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Full Show Podcast: 24 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the inside. Andrew Dickens
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  Speaker 1: on early edition with one roof Make Your Property Search Simple,
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  Speaker 3: Welcome morning to you, and welcome to the new working week.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm Andrew Dickens and I'm here for the next hour.
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  Speaker 3: And coming up in the program, the Prime Minister is
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  Speaker 3: off of Vietnam this week. What can we hope from
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  Speaker 3: closer trading ties. We'll have that story for you in
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  Speaker 3: about five minutes. We're going to wrap the weekend sport
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  Speaker 3: in ten with Andrew Ordison. We'll look in on the
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  Speaker 3: condition of the Pope with Gavin Gray. And the government's
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  Speaker 3: announced a overhaul of the Overseas Investment Act. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to make it easier for our businesses to receive international investment.
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  Speaker 3: But will it work? That story just before six will
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  Speaker 3: have correspondence from around New Zealand and the world and
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  Speaker 3: Ninety two ninety two is the number, or you can
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  Speaker 3: Newstalk shatb dot co dot N send the agenda seven
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  Speaker 3: after five on Monday, the twenty fourth of February, Pope
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  Speaker 3: Brancis is in critical condition and hospital. The eighty eight
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  Speaker 3: year old Pope has asked ethics to pray for him.
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  Speaker 3: He continues to receive treatment for double pneumonia.
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  Speaker 4: It's really sad to see that he's gotten worse and
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  Speaker 4: he's in a worse than critical condition.
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  Speaker 5: Up until recently looked like it was just a small
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  Speaker 5: illness that was going to be okay.
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  Speaker 2: But now it is quite.
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  Speaker 4: Concerned and theasure we're very very sorry, we're here worried
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  Speaker 4: for him.
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  Speaker 3: We'll say a lovely prayer. A Ukraine's president Voladimir Zelenski
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  Speaker 3: says he would give up his presidency in exchange for
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  Speaker 3: a Ukraine NATO membership. It comes after Russia lordsh an
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  Speaker 3: unprecedented number of drone attacks at the country overnight. Thirteen
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  Speaker 3: regions were targeted on the eve of the third anniversary
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  Speaker 3: at the start of the war.
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  Speaker 5: If it is for the peace of Ukraine, if you
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  Speaker 5: need me to leave this chair, I'm hoping I'm ready
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  Speaker 5: to do that, and I also can it change its
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  Speaker 5: for later membership for.
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  Speaker 3: Your craying and Germans are going to the polls to
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  Speaker 3: vote for a new federal government right now after the
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  Speaker 3: three party coalition fell apart at the end of last year,
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  Speaker 3: prompting a snap election. I'll tell you more about this
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  Speaker 3: as we go on. The favorite to win is Frederick Metz,
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  Speaker 3: a sixty nine year old Conservative leader. Fifty nine point
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  Speaker 3: two million Germans are eligible to vote, and while millions
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  Speaker 3: already had by post, polls indicate as many as twenty
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  Speaker 3: percent were undecided ahead of this day.
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  Speaker 5: For young people, it's very hard to find any space
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  Speaker 5: to live, like you don't get a lot of money
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  Speaker 5: in your job, and there's also no space in big cities.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Immigration is also a big problem for many people.
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think yeah. More on this in
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  Speaker 3: just a few months time. It is now nine minutes
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  Speaker 3: out of five.
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  Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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  Speaker 1: your Property Search Simple News Talk Sippy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, welcome, and I'm feeling for Bryan who's on the
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  Speaker 3: Drive show. I read over the weekend that fran Wild
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  Speaker 3: is going to contest the South Wiled Upper Menoralty. She
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  Speaker 3: remember her, She is the former Wellington man. She lives
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  Speaker 3: there now. She lived in Greatown, I think, and she
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  Speaker 3: sat there and people said why don't you, and she thought,
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  Speaker 3: why not? I don't really mind fran Wild It would
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  Speaker 3: have been nice if she had sorted out Wellington's wastewater
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  Speaker 3: back in the day. But I could have said that
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  Speaker 3: about many mayors. She got some stuff done. She particularly
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  Speaker 3: made the stadium, you may remember. But in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of this article about frame while going for the Wildered
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  Speaker 3: Upper manyoralty, there was a sentence that stood out like
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  Speaker 3: the proverbial. She said, years of really cheap rates and
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  Speaker 3: under investment in infrastructure have now caught up with many councils.
