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Full Show Podcast: 23 April 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be good morning, Welcome to Early Edition.
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Speaker 2: I'm Francisca Budkin filling in for Ryan Bridge this morning. Ranald.
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Speaker 2: We're back on Monday morning. Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: co dot nz. On the show today, we take a
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Speaker 2: look at New Zealand First Members bill pushing for sex
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Speaker 2: based language to define women and men. We catch up
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Speaker 2: with the CEO of one of the first locally listed
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Speaker 2: companies impacted by the Uish tariff chaos, and we discussed
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Speaker 2: the security chat that went on between prime ministers at
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Speaker 2: Christopher Luxen and care Starmer overnight. The agenda, It's Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: the twenty third of April. First, I'll take you to Italy,
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Speaker 2: where the Vatican has confirmed the funeral of Pope Frances
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Speaker 2: will take place on Saturday. The Pope's body will be
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Speaker 2: moved to morrow to Saint Peter's Basilica for public mourning.
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Speaker 3: The rituals and the procedures that follow the death of
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Speaker 3: a pope have been laid down over centuries, but Pope
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Speaker 3: Francis is breaking with tradition, as he did so often
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Speaker 3: in life, choosing not to be buried here in the Vatican,
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Speaker 3: but in a favorite church in central Rome and in
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Speaker 3: a simple tomb that is inscribed only with his name.
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Speaker 2: World leaders including Donald Trump, Emanuel Macron, and Vlodimir Zelinski
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Speaker 2: will attend the funeral, and Prince William will be there
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Speaker 2: on behalf of King Charles. Now to the US, in
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Speaker 2: the International Monetary Fund has slashed its forecast for global
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Speaker 2: growth this year. The US has been given the biggest downgrade.
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Speaker 2: He's the IMS chief economist.
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Speaker 4: The tariffs represent a supply shark that reduces productivity and
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Speaker 4: output permanently and increases price pressures temporarily. This adds to
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Speaker 4: an already weakening outlook and leads US to revise growth
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Speaker 4: down by zero point nine percentage point to one point
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Speaker 4: eight percent with a zero point four percentage point downgrade
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Speaker 4: from the tariffs only.
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Speaker 2: And finally, films made with the help of artificial intelligence
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Speaker 2: will be able to win top awards at the Oscars.
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Speaker 2: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have issued
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Speaker 2: new rules saying the use of AI would neither help
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Speaker 2: nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination.
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Speaker 5: They say the more a person contributed to a film's creation,
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Speaker 5: the more likely it.
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Speaker 2: Is to when The Academy won't require films to disclose
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Speaker 2: their use of AI, but says judges will consider how
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Speaker 2: much human ingenuity was in voh and that's the agenda.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 2: As you heard in the news. Early voting starts today
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Speaker 2: in the Ossie election. Apparently about forty percent of Ozzi's
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Speaker 2: will vote early before May third, including Ozzie's registered to
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Speaker 2: vote here in New Zealand. So if you know any OSSI's,
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Speaker 2: remind them that they can vote here from today as well.
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Speaker 2: Ralian elections always get me thinking about the idea of
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Speaker 2: compulsory voting. Voting in Australia as compulsory at the federal
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Speaker 2: and state levels and some local levels. It depends what
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Speaker 2: state you're in. Queenslane seems to love it so in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, ninety six point eight of eligible voters
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Speaker 2: were enrolled to vote, eighty nine point eight two percent
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Speaker 2: did Now, considering that we have voluntary voting here in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand, I don't think we did too bad. In
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Speaker 2: our twenty twenty three general election. Our turnout was around
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Speaker 2: seventy eight point two percent. But you wouldn't want to
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Speaker 2: drop much further than that, would you. I've never brought
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Speaker 2: into the idea of compulsory voting at the general election,
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Speaker 2: but when you look at the feeble downward trend of
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Speaker 2: people turning up to vote at local body elections, I
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Speaker 2: do wonder whether there's some merit in it. In nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty nine, the voter turnout in local body elections was
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Speaker 2: fifty six percent, and it has solely decreased. Can you
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Speaker 2: believe it to forty two percent and twenty twenty two
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Speaker 2: It is woeful and yet so much which affects our
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Speaker 2: day to day lives is decided at the local council level.
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Speaker 2: But wo making it compulsory work it would cost more.
