Matt Heath & Tyler Adams Afternoons

A groundswell of protest from fed up farmers across New Zealand Farmers around the country have descended on towns and cities to protest what they say is unworkable legislation and unjustified costs. The Country's Jamie MacKay is at one of the flagship protests, at the Gore Showgrounds. He told Simon Barnett and James Daniels the turn out for this protest is unlike anything he’s ever seen. LISTEN...

Sir Gordon Tietjens is the most highly decorated coach in the history of Rugby 7’s. His titles include 12 World Series Gold’s, 4 Commonwealth Games Golds and 2 World Cup Golds. His influence over the careers of many All Blacks started when they played under his coaching. Christian Cullen, Jonah Lomu, Eric Rush, Joe Rokocoko, Ben Smith and Rieko Ioane among them. He was inducted into the Internatio...

Niki Bezzant is an award-winning writer, speaker, commentator, and Health Editor for Woman Magazine.   She’s made a successful career from her passion for food, health, nutrition, and wellbeing.   Every second Wednesday Niki will be taking your questions and calls on everything nutrition, food, and health. This week we had some great questions on the Keto diet, and how much Salmon is okay to eat i...

It is great to be able to welcome in James Daniels as our new co-host today! Simon Barnett took the opportunity to throw a couple of 'getting to know you' questions at him... LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A psychotherapist is calling the pressure on mental health services a "perfect storm". Psychologists are turning away as many as 60 clients a month because they have no space to see them. The issues have come to light after the College of Clinical Psychologists recently surveyed its members. Psychotherapist and co-host of Newstalk ZB’s The Nutters Club Kyle MacDonald told Simon and James sadly he...

Broadcaster, city councillor and iwi leader James Daniels (Ngāi Tahu, Te Arawa, Tuwharetoa and Tainui) joins Simon Barnett to co-host Newstalk ZB Afternoons from 13 July 2021. Daniels spent nineteen years on the tribal authority Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu and is currently a Christchurch City Councillor. “Last year I was asked to host nine to noon in Canterbury on Coast 105.7FM” said Daniels. “It’s bee...

One of New Zealand’s favourite homegrown artists is back home in NZ and on tour.   Among Greg Johnson’s many accolades are two Tui Music Awards and an APRA Silver Scroll - New Zealand’s highest musical honour.   After being holed up in Los Angeles for endless Covid lockdowns, he’s back for his first tour since 2019 – and is promising to make these shows "real, interactive, and cozy."  And this all...

Todd Blackadder is a legend in New Zealand rugby.  He played a pivotal role in the overwhelming success of Canterbury Rugby with 71 games and three Super Rugby Titles with the Crusaders along with 126 games and two titles with the Canterbury NPC side,  He represented the All Blacks in 12 test matches, captaining them in all but one of those tests.  When his playing career came to an end, he took u...

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors.  He regularly joins Simon Barnett and Phil Gifford to answer listeners' employment-related questions.  Today he answered questions about Kiwisaver, unfair dismissal, and cameras in vehicles.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Riders are at the top of a 130-foot drop. They're about to plunge almost 60 mph. Now's a good time to ask: "What in the devil are they thinking?" These coaster enthusiasts -- "daredevils" if you will -- are willing riders on the Jersey Devil Coaster, which debuted to the public on Sunday, June 13, at Six Flags Great Adventure in central New Jersey. The park says it's "the world's tallest, fastest,...

Professor Doug Sellman has been working in the addiction treatment field since 1985 and has been Director of the National Addiction Centre at Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Sciences since its inception in 1996.  He’s been promoting and researching the health benefits of fasting in recent years and joined Simon and Phil to discuss his own journey with fasting and weight loss, and why more...

Phil Goff has been a stalwart in NZ politics for almost 4 decades.  He served as an MP for 11 terms during which he was a Senior Cabinet Minister in several high-profile portfolios, was leader of the Labour Party, and Leader of the Opposition.    After leaving Parliament he campaigned successfully as Mayor of Auckland Supercity and was re-elected again in 2019.   He was Simon Barnett and Phil Giff...

