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Full Show Podcast: 29 April 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues THESEUS and the inside. Ryan Bridge on an
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Speaker 1: early edition with one roof make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: News Talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be good morning. It is six after five, News
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Speaker 2: Talk said, be coming up this morning. Andrew Little is
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Speaker 2: on shortly now that Tori Fano's you turned on her
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Speaker 2: own career and is going to be well, she's not
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Speaker 2: running for the top job. Donald Tomayo out of Australia
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Speaker 2: this morning, Builder is going to mark their own homework.
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Speaker 2: What about the cowboys who are cutting corners? And it's
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Speaker 2: shake your head morning. This morning, a we story for
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Speaker 2: you about a guy rescued from the top of a
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Speaker 2: mountain twice in one week. The agenda it is Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: the twenty ninth of April. Surprised from Putin this morning.
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Speaker 2: A ceasefire not until the eighth of May, and only
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Speaker 2: so he can have a parade to mark the end
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Speaker 2: of World War II. Ukraine not happy.
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Speaker 3: President Zelenski again said that what Ukraine wants is a
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Speaker 3: thirty day unconditional ceasefire from land, air and sea, and
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Speaker 3: only then will they be prepared to enter into more
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Speaker 3: comprehensive talks about territory, about Ukraine's future security.
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Speaker 2: Trump's responded, he wants it permanent. We have chaos in
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Speaker 2: Spain and Portugal this morning. Major power cut affecting these countries,
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Speaker 2: off the grid, your trains, your airports, your traffic lights,
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Speaker 2: your I F post terminals, your phone networks, even can't
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Speaker 2: make a call. Apparently it's all caused.
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Speaker 4: By the weather, due to extreme temperaure variations in the
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Speaker 4: interior of Spain. There has been some sort of you know,
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Speaker 4: some more natural course from this rather than you know,
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Speaker 4: there has of course has ever with.
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Speaker 5: An event like this.
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Speaker 4: There's been speculation, especially online about as to what it
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Speaker 4: could be.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is that of you know, some kind of cyber attack.
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Speaker 2: They're not sure at this point. They're blaming the weather
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Speaker 2: for now. Canada going to the polls this morning. The
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Speaker 2: Liberal Party that was Trudeau now Karne was meant to
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Speaker 2: get best. Remember that they were way behind, about twenty
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Speaker 2: points behind in fact. Then along came Trump. Now she's
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Speaker 2: a nail biter.
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Speaker 6: I've spoken to voters who in the past were considering
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Speaker 6: voting for some of the smaller candidates. Now because of
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Speaker 6: fears and anxieties over Donald Trump's threats, they now feel
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Speaker 6: this need to support the larger federal parties.
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Speaker 2: Results expected later this afternoon. Will bring them to you
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Speaker 2: here on news Talk said be finally the Vatican has
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Speaker 2: confirmed the conclave. We'll select a new pope and that
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Speaker 2: will begin on May seventh. Experts still reckon the cardinals
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Speaker 2: will go more conservative than Pope Francis.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day in
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room, Make Your
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Speaker 1: Property search symbol News Talk ciy.
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Speaker 2: It is eight minutes half to five. What a sad
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Speaker 2: and hopeless story out of christ Church yesterday. If you're
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Speaker 2: not up with the case, it's about the death of
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Speaker 2: a beautiful, young, vibrant woman who was living in the
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Speaker 2: Garden City next door to a monster. Basically, her name
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Speaker 2: was Juleanna Bonella Hereda. Her neighbor was Joseph James Brider.
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Speaker 2: He had done seven years in prison for sexual offenses, rape, kidnap,
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Speaker 2: lovely things like that. He was led out ten weeks
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Speaker 2: before he stabbed her to death. This was in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two. It was brutal, it was horrific. If you
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Speaker 2: remember the story from the time now, the two were
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Speaker 2: learning this from the Coronial in Quest. The two were
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Speaker 2: separated by a wall. He was sleeping so close to
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Speaker 2: her every night that even his electronic bracelet wasn't able
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Speaker 2: to tell if he had left his flat and gone
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Speaker 2: next door to hers. Just think about that. Corrections didn't
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Speaker 2: properly log his curfew times. The probation officer yesterday said,
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Speaker 2: any attractive female near this guy was at risk. And
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Speaker 2: it's about now that any reasonable person would begin to
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Speaker 2: ring some alarm bells. Surely you'd be sending this guy
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Speaker 2: back behind bars, lock him up instead. Here we are. Here,
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Speaker 2: we are again, with a guy let out and an
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Speaker 2: innocent woman is killed. How on earth do Corrections, your
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Speaker 2: probation officers, your support workers keep believing these people. Why
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Speaker 2: when you know somebody is so evil and you've seen
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Speaker 2: all of the evidence, Why when you know they're capable
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Speaker 2: of manipulation do you keep believing them? Oh no, I've
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Speaker 2: been rehabilitated. I'm a good boy now. He even said
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Speaker 2: there are only elderly people living next door. Did anyone check?
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Speaker 2: Did anyone speak to the landlord and find out who
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Speaker 2: might be moving in next door? Did anyone do their
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Speaker 2: homework properly? And why do these people let it happen?
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Speaker 2: Is it sympathy?
