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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
No fluff, just facts and fierce debate. Heather Duplessy-Allen on the Mike Hosking Breakfast with Aveda Retirement Communities. Life your way. Newstalks.net.
Morning, coming up on the show, the government's pushing ahead with the LNG terminal. Not everyone is convinced about this. We're going to talk to the Smart Energy Alliance about their reservations. You may soon be able to click and collect your prescriptions at the after-hours lockers at your pharmacy. We're going to talk to a pharmacist on whether this is a smart idea.
Field Days is kicking off today. Simon Galt will talk us through the huge money that Uber Eats is making off us.
Chapter 2: Why is the proposed LNG terminal controversial?
Richard does the US. Murray does the lucky country. And Mark and Ginny do the politics.
Heather Duplessy-Allen.
So Ben Stokes is going to lose his captaincy of the English Test Squad for being out on the Raz again. It's been reported that he is considering giving it up, which is probably shorthand for he's being told to give it up or they're going to take it from him. And harsh as that is, and it is harsh to lose your captaincy over something like this, it is also deserved.
Because the more that we're learning about what happened that night, the worse it looks. Seven cricket players were out drinking. They bumped into the Saracens rugby team at the pub. Midnight arrived. Midnight is the curfew, by the way, on this team. Five players had gone home and two hadn't. Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson were the ones still behind. And then something happened.
The Saransons rugby player, who's a big lad from Samoa, tried to punch Atkinson.
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Chapter 3: What are the highlights from the 2026 Fieldays event?
He missed and he hit the security guard. And the rest, as they say, is history. Now, the trouble for Stokes here is that he's the captain and he fell at the first hurdle. This was the first time curfew had been imposed on the team since the drinking during the Ashes Tour and the fisticuffs in Wellington and the team being pulled into line that had created the curfew.
And at the first curfew, Stokes fails. And that is despite five of his more junior teammates doing the right thing and going home. This is not defendable anymore in the age of professional sport where players are paid a mint to perform and not embarrass the brand.
And this is for the rest of us also at a time when the social tolerance for drunken antics appears to have evaporated almost completely. You cannot blame drink for calling a colleague the F word at a budget party in Nicola Willis's office. You cannot blame drink for a punch up after a test in London.
They're obviously but for the grace of God go all of us because hands up who hasn't embarrassed themselves on a big night out and probably will again. But Stokes has done it before. He was warned.
Chapter 4: How are New Zealanders' perceptions of Asia changing?
He had rules. And the biggest crime, really, is that he broke the very rule that was designed to avoid this happening. You can say this for sure. The captaincy is almost certainly gone.
News of the world in 90 seconds.
All right, so horrific scenes in Northern Ireland overnight with a knife attack in Belfast. A man was attacked by a Sudanese refugee in their 30s, suffered injuries to his eyes, back and face. The police bosses are insisting this isn't a terror attack.
We have no information to suggest that this was a terrorist-related incident. This brutal attack has sent shockwaves through our communities and I want to reassure all of our communities your safety is our priority.
Now, fortunately, members of the public intervened and stopped the man.
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Chapter 5: What political debates are happening this week?
Members of the public did not walk on by. Instead, a number of them stepped forward and at immense risk to their own safety, they intervened.
Now, it's looking like there could be anti-asylum seeker protests. That's got the police worried.
Please, please let the police do their job. Do not let people who know nothing about Northern Ireland impact on the behaviours of our people in Northern Ireland from afar through social media.
To our Middle East watch where Israel has carried out more airstrikes in Lebanon and in Israel itself attacking Hezbollah is being seen as a sound political strategy for Netanyahu.
Hamas still controls half of Gaza. Hezbollah is still in Lebanon.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Ben Stokes' actions for his career?
And Iran is playing its regional game again. And this is why he's in somewhat political distress.
The Republican stash with the Southern Poverty Law Centre continues. The administration is prosecuting the centre for allegedly funnelling funds to extremist groups. And now the centre is before the House Judiciary Committee.
Are you going to double down and say that these people, including the martyred Charlie Kirk, in fact somehow deserve to be on your hate list?
The SPLC will continue to expose hate and extremism. OK, we'll take that as the list stands.
And NASA is picking its astronauts for its next Artemis mission. This is Artemis 3 and this is the next stage of getting humans to the moon.
Artemis 2 reminded the world what we can do when we move together with clarity, discipline and shared purpose. What we saw behind the scenes was years of coordination, planning, testing, problem solving and collaboration. We are going to apply that same focus for Artemis 3 and our teams are ready.
And finally, we may have unfortunately found another version of Australia's infamous mushroom chef... A man in Indonesia has been arrested for allegedly murdering his mother-in-law using satay which is laced with rat poison. Police reckon he ordered the chicken skewers and then dipped them in the toxic chemicals and then had them delivered to his mother-in-law.
He then tried to frame his sister-in-law for the killing. The motive was apparently that he felt disrespected by his mother-in-law which is everybody's story ever, isn't it? That's news of the world in 90 seconds. Okay, situation in the Middle East is, I mean, I feel like it goes from one position to the other every day, but we're back to it looking shaky again this morning.
