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Full Show Podcast: 14 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues.
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Speaker 2: It's the interviews and the inside Early Edition with one room,
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Speaker 3: News Dogs at b Good morning, Welcome to Early Edition.
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Speaker 3: I'm Francisco Rudkin filling in for Andrew Dickens. He'll be
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Speaker 3: or you can email me at Francesca at newstalkib dot
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Speaker 3: co dot nz. On the show today, we look at
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Speaker 3: what is happening with our English curriculum. Can you Believe It?
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Speaker 3: Super Rugby kicks off tonight and before the end of
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Speaker 3: the hour we discuss what the government needs to do
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Speaker 3: to create a more more competition in the supermarket sector.
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Speaker 2: The agenda It's Fine.
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Speaker 3: At the fourteenth of February, there's been yet another serious
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Speaker 3: car ramming attack in Germany, this time in Munich. A
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Speaker 3: twenty four year old Afghan asylum seeker drove it a
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Speaker 3: group of people injuring at least twenty eight. Police say
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Speaker 3: the car accelerated before hitting a trade union rally and
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Speaker 3: officer fired one shot at the suspect before he was arrested.
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Speaker 4: It's simply terrible, just terrible when you get the news
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Speaker 4: that yet again someone has rammed into a group of people,
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Speaker 4: that there are many injured. It's a slap in the face.
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Speaker 4: We feel for the victims, We pray for the victims.
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Speaker 3: It comes around a few months after a car rammed
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Speaker 3: into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing at least five
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Speaker 3: people and injuring more than two hundred.
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Speaker 4: Whoever commits a crime in Germany will not only be
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Speaker 4: heavily punished and go to prison, but we'll also have
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Speaker 4: to reckon we're no longer staying in Germany.
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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary Pete Hexas insist Donald Trump's attempt
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Speaker 3: to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is
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Speaker 3: certainly not a betrayal of Ukrainian soldiers. President Trump is
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Speaker 3: planning to meet Vladimir Putin for talks to end the
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Speaker 3: long running war.
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Speaker 2: There is no betrayal there.
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Speaker 3: There is a recognition that the whole world, than the
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Speaker 3: United States, is.
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Speaker 5: Invested and interested in peace, a negotiated peace.
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Speaker 3: Ukrainians fair Putin might try to buy off Trump that
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Speaker 3: Ukraine's Foreign minister has reassured NATO allies the fight is
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Speaker 3: not over.
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Speaker 6: We're continuing. We're strong, we're capable, We're able, we will deliver.
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Speaker 3: And that's the agenda.
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Speaker 2: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 2: one roof, make your property search simple.
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Speaker 3: New Dog said the it's eight past five. So what
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Speaker 3: is going on with people? Why all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: our people ramming police cars like their evape store. What
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Speaker 3: is happening to us as a society that we get
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Speaker 3: so angry we use a vehicle as a weapon and
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Speaker 3: aiming at the police. Why don't we respect the police?
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Speaker 3: Clearly these people don't care about consequences or fear them either.
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Speaker 3: Last week a police officer was struck by a vehicle
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Speaker 3: and Huntley suffering modern injuries. It comes after the horrible
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Speaker 3: New Year's Day incident and Nelson, when a long serving
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Speaker 3: and admired police officer lost her life. And then yesterday
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Speaker 3: an offender allegedly reversed several times into a police car
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Speaker 3: and towards police officers near Auckland Airport before speeding off,
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Speaker 3: leading to a twenty eight kilometer pursuit. Police Minister Mark
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Speaker 3: Mitchell has said violent incidents like this are happening more often,
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Speaker 3: both here in New Zealand and globally, and we've just
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Speaker 3: heard about the car ramming attack and Munich over night.
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Speaker 3: So the earliest the government brings in new laws that
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Speaker 3: allow for much tougher sentencing against violent behavior towards first responders,
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Speaker 3: the better. But I've also noticed a general increase in
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Speaker 3: road rage. I was in a small lane waiting to
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Speaker 3: turn into a car park the other day, which was
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Speaker 3: blocked by a whole lot of cars trying to get
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Speaker 3: in and out. You know what it's like when you're
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Speaker 3: on decided to sleave a carparker once very small car pack,
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Speaker 3: so there was chaos. So I just decided to patiently
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Speaker 3: wait for a minute or two, not long on the road,
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Speaker 3: to allow the chaos to sort itself out before turning in.
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Speaker 3: The gentleman behind me started tooting and yelling at me,
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Speaker 3: and once I'd moved and parked, followed me to the
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Speaker 3: shop entrance to lay on a bit more abuse. My
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Speaker 3: daughter was with me. She's just turned sixteen. She's looking
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Speaker 3: forward to working towards getting her driver's license, and her
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Speaker 3: response was I don't think I'm going to drive. If
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Speaker 3: this is what I have to deal with, what do
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Speaker 3: you say to that. I don't know how we're going
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Speaker 3: to achieve it, but we need to calm the farm
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Speaker 3: behind the wheel, regardless of whether it's a big or
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Speaker 3: a very small incident. It is a ten past five.
