Podcast Episodes

Carolyn Young: Retail NZ Chief Executive on the latest quarterly Retail Radar Report

The fuel crisis is scuppering optimism in the retail sector. 

The latest quarterly Retail Radar Report shows rising confidence at the end of last yea…

2 days, 8 hours ago

Full Show Podcast: 04 May 2026

On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Monday 4th of May 2026, Marcus Beveridge a Immigration Lawyer at Queen City Law shares his th…

2 days, 8 hours ago

Ryan Bridge: Things are about to get a whole lot more expensive

I have good news and bad news for you this morning. 

The good news, I was out shopping on the weekend, which means I didn't actually buy anything but…

2 days, 8 hours ago

Michael Glading: NZ Open Tournament Director on Saudi Arabia's PIF pulling funding from the LIV Golf Tournament

LIV Golf’s financial backer is pulling its funding after the current season.  

Plays and staff will reportedly find out the decision today to axe the…

5 days, 2 hours ago

Pooja Sundar: Immigration Lawyer on the number of visa rejections dropping to a post-Covid low

There's a suggestion better quality visa applications are coming through, with more than nine in ten applicants being approved. 

Data released to New…

5 days, 3 hours ago

Full Show Podcast: 01 May 2026

On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday 1st of May 2026, still no answers for Mount Maunganui businesses following a council m…

5 days, 8 hours ago

Michelle Craig: Mount Maunganui Beach Hut Cafe owner on community council meeting

Mount Maunganui businesses are frustrated at a perceived lack of progress in reopening the mount.  

Hundreds of residents went to a community meeting…

5 days, 8 hours ago

Ryan Bridge: We need less fighting, more long term thinking in Wellington

There's no reason parties on left and right in New Zealand politics can't work together to get stuff done. 

This week we've seen it with the India FT…

5 days, 8 hours ago

Kelly Eckhold: Westpac Chief Economist on Australia's inflation surging to 4.6%

Australia's starting to feel the economic effects of the energy squeeze stemming from conflict on the other side of the world.  

Annual headline infl…

6 days, 2 hours ago

Andrew Hoggard: Biosecurity Minister on the trial of New Zealand's response to foot and mouth disease

New Zealand is about to test its readiness for foot and mouth disease with a farm simulation next month on a Taranaki farm. 

It'll be followed by a n…

6 days, 2 hours ago