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Full Show Podcast: 27 November 2025 · 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 2: Good morning, Welcome to Thursday. Great to have your company.
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  Speaker 2: Nichola Willis before six on growth in the ocr Mitch
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  Speaker 2: mccannon stateside for US, Simon Bridges wants a cat, not
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  Speaker 2: a ban on surcharges and how much compo do they
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  Speaker 2: want for that Northerland pile on power balls up. We'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you the agenda. Thursday, the twenty seventh and November.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible scenes out of Hong Kong this morning. A massive
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  Speaker 2: apartment blocks on fire. Thirteen people have died, fifteen injured
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  Speaker 2: and seven hundred firefighters going at it.
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  Speaker 3: So if irespreading quickly to nearby buildings, and we receive
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  Speaker 3: numerous assistance call from the public, and also Debri and
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  Speaker 3: Star building of the better buildings are falling down, so
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  Speaker 3: post additional danger to our frontline personnel.
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  Speaker 2: To the US. You know Trump's mate Steve Whitcoff, he's
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the Russians on Ukraine. Apparently caught coaching Putin
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  Speaker 2: on how to deal with Trump. Basically said Stroke his
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  Speaker 2: ego and call on the President of Peace. That's what
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  Speaker 2: the deal maker do. You got to said, Look, they
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  Speaker 2: want this, You've got to convince him with this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't heard it, but I heard it was the
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  Speaker 4: standard negotiation and I would imagine he's saying the same
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  Speaker 4: thing to Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll talked to Mitch mccaenn about that later
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  Speaker 2: in the show. To the UK we Go, Rachel Reeves
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  Speaker 2: had to deliver her budget baby early after someone hit
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  Speaker 2: send on the email. Whoopsie.
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  Speaker 5: Today's budget bill's on the choices that we have made
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  Speaker 5: since July last year to cut NHS waiting lists, to
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  Speaker 5: cut the cost of living, and to cut tax and borrowing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you the details on a second. But here's
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  Speaker 2: the pushback in the house.
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  Speaker 6: Far too much noise, and I expect it's so much
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  Speaker 6: better from your dog to leave Evans energy.
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  Speaker 5: Chancellor. I'm happy for them to shout as not so
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  Speaker 5: much as they like Madame Jacket Speaker, as long as
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  Speaker 5: they do it from the opposition benches, but they can't
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  Speaker 5: call him.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on Early Edition with Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Bridge and r V Supercenter, explore r v's accessories and
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  Speaker 2: One news talk. Simon down two is the numbers text. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I will start with what happened overnight, because we've been
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  Speaker 2: talking about Reeves and her budget for a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks now anticipating this, so excited by this. And then
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  Speaker 2: we'll come to you know, the Reserve Bank a little
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  Speaker 2: later on the program. So here's what happened overnight. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: reads and her budget bit of a disaster gets leaked
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  Speaker 2: or they're calling it a release error whatever. She's sitting
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  Speaker 2: there in Parliament and Star's talking and then you can
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  Speaker 2: see the moment she looks down at her phone and
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  Speaker 2: she goes, oh, crumbs, it's out. You could see the
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  Speaker 2: moment she realize that this, you know, this is a
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  Speaker 2: prized baby and it's out there before she's read it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of bits, because we've been, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: on about this, and then we'll talk about what it
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  Speaker 2: means for us. There is some stuff in there that
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  Speaker 2: is kind of relevant to us. So this UK labor
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  Speaker 2: government has now increased taxes more than any other British
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  Speaker 2: government in recent history. And remember they said they weren't
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  Speaker 2: going to do that. While they've done it, the frozen
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  Speaker 2: the income tax thresholds for longer. That's your bracket creep,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where more people creep into higher brackets and
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  Speaker 2: then end up paying more tax. They've got a new
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  Speaker 2: mansion tax coming for the rich. They are getting rid
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  Speaker 2: of the two child cap on welfare that's gone. So
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  Speaker 2: have as many babies as you like and you'll get
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  Speaker 2: benefits for it. But the bit that should worry us
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  Speaker 2: a little bit is growth. They're going to grow slower
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  Speaker 2: than we thought they were from next year. Same problem
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  Speaker 2: we have here. It's lower productivity, lower growth. And you
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  Speaker 2: add to that the fact that the US consumer confidence
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  Speaker 2: just took a massive punch to the guts. The globe
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  Speaker 2: economy more generally won't grow as fast next year as
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  Speaker 2: it did this year. Our farmers milk prices in free fall.
