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Full Show Podcast: 20 January 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: What start the day informed, entertained, inspired my dad's Early
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  Speaker 1: Edition with one roof make your property search simple, used
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to Early Edition, our first show for
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I'm Franchessca Rudkin, filling in for Ryan Bridge,
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  Speaker 2: who was in the hot seat at six am for
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  Speaker 2: the Mike Hoskin Breakfast Show. Great to have your company.
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  Speaker 2: You're most welcome to contact me anytime throughout the morning.
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  Speaker 2: You can text on ninety two ninety two, or you
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  Speaker 2: can email me at Francesca at NEWSTALKZB dot co dot MZ.
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  Speaker 2: On the show today we preview President elect Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 2: inauguration which has taking place early tomorrow morning. Our time.
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  Speaker 2: Elliott Smith is in with the weekend sports rap. It
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  Speaker 2: was a big weekend of sailing in tennis and football
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  Speaker 2: and some hilarious cricket in christ Church. Also this the
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  Speaker 2: Minister of Economic Growth, Nikola Willis joins us to talk
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  Speaker 2: about this new portfolio and what she plans to achieve
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  Speaker 2: with it. And as usual, we head around the regions
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  Speaker 2: this morning and international correspondent is Gal Downey from the UK.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday, the twentieth of January, after a delayed start
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  Speaker 2: the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas's holding. With the first
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  Speaker 2: hostages now released, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he
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  Speaker 2: won't hesitate to return to fighting.
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  Speaker 3: Both President Trump and Biden gave full backing to Israel's
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  Speaker 3: right to return to fighting if Israel reaches the conclusion
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  Speaker 3: that negotiations of the second stage are fruitless. If we
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  Speaker 3: need to, we will do that with great force.
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  Speaker 2: Before the ceasefire, an average of forty trucks daily were
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  Speaker 2: entering Gaza, while the ceasefire agreement requires six hundred daily.
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  Speaker 2: Protesters have stormed a court in South Korea after it
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  Speaker 2: extended impeachment President John Supul's detention for up to twenty days.
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  Speaker 2: Before the court decision, his lawyer said the president complied
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  Speaker 2: with police questioning you, insincerely explained and answered questions on fact, relationships, evidence,
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  Speaker 2: and legal principles.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing much we can say for now.
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  Speaker 2: We will wait for the court to decide. Around forty
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  Speaker 2: protesters were arrested, and wine sales in the US last
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  Speaker 2: year dropped six percent from the year before. Experts point
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  Speaker 2: to generational shifts in alcohol consumption, saying baby boomers embraced
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  Speaker 2: wine in the industry assumed that that would continue. It's
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  Speaker 2: a growing shift with global prices also on the decline.
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  Speaker 2: The price of burgundy dropped fourteen percent in the year
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  Speaker 2: to November, Bordeaux eleven percent, and vintage champagne nearly one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: Separating the fact from the fiction heads Fily edition with
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  Speaker 1: one Room, Make Your Property Search Simple, news talks.
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  Speaker 2: There be so interesting times for the one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy million Americans who used TikTok. Like yesterday, Chinese owners
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  Speaker 2: Byte Dance. They did what they've been threatening to do,
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  Speaker 2: and just hours before the federal ban was set to
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  Speaker 2: take place, the at went dark and US users could
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  Speaker 2: no longer access the platform to watch videos. A message
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  Speaker 2: appeared saying sorry, TikTok isn't available right now, and then
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  Speaker 2: went on to say we are fortunate that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has indicated that he will work with us on a solution. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you'd think that this will put Trump in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a tricky situation. I mean, once upon a
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  Speaker 2: time he did try and ban TikTok and we Chat.
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  Speaker 2: That was before he realized TikTok was good for winning
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  Speaker 2: over young voters, but new tech loving Trump has indicated
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  Speaker 2: in an interview with NBC News over the weekend that
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  Speaker 2: he was considering granting a ninety day extension that might
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  Speaker 2: allow TikTok to keep going beyond today. He even posted
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  Speaker 2: save TikTok in a truth social post by Dance previously
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  Speaker 2: said it wouldn't sell. But the TikTok CEO is expected
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  Speaker 2: at Trump's inauguration with the prime seating location. So who
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  Speaker 2: knows how this will play out. Will Trump's cozy new
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  Speaker 2: relationship with tech billionaires sway him to act. I suppose
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  Speaker 2: a big question for US as could it affect us well.
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  Speaker 2: If TikTok refuses to sell and Trump does end up
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  Speaker 2: in forcing the band, it might just be a matter
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  Speaker 2: of time before the ban creeps around the world. The
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  Speaker 2: app was banned by US lawmakers because they ruled it
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  Speaker 2: a national security risk due to that they thought that
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  Speaker 2: by dancers ties that were a bit too close to
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese government. This is these are ties that denies.
