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Full Show Podcast: 10 March 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 3: There's good bod to you. I am here, I'm watching
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Speaker 3: the cricket, of course, I am gee. Do we get
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Speaker 3: a run out just then? Not sure? Anyway, Welcome to
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Speaker 3: the program, Welcome to your Monday. Coming up over the
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Speaker 3: next sixty minutes, There's never been more hotel beds in
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Speaker 3: this country, but our occupancy rates are all over the place.
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Speaker 3: So how can we keep the tourism industry on an
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Speaker 3: even keel. We'll look at that story. In about five
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Speaker 3: minutes time. We have Andrew Ordison on sport, including the
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Speaker 3: rising strength of Australian and Ireland rugby, the dead heat
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Speaker 3: in the New Zealand Athletics Championships and today's ICC final
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Speaker 3: which is coming to an end. Over the next few minutes,
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Speaker 3: I'll last the question is our health system slowly being privatized?
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Speaker 3: And later our new land acquisition rules for infrastructure projects?
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Speaker 3: How important are they? We'll have that story for you
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Speaker 3: just before six. We'll have correspondence from right around New
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: Yes, welcome on in. It is March, definitely March, that's
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Speaker 3: for sure and it is the tenth. Syria's leader Ahmed Shahah,
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Speaker 3: has called for peace after days of classes where Syrian
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Speaker 3: security forces allegedly killed hundreds of civilians from the Alawhite
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Speaker 3: religious minority. The UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
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Speaker 3: which monitors fight against Syria, says more than one thousand
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Speaker 3: people civilians have been killed.
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Speaker 4: It's alarming, it's concerning as it is need for all
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Speaker 4: support speciality and anzi oup countries and all the concented
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Speaker 4: bus to work together in order to storm escalation of
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Speaker 4: the violence.
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Speaker 3: To Australia, where hundreds of thousands of people remain without
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Speaker 3: power after tropical Psyclone Alfred bought wild weather to the
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Speaker 3: east coast. Communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South
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Speaker 3: Wales a begetting the clean up after the storm caused
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Speaker 3: widespread flooding and knockdown power lines and trees. And a
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Speaker 3: sixty one year old man's body has been recovered from floodwaters,
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Speaker 3: and twelve soldiers were taken to hospital after their convoy
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Speaker 3: crashed en route to rescue operations.
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Speaker 2: The situation in Queensland and northern New South Wales remains
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Speaker 2: very serious to do flash flooding and heavy winds, heavy rainfall,
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Speaker 2: damaging wind gusts and coastal surf impacts are expected to
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Speaker 2: continue overcoming days. I urge everyone to continue to listen
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Speaker 2: carefully to the emergency authorities.
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Speaker 3: And to the conflict in Ukraine. France says it will
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Speaker 3: give Ukraine an additional two hundred million dollars in military aid,
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Speaker 3: funded by interest from frozen Russian assets. The news comes
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Speaker 3: as Ukraine's President Zelenski is due to travel to Saudi
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Speaker 3: Arabia next week for fresh talks to end the war.
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Speaker 5: I'm confident that the meeting will be productive. We in
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Speaker 5: Ukraine are committed to this. We are very much so.
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Speaker 5: We will do our best to ensure that Ukrainian interest
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Speaker 5: are taken into account, taken into account in the right way.
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Speaker 3: And it is now ten minutes outter five.
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Speaker 3: Talks it'd be Obviously, I'm somewhat distracted the cricketers on
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Speaker 3: and India needs eleven runs from sixteen balls, and I've
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Speaker 3: been distracted all morning long. When I arrived just after three,
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Speaker 3: the game was finally balanced, but as often happens, a
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Speaker 3: few lusty bows and the pendulum swung towards India. But
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Speaker 3: I'd like to take this time right now to congratulate
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Speaker 3: New Zealand cricket. New Zealand cricketers had a great time
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Speaker 3: that recently we had the Golden generation. We had the
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Speaker 3: Trent Bolts and the Tim Soudis and the King Williamson's
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Speaker 3: and earlier the Ross Taylors. But over the past year
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Speaker 3: we've seen the emergence of a new crop, the will
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Speaker 3: of Rourks, the ever improving Matt Henry, and we're witnessing
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Speaker 3: the rise of a new global superstar in rash and Ravendra.
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Speaker 3: So we're all lose, and it looks like we're going
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Speaker 3: to lose this tournament and the Try series before it
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Speaker 3: we whitewashed. Is proof that New Zealand cricket is in
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Speaker 3: a healthy state and We've done this on the world stage,
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Speaker 3: and it's important to remind the powers that run cricket,
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Speaker 3: which is India, Australia and England, of the excitement factory
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Speaker 3: that New Zealand cricket is and please keep us in
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Speaker 3: your plans. Currently, yes, India still needs eleven runs and
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Speaker 3: fifteen balls to win. We've just had a wicket there.
