Northland Region
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Oct 30, 2026
Matt HeathHOST
Fantastic.
Matt HeathHOST
The great Heather Duplessy-Allen is up next, and she's got Chris Bishop on after four, and she'll be talking with him about turning the sod on Northland's first road of national significance.
Matt HeathHOST
But right now, Tyler, my good friend, why am I playing this 1976 version of a Cat Stevens song, a Rod Stewart version of a Cat Stevens song?
Tyler AdamsHOST
The first cut is the deepest.
Duncan SmithHOST
But first, let's take a whip around the country to check out conditions on the land.
Duncan SmithHOST
Northland Te Tai Tokerau is abnormally dry.
Duncan SmithHOST
One farmer near Whangarei says he's still growing grass but could do with about 50 millimetres of rain.
Duncan SmithHOST
He says the dry came on quickly in the past 10 days or so, but some farmers are also preparing for possible flooding due to moisture building up in the tropics as cyclone season starts.
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Catherine RyanHOST
Well, a small business in Northland making sauces and chutneys has been recognised for its efforts towards operating sustainably.
Catherine RyanHOST
Wild West Gourmet produces small batch condiments and combines traditional methods with practices such as waste reduction, water management and low emission transport.
Catherine RyanHOST
Northland Regional Council says the co-owners, Debbie McQuillan and Graham Brattie, had won the award for showing how practical action can strengthen both business viability and create positive environmental outcomes.
Catherine RyanHOST
Debbie McQuillan is our guest.
Catherine RyanHOST
Kia ora.
Catherine RyanHOST
Trust me, it won't be as laden as what I bought by accident recently.
Catherine RyanHOST
Did you expand the range when you took over beyond the chutneys and the relishes and the seasonings? Did you expand it at all?
Mark LeishmanHOST
This is until midnight Friday.
Mark LeishmanHOST
We start in Northland to Waikato also.
Mark LeishmanHOST
Coromandel and Bay of Plenty, isolated showers more frequent in the evenings.
Mark LeishmanHOST
Waitomo to Taranaki, including the central high country, isolated showers turning to rain for a time tomorrow afternoon.
John KeyGUEST
And when you don't have that, then you have two things, enormous amount of costs taking place, but you get, I think, in my opinion, the wrong sort of outcomes.
John KeyGUEST
And if you look in Northland and other parts of New Zealand, Gisborne, where there's high levels of deprivation, they're almost always mirrored with extremely high levels of welfare dependency, whether we like it
Damien GrantHOST
or not.
Damien GrantHOST
I want to just come back to, looking at this government, so bringing it back to contemporary stuff, When I look at, other than the fiscal stuff, when I look at what this government is doing, and I get what you're saying about, because the actual per capita GDP thing hasn't shifted a lot in the last few years.
Karen MiddlemissGUEST
But they also do travel vast distances through the ocean, as we've seen from some of our tracking data, one of them.
Karen MiddlemissGUEST
went all the way down to Wellington and on a bit of a trip and then all the way back up to Northland again.
Karen MiddlemissGUEST
And they travel across the Pacific between their foraging grounds and nesting beaches.
Karen MiddlemissGUEST
So it's not unusual to see them travel long distance.
Lisa OwenHOST
Now, Karen, I'm visualising you in front of your computer screen with five blinking lights.
Lisa OwenHOST
I mean, what does it look like? What are they up to?
Karen MiddlemissGUEST
Yeah, well, we've got three of them in Rangunu Harbour at the moment in Northland and one slightly north of Rangunu in Paringaringa and then one to the south in Whangarei Harbour.
Karen MiddlemissGUEST
So, yeah, it's interesting.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says he wants the next Prime Minister to also be the Minister for Auckland.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
Russell in Northland is close to becoming New Zealand's first mainland predator-free town.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
Yemen's Houthi militia has targeted Saudi Arabia's Aden International Airport in a missile attack.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
And Ethiopia has acquired new fighter jets and a new weapons system from Russia.
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KesterCORRESPONDENT
Mayor Brown argued that the role should be the Prime Minister's responsibility, due to the Minister being responsible for 40% of the national GDP.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
The announcement follows the release of the Mayor's manifesto yesterday morning, which outlined his goals for the city, including a renewed and reworked relationship between Auckland and central government.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
And Russell in Northland is close to becoming New Zealand's first mainland predator-free town.
KesterCORRESPONDENT
The Russell Landcare Trust is a volunteer-run organisation that has set up thousands of traps and bait stations across the peninsula.
Jamie MackayHOST
Half the people don't even want to talk about it at all, but you can't deny the numbers.
Jamie MackayHOST
So how are we looking in terms of the drier parts? Because I think when I spoke to Chris Brandolino on Friday's show, we were talking about Northland.
Phil DuncanGUEST
Yeah, Northland's definitely dry, especially around Whangarei.
Phil DuncanGUEST
We're also seeing dry conditions around Bay of Plenty, parts of Waikato, East Cape.
Phil DuncanGUEST
A little bit around the Nelson region as well.
Jamie MackayHOST
Half the people don't even want to talk about it at all, but you can't deny the numbers.
Jamie MackayHOST
So how are we looking in terms of the drier parts? Because I think when I spoke to Chris Brandolino on Friday's show, we were talking about Northland.
Phil DuncanGUEST
Yeah, Northland's definitely dry, especially around Whangarei.
Phil DuncanGUEST
We're also seeing dry conditions around Bay of Plenty, parts of Waikato, East Cape.
Phil DuncanGUEST
A little bit around the Nelson region as well.
Ayla WilesGUEST
But it wasn't until we actually put GPS trackers on them that we discovered some of the young ones, especially go on journeys all the way up north to Kaipara.
Ayla WilesGUEST
Te Paki and to the Hokianga Harbour and we had one go down to New Plymouth and one across to Miranda so they do get around which is really interesting but yeah they really seem to rely on the Kaipara over winter for their food and security and then yeah at the moment Northland and Auckland but who knows where they'll end up in the future.
Liz GartonCORRESPONDENT
And it was those hand-reared birds that you were able to track, wasn't it?
Ayla WilesGUEST
Yeah, it helps with monitoring.
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