schools and you know,

(53:50):
double the free lunch and schools and all that kind
of stuff. Surely it's not just about the food that's
the problem. You know that, Yes, there are families for
whom food and especially nutritious food is too expensive. So
sending your kid to school without food is obviously not ideal.

(54:11):
It's it's not something you want to do or want
to happen. It's something you're trying desperately to avoid, but
because of your financial situation, you know you can't and
they have to go to school like that. For others,
I'm sure feeding your kids is not a priority, as
your kids aren't a priority to you. You know, there
will be some people who will send their kids to

(54:31):
school starving and don't really care, don't haven't given much
thought to that fact. And if that's the case, then
following up on homework and all those other sorts of
things is hardly going to be a priority as well.
So how much of it is down to the fact
that the kid might be, you know, a bit hungry
at lunch versus all of the other potential social issues

(54:53):
that might go along with that. Nine two nine two
the number to text with like your views on that
this morning? Anyway? That's that's sort of the n nuts
and bolts of it, and the outcome they want is
an increase in the free lunch in schools. Interesting story
out of the UK because I hate carrying a driver's
license around because it's annoying. I mean, who carries cards
anywhere these days? But in the UK they're going to

(55:16):
do away with that. They're starting a trial. This is
the government for an all inclusive app so that all
of your government stuff will be in one place, including
your driver's license. If you've got a veterans card, that's
going to be on there as well, a digital driver's
license and know you'll scan your eyes or do your
retina or whatever it does these days for protection. But
you'll be able to do all sorts of things on

(55:38):
this app. Not to show the cops your license when
you're pulled over, but apply for childcare, you know, report
a loss or stolen passport, all sorts of different stuff.
So I think that's a great idea, and I think
we should do it here because it will save us
all a lot of time and energy. How many different
websites do you have to go to to deal with
the government in New Zealand, seriously, to pay your tax,

(56:02):
to apply for this, to apply for that, and then
you add on the council stuff. I mean you just
there are a million tabs on your browser. Imagine one
place where you could go and get all of that.

Speaker 10 (56:14):
To all the tinfoil hat wearers, you're handing your identity
over to the government, Well they.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Can wear their hats and go elsewhere. Have your hundred tabs,
wear your hats. I will go and use the one app.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Ten to eight Bryan Bridge on the MIC, hosting Breakfast
with the Range Rover of the Line News togs Head.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Be seven to eight miked be back with you tomorrow.
The enclosure of the Desert Road has been pretty sweet
for Orkuni, with two months worth of road maintenance underway
and still to come. Businesses on the Deed Tour are
pumping with the extra traffic. The famous chocolate the Clear
Shop if you ever been there, it's really good, reportedly
selling eleven hundred of them a day. Carl Christensen is

(56:56):
with the Mountain Rocks Owakuni. He's the owner. Cal Welcome
to the show. Good to have you on here. When
was the last time you guys were this busy?

Speaker 13 (57:05):
Probably twenty thirteen and then straight up to lockdown. I
guess when everyone went mad when they were released from
the jungles up from the jails.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
I mean, how busy are you?

Speaker 13 (57:17):
Well, yeah, we're probably as busy as busiest winter. Yeah,
sort of situation, but steady. It's it's kind of you know,
all week all week long, so it's just steady. As
you know, with the traffic. It's a captured market, so
we've got this flow of traffic nose tails through town

(57:40):
most of the time, and yeah, it's just blurn. It's away.
Really we expected you know, maybe a thirty yeah, twenty
five to thirty percent increase in sales, but it's been
more like a sixty to seventy five increase. There's been
a real boom, especially after what we've been through this year.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Do you have enough staff? Because a lot of people
said that they were surprised that the road was going
to be closed for so long? Were you surprised? Are
you guys get up for this?

Speaker 18 (58:10):
Well?

Speaker 13 (58:11):
I think you know, as we spoke earlier in the
year about staffing shortages, we're still not open probably nights anymore.
We're exceeded our hours to seven seven pm on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. But yeah, we're still very short staffed
on those skilled positions i e. Chefs for risters, so
a lot of those positions have dried up, so we're

(58:32):
still pretty short that way, but ours, we've just limited
them to manage the staff we have and we're just lucky.
We've got great staff.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
We've got issues with the ski that, you know, the
mountain opening, we've got the chateau being shuttered. Basically, are
you are you sort of feeling good right now? But
knowing that there's a hard road down, you know, down
the lone Oh.

