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Full Show Podcast: 19 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an earli eredition with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be six after five grade to have your company.
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Speaker 2: Cameron Bagory with us this morning on the ocr before
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Speaker 2: six we'll head to the US. Zuckerburg is in court
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Speaker 2: over the social media addiction trial. New cancer FARMAC funding
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Speaker 2: will look at that too, and those dog attacks up north.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's the nineteenth of Fibruary. Geneva, Russia and Ukraine talks
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Speaker 2: installed again.
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Speaker 4: What we're told is that you can't have the political
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Speaker 4: solution without the military one. So I think on the
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Speaker 4: military side that is where there is more optimism in
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Speaker 4: terms of monitoring the front lines. But we're still no
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Speaker 4: clearer as to what military commitments Washington is prepared to
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Speaker 4: mate for Ukraine's underwrite any kind of peace deal.
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Speaker 2: The Nancy Guthrie case, the newsreader's mum. The sheriff reckons
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Speaker 2: she might be being held quite close to her home.
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Speaker 5: I think she's.
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Speaker 6: Somewhere here locally.
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Speaker 7: What makes you think that?
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Speaker 8: I just do.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why.
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Speaker 6: I don't have any evidence to pull that, but I
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Speaker 6: just believe that she's somewhere locally.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, they've had forty thousand tips from the public
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Speaker 2: so far. Still no sign, no clue, no idea. Finally,
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Speaker 2: viewers concerned. This is in Australia after a video of
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Speaker 2: Channel nine reporters stilloring her words and rambling at the
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Speaker 2: Winter Olympics has gone viral.
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Speaker 8: Have a listen, literally, the like, the price of coffee
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Speaker 8: over here is actually fine. It's more the price of
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Speaker 8: coffee in the US that we are going to have
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Speaker 8: to get used to. I'm not sure that the Iguanas
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Speaker 8: where are we going with that one?
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Speaker 2: But anyway, the host group didn't try to say I.
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Speaker 9: Agree with you completely down cup. Look, you know the
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Speaker 9: cold weather is a thing, right.
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Speaker 2: I remember being in.
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Speaker 9: Washington, DC a few years ago, and Alie, you would
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Speaker 9: have been familiar with this, Like you get out of
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Speaker 9: a car over there and there's such a cold cold
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Speaker 9: when you can't actually move your lips.
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Speaker 2: Now, apparently nine is now having to look into this
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Speaker 2: because the control room allowed that broadcast to go ahead
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Speaker 2: with the reporter out in the cold on air four hours,
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Speaker 2: which is probably why she was slaring her words. By
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Speaker 2: the invidal views.
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Speaker 1: And views you trust to start your day. It's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love, where you
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be nine two ninety two is the number to text.
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Speaker 2: We're going to speak to a guy in a few
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Speaker 2: minutes who sees you should have to take a test
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Speaker 2: to own a dog. What do we think of that?
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Speaker 2: Nine two nine two, would love your thoughts before we
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Speaker 2: chat to him. Now, Chris Bishop has got another big
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Speaker 2: new turn announcement. Well he's got a couple actually on
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Speaker 2: his plate at the moment, doesn't he. So there's the
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Speaker 2: housing announcement, which we sort of already know about. In Auckland.
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Speaker 2: They said, two million houses. Let's let's build them. Let's
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Speaker 2: let's make that the target the goal. And everyone in
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Speaker 2: the character areas, you know, all the people in the
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Speaker 2: nice villas and the leafy streets were not in my
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Speaker 2: backyard players, and so he's having to end. They went
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Speaker 2: and complain to the National MPs, and then the National
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Speaker 2: MPs went and complained to the cabinet ministers and said,
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Speaker 2: you need to stop this because I won't be re elected,
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Speaker 2: so just do something about it. And so they have
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Speaker 2: and they are apparently that's going to happen today a
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Speaker 2: little back down on the intensification, which I don't think
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Speaker 2: is going to actually make that much of a difference anyway.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you look at the sites. There was that
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Speaker 2: story out yes today about the sites that are still
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Speaker 2: available in central areas where you could build up and
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Speaker 2: it would make sense to build up that is sitting
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Speaker 2: empty or vacant with you know, old cars sitting on them,
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So there's plenty of places you
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Speaker 2: can go and build and probably they will start then
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Speaker 2: should start there, So that is happening today. But of
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Speaker 2: a back down. Then you've got Mount Victoria and Wellington. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you have been to Wellington and gone to the
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Speaker 2: airport and landed at the airport and tried it peaked
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Speaker 2: time to get actually not even just peak time Saturdays,
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Speaker 2: any you know, high traffic time, lunchtime, tried to get
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Speaker 2: from the airport to the CBD. So your politicians land there, right,
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Speaker 2: this is the problem. You politicians arrive at the reporter
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Speaker 2: and then they've got to go to Parliament takes them
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Speaker 2: about forty to forty five minutes sometimes and it's a
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Speaker 2: journey that should take fifteen minutes. And the government said
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Speaker 2: we're going to build another tunnel through because there's only
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Speaker 2: one and is tiny and you honk in it. But
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Speaker 2: that's about as fun as it gets. That we're going
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Speaker 2: to build another one. And then yesterday Chris Bishop sort
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Speaker 2: of hinted that, oh, actually we might not, or we
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Speaker 2: might delay what we have planned. Then Nikola Willis comes
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Speaker 2: out she was asked about it. No, no, it's full
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Speaker 2: steam ahead. So they're going to have to do a
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Speaker 2: bit of a mop up job today on housing and
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Speaker 2: on Mount Victoria. Anyone who's been through that tunnel knows
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Speaker 2: the thing needs to be built, and it should have
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Speaker 2: been built yesterday, surely. Brian minutes after five, so we'll
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Speaker 2: talk dogs next and the OCR couple of thoughts, will
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Speaker 2: talk about the house prices at about twenty past five,
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Speaker 2: and then we'll talk about the actual track of the
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Speaker 2: OCR what it means for their economy. Before six. Here
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Speaker 2: on newstalk s ATB.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love
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Speaker 1: Where You Lived, News TALKSB.