What's happened is it's been confirmed that Iran has shot down a helicopter, a US helicopter, an Apache, near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. They did manage to get the crew members. It was a race again, which probably explains why there was a little bit of a delay in finding out about it. They rescued these guys with a drone boat, the first of its kind operation at sea.
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Chapter 7: What recent events are impacting Northern Ireland's safety?
So there's a trend towards getting the essentials. So people are putting the Tim Tams back on the shelf and taking the cheap Vickies. Another similar trend to ANZ, spending in restaurants and on takeaways has picked up. So fewer bucks going on fuel, discretionary spending budget goes up. You can buy, go out and get yourself a cheeky butter chicken or whatever.
The quarterly growth on spending running at 0.7%. Go back to earlier this year, that number was 2% to 3%. So according to their numbers, we are cutting back. Just one piece of the starter that I had to, my eye was drawn to, Heather. No prizes for guessing which region has the most robust spending. Bottom of the South Island, Otago South. And that's just the place to be, isn't it?
Yeah, totally. Okay, now give me the numbers. Okay, so the Dow Jones is down, so it's very volatile at the moment, and perhaps over the next couple of days we might talk about the big SpaceX IPO and volatility in the markets, but it's volatile.
The Dow Jones is down about 20 points, 50,768.
The S&P 500, 7339, it's down just under 1%, 67 points. The Nasdaq's been all over the shop at one stage. It was almost down 3%. It's rallied back. It's only down about 1.5% now, 366 points lower, 25,500. The FTSE 100 yesterday fell 1.4%, 145 points, 10,227. The Nikkei gained over 2% yesterday, up 1,392 points, 65416. The Chinese market, Shanghai Comp, stood up 1.28%, 401 over the mark there.
The Aussies yesterday, they lost about a quarter of a percent there. Down 21 points, 8604. But the NZX 50 closed at 13,204. So it was a good day on the NZX 50. One Kiwi dollar, 0.5818 against the US, 0.8278 Aussie, 0.5039 against the Euro, 0.4347 pounds. 93.29 Japanese yen. Gold is trading at $4,260.
And people are getting a little bit optimistic about the Strait of Hormuz and more oil going through there. Brent crude has fallen $91.72.
I'll take that. Hey, thank you, Andrew. Look after yourself and enjoy your trip to field days. That's Andrew Callagher, Shaw & Partners. By the way, over the ditch, consumer confidence has come back. It's fallen by about 3%. That's being described as ugly. And the business confidence has gone up ever so slightly.
Richard Arnold, by the way, is going to be with us just after half past and talk us through the latest here with Donald Trump vowing retaliation on Iran for the helicopter, 621.
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Chapter 8: What are the latest developments in the Middle East?
And then they faced allegations of starting an affair. They both denied the affair. Anyway, now that they've broken up, fans are speculating Ariana Grande's new album is all about this relationship. This is her new song, Hate That I Made You Love Me. And fans are jumping all over it, pointing out the lyrics. For example, I hate that I made you love me because I barely tried.
Is it really my fault that you gave me all your hearts of your own accord? I really don't think so. I've double-checked. Hearts is supposed to be plural. What is this, like a reference to Tin Man? Tin Man's got no hearts. I don't get it. Why has Ethan Slater got more than one heart? I think you've spent too much time thinking about this.
Well, I just went down the rabbit hole with the fans who spent too much time thinking. I heartily agree with you on that, Ethan. Ethan? Oh, Lord. I'm living in Ariana Grande's world now. Clean as my Ethan with multiple hearts. Anyway, here's an idea for you. Call to beef up the fines for the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand. We'll talk to the Greens next.
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.
Hey, tell me how you like the sound of this because I'm quite into this. There are more proposed changes for pharmacies and this time it's the ability to be able to do the click and collect. So you get in touch with your pharmacy. I'm assuming your doctor prescribes whatever. And then they get in touch with you and they go, how do you want it? And you say, I just want to click and collect it.
And so they'll chuck your antibiotics in a locker outside, a locked locker. And then you can turn up, kind of like you do with the supermarket shopping. You can grab your stuff out of there and you can do it whenever. Because who can get to the pharmacy before it closes at five o'clock if you're working nine to five, right? And it also helps people in rural areas.
I mean, the trouble, obviously, for the pharmacies is you're not going in. So you're not walking in and going, oh, jeez, I forgot I need some toothpaste and a hairbrush and, you know, some vitamin C. They're not getting that extra foot traffic. But this makes a little bit of sense, doesn't it? Anyway, you let me know what you think.
We're going to talk to Lanny Wong, who's the director of Mungify Pharmacy after seven. It's 22 away from seven. Now, there is a call to allow the Privacy Commissioner to impose huge penalties on corporates that breach privacy. It comes after the Manage My Health data breach that left that company largely unpunished financially. Marama Davidson is the Green Party co-leader. Morning, Marama.
Now, if this had happened in Australia, the business with Manage My Health, they would have been fined potentially in the tens of millions, right? The fines in Australia are a lot higher than the $10,000 measly that... New Zealand has got at the moment the only power that the Privacy Commissioner has got.
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