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Speaker 7: You know?
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Speaker 2: Do these agencies and these people who work for them
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Speaker 2: believe I can fix this person, I can help them,
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Speaker 2: I can turn their life around. Of course people can
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Speaker 2: be rehabilitated, but when they're not, the consequences are god awful.
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Speaker 2: They're gut wrenching and innocent people end up dead. You
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Speaker 2: cannot get your sister, your mother, your friend back, can you?
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Speaker 2: And the worst part about this coronualum quest that I
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Speaker 2: just had to turn the TV off yesterday, turn the
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Speaker 2: computer off. The worst part is not the blame ducking
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Speaker 2: from the lawyers. It's the condolences. It's the everybody from
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Speaker 2: the judge to correct everybody. Condolences to the family. Condolences
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Speaker 2: are a slap in the face and they won't bring
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Speaker 2: who Lana back? Ten minutes after five, ye're on news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be so Tory Fano. If you're just catching up
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Speaker 2: this morning, she's pulling out of the mayoral race in
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Speaker 2: Wellington and we're going to speak to the man who's
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Speaker 2: probably be going to be the next mayor Andrew Little
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Speaker 2: Next on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and One Roof. To make your property search simple
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Speaker 1: if you talk said be.
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Speaker 2: It is five fourteen. We'll speak to the master builders
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Speaker 2: just before seven or so, just before six this morning.
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Speaker 2: I should say on this changes that the government's making
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Speaker 2: to our building code to make it easier for them.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you've got a single story home right now,
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Speaker 2: you've got to go through twelve inspections before you can
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Speaker 2: get this thing finished. It's nuts. So builders, your plumbers,
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Speaker 2: your drain layers, they're going to basically mark their own homework.
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Speaker 2: It will bring builders into line with Sparkys and gasfitters
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Speaker 2: who already do this. So we'll look at that just
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Speaker 2: before six this morning. Right now, it's fourteen after five.
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Speaker 2: In true Tory Fano style, the Wellington mayor this morning
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Speaker 2: performing one final massive flip flop. After saying she would
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Speaker 2: run for reelection for the met She's u turned and
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Speaker 2: a planned media state min and Bago till five o'clock
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Speaker 2: this morning. She's announced she'll instead run for a MILDI
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Speaker 2: ward and let Andrew Little take the top job.
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Speaker 8: I know that he would do a really good job.
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Speaker 5: I hope that people would see it as a gracious move.
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Speaker 9: I'm merely stepping aside because he really wants the role.
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Speaker 2: Of course, he's got to get elected first, but he's
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Speaker 2: with me this morning. Andrew, good morning.
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Speaker 4: There you go.
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Speaker 2: Right, So you had a call I understand from Tory Farner.
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Speaker 2: What did she say.
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Speaker 7: Assuring me last week? She said that she had thought
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Speaker 7: about it and that she didn't want to contest the meyorty.
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Speaker 7: She had yet to talk to a range of other people,
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Speaker 7: but that's what she said. I said, Look, you know,
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Speaker 7: thanks for letting me know. I'm not long for anything.
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Speaker 7: So I wished her all the best and that was
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Speaker 7: really it.
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Speaker 2: How would you describe her meyalty.
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Speaker 7: Oh, look, she came in at a challenging time. I
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Speaker 7: think everybody would acknowledge that. I think she's She's done
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Speaker 7: some good things. I think one of the important things
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Speaker 7: was getting the zone changes for housing so we can
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Speaker 7: actually really start to accelerate the high density housing that
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Speaker 7: we need. But look, it has been challenging for her
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Speaker 7: and for everybody. I think people see that I stepped
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Speaker 7: up to be candidate for me because I think a
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Speaker 7: lot of people have lost confidence in the council and
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Speaker 7: we need to restore their confidence. Of people are going
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Speaker 7: to have confidence in the city again, and businesses can
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Speaker 7: go about their job for a city that's lost a
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Speaker 7: lot of work and workers. So that's why I'm in
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Speaker 7: the race.
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Speaker 2: I'm from Wellington. The big problem, I mean, you talk
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Speaker 2: to anyone down there, it's rates. I mean, rates have
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Speaker 2: gone up twenty one percent in a year. They're going
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Speaker 2: up thirty five percent over the next three years. You've
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Speaker 2: got your regional council rates up twenty five percent? Are
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Speaker 2: you going to bring rates down?
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Speaker 7: Certainly want to slow the rise. I need to have
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Speaker 7: a wise look at executive what has driven those rate increases.
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Speaker 7: It is simply not acceptable for rus to increase, by
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Speaker 7: my calculation, about thirty percent in the last two years.
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Speaker 7: A lot of that is I think council not getting
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Speaker 7: a grip on their own finance. As I look at
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Speaker 7: some of the things that have happened there, I think
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Speaker 7: there's there's some capitalist bending that has been incurred on
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Speaker 7: the basis that it's it's not spread over the life
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Speaker 7: of various assets. You look at things like the Wellington
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Speaker 7: Town Hall, a project that right from there the very beginning,
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Speaker 7: was meant to cost you know, thirty to forty million dollars,
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Speaker 7: now well over three hundred million dollars. That suggests to
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Speaker 7: me that people haven't got the eye on the ball.
