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Full Show Podcast: 26 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof Love where you live
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Speaker 1: News Talk sat'd.
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Speaker 2: Be good morning, it is six half to five. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. We'll talk to James Meagher on
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Speaker 2: the jet Star cuts. He's basically the Minister of Planes,
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann out of the US for US we need
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Speaker 2: more electrical engineers in New Zealand. We'll look at the
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Speaker 2: fishing back down from the government too. The agenda Thursday
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Speaker 2: twenty six to March. So Iran has just said not
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Speaker 2: to Trump's peace plan. This is the fifteen point piece
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Speaker 2: plan that we haven't seen, but apparently they have, saying basically,
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Speaker 2: the US is negotiating with itself. At this point, your.
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Speaker 3: Internal discord reached the point where you are negotiating with yourselves.
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Speaker 3: There will be neither any sign of your investments in
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Speaker 3: the region, nor will you see previous energy and oil
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Speaker 3: process until you understand this stability in the region is
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Speaker 3: guaranteed by the powerful harm of our armed forces.
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Speaker 2: Now that has just happened. They have said no before
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Speaker 2: that there was some hope and oil price coming down,
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Speaker 2: stock markets in Asia we're going up. Before all that
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Speaker 2: black Rock CEO Larry Fink was warning, if it gets
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Speaker 2: to one hundred and fifty bucks a barrel, you could
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Speaker 2: need to use the R word.
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Speaker 4: It remains a threat, a threat to tree, a threat
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Speaker 4: to the to the strets of her move that I
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Speaker 4: would argue that we could have years years of you know,
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Speaker 4: above one hundred dollars, closer to one hundred and fifty dollars.
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Speaker 1: What happens to the glabl economy?
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Speaker 2: If that happens, how do we see it.
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Speaker 4: Will have global recession.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, remember that big social media court case
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Speaker 2: in the US, we were talking about it yesterday. Well,
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Speaker 2: the jury has found Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp put kids at risk,
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Speaker 2: including exposure to explicit content and even predators. The bill
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Speaker 2: almost one hundred million bucks, and is.
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Speaker 5: Saying in a new statement quote, we respectfully disagree with
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Speaker 5: the verdict and will appeal. We work hard to keep
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Speaker 5: people safe on our platforms and are clear about the
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Speaker 5: challenges of identifying and removing bad actors or harmful content.
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Speaker 5: We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously, and we remain
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Speaker 5: confident in our record of protecting teens online.
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Speaker 2: So it sounds like nothing's going to change.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love, where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks AV two nine two. Great to have your
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Speaker 2: company this morning. So the price of jet fuel, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't have to tell you this, but just out
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Speaker 2: of interest, up one hundred and thirty percent on last month.
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Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty percent. It's a lot, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Even in the last week it was up twelve point
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Speaker 2: six percent. And if you look at Asia Oceania, our
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Speaker 2: neck of the woods, the price was even higher, up
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Speaker 2: sixteen point six percent. So that's why companies like Jetstar,
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Speaker 2: companies like Air New Zealand before it, are cutting back
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Speaker 2: on services because the price is too much and they're
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Speaker 2: worried about supply. So we'll talk to James Meager about
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Speaker 2: all of that. In New Zealand's fuel costs have gone
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Speaker 2: from about twenty five percent of their cost to half.
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Speaker 2: So that's not sustainable, is it? And how long do
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Speaker 2: we sustain all of this? That's the big question we'll
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Speaker 2: talk to James me Is there anything actually you can
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Speaker 2: even really do about that or is you just wear
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Speaker 2: a price taker and we have to accept it? Interesting,
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Speaker 2: before the war began see, there's all this data that
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Speaker 2: comes out before the war began, and it's like, do
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Speaker 2: I even tell you about it? Because how relevant is it?
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Speaker 2: But I think it's important just to get a bearing
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Speaker 2: of where we were and where we will get back to.
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Speaker 2: It'll there'll be a bit of a hiccup. And west
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Speaker 2: Pac had some numbers out yesterday that they think we'll
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Speaker 2: probably take a dip in growth, but we will come
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Speaker 2: back and for the year should get close to two percent.
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Speaker 2: That's even with everything going on, so that it's not
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Speaker 2: to be scoffed at. But before the war began, the
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Speaker 2: west Pac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence Index important because it's
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Speaker 2: the consumer confidence is driven by how secure your job is,
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Speaker 2: whether you think you can get another one. And before
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Speaker 2: the war began, for the March quarter we were at
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Speaker 2: ninety five point six. That was up one point eight.
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Speaker 2: Now it was still below one hundred, which means still
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Speaker 2: more pessimistic than optimistic, but it was heading in the
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Speaker 2: right direction. Was being the operative word in that sentence
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Speaker 2: right now. Ten after five Ryan Bridge, there's a big
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Speaker 2: hulla baloo about who decided who told Shane to go
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Speaker 2: sit in the naughty corner? And fix his little fishing mistake.
