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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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4:42

John MacDonald: What does back-to-basics policing...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/06

It hasn’t taken the new Police Minister long to start firing instructions to Police Commissioner Andrew Coster. Mark Mitchell has sent through what is officially known as a Letter of Expectations. This is what all ministers send to the government departments they’re responsible for to make sure the people who work for them know what is wanted. And, in no uncertain terms, Mark Mitchell has told Andrew Coster that he wants to see the cops in this country focus on what he calls the basics. It seems, as

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5:11

John MacDonald: Regional stadium tax a great idea

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/05

The new stadium in Christchurch, Te Kaha, is shooting up out of the ground and so are our rates. The big news today is that those of us in Christchurch are facing rates increases of more than 30 percent over the next three years. Thanks to inflation, insurance and the cost of the new stadium. Yes, I know our mayor said rates increases wouldn’t be any higher than the rate of inflation. But, if you believed that nonsense of his during the election campaign, you’ll believe anything. At the moment, the

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5:47

John MacDonald: Why the fuss about today's protests?

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/04

Today’s protest action instigated by Te Pāti Māori hasn’t taken long to happen, given the new coalition government was only sworn-in last Monday. Not that the things being protested against today are major surprises. It was clear before the election that Māori weren’t going to be high on the list of priorities if National and ACT got their way. Despite Christopher Luxon saying that his party is here for all people. And, yesterday, he was his coalition government is deeply committed to Māori. So

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5:13

John MacDonald: Lake Onslow Alternative Could Be A...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/04

So, no surprises, the Government has officially pulled the plug on the $16 billion Lake Onslow hydro project in Central Otago. Work stopped on Friday. Because the Government thinks it’s money down the drain; says it would be wasteful spending if it allowed it to continue; and reckons it would be a long time before we saw any benefits. Instead, it’s going to focus on things like wind, solar and geothermal energy. There’s a catch to that, though. Which I’ll get to shortly. The reason more than $20

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5:10

John MacDonald: Chris Bishop - the leopard who...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/12/01

Do you think a leopard can change its spots? I think it can. The Labour Party, though, doesn’t. Which is why it has come out with what I would rate as the second-most hysterical reaction to the new government’s plan to do away with aspects of our smokefree laws. So Labour decided last year that anyone born after 2008 would never be able to buy cigarettes and tobacco legally. So anyone 14 and younger right now. But the new government’s getting rid of that. And, as I’ve been saying, I think it’s

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5:22

John MacDonald: Luxon needs to put Winston in his place

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/29

Do you think Christopher Luxon might be starting to feel a little bit like Princess Diana, who famously said her marriage to Charles was never going to work because there were three people in the relationship? And how she tried to turn a blind eye to his bad behaviour, until she couldn’t. The new Prime Minister obviously isn’t at that point yet because there he was yesterday continuing to turn a blind eye to the nonsense his deputy, Winston Peters, has been getting up to pretty much on a daily basis

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5:40

John MacDonald: Commissioners needed for Chch council?

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/29

Yesterday, I was contacted by someone who, I think it’s fair to say, has had a gutsful of the Christchurch City Council. They are someone who is involved with business groups and community groups in Christchurch and they’ve felt compelled to get in touch after all the goings-on over the last couple of weeks. We’ve had the chief executive quitting, the chief financial officer quitting, the KPMG report which looked into that $6.5 million budget blowout in the Three Waters division - where we had a

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14:04

Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on Dawn Baxendale's...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/28

Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger joined John MacDonald live in studio to discuss the recent departure of Dawn Baxendale, Three Waters overspending, and whether the public's confidence in the City Council has diminished. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:35

John MacDonald: The Marsden Point pipedream needs...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/28

Forget about it. That’s pretty much the message the Government is getting today from the owner of the Marsden Point oil refinery. That’s the Marsden Point oil refinery that doesn’t do any refining these days because, as you’ll remember, it was shut down in April last year by its private owner which, back then, was known as Refining NZ. These days it’s known as Channel Infrastructure. 240 jobs went in the process and, ever since, the closure has been blamed for all sorts of things from high fuel

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5:21

John MacDonald: Smoking changes shameful and...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/27

I hope just as much as the next person that good things do come from our new Government, but what it’s planning to do to our smokefree laws is just unforgiveable. You’ll remember that, last year, the Labour Government passed one of the toughest laws in the world to try and reduce smoking rates in New Zealand. Which would have meant that anyone born after 2008 would never be able to buy cigarettes and tobacco legally. So anyone 14 and younger right now. All the kids in New Zealand’s primary and

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5:24

John MacDonald: Who's really to blame for ChCh...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/24