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Speaker 2: For sure, getting people to understand the change would be
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Speaker 2: a challenge, and I'm sure many elected members wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: keen they know who votes and how to appeal to
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Speaker 2: their court interests older rate payers' interests would be really challenged,
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Speaker 2: I would say, but maybe there is no other way
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Speaker 2: to bring the numbers up. I'd quite like to see
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Speaker 2: a trial, maybe Wellington, Auckland, christ Church and see what
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Speaker 2: the results is. It could be quite a scramble and
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Speaker 2: wouldn't that be fun? Can you hear your thoughts? You
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Speaker 2: Dogs Indy its thirteen past five. Write a new Member's
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Speaker 2: Bill by New Zealand First will aim to define men
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Speaker 2: and women. The bill wants to Code of five sex
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Speaker 2: based language, defining a woman is an adult human biological
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Speaker 2: female and a man as an adult human biological male.
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Speaker 2: It comes as Britain's highest court ruled that only a
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Speaker 2: biological and not trans women meet a definition of a
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Speaker 2: woman under equity laws. Save Women's Sport Australasia. New Zealand
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Speaker 2: spokeswoman wrote, Edge joins me now, good morning, Row, thanks
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Speaker 2: for your time.
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Speaker 6: Well, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Are you happy with this bill? Is there anything you'd change?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 6: I think it's much needed. You know, this Zellan First
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Speaker 6: Members will aims to ensure legal clarity on the definition
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Speaker 6: of a man and a woman, But in reality, its
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Speaker 6: purpose is to protect the sex based rights of women.
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Speaker 6: Now globally, it's been recognized and we saw this in
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Speaker 6: the UK last week that gender identity should not override
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Speaker 6: sex based provisions and protections. And so what this bill
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Speaker 6: does is it reinforces the urgent need for the likes
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Speaker 6: of support New Zealand to prioritize and protect fenness and
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Speaker 6: safety of biological females because we play sports with our bodies,
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Speaker 6: not our identities.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we make this definition, but we don't actually
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Speaker 2: know how this bill would apply to other legislation yet,
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Speaker 2: do we.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I think what it's about is ensuring that there is
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Speaker 6: that when women are referred to and men are referred
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Speaker 6: to in legislation and policy, that it is the biological
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Speaker 6: reality that is referred to. So, you know, we see
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Speaker 6: with our Ministry for Women at the moment, the definition
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Speaker 6: of woman as anyone who identifies as one. Well, it's
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Speaker 6: circular reasoning and what is a woman? Even Chris Hipkins
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Speaker 6: couldn't answer that, and why he might not deem this
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Speaker 6: as being a priority. Males competing and female thought was
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Speaker 6: actually the most of post social issue leading into the
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Speaker 6: last election, according to Labour's own posters. So would suggest
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Speaker 6: that given when he was asked as High Prime Minister
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Speaker 6: like what is a woman and he couldn't answer it,
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Speaker 6: it's a great example of why this legislation is so
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Speaker 6: desperately needed.
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Speaker 2: What does this mean for trans people? I mean you
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Speaker 2: can't just ignore them.
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Speaker 6: No, this isn't about being anti anyone. It's about ensuring
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Speaker 6: the rights of women and girls are protected in law.
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Speaker 6: And these rights were thoughtful by woman over many generations
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Speaker 6: and some very valid reasons. We want everybody to be
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Speaker 6: included for in in sport because of the mental and
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Speaker 6: physical health benefits it brings, but it needs to be
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Speaker 6: in the category of their biological sex because otherwise it
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Speaker 6: raises feness and safety issues.
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Speaker 2: But couldn't we have that discussion without having to go
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Speaker 2: through this sort of process of through this definition into legislation.
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Speaker 6: Or we have been trying to have this discussion for
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Speaker 6: over five years now and we've got absolutely nowhere. And
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Speaker 6: what we've seen is gender ideology completely capture our bureaucrats,
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Speaker 6: our policy and everything, and so women have had no
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Speaker 6: rights to speaking up. Now we've tried to, we've been
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Speaker 6: labeled bigots and TERFs and every other thing under the sun,
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Speaker 6: including Nazis. We haven't had this conversation. So you know,
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Speaker 6: this legislation has all been all about getting back to
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Speaker 6: some common sense.
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Speaker 2: Right, what are some of the current issues with women
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Speaker 2: in sport at the moment.
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Speaker 6: So we have males participating in women's and girls' sport
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Speaker 6: from while we're aware, from intermediate level and above, and
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Speaker 6: what's happening is women are either self excluding, which is
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Speaker 6: appalling because we already have such a dramatic drop off
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Speaker 6: rate of female's participation in sports through their teenage years.