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Speaker 2: No, and now we've got the now we've got the
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Speaker 2: golden mile. This is the latest iteration. And she's saying, Oh,
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Speaker 2: I don't worry, it won't go over. But no one
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Speaker 2: believes it, Andrew, No one believes it, and you're not
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Speaker 2: stopping it. That's the problem. You're not coming in and
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Speaker 2: saying I'm going to cut this, I'm going to cut that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what exactly are you going to cut? Or
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Speaker 2: is over three years okay for you?
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Speaker 7: No, it's not at all. No, I've just said that.
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Speaker 7: I said that Eli in an interview. That's not acceptable
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Speaker 7: at all. And it's one of those things that's making
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Speaker 7: Willington more unaffordable, not just the housing, as things like
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Speaker 7: rates as well. So I will have a good look
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Speaker 7: at the variety of projects that are under way. What
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Speaker 7: I have said is that where there are contracts that
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Speaker 7: are let I'm not going to rip those up because
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Speaker 7: that costs the countis more anyway. But where contracts aren't
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Speaker 7: leaked for particular projects, now is not the time to
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Speaker 7: be doing stuff that's disruptive for what is quite a
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Speaker 7: fragile business climate in Willington. So I ammitted to doing.
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Speaker 2: All right, So phase one of the Golden Mile, they've
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Speaker 2: got the contract for that. Nothing beyond that. So you're
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Speaker 2: saying you wouldn't support anything Golden Mile beyond that Phase one.
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Speaker 7: I'm saying stop it now. There's a lot of people
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Speaker 7: say to me they think that actually the Golden Mile
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Speaker 7: stuff is in the long term is a good thing.
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Speaker 7: It just doesn't haven't tappened right now and we just
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Speaker 7: don't need the disruption.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's good, that's definitive contracts that have been
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Speaker 2: done now. Yes, anything beyond that the Golden Mile, Andrew
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Speaker 2: Little is saying no. And just to be clear, the
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Speaker 2: thirty five percent I was talking about, that's over the
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Speaker 2: next three years, so you were talking about the last two.
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Speaker 2: So is thirty five percent over the next three years
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Speaker 2: acceptable to you?
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Speaker 7: No, it's not no. And that that has that has
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Speaker 7: to be refewed and looked at, and we need to
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Speaker 7: take cost out.
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Speaker 2: We just need to is twenty seven kilometers a new
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Speaker 2: cycle ways and priority bus lanes doubling from four to
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Speaker 2: eight kilometers, which Tory Fino says was one of her successes.
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Speaker 2: Is that a good or a bad thing for Wellington?
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Speaker 7: Well. I think enabling people who go about their work
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Speaker 7: or what they do their recreation on a bike and
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Speaker 7: they doing so safety is important. So I'm not opposed
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Speaker 7: to cycle ways. I think some of the implementation of
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Speaker 7: them have been but I don't agree with Molesworth Street,
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Speaker 7: for example, being reduced to one lane. I don't agree
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Speaker 7: with the way things have happened around the Botanical gardens.
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Speaker 7: There are a lot of elderly people who have spoken
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Speaker 7: to me. To me, they can't visit there now because
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Speaker 7: they can't get a pack, So I think some thought
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Speaker 7: has to be gone to the way some of those
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Speaker 7: are implemented. Do I believe in safe lanes for cyclists, Yes,
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Speaker 7: but let's do it safely.
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Speaker 2: Very quickly before you go the city deal. I know
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Speaker 2: it was a disaster because you know Wellington didn't apply.
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Speaker 2: Is there any way will you look to get some
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Speaker 2: leniency from the government so that you know you can
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Speaker 2: get one done?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I cerenly would make that a priority. I think
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Speaker 7: I've got good relations with pretty much every minister and
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Speaker 7: office at the moment. I've always had good relations with
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Speaker 7: people across the aisle, and I'd be surprised if there
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Speaker 7: wasn't a way that we can work with Gavin.
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Speaker 2: Fall Right, Andrew Little, appreciate your time this morning. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for coming on the program. Andrew Little, who will probably
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Speaker 2: be the Wellington mayor. He is the course of candidate
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Speaker 2: at this point. Tory Funo is out. Twenty after five
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Speaker 1: And Views You Trust has done. Your Day is early
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Great to be with you. Twenty three minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. Pollstyr in a massive problem. It's filling our landfill.
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Speaker 2: Seventy seven percent of it is not recycled. Construction sites, packaging,
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Speaker 2: they are the big problems. Four thousand tons of the
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Speaker 2: stuff ends up in a landfill every year. So the
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Speaker 2: industry Association done a couple of reports. They're calling for change.
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Speaker 2: This morning. Rachel Barker, CEO of Plastics in z with me.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. So how big of a
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Speaker 2: problem is polystyring? You know, if you're on a scale
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Speaker 2: of one to ten with our plastics problems.
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Speaker 10: At the moment, I probably put it about a five
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Speaker 10: to be honest, seven percent going to landfill is a
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Speaker 10: massive problem. But if you look at our general plastic
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Speaker 10: packaging waste. We're only hitting about nineteen percent recycling rates.
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Speaker 2: So what do we do? We just strolled in the bin,
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Speaker 2: So how do you get people to not throw it
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Speaker 2: in the bin?
