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Full Show Podcast: 9 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on an early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store news Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning and welcome to your Friday. It
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Speaker 2: is great to be with you this morning. Lots to
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Speaker 2: get through. Another one has bitten the dust. This is
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Speaker 2: pan Pack, a Kiwi timber manufacturer. They've had to hold
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Speaker 2: their pulp production. And this is Hawk's Bay energy prices.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about that again and what can the government
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Speaker 2: actually do about it. That's at five twenty, although we
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Speaker 2: may be moving interviews around again this morning because Elise
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Speaker 2: Andrews is going for Gold and the women's care and
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Speaker 2: this is cycling. The final is going to take place
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Speaker 2: sometime inside the next half an hour and will take
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Speaker 2: you there live and after five thirty persons really angry.
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Speaker 2: Things aren't going well for him. The Ukrainians have come
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Speaker 2: across the border into the Kurtsk region and despite him
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Speaker 2: saying that they've managed to push them back, apparently it's
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Speaker 2: all lies. We'll look into that. Two seven after five.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, the ninth of August. Another gold in
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Speaker 2: the bag. Overnight, Lisa Carrington and crew have pushed past
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Speaker 2: Germany in the women's K four final, claiming another KIWI
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Speaker 2: gold medal by less than a second.
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Speaker 4: The bows are now back in front for New Zealand.
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Speaker 5: It's Carrington lifting the.
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Speaker 4: Right, the black boat keeping its nose in front of Germany.
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Speaker 4: They can see the finish line.
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Speaker 6: It is gold for New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. And Elise Andrews has won the track cycling semi.
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Speaker 2: She'll be competing for gold in the final against Mexico
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Speaker 2: and Great Britain will cross live for that very shortly. Also,
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Speaker 2: the inter island of Ferry at Teddy is out of
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Speaker 2: service again after heaving a link span while docking and
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Speaker 2: Wellington KiwiRail says overnight repairs are underway to the damage,
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Speaker 2: which is above the water line. It's expected the addit
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Speaker 2: Teddy will return to the service a full service over
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Speaker 2: the weekend. It's eight after five.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 3: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 3: News talk z It'd be.
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Speaker 2: I love listening to Neva and the news just after
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Speaker 2: five o'clock, calling that what did she say, a slight
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Speaker 2: bump to the link span or a slight incursion onto
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Speaker 2: the link span. The media is saying crash. What do
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Speaker 2: you say? Is this a media beat up? You would
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Speaker 2: have seen it on the news last night, and no doubt, hey,
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Speaker 2: you may not have seen this. This is from the
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Speaker 2: Herald this morning, and it's music to my ears because,
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Speaker 2: like most Auckland as, I hate Walkland Transport. I just don't.
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Speaker 2: I just don't like the organization. I think it's useless. Plus,
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Speaker 2: whenever you get a fine or a ticket for parking
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Speaker 2: in the wrong place, it's got their name on it
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Speaker 2: at the band. The branding's all bad anyway. Auckland meyor
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Speaker 2: Wayne Brown wants to quote de throw Auckland Transport. He
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Speaker 2: wants to strip away the unelected board members the powers
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Speaker 2: that they've got and put elected representatives in full control
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Speaker 2: of this so that it's not just faceless men doing
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Speaker 2: and women presumably doing the dirty work. He's outlined his
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Speaker 2: intentions for reforms in an exclusive statement to the Herald today,
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Speaker 2: So go and pick up your heralds. We actually have
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Speaker 2: counselor Daniel Newman on the show to talk about the
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Speaker 2: water reforms just before six, so we'll hit him up
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Speaker 2: with what are his thoughts on what Wayne Brown is saying.
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Speaker 2: It's just gone nine after five, lots more to come.
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Speaker 3: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 3: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 3: beds and a play a store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be just gone eleven after five year.
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Speaker 2: On news Talk said be great to have your company
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Speaker 2: this morning. Nine two nine two is the number to
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Speaker 2: texts right now. Children's Minister Karen Shaw has handed Udanga
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Speaker 2: Tamadiki a new set of instructions to keep the agency
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Speaker 2: accountable and transparent. She's outlined five new measures she expects
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Speaker 2: to be reported on every quarter. They include things like
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Speaker 2: how many children in care access a social worker in
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Speaker 2: a two month period. Addressing youth offending, she wants to
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Speaker 2: see a fifteen percent cut in the persistent offending. The
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Speaker 2: Blue Light Operations manager Rod Bella is with us this morning. Rod,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, thanks for being on the program. You're obviously
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Speaker 2: your charity does do great work. You run youth camps
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Speaker 2: and programs and support with alongside police for young people.
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Speaker 2: I just wonder with all the cuts that the government's
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Speaker 2: making at the moment. Have you guys been affected by those.
