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Full Show Podcast: 25 July 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: EARLI edition with ex Pole Insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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  Speaker 1: and try this winter news talks.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be welcome onrning to you on this very cold
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  Speaker 2: morning minus five at an airport minus three in Masterton
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  Speaker 2: right now, I'm Andrew Dickens in for Ryan Bridge, who's
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  Speaker 2: just taking a long weekend. Coming up over the next hour.
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  Speaker 2: Should government ministers be forced to pause their private health
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  Speaker 2: insurance and use the public system? Some doctors think so.
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  Speaker 2: They've written an open letter. What does the Chair of
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  Speaker 2: Health New Zealand think That story? In just minutes new
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  Speaker 2: high strength beers of flooding the market? Are they any good?
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  Speaker 2: Or are they doing bad? That story in fifteen we've
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  Speaker 2: got all the news from America with Mitch mccam including
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  Speaker 2: the latest and the Epstein saga and the new electoral rules.
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  Speaker 2: Are they undemocratic? Labour think so, And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk to their spokesperson just before six. We'll go right
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  Speaker 2: around the country with our reporters and we'll have news
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  Speaker 2: as it breaks and you can have your say ye
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  Speaker 2: saying we at texts. The number is ninety ten two
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  Speaker 2: ninety two is small charge applies at seven after five
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  Speaker 2: the agenda, Well, it's Friday, the twenty fifth of July.
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  Speaker 2: You made it first to the da situation in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: Now more than one hundred international aid organizations have warned
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  Speaker 2: of mass starvation, and they all blame Israel. The UN
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  Speaker 2: says it has six thousand trucks worth of aid waiting
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  Speaker 2: to enter. A news organizations say even their journalists on
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  Speaker 2: the ground are unable to feed themselves. A doctor in
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  Speaker 2: Gaza says Palestinians are not close to famine. They're living it.
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  Speaker 3: Path to aired is path today it's a one way ticket.
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  Speaker 3: I see the injured people who come to the hospital
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  Speaker 3: in big numbers. We sometimes receive up to fifty injury
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  Speaker 3: to day. We don't have any time to close our
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  Speaker 3: eyes and have some rare.
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  Speaker 2: To America, and the Wall Street Journal is reporting Trump
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  Speaker 2: was told in May that he was among hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: names mentioned in Justice Department documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: The White House is calling it a fake news story.
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  Speaker 4: The President has made it clear that he wanted these
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  Speaker 4: documents to be declassified. He wanted the American people to
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  Speaker 4: see the truth. And now he wants those who perpetuated
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  Speaker 4: these lies in this scandal to be held accountable, and.
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  Speaker 2: It puts even more pressure on Trump to release the files.
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  Speaker 5: It's different from other controversies he spaced during his political
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  Speaker 5: career because, for the first time since he's gotten involved
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  Speaker 5: in politics over the last decade, we have seen that
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  Speaker 5: his conservative nagabase appears to be spluntering.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, there's legal action between Donald Trump and the Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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  Speaker 2: So mates of fighting and now here's a nice story.
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  Speaker 2: A Canadian tourism man has called come hug it out
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  Speaker 2: has gone viral. The video from Quebec's Eastern Township shows
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  Speaker 2: a Canadian hotel worker giving an American tourist a big
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  Speaker 2: Canadian hug, a friendly nudge to call off the tension
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  Speaker 2: after months of tariffs and taunts between the US and Canada.
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  Speaker 6: ESK spooky.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, I don't speak French.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just visiting.
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  Speaker 9: Well, then, welcome to Canada's eastern townships.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you visiting from.
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  Speaker 7: I'm American, ah.
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  Speaker 2: Doki, hey, and the numbers don't lie between the United
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  Speaker 2: States and Canada. US travel to Canada by car is
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  Speaker 2: down eleven percent, and Canadians heading south down are whopping
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  Speaker 2: thirty three percent. It's ten out of five.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Dickins and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry.
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  Speaker 1: This winter news talks at me.
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  Speaker 2: So is this the week that the Nikola Willis bubble burst?
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  Speaker 2: The Finance Minister was widely criticized this week as being ineffectual.