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Speaker 6: We're seeing it in club sports and community sorts across
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Speaker 6: the board. And you know, if this was really just
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Speaker 6: about allowing everyone to participate, there are mixed sex teams
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Speaker 6: in nearly every sport available in most communities, and so
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Speaker 6: anyone can participate in that. But what we're seeing is
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Speaker 6: male advantage in female sport, and when you include that,
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Speaker 6: it excludes women.
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Speaker 2: Mets and members. Bill Row, do you think you know
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Speaker 2: there's a chance that this will never be heard.
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Speaker 6: Well, I hope it will be, and I hope if
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Speaker 6: it's told from the ballot that National and Act will
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Speaker 6: support it, given by far the majority of their voters
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Speaker 6: according to our polling do but mind you Soda, Labor
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Speaker 6: and Green voters. So this is the irony. It's not
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Speaker 6: a left versus right issue, despite what the politicians say.
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Speaker 6: This is a right versus wrong issue. And by farther
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Speaker 6: majority of New Zealanders if every political persuasion know that
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Speaker 6: males competing in female sport is wrong, males and female
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Speaker 6: changing rooms is wrong, we just need to get back
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Speaker 6: to some common sense and make sure that we create
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Speaker 6: spaces where everyone feels welcome and comfortable.
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Speaker 2: Roh each thanks so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: I understand. Look, it's something that we've got to discuss,
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Speaker 2: but you've got to do it fairly and respectively for everybody,
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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be It's five twenty net profit will
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Speaker 2: be significantly lower than expected. For one of the first
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Speaker 2: locally listed companies impacted by the US tariff regime, Tourism
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Speaker 2: Holdings Limited, has sent a dramatic slowdown in bookings by
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Speaker 2: its US division. Its share price fill more than ten
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Speaker 2: percent after announcing it was downgrading its earnings outlook. Tourism
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Speaker 2: Holding's chief executive, Grant Webster, is with me now, thanks
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Speaker 2: for your time, Grant, good morning, good morning. How much
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Speaker 2: is the political issues happening, the volatility to blame for
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Speaker 2: people not buying and renting our these.
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Speaker 7: It's pretty hard to get into the psyche of all
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Speaker 7: the individuals, but certainly the tour operators that we work
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Speaker 7: with out of Germany certainly say their customers are saying
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Speaker 7: just not interested in going to the USA at the moment.
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Speaker 2: How big of a reduction have you seen in the US?
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Speaker 7: So look, in recent weeks our booking intakes for the
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Speaker 7: rental's division into the US are down forty to fifty percent.
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Speaker 7: So that's it's obviously pretty dramatic, not quite as dramatic
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Speaker 7: as COVID wind borders closed, but it's a big downgrade.
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Speaker 2: So has the slowdown reflected anywhere else.
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Speaker 7: No, In fact, from a consumer confidence perspective on vehicle sales,
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Speaker 7: it is. But in terms of tourism and people actually
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Speaker 7: traveling and wanting to rent our products, all other markets
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Speaker 7: are actually up and probably realistically experiencing some benefit from
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Speaker 7: that USA situation. So people still want to travel. We'll
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Speaker 7: go somewhere else.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say that it's not that
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Speaker 2: people aren't traveling its as they're choosing to go somewhere else.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely, So Canada is probably the greatest beneficiary out
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Speaker 7: of that. You know, similar time frame, similar flight costs,
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Speaker 7: so forth, and so on. So luckily we've got the
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Speaker 7: business there in Canada that can get some benefit from it.
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Speaker 2: So, Grant, how has the company reacted to this? As
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Speaker 2: you mentioned, you know, you've been through this before. We've
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Speaker 2: had the GFC and COVID and things.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. So the key thing for us is because that
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Speaker 7: vehicle sales demand is down, we basically have to adjust
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Speaker 7: what we buy to replenish the fleet. So we've already
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Speaker 7: got that stock there. We're going to make sure that
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Speaker 7: we manage that well, manage our balanceet well, which isn't
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Speaker 7: a good position. So really it's about pulling back on investment.
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Speaker 7: And you know, we're one company, one very small company
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Speaker 7: in the USA terms, and we're pulling back our USA
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Speaker 7: flat eat investments significantly. So when you talk about possible
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Speaker 7: recessions in the US and you think about that as
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Speaker 7: one small example, it has to be being felt more
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Speaker 7: broadly across the economy there.