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Speaker 2: Was it Winston or was it Luxeon? Does it matter? No,
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Speaker 2: if you're worried about what sized fish are being caught
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Speaker 2: by commercial fishes, they no, it doesn't matter. But they're
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Speaker 2: still worried about the bill more generally, even though that
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Speaker 2: bit has been taken out of it. And we'll talk
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Speaker 2: to someone who's worried. Next. News Talks HEADB.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks ed B five twelve. Good to have your
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Speaker 2: company this morning. We're getting a couple of texts in
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Speaker 2: about this one from Dom about the credit card or
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Speaker 2: the payWave fee the changes that have been made or
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Speaker 2: bringing that to you in a second. Also happening right
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Speaker 2: now breaking news this morning is Sarah Malayley. I think
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Speaker 2: that's how you say her last name. She's been installed
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Speaker 2: as the art but Archbishop of Canterbury is currently there's
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Speaker 2: a big hulla baloo happening, and there's some red carpet
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Speaker 2: and there's a cathedral and she's wearing a big yellow
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Speaker 2: pointy hat. The only thing that's interesting really about this,
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Speaker 2: I mean, unless you're an Anglican and this does interest
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Speaker 2: you is seeing a woman wearing all that get up
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Speaker 2: not used to seeing woman wearing She's the first, of course,
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Speaker 2: and one hundred and sixth in the Bryan Bridge five thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Now commercial fishes won't be allowed to catch and sell
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Speaker 2: popular undersized fish after a Shane Jones walk back. There's
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Speaker 2: about a million recreational anglers in the country. Many said
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Speaker 2: it would harm the fish stocks, kill them off before
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Speaker 2: they could spawn. Allie Hooper is with Greenpeace, joins me
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Speaker 2: this morning. Hey Ellie, Ellie you there.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm here.
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Speaker 7: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 2: Yeap? Gotcha? All good? So so you're happy with this?
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Speaker 6: No, I'd say we're not happy with it, to be honest.
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Speaker 6: And I don't think either of the rockfishers. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I think basically what's happened here is the government have
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Speaker 6: been given one small concession in a bill that is
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Speaker 6: essentially a bonfire and will cause the ocean health to
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Speaker 6: degrade further if it's allowed to pass. I don't think
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Speaker 6: that New Zealanders are fooled by one of the worst
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Speaker 6: parts of this bill being removed, but a whole bunch
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Speaker 6: of really problematic things remaining. The bill.
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Speaker 2: What's the most problematic for you is that the fact
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Speaker 2: that you can't come back and argue, You've got a
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Speaker 2: limited timeframe to argue if something goes wrong. What is it?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, well I think en sure. I mean
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Speaker 6: it reads like a wish list to the commercial trawling industry. Still, so, yes,
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Speaker 6: there's the big problem with the kind of erosion of
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Speaker 6: public participation, public consultation, just as you said, the kind
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Speaker 6: of the limit on judicial review, which has been a
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Speaker 6: really useful pathway for groups to actually challenge bad decisions
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Speaker 6: made by the Fisheries minister. And there's also the issue
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Speaker 6: of cameras on boats, because that is a really important
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Speaker 6: part of transparency around this industry that they strug with.
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Speaker 6: But essentially under this bill it says we're going to
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Speaker 6: lock that footage up, you can't access it, and anybody
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Speaker 6: who leaks it, so that includes a journalist individual organization
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Speaker 6: could be finned up to fifty thousand dollars. So it's
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Speaker 6: really problematic. It is essentially silencing all New Zealander's right
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Speaker 6: to have a say and saying the only people who
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Speaker 6: get to talk about what happens in the ocean is
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Speaker 6: the commercial fishing industry.
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Speaker 2: Ellie, you know bottom trawling, which I know you have
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Speaker 2: a big problem with, was reading this morning this is
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Speaker 2: from MPI that the total area trolled in our Exclusive
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Speaker 2: Economic Zone and territorial waters between nineteen ninety and twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four was only eleven percent.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really interesting statistics that the government us. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I think my understanding is that fishable depths in New
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Speaker 6: Zealand is a huge percentage of the fishable depth in
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Speaker 6: New Zealand that has been trolled at some point in
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Speaker 6: our history. And I think you know also, we're incredibly
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Speaker 6: reliant on bottom trawlling in New Zealand and that's a problem.
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Speaker 6: A huge amount of our catch comes from it. We've
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Speaker 6: all watched David Attamraer's Ocean documentary. We've seen the impact.
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Speaker 6: And no matter what the fishing industry says about how
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Speaker 6: bottom trawlling is somehow magically better in New Zealand, it's
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Speaker 6: simply not true. What we could have done under these
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Speaker 6: reforms is start addressing some of those real problems that
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Speaker 6: we're facing in fisheries in New Zealand, like maybe not
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Speaker 6: incentivizing the worst types of fishing bottom trawing and incentivize
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Speaker 6: more selective practices. But actually this just reads like a
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Speaker 6: wish list for the commercial touring industry to make things
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Speaker 6: easier for them.
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Speaker 2: Yeahly appreciate your time. Elie W. Hoope at Greenpeace time
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Speaker 2: is sixteen half to five and Bridge Ryan. I think
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Speaker 2: Shane Jones got exactly what he wanted. The size limit
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Speaker 2: clause served as a distraction and a concession clause to
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Speaker 2: allow him to get other more controversial things through. Okay,
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Speaker 2: to be honest, I don't do a lot of fishing,
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Speaker 2: so for me this is I do like swimming in
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Speaker 2: the ocean, and I know fish are important for the ocean.