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  Speaker 2: After the much hyped butter summit with Miles Hurl from
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  Speaker 2: fon Terra, nothing happened other than Miles yesterday telling us
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  Speaker 2: exactly why butter is high, which was something we already knew. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: the Minister doubled down in the house at question time,
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  Speaker 2: getting more and more historyonic, leading some to compare her
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  Speaker 2: answers to Labour's questions as the sound of a bellowing
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  Speaker 2: farm animal with just as much hot air. Mike Hosky
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  Speaker 2: on The Breakfast Show Had Fun criticized her continual over
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  Speaker 2: hyping of what she can achieve with consumer prices, noting
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  Speaker 2: that she's doing the same with the supermarket issue and
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  Speaker 2: comparing her to de Cinder Addurn, who remember told us
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  Speaker 2: once upon a time that petrol companies were fleecing us. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: the country is locked into a morderal and economic state,
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  Speaker 2: possibly due to excessive austerity. In the pursuit of lower
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  Speaker 2: debt levels, she's prune the bureaucracy, which is no bad thing,
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  Speaker 2: but she also turned off government funding of critical work,
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  Speaker 2: negatively impacting many sectors, including construction. I'll tell you a
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  Speaker 2: story about construction in a few moments. And in canceling
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  Speaker 2: the fairies, she may have saved us a big bill now,
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  Speaker 2: but it threatens to be an even bigger bill later.
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  Speaker 2: Nikola Willis may be a factor in National's poor performance
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  Speaker 2: in the polls as the recession drags on, because we
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  Speaker 2: all know any election the most important issue is the economy, stupid,
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  Speaker 2: and she's the one running the economy. And with such
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  Speaker 2: a long list of over egged performative politics, you start
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  Speaker 2: to wonder if the Prime Minister might be starting to
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  Speaker 2: look to the subs bench because with all the negative
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  Speaker 2: press coming her way, she may have cooked her slightly
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  Speaker 2: overinflated goose. And Nichola Willis will be in conversation with
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  Speaker 2: Mike Hoskin, which should be very entertaining after six o'clock
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Right here on News Talks ATB. It's twelve after.
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  Speaker 10: Five News TALKSB.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so as some health workers set an open letter,
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  Speaker 2: don't you love an open letter? Not really, but they
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  Speaker 2: set an open letter and they reckon that politicians should
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  Speaker 2: use the public health system and not their private insurance
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  Speaker 2: so that they can really experience what it's really really like.
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  Speaker 2: So is this a good idea? Is this a stunt?
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  Speaker 2: What does the Chair of Health New Zealand, Rob Campbell
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  Speaker 2: think about it? And would he only use a public system?
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  Speaker 2: I will find out all his former chair of course,
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  Speaker 2: we'll find this out in just a few moments time.
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  Speaker 2: Right here on News Talks ATB.
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  Speaker 1: Views and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickins at expol Insulation keeping Kiwi
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's fourteen out to five. Should MPs have to
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  Speaker 2: use the public health system? That is a challenge from
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  Speaker 2: a group of health workers who are calling out politicians
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  Speaker 2: saying they should have to rely on the systems that
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  Speaker 2: they reside over so they can personally experience the consequences
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  Speaker 2: of any decision they make. So Rob Campbell is the
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  Speaker 2: former chair of Tafata Order Health New Zealand, and he
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  Speaker 2: comes to the program. Now good On is here. Rob,
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  Speaker 2: thank you once again for getting up early for.
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  Speaker 8: Us, Marina Andrew, it's not early for some of this is.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you. Is it fair? Is it fair to
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  Speaker 2: force MPs or to ask MPs to use the public
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  Speaker 2: health system?
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  Speaker 8: Look at they're not going to do it anymore than
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  Speaker 8: they're going to turn down their next pay rise. But
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  Speaker 8: the call that's been made, I think does highlight that
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  Speaker 8: as d MPs, but many people do live in a
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  Speaker 8: bit of a cocoon from the major problems of our
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  Speaker 8: public health system because they've been able to opt out
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  Speaker 8: to a large extent through the insurance that they hold.
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  Speaker 8: About nearly half of New Zealanders do hold health insurance,
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  Speaker 8: so it's no surprise that many MPs do. So it
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  Speaker 8: highlights the fact that if you don't have the problem,
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  Speaker 8: you probably are not going to effectively deal with the problem.
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  Speaker 8: So I support the call to that extent. Is it practical,
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  Speaker 8: don't think so, But it highlights the point that people
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  Speaker 8: are living in a cocoon and most people, still a
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  Speaker 8: slight majority I believe, are fully reliant on the public system.
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  Speaker 2: Well, did the open letter writers not go far enough?
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  Speaker 2: You know, because senior bureaucrats in the public service system,
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  Speaker 2: should they also have been asked to rely solely on
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  Speaker 2: the public system since they are making decisions? Should the
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  Speaker 2: opposition also been included in their call?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? Look, I think it's certainly the call should have been,
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  Speaker 8: and I believe it was direct to do all MPs.
