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Full Show Podcast: 11 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple,
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Speaker 1: U stalks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be wellcome morning to you. Thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for choosing the program. My name is Andrew Dickens. I'm
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Bridge. It's the start of the reporting season,
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Speaker 2: so I had to wish good luck to businesses and
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Speaker 2: their investors. Let's hope we'd see some green shoots, huh
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Speaker 2: okay on the program today. Coming up in the next hour,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand first introduce a bill to stop banks withdrawing
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Speaker 2: services from customers for woke reasons. We'll have more on
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Speaker 2: this with a banking expert in five minutes time. There
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Speaker 2: are two new political polls out that give a lean
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Speaker 2: to the left Block Bridget Morton. Political scientists will analyze
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Speaker 2: the numbers in about ten and the Prime ministers announced
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Speaker 2: a foreign investors summit to happen next month and what
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Speaker 2: do we want to get out of it. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: to Infrastructure New Zealand just before six. We'll have correspondences
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Speaker 2: from right around the world and New Zealand And news
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Speaker 2: as it breaks and you can text me on ninety
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Speaker 2: me Dickens at Newstalks atb dot co dot endz.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is seven minutes after five. It is Tuesday, the
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Speaker 2: eleventh of February, and Donald Trump is back with the tariffs,
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Speaker 2: this time on steel and aluminium. He says he'll impose
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Speaker 2: a twenty five percent import tax on all steel and
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Speaker 2: aluminium that enter the country.
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Speaker 3: US steel making is in formerly heartland industrial states like
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Speaker 3: Pennsylvania the russ Belt, places which were key voting blocks
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Speaker 3: for mister Trump. He believes that this will protect US
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Speaker 3: steel making domestically.
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Speaker 2: And wouldn't you know at Canada and Mexico are two
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Speaker 2: of the United states biggest steel trading partners, and Canada
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Speaker 2: is warning the tariffs would have a damaging impact on
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Speaker 2: its economy. Meanwhile, Australia says thousands of American jobs could
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Speaker 2: be lost if Donald Trump pushes ahead with those plans.
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Speaker 2: To Europe we go, and French President Emmanuel Macron says
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Speaker 2: Europe is falling behind and in the AI race. At
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Speaker 2: a used AI he made a deep fake video of
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Speaker 2: himself to publicize the start of a two day AI
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Speaker 2: action summit which is taking place in Paris, Du coming
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Speaker 2: Dong now see Meanwhile, ahead of today's summit, France and
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Speaker 2: the United Arab Emirates have agreed on a deal to
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Speaker 2: invest billions of euros to build a giant AI data center.
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Speaker 2: I think the release of that video, as funny as
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Speaker 2: it is, is ready to say people, look, there are
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Speaker 2: these fears about AI.
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Speaker 4: It's misused.
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Speaker 1: The deep fakes I.
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Speaker 5: Have been used Frenan macer against lots of other politicians
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 2: And did you watch the big game yesterday, the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Eagles celebrating they won forty twenty two. That's
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Speaker 2: a very flattering number for Kansas City Chiefs. This was
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Speaker 2: the fifty ninth Super Bowl play of Hollywood. A list
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Speaker 2: has responded in the stands. Taylor Swift was there, Bradley
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Speaker 2: Cooper was there, Jay Z was there, Donald Trump was there.
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Speaker 2: And the entertainment was Kendrick Lamar who took the stage
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Speaker 2: for the halftime show. And there was a surprise appearance
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Speaker 2: from Serena Williams's.
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Speaker 1: Up mikel Trona Baker, ain't you tie your trying to
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Speaker 1: strike a.
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Speaker 6: Clause in his.
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Speaker 2: No not say not like us, Thank you very much,
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Speaker 2: Kendrick for your appearance. It is ten after five News.
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Speaker 1: And Views you trust to start your day. It's the
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Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof Make your
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Speaker 1: Property Search Simple. You've talked sid me.
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Speaker 2: So as I said yesterday, I am generally supportive of
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Speaker 2: the new so called golden visas which were announced on
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Speaker 2: Sunday for wealthy foreign investors wanting to come here because
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Speaker 2: you know, if you little helps right, But our the
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Speaker 2: visas a white night writing to save our economy? Do
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Speaker 2: they strike at the root of the barriers to our
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Speaker 2: wealth creation? Well not really. For all the good the
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Speaker 2: golden visas could do, there's just as much that's bad
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Speaker 2: about them, and they're not a unique proposition. About sixty
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Speaker 2: countries have had golden visas, but at the same time
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Speaker 2: many who instituted the visas then withdrew them due to
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Speaker 2: their unintended consequences. So Australia scrapped a similar scheme at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of the year. They decided the scheme added
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Speaker 2: little to the economy and facilitated fraud. Transparency International Australia
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Speaker 2: said corrupt officials and kleptocrats use golden visas as a
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Speaker 2: vehicle to park their illicit funds in Australia and hide
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Speaker 2: their proceeds of crime. Now Peter Dutton is considering reinstating them.