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  Speaker 3: And she says it's worse than Wildered Upper than for
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  Speaker 3: some other small councils. Wiled Upper as in a terrible position.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think two out of the district's three wastewater
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  Speaker 3: treatment plant, so two out of their three wastewater treatment
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  Speaker 3: plants are at capacity. Can't take any more?
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  Speaker 6: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: There are construction bands in martin Borough and Greytown. You
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  Speaker 3: can't build, you can't develop, you can't renovate, you can't
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  Speaker 3: get bigger. There is no date for these restrictions to end.
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  Speaker 3: The region has come to a stop. Some residents like
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  Speaker 3: it like that, but I don't know about you. If
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  Speaker 3: you stop, you're going backwards. And what happens if you
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  Speaker 3: are a business and you're going forwards and you can't
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  Speaker 3: even actually expand in any way, shape or form. That's
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  Speaker 3: what's happening, and wide it up now. Fran Wilde says
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  Speaker 3: the bands were the right call, but she also warns
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  Speaker 3: that excessive rate hikes could kill the region. The wrong
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  Speaker 3: call and this drives me insane. It doesn't drive you insane.
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  Speaker 3: The wrong call was made back in the day when
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  Speaker 3: the voters voted for the candidates who were against rate rises.
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  Speaker 3: You voted for the region to stagnate for the sake
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  Speaker 3: of your own back potter. It's happened in cities and
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  Speaker 3: towns all over New Zealand. I've seen so many mayors
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  Speaker 3: come up and say I will not raise the rates,
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  Speaker 3: when in fact they should have raised the rates and
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  Speaker 3: they should have built some wastewater plants. Therefore, the next generation,
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  Speaker 3: the people, the youngsters coming through right now, has nothing
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  Speaker 3: to thank you for. Because honestly, if you ran your
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  Speaker 3: house this way, okay, no more money spent on the house,
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  Speaker 3: the house would fall down. And if you weren't paying
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  Speaker 3: off your debt, the bank would foreclose. This is no
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  Speaker 3: way to run a house, there's no way to run
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  Speaker 3: a town, and there's no way to run a city.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew dickens the.
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  Speaker 3: Germans are at the polls right now. Key issues as
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  Speaker 3: you heard at the state of the economic migration that's
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  Speaker 3: a big one, and Ukraine's war with Russia. The main
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  Speaker 3: opposition and former party of Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Union here on after known as the CDU, are currently
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  Speaker 3: leading the polls with the support of twenty nine percent
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  Speaker 3: of the voters. They've led by a light conservative by
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  Speaker 3: the name of Philertick Maya, sorry Mattz. Looking at four
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  Speaker 3: years of poll results, only one party is trending upwards
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  Speaker 3: right now, and that is the right wing Alternative for
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  Speaker 3: the deutsch Land Party, which has twenty one percent from
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  Speaker 3: now and we'll call it AfD because it's easier. So
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  Speaker 3: just to remind you how it went down last November,
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  Speaker 3: chancell Olaf Schultz of the Social Democratic Party center left
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  Speaker 3: and the leader of this leftist coalition, fired as finance minister.
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  Speaker 3: Schultz then lost a vote of confidence that triggered a
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  Speaker 3: snap election and early parliamentary elections that were announced in December.
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  Speaker 3: Right After that, Elon Musk waded into the campaign voicing
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  Speaker 3: his support for the AfD, remembered them the far right
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  Speaker 3: alternative for Germany Party AfD, so the Christian Democrat Union
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  Speaker 3: that CDU is polling at more than thirty percent. They
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  Speaker 3: look like they're destined to be Germany's largest party and
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  Speaker 3: returned themselves to the helm of German politics. But they've
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  Speaker 3: taken up a much more aggressive policy towards immigration and
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  Speaker 3: then was seen during the merkele ERAa of era of
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  Speaker 3: open borders. So they can now be seen working with
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  Speaker 3: this new right wing AfD. So is Germany heading right, which,
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  Speaker 3: considering their history, is a big step. That question answered.
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  Speaker 3: As the day goes on, Andrew dickens and the Prime
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  Speaker 3: Minister is off to Vietnam. Luxon says Vietnam is a
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  Speaker 3: rising star of the Southeast Asia, one of the fastest
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  Speaker 3: growing economies in the region. He's going to Hanoi in
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  Speaker 3: Ho Chi Min City. He wants to get trade up
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  Speaker 3: to five point two billion dollars. Can he We'll talk
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  Speaker 3: with Suzanna and Jessip from an Asia of New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: Foundation in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: It's is sixteen minutes after five. The Prime Minister after
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  Speaker 3: Vietnam this week for bilateral talks. It comes as the
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand to Asia Foundation put out a report which
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  Speaker 3: explores potential ways that we can improve this relationship with Vietnam.