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  Speaker 8: And it made me think, I know, when I was
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  Speaker 8: on to FIGHTO or how many of the senior staff
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  Speaker 8: or other directors held health insurance, because I'd be very
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  Speaker 8: disappointed if they did. But when I think about it,
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  Speaker 8: it's quite possible they did. And there's no question that
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  Speaker 8: your own circumstance does alter your viewers things. So I
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  Speaker 8: think that that point is very valid and it's a
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  Speaker 8: problem for the public health, for the public health system. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, that was my next question into people at
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  Speaker 2: health New Zealand use private healthcare. You can't really answer it,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm pretty sure they did. So Look, look, here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. The private system works in conjunction with the
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  Speaker 2: public system, and together they confront the problems that are
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  Speaker 2: facing New Zealanders in terms of their health care. The
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  Speaker 2: private care system is beneficial. Should it be demonized.
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  Speaker 8: Like this, there's no point in demonizing it. I fully
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  Speaker 8: understand I don't have health insurance, I should say, but
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  Speaker 8: I fully understand why many people do and for a
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  Speaker 8: long time a large part of their health service. In fact,
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  Speaker 8: even right from the GP, we have a privatized health
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  Speaker 8: service system. We don't have a fully public system. We
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  Speaker 8: may think we want one, but we don't have it,
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  Speaker 8: and so the private system is an important part of it.
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  Speaker 8: But I think one of the issues we've got and
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  Speaker 8: using it at the moment is that it doesn't help
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  Speaker 8: to demonize the public system. The public system does a
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  Speaker 8: huge number of good things, which the health workers have
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  Speaker 8: made this call fully understand, and many people get fantastic
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  Speaker 8: service from the public system. So it's public system actually
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  Speaker 8: needs some love rather than punishment. And I think if
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  Speaker 8: I was the boss of a health insurance company, every
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  Speaker 8: time to Far to Wara got attacked or the public
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  Speaker 8: health system got attacked, either think that's good. That's another
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  Speaker 8: few people coming in the front door of my business.
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  Speaker 8: So we do have to be careful about that. We
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  Speaker 8: don't want to demonize either side of it. But the
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  Speaker 8: truth is, if you're making big decisions for something like
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  Speaker 8: a public health system, and you yourself are insulated from it,
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  Speaker 8: it will impact your decision making. There's no way it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: You had to work with these people. You had to
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  Speaker 2: work with these senior ministers. Are they, as these open
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  Speaker 2: letter writers say, out of touch with just how dire
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  Speaker 2: the situation is in the health system is? Are they
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  Speaker 2: in fact insulated perform it or did they understand?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, look, there's no question that they're insulated from it
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  Speaker 8: by the very nature of their job, the way they
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  Speaker 8: do their job, what they've paid, what they're surrounded by,
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  Speaker 8: the advice that they've got in their ears all the time.
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  Speaker 8: There's no question that they're isolated. Then it is a
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  Speaker 8: problem for our representative democracy. When people are elected. On
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  Speaker 8: the day they're elected, they probably do represent some part
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  Speaker 8: of the electorate, but pretty quickly once they get into
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  Speaker 8: that hot ass atmosphere down there in Wellington, they do
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  Speaker 8: lose touch. There's no question of it.
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  Speaker 2: Rob, I thank you for your time. There's Rob Campbell,
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  Speaker 2: the former Health New Zealand chair. By the way, Simeon
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  Speaker 2: Brown says he doesn't have private health insurance. It's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a witch hunt, really.
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  Speaker 11: Have you got it?
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  Speaker 2: Have you not got it? What have you got? Strange? Now,
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  Speaker 2: when I was living in France, there was a beer
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  Speaker 2: there called the Diablow Beer, and beer had a twelve
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  Speaker 2: percent alcohol level. So if you had one, you were
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  Speaker 2: pretty happy. If you had two, you were pretty squiffy.
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  Speaker 2: And if you had three, I tell you you were hallucinating.
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  Speaker 2: Something about high strength to beer, even if it's the
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  Speaker 2: same strength as wine. Somehow, maybe it's the bubbles. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, it gets into your brain. It's pretty heavy stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out that we've got a whole lot of these big,
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  Speaker 2: old high alcohol level beers in New Zealand right now,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going off and kids are buying them. So
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  Speaker 2: is this a problem and why is it a problem.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have that story for your next here on News
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  Speaker 2: Talks at B. It is five twenty.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it is now five twenty two, So alarm
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  Speaker 2: bells are being raised about these high strength beers taking
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  Speaker 2: root in the marketplace. Single bottles of beer are being
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  Speaker 2: sold with alcohol contents ranging from eight percent up to
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  Speaker 2: as high as sixteen percent. They're being sold in supermarkets.