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Speaker 3: They are now two forty one for six. You could
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Speaker 3: say it's finally balanced or not. The wind predictor I
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Speaker 3: have up sees that India is a ninety nine percent
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Speaker 3: chance to We're not give you any updates as they
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Speaker 3: come to a hand. It's eleven enough to five. So
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Speaker 3: I was away for the weekend and I came back
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Speaker 3: to a letter box that stuff full of newspapers. I
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Speaker 3: love a printed newspaper. I love its black and white appearance,
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Speaker 3: the way you can work your way through it the
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Speaker 3: way you want rather than because of an algorithm. I
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Speaker 3: like the ads, I like the public notices. I read
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Speaker 3: the death column every day. I just love papers, always
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Speaker 3: have and have always subscribed. So I got home last
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Speaker 3: night and I took a gander at the Sunday Star
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Speaker 3: Times and the lead article was about the new citizen
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Speaker 3: arrest laws that were proposed last week. And then it
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Speaker 3: was Brian Tummocky's excitement at who he will be able
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Speaker 3: to target his flock at empowering them to arrest and
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Speaker 3: detain until the authorities arrive. Now I have to say
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Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of Brian Tommocky. I don't like
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Speaker 3: the fact that his interpretation of the Bible seems so narrow.
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Speaker 3: He appears to have only read one book of the Bible,
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Speaker 3: and that's the Viticus. I don't like the way his
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Speaker 3: beliefs are so centered around men. It's good for men.
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Speaker 3: I understand that. I understand the good he does for men.
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Speaker 3: At the same time, there are women in this world
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Speaker 3: as well. And I do not like the way that
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Speaker 3: a man whose income is predicated on tithing, then Florence,
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Speaker 3: has received charity with his fancy houses, fancy vehicles and
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Speaker 3: very expensive Imporio Amani t shirts. This is money that
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Speaker 3: has been given to you by poor people. Tomikey's foot
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Speaker 3: soldiers ran somewhat a muck in the streets of Wellington
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Speaker 3: over the WEEKI and gleefully, empowered by their perceived right
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Speaker 3: to police our streets and That's why the citizens arrest
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Speaker 3: rules as they are proposed worry me because they seem
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Speaker 3: to empower vigilanteism. The new rules are supposed to protect
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Speaker 3: citizens who suddenly find themselves in a situation where crimes
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Speaker 3: are being committed upon them. I'm talking about dairy owners,
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Speaker 3: but not on flocks of a church who are wanting
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Speaker 3: the streets looking for people they don't like. It's not
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Speaker 3: for people to go out on a Saturday and detain
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Speaker 3: people just because they don't like what they think, or
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Speaker 3: believe or do. And that was enough reason for me
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Speaker 3: over the weekend to ask Paul Goldsmith to tread lightly
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Speaker 3: on the idea before we have roving gangs of vigilantes
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Speaker 3: causing havoc Andrew Dickens, or we have audio of the
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Speaker 3: India wicket which just happened. Because they are now two
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Speaker 3: forty five for six, off we go straight up, straight up,
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Speaker 3: they will be caught in bold.
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Speaker 5: This gain is not over yet, folks, This.
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Speaker 3: Is not quite over. Oh and did we just rub
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Speaker 3: someone out? No we did not, but we got very close.
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Speaker 3: Currently India is two forty five for six and currently
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Speaker 3: they need just seven balls. They have twelve runs to
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Speaker 3: do it. Of course we could just strangle them and
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Speaker 3: just sneak it at the end, but that's doubtful. Now
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Speaker 3: we've got more hotels than we've ever had. They've been
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Speaker 3: building them left, right and center because of the tourism
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Speaker 3: boosts that we've had over the last twenty years. But
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Speaker 3: the problem with the hotels is sometimes that full and
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Speaker 3: sometimes we don't have enough. But too many times we
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Speaker 3: don't have enough. So what to do about this? We're
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Speaker 3: talking to Vic Beck, the Heart of the city chief
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Speaker 3: from Auckland. In a few moments time. It's five point fifty.
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Speaker 3: It's good morning to you. It's now seventeen minutes after
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Speaker 3: five four runs needed from nine balls for India to win.
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Speaker 3: It's close. It certainly is close now. Walkland Hotels getting
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Speaker 3: a major cash hit from big events during the weekend
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Speaker 3: when Luke Comb's the Country Singer and sal Gp were
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Speaker 3: in town, hotels made it an extra five million dollars,
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Speaker 3: meaning that they filled an extra eight thousand rooms over
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Speaker 3: four days. So how did the CEO Heart of the
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Speaker 3: City CEO vivec joins in Hello, Viv, nice to talk,
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Speaker 3: Nice to see you. It just goes to show just
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Speaker 3: how much of an impact these big things have.
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Speaker 6: They really do. I mean, we see it, you know,
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Speaker 6: we sort with Pink last year, Coldplaying, Pearl Jam sol GP.
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Speaker 6: They make a huge impact. I mean, sid and small
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Speaker 6: events attract people, but when you get a really big
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Speaker 6: one in the hotel, the fall and the restaurants are
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Speaker 6: fall and the place is buzzing. That's just really what
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Speaker 6: you need to see.
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Speaker 3: And whose responsibility is it to keep these big events
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Speaker 3: coming to all of our cities.