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Speaker 2: And it seems a little crazy too if you allow
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Speaker 2: them go and catch fish that haven't even spawned yet,
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Speaker 2: because then how are you replacing a pop relation like
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Speaker 2: that doesn't make much sense, does it. But perhaps angler's
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Speaker 2: out there, fishes out there, if you're heading out this morning,
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Speaker 2: and let us know what you think. Nine two ninety
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Speaker 2: two is the numbers text seventeen minutes after five. You
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Speaker 2: know everyone says there's no jobs around at the moment.
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Speaker 2: We currently have a shortage of electrical engineers. Talk about that.
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Speaker 1: Next, Views and Views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one roof
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Speaker 1: Love where you Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be five nineteen. Savannah Guthrie still hasn't found her mum,
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Speaker 2: or remains of her mum now been missing for well.
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Speaker 2: It feels like an eternity. Her mom, Nancy, was in
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Speaker 2: her eighties and they still don't know who did it.
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Speaker 2: They still don't know where she is. She's done another
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Speaker 2: interview a week.
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Speaker 8: Every night, in the middle of the night, every night,
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Speaker 8: and the darkness. I imagine her terror and it is unthinkable.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann has the latest on that with us at
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Speaker 2: quarter to six, Ryan Britt, you report this morning warning
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Speaker 2: we need a lot more workers in the energy sector,
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Speaker 2: and pretty quickly too. Workforce needs to grow from about
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Speaker 2: eighteen thousand presently to more than thirty twenty forty. Biggest
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Speaker 2: problem is not just hiring workers, but how long it
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Speaker 2: takes to turn new employees into fully competent workers. And
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Speaker 2: they need to be competent to do the job, don't they.
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Speaker 2: Nicki Sutherland Electricity Engineers Association CEO of ME this morning,
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Speaker 2: Hey Nicki, Hey, good morning, morning, good thank you. I
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Speaker 2: was reading in this report that we currently demand exceeding
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Speaker 2: supply for electrical engineers. So if we want a job,
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Speaker 2: we just got to become an electrical engineer.
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Speaker 9: Huh yeah, that's right. Well, v outroousy sector takes people
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Speaker 9: from all different walks of life and all different polls
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Speaker 9: of talent. So electrical engineers by all means that we
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Speaker 9: want people from right across the spectrum.
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Speaker 2: Why is it growing, Why the need to go from
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Speaker 2: eighteen thousand to thirty thousand plus.
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Speaker 9: Well, this is about electrocution electrification, but it's also just
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Speaker 9: about the fact that the electricity sector is becoming now
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Speaker 9: about powering the economy and about the key and apor
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Speaker 9: to prosperity full stop. We should be very proud of
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Speaker 9: our electricity sector. We're one of the most innovative and
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Speaker 9: most renewable on the planet. So it's an attractive case
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Speaker 9: that people come to work, and we just need more
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Speaker 9: people for today and for the future.
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Speaker 2: Is the problem attracting them to the idea of working
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Speaker 2: in the energy sector or is the problem training the
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Speaker 2: people up that you've got to be good enough.
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Speaker 9: Well, there's a mix of both, really, and the reason
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Speaker 9: that we're looking at this now is it's about future
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Speaker 9: proofing the industry that we're realizing increasingly is fundamental to prosperity.
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Speaker 9: We're saying there's no crisis now, so we've identified the
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Speaker 9: issues that we need to get ahead of and putting
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Speaker 9: a plan in place.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Nicki, Thank you. Nicki Sutherlands
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Speaker 2: with us. Who is Electricity Engineer's CEO. It is twenty
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Speaker 2: two minutes after five. Coming next talk about the war
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Speaker 2: a little bit. Also, I'll tell you fill you in
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Speaker 2: on how much we are shelling out for the judge
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Speaker 2: who got in trouble at the Northern Club.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on Ihart Radio,
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Speaker 1: power by News Talks ITV.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty four News Talks B. Everyone keeps asking why
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Speaker 2: the world feels so hectic at the moment. If life
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Speaker 2: were a movie, surely they would call it one battle
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Speaker 2: after another. Winston Peter's Judith Collins, all of their counterparts
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Speaker 2: in Europe, pretty much everywhere else in the world all
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Speaker 2: agree we're living in the most dangerous era since the
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Speaker 2: world wars. But why, Yes, there's Trump. He's unpredictable, he's
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Speaker 2: a bit nuts. But Trump is really just a symptom
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Speaker 2: of a wider problem, which is basically the decline of America.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it the last death rattle of a superpower who
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Speaker 2: knows its time is up. China's military spending grew from
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Speaker 2: one sixth to one third of America's in the past decade.
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Speaker 2: India about to overtake Germany is the third largest economy
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Speaker 2: in the world. The Russians still hammering Ukraine four years
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Speaker 2: into a European War, and now Iran. But the world
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Speaker 2: has lived through bigger wars before. It survived bigger battles.
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Speaker 2: It survived the Spanish flu, It's COVID. What's really changed
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Speaker 2: that makes this field more doomsday is basically two things.
