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Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald

Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays.It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking.If it’s news you’re after, backing John is the combined power of the Newstalk ZB and New Zealand Herald news teams. Meaning when it comes to covering breaking news – you will not beat local radio.With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also has a deep

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5:32

John MacDonald: Mike King was right. But he was wrong...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/31

It’s Gumboot Friday tomorrow and the guy behind it, Mike King, seems to have put his foot in it. Although, I’m a little bit torn on this one. So what’s happened is we’ve got this charity fashion show being held in Dunedin to raise money for suicide prevention and mental health awareness. And, like most events, the organisers wanted to serve alcohol as part of the hospitality offering for guests. The police, though, weren’t too fussed about that and they opposed the application for a special

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5:23

John MacDonald: What's so wrong with slower traffic...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/30

If I say to you “30 kph speed limit area”, chances are you can think of one. I can think of one straight away - on the southern end of Colombo Street in Christchurch. You’re cruising along at 50 kph and then —bang— it drops down to 30. No schools on that stretch of Colombo. There’s a school on one of the side streets, but it goes down to 30 —and it’s permanent— and then it’s back up to 50 by the time you get up to Thorrington School. Where you would think there would be a 30 kph limit. Someone was

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4:36

John MacDonald: Hi-de-hi campers! Christchurch's...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/28

When I heard that a campervan park is going to be up and running in central Christchurch, near Latimer Square —possibly in time for this summer— my first thought was that I’m glad I haven’t spent more than $500,000 buying an apartment around there. Not even the developer’s reassurances that campervan people aren’t “yahoo types” made me feel any more excited about it. In fact, I think it’s the last place we want to see something like this. And I’m pointing the finger squarely at the council for

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6:27

John MacDonald: How do you feel about parenting...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/25

“There for the grace of God goes I.” We generally say it when something bad and we know that it could just as easily happen to us, and anyone who is a parent should say that whenever they hear nightmare stories about kids being abused by their parents or caregivers. I say that not just as a by-stander looking on. I say that as someone with three kids —all grown up now— but someone who has raised three kids and I know just as well as the next parent how much that can drive you to despair at times

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18:45

Politics Friday: National's Hamish Campbell and...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/24

John MacDonald was joined by National’s Hamish Campbell and Labour’s Reuben Davidson for Politics Friday. On the agenda today was yet another case of Oranga Tamariki failing to act on information pertaining to child welfare – is it time to start parenting courses to help with the stress of raising children? A petition has launched, looking at banning the private sale and use of fireworks. Has their time in the publics' hands come and gone? And the Government is considering performance-based pay

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5:15

John MacDonald: Performance pay's no bonus for the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/24

I feel really uncomfortable about the idea of public sector bosses getting performance pay. Not that the Government is going to care too much about that, because it’s confirmed that, from the middle of next year, that’s what’s going to be happening. It’s unclear to me at this stage whether it’s going to mean the heads of all our government departments are going to have some of their salaries earmarked in a category which is known in the HR game as “at-risk”. Which means some of your pay you’re not

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5:52

John MacDonald: Here's how we could keep local...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/23

After saying just the other week that I don’t agree with central Government taking over local councils when things go pear-shaped, I’ve changed my tune. Slightly. And I’ve got an idea to run past you. First, though, can you imagine what it must feel like being a mayor and getting the phone call from the Beehive saying ‘you’re doing a pretty cruddy job so we’re sending someone in to sort you out’? It happened in Christchurch a few years back when the Government-of-the-day wasn’t happy with the time

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8:21

Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on Andrew Bayly's...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/23

Labour Leader Chris Hipkins joined John MacDonald for their regular catchup. On today’s agenda: Andrew Bayly is in hot water for his “offensive comments” during a Ministerial visit – what are his party’s thoughts on the situation? Is it time to have central government reporting on local councils to mitigate the chances of what’s happening in Wellington? And, has David Seymour hit the bullseye with his new school lunch plan? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:45

John MacDonald: Does the government really think this...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/22

Sometimes you just have to resort to cliches, because there are times when there’s just no other way to say it. Or no better way to say it. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over-and-over and expecting different results. That’s how I feel about the Government strengthening its Three Strikes law to make it easier to keep repeat offenders in prison for longer. Which means that instead of 3 Strikes kicking-in after someone’s first sentence of two years or more, they’re going to be in

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5:27

John MacDonald: Here's how to get more people voting...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/21

You can call me a nerd, if you want to. But I reckon there is nothing like the performance of walking down to your local polling booth on voting day and casting your vote. The way we do every three years when we’re electing a Government. In the general election. There’s no confusion. It’s well-publicised. You can do early voting, if you want to or need to. But we all know, don’t we, that when we wake up on a particular Saturday morning every three years - we know it’s voting day. Not so

