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Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

A fresh and intelligent start to your day - catch the very latest international and domestic news developments, sport, entertainment and business on Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, on Newstalk ZB.

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2:00

Gail Downey: UK and Europe Correspondent on the...

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge ·

2025/01/19

Following last minute strikes over Gaza and a three-hour long delay, an Israel-Hamas ceasefire has begun. Israel is expecting to receive 33 hostages from Hamas over the coming weeks. The first three hostages have been returned to Israel, after spending around 15 months in captivity. Hamas says for every hostage released, 30 Palestinian prisoners will be released from Israeli jails. UK and Europe Correspondent Gail Downey joins the show to discuss the details. LISTEN ABOVE.See omnystudio.com/listener

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4:30

Nicola Willis: Finance Minister on the new Economic...

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2025/01/19

Nicola Willis will pick up a new role with a new name in the Economic Growth Portfolio - formerly the Economic Development Portfolio occupied by Melissa Lee. Willis told Francesca Rudkin she is planning to identify the barriers for small businesses, industry leaders and entrepreneurs. The change is among a variety of shakeups to cabinet - Doctor Shane Reti has lost the health portfolio, Simeon Brown has become the new minister for health and handed over his portfolio to Chris Bishop. Finance

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3:39

Elliott Smith: Sports reporter on Sail GP, the...

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2025/01/19

The Black Foil's finished fourth in front of a home crowd in the Sail GP over the weekend. Beat out by our rivals across the Tasman, Australia's Tom Slingsby said recovering after a technical scare was what helped them win the maiden final. Sports reporter Elliott Smith joins early edition, giving a run down of the weekends sailing, the powerhouses taking on the Australian Open and Auckland FC is back in action. LISTEN ABOVE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:30

Matt Terrill: Marco Rubio's former chief of staff on...

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2025/01/19

The stage is set for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. In less than 24 hours he will be sworn in as the 47th United States President, however dangerously cold temperatures are threatening the ceremony's outdoor venue. The former President isn't missing a beat with promises to conduct 100 executive orders on day one of his second term. Marco Rubio's former chief of staff Matt Terrill joins Early Edition to discuss what can be expected this time around. LISTEN ABOVE.See

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34:29

Full Show Podcast: 20 January 2025

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge ·

2025/01/19

Listen to the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Monday 20 January. Get the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:30

Nicola Willis: Minister for Economic Growth on new...

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2025/01/19

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has made a series of changes to his cabinet for the new year. Melissa Lee has been demoted from his ministerial team, taking her economic development and ethnic communities portfolios off her. Lee’s economic development portfolio had morphed into economic growth, which has been given to Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “[Willis'] focus will be on leading the Government’s growth agenda to unleash the potential of our businesses to grow, develop talent and attract

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3:15

Francesca Rudkin: Health is a priority in National's...

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2025/01/19

Like many of us over the summer, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon used his downtime to reflect on the year that had been, and like many of us put together his in and out list for 2025. This is the way young people do New Year’s Resolutions these days. But what’s in and out took on a new rather crude spin yesterday afternoon when he announced a reshuffle of Ministerial roles for National MPs. Melissa Lee lost all her portfolios. Matt Doocey is handing over ACC, Tourism and Hospitality, and Youth to

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2:01

Best of 2024: Ryan Bridge - Why are we paying $80 a...

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2025/01/04

According to the group who are upset about the monopoly-duopoly that's happening in our grocery sector, you could save, at most per person, about $74 per year. That's if they were to have perfect competition in the sector, which obviously would be very hard to achieve. Do you know what else costs you $80 a year? A friend and I were chatting at the gym the other day and he showed me his rates bill, which he had kindly brought to the gym to encourage him to run faster. There's an $80 targeted rate

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1:51

Best of 2024: Ryan Bridge - Thank you to David...

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2024/12/22

I've got an amazing wonder drug to tell you about New Zealand, and it saved me in the last couple of weeks. People are talking about it from top of the country to the bottom and it's not Ozempic. No, I'm not taking Ozempic, though, I wouldn't mind trying it. I think a lot of people are curious. David Seymour made this drug a priority. Yes, I'm talking about pseudoephedrine. I felt sick, I took it, the symptoms disappeared. I had a wedding recently and people said they wouldn't have come without it

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3:44

Vincent McAviney: Europe Correspondent on the...