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Speaker 7: We have been a little bit, but you get on
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Speaker 7: and you continue to make a positive impact. At least
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Speaker 7: we have lost some of our programs. You know, we've
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Speaker 7: shown that our programs have an investment of seven dollars
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Speaker 7: tens every dollar invested, so that that does has impacted us,
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Speaker 7: but most importantly it impacted some of our services.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what does it meant for your services? What have
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Speaker 2: you had to cut back?
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Speaker 7: It's probably unfortunately in the proactive area. So are we
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Speaker 7: still doing a lot of work with young people who
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Speaker 7: have been in trouble and working to make sure that
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Speaker 7: they get back and get into work and get into
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Speaker 7: more positive outputs. But some of the programs which are
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Speaker 7: before young people get into trouble as the ones that
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Speaker 7: have been affected, which is really would much prefer to
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Speaker 7: see that happen before they get in trouble rather than
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Speaker 7: wait to work with them once they are.
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Speaker 2: So coming to these goals that the ministers set for ot,
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Speaker 2: you know, fifteen percent reduction in young people serious persistent offending.
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Speaker 2: I mean the fact that you've had funding cut to
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Speaker 2: a program that's going to achieve exactly that outcome seems
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Speaker 2: counterintuitive to me.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it does. Look I think the outline measures are
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Speaker 7: pretty basic in a way, and they should be what's
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Speaker 7: been written. It should happen automatically. You would think there's
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Speaker 7: nothing in there I see of particularly complication. We all
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Speaker 7: want our kids to wake up healthy and safe and
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Speaker 7: well and not none of them get hurt and be
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Speaker 7: well looked after if they have to be in care.
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Speaker 7: But you know, the fifteen percent reduction, that's great. Sometimes
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Speaker 7: figures are figures. I think what you need is to
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Speaker 7: have people feel in the community that we're safe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Rod, thank you so much for that. Rodboll,
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Speaker 2: the operations manager at Blue Light, responding there to Karen
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Speaker 2: Shaw's direction for auditing a tamadiki, The time is fourteen
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Speaker 2: after five year on news Talk, said b and we
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Speaker 2: are going live to the track cycling the women's Karen
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Speaker 2: Final with Elise Andrews, who was first in the semi finals.
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Speaker 2: Here it is.
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Speaker 4: Followed out by the.
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Speaker 5: German Hinds up.
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Speaker 4: And then she has in the field the Dutch rider
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Speaker 4: Hetti Fundeval, as well as the Mexican Daniella Haxola Gonzalez.
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Speaker 4: Katie Marchant of Britain and Emma Finucan of Britain who
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Speaker 4: have already proved their pedigree, and the team sprints. Of course,
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Speaker 4: Andrews getting the silver there with their teammates, but the
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Speaker 4: Brits powering home for gold, particularly Finucan, who will be
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Speaker 4: of major concern. They come around now four laps to go,
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Speaker 4: the journey rider just getting up to pace, a bit
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Speaker 4: of jostling at the back. Already it's Andrews is currently
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Speaker 4: and second as the journey leaves the track, and she holds.
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Speaker 5: That second spot from over.
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Speaker 4: The Mexican goes to the front, Gonzales and the Dutch
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Speaker 4: rider front of her is in third. But Andrew's just
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Speaker 4: in the one one if you like. She's moved up
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Speaker 4: to the front. Now sixty five kilometers in our two
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Speaker 4: laps to go.
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Speaker 5: They work their way round to the back straight.
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Speaker 4: Andrew's still in front, but she's got to hold it,
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Speaker 4: Elise Andrews. You hear the bell A lap to go now,
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Speaker 4: Elise Andrew's on the inside and up, but she's got
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Speaker 4: the brick coming around.
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Speaker 5: It's like I said, in the form of Finuken.
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Speaker 4: The power goes on can Alise Andrews holders she comes
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Speaker 4: down towards the finishing line.
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Speaker 5: Alise Andrews on the line. It looks like she's one gold.
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Speaker 4: Alease Andrew's intense, incisive, invincible at the Paris Valodrome.
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Speaker 5: Too much power and too much panache.
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Speaker 4: She is triumphed and she is elated.
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Speaker 5: She pumps her fists in.
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Speaker 4: The air, black gloved fists, and the crowd respond that.
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Speaker 3: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 3: Furniture Beds and a Planet Store news talk.
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Speaker 2: Si'd be huge. Congratulations to Elise Andrews who has taken
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Speaker 2: gold this morning in the women's care and final. She
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Speaker 2: held the lead over the last two laps and she
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Speaker 2: beat Mexico and Great Britain. Well done, congratulations. Nineteen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five now and we're looking at energy. The Finance
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Speaker 2: Minister along with the Energy Minister are looking at urgent advice.
