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Labour’s going to have to sort itself out over this Middle East situation.
This is about Damien O'Connor's tweet. I was really surprised yesterday when I was listening to Carmel Sepuloni being interviewed on this, as the deputy leader of the Labour Party.
She was asked if he should apologise for his tweet and instead of saying yes, which is the only answer to give, she made excuses for him, saying he feels strongly about the situation as if that makes it OK.
Let me just remind you what he tweeted - "Palestinians have every right to do whatever they did on October 7th".
And I'll remind you what Hamas did that day. They raped and murdered innocent people.
It really doesn’t matter where you stand on this conflict. You can never, especially as a senior politician, say or think it’s okay for terrorists to kill teenagers out at a dance party just because you feel strongly about what the state of Israel is doing.
He should absolutely apologise for that.
I know that this is a conflict that is making people feel very upset and it’s scrambling people’s better judgment.
Just this week in Australia we had the case of a young reporter questioning why Australia doesn’t ban the Israeli flag like it bans the Hezbollah flag.
They’re not the same.
There is no equivalence between a state and a terrorist organisation, no matter how much you don't like what a state is doing.
But that’s exactly why Damien should apologise.
Because right now, when people are as angry and confused about what's going on, what we need is our major and serious political parties and our MPs, especially the senior ones holding senior portfolios like Associate Foreign Affairs spokesperson, to set an example for how to behave with decency.
Not the opposite.
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While he’s well-known for fronting Kiwi rock band Shihad, Jon Toogood is striking out with his biggest solo project yet.
His first ever solo album, Last of the Lonely Gods, drops next week, and to celebrate Toogood is embarking on a 19 date tour around New Zealand.
The album is a ten-track acoustic collection, showcasing themes of loss, resilience, and healing, and showcasing his artistic evolution.
Toogood told Heather du Plessis-Allan that performing solo is thrilling in the same way early Shihad gigs were.
“I don’t quite know what I’m doing,” he said.
“There’s nothing to hide behind. No big PA, no big light show, no other members of the band, it’s just me and my guitar.”
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 3rd of October, as Air NZ make further reductions on regional routes, they come on to answer whether there is more to come.
It's the annual Mood of the Boardroom today so Heather looks at who the business community thinks is doing well within the Government - and what Cabinet Minister has been a flop.
Shihad frontman Jon Toogood is going solo and has his first ever solo album out very soon, so he popped into the studio for a chat.
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Christchurch's Business Association is calling out the food truck plans of the city's Arts Centre.
The centre's applied for licences for 33 trucks to operate 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
But the Christchurch Business Association believes this is unfair, with chair Annabel Turley saying city businesses are subsidising the Arts Centre.
She told Heather du Plessis-Allan that the centre is getting $5.5 million over the next decade, and the rate differential for commercial compared to residential is a lot higher.
Turley says food trucks would also cheapen the site.
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Senior business leaders are rating Christopher Luxon well on keeping his Cabinet focused on delivery, and Education Minister Erica Stanford well on performance.
More than 100 CEOs and board chairs have been quizzed for today's Mood of the Boardroom survey.
They've identified energy prices as their biggest concern, followed by the cost of living.
Dame Joan Withers, Chairperson for the Warehouse Group, told Heather du Plessis-Allan that they’ve one incredibly well, and have addressed key issues up front, or tried to do as much as they can.
She said that business people are in consensus that we need to pivot and start maximising New Zealand’s opportunities both domestically and also in terms of our place in the world.
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An investigator says it was obvious Gail Maney didn't murder Auckland man Deane Fuller-Sandys in 1989.
Maney and Steven Stone's murder convictions have been quashed, and a re-trial's been ordered for Stone.
Colin Maney and Mark Henriksen have also had their accessory to murder convictions quashed.
The Crown's accepting the police failed to disclose important information, which caused a miscarriage of justice.
Private Investigator Tim McKinnel told Heather du Plessis-Allan that work is underway towards gaining compensation.
He says it became clear the Crown case was an absurdity, and those who looked at the case knew fairly quickly there'd been a miscarriage.
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There’s fiery opposition to the Government's charter schools move by the teacher's union.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour's championing a move to convert 35 state schools to charter schools, allowing $153 million for the initiative.
It's caused the PPTA to change its constitution to allow members who teach at charter schools to be members, despite its stance against the schools.