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Speaker 2: I reckon globalization and technology. Took us thousands of years
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Speaker 2: to invent the wheel. Remember that, well, you won't. It
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Speaker 2: was long time ago. But in just the last six months,
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Speaker 2: we've created the most popular open source technology project humanity
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Speaker 2: has ever seen. It's called openclre. If you haven't seen it,
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Speaker 2: google it. It's an AI personal assistan thaty can basically
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Speaker 2: run your entire life at the click of a button.
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Speaker 2: That's happened in six months. It didn't exist six months ago.
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Speaker 2: We invent new technologies and the technologies now invent things themselves.
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Speaker 2: They reshape labor markets, they reshape entire economies and warfare.
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Speaker 2: All you need now is a couple of thirty thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars drones, few speed boats, and you can hold the
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Speaker 2: world to ransom, not nuke's, not a standing army, just
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Speaker 2: a couple of drones and a boat. We've made global
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Speaker 2: trade and air travels so efficient that we've come to
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Speaker 2: rely on it more heavily than we ever have before.
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Speaker 2: We close our oil refineries, we import it instead, So
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Speaker 2: when someone catches the flu in China, or oil gets
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Speaker 2: choked in the Middle East, we're basically buggered. News travels fast,
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Speaker 2: we know what's happened as soon as it happens, and
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Speaker 2: so too the effects of crisis and chaos abroad. Maybe
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Speaker 2: the world only feels so dangerous because we've made it
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Speaker 2: so small. Ram Breage on twenty seven minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Now you know the judge and the m Apken is
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Speaker 2: her name? Judge at the Northern Club. Few glasses of
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Speaker 2: Champagne accused of shouting life at Winston Peters. There was
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Speaker 2: a New Zealand first event happening at the Northern Club.
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Speaker 2: Northern Clubs for those not in I didn't know what
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Speaker 2: it was before I moved to Auckland. It's where all
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Speaker 2: the really rich, fancy people go and drink champagne. So
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Speaker 2: she's there under that's not disputed, accused of shouting lyar
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Speaker 2: at Winston and then says when it all comes out
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Speaker 2: in the wash that she didn't know it was Winston Peters,
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Speaker 2: politician of some forty years in New Zealand. No, didn't
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Speaker 2: realize it was him speaking. Okay, So we've now got
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Speaker 2: the receipts the bill for her legal fees, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is where because she could get a telling off,
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Speaker 2: she could actually get fired. She's before the Judicial Conduct
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Speaker 2: Panel that's where judges go to get judged. And taxpayers
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Speaker 2: hold on to your corn flakes this morning, because there
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Speaker 2: are some numbers on how much it's costing us, of
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Speaker 2: course in legal fees one million dollars overall, one million
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Speaker 2: dollars so far. Things not even over yet. So Aiken's
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Speaker 2: legal representation has already cost three hundred and sixty two
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Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty dollars, making it the single most
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Speaker 2: expensive part of the inquiry. That's the defense, the Ministry
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Speaker 2: of Justice support for the panel covering judges fees travel.
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Speaker 2: It has added another one hundred and forty one thousand,
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Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars. Crown Law has spent more than four
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two thousand dollars funding special counsel and
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Speaker 2: their support stuff. So when judges get in trouble, it
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Speaker 2: becomes a very expensive business for the rest of us.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't it one more thing to get to on the war?
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Speaker 2: And we all talk too much about the latest of it.
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Speaker 2: He's obviously in the US, but I was reading in
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Speaker 2: the New York Times this morning, so the Gulf States
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Speaker 2: are kind of upset with Trump because he's talking about
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Speaker 2: a peace plan. They're like, well, Ti ho, buddy, don't
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Speaker 2: be so eager to get a deal done. And you
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Speaker 2: might think, well, why your countries, you know, the UAE,
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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia getting with drones, their oil fields have been affected.
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Speaker 2: Why on earth would you not want the wa to
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Speaker 2: be over? Well, they kind of lobbying him to stick
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Speaker 2: with the war until Iran is weak at the knees
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Speaker 2: and doesn't pose a threat, because if you do a
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Speaker 2: deal now, sign a deal now when they're not completely obliterated,
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Speaker 2: which clearly they're not, because they're still firing missiles and drones.
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Speaker 2: Then they will come back for another suck of the
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Speaker 2: save another day twenty nine after five News Talks B
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann and we'll talk to James Meager on aviation
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Speaker 2: and how much you have flights are gonna cost. News TALKSBB.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live. News Talks BT to.
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Speaker 2: Far Away from six News'd be a great to have
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Speaker 2: you coming this morning. We'll get to Mitch McCann out
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Speaker 2: of the US shortly and James Meager, who's Minister of
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Speaker 2: Planes before six on those Jetstar accounts and what's coming next.
