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Full Show Podcast: 05 August 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kimi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and try this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to you Tuesday, just go
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Speaker 2: on six after five the Principal this morning, who's already
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Speaker 2: ditched mca on everyone else now having to ditch in
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Speaker 2: CA two that's just before six, Dame Julie Christie. Why
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Speaker 2: are we taxpayers paying for unscripted reality TV shows of
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Speaker 2: a foreign format? That's the question. Shows like the Traitors
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Speaker 2: if you've seen that on three? It's a foreign format.
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Speaker 2: Donald Demato out of Australia for US this morning. How
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Speaker 2: many millionaires are there across the Tazzy and Cole will
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Speaker 2: keep huntly going, Why that's probably a good thing. Seven
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: The Agenda.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday, the fifth of August. Six hundred former Israeli security officials,
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Speaker 2: including X spy chiefs, have written to Trump calling for
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Speaker 2: an end to the war in Gaza. They say Hummus
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Speaker 2: is no longer a strategic threat to Israel. Comes after Nita,
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Speaker 2: who pushes to expand operations in Gaza.
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Speaker 3: That is all based on his assumption that Hamas does
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Speaker 3: not want a ceasefire deal. That these talks that have
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Speaker 3: been going on in Kata in Cairo in recent weeks
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Speaker 3: have really reached an impasse, and we understand that the
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Speaker 3: Israeli security Cabinet is going to meet in the coming
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Speaker 3: days to look at options.
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Speaker 2: Trump's moving those two nuclear submarines closer to Russia and
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Speaker 2: the Kremlin Klemlin. The Kremlin is playing it all down.
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Speaker 2: It says they're always on combat duty anyway, nothing to
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Speaker 2: see here.
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Speaker 4: The Kremlin RS trains to sort of deescalate this, it
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Speaker 4: seems to me. But of course the under laying issue
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Speaker 4: is President Trump's frustration with Vladimir Puttin for not appearing
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Speaker 4: amenable to and in the war.
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Speaker 2: Steve Wikoff, it's Trump's man and special envoy. He will
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Speaker 2: arrive in Moscow today. This is the head of the
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Speaker 2: deadline Friday for posing to make a deal with Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: And good news for Elon Musk's wallet this morning, Tesla's
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Speaker 2: handing him thirty billion dollars in shears to keep him
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Speaker 2: on board with the company. This after a court tossed
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Speaker 2: out his original fifty billion dollar pay deal. Tesla says
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Speaker 2: it'll help keep Musk focused as the AI talent war
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Speaker 2: heats up.
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Speaker 5: Musk is key to the whole thing. The board recognizes this,
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Speaker 5: and look, this is an arms raise in terms of
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Speaker 5: what's going on for AAR and you cannot have musk
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Speaker 5: sort of semi committed. I think the board needed to
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Speaker 5: do this. I think they'll have another pay package at
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Speaker 5: the November shareholder meeting, and I think this is when
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Speaker 5: investerers want to see from Must to recommit to TASA.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and x foll Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and dry this winter.
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Speaker 2: News Talk set B nine two nine two is the
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Speaker 2: number to text disc one nine minutes after five on
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Speaker 2: news Talk seid B. Sort of mixed reactions so far
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Speaker 2: to the NCAA changes. I thought labor's a press release
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Speaker 2: I was reading last night, and you'll be fascinated to
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Speaker 2: know they say schooling is already an anxious period for
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Speaker 2: our young people. The last thing they need is more confusion. Well,
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Speaker 2: I thought the curriculum was making them confuse to begin with,
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Speaker 2: the whole systems making them confuse to begin with, So
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Speaker 2: shouldn't we at least try to address it. The number
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Speaker 2: of people yesterday in education who talked about students' anxiety
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Speaker 2: or while we shouldn't do this because it might make
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Speaker 2: the students anxious, Well, we must be careful with that
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Speaker 2: least we make the students anxious. I mean, honestly, no
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Speaker 2: wonder they're anxious. It's because you don't do anything. You're
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Speaker 2: tiptoeing around them. Have listened to this teacher.
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Speaker 6: On R and Z.
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Speaker 7: I don't think it's an improvement.
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Speaker 8: High stakes assessment is incredibly stressful for a number of people.
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Speaker 7: The well being of students has to be considered.
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Speaker 2: High stakes assessment. What we're talking about here is exams.
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Speaker 2: Remember those, Yes, they were stressful. You tore your hair out,
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Speaker 2: you didn't sleep, you were up all night studying. You know,
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Speaker 2: you went to school shaking. Remember it was nerve wracking.
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Speaker 2: It was three hours for a start. You'd think kind
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Speaker 2: of planning your toilets, but that's what you did. And
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Speaker 2: guess what you got over it. You went in there,
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Speaker 2: you did it, and if you studied hard, you'd come
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Speaker 2: out with a good grade at the end of it.
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Speaker 2: And you know what the grade was. So I don't
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Speaker 2: understand what the big fuss is about. If we don't
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Speaker 2: push students. If we don't test them, if we don't
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Speaker 2: put them under pressure, young people, how will they ever
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Speaker 2: deal with pressure in life? I just think that's mad.