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Speaker 2: Five point thirteen. The US tech stocks are arising this
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Speaker 2: morning and video shares are up. This is the chip
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Speaker 2: maker they've done a deal with Meta tens of billions
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Speaker 2: of dollars worth of chips and other hard Wherefore it's
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Speaker 2: AI needs so meta and Facebook needs some AI stuff.
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Speaker 2: They're getting the chips from in video, and video makes
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Speaker 2: a bunch of money. The sort of money go around continues,
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Speaker 2: so stocks are up there in the US. Also Palo
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Speaker 2: Alto Networks. This is the one that keys on the
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Speaker 2: board for I spoke to them about this last week.
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Speaker 2: It's a cybersecurity company. They've had their quarterly results raised,
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Speaker 2: annual revenue outlook. However, their earnings per shared guidance for
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Speaker 2: the quarters disappointed. Their shares this morning down nine percent.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, Right, let's go to Northton where this woman
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Speaker 2: was killed in a dog attack. Has been named by
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Speaker 2: a police a third person to be killed by dogs
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Speaker 2: in Northland in the last four years. Shane Jones is
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Speaker 2: jail sentences for owners of roaming animals. You've got to
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Speaker 2: crack down and crack down hard. Mark Vett is dogs
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Speaker 2: in owner and pet behavior expert and joins me this morning, Mark,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Yeah, right, you very well, thank you. What
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Speaker 2: do you do? How do you stop this because it's
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Speaker 2: it's clearly becoming a problem.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it is. It's definitely a problem, and I
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Speaker 6: mean it was interesting to read a little bit, I mean,
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Speaker 6: very sad, and you know, so it goes out to
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Speaker 6: the fine out there of the person killed. It's yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's a really sad situation. It sounds like to me
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Speaker 6: there was in the door control with the other day before.
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Speaker 6: They've been obviously working on this case for quite a while,
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Speaker 6: so it's pretty sad that something wasn't done a bit sooner.
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Speaker 6: But you know, I don't know the circumstances, so it's
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Speaker 6: hard to know. But it's one of those situations where
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Speaker 6: you've got a multi dog attack like that dog that
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Speaker 6: attack previously other animals killed another dog or damaged another
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Speaker 6: dog and a lot of people were frightened of them.
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Speaker 6: I mean, that type of situation seems to be pretty
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Speaker 6: obvious that there's something wrong there. When you've got and
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Speaker 6: it's a high risk situation, I would have thought that
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Speaker 6: had been done, something done sooner. Looking at the number
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Speaker 6: of convictions, I think it's one in there after all
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Speaker 6: those situations up there, seems to me like there may
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Speaker 6: be some rethinking there to be done in their dog
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Speaker 6: control unit up there as to how they impound those
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Speaker 6: dogs and do something about it earlier. You know, it's
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Speaker 6: still as an attack about to happen by the sounds
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Speaker 6: of it. But it's pretty hard to respond just to
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Speaker 6: news that you're speculating on. You don't know what the teams.
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Speaker 6: The teams a pretty high level of pressure.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure up there, I'm sure they are. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: they are. But like, let's forget about that for a second, mark,
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Speaker 2: let's get away from that and just say generally, if
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Speaker 2: a dog attacks another dog, or bites another bites a
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Speaker 2: human and like it's you know, it's damaging, should they
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Speaker 2: be alive?
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Speaker 10: Well?
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Speaker 6: No, And in most cases, when when they've got to
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Speaker 6: a situation, you know where they've particularly when they're seriously
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Speaker 6: damaged another animal, almost invariably there's but certainly by the
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Speaker 6: second time, youth in ages almost definitely on the cards.
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Speaker 6: I'd be surprised if the cases had gone to court
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Speaker 6: that there would have been any leniency. And at that
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Speaker 6: level of aggression, normally it's almost the other way around.
