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Full Show Podcast: 26 September 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Francesca Ruggin on
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Speaker 1: earlier show where One roof Love where You Live News Talk, said,
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Speaker 1: be good.
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Speaker 2: Morning, welcome to early edition. I'm Frechethie Rudkin filling in
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Speaker 2: for Rhan who's on Drive this week. Most welcome to
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Speaker 2: contact me anytime this morning. The text is ninety two
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Speaker 2: ninety two. My email is Francesca at Newstalk SDB dot
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Speaker 2: Cote own said, so we've got to show filled good
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Speaker 2: news view, which is how I like to end the week. Shortly,
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Speaker 2: our agriculture industry has some good ideas on how to
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Speaker 2: get young people into the sector. We look at how
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Speaker 2: the AB's are going to deal to the Wallabies on Saturday,
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Speaker 2: and before the end of the hour we talk fon
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Speaker 2: Terra and a record payday.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twenty sixth of September. Former French president
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Speaker 2: Nicholas Ikozi has been sentenced to five years in jail
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Speaker 2: for criminal conspiracy. This is over illegal funds from Libbyan
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Speaker 2: leader Mua margad Arfi. He was cleared of other charges,
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Speaker 2: but says he appeal.
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Speaker 3: I ask the French people whether they voted for me
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Speaker 3: or not whether they supported me or not to appreciate
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Speaker 3: what has just happened. Hatred truly knows no bounds. I
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Speaker 3: will take my responsibilities. I will comply with the summonses
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Speaker 3: of justice, and if they absolutely want me to sleep
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Speaker 3: in prison, I will sleep in prison with my head
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Speaker 3: held high.
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Speaker 2: Drones have shut down at Denmark Airport for the second
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Speaker 2: time this week. It comes in mid cyber attacks and
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Speaker 2: suspected Russian airspace violations, with police still investigating who's behind it.
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Speaker 4: The suspicion is obvious. This is part of Vladimir Putin's
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Speaker 4: strategy without its being able to say anything concrete in
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Speaker 4: this case, as I said, but it is part of
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Speaker 4: what we experience every day. We are not at war,
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Speaker 4: but we are also no longer at complete peace.
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Speaker 2: Trump is hosting Turkish President Recep Tye yet Utuwan at
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Speaker 2: the White House, and.
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Speaker 5: We've had tremendous relationships, both having to do with war
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Speaker 5: and having to do with trade, and I guess today
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Speaker 5: we're talking about both. I'd like to have them stop
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Speaker 5: buying any oil from Russia while Russia continues as rampage.
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Speaker 2: Urduwan's chasing deals worth tens of billions including f thirty
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Speaker 2: five fighter jets and more than two hundred commercial planes.
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Speaker 2: And finally, get this, a British childcare center has backed
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Speaker 2: down after trying to charge parents more than two thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars to take home their kids' artwork. The center claimed
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Speaker 2: the money would help pay off staff debts, but parents
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Speaker 2: pushed back, saying have a right to their children's portfolios
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Speaker 2: and photos.
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Speaker 6: We sign consent forms at the start of the year
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Speaker 6: that actually say that the portfolios belong to us and
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Speaker 6: that parents have a right to manage their kid's sensitive information.
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Speaker 2: And you'll be able to tell by the accent there
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Speaker 2: it was a Brisbane childcare center. Can you believe that?
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Speaker 2: Would you pay two thousand dollars for what is essentially
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Speaker 2: your children's kindy artwork? Don't get me wrong, I've kept
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Speaker 2: a couple of special pieces, but most of it just
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Speaker 2: got you as wrapping paper.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Francesca Rudkin and One roof Love where you Live News
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Speaker 1: Talks'd be.
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Speaker 2: So Yesterday, an independent Auckland University report was released and
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Speaker 2: it said that Auckland's Eden Park Stadium could almost triple
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Speaker 2: its annual economic boost to the city if it actually
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Speaker 2: hosted the twelve concerts it's currently allowed to. So what
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Speaker 2: they discovered is that sports events are fabulous, but the
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Speaker 2: city would benefit more from concerts. So they did some modeling, right,
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Speaker 2: They looked at two scenarios within the current stadium's physical
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Speaker 2: and consented capacity, so what we could do right now.