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Speaker 2: This is what the Greens. I mean, I don't even
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Speaker 2: know why I'm playing with these people. Well, probably because
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Speaker 2: they will one day be running the country again. Have
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Speaker 2: listened to Lawrence Stu Nann from the Greens.
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Speaker 9: Education is about curiosity, is about creating lifelong learners. So
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Speaker 9: we shouldn't be looking at education purity for the narrow
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Speaker 9: lens of so the economic framework or labor market.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so just go and what read the latest magazine
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Speaker 2: and class, go and read Twitter. I mean, what, seriously,
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Speaker 2: what do these people want? Eleven after five? Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: coming up next. We'll look at another mad issue in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand at the moment, and that's coal. Yes, we
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Speaker 2: are getting more of it. Six hundred thousand tons of
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Speaker 2: coal is going to be stockpiled to keep Huntley's lights on.
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Speaker 2: And some people, some people, not everybody, some people think
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Speaker 2: that's a bad idea. We'll discuss that next.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with x fole insulation keeping
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Speaker 1: Kiwio's warm and try this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. Just gone thirteen after five, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: sounds like this could help build resilience in young people.
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Speaker 2: This is the NCAA changes. Yes, Well, isn't that a
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Speaker 2: word that we need to hear more associated with teenagers? Right,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to Dame Julie Christie on those taxpayer funded
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Speaker 2: unscripted reality shows in a second. Just gone fourteen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five, Bryan Bridge, we got news out of the
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Speaker 2: Big Four Gen Taylor's yesterday. They're importing six hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: tons of coal and storing it at Huntley. This is
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Speaker 2: to protect us from energy security problems like the ones
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Speaker 2: we had last year. It should keep the plant running
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Speaker 2: for another ten years. Mike Cases with the rewiring Altet. Oh,
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Speaker 2: he's the CEO, Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Ryan, how are you my friend?
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Speaker 2: Very well? Thank you. Good to have you back on
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Speaker 2: the show. Now, you're a practical guy, so I know
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Speaker 2: that you will understand why we need to do this.
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Speaker 10: Oh, one hundred percent, and hopefully we can get to
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Speaker 10: the no nonsense, no spin answers on this. But yes,
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Speaker 10: unfortunately we're in a situation that we need a giant
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Speaker 10: pile of coal at Huntley to keep our energy system running,
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Speaker 10: and we need to avoid it all costs rolling blackouts,
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Speaker 10: which well, you know, we may have come close to
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Speaker 10: in twenty twenty four with how high the price.
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Speaker 2: Went because we thought we had lots of gas and
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Speaker 2: turns out we had less than we thought we did,
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Speaker 2: and then you end up with a crunch.
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Speaker 10: And that's one hundred percent right. And the other big
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Speaker 10: problem that we've seen is, you know, twenty fifteen, the
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Speaker 10: Productivity Commission talked about how we needed to wean ourselves
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Speaker 10: off get off coal. Nothing happened. Is now twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 10: and I think we sort of need to commit as
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Speaker 10: a country maybe to this being the last major coal
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Speaker 10: or order that we ever make.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think it will be?
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Speaker 10: I hope so. Put simply that we just need to
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Speaker 10: think about better ways of managing our large battery that
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Speaker 10: we have.
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Speaker 2: Which is our hydro lakes.
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Speaker 10: And one of the most exciting things is that, you know,
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Speaker 10: the rollout of you know what, I'm an advocate for
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Speaker 10: the rollout of solar across New Zealand. Rolling out solar
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Speaker 10: across New Zealand will ultimately allow us to hold on
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Speaker 10: to our water for longer and burn less coal.
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Speaker 2: What about geo thermals talking to Shane Jones about this
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Speaker 2: now day. It's hugely expensive to drill for nent do
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Speaker 2: lots of holes apparently, but once you get it, it's
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Speaker 2: year round.
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Speaker 10: I'm a massive fan of our geo thermal and all
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Speaker 10: other forms of renewables. The simple answer is the more
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Speaker 10: energy that we can generate in the middle of winter,
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Speaker 10: the longer we can hold onto that water for and
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Speaker 10: the less coal that we need to burn. So I
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Speaker 10: think all options should be on the table, and it
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Speaker 10: really comes down to a cost benefit analysis to working
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Speaker 10: out how we keep power bills low or the lowest possible.
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Speaker 2: For newsic hoonders appreciate you time. Mike Casey rewiring alted
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Speaker 2: our CEO just gone sixteen minutes after five. Who else
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Speaker 2: a really practical people? Nine two, nine and two, by
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Speaker 2: the way, is the number to text on coal. Well,
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Speaker 2: not just cold but anything this morning. But the Danes,
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Speaker 2: the Danish are practical people, just no nonsense, no fluff,
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Speaker 2: straight up and down. Practical. And there's a zoo in
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Speaker 2: Denmark that's appealing for donations of healthy small pets because
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Speaker 2: they need to feed the predators at the zoo, so
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Speaker 2: they just put a post up on Facebook. Imagine Auckland
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Speaker 2: Zoo doing this anyway. They said we accept chickens, rabbits
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Speaker 2: and guinea pigs from anyone who's trying to get rid
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Speaker 2: of a pet. Also said it would gratefully receive live horses. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they've got a few predators there. The deputy director of
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Speaker 2: Alberg Zoo says, for many years the zoo we fed
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Speaker 2: our carnivores with smaller livestock. When keeping carnivals, it's necessary
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Speaker 2: to provide them with the meat, preferably with the fur
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Speaker 2: and the bones, et cetera, to give them as natural
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Speaker 2: a diet as possible. So you got some wild predators
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Speaker 2: behind bars, you've got to feed them. Then you know
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Speaker 2: they need a whole piece of prey. Basically, can't give
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Speaker 2: them a dog roll. They need the fur, need the bones,
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Speaker 2: need the meat and the practical danes get the job done.