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Speaker 6: But exactly clearly there's issues in regard to the punishment.
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Speaker 6: But really the issue comes down from my point of view,
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Speaker 6: to education. I mean, obviously, certain individuals you can't simply educate.
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Speaker 6: They're not going to take that type of information. But
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Speaker 6: I think a very important point is demonstrated to if
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Speaker 6: we actually apply the right understanding in the formative period,
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Speaker 6: the two to four month periods in a dog's life
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Speaker 6: and socialize them, well that dog behave is not going
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Speaker 6: to happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. Mark Mark Vett, who's with us
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Speaker 2: this morning, dogs and owner and pet behavior expert. That's
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Speaker 2: seventeen minutes after five News Talks said be so. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: if you go round to the house and the dog,
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Speaker 2: you know, they went around four times and either the
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Speaker 2: owner wasn't I mean, who cares? If the dog has
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Speaker 2: been biting people, then it needs to be put down,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it? And do we need to go through the
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Speaker 2: courts to make that happen? That is the question, because
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Speaker 2: that takes time, and time means more legs getting bitten. Surely.
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Speaker 11: Five seventeen the first word on the News of the
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Speaker 11: Day early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roote Love
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Speaker 11: where you live News Talks'd be five twenty Ana Breman
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Speaker 11: yesterday the Reserve Bank governor quite dubvish on interest rates
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Speaker 11: and saying basically we will hold off until conditions are right,
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Speaker 11: probably means that your April or you may hike that
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Speaker 11: financial markets are pricing in less likely, and you are
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Speaker 11: probably also less likely to see a pre election rate hike,
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Speaker 11: which lux and will like no changes yesterday afternoon to
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Speaker 11: mortgage or term deposit rates. As a result of that
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Speaker 11: RBNZ decision, Ryan Sparmac moving closer to banking two new
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Speaker 11: drugs for people living with chronic lymphiatic leukemia. If approved,
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Speaker 11: treatments could dramatically improve the last span of blood cancer patients,
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Speaker 11: with access possible from as early as May. Tim Edmonds
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Speaker 11: is Blood Cans in New Zealand CEO and with me
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Speaker 11: this morning.
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Speaker 2: Hey Tim, Well you're right, Halliott, I'm good, thank you.
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Speaker 2: What does a new treatment do that others don't Well.
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Speaker 3: This is a really important step for treatment of blood
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Speaker 3: can to patients, particular CERL patients, because it takes as
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Speaker 3: targeted approach to what they call first line treatment. So
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Speaker 3: once a patient is initially diagnosed, being able to actually
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Speaker 3: a targeted therapy rather than a chemotherapy is the is
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Speaker 3: a really important step here. So patients at the moment
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Speaker 3: would be exiting a chemotherapy potentially up to twenty hospital
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Speaker 3: visits over six months, whereas they can actually take an
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Speaker 3: oral tablet upheld every day from home without those same
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Speaker 3: hospitalizations and actually get better outcomes. So it's really important
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Speaker 3: for patients as they're diagnosed and initially treated.
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Speaker 2: How important was it because what you're saying is you
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Speaker 2: have fewer people in visit having to go into hospital
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Speaker 2: to have treatment they can do it at home. How
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Speaker 2: important was the change that the government made to the
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Speaker 2: mandate to say you need to look at the overall
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Speaker 2: benefit of these new.
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Speaker 3: Drugs yesterday when it was announced by the Mistery of Health,
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Speaker 3: that was specifically referenced around the efficiencies to a health system.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's the opportunity with modern medicines is
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Speaker 3: that it achieves not only better outcomes for patients, but
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Speaker 3: it can also improve efficiencies from their health system. And
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Speaker 3: you can imagine the cost they are associated with twenty
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Speaker 3: hospital visits and then complications that often come with chemotherapy
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Speaker 3: and the long term challenges of chemotherapy's toxicity. So this
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Speaker 3: is a really important step that many health systems around
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Speaker 3: the world have taken many years ago, and it's available
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Speaker 3: in many blood cancers because let's say it's at the
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Speaker 3: forefront of these targeted therapies. So yeah, that leans of both.
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Speaker 3: How do we improve patient outcomes, how do we improve
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Speaker 3: how system efficiency really come together in this proposed announcement.
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Speaker 2: Tim, what's next on your list?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, heading into last election, there was a promise
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Speaker 3: to not leave blood cancer patients behind. Some of those
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Speaker 3: commitments have been made and this is a great example
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Speaker 3: of one of them, but there were commitments to my
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Speaker 3: owner patients that haven't been met, to wider blood cancer patents,
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Speaker 3: and they all set on this medicine's weightlift that FARMAC
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Speaker 3: have so farre Mac have said that these are cost effective,
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Speaker 3: that they are important medicines for the government to fund.