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Speaker 2: What can we do about this wholesale electricity price spike
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Speaker 2: which has just gone through the roof. I mean it's nuts,
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Speaker 2: really when you talk about the numbers sitting at around
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Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars per megawatt in late twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 2: it was at around one hundred dollars per megawatt. As
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Speaker 2: a result of these prices, multiple large scale businesses are
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Speaker 2: halting their operations. Actually the latest is pan Pack in
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Speaker 2: Hawke's Bay forest products they do. They export pulp product
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Speaker 2: to India and China. They've halted their operations. Cost of
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Speaker 2: electricity outweighs profit. Joining me is Energy Resources Altered. Chief
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Speaker 2: Executive John Carnegie, John, good morning, Good morning. First of all,
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Speaker 2: why is it that we that the spike is happening
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Speaker 2: and not happening in other places like in Canada for example.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting looking at pan Pack they point to
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Speaker 2: Canada their biggest competitor in terms of the products they're making.
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Speaker 2: Their electricity index WHENT up twenty percent since twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Ours is up two hundred percent.
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Speaker 8: Well, look, I guess what we're seeing in Actually the
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Speaker 8: most painful way is how reliant our economy is on
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Speaker 8: natural gas and how important you know, you probably wonder
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Speaker 8: why I'm talking about natural gas for electricity, but how
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Speaker 8: important it is to our electricity system. About twenty percent
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Speaker 8: of our produced gas is used in the electricity market,
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Speaker 8: and about ten percent of all electricity generator using the
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Speaker 8: users gas and of course that might be used to
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Speaker 8: your listeners, but it's a real problem if gas production reduces,
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Speaker 8: which it has been quite dramatically, and when you combine
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Speaker 8: that with extremely low lake levels, you know, we've got
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Speaker 8: some of the driest conditions we've ever ever seen, combined
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Speaker 8: with insufficient gas five power stations which are used to
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Speaker 8: hold the system together when the lakes are low. Well,
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Speaker 8: then I guess you'd call that the perfect storm.
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Speaker 2: What do you know the government's looking at things like
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Speaker 2: importing AL and G. What do you make of that?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 8: I think aling is probably a very useful backup option,
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Speaker 8: but there are a range of other solutions that I
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Speaker 8: think that they should also be working on as well.
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Speaker 2: How long just on aller G, How long before we
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Speaker 2: would actually see that if we started importing it making
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Speaker 2: a difference here to that market?
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Speaker 8: I mean, it's that's quite quite difficult to answer, but
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Speaker 8: I think you're talking you're talking around about twelve months,
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Speaker 8: twelve after eighteen months possibly and it's not an insignificant
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Speaker 8: piece of investment. You know, we're talking hundreds.
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Speaker 7: Of millions of dollars.
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Speaker 8: But you know, one of the solutions I think if
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Speaker 8: you're wanting to help bring down prices back to long
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Speaker 8: run averages, is actually just getting more gas into our system,
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Speaker 8: natural gas, and that's actually most likely probably going to
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Speaker 8: come through our existing gas producers who have the infrastructure,
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Speaker 8: the workforce and the knowledge, but actually just need assurances
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Speaker 8: from the government that their investments aren't going to be
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Speaker 8: undercut by future government policy changes like they were in
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Speaker 8: twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 2: But that's the hard thing, right, I mean, it's a democracy.
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Speaker 2: We vote people and we vote them out, and when
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Speaker 2: the next labor lot come in, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 2: you saw what they did last time. So how can
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Speaker 2: businesses have confidence to invest?
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Speaker 8: Well, I guess that cuts to one of the solutions
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Speaker 8: that I'm going to propose and have been proposing, and
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Speaker 8: that's us working our way back to political bipartisanship to
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Speaker 8: ensure in New Zealand's energy security. Frankly, we should never
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Speaker 8: be putting our country in this situation where we can't
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Speaker 8: take care of our people. Industries closing and communities being
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Speaker 8: devastated by job losses is not a part of an
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Speaker 8: energy future, thankfully, that I thought I would ever see
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Speaker 8: and I hope never to see again. Actually, this isn't
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Speaker 8: a political game. Actually, this is about livelihoods and jobs.
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Speaker 2: John, Thanks for your time. John Carnegie, the Energy Resources
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Speaker 2: out to ARCHIEV executive saying we need bipartisanship when it
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Speaker 2: comes to our electricity sector. He's got a point, doesn't
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Speaker 2: he need? You need confidence. Businesses need confidence to invest
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Speaker 2: in order to make sure that the demand is met
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Speaker 2: so that we're not in this mess every time the
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Speaker 2: hydrolate levels are down. It is twenty four minutes after
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Speaker 2: five the.
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Speaker 3: Early edition full the show podcast Todd Radio Power by
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Speaker 3: News Talks at Me.
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Speaker 2: It has just gone twenty six after five. We live
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Speaker 2: in a world that seemingly, seemingly is spilling over with
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Speaker 2: hate and division at the moment. You don't have to
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Speaker 2: look far to find it. Just in the past few days.