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Speaker 2: But grant, you're not going backwards a You're more just
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Speaker 2: making moves to sort of stay steady.
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Speaker 7: And yeah, around the rest of the world will continue
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Speaker 7: to grow, but in the USA, when you're down forty
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Speaker 7: to fifty percent at the moment in bookings, it doesn't
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Speaker 7: mean that's where we'll end up, because domestic is picking
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Speaker 7: up a bit as well. But you definitely have to
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Speaker 7: reduce your total fleet size and tighten it up. So, yes,
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Speaker 7: the neat investment in capital that we have in the
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Speaker 7: USA will go down in the next twelve months as
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Speaker 7: as a result of the situation.
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Speaker 2: How long until you're expecting things to pick up again?
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Speaker 7: All that is, that is crystal ball that it is.
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Speaker 5: So you just.
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Speaker 2: Worry about right, just worrying about today.
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Speaker 7: No, to be to be fair, we are running scenarios
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Speaker 7: and I guess again a little bit like COVID but not.
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Speaker 7: It's a very very different situation. But we are running
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Speaker 7: scenarios for the medium and long term from a Canada
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Speaker 7: perspective where we're getting impacted by the tariffs because all
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Speaker 7: our vehicles are purchased in the US. We have processes
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Speaker 7: there where the industry is looking to apply for an
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Speaker 7: exemption to the tariffs, so forth and so on. So
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Speaker 7: we've really got a number of things to play out yet.
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Speaker 2: Great Webster, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate it. It's twenty four past five.
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Speaker 2: approach to promote a brand than the more important point
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Speaker 2: that is absolutely that it's absolutely crazy that we're letting
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Speaker 2: our phones negatively impact our lives. It simply doesn't need
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Speaker 2: adults daily lives, and what they discovered was fifty percent
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Speaker 2: culprits are social media. It's sixty five percent an email,
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Speaker 2: It's sixty percent told you it wasn't great news. But
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Speaker 2: as concerning as these figures are, the crazy thing about
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Speaker 2: it is that this is on us. We can control
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Speaker 2: our notifications, we can turn them off or silence them.
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Speaker 2: We can take control of apps by doing things like
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Speaker 2: deleting and restoring them throughout the weeks, and they're not
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Speaker 2: constantly available, and if you don't know how to do it,
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Speaker 2: you do what I do when you find a younger
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Speaker 2: person who's smarter than you to do it for you.
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Speaker 2: We can come to terms with never having an empty
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Speaker 2: inbox and not feel the pressure to try. We can
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Speaker 2: make rules about scrolling through emails after work. We can
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Speaker 2: just put the phone down. It's interesting to understand how
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Speaker 2: the brain works in response to notifications. According to Catherine Burkitt,
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Speaker 2: who is a neuroscience and digital wellbeing expert who's working
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Speaker 2: along two Degrees on this project, notifications from phones trigger
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Speaker 2: the dopamine, making it highly addictive. She says, our obsession
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Speaker 2: with our phones are physically altering our brains, damaging our relationships,
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Speaker 2: draining our energy, and reducing our overall well being. I
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Speaker 2: get it, it's hard to make a change, but I
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Speaker 2: am absolutely certain that in ten to twenty years we
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Speaker 2: will look back and wonder what the hell we were
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Speaker 2: thinking with the endless content apps, notification likes, and swipes.
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Speaker 2: We can't keep blaming the tech companies. We know what
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Speaker 2: they're in it for. We can keep blaming the tech.
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Speaker 2: A lot of tech is really cool and helpful. At
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Speaker 2: some point we have to step up and take responsibility
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Speaker 2: for how we use it. So thanks two degrees for
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Speaker 2: the reminder, Francesca. So it does feel a little bit silly.
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Speaker 2: I think that we're letting something like notifications stress us out.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot more important things in the world to
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Speaker 2: stress us out. I think it's time to knock with
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Speaker 2: early edition on Newstalks, they'd be I'm Francisca Ruggin filling
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Speaker 2: in for Ryan today. Thanks for being with us. In
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Speaker 2: the next half hour we're gonna have the latest on
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Speaker 2: the Pope's funeral and sekire Starma and Christopher Luckson. Of
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Speaker 2: course they meet overnight to talk trade and security and
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Speaker 2: confirm a pretty lucrative drone contact contract, so we're going
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Speaker 2: to have more on that before the end of the
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Speaker 2: hour as well. It is twenty two to six.