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Speaker 2: That's a political point of difference with Albanesi. Meanwhile, countries
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Speaker 2: in Europe have ended or titaned their schemes recently, places
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Speaker 2: like Spain, the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. And that
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Speaker 2: was after the European Commission said that the golden passports
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Speaker 2: and golden visas pose serious risks to their security and
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Speaker 2: opened the door to corruption, money wandering and tax avoidance. Now,
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Speaker 2: when Australia dropped its scheme, it was calculated that it
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Speaker 2: cost them point zero zero two five percent of their GDP,
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Speaker 2: so its positive effect was negligible and so was the
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Speaker 2: cost of dropping them. Now compare that to Vanuatu, who
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Speaker 2: also have golden visas. They reported that their program contributed
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Speaker 2: a whopping fifty percent of government revenue in twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 2: So it's working for them. So the question for you remains,
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Speaker 2: are we more like Australia or are we more like
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Speaker 2: vanuat two? What do you think? Meanwhile, many economists will
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Speaker 2: agree that the key to generating wealth lays in our
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Speaker 2: hands at not unwealthy immigrants. And you know what that needs.
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Speaker 2: That needs a lower corporate tax rate and an end
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Speaker 2: to waste for spending resulting in a decrease in the
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Speaker 2: size of the state. Let's get into it. Twelve minutes
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Speaker 2: after fives. Now here's another funny old question for you.
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Speaker 2: Should the Prime Minister be getting legal advice on invading
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Speaker 2: the Cook Islands? No, I'm not joking Matthew Houghton's yesterday yesterday,
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Speaker 2: So we know the Cook Islands privatism about Brown is
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Speaker 2: off to China to sign a strategic partnership and other agreements.
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Speaker 2: We know that the Cook Islands is part of New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: part of our realm, and we are responsible for the
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Speaker 2: Cook Islands foreign policy and national defense. And we also
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Speaker 2: know that Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens with all
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Speaker 2: the rights and responsibilities that come with that. So what
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Speaker 2: do we do about a Prime minister that's gone deal
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Speaker 2: making rogue in China? So we could cancel cut aid
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Speaker 2: to the Cook Islands, but that would simply make things
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Speaker 2: a lot worse because the matt Brown would just shrug
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Speaker 2: and say, oh, no problem, China will replace at tenfold,
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Speaker 2: which it probably would, So could we increase our aid
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Speaker 2: by a similar amount. That might be a better option.
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Speaker 2: But we've not got a lot of money, and that
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Speaker 2: would reward Matt Brown's bad behavior and he would come
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Speaker 2: back and ask for more. So is there a present
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Speaker 2: for invading the Cook Islands? Well?
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Speaker 4: There is.
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Speaker 2: David Longi ordered the SAS to invade Fiji back in
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven after the coup. He said, get in
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Speaker 2: there and secure New Zealand's interests. The military refused, The
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Speaker 2: SAS refuse because Fiji's a sovereign country, free to make
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Speaker 2: their own minds up even if they're wrong. So the
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Speaker 2: question is, should Christopher Luxen do a similar thing to
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Speaker 2: what David Longi did, send the sas in take over
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Speaker 2: the key government buildings and tell Mark Brown to start
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Speaker 2: having more conversations. Now, that would mean setting the Sas
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Speaker 2: on New Zealand. Citizens and military don't like doing that thing.
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Speaker 2: That's akin to civil war. So should we invade, should
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Speaker 2: we cut aid? Should we increase aid? What would you do?
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Speaker 2: The text number is ninety two ninety two. And meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: back at home, New Zealand first has come up with
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Speaker 2: a law, a bill to stop banks withdrawing their services
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Speaker 2: for any reason other than commercial bias. This is to
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Speaker 2: stop the wake banks. Could this work? A banking expertise
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Speaker 2: next the News.
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Speaker 1: You need this morning and begin e analysis early edition
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Speaker 2: Be as goodbarding to you. It is now sixteen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. So New Zealand first want banks to lend
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Speaker 2: to everyone, and they've introduced a bill to make that happen.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: The bill would stop banks from withdrawing their services for
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Speaker 2: any reason other than a commercial basis. Withdrawal for so
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Speaker 2: called woke reasons such as environmental or social grounds would
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Speaker 2: make banks liable of fines of up to half a
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Speaker 2: million dollars. And this of course follows concerns that banks
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Speaker 2: won't lend to fossil fuel companies so that they can
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Speaker 2: achieve a clean green image. So we have a banking
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Speaker 2: expert with us. The associate professor at Massi University Business
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Speaker 2: School is Claire Matthews. Good morning to you, Claire, Good
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Speaker 2: morning Ellen.
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Speaker 7: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: What do you make of it?
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Speaker 7: Well, given what's been said by Shane Jones and the
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Speaker 7: recent pass it's not surprising that they've chosen to do it.
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Speaker 7: But I think it's fun to mentionally under understands why
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Speaker 7: the banks are making the decisions that they are. The fundamentally,
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Speaker 7: the decisions they make are a risk management decision, and
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Speaker 7: it would appear that under the legislation that they've introduced
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Speaker 7: that would still be possible. So it's unlikely to make
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Speaker 7: the difference that they are looking for.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, I mean, could the banks believe that damaging the
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Speaker 2: environment is damaging the economy actually be a valid commercial
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Speaker 2: reason for withdrawing their services.
