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It's been a week since Donald Trump won the US election - and the markets underwent a shift once the results became clear.
Small to medium-sized businesses have picked up - and they're expecting to see a boost driven by proposed tax cuts and fewer regulations.
Milford Asset Management's Stephanie Batchelor unpacked the results further.
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Insurance has been a hot topic of late, as premiums are continuing to shoot up while general inflation abates.
Findings of a Treasury survey show owners of apartments and other multi-unit buildings (MUB) are being hit extra hard.
NZ Herald Wellington business editor Jenee Tibshraeny revealed how much insurance premiums had gone up - and how that impacted owners.
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There's outrage from Auckland commuters, as a hīkoi working its way down to Parliament marched over the Harbour Bridge and added to traffic issues.
NZTA was forced to close some lanes on the bridge and people were delayed in their morning commutes.
Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper unpacks the political causes that inspired the hīkoi.
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Tonight on The Huddle, Nick Mills from ZB's Wellington Mornings and Phil O'Reilly from Iron Duke Partners joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!
The hīkoi working its way through New Zealand has disrupted the commutes of thousands of Aucklanders today. Is this the right move? Will they lose favour from the public if they keep negatively impacting people?
Donald Trump has started setting up his political team - including putting Elon Musk at the head of his new Department of Government Efficiency. What do we make of this?
The Government has launched a new online calculator designed to help companies address their gender pay gaps. Can the Government address this issue?
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42 members of the King's Counsel, some of New Zealand's most senior legal minds, are calling on the Government to abandon the Treaty Principles Bill.
The group has written a letter to the Prime Minister and attorney-general Judith Collins outlining their 'grave concerns' about the bill - claiming it 'seeks to rewrite the Treaty itself'.
One of the signatories is Karen Feint KC, and she says the bill will erase several key Treaty principles.
"You can't just rewrite the constitution of New Zealand without having a proper dialogue about it."
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On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Wednesday, 13 November 2024, the big hikoi to Parliament has disrupted thousands of Auckland commuters' day - and Heather is wondering whether this really is the best way to get the general public on board the cause.
Lifetime Black Power member Denis O'Reilly speaks to Heather after the police launched Operation "Nickel" to enforce the gang patch ban from next week.
Shihad frontman Jon Toogood tells Heather why the band has decided to call it quits after four decades together.
Plus, Auckland Unlimited reveals a little financial help was needed to entice Coldplay to come to the country.
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The Government has launched a new online tool designed to help businesses address their gender pay gaps.
The online calculator is now live on Ministry for Women’s website, meaning businesses can calculate their gaps and take action.
Minister for Women Nicola Grigg says it's unlikely this tool will drive companies away from hiring more women - despite recent concerns.
"I think they're going to see the power of it, and it's going to unleash something quite cool."
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It's the end of an era for Kiwi rock fans - as iconic band Shihad are set to call it quits after their last tour.
After nearly 40 years, the group has confirmed they will split up for good, with demand for this final tour causing their website to crash.
Shihad frontman Jon Toogood says the group's priorities have changed - as all the members have children and families now.
"Everyone's busy all the time, this is a great band that deserves that full-on attention - and I just think we just sort of came to a collective agreement that we couldn't do that. It was time to put it to bed, but go out on a high."
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ACT leader David Seymour is warning principals they're technically public servants - and must display political neutrality.
The Associate Education Minister is hitting out at schools who've marked absences by students attending a national hīkoi as 'justified'.
Thousands marched through Auckland today on the pilgrimage to Parliament, protesting the Treaty Principles Bill.
Seymour says parents can only urge schools to do the right thing.
"Ultimately, it's up to communities to say to principals through their school boards - we don't like what you're doing and maybe it's time to get someone new."
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Coldplay is set to hit the stage at Auckland's Eden Park later tonight, with over 50,000 people being expected to attend.
Extra public transport services are scheduled and fans will have the option to walk down a trail from the CBD - but traffic will be heavy.
Auckland Unlimited's head of major events, Michelle Hooper, says the headliners are expected to start about 8.15pm.
"They are absolutely global icons - and I'm just so pumped that Auckland's buzzing at the moment as a city. Coldplay are such loyalists to Auckland."
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A longtime Black Power member says he'll be waiting to see how enforcement of the gang patch ban plays out from Thursday next week.
Denis O'Reilly says the extensive preparatory meetings between gangs and police could mean it goes well.
He says care is needed.
"We need calm heads and steady hands and careful words, I think."
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Donald Trump is tapping the shoulder of billionaire Elon Musk for a new role.
The incoming US president has handed the Tesla boss leadership of the new Department of Government Efficiency, alongside Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.
Its goal will be cutting regulations and bureaucracy.
But US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says it's not necessarily a job.
"These guys can keep their real jobs that pay a gazillion dollars - and still have influence over policy."
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A host of young talent have earned fulltime contracts with the Blues for next season.
Among the seven fresh faces are fullback Payton Spencer - son of former All Blacks first-five Carlos - and loose forward Che Clark.
Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.
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There's some new Government measures to regulate online gambling operators.
Only 15 operators will be granted licenses - which will include mandatory age verification.
Ads targeting children will be banned and operators will be limited to casino games, not sports betting or lotteries.