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Speaker 2: Just gone seventeen after five news talk said b Dame
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Speaker 2: Julie Christie.
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Speaker 1: Next the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 1: depth analysis earlier this ye with Ryan Bridge and ex
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Speaker 1: Bowl insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry. This winter
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Speaker 1: news talks at B.
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Speaker 2: This gone five twenty on News talks hered b Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Interesting that your generation was phased by exams. Mine wasn't.
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Speaker 2: We knew what they were. We attacked them and we succeeded,
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Speaker 2: says this person. Well good for you. I found them
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Speaker 2: quite nerve breaking, although I must say, and did pass
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Speaker 2: them while they were stop piling the coal at Huntley.
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Speaker 2: This is from another one of our listeners this morning.
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Speaker 2: Why aren't we digging it up out of our own
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Speaker 2: goddamn soil. I've got something to say about that. I'll
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Speaker 2: share it with you in about five to six minutes time.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge small.
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Speaker 2: Questions this morning over the future of our screen sector.
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Speaker 2: New Zella only has dropped nearly three million dollars in
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Speaker 2: taxpayer cash on new seasons of Celebrity Treasure Island and
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Speaker 2: the Traitors comes hot on the heels of a two
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Speaker 2: and a half million dollar bail out for Shortland Street
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Speaker 2: just last week. Dame Julie Christie's a television producer and
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Speaker 2: creative Celebrity Treasure Island with me this morning, Dame Julie,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Is this it's an ungodly hour.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you being here with me. Should should club?
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Speaker 7: It's called isn't it.
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Speaker 2: That's right, Hey, she's a very good book.
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Speaker 7: Actually, there is a good book called The five Am
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Speaker 7: Club which helps with the early mornings.
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Speaker 2: Well, I should have read that a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: Should we taxpayers be putting money into unscripted reality shows?
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean one of the side effects of the
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Speaker 7: movement of ad revenue away from traditional TV has been
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Speaker 7: the loss of actually the most popular shows because you know,
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Speaker 7: mostly because of their costs. I mean, for many years
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Speaker 7: drama has almost all New Zealand drama has been supported
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Speaker 7: by government funding, and these shows actually deliver a big audience,
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Speaker 7: and bigger audience than any drama. We are facing having
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Speaker 7: no entertainment television at all on our screens. And you know,
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Speaker 7: we can't just have British, Australian and American shows. We
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Speaker 7: don't have the we don't have the the the I
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Speaker 7: guess the legislation which demands that you've got to make
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Speaker 7: so much local content in order to have a license
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Speaker 7: in this country to even be a broadcaster. So there
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Speaker 7: is no protectionism. So I think it's inevitable. It's a
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Speaker 7: really good short term decision, but we've got to find
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Speaker 7: a way to make it a hand up, not a handout.
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Speaker 7: So the long term sustainability is a challenge.
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Speaker 2: Really we're all going on Netflix and watching American stuff
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Speaker 2: or British stuff, foreign stuff. Could you make an argument
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Speaker 2: that that's where we get our entertainment. But we also
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Speaker 2: now have social media. We see Kiwi characters on social
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Speaker 2: media and we follow them and they entertain us, and
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Speaker 2: it's done in a different way perhaps to traditional television.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 7: But the great thing about these shows is they are
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Speaker 7: a shared experience, you know, Like I mean, Treasure has
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Speaker 7: been around since nineteen ninety seven, so twenty eight years
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Speaker 7: I think. And one of the other decisions which you
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Speaker 7: probably didn't notice about the latest thing was the return
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Speaker 7: of My House My Castle, which is you know, twenty
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Speaker 7: four years old. It ran for ten years. It was
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Speaker 7: actually TV two's answer to Fair Go on TV one,
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Speaker 7: which we produced way back then. So I think these
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Speaker 7: shows which enable people to sit down together are actually
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Speaker 7: really good for us, I feel. I mean, the question is,
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Speaker 7: you know, it's going to be a much harder decision for
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Speaker 7: a new Cellini when the block bachelor married at first
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Speaker 7: site in those shows say me too, So how do
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Speaker 7: you decide which of these sort of shows to fund
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Speaker 7: is going to be a much harder decision than funding
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Speaker 7: this one. Normally New Zealand on here would have what
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Speaker 7: would always cite reflecting our cultural identity as being a
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Speaker 7: criteria for funding. But this time they appear to have
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Speaker 7: made a commercial decision, which is pretty much needed.
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Speaker 2: God that's said, isn't it? But the thing that I
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Speaker 2: saw you studay that the Traitor is not even one
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Speaker 2: of our formats. It's a foreign one.
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Speaker 7: No, no, no, it's not. It's not Trusure Onland is original?