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Speaker 1: Franchesco.
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Speaker 2: Right, let's head around the country and joining me from Dunedin,
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Speaker 2: Lachlan ready, how are you?
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Speaker 7: Oh good?
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Speaker 8: Thank you?
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Speaker 2: Excellent. An opportunity for Southern residents to have their say
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Speaker 2: on the future of tourism.
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Speaker 8: Yes so great Great South is gathering feedback from as
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Speaker 8: many locals as possible to understand what motives matters most
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Speaker 8: of them when it comes to tourism. Destination Development manager
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Speaker 8: Amy Young says any strategy needs to be developed in
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Speaker 8: line with what locals want. She says tourism is a
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Speaker 8: strong industry in Southland and is starting to bounce back
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Speaker 8: to pre COVID levels, and Young seas that most of
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Speaker 8: the international markets are coming back and things are really
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Speaker 8: starting to take on.
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Speaker 2: Good to hear and the weather today, locky, this is a.
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Speaker 8: Few showers about now, mainly find.
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Speaker 2: For the today with a high of twelve degrees. I'd
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Speaker 2: always had a really good toly see twelve. Thank you
20:00
Speaker 2: so much. Joining us now from christ which is Claire Sherwood.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Claire. I believe the Canterbury district continues to
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Speaker 2: be the fastest growing in the country.
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Speaker 11: Yes, well Salmyn specifically Francesca So. New population data released
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Speaker 11: by Stance and z shows that Salwyn's population grew by
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Speaker 11: three point nine percent in the twelve months to June
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Speaker 11: last year. That's around three thy two hundred new arrivals.
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Speaker 11: The biggest jumps, of course, happened in urban areas. Rolliston
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Speaker 11: for example, saw the biggest increase at nine point six percent.
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Speaker 11: For Mayor Sam Broughton, he says the figures are not
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Speaker 11: a surprise to anyone who's living in the district.
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Speaker 2: He says.
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Speaker 11: Councils continuing to work closely with government agencies to address
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Speaker 11: some under investment in areas including health, for education and policing.
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Speaker 11: And the weather today Claire pretty miserable here as well,
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Speaker 11: rain turning to showers then clearing to cloudy by this afternoon.
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Speaker 11: Southwesterly is easing and a high of twelve.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire, and Max Toll joins us now in
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Speaker 2: Wellington and some efforts have been put in to save
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Speaker 2: a community hall. Max.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, this is the Karrori Events Center, which only broke
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Speaker 9: ground early in twenty sixteen. The problem is the modern
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Speaker 9: hall was built via a fundraising effort, local fundraising which
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Speaker 9: was enough to get it done, just not to fit
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Speaker 9: it out to put all the things inside that you
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Speaker 9: want to. The Krori Community Hall Trust then gifted the
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Speaker 9: building to the City Council in twenty twenty two. On
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Speaker 9: the agreement the council would spend up to a couple
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Speaker 9: million dollars to finish the inside. But obviously the situation
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Speaker 9: in the capitol has declined a little in the last
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Speaker 9: three years. The council says it can no longer afford it.
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Speaker 9: So this event center a number is one of a
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Speaker 9: number of community facilities in danger at the moment, in
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Speaker 9: a long queue scrambling for attention and money, and it
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Speaker 9: sits empty.
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Speaker 2: In the meantime, Wellington's weather today, mates.
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Speaker 9: Party, cloudy, little drizzle in.
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Speaker 2: The morning, Thank you so much. Any of britty man
21:53
Speaker 2: who has joined me in the Auckland studio and she's
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Speaker 2: walked on and she's complaining about the state of the disk,
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Speaker 2: that it's duty.
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Speaker 10: And it's filthy.
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Speaker 2: Don't tell me if you're pointing at the desk furiously
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Speaker 2: like I'm going to get up and clean.
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Speaker 10: There are so many stains. I think I'm going to
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Speaker 10: clean it. It needs a really good you know what
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Speaker 10: it means, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more.
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Speaker 10: I shall do that. I thought I have to talk
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Speaker 10: to Mike. He's obviously to.
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Speaker 2: Do that in the summer holidays where Mike's not here.
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Speaker 12: Oh really, and the bin as well.
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Speaker 2: You know, we don't mind it. You know, it's been
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Speaker 2: able to have a holiday never if that's okay, I
22:28
Speaker 2: think you took a holiday.
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Speaker 10: Stop it.