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Speaker 3: You're with early edition, early.
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Speaker 2: Edition with one roof. Make your property search A simple news.
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Speaker 3: Dog said they it is thirteen past five. Real credibility
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Speaker 3: issues for the Ministry of Education's new English curriculum. It's
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Speaker 3: been described as shambolic by the English Teachers Association, who
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Speaker 3: have walked away from work on the draft, saying it's
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Speaker 3: too complex and his unrealistic expectations of what teachers can
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Speaker 3: fit into a year. President of the English Teachers Association
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Speaker 3: Pipton and joins me, now, appreciate your time.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, my pleasure. Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Hey.
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Speaker 3: What has this rewrite process been like?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, shambolic I think is a really good word for it.
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Speaker 7: It's been it's been a long process so far. We
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Speaker 7: had a lot of stuff early last year that we
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Speaker 7: were very concerned about, had some conversations with the Ministry.
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Speaker 7: I think about September was our first lot of conversations
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Speaker 7: with them and then radio silence until probably December November December,
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Speaker 7: where we were given a draft curriculum to have a
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Speaker 7: look at and to give feedback on in a nine
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Speaker 7: day period at the end of our school year beginning
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Speaker 7: of the holidays. So it's been all over the show.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, over the.
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Speaker 7: Last few months, we've had a couple of members that
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Speaker 7: we put forward as people who would be really good
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Speaker 7: to help with feedback and consultation around the curriculum, and
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Speaker 7: the experience they've had has been really problematic as well.
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Speaker 3: So how much extra are they trying to fit into
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Speaker 3: the curriculum compared to what's appropriate or manageable.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's interesting at the moment. The document that we
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Speaker 7: first saw was one hundred and eleven pages, and after
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Speaker 7: our feedback that said, you know, it's just it's too big,
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Speaker 7: it's too long, it went up to one hundred and twenty.
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Speaker 7: What they're asking for teachers to fit into a year is,
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Speaker 7: you know, they have to do one novel, a collection
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Speaker 7: of poetry, a film, a drama text, short texts, other visual, spoken,
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Speaker 7: multimodal and digital texts, along with writing oral presentations, and
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Speaker 7: then they are expecting students to engage meaningfully with all
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Speaker 7: of these things. Well, any good novel study could take
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Speaker 7: somewhat five weeks, and then if you're doing a film study,
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Speaker 7: that's at least five six weeks. Poetry could be that long. Writing,
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Speaker 7: if you're doing good writing, that will take a huge
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Speaker 7: amount of time over the course of the years in
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Speaker 7: your oral presentations. So it's a lot to fit into
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Speaker 7: a forty week year.
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Speaker 3: So what impact would that have on students and teachers
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Speaker 3: if a curriculum like this is implemented.
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Speaker 7: I think the biggest issue will be that lack of
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Speaker 7: really meaningful engagement if you're just tech boxing and trying
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Speaker 7: to move on. I guess one of the big issues
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Speaker 7: is when you look at the fact that we're trying
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Speaker 7: really hard to work with students to get them up
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Speaker 7: to the appropriate standard. If it's like, look, guys are
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Speaker 7: really sorry that we haven't quite got yet to where
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Speaker 7: you need to be, but we need to move on
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Speaker 7: because we've got a huge curriculum to cover. You know,
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Speaker 7: that idea of leaving students behind becomes increasing concerning if
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Speaker 7: we're trying to get through everything. One of our recommendations
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Speaker 7: is rather than each year that each phase covered those
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Speaker 7: things and did it in a really thoughtful, meaningful and
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Speaker 7: deep way to ensure that our students are learning to
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Speaker 7: read texts in a way that allows them to look
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Speaker 7: at them critically, to write really well and write a
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Speaker 7: range of things, and to be really good communicators. So
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Speaker 7: those are things that as English teachers we constantly keep
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Speaker 7: in the forefront of our minds. Has been really important
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Speaker 7: for our young people. But the complexity of some of
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Speaker 7: the statements within the curriculum are just they would be
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Speaker 7: really overwhelming. And we are also needing to keep in
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Speaker 7: mind that teachers will be given a final draft in
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Speaker 7: term four of this year with a twenty twenty six implementation,
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Speaker 7: So that's an incredibly short timeframe to ask people to
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Speaker 7: get their head heads around one hundred and twenty pages potentially.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much for your time. Gosh, you know,
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Speaker 3: we really need to We're all hoping this works for
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Speaker 3: both teachers and students appreciate that. That was President of
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Speaker 3: the English Teachers Association, Pip Tinning. Tony Johnson is with
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Speaker 3: me next. Super Rugby kicks off tonight. It is seventeen
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Speaker 3: past five.
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Speaker 2: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: analysis early edition with one room make your property search simple.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said be nineteen past five. So the summer
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Speaker 3: holidays are over for our super rugby players. The season
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Speaker 3: gets underway today with the Crusaders taking on the Hurricanes
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Speaker 3: in christ Church and the Highlander is playing the Waratas
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Speaker 3: in Sydney. The Blues will take on the Chiefs at
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Speaker 3: Eden Park on Saturday and the Blue Ceo Andrew Horses.