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Speaker 7: Ip I mean, what does an ideal situation look like
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Speaker 7: to me? Anyway? And it's just my opinion. Is it
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Speaker 7: an ideal situation looks like is that we start developing
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Speaker 7: more New Zealand formats. We haven't had one for many
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Speaker 7: years actually, with exception of Guy Montgomery's I'm Spelling Bee,
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Speaker 7: which I think is now in Australia and New Zealand,
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Speaker 7: we're not developing those formats. So perfection looks like you
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Speaker 7: develop a New Zealand format, you create a hub like
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Speaker 7: a place where it can be made, and all different
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Speaker 7: countries come in and make that show here in New Zealand,
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Speaker 7: therefore providing long term sustainability. We own the IP. There's
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Speaker 7: something of value, you know, that's a that's a that's
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Speaker 7: the what the ideal looks like. So to me that
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Speaker 7: has to be the next step is you're going to
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Speaker 7: go down this this road. You've got to we've got
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Speaker 7: to look at New Zealand IP, We've got to look
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Speaker 7: at improving the things with things within our own industry.
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Speaker 7: So we're back creating those sort of shows which we
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Speaker 7: used to create a.
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Speaker 2: Bit of DIY don Julie Christy, I appreciate your time
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Speaker 2: this morning, just gone twenty four minutes half to five.
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Speaker 2: News Talks AB twenty six minutes after five. We need
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Speaker 2: to be a bit practical about this business of important coal.
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Speaker 2: I reckon yesterday Genesis, Mercury, Meridian Contacts. They came together
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Speaker 2: and announced they're going to stockpile up to six hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand tons of coal to keep the lights on at Huntley.
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Speaker 2: Coal gives us a backup for when times, you know,
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Speaker 2: when electricity is low, when the late levels are low,
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Speaker 2: when the wind isn't blowing. Huntley is the largest electricity
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Speaker 2: generation site in the country, and it needs fuel to
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Speaker 2: run on. Eventually, they would like it to be all
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Speaker 2: biomass and green and friendly, etc. But in the meantime
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Speaker 2: they need something reliable to keep things chugging along so
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Speaker 2: as we avoid another energy crunch like we had last
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Speaker 2: year when spot prices went berserk because we realized how
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Speaker 2: little gas we have in this country and cue the
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Speaker 2: predictable outcries of disbelief and feigned shock from some quarters
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Speaker 2: in reaction to this, including those climate protesters. Have you
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Speaker 2: seen them, who I can only assume are still disrupting
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Speaker 2: operations at the Stockton mine in the South Island, hanging
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Speaker 2: from an aerial bucket with their banners unfurled. Last time
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Speaker 2: I saw them, there was a woman up there in
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Speaker 2: the bucket, you know, health and safety be damned, zooming
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Speaker 2: into a call with a journalist. And she did this
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Speaker 2: completely unironically, surrounded by a plethora of plastic in things
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Speaker 2: like the cables she was using, her cell phone, the
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Speaker 2: battery packs, the tools, even her helmet plastic, plastic, plastic.
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Speaker 2: She explained that coal was evil, of course, and would
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Speaker 2: eventually ruin and kill the planet, never mind the fact
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Speaker 2: that her presence in the bucket meant that workers were
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Speaker 2: now having to truck their coal from one site to
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Speaker 2: another using yes, you guessed it, diesel engines rather than
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Speaker 2: the aerial rope pulley system whose bucket she and her
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Speaker 2: plastic fantastic friends were now occupying. No shame either, apparently
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Speaker 2: about a helicopter flying in. This was the local news
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Speaker 2: reporting a helicopter flying in, Yes with avgas to check
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Speaker 2: on the protest is after a bit of rain. Paul
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Speaker 2: thinks the reality is this. Nobody's saying coal is amazing
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Speaker 2: and it's the only solution to our problem, and let
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Speaker 2: burn it till we all burn. I've not heard anyone
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Speaker 2: say that. They're just saying we need this reliable fuel
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Speaker 2: to tide us over till we don't need it anymore.
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Speaker 2: If the choice is to either burn coal or have
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Speaker 2: a cold shower, I know what I'm doing. And let's
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Speaker 2: not forget that. Even if we did stop digging up
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Speaker 2: coal and using it to heat our homes, occasionally, some
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Speaker 2: other country far away would be doing exactly that anyway.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said Beat reporters after news.
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Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and ex fole insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: homes warm and dry. This winter, news talk said be
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Speaker 1: sorry that Yordy.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. Here is twenty four minutes for six year
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Speaker 2: old news talk sai'd be on coal and Huntley. Loads
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Speaker 2: of texts on this one. This morning. One of our
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Speaker 2: listeners says, why can't you just get the coal out
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Speaker 2: of our ground rather than getting it from Indonesia? Ryan
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Speaker 2: Stockton coal which is where the protester are is for
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Speaker 2: export Huntley coal comes from Indonesia. Another says this is
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Speaker 2: from Howard. Good morning, Howard, Ryan stocked in mine is
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Speaker 2: coal that is only used as feedstock for making steel.