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Speaker 10: Or there's a whole lot of different ways we've the
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Speaker 10: two reports we've done, one is on construction and demolition
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Speaker 10: plastics where we use EPs for insulation and structural building things,
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Speaker 10: those sorts of stuff. And then in the packaging space,
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Speaker 10: it's fairly essential for thermal protection when it comes to seafood,
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Speaker 10: making sure that that's safe to eat. An end product
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Speaker 10: protection loss of a product has huge environmental impacts in
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Speaker 10: comparison to the packaging that's been utilized to ship it.
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Speaker 10: In the packaging space, what we can do is implement
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Speaker 10: products stewardship, so make sure that people have a place
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Speaker 10: that they can take it back to or it gets
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Speaker 10: collected and then can get recycled and reused back into
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Speaker 10: new products.
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Speaker 2: All Right, Rachel, interesting to have these two reports out
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Speaker 2: from you this morning. Really appreciate your time. Rachel Barker,
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Speaker 2: CEO of Plastics en Z. It has just gone twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes after five year on news Talk, said b
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Speaker 2: the government is talking about they can help you with
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Speaker 2: your ear fares everyone's moaning about in New Zealand? Can
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Speaker 2: they really that?
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Speaker 1: Next the early edition full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio,
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Speaker 1: how it by News.
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Speaker 2: Talks It Be News Talks B twenty seven minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Here we go again with the winging about Air New
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Speaker 2: Zealand's price. And I get it. I try and book
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Speaker 2: the same flights as everybody else. And when you're trying
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Speaker 2: to fly from some obscure route, you know, from this
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Speaker 2: province to that province, stuff gets expensive really quickly. But
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Speaker 2: here we go again with politicians telling us FIBs, telling
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Speaker 2: us they can wave a magic wand and fix things.
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Speaker 2: This time it's James Megha from National going into bat
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Speaker 2: for the South Island. Can't blame the guy flying, shouldn't
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Speaker 2: just be for the rich who says we're going to
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Speaker 2: take action talking about underwriting airlines. Do we really want
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Speaker 2: the government underwriting the purchase of turboprop planes really when
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Speaker 2: we already own Air New Zealand. We've heard this all before,
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Speaker 2: of course, the banks, the supermarkets, the price of petrol,
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Speaker 2: you name it. I can't tell you how many painstaking,
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Speaker 2: frustrating interviews I have done with ministers of all colors
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Speaker 2: and stripes, to be fair, who swear black and blue,
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Speaker 2: they'll sort it out and then they don't. What's worse
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Speaker 2: the person that punches you in the nose or the
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Speaker 2: that says they'll fix it when they know they can't,
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Speaker 2: and you just left with a bent nose and no hope.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. If you want to book the main
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Speaker 2: trunk line, it is relatively and expensive to do so,
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Speaker 2: providing you're not booking last minute. There's Jetstar keeping a
16:15
Speaker 2: New Zealand on us. That's competition. But if you're flying
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Speaker 2: Kenny Kenny to Dunedin tomorrow, guess what it'll cost you?
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Speaker 2: A billion dollars? Why? Because they're basically got you over
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Speaker 2: a barrel, haven't they? You need to fly? It's short notice.
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Speaker 2: Business customers normally book these flights. Eight thousand people live
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Speaker 2: in Ketty Kenny, one hundred and thirty thousand in Dunedin.
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Speaker 2: Tourism is seasonal, these routes are often empty. Air New
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Speaker 2: Zealand has major aircraft engine issues. The fact is running
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Speaker 2: a profitable airline in a sparsely populated country is bloody difficult,
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Speaker 2: and we want them to be profitable otherwise we have
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Speaker 2: no airline and then we're a backwater banana republic. And
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Speaker 2: the regional players they're not doing too well either. Ere
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Speaker 2: Chathams the other week, remember this threatening to pull out
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Speaker 2: of Fakatan unless the council paid for a new cessna.
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Speaker 2: Everyone compares us to the Aussies. But have a look
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Speaker 2: at outback Queensland. You pay thousands just to get to Brisbane.
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Speaker 2: Show me a headline about flights being cheaper from Dunedin
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Speaker 2: to Bali than Dunedin to Auckland, and I'll show you
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Speaker 2: one about Mount Isa to Brisbane and Brisbane to Canada.
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Speaker 2: Population matters and guess what, We're a blip on the radar.
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Speaker 2: And as for that promise from a politician that they'll
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Speaker 2: swoop in and save the day, about as reliable as
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Speaker 2: the playing schedule itself.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Ridge on all the edition with one roof to
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Speaker 1: make your property search simple.