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  Speaker 2: All this stuff matters because, well you know this, we're
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  Speaker 2: a small trading nation and as the Reserve Bank said yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: for us to grow, the world must grow. Also, don't worry,
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  Speaker 2: it's not all bad news. I'm not here to ruin
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  Speaker 2: your Thursday morning because China, Germany, Japan, there's a couple
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  Speaker 2: of others they've all announced massive spending, you know, stimulus packages,
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  Speaker 2: which should give things a bit of a tickle up,
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  Speaker 2: which is what we need. And Goldman Sachs came out
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  Speaker 2: just in the last couple of days. They reckon China,
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  Speaker 2: which is of course our biggest trading partner buys our stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They will grow faster next year than we thought they would.
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  Speaker 2: So there basically is the good, the bad, and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: not next year the ugly. You're on News Talks there
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  Speaker 2: be it's just going eleven minutes after five. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Northfolk next for the lady they're going to sue. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: we want the businesses. There were twenty thousand of them.
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  Speaker 2: Power was out for days and they we want some compensation.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. How much News Talk SETB News.
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  Speaker 1: And Views you trust to start your day. It's earlier
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  Speaker 1: this ship with Bryan Bridge and r V Supercenter explore
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  Speaker 1: at B five thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Niicola willis on the show after six and we'll ask
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  Speaker 2: her about the Regulatary Standards Bill repelling things. She mentioned
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  Speaker 2: on Nick Mills yesterday in Wellington that they might campaign
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  Speaker 2: like New Zealand first have said they will do on
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  Speaker 2: repelling the thing.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we haven't taken a position yet, but it's not
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  Speaker 6: impossible that we would go to the campaign trail saying
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  Speaker 6: yes we met our coalition commitment, we supported that into law,
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  Speaker 6: but actually we agree with the concerns of some people.
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  Speaker 6: It hasn't operated as we hoped and we want to
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  Speaker 6: repel it.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about this is the Regular Stands Bill. I
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  Speaker 2: don't I principle, I agree with what it says, but
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  Speaker 2: it basically adds a layer of bureaucracy that you get
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  Speaker 2: a board and none of it is legally binding. No,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot force the government to do anything through the
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  Speaker 2: Regulatory Standards Act. The board that will be set up
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  Speaker 2: is just It would be a bunch of guys being
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  Speaker 2: paid who knows how much money to tell you something
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  Speaker 2: that you probably already knew, and you can ignore anyway.
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  Speaker 2: The government can ignore it. So what is the point
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  Speaker 2: in it. I don't think it's a silly idea to
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  Speaker 2: campaign against fourteen After five, Bryan, the Northern Pilon fiasco
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  Speaker 2: is heading to court. Remember last June you had the
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  Speaker 2: workers removing the bolts. The pylon falls over and region
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  Speaker 2: goes dark for days. Twenty thousand businesses hit and now
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  Speaker 2: they're taking Transpowder court to get their money back. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much. Grant McCallum is MP for Northam joining
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  Speaker 2: me now, hey Grant.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: What was the damage Well, they used to.
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  Speaker 7: Made it anywhere between sixteen eighty million dollars losses across
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  Speaker 7: the region. So that'll be ultimately have to be proven
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  Speaker 7: by people if it's going to be if the claim
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  Speaker 7: is going to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: You're supporting this.
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  Speaker 7: I encouraged anyone who wants feels that be how done
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  Speaker 7: by the explore Avenue and some local businesses have and
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  Speaker 7: I think and all powers them because there were definitely
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  Speaker 7: losses across the north and now the question is whether
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  Speaker 7: they're legally stacks up and they get something out of it.
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  Speaker 2: It does it? Well, what's your have they had? They've
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  Speaker 2: obviously got a legal opinion on that. They think it
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  Speaker 2: does not.
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  Speaker 7: My place to get in front of the court process,
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  Speaker 7: but let's just see where it lands. But we all
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  Speaker 7: know what happened and the reports are showing what happened,
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  Speaker 7: which to this day is still big as belief. But
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  Speaker 7: so yes, there's a legal process and lets follow it through.
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  Speaker 2: Has there been any ongoing effects? Like obviously there was
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  Speaker 2: the few days where they were down, But did it
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  Speaker 2: cause it? Is it still causing problems?
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  Speaker 7: Not directly, but I know it put a lot of
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  Speaker 7: stress on one or two businesses I know up north.
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  Speaker 7: The loss of power for a big business like J
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  Speaker 7: and L the mill and Ki Tire, which is out
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  Speaker 7: of the they didn't compare on for four or five
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  Speaker 7: days was significant. And that's a business that, like a
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  Speaker 7: lot of mills, are struggling, so that was not helpful
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  Speaker 7: to them. So yeah, the effect has been lingering, you
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  Speaker 7: might say. But yeah, and I know there've been a
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  Speaker 7: number of business ohs who have been quite annoyed with
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  Speaker 7: the whole thing and the fact that transpower and the
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  Speaker 7: of you haven't and their of you haven't compensated them.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Hey, Grandele's having a look at your electorate
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  Speaker 2: numbers from last election. Are you worried about next year?