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Speaker 6: Well, it depends what they are. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 6: where there are public benefits, I think there is a
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Speaker 6: rationale for public funding. But understand that's tight and sensitive,
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Speaker 6: so you know that's the question. Really the funding is
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Speaker 6: a challenge with some of the bigger events. But the
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Speaker 6: reality is, I think there's a strong recognition that events
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Speaker 6: have a big impact, and if there are public benefits,
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Speaker 6: I think there is a rationale have public money in it.
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Speaker 3: I think the America's Cup debate has colored those sorts
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Speaker 3: of comments because that required sort of the sort of
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Speaker 3: money like two hundred million dollars from government and councils
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Speaker 3: to get the America's Cup here, because we have to
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Speaker 3: pay for their research costs as well as just hosting
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Speaker 3: the entire event. But most of the events that we're
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Speaker 3: talking about, the Cold Place as you say, and the
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Speaker 3: sal GP, they haven't been a big spend.
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Speaker 6: Well a lot of them are privately thundered them to
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Speaker 6: pay for them. But if you look at the America's Cup,
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Speaker 6: and if you look at the Barcelona results that have
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Speaker 6: come out, you know, they say that's a two billion
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Speaker 6: dollar economic impact, maybe half a million unique visitors, nearly
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Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty super yachts. You know, if you
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Speaker 6: think about America's Cup here, we've got the infrastructure, so
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Speaker 6: it's the economic benefit, the trade, the tourism, and really
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Speaker 6: the sort of huge reputation we have in that marine
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Speaker 6: innovation and technology space. There's a lot of benefits that
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Speaker 6: come from a large event like that, particularly when you've
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Speaker 6: got the infrastructure. So it is going to need a
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Speaker 6: private funding as well, but we're big supporters of getting
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Speaker 6: that back and having that in twenty twenty seven would
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Speaker 6: be a massive boost. But it's true for everything we've
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Speaker 6: been through, it's.
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Speaker 3: True that our hotels are feast and famine because in
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Speaker 3: between these big events, we actually have low occupancy and
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Speaker 3: they're complaining about it. And meanwhile, the call came out
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Speaker 3: over the weekend for bed tex basically so that we've
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Speaker 3: got a fund that we can keep bringing events so
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Speaker 3: this to keep our hotels skill. Do you support a
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Speaker 3: bed tax?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we do. I mean that's something that actually
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Speaker 6: the industry generally seems to be supporting, and there's been
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Speaker 6: a call for some time now and actually needs to
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Speaker 6: get some urgency because one of the thoughts is that
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Speaker 6: that could be a way to contribute to the America's cup.
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Speaker 6: But time is of the essence, and it is something
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Speaker 6: that a number of groups have been asking for for
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Speaker 6: some time. And there are various ways you can attract money,
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Speaker 6: but you know, the real is this is one that
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Speaker 6: seems to have more favored than certainly the last accommodation tax,
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Speaker 6: which really was unfair on the hotel sector. But this
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Speaker 6: one is a small percentage on top of a room
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Speaker 6: rate that would contribute to attracting these large events and
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Speaker 6: destination marketing.
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Speaker 3: V thank you for your time today, and in fact,
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Speaker 3: I saw back the other day at an arts festival
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Speaker 3: events and that also was stimulating the economy. It is
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Speaker 3: five twenty India has just won and that's going away
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Speaker 3: into the fens off. What's the champions trophy for ay?
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Speaker 4: But win it after twelve years and it's another ICC Doliament.
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Speaker 3: For that way. Yeah. So India won by four wickets.
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Speaker 3: There were six balls left. They scored two fifty four
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Speaker 3: for six. We scored two fifty one for seven. The
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Speaker 3: scores were pretty close. It was only an over in it.
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Speaker 3: Well done, New Zealand, you perform well. Hey, speaking of
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Speaker 3: a big event, wouldn't you love the ICC Champions Trophy
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Speaker 3: happening here in New Zealand? Imagine that it is five
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Speaker 3: twenty one. Orders is next on Sport, including What Just Happened?
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Speaker 3: And Orderson Cricket Tragic. Welcome to the program. It's five
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Speaker 3: twenty three, So what it's time to be alive? Do
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Speaker 3: you need a hug? We're following a support group for
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Speaker 3: all the black Cap supporters because you're always at out
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Speaker 3: at the last hurdle. But you know the scores are
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Speaker 3: virtually similar. There was just six balls and we did
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Speaker 3: well but not well enough.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, India has paced that pretty well, I think, and
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Speaker 7: starting with Rochama with his seventy six off eighty three,
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Speaker 7: but they've got through the two fifty two required winning
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Speaker 7: with Forcus, I think, just what over to spare, give
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Speaker 7: or take, And yeah it was it was pretty convincing
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Speaker 7: display by India all up.
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Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 7: Well, Darrel Mitchell was kept New Zealand in the contest
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Speaker 7: with sixty three of one hundred and one balls. It
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Speaker 7: looked like it was a bit of a dropping from
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Speaker 7: the Sahara the pitch and it really it was.
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Speaker 3: I hate snowlineless. I hate Dubai's ground. Well, I love
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Speaker 3: the ground, I hate the wicked and I do not
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Speaker 3: like the games there. They're always a bit weird.
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Speaker 7: Well, the fact that the very fact that's controversying itself,
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Speaker 7: the fact that's in Dubai because India wouldn't play in Pakistan.