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Speaker 3: But at the moment there's no money allocated to FARMAC
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Speaker 3: to fund any new medicines. So we're really looking to
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Speaker 3: budget and to the election to make sure that actually
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Speaker 3: New Zealand is not left behind. New Zealanders with these
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Speaker 3: blood cancers are not left behind in their treatment options.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Tim, tim Edmunds Bud Cancer,
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Time is twenty three minutes after five. Now
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Speaker 2: very quickly before we get to I want to talk
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Speaker 2: to you about house prices next. But lots of feedback
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Speaker 2: coming in on a MOUNTAINVIC tunnel. Ryan, there are four
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Speaker 2: other ways into Wellington from the airport. I never used this,
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Speaker 2: as from Bob, I never used the mount WC tunnel. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but the other ways are always just as clogged, like
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Speaker 2: if you go Newtown Way, if you go around the
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Speaker 2: bays and well, I mean you tell me, Bob Ryan,
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Speaker 2: good morning. I certainly hope they do proceed with the
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Speaker 2: Mountain Wic tunnel for the sake of our international visitors.
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Speaker 2: My relatives recently got an airport taxi which proceeded to
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Speaker 2: take them around the base rather than through the tunnel.
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Speaker 2: This was a Friday afternoon. It was eighty dollars to
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Speaker 2: the terrorists. Imagine imagine if that was an international tourist,
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Speaker 2: and imagine their shock at the price just to get
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Speaker 2: to the little old terrace. And how better would it
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Speaker 2: be with the tunnel, says this texter. Yeah good point
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Speaker 2: nine two ninety two is the number to text twenty
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Speaker 2: four after five the early edition.
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Speaker 1: Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio Power by Newstalks AV.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty six on Newstalk ZIBB ocr aside for a second,
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Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank made very clear one thing yesterday where
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Speaker 2: they think growth is going to come from in this country.
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Speaker 2: As we've spoken about on the show lately, house prices
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Speaker 2: aren't exactly running away here like they are in Australia
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Speaker 2: bar Queenstown. In previous recoveries, that wealth effect kicks in.
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Speaker 2: People go shopping with their house prices going up, they
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Speaker 2: feel a bit richer and splash the cash. But this
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Speaker 2: time the bank says prices are going to stay flat,
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Speaker 2: pick up again later this year, but only at the
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Speaker 2: rate of income growth. In other words, the opposite of
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Speaker 2: what we're used to over the past few decades. Usually,
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Speaker 2: as anyone who's trying to buy a house will know,
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Speaker 2: the price of a three bity in Auckland grows quicker
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Speaker 2: than your salary. That's all changed now because we have
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Speaker 2: more supply, at least that's according to the Bank yesterday.
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Speaker 2: So without the tickle up, where does economic growth come from?
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Speaker 2: For nz inc Arna Breman answered that question specifically yesterday
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Speaker 2: and was very clear. Agricultural exports, tourism and more recently
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Speaker 2: some signs of life and manufacturing. These are industries that
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Speaker 2: bring us money from offshore. They grow the pie, they
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Speaker 2: provide the basis for other sectors to pick up. If
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Speaker 2: you're a farmer or a tourism operator in Queenstown Audo
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Speaker 2: to do it this morning, you should feel very proud
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Speaker 2: of that, and we, through our government should support them.
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Speaker 2: That means staying off their backs, letting them get on
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Speaker 2: do what they do best, feeding the world and providing
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Speaker 2: unforgettable experiences for visitors. On manufacturing, it is hard to
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Speaker 2: ignore the energy debate. If we don't have a steady
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Speaker 2: and reliable supply of electricity, trying to run a factory
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Speaker 2: or a mill, as the Central North Ardland has learnt
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Speaker 2: the hard way just recently becomes very difficult. So while
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Speaker 2: ALNNG coal for Huntley and methane target changes might sound bad,
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Speaker 2: they're basically what ensure that we support the industries that
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Speaker 2: support us. What the Reserve Bank said unequivocally yesterday is
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Speaker 2: that without them there is no growth. Without growth, no
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Speaker 2: new jobs. What does that do to tax, no new hospitals.
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Speaker 2: You get the picture. This is not to say it's
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Speaker 2: a perfect world. There are costs to not doing environmental stuff,
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Speaker 2: but for them to work, you need the world on
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Speaker 2: board and they're not. In the meantime, the question is
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Speaker 2: whether we can afford to bite the economic hand that
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Speaker 2: feeds us, and if you listen to the Bank it
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Speaker 2: would appear that we can't. Bryan Bridge him is twenty
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after five open in the UK. Reform you
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Speaker 2: got to listen to Reform because they're now in the polls.
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Speaker 2: The leading party and their treasurer has come out on
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Speaker 2: the two child policy this morning.
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Speaker 5: Reform is changing our policy on the two child cap
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Speaker 5: for universal credit. The policy was well meaning. We want
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Speaker 5: to help British working families to have more children, but
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Speaker 5: right now we just can't afford to do so with welfare,
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Speaker 5: so it has to go so.