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Speaker 2: Uth dog Ziby, good morning, it is twenty four and
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Speaker 2: it's away from six year. On news Talk said, be
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Speaker 2: welcome to your Tuesday morning. Tory Farno's pulled out of
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Speaker 2: the Meryoral race in Wellington, which is probably the right
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Speaker 2: thing because she would have lost it anyway, probably didn't
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Speaker 2: want to spend any of her money on a campaign.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine now lots of feedback to this. We
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Speaker 2: had Andrew Little on the show earlier. Ryan, any rate
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Speaker 2: rise above inflation is not acceptable. Well, Andrew Little said
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Speaker 2: this morning that the planned thirty five percent over the
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Speaker 2: next three years won't fly under his watch. So there's hope,
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Speaker 2: even if it's a glimmer. Ryan, good to hold Little
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Speaker 2: to account. The guy who was Minister of Health vaporized
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Speaker 2: two billion dollars on mental health and did absolutely nothing
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Speaker 2: with it. That is a point, John, And this one
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Speaker 2: from Rob what about the businesses that go broke during
18:44
Speaker 2: the construction of Courtney Place and the Golden Mile. It's
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Speaker 2: a very good point. And Tory Farno did say there
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Speaker 2: would be micro loans of up to fifteen hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: for businesses. Well they've pulled back on those two, so
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Speaker 2: you won't get a micro loan now. And I was
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Speaker 2: watching yesterday as she turned the sod the first sod
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Speaker 2: and they had a blessing ceremony and I thought, wonder
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Speaker 2: how much that costs. So I'm hoping someone in our newsroom,
19:12
Speaker 2: I'm sure they will be putting in a little OAA
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Speaker 2: finding out how much that sod turning ceremony costs. And
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Speaker 2: if it was anywhere near fifteen hundred dollars, well, I
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Speaker 2: just wouldn't be surprised. I just wouldn't be surprised. And
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Speaker 2: it's not even funny. Twenty three away from six now,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. Nikola Willis has said that the tax charity
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Speaker 2: changes she hinted might happen in the budget won't actually
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Speaker 2: happen in this budget. She says there's loopholes talks about Sanitarium.
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Speaker 2: Have a listen.
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Speaker 8: If you take that example of Sanitarium, if we were
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Speaker 8: to say we're now not exempting your business from tax,
19:47
Speaker 8: what they could do is instead make that make their
19:50
Speaker 8: profits a donation back to the Seventh day Adventist Church,
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Speaker 8: their parent, and so they wouldn't in fact be paying
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Speaker 8: any more tax.
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Speaker 2: Here you go twenty two a wave that you can
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Speaker 2: breathe a sigh of relief. Sanitarium twenty two away from
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Speaker 2: at least for now six o'clock Colum Proctor and needed
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Speaker 2: for us this morning, Colum, Good morning, morning Rong. Major
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Speaker 2: changes on the wave for Queenstown Airport.
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Speaker 5: Ye, this is a twelve million dollar project around the
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Speaker 5: terminal building. It's to be extended north towards the airfield,
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Speaker 5: providing eight hundred meters of new offices. This work will
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Speaker 5: take place over the next fourteen months. It will also
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Speaker 5: include a non passenger screening room, with significant electrical upgrades
20:30
Speaker 5: also being completed. There's also about ten million being spent
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Speaker 5: on strengthening the structure of the terminal to increase its
20:35
Speaker 5: ability to withstand an earthquake. Project managers say, look, this
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Speaker 5: is an important investment as the airport's an essential community asset.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather column?
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Speaker 5: A pretty good fine with cloudy periods, possible evening shower
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Speaker 5: later the heights Today sixteenth.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Claire's and Christ Churche clear, good morning to you.
20:51
Speaker 2: You've got a bridge coming across the Avon.
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Speaker 9: Yes, well, the fourth.
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Speaker 11: And final bridge will be going across the Avon and
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Speaker 11: as part of this kind of post quake at Christ Jurge.
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Speaker 11: This is the one that the University of Canterbury students
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Speaker 11: have been working on. They've designed the concept for the bridge,
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Speaker 11: which is in the suburb of Darlington. It's meant to
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Speaker 11: be starting any day now and we'll be completed by August.
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Speaker 11: The residential red Zone manager Dave Little tells us that
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Speaker 11: the structure's design is inspired by more kih, which is
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Speaker 11: a small canoe made from europa and flax. Its construction
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Speaker 11: marks the completion of the first phase of our city
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Speaker 11: to see pathway. The cool thing is the public's going
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Speaker 11: to be invited to watch the bridge as it's craned
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Speaker 11: onto the site.
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Speaker 2: Alrighty, how's your weather clear?
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Speaker 11: Cloudy with occasional ray northeast of these dying out a
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Speaker 11: bit later at a high of fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you, Max toldin Wellington, Max, good morning, good morning.
21:42
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about the touring news.
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Speaker 12: Mixed mixed emotions here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, because you have nothing to report on anymore.
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Speaker 12: That's an element of it. What's the legacy do you think?
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Speaker 2: Disappointing?
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Speaker 12: Disappointing for everyone, even for those in the city who
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Speaker 12: voted for her and saw her as someone truly transformative.
22:03
Speaker 12: To borrow words she would use herself. She was supposed
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Speaker 12: to be mayor for three terms, that was the promise,
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Speaker 12: and then central government. She wanted to be a minister eventually,
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Speaker 12: I can tell you privately, she told some she wouldn't
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Speaker 12: run again late last year, then changed her mind over
22:18
Speaker 12: summer after certain conversations with people close to her. Re
22:22
Speaker 12: announced her mayoralty under the Green banner. Fairly recently so
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Speaker 12: her mind has clearly gone back and forth on this.
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Speaker 2: In terms of.