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  Speaker 3: It includes things like strengthening trade and stuff like fashion
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  Speaker 3: and food and collaborating on defense and security matters, which
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  Speaker 3: are something the top of mind.
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  Speaker 6: Have you noticed.
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  Speaker 3: Susannah Jessap is the chief executive of the New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: Asia Foundation and joins you this morning. Good morning to
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  Speaker 3: says Anna.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning Andrew. It's lovely to join you.
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  Speaker 3: Very good. Now, look, when we talk about Asia trade,
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  Speaker 3: we know about Indonesia and China, but how much of
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  Speaker 3: a powerhouse is Vietnam these days.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's good to think of Vietnam as a pacesetter
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  Speaker 7: in Southeast Asia. It's as you noted, and you're opening
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  Speaker 7: one of the fastest growing economies in the region, I think,
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  Speaker 7: averaging around seven percent. But it's also one of the
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  Speaker 7: most youthful countries in Southeast Asia, which is really helping
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  Speaker 7: to drive that consumption and demand. Because of that, it's
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  Speaker 7: attracting a lot of attention. Is what's called a China
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  Speaker 7: plus one investment destination, where Vietnam is increasingly be chosen
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  Speaker 7: by countries because it's stable and because of that growth
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  Speaker 7: increasingly influential. So for New Zealand, that's really about connecting
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  Speaker 7: to this growth, as we did with China.
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  Speaker 3: How do you say the name? How do you say
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  Speaker 3: the name? You say Vietnam, I see Vietnam. How should
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  Speaker 3: we say it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Either, I mean it's an extent. No, No, you're good.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if we're working on a bilateral relationship, it always
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  Speaker 3: pays to actually get the name right, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? Yeah, yeah, okay, absolutely, Okay. So this is big,
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  Speaker 3: So you've been studying it. Where can we what can
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  Speaker 3: we offer to each other to strengthen this relationship?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, in the past, as you rightly noted, it
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  Speaker 7: was much about New Zealand offering development, sport to Vietnam. So,
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  Speaker 7: for example, in the early nineteen sixties, we were a
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  Speaker 7: gentleman called Dtr Michael Sheckleton and his team were offering
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  Speaker 7: medical care in sort of treatment during the Vietnam or
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  Speaker 7: whereas today, it's much more about mutual opportunity, so looking
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  Speaker 7: at areas of agritech and food production, or looking at
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  Speaker 7: New Zealand providing education services. But you know, we had
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  Speaker 7: forty thousand New Zealand tourists go to Vietnam last year,
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  Speaker 7: so that two way services trade. Fisheries management is another
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  Speaker 7: area of priority for Vietnam, helping with energy transitions, so
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  Speaker 7: both looking at clean green energy options, particularly as AI
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  Speaker 7: comes into alone.
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  Speaker 3: Good. In your report you also mentioned defense, and of
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  Speaker 3: course our thoughts are about defense because of the activity
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  Speaker 3: of Chinese naval ships near Australia and New Zealand. You know,
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  Speaker 3: what do you make of all of this and how
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  Speaker 3: could Vietnam help us in defense?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, like late New Zealand, naval and coastal defense is
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  Speaker 7: Vietnam's number one focus. So they have the South China
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  Speaker 7: Sea which has claimed parts of Vietnam's Exclusive economic zone.
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  Speaker 7: But there's also concerned along the Mekong River of militarization
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  Speaker 7: and for trade for excess of vessels. So we two
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  Speaker 7: are concerned that our region not be militarized and so
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  Speaker 7: we would look to work together for modernization of our
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  Speaker 7: militaries for exercises together human and disaster relief assistance and peacekeeping,
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  Speaker 7: but coming together as two militaries where we want to
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  Speaker 7: see freedom of navigation and a peaceful, secure region.
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  Speaker 3: Don't We also saida thank you so much for getting
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  Speaker 3: up earlier for us as an and jessap is the
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  Speaker 3: chief executive of the New Zealand Asia Foundation. And all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, we are thinking about China. I've had
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  Speaker 3: some thoughts about that before. Also the Cook Islands. It
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  Speaker 3: is a five twenty Andrew Ordison's here in a moment
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  Speaker 3: to update sport. We'll talk about Joseph Parker. What a pity.
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  Speaker 3: I think Joseph Parker was looking great and he dealt
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  Speaker 3: with the ringing very quickly. Though I feel for the ringing.