PPTA President Chris Abercrombie told Heather du Plessis-Allan it's not a backtrack, and they're still opposed.
He says the Government's forcing the conversion of schools against the teacher's will.
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Transport Minister Simeon Brown is confident in delivering Auckland's City Rail Link on time with no network issues.
KiwiRail has assured the $5.5 billion project will cut delays down to a maximum of 1 minute 20 seconds when it opens in 2026.
Official papers show Brown and Auckland mayor Wayne Brown are working to improve confidence in the wide rail network.
Simeon Brown told Heather du Plessis-Allan he's also aware of the rail fatigue among Aucklanders.
He says he gets the frustration about more maintenance and renewals and is determined to ensure they get as much done as possible.
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Air New Zealand won't say if the latest cuts to its domestic routes will be the last.
The airline's reducing flights between Christchurch and New Plymouth and running smaller planes between Christchurch and Queenstown, and Wellington and Dunedin.
On Monday it also scrapped direct flights between Wellington and Invercargill from early next year.
Domestic manager Scott Carr told Heather du Plessis-Allan they're strongly committed to their domestic fleet, but these are trying times.
He says if that continues indefinitely there may be more changes, but if it bounces back they can get more planes in the air.
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I’m loathe to keep talking about this, but I think Chris Luxon is being treated really unfairly on the sale of his apartment.
And because he’s being treated so unfairly, it’s hard to avoid saying something.
The latest instalment on this is a series of articles pointing out that Chris Luxon would’ve paid up to $70 thousand in tax on the sale of his apartment if it wasn’t for his government changing the bright-line test rules.
He bought the apartment in 2020 when the bright-line test was five years and because he sold it within five years, it should’ve been subject to the 5 year bright-line test and he should’ve paid a capital gains tax on it.
But his government cut the bright-line test back to 2 years, effective July this year, so he didn’t have to pay the tax.
The implication being that either by design or luck, he managed to dodge a tax he should've paid.
Honestly, give me a break.
The only reason Luxon is selling the apartment is because we’ve pressured him into moving into Premier House.
He didn’t want to move there, that was obvious, and why would he? The place is famously cold and drafty, and given that this guy’s been earning mega bucks for at least a couple of decades, he probably hasn’t lived in a house as cold as a student flat for a couple of decades.
But we gave him grief for not living there and taking the accommodation allowance instead, so he caved and said he’d move into Premier House.
And now that he’s doing that, we’re not happy either because he’s making money off his apartment.
Come on. What do we want here?
He isn’t costing the taxpayer on the accommodation allowance any more, he didn’t change the bright-line test so he could avoid tax – that was an election promise made last year when he clearly still intended to keep owning his property.
The absence of fairness in this ongoing drama suggest that this is exactly what he says this is, which is politics of envy.
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Today on Politics Wednesday Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell joined Heather du Plessis-Allan to discuss the biggest stories of the week so far.
They discussed the conflict in the Middle East, Damien O’Connor’s ill-advised tweet, and point the finger as to who’s to blame for the Dunedin Hospital mess.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 2nd of October, we speak to our Middle East correspondent as Iran launches ballistic missile strikes on Israel.
Big day in the US as JD Vance and Tim Walz prepare to go head-to-head in the Vice Presidential debate.
Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell put the blame on each other for the Dunedin Hospital mess and discuss Damien O'Connor's ill-advised tweet on Politics Wednesday.
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There’s optimism from within Athletics New Zealand that hosting the World Indoor Athletics Championships isn't beyond the realms of possibility.
The sport's governing body, with support of the government, are working on a bid to bring the event to our shores in March 2028, prior to the Los Angeles Olympics.
The biennial event has never been held in Oceania since its inception in 1985.
Athletics NZ CEO Cam Mitchell told Heather du Plessis-Allan that they’re quietly confident.
He said that it’s something they have as an aspiration, and there’s also a massive novelty factor they think people would get behind and support.
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It’s believed US voters will be more concerned about records than personalities heading into today's vice-presidential debate.
JD Vance and Tim Walz will meet for their only debate in New York today, getting underway at 2pm NZ time.
Key issues expected to be on the agenda include the economy, cost of living, and border security.
Republican strategist Matt Terrill told Heather du Plessis-Allan if Vance focuses on those, he'll have a much better night than Walz.
