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Early Edition with Ryan Bridge
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.
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Full Show Podcast: 19 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Thursday 19th of March 2025, Westpac Chief Economist Kelly Eckhold shares his forecast for GDP...
Kelly Eckhold: Westpac Chief Economist on GDP data
Westpac's chief economist is still holding out hope New Zealand will weather financial headwinds from the Iran war.
Stats NZ's releasing data f...
Ryan Bridge: Why today’s GDP number is not irrelevant
Old, yes. Backward looking, by its nature, but not irrelevant.
We’re tipped to grow around 0.3%-0.4% for Q4 2025. It would mark, barring any sur...
Mike Jones: BNZ Chief Economist on food costs reaching 4.5%, Treasury's worst case scenario for inflation
BNZ’s chief economist Mike Jones says Treasury’s previous worst-case inflation forecast for this year of 3.7% is probably too conservative.
Ann...
Alistair Crozier: NZ China Council Executive Director on the need to work to retain Chinese international students
China remains vital to our education sector, but the market is shifting.
A new NZ China Council report shows Chinese students make up about a t...
Full Show Podcast: 18 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast 2025 Wednesday the 18th of March, Beef mince and Steak are driving the latest spike in food pr...
Stew Hamilton: Mercury Energy CEO on the Government's plan to double the use of geothermal energy by 2040
Mercury Energy believes geothermal has a huge role to play in the future of the country's electricity industry.
The Government's released a stra...
Karl Dean: Federated Farmers Dairy Chair on Miles Hurrell resigning as Fonterra CEO
Hopes that whoever takes the reins at Fonterra can continue the current CEO's good work.
Miles Hurrell will leave the company in six months to...
Sam MacKinnon: Hospitality NZ Head of Advocacy on the proposed changes to alcohol laws
A view the Government's proposed changes to alcohol laws is a needed re-balance for licence-holders.
The Bill would only let people object to a...
Nick Tuffley: ASB Chief Economist on worst case scenario for NZ economy from Iran War
Treasury has released numbers on the potential fallout for the New Zealand economy from the Iran war.
It estimates that under a worst‑case scena...
Full Show Podcast: 17 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 17th of March 2025, ASB's Chief Economist Nick Tuffley talks the "worst case scena...
Ryan Bridge: Nicola Willis is right not to splash the cash
A 1pm presser and Covid‑style alert levels.
This fuel price spike is bringing back bad memories from those dark days of lockdown.
But a fe...
David Smith: Guardian Washington Bureau Chief says Trump wants help opening the Strait of Hormuz
In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump called on the UK, China, France, Japan, South Korea and others to send ships to help keep the Strait of Hormuz...
Full Show Podcast: 16 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Monday 16th of March 2025, we get the latest on the Iran War as it enters its third week.<...
Ryan Bridge: Labour shouldn't automatically back the Unions
Last week ended with a bizarre situation where Labour effectively came out against a pay rise for teachers.
They did this because that’s what th...
Brad Olsen: Infometrics Principal Economist on food price growth, and whether Iran war will have an impact
Concerns the Middle East conflict will make rising grocery prices worse.
The Infometrics-Foodstuffs New Zealand Grocery Supplier Cost Index find...
Andrew Tuck: Homegrown CEO on the festival's return to Hamilton, this year's lineup
Hamilton's welcoming the Homegrown Music Festival back to the city where it all began.
Organisers announced last year the festival would leave...
Mike Casey: Rewiring Aotearoa CEO says declining gas supplies could accelerate the shift to cleaner and cheaper energy
An electrification advocate says the rising price and falling supply of gas may not be a bad thing in the long-term.
PwC research —commissioned...
Terry Collins: AA Fuel Spokesperson weighs in on rationing fuel as oil prices spike
New Zealand is still a long way off from car-less days, AA fuel spokesman Terry Collins predicts.
Government ministers yesterday were receiving...
