The Emergency Management Minister says additional money for Cyclone Gabrielle recovery will help Hawke's Bay reach silt removal targets.

The Government's announced $63-million for sediment and debris removal.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council will get 40-million, three million of that is for removing debris in Wairoa.

Gisborne District Council will receive 23-million.

Minister Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking he hopes the money solves the problem.

He says the additional $40-million will help Hawke's Bay get to its target of 20 percent of silt and debris removed.



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The Emergency Management Minister says additional money for Cyclone Gabrielle recovery will help Hawke's Bay reach silt removal targets.
The Government's announced $63-million for sediment and debris removal.
Hawke's Bay Regional Council will get 40-million, three million of that is for removing debris in Wairoa.
Gisborne District Council will receive 23-million.
Minister Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking he hopes the money solves the problem.
He says the additional $40-million will help Hawke's Bay get to its target of 20 percent of silt and debris removed.
 
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Mark Mitchell: Additional Money Will Help With Cyclone Gabrielle Recovery

New Zealand's netball ecosystem is breathing a sigh of relief after confirmation of a privatised domestic league for next season and beyond. 

Rich-lister couple Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams are set to take the licence for the competition and its teams via an initial agreement with the sport's national body. 

Former Silver Fern Marg Foster told Ryan Bridge this is a really good thing, but they can't just rely on philanthropy.  

She says there's a lot of things they'll need to be able to get out of this deal, such as making it commercially attractive so investors can get a genuine return. 

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New Zealand's netball ecosystem is breathing a sigh of relief after confirmation of a privatised domestic league for next season and beyond.&nbsp;
Rich-lister couple Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams are set to take the licence for the competition and its teams via an initial agreement with the sport's national body.&nbsp;
Former Silver Fern Marg Foster told Ryan Bridge this is a really good thing, but they can't just rely on philanthropy. &nbsp;
She says there's a lot of things they'll need to be able to get out of this deal, such as making it commercially attractive so investors can get a genuine return.&nbsp;
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Marg Foster: Former Silver Fern on the confirmation of a privatised domestic netball competition

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Another OCR hike is widely expected today and the Reserve Bank could signal more are coming. 

It announces its decision at 2pm, with the Official Cash Rate expected to rise from 2.5%. 

Economists are picking one or two further hikes. 

Westpac Chief Economist Kelly Eckhold told Ryan Bridge the Reserve Bank's view has shifted sharply since the start of the year. 

He says they're pretty locked in for 3% between now and Christmas. 

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Another OCR hike is widely expected today and the Reserve Bank could signal more are coming.&nbsp;
It announces its decision at 2pm, with the Official Cash Rate expected to rise from 2.5%.&nbsp;
Economists are picking one or two further hikes.&nbsp;
Westpac Chief Economist Kelly Eckhold told Ryan Bridge the Reserve Bank's view has shifted sharply since the start of the year.&nbsp;
He says they're pretty locked in for 3% between now and Christmas.&nbsp;
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Kelly Eckhold: Westpac Chief Economist on the expectation the Official Cash Rate will be hiked

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/7784f840-c291-422a-924b-ad9000bbad71/clips/d8da2574-c256-43fb-a8f8-b4b8017f2be5/transcript

I think Nicola Willis may be right when she suggested to us the other day Chris Hipkins might not be very numerate. 

He is undoing himself in front of us. As he does, he reminds us why he has basically done as little as possible these past few years, because when he does he is either in office blowing the place up, or putting out policy in Opposition that makes literally no sense. 

He has blocked petrol excise increases for three years. 

The bill for that is $4.6 billion. He said yesterday he didn’t think that number was right, even though it is. He had an idea what the number was but wouldn’t say. 

Cool policy. 

By the end of the day, he wasn’t ruling out borrowing it. Now, you can't borrow it because in another policy he told us we were returning to surplus by 2028/29. You can't run a surplus as you borrow more. 

Do you think he realises this? 

Then we get to the pay equity bit, which they haven't told us how they are paying for. That’s $12 billion. 

So $16 billion and counting and all paid for by a capital gains tax that, so far, will produce exactly nothing given housing is flat. And even if it wasn’t, it takes years to fire up. 

Oh, and the capitals gains is already paying for free doctors visits we don’t need, or mainly, want. 

To try and come to his defence, is there $4.5 billion worth of stuff you can cancel and cover the excise hole? That's a lot of money on something that gets cancelled and given we are already running things tight, because we have no money, you inevitably come back to the borrowing bit he mentioned late yesterday. 

I cannot overstate the danger of more debt. In the next couple of years, the world is going to go through another financial crisis, driven by debt and overcapped nonsense around chips and AI.  

You do not want to be a small economy at the bottom of the world in a sea of debt reliant on people bailing you out. It is literally the path to ruin. 

We already pay $9 billion a year interest on our debt and people like Fitch have warned us our credit rating is on watch. 

Yet Hipkins has diametrically opposed policies that get us to surplus and have us borrowing more, all at the same time. 

It's all embarrassingly amateurish, short-sighted and dangerous. 

I cannot overstate the idiocy if you think any of this is a path forward. 

I think Nicola Willis may be right when she suggested to us the other day Chris Hipkins might not be very numerate.&nbsp;
He is undoing himself in front of us. As he does, he reminds us why he has basically done as little as possible these past few years, because when he does he is either in office blowing the place up, or putting out policy in Opposition that makes literally no sense.&nbsp;
He has blocked petrol excise increases for three years.&nbsp;
The bill for that is $4.6 billion. He said yesterday he didn’t think that number was right, even though it is. He had an idea what the number was but wouldn’t say.&nbsp;
Cool policy.&nbsp;
By the end of the day, he wasn’t ruling out borrowing it. Now, you can't borrow it because in another policy he told us we were returning to surplus by 2028/29. You can't run a surplus as you borrow more.&nbsp;
Do you think he realises this?&nbsp;
Then we get to the pay equity bit, which they haven't told us how they are paying for. That’s $12 billion.&nbsp;
So $16 billion and counting and all paid for by a capital gains tax that, so far, will produce exactly nothing given housing is flat. And even if it wasn’t, it takes years to fire up.&nbsp;
Oh, and the capitals gains is already paying for free doctors visits we don’t need, or mainly, want.&nbsp;
To try and come to his defence, is there $4.5 billion worth of stuff you can cancel and cover the excise hole? That's a lot of money on something that gets cancelled and given we are already running things tight, because we have no money, you inevitably come back to the borrowing bit he mentioned late yesterday.&nbsp;
I cannot overstate the danger of more debt. In the next couple of years, the world is going to go through another financial crisis, driven by debt and overcapped nonsense around chips and AI. &nbsp;
You do not want to be a small economy at the bottom of the world in a sea of debt reliant on people bailing you out. It is literally the path to ruin.&nbsp;
We already pay $9 billion a year interest on our debt and people like Fitch have warned us our credit rating is on watch.&nbsp;
Yet Hipkins has diametrically opposed policies that get us to surplus and have us borrowing more, all at the same time.&nbsp;
It's all embarrassingly amateurish, short-sighted and dangerous.&nbsp;
I cannot overstate the idiocy if you think any of this is a path forward.&nbsp;

Mike's Minute: Chris Hipkins might not be very numerate

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Mark Mitchell: Additional Money Will Help With Cyclone Gabrielle Recovery

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