18 NOV 2022 · Francesca Rudkin has been watching drama 'She Said' and biographical drama 'Emily'. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · The Government has confirmed an extension is being considered for all landlords, including private rentals and Kāinga Ora, to meet minimum Healthy Homes standards. Auckland Property Investors President Kristin Sutherland joined Heather du Plessis-Allan to discuss. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · An Australian restaurant is fighting the nation's worker shortage with grey power. Three-Sixty Q Restaurant in Queenscliff, Victoria put the call out to hire seniors - and now has 12 working on the roster. Owner Barry Iddles says there's no backpackers or international students to fill the gap. He says they're fantastic and customers love it - with every table that came in today saying they read it in the paper or heard about it on the radio. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · Ongoing road works in Tauranga and the resulting speed limits are being described as bedlam. Frustration among residents is reportedly so bad, security staff could soon be deployed to stop workers from being abused. The owner of Academy Motor Inn on Cameron Road, Simon Dreissens says it's worse than traffic in central London. He says looking out from his conference balcony now, all he can see is orange - with 100 road cones, 25 barriers - and it's driving the city crazy. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · Businesses in Auckland's Remuera are taking matters into their own hands to fight crime. The local business association has spent 180-thousand dollars installing a security system that can track the movement of vehicles and people. Remuera Business Association's Natalie Wright says it's all about safety. She says these youths are running around town, smashing and grabbing, and it's making tenants and shop owners scared. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · National is receiving minimal support for their youth crime policy, the proposal of boot camps and ankle monitors being called a ‘cliché’ and ‘a joke.’ Former Chief Science Officer Sir Peter Gluckman told Heather du Plessis-Allan that taking young offenders out of environments from which they can return to is unlikely to work, as it hasn’t in the past. He says any proposed solution needs to be independently assessed, and more transparency is needed on the outcome. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · A shifting of the guard in the Democratic Party. US House of Representatives speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has announced she'll be stepping down from party leadership but will remain in Congress. US correspondent Dan Mitchinson told Heather du Plessis-Allan like her or not, she's been able to unite the party over the last two decades. He says she is a heck of a fundraiser, and the Democrats are going to need a lot of money going into the 2024 election - which is why she's going to stay on represent her district, San Francisco. LISTEN ABOVE

18 NOV 2022 · The mother of a 29-year-old Kiwi killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, says today's verdict does "nothing" to bring justice or closure. 29 year old Wellingtonian Robert Ayley was on board when the plane was shot down in eastern Ukraine in July 2014. A Dutch court has now convicted two Russians and a pro-Moscow Ukrainian separatist of the murders of the 298 passengers who died. Wendy Ayley says she's not looking for answers or closure, just that the guns fall silent. She would rather see an end to countries trying to invade other countries, as opposed to having a court case find people guilty in absentia. LISTEN ABOVE

17 NOV 2022 · I don’t blame you if your first reaction to National’s boot camp idea was to roll your eyes because, well, this is hardly a new idea from National is it?  They ran it out at the 2008 election, then closed the camps. They tried it at the 2017 election, but never got a chance to do it because Winston chose Jacinda. And frankly, it is a pretty old fashioned idea that gets trotted out by conservative parties pretty frequently.  But, hmmm... it might be worth hearing National out on this. It sounds like they might have the right idea to make it work this time around. First of all, we know we need to do something. We have a problem. Kids out ram-raiding at 2am, kids beating up young victims on video for social media fame, a 14 year old robbing a Queen Street jewellery store with a hammer. These kids need a circuit breaker. We don’t want to leave them with their families; parents who don’t mind or don’t know that they’re out in the middle of the night are not doing a good job. But we don’t want to send them to jail at that age, so what do you do?  Well, this could be the answer, if and only if, it is done properly. It cannot be a boot camp that just punishes kids.  That’s only going to make them angrier. But, it can work if it’s a place away from bad parents, where kids are taught some discipline and consequence, where they have rules not allowing them to roam the streets in the middle of the night, where they have counsellors to help them learn new behaviour and deal with past trauma, where they have school, and where they have support when they do go home to those parents. And look, that is in National’s proposal. They are proposing to include schooling, counselling, drug and alcohol treatment, mentoring, and cultural support, and a case worker assigned to the family for ongoing support. It’s probably worth giving it a go, isn’t it?  Because what else have we got?  Clearly, what few consequences there are for these kiddie ram-raiders are not enough, because it just keeps happening.  LISTEN ABOVE

17 NOV 2022 · Over in the UK, the annual Budget Day lead-up is promising a 'stormy' future for the public. All eyes are on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who has to fix the financial issues inflicted by the previous Liz Truss government. UK correspondent explained that this paired with Covid-19 doesn't paint a positive picture for the future.  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has promised to lower the threshold from which people start paying the highest rate of income tax and include some Government spending cuts to clamp down on inflation, but Edna Brady observes that things still look bleak. LISTEN ABOVE