Speaker 13 (58:52):
We we know that this is this is just an
interim sort of stay of execution if you like them.
But yes, it's great. Well, the opportunity for us is
to showcase ourselves to those people who haven't been here before,
because look, I'm speaking to as many as I can,
you know, in between making coffee and and a lot
of them haven't been this way. It's surprising so many
new zylenders that have never been off State Highway one

(59:15):
when it comes to Woo. So it's a real challenge
for us to try and capture those people. Say to them,
this is this is an alternative if you if you're
traveling to Aukland, you don't have to travel State Hiway
one all the time. So it's an opportunity, I guess
for us to try and get that. Avenges and spirit
and the Keiweds come the other way, and I think
that's the big bonus. I think they're seeing little things

(59:36):
here that they enjoy. They like what they see, they
see we've got things to do, so we're going to
promote ourselves. So we've got that eight week window to
promote ourselves.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
And cow people are loving joy scones, they love them.

Speaker 13 (59:47):
They're delicious. She's actually a gem We're very lucky. Yeah,
she makes gons.

Speaker 16 (59:54):
What did you call it for?

Speaker 3 (59:55):
What did you call it?

Speaker 22 (59:56):
Delicious?

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Joy delicious, that's what we call it.

Speaker 21 (01:00:00):
You are delicious.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
That's Carl, Carl, Thank you for that, Carl Christensen, The
Mountain Rocks and Oconey go and get one of Joy's scones.
They sound delicious. The Combox coming up after eight, The.

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Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Yeah, big weekend for sport. Jason pin Andrew several with
us this morning. Good morning r This tarp of the
tennis Sinner defending his Grand Slam title will come to
the women in a second. But what a night for
Sinner last night? Piney incredible.

Speaker 16 (01:01:52):
Yeah, Look, he was favorite going in. I think a
lot of people hope that Alexander z Vera would finally
get the monkey off his back. Iss and Keys did
the previous night. But Sinner, what's that? Three straight hard
caught Grand Slam victories. He's been world number one for
several months. That's twenty one matches without defeat. He just

(01:02:14):
seemed imperious all tournament, really, and try as Verev did,
and as good a player as he is. I think
it was just always going to be Sinner. He's quite humble,
isn't He's got other issues going on in his life.
But I think he was a reasonably popular winner at
Melbourne last night.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Ye, lot of emotions.

Speaker 18 (01:02:34):
No, he is just me Ryan and Sinner incredibly boring.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Yeah, you're right. I mean he's not there's no emotion,
it's it's.

Speaker 18 (01:02:44):
I mean, good on him. You know, he's a fantastic
tennis plan year. He's got these these steroid drug investigations
hanging over him. I think there's a hearing in April.
Not a great look, but let's fat and see what
happens there. But he played some tenta tennis the last
couple of weeks. I think in the fourth round match
he was almost gone with heat stroke or dizzy spells,

(01:03:05):
and then he had a couple of injuries. So he
has fought through and battled through the last week or so.
But there's just not a lot of emotion, not a
lot of color when it comes to Yannick Sinner World
number one. He could probably walk down most streets, main
streets around the world. No one would know who the
hell he is, and that's an issue for tennis. But

(01:03:29):
you know, he's beaten the opponents put up in front
of him and he's now one couple of Ossie Open,
So good on us both.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Yeah, and there's enough. If I've learned anything from watching
the Australian Open in Melbourne is that there are enough
hot heads and people chipping in from the sidelines to
make the whole spectacle interesting that he can probably get
away with that.

Speaker 18 (01:03:50):
Yeah, And and I think he needs one or two
other players to apart from Sazverev, to form those those combative,
sort of great historic showdowns, you know that we saw
between the dal and Federer and Djokovic fed And that's
what tennis needs. I don't know if anyone else is

(01:04:12):
going to get close in the immediate future to Sinner,
unfortunately for the game, but that's what tennis is lacking
as well, both men's and women's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Yeah. Pinally the because I was reading about Sinner last
night after he had won that he is doesn't drink booze,
never been into boosts. In fact, he's never even been
in a bar or a club. He said that. I mean,
that's how focused the guy is. And yet you've got
this this weird doping scandal that's been following him around.
But the players, you know, his contemporaries don't seem to

(01:04:43):
think it's it's a big issue. Do you think this
will all just go away or what?