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  Speaker 2: Grand Hewison is the secretary at Communities Against Alcohol Harm
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  Speaker 2: and joins me. Now, Halogrand, good morning, How are you
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  Speaker 2: very good? Why have these beers suddenly become a thing,
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  Speaker 2: Why they become so popular?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, Look, these beer products have very high alcohol by
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  Speaker 12: volume content. Back in the day RTDs with that level
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  Speaker 12: of alcohol by content, we're described as court cases in
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  Speaker 12: a can, and the industry came round to the view
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  Speaker 12: that that should be voluntarily prohibited, so they reduced the
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  Speaker 12: volume to seven percent. But now we've sort of seen
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  Speaker 12: the bear market develop into these extra strong and megastrong
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  Speaker 12: beer products.
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  Speaker 2: And yet my supermarket is full of wine with twelve
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  Speaker 2: percent alcohol content and they don't call that crime in
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  Speaker 2: a can.
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  Speaker 12: The wine isn't intended to be drunk in one session.
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  Speaker 12: So these are five hundred milk cans. You pop them open,
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  Speaker 12: they're fizzy, They're going to go flat pretty quickly, so
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  Speaker 12: they're designed to be drunk pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 8: So that's that's the risk is do you.
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  Speaker 2: Have some sort of studies that can actually prove that,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm pretty sure most people I know who open
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  Speaker 2: a bottle of wine tend to get through it.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, they're not the sort of people PEPs. I know,
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  Speaker 12: No wine's mine, you know, generally has drunk over the
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  Speaker 12: course of an evening. These are designed to be drunk
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  Speaker 12: in a very quick manner.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I did know. I've already told the story. I've
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  Speaker 2: had a twelve percent beer in France and it was
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  Speaker 2: pretty pretty full on.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One you were happy to you were squiffly. Three honestly,
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  Speaker 2: you were hallucinating. Is there something about high alcohol content
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  Speaker 2: in a carbonated beverage like a beer means that the
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  Speaker 2: alcohol gets them better?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, Look, it's probably probably just the case that you
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  Speaker 12: drink and consume it much more quickly. What's also important
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  Speaker 12: is that these products are sold as singles, often for
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  Speaker 12: quite a cheap price, under six dollars.
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  Speaker 2: What's the problem, I sing?
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  Speaker 12: Well, again, you're just consuming it very quickly. It's designed
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  Speaker 12: so that you can PEPs if you're young, you can
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  Speaker 12: secrete them on your person pretty easily. You can purchase
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  Speaker 12: them as a single for a very cheap price. So
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  Speaker 12: they have that high risk associated with them as well.
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  Speaker 2: So are you just warning against these beers or would
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  Speaker 2: you like them band.
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  Speaker 12: Well, look, this is what the government did back in
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  Speaker 12: twenty thirteen with RTDs of that alcoho bo contents. They
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  Speaker 12: were looking to prohibit them. The industry realized this was
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  Speaker 12: an issue, this was a court case in the can
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  Speaker 12: and the industry came around pretty quickly to saying there's
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  Speaker 12: very high strength products that are carbonated that are in
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  Speaker 12: single cans. We're not what we should be selling good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Grant, have you had one?
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  Speaker 12: Have I had one? I've had a taste of one,
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  Speaker 12: the sixteen percent one. Yes, they are not pleasant, but
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  Speaker 12: they will get you intoxicated very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: God An, Yeah, thank you so much. That's doctor Grant Hewison,
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  Speaker 2: who is from Communities Against Alcohol Harm. He's the secretary.
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  Speaker 2: It's five twenty five the early.
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  Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on Ihart Radio. Howar By News
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  Speaker 1: Talks at Me New.
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  Speaker 2: Talks Have b five twenty seven. It is no secret
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  Speaker 2: that the construction industry is in trouble and there's a
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  Speaker 2: number of factors. Firstly, the booming construction right after the
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  Speaker 2: pandemic years as money became cheaper and cheaper, so more
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  Speaker 2: and more projects were undertaken, more and more builders were hired.