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  Speaker 7: I'm working hard to get around the electric mate and
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  Speaker 7: do my best. The electors will make their mind up.
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  Speaker 7: I'm always worried about what electors want, and I get
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  Speaker 7: out there and listen to them. I guess I drove
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  Speaker 7: up to Kaye Tyre from home. That's three hours each
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  Speaker 7: way to attend the memorial service. An amazing man from
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  Speaker 7: Kai ty and Monty Night. It was a really, really
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  Speaker 7: amazing services. It was a real leader and all. So
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  Speaker 7: it's the sort of thing you do your best.
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  Speaker 2: Grant, are you one of these backbenchers worried about your boss?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, he's doing a tough job. Really well, come
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  Speaker 7: on you, I knew you'd go here in this conversation.
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  Speaker 7: You guys can't help yourselves out.
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  Speaker 2: No we can't. So you said it's so excellent job
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  Speaker 2: you would never roll them.
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  Speaker 7: No, of course not. He will need us into the
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  Speaker 7: and the election. He will the election.
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  Speaker 2: Good to talk, Grant mcculloughy in People Northland signs seventeen
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  Speaker 2: after five Ryan Bridge, good news about Huntley. They'll keep
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  Speaker 2: the lights on. This is our backstop. Of course. They've
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  Speaker 2: released Genesis has released its earnings growth and it's on track.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be cash positive out to twenty thirty five, So
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  Speaker 2: for the next decade they'll be making money, which is
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  Speaker 2: good for you, it's good for me, it's good for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Remember there was a period where they were worried about
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  Speaker 2: their future. The financial future. Well, gas kind of put
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  Speaker 2: the kibosh on all of that talk because you know
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  Speaker 2: that the bottom fell out of that, there was the
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  Speaker 2: production collapse, and so coal is your answer. And then
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  Speaker 2: the power companies come together, they do the coal deal
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  Speaker 2: with Huntley and so Huntley is looking safe for at
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  Speaker 2: least the next decade. Eighteen after five Simon Bridges next.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on Early Edition with r V Supercenter explore
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  Speaker 2: News talks. It'd be five twenty on news talks'b this
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  Speaker 2: business about Chris Bishop. He's not going to roll, then
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  Speaker 2: nothing's going to happen before Christmas at the very least,
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  Speaker 2: because you would wait and then do it in the
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  Speaker 2: new year. You need to basically see you know, all
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  Speaker 2: this talk about growth that we heard from the Reserve
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  Speaker 2: Bank yesterday, If that starts to happen, things start looking up.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to roll them. But one thing I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking about, you know, we've been talking about the
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  Speaker 2: election date being November next year. If the only reason
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  Speaker 2: that would change is if he got roll, if Luxon
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  Speaker 2: got rolled by Bishop or whoever, if Luxon got rolled
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  Speaker 2: by Judith, you know, just pick a pick an MP.
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  Speaker 2: Then they would basically roll him. You'd have to get
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  Speaker 2: through the budget, of course, but you would roll him
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  Speaker 2: and then you would get to the poll's quick smart
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  Speaker 2: you would call an early election is too well, not
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  Speaker 2: an early election, but you would call an election as
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  Speaker 2: soon as possible after he was rolled, because you want
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  Speaker 2: to give yourself a shorter runway to make as few
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  Speaker 2: mistakes as you can before you get to twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: After five bread Bread business groups have come up with
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  Speaker 2: a Plan B for the surcharge band. They are proposing
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  Speaker 2: a cap, not a ban, the surcharge on debit cards.
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  Speaker 2: They say should BeWo point five percent, a cap on
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  Speaker 2: personal domestic credit cards one percent. But will the government budge?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question. Simon Bridges, All Business Chamber of CEO. Hey, Simon,
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  Speaker 2: Hey morning, Ryan, good morning. So why do you think
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  Speaker 2: a cap and not a ban? Well, our looks in.
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  Speaker 8: The end, you'd be clear, don't like this bill. I
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  Speaker 8: think it's going to create unintended mess and you know,
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  Speaker 8: actually an important thing. There is basically every submitted to
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  Speaker 8: Parliament and there are a lot didn't like it either.
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  Speaker 8: They saw it as well intentioned but unfair, not transparent.
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  Speaker 2: So so for me, he's basically had a terrible choice.
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  Speaker 8: Either have to suck up the costs and you know
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  Speaker 8: they're working on tin margins that's bad, or they smear
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  Speaker 8: it on everyone and that's very unfair and opaque as well.