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  Speaker 2: But the US has a habit of lobbying allies on
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  Speaker 2: security issues and their cyber policies, much like they did
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  Speaker 2: with Huawei. So if you're a local content creator, that
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  Speaker 2: can't imagine life without the app. You probably have your
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  Speaker 2: eye on what's going on here. You may have to
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  Speaker 2: do what all the US users are doing. They're promoting
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  Speaker 2: their Insta handles and ironically joining the Chinese based video
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  Speaker 2: platform Red Note. But hey, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: there are worse things in the world than waking up
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  Speaker 2: to one less social media app. You're with early edition.
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  Speaker 2: It is five to eleven, First with.
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  Speaker 1: News, First with fews. It's early edition with one roof.
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  Speaker 1: Make your property such simple, Newstalk said the.
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  Speaker 2: It is five thirteen. Donald Trump will become President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States in just over twenty four hours for
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  Speaker 2: the second time. He's promised a speedy start to his
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  Speaker 2: second term, saying he will conduct one hundred executive orders
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  Speaker 2: on day one. Immigration issues will be one to watch
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  Speaker 2: as well how he plans to resolve the possible shutdown
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  Speaker 2: of TikTok in the States. He'll be taking the oath
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  Speaker 2: of office inside the capital for the first time in decades.
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  Speaker 2: Is dangerously cold weather hits Washington, DC. Joining me now
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  Speaker 2: is Matt Terrell, the managing partner at Firehouse Strategies and
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio's former chief of staff. Thanks for being with us, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, great to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: What are you expecting to see tomorrow?
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, I think he's going to give a speech
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  Speaker 4: for he's gonna be very honest about what he tens
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  Speaker 4: to do, not just on day one of his presidency,
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  Speaker 4: but for all four years of his presidency. And I
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  Speaker 4: say that because throughout the campaign, who's very honest and
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  Speaker 4: transparent about what he would do if elected. He's been elected,
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  Speaker 4: and he'll be sworn in soon here as the next president.
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  Speaker 4: So look, I thin it's gonna be speech tomorrow that's
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  Speaker 4: going to outline his agenda, particularly on the border, inflation,
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  Speaker 4: the economy, a lot of the foreign policy aspects we're
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  Speaker 4: facing both as a nation as the world. And then
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  Speaker 4: from there it's not just talk as in the action.
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  Speaker 4: You know. It supposedly has about one hundred executive orders
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  Speaker 4: lined up that I don't think he's gonna wait to
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  Speaker 4: get to the White House to sign. I think you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna likely to see him tomorrow immediately after his speech,
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  Speaker 4: go right there in the Capitol and start signing the
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  Speaker 4: executive executive orders, particularly relates to border security, immigration, among
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  Speaker 4: other key policies as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are some of those significant moves that he
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  Speaker 2: might make on day one. The Americans keeping an eye on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, particularly on border security. I think you're going to
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  Speaker 4: see him take action on that on day one, namely
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  Speaker 4: relates just starting with the deportation of people have been
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  Speaker 4: here in the country illegally, but namely starting with people
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  Speaker 4: who've been in the country illegally who've committed violent crimes.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're going to see him start there, and
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  Speaker 4: then beyond that many other domestic priorities as well, for example,
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  Speaker 4: on energy and drilling, I think you're going to see
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  Speaker 4: him take immediate action on that. So a lot of
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  Speaker 4: these these things are going to see on day one
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  Speaker 4: through executive orders, but some of his againa certainly needs
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  Speaker 4: a wait to have, you know, action taken. On Capitol Hill,
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  Speaker 4: there's legislation. I think we're gonna see there is one
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  Speaker 4: big bill that he's to be working on with Congress.
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  Speaker 4: As include a lot of the key domestic policies, particulars
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  Speaker 4: of the release of tax relief and of the key
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  Speaker 4: policies he campaigned on. And honestly, these other things are
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  Speaker 4: gonna be taking shape here as well. In the foreign
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  Speaker 4: policy stage, particularly at lays to Ukraine Russia. Obviously we've
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  Speaker 4: seen him already play a major role defining role on
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  Speaker 4: the initial phase one here ceasefire and the hostage dynamics
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  Speaker 4: that have taken place between Israel and Amas. So look,
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  Speaker 4: these are all things that are in motion here. I
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  Speaker 4: think a lot of it doesn't take place tomorrow, with
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the executive orders and of course working
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  Speaker 4: with Congress on a lot of key legislative activities as well, because.