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  Speaker 2: We had a residential construction boom in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: about fifty one thousand consents issued, driven by surging house
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  Speaker 2: prices and historically low interest rates. But the good times
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  Speaker 2: went to last. A new government came in cut many projects,
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  Speaker 2: like the construction of two and a half thousand state houses,
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  Speaker 2: cutting builders launches. Meanwhile, the supply of cheap money dried
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  Speaker 2: up as the Reserve Bank attacked the recession by raising
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  Speaker 2: interest rates. We ended out with too many builders for
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  Speaker 2: fewer projects. As major infrastructure projects went on hiatus waiting
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  Speaker 2: for the government wanting to spend on them, trained, highly
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  Speaker 2: trained construction workers went looking for work. Most often in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: they left. Construction went into a tailspin. There are claims
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  Speaker 2: that we've lost seventeen thousand workers, but in every cloud
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  Speaker 2: you could almost say there's a silver lining. A new
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  Speaker 2: report says that construction firms are now offering large discounts
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  Speaker 2: to avoid collapse. Some are offering discounts of up to
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent to keep their workers busy. These are in
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  Speaker 2: the firms that are left. Six hundred and eighty seven
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  Speaker 2: firms have been liquidated this past year. It's a threefold
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  Speaker 2: increase in just three years. It hasn't been pleasant. The
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  Speaker 2: firms that are left and are still doing the business
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  Speaker 2: should be hailed as heroes prepared to work through the
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  Speaker 2: bad times rather than cutting and running. And can I
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  Speaker 2: just say to you, if you're thinking about a commercial
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  Speaker 2: residential bill, can I suggest there is no better time
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  Speaker 2: that now. You'll never get a better deal going forward.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe, just maybe we might be able to work
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  Speaker 2: our way out of a construction bust, which was all
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  Speaker 2: our making in the first place. Silly, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: drank that Diablo beer in France thirty years ago, and
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  Speaker 2: I drank it just as fast as I drank wine.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where grant was coming from. Meanwhile, a
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: text through says you can get two hundred and fifty
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: million cans of wine at twelve to fourteen percent, designed
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to be drunk in one sitting and not all over
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: an evening. Yeah, exactly, So where that came from, I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: don't know. Meanwhile, on the insurance, perhaps you could tell
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: people just how much private health insurance costs when you
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: get older, writes a text. We have had full comprehensive
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: insurance for sixty years. Now in our late seventies is
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: going up to over twenty three thousand dollars a year,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: so we won't be able to afford it any more,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: which is probably how most people are, and that is
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: going to put a much bigger burden on the public
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: health system. There we go on the way much we
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: can from the United States of America and Duncan Web
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: from the Labor Party because he believes that we're in
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: some electoral trouble right now with the new rules. Love
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Adred Dickens. This is early.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Addition the news you need this morning and the in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: depth analysis earlier this year with Andrew Dickens and x
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: full insulation keeping Kiwi homes and try this winter news talks.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: That'd be he you were my head and my beer
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: when I'm dreaming you trying to be my friend.
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: You're blown a hole.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, goodbody too. Ryan Bridge is taking a long weekend,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: so Andrew Dickins here just for one day only. I'm
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: here for a good time in a long time. All right,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: stories making news today. I saw this in CNN, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I see it's also in the Herald today. The headline
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: too much moose meat and Antler's caused a plane crash
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: in Alaska that killed congresswoman's husband. Oh what a great headline.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I could tell you more about this investigation and this story,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: but why bother. It's all there in that headline. Too
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: much moose meat and antler's caused the plane crash in
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Alaska that killed congress woman's husband. You've got cluttony, you've
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: got trophy hunting, you've got death, you've got carnage, you've
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: got cold weather, you've got Alaska, and there's a little
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: bit of political spin. It's the perfect story. You can
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: tell that story in one sentence. Meanwhile, in business news
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: from New Zealand, west Auckland's Flip and Fun trampoline park
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: is in Liquiday, victim to an up and down market.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Now to the new electoral laws, I've got
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: no problem with them. They demand you enrolled two weeks
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: before an election instead of on the day, with a
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: move to election day enrolling. It seemed to reward people
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: who had not actively engaged in the democratic process. If
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: they were engaged, they would have enrolled earlier. As soon
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: as the orange letter the orange guy sort of popped
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: up on the telly or the letter popped into the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: letter box. You know, people book for concerts months before
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the event with no problem whatsoever. We get passports if
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: we want to travel now with New Zealand on the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: top and not Altera Roa, which makes sense because Americans
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: know what New Zealand is. But when you say I'm
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: from Altairo, they go huh so, yeah, anyway, you can enroll,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: no problem. Suggesting same day enrolling benefited the left is also,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I think an interesting claim because, as I quote David Seymour,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: drop kicks are dropkicks, no matter their political persuasion. If
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: they can't be bothered enrolling, they can't be bothered voting.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: In my opinion, and in combination with the laxity on
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the treating rules, it was a system that was being
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: gained and we saw that at the Manual Daba Marai
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: last election. Voters who were not engaged in the process
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: got tracked into a polling station, they got enrolled, they
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: were given a feed from the barbecue and then thrown
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: into the pole station and then they cast their vote
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: for the guys who just cooked them. There's some sausages,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: you know. The increase in donation levels doesn't bother me
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: either way, And because have you noticed we're in an
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: inflationary period, it's up a thousand bucks. Nor does taking
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the vote from prisoners, because they've taken from society. Now,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: whether it's a property or even a life, they've taken
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: from society. A crime against society means you lose the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: right to be part of society, which is why we
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: lock you up and we also take away your vote.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: But anyway, labors all up in arms about this so
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: called attack on democratic rights. So we're going to have
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: a chat to Duncan web just before six. It is
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: twenty one to six, sid be right around the country.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: We go and first of freezing to need them where
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: minus five at the airport? Emily Ansel, goodbrding to you.