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Speaker 2: The surcharge band story. This is just a weird one
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Speaker 2: for your Thursday morning. So Scott Simpson, consumer Affairs Minister,
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Speaker 2: he proposed this, you remember we spoke about this months
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Speaker 2: ago now, proposed a ban on the surcharges. When you
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Speaker 2: go pay with payWave with a credit card, they put
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Speaker 2: a surcharge on. Government was going to ban the surcharge
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Speaker 2: and the retailers didn't like that, of course, because they
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Speaker 2: said they get charged stuff and they need to pass
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Speaker 2: it on. So there was a problem. Then they Retailians
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Speaker 2: puts out a statement which was actually embargo till six am,
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Speaker 2: so technically we shouldn't be talking about it. But well,
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Speaker 2: at this point the horse has bolted. Who cares? So
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Speaker 2: retail INSI says, celebrate the end of the proposed card
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Speaker 2: surcharge ban. Retail in Z understands the card surcharge ban
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Speaker 2: proposed by Scott Simpson will not proceed any further. This
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Speaker 2: term a huge win. We like to thank David Seymour.
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Speaker 2: And then Scott Simpson's Consumer Affairs Minister's office says, retailians,
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Speaker 2: that is wrong. This is what they've told our newsroom.
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Speaker 2: Retail ezet is wrong. No further decisions have been made
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Speaker 2: on the ban on surcharges. So is there a ban
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Speaker 2: or not a little confusing. I think probably what's happening
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Speaker 2: here is so keywords in this term. So the surcharge,
19:24
Speaker 2: the proposed surcharge won't happen this term, and I think
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Speaker 2: you can probably there's enough wriggle room in what Simpson's
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Speaker 2: saying to for that still to be the case. Looks
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Speaker 2: like actors kicked up a bit of a fuss. Twenty
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Speaker 2: two to six.
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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to our reporters Cullum and dned Morning. Callum, right,
19:39
Speaker 2: what's up with this counselor? Is it it bonkers or what?
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: Look, it's not the best look is it for our council.
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Speaker 11: Hearings and Eden were talking about the embattled counselor of
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Speaker 11: the Belague Counselor, Benedict Dong. After yesterday's dramatic meeting. He says, look,
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Speaker 11: he's not going to resign, despite calls from fellow colleagues
19:58
Speaker 11: to step down.
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Speaker 2: This is yesterday.
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Speaker 11: Ryan voted overwhelmingly for Ong to be censured, stripped of roles,
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Speaker 11: and have his pay cut after this investigation found a
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Speaker 11: serious breach of the Council's code of conduct. This complaint
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Speaker 11: related to an email he scent about a staff member,
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Speaker 11: which he also shared with media. Our Mayor Sophie Barker
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Speaker 11: says she was horrified by the report. She says that
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Speaker 11: Ong's behavior is unacceptable. However, Og says he's not resigning
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Speaker 11: and he's the one owed an apology.
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Speaker 2: Do we know exactly what Og did wrong?
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Speaker 11: Well, it's all there in black and white on social media.
20:34
Speaker 11: There's quite a lot of it. You can scroll through
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Speaker 11: and it's all kind of played out in the in
20:38
Speaker 11: the public eye. But despite that, the findings of you know,
20:44
Speaker 11: of that investigations, he's standing his ground.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 11: How's your weather camemp, But we today morning drizzle, occasional
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Speaker 11: rain from midday nor easterly and seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Cheers, mate, Thank you Claire and christ this morning, Claire,
20:56
Speaker 2: good morning. What's happening at Lincoln University? Of these job losses, Yes,
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Speaker 2: we do have job losses.
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Speaker 12: In fact, Lincoln University is looking to cut about forty
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Speaker 12: full time equivalent roles. The university is starting to offer
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Speaker 12: voluntary redundancies as well as early retirement packages in order
21:13
Speaker 12: to help reduce staff numbers maintain financial stability beyond this year.
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Speaker 12: And they say positioned themselves as a specialist at university
21:21
Speaker 12: for the land based sectors. Now Union branch president doctor
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Speaker 12: corvinc says staff are obviously very upset and worried for
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Speaker 12: those who may lose their jobs and those who will
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Speaker 12: have to carry on there but take on the additional workload.
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Speaker 12: He says, the cuts that may well mean that Lincoln
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Speaker 12: loses some of its world class academics.
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Speaker 2: Right, how's your weather cloudy?
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Speaker 8: Here a bit.
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Speaker 12: Apatche drizzle about turning to rain from about mid day
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Speaker 12: northeasterlies rising to gale for Banks Peninsula at a high
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Speaker 12: of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire Max in Wellington Morning Max, Good morning.
21:53
Speaker 2: Ministers getting involved in this water build thing.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, we spoke yesterday about the region's incoming water entity
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Speaker 13: tiaqi y replacing Wellington Water and these these high bills
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Speaker 13: that are going to start arriving in people's letterboxes in
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Speaker 13: a few months sort of late July early August, several
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Speaker 13: thousand dollars a year, A bit of a nasty surprise
22:12
Speaker 13: I expect for a lot of people. The local government
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Speaker 13: minister Simon Watts now says he is really concerned for
22:19
Speaker 13: Wellington ratepayers and these charges are much higher than what
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Speaker 13: officials were told originally to expect. We are being told
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Speaker 13: to expect an annual bill on average twenty four hundred
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Speaker 13: this year, rising to close to seven grand a year
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Speaker 13: within a decade for water. Simon Watts is seeking a
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Speaker 13: please explain tiaqi why, says the information it had last
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Speaker 13: year has simply changed.