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  Speaker 2: He has promised a lot, Matt, But do you get
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  Speaker 2: the feeling that they are prepared and ready to go?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Look, this is a far smoother transition than what
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  Speaker 4: you say, all with his first transition when he was
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  Speaker 4: first elected president in his first term. And look, you
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  Speaker 4: keep people like Susie Wilds and others have been really
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  Speaker 4: driving this transition team. You know, I think it was smart,
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  Speaker 4: frankly for him to announce his team, particularly nominees for
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  Speaker 4: his candidate positions early on. He did that weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: In many cases, I think there was a smart move. Clearly,
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  Speaker 4: they are ready to go. They are prepared for this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he has been working through and through I
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  Speaker 4: believe on this transition. They are ready to go. Starting
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow day one with these executive orders, There's no question
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  Speaker 4: about that. But these are relates to things that he
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  Speaker 4: campaign down and you're right, Look, he needs to now deliver,
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  Speaker 4: and he really the first one hundred days of his
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  Speaker 4: administration are you know, every day matters in his administration,
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  Speaker 4: but the first one hundred days are really a unique
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  Speaker 4: window to deliver for the American people a lot. You know, well,
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  Speaker 4: of our seventy million Americans that have voted for him,
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  Speaker 4: they voted for because they want to change on the economy,
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  Speaker 4: change on the inflation, border security, among other big parties
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  Speaker 4: that they had in mind when they voted for him.
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  Speaker 4: Now he needs to deliver.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Maco Rubia his being picked as Trumps Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 2: what are you expecting from him in that role?
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, first of all, I think it's a great choice.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there's anyone who's been more prepared to
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  Speaker 4: be the center of faith than Marco Rubio. This is
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  Speaker 4: someone who served on the Senate Form Relations Committee, sent
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  Speaker 4: an Intel Committee. He has spent a great deal of
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  Speaker 4: time building relationships with leaders on the foreign policy stage,
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  Speaker 4: and he knows these issues that the United States and
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  Speaker 4: world are facing right now. Is relates to China policy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he knows issues and priorities have released to Ukraine, Russia,
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  Speaker 4: another key foreign policy dynamics taking place here. So look,
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  Speaker 4: this is a very different world that President elect Trump
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  Speaker 4: is entering with respect to his term here in comparison
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  Speaker 4: to the world that he entered during his first term.
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  Speaker 4: And particular it relates to a lot of the new
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  Speaker 4: policies and initiatives taking shape here and dynamic taking place
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  Speaker 4: in the foreign policy stage. But it's also picking up
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  Speaker 4: I think where President Trump left off in his first term.
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  Speaker 4: I think to see him do that with Abraham Accords.
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  Speaker 4: I think going to see him go back to maximum
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  Speaker 4: pressure with Iran. So I think we can see some
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  Speaker 4: new policies rolled out with his foreign policy team, and
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  Speaker 4: I certainly sort of Rubio playing an instrumental role in
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  Speaker 4: that as the next Secretary of State. But again, I
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  Speaker 4: think a lot of this be picking up war proisdent
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  Speaker 4: Trump left off in his first term as well on
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  Speaker 4: the foreign policy stage.
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  Speaker 2: Matt, thank you so much for your time today. That
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  Speaker 2: was Matt Terrell, the managing director at Firehouse Strategies and
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  Speaker 2: Marco Ruby, Rubio's a former chief of staff. Next up,
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  Speaker 2: we have the sports wrap up. It is eighteen past five.
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  Speaker 1: Setting the news agenda on early editions with one roof
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  Speaker 2: Talk dB is time for our weekend sport wrap up
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  Speaker 2: and Elliott Smith's sports reporter on the Voice of Rugby
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  Speaker 2: Here at newstalksb joins me. Good morning, Good morning. Saldip
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  Speaker 2: thought Auckland looked fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 5: It looked out standing. Everyone got him behind it mean,
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  Speaker 5: this is the city of Sales. The grand stand was
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  Speaker 5: packed out. The racing this saying wasn't too bad, I
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  Speaker 5: think was pretty good as well. I mean it's so quick,
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  Speaker 5: isn't it? Nine ten minute races. I mean that's shorter
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  Speaker 5: than you know, seven's game. You think about those old
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  Speaker 5: America's Cup races where they lasted for three four hours,
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  Speaker 5: and now we're down to ten minutes, sort of mini
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  Speaker 5: races on the water. It's a quick concept. You're in
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  Speaker 5: and out.
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  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was. It looked spectacular on the Aukland
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  Speaker 5: waterfront and you know, bring it on more of the same.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like they're negotiations to lock it away for
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  Speaker 5: a few more years too.
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  Speaker 2: What was fun about it? Was you had kind of
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  Speaker 2: a different winner each race.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't kind of set in stone how it was
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  Speaker 2: all going to turn.
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  Speaker 5: Out, that's right. And some races I think you had
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  Speaker 5: on the first day. Germany didn't shot up for one
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  Speaker 5: of them because they had to sort something out. And
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  Speaker 5: when you've got four races a ninety minute window, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you don't have time to a pair of things. Canada
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  Speaker 5: went in there for a bit yesterday. So in Australia,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it kind of went to the best overall
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  Speaker 5: team over you know, the seven or so races we
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  Speaker 5: had over the course of the weekend, so there was
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  Speaker 5: some consistency there. But I mean it's just quick fight.
