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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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5:16

John MacDonald: You can't do infrastructure on the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/02/08

Remember the days when we used to build things in New Zealand like harbour bridges and hydro schemes and tunnels through to places like Lyttelton? These days we talk about building these kinds of things. But not a hell of a lot seems to actually get done. And Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is saying that even less is going to get done up his way after the Government announced yesterday that the regional fuel tax there is going. He’s saying ‘you want to cut the tax, there’ll be less money for roads. A

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5:10

John MacDonald: Confidence is key for getting off the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/02/08

If you're after a bit of beneficiary bashing, then you’re probably going to be disappointed. But if you want to know why I think someone getting the Jobseeker unemployment benefit is now expected to spend an average of 13 years on a benefit, then keep reading. I’ll explain what I mean, but the key word for me is “confidence”. Which I’ll get to shortly. But I know there will be no shortage of people up and down the country today banging-on about this new statistic which has come from some

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7:11

Ariki Tibble: Crankworx CEO on the arrival of the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/02/07

A major mountain bike event is coming to Canterbury for the first time. The Crankworx Summer Series will give new and upcoming cyclists a chance to race against and international heroes this March. Ariki Tibble is the CEO of Crankworx, and joined John MacDonald to chat about the huge surge in the popularity of mountain biking, and how Cantabrians can watch the event live. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:12

John MacDonald: I didn't buy 3 Waters. Now I've got...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/02/07

You know that line about the first offer being the best offer? I reckon we’re going to start thinking that way pretty soon about 3 Waters - Labour’s doomed effort to try and sort out the shambles stormwater, wastewater and drinking water has become in New Zealand. There seems to be no shortage of disaster stories. Wellington’s been in the spotlight over the last few weeks and, today, it’s Christchurch’s turn. With the news that not only is about 38 million litres of water leaking out of the water

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5:05

John MacDonald: Here's why South Island roads are so bad

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/02/02

How many times over the past couple of years have we said that our local MPs are next to invisible and not doing enough to push our case up in Wellington? You don’t need to come up with a specific number. But, trust me, it’s somewhere between truckloads and truckloads. And what about local councillors? How many times have we said that they’re doing nothing either to remind Wellington that we exist? Same answer. Somewhere between truckloads and truckloads. And today, we have evidence to

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16:50

Politics Friday: Matt Doocey and Duncan Webb on the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/02/01

A new report says the South Island has 25% of New Zealand's population, but only gets 9% of the national transport funding. Have South Island MPs done a bad job of campaigning for more funding? John MacDonald asked Matt Doocey and Duncan Webb who is to blame. They also discussed AUKUS, the Prime Ministers comments to parents about getting their kids to school, and who is Casey Costello? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:45

John MacDonald: We don't need to be the bull in the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/31

Is it just me or has the Government gone all gung-ho on it since the holidays? Because it seems to me that our approach to defence has been turned on its head almost overnight. Last week, we had the announcement that New Zealand is sending six military personnel to help with airstrikes against the Houthi militia in Yemen and the Red Sea. And today, we’ve got Defence Minister Judith Collins over in Australia, meeting with her counterpart over there - and one of the things they’re going to be

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3:53

John MacDonald: It's not just more cops that are needed

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/30

It hasn’t taken long, has it? It hasn’t taken long for National to start using the same weasel words we got sick of Labour using when it came to police numbers. Remember Labour’s great promise of 1800 new “on-the-beat” police officers? Only to find out that it was actually 1,530, and the rest wouldn’t be on the beat at all. They’d be back in the office. And all the dancing on the pin that then-Police Minister Ginny Anderson did trying to explain that one away? Well, National’s already doing the

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6:41

Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the additional police...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/30

Labour Leader Chris Hipkins joined John MacDonald this morning for the first of this year’s regular catchups to get his thoughts on recent events. What does he make of the situation surrounding the timeline of the Government’s promise to add new frontline police? Does he feel responsible for James Shaw’s resignation? And what does he think of Christchurch City Council’s investigation into hosting the Commonwealth Games? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:02

John MacDonald: Message to OT: don't promise what you...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/30

There’ll be no shortage of people lining up today to bag Oranga Tamariki. But I won’t be one of them. They’ve just put out their latest safety report which says that, in the year to June 2023, just under 10% of kids in its care were harmed. This is up from about 5.5% five years ago. And it follows the news last week that our child welfare agency doesn’t really know whether the kids in its care are going to the doctor or the dentist regularly or not. And so, today, Oranga Tamariki is making all

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4:28

John MacDonald: State of the nation or slate of the...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/29

