FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Separation Is a Bit of a Red Flag/Accidental Exercise/The Old Nuclear Question/Where Driveways End/Indignant Ignorance
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Illo, My beautiful Beanings and welcome to the Being Thursday, first of Yesterday's News. I am blen Hart. We are looking back at Wednesday Health New Zealand's done our survey. Some things are good, some things aren't. The nuclear power debate seems to be raging again because it's really raging over the ditch here that is annoyed about not being allowed to park in our own driveway. And some bloke rang Marcus because he was annoyed that he couldn't pack his caravan.
Where he wanted to for a night.
So yeah, as you can tell, the podcast is going to sort of tape her off into interesting places, but it's going to start with a review of the Hakaoi Goodese of Ryan Bridge.
Now the hikoy is over at Ahwiti Wayitetti wants to go further. He wants a separate Maori parliament. He wants two systems, he references on his website, the Irish, Welsh and Scottish systems, the latter of which controls its own justice education, tax systems. How would that work here? Who would fund such a parliament? Who would fall under the Maori parliament? Given seventy five percent of Mardi didn't vote for at Ahiti's lot at the last election. How would you build a nation within a nation separated not by borders but ethnicity? Sarah's question. You see, democracy works when we're all in it, and we're all in it equally. It's true that not every group will get the same outcomes from that system, but that's no reason to throw the system away entirely. What it is, sure is a call to better use that system to affect chain through strong and pragmatic leadership, the likes of which Tapati Marti has been known for in the past. Whether you'll get that leadership from Debbi and White Tetty, well, we have to wait and see.
I it makes me uncomfortable the idea of separate things and not unified things. That sort of where I'm at with that without getting you know, too lost in the weeds. Just anytime everybody's talking about having a separate thing, their own thing rather than the things for everybody fair ways sort of has me worried.
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Been a health New Zealand study or survey with some good news and some bad news. Let's if you can figure out which bit carry is focusing on.
Eight point two percent of children eight the recommended amount of vegetables, which means ninety two percent are not so that I found really concerning. Ninety two percent don't getting the fruit and veg they need, which I suppose matches to the one and four children living in households where food runs out often or sometimes. So I suppose the one good thing is that we're keeping tabs on this. If there are targets, if there are statistics, we can improve on them, if we know what's what, if we have a baseline. So good news, drinking rates down, smoking rates flatlining.
Bad news.
The vaping thirty three thousand daily vapors to four hundred and eighty thousand in just eight years, fewer than half of adults meeting physical activity guidelines, and only eight point two percent of kids age two to fourteen eating the recommended amount of veggies. We can do better, But how how do we do better? Love to hear from the young ones who aren't drinking as much, and those of you with young ones. Why is that? And for those adults who are listening who want to exercise, who want to exercise for the mental wellbeing, it brings as well as the physical. Would you be getting two and a half hours a week? Is that a realistic goal or is that just beyond you?
That is beyond me. But I'm getting about seven hours a week and it's all the dog's fault. The dog must be walked, which involves me walking as well, with the glen must be walked as well, apparently. So yeah, I was just at the doctor the other day and with the excit size and oh yeah, that's actually pretty good.
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Now for some reason, just because Australia is going through a bit of a handringing exercise around nuclear power, suddenly we're we're discussing it again as well. I still think, would you getter off we just ignored Australia completely and pretended it didn't exist.
We might have to change our mindset because currently in New Zealand we're very very anti nuclear power. For it ever to be a reality. If we decide that it's something that good, we're going to have to start talking about it in an honest and open and Unafraid fashion. We're currently thinking about the TV show Chernobyl. We're thinking about the China syndrome, you know, three of Myle Island and those those things aren't just unto reality so as it's and it's you know, it's very expensive to build a power plant now, but it's going to get cheaper over time, especially with these small modular reactors that are being invented. There's a bunch of startups around the world looking at Yeah, so is it time that we started thinking about atomic energy? What do you think about it? Do we need to get rid of this taboo that we have been nuclear free for a long time, and that was mainly to do with weapons, right, but that has clouded our judgment when they look totally different things. They're not what you use. The fuel you use for nuclear power plant isn't enriched enough in any way to be used as a weapon. It's not going to cause a chain reaction. That's not what it's about. So yeah, I think I think we need to look into these things. God knows, we've got problems with our power at the moment. You know, we're getting warnings that we might you know that in the middle of winter that power power could go down. We've had cuts in the past, so we need to be looking at our power structure and good bloody luck trying to damn another river in this country.