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Speaker 2: One scenario looked at the maximum number of concerts. The
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Speaker 2: other scenario looked at the maximum number of rugby matches
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Speaker 2: and the impact that they have. They took a look
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Speaker 2: at what took place at eden Park from about November
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Speaker 2: twenty third to October twenty fourth, sort of. Most of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Eden Park had hosted twenty two sports
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Speaker 2: matches with a new GDP contribution of thirteen million, and
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Speaker 2: three concerts with a contribution of twenty four million. So
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Speaker 2: you can seehere this is going right. So if you
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Speaker 2: take that baseline, a maximum amount of concerts would contribute
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Speaker 2: net GDP of one hundred and seven million for concerts
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Speaker 2: compared to sixty point five million for sport. Now, we
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Speaker 2: love our sport and I'm not saying we should play
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Speaker 2: any less sport at eden Park, but we really do
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Speaker 2: need to sort out this nonsense around the restrictions on
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Speaker 2: the twelve concerts, right. I mean, you're allowed these twelve concerts,
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Speaker 2: but only from six artists, and there are restrictions on
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Speaker 2: how many per month and the days and the times
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Speaker 2: that they can be held. If you were in Auckland
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Speaker 2: for Coldplay or Pink, you could see it for yourself.
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Speaker 2: The city was heaving. This is such a simple way
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Speaker 2: to give Auckland a boost.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Chris Bishop is the minister looking after the RIMA reform.
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Speaker 2: He's leading an investigation into the local rules at Eden Park.
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Speaker 2: He too thinks the current restrictions are absurd and arbitrary,
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Speaker 2: but understandably he needs to do a fair review. But
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Speaker 2: concerts don't happen overnight. It takes quite a lot of
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Speaker 2: work to lock in a stadium concert. So maybe they
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Speaker 2: should use some of the dosh from the event attraction
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Speaker 2: package that was announced recently and get this review done
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Speaker 2: as quickly as possible. So at the beginning of this year,
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Speaker 2: Edenpark was granted twelve concerts, which was up from six.
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Speaker 2: Imagine if in twenty twenty six we could actually attend
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Speaker 2: twelve concerts.
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Speaker 1: Francisco and I think.
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Speaker 2: The residents are over this drama too, aren't they. I
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Speaker 2: know that they hate the mess that can be created
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Speaker 2: by the large crowds, But who doesn't want some of
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Speaker 2: the biggest concerts of the year in your backyard. Keen
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Speaker 2: to hear from you? You can text on ninety two
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Speaker 2: ninety two. Up next, how do we get skilled people
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Speaker 2: into or young skilled people into the agriculture industry? It
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Speaker 2: is twelve past five years early edition.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Francesca Rudgin and one roof Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live News Talks that'd be.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen past five. Good to have you with us. Our
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Speaker 2: agriculture industry claims the education system is letting it down.
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Speaker 2: Leaders from farming, forestry, horticulture and seafood have joined forces
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Speaker 2: to launch a bold new strategy. They're calling on government
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Speaker 2: to overhaul vocational education and save our economic future. Doctor
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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Heegue is the CEO of the New Zealand Forest
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Speaker 2: Owners Association and she's with me now. Good morning, Elizabeth,
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Speaker 2: Good morning. Hey where have all our skills young people gone?
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Speaker 2: What's going wrong here?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 8: I think our concern is the current model is not
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Speaker 8: really facilitating employers to do the kind of on the
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Speaker 8: job training that we need to be able to do
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Speaker 8: to keep a vibrant food and fiber workforce here in
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Speaker 8: New Zealand. And so we're calling on the government. You know,
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Speaker 8: we're in the midst of the vocational education changes. Let's
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Speaker 8: work together right now to have a system that prioritizes
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Speaker 8: capability and not just credentials, and that focuses on the
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Speaker 8: impact of those learners on the economy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so if this is going to be more employer
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Speaker 2: led to the employees want to do us absolutely.
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Speaker 8: I mean, certainly I can speak to in forestry, we've
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Speaker 8: got a really high proportion of on the job training.
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Speaker 8: But we find right now that a lot of the
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Speaker 8: trainers and the employers are struggling with the level of
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Speaker 8: bureaucracy that they have to work through to do that training.
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Speaker 8: And so we'd really like, through the current reforms to
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Speaker 8: get to a system that enables them to do the training. Obviously,
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Speaker 8: you need to have standards, but we don't need to
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Speaker 8: have a whole lot of red tape wrapped around those
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Speaker 8: educational standards, and we can get out there and make
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Speaker 8: sure that we're training people on the ground to do
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Speaker 8: what they need to do.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll get to the training in just a moment.