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Speaker 7: It could be, but it's actually more likely. The pure
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Speaker 7: risk associated with lending to mining companies and similar companies
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Speaker 7: is that there is a risk around whether these what
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Speaker 7: the future of these businesses are, and whether lending to
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Speaker 7: them is actually a good commercial decision, because there is
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Speaker 7: a risk that it in the future that there's a
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Speaker 7: different government that has different rules, and therefore all of
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Speaker 7: a sudden, these organizations become uncommercial and therefore there's a
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Speaker 7: huge risk to the banks associated with that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, well, I mean, where do we draw the line
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Speaker 2: between banks doing what they want and their social license,
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Speaker 2: Because let's be honest, our super funds already they're not
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Speaker 2: investing in defense companies. So this sort of thing is
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Speaker 2: already happening.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and the key WE Saber companies are doing that
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Speaker 7: because that's what the consumers have said they want. They
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Speaker 7: want to be able to choose key WE SAB funds
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Speaker 7: that are investing in what's described as an ethical way,
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Speaker 7: So people want to be able to choose their investments
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Speaker 7: in a way that aligns with their ethical belief The
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Speaker 7: reality is that we want to be able to do
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Speaker 7: the same thing with our banks, because we want to
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Speaker 7: bank with a company that is aligned with our ethical
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Speaker 7: beliefs as well. And as there's a company that is
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Speaker 7: not lending to fossil fuel companies and that's what we
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Speaker 7: want to see personally, then that's going to influence who
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Speaker 7: we choose to bank with. And all of a sudden,
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Speaker 7: it's removing that choice as the government is not going
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Speaker 7: to allow banks to not do that.
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Speaker 2: Well, wait to see what happens, Claire, Thank you for
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Speaker 2: getting up with it for us. That is clear math
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Speaker 2: use the associate professor at the Massive University Business School. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: we had a couple of political polls that came out yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I saw television New Zealand do when they have a poll,
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Speaker 2: they really trumpet it, doesn't they They really go all
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Speaker 2: plummet and there's all lots of words when in fact
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Speaker 2: there's minor movements. But we'll have a look at these poles.
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Speaker 2: Two Poles next with Brigitte Morden.
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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty two, So Mikey Schuman, the political
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Speaker 2: editor of TV ands he was very excited on the
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Speaker 2: Telly last night and released the results of a poll
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Speaker 2: that give a lean to the left block and as
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Speaker 2: she says or said, spells trouble for the coalition. But
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Speaker 2: there was another one as well, the Taxpayer's Union Courier
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Speaker 2: poll reflected the same thing. It sees Labor Greens and
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Speaker 2: Tapatimali able to reach a sixty one seat target. Both
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Speaker 2: of the poles do support for the coalition has foremen
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Speaker 2: One News has New Zealand first teaching in their parliamentary
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Speaker 2: seat in the coalition. They're at just five percent the threshold.
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Speaker 2: Fifty percent of those polled said the country's going in
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Speaker 2: the wrong direction. So political commentator Bridget Morton is my
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Speaker 2: guest this morning. Come morning to you, Bridget, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So are labor pulling people in or are National pushing
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Speaker 2: people away?
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Speaker 4: I think it's the economy that's making everyone seem a
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Speaker 4: little bit depressed about what's going forward. So I think
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Speaker 4: that's undoubtedly one of the biggest factors, particularly in the
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Speaker 4: right track wrong track. I think also for National that
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Speaker 4: there has been a lot of distracting issues over the
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Speaker 4: last couple of months. Twenty principles building the major one,
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Speaker 4: and they want to be really talking about the economy
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Speaker 4: and what they're doing there.
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Speaker 2: Well they are, because I don't know if you've noticed
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Speaker 2: so far this year it's been growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth.
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Speaker 2: There's been a couple of announcements. Could this be seen
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Speaker 2: as some sort of proof that their moves on the
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Speaker 2: economy so far in twenty twenty five have not been
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Speaker 2: motivating for voters.
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Speaker 4: I think you've got to be careful that some of these,
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Speaker 4: you know, there's just all these announcements of very very
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Speaker 4: new and help perhaps are not flowing through. A lot
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Speaker 4: of them are also about signularly that they're focusing on
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Speaker 4: that economic growth passage as opposed to necessarily moves that
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Speaker 4: are going to affect households. So you know, people are
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Speaker 4: thinking about how much their mortgage costs, how much it's
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Speaker 4: costing to get food on the table, and none of
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Speaker 4: those announcements are quite touching those things. Yet they're about
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Speaker 4: getting those economic settings right, So I think you're going
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Speaker 4: to see probably more of that household cost of living
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Speaker 4: message coming through as well.
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Speaker 2: Not only that those they're not only very new numbers,
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Speaker 2: they're also miles away from the next election, So how
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Speaker 2: important are these numbers.
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Speaker 4: Well, with polls, it's always about trends, and I think
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Speaker 4: that's what is more concerning is the fact that they
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Speaker 4: actually more voters are heading towards that you know, wrong track,
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Speaker 4: right track. That's going to be a headline number. I
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Speaker 4: think looking at whether or not labor conformer government is
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Speaker 4: probably premature, particularly when you've.