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  Speaker 3: But what is next? He called out, Alexander Usik. Could
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  Speaker 3: that possibly happen anyway? Orders is here next. The time
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  Speaker 3: is five twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Ordison joins me with the time of five twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Hollow orders greeting's Andrew, Let's work our way from now
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  Speaker 3: back into the past. So right now we've got India
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  Speaker 3: versus Pakistan, one of the great games in world cricket
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  Speaker 3: happening in Dubai. Why can't they play it in Pakistan
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  Speaker 3: or India.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think there's the political division there and the
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  Speaker 8: Indian government stepping in and deciding that they wanted to
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  Speaker 8: and when India talks and cricket, everyone listens. So they've
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  Speaker 8: played it in Dubai and India have triumph. They've really
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  Speaker 8: just dominated Pakistan this morning, reaching two forty two in
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  Speaker 8: the forty third over very coally, getting to his what
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  Speaker 8: will be a fifty first ODII century one hundred not
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  Speaker 8: out at the end. So control performance.
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  Speaker 3: We when we defeated them and I thought, hello, looks
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  Speaker 3: like ver it's over, you know. And then he's had
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  Speaker 3: a good run. It's over. It's over. Now he's back,
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  Speaker 3: and that was just the point we've got with us
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  Speaker 3: coming up. Yeah, that's exactly right. Also, huge scores in
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  Speaker 3: Australia versus England. Yeah, thats straordinary, yeah, big, big yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Especially I think getting what to three fifty two or
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  Speaker 8: fifteen balls to spare, fifteen balls to spare, come on,
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  Speaker 8: it's just extraordinary. Numbers, isn't it swe T twenty just
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  Speaker 8: comes to you just can't really.
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  Speaker 3: Get a gauge on it. Now, Okay. The next story
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  Speaker 3: was Joseph Parker, who was absolutely swizzled of having a
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  Speaker 3: chance because he looked fit and he was ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: And this poor guy fought against Flew for two days,
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  Speaker 3: arrived at two o'clock, turned up wobbling all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: He was enormous, but didn't He lasted only one in
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  Speaker 3: a bit. It was quite the roady for Martin Cole.
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  Speaker 8: He was it from from the Congo to get across
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  Speaker 8: there to Rhead in Saudi Arabia. And you're right, I
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  Speaker 8: mean Parker, he said, this resurgence his career.
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  Speaker 3: I think, what's that?
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  Speaker 8: Six wins is the last six spouts? And yeah, he
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  Speaker 8: was primed and ready to go, and how disappointing for
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  Speaker 8: him that.
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  Speaker 3: Was caught out Usik and said, come on, let's do it,
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  Speaker 3: because Usik was going to fight the winner of Dubois Parker. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that did not happen. Who knows when it's going to happen,
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  Speaker 3: if at all? Do you think Usik might go come
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  Speaker 3: on the intro, let's.
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  Speaker 6: Go, Well?
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  Speaker 8: Possibly, Yeah, I imagine a lot of boxing they had.
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  Speaker 8: You know, well they say you get to get it on.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, I overdone it in quite the no no, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know, but as they hear and across the ten
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  Speaker 3: Oi in the stadium. But there you go. These days
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  Speaker 3: they seem a bit slack. They seem to be a
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  Speaker 3: bit like, yeah, we got to get it on, but
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  Speaker 3: maybe next year. It seems weird. Hey, thanks, orders got
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  Speaker 3: Dickinson for Ryan Bridge. The time is five twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: So this weekend has been spent watching the Chinese Navy
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  Speaker 3: use the Tasman c as a firing range. They've never
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  Speaker 3: come this far south before, and of course everyone's going, why, well,
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  Speaker 3: why I see that David Seymour has come out and
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  Speaker 3: nothing they did was illegal. Oh we know that, mister,
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  Speaker 3: of course, not there in international waters. But why they've
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  Speaker 3: never done that before? Why come down there? One hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty miles east of Sydney and down round about
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  Speaker 3: the same level as Nelson, New Zealand. And fire some missiles.
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  Speaker 3: Defense commentators call it a power projection. Excellent, sure, no problem.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you have to project power around here? Why
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  Speaker 3: do we have to divert air New Zealand and quantesstplanes.
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  Speaker 3: Australia believes the firing was purely to hype the fact
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  Speaker 3: that we're here. It wasn't like they were testing their
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  Speaker 3: missiles or anything. They were just saying, by the way, guys,
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  Speaker 3: we're here. We can get down here anytime we like,
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  Speaker 3: and we're ready to rock. Meanwhile, this happens at the
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  Speaker 3: same time that the Cook Islands, of course, have signed
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  Speaker 3: that deal that we've been talking about, and then that
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  Speaker 3: deal that includes wharf construction. And you read that, and
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  Speaker 3: you wonder how naive and stupid was Mark Brown for
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  Speaker 3: going there at this time and actually signing up a
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  Speaker 3: deal that actually talks about wharf construction. I mean, of course,
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  Speaker 3: new wharves are lovely until one day the Chinese navy
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  Speaker 3: starts using them as a staging point to invade the Pacific.