Speaker 16 (01:04:46):
What? I don't know. And that's clearly the reason the
three of us have never made it to the top
of tennis. I've seen a couple of a couple of
insides of.

Speaker 12 (01:04:54):
Stars over.

Speaker 18 (01:04:58):
Maybe, so maybe mal when last night or tonight he
needs to go to a bloody barrel pup and live
a little bit, maybe celebrated it.

Speaker 16 (01:05:06):
You go home and ever played a broccoli or something.

Speaker 18 (01:05:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:05:09):
Look, yeah, the doping issue that's hanging over him, it
doesn't seem to be affecting him in any way. And
maybe he's just got this ability to be so tunnel
vision when it comes to playing tennis that these things,
you know, don't affect him. I think it would affect
a lot of people. Look, I don't really know. It
seems as though he's he's I mean, he seems confident

(01:05:30):
that he's done nothing wrong. Others have been fairly outspoken,
the likes of Nick Kurios about him. If you're looking
for a rivalry going forward, I think it's got to
come from Carlos al Karez, although he he you know himself.
You know, Look, I thought he was going to go
all the way I thought al Karez was going to
I was going to get there, but beaten by Jokovic
obviously in the quarter finals. So yeah, so right, that

(01:05:54):
tennis is built on rival He is going back to
you know the Borg you know, Macenroe, Conor's days right
the way through the Big four we've had recently. Yeah,
I don't know what the future looks like as far
as those tennis rivalries are concerned.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Interesting one, all right, Andrew Sevil Jason Pine with us
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Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Andrew Sevell and Jason Pine with us. Piney will start
with you on the Auckland FC. They've had another win
and it was right at the end.

Speaker 16 (01:06:39):
Incredible this team. How often I've got late goals to
get points, to win matches, to draw matches. You know
midweek they got a ninety ninth minute equalizer against Adelaide
last night mil all going into the ninety fifth minute
and Nada Monono scores a goal that gets from the
one nil win and back to the top of the table.
It's an incredible story. This and Awakland f C. The

(01:07:00):
juggernaut just rolls on. You know, I think people wondered
after the really good start they had whether it would
be something that was a flash in the pan and
they might come back to the pack. Not a bit
of it. I mean we've passed a halfway mark now,
the top of the table, looking every inch, a team
that could go deep, deep into this competition and back
at home Saint MacArthur, so another big crowd in coming there.

Speaker 18 (01:07:21):
No doubt and pining these sorts of results. Is it
suggests the team is really tight knit and obviously doesn't
give up if they're willing to push hard and keep
going and score these late, late, late goals. Yes, I
think it's quite a remarkable feat for a new team.
Isn't it to be this close and this this strong together?

Speaker 22 (01:07:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:07:41):
Yeah, winning helps obviously, doesn't it. You know, when you're
when you're when things are going well, it's easy to
be mates with one another. I think cracks appear when
things aren't going well. But you're so right said, you know,
it's a there's a there's a culture there of whenever
we never give up. We always move forward. They even
use those sorts of mantras the team together. So Steve
Corek has got something, got something going away there, and

(01:08:02):
ye along, Mad continued.

Speaker 18 (01:08:04):
I I sort of set last night. Is that half
the half of the goals I've scored. I think they've
scored twenty odd goals and the season, half the goals
I've scored have come in the last ten or fifteen
minutes of games, which, yeah, is out of the box.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Savan not giving up but taking a break, Sophie Devine,
let's talk about this, the White Ferns captain taking a
break from cricket, returning home immediately and going to prioritize
her well being.

Speaker 18 (01:08:27):
Which is a fair enough call. I think she did
it three or four years ago. She's a star of
the woman's game. She's under the spotlight even more in
these times than previously. Plays a lot of cricket, busy,
busy schedule here in Australia. I think she was due
to play in India, so clearly wants to take time away,

(01:08:51):
needs to get right. So her call good on it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Yeah, all right, let's move on these sixty meters sprint
This is and christ Sprinter to ten Felton, who has
broken our record, our thirty year national sixty meter sprint
record in Canberra. I didn't know Pioney that that sixty
meter sprint was a thing.

Speaker 18 (01:09:10):
Well, why all of a sudden are we running sixty meetings?
No one can can, No one be bothered running one
hundred meters anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
That's no sense.