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: Good morning.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So what's the airport doing in Queenstown and the Remarkable
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Station National Trust?
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: Yes, so they are both teaming up to restore native biodiversity.
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: The two organizations partnership focuses on Remarkable Station, nestled between
• 21:17
  Speaker 13: the mountains and Lake Wakatipu. It is currently leased as
• 21:20
  Speaker 13: a working deer, cattle and sheep farm. The aim is
• 21:24
  Speaker 13: to eradicate a sycamore tree infestation, allowing native plants to
• 21:28
  Speaker 13: regenerate over the coming decade. Queenstown Airport. Sarah Irvine says
• 21:32
  Speaker 13: the remarkables are the first thing passengers see when they
• 21:35
  Speaker 13: step off a plane and are an iconic symbol of
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: the region.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: And the weather's obviously cold.
• 21:42
  Speaker 13: Yes pretty cold, mainly find apart from morning low cloud
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: or fog. It's worth noting Southern Police are advising caution
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: while driving due to the risk of black ice high
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: cloud increasing from the afternoon with a high of thirteen degrees.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you, EMILYE Claire Sherwood from christ It's good morning
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: Good morning.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So the community's getting together to find a missing woman.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: Well and they have done exactly that. Andrew Police used
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: a mobile emergency alert feature last night to share the
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: details of this missing woman. It was about eight point
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: thirty that that started coming through to phones. The alert
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: said that the seventy nine year old woman who suffers
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: from a medical condition believed to be dementia, had gone
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: missing in the suburb of Bishopdale. The community honestly, well
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: and truly activated. I was watching Facebook. There were dozens
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: and dozens and dozens of posts popping up of people
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: getting together, whether it be groups of strangers. Because of
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: course it was dark. They didn't want to go alone
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: or friends getting together. They were looking at local schools,
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: parks gardens. Within two hours, police then confirmed the woman
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: had been found by one of those members of the
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: public who had received the emergency text alert. It's remarkable
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: and a very happy ending for this story. It's a
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: real contrast though, to the sad story of Elizabeth Nichols,
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: who was also seventy nine. She died in christ Church
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: and was found in an abandoned home last month. She'd
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: been missing for two weeks after god missing from a
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: local waste time. So praise for police using this emergency
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: alert system.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: How brisk is your weather today?
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: It is very cold this morning, frosty minus three at
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: the moment, will clear to fine with northeries and high
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: of twelve.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you Max Tell from Wellington. Good morning to you,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Good morning to Papa. Has had some global recognition.
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, fantastic news for our National Museum rated trip Advisor's
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: top tourist attraction in New Zealand, formulated using visitor feedback
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: and other metrics, not only number one in New Zealand,
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: but in the top one percent of global attractions, ranked
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: number five in the South Pacific region. Four point seven
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: stars is the average visitor rating on this hugely influential website.
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: Trip Advisor is often what tourists scan when they come here.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: What's good? Where should I go? Also an endorsement in
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: a way of the thirty five dollars entry fee that
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: started being charged last year for international tourists. Clearly that's
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: not putting people off four hundred and thirty thousand total
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: through in the past financial year just from overseas, Australia,
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: British US most commonly spending on average two hours at
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: tep Papa. Good news for the capital.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: Yeah, very cold this morning as well, mostly fine though
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: once it warms up with north least thirteen the high and.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I think you never let demander joins you now from Aukland. Hellnreetings.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: So the great Auckland helicopter battle continues.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: Yes, the story that keeps on giving. So what's happened
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: now is that an Aucland Council committee is voted to
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: urgently clarify and titan how private helicopter use in residential
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: zones is managed under the Auckland Unitary Plan. Now the councilors,
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: they're voted to seek an urgent decision from the Environment
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: caught to clarify how private helicopter activity in the residential
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: areas on Auckland's mainland they should currently be interpreted under
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: this plan. Now, the Auckland Unitary Plan applies to all
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: places in Auckland other than the Hodaki Gulf island. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: they've also voted to initiate a change to the plan
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: the Unitary Plan to make it explicitly clear that private
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: helicopter take offs and landings in residential areas still with
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: me and non complying activities, right, yeah, So obviously this
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: is with all the what's happening in with Ellie Williamson.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: This is enough to make me want to sell my
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: helicopter if I can't use it. Why wasted money?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Why not?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Exactly, It's just like I just have to take a car.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: There's a different angle every day. Exactly, take a car.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I love your fingernails, by the way.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: Oh, orange, bright orange color.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, what's talking's the like?
