Police Minister Mark Mitchell says told Mike Hosking that police bodycams would help clear up misconceptions in the field.

He says he was talking to a young constable who was coward punched and a body camera would've made for compelling evidence.

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers wants the cameras to be implemented after a decision was put off last year. 

Police are still looking into ways to deal with transparency issues laid bare when new tasers for frontline officers didn't include a camera. 

Police Minister Mark Mitchell says told Mike Hosking that police bodycams would help clear up misconceptions in the field.
He says he was talking to a young constable who was coward punched and a body camera would've made for compelling evidence.
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers wants the cameras to be implemented after a decision was put off last year.&nbsp;
Police are still looking into ways to deal with transparency issues laid bare when new tasers for frontline officers didn't include a camera.&nbsp;

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Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on introduction of police bodycams in NZ

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Cost increases from the war in Iran haven’t hit supermarket shelves yet, Foodstuffs North Island chief executive Chris Quin says.

The latest food price index, published on Tuesday, showed food costs up 4.5% in the year to February, largely driven by red meat, but those increases came prior to the first attack on Iran on February 28th.

Quin told Mike Hosking Foodstuffs was trying to anticipate what the conflict would mean for New Zealand food prices.

"We are definitely seeing… dramatic increases in the cost of diesel, which is all about our supply chain fleet. And we're seeing our suppliers start to tell us that they really are seeing component costs like plastics start to increase pretty rapidly," he said.

The good news was that supply was not a risk.

"Our supply comes down through around the bottom of South Africa rather than coming through the Straits of Hormuz. So we are not concerned about having products on shelf. What we are keeping a very careful eye on is what is happening to cost.

"The company's own truck fleet, which moves product from warehouses to Foodstuffs stores, would see a multi-million dollar impact from diesel prices in the next few months.

"We're absorbing that at this point to try and do everything we can to have it minimise the impact on New Zealanders on shelf. But there is, if this continues, it is going to be very difficult to suppress.” 

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Cost increases from the war in Iran haven’t hit supermarket shelves yet, Foodstuffs North Island chief executive Chris Quin says.
The latest food price index, published on Tuesday, showed food costs up 4.5% in the year to February, largely driven by red meat, but those increases came prior to the first attack on Iran on February 28th.
Quin told Mike Hosking Foodstuffs was trying to anticipate what the conflict would mean for New Zealand food prices.
"We are definitely seeing… dramatic increases in the cost of diesel, which is all about our supply chain fleet. And we're seeing our suppliers start to tell us that they really are seeing component costs like plastics start to increase pretty rapidly," he said.
The good news was that supply was not a risk.
"Our supply comes down through around the bottom of South Africa rather than coming through the Straits of Hormuz. So we are not concerned about having products on shelf. What we are keeping a very careful eye on is what is happening to cost.
"The company's own truck fleet, which moves product from warehouses to Foodstuffs stores, would see a multi-million dollar impact from diesel prices in the next few months.
"We're absorbing that at this point to try and do everything we can to have it minimise the impact on New Zealanders on shelf. But there is, if this continues, it is going to be very difficult to suppress.”&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE&nbsp;

Chris Quin: Foodstuffs North Island CEO on the impact of the Middle East conflict on grocery prices and stock

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The economic impact of property investors is being quantified for the first time. 

A report commissioned by the Property Investors Federation estimates the sector added $24.8 billion to GDP last year. 

It also links investors to about 126 thousand jobs nationwide – about 5% of the workforce. 

Advocacy Manager Matt Ball told Mike Hosking the lack of data has been damaging to the sector. 

He says it leads to bad policy which leads to bad outcomes, so they're trying to change that. 

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The economic impact of property investors is being quantified for the first time.&nbsp;
A report commissioned by the Property Investors Federation estimates the sector added $24.8 billion to GDP last year.&nbsp;
It also links investors to about 126 thousand jobs nationwide – about 5% of the workforce.&nbsp;
Advocacy Manager Matt Ball told Mike Hosking the lack of data has been damaging to the sector.&nbsp;
He says it leads to bad policy which leads to bad outcomes, so they're trying to change that.&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE&nbsp;

Matt Ball: NZ Property Investors Federation Advocacy Manager on the report showing the sector's economic impact

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How long can you pedal an invention? 