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Speaker 2: Let's move on from the burns. The government's mapped down
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Speaker 2: it's preferred route for the Northland Expressway.
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Speaker 10: That's right now.
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Speaker 12: This is going to go through Warkworth east of State
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Speaker 12: Highway One, then over the brindo Win Hills to the
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Speaker 12: east of the current route, then through far A. So
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Speaker 12: the Brindowin Hills has been subject as most of us
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Speaker 12: all know ongoing closure since twenty twenty three. Would be
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Speaker 12: your weather events. So once this is all done, Francisca,
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Speaker 12: the expressways expected to be one of.
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Speaker 10: News most expensive infrastructure projects.
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Speaker 2: Gear it would be good to be done. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: it will be yeah.
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Speaker 10: I mean it's been tough with the Northlanders as well.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. Auckland's weather today leather right.
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Speaker 10: Those shellers are going to be clearing.
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Speaker 12: Let's go to stay partly cloudy though for most of
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Speaker 12: the day, just the odd shell creeping in from the afternoon.
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Speaker 10: Still warm, can you believe it? Twenty two the high
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Speaker 10: loving it.
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Speaker 2: I will pass on your complaints about the state of
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Speaker 2: the studio to Mike when he comes in. Thank you
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Speaker 2: very much for your time this morning. Appreciate it. Next
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray joins me now from the UK. Good morning, Gevin.
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Speaker 2: We have more details about the Pope's funeral.
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Speaker 13: Indeed we do, Francesca. Yeah, actually we're getting more details
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Speaker 13: about really what's going to happen over the next few days.
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Speaker 13: So we now know the funeral would take place at
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Speaker 13: the Vatican on Saturday morning, that is Italian time, so
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Speaker 13: that's going to be obviously very late Saturday night for
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Speaker 13: you guys. And world leaders we now know who are
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Speaker 13: going to attend include Donald Trump, Emmanual Micron from France,
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Speaker 13: Ronimer Putin from Ukraine, the German Chancellor i'll Off Schulz,
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Speaker 13: the Brazilian President, the Polish president. They incidentally pause holding
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Speaker 13: a day of national mourning as well on Saturday. The
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Speaker 13: EU Commissioned President's going, the President of Argentina that's the
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Speaker 13: birthplace of Pope Frances, and the British Prime Minister. Also
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Speaker 13: Prince William is going to be there on behalf of
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Speaker 13: the king who's not going. The Vatican has shared now
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Speaker 13: images of the Pontiff in an open coffin, and we're
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Speaker 13: now getting more details about the funeral arrangements and in
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Speaker 13: a little over twelve hours time now, Pope Frances will
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Speaker 13: be taken to cent Peter Spasilica and the coffin will
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Speaker 13: be there until the burial, and that is for the
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Speaker 13: public to pay their respects to him.
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Speaker 2: Kevin it just doesn't end for the family of Medel
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Speaker 2: and McCain.
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Speaker 5: Does it.
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Speaker 13: I'm afraid not no. So a couple of extraordinary cases
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Speaker 13: currently before the judges here where two women have denied
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Speaker 13: stalking the family of Madeline macan. You remember the little
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Speaker 13: girl went missing and two thousand and seven, lots of
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Speaker 13: conspiracy theorists, lots of people suggesting that they might know
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Speaker 13: who it is. But I'm afraid the little girl has
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Speaker 13: never been found. And today a woman from southwest Poland
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Speaker 13: and a sixty year old from Cardiff in Wales attended
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Speaker 13: Leicester Crown Court. They entered not guilty please, and were
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Speaker 13: told that they would both go on trial on the
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Speaker 13: second of October. The twenty three year old from southwest Poland,
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Speaker 13: or Lubin, is accused of sending letters and messages to
26:31
Speaker 13: Madeline's parents and also to her siblings Sean and Amelie McCann,
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Speaker 13: and also up to February of this year, the one
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Speaker 13: of the defenders accused of going to the family's home
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Speaker 13: in Leicestershire in the Midlands as well. So obviously a
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Speaker 13: great deal of the distress cause to the family and
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Speaker 13: these allegations being pursued through the courts now by those
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Speaker 13: relevant authorities, and last week Minister is here in the
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Speaker 13: UK approved a further two hundred and twenty thousand Aussie
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Speaker 13: dollars of funding for the ongoing investigation into Maddie's disappearance.
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Speaker 2: Kevin, thanks so much for your time this morning, love
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Speaker 2: you to catch up. It is eleven to six, French ESCA.