Ryan Bridge: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
We're learning a few hard truths this week and the old saying rings true - you don't know what you've got 'til its gone.
Parties on the left and...
Full Show Podcast: 13 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 13th of March 2025, the Government could consider car-less days to help with fuel secur...
Elliott Smith: Newstalk ZB Voice of Rugby on the potential of Tana Umaga joining the All Blacks coaching team
Former All Blacks captain Tana Umaga is a contender to be named as one of Dave Rennie’s assistant coaches, possibly on defence.
The Moana Pasif...
Ginny Andersen: Labour's Education Spokesperson on the Government offering non-union teachers a pay increase
Labour's new education spokesperson says giving non-unionised educators pay increases will divide teachers further.
Boards can now make individu...
David Hadfield: Process Vegetables New Zealand Chair on Wattie's plan to axe the production of frozen vegetables
The impact of the Heinz Wattie's restructure won't be felt by growers straight away.
The company plans to shut three manufacturing facilitates...
Full Show Podcast: 12 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast 2025 Labour's new education spokesperson Ginny Anderson shares her thoughts on non-union teach...
Ryan Bridge: Teachers deserve a pay rise
I can't see what the problem is with teachers getting a pay rise.
If that sounds weird, it's because it's the union complaining.
The unio...
Duane Emeny: Air Chathams CEO calls for government support as jet fuel prices rise
The Government's under pressure to act to ensure airlines can continue operating.
Air New Zealand's raised fares due to rising jet fuel costs,...
Matthew Hague: Lawyer who represented vaccine mandate opponents on the outcome of the Covid Inquiry
A lawyer who represented opponents of vaccine mandates says the real test of the Covid inquiry is whether the country learns from its mistakes.
...
Full Show Podcast: 11 March 2026
Listen to the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 11 March.
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Matt Ball: Property Investors Federation Advocacy Manager on house prices the most affordable they've been in a decade, outside of Covid
Movement in housing affordability could spell good news for first home buyers.
Cotality NZ's Housing Affordability report for Quarter 4 2025 sh...
Ryan Bridge: Where in the world is Nikhil Ravishankar?
You've got to feel a bit for the Air New Zealand boss.
If ever there was a poisoned chalice, he's drinking from it. He's glugging it back. Drow...
Chris Roberts: Private Surgical Hospitals Association CEO on the report finding the private health sector has the capacity to ease the burden on public health
New research highlights a need to send more public health procedures to the private system.
Westpac's latest healthcare report shows New Zealan...
Sharon Zollner: ANZ Chief Economist on the economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle East
“Enormous” swings in the price of oil are making it very difficult to gauge the severity of the shock to markets from the Iran war, ANZ chief economis...
Andrew England: Financial Times Middle East Editor explains who Mojtaba Khamenei is
Little is known about Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, but he’s likely to continue his father’s “hardline, hostile attitude” toward the US,...
Full Show Podcast: 10 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast 2025, ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner shares her thoughts on how the New Zealand economy wi...
Ryan Bridge: On oil shock, people want more self-reliance
The war in Iran is not a shocking event in the sense that we knew it was coming.
Trump has been not so much hinting, but sounding a fog horn for...
David Smith: The Guardian Washington Bureau Chief says Iran has chosen a new Supreme Leader
Israel is launching a new wave of strikes in Tehran, which has been choked by smoke following attacks on its energy resources.
Iran state-media...
Simeon Brown: Health Minister on Health NZ directly employing all first-year trainees
A shake-up to GP trainee employment could make the pathway into general practice more appealing.
Health New Zealand will now directly employ all...
Full Show Podcast: 09 March 2026
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Monday the 9th of March 2025, Washington Bureau Chief for the Guardian David Smith shares the...
Ryan Bridge: This country's fines make no sense
This country's fines make no sense.
you can get$70 for parking a few minutes over in the wrong spot, $150 for driving in a bus lane at the wron...