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Speaker 2: Are there enough lower, lower entry level positions out there
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Speaker 2: as well?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there are. I mean, we've got a
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Speaker 8: lot of work to do in the primary sector and
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Speaker 8: obviously this year across the range of products that we
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Speaker 8: produce in New Zealand, you know, we're seeing growth in
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Speaker 8: a number of areas and the government strategy is around
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Speaker 8: further growth. To do that, we're going to need the
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Speaker 8: people to back that up, and that's going to require
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Speaker 8: that we're able to train those people. And I guess
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Speaker 8: one of the concerns that we've had is some of
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Speaker 8: the models that have been proposed would look at like
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Speaker 8: the number of learners. In some cases, we need specialty
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Speaker 8: skills that aren't going to have a high number in say,
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Speaker 8: you know, a specific trade in the primary sector, but
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Speaker 8: that person is critical to the overall success of the team,
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Speaker 8: and so we need to be able to maintain some
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Speaker 8: of those credentials that may not have a high number
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Speaker 8: of bums on seats, so to speak, but that actually
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Speaker 8: have a really high impact on our overall ability to
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Speaker 8: achieve that growth in the primary sector and of.
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Speaker 2: Course, that's where the becomes more cost efficient to be
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Speaker 2: learning on the job. Is it expensive to get trained?
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Speaker 2: Is it accessible for a lower income earner to get
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Speaker 2: up skills in the sector.
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Speaker 8: I think what we would like to do is work
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Speaker 8: with the government. It really depends on the qualification. And
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Speaker 8: what we would like to do is work with the
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Speaker 8: government on that balance of the investment from the employer
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Speaker 8: and the investment of the government. And I think some
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Speaker 8: of that right now. You know, some of the polytechnic
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Speaker 8: models haven't been very cost efficient, and I can understand
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Speaker 8: why the government was looking at reform of those. But
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Speaker 8: I think our concern is you could end up transferring
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Speaker 8: a lot of costs onto the employers if we don't
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Speaker 8: set up a really a really dynamic system that's able
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Speaker 8: to work effectively on the ground. And we've got some
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Speaker 8: ideas about how we could work with the government so
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Speaker 8: that we're getting the most out of both the industry
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Speaker 8: investment and learners and the public investment in learners.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much Elizabeth's talking us through this love a
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Speaker 2: solution to a problem that was doctor Elizabeth Haig. There
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Speaker 2: I mentioned it was going to be in Morning of
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Speaker 2: Good News. If you travel back and forward from New
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Speaker 2: Zealand to China or you're exporting. New airline is returning
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Speaker 2: to Auckland and it's going to be all year round.
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Speaker 2: Sichuan Airlines has announced it's returning to Auckland and it's
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Speaker 2: going to kick off December the seventh, and it is
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Speaker 2: expected to bring in one hundred and thirty million in
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Speaker 2: annual tourism spending up to one hundred and fifteen million
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Speaker 2: in cargo capacity for New Zealand exports and imports. So
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Speaker 2: I think it's about fifty flights a week connecting Auckland
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Speaker 2: with China, so that is good news as well for aviation.
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen past five. Up next, we're going to
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Speaker 2: talk to All Blacks and the Wallabies.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Francesca Rudkin and One Root
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Speaker 1: Love where you Live News Talks at me Yes.
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Speaker 2: So it's the great showdown between the All Blacks and
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Speaker 2: the Wallabies this Saturday night in Auckland. The in part
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Speaker 2: record is once again on the line and with the
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Speaker 2: Aussies in top shape, the All Blacks will need to
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Speaker 2: put on their best performance. There's a few changes to
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Speaker 2: the side with Ardie Savi's with Ardie Savia taking the
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Speaker 2: captaincy from Scott Barrett who's been ruled out through injury.
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Speaker 2: Elliott Smith, the Newstalk's There to Be Rugby commentator and editor,
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Speaker 2: is with us now. Good morning, Elliott, Morning Francisco or
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Speaker 2: There is nothing like an All Blacks team who have
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Speaker 2: a point to prove. Do you think I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 2: that we're going to see quite a different performance compared
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Speaker 2: to a couple of weeks ago against the spring Box.
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Speaker 2: How do you expect things to go on Saturday night?
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Speaker 9: Well, you used to be able to expect a bit
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Speaker 9: of a backlash when the All Blacks were defeated, and
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Speaker 9: I think that is the the line in the sand.
