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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Beef and Lamb NZ urging the Government to close carbon farming loopholes · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Jamie mckaye, host of the Countries with Me Now Jamie, Hello,
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  Speaker 2: good Eva. Okay, So what's this fight against the banking
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  Speaker 2: wokery that's going on? How's it continuing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the best ideas are often borrowed ideas
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  Speaker 3: from other people. I was reading a piece in the
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  Speaker 3: Rural News, one of our leading rural publications in this country,
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  Speaker 3: from their acervic sort of or even vitriolic cartoon character
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  Speaker 3: the Hound. Now this was made up by the late
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  Speaker 3: David Anderson, one of the leading rural journals in this country,
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  Speaker 3: incidentally the brother of Miles Anderson, the national MP for
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  Speaker 3: Ye Taki. But the Hound wrote in the Rural News,
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  Speaker 3: and this is good and it follows on from a
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  Speaker 3: chat I had earlier in the week with Mark Cameron.
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  Speaker 3: The good fight against banking wokery continues with the draft
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  Speaker 3: bell to scrap the red tape forcing banks and financial
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  Speaker 3: institutions to make climate related disclosures. Then Hound went on
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  Speaker 3: to quote Mark Cameron, who's refreshingly down to earth, the
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  Speaker 3: act MP from Northland He said farmers are already seeing
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  Speaker 3: discrimination creeping into interstrits based on perceived emissions. They fear
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  Speaker 3: they'll be the next to be debanked, not because of
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  Speaker 3: any financial risk, but because they don't fit the agenda
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  Speaker 3: of the suit and ty Bigwicks. We've already seen it
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  Speaker 3: happening to essential industries like mining and service stations. So
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  Speaker 3: Mark Cameron leading the charge for Act, joining Winston and
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  Speaker 3: Shane's war on wokery with the banks, and I say
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  Speaker 3: all power to them.
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  Speaker 2: He totally couldn't agree more. Now, what are these loopholes
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  Speaker 2: around the carbon farming and the planting.
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  Speaker 3: Well beef and lamb New Zealand have urged the government
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  Speaker 3: to close some of these carbon farming loopholes. They came out,
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  Speaker 3: Oh well that they came out or the government came
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  Speaker 3: out on the fourth of December last year. But Chair
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  Speaker 3: Kate Ackland is quite rightly saying when these limits were
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  Speaker 3: announced the peg in the sand was put in the
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  Speaker 3: ground on the fourth of December last year. The government
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  Speaker 3: would ensure that unless there was a clear intent for
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  Speaker 3: conversion before that date, you couldn't do it. But people
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  Speaker 3: are driving truck and trailer units through these loopholes at
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  Speaker 3: the moment. What the MPI should I say, came out
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  Speaker 3: with guidance on what constitutes intent, but Kate Ackland saying
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  Speaker 3: these guidelines are deeply flawed. She says the two key
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  Speaker 3: flaws in the guidance relate to accepting receipts for ordering
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  Speaker 3: seedlings and accepting third party assessments of farmland for a forestation,
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  Speaker 3: and there are ways you can get around those, and
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  Speaker 3: she quite rightly says, Look, anyone can buy some seedlings.
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  Speaker 3: It's not uncommon to purchase them and worry about where
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  Speaker 3: they'll be planted later. In such cases, there is no
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  Speaker 3: intent to enter any particular parcel of land in the ETS,
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  Speaker 3: so people are still getting are still dodging this one.
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  Speaker 3: Heather will come in to force the legislation in October
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  Speaker 3: of this year. But some people, including Federated Farmer saying
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  Speaker 3: why not do a pay equity rush it through the
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  Speaker 3: house type legislation. They're not quite as keen on that
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  Speaker 3: one as they are on the pay equity too.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Hey, thank you very much, Jammie, look after yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It's Jammy MacKaye, Host of the Country.
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