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  Speaker 8: So you know why this because I think actually in
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  Speaker 8: the end it's a workable compromise. It deals with the
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  Speaker 8: concern and it's a legitimate concern of excessive surcharges because
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  Speaker 8: you've got this cap that's not very high. On the
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  Speaker 8: other side of it, though, it does mean there's you know,
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  Speaker 8: the retailers, hospo, tourism, these various businesses operating onto the
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  Speaker 8: margins can recoup some of their cost and that's fear
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  Speaker 8: as well. So you know, I think potentially it's a
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  Speaker 8: it's a it's a win win sweet spot for the government,
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  Speaker 8: for business, for consumers.
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  Speaker 2: Simon, if they go with the smear option. Like, let's
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  Speaker 2: assume that the band goes ahead and businesses go with
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  Speaker 2: the smere option. How much extra do we pay in
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  Speaker 2: general prices?
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  Speaker 7: Do you reckon?
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  Speaker 8: Well, because it's it's it's very hard to say, but
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  Speaker 8: I mean I think it would be inflationary. I think
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  Speaker 8: in the end, what happens is very messy. My sense
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  Speaker 8: of it is, you know, you have a bunch of
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  Speaker 8: businesses say you know, we're going to tryout, and the
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  Speaker 8: big ones you say, we're going to try hard to
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  Speaker 8: sort of sort of absorb this, and but then another
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  Speaker 8: others that will think, we know, we are going to
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  Speaker 8: smear it. And they's say you think that that if
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  Speaker 8: you're paying cash, that's unfair. You're paying more when you
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  Speaker 8: shouldn't have. If you're paying f poss, that's unfair because
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  Speaker 8: you're paying more and you shouldn't have.
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  Speaker 2: All a deal with the.
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  Speaker 7: Issue of kind of you know, the tap on tip
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  Speaker 7: tap off.
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  Speaker 2: Cards and the credit cards.
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  Speaker 8: We're actually you know, the focus I've always thought should
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  Speaker 8: be on banks and that the payment providers, your visas
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  Speaker 8: and your master cards. We're making a lot of money
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  Speaker 8: from this.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I want to get your view on that. The
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  Speaker 2: RB and Z yesterday they're saying there is a worry
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  Speaker 2: that once the economy starts to pick up, that businesses
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  Speaker 2: will start hiking prices because you know, they've been holding
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  Speaker 2: off because demand's been subdued, right, so you can't hike
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  Speaker 2: your prices. And then as soon as we've got a
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  Speaker 2: bit of money in our pockets, they start hiking, that's inflationary.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't say it's the biggest issue, and I wouldn't
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  Speaker 8: say it's going to be like dramatically palpable and inflationary.
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  Speaker 8: I think in the end, you know, I've had the
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  Speaker 8: view appreciated. It's pop PEPs, a business and political view
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  Speaker 8: rather than a strictly economic one. That you've got to
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  Speaker 8: pick your poison. You know what would you rather have
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  Speaker 8: lower interest rates a bit of inflation? I think in
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  Speaker 8: this economy, nine out of ten c actually a little
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  Speaker 8: bit of inflation, albeit you know they've got to try
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  Speaker 8: and work hard to keep it with in the band.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I look at next year and I am
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  Speaker 8: I think realistically optimist and thinks are going to slowly
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  Speaker 8: but surely get better. But I think anyone looking for
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  Speaker 8: the Devana in twenty twenty six is preps misplaced, because
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  Speaker 8: reality of it is, you know, you just think about
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  Speaker 8: some of the facts going on. We've got an election.
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  Speaker 8: Close elections mean people stop spending and making investment decisions
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  Speaker 8: for a while. I think the stock market looks like
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  Speaker 8: it's very high. You know, people say to me, who
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  Speaker 8: know it's basically recessionary in America other than the stock
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  Speaker 8: market which.
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  Speaker 2: Is so big.
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  Speaker 8: So any correction there I think makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 8: So you know, for heaven, maybe we've got to wait
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  Speaker 8: till twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Simon always good to get your view. Simon Bridges, All
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  Speaker 2: con Chamber's CEO time is twenty four minutes after five
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  Speaker 2: News Talks ZB. I'll tell you what I thought about
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  Speaker 2: that press conference yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Talk ZB five twenty seven. So what do we know
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  Speaker 2: today that we didn't know yesterday after the big show
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  Speaker 2: from the Reserve Bank. Well, the answer is not much. Really.
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  Speaker 2: The cut was expected priced in their outlook bit more
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  Speaker 2: rosy on growth. It looks like this is the end
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  Speaker 2: of the cycle for cuts. But beyond that it really
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  Speaker 2: is all guesswork, isn't it. The outlook the central outlook
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  Speaker 2: was what they call balanced, meaning if we keep our
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  Speaker 2: wallets closed, that could hurt the outlook, could hurt the economy.