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Speaker 2: It is not thermal coal for creating electricity. No coke
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Speaker 2: and coal no steel, completely different to thermal coal. How
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Speaker 2: good information. Nice to have the distinction very quickly. Updated
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Speaker 2: on Auckland's property prices for you. This is Barfoot and
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Speaker 2: Thompson July sales volumes. We're up over nine percent on
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Speaker 2: June's figures. New listings are up more than fourteen percent
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Speaker 2: month on month. In fact, if just looking at Barfoot
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Speaker 2: and Thompson alone, this is the highest number of homes
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Speaker 2: they've had for sale in the market for the month
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Speaker 2: of July, ever, loads of stock more than six thousand
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Speaker 2: homes at the end of the month. That's just with
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Speaker 2: Barfoot and Thompson, so it doesn't end. That's country wide,
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Speaker 2: that doesn't matter where you are. And for Auckland the
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Speaker 2: average sale price for the month of July was one
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Speaker 2: point one. This is around two and a half percent
19:16
Speaker 2: lower than June's average. You've got lots of stock and
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Speaker 2: you've got the prices basically adjusting, albeit slowly downwards. Twenty
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Speaker 2: three minutes away from six Crying Bridge, going through our
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Speaker 2: reporters around the country this morning, and we start in
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Speaker 2: Dunedin with Forgive Me with Lizzie Leishman. Who's sorry, Rosie Leishman,
19:36
Speaker 2: who's with us this morning from Dunedin. Rosie, good morning,
19:39
Speaker 2: good morning, forgive me. How are you. How's your weather
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Speaker 2: in Dunedin this morning?
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Speaker 11: Oh the weather is actually mainly fine today with some
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Speaker 11: high cloud and some northerlies in a high of eleven degrees.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Rosie. Thank you. Tell us about the weather and
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Speaker 2: how it's affecting the state highway closures.
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Speaker 11: That's what you meant, Okay, Well, there's no surprises to
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Speaker 11: Ortargo communities that they're the hard is hit by where
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Speaker 11: the related state highway closures because NDCAA data has revealed
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Speaker 11: that state highways have closed two hundred and sixty times
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Speaker 11: in the last eighteen months due to the likes of flooding, snow,
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Speaker 11: fire and slips, but more than sixty percent were in
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Speaker 11: the South Island and Ortago was the most impacted with
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Speaker 11: thirty nine closures, and Central Otago Mayor Taima Paul says
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Speaker 11: it would be great if they didn't always need to
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Speaker 11: be so resilient. She says people in Ortago are always
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Speaker 11: prepared to be stuck on the side of the road
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Speaker 11: with chains and supplies and warm clothes in the car
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Speaker 11: in case that the main network is closed, and she
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Speaker 11: says that locals understand the challenges, but they pay taxes
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Speaker 11: and expect the same benefits as the big cities.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Rosie, and you deserve it too. Thank you very
20:47
Speaker 2: much for that cliche. Edwards and christ Church this morning, clear,
20:49
Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
20:51
Speaker 2: Tell us about your big soul approject. You've got a
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Speaker 2: milestone there in christ Church.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Well this is Carfay Park at Christchurch Airport, which
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Speaker 13: is going to be one of new Zealand's just Solar Projects.
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Speaker 7: It's built on two hundred and.
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Speaker 13: Thirty hectares of land out at the airport. The news
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Speaker 13: today is that the first row of panels have been
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Speaker 13: put in place. Christchurch Airport CEO Justin Watson says these
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Speaker 13: first panels, which are known in industry apparently as Golden Row,
21:16
Speaker 13: have been not only installed but also quality assessed. That
21:20
Speaker 13: means that they've been validated, signed off and of course
21:23
Speaker 13: construction can now safely and efficiently scale up, which means
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Speaker 13: they will repeat that process literally thousands of times. Once
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Speaker 13: it's complete, the solar farm will generate enough renewable electricity
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Speaker 13: to power the equivalent of more than thirty six thousand homes.
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Speaker 2: Great and how's your son looking?
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Speaker 7: Not a lot of it this morning.
21:42
Speaker 13: There's definitely a frosty stance, some cloud expected today. Northeasterly
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Speaker 13: is picking up for a time this afternoon and a
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Speaker 13: high of eleven.
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Speaker 2: Nice on Thanks Claire, Max and Wellington this morning, Hey Max,
21:51
Speaker 2: good morning. So Lower Hut private hospitals getting a refurb.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, a hot South MP Chris Bishop and the health
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Speaker 14: Simeon Brown. They were both at Bullcott Hospital last night
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Speaker 14: unveiling this twenty five million dollar refurbishment expansion, you might
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Speaker 14: call it two new operating theaters, that's going to really
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Speaker 14: enhance surgical services in the region, give a bit more
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Speaker 14: flexibility for the public sector as well, which is farming
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Speaker 14: these out five operating theaters now up from three, twenty
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Speaker 14: eight overnight beds forty five hundred thousand procedures per year,
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Speaker 14: up from three thousand. That's the projection state of the arts.
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Speaker 14: Apparently all good things.
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Speaker 2: Right, sounds good. How's you weather?
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Speaker 14: Overcast clearing to fine breaks later thirteen the high Central.
22:38
Speaker 2: That's one. Have a good day mix Neiva's in Auckland, Neva.
22:41
Speaker 2: You've moved quite close to me today, HEV.
