The Government's proposed move-on orders look set to be watered down.

The Bill will let Police order people out of public spaces for rough sleeping, begging, and disorderly behaviour. 

The Justice Select Committee suggested changes include lifting the minimum expulsion age from 14 to 18 and reducing fines from $2000 to $1000. 

Committee Chair, National's Tom Rutherford told Mike Hosking two contentious changes his party didn't agree with, also got through. 

He says this includes narrowing the definition of begging and allowing people to come back to the area after receiving a move-on order. 

But Rutherford says he's overall happy where it's ended up, as they've made some pragmatic changes. 

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The Government's proposed move-on orders look set to be watered down.
The Bill will let Police order people out of public spaces for rough sleeping, begging, and disorderly behaviour.&nbsp;
The Justice Select Committee suggested changes include lifting the minimum expulsion age from 14 to 18 and reducing fines from $2000 to $1000.&nbsp;
Committee Chair, National's Tom Rutherford told Mike Hosking two contentious changes his party didn't agree with, also got through.&nbsp;
He says this includes narrowing the definition of begging and allowing people to come back to the area after receiving a move-on order.&nbsp;
But Rutherford says he's overall happy where it's ended up, as they've made some pragmatic changes.&nbsp;
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Tom Rutherford: Justice Select Committee Chair on the Government's controversial move-on orders bill looking set to be watered down

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The All Blacks are focusing on discipline heading into the third test of Rugby's Greatest Rivalry.  

The score is tied at one-all, and although there's still one test after this weekend's clash at Soweto, this is technically the series decider. 

Fabian Holland has dropped to the bench for this test, and he told Mike Hosking they need to clean up their discipline – that was how they led the Springboks into the game and that showed on the scoreboard. 

He says another big area is going to be set pieces, especially scrums and the lineout, as they kind of let themselves down there last week.  

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The All Blacks are focusing on discipline heading into the third test of Rugby's Greatest Rivalry. &nbsp;
The score is tied at one-all, and although there's still one test after this weekend's clash at Soweto, this is technically the series decider.&nbsp;
Fabian Holland has dropped to the bench for this test, and he told Mike Hosking they need to clean up their discipline – that was how they led the Springboks into the game and that showed on the scoreboard.&nbsp;
He says another big area is going to be set pieces, especially scrums and the lineout, as they kind of let themselves down there last week. &nbsp;
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Fabian Holland: All Blacks lock previews the third clash against the Springboks in Rugby's Greatest Rivalry

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The country's bolstering its National Security Strategy by jumping on board a new partnership. 

New Zealand and the ‌US will jointly fund a major port upgrade on the island of Penrhyn in the Cooks – a former military base. 

China had previously expressed interest in seabed mining in the area. 

Retired Major General John G. Howard told Mike Hosking we likely didn't spend as much on foreign investment in the past, but it's where we need to spend in order to build our national security resilience.  

He says we'll never be able to compete with superpowers, but the port upgrade is not a material figure against our GDP, and the effect will outweigh competition and build that resilience.  

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The country's bolstering its National Security Strategy by jumping on board a new partnership.&nbsp;
New Zealand and the ‌US will jointly fund a major port upgrade on the island of Penrhyn in the Cooks – a former military base.&nbsp;
China had previously expressed interest in seabed mining in the area.&nbsp;
Retired Major General John G. Howard told Mike Hosking we likely didn't spend as much on foreign investment in the past, but it's where we need to spend in order to build our national security resilience. &nbsp;
He says we'll never be able to compete with superpowers, but the port upgrade is not a material figure against our GDP, and the effect will outweigh competition and build that resilience. &nbsp;
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John G. Howard: Retired Major General on New Zealand's spending on foreign aid and investing in the Pacific

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Here's the headline: "3000 hospitality businesses close in a year". 

That’s what the media not only does, but loves. They would perceive it as bad news and they can't pedal bad news enough. 

But in the numbers are the real story. 