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Speaker 3: The games peaked a ton of interest and their past
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Speaker 3: their fifty percent target for ticket sales. Rugby commentator Tony
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Speaker 3: Johnson joins me in now, good morning, Tony.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Panjestica.
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Speaker 3: So, based on seeing absolutely no games so far, which
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Speaker 3: team are you backing to win this season?
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Speaker 6: Well, the only team I'm back is my fantasy team.
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Speaker 6: They've got this new fantasy league. I got a team
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Speaker 6: in that. But in terms of the expectation, yeah, I
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Speaker 6: think quite clearly the Blues are being tipped to go
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Speaker 6: back to back, something that they haven't done since the
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Speaker 6: very early years of this competition. And they look very settled,
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Speaker 6: very stable, very strong, playing a very effective brand of rugby.
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Speaker 6: But you know the Chiefs, they look equally settled and
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Speaker 6: they look strong as well. I think we can expect
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Speaker 6: the Crusaders to be better. I think there are a
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Speaker 6: number of teams in this competition we can expect to
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Speaker 6: be better. I'm hoping that Myana Pacifica will have a
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Speaker 6: better year this year. I think they really need that.
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Speaker 6: So I think there's a lot of uncertainty over the
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Speaker 6: competition this year with a lot of changes having been made,
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Speaker 6: and that's that's a great way to start the season.
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Speaker 6: But definitely the Blues have been in Stall's favorite.
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Speaker 3: So Tony, how big is this game on Saturday? Then
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Speaker 3: for the Blues and the Chiefs, will they both be
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Speaker 3: wanting to make a point, set a tone or do
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Speaker 3: you just have to accept the fact that this is
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Speaker 3: this is the first game of the season.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I know they'll be wanting to get off to
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Speaker 6: a good start. I mean the Blues they tend to
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Speaker 6: start well. I think they've won five of their last
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Speaker 6: six opening games, something like that was at four or five,
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Speaker 6: And you know, every home game is really important. Eden
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Speaker 6: Park's so important to them. The Chiefs, on the other hand,
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Speaker 6: while their record at Eden Park in recent years has
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Speaker 6: been quite spotty, I think the Blues have won the
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Speaker 6: last five at Eden Park and seven of the last
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Speaker 6: ten altogether against the Chiefs. So I think the Chiefs
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Speaker 6: would really like to buck that trend. A lot of
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Speaker 6: talent in their team, a couple of interesting new faces,
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Speaker 6: and so I look, I think you know the Chiefs
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Speaker 6: will be well set up. And by the sound of it,
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Speaker 6: you know they're going to get a decent crowd at
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Speaker 6: Eaton Park. Conditions this time a year, absolutely fantastic. So
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Speaker 6: in this part of the country at least, what you know,
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Speaker 6: what a great game? A replay of last year's final
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Speaker 6: to kick things off.
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Speaker 3: I don'ts are that great, Tony. It's pretty hot at
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Speaker 3: the moment. And Muggie, I want to be hitting a
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Speaker 3: rugby field tonight.
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Speaker 6: Oh though they have been training it though for weeks. Stuff,
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Speaker 6: they'll be well used to it.
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Speaker 7: True.
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Speaker 3: True, the Crusaders, how are they going to redeem their reputation?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 6: Winning more than four games to be a start. Getting
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Speaker 6: off to a win against the Hurricanes tonight would be
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Speaker 6: a very good start. It's hard to see them going
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Speaker 6: that badly again. You could argue this is probably their
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Speaker 6: second worst season that they're coming off, winning only four games,
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Speaker 6: losing ten. That's the most of ever lost. Last year
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Speaker 6: they did have a lot of complicating factors, you know,
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Speaker 6: that lost some really good elite talent and a lot
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Speaker 6: of injuries as well. But they've been hit by injuries
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Speaker 6: for this one too. I think fourteen thirteen fourteen players
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Speaker 6: are unavailable for this game. The Hurricanes too have had
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Speaker 6: some injury problems. Of course they're not. They haven't got
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Speaker 6: Ardie Savvia this year. He's gone to Minor Pacifica, which
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Speaker 6: is huge boost of them. Jordi Barrett's away, and they've
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Speaker 6: had injuries, particularly affecting their inside backs. But they've got
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Speaker 6: Cameron Royguard who's probably one of the most exciting players
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Speaker 6: in New Zealan. Now you know they'll be well primed,
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Speaker 6: you know. But again that the injury factor, the changes
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Speaker 6: in personnel make for such an uncertainty about this game.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, no doubt there's going to be a lot
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Speaker 6: of pressure on the Crusaders and their coach Rob Penny
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Speaker 6: to do a lot better this year.