22:44
Speaker 12: I don't like I'm a creature of Hibbert. What's happened
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Speaker 12: is that the microphone of my normal seat is even
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Speaker 12: taken away, so I've had to move seats in.
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Speaker 2: I don't like it. You don't like being so close?
22:54
Speaker 2: Can you smell me over here?
22:56
Speaker 12: I can see you. Oh, you're wow, you are very
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Speaker 12: very ten. I can see it. Is it makeup?
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Speaker 2: No, I haven't got my makeup on yet.
23:05
Speaker 12: Oh, because your sun I mean look at me like
23:09
Speaker 12: I've been sitting in the sun. Well, you know, if
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Speaker 12: you find a good sheltered spot that was over the weekend.
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Speaker 12: I actually improved on my natural ten.
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Speaker 2: Well, the weekend was beautiful if you were going to
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Speaker 2: do it. Anything else you want to talk about? Now
23:22
Speaker 2: that we're s.
23:23
Speaker 12: Close, what about the real news? Auckland's future train network.
23:28
Speaker 12: Now that's been laid out obviously we all know that
23:31
Speaker 12: incoming city rail link at the core. This is positive news.
23:35
Speaker 12: Ninety percent of services is going to pass through this
23:37
Speaker 12: new underground tunnels with the stops at the three stations
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Speaker 12: in the central city. Our newsroom spoke to Counselor Andy
23:42
Speaker 12: Baker now he is the Auckland Council Transport Committee chair.
23:45
Speaker 12: He says, not this new network, it's going to make
23:47
Speaker 12: trips like Henderson to the city is sent to nearly
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Speaker 12: thirty minutes quicker. He says, it decreases in time, will
23:52
Speaker 12: make it a detractive option for Auckland. As you know,
23:55
Speaker 12: you could actually in four peak times. But you know,
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Speaker 12: if you want to go to Henderson and a bit
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Speaker 12: of shopping, there was the line in there.
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Speaker 8: Oh wait, what.
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Speaker 2: I thought Henderson?
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Speaker 12: Ever, I thought I'm going to leave that line in
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Speaker 12: because I'm going to tell Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Thirty minutes quicker just because of the city rail link,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be quicker to get to Henderson.
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Speaker 12: Yep, should be ka. Well that's what they're saying, so
24:22
Speaker 12: you know when that starts next year. I don't want
24:24
Speaker 12: to put a month on it.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a trap though, doesn't it quicker?
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Speaker 12: Let's just start saving now for our shopping days in Henderson.
24:31
Speaker 12: The Wiss will hate.
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Speaker 2: Us as our weather cloudy.
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Speaker 12: A few showers later on tonight ORKNCI fifteen, Great Neva, Thank.
24:38
Speaker 2: You have a great day. Nice to see you up
24:40
Speaker 2: and close. Seventeen minutes away from six here on his talks,
24:43
Speaker 2: he'd be we'll get to Donal tomorrow out of Australia.
24:45
Speaker 2: Next interesting out of Australia. They think they have caught
24:49
Speaker 2: a Chinese spy, so we'll talk to her about that.
24:52
Speaker 2: Before six we will talk to principal. Reaction to the
24:55
Speaker 2: big NCA changes affecting kids across the country.
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Speaker 1: All ahead, National correspondence with ends in eye insurance, Peace
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Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen away from coming up next is your NCAA qualification
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Speaker 2: worth list now right now? Don A Demyo Australia correspondent
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Speaker 2: on a good morning, Good morning, have you caught a
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Speaker 2: Chinese spy in action in camera?
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Speaker 8: This is quite extraordinary, isn't it. A Chinese national has
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Speaker 8: been charged allegedly asked by China to spy on a
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Speaker 8: Canmebra Buddhist group. Australian Federal Police have changed the woman
25:30
Speaker 8: with reckless foreign interference and she does face a maximum
25:33
Speaker 8: of fifteen years in prison. Now what led to the restume?
25:36
Speaker 8: I ask Azio passed on some information to Strike Force
25:41
Speaker 8: Operation Shield and then a number of search warrants were executed.
25:45
Speaker 8: Now it's alleged by federal police the woman, who's also
25:47
Speaker 8: an Australian permanent resident, I might add, was tasked by
25:51
Speaker 8: China's Public Security Bureau to covertly, covertly, i should say,
25:56
Speaker 8: gather information about a camera Buddhist association. Now, the AFP
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Speaker 8: Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt says Australia is not immune to
26:05
Speaker 8: foreign interference, but it is the first time the AFP
26:08
Speaker 8: has charged a person with foreign interference that allegedly involves
26:11
Speaker 8: targeting members of the Australian community. We've also heard from
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Speaker 8: Mike Burgess, who is the ASO Director General, and he's
26:19
Speaker 8: said that interference of this kind that's been alleged is
26:23
Speaker 8: an appalling assault on Australian values, freedom and sovereignty.
26:27
Speaker 2: Tell us how rich you guys are across the testment?