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  Speaker 2: Higher house prices, export prices, well, they could help it.
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  Speaker 2: Are we any wiser we put a lot of faith
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  Speaker 2: in the OCI to get us out of the raft.
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  Speaker 2: And even though this is despite the fact it hasn't
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  Speaker 2: actually really worked for us thus far, has it, even
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  Speaker 2: after six rounds of slashing. At one point in the
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  Speaker 2: press yesterday the Chief Economist was almost repeating this like
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: it was a mantra, as if by saying it over
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and over again he would will it to happen. There
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: are two problems here. First, we've heard it all before
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: and not seen the results in two, by their own admission,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: the GDP numbers that we've been relying on aren't reliable.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of season as in the numbers, especially
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: for that shocker in June where we apparently went backwards
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: almost eight percent. We didn't. The computer's a bit bust
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: after COVID hasn't quite caught up. Basically, the good news
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it probably wasn't as bad in that quarter as they
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: said it was. The bad news growth the following quarters
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: probably wasn't as good as forecast either. So giveth with
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: one hand and taketh with another. So we have a
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: system we're hoping like hell will still work in this
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: new post COVID tariff environment, with sticky inflation and pretty
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: lame o growth, and the numbers, well, we can't really
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: rely on them, which if you cast you in mind
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: back to quarter two, they get blown up by us
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: in the media. We're guilty as charge, scaring people into
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: closing their wallets again and again, perpetuating the cycle. To
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: be fair, there's always been a lag with the ocr
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: working its magic and at some point surely will hit
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the g spot again for growth, if for no other
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: reason than what goes down must at some point bounce
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: back up.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: By twenty nine News Talks, there'd be Niicola Willis on
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the show. Before six, we'll get to Mitch McCann's Stateside,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: our reporters around the country and Eden Park. You sick
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: of hearing about Eden Park, Well you're going to hear
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: more about it today because Nick Sultner has come out
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: yesterday spoken to counselors, says their profit is so thin
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that they need concerts. They would basically they would be
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: extinct without concerts at Eden Park. The sports is stint
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: cutting it. So you'll hear a lot about that in
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: the news today, News Talks, they'd be.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: The news you need this morning, and the in depth
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Analysis earlier edition with Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: explore r these accessories and servicing fall than one News
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  Speaker 1: talks at.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Me twenty four away from six years talks they'd be
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: coming up before six Nicola Willis on the OCI We'll
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: go Stateside with Mitch McCann as well. Jeez, not a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: lot of love for Simon Bridges on the text machine
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: this morning, coming on saying we should have a cap
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: on surcharges, not a ban, which is what the government wants.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Ryan credit card surch charges. What a load of crack
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: from Simon says this text. The focus is in the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: wrong place. The banks need to be tackled. You can't
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: tell me that a swipe versus a tap costs the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: banks more than we're doing at one cost more than
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: the other to do same machine, same phone line, two
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: different costs. I think not honestly, I don't know lots
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: of things I don't know. You know, yesterday I was
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: walking along the street. This is I don't know why
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you the story. It's kind of embarrassing, but
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I was walking down the street. I go for my
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: little afternoon walk, and I do have a phone call
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: with the producers from the Herald show in the afternoon,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and I was wandering along and I was on so
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I had my headphones in, you know, my little earbuds,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and I was taking talking to them on the phone
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: but also trying to look at the rundown of what
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: was happening on the show tomorrow on my phone. Walk
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: straight into a tree. Got a massive lump on this
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: top of my head this morning, and the first thing
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I did was stop and go. I was in pain,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: but the first thing I did was stup and go.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Who's looking? Did anyone see me do that dumb thing? Anyway?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Now you all know, twenty three away from sex, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: seem but airheaded this morning. That'll be Whine. Calum is
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: with us first from Dunedin. Callum, good morning, yead morning right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe the world's most boring live stream is launched from
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: an Otago oat farm.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: Yes, it's a twenty four to seven camera that's been
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: set up in Whiteside Farm's oat fields and this is
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: in the Kluther district. Ryan viewers consuning to watch oats
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: grow essentially from germination to grain formation. It's all in
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: real time, no edits. The idea comes from Mother brand
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: Boring Oats Milk. The founders Morgan Moore, who's his oats,
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: have shown for thousands of years there's beauty in the
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: mundane and while the rest of the world wants to
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: go to space, they are looking to South Otago to
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: celebrate the simplicity of the humble oat. She says it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: a must watch for anyone wanting to find calm and
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: watching oats grow.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Right, what was that? Where do we find it?
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: So go to the website Boringmilk dot com or search
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: for it on YouTube. Tune in now for a spectacular sunrise.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Great. How's your weather?
