Budget Timing And Policy Delays

Welcome back to the program. Producer Locke is in an oasis groove at the moment. There's three Oasis songs we played. Or that Oases. There we go. Big story of the moment, of course, is the Labour list and how Labour seems to have got it a bit wrong. A policeman. The list is provisional until nomination day. We've discovered that, that's for sure. But when you actually decide to become a political candidate, you're supposed to quit your job. Morris Williamson quit his job at Air New Zealand on no pay. And then you stay on no job until you're elected, and then you've got a new job. And if you're not elected, you can possibly go back to your old job if you if you're very lucky. You've got to inform your supervisors, you've got to inform your employer. So Labour is claiming that Naidu actually did inform his supervisor last Thursday. But uh the big boss, Richard Chambers, uh didn't know about that until last night. And Mark Mitchell didn't know about that till last night. And it's a fairly major issue right here. So who's right and who's wrong and who did the wrong thing? Um thing is for sure, it's a mess. Why can't Labor just announce a list without these sorts of problems? Why didn't they check out all this sort of stuff before it actually got mentioned uh the way it has done by Richard Chambers? Now here's the good thing for you. Richard Chambers is on with Kerry Woodham tomorrow for an hour of talkback. So he'll be talking about this at length, and you'll get it all from his mouth. Meanwhile, we're going to be talking on the breakfast show with the uh police association, and they're going to tell us exactly what the rules are when you have a policeman who decides he wants to stand as a candidate uh for uh parliament, who he has to tell and what he has to do, and how much of it is actually on Nydu's head. Surely as soon as he told the police I'm going for parliament, he should have just walked away and not come back to work until he either got in or did not. So it's a mess. And it's just not a good look about running stuff, if you know what I mean. It is uh 22 to 7. Dickens. Air New Zealand says finally something's going right. Uh they say their long-running engine problems are finally easing. So in recent years, up to 20% of the airline's fleet has been grounded by global engine maintenance delays. And the airline estimates those disruptions costed about 90 million dollars in earnings in the first half of the financial year. But chief executive Nikhil Ravishanka says by the end of the month, only two aircraft will still be unflyable. So Grant Bradley is an aviation industry expert, former New Zealand Herald aviation journalist, former correspondent with me on the afternoon the hour show. Grant, lovely to talk to you again.