On Friday March 6th the poll is out. It's bad for National and the media has concocted the idea that as a result of these numbers and the previous Monday's press conference about the war, that things have got so bad for the Prime Minister he is “considering his position over the weekend”. 

They have also concluded numbers are being crunched, pressure is mounting and pressure is building for him to resign. 

By the Monday, on this programme, March 9th it is clear no such thing has happened. No numbers are crunched and no considering of positions has been undertaken. 

Is that the end of the story? No, it is not. It bubbles on for the rest of the week with literally nothing happening apart from the reiteration of what we already know not to be true. 

By Thursday last week the NZ Herald runs an editorial declaring he has survived the week. 

Survived from what? Their invention of a problem? 

On Friday, Peter Dunne writes a piece that calls the media invented nonsense out. 

On Saturday, Bruce Cotterill adds TVNZ woes to the list, but also points to the abject absurdity of the previous Monday's blitzkrieg at the airport as said Prime Minister and various Cabinet members arrive in Wellington to a pack of screeching journalists still refusing to believe that the story is entirely of their invention. 

Then yesterday, March 16th, ten calendar days since the invention, Radio NZ were to have two talking heads discussing how the Prime Minister survived the pressure and the pending consideration of his position. 

Assuming today there is no more, surely that has to be a record for continuing coverage of a pile of bollocks. Which leads to the question: how dangerous are our media when they invent a story and run with it? And then having had it dispelled, continue to run with it? 

New week and there's a new story. The aforementioned Prime Minister ahead of his Pacific trip asked for a title, said the Samoan Prime Minister.  "Not true," said the Prime Minister's office, yet they still ran with it until Monday when the Samoan Government said it's not true. 

How many times do you have to say a story isn't true before it isn't a story? 

Is it true to say if a story that isn't true is still run as a story, we most definably have an agenda here? A bias? A level of dishonesty? 

Given that, do they wonder why their reputations are in tatters? 

Do they even care? 

How long can you pedal an invention?&nbsp;
On Friday March 6th the poll is out. It's bad for National and the media has concocted the idea that as a result of these numbers and the previous Monday's press conference about the war, that things have got so bad for the Prime Minister he is “considering his position over the weekend”.&nbsp;
They have also concluded numbers are being crunched, pressure is mounting and pressure is building for him to resign.&nbsp;
By the Monday, on this programme, March 9th it is clear no such thing has happened. No numbers are crunched and no considering of positions has been undertaken.&nbsp;
Is that the end of the story? No, it is not. It bubbles on for the rest of the week with literally nothing happening apart from the reiteration of what we already know not to be true.&nbsp;
By Thursday last week the NZ Herald runs an editorial declaring he has survived the week.&nbsp;
Survived from what? Their invention of a problem?&nbsp;
On Friday, Peter Dunne writes a piece that calls the media invented nonsense out.&nbsp;
On Saturday, Bruce Cotterill adds TVNZ woes to the list, but also points to the abject absurdity of the previous Monday's blitzkrieg at the airport as said Prime Minister and various Cabinet members arrive in Wellington to a pack of screeching journalists still refusing to believe that the story is entirely of their invention.&nbsp;
Then yesterday, March 16th, ten calendar days since the invention, Radio NZ were to have two talking heads discussing how the Prime Minister survived the pressure and the pending consideration of his position.&nbsp;
Assuming today there is no more, surely that has to be a record for continuing coverage of a pile of bollocks. Which leads to the question: how dangerous are our media when they invent a story and run with it? And then having had it dispelled, continue to run with it?&nbsp;
New week and there's a new story. The aforementioned Prime Minister ahead of his Pacific trip asked for a title, said the Samoan Prime Minister. &nbsp;"Not true," said the Prime Minister's office, yet they still ran with it until Monday when the Samoan Government said it's not true.&nbsp;
How many times do you have to say a story isn't true before it isn't a story?&nbsp;
Is it true to say if a story that isn't true is still run as a story, we most definably have an agenda here? A bias? A level of dishonesty?&nbsp;
Given that, do they wonder why their reputations are in tatters?&nbsp;
Do they even care?&nbsp;

Mike's Minute: Invented stories and the media

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Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on introduction of police bodycams in NZ

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