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Speaker 6: Got to party mold.
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Speaker 4: You're making quite radical bottom lines about commissioners with BETO
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Speaker 4: powers that actually makes at less block coalition that pretty
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Speaker 4: impossible at the moment. So it's definitely something about whether
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Speaker 4: or not they're actually getting the narrative right. And I think,
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Speaker 4: as you pointed out, they are going economic growth growth, growth,
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Speaker 4: and that's what.
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Speaker 6: They're going to be pushing really harder the next couple
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Speaker 6: of months.
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Speaker 2: Hey Bridget, thank you very much. And you're quite right,
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Speaker 2: Mikey Sherman. Just because you've got some software that can
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Speaker 2: actually do what a parliament might look like, you don't
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Speaker 2: have to start worrying about this two years out from
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Speaker 2: the election. That's just my own feeling on that. It
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Speaker 2: is five twenty five. It's News Talks MB.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickins. Good morning, Welcome to the program. Now
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Speaker 2: it only took nearly twenty years to address, but high
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Speaker 2: school rowing teams will no longer be able to have
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Speaker 2: year fourteen students and their crews. So these were young
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Speaker 2: people in their sixth year of secondary school and of
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Speaker 2: course having those guys in they gave their crews an
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Speaker 2: advantage because it had an extra year of training and development.
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Speaker 2: They're older, bigger, and it's been a bugbear of many
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Speaker 2: schools wanting a level playing field, and they've been finding
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Speaker 2: this for twenty years. On many of the year fourteens
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Speaker 2: were back at school finishing their academic work because their
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Speaker 2: good rowers, and they wanted to take advantage of rowing
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Speaker 2: scholarships overseas, but they needed to up their academic marks,
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Speaker 2: so they went back to school. But their schools there
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Speaker 2: still included them in their rep cruise because why not,
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Speaker 2: don't look a gift elephant in the mouth. Critics of
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Speaker 2: that decision said the problem was not just the young
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Speaker 2: adults themselves, the year fourteens, but also all the others
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Speaker 2: at the school who missed out on a place in
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Speaker 2: the boat because the year fourteens were there. Now, the
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Speaker 2: first move to police the practice involved putting age limits
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Speaker 2: on rowing crews, but it still saw some year fourteen
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Speaker 2: students with birthdays just after the cutoff competing. But while
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Speaker 2: they were technically the right age, they still brought an
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Speaker 2: advantage of an extra years training. So now finally the
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Speaker 2: year fourteens are gone, and that's a good thing. It
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Speaker 2: stopped the attitude of schools who believed and win at
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Speaker 2: any costs. It's returned fairness in sport, and it was
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Speaker 2: good decision making because it showed that those struggling with
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Speaker 2: rules on say transgender athletes who've been through puberty, that
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Speaker 2: it is actually possible to be fair if you're clear
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Speaker 2: minded and decisive, and we'll have more on this after
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Speaker 2: seven on the Mike Hosking.
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Andrew dickens, So.
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Speaker 2: Should we be invading the Cook Islands? Nobody said no yet.
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Speaker 2: Ninety two ninety two someone said, don't we have one
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Speaker 2: of our naval ships permanently based in the Cook Islands? John,
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Speaker 2: that's almost funny, But actually that's some more, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Someone else writes about the real risk the Cook Islands
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Speaker 2: will be joining the bricks like Indonesia have. They will
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Speaker 2: possibly get the Chinese currency as well. If they carried
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Speaker 2: out on down this track, New Zealand will be out
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Speaker 2: of their league. Just to remind you if you didn't hear,
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Speaker 2: David Longe once upon a time suggested that the Sas
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Speaker 2: should invade Fiji after the Fiji coup, and now the
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Speaker 2: talk that maybe we should be asking our Prime minister
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Speaker 2: if he's looking at those sorts of possibilities. Keep your
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Speaker 2: texts coming. In ninety two ninety two, on the way
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Speaker 2: we're off to Australia, Donald Trump is back with steel tariffs,
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Speaker 2: and now Australia is involved in the conversation because they
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Speaker 2: have steel, so as you see, these tariffs are inching
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Speaker 2: their way slowly closer and closer to New Zealand. So
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Speaker 2: we'll talk those tariffs and Australia with Donald Tomayo. We'll
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Speaker 2: go right around the country and later Nick Leggott on
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Speaker 2: this new big Foreign Investor summit that's coming up later
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Speaker 2: this year. All on new stalks.