If the mayor or any councillors at the Christchurch City Council are reading this, it's probably going to make you feel a bit uncomfortable. Because, if you think you’re going to get away with letting the chief executive carry the can for the shambles that has obviously been going on under your watch, you’re going to have to think again. Especially now that we know how slack things have been when it comes to dotting the Is and crossing the Ts right through the executive, finance and HR departments

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4:38

John MacDonald: SailGP - Auckland's loss has to be...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/22

Forget about the Commonwealth Games. We need to start campaigning to get another global sporting event in Canterbury.Can I take you back to Monday March 20. So just over eight months ago. It was the Monday after that brilliant weekend when we had two days of the SailGP yacht racing on Lyttelton Harbour. Remember that? The weather was spectacular. People in the official fanzone said they’d had a great time. And truckloads of people were calling up saying how they’d watched the racing from spots on

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11:53

Nik Kershaw: UK musician on his career and part in...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/22

Nik Kershaw exploded onto the UK pop scene in 1984 as a solo artist. Recording a string of global hit singles – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’, and his biggest hit, ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’. Nik will be part of the wonderful line up at Selwyn Sounds in March, and joined John MacDonald to talk about the concert, and his career, including a surprising admission about his Live Aid performance. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:27

John MacDonald: Willis, Seymour or Peters? Who I...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/22

It appears Christopher Luxon’s tight lid on things could be about to blow, with all this talk about who is and who isn’t going to be Deputy Prime Minister in the new government. If I was National’s deputy leader Nicola Willis, I’d be finding it hard to keep the smile on the dial. But she’s managing it so far, from what I’ve seen of her on TV outside the hotel in Auckland. Because I would have thought that she was a shoe-in to be 2-I-C. But not so. Well, not according to ACT leader David Seymour

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5:44

John MacDonald: My challenge to Christchurch City...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/20

I bet Dawn Baxendale is feeling like a new woman today. Because, as we now know, she is about to be the ex-chief executive of the Christchurch City Council. And God help the next person who takes over. Because what an outfit that place is. Don’t get me wrong. There are lots of good people there. People doing the day-in, day-out stuff that local councils do. But when you’ve got so many of the head honchos running for the hills, something is seriously wrong isn’t it? And I reckon a full-on,

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5:09

John MacDonald: Coalition talks- merger or hostile...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/20

I have never negotiated a merger. And I have never negotiated an acquisition. But I still think I could teach our incoming Prime Minister a thing or two. Because here we are into another week of coalition talks between National, ACT and NZ First and, after all the to-ing and fro-ing from the Cordis Hotel in Auckland, we still don’t have a new Government. But the bit about it all that seems so obvious to me - but not to the great negotiator, it seems - is why didn’t he sort out this sticky stuff

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4:40

John MacDonald: What's in the water at Christchurch...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/15

The leadership structure at the Christchurch City Council is falling apart. And it had mayor Phil Mauger in a real tizz at the start of yesterday’s council meeting. This was when he announced that they had to kick people out and go into closed meeting straight away because there was something urgent they needed to discuss about chief executive Dawn Baxendale. I’ve sat through a lot of council meetings in my time and I have never seen anything like that happen. Normally, this sort of thing happens at

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5:25

John MacDonald: Luxon and Seymour deserve better. We...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/14

How cringing are these coalition negotiations getting? I’m very tempted to send Christopher Luxon a text message saying ‘you reap what you sow mate’. And I would do that, if I had his number. But then he probably wouldn’t reply because he might not believe it’s actually from me. But if he did. If he did text back and say “Hi John. Great to hear from you. Not sure what you mean.” I’d say: “Mate, that daft idea you had before the election to say you’d work with Winston Peters. You reap what you

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5:38

John MacDonald: Taxing times for the $740 million man

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/14

National may as well just come out now and say its tax plan is history. It’s toast. Because, as we all knew it would - and as National should have known - the good old NZ First handbrake is proving to be the fly in the ointment in the coalition talks. And it appears National’s idea to partially fund tax cuts by letting foreign buyers back into the housing market and charging them a 15 percent tax for the privilege of buying a place with more than $2million is proving to be the big stumbling

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5:41

Matt Cross: Race Caller on preparing for the New...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/11/13

Matt Cross called his first New Zealand Cup at the age of just 26. Now four years on, Matt prepares for the biggest racing day on the harness calendar once again: the New Zealand Trotting Cup. It's a huge week for Canterbury, and Matt will call 60 races over eight days of the carnival. He kindly joined John on Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings to talk about his preparation for the big day, and who he thinks will win the $750,000 New Zealand Trotting Cup. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener

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