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Speaker 2: Look at this nineteen year old isis inspired terror suspect
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Speaker 2: planning to kill himself and as many Taylor Swift fans
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Speaker 2: as possible. You've got rioting, You've got division on the
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Speaker 2: streets of UK. Australia has raised its terror threat level.
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Speaker 2: Remember that sixteen year old teenager who stabbed a religious
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Speaker 2: cleric in Australia suspected religious extremism. Behind it. You've got Trump.
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Speaker 2: Remember this was only last month. Yeah, it's almost like
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Speaker 2: we've forgotten about that, isn't it, Because there's so much
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Speaker 2: going on. They all have one thing in common, the Internet.
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Speaker 2: You know, this nineteen year old Isis would be mass murderer.
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Speaker 2: He and his two alleged teenage accomplices. They were serious.
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Speaker 2: They had chemical explosives, they had detonateds. Allegedly, they were
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Speaker 2: radicalized online. The UK riots fueled by false information about
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Speaker 2: that stabbing suspect. They were all raked up, fired up
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Speaker 2: by being on the internet. Where did it all happen online? Australia?
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Speaker 2: Remember those seven teenagers arrested in April for alleged extremist ideology.
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Speaker 2: All happened online. I could go on, but you get
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Speaker 2: the point. Young impressionable minds, endless scrolling on social media
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Speaker 2: and the wild West of content. Every kid has a
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Speaker 2: mental health problem these days. If you noticed that, turn
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Speaker 2: on the news. Everyone's sad and why well, it's obviously,
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Speaker 2: isn't it the Internet? Isn't it our phones? And what
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Speaker 2: are we doing about it? And this is what happens
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Speaker 2: when you scroll on a phone and you don't and
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Speaker 2: you argue with somebody and you don't look them in
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Speaker 2: the eye. You know, you don't talk to them face
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Speaker 2: to face. You don't moderate your thoughts with body language
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Speaker 2: and facial expressions and all those important things that I
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Speaker 2: think help to make our debates a bit more human.
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Speaker 2: We lose all that when we go online and when
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Speaker 2: we scroll endlessly. Apparently we will spend between ten years
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Speaker 2: ten to seventeen years of our lives scrolling on our phones.
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Speaker 2: How sad is that? And for kids it's worse. So
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Speaker 2: on what have I done about it? Well, I've deleted
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Speaker 2: the apps on my phone, the social media apps, and
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Speaker 2: not that I'm saying I'm going to solve the world,
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Speaker 2: but I'm just seeing if I'll feel better about the world.
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Speaker 2: And I wonder why more people aren't doing it. Maybe
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Speaker 2: you are nine two nine two is the number to text.
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Speaker 2: Here's a do we have time for this?
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Speaker 8: Leah.
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Speaker 2: There's a guy called Tristan Harris has worked for Google.
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Speaker 2: He's what they call a technology ethicis This is what
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Speaker 2: he has to say about this issue.
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Speaker 9: The more moral outrageous language you use, the more inflammatory language,
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Speaker 9: contemptuous language, the more indignation you use, the more it
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Speaker 9: will get shared, So we are being rewarded for being
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Speaker 9: division entrepreneurs. The better you are at innovating a new
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Speaker 9: way to be divisive, we will pay you in more likes,
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Speaker 9: followers and retweets.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that sad thought? Twenty nine minutes after five, news
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Speaker 2: is next. We're going to Vincent mcavinie in the UK.
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Speaker 2: The latest on the state of emergency declared in the
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Speaker 2: Curse region of Russia. Also the latest on that Taylor
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Speaker 2: Swift concert cancelation.
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Speaker 3: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture bids and
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Speaker 3: applying store news Talk said.
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Speaker 2: B twenty four minutes away from six. As I mentioned
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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes away from six, I'm still getting the
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Speaker 2: hang of this job. I've been here a month, and
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Speaker 2: one of my goals for this week I'll share with
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Speaker 2: you is to try and read more of your text
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Speaker 2: messages out loud, because I do read them. I read
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Speaker 2: every single text message that comes in because I appreciate
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Speaker 2: the feedback and I always take it on board. But
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Speaker 2: now that I'm kind of getting the hang of which
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Speaker 2: buttons to press and when odd mistakes notwithstanding, I'm trying
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Speaker 2: to get to more of your feedback because there's really
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Speaker 2: good information that's coming in and I like this critique
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Speaker 2: that has come in this morning. Ryan, you referred to
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Speaker 2: Lisa and Crewe who won this is the gold medal
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Speaker 2: this morning in the women's K four. The other names
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Speaker 2: don't get a mentioned. Quite right. I should have done
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Speaker 2: that and I will do it now. So alongside Lisa
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Speaker 2: Carrington in the K four gold medalists Alisha Hoskin, Tara
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Speaker 2: Vaughan and Olivia Brett. Congratulations to all of you. Also
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Speaker 2: to Elise Andrews who won in the Kiran final this
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Speaker 2: morning too. A good point and well done. Lots of
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Speaker 2: feedback coming in on people who've deleted their social media
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Speaker 2: accounts and are now free. Their lives are far improved,
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Speaker 2: so we'll read some of those out in the second.