26:32
Speaker 8: I love this report. So it's from the Swiss Bank
26:35
Speaker 8: at UBS and it's had a look at some fascinating
26:37
Speaker 8: stats and it says that around one in ten Ossies
26:41
Speaker 8: is a millionaire. How's that? And we have the second
26:46
Speaker 8: highest median wealth in the world is about four hundred
26:49
Speaker 8: and eleven thousand dollars, second only to Luxembourg. Apparently, Now,
26:54
Speaker 8: this global report says the surge in wealth is very
26:57
Speaker 8: much tied to the property market, and well that nation
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Speaker 8: Australia owns nearly ten point five trillion dollars worth of
27:05
Speaker 8: residential land and dwellings, so it's a lot. It's about
27:09
Speaker 8: one point five million, one point five million dollars worth
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Speaker 8: for one in ten Aussies. But as we've mentioned, most
27:16
Speaker 8: of the wealth is concentrated into real estate, so there's
27:19
Speaker 8: cash and deposits. They only make up about ten percent
27:21
Speaker 8: of our.
27:22
Speaker 2: Wealth by the way, right, Yeah, probably a similar story here,
27:25
Speaker 2: though maybe not as many as one in ten. Hey,
27:28
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. Donna donnod Demoro are Australia correspondent time
27:31
Speaker 2: now twelve minutes away from six Crayon Bridge. NCA is
27:35
Speaker 2: out as the government promise Level one gone year elevens
27:38
Speaker 2: will now do literacy and numeracy tests instead Level two
27:42
Speaker 2: and three. That's being replaced with a new qualification where
27:45
Speaker 2: students will need to pass four out of the five
27:47
Speaker 2: subjects each year and say goodbye to achieved merit and
27:52
Speaker 2: excellence not achieved. We're going old school again, back to
27:55
Speaker 2: ABCD and E grades and a percent to boot playing
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Speaker 2: your tat to college is one of the many schools
28:02
Speaker 2: that dropped in CA Level one. Principal Patrick Gales with
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Speaker 2: me now, Hi Patrick, good morning, How are you good?
28:08
Speaker 2: Thank you so well? First question is this going to
28:12
Speaker 2: make people who've got an NCAA qualification? Does it sort
28:16
Speaker 2: of devalue these?
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Speaker 6: But not at all. I think what we applied to
28:20
Speaker 6: propose here is an ongoing resirement. I think if we
28:24
Speaker 6: stand still in education, we go backwards. So it's important
28:27
Speaker 6: that we step forward whilst continuing to value the qualifications
28:30
Speaker 6: that are you know, the plus twenty years of students
28:32
Speaker 6: have got and have achieved and have done very well
28:33
Speaker 6: with you.
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Speaker 2: Have already decided to ditch the INCA Level one. Will
28:38
Speaker 2: you then do this new what standard that the government's
28:42
Speaker 2: talking about?
28:43
Speaker 7: Yeah?
28:44
Speaker 6: Absolutely, So the Foundation Award essentially replaces what it's already
28:48
Speaker 6: in place in terms of what we call the CIAS
28:50
Speaker 6: or the Coquisit Literacy and University we's done further down
28:52
Speaker 6: the school. Still bring that intended into year eleven and
28:56
Speaker 6: then we'll continue to do years twelve and thirteen as
28:58
Speaker 6: we already do.
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Speaker 2: For a year eleven student, if you're on the first cohort,
29:03
Speaker 2: what will be different for you about your school year?
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Speaker 6: I think the most important thing to remember is that
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Speaker 6: this the assessment system is just the result of a
29:12
Speaker 6: really well taught curriculum. So we've got curriculum reform coming
29:14
Speaker 6: into New Zealand starting next year in the secondary school,
29:18
Speaker 6: and the quality of teaching and learning that takes place there,
29:20
Speaker 6: we're hoping to see was significantly improved. Now we've got
29:23
Speaker 6: a curriculum's going to guide us effectively and that will
29:26
Speaker 6: allow students to have far better outcomes.
29:27
Speaker 2: So the curriculum reform actually more important than the system
29:32
Speaker 2: itself in Caa.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely. The curriculum determines what you do in the classroom
29:36
Speaker 6: and what students learned. That's been a little bit absent
29:39
Speaker 6: in the past due to a lack of detail. Now,
29:41
Speaker 6: with a much more knowledge rich curriclum coming into place,
29:43
Speaker 6: we hope each have fuel guidance into what and how
29:46
Speaker 6: teach so that students can learn more effectively.
29:49
Speaker 2: Anything wrong with giving a percentage when someone you know
29:52
Speaker 2: seventy eight percent past.
29:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's a little bit hidden. What's effectively
29:58
Speaker 6: happened is that each assessment actually will be out of
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Speaker 6: twenty five, some might be out of fifty depending upon
30:03
Speaker 6: how the internal external split lands. So when you add
30:06
Speaker 6: up the total market in the subject, it will be
30:08
Speaker 6: come on to one hundred. And I think that makes
30:09
Speaker 6: it easier for the community and employers particularly to understand.
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Speaker 2: What about this idea. And we've heard from a couple
30:15
Speaker 2: of teachers and certainly the Green Party over the last
30:18
Speaker 2: twenty four hours in of your assessments are very stressful
30:23
Speaker 2: for students and we should do everything to protect students
30:25
Speaker 2: from stressing anxiety. Do you subscribe to that view?