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Speaker 7: But that aside, they've done convincingly and New Zealand they
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Speaker 7: put up a good fight and I was just over
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Speaker 7: the course of the turnament just a standout factor or
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Speaker 7: too really, but glean Phillips's catch of shulmun Go. I
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Speaker 7: mean everyone should go and watch that today. That's a blinder.
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Speaker 7: It's short cover, just one hander. Again, he's just just
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Speaker 7: a phenomenal fielder.
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Speaker 3: Remember we talked about the Golden Generation. I mentioned this
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Speaker 3: earlier in the program, the Golden Generation. Look at this,
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Speaker 3: we've got Golden Generation two point zero.
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Speaker 7: There's some terrific players coming through and that has been
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Speaker 7: helped by Mitchell Santner's captaincy as well. There was the
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Speaker 7: other point I was going to mention today New Zealand
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Speaker 7: getting hit early with the pace attack and just brought
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Speaker 7: the left orthodox is on himself and ruts and Ravendra
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Speaker 7: and immediately and just just truck. He's got dim the flow.
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Speaker 7: So I thought, yeah, he's been he's been excellent in
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Speaker 7: that role so far.
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Speaker 3: I'm putting my hand up. We should host the next
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Speaker 3: ACC Champion trophy. Thank you very much. That would be
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Speaker 3: great for business for our hotels exactly. Let's get the rugby,
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Speaker 3: the rise of Australian and Ireland rugby. They caut up.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's that's great for the competition. Not
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Speaker 7: so good for the New Zealand teams.
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Speaker 3: Of course.
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Speaker 7: Of course, Higland is having to buy but and Crusaders
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Speaker 7: getting a win, but Chiefs and Hurricanes with the well
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Speaker 7: and then the Blues as well getting beaten by the Brumbies.
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Speaker 7: I think it's great for Pacifica rugby. That's what the competition.
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Speaker 3: Needs, Minor Pacifica in particular. Yeah, you know, so good.
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Speaker 3: And they're using North is great for the North Harbor Stadium,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's all. I'm all for that.
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Speaker 1: I think it's that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, bit of a shot in the arm for
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Speaker 3: super Raping. Well done. And I got to go, oh bye,
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Speaker 3: so do I you're busy. You've got some news today.
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Speaker 3: News Talks B. It's five twenty eight. We ended last
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Speaker 3: week with some hopeful noises from the health sector. I
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Speaker 3: even said, oh, some good news is finally. Minister Simmey
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Speaker 3: and Brown was praised by academics and commentators for us
15:45
Speaker 3: increased funding for nurse practitioners, advanced training for nurses, and
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Speaker 3: increased training for doctors who come from overseas. He also
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Speaker 3: announced an increase in the number of doctors we train
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Speaker 3: here and then on Friday he announced the health plan
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Speaker 3: which sees Lester Levy replaced by a board, and five
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Speaker 3: targets were in all focusing on speedier health care and
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Speaker 3: outcomes and to true through the waiting list. The Minister
16:04
Speaker 3: started talking about utilizing private facilities, and I think at
16:07
Speaker 3: this point it's important to think about where we came
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Speaker 3: from and where we are. Labour tried to reduce the
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Speaker 3: DHBs from over twenty to forty and introduced a Milord
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Speaker 3: Health Authority, even though the right wing had been complaining
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Speaker 3: about the inefficiency of too many boards for years. When
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Speaker 3: a left wing government does it, it's branded as a
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Speaker 3: socialist's central government takeover. So we decided to reverse it,
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Speaker 3: and after fifty million dollars was spent pursuing the four megaboards,
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Speaker 3: we appear to be right back where we started, except
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Speaker 3: we are not right back where we started. Lester Levy
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Speaker 3: has been cutting the workforce, and the workforce complains that
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Speaker 3: the whole sector has been hollowed out. We have more
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Speaker 3: funding than ever, We're told that all the time, particularly
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Speaker 3: by the Prime Minister, and yet it did not keep
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Speaker 3: pace with inflation. And I'm talking about the last twenty years,
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Speaker 3: not just the last one, and to cope with the
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Speaker 3: waiting lists that are built up over the decades. Patients
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Speaker 3: are now being directed to the private system. The appshot
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Speaker 3: is that the public system is slowly withering, very slowly though,
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Speaker 3: and it's a good time to be a shareholder and
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Speaker 3: a private health facility because you're getting the overflow. We
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Speaker 3: seem to be heading towards a two tier health system,
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Speaker 3: one for those with money and one for those without.
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Speaker 3: And increasingly, if you don't have health insurance, you're playing
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Speaker 3: a waiting game about who will see you first, Sir
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Speaker 3: Peter or the surgeon. They found an unexploded bomb underserneath
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Speaker 3: the train station in Paris, so yeah, we'll talk about
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Speaker 3: this at a moment. Gavin Gray is on the way.
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Speaker 8: Because you told me to get a job at you,
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Speaker 8: I want to see.
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Speaker 3: I welcome back to the program if they've just worken up.