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Speaker 2: Two kids only. If you want to get welfare, you're
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Speaker 2: only going to get it for two kids, which was
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Speaker 2: the policy. Labor reversed it. Of course it's costlam and
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Speaker 2: an arm and a leg, not just financially but in
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Speaker 2: the polls too. Cameron begriy on the ocr before six
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Speaker 2: and we're in the US. Next News TALKSB.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love.
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Speaker 2: Where you Live. News Talks B putty far away from
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Speaker 2: the six on News Talks B coming up the falls six,
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Speaker 2: Cameron begriy on the o CR We'll heat to the US.
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Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberger is in court to not drink, driving or anything.
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Speaker 2: Actually just getting a whole bunch of teams addicted to
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Speaker 2: social media, so he'll take the stand. We'll talk to
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Speaker 2: our US correspondent about that one. Now. On the dog attacks,
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Speaker 2: lots of you have texted them. It was the Kaipita
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Speaker 2: District Council that's involved here. There were four callouts over
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Speaker 2: the space of twelve months. Ryan, this is from John.
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Speaker 2: Can't believe the hypocrisy of the council. The dog attacks
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Speaker 2: recently witnessed a person being issued a three hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty dollars infringement for having a dog off leash for
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Speaker 2: five minutes after a curfew ended on a winter's day,
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Speaker 2: on a weather bad and weathery day when there was
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Speaker 2: no one else around on the beach. So what is
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Speaker 2: this revenue gathering? Why aren't they doing what they should
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Speaker 2: be doing, taking bad dogs off people who can't control them,
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Speaker 2: Shawn says, simply taser dangerous dogs and cut their nuts.
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Speaker 2: Cut their nuts off before they wake up. That'll give
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Speaker 2: them something to think about. Thank you, Sean, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: Collum's and Ternedin in morning, Colum morning right, questions over
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Speaker 2: Invercargo's Stadium. What's happening here?
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Speaker 12: Yea, this is Rugby Park in question here home of
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Speaker 12: the South and Stags councilors to revisit options for an
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Speaker 12: outdoor venue after having met earlier this week to discuss
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Speaker 12: the report on Rugby Park. There's a number of long
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Speaker 12: standing issues for the ground, including its structural concerns and
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Speaker 12: roof problems. Local Democracy Reporting says demolitions estimated to cost
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Speaker 12: seven million dollars and redevelopment of a multifunction venue would
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Speaker 12: be roughly eighteen million.
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Speaker 2: So that's a big decision to make. Mere.
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Speaker 12: Tom Campbell believes there are other needs facing the city,
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Speaker 12: like the rehab work at Queen's Park. Other councilors are
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Speaker 12: backing this investment, though if in the Cargo's to attract
19:38
Speaker 12: more events?
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your where? They callum?
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Speaker 12: I mainly find this morning, the old shower, this afternoon
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Speaker 12: and twenty three?
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Speaker 2: All right, if someone could text me, that seems extraordinary.
19:47
Speaker 2: So the demolition would cost basically half as much as
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Speaker 2: the new rebuild. How does that figure? Clear? Good morning?
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Speaker 13: Good morning?
19:55
Speaker 2: How's Banks Peninsula doing?
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Speaker 12: Oh?
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Speaker 13: Well, they're still largely in clean up. My the stative
20:00
Speaker 13: emergency remains in place over there. As you know, little
20:03
Speaker 13: River was inundated. Why Nui is still very much cut
20:06
Speaker 13: off following this weather event, though access to the area
20:09
Speaker 13: has somewhat improved because State Highway seventy five did reopen.
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Speaker 13: The christ Church Meyre film major though, I was talking
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Speaker 13: about ideas including getting the Orkana River widened or opened
20:20
Speaker 13: to divert water away from communities and into Lake Forsyth
20:24
Speaker 13: to stop this flood issue becoming something that it's a
20:28
Speaker 13: repeat event. Well, it really is already at that stage,
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Speaker 13: he said. It used to be something we'd see once
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Speaker 13: every ten years. Now it's happening every couple of years.
20:35
Speaker 13: Farno at Ornakum Madai in near Arkadowa, which hosted dozens
20:38
Speaker 13: of school kids for an extra stay this time, they
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Speaker 13: are appealing for a similar thing, saying they need funding
20:43
Speaker 13: to complete some critical flood remediation work. They warned that
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Speaker 13: the Midai is lacking its ability to be able to
20:49
Speaker 13: operate as an emergency hub if this continues. Communications still
20:54
Speaker 13: remain very patchy. Authorities are asking residents to limit calls
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Speaker 13: and texts, and the Internet also still remains down.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather for today?
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Speaker 13: Looking much better today? Thankfully we've got mainly fined for
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Speaker 13: christ Church. There is the chance of a shower later today.
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Speaker 13: Northwester he's turning southwest and a high of twenty six.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Max and Wellington Max, good morning, good morning.