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Speaker 6: My point of view is that actually our students well
30:32
Speaker 6: being is determined by their academic achievements. We know if
30:34
Speaker 6: they get good academic results, we sent them well up
30:36
Speaker 6: for future life, they will achieve well in life and
30:38
Speaker 6: I would assume that will reduce anxiety and stress in
30:41
Speaker 6: the future. So at some point students need to face
30:44
Speaker 6: a situation whereby they're going to be under bit of pressure.
30:46
Speaker 6: That's part of life. We already have external exams in place.
30:49
Speaker 6: That's not changing. It's just some sorts of chosen not
30:51
Speaker 6: to engage in those.
30:53
Speaker 2: Patrick, appreciate your time this morning. Patrick Gowad's as a
30:56
Speaker 2: college principle. It's nine to six News Talks in b.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and x fol Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry.
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Speaker 2: This winter News Talk st B. He's gone six to
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Speaker 2: six on news Talk, said B Across the Tasman. In Australia,
31:14
Speaker 2: we just spoke to Donn and De Mayo. But the
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Speaker 2: Melbourne Institute there, they've got an inflation gauge survey and
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Speaker 2: it's bad news for them, especially for those who've got
31:22
Speaker 2: a mortgage. You want a rate cut on their very
31:24
Speaker 2: expensive homes. Surge zero point nine percent for July. This
31:28
Speaker 2: is the steepest increase since December twenty twenty three, and
31:33
Speaker 2: is certainly up on June's zero point one percent increase.
31:38
Speaker 2: So what does that mean for the Reserve Bank. They've
31:40
Speaker 2: got a meeting on August the twelfth, everyone's expecting them.
31:43
Speaker 2: The market's priced in a couple more cuts before Christmas,
31:46
Speaker 2: so the question is will they actually happen. Inflation's just
31:49
Speaker 2: so sticky, isn't it? And sticky for everyone everywhere at
31:51
Speaker 2: the moment, well, basically everyone just gone five away from
31:54
Speaker 2: six Ryan Bridge. Mike's here now, hey, Mike morning. It's
31:59
Speaker 2: just annoying and fla. It's like you know when you
32:02
Speaker 2: walk the dog. You don't walk the dog, but you
32:04
Speaker 2: go to the dog park and occasionally you might step
32:06
Speaker 2: in some dog doo doo, and then you go home
32:08
Speaker 2: and you clean it off and you use a hose
32:10
Speaker 2: and you use a brush, and you think you've got
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Speaker 2: it all, and then the next day they're still more there,
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Speaker 2: is it? Right? Yeah? And it's the same thing with inflation.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter how many times you think you've got rid
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Speaker 2: of it. It lingers.
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Speaker 15: Why aren't you working for a bank as an economist?
32:25
Speaker 15: I mean really, I mean, come.
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Speaker 2: With analogies like that.
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Speaker 15: The well, it's all the cost plus stuff, isn't it. It's
32:30
Speaker 15: the insurance companies, it's the councils, it's the people who
32:33
Speaker 15: are not answerable to anyone really who could know they
32:35
Speaker 15: can get away with it. They go, why's it gone
32:37
Speaker 15: up eighteen percent? Because it has, Because it has. That's
32:39
Speaker 15: how it works, isn't it.
32:40
Speaker 2: And our prices are gone up, so we need to
32:42
Speaker 2: put prices in. Everyone does, and.
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Speaker 15: That's how it works. And that's the great that's the great,
32:46
Speaker 15: that's the great quandary, isn't it. So what you end
32:48
Speaker 15: up with is my favorite economic expression potentially, which is
32:52
Speaker 15: called stagflation, which is where you have inflation but no
32:55
Speaker 15: no growth. And it's entirely possible. The quarter we're going
32:58
Speaker 15: to get shortly Q two economically GDP is going to
33:02
Speaker 15: go backwards, and yet we're going to have inflation with
33:04
Speaker 15: less than no growth, and that is called stagflation. So
33:07
Speaker 15: how you dig yourself out of that hole?
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Speaker 2: Also known as doggy do doos? Doggy doo doos, exactly,
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Speaker 2: steaming pile of it?
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Speaker 15: A raiser Robertson, he's charged with the or blocks. Yeah,
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Speaker 15: he'll be he'll be into are you as negative because
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Speaker 15: I'm going to out some of the people here. So
33:22
Speaker 15: I'm saying two from two for Argentina, not even not
33:24
Speaker 15: even a contest. There are people on my show who
33:27
Speaker 15: argue it might not be that easy and they think
33:29
Speaker 15: they're going to lose both to South Africa. So that's
33:32
Speaker 15: the sort of lack of patriotism I deal with on
33:34
Speaker 15: my program daily.
33:37
Speaker 2: I say, we win them all. Yeah, but that seems
33:40
Speaker 2: to me like you just Eden Park, isn't it we
33:42
Speaker 2: win that? Of course? I mean history tells us yeah,
33:45
Speaker 2: exactly exactly. I'd like say, why not? And he's playing everyone.
33:49
Speaker 2: I mean he's looking confident.
33:50
Speaker 15: I'm playing.
33:53
Speaker 2: The day you play exactly the day the all Blacks
33:55
Speaker 2: live their lust. Any anyway, among others, educational ministries, you'd
34:02
Speaker 2: be on the wing when you're have a good day.
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