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  Speaker 3: And that's going to the worst case scenario. It's even
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  Speaker 3: when they come and stay, just come and stop there
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  Speaker 3: for a bit to refuel. You got a Chinese boat
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  Speaker 3: and new Shorts asked Auklands is how they felt in
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  Speaker 3: the old days when the American submarines used to come
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  Speaker 3: here and just park up in their bay. You felt
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  Speaker 3: like you were a target anyway, This is what the
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  Speaker 3: Cook Islands has committed to. So this all begs the
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  Speaker 3: question why New Zealand never built a deep water base
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  Speaker 3: on the island years ago? Why we did not build
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  Speaker 3: a wharf. We built the international airport, which of course
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  Speaker 3: is the island's lifeline. But that airport is also a
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  Speaker 3: military base if it needs to be. Why didn't we
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  Speaker 3: build a port, and why don't we have a New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand ship stationed over there semi permanently. This is the
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  Speaker 3: This is the entry to the Pacific. The Cook Islands
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  Speaker 3: are a semi autonomous part of New Zealand and a
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  Speaker 3: fine place for us to put a base. It should
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  Speaker 3: have been our forward base from the get go. We
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  Speaker 3: we're serious about defense, and have we ever been serious
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  Speaker 3: about defense? So why didn't it happen? The same thing
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  Speaker 3: everything else is falling apart. We don't like spending money, Well,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: that is a false economy. Now China has stolen our
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: march from right under our feet. Or should I say
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: our flippers all right, still to come we are going
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: to be talking about this new changes to the overseas
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: investment acts. Speaking about David Seymour, he's made some changes.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: He's made it easier for foreign money to get here
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: and to invest here. But will it actually help us
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: or will the money go back to them?
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: That story is still to come here on News Talks here
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: be but news.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Is next, News and Views you trust to start your day.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: It's early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: your Property Search Simple. News Talks It be.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: As a dance version of a fleet with Matt Classic
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: speaking of Dan's electric avenue in christ Church, seemed to
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: be very good, good reports. There were quite a few
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: drunk people, that's true, and a few people off their faces.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: But at the same time police are saying behavior was good.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Two days of thirty five thousand each and of course
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: the anniversary of the earthquakes and christ which you are
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: really showing you are back. Ninety two. Ninety two is
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: the number to text, and people have been texting on
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: defense Modern. Andrew writes a day from Dunedin on having
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: a presence in the Pacific. We do have a navy
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: vehical vessel permanently based in some on. I heard that
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: joke last week and it's not funny. But you know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Mike writes Andrew, New Zealand did build and expands the
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: port of avature in the Cook Islands at Raratonga. No
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: easier cheap way of building another port anywhere in Tongua.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: And I thank you Mike for your local knowledge. And
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: that's good to know. The point being as we could
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: have expanded it, we could have made it better. What
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: is China going to do now? And here's the thing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: We didn't spend money, but look at our defense spending
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and this is the nub of the issue. We bought
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: what did we buy? What did hell?
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: And cloppy?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Light armed vehicles labs, loads of them. Of course, we
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: are surrounded by water. We defend the Pacific, which is water.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: We need planes and boats, light armored vehicles come on.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: And finally from Steve Andrew, I was telling anybody that
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: would listen ten years ago that China would sail a
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: warship through the Cook straight within twenty years. But then
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Steve goes for war. He says New Zeala must emulate
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Israel and its defense to survive the future and obtain
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: a nuclear missile deterrent and other adva's weaponry. Whoa steady
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: on there, Steve, it's twenty two to six Andrew dicks
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: around the country. We go Callum Procter joins us from
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: duned and heller Kellum morning, Andrew. So this is the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: model that was suggested and three waters and also local
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: water done better and christ Church joining forces to manage water.