Speaker 18 (01:09:18):
Every type of sport has a shortened version. We don't need.
I know, I know, indoor championships they run sixty right
because it's because the track's much smaller. Yeah, when you're
do you really need to run sixty when you're outside,
don't it? Maybe they didn't have enough time?

Speaker 24 (01:09:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:09:34):
Is it the T twenty of sprinting. Yeah, but he's
obviously quick, Town Welton, you know he and what your
hope obviously is that he can and he can he
can run one hundred meterres pretty quickly. We you know,
we get another Zoe ob situation here where where we
have another sprinter who is doing, you know, good things
at big events. He's a he's an interesting character, Town Weldon.

(01:09:57):
I think he did a bit of modeling for a while.
Heaven all well exactly insides of bars and.

Speaker 18 (01:10:05):
But all he needs to do now is there the
extra forty on and he'll be well.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
From a spectator's point of view, it's not exactly riveting
viewing because it's it's literally over before you know, you
could blink and miss it, you know, in six and
a half seconds. So it's not the best to watch.
But I mean he's doing well anyway. Uh, the NFL,
this would be the big news story, the big sports
story of course, the playoffs today. Who are you picking?

Speaker 18 (01:10:28):
Sep I like the Philadelphia Eagle always have. And then
you've got this Kansas City Chiefs Buffalo Bills, this massive
matchup in the other conference. Everyone. The interesting thing is
the Chiefs used to be will became America's team, and
everybody hates them because I think they get a good
run from reefs and officials. And you've got Patrick Mahomes,

(01:10:49):
You've got Travis Kelcey, You've got what's what's your name,
Taylor swt Taylor Swift, Yeah, sorry, moment, So she'll be
on camera a lot in the crowd, I'd imagine. But no,
it's I love this time of year because NFL playoffs
it's great sporting theater is always drama and Yeah, it's

(01:11:10):
it's a it's an intriguing time in that in that
in that massive, the massive proficion world of NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Piny, you have views on this.

Speaker 16 (01:11:21):
I like the Commanders simply because I went and watched
them play last year, so I go, I've john an
affinity with the Washington Commanders. I don't think they'll win,
and I think the chief will probably win another Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
All right, brilliant guys, Thanks so much, Andrew several Jason
Pine with us for your Monday morning. Just gone twenty
after eight, somebody has texted Ryan, we no longer have
the attention span for one hundred meter sprints. That's not true,
by the way. I mean, honestly, how long does your
attention span need to be? How long do they do
one hundred meters in like nine seconds or something just
over nine seconds? Come on, We're not that pathetic yet.

(01:11:55):
Twenty one after eight.

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Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Said b twenty four minutes after eight, the news that's
just coming out from the United States. Actually, you might
have seen over the weekend that the president of Columbia,
this is Gustavo Petro. He refused to allow some flights
from the US deportation flights to land in his country,
and they had some illegal immigrants who were trying to
get into the United States. He refused to let those

(01:12:24):
planes land in his country. Right, Trump has come out
and said, I was just informed that two repatriation flights
from the US, so the large number of illegal criminals
were not allowed to land in Columbia. This order was
given by Columbia's socialist president, Gustavo Petro, who was already
very unpopular amongst his people. This is Trump being Trump,
but he's actually done something about it very quickly. So

(01:12:48):
what he's instituted is an emergency twenty five percent tariff
on all goods coming into the United States from Columbia.
In one week, the twenty five percent tariff will be
raised to fifty percent, a travel ban immediately affecting visa
with visa recavation revocations. I should say on the Colombian

(01:13:08):
government officials, its allies, and its supporters. That's the way
Trump put us puts it. Also visa sanctions on all
party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
Now that's happened in the last I don't know what
half an hour hour and in the last few minutes
already we have the socialist president responding. So Colombian President

(01:13:31):
Gustavo Petro is offering his presidential plane to help repatriate
deportees from the US. So not only has he reversed
his decision at the weekend not to allow illegal Colombian
migrants back into his country, he's now offering his own
aircraft to do the work for him. Whoops, whoopsie, Interesting,

(01:13:53):
isn't it. What can change? All you need is just
a strong arm threat. It's slightly related story because it's well,
it's cartel adjacent the story at the weekend. There's a guy,
a criminal mastermind apparently by the name of Grihalbo. Now
he was done for exporting cocaine out of Costa Rica