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: Scattered rain this morning, clearing to find this afternoon strong
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: nor wester again the high twenty seven.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Nazelon, Thank you, clear, good morning, Good morning. You got
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: some mornings ahead of a hot and windy day for Canterbury.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we've got Mitsivus has an Orange wind warning in
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: place for severe gale northwesterlies up to one hundred and
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: twenty kilometers an hour for the Canterbury high Country and plains.
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: That's paired with some very high temperatures here in christ
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: Church City. We are expecting a maximum of thirty degrees. This,
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: of course comes a month since those strong winds fanned
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: fires that ended up causing some serious damage about Kaikoda,
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: Hidunui and the Dungy Tata area. Fire and Emergency District
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: Commander Rob Hans says any blaze today will be extremely
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: difficult to control given these conditions. He says the advice
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: is to a not light any fires, but also not
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: to to go and cheek anything that may have been
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: lit even weeks ago. He's saying that the advice is
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: to not light fires in anything more than twenty kilometers
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: an hour. Today we're expecting one twenty. Meanwhile, a warning
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: for drivers as well. M ZTA says high sighted vehicles,
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: towing vehicles and motorcycles may be at risk today.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: All right, clear, thanks for that updates. Someone says, Ryan,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the swipe is from the banks and it's free. The
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: tap this is the surcharges. The tap software is run
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: by Visa and they charge quite a bit for it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: So that's the difference in the price. Let's got a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Maxim Willings and Max good morning, Good Maris, Yes I
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: can hear you. How are you out prospecting for gold
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and hills above Wellington?
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: Well, if there's a fortune to be made. I may
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: be yeah, maybe a bit of a gold rush in
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: the capital. There's a new discovery of gold in land
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: across what's known as Long Gully Station. That's a large
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: area of hills at the southern tip in near Island
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: Bay in Red Rocks. Little secrecy around what has actually
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: been cited, how much gold has been found, but there
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: is enough excitement that permits are being granted for new sites,
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: new companies are being created for so far to spend
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: hundreds of thousands of dollars on exploration, it could make
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: Steve Watson, who owns Long Gully, very wealthy. He says
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: what has been discovered does give him very good confidence.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: There have been.
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: Traces of gold in Wellington's hills found for years, but
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: this seems a little more tangible. New technology allows for
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: mining that's a bit more friendly on the environment. Resources
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: Minister Shane Jones says he's very excited and of course
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: if it means more drilling, he'll be in regardless.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: To quote the treasure of the Sierra.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: Madre, I think I'll dream about piles of gold getting
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: bigger and bigger.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Do you know what I was reading the strees today? Next?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I would love nothing more than a mining operation in
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the heart of the socialist capital of New Zealand.
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: We have Kiwis living out there as well. Let's knock
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: off a few of them as well. How's the weather,
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: Drestley all day with strong wind twenty the high.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Morning.
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: Good morning. Now, I just heard you before saying about
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: how you were on your phone dumpty doo walking along
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: in the afternoon and you smelled into a tree. I'm
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: just checking out your for your your injury.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: No it's not. It's not my forehead. If it hit
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the money maker, I'd be very worried. No, I'd be
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: out of a job. No, No, it's the top. So
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: there was a branch, a low hanging branch, big trees.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I've walked the street one hundred times. I used to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: live on the street, so I know there are trees there. Anyway,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I just did a dumb thing.
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: Oh and so did anyone?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Did any want?
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: No one that I could see was looking okay, nick
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: minute and the curtains through the windows, they go, oh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: look there's that Ryan Bridge, there's that celebrity.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Hey, oyster farmers being dealt another blow.
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: I feel so sorry for these guys. So look last Wednesday,
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: there was a spell. Now this was from what's Elizabeth
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: Street overflow point. Now obviously this was the second one
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: because we can all remember that other big, big spill
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: just three weeks ago. Lynette Done, she's the Mahudangy Oyster
• 24:26
  Speaker 12: Farmers Association president. She says, look, all these spills, frequent
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: spills this year, they've damaged the reputation. She says that, look,
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: the Mahudangy oysters are now associated with sewage, so water
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: care is you know, they've said, look, they feel for
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: the oyster farmers. What else can they say? Really, they're
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: saying that the fifty three millimeters rain that fell that day,
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: that was at last Wednesday, and the network upgrades they
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: were never intended, you know, to prevent these overflows during
• 24:51
  Speaker 12: weather like that. So they've got to just get that
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: work going. They said that they're going to accelerate that
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: work on that pipeline.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: But how's our weather? Every time?