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well look it's not happening yet, but certainly the
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: Dnedan City Council will this week consider whether to look
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: into joining forces with christ Church to manage water. Staff
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: here are recommending our councilors approve a memorandum of understanding
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: which proposes a process for investigating the possibility of shared services.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: If this is approved, then a joint working group will
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: be formed to investigate any potential benefits and that group
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: would report back to both councils later this year. Our
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Chief Executive, Sandy Graham says this is an opportunity for
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: a new way of working while driving down costs for
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: rate payers. So that meeting for councilors is this Wednesday.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: That was the one thing about three Waters. There was
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: nothing wrong with getting the funding. It was the co
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: governance that ruined it. Now, how's the weather.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: It's good today fine, mostly for Danita nor Easterly is
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: developing and twenty one today.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Clais here it joins us now and we know clear
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: that you didn't go to Electric Avenue one light. The
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: rest of the city like the rest of the city.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: There is a real buzz around down here, Andrew. This
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: is the festival that of course is two days for
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: the first time ever. It's grown from one thousand festivals
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: ten years first festival goal was rather ten years ago,
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: to seventy thousand who descended on Hagley Park over the
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: two days this weekend. Police, as you say, very happy
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: with how it all went. Festival promoter Kallum Mitchell's been
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: on the phone with our newsroom. He says they're thrilled
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: with how it went and it was great to see
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: everyone embracing the vision that they've always had for this event.
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: He says, it's also good to be able to bring
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: people to this city with almost seventy percent of ticket
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: sales coming from outside of christ Church. Mitchell says after
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: they have a conversation with stakeholders and get a bit
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: more feedback pumped to hopefully bring back a similar scale event.
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: For next year.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Fabrious. How's your weather find aside.
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: From a bit of a low cloud about this morning,
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: northeasterlies and a high of twenty one.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: And I thank you, Max told joins us from Wellington.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: HELLI Max, good morning. Firebug went all the way through
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Masterton over the weekend.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, several churches have quite clearly been the target of
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: an attack over the weekend. Police investigations continue. Four churches
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: are damaged, and there's further evidence that three more have
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: also been targeted without being directly set alight. All Christian.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: The ones that are damaged the Anglican Church of the Epiphany,
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Saint Patrick's, Catholic Church, Masters and Baptist and Equippers with
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: a range of damage. There's also a video circulating on
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: social media of a man claiming to be behind the fires,
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: and there's not a lot we can report on that
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: for obvious reasons, but police will certainly be looking into
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: this guy checking out what he says in the video.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Anti religious, anti monarchists sentiments as well. Wided up at
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: MP Mike Butterick says it's devastating but he points out
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: emergency services did a wonderful job preventing the damage from
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: being worse than it could have been.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: And how's your weather today in the capitol.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Should be fine. Northerlys twenty two the High Central Neva.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Little man who joins us right now we're talking about
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: distantly church Niva again. Of course people are trying to
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: take away the charity status. Now it turns out the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Destiny Church even having meetings at Auckland Council buildings.
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: Yes, and look, the thing is is that the Auckland
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: Council facilities. The council can't do much to stop it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: So the man Up West Aukland chapter advertised an event.
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: This was at gleneaed In Library, just days before they
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: launched the attack on the Tiata Tuo Library. Auckland Council
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: says it was a meeting area connected to the library
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: with a separate entrance. Now, the council says it's obligated
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: to keep its community venues available for anyone. The granting
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: of the booking it doesn't equal an endorsement, so the
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: council says bookings they're often made also under individual names,
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: so it's not really clear which group was reserving the space,
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: but it is aware of a small number of bookings
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: made by the group. It's going to be monitoring any
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: risks that it may pose. Councilor Shane Henderson, he's one
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: who's come out. He says, Look, there's really quite complex
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: because of council's obligation to keep the venues available for
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: anyone to hire.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, carry on, correct Now, how's Hawkin's with fine?
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: Fine, fine, fine fine for the rest of the week.
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: Twenty six is the high slipstop slate?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Andrew, Well, I'm actually thinking about my poor old tomatoes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Oh it's struggling. You can't leave them for a couple
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: of days to just dry out.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Are they hell? Are they looking?