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Speaker 2: Right. How's your with the cloudy with rain developing? Eighteen
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Speaker 2: all right? Thanks Max, Good morning, neighbors. Good morning. We've
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Speaker 2: got an arterial route. Proposed arterial route north of Auckland, end.
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Speaker 14: Delays, delays, shock horror PenLink connecting State Highway one to
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Speaker 14: the funk Paola Peninsula expeacture to open in late twenty
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Speaker 14: twenty nine. Now, this was initially sent to open this year,
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Speaker 14: although that opening day to being pushed out to twenty
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Speaker 14: twenty eight. So it's the delay of a delay. And
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Speaker 14: now I'm telling you that it's going to be open
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Speaker 14: in twenty twenty nine, which.
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Speaker 2: Means you'll come back later and say twenty thirty and
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Speaker 2: then you're say twenty thirty one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we did by.
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Speaker 14: The end, by the time it opens, and you're quite right.
23:23
Speaker 14: So NZTAC is building the bridge over the Wetty River.
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Speaker 14: That's the critical connection point. So apparently you know, that's
23:30
Speaker 14: proven more time consuming than expected.
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Speaker 2: All right, Hey, how's that weather today? But we're out
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Speaker 2: there this morning.
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Speaker 14: Oh yes, backs down the hatches, rain, heavy falls, strong northeasterlies.
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Speaker 14: Gale Wins twenty one is high here in Auckland.
23:42
Speaker 2: Neither. Thank you very much. Good to see you. Eighteen
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Speaker 2: minutes away from six News Talk, said b. We'll get
23:47
Speaker 2: to Mitch mccan stateside.
23:48
Speaker 14: Next.
23:49
Speaker 2: Now, when most of us think of Fiji, we tend
23:52
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23:55
Speaker 2: maybe a romantic getaway with the other half. Nothing wrong
23:58
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24:02
Speaker 2: We've all been there, done that. But what doesn't come
24:04
Speaker 2: to mind that often, though, is the idea of absolute luxury. Well,
24:08
Speaker 2: here's an update for you. Fiji does luxury just as
24:11
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24:15
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24:22
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24:27
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24:30
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24:34
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24:37
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24:51
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Speaker 1: Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind for
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Speaker 1: New Zealand business supporting.
25:05
Speaker 2: To six for the lated from the war. Apparently, Iran
25:07
Speaker 2: has said no to Trump's peace plan. Mitch McCann stateside
25:09
Speaker 2: for us much, is it true?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that is the reporting that Iran has basically said no,
25:14
Speaker 7: thank you to this fifteen point peace pan from the
25:17
Speaker 7: United States.
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Speaker 8: Ryan.
25:18
Speaker 7: The details of the plan aren't confirmed, but they reportedly
25:22
Speaker 7: include Iran's nuclear program, support of militant groups, it's ballistic
25:26
Speaker 7: missile arsenal, and conditions.
25:28
Speaker 2: For opening the Strait of Hormuz.
25:30
Speaker 7: Now the Financial Times is reporting that that plan has
25:33
Speaker 7: been rejected by Iran, and Iran has said someone like
25:36
Speaker 7: us will never come to terms with someone like you,
25:39
Speaker 7: not now, not ever. So this is moving very quickly.
25:42
Speaker 7: But also at the same time, Ryan, it seems mixed
25:45
Speaker 7: messages slightly from the United States. On one hand, it's
25:49
Speaker 7: proposing a plan here. On the other it's sending two
25:52
Speaker 7: thousand paratroopers to the Middle East to give the White
25:55
Speaker 7: House more options, So on one hand offering a peace plan,
25:58
Speaker 7: on the other sending more true.
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Speaker 2: The newsread is Savannah Guthrie her mum. Nancy's no sign
26:04
Speaker 2: where she went yet. In another interview, that's right.
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Speaker 7: She has been missing since the first of February. No
26:09
Speaker 7: sign of Nancy Guthrie. But Savannah Guthrie has appeared back
26:12
Speaker 7: on the Today Show, her program on the US and
26:15
Speaker 7: she said that to think of what she went through,
26:18
Speaker 7: I wake up every night in the middle of the
26:20
Speaker 7: night and in the darkness, I imagine her terror. It's unthinkable,
26:24
Speaker 7: and the family have offered a one million dollar reward.
26:26
Speaker 7: She said she needs to come home now. But it
26:29
Speaker 7: seems there are no updates in this case. No one
26:31
Speaker 7: still knows where Nancy Guthrie is.
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Speaker 2: Mitch mccairn stateside for us this morning. Appreciate your updates.
26:37
Speaker 2: Thirteen minutes away from six graham Bridge jets start cutting
26:41
Speaker 2: twelve percent of its flights Auckland, christ Church and Wellington's
26:43
Speaker 2: some trans Tasmin affected as well. We have just over
26:46
Speaker 2: twenty days of jet fuel left more shipments on the way.
26:49
Speaker 2: We've told James Meager, Associate Transport Minister, Minister, good morning.
26:53
Speaker 10: Morning, right.
26:54
Speaker 2: So Jetstar won't be the last to do this, will they.