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Speaker 3: Just quickly, Tony, you mention injuries, which means there's some
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Speaker 3: fresh faces in these teams. Any players to watch out for.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, there's a number of exciting players. You know,
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Speaker 6: one player that I'm going to be keeping a really
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Speaker 6: close eye and we all are. I think is Fabian
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Speaker 6: Holland at the Highlanders. You know, he's just qualified to
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Speaker 6: play for New Zealand, the young man who came out
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Speaker 6: from the Netherlands. He is a big raw bone player
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Speaker 6: who looks like he's really has learnt the game extremely well.
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Speaker 6: He's just the sort of player that the all Black
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Speaker 6: selectors will be looking at very closely. So he's one
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Speaker 6: I'll be keeping an eye on. But oh there's the
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Speaker 6: usual Barrett vy McKenzie. That's going to be a big one.
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Speaker 6: So you know a lot of them, but of Holland's
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Speaker 6: one I'll be looking at in particular.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic Tony Johnson, thank you so much for your input
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Speaker 3: this morning. It is twenty four past five the early edition.
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Speaker 3: A lovely tease yesterday from the Government aimed at those
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Speaker 3: of us still hurting at the cost of putting food
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Speaker 3: in the supermarket trolley. The government wants more competition and
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Speaker 3: the grocery sector. It was a nicely timed message despite
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Speaker 3: all the big picture talk of foreign investment in a
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Speaker 3: new economic ministry and a focus on growth, growth, growth.
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Speaker 3: The government has not forgotten that most key wes are
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Speaker 3: dealing with simpler day to day challenges like affording groceries.
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Speaker 3: The announcement by Financing Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis at
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Speaker 3: the University of Waikato Economics Forum in Hamilton was very
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Speaker 3: much connected to the it's economic growth plan and look
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Speaker 3: that's not a bad thing. Got to love a government
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Speaker 3: with focus, or at least messaging focus. The issue is
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Speaker 3: there isn't really a plan here at all. The government
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Speaker 3: has said its receptive to cracking down on pricing and
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Speaker 3: helping new entrants access land and properties. Willis said that
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Speaker 3: if the new competitor presented a proposal to her, she
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Speaker 3: would be willing to do a deal, give them the
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Speaker 3: VIP treatment through a bespoke arrangement. There was mention of
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Speaker 3: existing proposals that Willis knew of companies possibly interested, but
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Speaker 3: for commercial reasons, she wouldn't disclose who they were. Who
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Speaker 3: knows how serious these contenders are. Do they have a
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Speaker 3: well considered proposal or was it a conversation in a
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Speaker 3: querry lounge. It all sounds quite hypothetical. Those with knowledge
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Speaker 3: of the grocery industry will tell you that the only
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Speaker 3: way a third party could make a go of it
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Speaker 3: here they would need roughly one hundred and forty outlets,
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Speaker 3: set up a billion dollar supply chain, and would require
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Speaker 3: the big players to be broken up for any competition
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Speaker 3: on price or sustainability. It is a lot will it says,
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Speaker 3: she's up for the fight, but a forced divestment of
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Speaker 3: some properties by incumbents is needed. It will be some
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Speaker 3: scrap one the previous government did not push ahead with.
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Speaker 3: So I'm not entirely sure what this tease has accomplished
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Speaker 3: other than some friendly headlines, a gentle poke at Foodstuffs
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Speaker 3: and Wilworths and to continue the key wee distant dream
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Speaker 3: of lower prices if a third party entered the New
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Speaker 3: Zealand supermarket scene. So the great supermarket talkathon continues, news
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Speaker 3: Dog Zibby. So are we just going around in circles
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Speaker 3: here with this discussion or are you buoyed by the
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Speaker 3: thought of new players entering the market? Would you prefer
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Speaker 3: that the government did more to reduce prices now with
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Speaker 3: the current situation, like break up the duopoly we currently
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Speaker 3: have by splitting companies like Foodstuffs into three separate entities,
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Speaker 3: that you can have New World, pack and save and
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Speaker 3: four square. There you go, boom, instant competition. Can you
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Speaker 3: hear your thoughts? You can text on ninety two ninety two.
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Speaker 3: We're going to have more on this at the end
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Speaker 3: of the hour when Ernie Newman, former CEO of what
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Speaker 3: is now the Food and Grocery Council, joins me with
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Speaker 3: his thoughts on how to create competition within the sector.
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Speaker 3: It is twenty nine past five. You're with Early Edition.
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Speaker 2: The first word on the News of the day Early
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Speaker 2: Edition with one roof make your properties, dirge simple. The
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Speaker 2: news talk said, be done.
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Speaker 5: Nothing you have we see, my god, it's done.
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Speaker 6: Nothing. Have we say that you learn how to play
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Speaker 6: the game?
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Speaker 3: Good morning, This is Early Edition on New Still. I'm
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Speaker 3: Francisco Rugkins filling in for Andrew today. Thanks for being
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Speaker 3: with us. In the next half hour we're going to
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Speaker 3: get to the latest on the car ramming attack in Germany,
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Speaker 3: and before the end of the hour, if the government
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Speaker 3: is serious about creating competition in the grocery sector, how
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Speaker 3: should they go about doing it? Thank you very much
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Speaker 3: for your feedback. Text reads good morning. Nikola is in
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Speaker 3: Dream World. Renew Grocery outlets. Australia only has two major
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Speaker 3: grocery outlets. No way a third company can open hundreds
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Speaker 3: of stores throughout the country. John Texas say Francisca, I
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Speaker 3: wonder when the rugby union will realize they're killing rugby
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Speaker 3: by starting rugby in the middle of summer and then
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Speaker 3: by the time the ab season starts, half of them injured.