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Speaker 7: They be.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines. On early edition Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: It'd be.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program. My name is Andrew Dickins
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Speaker 2: and for Ryan Bridge. This of course is Brian Adams
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Speaker 2: who recently visited the New Zealand playing concerts in christ
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Speaker 2: Church and Auckland, and he's just gone to Perth. But
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Speaker 2: that concept was canceled because of overflowing sewage caused by
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Speaker 2: a blockage of fat, grease and rags and the concept
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Speaker 2: venue in Perth. The water authority said the blockage couldn't
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Speaker 2: be easily dislodged and made the venues toilets unusable. Front
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Speaker 2: Tier Touring said that the cancelation was beyond Brian's control,
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Speaker 2: no kidding, and tickets would be refunded automatically. Now I
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Speaker 2: mentioned all of this because where I stayed in the
18:37
Speaker 2: Corimandel last weekend has a similar problem. There's a sewage
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Speaker 2: pumping station. It's going to have to have one of
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Speaker 2: those sucking trucks coming in and clearing the tanks out
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Speaker 2: because of the fat burg that's formed there. Apparently up
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Speaker 2: the hill there's some households who have been flushing sanitary
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Speaker 2: podacs and wet wipes and handytowers and whatever they want
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Speaker 2: down the loo and they've all congealed with all the
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Speaker 2: fat and gunk that comes out of a human body
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Speaker 2: to form what they calls a fat burg, and that's
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Speaker 2: stuffed up the whole system. So ratepayer's money is being
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Speaker 2: used to suck out the gunk. God knows where they're
19:09
Speaker 2: going to put it. And I just mentioned this because
19:10
Speaker 2: this is a warning to us all be careful of
19:13
Speaker 2: what you've flushed down the toilet, because it doesn't just
19:17
Speaker 2: magically disappear. It's twenty two to six. Andrew dickens, It's
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Speaker 2: time to go around the country. Calum Proctor from Dunedin,
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Speaker 2: Hello morning, Andrew. Tell me about the Queenstown property market.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's on the rise as Auckland goes backwards Auckland's
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Speaker 8: national share of a five million dollar plus property sales
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Speaker 8: has dipped by fourteen percent in the last year alone. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 8: Queenstown's have surged by more than twenty percent in the
19:46
Speaker 8: same period. Patterson Luxury real Estate has looked at these
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Speaker 8: figures and says there's a growing trend of people now
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Speaker 8: ditching Auckland for the slower paced lifestyle of places like Queenstown.
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Speaker 8: They say at least four hundred and fifty million dollars
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Speaker 8: worth of luxury Queenstown properties have been sold since twenty twenty,
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Speaker 8: and near third of that in the last year alone.
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Speaker 2: Me, every time I've been to Queenstown, I have to
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Speaker 2: say it's pretty full on. It's not that relaxing. So
20:12
Speaker 2: how's Dinetians where their Otagos where they callum.
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Speaker 8: Pretty good on the whole for toned and fine but
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Speaker 8: cloudy periods. The high eighteen today?
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Speaker 2: Good Ania Claire Shore where it joins me from Croatia
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Speaker 2: Tella Claire.
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
20:23
Speaker 2: So we've got what plastic being buried and burnt on
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Speaker 2: Canterbury farms.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, now there's some new measures to try to stop
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Speaker 9: that from happening. This is particularly focused around the hood
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Speaker 9: Anui area for now, but there is hope this will
20:36
Speaker 9: be a service that will expand nationwide. It's the brain
20:40
Speaker 9: work of a company called Egg Recovery. They've launched to
20:43
Speaker 9: this pilot program in Houdunui which will allow farmers and
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Speaker 9: growers to recycle any used farm plastic. There's a drop
20:50
Speaker 9: off service running twice weekly at the Wipe at a
20:52
Speaker 9: wine house right through until mid March. It's hoped that
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Speaker 9: the data collected from this farm waste that they drop
20:58
Speaker 9: in will help in developing a long term sustainable solution
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Speaker 9: for farmers. Now spokesperson Tony Wilson says ad Recovery is
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Speaker 9: receiving dozens of calls from farmers weekly asking for help
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Speaker 9: with this waste. He says many are struggling to deal
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Speaker 9: with their plastic consumption and they want to show overseas
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Speaker 9: markets their practices are sustainable.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about Canterbury's weather.
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Speaker 9: While it's miserable today, rain turning a bit lighter later
21:22
Speaker 9: this morning, then clearing to find spouse for the afternoon
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Speaker 9: light winds and.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen Max tol joins us now from Wellington. Hellimax.
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Speaker 6: Good morning.
21:29
Speaker 2: So this taxpayer courier poll also confirms some negative perceptions
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Speaker 2: of Wellington.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's this one isn't Taxpayers, It is curier
21:38
Speaker 10: though commissioned by a campaign group that was set up
21:41
Speaker 10: recently called Better Wellington, essentially asked one thousand people in
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Speaker 10: the capital for their opinions on the state of the
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Speaker 10: city in the lead up for the election the local election.
21:51
Speaker 10: A thousand people, by the way, is impressive. It tends
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Speaker 10: to be the number of respondents in most political polling
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Speaker 10: Taxpayers Union, for instance, one News variant. It shows Wellingtonians
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Speaker 10: want the City Council to overwhelmingly stick to the basics
22:05
Speaker 10: i e. Water also overwhelmingly only fifteen percent I think
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Speaker 10: the City Council performed well last year. A majority opposed
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Speaker 10: the Golden Mile plan thirty seven percent four twenty again sorry,
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Speaker 10: thirty seven percent oppose it, only twenty percent supported. Only
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Speaker 10: eleven percent think social housing should be the city Council's responsibility.