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Speaker 3: India won the ICC Champions Trophy. The score is pretty equal,
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Speaker 3: but they had some time. They ran it well. How
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Speaker 3: did a text here from roy on ninety two ninety
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Speaker 3: two A small charge byes just my opinion, not that
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Speaker 3: it matters, but National is still off track with that
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Speaker 3: cricket not being on TV. For everyone have a good day,
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Speaker 3: we will have a good day, and I thank you Roy.
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Speaker 3: It's not the government's responsibility to make sure that we
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Speaker 3: have sport on our TV, but that is the call
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Speaker 3: of Sky Sport, and I went back to check to
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Speaker 3: see whether it was in fact on free to wear.
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Speaker 3: Remember Sky actually does some stuff free to wear on
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Speaker 3: Sky Open. And when they do that, they had the
18:40
Speaker 3: opportunity to stick in the ads. They have the opportunity
18:43
Speaker 3: to actually delay the coverage and so you know, it
18:46
Speaker 3: takes a bit longer, but they make the money. What
18:48
Speaker 3: they had on instead was infomercials. I don't know how
18:51
Speaker 3: many people watch infomercials on Sky Open. And reminding you
18:54
Speaker 3: that Sky Open is available to everybody. It took over
18:57
Speaker 3: the prime channel so you can pick it up, don't
19:00
Speaker 3: need to have the Sky thing. And the reason for
19:02
Speaker 3: Sky Opened is to show you how good the sports
19:04
Speaker 3: coverage is and perhaps convince you to make the step
19:08
Speaker 3: over into the subscription PATV so you could ask whether
19:11
Speaker 3: it was a good move by Sky TV not to
19:14
Speaker 3: make this game available on Sky Open, delayed and with
19:19
Speaker 3: interruptions by commercials. I would say that would be a
19:22
Speaker 3: poor call. Then again, it was an all night affair
19:26
Speaker 3: and also we lost Roy. We lost. But I see
19:29
Speaker 3: what you're saying. It's twenty two to six. Andrew Diggins
19:32
Speaker 3: storrying to go right around the country. Callen Proctor joins
19:34
Speaker 3: you from duneed and we missed you on Friday. Hello, Callum,
19:37
Speaker 3: missed you to Andrew morning. Okay, We've got an initiative
19:40
Speaker 3: to help young people into jobs.
19:43
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: This is in Central Otago, the Mayor's Task Force for
19:47
Speaker 9: Jobs Community Employment Program. It focuses on getting sixteen to
19:50
Speaker 9: twenty four year olds into employment right around the region.
19:54
Speaker 9: So it began a year ago. Since then, more than
19:56
Speaker 9: twenty youths have benefited from its Central Otago Mayor Toma
19:59
Speaker 9: Ali says the transition from school to training is more
20:03
Speaker 9: challenging today than ever before. She says this program removes
20:06
Speaker 9: those barriers like not having driver's license for the right
20:10
Speaker 9: safety gear, through to helping with CV writing and preparing
20:12
Speaker 9: for an interview.
20:13
Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather. It's good today? Fine? And
20:16
Speaker 3: twenty for danedin. Thank you so much. Claire herewind from Chrastiat.
20:19
Speaker 10: Hello, good morning.
20:21
Speaker 3: So the parking near Christiach Hospital has always been a
20:24
Speaker 3: saga and a drama.
20:25
Speaker 10: It has always been a saga and a drama. You're right.
20:28
Speaker 10: Anyone who needs to go to christ Church Hospital absolutely
20:31
Speaker 10: knows about this and it's a nightmare two for the staff.
20:34
Speaker 10: The city Council have been under pressure for some time
20:36
Speaker 10: now to try and do something about the parking situation.
20:39
Speaker 10: They've now put a clearway in place on Hagley Avenue
20:42
Speaker 10: between Saint Assis Street and Rickittson av that will be
20:45
Speaker 10: in place for six months as they trial this new option.
20:48
Speaker 10: It will allow people to park in eighteen free car
20:51
Speaker 10: parks basically from seven thirty at night until seven thirty
20:54
Speaker 10: each morning. A twenty twenty three trial costs more than
20:58
Speaker 10: twenty three thousand dollars. This one I was expected to
21:00
Speaker 10: be about ten thousand. The lane will be open as
21:03
Speaker 10: normal during the day. The Transport Operations Manager, Stephen Wright
21:07
Speaker 10: says this is a trial that will help counsel to
21:09
Speaker 10: understand the impact of permanently converting the curb sign laid
21:13
Speaker 10: to be some free car parking. How's the weather today,
21:16
Speaker 10: find a side from a bit of cloud this morning.
21:18
Speaker 10: Northeasterly is becoming fresh and high of twenty.
21:20
Speaker 3: Max toll from Wellington. Hello, good morning. And the Wellington
21:24
Speaker 3: Water controversy dribbles on.
21:27
Speaker 11: It, dribbles on you, yeah, bosses of Wellington Water. I'm
21:31
Speaker 11: talking the chair particularly, are going to today front up
21:35
Speaker 11: to both the minister and the region's mayors as pressure
21:39
Speaker 11: builds for some heads to roll. There's the report that's
21:42
Speaker 11: of course critical of Wellington Waters behind the scenes processes
21:47
Speaker 11: not been getting good value for rate payer money. Local
21:49
Speaker 11: Government Minister Simon Wats has called in Wellington Water for
21:52
Speaker 11: a please explain, that's how he puts it. He'll meet
21:54
Speaker 11: with them today. Some mayors want the chair Nick Leggett,
21:57
Speaker 11: to resign as well, perhaps others as well. Hill Front.