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Speaker 2: Right now it is twenty three to six, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: Let's go to our reporters around the country. Calum Proctor
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Speaker 2: is in Dunedin, Callum is Wanaka.
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Speaker 10: Going to get a macers here morning, Ryan, Well, if
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Speaker 10: the locals have anything to do with it, probably not,
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Speaker 10: but really this decision lies with the district council. Now
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Speaker 10: the next phase of this proposed McDonald's and Watakah's set
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Speaker 10: to begin. The Queenstain Lakes District Councils, looking over at submission,
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Speaker 10: has received more than two hundred submissions from the public
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Speaker 10: on these restaurant plans. Submissions actually close today, but as
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Speaker 10: it stands, an overwhelming amount of residents say they are
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Speaker 10: against the idea. Their concerns include food waste pollution and
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Speaker 10: local outlets losing business. The council says that we'll review
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Speaker 10: all submissions before there's any hearings, and they say a
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Speaker 10: date on any decision can't be confirmed.
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Speaker 2: Yet everyone's against it until you're going home from the
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Speaker 2: pub and you know you want to drive through. Thank
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Speaker 2: you caullum. How's the weather in Dunedin today?
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Speaker 6: A few spots a drizzle for us like Wins and
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Speaker 6: ten today, Claire Shereward's and Christchich Claire. It's been labeled
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Speaker 6: unquestionably the biggest party in Australasia and it's coming to
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Speaker 6: christ Chitch.
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Speaker 2: What is this?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is a good Friday story.
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Speaker 5: Ryan.
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Speaker 11: New Zealand's biggest one day music festival, Electric Avenue, will
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Speaker 11: become two days next year at Hagley Park. About sixty
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Speaker 11: thousand people are expected over the two days February twenty
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Speaker 11: one and twenty two. There will be twenty international artists
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Speaker 11: forty local acts that spread across at four different stages.
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Speaker 11: Christ Church and Zed says the announcement's big for the city.
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Speaker 11: It expects visitors spending to top this year's six point
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Speaker 11: three million dollars. The lineup comes out next month and
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Speaker 11: for those wondering, I think this is interesting. Despite the
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Speaker 11: event doubling in size, ticket prices will only be about
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Speaker 11: thirty percent higher.
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Speaker 2: Well, there we go, and how's your weather today, Claire?
21:23
Speaker 2: That's great?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we need to get past the wintry blast though
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Speaker 11: it's cold here rain ten degrees with one overnight.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, and Max Tols and Wellington Max
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Speaker 2: the All Blacks tests there tomorrow night. How's demand looking, Yeah.
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Speaker 12: It's not clear exactly how many tickets have sold so
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Speaker 12: far for this test. Much against Argentina apparently, though we're
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Speaker 12: only at about two thirds full of the thirty four
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Speaker 12: five hundred cedars sky Stadium, about two thirds subdued, it
21:52
Speaker 12: would be a fair way to describe demand. Not a
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Speaker 12: great look for the capital and for future tests here.
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Speaker 12: Although we do have the Bloder Cup game next month
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Speaker 12: that will probably sell out, but yeah, it possibly a
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Speaker 12: cost of living thing, possibly a wind st thing, possibly
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Speaker 12: a Wellington thing.
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Speaker 2: Also worth noting the All Blacks have actually a Wellington thing?
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Speaker 2: Does that mean what you don't like rugby? Bring?
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Speaker 12: I'm just here to bring you the doom and gloom
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Speaker 12: from the Capitol Mate, Worth noting as well, the All
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Speaker 12: Blacks haven't actually won a game in Wellington since twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 12: I've seen them three times. I think my record is
22:26
Speaker 12: a drawer and two defeats. If we don't sell out,
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Speaker 12: you know, the postnotes the crowd would be less than
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Speaker 12: the thirty three thousand who watched the All Blacks play
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Speaker 12: Fiji and San Diego, of which there was criticism.
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Speaker 2: Jeez, can't you just be happy on a Friday next
22:43
Speaker 2: and you well, your fury is crashed. I can see
22:45
Speaker 2: why you're upset. You know your feary is crashed. Your
22:49
Speaker 2: speed bumps will slow you down once you get off
22:51
Speaker 2: the fury. That's the right.
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Speaker 12: Weather's not looking great for golf tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Rex told him that did we do with that? I can't. Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's not great.