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: Okay, cloudy, chance of a shower this morning, HI have twenty.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Six brilliant Thank you, seventeen to six on News Talk
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: CB will go Stateside with Mitch McCann next. Trump's man
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Witkoff has been training Putin on how to flatter Trump.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: He has the story with US.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Next International Correspondence with endsit Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Fourteen to six new talks they've been Nikola Willis next, first,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Mitch mccannon State side for US Morning.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Mitch, Good morning, Ryan.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: So it turns out you shouldn't really coach the opposition
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: on the boss's tactics, should you. Well, there's plenty of
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: people saying that, But Donald Trump doesn't seem phased.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Ryan.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: This is based on a Bloomberg report which shows that
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's chief negotiator or peace on voice, Steve Witkoff,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: really essentially coaching a Russian official how Vladimir Putin should
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: talk to Donald Trump about a Ukrainian peace plan. He
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: says that he should call him the president of peace,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: he should praise his Gaza peace plan. And lawmakers in
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Washington have blasted this call. One has said that Wick
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: coof fully favors the Russians. Another said it's a major
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: problem and it's why these secret meetings need to stop
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. As I mentioned, though, Ryan isn't fased. He
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: says it sounds like a standard negotiation, and he said,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I would imagine he's saying the same thing to the Ukrainians. Now,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: this comes at a really important time, and it seems
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the Kremlin is unhappy with this leak. They have said
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: it's intended to disrupt peace talks. But we're still waiting
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: to see if the Russians are going to sign on
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: to this modified peace deal.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I suppose it's no great surprise that stroking Trump's the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: ego is the way to his heart.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: No, I have to agree with that. I mean, we've
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: seen lawmakers and officials do that every time they've been
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to the White House this year. So I don't think
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: he was given any state secrets away Black Friday.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: That obviously it's invented by the Americans, But there's a
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: bit of a warrior.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Consumer confidence not that great. How's it looking?
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Not as good this year. This is, of course, when
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: everyone lines up at the front of you know, Target
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: and all these big stores to they budge their way
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: in when they open. A new Deloitte survey suggests that
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: shop has planned to spend four percent less than last year,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: with an average of six hundred dollars. It comes as
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: consumer confidence plunges here to a new low ran among
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: general concerns about the US economy.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Have you bought anything yet much? I have?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I need a new blender. How boring is that? But
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I'm going to get one.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very very boring and get a nutribullet. They do,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: they serve me well as twelve minutes away from six.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: That was much McCann State site for US twelve minutes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: It's so twelve minutes away from six on news talks
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: b Ray and Bridge. So the Reserve Bank cut the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: OCR for the final time this year twenty five basis
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: points two point twenty five percent. We were expecting that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: It says there was a bit of regal room in
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the economy. Obviously, inflation now projected to fall to around
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: two percent by mid twenty twenty six. Nikola Willis is
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the Finance Minister with US Live this morning. Good morning minister,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Good morning Ryan. Did the economy grow this year? Well?
• 27:54
  Speaker 13: In the first quarter of the year it grew very
• 27:57
  Speaker 13: strongly at about zero point nine percent. We had downturn
• 28:01
  Speaker 13: in the second quarter. The Reserve Bank are stated yesterday
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: that they think that was statistically understated and will be
• 28:07
  Speaker 13: a readjusted at a further update. They think that the
• 28:11
  Speaker 13: economy is currently growing and that that grows will strengthen
• 28:15
  Speaker 13: into next year.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So how much do you think we grew this calendar year?
• 28:20
  Speaker 13: Well, it's too early to say that. We will get
• 28:23
  Speaker 13: the data for the third quarter in a couple of
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: weeks and we'll get their data for the December quarter
• 28:29
  Speaker 13: early next year.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Is it annoying that data is so wrong?
• 28:33
  Speaker 13: A Look, it is difficult that the data lags, and
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: it is the case that stats indeed data has had
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: to be updated fairly frequently and adjusted. And look, that's
• 28:45
  Speaker 13: the reality of the sets process. We can't do much
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: about it. But we do get enough other information that
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: we get a sense of where the economy is and
• 28:53
  Speaker 13: that's allowed the Reserve Bank to be very confident in
• 28:56
  Speaker 13: their forecasts that we're currently growing, that that growth will
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: strengthen next year, and that inflation will be coming down next.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Year, which is good and that sounds great, but we
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: have heard this story before. Our big problems productivity, isn't
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: it that is going to be constraining whatever growth we
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: might be getting, and also we don't have immigration to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: prop it up.
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: Well, productivity is an issue, but fundamentally, if you haven't
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: got your inflation down in an economy and you haven't
• 29:24
  Speaker 13: got your interest rates coming down, then those fundamentals mean
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: that you won't get our productivity growth. So what we've
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: now got in the New Zealand economy is a situation
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: where inflation is back in target is set to come
• 29:37
  Speaker 13: back down to the middle of the band. That's great
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: for growth. We've got interest rates at a low rate,
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: which means that you do have more cash pumping through
• 29:45
  Speaker 13: the economy. That's great for growth. And now we are
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: in a position to be building that future productivity growth.
