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I think the hardest news story to read today is of the kindergarten teacher in Victoria who died yesterday afternoon saving children from a truck that smashed into the kindy.
The truck driver lost control, the truck ploughed into the kindy, the teacher pushed the kids out of the way, but died herself.
The speed limit outside that kindergarten was supposed to be dropped from 50 to 40 kph – but hadn’t been.
A similar thing happened a few weeks ago in Melbourne.
An SUV crashed into a primary school, killing an 11-year-old boy and hurting 4 other children.
I don't love speed reductions.
All too often they’re done in stupid places like open roads. But when it comes to places where kids are, I've completely 180’d on this.
I read the book ‘The Anxious Generation’ a few weeks ago. The book tracks why kids are having mental crises en masse lately.
One of the reasons, particularly for boys, is that since the 1970s parents have increasingly stopped their kids from just playing around the neighbourhood on their bikes, or running around with other kids - because parents are scared of fast traffic.
And with good reason... cars go fast in our suburbs.
I live on a road that’s 30kph. No one does 30kph – I don't do 30kph.
The good news is that because of recent rule changes here, Auckland schools should have lower speed limits during school hours by the end of 2027. But, I wouldn’t mind if that was pretty much everywhere where kids are.
I get that would drive people bonkers, having to slow down all the time around houses and parks and schools...
It would require us sacrificing our time.
But, for the benefit of going as fast as we do around kids... we are sacrificing quite a lot.
Their best childhoods.
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Keir Starmer will be the first UK Prime Minister to join Armistice Day commemorations in France since Winston Churchill in 1944.
UK correspondent Enda Brady tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the British leader was there to get private time with Macron in order to discuss Trump’s re-election.
Meanwhile, cold case detectives in Ireland have made a breakthrough in the notorious case of a young woman who had been missing for 21 years.
And, BBC’s top sports presenter Gary Lineker will leave Match of the Day after 25 years.
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Retailers continue to struggle along as many watch every penny spent.
Electronic card spending data showed a 1.1% fall in October compared to last year. September was down 5.6%.
As retailers brace for the most important season of the year, Chief Executive at Retail NZ Carolyn Young tells Heather du Plessis-Allan it may be a tough period of time.
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On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Tuesday, 12 November 2024, the Government has delivered an official apology to victims of state and faith based abuse. Survivors have been focusing their anger on one very specific person today.
Chris Luxon spoke to US president-elect Donald Trump this morning, so what did the two really talk about?
Everyone's thinking twice about taking their car to the car wash after one woman's terrifying experience in Christchurch.
The Huddle debates Heather's favourite interview of the week with Federated Farmers' Toby Williams.
Plus Heather admits that she's made a grave error committing to pronounce all French words in English.
Get the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast every weekday evening on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Federated Farmers is calling for the Government to urgently distance itself from a radical new pine planting proposal released by the Climate Change Commission.
ANZ is not going to introduce climate targets for farming customers.
And, voting has opened on a proposal from Kiwifruit marketer Zespri to increase plantings of SunGold in other countries.
Host of The Country Jamie Mackay joins Heather du Plessis-Allan.
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Economists are warning that NZ may have to downgrade its economic outlook as a result of Donald Trump’s re-election.
Analysts from BMI have revised down our growth forecast from 2% to 1.8% for next year.
Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen tells Heather du Plessis-Allan it is not just the proposed tariffs that are causing the outlook.
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Fonterra has confirmed it will sell off its consumer brands such as Anchor, Mainland and Kapiti.
The company claims there has been significant interest but is considering whether to go for a straight sale or a listing of the brands.
Dairy Insights Consultant Stuart Davison tells Heather du Plessis-Allan Fonterra wants to simplify the core business of New Zealand-processed milk.
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Former Chief of Staff to Jacinda Ardern, Mike Munro and Kiwiblog and Curia pollster David Farrar join the Huddle to discuss the apology for victims of state care, Trump and Luxon’s phone call, car wash horrors, and reduced speed limits in urban areas.
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Federated Farmers is calling on the Government to part ways with a new pine planting proposal released by the Climate Change Commission last week.
The proposal comes after the UN asked the Government to come up with a new 2035 Emission’s Reduction Target by February. The Commission’s suggestions would see large areas of farmland used for planting pine trees.
Farmers say they need the land for productive farmland.
Federated Farmers Meat & Wool Chair Toby Williams tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the conversion will drive up NZ beef and lamb prices and force the country to become a net food importer.
“We have to sacrifice everything. We have to sacrifice our nation, our rural people and our rural communities just so we can agree to a piece of paper that was signed in Paris.”
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A Christchurch woman believed she was going to die when a car wash malfunctioned while she was in it.
The brushes hit her car so hard that the bonnet, roof and sides were crumpled and scratched, and her spoiler was completely ripped off.
After making it out of the car wash, staff gave the woman a flyer with an 0800 number she never heard back from. The car wash was back in service later that night.
Acting Head of Research and Advocacy at Consumer NZ, Jessica Walker tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the Consumer Guarantees Act requires reasonable care and skill is provided for a service, and this case clearly did not meet that standard.
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has spoken to US President Donald Trump on the phone for the first time since the US election, saying he congratulated Trump on his big win.
The pair talked about deepening ties between NZ and the US.
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sir Don McKinnon tells Heather du Plessis-Allan that there will be around 190 prime ministers and presidents eager to speak to Trump, and it seems NZ has been fairly high up in the queue.
“That’s a good sign.”
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today issued an official apology to everyone who was abused in state and faith-based care.
Luxon said the current system for paying redress to survivors is not good enough and announced $32 million of new funding to sort this out.