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  Speaker 5: But if you don't get the start right in those races,
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  Speaker 5: you're pretty much done for, right. Yeah, nine minutes isn't
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  Speaker 5: a long a lot of time to crawl back a
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  Speaker 5: dodgy start.
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  Speaker 2: So the New Zealand team managed to crawl back quite
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  Speaker 2: a few places, just not quite enough at times. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: Hey was the Open of Courses in full swing.
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  Speaker 5: It is Djokovic, but a controversy last night didn't do
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  Speaker 5: that traditional on court interview at the Aussie Open. They
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  Speaker 5: do when Jimmy Currey comes and interviewed the players, and
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  Speaker 5: basically this all seems out to Friday night when one
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  Speaker 5: of the Aussie broadcaster is basically had a crack at
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  Speaker 5: the Serbian fans on here. They were chanting at him
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  Speaker 5: and he decided to give it back to them in
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  Speaker 5: spades and told Jokovic, you know, he's not welcome in Australia.
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  Speaker 5: Blah blah blah. Now Djokovic somewhey got back to us, say,
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  Speaker 5: somehow got back to him. It's all over social media,
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  Speaker 5: so he's refused to do the on court interviews. But
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  Speaker 5: he was very, very good last night. This is a
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  Speaker 5: big match tomorrow night. I suspect it will be Tuesday
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  Speaker 5: night quarter final him versus Carlos Alcarez. Think of that.
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  Speaker 5: In a quarter final, that's where the Under Grand Slam
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  Speaker 5: Fungland itself. So that's a huge match. But Djokovic and
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  Speaker 5: Alcarez both winning through last night with a tinger controversy
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  Speaker 5: as well, and down one feast playing tonight the ASP Classic,
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  Speaker 5: and how good's he been being in number four yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: And how delightful was he when he won?
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  Speaker 5: Just gorgeous, outstanding, and you know he can barely. He
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  Speaker 5: just shuffles along the court. He can barely move, but
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  Speaker 5: here he is.
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  Speaker 2: I think you might move better than you and I.
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  Speaker 5: Had as a professional tenness player.
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  Speaker 2: And really quickly. Good to see Auckland f C back
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  Speaker 2: and forth.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I've been a bit wobbly, haven't they, but managed
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  Speaker 5: to get that when I'm a previous leaders in Melbourne City.
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  Speaker 5: You know, three goals in the space about sixteen minutes
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  Speaker 5: in the first spell. Big crowd again me Saturday, I
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  Speaker 5: was huge in an Auckland sal GP on one side
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  Speaker 5: of the city. Auckland f C getting a decent old
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  Speaker 5: crowd there and they've got a big, big wig as
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  Speaker 5: well MIDWEK game against Adelaide as well Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you so much, Elliott, appreciate that key to
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  Speaker 2: hear you what you thought about the sale GP. You're
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  Speaker 2: most welcome to text me on ninety two ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: A few people text me yesterday on the Sunday session
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  Speaker 2: to say that actually they found the graphics and things
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  Speaker 2: on the television coverage quite hard to follow. That it
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  Speaker 2: all just you know, it all happened in such a
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  Speaker 2: small space and it was it was all just a
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  Speaker 2: bit clustered and they weren't sure what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: How did you find it? I haven't watched a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sale GP. This was the opportunity for them to
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  Speaker 2: grab me and get me to come back and watch more.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I will. Ninety two is our text number.
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  Speaker 2: It's twenty four past.
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  Speaker 2: Like many of us over the summer, Prime Minister Christopher
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  Speaker 2: Luxon used his downtime to reflect on the year that
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  Speaker 2: had been, and, like many of us, put together his
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  Speaker 2: in and outlist for twenty twenty five. This is the
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  Speaker 2: way the young people do New Year's resolutions these days? Well,
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  Speaker 2: what's in and out to corner new rather crude spin.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday afternoon, when he announced a reshuffle of ministerial roles
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  Speaker 2: for national MPs, Melissaly lost all her portfolios. Matt Doucy
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  Speaker 2: is handing over acc Tourism and Hospitality and Youth to
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  Speaker 2: various other MPs to focus on his mental health and
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  Speaker 2: Associate health roles, and doctor Shane Retti passes on the
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  Speaker 2: health portfolio to Simeon Brown instead picking up a new
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  Speaker 2: university's role. Plus science innovation and technology. The emphasis on
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  Speaker 2: health and economic growth is not a surprise, and while
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister continues to express confidence in Retty spoke
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  Speaker 2: of his achievements last year, it's clear he's decided his
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  Speaker 2: ministerial skills are better used elsewhere. However, the health goals remain.
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  Speaker 2: What the government wants to see is faster cancer treatment,
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  Speaker 2: shorter stays in eds, shorter wait times to see a GP,
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  Speaker 2: get specialist appointments or get an elective treatment. But health
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  Speaker 2: is a beast of a portfolio and obviously it became
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  Speaker 2: clear to the Prime Minister that the New Zealand public
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  Speaker 2: is not impressed with the speed of progress towards these targets.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate Luckson's loyalty. Others questioned Retty's performance last year,
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  Speaker 2: but loyalty doesn't get the job done, and Luckson needs
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  Speaker 2: a political operator who can, in his words, deliver and execute.