22:00
Speaker 11: This is sort of council Meyrial committee meeting today. It's
22:04
Speaker 11: already been turned into political posturing too, with some quite
22:08
Speaker 11: strong words being said by the regions mayor's polydor Anita
22:11
Speaker 11: Baker is keen for Leggett to stay. Torifano and Wayne
22:15
Speaker 11: Guppy want blood.
22:17
Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather?
22:19
Speaker 11: I should be fine today with Southerlea's twenty one the
22:21
Speaker 11: High Central.
22:22
Speaker 3: Neither let a man who joins me from walkan hellen
22:24
Speaker 3: Eva good morning. When I was a kid, I go
22:26
Speaker 3: to why we we do the we do the hydrous lies,
22:29
Speaker 3: the hydrous line, we soaking the hot poles, and then
22:32
Speaker 3: it closed. But what's happening with why we were in?
22:34
Speaker 12: Now that's right, everyone's got a great story, But why
22:36
Speaker 12: we're so Look the hot springs here showing signs of
22:40
Speaker 12: a recovery, and it's raising questions of whether this popular
22:44
Speaker 12: tourism draw card can be revived. And this has come
22:47
Speaker 12: because of a new study. So the geothermal system north
22:50
Speaker 12: of Walkland, as we know, best known for feeding what
22:52
Speaker 12: was the country's largest water park and edits speak as
22:55
Speaker 12: you say that thermal resort drew more than three hundred
22:58
Speaker 12: thousand people a year. That closed like yeah, twenty eighteen.
23:02
Speaker 12: Now after all the renovations and yeah, later being demolished.
23:06
Speaker 12: So the studies come out. The lead author of Paul
23:10
Speaker 12: Vskovich says, look, if the springs were to return through
23:13
Speaker 12: sustainable management of the system, it could become a tourist attraction. Again,
23:18
Speaker 12: what we know is that this study it comes as
23:20
Speaker 12: the owners of the seaside campground near the former resort
23:23
Speaker 12: that just put the property up the sale.
23:25
Speaker 3: All right, how's Orkin's weather?
23:26
Speaker 12: Fine? Fine, fine, fine, a high twenty six.
23:29
Speaker 3: Actually, we've just been right around the country and everybody said,
23:31
Speaker 3: the weather is fine. Can I just to sday the
23:33
Speaker 3: entire country would like a day of rain, thank you
23:35
Speaker 3: very much. We are so dry. I drove through the
23:37
Speaker 3: White Kado this weekend and everywhere is dry, and it's
23:40
Speaker 3: getting to that so dry the grass is almost blonde. Yes,
23:45
Speaker 3: it's time for some rain New Zealand.
23:46
Speaker 12: And I think we need to have shorter showers too,
23:49
Speaker 12: especially here.
23:50
Speaker 3: And that's what they're saying four minutes they're saying. But
23:52
Speaker 3: the biggest thing is I like some rain in the
23:54
Speaker 3: hydro later because I want some power this winter, thank
23:57
Speaker 3: you very much. It is at seventeen to six they
23:59
Speaker 3: found an unex sploid bomb underneath the garden or in Paris.
24:02
Speaker 3: Shows you that the echoes of World War two are
24:04
Speaker 3: still happening. And have they got rid of it? What
24:06
Speaker 3: happened there? Gavin Gray is next here on news Talks
24:09
Speaker 3: here B. And of course there are new rules about
24:12
Speaker 3: land acquisition when it comes to our big infrastructure projects.
24:15
Speaker 3: Are these rules good? Are they necessarily will they make
24:17
Speaker 3: a difference? That story before.
24:19
Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
24:23
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
24:27
Speaker 3: Every cross to the UK. Gavin grag good morning to you.
24:30
Speaker 3: Either blows my mind that what eighty years after World
24:34
Speaker 3: War Two we're still finding unexploded munitions and not just
24:38
Speaker 3: out in the countryside, but underneath a capital city of Europe.
24:43
Speaker 13: Yes, sudden. This caused huge, huge disruption for trains going
24:47
Speaker 13: in and out of the guard du Nor, one of
24:49
Speaker 13: the big train stations of course in Paris, one of
24:52
Speaker 13: the busiest train stations in all of Europe, and police
24:57
Speaker 13: had to evacuate people from homes around the San Deni
25:00
Speaker 13: district and temporarily closed part of the suburb's main ring
25:04
Speaker 13: road because they discovered a five hundred kilogram World War
25:09
Speaker 13: two bomb two meters deep at a building site just
25:12
Speaker 13: north of the station. Railway workers discovered it they were
25:15
Speaker 13: putting a new bridge over the railway lines as soon
25:18
Speaker 13: as they discovered it. It was a massive bomb, of
25:20
Speaker 13: course covered in mud, but as soon as they saw
25:22
Speaker 13: it they thought, Hm, we're going to have to shut everything,
25:25
Speaker 13: so I'm afraid. Thousands of passengers from London to Paris
25:29
Speaker 13: on Eurostar, of course arrived in the garden or they
25:33
Speaker 13: had to be put on hold. All the trains were
25:35
Speaker 13: backing up and it's been forty eight hours, a very
25:38
Speaker 13: very difficult travel on Eurostar. Originally the first trains to
25:43
Speaker 13: get back to normal andrew with the local services, then
25:45
Speaker 13: the high speed services and Eurostar. So today looking at
25:48
Speaker 13: the timetable, it's running all okay according to schedule, but
25:51
Speaker 13: many people, i think, really struggling to get where they
25:54
Speaker 13: needed to go as the flights filled up very very quickly,
25:58
Speaker 13: as soon as people realized the trains were not going
26:00
Speaker 13: to happen.
