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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
In a noisy world, hear yourself think. It's Heather Duplessy-Allen on the Mike Hosking Breakfast with Range Rover Sport. The most dynamic Range Rover Sport ever on Newstalk ZB.
Morning to you. Coming up on today's show, the Minister Simon Watts on finally changing the law to stop unelected punters on council outvoting the elected councillors. Apparently private businesses are interested in partnering with the government on exploring for gas. The insurance guys will talk us through their call to fund the fire guys differently. We've got great tourism news for you.
Polly's are in after eight and Steve Price does Australia for us. Credit to Simon Watts. Some time ago he told me he was going to do something to stop the councils like the Far North District Council putting 10 iwi representatives, not elected by ratepayers, on a committee with six councillors who were elected with full voting rights, thereby outnumbering the elected folk.
So I sent him a text a couple of weeks ago asking him when I should check back in with him to see what he was going to do. He responded, asked me to give him two weeks. Two weeks ran out yesterday. Yesterday is when he announced that he would be changing the law to take those voting rights away from the unelected representatives on council.
Now, this has become something of a race relations issue because the greatest number of unelected members that get attention are Maori.
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Chapter 2: What changes are being made to council voting rights in New Zealand?
There are iwi reps, there are mana whenua reps and so on. But it is actually more than that. It actually also involves youth representatives under 18s who haven't even learned to live in their own houses and pay their own power bills, who are then given permission by councils to vote on council issues without being elected. It also involves rural reps.
And yes, it is about race relations and it is about trying to stop the spread of this really weirdly fashionable idea that one ethnicity gets special treatment. But it is also about a fundamental of democracy. You choose who governs you. You choose. Ratepayers at the moment are being bled for money at rates that none of us would have thought were possible 10 years ago.
For our entire lives, that has come with the right to then also vote for the people who we best trust to spend that money, low bar that it is. Somehow, though, in the last few years that has started to change and councils have told us how much we need to pay and then told us who's going to make decisions about that. That needed to stop. Yesterday's decision is welcome.
I'd like it to go further, though. I'd like all unelected representatives now to be removed from councils. Because in many cases, they are a cost. They are sometimes paid the same as elected representatives, and they are largely unnecessary in an age where advice and input is easier to find than ever. You don't need these people there.
Chapter 3: How is New Zealand becoming a luxury travel destination?
And given the likely kickback, though, that this is going to get from the hand-wringers, good on Simon Watts for making the right call on deadline. Now, after the footage of the arrest of Henry Novak has gone viral after the trial for his murder, it's created a bit of a political firestorm. Brief summary, Novak was stabbed and ultimately killed by 23-year-old Vikram Digwa.
When the police arrived at the scene, though, Digwa accused Novak of racially abusing him, having already stabbed and chased him. And the police handcuffed Novak and refused to believe that he'd been stabbed unless he lost consciousness and died. There is now a full investigation into the police. The police in this country have a sacred duty to police without fear or favor.
Everyone in this country is equal before the law. We must condemn those who seek personal political profit from tragedy. Now, this is the kind of thing that Farage has built his really big base on. Henry's family have responded to this in just the most extraordinarily dignified way. But I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure, cold rage.
Now, Keir Starmer says that is the wrong response, and the family told him they don't want it stirred up, but also that police do have questions to answer. It's harrowing, and I have to say... As a father of a 17-year-old boy, I felt sick watching it. Marco Rubio is up before Congress over in the States facing legal questions about the Iran war.
We're 92 days into a war against Iran and the administration will not let Congress look at the OLC legal opinion justifying the war. The administration will not make it available to us.
Oddly enough, he mentioned negotiations aren't easy. You have the Supreme Leader. They are advised by a council. It's not clear if it's six people or eight people. And ultimately, that council has to sign off on anything. What Arachi and Goluboff take from us, they then have to run back to this council. And that process oftentimes take three to five days to get a response.
Nicola Sturgeon, news for you. Her former husband, Peter Murrell, has appeared in court this morning for embezzling S&P funds. Although there was an electronic portal through which expenses claims should have been submitted, the accused stated to colleagues that he could not access it and was thereby able to submit his own claims without necessarily providing a receipt or invoice.
And finally, Finland is doing a multi-month treasure hunt to promote the ski season in a key region. So on June the 18th, at a place in northern Finland, Levi, who knows, participants will be given a clue that will take them through forests into local attractions and landmarks. The final clue will then be given out on August 22 for everyone who's made it that far.
The prize is a 1 by 3 centimetre gold bar, which is worth $40,000 New Zealand dollars. Kind of small. I want something bigger than that. That is News of the World in 90 seconds. Now, we've got another equity raise for you. So Google's parent company, Alphabet, has announced it plans to raise up to 80 billion US dollars, which is what? About 130, 140 New Zealand. Yeah, about that.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the proposed TSB and Heartland Bank merger?
I'm going to go and buy myself a monster truck. That is going to make this all better. If I just have a monster truck, I'll spend the last few years of my life, months, nay, days, doing the thing I love, driving around in a monster truck. If you're hoping that we can rescue the situation in this country, regas, you might take some heart from some data that's come out.
MB reckons that there are about 11 expressions of interest today. from private businesses to co-invest with the government in using that money. You know, the $200 million gas security fund to go out there and explore for gas. Expressing interest and then going out and putting your money where your mouth is are two completely different things. So I'm just, I'm a bit hesitant to believe this.
But anyway, John Carnegie, Chief Executive of Energy Resources Aotearoa is with us after seven to talk us through it. It's nine away from...
See what Prince Andrew's accused of doing?
Andrew Launie's book. This is the book that's been devastating for Andrew. It's being re-released in New Zealand with extra information in it. And apparently, according to this book, on one occasion... Andrew left a teddy bear behind in Asia.
I mean, not a sentence that you would normally say about a grown human, but Andrew left a teddy bear behind in Asia and he ordered his valet to go back and get the teddy bear. The valet had to personally go get the teddy bear. It was 4,000 Ks trip. Apparently he's got about 72 of them. That is what happens.
That can be a serious thing. I mean, you know, one of my kids left a wombat behind once. How old? Oh, yeah, a little bit younger than Andrew. Yeah, that's a good point, actually, you make there.
Yeah, he has 72. That's what happens when you spoil your children. So if you're spoiling your son right now, just stop and think, do I want them to be like Andrew? If the answer is no, then you need to stop it. Five away from seven.
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