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: Okay?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Maybe fine?
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: Morning Frost and Charter places Auckland's Eye fifteen and.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I thank you. In the moment, we're off to the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: United States of America. Mit to McCann, Donald Trump making
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the news. He he is a news maker, isn't he.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: But there's the Epstein thing. But the exhauser has battled
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: with Columbia University. What's happened there? And Duncan Web the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Labor Justice spokesperson. They're up in arms about the elector rules.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Though after my comments just moments ago, I'm getting people
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: saying I agree with that common sense if you asked me.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what why Duncan has our problem with
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: this whole new scenario. Very shortly here on ZB This
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: is early edition that is sixteen to.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Six International Correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business to America.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: We go. Mitch McCain, Good morning to you, Good morning,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: how are you. I'm good. The Epstein case continues, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: now Jela Maxwell is going to talk with the Department
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: of Justice.
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. This is a story that really is
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: not going away for Donald Trump, no matter what he
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: does to make that happen. The latest information is that
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: the Deputy Attorney General, as you mentioned, who also used
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: to be Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is reportedly flying to Tallahassee, Florida,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: where gillais Maxwell is serving a twenty year prison sentence
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: for six trafficking Now. The reason he's going there is
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: to find out if she can give any more information
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: about Jeffrey Epstein or anyone else that was involved with
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Epstein and committed any crimes. Some would argue this might
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: be an attempt from the White House to look like
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: they're doing something after not releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: But the story is not going away, and the President
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: has become increasingly infuriated every time he gets asked about it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I Meanwhile, he's been battling with Columbia University, so
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: where's that got to.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: He has also been battling the number of universities around
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: the country. Overnight, we learned that Columbia University has agreed
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: to a settlement with the government. They're going to pay
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: around two hundred million dollars. This is after the Trump
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: administration froze about four hundred million dollars worth of grants
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: to Columbia earlier this year because it said it failed
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: to combat anti semitism on campus. Stuff agreed now to
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: pay that two hundred million dollars, so some of those
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: grants become unfrozen. Critics saying this is just another example
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: of Donald Trump bullying higher education institutions because he sees
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: them as too liberal.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Because stuff. Oh and sad news Hogan has died. The
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: wrestling star at the age of seventy one. Were you
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: a fan, a.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: Little bit of a fan, a little bit of a fan,
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: perhaps same story though it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you had to love his peroxided mustache and
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: his propensity for ripping his shirt into pieces and then
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: yelling at everybody. Of course, he's a big fan of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump as well. Hey, I thank you so much much, mcam. Meanwhile,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: in the Middle East, the UN agency there says staff
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: of fainting from hunger. As starvation spreads in Gaza. Journalists
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: are saying that they're fainting because they're starving. The United
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Nations Relief from Works agency says the entire humanitarian system
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: is collapsing. And the agency says people in Gaza are
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: walking corpses and they say, we've got six thousand AID
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: trucks ready to enter, just let us in. Meanwhile, Israeli
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: officials have called the Hamas truce proposal workable, come on quickly,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: but for God's say, give the buggers some food. You've
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: destroyed their houses, Just give them some food. This will
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: not be judged well by history News talkb. It is
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: ten to six.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: Zibb.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Right, Well, major changes are coming on how you can
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: vote in the general elections. The government's scraps same day enrollments,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: meaning must now enrolled to vote before early voting starts.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: You've got to do that two weeks before election day.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: And free food, drinks and entertainment of voting booths will
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: also be banned. Labor says tens of thousands of people
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: will miss out on exercising their democratic right to vote
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: as a result of today's changes. And Duncan web is
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Labor's just a spokesperson and joins you this morning quantity
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: of Duncan.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Good for you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Now, why is this limiting democracy? A deadline is a deadline,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: whether it's on the day or two weeks beforehand. Just
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: go out there and enroll.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Well, look, I guess the numbers speak for themselves. There
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: are one hundred and ten thousand people who didn't get
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: round to sorting out their enrollment prior to election day
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: for whatever reason. You know, busy people working, people looking
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: after kids and so. But and then they decide, Gee,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: I forgot that I want to vote. I'm going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: go down. What do you know, I can do it
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: right here. And I think that those hundred and ten
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: thousand people actually have as much right to have a
