Holiday Breakfast

Australia has said goodbye – and good riddance – to Novak Djokovic.  
The world number one flew out of Melbourne overnight, after losing his latest legal battle over his visa cancellation. 
His deportation came just hours before he was due to take the court at the Australian Open. 
Australian correspondent Murray Olds, told Tim Dower the tennis star now faces a three-year ban from Australia, and the tournament. 
Djokovic says he's extremely disappointed with the decision, but will cooperate with authorities. 
“Overwhelmingly the polls in this country were saying; no vax, see ya mate. If you don’t want to abide by our rules, well bugger off, we don’t want you here.” 
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It's December 1991, the Royals gather at the Queen's Estate for Christmas. 
Things are frosty, to say the least between Princess Diana and Prince Charles - and the press is already speculating about divorce. 
There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting.  
Diana knows the game, but this year, things will be profoundly different. 
Pablo Larraín has directed ‘Spencer’ a movie that follows just three days in the life of Diana, during Christmas time at the royal family's Sandringham estate when she decides to leave Charles. 
Pablo Larraín joined Summer Breakfast. 
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The South Island continues to struggle with worker shortages. 
Lincoln University researchers have found that by next year Canterbury will reach a peak in the work force population, if the borders remain closed. 
Researcher David Dyason told Tim Dower the labour force is shrinking, which will lead to even more gaps in the market. 
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The first tourist flight to the Cook Islands in five months has left Auckland this morning.  
The two-way quarantine free travel bubble has resumed.  
Travellers must be aged over 12, fully vaccinated and have negative pre-departure and on arrival Covid-19 tests.  
Cook Islands Health Secretary Bob Williams told Tim Dower the country has high vaccination rates but has been preparing for positive Covid-19 cases. 
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Rowdy street preachers on Auckland's Queen Street triggered more than three hundred noise complaints last year.  
The group, armed with a microphone, has rallied against abortion, and regularly preaches messages such as "hell is real" and "Jesus saves".  
But the 25 excessive noise direction notices issued as a result can only legally stop the din for 72 hours.  
Manurewa-Papakura councillor Daniel Newman says his ward is the home of noise complaints - and wants notices made effective for up to 14 days.  
He says one person's raucous party is another person's prolonged misery. 
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2021 was a pretty messy year for the events industry, but that's made the organisers of one festival all the more determined to steam ahead.  
'That Weekend' is a two-day camping event, being held just outside of Tirau at the end of the month.  
The Black Seeds, Summer Thieves, and even international DJ Netsky will be there.  
James Bristow is one of the organisers of 'That Weekend' and he joined Tim Dower. 
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A big blow to the music scene. 
Northern Bass was cancelled yesterday - due to Northland's low vaccination rate and the threat of Omicron. 
The event was first due to be take place at Mangawhai on New Year's Eve, but then postponed until January 28. 
Organiser Gareth Popham says the event is too risky. 
“What if we weren’t just a location of interest, what if we were a super-spreader event? What if we took Covid into Northland?” 
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Chris Parker is well established on the NZ entertainment circuit - touring for years with stand up and on 7 Days and Jono and Ben. 
You'll also know him from films including the Breaker Upperers and Kiwi Christmas.  
During lockdown we followed him taking out TV2's Celebrity Treasure Island.  
And he's kept himself busy with an upcoming tour called the Gentle Man - Chris Parker joined Tim Dower. 
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New Zealand has a long way to go in addressing its major obesity problem, but there's optimism for the upcoming generation of youth. 
Alarming figures show a 16-year-old is among hundreds of Aucklanders who've had bariatric weight-loss surgery. 
But Starship Hospital paediatric endocrinologist Wayne Cutfield says over the last 7 to 8 years, pre-school obesity rates have fallen. 
He told Tim Dower New Zealand is the only country where that's the case across all ethnic groups and the social-economic divide.  
But on the flipside, obesity rates older children and teenagers haven't dropped.   
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National's unimpressed with allegations the Prime Minister's fiance tried to acquire a rapid antigen test for mates.  
Clarke Gayford allegedly told a Tauranga pharmacist the rules had changed - and he could sell the test to his friends. 
It's understood a friend sought the test as he was potentially a close contact of UK-based DJ Dimension - who had Omicron.  
Rapid Antigen Tests can currently only be sold to unvaccinated asymptomatic people needing to travel. 
National's Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop told Tim Dower Gayford needs to know his place.  
“He doesn’t have any role, he should have said look, that’s not for me thanks very much, not appropriate I get involved here, my wife’s the Prime Minister.”  
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