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Pip Tinning: Secondary school Deputy Principal on teachers accepting the Government's pay offer
80% of trained secondary teachers will have a base salary of more than $100 thousand from late next month. PPTA members have voted to accept a collective agreement offer from the Government. The settlement includes a 4.6% pay increase over two years, increased allowance for teachers with greate…
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Simon Watts: Climate Change Minister on the Government rejecting the Climate Change Commission's recommendations
The Climate Change Minister says we're still at the table for the Paris Agreement, despite the targets being challenging. The Coalition rejected all three recommendations made to it by the Climate Change Commission yesterday. It means it won't be including international aviation and shipping e…
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Michelle Palmer: Retirement Villages Association Executive Director on the amendment of the Retirement Villages Act 2003
The Retirement Villages Association is calling out the Government for issuing a double whammy against the sector. Newly announced Retirement Villages Act 2003 amendments include ensuring money on a unit is paid back within a year after a resident leaves. Interest will also be payable after s…
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Vincent McAviney: UK/Europe Correspondent on the inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess
The family of a British woman who was killed by a nerve agent smuggled into the UK have spoken out following an inquiry into her death. 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess died in 2018, after spraying herself Novichok from a fake perfume bottle discarded in Salisbury by Russian agents. The inquiry states R…
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Full Show Podcast: 05 December 2025
Listen to the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Friday 5 December. Get the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ryan Bridge: That's a wrap for the year
This is my last day on Early Edition for 2025. I’ll be on Drive for a few weeks from Monday and while I won’t lie, I’m looking forward to few sleep-ins before Christmas, I will miss our wee 5am club. It’s a huge privilege to be here with you every morning as you wake up, head off to work, off to …
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Chris Wilkinson: First Retail Group Managing Director on the opening of the Sylvia Park Ikea
Shoppers are travelling from around the country to witness today's Ikea launch. The mega-retailer will start trading at 11am but the car park will open at 8:30am. Heavy traffic's anticipated, including 40-minute queues to exit the motorway at Mount Wellington. It could take punters up to an …
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David Higgins: Duco Events Promoter on the first live show at the new Christchurch One NZ Stadium at Te Kaha
All the stars have aligned for the first concert at Christchurch's new stadium. Six60 and Synthony will open the music calendar at One NZ Stadium at Te Kaha next May - following Super Rugby’s Super Round a month earlier. It’s backed by the Government’s $70 million Major Events fund. Duco Events …
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Full Show Podcast: 04 December 2025
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Thursday the 4th of December 2025, Andrew Coster's resigned with immediate effect employment lawyer Gareth Abdinor shares his thoughts on why he was placed on leave for so long. Ikea opens in Auckland today, First Retail Group Managing Direc…
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Ryan Bridge: Is Coster really sorry?
Andrew Coster's three weeks of silence and negotiating speaks volumes about the sincerity of the apology delivered yesterday. If you really felt that way, if you hadn't until yesterday realised what had gone on, which he had of course, he saw the report long before any of us did, then surely, you…
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