Breaches could result in $5 million dollar fines.
Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says things need tightening up.
"At the moment, anybody can go online and play thousands of different regulated games in New Zealand. It is a bit of a wild west."
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I've actually been surprised at the level of anger I've heard expressed today at that Treaty Principles Bill hīkoi crossing over the Harbour Bridge - and I don't think it's a good thing for this particular cause.
Yesterday, completely out of the blue, I got an email from a mum I know complaining about the impact it will l have on kids trying to get to their NCEA exams on time.
Today, I bumped into someone this morning furious about the timing because it was rush hour. And someone in my family is raging about it as well.
To be fair to these people, it's understandable anger and I can see why they're so cross.
Basically, it's because this protest feels like it was designed to create disruption. Either that or the organisers didn't think it through - which I doubt very much because they have proven to be quite deliberate in a bunch of the things they do.
What happened to facilitate the hīkoi today was that authorities had to close two lanes on the Harbour Bridge in our biggest city from 8 in the morning - at peak morning traffic time. That will have messed up the day for thousands of people coming in from the North Shore.
If these guys were decent to the people of Auckland just trying to do their jobs and get their kids to school, they would've shifted their walk time back by a couple of hours, when most people are in the office and won't be messed around.
It's not as if the hīkoi would lose attention because it caused less disruption.
They are all over the online news feeds, they’re being covered by radio shows like ours, they'll be all over the TV news later because the protest is big. And it's about a very contentious issue, that being the Treaty Principles Bill. These guys did not have to muck Aucklanders around to get the coverage they wanted.
Ultimately, I don't think it's a smart move from them. Just like I don't think it's too smart to have gang members join the hīkoi with their patches on display.
All it’s going to do is frustrate middle New Zealand and make middle New Zealand more sympathetic to the other side, because that’s how politics works nowadays - we pick sides. We don't like that side, we go to the other, that's how this works.
And that’s ultimately an own goal, because the only hope David Seymour has for this bill is that it becomes very popular and that it gets rescued because enough people want it.
And this hīkoi, I reckon, won’t have hurt his chances at all.
A lesson to people planning future protests - try not cause disruption on purpose, because that way we’re more likely to be sympathetic to your cause, not less.
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I think the hardest news story to read today is of the kindergarten teacher in Victoria who died yesterday afternoon saving children from a truck that smashed into the kindy.
The truck driver lost control, the truck ploughed into the kindy, the teacher pushed the kids out of the way, but died herself.
The speed limit outside that kindergarten was supposed to be dropped from 50 to 40 kph – but hadn’t been.
A similar thing happened a few weeks ago in Melbourne.
An SUV crashed into a primary school, killing an 11-year-old boy and hurting 4 other children.
I don't love speed reductions.
All too often they’re done in stupid places like open roads. But when it comes to places where kids are, I've completely 180’d on this.
I read the book ‘The Anxious Generation’ a few weeks ago. The book tracks why kids are having mental crises en masse lately.
One of the reasons, particularly for boys, is that since the 1970s parents have increasingly stopped their kids from just playing around the neighbourhood on their bikes, or running around with other kids - because parents are scared of fast traffic.
And with good reason... cars go fast in our suburbs.
I live on a road that’s 30kph. No one does 30kph – I don't do 30kph.
The good news is that because of recent rule changes here, Auckland schools should have lower speed limits during school hours by the end of 2027. But, I wouldn’t mind if that was pretty much everywhere where kids are.
I get that would drive people bonkers, having to slow down all the time around houses and parks and schools...
It would require us sacrificing our time.
But, for the benefit of going as fast as we do around kids... we are sacrificing quite a lot.
Their best childhoods.
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Keir Starmer will be the first UK Prime Minister to join Armistice Day commemorations in France since Winston Churchill in 1944.
UK correspondent Enda Brady tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the British leader was there to get private time with Macron in order to discuss Trump’s re-election.
Meanwhile, cold case detectives in Ireland have made a breakthrough in the notorious case of a young woman who had been missing for 21 years.
And, BBC’s top sports presenter Gary Lineker will leave Match of the Day after 25 years.
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Retailers continue to struggle along as many watch every penny spent.
Electronic card spending data showed a 1.1% fall in October compared to last year. September was down 5.6%.
As retailers brace for the most important season of the year, Chief Executive at Retail NZ Carolyn Young tells Heather du Plessis-Allan it may be a tough period of time.
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On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Tuesday, 12 November 2024, the Government has delivered an official apology to victims of state and faith based abuse. Survivors have been focusing their anger on one very specific person today.
Chris Luxon spoke to US president-elect Donald Trump this morning, so what did the two really talk about?
Everyone's thinking twice about taking their car to the car wash after one woman's terrifying experience in Christchurch.
The Huddle debates Heather's favourite interview of the week with Federated Farmers' Toby Williams.
Plus Heather admits that she's made a grave error committing to pronounce all French words in English.
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Federated Farmers is calling for the Government to urgently distance itself from a radical new pine planting proposal released by the Climate Change Commission.
ANZ is not going to introduce climate targets for farming customers.
And, voting has opened on a proposal from Kiwifruit marketer Zespri to increase plantings of SunGold in other countries.
Host of The Country Jamie Mackay joins Heather du Plessis-Allan.
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