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Speaker 10: That's been an issue in the spotlight I suppose in
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Speaker 10: the Capitol recently. And in terms of the mayor, forty
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Speaker 10: six percent rates Tori Fino's leadership is poor or very poor.
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Speaker 10: Only seventeen percent rated as good or very good, which
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Speaker 10: will spell a bit of trouble for her in the
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Speaker 10: lead up to October.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure me if I know, is having a wonderful
22:47
Speaker 2: morning this morning hearing all that news. How's your weather? Cloudy,
22:51
Speaker 2: little drizzly this morning? Nineteen the high Central nev A
22:54
Speaker 2: written man who joins us now from Walkandalla and good morning.
22:57
Speaker 2: So the mayor has taken a swipe at all can
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Speaker 2: Transport again?
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Speaker 5: Yes, what he's calling, as we all know, Cone Central,
23:03
Speaker 5: Cone City. So look what's happened is at Wayne Brown?
23:06
Speaker 5: He's spposted this video on social media and in that
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Speaker 5: video he's questioning all the road works that have been
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Speaker 5: carried out. This is on Victoria Street West, right outside Skytower.
23:16
Speaker 5: In the video, he's saying, look, can't quite work out
23:18
Speaker 5: what's been built over one of the road's lanes. He says,
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Speaker 5: what was once this really lovely, nice clean two lane
23:24
Speaker 5: road doesn't work like that now and he's questioning whether
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Speaker 5: this new construction is for a bus cyclist or walkers.
23:31
Speaker 5: You know what is going on now? You remember late
23:33
Speaker 5: last year Andrew that you know, Brown stripped Aukland Transport's
23:36
Speaker 5: right to make decisions. That was about the policy and
23:38
Speaker 5: or the Planning and Strategy, so At says, look, this
23:42
Speaker 5: is an ongoing project to extend the Victoria Street cycleway
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Speaker 5: as it was agreed by the Auckland Council.
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Speaker 2: It's not that's wrong. Oh no, it's a park. The
23:52
Speaker 2: plan's been out forever. It's a sort of a parky
23:54
Speaker 2: plasari thing with the ability to take your scooters and
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Speaker 2: your cycles up there, or to be a pedestrian. But
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Speaker 2: the plan is public knowledge.
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Speaker 5: There's so many roadworks going on, I just keep driving.
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Speaker 5: Actually I just go, oh, here's another one. One of
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Speaker 5: millions here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: CBD aka house Orkan's weather mainly find.
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Speaker 5: Just a few showers in the afternoon, possibly heavy sundry
24:14
Speaker 5: south of the city. Muggy, wasn't it muggy yesterday? Twenty
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Speaker 5: six is the high here today in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: And I thank you so much. We're off to Australia
24:20
Speaker 2: very shortly with Donna to Mayo. We've got Tasmanian bushfires happenings.
24:25
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that. I talked about fatburgs just now.
24:28
Speaker 2: Text through the fat burg that caused Brian Adams show cancelation.
24:31
Speaker 2: It's an increasing risk and taxpayer costs for people flashing
24:34
Speaker 2: wet wipes. They are mostly synthetics. They are plastic now
24:38
Speaker 2: and another single use plastic that should be banned. I'm
24:41
Speaker 2: surprised that text wasn't all in caps. It is seventeen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Yes, goodbody, I'm Andrew Dickinson for Ryan Bridget. Is fourteen
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Speaker 2: to six and we're off to Australia and good morning Donna.
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Speaker 11: To Moyo, good morning to you.
24:59
Speaker 2: So Tariff Talk comes to Australia with your Prime Minister
25:02
Speaker 2: to talk to Donald about steel.
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Speaker 11: Yes, mister Albinizsi, our PM is planning a chat with Trump.
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Speaker 11: He wants to make that case for fee free, sorry
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Speaker 11: free and fair trade with America. Now that we know that,
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Speaker 11: President Trump says he's going to impose his tariffs on
25:19
Speaker 11: all steel and aluminium imports into the US. Now this
25:22
Speaker 11: is on top of existing metal duties that we know of,
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Speaker 11: and he says that that's going to count for everybody.
25:29
Speaker 11: Everybody's facing this twenty five percent tariff. So the Albanese
25:33
Speaker 11: government has been preparing for such a decision, it says,
25:36
Speaker 11: and it's been reported that attempts on how to secure
25:39
Speaker 11: these tariff exemptions have been developed behind the scenes. We
25:43
Speaker 11: know that Richard Miles, who is our Defense Minister, was
25:46
Speaker 11: in the US on the weekend and he has been
25:48
Speaker 11: meeting with senior Trump officials, but no word on that yet. Meantime,
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Speaker 11: the PM says he does have an upcoming phone call.
25:54
Speaker 11: We're not exactly sure when that is, but he's going
25:57
Speaker 11: to bring up tariffs, so we have to just wor
26:00
Speaker 11: you see what happens there after that little chin wag.
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Speaker 2: All right, just now, you've got some big bushfires in Tasmania.
