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6 days ago | 
nzinitiative.org.nz | Oliver Hartwich |Ryan Bridge
Reports & Media > Media > Newstalk ZB: Dr Oliver Hartwich describes capital spending increase as relatively minor Newstalk ZB: Dr Oliver Hartwich describes capital spending increase as relatively minor Dr Oliver Hartwich talked to Ryan Bridge on Newstalk ZB about the government's increased capital spending, describing it as "a relatively minor announcement" and "a drop in the government's ocean." Dr Hartwich also discussed the potential for asset recycling, suggesting the government could...
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6 days ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
It was the last day of school in Parliament yesterday. It happens after MPs sit through urgency, they get restless, excitable, a bit crazy. They were shouting, interrupting, it was a bit chaotic... even Gerry Browlee finished question time saying this has not been our finest hour. Opposition MPs, particularly women, were up in arms and incensed over the Pay Equity bill... for the second day in a row.
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1 week ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
So, after all the handwringing, the complaints, the stomping of feet, the Commerce Commission's shooting down talk of an investigation into domestic airfares. Greg Foran and Co. will see this as vindication - validation that, despite the headlines and Consumer NZ's claim the market is quote broken, the reality is their costs have gone up and, surprise surprise, it's expensive to run routes with high fixed costs to small places with few people.
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1 week ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
Bad news this morning for any productive, hard-working, and busy members of our society. The climate protesters who brought Wellington to a standstill - rush hour traffic to a stand still - will be back at it again soon. Mark my words. You'll see more idiots gluing themselves to motorways, abseiling down Mt Victoria, hanging signs from gantries, roads closed, police resources distracted from important stuff, and chaos to start your day. Why?
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1 week ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
Alright it's time for Friday confessional. With the Pope passing away, all this focus on Catholicism's got me feeling repentant. There are two things I predicted would happen last December as I was signing for Christmas here at Newstalk ZB. One of those things hasn't happened and the other one is about to not happen. Poilievre winning the Canadian election and Albo losing Australia's. We all know who's to blame.
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2 weeks ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
Mark Mitchell, he's got a bit on his plate at the moment. He'll be happy with the score he got from Audrey Young in her ranking of ministers for midterm, but I reckon he is holding on to a ticking time bomb. This is the case of the beautiful young Colombian woman in Christchurch living next door to a monster. She didn't know he'd been let out of prison 10 weeks before he raped her and stabbed her to death. He was on parole, by the way.
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2 weeks ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
Here we go again with the whinge fest about Air New Zealand's prices. I get it. I try book the same flights as everybody else and when you're trying to fly some obscure route from this province to province its gets expensive. Quickly. But here we are again with politicians telling us fibs - telling us they can wave a magic wand and fix all of our problems. This time is James Meager - going in to bat for the South Island.
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2 weeks ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
There was a priest on the news last night talking about homeless people the cost of buying a house in New Zealand. This priest, who was all dressed up in his garb, then mentioned the fact there were marina berths down at the waterfront bursting at the seams with super yachts. I thought that was such an odd thing to say. I know the church's role is to help the poor. And they do that and I've seen them do that. And that's fantastic.
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4 weeks ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
Have you been keeping up with this senior doctor's strike? There's a couple of things that don't add up. Yesterday we spoke about the average salary for these unionised senior doctors. Simeon Brown says it's a total package worth $343,50. The union hit back - they said the number was made up. Which it's not. It's the total package including superannuation and, overtime, penalties etc. Now... For most kiwis.... When you apply for a job... That's the number you'd work off.
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4 weeks ago | 
newstalkzb.co.nz | Ryan Bridge
So we have senior doctors going on strike. We've in the midst of a global trade war - not that we're allowed to call it that anymore, Winston. We have inflation potentially picking up again. We have a lot going on in this country - not to mention around the world. And yet there I was... sitting down to watch the news last night... and the second lead story was about whether women or people could get pregnant. The fact is nobody in the story said it was solely women who get pregnant.