When I saw yesterday morning that ACT Party leader David Seymour was going to be giving what was billed as a “State of the Nation” speech, I didn’t quite anticipate how pompous he was going to be. I saw afterwards that one of the news websites was saying that they had planned to run a livestream of the speech provided by the party itself, but they couldn’t because it was too shaky. And I wasn’t sure whether they were referring to technological issues or the content of the speech itself. So I went

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4:25

John MacDonald: Nothing will stop some people smoking

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/26

I think I’m going to have to go and take my temperature. Because, I’m either coming down with something, or I actually am agreeing with what a New Zealand First MP is saying about cigarette smoking. I’m talking about Associate Health Minister Casey Costello, who’s in hot water with health advocates over her idea of freezing tobacco taxes for three years. She isn't convinced the taxes are going to actually do anything to encourage people who still smoke, to stop smoking. And despite all the

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4:49

John MacDonald: Can big things be discussed without...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/25

I reckon that even if ACT leader David Seymour had gone to the Rātana Church celebrations yesterday, he wouldn’t have batted an eyelid. Because that’s the thing about the ACT Party leader, isn’t it? Nothing seems to ruffle the feathers. Not even the fact that his coalition partners don’t seem to want a bar of his treaty principles bill, which would define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi along the lines of the Government having the right to govern all New Zealanders; all New Zealanders

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4:34

John MacDonald: Does the Government really know what...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/23

What the hell are we doing? When I say “we”, I mean the country. The Government. What the hell are we doing getting involved in airstrikes against the Houthi militia in Yemen and the Red Sea? The Houthi militia that seized parts of Yemen and some of its Red Sea coastline in a revolution back in 2014. The Houthi militia that is supported by the Iranian government and has been attacking ships in the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel’s attacks on Gaza. What the hell are we doing getting involved

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4:04

John MacDonald: More supermarket huffing and puffing

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/01/23

The Commerce Commission is huffing and puffing and threatening to blow the two big supermarket chains down over some of their pricing practises. Well, it’s certainly huffing and puffing. Whether it’s going to do anything more than that remains to be seen. In fact, I’ll tell you right now - it isn’t going to achieve anything more than that. Because all it’s doing is going through the motions after getting a complaint from Consumer NZ about Woolworths (which runs the supermarkets which used to

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5:01

John MacDonald: Finance Minister's shortsighted short...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/13

If you still needed convincing that our politicians are hopelessly short-sighted, I hope you came to your senses late yesterday. When Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced she was pulling the plug on the inter-island ferry upgrade. Or, more specifically, refusing to pour money into it which, KiwiRail says, gives it no option but to pull the plug on its mega ferries project. There are big numbers involved. The last we’d heard from KiwiRail on the cost of getting the new ferries and bringing the

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16:09

Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on the Government...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/13

Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger joined John MacDonald in the studio for the final time this year. He discussed his views on the Ferry funding from the Government and whether it’s time to bring it to Lyttleton. How does he feel about the Councils decision yesterday regarding asset sales, and how important is the SailGP to Christchurch? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:01

John MacDonald: Do we even need speed limits?

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/12

Hear me out on this one. Because I reckon there is some logic in this idea of mine. NZTA has been making local authorities come up with speed management plans. Which has meant 30 kph speed limits on many roads in the city limits, and 80 kph speed limits starting to pop-up on roads in the country areas. Simeon Brown has been given the job of Transport Minister and he’s going to do something about all that nonsense. Because he can. As Transport Minister, he has all the power in the world to tell NZTA

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5:06

John MacDonald: I don't have a problem with 90-day...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/12

When I started at Newstalk ZB, I was on a 90-day trial, of sorts. So, if I can make it through, anyone can. Seriously though, the honchos here said "we want to give you a go. How about doing it for three months and then you’ll know if you really want it and we’ll know if you’re the person for the job.” That was two-and-a-half years ago. I was in my early 50s, two of the kids were still living at home, we were still paying a mortgage, but I thought ‘sod it, I’m going to give it a go’. In fact, I

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5:53

John MacDonald: Cathedrals In New Zealand Are Nothing...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/10

If you think I’m going to be cheerleading for the Catholic Church’s idea of building a new cathedral on its original site on Barbadoes Street, instead of in the central city, then think again. Because, as far as I’m concerned, cathedrals in New Zealand have been nothing more than visions of grandeur. And I think there are much more meaningful things the church could do with tens of millions of dollars, than pour it into another cathedral. Little bit of background: the original Catholic cathedral on

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