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Speaker 3: And look one here from Colin. When I was talking
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Speaker 3: about road rage and the increase of it recently, he
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Speaker 3: said Francisca. Years ago, I used to get very impatient
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Speaker 3: behind the wheel. I was busy, busy, busy. I was
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Speaker 3: so worked out by the time I got to where
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Speaker 3: I was going. I made up my mind to try
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Speaker 3: a little patients whenever I was behind the wheel. It
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Speaker 3: changed my life. I was still fresh and relaxed when
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Speaker 3: I reached my destination. I still practice that today and
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Speaker 3: now it comes naturally. Thank you, Colin. I think you're
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Speaker 3: absolutely right. The only person that you're giving a heart
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Speaker 3: attack to is yourself, isn't it When you're getting worked
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Speaker 3: up in the car about everybody else is driving. So
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Speaker 3: thank you very much for that advice. Keep the feedback coming.
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Speaker 3: You can text on ninety two ninety two. Z me right,
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Speaker 3: let's head around the country. And joining me from Dunedin
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Speaker 3: is Callum Proctor. Good morning, Callum Warning Francisco. So, Dnedan
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Speaker 3: Council is keen to get local businesses on board to
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Speaker 3: be at the forefront of the city's low emissions future.
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Speaker 8: Well, yes they are. The first phase of their zero
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Speaker 8: Carbon Business Support Program is what it's called. It began
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Speaker 8: last year the council giving aid and cutting emissions, reducing costs,
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Speaker 8: et cetera to businesses. Here the program provided tailored advice
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Speaker 8: to fourteen businesses and supplied each its own carbon footprint,
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Speaker 8: remote and climate action plan. So now the council is
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Speaker 8: looking to expand that and is seeking expressions of interest
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Speaker 8: from small and medium enterprises for its second phase of this,
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Speaker 8: which will begin next month.
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Speaker 3: And in Eden's weather today callum a.
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Speaker 8: Cloudy afternoon, find spells and twenty three today Thank.
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Speaker 3: You so much. Claire Sherwood is with us from christ Church.
20:09
Speaker 3: Clear questions over why a cost benefit analysis hasn't been
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Speaker 3: completed for a South Island based Eagle helicopter. Yes, good morning, Francesca.
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Speaker 9: This is relating to some figures released two news stalks
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Speaker 9: that'd be under the Official Information Act, which show police
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Speaker 9: spent just under sixteen million dollars on private choppers in
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Speaker 9: the South Island in the last financial year is almost
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Speaker 9: four times four million more rather than in the twenty
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Speaker 9: nineteen Now all three Eagle helicopters that we do have,
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Speaker 9: as you know, are based in Auckland. There was one
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Speaker 9: trial done here in Christchurch in twenty twenty, and National
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Speaker 9: did talk about bringing an Eagle to the city during
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Speaker 9: their election campaign. A police spokesperson those says private chopper
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Speaker 9: costs are reasonable compared to operating an eagle. The Taxpayers
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Speaker 9: Union says private helicopters cost to the same as two
20:57
Speaker 9: hundred and thirteen new police officer salaries. It says choppers
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Speaker 9: over more staff as a serious trade off and a
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Speaker 9: cost benefit analysis would at least prove whether it would
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Speaker 9: be worth it.
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Speaker 3: And the weather today clear.
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Speaker 9: Mainly find for us here in christ Church, apart with
21:10
Speaker 9: some morning cloud northeasterly is freish A bit later I
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Speaker 9: Hive of twenty two.
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Clear and maxtollers in Wellington, Good morning.
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Speaker 10: Max, Good morning.
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Speaker 3: A horrible crash in Martinborough.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, in martinburugh in wided Apple really one of the
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Speaker 10: great wine towns of New Zealand. You can get from
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Speaker 10: a winery to winery very easily. Often visitors hire these
21:31
Speaker 10: shared bikes, the four seaters with the roof on top.
21:34
Speaker 10: That's what these four middle aged British tourists did yesterday,
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Speaker 10: and within minutes it's a turn to tragedy. A car
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Speaker 10: has hit their bike just before eleven in the morning,
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Speaker 10: leaving one dead and three seriously hurt. The road it's
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Speaker 10: happened on probably the main street for wineries bordering the town.
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Speaker 10: Some of the most popular wineries are scattered along it.
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Speaker 10: It's wide, a pretty clear street. There is some shadow
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Speaker 10: on the side of the road, particularly where this crash
22:01
Speaker 10: has happened. It's one hundred k limits. Investigators, of course
22:05
Speaker 10: trying to determine how exactly this has happened. On any
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Speaker 10: half decent Saturday Sunday, you can get hundreds of people,
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Speaker 10: often quite drunk, going up and down that road and
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Speaker 10: other streets on these shared bikes. The cars have to
22:17
Speaker 10: navigate their way around them. Accidents like this are very rare,
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Speaker 10: but this is a serious one. Perhaps might spur some
22:24
Speaker 10: sort of change.