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  Speaker 2: Step on up then the delivery man, Simeon Brown. Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Luxon described Doc Dirretty as a top quality human
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  Speaker 2: being in a team player when asked how we took
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  Speaker 2: the news and look, I couldn't agree more. He's a
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  Speaker 2: good guy. I've always found him to be thoughtful, dignified,
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  Speaker 2: his intentions, genuine and knowledgeable on the health system, but
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  Speaker 2: he was quite as good at communicating how things were
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  Speaker 2: moving forward and simple, decisive, reassuring sound bites. Yes there
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: were wins, such as the announcement of cancer drugs, another
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  Speaker 2: seventeen billion been thrown in health over three years, and
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: suggestion of change in culture and health New Zealand, but
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: they can't compete with headline grabbing issues. The system is
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: facing things like staff shortages, government issues, funding deficits in
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: the proposed scale back to Dunedin's hospital rebuild. On top
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: of that, too many frontline and senior clinicians said Doctorrretti
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: was out of his depth. I wonder if doctor Etti
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: is quietly signed with relief at being moved on from
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: a portfolio often seen as a poison chalice, as Claire
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Trevet calls it. He might not have had the mongrel
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  Speaker 2: to get health under control quickly enough for the national leader,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: but that's not to say he won't be effective in
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: his new roles. Well, the Prime Minister has previously said
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  Speaker 2: he sees no need for a reshuffle. This actually is
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: a positive start to twenty twenty five for luxin sure,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if you
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: think you can do better, then hell yeah, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we will get a more efficient health system out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: News Talks EDB.
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  Speaker 2: good start to the year for Prime Minister Luxin? I
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  Speaker 2: think he's made a good move here. Has he gone
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: far enough? Though? Would you like to have seen more
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  Speaker 2: changes or are you comfortable with the changes that he
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  Speaker 2: Good Morning his early edition on Newstalks. I'm Francesca Vudkins
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: filling in for Ryan. He's going to be with you
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: at six am this morning. Thanks for being with us.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Just a very quick update. The New York Times has
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: released and breaking news that President elect Trump has said
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  Speaker 2: that he will issue an executive order on Monday to
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: extend the period of time for TikTok before the laws
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: prohibitions take effects, that they can make a deal to
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  Speaker 2: protect our national security. So it looks like TikTok will
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  Speaker 2: get a ninety day reprieve in order to try and
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  Speaker 2: sell the company. It is unclear though, whether Trump's effort
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: will be If it's will be successful, his executive order
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  Speaker 2: could face a legal challenge and companies subject to the
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  Speaker 2: law may determine that it doesn't provide enough assurance for
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: them to put TikTok back on their platform. So we
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: will keep an eye on that story for you. In
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: the next half hour, we head around the regions and
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: to the UK, where a British Israeli hostage is expected
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to be released today following this cease thy ideal between
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Israel and Hamas and yesterday afternoon, the Prime Minister kicked
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: off the year with his first reshuffle of national ministers
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  Speaker 2: since coming to power, with the priorities being the health
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: system and economic growth. Finance Minister Nikola Willis has been
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: given more wide ranging powers over the economy. She is
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: with us before the end of the hour to talk
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: about what she hopes this will achieve. Thank you very
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: much for your texts on the reshuffle. Good to see
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  Speaker 2: luxon making decisive moves regarding health outcomes and other policies.
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  Speaker 2: Strong leadership is apparent and needed a positive move. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: regarding the salgp ifew of you have textas say oh look,
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  Speaker 2: I found it confusing. I found it blooming confusing, one says,
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  Speaker 2: switched over to the chase.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of it took me a while to get
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  Speaker 2: used to. But once I kind of got used to it,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I got on. I was there, I was into it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that these are short, sharp races.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting, it's quite unpredictable. Yeah, I think to know
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more excitingly in the America's cup. Maybe. Anyway,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: keep the feedback coming. You can text on ninety two
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: ninety two news talk zbe right, let's head around the country.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now from Dunedin as Callum Proctor, Good morning,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Callum morning. Francisco Attaga University researchers have discovered more about
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  Speaker 2: the nesting behaviors of native solitary bees yea.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: The study out of Dnedans looked into three species of
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  Speaker 7: bees here, not the common honey bees that we're familiar with,
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: but those that tend to nest alone in underground burrows.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: These bees forage, they build nests independently, and the study
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: has used cameras to monitor mostly females bees habits, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: it's found that they were most active when temperatures were
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  Speaker 7: between twenty and twenty five degrees, less active when it
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: was colder. The researchers say that these findings are important
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: for many reasons, including us for conservation efforts, but more
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: research is needed.