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Christopher Luxen met with his British counterparts a
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Speaker 2: Kei Starma overnight, announcing a new agreement to deeper defense
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Speaker 2: and security ties. The UK has signed a sixty million
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Speaker 2: dollar deal with New Zealand for the supply of drones
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Speaker 2: to support Ukraine, and the pair also visited Kiwi troops
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Speaker 2: training frontline Ukrainian soldiers. Jeffrey Miller is a geopolitical analyst
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Speaker 2: and he joins me now, thanks for your time, Jeffrey.
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Speaker 5: Good morning French ESCA.
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Speaker 2: How significant is this drone deal?
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Speaker 5: Look, I think it is significant for the company and
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Speaker 5: who knew that we had a company in Mount Mont
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Speaker 5: and Ui producing these kinds of drones and they do
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Speaker 5: so out of a factory near London in the southeast
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Speaker 5: of England. So those drones will be heading off to Ukraine.
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Speaker 5: So I think Christopher Luxin is very keen to emphasize
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Speaker 5: New Zealand support for Ukraine on this trip. There's a
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Speaker 5: major meeting in London, I believe today with officials from Europe,
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Speaker 5: the US and Ukraine nothing out some of the details
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Speaker 5: of a peace proposal that will then be put to Russia.
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Speaker 5: And that could include Ukraine's recognition of crime the era
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Speaker 5: as Russian territory or international recognition of crimeras as Russian territory,
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Speaker 5: which would be a very very significant concession by Ukraine
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Speaker 5: to make and buy its Western partners. So I think
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Speaker 5: Ukraine really is front and center of the agenda at
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Speaker 5: the moment.
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Speaker 2: Will you cate sorry, will Luckson get much of a
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Speaker 2: voice in these geopolitical moves or will he just be
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Speaker 2: doing what the big dogs tell him?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I think you'll be keen to put New Zealand's
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Speaker 5: perspective on all of these matters. In the endadas Christopher
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Speaker 5: Luxen's job as New Zealand Prime Minister, I think really
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Speaker 5: does say he should be very mindful about others who
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Speaker 5: are watching. I think it's very easy for New Zealand
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Speaker 5: Prime to go to Number ten or go to the
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Speaker 5: White House etc. And be quite starstruck about where they
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Speaker 5: are and then agree to things that or say things
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Speaker 5: that really are more the view of their partners. In
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Speaker 5: this case, Kiirstarma, I think Christal Luction should be well
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Speaker 5: aware that China in particular will be watching what Christopher
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Speaker 5: Luxen says on all things defense. Christoph Luxeen may well
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Speaker 5: be keen to hype up some of the hawkish rhetoric,
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Speaker 5: given that he's even put out that quite strong defense
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Speaker 5: capability plan a couple of weeks ago, but I think
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Speaker 5: China will see some of that is aimed very much
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Speaker 5: at it. Whenever the talk goes about the Endo Pacific,
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Speaker 5: I think China feels targeted. And Christopher Luxeen is visiting London,
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Speaker 5: He's visits in many capitals now, he still hasn't made
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Speaker 5: a visit to Beijing, So I think Luxan needs to
29:52
Speaker 5: be careful about body says and to make sure that
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Speaker 5: there's very much in line with New Zealand's interests.
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Speaker 2: Will the UK appreciate the ongoing support from New Zealand
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Speaker 2: and training Ukraine soldiers.
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Speaker 1: No doubt.
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Speaker 5: I mean the United Kingdom and in Europe generally, Ukraine
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Speaker 5: has so much the focus at the moment, while New
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Speaker 5: Zealand is in a very different part of the world
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Speaker 5: and has a wider view perhaps, or we're more focused
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Speaker 5: on the Asia Pacific or Into Pacific as it's often
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Speaker 5: called now, as well as Ukraine. If you're in Ukraine
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Speaker 5: really is the centerpiece. So I think that's really why
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Speaker 5: Ukraine is a big part of the agenda. But Trained
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Speaker 5: of course, is also going to be a big part
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Speaker 5: of the talks. We're approaching Donald Trump's first one hundred
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Speaker 5: days in office, and it's been a whirlwind one hundred
30:41
Speaker 5: days and those tariffs that were announced on Liberation Day
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Speaker 5: as Trump called it, have only been suspended, they haven't
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Speaker 5: been canceled. There's only a ninety day this Boneman, So
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Speaker 5: I think Starma and Luxem will be really discussing about
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Speaker 5: where to from here, what's the game plan. And again
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Speaker 5: I think lux needs to be careful when you come
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Speaker 5: up with his proposals. We put out that proposal a
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago that the CPTPP could work with
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Speaker 5: the EU. The United Kingdom's already in the CPTPP or
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Speaker 5: the trans specific partnership. I think he needs to Luxy
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Speaker 5: needs to be careful here because again China will be watching.