(01:14:14):
and the DEA in America has been trying to get
him for ages, but he's been in Costa Rica and
they don't extradite it, right, So they've been when is
this guy going to go on holiday? When is he
going to go traveling? Because we need to get him,
and we need to get him when he's at the
airport he's going into a friendly country. They didn't have
to wait long and they didn't have to look hard
because his glamorous wife is Stefani and McDonald Rodriguez, who's

(01:14:36):
thirty two years old, was posting photos of their trip
around the world on her Instagram alongside him. I mean, honestly,
how stupid do you have to be? I don't know.
Maybe he didn't know. It doesn't seem like a very
smart thing to do. Maybe he doesn't have a round
for her brains obviously doesn't follow her twenty seven after

(01:14:58):
eight years to said.

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Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
Good morning twenty three to nine. Micha will be back
with you tomorrow. We spoke last week about the tourism
numbers and the fact that New Zealand is one of
the few countries who relies on tourism to the extent
that we do not to be back to pre COVID levels.
Australia is back to pre COVID levels. In fact, they're
exceeding now one hundred worldwide. They're ninety nine percent of

(01:15:42):
pre COVID levels, so you pretty much say we're back
to COVID levels pre COVID levels around the world. France
took out the top spot, remember for most visited country,
with one hundred million, but their main museum in Paris
that live the most visited museum in the world, actually
has some maintenance issues. And I thought this was just us,

(01:16:03):
you know, this was like a Kiwi thing where you
invited the tourists to come and then you don't provide
the facilities for them. But the French apparently are not
doing very well. The temperature inside varies so much at
starting to damage some of the artworks, which isn't great
for a museum that's sort of business. Number one, it's
damp in some areas. A report has found that it's

(01:16:24):
leaky in some areas, that there is mold in some areas. Basically,
it's a big, damp, leaky, mold dump. You live in Paris,
so don't go there, Mona. Lisa won't be smiling for long.
I wouldn't imagine eight point seven million visitors last year,
and I was thinking about that's that's a lot of people.
Four million people before COVID came to New Zealand every year,

(01:16:46):
so they get double. But then there're round lots of
populated countries. We're along way from the rest of the world.
I think four millions are pretty good number for us,
and not that we're back there. Of course, we're sixteen
percent down on that number, but there you go. Twenty
two to nine.

Speaker 19 (01:17:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Steve Fie to our Australia correspondent, responding, Steve, good.

Speaker 18 (01:17:09):
Morning, I did my bit.

Speaker 24 (01:17:11):
I spent two weeks in the North Island of New
Zealand and had an absolutely fantastic time during the summer break.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Brilliant, very glad to hear it. This poll the majority
of OSSI's think the opposition's got it for the election.

Speaker 24 (01:17:25):
Yeah, and the election could be anytime between now and May.
Although when you look at these numbers you'd think that
the Prime Minister Antony Alberanez, has been having a pretty
rough trot of it lately, is going to go as
late as possible hope that he can get an interest
rate cut out of the Reserve Bank. Their first meeting
due next week. If he gets that he might go quickly,
but on these numbers he would want to stay there

(01:17:45):
as long as he could. The Coalition now leads two
party preferred the government fifty one to forty nine. But
the number that everyone's picked up on today is that
fifty three percent of Australians who were asked this question,
and this polling took for one week of January, fifty
three percent of Australians expect Coalition to win the next election.

(01:18:05):
Now that's a huge turnaround three to forty seven percent
for Labor. If you'd ask that question at any time
last year, probably either get a response that there's going
to be a hung parliament and the minority government or
that Labor would win. Doesn't mean they're over the line.
Lots of things can happen between now and then. But
Labour's primary vote ryan is down another two points to

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thirty one. That's the worst since they were elected two
and a half years a bit ago. Coalition's sitting on
thirty nine. Peter Dutt's got a lot of work still
to do. I mean he's got to win a lot
of seats. The majority that Labor has is pretty handy
and so it'll all come down now to the promises.
But what I can tell you Ryan is that this
election will there will be big differences in policy between

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the government and the opposition. In the past, we've had
lots of elections where policies were pretty similar. Not this time.
It's going to be very different.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Yeah, you've got lots of things, lots of differences between
them too. Right, let's talk about Australia Day. Happy Australia
Day for yesterday. By the way, how will the how
do the protests turn out?