21:16
Speaker 2: So will be getting a new Mount Wuc tunnel and
21:18
Speaker 2: we're not getting a new Mount vic tunnel. What's happening?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Well, senior National MP seem a little at odds
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Speaker 14: over this major roading project. The Transport Minister Chris Bishop
21:28
Speaker 14: seemed to open the door a little to not doing it,
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Speaker 14: basically that it's still under consideration effectively, which is the
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Speaker 14: first time this has happened. He referenced congestion charging whether
21:39
Speaker 14: that might deem it unnecessary, and then Nikola Willis, you've
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Speaker 14: got Nikola Willis saying the tunnel is still all go.
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Speaker 14: Work is already underway. Mount Victoria Tunnel obviously one of
21:49
Speaker 14: the seventeen Roads of National Significance, part of an almost
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Speaker 14: four billion dollar transport project in Wellington that also includes
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Speaker 14: the second tunnel on the Terrace. But Nicola Willis less
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Speaker 14: defiant that focusing the comments on Mount Victoria, so that
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Speaker 14: really does seem in doubt. Meanwhile, you've got this major
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Speaker 14: sex story apartment building that's supposed to be going up
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Speaker 14: at the top of Mount Victoria that's been the subject
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Speaker 14: of protests, legal challenges by local residents associations and the like.
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Speaker 14: It is green light for that now, an independent commissioner says,
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Speaker 14: this is what the district plan now allows. Sorry about
22:23
Speaker 14: your heritage and character concerns.
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Speaker 2: Very good, Well we'll get clarification on the tunnel today,
22:29
Speaker 2: I'm sure Max. How's the winner?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, party, Cloudy nor the Les twenty to high.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you. And Neva in Oakland morning, Neia, good morning.
22:36
Speaker 2: We've got the royal tattoo here.
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Speaker 15: I know it's starting tonight. Oh my god. This is
22:41
Speaker 15: so popular. So it's obviously at Auckland's Eden Park, bringing
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Speaker 15: in thousands of visitors. Now about ninety thousand people they're
22:50
Speaker 15: expected to attend this showcase. This is happening over the
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Speaker 15: next three nights. There's more than a thousand performers taking part.
22:57
Speaker 15: Ellen lane Is, the creative director, says, look, loads and
23:01
Speaker 15: loads of people have been traveling far and wide to
23:03
Speaker 15: see this. Apparently about thirty eight thousand people flew in
23:06
Speaker 15: to see them. This is at the last stop in
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Speaker 15: Brisbane and he reckons that you know it's going to
23:11
Speaker 15: be the same here in Auckland. So it's all go.
23:14
Speaker 15: And I think I might be able to hear those
23:15
Speaker 15: bagpipes in here all of it tonight from where not.
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Speaker 2: Even won't be going along, but you'll be listening at
23:22
Speaker 2: home exactly. How's our weather.
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Speaker 15: Partly cloudy morning showers, showers returning after dark. Twenty three
23:28
Speaker 15: is a high.
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Speaker 2: Brilliantly but thank you. Time is nineteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six Ryan. This is about the Reserve Bank Governor you
23:35
Speaker 2: today the Reserve Bank's view on growth and where it's
23:37
Speaker 2: coming from basically farmers, tourism and then some manufacturing just
23:42
Speaker 2: to spice things up. And this textas says, well, we
23:46
Speaker 2: need our government needs to take note. Any future government
23:50
Speaker 2: needs to take note. Tried telling labor this, look what
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Speaker 2: they did to these industries. They went on a witch
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Speaker 2: hunt with agriculture and it's true. I mean you look
23:57
Speaker 2: at farmer confidence when they and power. It just went
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Speaker 2: through the floor, absolutely through the floor. And they felt
24:04
Speaker 2: like they were wrapped up in regulation. And is that
24:07
Speaker 2: what you want to do to an industry which is
24:09
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Speaker 2: Remember the Isis brides who left Western countries like Australia,
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Speaker 2: They've got to the US now and for Gurty Daves
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Speaker 2: with US. All talks betwnged and Geneva between Russia and Ukraine.
26:10
Speaker 2: Jiguji wats the light is there.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the second day of talks and whilst Ukraine's
26:16
Speaker 7: president said there was progress on military issues, Russian negotiators
26:19
Speaker 7: have said that the talks were difficult but business like.
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Speaker 7: This is slightly different in tone to previous days. The
26:25
Speaker 7: US is putting a positive spin on the talks. He's
26:28
Speaker 7: saying the fact that the US has brought the two
26:31
Speaker 7: sides together is a success. That's President Trump's success. And
26:34
Speaker 7: Steve Whitcoff wrote on x that both parties agreed to
26:37
Speaker 7: update their respective leaders and continue working towards a deal.