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Speaker 11: Yes many many, in fact, about sixteen blazers are raging
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Speaker 11: across Tasmania's remote west. But we know that help is
26:15
Speaker 11: on its way and Aircraft Operations Manager is coming from
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Speaker 11: New Zealand to help with the fire fighting efforts, so
26:20
Speaker 11: thank you very much for that. But lightning strikes that
26:24
Speaker 11: started these bushfires in western Tasmania. It's about a week ago.
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Speaker 11: They're still raging. There's hundreds of people there trying to
26:32
Speaker 11: get on top of it, and we know that there's
26:34
Speaker 11: also specialists from New South Wales and Queensland heading down.
26:36
Speaker 11: But unfortunately Tasy's going to have some searing heat, some
26:40
Speaker 11: very very hot weather on its way at least for
26:42
Speaker 11: tomorrow and Thursday. But thankfully the cold front is due
26:46
Speaker 11: late Thursday, so hopefully that will help.
26:48
Speaker 2: And have we offered help.
26:51
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, someone from New Zealand is coming. An aircraft
26:56
Speaker 11: operations manager apparently is on their way. Fature, we have
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Speaker 11: to say thank you very much for helping us with
27:02
Speaker 11: our fire fighting efforts.
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Speaker 2: Oh it's nothing, it's okay, thank you, Donald Tomay. It
27:07
Speaker 2: is now twelve minutes to six seconds. So the Prime
27:11
Speaker 2: Minister means business and we know this because he says
27:13
Speaker 2: it every time he talks growth. Growth, growth, growth, growth,
27:16
Speaker 2: growth growth. His latest announcement about growth is a two
27:19
Speaker 2: day summit to entice interest in New Zealand projects. One
27:23
Speaker 2: hundred world high profile investors, business leaders and construction companies
27:29
Speaker 2: are expected to visit next month. Here's the PM.
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Speaker 5: We want people from all corners of the globe to
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Speaker 5: know that there's now a culture of saying yes in
27:37
Speaker 5: New Zealand, yes to investment, yes to innovation, and yes
27:40
Speaker 5: to getting stuff done.
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Speaker 2: So Infrastructure New Zealand CEO Nick Legget joins me this morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning to your neck Hello, have you been invited?
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Speaker 6: I told to climb the target at the target audience here.
27:53
Speaker 2: Well, you're there to talk. I thought that your whole
27:55
Speaker 2: job was to talk up New Zealand and infrastructure. And
27:57
Speaker 2: surely as infrastructure in New Zealand, you want some of
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Speaker 2: these overseas investors coming in to help you out.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think what's important is that this is the
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Speaker 6: kind of event that shows that New Zealand is open
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Speaker 6: to business and that we are welcoming of people who
28:15
Speaker 6: can help us build more infrastructure. Infrastructure, as we often
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Speaker 6: talk about Andrew, is an enabler to not just economic
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Speaker 6: growth but also social progress. We've got a big deficit
28:28
Speaker 6: in this country. We know we need more transport infrastructure,
28:33
Speaker 6: we need schools, hospitals and also if you think about water,
28:39
Speaker 6: there's a massive gaping hole there as well. So across
28:44
Speaker 6: the board we need to invest. And when you think
28:49
Speaker 6: about projects that we talk about here, the missing link
28:54
Speaker 6: is often the funding. Where is the money coming from?
28:57
Speaker 6: And we've had we've gotten into this habit of openly
28:59
Speaker 6: play and putting together business cases, but the money sort
29:04
Speaker 6: of side of thing is what kills it. And Auckland
29:06
Speaker 6: light Rail is a good example, and if you think
29:09
Speaker 6: about it, let's get well into moving. But we talk
29:12
Speaker 6: big and we don't deliver and that has to change.
29:14
Speaker 6: And so I think the Prime Minister's got it right
29:17
Speaker 6: in terms of actually who are the people that can
29:19
Speaker 6: help inject some funding but also bring some other expertise
29:24
Speaker 6: so we do infrastructure better and we know we have
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Speaker 6: a new culture of not just funding but actually building.
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Speaker 2: That's why I asked you are you going? Do we
29:35
Speaker 2: need to know who's coming to figure out how effective
29:38
Speaker 2: this summit might be, because if we're inviting the wrong people,
29:41
Speaker 2: if the wrong people are not coming, the right people
29:43
Speaker 2: are not coming, then it's then it's just virtue signaling.
29:47
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I think that it's about it's a
29:52
Speaker 6: new habit that we have to get into. Right, It's
29:55
Speaker 6: not all going to be fixed in one two day summer.