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Speaker 3: Mex Is are going to be a glorious day and
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Speaker 3: Wellington to have an outdoor Valentine's Day date.
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Speaker 10: If you're that way inclined, yes, fine, light winds twenty
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Speaker 10: five the high Central.
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Speaker 3: Don't have high expectations for your Valentine's Day megs, thank
22:39
Speaker 3: you very much, every ready many good morning, good morning.
22:42
Speaker 11: You'll be expecting lots of flowers.
22:45
Speaker 3: And I don't like forced displays of love.
22:51
Speaker 11: Oh I don't. You'd be the type to you know,
22:53
Speaker 11: like leave a night for yourhusband and police it's a
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Speaker 11: week before and.
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Speaker 3: Say, right, want hey, you won't know what dated do?
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Speaker 3: You got to pick your battles? And I can think
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Speaker 3: of of you know, but what if.
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Speaker 11: You received something and you haven't got him? Do do
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Speaker 11: you feel guilty?
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Speaker 3: Do you know what? I think we've we've got an
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Speaker 3: understanding just twenty years, I think, well plus twenty years
23:12
Speaker 3: plus maybe a lovely little chocolate hard.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, just want just a little, just a little wee
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Speaker 11: two dollar job.
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Speaker 12: Good on you.
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Speaker 3: I sound so grumpy and unromantic.
23:23
Speaker 11: It's not that.
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Speaker 3: Look, everyone to their own. You go for a day there, right,
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Speaker 3: we shall?
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Speaker 11: I go from that to talk about eels.
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Speaker 3: What's happening with the the eels?
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Speaker 11: I know they're dying.
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Speaker 3: This is terrible.
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Speaker 11: So Auckland Council they've responded to a second report mass
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Speaker 11: eel deaths in just a week. So Daniel Newman, he's
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Speaker 11: a counselor. He says its officers. They're removing dozens of
23:43
Speaker 11: dead eels. This is at the Wattle Farm ponds and
23:46
Speaker 11: it follows all these reports on social media. He also
23:49
Speaker 11: says that it's likely due to a wastewater overflow triggered
23:52
Speaker 11: by a positive council ammonia test and then apparently the
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Speaker 11: council also removed This is another two hundred dead eels
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Speaker 11: Julia found twenty kilometers away. This is an old arcade
24:04
Speaker 11: basin and that just happened last week. So we've got
24:05
Speaker 11: those two reports. Not good, not good.
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Speaker 3: No, it's not good at all.
24:09
Speaker 11: Think oh with it today gladly cloudy related chows possibly
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Speaker 11: heavy south of Papakuda. Twenty five is a high here
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Speaker 11: in autos.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Neva. You returned to the newsroom
24:17
Speaker 3: to prepare to receive all your over bouquets of flowers.
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Speaker 11: No, I've got a big box that you're just ready
24:22
Speaker 11: for it for the arrival.
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Speaker 3: It's not too late. Folks. If you want to send
24:27
Speaker 3: Neva a little something, here we go. Next off, we're
24:31
Speaker 3: heading to Europe for the latest on the Munich kar
24:33
Speaker 3: ramming attack. Overnight. It is sixteen to six.
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Speaker 2: International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
24:41
Speaker 2: for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 3: It is thirteen to six and Vincent mcadeny is with
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Speaker 3: me from Europe and the UK. Vincent, what, good morning,
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Speaker 3: What is the latest on this attack in Munich?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Well, this attack happened in Munich a couple
24:58
Speaker 1: of hours ago. Scan asylum seeker drove at a group
25:02
Speaker 1: of people in the German city. Reports say he is
25:06
Speaker 1: a twenty four year old who had an asylum claim
25:11
Speaker 1: rejected after coming to Germany in twenty sixteen, but has
25:14
Speaker 1: been given a sort of leave to remain since then.
25:18
Speaker 1: But it's understood he is someone known to officers. He
25:21
Speaker 1: has had offenses of theft and drug usage and drug
25:25
Speaker 1: we think sales as well, but it's unclear what his
25:30
Speaker 1: motive was. Today he was upended by who fired one
25:35
Speaker 1: jotted him before his arrest. But it comes just as
25:38
Speaker 1: Munich is set to host the Munich Security Conference, which
25:42
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest global security conferences. The Vice
25:45
Speaker 1: President jd Vance arrived in the city, but it's unclear
25:49
Speaker 1: at the moment whether or not this is in any
25:50
Speaker 1: way connected to that conference. Germany has had several of
25:54
Speaker 1: these attacks over recent years, and they've got an election
25:57
Speaker 1: just over a week away, so that potentially could have
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Speaker 1: something to do with it as well.