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  Speaker 2: Fascinating. What's the weather like today in Dunedin? Callum, good
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  Speaker 2: day to be a bee?
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  Speaker 7: Find today Southerly's developing a a high of nineteen Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Claire Sherbert is with us now in christ Church. What's
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the reaction for the first ever Minister for the South
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  Speaker 2: Island Claire.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Francesca Well, it's shocked from the vung Tata MP
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  Speaker 8: James Meager. After this appointment, he's been tasked with the
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  Speaker 8: new South Island portfolio. He takes that as well as
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Hunting and Fishing, Youth and Associate for Transport. He will
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: stay on as the Select Committee chair for the time
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  Speaker 8: being as well. He was actually at Saturday's Blackclash cricket
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: match at Hagley Oval when Chris Luxon called him about this.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: He told our newsroom he was gobsmacked. He had to
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: find a corner in order to process what the PM
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: had said to him. Meagher said the Prime Minister and
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: him will meet in the coming days in order to
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: flesh out this role a little bit more. Meanwhile, Matt Doocey,
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: who was previously the only South Island based MP, has
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: lost acc Tourism and Hospitality as well as his youth portfolios.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: He will though keep Mental Health and Associate Minister of Health.
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  Speaker 9: Lot on the go.
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  Speaker 2: The weather today, Claire, not.
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  Speaker 8: So good here in christ Church, cloudy to start, It
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  Speaker 8: will clear to fine, easterly is developing and high of
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  Speaker 8: twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Claire. Michael sergele As in Wellington,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. Tori Faro could be facing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of competition if she decides to run for Mary
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  Speaker 2: again this year.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, another election year is officially underway in the Capitol.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: Faro's told News Talks he'd be she'd be talking to
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  Speaker 9: family and friends about whether or not she runs again.
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: A councilor, Ray Chung's told us he's definitely thinking of standing.
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: John Panowitch says he's more than likely to stand, also
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: considering a run. Ice cream shop owner Carl Typhon Baker
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: and entrepreneur Luke Pearson. Farno has faced setback certainly the
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: government appointing a Crown Observer before Christmas after Councilor's backtracked
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: on that airport Sheer sale decision, but she's also had
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: a win in recent days with Reading Cinemas confirming it
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: will reopen under a redevelopment revealed by News Talk seb
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: earlier this month. And I'm sure everyone that's been to
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Reading will be very excited and it's to hear that
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  Speaker 9: it's coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Good news and Wellington's weather today, Michael.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: Find apart from some areas more and cloud the high
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: nineteen degrees.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much and welcome back to neither Britty
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  Speaker 2: Mano in the Auckland studio. Good to have you with me.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Thank you for returning from holiday. Well can you get
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  Speaker 2: your check?
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  Speaker 1: Get out?
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  Speaker 10: That's my tune feed away for five weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I was a rude awakening this morning.
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  Speaker 10: Within alarm went off. I was crying on the inside
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  Speaker 10: and the out.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bizarre and unfamiliar, but that's not a
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  Speaker 2: bad thing. That a bad thing. Correct? Could you get
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  Speaker 2: on with you? Could you get on with your news?
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  Speaker 5: My job my job.
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  Speaker 10: Well, Okay, so I was trying to choose an awkward
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  Speaker 10: story and I have found one that you haven't actually
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  Speaker 10: mentioned so far because everyone's talking about oh the sale
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  Speaker 10: GP Luke Combs, blah blah. We're not going to talk
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: about that today. So the first of two inquiries this
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  Speaker 10: is relating you remember that franchise scat. Yes, the allegations
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: are misusing census information. Well, the first of the inquiries
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: come out has found no evidence of data breaches. So
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  Speaker 10: in June last year, this is when the allegations arose
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  Speaker 10: of mandldere wore my I misusing the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 10: census data. This was to help to party Mardi's election campaign.
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  Speaker 10: So the sixty seven page report, I haven't read it,
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  Speaker 10: but it finds the approach by far no order to
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  Speaker 10: lift Mardi participation for the census whent above and beyond obligations. So,
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I know you're thinking, what's that all so mean?
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  Speaker 10: But you know they did say that this independent investigation,
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  Speaker 10: it gives nine recommendations for improving stat zemz's procedures. Okay,
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: weather today in Auklumb partly cloudy, isolated showers mainly this
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  Speaker 10: morning north of the harbor Bridge twenty five is the
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  Speaker 10: high you're wanting to get me out?