Speaker 24 (01:19:13):
Well, no violence, but a lot of people and if again,
if you look at poll's majority of Australian support having
our National Day on the twenty sixth of January. But
there will always be protests, particularly from the Indigenous movement.
They were out enforced, particularly in Melbourne. That was the biggest.
They're expecting thirty thousand, there's probably around twenty five thousand people.

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I think what disappoints a lot of Australians is that
the pro Palestinian protests, which we've had every Sunday in
Melbourne since October seventh, twenty twenty three, well they've joined
up now with the anti Australian Day protests. So that's
what swells the numbers. But then you see some pretty

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speeches that were provocative. Isn't the politest way I can
put it. One of the spokespeople came out and said
Australia is a racist nation, a colonial nation. They have
the remnants of representation of that and we will not
allow them to win. It was a pretty fiery speech
from a woman called Namoud Sammak liken the fight for

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treaty for Aboriginal people in Australia to the ceasefire in Palestine.
How they can join these two things together is completely
beyond me. And she said she would not allow Opposition
leader Peter Dutton to win it next election. Well, we've
just talked about a poll that says he probably will.
But these people will never be happy. And you can't
change the date because whenever you have the date, someone's

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going to prochaice against it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Yeah, right, good news. On the other hand for the
Australian of the year. What's going on here?

Speaker 24 (01:20:47):
Well for me also, this is a little bit personal
because I lost a friend in the last year to
motor your own disease, and he was diagnosed at the
beginning of the beginning of last year. Late on twenty three,
he lasted twelve months and has passed away. Really good,
made of mind. The Australian of the Year is a
former Australian footballer by the name of Neil Danahert. Now

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he's raised in excess of twenty seven million dollars toward
research intomoting your own disease. And Neil has been suffering
from this for thirteen years. So what I can't get
my head around really is how someone can last just
twelve months someone else thirteen years. Neil no longer has
the ability to speak, but he has a computer that

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can incredible into it. I can't believe have his words
expressed by someone else because of his thought patterns that
go through this computer. So he's been made Australian of
the Year. His family's around him. His daughter is the
main fundraiser and they'll spend the next twelve months urging
Australians to think about people with MND and try and

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raise more money for it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
Oh, that's great news to hear about that, And I'm
sorry to hear about your mate.

Speaker 24 (01:22:00):
Yeah, it's dridful.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Yeah. Hey, just on the other there was with the
Australian of the Year. Who was that woman that she
wore a T shirt? Was an anti Murdock T shirt
to her meeting with Albanezi. Did you see that?

Speaker 16 (01:22:12):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
I did.

Speaker 24 (01:22:13):
That was a morning tea. That's a former Australian of
the Year and she has been a very vocal criticism
of the Murdoch press. She had f Murdoch on the
front of a T shirt. How anybody would let her
go into a meeting wearing that is completely beyond me.
And for the Prime Minister to stand there with a
grin on his face was just beyond belief. I just

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couldn't believe it was allowed to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:37):
Yeah, I thought the same thing, and the article was
sort of making out, Oh well he didn't know. I mean,
come on, it's in of course, you know, if securities
are better dirt, he's come in the building. I mean
you know he had to know. Yeah, Steve, thank you
for that. Steve Price, our Australia correspondent with us. It
is sixteen away from nine News Talks e B The Like.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
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Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Thirteen away from nine News Talks, HEB it sounds alarming.
And there's a giant iceberg. Have you heard about this?
That's broken off from Antarctica. It's heading north and it
is two hundred and eighty kilometers away from South Georgia,
which is the British British territory where they've how do
I describe it, Concerned but not alarmed about this happening,

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about this hurtling towards them. It's happened before and usually
they break up. But the real concern is for the
penguins and the seals, because when the iceberg, which by
the way, is taller than the sky Tower and bigger
than Dunedin very old, broke off back in the eighties,
apparently has just been wandering around waiting. Can you just
convert that into the ruby five hundred square meters? I

(01:23:46):
can't do rugby fields? What about Olympic swimming pools Dunedin? Okay,
it's quite simple. You've seen it on a map, you know, Dunedin.
You've got knocked in the middle again in the middle
and the size of the height of this skytower, we
can all relate to that. Anyway, it's heading towards South Georgia.
But don't be alarmed it's gonna hit obviously at some point,

(01:24:09):
but will break up and.