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Speaker 12: Legacy, there's of course the failed airport share sale that
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Speaker 12: alienated many on the left, ill advised comments to media,
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Speaker 12: ill advised behavior and public dissatisfaction. Here in Wellington with
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Speaker 12: road works businesses going under loosening housing rules was a win.
22:42
Speaker 12: There are more cycle ways in Wellington. Has promised the
22:45
Speaker 12: Golden Miles you say, started yesterday, but even that has
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Speaker 12: become a shell of its former dream. The Golden Miles
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Speaker 12: part of her platform, but the idea of it previously
22:54
Speaker 12: extended to the end of Lampton Key. Now it will
22:56
Speaker 12: be fortunate if the Courtney Place work is done in
22:59
Speaker 12: its entirety. You might say she was hampered by a
23:02
Speaker 12: change in government. She could never mend relationships with others
23:06
Speaker 12: at council. There was, of course the appointment of a
23:08
Speaker 12: Crown Observer, terrible look for a city council. And ultimately
23:11
Speaker 12: she's always talked so much about wanting to be a
23:13
Speaker 12: leader and being a strong leader. She's spoken at leadership events, conferences, summits.
23:18
Speaker 12: But leadership must be grounded in reality and of course
23:22
Speaker 12: longevity as well.
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Speaker 2: It's me a glowing report card from you this morning.
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Speaker 7: Max.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather.
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Speaker 12: Party cloudy with southerly seventeen the high central excellent.
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Speaker 2: Neighva's a Neva good ian the same thing.
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Speaker 9: What a glowing report from Meg's word.
23:38
Speaker 2: Now you've got the big story this morning. A blue
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Speaker 2: sign and panmua.
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Speaker 9: That's right, I cover the big, big story. So look,
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Speaker 9: there's disputyre in those who live in Auckland. They know
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Speaker 9: about this big blue sign. Now it's a fifteen met
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Speaker 9: retro style sign.
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Speaker 2: It was like the Jetsons.
23:55
Speaker 9: Now this was removed though. This was back in twenty
23:57
Speaker 9: nineteen to make way for the Eastern Busway project. But
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Speaker 9: people want it back. So some of the ideas that
24:03
Speaker 9: have been floating around or replica signed a different location
24:06
Speaker 9: in Permure, a piece of art incorporating that old sign.
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Speaker 9: Do you remember the sign?
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Speaker 2: No? No, it so it's just it's described for us.
24:13
Speaker 2: It's a blue sign.
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Speaker 9: It's a blue sign, very ritro huge and it used
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Speaker 9: to sit above you know, like I mean, that was
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Speaker 9: permua if you didn't really know pema and.
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Speaker 2: Even so, does it not really does it just say
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Speaker 2: pen mura? Okay, all right, I think it did.
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Speaker 9: It's been so long anyway back to me. So there's
24:31
Speaker 9: actually public support for the return of the sign to
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Speaker 9: its original spot, and there's now a petition to you know,
24:38
Speaker 9: gathered and it's got like fifteen hundred signatures. Isn't that
24:41
Speaker 9: called it?
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Speaker 2: So they might bring it back.
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Speaker 9: They might bring it back.
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Speaker 2: Career where is it?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 9: Just no, well it's not being taken down to this
24:49
Speaker 9: as some warehouse. Yes, so let's see how much this
24:52
Speaker 9: is going to cost.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I want an update tomorrow. I will. I'm
24:55
Speaker 2: on the case.
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Speaker 9: The weather showers tuning to widespread rain tonight still hot
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Speaker 9: twenty three turned there to the econoll.
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Speaker 2: I did last night. Yes, Neva, great to see you,
25:04
Speaker 2: as always, Neva. We need your name and we need
25:07
Speaker 2: a big blue sign with your name on it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: your full name. Well, it'd be a big sign.
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Speaker 9: It'll be my full name. Find it even to alphas
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Speaker 9: seen for Appoporritti Marni.
25:17
Speaker 2: Seventeen minutes away from six News.
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Speaker 1: TALKSB 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: We've got reaction to the government's building changes coming in
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Speaker 2: just a second. It's now fourteen minutes away from six.
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Speaker 2: But donnadmo our Australia correspondent with US Live, Donna, good morning,
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Speaker 2: good morning to you. Now final days of the election campaign.
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Speaker 2: There is a roaring debate about the Welcome to Country.
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Speaker 13: Yes there is. This topic has really dominated the last
25:44
Speaker 13: twenty four hours because Opposition leader Peter Dutton has a
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Speaker 13: very very strong position and he was asked about how
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Speaker 13: he felt about Welcome to Country that are performed by
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Speaker 13: an Indigenous elder and he says they should not be
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Speaker 13: conducted on an ZAC dab because most veterans did not
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Speaker 13: want them included. Now Dunnan's comments have really inflamed this
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Speaker 13: debate because what happened was the debates really developed since
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Speaker 13: far right Heckler's disrupted ceremonies at ANZAC Day's services in
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Speaker 13: Perth and Melbourne last Friday, and so both obviously Dutton
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Speaker 13: and the Prime Minister condemned those agitators and that included
26:23
Speaker 13: no Neo Nazis that had disrupted these services. So Dutton's
26:28
Speaker 13: really latched onto this now and has taken this really
26:30
Speaker 13: strong stance and is asked about it yesterday on a
26:35
Speaker 13: couple of occasions in fact, as he continued his campaigning,
26:39
Speaker 13: but he's also criticized Quantus's practice of acknowledging Indigenous land
26:43
Speaker 13: on its flights. He says they're over the top, and
26:48
Speaker 13: that's when he also added that he doesn't think that
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Speaker 13: the Anzac Day dawn service should have welcomed to country.