26:42
Speaker 7: You know, this is in the first time we've seen
26:43
Speaker 7: a lack of progress. Previous rounds of the US broker
26:47
Speaker 7: talks have also failed to yield a breakthrough, and clearly
26:50
Speaker 7: must be frustrated in the Trump camp here as the
26:52
Speaker 7: President has previously promised to deliver a fast peace between
26:56
Speaker 7: Russian Ukraine and that hasn't materialized yet.
26:59
Speaker 2: There's trial on young people on social media addiction. Zackerberg
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Speaker 2: appearing in court.
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Speaker 7: It is it's the first time he's going to be
27:06
Speaker 7: speaking in front of a jury. He's talked to Congress
27:10
Speaker 7: about social media and safety for young people before, and
27:13
Speaker 7: this really is being described as a landmark trial because
27:16
Speaker 7: its implications and scope are so wide, involving big tech
27:19
Speaker 7: companies and setting a potential precedent for thousands of other
27:23
Speaker 7: social media addiction cases very quickly. At the center of
27:26
Speaker 7: this particular case, it's the Instagram's parent company, Meta and
27:31
Speaker 7: Google's YouTube. They're being accused of deliberately being addictive and
27:34
Speaker 7: causing harm to children. They are Google and YouTube. Meto
27:38
Speaker 7: and YouTube are the two remaining defendants in this case
27:41
Speaker 7: in Los Angeles. TikTok and Snap have settled, and the
27:44
Speaker 7: plaintiff is a twenty two year old known as KGM.
27:48
Speaker 7: She says she became addicted to Instagram and YouTube as
27:50
Speaker 7: a child that caused her mental health problems, including depression
27:54
Speaker 7: and suicidal thoughts. It's you know, Mark Zuckerberg is going
27:57
Speaker 7: to likely be speaking in front of bereaved pairs ands,
28:00
Speaker 7: so it's going to be pretty emotional hearing. But a
28:03
Speaker 7: matter spokesman has spokesperson has said the company strongly disagrees
28:07
Speaker 7: with the allegations in the lawsuit and said they're confident
28:10
Speaker 7: the evidence will show long standing commitment to supporting young people.
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Speaker 2: All right, One to keep an eye today DRAGRITTI thank you, Degritty.
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Speaker 2: Dave are US correspondent time as eleven to six. Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge Jelena Bremen, Reserve Bank governor yesterday held the ocr
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Speaker 2: reckons will be back in target range for inflation by
28:25
Speaker 2: the end of the year.
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Speaker 14: We do you see that we are in the early
28:28
Speaker 14: stages of an economic recovery, but it's true that many
28:32
Speaker 14: households will not feel this yet.
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Speaker 2: Cameron Beggery, independent economist, with me this morning. Cameron, good morning,
28:38
Speaker 2: good morning. Did they get the tone right.
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Speaker 10: Well? At your markets have been thinking that the reserve
28:45
Speaker 10: banks can be highly possibly two twice before the end
28:48
Speaker 10: of the year, the Reserve Bank pushed back a little
28:50
Speaker 10: bit against it. They see more likely than not probably
28:53
Speaker 10: one but the general what fits and what the Reserve
28:56
Speaker 10: Bank is saying as a next move in interest rates
28:58
Speaker 10: is up, but it looks like it will be at
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Speaker 10: the back after this year as opposed to first off.
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Speaker 2: And is she right or are they right? I should say,
29:05
Speaker 2: on the inflation track. Do you think that they're getting
29:09
Speaker 2: that right because that basically predicts what they do with
29:11
Speaker 2: the rates.
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Speaker 10: Right here, I've got what you call a set of
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Speaker 10: holy grail. The economic forecast, your growth has up to
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Speaker 10: three percent, inflation magical goes back to two percent, the
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Speaker 10: unemployment rate sort of drops, productivities up, their house prices
29:28
Speaker 10: move back up to around four to five percent. There's
29:31
Speaker 10: a little bit of magic and achieving dose of outcomes.
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Speaker 10: If I think there's a problem within their forecast, the
29:36
Speaker 10: problem within their fools is they assume uptick in productivity growth.
29:41
Speaker 10: Now we need that uptick in productivity growth, which is
29:44
Speaker 10: that drives a supply side capacity In your comment, your
29:47
Speaker 10: ability to meet demand. Now we know the demand line
29:50
Speaker 10: is packing up. What the Desserve Bank is assuming is
29:52
Speaker 10: that the supply side capacity via productivity growth is going
29:55
Speaker 10: to improve. And if demand and supply both improved, then
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Speaker 10: we're not going to have an inflation problem over twenty
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Speaker 10: twenty six. If we do not get that supplices or
30:03
Speaker 10: capacity up in the place is going to prove to
30:05
Speaker 10: be a lot more sticky and it's not going to
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Speaker 10: come down to two percent. Of the Reserve bankers.
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Speaker 2: Say, productivity very hard thing to fix, isn't it?
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Speaker 10: Here it is, and a lot of the leavers to
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Speaker 10: ten productivity around lots of infrastructure education their long term
30:19
Speaker 10: in nature, what we tend to see though, is that
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Speaker 10: look productivity tends to wax and wane with economic cycle.