26:58
Speaker 2: Well I am not the first either.
26:59
Speaker 10: So airlines have responded to the spike in fuel price
27:04
Speaker 10: and jet fuel price by i rationalizing some of their
27:07
Speaker 10: roots and trying to reduce some of their costs as well.
27:10
Speaker 10: So they're doing what I think a lot of normal
27:12
Speaker 10: people are doing, which is looking at the price of
27:15
Speaker 10: doing business and just trying to make sure that they
27:18
Speaker 10: can maintain their own viability.
27:20
Speaker 2: When you talk about the jet fuel stocks, so twenty days,
27:23
Speaker 2: that's how much is in country. How certain are we
27:25
Speaker 2: have what's to come after it? Pretty certain?
27:29
Speaker 10: So I think the latest figures out from MBR that
27:32
Speaker 10: these forty three days are either on shore or on way,
27:37
Speaker 10: and we've had no indications that will drop significantly over
27:42
Speaker 10: the next week, while we've got I think indications of
27:45
Speaker 10: a couple of tankers on routes and I know that
27:47
Speaker 10: there was one in TIM report yesterday loading to help
27:52
Speaker 10: fill up those stocks. So we're pretty confident that we've
27:55
Speaker 10: got the levels that are within the normal range, but
27:57
Speaker 10: we are keeping an eye on it.
27:59
Speaker 2: What is the normal range? Are we even close to
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Speaker 2: off the normal range right now? In terms of Ford orders.
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Speaker 10: Normally we look at about fifty days, and so we
28:09
Speaker 10: have seen that come back a little bit, so we're
28:12
Speaker 10: at about forty three at the moment. But there's nothing
28:15
Speaker 10: to indicate that the orders that we have had placed
28:18
Speaker 10: around the world aren't on the way. We haven't had
28:20
Speaker 10: any signs of disruption, but again, officials in the NBA
28:24
Speaker 10: are keeping an eye on that and reporting those numbers
28:27
Speaker 10: you've read a couple of days. I'm trying to be
28:29
Speaker 10: as transparent about those numbers as possible as well.
28:31
Speaker 2: If you have to ration jet fuel, who gets it first?
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Speaker 10: Well, there's been this situation before a couple of times.
28:39
Speaker 10: I think the aviation industry, amongst most industries, are actually experienced,
28:45
Speaker 10: as there was the fuel issue back in twenty seventeen,
28:47
Speaker 10: and then we of course we're COVID and so those
28:50
Speaker 10: decisions are still to be made by ministers and it'll
28:53
Speaker 10: be a discussion that's had by industry, and I think
28:56
Speaker 10: industry understands the challenge at hand and they are just
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Speaker 10: i think wanting to be part of that decision and
29:03
Speaker 10: to be able to input into what's the best way
29:04
Speaker 10: to odo CAPE.
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Speaker 2: So at this point you haven't made any decisions about
29:08
Speaker 2: who's what the pecking order is.
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Speaker 10: No, and I don't think we're at that point yet.
29:13
Speaker 10: If you look at other countries around the world, they're
29:15
Speaker 10: in a similar situation where there's still a sufficient supply
29:19
Speaker 10: around the world. Now, obviously that's something that everyone's keeping
29:22
Speaker 10: an eye on, and when it comes to the point
29:24
Speaker 10: where it looks like it's tightening up, we will have
29:25
Speaker 10: to make decisions. But we're not at that point yet,
29:28
Speaker 10: but we will be led by industry as to how
29:30
Speaker 10: they think the best way the ALLO cap would be.
29:32
Speaker 2: Minster If I'm looking at flying or my family's looking
29:34
Speaker 2: at flying in the next couple of months, how much
29:36
Speaker 2: extra I mean, if you had advice from officials, and
29:39
Speaker 2: how much extra the price increases going to be.
29:44
Speaker 10: No, no specifics because it will just depend on how
29:48
Speaker 10: the conflict unfolds. We know that airlines are doing a
29:53
Speaker 10: couple of things. One is that they're putting specific surcharges
29:57
Speaker 10: to cover the price of fuel. The other thing is
29:59
Speaker 10: that they are baking it into the price of their tickets.
30:02
Speaker 10: So it is difficult to tell I mean for airlines,
30:04
Speaker 10: I think they would admit that there's only so much
30:06
Speaker 10: that they can charge before it will damp and demand
30:09
Speaker 10: and people will just choose other alternatives to get around.
30:12
Speaker 10: And we understand that's tough, and that's why we've put
30:14
Speaker 10: out this targeted cost of living payment to support loan,
30:19
Speaker 10: middle and home working families. But at this point there's
30:23
Speaker 10: no real way to tell what the specific price increases
30:26
Speaker 10: might or might not be.
30:27
Speaker 2: Are you read of any other cuts coming?
30:30
Speaker 10: No, I'm not any other cuts coming.
30:32
Speaker 2: What about the CIA fees and the regional air loans.
30:35
Speaker 2: I spoke to ear Chadams a couple of weeks ago.
30:37
Speaker 2: They hadn't got a send of it yet. Are you
30:38
Speaker 2: looking at fast tracking any of that money or cutting
30:40
Speaker 2: any of the fees?