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Speaker 5: China has already applied to join the CPTPP, and China
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Speaker 5: is the main target of Donald Trump's tariffs of up
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Speaker 5: to two hundred and forty five percent now and they
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Speaker 5: haven't been suspended, so I think when you're there you
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Speaker 5: should be probably showing some level of solidarity with China,
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Speaker 5: which is after all New Zealand's biggest trading partner. And
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Speaker 5: talks of just bringing the EU into the CPTPP I
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Speaker 5: think are a little bit premature, and the EU is
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Speaker 5: not particularly supportive of true free trade, so there'll be
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Speaker 5: a lot to talk about, no doubt, and that meeting
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Speaker 5: I believe has been happening over the last few hours
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Speaker 5: of Stuttereron UK.
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Speaker 2: Time, Jeffrey, we've got a lot of world leaders converging
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Speaker 2: at the pope's funeral. Should luxe and.
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Speaker 5: Be there, I think you showed I mean, certainly if
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Speaker 5: he's over already in the United Kingdom, he's heading to
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Speaker 5: Turkey for Anzac Day. It seems that the stars are
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Speaker 5: aligned in a way with the sad passing of the
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Speaker 5: Pope's death, and it would be easy for Luxelm to
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Speaker 5: head back to Rome for the funeral before heading back
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Speaker 5: to New Zealand. I don't know whether that's been confirmed yet.
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Speaker 5: You would surely think that luck would take that option
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Speaker 5: if it's available, because of the sideline opportunities, And as
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Speaker 5: your correspondent was mentioning, there's going to be a big
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Speaker 5: parade of world leaders there from across Europe and further afield,
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Speaker 5: including Trump himself, including Vladimer Zelenski and Manual Makran. All
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Speaker 5: manner of leaders are going to be there, so it
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Speaker 5: would be a good opportunity for some sideline conversations, much
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Speaker 5: in the same way that the Queen's funeral brought together
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Speaker 5: a lot of world leaders back in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you, Jeffrey Miller. Thank you very much for
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Speaker 2: your time this morning. Appreciate it. My costing is with me.
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Speaker 2: Next it is six to six.
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Speaker 2: What have you got coming up on the show?
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Speaker 14: Well, we're going to celebrate.
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Speaker 2: We're going to celebrate.
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Speaker 9: We're going to.
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Speaker 14: Celebrate the fact. Do you realize in March we sold
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Speaker 14: more things to the world than we've ever sold. Ever,
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Speaker 14: that is very exciting, isn't it exciting? And the part
33:24
Speaker 14: of the part of the equation was the shocking dollar
33:27
Speaker 14: because we're a third world nation and that's changing now
33:30
Speaker 14: of course because of the teriffs and the whole debate
33:32
Speaker 14: with Trump. Our dollars gone through the roof. I don't
33:34
Speaker 14: know if you followed the currency markets, but we're sitting
33:36
Speaker 14: at sixty years.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Good for a.
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Speaker 14: Tourist, good for a tourists, not good for an exporter.
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Speaker 14: And so anyway, so we're going to talk about that
33:42
Speaker 14: this morning. So there is some light at the end
33:44
Speaker 14: of the tunnel, and the Britdowans are we.
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Speaker 2: Are exporting more of the same things we've been doing.
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Speaker 2: These are good questions.
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Speaker 14: We're exporting it. There are two things going on. Piercing
33:53
Speaker 14: question there, Francesca, well done. We're selling more and we're
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Speaker 14: selling more at a higher level. Okay, love our meat,
34:00
Speaker 14: they love our wine, they love our dear. It's why
34:02
Speaker 14: you hate buying the bucker and paying the price you
34:04
Speaker 14: do for the butter, because we're paying the international prices. Anyway,
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Speaker 14: So a small amount of celebration before it all.
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Speaker 2: Too loving it, loving it, Mike Costing with you at
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Speaker 2: six for a celebration. I'll be back tomorrow at five.
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Speaker 2: Have a great day. Take care
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