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Speaker 13: In the meantime, the Prime Minister has simply said that
26:57
Speaker 13: welcome to country ceremonies are a sign of respect, but
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Speaker 13: he also says that they should be held at the
27:02
Speaker 13: discretion of event organizers. So people are just interested to
27:06
Speaker 13: hear what the leaders feel and how they feel about
27:09
Speaker 13: this welcome to country ceremony.
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Speaker 2: Which way do you think public opinion is going to
27:13
Speaker 2: go on that, Donner?
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Speaker 13: It's really hard to tell, as you can imagine, but
27:19
Speaker 13: it was just interesting that it dominated. I mean, you know,
27:22
Speaker 13: we've got so many other things that people wanted to
27:24
Speaker 13: discuss up until that point, but it just seemed that
27:27
Speaker 13: people were very, very focused on the position that the
27:30
Speaker 13: leaders had taken on welcome to Country, which I thought
27:33
Speaker 13: was interesting.
27:34
Speaker 2: It is and you got this coronal in quest underway
27:36
Speaker 2: into the Bondi stabbings.
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Speaker 13: Oh yes, well, the colonial inquest into what happened at
27:42
Speaker 13: Westfield Bondi Junction, that stabbing attack that killed six people,
27:47
Speaker 13: and we heard on the first day. It's a five
27:50
Speaker 13: week in quest, but we heard on the first day
27:52
Speaker 13: that the man behind it had actually been well. He
27:57
Speaker 13: had severe mental illness and that had gone untreated, and
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Speaker 13: that he had also attempted to access guns. In twenty
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Speaker 13: twenty one we heard from the council assisting the Bondi
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Speaker 13: Junction inquest and she also said that he was effectively unmedicated.
28:11
Speaker 13: He was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager and unmonitored
28:15
Speaker 13: for about five years before his death. Today they're going
28:20
Speaker 13: to hear from the New South Wales Police inspector Amy Scott,
28:23
Speaker 13: who shot dead that forty year old Joel COUCHI goodness.
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Speaker 2: Mate, Donna, thank you for that. Good to have you
28:29
Speaker 2: on the show, has always Don and Tomorow our Australia correspondent.
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Speaker 2: It is eleven minutes away from six Ryan Bridge. So
28:35
Speaker 2: the government giving reputable builders, plumbers, drain layers the power
28:39
Speaker 2: to basically mark their own homework, inspect their own work.
28:42
Speaker 2: The goal is to cut down inspection wait times and
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Speaker 2: kit sharma Master builders with us this morning, and Kirk,
28:47
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning man, Good to have you on
28:50
Speaker 2: the show. How do you define a reputable builder, plumber,
28:53
Speaker 2: drain layer?
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Speaker 14: The definition I think the government was indicating yesterday for
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Speaker 14: self certification as reputed builders who are building at scale,
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Speaker 14: building simple law risk homes and are using repeatable designs.
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Speaker 2: How do you because I guess this is the problem, right,
29:13
Speaker 2: You want it to be sped up, you want it
29:16
Speaker 2: to be easier, but you also want to stop some
29:18
Speaker 2: dodgy builder or plumber from cutting corners, doing a shoddy job,
29:22
Speaker 2: and then marking their own homework. How do you do that?
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Speaker 14: That's a very good point. So I think what we
29:29
Speaker 14: have been saying is we need a very smart and
29:32
Speaker 14: targeted reform to reduce the compliance burden on simple law
29:37
Speaker 14: risk homes without compromising on quality or consumer protections. So
29:42
Speaker 14: there are a lot of things we can do to
29:43
Speaker 14: enable that. So one is to restrict this to only
29:47
Speaker 14: simple law risk bills. Second, to have a very strict
29:50
Speaker 14: criteria on building professionals who can self certify and continue
29:55
Speaker 14: some monitoring regime around that third to have some mandatory
30:00
Speaker 14: runs requirements thoughts you can incorporate random inspections to ensure
30:05
Speaker 14: quality management. Therese are quite a big piece we have
30:09
Speaker 14: been talking about, which is to use technology solutions like
30:12
Speaker 14: virtual remote inspections to ensure their photographic evidence of self
30:15
Speaker 14: certification is submitted, so then risk assessment can be performed
30:19
Speaker 14: and we can do some spot checks. And the final
30:22
Speaker 14: is to strengthening the LBP scheme. So we obviously need
30:26
Speaker 14: to see more details around all these areas, but if
30:29
Speaker 14: they're implemented well, they will enable productivity gains without compromising
30:33
Speaker 14: on quality or consumer.
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Speaker 2: Protection because I guess the thing is, the reality is
30:38
Speaker 2: you will know who the dodgy builders are, or you
30:40
Speaker 2: will at least know who the good builders are, right,
30:43
Speaker 2: so can you will you have some say or who
30:46
Speaker 2: will decide who the good ones are and who the
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Speaker 2: bad ones are.