An eleventh-hour announcement by Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi took some heat out of irate hospitality business owners who accuse the Government of leaving their industry in crisis due to critical staff shortages. Faafoi issued an embargoed press release last night, announcing an extension to working holiday and Supplementary Seasonal Employment (SSE) visas shortly after an online petition orga...

The Climate Change Commission says the Government is making good progress in reducing carbon emissions -- but needs to step up efforts. Its final advice to the Government has just been released. The Commission says it's achievable and affordable to meet climate targets with existing technology - and it's cheaper to act now. It recommends the Government up use of low emission fuels, and install ele...

The Prime Minister's says action on climate change is a question of 'life or death.' The Climate Change Commission’s today released its final advice to the Government – on how to clamp down on greenhouse gas. Updated modelling shows our emissions are higher than first thought - and we have a tougher road to meet 2050 targets. Jacinda Ardern's once again called climate change her generation’s nucle...

Farmers are furiously digging into new Climate Change Commission advice to see how it affects them. The report is saying that emissions are higher, and changes need to be accelerated in sectors like farming, and moving away from fossil fuels. Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard says on a first glance, they're concerned cutting emissions could translate into cutting farm production. “We are...

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors. He regularly joins Simon Barnett and Phil Gifford to answer listeners' employment related questions. Today he answered questions about holiday pay entitlements, KiwiSaver contributions, random drug testing and a driving facing camera in a truck cab among other things. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Here's an inspiring story. It's the story of Hawke's Bay employer Taurus Taurima who at the young age of 32 owns Topline Contracting. He started the company himself after a difficult journey himself. Taurima was raised by a solo mother in Flaxmere, and left school at 16 not long before his partner gave birth to the first of five kids now aged between 14 and a few months old. He got his first full-...

A herd of 15 elephants has wreaked havoc in China, trampling crops and causing more than a million dollars' worth of damage, after the animals escaped from a nature reserve last year. The elephants have made a 500-kilometre journey through the southwestern province of Yunnan from the nature reserve in Xishuangbanna to Yuxi, a city of 2.6 million people, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake...

Blair Tuke is a genuine superstar and one of our greatest ever sportspeople.   He’s a two time America’s Cup winner, won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, silver in 2012 in London and 8 World Championship golds in the 49er class.  He’s also a founder of Live Ocean - a charity which supports marine science, and conservation projects and is encouraging kiwis to take the plunge in the annual L...

An F45 gym in Hastings has cancelled someone's '7 day experience' and offered her a refund, because she didn't want to be filmed while working out. The gym-goer received an email saying that because she didn't want to sign the waiver to be filmed for social media, they couldn't guarantee she wouldn't end up in them anyway. Therefore, they couldn't offer her the gym's services. Ekant Veer is Profes...

Many people have Birthday traditions, taking the day off work , a favourite meal - things like that. On his 102nd birthday Napier man Trevor Page did what he does every other weekday morning. He climbed Taradale's Sugar Loaf Hill. It's a steep 127 metre climb but a bitterly cold morning didn't deter him from walking the hill he has climbed for 47 years.. Trevor Page joined Simon Barnett and Phil G...

The Economic Development Minister is staying tight-lipped over America's Cup negotiations. A 100-million dollar offer from Auckland Council and Government is said to have been rejected by Team New Zealand. A team appointed by the Crown has been trying to work out a deal since the regatta in March. It's believed Team New Zealand want more than 200-million dollars. Stuart Nash says he's deliberately...

A question whether there should be term limits in Parliament...to stop people hanging around. National MP Nick Smith is calling it quits after 30 years in the job. He says it's due to personal reasons -- and that he's subject to an employment investigation into a "verbal altercation" in July last year. Former Cabinet colleague Chris Finlayson says after a while in Parliament, you become institutio...

Almost one fifth of employees are working themselves into the ground. Research from AUT conducted in December, shows 18 per cent of New Zealand workers can be classified as being burnt-out. It also shows those workers are from 14 to 24 times more likely to have severe levels of mental health issues. AUT Business School Professor Jarrod Haar says the results are very concerning. He says these peopl...