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: say and who runs the country as anyone else does.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: But there's an obligation when you get a vote, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: one of those obligations is to enroll. And they obviously
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: didn't think much of the election, and they weren't involved
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: in the democratic process if they couldn't get enrolled two
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: weeks before the election, there.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Is an obligation to be enrolled. And you know, I'm
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: sure a lot of people appreciate that. When you're moving
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: houses and you know, you've got a lot on your mind,
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: you don't always think and I've got to get hold
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: of the Electoral Commission and let them know my new address.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Dunk in the letter and the ad campaign arrives months
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: before the election. You got plenty of time. Two weeks
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: is the deadline. Get You could have done it three
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: months ago before you were moving.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, you know, the ad campaign's out there. Not everyone's
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: watching TV and looking at those kinds of things. So
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: you've got to remember these are people, mainly people who
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: have moved, so the letter which sometimes doesn't arrive, but
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: often goes to the older address, not the new one.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: So there's all kind of administrative reasons why people might
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: not enroll to vote. And if you're going to say, well, look,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: if you're not onto it, you don't remember that you've
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: got to change your enrollment every time your move house,
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: and a lot of people move houses frequently. Students are
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: a great example of that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, there's a lot of people who are insinuating
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: that the reason you are defending the right to enroll
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: on the election day is because you believe later rollers
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: are left voters.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: Are you no, Look, I think this is about everyone.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: There's all kinds of reasons people will forget to change
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: their enrollment details. Some of them will be left, some
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: of them won't. But every single vote counts, and I'd
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: rather have an enrollment system where everyone gets a crack.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: They're one where you know, two electorates worth, some people
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: don't get to vote because they weren't quite onto it.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, what about the treating the food, the drink and
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the entertainment. I mean that is actually a very minor bribe,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Not.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: You look, the rules around serving food or drinks and
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: so on around the voting have always been a bit murky,
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: and we actually support it and recommended in the Select committee.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: Did there be some changes around us?
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: So it's really really.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Good clarification to say, look, one hundred meters of a
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: voting place, you can't be offering sausages or hungy or whatever.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: It might be good.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Soeff Duncan, I thank you for your time this morning. Duncan.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: We're Labor spokesperson. It is now seven minutes too is
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: thank you mate, let me go, I've got them off
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: here now, Labor spokes It is now seven minutes to six.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: homes warm and dry this winter news talks that'd be.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not quite on duncan website, Andrew, People who
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: aren't quite onto it aligned perfectly with all Labor Party candidates.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Come on, Duncan, how about we reward the organized and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: not the hopeless. Yeah, and Mike Hoskin joins, us, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: saw your new car today. It's very low, very not
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: as low as they come, but it's still very low,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, I'm thinking, there's got to be an
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: old man grunt every time you get no.
• 33:04
  Speaker 14: I actually pride myself. I had a car and I
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: won't tell you what it was, but I had a
• 33:08
  Speaker 14: car that had bucket seats, racing seats. There was a
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: grunt there because that's hard work. But this has got
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: standard seats and I just glide in and out in
• 33:17
  Speaker 14: a really flexible love life.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I've been saying, old man Grant ever since we did
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: a radio telethon thing and you came down as a
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  Speaker 2: special guest and you've broken your tailbone and you got.
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  Speaker 14: Off, and I hadn't broken it, but I remember that distinctly.
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  Speaker 14: That was literaly and you chopped up on the seat
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  Speaker 14: and went and we all went, Oh, man Grant. My
• 33:34
  Speaker 14: brother in law and I were on a scooter. I
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: was on the back of the scooter in Rome and
• 33:39
  Speaker 14: he went over. I saw it coming. I saw the
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: bump on the road coming, and I thought, this is
• 33:42
  Speaker 14: the end of the world.
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  Speaker 2: The passenger always be the driver.
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  Speaker 14: The passenger exactly right. I can't tell you what Paul
• 33:48
  Speaker 14: Goldsmith is going to tell us, but there's a thing
• 33:50
  Speaker 14: coming out today in the justice area.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it a margot?
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  Speaker 14: I have no idea, so he could come on my
• 33:56
  Speaker 14: program and reveal it to the world.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Whatever you're talking to, Nichola Willis, I am she is.
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  Speaker 2: I loved your Mike's minute the other day. It was
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: very good writing.
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  Speaker 14: Well, I'll ask her about that. And to be honest,
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: the Ryan who I note has taken a Friday off.
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  Speaker 14: He was defending her, saying she knows, but it was
• 34:14
  Speaker 14: all the political game.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, man, you can only do that so many times.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I agree, Yeah, I agree.
• 34:19
  Speaker 14: So anyway, she's will us toick.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. I am not working next week.
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