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Speaker 12: Periods of rain, strong souther East tenth.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic and you've got to break me in too, Hey Neva, my.
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Speaker 13: Gosh, he is the you know, the groom reap in
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Speaker 13: the mix. I came running in the studio. I was like,
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Speaker 13: on a high, the gals have got gold this morning,
23:19
Speaker 13: I'm on a high. It's Friday. Listening to MEXI cracks
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Speaker 13: me up. And then I'm thinking, man, I feel like, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, I'm quite depressed. Actually, I had to laugh this
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Speaker 2: morning at you said about the other teddy in the news. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I mean you see, I mean the news. Yes, it
23:37
Speaker 2: was a low speed contact, not a crash.
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Speaker 13: I have to say. When I woke up early this
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Speaker 13: morning and I was just having a look at you know,
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Speaker 13: the what was online and the hero website, and when
23:49
Speaker 13: I read that story about that, I was just I
23:52
Speaker 13: was screaming. I was like, what is going on with
23:55
Speaker 13: that utter teddy fairy? I thought I would probably you
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Speaker 13: and I would probably do a bit of driving.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
24:02
Speaker 13: Sorry for one of the guys who was just a
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Speaker 13: line in there saying, look this sucks because this you know,
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Speaker 13: someone was trying to get on there a passenger and
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Speaker 13: you know now they're being delayed until like later on today.
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Speaker 13: He said, I've been standing out here waiting in the wind,
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Speaker 13: and you can just imagine, you know, like in Wellington.
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Speaker 13: I thought, Oh, the poor person.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, he'll be as miserable as Max presumably.
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Speaker 13: Hey, I was just thinking, what did I was listening
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Speaker 13: to you saying about your you know, social media there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, well it's I mean you Well, it's interesting
24:32
Speaker 2: so many people are texting and to say they cut
24:35
Speaker 2: the social media out, and that just feel so much
24:37
Speaker 2: happier about life.
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Speaker 13: I'm not on social media. I'm a ludd.
24:40
Speaker 2: I don't know how.
24:40
Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 13: I'm on Facebook, but I never I don't just to
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Speaker 13: see what everyone else. I never post, not on I
24:46
Speaker 13: don't even know how to use TikTok do you call
24:48
Speaker 13: it Instagram?
24:49
Speaker 2: What do you call it? Nothing? Well, do you know
24:51
Speaker 2: what the good thing is? You can't be radicalized, because
24:54
Speaker 2: that's what's happening to everyone else.
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Speaker 12: Right, look at us now?
24:56
Speaker 2: Everyone else is nuts, but us neither. We're not nuts. Hey.
25:00
Speaker 2: What are we talking about? The current? Well? The weather? Oh,
25:02
Speaker 2: the weather? Should I do the weather?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 13: Scattered showers, fine breaks in between today's high fifteen here
25:08
Speaker 13: in all Cliff.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Neva. It is seventeen to six The news you.
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Speaker 3: Need this morning and the in depth analysis early edition
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Speaker 3: with Ryan Bridge and Swift City, New Zealand's furniture beds
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Speaker 3: and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said B. Fourteen to six on news Talk
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Speaker 2: said B. This is a text from Ian who says,
25:27
Speaker 2: I was just going to agree with your recent interviewer
25:31
Speaker 2: interviewee bipartisan agreement on a number of areas, including energy
25:36
Speaker 2: in New Zealand, because we need certainty for businesses to
25:41
Speaker 2: invest so that we don't end up with the shortages
25:43
Speaker 2: that we've got at the moment, which mean prices go
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Speaker 2: through the roof. He says, a small country like New
25:48
Speaker 2: Zealand can't afford the kind of stuff ups that we
25:51
Speaker 2: are now dealing with energy, health, education, roading, transport that
25:56
Speaker 2: are all in the PIP, he says, and we should
25:59
Speaker 2: have more by partisan agreement on how to deal with
26:02
Speaker 2: and manage those things. Also, someone has said, Ryan, are
26:05
Speaker 2: you're we're how often you mentioned the time you used
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Speaker 2: to do it on the AM show. How about you
26:12
Speaker 2: talk about something other than the time, Sarah, thank you
26:17
Speaker 2: for that message. It is thirteen to.
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Speaker 3: Six International correspondents with ends in Eye Insurance, peace of
26:23
Speaker 3: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 2: Our UK Europe correspondent is Vincent mcavini. He's with us
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Speaker 2: live this morning. A state of emergency has been declared
26:31
Speaker 2: in the Curs region in Russia. Vincent, Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 14: This is a surprise attack that the Ukrainians have mounted.
26:40
Speaker 14: We think about a thousand or so Ukrainian troops supported
26:44
Speaker 14: by tanks and armored vehicles, cross the border from Ukraine
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Speaker 14: into Russia on Tuesday, and some three thousand people have
26:53
Speaker 14: been evacuated due to ongoing military altercations that have killed
26:58
Speaker 14: at least for people. According to this Rush Regions governor.