He says many voters will be questioning if they're better off today than they were four years ago.
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Dogs are on their way to sniffing out early signs of bowel and ovarian cancers.
K9 Medical Detection New Zealand has had a 100% success rate in recent trials.
The four-legged workers are trained to detect specific odours connected to bowel and ovarian cancers.
CEO Pauline Blomfield told Heather du Plessis-Allan that the dogs are clearly detecting the odour released from cancer, but they’re not replacing any tests.
She said that they’re currently working with scientists to identify the markers dogs are picking up on, because they don’t currently know what exactly the dogs are smelling.
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The Education Minister says she has a great relationship with the teachers’ union, despite some disagreement.
A PPTA survey shows a majority of teachers are unhappy with the NCEA level one roll out.
It comes as the organisation has its conference this week, with Minister Erica Stanford speaking yesterday, defending the controversial move to remove te reo funding for teachers.
She told Heather du Plessis-Allan most of teachers' concerns are with NCEA changes, which are the previous Government's fault, and she agrees.
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Casey Costello's hit back at health advocates over criticism of her heated tobacco tax cut.
The Associate Health Minister cut the tax by 50% in an effort to encourage use of the products instead of smoking.
Costello has faced a tense reception regarding the move.
But she told Heather du Plessis Allan she's working hard to reduce smoking rates, despite what she calls "the noise".
She says the Health Coalition became fixated on the tobacco industry, not Costello's plans to reduce smoking rates.
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The Conservatives annual conference in Birmingham – essentially one big job interview. By Wednesday afternoon the Conservatives should be a lot closer to knowing who their next leader will be.
The selected candidates are Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat with Rishi Sunak as the leader.
Tens of thousands of council homes sit empty as the waitlist grows.
Rod Little told Heather du Plessis-Allan that today it was Tugendhat who seems to be one of the outsiders.
Liddle states the general thinking is that this will come down to a final between Badenoch from the right and Jenrick from the centre left.
Liddle believes that it's looking more like the conservative MPs will try to get rid of Badenoch before it gets to the final.
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We've got a fascination with prime ministers and their money, it turns out.
Last night 1News did the calculation that Christopher Luxon stands to make $480,000 off the sale of his apartment in Wellington —he's moving out because he's going over to Premier House— and also a rental property that he's selling in South Auckland.
Now the implication of the story was that Christopher Luxon's making too much money off these properties, and he should be taxed.
Over the weekend, a newspaper in Wellington also reported that Jacinda Ardern is earning $316,000 per appearance every time she speaks on the international speaking circuit, and the implication there was —certainly in commentary afterwards— that it's unethical for her to be doing that. It's damaging her reputation by showing that she really does love money over doing good after all. And if prime ministers keep on doing stuff like this, how do we know that they're actually making the right decisions when they are in power and not thinking about what kind of money they're gonna earn afterwards?
Now, look, I don't mind the fascination with prime ministers and former prime ministers' earnings. I think it's completely human nature to be into it. We're fascinated by what our colleagues earn, right? So why wouldn't we be fascinated by what Luxon and Ardern earn? However, that is where I think it should stop – at fascination.
There's nothing wrong with Jacinda Ardern earning that much money off the speaking circuit. Frankly, if we're honest about it, talking was about the only thing she was actually good at, and she'd be a fool not to take that kind of money if it's on offer.
Same goes for Luxon. He was a well-paid businessman before politics. You would expect him to have plenty of money, you would expect him to put some of that money into property. And unless things have gone very bad for him in his calculations, you would expect him to make money off a property, especially one that he has apparently renovated. Nothing wrong here.
To suggest that Luxon's capital gain on his property is evidence that we need a capital gains tax and to suggest that Jacinda's speaking circuit means that we need to put some sort of restraint of trade on future prime ministers is just taking it a bit far, isn't it?
It's fine to be fascinated, just leave it at that.
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A French far-right politician is on trial, accused of misappropriating EU funds.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally Party, along with the party itself and 24 others, are accused of using money destined for work at the European Parliament to pay staff working for their party.
Le Pen denies the charges, and is confident she would be able to prove she did nothing wrong.
France Correspondent Catherine Field told Heather du Plessis-Allan that they’re accused of diverting around $5.5 million New Zealand.
She said they’ve paid back about a quarter of that sum, but the party did say it doesn’t mean they’re guilty.
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