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  Speaker 2: Are you look? Best of luck with the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the morning, Neva, I hope, I hope for gooes.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm sorry for the staff having to put up
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  Speaker 10: with me.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Next off, we're up, We're off to the UK. Gale
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Downey is with us after the.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Break International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance. Peace of
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  Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has started the new year with
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: multiple changes to cabinet. Doctor Shane Letti has lost the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Health portfolio. Samion Brown becomes a new Minister for Health
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: while handing over his Transport portfolio to Chris Bishop. Melissaly
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  Speaker 2: is gone, losing the Economic Development portfolio, which is to
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: be renamed Economic Growth and handed to Finance Minister Nikola Willis.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Finance Minister and Minister of Economic Growth. Nikola Willis joins me. Now,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, Nikola, thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 11: Good Marde. Great to be on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a new portfolio or just a new name?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it is a new portfolio because the Pen's given
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  Speaker 11: me the mandate to make sure that across all of
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  Speaker 11: the portfolios that make a difference to our businesses, exports,
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  Speaker 11: our industries, our innovators, that we are doing all that
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  Speaker 11: we can so that they can grow, so that they
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  Speaker 11: can be smare harm more people, add more value to
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: what they're doing. And so that means pulling that together
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  Speaker 11: across government, working of course through the Economic Development Agency
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  Speaker 11: and doing the work that has been done there in
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  Speaker 11: the past, but building on that to really drive our
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  Speaker 11: growth ad you forward.
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  Speaker 2: So how are you going to do that? What are
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  Speaker 2: your plans for your extended role.
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  Speaker 11: Well, my plans are to get alongside New Zealand small businesses,
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  Speaker 11: our industry leaders, some of those entrepreneurs in our community,
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  Speaker 11: and to work with them to say, okay, what are
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: the things getting in your way that are making it
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: hard to do business in New Zealand. Because the truth
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: is when businesses are doing well, when they're investing, when
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: they're spending, when they're hiring people, that's when all New
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: Zealanders do well. And that's what we want to see.
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  Speaker 11: And we know whether it's regulation, whether it's the way
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  Speaker 11: the science system's working, whether it's the education system, infrastructure,
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: our investment rules, those things can really get in the way.
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  Speaker 11: So we've been a government that's been making reforms across
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  Speaker 11: all of those areas, but we want.
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  Speaker 4: To keep going.
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: We want to go harder. We want to make this
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  Speaker 11: one of the best places in the world to do
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  Speaker 11: business because that will benefit everyday New Zealander.
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  Speaker 2: So can you give me an example of how you
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: might work with another portfolio and another department.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, a.
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: Good example is the science and Innovation space. Doctor Shane Reshi,
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: as a Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, will take
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: responsibility for delivering changes in that area. My role will
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: be to work with some of our businesses and industries
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  Speaker 11: and to say what do you want to see happening there,
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: and then to make sure that we're prioritizing that work effectively,
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: that it's being delivered in a timely fashion, and also
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: to make sure it really connects with that economic growth goal.
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  Speaker 11: Are we doing the things in our science and innovation
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  Speaker 11: system that will make New Zealand a wealthier place where
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: people have better choices and better jobs, and across all
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  Speaker 11: of the portfolios, whether it's the commerce portfolio where we
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: want to see greater competition in many of our sectors,
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: whether it's the infrastructure portfolio where we want to see
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  Speaker 11: infrastructure delivered better. It's about continuously working with ministers to say, okay,
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: are we doing in a way that will make the
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: ship go faster, that will make New Zealand grow faster.
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  Speaker 11: So I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Minister, you said yesterday that you want to make New
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Zealand a great place for the next generation. You spoke
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: about our children wanting to live here in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: But what about now, what about the young people coming
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  Speaker 2: out of university, what about people thinking of having a
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  Speaker 2: family here in New Zealand. I mean, we all want
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: you know, we don't really want to wait and need
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: another generation for New Zealand to be a great place
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I know that that's exactly what I have in mind, Franciscan.
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  Speaker 11: My point is for them to want to stay here.
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  Speaker 11: Those are exactly the young people I have in mind.
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  Speaker 11: They need to see not just about what New Zealand's
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: doing now. They're thinking about what will my life be
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: like in New Zealand when I'm raising a family of
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  Speaker 11: my own, when I'm here in my thirties, And I
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  Speaker 11: want them to look at New Zealand and see, actually,
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  Speaker 11: this is a country that's going to get beiser and better.
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  Speaker 11: We've got enormous prospects and a world where there is
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: huge amounts of instability. Here we are huge natural resources,
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: incredible sectors across our economy and a government is going
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: to back them to grow so that this place will
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: be a place of great jobs unity. That's what I
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: want our young people to see. That's exactly the AJDA
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: that I want to try a forward.
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  Speaker 2: Nichola, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: That was the new Minister of Economic Growth there, Nikola Willis.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: It is ten to sixty with news talks.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: They'd be news talks ITIBB.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And time now for our foreign correspondent. We have UK
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and Europe correspondent Gail Downey with us now.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Good morning Gail, Morning Francesca.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Tell me the British Israeli hostage is expected to be
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: among the first hostages free today.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Where is this it.