Speaker 10 (01:24:10):
Just surely with the climate crisis it will melt by then.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
No, it's big enough that it will survive, and the
water is cool enough that it will survive. It is shrinking.
It was three thy nine hundred square kilo it is
now it's three thousand and five hundred square kilometers.

Speaker 10 (01:24:24):
What are you worried about? I mean, going by all
the bluebird chips heads that I've ever seen, those penguins
althow just jump on it and slide around on it
and have a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:24:32):
No, the penguins will be crushed by it.

Speaker 10 (01:24:35):
Oh it doesn't sound fun.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
No, this is what the penguins.

Speaker 10 (01:24:37):
But the bang is the word.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
So it comes in bits, break off, crush, fall off,
and crush and kill the penguins or block them from
their feeding grounds, which is primarily more the problem. So
there you go. Don't go to South Georgia if you're
a penguin. Probably fine for us as tourists to go
and watch this thing happen. Trump, we've spoken about Colombia.

(01:25:03):
His tariff seemed to be working. He's got a free
plane out of the president there to go and help
with his deportations of his illegal immigrants. So that's all
turned around from in the last twenty four hours. But
really interesting also what's going on with Panama, because there
was a treaty signed. This is way back in nineteen
seventy seven, a treaty signed between the US and Panama

(01:25:26):
but also between a whole bunch of other countries about
the Panama Canal, trying to make sure that it stays neutral.
And obviously Trump's now saying, well, I'm going to do
this and do that with Panama. And now the Russians
are kicking off, and you think, well, I mean, obviously
they've got a stake in it because everyone's trying to
get through the Panama Canal because that's where we get
all of our goods through. But Russia actually signed that

(01:25:48):
treaty originally was one of the signatories of the twenty
countries who signed the Protocol agreement agreeing that it was
stay neutral. So they are now kicking off about Panama,
which I guess is just to say that Trump is
causing ripples around the world, which is I guess what
Trump is wanting to do, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:26:06):
Five hundred Raby Fields by the way.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
Oh, thank god, that's big. It's very strange to needing this. Well, yeah,
I mean see that. Yeah, five hundred rugby fields. You
immediately know how big that is. No, you don't, because
you're struggling to picture what five hundred rugby fields look like.

Speaker 10 (01:26:21):
So how many ryans on top of each other as
the sky towers with?

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
All right, it's nine to nine.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
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Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
Seven to nine high Ryan. This is on the kids
in the school lunches. Baked beans you can buy for
a dollar fifteen full of protein. River Mill bred is
two dollars full of protein and carbs. I could go on,
says Jacqueline. Some hungry kids in Africa excel without cell
phones or cotton wool. It comes down to a desire
to succeed, learn to count, read and spell. Now there's

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an idea just saying six to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
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Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
There's no denying that Bob Dylan is a music icon.
Everybody knows this. He's considered one of the greatest songwriters
of all time, selling one hundred and twenty five million
records over his sixty year career, and that's the reason
a number of movies have been made about him. The
latest one is called A Complete Unknown, which has just
been released in New Zealand, and the actor who plays

(01:27:29):
Dylan went on SNL to perform Live, Have a Listen,

(01:27:51):
And of course he does the talkie talkie songs because
it was always more about the poetry than the singing.

(01:28:16):
It's pretty good for an actor. I mean, you don't
normally think that actors are triple threats, and not often
triple threats, but he can obviously sing and apparently his
performance has been praised by all the critics for this
new Bob Dylan movie. So it's out of cinemas now,
Complete Unknown for anyone who wants to go and see that.

Speaker 10 (01:28:33):
And you can ride sandworms as well.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
He can ride sand worms, and he can ride Kardashians.
Because it's probably the wrong turn of phrase, but what's
not Kim Kardashian. Then there's Courtney. It's not Kendall, it's
Kylie Kardashian. Who's the rich one. She's got the Kylie Jenner.
Actually she's got the makeup brand. So she's worth the
billion dollars. In fact, she was the first of that

(01:28:58):
lot to be a billionaire, and now Kim has followed suit.
So there you go. Very rich family, very big booties,
very big breasts, all of them, the Kardashians. Anyway, that's
it for me. I am back on drive tomorrow afternoon
for the next three months. Thank you very much for
all of you who have listened in, have tuned in,
have texted, emailed and really appreciated it. Mike is back

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with you tomorrow. I will see you next time. Have
a great day.

Speaker 15 (01:29:54):
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