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Speaker 10: That wouldn't be my preferred option. We had that situation
30:45
Speaker 10: during COVID where CIA levees were suppressed or held low
30:50
Speaker 10: for quite a while. What that does is that eats
30:52
Speaker 10: into the base of all the revenue of the regulator,
30:55
Speaker 10: and we still have to actually fund that regulator in
30:59
Speaker 10: order to keep a safe aviation system. And you see
31:02
Speaker 10: what happens a couple of years down the track. Those
31:05
Speaker 10: levees have to be restored in the prices spike, and
31:07
Speaker 10: that puts more pressure on regional airlines. So our preference
31:10
Speaker 10: at this stage is to look at the regional connectivity
31:13
Speaker 10: fun We've got thirty million dollar fund, make some decisions
31:16
Speaker 10: around allocating that to the airlines who have applied, including chatams,
31:20
Speaker 10: and see if we can stabilize the regional airline septive
31:23
Speaker 10: by providing them a bit of direct relief.
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Speaker 2: That way, all right, go well, James, Thank you, James,
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Speaker 2: Mega Associate Transport News Talk SVB.
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Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love where you
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Speaker 1: Live News talks 'B.
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Speaker 2: Six away from six News Talks ZB. Apparently the Ministry
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Speaker 2: of Education is looking at contingency plans for remote learning
31:46
Speaker 2: for kids who can't get to score because of the
31:48
Speaker 2: price of petrol. So that's great, isn't it, Because we
31:51
Speaker 2: just went through COVID and we know how well that went.
31:54
Speaker 2: Same goes for people calling for subsidies, calling for wage subsidies,
31:58
Speaker 2: calling for petrol subsidy, these all sorts of different things.
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Speaker 2: We just you know, we just did all of that
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Speaker 2: and we know how that went. But here we are again, Mike,
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Speaker 2: Good morning morning.
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Speaker 15: I'm just looking in California. They're about to deliver that
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Speaker 15: in the social media thing, and on top of New
32:15
Speaker 15: Mexico yesterday, which was they're calling the big Tobacco moment
32:19
Speaker 15: for social media. If this goes wrong for them, that's
32:21
Speaker 15: a bad week in court, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, three hundred and seventy million dollars for the use today.
32:25
Speaker 2: It's a lot of money.
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Speaker 15: Well, it's not the money. I think it's it's the tide,
32:29
Speaker 15: you know, it's the tide has turned, and I think
32:31
Speaker 15: big text in big, big trouble.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, do you think the problem is that parents don't
32:35
Speaker 2: aren't aware of how bad giving a cat aphone is.
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Speaker 15: To be a combination of two well being parent myself,
32:41
Speaker 15: I can having lived through the whole experience, there are
32:43
Speaker 15: two things going on. One you do know, but don't
32:46
Speaker 15: know how to do enough about it because you.
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Speaker 2: Take the phone off them.
32:49
Speaker 15: Yeah, Ran, you've got to have kids to be in
32:51
Speaker 15: that particular world, and so yes, in theory it works.
32:55
Speaker 15: In reality it doesn't.
32:56
Speaker 2: Because their friends have them because they're friends.
32:58
Speaker 15: And the pressure and the stress and all that's the stuff.
33:00
Speaker 15: And I mean, if you if you follow those two
33:02
Speaker 15: court cases, what what goes on, I mean, what Zuckerberg
33:05
Speaker 15: says and what he does are two different things totally,
33:07
Speaker 15: and that's fundamentallyable.
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Speaker 2: And they'll come out the other end. It won't change
33:10
Speaker 2: anything because that's what they.
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Speaker 15: I know, I knowe with interest in Britain, they rejected
33:16
Speaker 15: the band the other day and they're going to do
33:18
Speaker 15: a social trial and so they're going to get a
33:21
Speaker 15: collection of three hundred young people and they're going to
33:24
Speaker 15: turn some of them are going to turn off their
33:25
Speaker 15: social media, some of them are going to take their
33:27
Speaker 15: phones off them, others are just going to be normal.
33:29
Speaker 15: Then they're going to talk to the parents and talk
33:31
Speaker 15: to the kids to find out what happened. Did it
33:33
Speaker 15: change your life?
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Speaker 2: Are you on board?
33:35
Speaker 11: Are you not?
33:36
Speaker 15: And presumably if they all say it's great idea, then
33:38
Speaker 15: they go and burn it.
33:39
Speaker 2: Then there's replacement therapy where you should just make the
33:41
Speaker 2: kids do other stuff like run or do sports, or
33:44
Speaker 2: just force them to be doing something else.
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Speaker 15: Indeed, anyway you were talking about, see more on that
33:49
Speaker 15: education thing. Yes, weird is this COVID two point zero one?
33:53
Speaker 15: Has you got those sort of vibe that depressing?
33:55
Speaker 2: Also the surcharge thing to you heard about the searcharge.
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Speaker 15: Everyone got a handout at the moment. You give me
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Speaker 15: some money, give me three of this mind job just
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Speaker 15: quickly on the EV's by d Yeah. Sold out, no way, literally,
34:09
Speaker 15: numbers are in sold out.
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Speaker 2: There you go. News Talk Set B Mike next Set.
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