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  Speaker 6: Okay? So we have an update on that. She has
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: actually now been released, along with two other young women,
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: doren Steinbecker, who was also snatched from the kibbutz where
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Emily was working, and the other hostage and again another
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: young woman called romy Gonne she was ambushed when she
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: tried to escape the super Nova festival along with hundreds
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: of others. When Hamas attacked, the three young women were
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: handed over to the Red Cross. They're now currently at
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: an Israeli military base. The Israeli military took them from
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: the Red Cross to escort them back to Israel, which
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: is where they now are, and I can tell you
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: that the mothers are due to meet them shortly.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, wonderful news. Is the concerned in the UK about
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the stability of the ceasefire?
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Well, I think there's concern everywhere about the stability of
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: the sea spire because of course the second stages is
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: the rebuild, you know, the infrastructure. If you see the
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: images in Gaza and other cities, who is now going
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: to be in charge of that, who is going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: pay for it, and who ultimately is going to run
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: the strip because of course there are fears about Israel's
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: intent just as much as our fears about the intent
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: of Hannas and also rival group within the region.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Oh look, it's going to be a really special reunion,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: isn't it. Incredible realities? Yes, yeah, Oh, Gail, thank you
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: very much for the update. Appreciate that you are with
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: News Talks. It is seven to six shortly.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: All of the analysis, none of the nonsense. It's early
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  Speaker 2: Coming up at six is Mike hosting breakfast and Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Bridge is kicking off the year in style on the mic,
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  Speaker 2: hosting breakfast. Where are your nuts?
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  Speaker 12: Good morning?
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  Speaker 2: Where are your snacks?
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  Speaker 4: Should?
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  Speaker 12: I'm not something I want to show you at this hour?
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: This is what normally happens. He lines up his little
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  Speaker 2: tupple wears with his nuts and all his snacks for them. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I see what your changes the temperature?
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  Speaker 9: No, I usually keep mind.
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  Speaker 2: Have you got well, have you got some substance to
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  Speaker 2: get you through, because you've got to do three hours
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  Speaker 2: not one man?
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  Speaker 9: No, you're quite right.
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  Speaker 12: No, I've actually just been having a little bit of
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  Speaker 12: musely out in the office with some strawberries and some bananas.
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  Speaker 12: If you're no nuts, well thank you. And can I
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  Speaker 12: just say how great it is to have you doing
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  Speaker 12: early Edition.
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  Speaker 9: What a great show it is?
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 12: Isn't it cool?
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  Speaker 2: But a bom It's just like you just it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 9: You're in and you're out.
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  Speaker 12: It's got everything you got, all the updates from overnight
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  Speaker 12: from around the world, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 9: I love it. It's a great show.
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  Speaker 2: It'll still be here in a couple of weeks when
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  Speaker 2: I'm so all over the musical chairs. I do walk
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  Speaker 2: in and go what day is it? What show is it? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, hey, but it is great to have
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  Speaker 2: you back. What have you got coming up on the show?
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  Speaker 9: Obviously big news day today.
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  Speaker 12: We've got a cabinet reshuffle from the Prime Minister announced yesterday,
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  Speaker 12: So we're going to talk to Simey and Brown who
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  Speaker 12: is going to be the new Health Minister and what
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  Speaker 12: a job he's got ahead of him because it's a
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  Speaker 12: really it's a behemoth the Health Ministry. Eighty thousand staff
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  Speaker 12: work for to Futter Audit, which is about five times
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  Speaker 12: bigger than any other organization in New Zealand. Heavily unionized.
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  Speaker 12: You'll come up against that. Also, you've got management issues,
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  Speaker 12: you've got debts, You've got a whole bunch of issues
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  Speaker 12: that he's going to have to contend with.
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  Speaker 9: So is he up to the job.
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  Speaker 12: Luxon says so but what does he think and what
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  Speaker 12: does he think he can actually do with it.
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  Speaker 9: We'll talk to him after seven this morning.
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  Speaker 12: Plus we're also going to be in Tel Aviv obviously
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  Speaker 12: talking about the ceasefire, so much to talk about. We've
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  Speaker 12: got the commentary box coming up after eight as well,
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  Speaker 12: lots of sport over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Are you confident about the stability of that seas far?
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  Speaker 12: Well, look, there was a delay already overnight. They had
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  Speaker 12: apparently Hummas reckons that they didn't have together the list
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  Speaker 12: of the hostages that they were going to release. I mean,
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  Speaker 12: come on, how long have you been negotiating this? There's
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  Speaker 12: only thirty three that you're going to hand over. Surely
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  Speaker 12: you would know, you know, hours beforehand. So I don't
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  Speaker 12: know what was up with that, But I mean, you hope, so,
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  Speaker 12: don't you. It's going to be in phases, So phase one,
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  Speaker 12: I think is the thirty three. But we're going to
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  Speaker 12: be in Tel Aviv talking to a reporter there who's
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  Speaker 12: across the developments, and we'll find out that what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge thrilled to have you back, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: He will be with you in just a moment. On
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  Speaker 2: Mike Hosking Breakfast, Have a great day. I'll see you
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