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Speaker 14: I think there's a consultation happening where we are providing
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Speaker 14: an input on what their criteria should be, and I
30:57
Speaker 14: think others in the industry will provide that. Internet government
31:01
Speaker 14: has a view too, So I have a feeling that
31:03
Speaker 14: after they've announced, they will now go through a consultation
31:06
Speaker 14: process where we and others were quite input onto how
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Speaker 14: do you do this, because what we are trying to
31:11
Speaker 14: do is we're trying to kind of improve. We're trying
31:14
Speaker 14: to look at the low hanging food we have within
31:17
Speaker 14: our industry to improve some productivity. And the low hanging
31:21
Speaker 14: food is to reduce a compliance burden on simple, low
31:24
Speaker 14: risk homes. And if you do this well, it'll bring
31:27
Speaker 14: more lower cost homes in the market cheaper and address
31:31
Speaker 14: housing affordability. It will free up counsel to focus more
31:34
Speaker 14: on high risk projects and reduce inspection times. And also
31:38
Speaker 14: I think increase adoption of technology like virtual the more inspection.
31:43
Speaker 14: And it's a lot of positives.
31:45
Speaker 2: Or they sound it's good. No, it sounds good, and
31:47
Speaker 2: I want you to get in there and I want
31:49
Speaker 2: you to tell them who were the goodies and who
31:50
Speaker 2: were the baddies because that really is when it comes
31:53
Speaker 2: down to it, what is going to make will break
31:54
Speaker 2: this new policy? An Kid Sharma, Master Builders Chief Executive.
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Speaker 1: You Need this Morning and the in depth Analysis Early
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Speaker 2: News Talk s B six minutes away from five minutes
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Speaker 2: now away from six o'clock on News Talk ZB So,
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Speaker 2: how much has the trade turmoil, the Trump terrist et
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Speaker 2: cetera hit the economy? How much is a hit? Corporate
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Speaker 2: earnings will get a little bit of an insight this week.
32:22
Speaker 2: They've got monthly job started coming out of the US,
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Speaker 2: plus quarter one earnings for four of the magnificent seven.
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Speaker 2: You've got Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, they're all reporting earnings
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Speaker 2: for quarter one. They'll also have a look forward, not
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Speaker 2: that they'll be able to say much about the Ford track,
32:37
Speaker 2: but Apple and its Chinese supply chain, all of that
32:40
Speaker 2: stuff will come out this week. So we'll look forward
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Speaker 2: to getting that information. You're on news talk set.
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Speaker 1: B Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Now, Mike said this morning, Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 15: Did you see Tu. You're a big shopper on team
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Speaker 15: I see all that plastic stuff and the cheap clothes
32:52
Speaker 15: you wear.
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Speaker 2: So they've got and hang on a minute, the Tu
32:56
Speaker 2: clothes wouldn't fit me.
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Speaker 15: They let's be honest, the well and said to others,
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Speaker 15: he yes, at igh see he wears very tight clothing,
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Speaker 15: doesn't he. So they've got one hundred and fifty up
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Speaker 15: to one hundred and fifty percent. They're now putting these
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Speaker 15: charges on. So in other words, when you buy from
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Speaker 15: t move, they go on So yeah, they've just gone
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Speaker 15: and said, right, we'll whack another one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 15: bucks on and one hundred and fifty percent on. So
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Speaker 15: suddenly you're paying it. So what if you buy something
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Speaker 15: and it was thirty and now it's fifty five, don't
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Speaker 15: buy it one hundred and fifty percent and you do
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Speaker 15: buy it? Maybe Trump's right, maybe they can companies like
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Speaker 15: that can stick one hundred and fifty percent on top
33:29
Speaker 15: of the price and you go, oh, well, never mind,
33:31
Speaker 15: and then.
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Speaker 2: And then what and then buy something American made? Well,
33:35
Speaker 2: because that's I mean, that's the theory. But do you
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Speaker 2: actually buy it or do you just not buy anything?
33:39
Speaker 2: Or do you buy a bunch of stuff that you
33:40
Speaker 2: don't actually need.
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Speaker 15: We're talking to a richer quest about that this morning
33:43
Speaker 15: up to eight o'clock on Terrail. We're sort of marking
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Speaker 15: one hundred days and you know, of Trump and all
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Speaker 15: that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Now in Japan, so there's this stupid you know, stupid
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Speaker 2: terurists who climb mountains and then need to get rescued.
33:54
Speaker 2: There's a guy who's twenty seven years old. I thought
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Speaker 2: you'd like the story. Make rescued from Mount Fuji, highest
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Speaker 2: mountain Japan. Air lifted off the mountain. You know, helicopter
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Speaker 2: goes up. Now within a week, within days of that happening,
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Speaker 2: he goes back up, rescued again to get a cell
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Speaker 2: phone that he left the first one.
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Speaker 15: What a great story, Ryan, That was next. That was
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Speaker 15: an excellent story. Don't be nervous about how good that
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Speaker 15: story was. That was fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Certainly wasn't well done. Have a great show, Mike, see
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Speaker 2: you tomorrow, everybody, have a good one.
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