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Speaker 3: Vincent very quickly, how is Europe reacting to the conversations
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Speaker 3: President Trump is having with both Russia and the Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of frustration and anchor as well at
26:13
Speaker 1: what's going on. Vladimir Volenski coming out and saying very
26:16
Speaker 1: clearly there can be no peace plan sort of forged
26:19
Speaker 1: between Trump and Putin without him, as are reportedly going
26:22
Speaker 1: to be a conference in Saudi Arabia on this, but
26:26
Speaker 1: the Ukrainians saying they must be involved and that will
26:28
Speaker 1: be the only way to secure peace. Lots though in Europe,
26:31
Speaker 1: which is obviously you know, we've borne the brunt of
26:33
Speaker 1: supporting Ukraine in terms of taking in Ukrainians and the
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Speaker 1: support that's been given, and also the impacts on cost
26:40
Speaker 1: of living, and many European nations leaders angry that you know,
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Speaker 1: they're comparing it to appeasement of Hitler and saying that
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Speaker 1: Trump has already given too much away ahead of the
26:49
Speaker 1: negotiations with that ninety minute call yesterday with Vladimir Putin.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Vincent, appreciate your time this morning.
26:57
Speaker 3: It is eleven to six. The government has reiterated its
27:02
Speaker 3: plan to encourage a third player into the grocery sector.
27:05
Speaker 3: They're open to proposals, with lots of talk centering on
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Speaker 3: an international entry to the market. The plan is to
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Speaker 3: remove regulations that discourage new supermarkets and help new entrants
27:15
Speaker 3: access land. Former CEO of what is now the Food
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Speaker 3: and Grocery Council, Ernie Newman, joins me. Now, thanks for
27:21
Speaker 3: your time this morning.
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Speaker 5: Ernie, well impressive.
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Speaker 3: Do you think we will attract international players with these moves?
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Speaker 5: Honestly, no, I think the time has passed. I think
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Speaker 5: the good thing is that nichol and Willison's all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden to put competition right at the top of
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Speaker 5: her priority live But you know, we have enough supermarkets
27:41
Speaker 5: in New Zealand anyway. The problem we have is the
27:44
Speaker 5: concentration of ownership. So the correct solution to this at
27:47
Speaker 5: this point of time is to break up what we have.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So if the government is serious about creating competition,
27:53
Speaker 3: they should be taking your look at the current industry.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, they need to dust off the files from the
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Speaker 5: the breakup of telecom and go down that track. And
28:03
Speaker 5: it can be done. There's plenty of you know, the
28:05
Speaker 5: international precedent for that sort of thing when competition comes unstuck.
28:09
Speaker 5: And we're welling to really past that point now.
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Speaker 3: So what would that look like, Ernie, if you were
28:14
Speaker 3: breaking up the drop they we already have.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you take this, if you take the food
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Speaker 5: Stuff's group for example, you know they've got Pack and Saved,
28:21
Speaker 5: they've got New World, they've got four Square. They're all
28:25
Speaker 5: different what they call banot groups, and they present them
28:29
Speaker 5: as though they're competitors, but everybody knows they're not. You know,
28:32
Speaker 5: there's one one mister Big at the head of all
28:35
Speaker 5: is who decides, you know, what the price today of
28:38
Speaker 5: potatoes will be at each of those into those stores.
28:42
Speaker 5: What we need is genuine competition where they are, they're
28:46
Speaker 5: completely independently own and they're dealing independently with customers and
28:51
Speaker 5: with suppliers. So that's that's the best solution, and it's
28:55
Speaker 5: perfectly achievable.
28:56
Speaker 3: So for example, Ernie. If you had food stuff, you
28:58
Speaker 3: turn them into three separate ends.
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Speaker 1: Easy to have.
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Speaker 3: You knew where'da packins? Saving your four square and the
29:02
Speaker 3: compete against each other.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd be slightly more ambitious and turn them before
29:06
Speaker 5: because there's a wholesale operation and that needs to be
29:09
Speaker 5: split out as well. So that's the ideal to go
29:12
Speaker 5: four ways. But any step down that path, whether it's
29:14
Speaker 5: just splitting out one of them or we're all three
29:18
Speaker 5: or including wholesale, any step in that direction, I think
29:21
Speaker 5: it's going to be a lot more productive than hoping
29:23
Speaker 5: that somehow a new entrant is going to turn up.
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Speaker 3: And is there anything else that we can do? We
29:28
Speaker 3: want great competition with what we already have. Is there
29:31
Speaker 3: anything else that the government could be looking at?
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Speaker 5: I really don't believe. So. I mean they talk about,
29:36
Speaker 5: you know, removing regulation and making it easier for a
29:38
Speaker 5: new entrant. You know, we arguably have too many supermarkets already,
29:43
Speaker 5: so why would a new entrant come? And again, it's
29:45
Speaker 5: the kind of duopoly that we have sitting here just
29:49
Speaker 5: about the impossible. We're just about an impenetrable market. They can
29:53
Speaker 5: afford to wait for months or years to basically burn
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Speaker 5: up a new entrant with a price walk, so that
30:02
Speaker 5: won't work. It is the breakup that is the way
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Speaker 5: to go on this.
