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Andrew Dickens: Get Parliament back to work · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Can we get Parmer back to work? Just saying at
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  Speaker 1: a time when the Prime Minister is urging us to work, work, work, work,
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  Speaker 1: work for growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, Parliaments playing around
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  Speaker 1: with all sorts of unproductive publicity stunts. So we had Winston.
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  Speaker 1: He's still banging on two days later about using altai
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  Speaker 1: or in the house ten minutes debating time we spent
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  Speaker 1: on the topic yesterday. There's no bill on the floor
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  Speaker 1: asking for a name change. We know the sorts of
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  Speaker 1: people who like to feel good by saying altail or
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand, but it's not a thing. Whatever happened to
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  Speaker 1: free speech? By the way, Winston if Ricardo wants to
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  Speaker 1: say artail or, just roll your eyes and move on.
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  Speaker 1: No bill, no story, but a lot of time debating,
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  Speaker 1: and Winston's voters, you know, are lapping it up. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you're entertained. Meanwhile, the Treaty Principal's bill continues to frustrate.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday we had Jenny Shipley and Chris Finnisson being up
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  Speaker 1: to rail against the law, and they really did rail
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  Speaker 1: against it too. Earlier Hekia Parata had a crack. It
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  Speaker 1: is quite amazing to see the parade of National Party
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  Speaker 1: ground who have been so keen to come out against
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  Speaker 1: the bill, which shows that the bill is not part
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  Speaker 1: of the National Party DNA. It never has been. And
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  Speaker 1: we know this because we know the bill's not going through.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the Prime Minister. It is a plaything of act
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  Speaker 1: and it's eight percent support and no disrespect to those people.
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  Speaker 1: I know you care deeply about the general idea, but frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the bill is a dog, badly written and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have any coalition partner supporting it. It is sucking up
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  Speaker 1: vayuable time and energy and money. It's doing nothing for
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  Speaker 1: our productivity or our economy, and that is the number
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  Speaker 1: one thing right now. It's not going to happen, and
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  Speaker 1: yet the fast rumbles on. Glad you're entertained for more
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