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: Can you bring them?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: We can eat them?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: No, I've got I've got a family to feed. You've
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: got to be joking. Thank you. It is seventeen to six.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Talking about the weather. My son in fact climbing up
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Mount Cook over the course of this weekend he went
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: to Muller Hut and he went all around the place
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and then he went in a helicopter around all the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: glaciers and I have to say he sent me back
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: the photographs. So those glassiers look in bad shape, very
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: dry out there. He had to take his own water
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: up the mountain. Very dry, very hot, and the glaciers
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: are shrinking. That's what the scientists said a week ago.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I could see photographs and see it with my own eyes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It's quite sad, all right now, sor to come Gavin
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Gray from the UK. We'll see what's been happening in Germany.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: There's an election happening right now. Is Germany going right wing?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: And before the hour is out we're talking about the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Overseas Investment Act and the ability to bring more news
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: overseas money into New Zealand. This is news talks there be.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It is six steam to six international correspondence with ins
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: andn Eye Insurance. Peace of mind for New Zealand business.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Well, the time is now fourteen to six to Europe.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: We go and Kevin Gray from the UK. Hello, Gavin.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: There such a bit of a worry about Pope Frank.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so. And the latest from the Vatican
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: is that he has asked for Catholics to pray for him.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: He's now known to be suffering from double pneumonia. An
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: update yesterday was deeply worrying, saying that the eighty eight
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: year old's condition had worsened, that it continues to be critical,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and that both his lungs were infected with this string
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: virus that he's got. So I'm afraid the situation is very,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: very tense and fraught, as you can imagine, well wishers
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: praying outside the hospital as we speak, dozens of people
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: lighting candles, leaving them at the foot of a nearby
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: statue of the Late John Paul the Second Now the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: eighty eight year old Pope was admitted to hospit on
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the fourteenth of February. He'd been experiencing breathing difficulties for
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: several days. He has had problems with lung infections before
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: developing pleurisy. That's that information around the lungs, which is
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: quite painful. It'd got that as an adult, but also
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: having had a part of one of his lungs removed
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: at the age of twenty one. But yeah, I'm afraid
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the updates now becoming more and more worrying for everyone,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and lots of people wishing him well. As I said,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: dozens gathered outside the hospital as.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: We understand that the Venican is going to make a
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: statement on his condition in about one hour's time, so
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: we will bring that to you run about a quarter
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: to seven this morning. Meanwhile, we've got an election in
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Germany and the question is will Germany kick right?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's looking like it will. The polls close
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: in just over ten minutes time. We should then get
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: a sort of an initial an initial forecast about what
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: that polling will hold. And actually in the past these
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: exit polls in Germany have been pretty accurate. We do
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: think there's going to be a big swing to the
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: right and far right. Why well, because big topics of
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the immigration and also the stagnant economy have been major
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: players in this campaign. Now, I'm afraid to say that
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the Germany has suffered from several terrorists or terrorists related
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: attacks over the last few months, bansing cars, being driven
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: into crowds, stabbing incidents, and in the last three or
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: four incidents certainly it has been somebody from either Syria
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: or Afghanistan seeking asylum or having been promised he would
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: be deported and they're not being deported. So big question
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: marks about the country inviting in over a million people
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: as part of it sort of helping those in Syria
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: and Afghanistan, and of course the far right has gained
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: support as well from people like Elon Musk and Donald
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Trump who are being quite proactively supporting them. But fifty
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: nine million Germans eligible to vote, and the interesting thing
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: is twenty percent were under side. To the head of
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the election day, other parties have said they will never
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: work with the far right. However, if the far right
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: gains a sufficient vote, it's going to be very very
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: difficult for other parties to coalesce in order to get
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: a working majority with a coalition government. So I'm afraid
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the next few hours are going to be very very interesting.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the CDU used to be Angela Merkel's party,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: and that's now Frederick Metz's party. And he's actually got
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: a hardline against migration all of a sudden, which shows
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: that he's also seen whether the wind blows at the moment.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Fascinating stuff. And we will keep you up to date
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: with the Mike Hosking breakfast. Thank you to Gavin Gray.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It's coming up ten minutes to six. So the government's
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: announced an overhaul of the Overseas Investment Act. It will
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: make it easier for businesses to receive international investment and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: for international investors to invest here. Business New Zealand Director
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: of Advocacy Katherine Beard joins us. Now, how are Catherine,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: good morning, what's your reaction.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Look, this is a very good move. We've been advocating
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: for this a number of years now in New Zealand
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: actually one of the hardest places to invest in the OECD,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: and while the rest of the world has increased investment,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: our investment line has flatlined. So very good moves, very good.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: It's fair to say that most New Zealanders would really
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: like to see some foreign capital invested in New Zealand businesses,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: rather than just making it easier for foreign companies to
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: come in and therefore take our money overseas. I see
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: on the Telly last night they use Ikea as an example.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: But Ikea has spent their money over the last six
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: years to come to New Zealand. To then get the
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: profits and repatriate them, of course, or we get is
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: a bit of employment. Isn't the real trick to keep
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: the profits here, to get foreigners to invest in New Zealand?