29:59
Speaker 6: But what we need to know, I think more importantly
30:02
Speaker 6: is do we have projects that are ready to be
30:05
Speaker 6: funded and built and once people actually show interest in
30:10
Speaker 6: New Zealand, are the policy settings right? And so I
30:13
Speaker 6: think there's still work to do there and I think
30:16
Speaker 6: that what we'd be more interested in is that something
30:19
Speaker 6: comes out of the summer and that there's an ongoing
30:22
Speaker 6: interest in the country, not just for two days in March,
30:27
Speaker 6: but next year, in five years time, so we can
30:29
Speaker 6: really build that effective pipeline that we know we need
30:32
Speaker 6: to build. We get the efficiencies out of actually having
30:36
Speaker 6: more than one project on the garden and that ongoing pipeline,
30:39
Speaker 6: because that's the best way for New Zealand to overcome
30:42
Speaker 6: all the challenges it's got. We don't build infrastructure well here,
30:46
Speaker 6: we don't line the funding up, we don't line the
30:48
Speaker 6: projects up. There's also I want to make this really clear,
30:52
Speaker 6: it's not just about foreign direct investment. There is capital
30:57
Speaker 6: in New Zealand that is keen to invest. If you
30:59
Speaker 6: think key we Saver ew Wee Marty, there are a
31:02
Speaker 6: whole lot of opportunities and we've got to be open
31:05
Speaker 6: to all of them if we're going to get out
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Speaker 6: infrastructure builds done better.
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Speaker 2: Nick Leggett, I thank you for your time. Nick Legget
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Speaker 2: is the CEO of Infrastructure New Zealand. And. Yes, we
31:12
Speaker 2: can invite the people, but do we have the projects
31:14
Speaker 2: ready to go? Do we have the infrastructure ready to go?
31:17
Speaker 2: Do we have the plans that we can say to
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Speaker 2: these people, this is what we're thinking about do you
31:21
Speaker 2: want to be part of it? And that's all on
31:22
Speaker 2: the government, is it not? At the moment it is anyway,
31:26
Speaker 2: it is our seven minutes to Sex. It's news talk said.
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Speaker 2: B five to six. Haven't really talked about the super Bowl.
31:41
Speaker 2: It was over by halftime. But I've got a text
31:43
Speaker 2: here that says the most notable thing about the Super
31:45
Speaker 2: Bowl is that every year the halftime show is rubbish.
31:48
Speaker 2: It's amazing how they do it. I can tell you
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Speaker 2: how they do it. They've sold it off to Apple Music,
31:52
Speaker 2: and Apple Music then gets the guys who sell records.
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Speaker 2: But that's not necessarily what the people in the stands
31:57
Speaker 2: and the people on the telly want to hear. The
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Speaker 2: good old days was the good old days was Prince
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Speaker 2: Lately it's been who I mean. I didn't know a
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Speaker 2: single thing about Kendrick la Marle Well. I do know
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Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar, but it's not really a halftime show. May
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Speaker 2: casking Yeah morning.
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Speaker 12: Although having said that, having watched the whole thing yesterday,
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Speaker 12: the game was over by halftime, so you were sort
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Speaker 12: of believed that there was something coming that was because
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Speaker 12: it was a waste.
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Speaker 2: It was waste of time. And then at the end
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Speaker 2: they started throwing bombs and the bombs actually landed, and
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Speaker 2: you go, well, at least that's entertaining.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that's true, and the national anthem was good as well,
32:29
Speaker 12: and so as a spectacle, it was a It was
32:31
Speaker 12: an unfortunate normally these games not to bore everyone who
32:33
Speaker 12: doesn't watch the NFL, but normally these games. The wonderful
32:35
Speaker 12: thing about American football is that it's become extremely competitive,
32:40
Speaker 12: like very tight. It's it's most unusual to see what
32:43
Speaker 12: happened yesterday, highly unusual for a blowout like that. And
32:46
Speaker 12: you saw one of the greatest players in the history
32:48
Speaker 12: of the game in Patrick Mahomes's panic and just completely
32:52
Speaker 12: and utterly rattled and had no idea what he was doing.
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Speaker 12: So that was signaling and the young Eagles coach you
32:58
Speaker 12: were just reanim so happy for him as well.
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Speaker 2: He's had a lot of grief.
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Speaker 12: There were people I think it was two years ago,
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Speaker 12: so they won a couple of years ago, and so
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Speaker 12: they've always been but they used to be useless, like
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Speaker 12: they were a really useless site and they've turned it around.
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Speaker 12: And he was controversial, and he's been controversial with the
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Speaker 12: fans and so he's you know, he's set for life.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 2: They should in New Zealand invade the Cook Islands.
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Speaker 12: I didn't know where that came from. Houson wrote a PCs.
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Speaker 12: I just thought apparently long he.
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Speaker 2: Suggested to the sas back during the Fijian coup and
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Speaker 2: they went, well, you know, do we care enough? I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 2: do we care enough?
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Speaker 12: I mean, what if he comes back. I'll talk to
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Speaker 12: Prime Minister about this this morning. What if he comes back?
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Speaker 12: Brown comes back and it's actually just a we'll build
33:37
Speaker 12: a wharf, we'll give you some new water systems, and
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Speaker 12: we're good guys. There's nothing to do.
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Speaker 2: With is that a wharf or is that a naval Well?
33:43
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 12: But what if it's just you know, support and help
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Speaker 12: and stuff like that, and this is the way of
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Speaker 12: the future, and what really are we going to do
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Speaker 12: about any of these countries?
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Speaker 2: Christopher Luxem Christopher Luxeon after seven thirty very good. I'm
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Speaker 2: Andrew Dickins. I won't be back for the rest of
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Speaker 2: the week. Francisca is doing it. I'll be doing drive.
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Speaker 2: Thanks producer Kenzie, Thank you for your attendance today, Have
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