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Speaker 3: It's amazing this hangover from World War Two. There's a
26:03
Speaker 3: huge wasteland area just out of Paris which is basically
26:05
Speaker 3: unusable because of so much to munition and there, and
26:08
Speaker 3: it always just it amazes me. Meanwhile, Ancient History, they
26:12
Speaker 3: found a prototype to Stone Hinge in the UK.
26:15
Speaker 13: Yes, unbelievable. They had actually discovered it and also had
26:19
Speaker 13: begun doing an archaeological dig on this site in the
26:23
Speaker 13: nineteen eighties. However, on reanalyzing what they found and a
26:28
Speaker 13: subsequent dig at this site, which is near Dorchester in Dorset,
26:32
Speaker 13: to the south and west of London. They discovered that
26:36
Speaker 13: actually the Ring, as it is a large circular stone
26:40
Speaker 13: ring enclosure, which has sadly degraded over the last three
26:44
Speaker 13: two hundred years, is two centuries older than had previously
26:48
Speaker 13: been thought. Why is that important, Well, it's important because
26:51
Speaker 13: that means it's actually older than Stonehenge, and that of
26:55
Speaker 13: course means that scientists trying to make sense of all
26:58
Speaker 13: this believe it was a prototype for building Stonehenge, the
27:02
Speaker 13: famous Stone Monument, the circular monument in Wiltshire to the
27:08
Speaker 13: west of London, which of course has staggered so many people.
27:11
Speaker 13: How on earth they got the rocks there, how they
27:13
Speaker 13: stacked the rocks on one another, All these things still unknown,
27:16
Speaker 13: but the idea that they've done something similar for a
27:20
Speaker 13: century earlier is just extraordinary. So, as you said, amazing,
27:23
Speaker 13: how all this time on we're still finding things up
27:26
Speaker 13: about the Neolithic period.
27:27
Speaker 3: I thank you, Gavin Gray. It is now eleven to
27:29
Speaker 3: six dulous. The government's proposing changes to the Public Work
27:33
Speaker 3: Sect to speed up how it acquires private land. So
27:37
Speaker 3: if your land needs to be acquired, there is a
27:39
Speaker 3: new premium payment scheme which would be introduced rewarding landowners
27:43
Speaker 3: who said or quickly and at the end of itdual
27:46
Speaker 3: the Environment Court will no longer hear objictions that will
27:48
Speaker 3: go to the Minister and others in Council. Infrastructure of
27:51
Speaker 3: New zeal And Policy Director Michelle mccormackare's working up for
27:54
Speaker 3: us this morning. Hello, Michelle, Good morning injury. Is this
27:57
Speaker 3: everything you want?
27:59
Speaker 11: Oh?
27:59
Speaker 14: Pretty much?
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Speaker 4: So.
28:00
Speaker 14: I think it's a big step in the right direction.
28:02
Speaker 14: It's pretty ancient legislation, the Public Works Act, and it's
28:05
Speaker 14: good to see a fresh look at it and looking
28:08
Speaker 14: how we can improve the process and make sure that
28:10
Speaker 14: we are getting the strategic infrastructure faster that we need.
28:14
Speaker 3: Do we have some constructive, some concrete proposals that are
28:18
Speaker 3: on the table that will benefit from this, definitely.
28:22
Speaker 14: Yeah, the ones that are in the Fast Track Approvals
28:24
Speaker 14: Act now, so that's our Roads of National significance and
28:29
Speaker 14: some of the other big projects that are actually public
28:34
Speaker 14: infrastructure works will be lined up too further down the
28:36
Speaker 14: track and that will really shave us off some time
28:40
Speaker 14: and make the whole process a lot quicker, so construction
28:43
Speaker 14: can get underway and then we end up with the
28:46
Speaker 14: finished products sooner.
28:47
Speaker 5: Yeah.
28:48
Speaker 3: The only example I remember in my lifetime was in
28:51
Speaker 3: fact taking all the land beside the Pakranger Highway to
28:54
Speaker 3: make the busway that goes out towards Botany where all
28:56
Speaker 3: those houses just disappeared, they were just taken. Would this
28:59
Speaker 3: have made that process faster and easier?
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Speaker 14: I yes, it would, And it's good to see that
29:04
Speaker 14: there is an incentive payment now being offered where people
29:07
Speaker 14: are affected. When a project like that needs to acquire land,
29:11
Speaker 14: they actually have the option to sell voluntarily early without
29:15
Speaker 14: actually being compulsory acquired, and they'll get that incentive payment
29:19
Speaker 14: which is up to fifteen per cent of leaned value.
