Fuel Efficiency Policy

Right, so this is the business on Rod Drury. Rod Drury, of course, being the KiwiBank New Zealander of the year for this year and obviously knighted. He has been accused by a former staffer of giving her too much attention. It took a liking to her, obviously had her around for dinner at the apartment, told her after dinner that he wanted to kiss her. She said no, he didn't kiss her, she left and then afterwards she complained to Zero about it. She says she never got Zero being the company that he founded and obviously was the chief executive of. She says she never got a written update as to what happened as a result of the investigation that was launched because of her formal complaint. But she said she had a conversation with them in which they said they could not release written information because there was a whole bunch of stuff in there that didn't relate to her. And then four days after that conversation, he quit his role. Zero is now reinvestigating how it handled that historical misconduct allegation. We're going to have a chat to Mike. No one, absolutely no one. wants to talk about this today. She doesn't want to talk to the paper, doesn't want to talk about it anymore. Zero obviously for obvious reasons doesn't want to talk about it. We'll have a chat to Max Whitehead, Employment Relations Expert, who's going to be with us after five o'clock on that. Rachel Boyack. Nelson MP for Labour has just in the last, I want to say, couple of hours put out on her Facebook page that she's been away from work for the last couple of weeks because she suffered a miscarriage. Now, she had not gone public with the fact that she had been pregnant, but she wanted to tell her constituents that she had the miscarriage. She says, I'm telling our community for two reasons. First, to explain why I've been absent for the past two weeks as I recover and heal. And secondly, because issues of infertility, miscarriage and baby loss are often. are often kept hidden and secret. Many people who suffer from infertility, miscarriage and baby loss suffer in secret and in silence. And Scott and I want you to know that we see you and we truly understand, which is actually... I am of the view, because I know, look, there's a fine line between oversharing and then just normalising conversations about this. And I'm going to say I'm on the side of normalising it. I think the more that people talk about the difficulties that they have around conception and holding on to the baby, having the baby, being a parent in the early stages, all of that stuff, the more we normalise that stuff, the better for everybody. Shamabil Yaakob, so best of luck to her and Scott dealing with that. Sharmabool Yaqub, former economist, former economist, current economist, geez I've put him out of a job already. Simplicity's chief economist no less has had a crack at the government as I told you about them being a little bit on the chill side about what's going on with fuel security. He will explain it when he's with us shortly. Newstalk ZB.