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Look absolutely, And if I think about all our big
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: successful exporting businesses, most of them will have foreign investment,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: and they don't just bring the money they bring, the
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: connections to international markets. So a lot of our exporters
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: who really smash it out there on the world market
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: have foreign investment. Without it, you're just really not that
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: competitive because you can't get big enough. And I would
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: argue that the jobs they create, those frontier firms that
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: are all high paid jobs, you know, those people are
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: paying tax. The business pays tax it grows, so you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: there's always trade offs, but certainly for the rest of
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: the world it's been a winning move and New Zealand's
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: sort of been sitting on the sidelines.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, the opponents say the trade off is that
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: you every now and then you lose key assets. But
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: of course David Seman was saying that there will be
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: a The Minister can still say no if he feels
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: it's bad for business. Is that right, It's correct.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: So they've actually they're exempting a few things, so they're
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: putting farmland and residential and fishing quota more on a
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: slow track for decisions, so there will be protections there.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: And you know when it comes to land, actually you
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: can't take the land with you. You can't put in
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: a suitcase and take it overseas, so if and if
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: foreign investor doesn't make a success of it, then they
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: will have to sell to somebody else who can.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: All right, have you done any studies or have you
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: seen any studies that has put a dollar value on
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: how much this might improve our economy?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Ah, look, that's a huge unknown. I think we just
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: need to get the welcome matt properly out there. Other
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: countries have, and you know, we've just made it incredibly
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: hard and frustrating to invest here.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Katherine Beard, I thank you very much for your time
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and your expertise, and have yourself a great morning. And
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Catherine is the Business New Zealand Director of Advocacy and
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: it is seven minutes to Sex News Talk Zibbi.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on Adili edition with one roof Make your
• 31:46
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• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you for your text, Jess writes on ninety two
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: ninety two small charge, Hi, Andrew does wins. And Peter's
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: still like a silly old xenophobe. He's been warning us
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: about the CCP for years, the Chinese Community Party. Yes,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I know, Jesse, he gets a bit funny about migrants,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: but we're talking warships. But I think what I like
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: about this is finally someone's talking about defense. Judith's talking
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: about defense. We're all talking about defense. We haven't we
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: haven't been defending. It's fair to say make Huskin come Wannity.
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: Morning, and we're not going to either. Judith Collins is on,
• 32:19
  Speaker 12: by the way. But the amount of money required to
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: do what you know theoretically you need to do, we
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: don't have or anywhere close. I read a very good
• 32:25
  Speaker 12: piece of a guy called mckryan who turns up on
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: the program periodically, and his argument is that what they're
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: doing is one two things. One they've signed a deal
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: with the Solomons, of course, so they're doing they will
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: be here on a more regular basis. And also two
• 32:39
  Speaker 12: to the Australian, this's more about Australians than it is
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: us to keep them pinned closer to the shores of
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: Australia and not to wander up to Taiwan for example,
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: and wander around there. So there's a bit of that
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: going on.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: That's right. We have US and Australian and New Zealand
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: activity in the South China sees what's the difference with
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: this and.
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: The other thing is whether the Americans do any whether
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: they look at this and go, well, that's interesting, you know.
• 33:03
  Speaker 12: And got some detail on the Cooks thing over the
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: weekend as well. So between the Chinese and the Cooks
• 33:06
  Speaker 12: and the Chinese and the Tasman Sea, there's something not
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: right about turning up though, I mean, it's all very
• 33:11
  Speaker 12: well to do what they did. None of it's illegal,
• 33:13
  Speaker 12: but it's there's something about turning up and your diverting planes,
• 33:18
  Speaker 12: couper run.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: It's called power projection very much. Look what we can do,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: and we can, but we can do nothing.
• 33:23
  Speaker 12: And that's the cold hard realize.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I mentioned the fact, why didn't we actually develop deep
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: water bases in the South Pacific over the last fifty years.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: That'll be planning, that would be cool and money, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: we've never done that.
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: We've thought and I think where Judith Collins is right
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: as we've hoped that no one would notice. We're at
• 33:40
  Speaker 12: the bottom of the world and we don't spend any
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  Speaker 12: money on defense. And so it's finally sort of caught
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  Speaker 12: us out. So we'll talk to David Seymour on the
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  Speaker 12: international money coming into the country. Check on the Pope
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  Speaker 12: German elections du at six.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be so.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the Vatican's updating against six forty five.
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  Speaker 12: So he's seen your show. He had a tranquil night
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  Speaker 12: as the official word, whatever that means my last night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard my last night. It's a very tranquil
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  Speaker 3: Micmas circles. I thank you, Thank you to producer Kensey
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  Speaker 3: and also to Libby who helps out. From here and there,
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  Speaker 3: I'm Andrew Dickens. Here for the week and longer. Enjoy
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