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Speaker 14: This has come as a surprise to the Kreminin. It
27:04
Speaker 14: is highly embarrassing to Vladmir Pusin. Of course, two and
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Speaker 14: a half years ago he told his country that this
27:09
Speaker 14: would be a limited, small operation in Ukraine, it would
27:11
Speaker 14: be over quickly, and we're still here fighting and now
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Speaker 14: his own country is being invaded in a surprise attack
27:19
Speaker 14: from Ukrainian troops. So quite a display of gumption and
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Speaker 14: ambition from the Ukraini users.
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Speaker 2: Certainly is Taylor Swift. These concerts that have been canceled.
27:29
Speaker 2: Sounds like these suspicted attackers were very serious.
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Speaker 14: Yes, that's right. A nineteen year old who was arrested
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Speaker 14: on Wednesday apparently was planning to kill a large crowd
27:41
Speaker 14: of people in a suicide attack a one of the
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Speaker 14: three concerts taking place in Vienna this weekend. Taylor Smith
27:47
Speaker 14: was meant to be playing to one hundred and ninety
27:48
Speaker 14: five thousand people over the three days. Those concerts have
27:51
Speaker 14: all been canceled. Local media is reporting that the suspect
27:56
Speaker 14: had stolen chemicals from his formal workplace, that he is
28:00
Speaker 14: in the process of building a bomb, had materials to
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Speaker 14: that effect, that he was going to potentially use this device,
28:06
Speaker 14: but also drive a car into crowds and potentially go
28:10
Speaker 14: on a stabbing spree as well, So it would have
28:12
Speaker 14: been horrific. It's very similar to the Ariana Grande attack
28:15
Speaker 14: that took place here in the UK back in twenty seventeen,
28:19
Speaker 14: where someone detonated a bomb at that concert venue as
28:23
Speaker 14: a young young women and their parents were leaving, and
28:27
Speaker 14: would have been a pretty horrific event. But so far,
28:30
Speaker 14: Taylor Swift keeping the rest of the era's toll going.
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Speaker 14: She'll be back in the UK next week being Wembley.
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Speaker 14: She's got a record eight nights are sold out at
28:38
Speaker 14: Wembley this summer, so she's coming back to do the
28:40
Speaker 14: rest of those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty frightening there, and you can see why the
28:44
Speaker 2: authorities have moved to close the concerts down. Thank you
28:46
Speaker 2: so much for your time, Vincent. Vincent Mecavennie a UK
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Speaker 2: and Europe correspondent. It is eleven to six, Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: The government's plan to replace the three Waters legislation has
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Speaker 2: been revealed. Council controlled water organizations will be able to
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Speaker 2: leverage up to five hundred percent five times. Basically, they're
29:04
Speaker 2: operating revenues through the local Government funding agency and they
29:08
Speaker 2: can body up with councils to do this. Councils not
29:12
Speaker 2: necessarily even on their border, so the Commerce Commission will
29:16
Speaker 2: oversee it to make sure there's appropriate investment, maintenance and
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Speaker 2: delivery of water infrastructure for consumers' long term. The Auckland
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Speaker 2: councilor Daniel Newman is with me this morning. Good morning, Daniel,
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Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan. What do you make of this? Is
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Speaker 2: this better than three Waters?
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Speaker 15: Yes?
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Speaker 8: It is.
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Speaker 15: It is because it keeps the assets within council. It
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Speaker 15: does provide a facility for borrowing to fund, and that
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Speaker 15: facility will be cheaper. It will put real pressure back
29:47
Speaker 15: on councils in terms of ensuring appropriate governance of these
29:52
Speaker 15: water entities. But I think it's a better model than
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Speaker 15: what was proposed by the previous government.
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Speaker 2: What does it mean in Auckland for water here, Well,
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Speaker 2: what it will mean is that water Care is able
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Speaker 2: to effectively borrow off.
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Speaker 15: The off the council's balance sheets, so that allows it
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Speaker 15: to be able to access more more debt. But you know,
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Speaker 15: it would be a cheaper borrowing facility, and that's quite
30:18
Speaker 15: important because your borrowing capacity is restricted according to your
30:25
Speaker 15: debt to revenue ratio. So at the moment, what would
30:28
Speaker 15: happen if you didn't have access to cheaper debt You
30:31
Speaker 15: would have to raise rights rates faster and faster in
30:36
Speaker 15: order to ensure that you maintain a debt to revenue ratio,
30:39
Speaker 15: which is you know, I don't want to be basically
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Speaker 15: be taxing my constituents just to meet a borrowing limits.