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Speaker 3: So Annie, why do you think the talk is centering
30:08
Speaker 3: around international bids rather than looking at what we can
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Speaker 3: already have here.
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Speaker 5: I think because perhaps the government is a bit scared,
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Speaker 5: particularly with the influence of the zan with of the
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Speaker 5: Act Party. Sorry, I think you know they're worried about
30:28
Speaker 5: criticism that you know, they're faring in the in the
30:30
Speaker 5: role of business or whatever. But I don't believe that
30:33
Speaker 5: holds water. You know, you get to a point where
30:36
Speaker 5: competition is broke into the stage that that is the
30:39
Speaker 5: only action you can take.
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Speaker 3: Do you think there are genuine proposals from a third party?
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Speaker 5: I'd love to think so. I wouldn't be surprised. The
30:49
Speaker 5: question is whether it's a big enough scale to make
30:52
Speaker 5: a difference to the market and to survive long term.
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Speaker 3: Annie Newman, really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you
30:58
Speaker 3: so much for that. That was formacy of what is
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Speaker 3: now the Food and Grocery Council. Up next, Mike Cosking.
31:05
Speaker 2: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with one
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Speaker 3: Sai'd be now, I'm going to be back with you
31:14
Speaker 3: on Sunday with the Sunday Session and just after ten o'clock.
31:17
Speaker 3: My guest is MORGANA O'Reilly, who is a key re
31:19
Speaker 3: actress who also just happens to start in the new
31:22
Speaker 3: season of The White Lotus, which kicks off on Monday night.
31:25
Speaker 3: If you're a fan of the show, you'll want to
31:27
Speaker 3: hear about all about the show, her experience of shooting
31:30
Speaker 3: it at a luxury resort in Thailand. And joining me
31:33
Speaker 3: now is Mike Coskin, who is with you at six.
31:36
Speaker 3: You're a fan of The White Lotus.
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Speaker 12: Very very big fan. Unfortunately, reviews of season three are
31:42
Speaker 12: not good.
31:42
Speaker 2: No, well mixed.
31:43
Speaker 3: If I've read a couple of goodies.
31:45
Speaker 12: Where'd you read them?
31:46
Speaker 3: Hui ah Beguardian, I think we'll join it.
31:50
Speaker 12: I've read two and both said slow and laborious favor
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Speaker 12: sales to get to the greet.
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Speaker 3: Well, I have actually seen two episodes, have you yes?
31:58
Speaker 3: Because it's special?
31:59
Speaker 12: Would you say that it was the wrong Yes?
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Speaker 3: I think if you've enjoyed the first two seasons, you
32:04
Speaker 3: have really enjoyed this great characters, great performance and really
32:07
Speaker 3: awesome to have a key we actress in the really
32:10
Speaker 3: how good?
32:11
Speaker 12: Though?
32:11
Speaker 3: As an actor, you get a job, will you go
32:13
Speaker 3: to shoot in a five star hotel? Would you also
32:15
Speaker 3: stay in for them?
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Speaker 12: When they filmed in Italy, which was exciting for them,
32:20
Speaker 12: they did it out of season, obviously, and they froze
32:23
Speaker 12: most of the time, and so they had to wear
32:26
Speaker 12: swim suits and it was freezing, and so I don't
32:28
Speaker 12: know how enjoyable it would have been.
32:30
Speaker 3: Do you celebrate Valentine's Day or every day Valentine?
32:33
Speaker 12: It's funny I should say that because the texts that
32:35
Speaker 12: were exchanged in the early hours of this morning did
32:38
Speaker 12: use the words every day is Valentine's Day?
32:40
Speaker 3: Oh lovely? So you don't have high expectations, then, well
32:45
Speaker 3: you've been softened up for that.
32:46
Speaker 12: But I've been outcrded to be fair because she hasn't
32:50
Speaker 12: got up yet, I don't think. But my card's a
32:52
Speaker 12: beautiful card. It's a three dimensional card, and so they're
32:56
Speaker 12: lovely cake it My card's not love My card's not
33:01
Speaker 12: three dimensional. But but she didn't get me a gift,
33:06
Speaker 12: but I got who wants.
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Speaker 3: It'skind of a little competitive. It's not the point about us.
33:11
Speaker 12: Everything about America.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, tell me about the show.
33:14
Speaker 12: Scott Morrison, who is Who's in the country at the moment,
33:18
Speaker 12: So we'll take the He's been with Donald, he's got
33:21
Speaker 12: he's a bringer friend called Donald who and so we'll
33:25
Speaker 12: get some insight into what's going on. So anyway, so
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Speaker 12: Scott Morrison after seven thirty, but.
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Speaker 3: A boom sounds great. Thank you very much. Thank you
33:33
Speaker 3: for joining us this morning on Early Edition. And as
33:35
Speaker 3: I mentioned, I'll be back on Sunday with the Sunday
33:38
Speaker 3: Session at nine am. Take care, have a good Friday,
33:40
Speaker 3: have a Valentine's Day.
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