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5:24

John MacDonald: Forget the naysayers and build the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/18

What’s the thing you hear people say time-and-time again about the way we seemed to just get on with the job of building infrastructure back in, say, the 1970s? What’s the most common thing you hear people say about that? They say “our forebears had the foresight”. And that’s what I hope Christchurch city councillors have when they decide whether or not to press-on with the controversial Wings to Wheels cycleway on Harewood Rd. Because,believe it or not, it’s back on the table after costs have

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21:42

Politics Friday with Duncan Webb and Matt Doocey:...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/18

A blow to South Canterbury as Timaru's Smithfield meat-works is confirmed to be closing. The entire nearly 140-year-old site will close by December's end. Alliance Group's told staff they'll be offered re-deployment at its other processing plants, where possible. Waimakariri MP Matt Doocey told John MacDonald that he's gutted. He says it'll impact many families and be felt by the wider community. Christchurch Central MP Duncan Webb says it will have a knock-on effect for the city. He says the loss

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6:34

John MacDonald: ACC is in desperate need of treatment

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/16

Here’s my perception of ACC: some people get ACC pay-outs at the drop of a hat and others have to fight, for what can be years. And it’s the fighting bit that seems to be biting ACC on the backside, with the news that it’s gone from having a $900 million surplus last year to a $7.2 billion deficit this year. It’s saying one of the reasons for that is that the courts are coming out with rulings telling it to pay people more money than it wanted to in the first place. Which, if that is the case,

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9:14

Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on promises to...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/16

Christchurch's mayor is keeping mum about seeking re-election. First time mayor Phil Mauger took the reins in 2022 after narrowly beating former health boss David Meates. City Councillor Sara Templeton has announced her bid for mayor a year out from local body elections. Mauger wouldn’t confirm to John MacDonald whether he's decided to run. He says there's a lot going on, so he'll worry about it after Christmas. They also discussed his interview with Jack Tame on Q&A and if he really believes

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5:12

John MacDonald: Has the Supreme Court got too big for...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/15

The highest court in the land is too big for its boots. That’s what the guy who runs the New Zealand Initiative think tank is saying today. Roger Partridge is his name - he’s also a lawyer and King’s Counsel. And he says the Supreme Court needs to be reined-in because he thinks it’s trying to re-write the laws made by Parliament. One of the examples he’s giving to support his argument is the Court ruling two years ago that the voting age of 18 discriminates against younger people. That’s not the

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4:59

John MacDonald: Less eyebrow raising, more glad-eye...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/14

I think we need to get over ourselves here in New Zealand when it comes to foreign investment. And it looks like we’re going to have to get over ourselves - whether we want to or not - with the Government’s plan to make it easier for foreign investors to buy New Zealand companies and properties. The way I’d describe it is that, at the moment, the Government thinks we treat overseas investors as if they’re going through customs - and we’re all suspicious about their motivations for coming here.

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4:51

John MacDonald: I'm not anti international drivers,...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/09

There are a lot of weird things in the world, but one of the weirdest would have to be the international drivers licence. You know, you’re licensed to drive in one country, but a little bit of paper lets you drive in any country. It doesn’t matter that you know next to nothing about the road rules or the driving conditions. But tell that to the Government which obviously doesn’t find international licences as weird as I do. I find them weird. I don't like them. And, before you accuse me of being

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9:18

Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the Health NZ...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/08

Labour leader Chris Hipkins claims the Government's failure to compensate for the nurses’ pay rise has driven Health New Zealand's budget blowout. The agency's finances jumped from an expected half-a-billion dollar surplus to a $1.4 billion deficit in April. It's now expected to blow out to $1.76 billion. Chris Hipkins told John MacDonald that there's a mix of issues in the system, but under-funding's definitely playing a role in the deficits. He says nurses won their pay equity claim after a

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6:20

John MacDonald: Let's not keep running down our...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/08

I think we need to see the New Zealand Navy ship sinking as a wake-up call. Not the sinking itself, but what it’s going to mean for our Navy and our wider defence force. The fact that we’re probably going to lose a truckload of money because of the ship being under-insured isn’t an issue for me and I wasn’t overly surprised when Finance Minister Nicola Wilis confirmed it yesterday. Because can you imagine the premiums versus the likelihood of a sinking? So I think the insurance thing is a bit of a

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5:47

John MacDonald: New legislation is more ram-raid than...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/07

The Government's fast track legislation is shaping up to be a real cluster. Especially, in Greater Christchurch. I think some of the projects it wants to get going here sooner rather than later are making its new legislation more ram-raid than fast track. So it's released details of 149 projects that will be included in the Bill which, it says, is being done to help rebuild the economy, sort out the housing crisis, improve energy security, and do something about the state of our infrastructure. But,

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