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A fresh and intelligent start to your day - catch the very latest international and domestic news developments, sport, entertainment and business on Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, on Newstalk ZB.

  1. 18 hr ago

    Viv Beck: Heart of the City CEO on New Zealand Fashion week kicking off in Auckland

    New Zealand Fashion Week's back with a bang. It's making its return to Shed 10 on Auckland's waterfront this week - hosting an array of big names like Karen Walker, and Zambesi - alongside emerging talent. Last year's event debuted a new format - with an emphasis on public ticketing, panel talks, and interactive workshops. Heart of the City CEO Viv Beck tells Ryan what Aucklanders can expect in the CBD.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. 18 hr ago

    Ryan Bridge: Hey Labour, NZ is not Australia

    Hey Labour. NZ is not Australia. To justify their capital gains tax, they point across the ditch. "Australia introduced a capital gains tax in 1985, and its economy and incomes have kept growing." This is true but one does not cause the other. Two things. 1. Australia is not rich because it has a capital gains tax. Australia is rich because it has a larger economy, with greater economies of scale, and mainly, because unlike us, they extract minerals and fossil fuels from the earth for the rest of the world to burn and /or make steel. Their top export earners are iron ore, oil and gas, coal mining, LNG, and then farming. Guess where those young people are going when they leave motel city, otherwise known as Rotorua? Probably a mining job Labour wouldn't left them have here. 2. This is about how the tax is applied, because Labour NZ's tax is treated very differently. Let's say you buy a house a rental house today for $1m. You sell it for $1.5m in ten years.  You've made $500k, right? Wrong. Once you take account of how much inflation has eroded away at the value of them money, in real terms you're worse off.  If you went to spend that $500 in ten years, it would get you fewer goods than it would today.  So, after inflation, your real profit might only be $300k in real terms, but Labour would make you pay 28% on the whole $300k. Which is, again, what the Aussies do. They give you a 50% discount on the difference between what you bought the house for and sold it, to account for inflation. They're going harder here, which doesn't seem fair. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. 18 hr ago

    Full Show Podcast: 17 August 2026

    On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Monday the 17th of August 2026, The Opportunity party wants to toughen the rules around political lobbying and donations if elected, Transparency International CEO Jule Haggie shares her thoughts.  Business Correspondent Vicky Pryce has the latest on the cost of wildfires in Europe in terms of GDP, worries about the insurance cost which isn't covering the destruction, and Germany cutting investment in the US because of the trade uncertainty. New Zealand fashion week kicks off today, celebrating 25 years Heart of the City CEO Viv Beck tells Ryan what people can expect from the events. Plus, UK/Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey has the latest on Moroccan authorities intercepting dozens of migrants seeking to cross into the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta and Police in London apologise after officers inadvertently disclosed email addresses of around 140 people who say they were sexually abused by the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. Get the Early Edition Full Show Podcast every weekday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.           LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Full Show Podcast: 17 August 2026

  4. 3 days ago

    Muhammad Irfan: Unitec Data Analytics Lecturer on the research showing meth contamination increased by 50% since the rules were relaxed

    A push for the rules to be tightened around meth contamination in New Zealand homes.  In 2018, the level of meth contamination allowed in a house was raised to 15 per 100-centimetres-squared – an increase of 30 times.  Unitec research, published in today's New Zealand Medical Journal, has found since the change, average meth contamination has increased by more than 50%.  Author Muhammad Irfan told Ryan Bridge that other developed countries such as Australia, the US, and the UK have very low thresholds in comparison.  He says the worry is this high of a threshold, can drastically impact children’s health, which may be pushing healthcare costs up.  LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. 3 days ago

    Brad Olsen: Infometrics Principal Economist on food cost inflation easing, latest forecasts

    Inflation may not remain as high, for as long, as previously expected.  The Reserve Bank's latest survey of business managers suggests inflation will return to a more normal level over the next year.  Latest data from Infometrics and Foodstuffs suggests food price inflation has already eased, with grocery supplier cost inflation now back down to 1.9%.  Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen told Ryan Bridge although things are fine right now, the worry is it feels like we’re in a holding pattern.  He says we don’t know what’s going to happen globally, and there’s been a spike in shipping costs over the last few months that they worry might have a second wave effect eventually.   LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  6. 3 days ago

    Grant Webster: Tourism Holdings Limited Chief Executive on Act proposing a 'Local Tourism Dividend' as an alternative to a bed tax

    It's thought ACT’s alternative to a bed tax is the right philosophy, but is too small.   The party's promising one dollar given to local councils for each guest night in their area, funded through GST and levies already paid by visitors.   Leader David Seymour says it could be implemented at the next Budget, rather than needing legislation.   Tourism Holdings Limited chief executive Grant Webster told Ryan Bridge they've been asking for some kind of dividend on GST for decades.   He says the figure needs to be five or ten times bigger than ACT's suggesting.  LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  7. 3 days ago

    Full Show Podcast: 14 August 2026

    On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 14th of August 2026, Act wants a tourism dividend instead of a bed tax, Tourism Holdings Limited Chief Executive, Grant Webster shares his thoughts.  Price of groceries might be starting to soften, Informetrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen shares his thoughts. A group of researchers have found that Meth contamination is increasing in previously exposed properties, data analytics lecturer at Unitec Muhammad Irfan, tells Ryan why.  Plus, UK/Europe Correspondent Vincent McAviney has the latest on the UK seeing the hottest day of the year with 38.1C provisionally recorded at Kew Gardens, London and the latest on the Clacton by-election.  Get the Early Edition Full Show Podcast every weekday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.           LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    Full Show Podcast: 14 August 2026

  8. 3 days ago

    Ryan Bridge: Centrist voters will be confused so far this election

    If you're a centrist, maybe a softer swing voter in this election, you're right to feel, so far at least, that the whole thing's a bit of a ruse.  The left and right blocs are basically going to run campaigns against each other, rather than for something else.   How do we know this?   Last Sunday the Nats put out budget responsibility rules they so far haven't been responsible enough to follow themselves.   Their main argument here is basically, at least we'll do better than the other lot.   Which, if you're worried about debt, is probably true.   Labour is boxing itself into a fiscal corner.   If it is to be believed, Hipkins yesterday told me he would resign as Prime Minister before introducing any tax being proposed by the parties whose support he would need to form a government.   And he'd sooner walk away from talks than entertain any of them.   So, no inheritance tax, no wealth tax, no land tax, no nothing. Just Labour's CGT.  And that tax, remember, relies on 3% growth in house prices every single year to wash its own face.   If it doesn't, then what?   The problem with ruling out every other form of revenue-raising, while at the same time promising the unions a roll-back of Brooke van Valden's gender bargaining changes, means there isn't just the perception of a hole in the books, but an actual stonking big one.   I'm told Barbara Edmonds is busy beavering away on the books, but will have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.   If you're leftie-left, you'll be mad Hipkins won't go further on tax., If you're righty-right, you'll be mad Luxon hasn't yet balanced the books.  The basis of this campaign though, is going to be attack.  The big parties are not so much telling us how or why New Zealand will be a better place under their stewardship, but rather why it'd be a disaster under their opponents.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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