Seven other public sector leaders have also apologised for their departments’ role in abuse, including Solicitor General Una Jagose.
The crowd met her address with jeers, pushback, tears and booing.
Leoni McInroe is a Lake Alice survivor and attended the apology today. McInroe tells Heather du Plessis-Allan Jagose has been an active part of denying and dismissing survivors stories and should step down.
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon issued a historic official apology to the estimated 200,000-plus people who were abused in state and faith-based care institutions over decades.
Plus, Lindsay McKenzie has been appointed as Wellington City Council’s Crown observer and starts the job tomorrow.
And, the ACT party is supporting removing a broadcasting allocation from taxpayer funding in the lead-up to an election.
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A teacher aide has died in Australia after a truck crashed into a preschool playground.
The crash comes less than two weeks after an 11-year-old was killed and four other students injured after an SUV crashed through a fence in Melbourne.
Australia correspondent Murray Olds tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the teacher aide saved a number of children’s lives by pushing them out of the way in time. Her family has paid tribute to the “cherished mother, wife, daughter and sister”.
Plus, four foreign nationals have been found on a remote island off the northern territory.
And, plant lovers are queueing up to catch a once-in-a-decade whiff of the corpse flower in Melbourne.
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Big old day for the survivors of abuse in state care today because the government through the Prime Minister finally apologised for this.
That is important.
I know you know what they want is redress as well, a whole bunch of them, and fair enough... that will come.
But, an apology also is very important. Especially when you consider how long it has officially not been a big deal that kids went through what they did while they were in the state of care - for it to now be acknowledged as, “yep, absolutely, actually a big deal” and for the state to admit it did wrong.
I think that's really important
Slightly unfortunately, the day has been overshadowed by anger directed at the Solicitor General.
I think this is going to be the thing that everybody remembers about today.
Una Jagose tried to apologise herself today as the solicitor general, she was booed by survivors. She was heckled by survivors. One woman walked out another, turned her back to the Solicitor General while she was talking in a move of protest.
The reason they're so angry is because they want to strip her from her job. They accuse her of covering up what really happened to them.
Now, I'm not going to tell these people that they're not entitled to feel angry because of course they are.
But, what we have to remember when we're discussing the Solicitor General's role in this and even in a lower role previously as a Crown lawyer before she became the Solicitor General, is that Crown lawyers, Crown law, the Solicitor General, they are the Government's lawyers, right?
They act in the best interests of the Crown.
And it's pretty much the same as David Bain's lawyer or even Brenton Tarrant's lawyer or should you or I be accused of something significant, our lawyers - that our lawyers are not there to look after everybody else. They are there to look after us. They're working in the best interests of their clients.
And the same is true of Crown law.
It's really important context when we feel angry at somebody like the Solicitor General or Crown law for what they did.
I understand why Una Jagose is copping it the worst today. It’s much easier to pin the blame on one person, isn't it? Than to pin the blame on a giant system like Government.
And especially when you consider that governments change every few years - one person is much easier to hold accountable than potentially thousands of people for little bits that they did over decades.
Maybe it will make a lot of people feel a lot better if she loses her job.
But remember this, it's not actually going to fix anything.
Not in the past.
And not for kids who are in state care in the future.
Beware the quick solution, because the quick solution may create a false sense that things have been fixed when they really haven't.
The most important thing is that things are actually fixed. Isn't it more important than anything she actually fronted up today?
And so did the Prime Minister and I say that's got to be a good start.
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Sam Cane and Mark Tele’a have been ruled out of this weekend’s test against France.
Cane took a nasty blow to the head in last week’s match against Ireland, which required stitches. It is hoped he will clear concussion protocol in time to don the black jersey one last time –against Italy in Rome- before heading to Japan.
Plus, Super Rugby teams are naming their squads for the 2025 season.
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Research has shown Gen Z does see the benefits of putting down their phones.
Outdoor education organisation Outward Bound surveyed participants from the last five years, aged 20 and under, and found 80% of them wanted to reduce their screen time.
93% say they feel more productive when they aren’t on their phones.
Outward Bound chief executive Malindi Maclean tells Heather du Plessis-Allan putting phones down gives teens an opportunity to rediscover meaningful connection and engage with others on a different level.
With Gen Z themselves saying they want to be on their phones less, Maclean tells Heather she’d like to see social media banned for those under the age of 16, like over in Australia.
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Over in the UK, top restaurant and pub bosses have warned businesses will close and jobs will be cut following last month's Budget.
The sector is facing higher taxes as part of required National Insurance contributions - and many have warned these increases are unsustainable.
UK correspondent Gail Downey says the sector has already undergone a financial rough patch as it struggles to recover from Covid-19.
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The markets have reacted strongly to Donald Trump returning for his second term in the White House.
The US dollar, stocks and bitcoin all surged after his win - but experts are wondering if this will continue.
Mark Lister from Craigs Investment Partners unpacked some likely outcomes.
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Tonight on The Huddle, Trish Sherson from Sherson Willis PR and motivational speaker David Letele joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!
There's outrage and concern from rate-payers over a million-dollar Christmas tree set to be built in Auckland's city centre. Do we support this? Will this help bring more people in?
The Government raised a few eyebrows after initially banning journalist Aaron Smale from Tuesday's Abuse in Care apology - and then reversing the ban. Is this a bad look?
It's been a big week for president-elect Donald Trump - he's already expressed interest in pulling America of of the Paris climate agreement. What do we make of this?
Does Liam Lawson have a point in suggesting the New Zealand national anthem be played for the McLaren victories?
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