On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Friday the 26th of June 2026, The Police Commissioner Richard Chambers is under investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct, NZ Herald Senior Investigative Reporter Michael Morrah shares the latest.

National's proposing low-interest loans for solar and home energy upgrades, National Party Energy Spokesperson Simeon Brown tells Ryan why the policy is important.

Tama Potaka's backed down on his plan around the potential sale of conservation land, Greenpeace Campaigner, Gen Toop shares her thoughts.

Plus, UK/Europe Correspondent Vincent McAviney has the latest on the UK heatwave and Chancellor Rachel Reeves urging an Andy Burnham-led government to stick to what she is doing because it is "beginning to bear fruit", as she defended her handling of the UK economy.

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Green Peace say the public's opposition to conservation land being sold off, is loud.

Conservation Minister Tama Potaka's removing a clause in a Bill that would've allowed for further sales of conservation land, if land's deemed not important to nature, and a sale's agreed to by DOC.

It follows significant public outcry.

Green Peace Campaigner Gen Toop shares her thoughts with Ryan Bridge.

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Most kiwis have an environmental bent to them that most of the rest of the western world just doesn't have. At least, not to the same extent.

Most people, left and right, use the outdoors here. We have quite a close relationship to it.

Matt Watson and his million fishers put Sane Jone's supposedly industry-friendly fishing clauses in the bin.

Now the same has happened with Potaka and his Conservation clauses.

In both cases, emotion overcame facts.

I spoke to Potaka the day before he U-turned, and he made some pretty clear promises. No parks, no bushland, no Great Walks, no protected species, would be destroyed or sold off under the bill.

The problem was the door was left ajar open for a future government to potentially sell bits of Conservation land.

Anyone who thinks that means a government would sell Tongariro National Park to the highest bidder is not serious or mad.

They were targeting, at least according to Potaka, land with old disused government buildings on them in a state of disrepair.

But the law left the door open, ajar, with caveats like sign-off from the DOC boss, for the sale of land most of us probably wouldn't want sold.

And opponents drove a truck through that hole.

Potaka looked like a deer in headlights.

They should have seen this coming. Especially after the fishing misstep.

This to say it'll cost them votes. It just means there's a perception out there - and it's not necessarily true - but there's a perception that not only are they not for the environment - as Potaka kept saying - but that they are against it.

Whatever that vague phrasing means.

It, clearly, resonates with quite a few kiwis.

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