The 3000 is made up of closures and liquidations. A closure can mean nothing more than a person leaving the country or closing one establishment to open another. That happens all the time. 

It's not a sign of anything other than mood or inspiration. 

It's important to also remember that there are more openings than closures. That’s the real story, so in essence the hospitality scene is actually growing. 

Not that a headline about 3000 closures would ever tell you that. 

Ironically, it's also perhaps an insight into the reality of hospitality, which is to say it's a very easy entry into business, given a lot of hospitality is hole-in-the-wall sandwich-type stuff, often by migrants, that comes and goes. 

So on one hand we are growing and on the other it's an in-and-out sort of operation that is not really reflective of a wider economy, or its story. 

The next part of the stats dump is liquidations. They tell us liquidations are up 42% year on year. That sounds bad, until you hear the next number, which is 1.3%. 

The 1.3% is the percentage of businesses that actually end up liquidated, which of course is hardly any. 

98.7% are not liquidated, so the 42% is off an extremely low base and not, if you were being honest, worthy of a headline. 

But remember the key here; it's all about bad news. 

Do you want a worse one? 

Takeaway liquidations were up 143%. That's a shocker, except, remember that takeaways is a subset of overall liquidations and the liquidations only represent 1.3%. So imagine how small the actual number of fish and chip shops this actually involves is. So, 143% of what? 

So, to the narrative. If a headline is all you ever see you will believe we are a dump, it’s a mess and things aren't improving. And yet the truth is a whole different thing. 

In these numbers and the narrative is the modern-day story of news and information; what's real versus what they want you to think is real. 

It sadly requires work on your part to get to the real story. 

And in this case, it is nowhere near as bad as they make out. In fact, it's almost entirely the opposite. 

Here's the headline: "3000 hospitality businesses close in a year".&nbsp;
That’s what the media not only does, but loves. They would perceive it as bad news and they can't pedal bad news enough.&nbsp;
But in the numbers are the real story.&nbsp;
The 3000 is made up of closures and liquidations. A closure can mean nothing more than a person leaving the country or closing one establishment to open another. That happens all the time.&nbsp;
It's not a sign of anything other than mood or inspiration.&nbsp;
It's important to also remember that there are more openings than closures. That’s the real story, so in essence the hospitality scene is actually growing.&nbsp;
Not that a headline about 3000 closures would ever tell you that.&nbsp;
Ironically, it's also perhaps an insight into the reality of hospitality, which is to say it's a very easy entry into business, given a lot of hospitality is hole-in-the-wall sandwich-type stuff, often by migrants, that comes and goes.&nbsp;
So on one hand we are growing and on the other it's an in-and-out sort of operation that is not really reflective of a wider economy, or its story.&nbsp;
The next part of the stats dump is liquidations. They tell us liquidations are up 42% year on year. That sounds bad, until you hear the next number, which is 1.3%.&nbsp;
The 1.3% is the percentage of businesses that actually end up liquidated, which of course is hardly any.&nbsp;
98.7% are not liquidated, so the 42% is off an extremely low base and not, if you were being honest, worthy of a headline.&nbsp;
But remember the key here; it's all about bad news.&nbsp;
Do you want a worse one?&nbsp;
Takeaway liquidations were up 143%. That's a shocker, except, remember that takeaways is a subset of overall liquidations and the liquidations only represent 1.3%. So imagine how small the actual number of fish and chip shops this actually involves is. So, 143% of what?&nbsp;
So, to the narrative. If a headline is all you ever see you will believe we are a dump, it’s a mess and things aren't improving. And yet the truth is a whole different thing.&nbsp;
In these numbers and the narrative is the modern-day story of news and information; what's real versus what they want you to think is real.&nbsp;
It sadly requires work on your part to get to the real story.&nbsp;
And in this case, it is nowhere near as bad as they make out. In fact, it's almost entirely the opposite.&nbsp;

Mike's Minute: Look further than the headline

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Tom Rutherford: Justice Select Committee Chair on the Government's controversial move-on orders bill looking set to be watered down

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