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2024/12/19

Guilty verdicts have been reached in France's mass rape trial. Dominique Pelicot's been jailed for 20 years after drugging and raping his wife Gisele and inviting dozens of strangers to do the same for over nearly a decade. He was also found guilty of taking indecent images of his daughter and his two daughters-in-law. Of the other 50 men on trial, 46 were found guilty of rape, two of attempted rape, and two of sexual assault. Europe Correspondent Vincent McAviney told Andrew Dickens that there’s

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3:15

Danu Abeysuriya: Rush Digital founder on the new...

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2024/12/19

The Government's teaming up with the private sector to get on top of text scams. When people report scam texts as junk on some phones, text messages will soon go directly to the Department of Internal Affairs. It can then share the info with telcos so they can be blocked. Rush Digital founder and chief executive Danu Abeysuriya told Andrew Dickens we have to work together to solve this problem. He sees it as a good approach because if you get a few reports of spam, thousands of further texts can be

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3:33

Henry Russell: ANZ Economist on the latest GDP...

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2024/12/19

Stabilising the economy is not as simple as investing more. Stats NZ figures out yesterday show GDP fell 1% in the three months to September. They also revised the preceding quarter down to 1.1% contraction, with both figures putting us in deep recession. ANZ Economist Henry Russell told Andrew Dickens the Government should be investing more, if it weren't dealing with its own deficits. He says there is going to be another shock on the horizon and the country needs to be prepared to respond to that

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34:46

Full Show Podcast: 20 December 2024

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2024/12/19

Listen to the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Friday 20 December. Get the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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3:50

Sandra Grey: Tertiary Education Union President says...

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2024/12/19

The government has announced changes to free speech rules for universities, saying it's concerned that they are currently taking a risk based approach and need more diverse opinions. The new rules will set out expectations for universities on how to approach freedom of speech issues and each one will have to adopt a free speech statement. They will also be prohibited from taking positions on issues that don't relate to their core functions. Tertiary Education Union President Sandra Grey says there

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2:14

Andrew Dickens: We’ll never forget you 2024, but...

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2024/12/19

This is my last editorial for the year. What a year it’s been, we started in January with Golriz shoplifting, we watched 10,000 jobs go from the public sector and the private sector follow suit as cash stopped bouncing around the economy. National blamed Labour for everything and Labour blamed National. We watched Scott Robertson fail to be the second coming but when the All Blacks were good they were very good. The Treaty Principles Bill debate came, saw and divided. The hikoi invaded parliament,

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2:39

Toni Waterman: US Correspondent on the Amazon workers...

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge ·

2024/12/18

Many Americans could be in trouble this Christmas. Amazon workers across a number of facilities in New York, Illinois, and Southern California are gearing up to strike later this week. The strike would take place the week before and during Christmas and Hanukkah, the two biggest gift giving holidays in the US. US Correspondent Toni Waterman told Andrew Dickens the workers are calling for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. She says they’re currently at a bit of a stalemate, as Amazon is

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3:52

Mary Jo Vergara: Kiwibank Senior Economist ahead of...

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2024/12/18

Infrastructure investment is being held up as being paramount to keeping New Zealand's economy on the right track. Stats NZ will release GDP data for the third quarter just before 11am today. The major banks are all predicting between a 0.2% and 0.4% contraction, meaning our third technical recession in two years. Kiwibank Senior Economist Mary Jo Vergara told Andrew Dickens a lack of infrastructure investment has made the last few years particularly volatile. She says in a time of recession,

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4:05

Jim Goodwin: Lake Alice survivor on the redress...

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge ·

2024/12/18

A Lake Alice survivor understands the frustration at the Government's torture redress. Eligible people tortured at the psychiatric hospital in the 1970s can take an expedited payment of $150 thousand or apply for independently assessed redress. Payments will be made between March and December next year. But survivor Jim Goodwin told Andrew Dickens these people have spent their lives being fobbed off and may feel it's not good enough. He says this is also being determined by government ministers and

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34:42

Full Show Podcast: 19 December 2024

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge ·

2024/12/18

Listen to the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Thursday 19 December. Get the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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2:19

Simon Wickham: Rowing NZ Chief Executive welcomes...

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge ·

2024/12/18

Olympic medal-winning sports have been given a funding boost heading into the 2028 Los Angeles games. High Performance Sport New Zealand's announced it's investing $162.8 million for 36 national sporting organisations over the next four years. Rowing, Yachting, Athletics and Para Athletics, Cycling and Para Cycling, and Canoe Racing and Para Canoe are the Podium sports which will receive increased investment - sports that contributed to 16 of New Zealand’s 20 medals won at the Paris Olympics. Rowing

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