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Speaker 10: At the top of the cycle, productivity tends to sort
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Speaker 10: of back off. What you tend to see early in
30:32
Speaker 10: the cycle traditionally is a productivity growth starts to pick up.
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Speaker 10: What we're seen early in this cycle. There's employment growth
30:39
Speaker 10: and ours works have started to pick up pretty early
30:42
Speaker 10: in the economic cycle. So that suggests a face edue.
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Speaker 10: We actually not see much of what's called a cyclical
30:47
Speaker 10: pickup and productivity growth.
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Speaker 2: Yet interesting stuff. Cameron Cameron Bagri Independent Economists with us
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Speaker 2: this morning time is nine minutes away from six. By
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Speaker 2: the way, we're doing all of this, all of this
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Speaker 2: heavy lifting and hard work without the assistance of house
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Speaker 2: price increases. Newstalks 'b might next.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love, Where you Live News.
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Speaker 2: Talks EDB Sex to Sex News Talk ZIB. You know
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Speaker 2: how we have the debate in New Zealand about housing
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Speaker 2: versus productive land. You know, we don't want people building
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Speaker 2: houses where we could grow vegetables on very good soil
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Speaker 2: or farm. In the US, they've got this problem with
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Speaker 2: data centers. In northern Virginia in particular, there's two counties
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Speaker 2: where in twenty twenty one it was something like thirty
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Speaker 2: percent of all development going on was for data centers.
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Speaker 2: And now you've got developers buying up bits of land
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Speaker 2: and then looking around and realizing Microsoft and Google own
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Speaker 2: all the land around them because they need somewhere to
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Speaker 2: build their data centers. You see times six to six.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, Mike, good morning, Good morning. You would have
31:54
Speaker 2: watched the press conference yesterday with of course nice to
31:57
Speaker 2: have a sort of Swedish accent.
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Speaker 16: I think I wasn't sure about that. My problem with
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Speaker 16: several folds she's on this morning. My problem with what
32:04
Speaker 16: was happening yesterday is Silk and Conway are still there.
32:08
Speaker 16: And the criticism this morning from people like Tony Alexander
32:11
Speaker 16: and I know you had Cameron Bagri on, but some
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Speaker 16: of the others are suggesting they've missed the boat again.
32:17
Speaker 16: So she came on and said if that inflation thing,
32:20
Speaker 16: they'll just drift into place beautifully. Now she may well
32:23
Speaker 16: be right, but they're saying, well, hold on, you don't
32:25
Speaker 16: want to misread this again. And so there's a number
32:29
Speaker 16: of people concerned about what's actually going on. And the
32:32
Speaker 16: point you made, which is interesting, which is housing and
32:35
Speaker 16: immigration or lack of it. So if you've got no
32:37
Speaker 16: people coming into the country the houses are what is
32:41
Speaker 16: it that's lifting.
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Speaker 2: She was asked, and that you would have seen. Bernard
32:46
Speaker 2: Hickey asked her, where is the growth coming from? She
32:48
Speaker 2: said unequivocally it was agriculture, and it was tourism, and
32:53
Speaker 2: it was a bit of manufacturing starting to spice things up.
32:56
Speaker 2: And so then you go, well, who do we need
32:59
Speaker 2: to support? Industries? Do we need to support so that
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Speaker 2: we're not broke? Well, that's your answer.
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Speaker 16: I don't think. See when she talks about agriculture, she's right,
33:07
Speaker 16: but agriculture's got a cap out at some point. You
33:10
Speaker 16: can't You just can't exponentially grow forever.
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Speaker 2: No, but you also shouldn't have your foot on their
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Speaker 2: throat either.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 16: I couldn't agree more. But then the industrial side of it,
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Speaker 16: the manufacturing is starting to move as well. But essentially
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Speaker 16: there's not enough. There's my point is this, there's not
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Speaker 16: enough there before she in theory comes in later on
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Speaker 16: this year and goes, right, it's time for a hike.
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Speaker 16: So in other words, you're looking at the growth. The
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Speaker 16: growth is limited. It's so limited that you get to
33:37
Speaker 16: September October and suddenly, whoops, it's over. So our capacity
33:42
Speaker 16: isn't that great?
33:43
Speaker 2: What we do need in this country is a big, new,
33:45
Speaker 2: bright shining industry. It just goes on about space when
33:48
Speaker 2: you space, or rare earths, yes something, or some oil
33:55
Speaker 2: take anything at.
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Speaker 16: Ai or something like that. Anyway, the good governors, that's
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Speaker 16: very good after seven zero, very good.
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Speaker 2: Do you think it's suspicious that she's here and Ike
34:04
Speaker 2: is opening just sort of Swedish? Do you want me
34:07
Speaker 2: to ask them? I think in order to get I care,
34:09
Speaker 2: we had to take her. I'm going to ask you
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Speaker 2: that and keep your name, you dear, have a great day.
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