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Speaker 15: So I think it's a better option for for Auckland
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Speaker 15: is I think it will probably be a better option
30:51
Speaker 15: for a lot of people around the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they reckon you Can you know we're borrowing five
30:55
Speaker 2: times what you're taken through your water rates? It would
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Speaker 2: double what the currents are most cecos would currently. Do
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Speaker 2: you do we need Does Aukland need to buddy up
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Speaker 2: with anyone else?
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Speaker 15: Auckland won't need to buddy up with anybody, and I'm
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Speaker 15: quite relieved about that. Auckland is big enough and ugly
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Speaker 15: enough to look after itself. But there will be councils
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Speaker 15: outside of the Auckland region who I'm sure will need
31:19
Speaker 15: to buddy up. And that's not unworkable. It is complex,
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Speaker 15: but it is it is. It is a feasible option
31:28
Speaker 15: if you can get that partnership relationship through a shareholder's
31:31
Speaker 15: representative group.
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Speaker 2: Daniel, very quickly in one word, can you answer this question?
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Speaker 2: Wayne Brown's gone to the Herald this morning saying he
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Speaker 2: wants to dethrone Auckland Transport, stripping away the unelected board members' powers,
31:43
Speaker 2: putting elected representatives in full control. He wants to gut
31:46
Speaker 2: the place. Do you agree with him? Yes, thanks for
31:51
Speaker 2: your time. That is sick. That's Daniel Newman, the Auckland
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Speaker 2: councilor it is eight to six.
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Speaker 3: News and views you trust as done your Day. It's
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Speaker 3: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
32:04
Speaker 3: furniture beds and a flying store. News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: It is five to six. News Talk said, be Friday morning.
32:10
Speaker 2: Everyone loves Friday. The athlete that we need to talk
32:14
Speaker 2: about this morning is a Dutch marathon swimmer. So ten
32:18
Speaker 2: k's in the water. This is in the river Sin.
32:21
Speaker 2: Two hours in the river Sin. She gets dehydrated. She's
32:24
Speaker 2: the gold medal winner, so I suppose she can do
32:26
Speaker 2: what she wants. But she got dehydrated, so she was thirsty,
32:29
Speaker 2: so she drank the river Sin. She said, I needed
32:32
Speaker 2: a refreshment, so I was like, I'll just drink the
32:35
Speaker 2: river Sin. I don't care. It was nice. Other races
32:38
Speaker 2: water tastes fishy sometimes, so there you go. She won,
32:43
Speaker 2: so clearly it was worth doing. Mike Costing is here,
32:45
Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 16: She'll be on a drip by tomorrow.
32:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: I mean all the other two one was it one
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Speaker 16: of ours or two of ours got sick?
32:53
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, and there were a colon So.
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Speaker 16: I suppose that it's the Olympics.
32:57
Speaker 2: What's it matter?
32:57
Speaker 16: I mean, you recover the young, their fit, healthy, drink.
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Speaker 2: A bit of pool water and when a gold medal.
33:03
Speaker 16: Well, speaking of which, the water system. By the way,
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Speaker 16: I just want to expose you. I heard you earlier
33:08
Speaker 16: on saying you read all the texts.
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Speaker 2: You don't.
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Speaker 16: I do, you do not? You have nothing but distain
33:13
Speaker 16: for the audience and the texture. I just want to
33:15
Speaker 16: expose that officially not true. What a fraud I thought.
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Speaker 2: I don't read them all out on air, but I
33:21
Speaker 2: do read them, okay, fair enough, even the ones that
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Speaker 2: are you know.
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Speaker 16: If you say so so. Yeah, No, the water things
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Speaker 16: interest me because you can borrow five times. So a
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Speaker 16: couple of questions come out of that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I don't read all of them. I
33:36
Speaker 2: knew it. Bustard, Well, there's a million things going on
33:40
Speaker 2: in here. No, no, I know.
33:41
Speaker 16: And when you said all the buttons I pushed, you
33:43
Speaker 16: don't push any buttons. He doesn't do any pushed three
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Speaker 16: butter can tell the time and say good morning. Let's
33:50
Speaker 16: let's be honest.
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Speaker 2: Don't make this job out to be harder than.
33:54
Speaker 16: It really is. You know as well as I do.
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Speaker 16: This is a lark and someone's paying us money to
33:58
Speaker 16: do it.
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Speaker 2: It's a joke.
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Speaker 16: Anyway, we will be looking at the water this Morning
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Speaker 16: and the five Times things you know? And does that
34:04
Speaker 16: solve the problem? You know, just because you can borrow
34:05
Speaker 16: a lot of money, does it actually fix the problem.
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Speaker 16: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: If you look at and I know they're too busy
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Speaker 2: reading the texts.
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Speaker 16: I know, because you love the weekend. You can't wait
34:13
Speaker 16: to get out of here.
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Speaker 2: Go on, run Mike's with me next. I'll see you
34:17
Speaker 2: on Monday, but not before I read every single text
34:20
Speaker 2: that's coming in.
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