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: And that's where things like replacing the Resource Management Act,
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: getting rid of red tape in the Regional Council structures,
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: ensuring that we're delivering in for structure for us, that
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: lisiting education standards. All of those are about future productivity
• 30:05
  Speaker 13: and that's why our government is driving those reforms.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: They said. The reserve bank margins for the banks are healthy,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: room to bring the rates down further. I'm speaking to
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Antonio Watson later this morning. What's the message to her.
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: Well, my message to her would be pass it all on.
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: You are a member of the New Zealand economy and
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: the actions you take have a significant impact on how
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: New Zealanders are able to invest and grow.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Your comments on the Regulatory Standards Bill, was that just
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: on the fly or are you seriously thinking you might
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: campaign on repealing?
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: Well, it's just just to be clear that National has
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: its own positions on legislation. We don't just adopt act
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: positions as a coalition government. Yes, we do support the
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: commitments we've made which meant that we pass that legislation.
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: There's still a year at least until the next election,
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: and so as good citizens, we need to monitor how
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: that legislation operates in practice, whether we think on balance
• 31:03
  Speaker 13: that the pros outweigh the cons and then the National
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: Party Caucus will take a position on whether we support
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: it going into the next colection.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: What's your personal view, we'll look.
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: My personal viewer is that we do need to monitor
• 31:17
  Speaker 13: it to see whether it adds process or whether in
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: fact it's advantageous. And I've got an open mind.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: It looks like just another layer of bureaucracy and it
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't actually do it nothing meaningful.
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: Well, the government decided to progress it because fundamentally we
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: do want good regulation and that's what the intent of
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: the legislation is. We've now got an opportunity of these
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: next few months to see what it adds in practice.
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: We'll be watching it here Flee and then the National
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: Party Caucus will discuss that will take a position going
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: into next year's campaign.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Michael Willis, Finance Minister. Great TV on the show. It
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: is eight to six News talksb.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day Early
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan bred n r V Super Center, explore
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: r v's accessories and servicing all in one news talks.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: There'd be five to six news talks. They'd be Mike
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: is here with us now, Good morning, Mike.
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: Mate.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Did you notice in the press conference, Well, you would
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: have because I know you're you know you're you're a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: stylish man and you're obviously Bernard Hickey.
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: Can I just say from the press conference shirts have
• 32:20
  Speaker 14: got to go, well, yeah, Bernard Hickey, if you're going
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  Speaker 14: to go to a press conference, dress appropriately too and
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  Speaker 14: keep your questions under nineteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: There was that one one particular question that was goodness,
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  Speaker 2: magnum opus. But they you know, Christian Hawksby and the
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  Speaker 2: rest of them, do you think that they have like
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  Speaker 2: a grooming and beauty allowance.
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  Speaker 14: I'll tell you this, well, if they do. The guy
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  Speaker 14: on the left, it doesn't use it. The Union, the
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  Speaker 14: chief economist, but Christian. If you look at his suits
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  Speaker 14: and very well put together, very very very much, very conservative. Yes,
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  Speaker 14: but as you would expect from a reserve Bank governor.
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  Speaker 14: But I think he spends. If you look at the
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  Speaker 14: cut of his collar.
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  Speaker 2: On a shirt, I couldn't help but notice.
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  Speaker 14: That's a that's a high cut collar with and that's
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  Speaker 14: a specific decision you would make as a consumer of
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  Speaker 14: the shirt.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly unlike me, as you've pointed out, he goes to
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  Speaker 2: the dry cleaner.
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  Speaker 14: He goes to the dry cleaner. And if you look
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  Speaker 14: at the cut of his suit and where is collar
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  Speaker 14: sits on his jacket, that's always a very good indication
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  Speaker 14: as to whether you're current because the height, the heights
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  Speaker 14: of the heights of the collar on your jacket varies
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  Speaker 14: from season to season. Oh god, and so so he's
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  Speaker 14: he is right at the cutting edge, Yes he is.
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  Speaker 2: What are you telling us today by wearing a T
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  Speaker 2: shirt under it?
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  Speaker 14: A this is this is classic luxury. This is what
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  Speaker 14: Bernard should aspire.
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  Speaker 2: I know I do look at Bend and think, Bernard
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  Speaker 2: bless you get it. Home on do you Reckon?
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  Speaker 14: He warms himself up for those questions.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Glenn, have you seen Glen today?
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  Speaker 14: I try not to just shirt Glen in Hawaii, isn't
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: it if they go to the same Hawaiian shirt.
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  Speaker 2: You're interesting enough, you don't need to do that, is true? Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: I will have Christian on this morning. Great, excellent, all right,
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to it. Mike is with you next. Have
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