And just for clarification there, I don't think Matt was trying to claim Chernobyl wasn't real. I think what he meant was the risk of another Chernobyl. It's pretty remote. I think that's what you mean. I'm really confused about this next one. So Aukan councils have been going around for getting people who are parked from their own driveways, the bits of the driveway between the where they set can ends and the road that's anyway. Head is upset about it. Let's hear her side of things first.
Who are you hurting? I mean, who are you inconveniencing by doing this? So I totally get it. If you're cutting off the footpath and people can't walk in front of the car, then you're being a bit of a clown, right, But if you've left space for people to be able to walk in front of your car, what's the problem. Why do you need to be ticketed? You know why you need to be ticketed, don't you? Because Auckland Transport wants the money. It's a really really easy money grab for them, especially now that the ticket price is almost doubled. Now, I reckon this is why Wayne Brown is right to do what he proposed doing yesterday. He said yesterday he wants to start moving to shut down Auckland Transports and Dependence and bring them back into the council because other councils around the country don't enforce us rule. Now I stand to be corrected on this, but I can't find examples of other councils around the country actually enforcing this, and certainly not with the same vigor that apparently Auckland Transport is that the transport is at the moment because it's dumb. If any other council was doing it, it'll be political suicide for counselors, so they don't do it. But Auckland Transport does enforce it. Because Auckland Transport is not answerable to rate payers. They are independent. They can do whatever they want, however dumb it is, and we can't do anything about it. So I reckon Auckland Transport right now is making the case for why they should not be allowed to run absolutely anything to do with roads themselves. Take these people off the case because they make stupid decisions. And frankly, I would challenge you to find anything dumber that's happening on roads.
Right now, I'm going to go back to the dog walking thing again. Don't have to be very much in front of the foot path before you've got a bit of a situation, especially for like another doms coming the other way, or you kids on little bikes or people on scooters. That Yeah, no, I don't think he has really got me on side with.
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But then I think this is what probated the conversation about council busy bodies on Marcus's show, And again I know if this guy's got a lead to stand on.
We hired a caravan and christ Church, went away down south, came back, got back a bit later than what I intended to do to christ Church to drop the caravan off, and he was closed. But we didn't have much much money left. We've just been on a holiday with two young kids, so I thought I would can't really afford a camping ground, so I pulled him too. One of those. It was a park down quite a leasty suburb. There was no one around, and it had a toilet block and everything there, and I thought I got to be perfect for the young kids. About nine o'clock at night, some guy comes pounding on the door and tries to present me with a sixty dollar ticket for a breaking counciled by laws. Wow. And I explained to him the situation. He wasn't interested. He wrote out a sixty dollar ticket, which I think I used the toilet paper in the finish. You know, I just no matter what I tried telling me, he wasn't interested. He had one of these jolly neighborhood watched something or other and hired by the cancel for going around. I mean, I can understand that they don't want two thousand people camping in their pack, but come on, it was one night, We're on our way home from a holiday. You're in the family, no money, You're in the wrong.
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Well, no, because I didn't know the women buy laws. Where did I thought, I just champ here and then the kids can use the toilets and then then we go in the morning. I mean, there was no such thing as freedom camping or anything in those days. That how long. I did not think twenty years ago, oh hell, but no, I did not think I was in the wrong Marcus. I thought I was just God in the morning. We'll just pack up and we go. We dropped the caravan off, we go back to the coach.
It's your pleasant situation of your ignorance is no defense even if you're really ignorant indignant about how ignorant Jesus said you one, isn't it indignant ignorance? Can I say that five times fast? But yeah, no matter how indignant, I can't even say indignant. Man, that's been trying to be the podcast. But no matter how indignant you are about how ignorant of the law you were, it's the rule, the rule made. And even yeah, boys, surprise, I'm sad to the Christians right up there with indignant ignorant and I still say, well, I tried to say that last time, an get the rest of all up with a bow. I've forgot what we're even talking about. So yeah, stop there and start again tomorrow.
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