29:22
Speaker 3: Of course they're going to take away the Environment Court
29:24
Speaker 3: as a court of appeal, which we all know that
29:27
Speaker 3: that can take for rev and cost of fortune.
29:30
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think that's a big improvement. We know how
29:33
Speaker 14: overloaded the Environment Court is and I think having a
29:36
Speaker 14: much streamlined process to get to that final decision is
29:39
Speaker 14: actually better for everyone. It's better for the project, and
29:41
Speaker 14: it's better for the people affected too because they'll get
29:44
Speaker 14: an outcome sooner.
29:46
Speaker 3: It effects of if it's going to positively affect all
29:48
Speaker 3: the big infrastructure projects, why don't we get rid of
29:50
Speaker 3: the Environment Caught altogether.
29:52
Speaker 14: I think we still need the Environment Court for the
29:54
Speaker 14: wider rama processes, and there's a number of other approval
29:59
Speaker 14: process that they're involved in as well. But I think
30:02
Speaker 14: in this case, where these projects have been through that
30:05
Speaker 14: consenting approval process or in designation and in the last
30:10
Speaker 14: process is acquiring the land, I think it makes sense
30:13
Speaker 14: to have a streamline process with ministerial approval.
30:15
Speaker 3: And is this all the great idea until we get
30:18
Speaker 3: one bad decision or a perceived allegation of bias from
30:21
Speaker 3: a minister who is now the final court of appeal.
30:24
Speaker 14: Yeah, there is the alternative of having a judicial review
30:29
Speaker 14: if we know that someone does think that it has
30:31
Speaker 14: been a particularly bad decision. But I think given that
30:35
Speaker 14: the project itself has been tested well and had consenting
30:40
Speaker 14: approval given, then it is pretty much streamlined now, so
30:45
Speaker 14: you won't get one land owner holding out a whole
30:47
Speaker 14: project and costing millions and millions of dollars to the
30:50
Speaker 14: rest of the community.
30:52
Speaker 3: Well, Michelle, have yourself a great work in a great
30:55
Speaker 3: week at work, being productive and creating infrastructure, and I
30:58
Speaker 3: thank you so much a Michelle McCall, because the Infrastructure
31:00
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Speaker 15: And where's that money go to?
31:45
Speaker 3: Well, it goes to us. I believe we own them,
31:47
Speaker 3: don't we do? We do?
31:48
Speaker 12: We?
31:48
Speaker 3: I hope so.
31:49
Speaker 15: So they're peddling and gaining financially on the misery and upset.
31:55
Speaker 3: Yes of your average that's clipping the ticket. And I
31:58
Speaker 3: believe that they're head on show is currently flown to by.
32:03
Speaker 3: It's a long way to go. It's long.
32:04
Speaker 15: We're not as bad as going, it's not as bad
32:06
Speaker 15: as flying to Las Vegas to watch the Warriors, because
32:10
Speaker 15: it's been the biggest.
32:11
Speaker 3: Way Vegas is Vegas, Baby, I told you about.
32:13
Speaker 15: I suppose if you go to Vegas for Vegas as
32:15
Speaker 15: supposed to worries.
32:16
Speaker 3: Dubai is Dubai is it?
32:19
Speaker 5: Is it?
32:19
Speaker 3: I have no desire anyway.
32:21
Speaker 15: The business of the buying land and stuff, well, my
32:24
Speaker 15: only concern is the giant.
32:25
Speaker 3: I don't even think this is a new idea. You
32:27
Speaker 3: remember John Key years.
32:28
Speaker 15: Ago used to go what you do is, of course,
32:30
Speaker 15: you just go look, I'll give you a little bit
32:31
Speaker 15: extra and we'll get just move this thing along. So
32:33
Speaker 15: I think all they're doing is officially making what has
32:35
Speaker 15: happened anyway. But then don't you open up the if
32:38
Speaker 15: it's fifteen percent? So if you stay it's fifteen percent,
32:40
Speaker 15: you just go, well, I'll tell you what.
32:42
Speaker 3: For twenty Yeah, I think we can how do we
32:44
Speaker 3: sell houses exactly? And that's exactly schedulizing. I think the
32:48
Speaker 3: lack of the Environment Court is probably a good thing anyway.
32:51
Speaker 3: Chris Bushop is going to be doing this and we'll
32:52
Speaker 3: get some timeline because very big week for the government
32:54
Speaker 3: with the Investment Conference coming up on Thursday and Friday.
32:57
Speaker 3: Is a survey out this morning.
32:58
Speaker 15: That we'll look at as well, that says, apparently there's
33:01
Speaker 15: a lot of people and this is an Australasia as
33:03
Speaker 15: opposed to the world in Australasia. That yes, we're interested
33:06
Speaker 15: in investment.
33:07
Speaker 3: You see it said there's a glow about New Zealand,
33:10
Speaker 3: and that report is there's a glow about New Zealand.
33:12
Speaker 15: I'm not spot I'm not spotted. I don't know, I
33:15
Speaker 15: don't know where it is. Anyway, I will look at
33:17
Speaker 15: that number.
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33:21
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