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Speaker 9: That's what we expect when the All Blacks are defeated,
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Speaker 9: that the following match they turn up and they perform
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Speaker 9: and those things that they got wrong in the previous
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Speaker 9: match are righted. But we probably haven't seen that enough
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Speaker 9: in recent times to be able to seduce that that
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Speaker 9: will be a definite thing that will happen tomorrow. So
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Speaker 9: I guess from an All Blacks perspective, they've got to
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Speaker 9: turn up, they've got to perform. And they've got to
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Speaker 9: start finding some consistency. And they won't find that just
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Speaker 9: solely tomorrow night, but they need to lay the building
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Speaker 9: blocks there. I think that first and foremost is the
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Speaker 9: main thing is that every team in this competition has
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Speaker 9: two wins and two losses, and the All Blacks are
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Speaker 9: one of those sides. But coming off the back of
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Speaker 9: the heaviest ever defeat, there's an expectation that they will
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Speaker 9: turn back up and will deliver it, and they've got
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Speaker 9: to do that come tomorrow afternoon.
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Speaker 2: What do you think about team selection bit risky.
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Speaker 9: I think by and large, you know the changes that
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Speaker 9: made Cody Taylor comes back and Cam Broyguard, those are
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Speaker 9: first choice players. Caleb Clark deserves an opportunity on the wing.
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Speaker 9: He's bite at his time after coming back from injury,
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Speaker 9: so that makes sense. So by and large these are changes.
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Speaker 9: And then Adam Scott Barrett as well with the injury
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Speaker 9: that largely are you know, injury and forced or injury returnees.
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Speaker 9: And when you're bringing in the likes of Cody Taylor
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Speaker 9: that will stayble lows the line out and you would
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Speaker 9: think Cam broy Gard was heavily missed. I thinking Argentina
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Speaker 9: and again against South Africa. He's closing and I think
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Speaker 9: on being one of the best half backs in the world.
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Speaker 9: So we can bring those two players and I think
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Speaker 9: it instantly bolsters the All Blacks run on side and
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Speaker 9: then toy Pelozzo and ratam are coming off the bench,
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Speaker 9: add some more experience there that the All backs haven't
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Speaker 9: been able to to call on. So they're getting some
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Speaker 9: cavalry back and at a time that it as much
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Speaker 9: needed as they as you said, try to protect this
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Speaker 9: Eden part record, keep the Blitters low cut, which is
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Speaker 9: the only trophy they've gotten, the cabinet that they need
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Speaker 9: to keep hold of, so it couldn't happen at a
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Speaker 9: bit of time those players coming back into the mix.
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Speaker 2: So that's pretty much what is a stake here for
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Speaker 2: the All Blakes. What about the coaching the coaches, I.
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Speaker 9: Think they've got a point to prove Dome absolutely and
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Speaker 9: you know pressure comes on them and the scrutiny that's
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Speaker 9: in there. I know they had a pretty tough review
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Speaker 9: at the start of the week on Sunday night around
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Speaker 9: what was expected of the players after that game in Wellington,
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Speaker 9: but also what was expected of the coaches. And you
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Speaker 9: know losses, you know they trade in wins coaches, and
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Speaker 9: when they're not winning, the eyes come on the end.
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Speaker 9: So Scott Robertson would desperately love a victory and a
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Speaker 9: big victory to eat some of that pressure valve. But
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Speaker 9: it only goes so far because if they win tomorrow
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Speaker 9: afternoon and they've got to back it up again in person.
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Speaker 9: That consistency is what we're demanding of this All Blacks
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Speaker 9: team and what has been historically demanded of that.
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Speaker 2: Elliott Smith, as always, thank you so much for your
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Speaker 2: time this morning. Don't forget join Elliott tomorrow on Goldsport
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Speaker 2: or News Talks Z'DB. He is going to be bringing
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Speaker 6: SO.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday, PPTA members secondary school teachers voted to make addressing
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Speaker 2: online extremism and official policy and are now pushing for
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Speaker 2: government action. Teachers say they are seeing more misogyny from
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Speaker 2: young boys as well as in a phobia and anti
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Speaker 2: Mauldi rhetoric, and I believe them. Sit down with your
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Speaker 2: teenager and ask them about Andrew Tate or Trump or
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Speaker 2: trade wives, which are some of the complaints, and they're
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Speaker 2: all over it. And yes it is driven by social
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Speaker 2: media and algorithms and their peers. So I do understand
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Speaker 2: the teachers concerns, but it's not for the government to fix.
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Speaker 2: I'll get to the teachers in a minute. But this
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Speaker 2: is primarily an issue for parents. It's parents who are
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Speaker 2: responsible for setting the tone when it comes to their
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Speaker 2: children's beliefs and values, and as they grow and almost
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Speaker 2: inevitably push back against their parents and their ideas while
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Speaker 2: they develop their own. It's also on the parents to
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Speaker 2: listen and without judgment and courage open discussion. It's parents
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Speaker 2: we need to get into the trenches with our teenagers
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Speaker 2: and have those difficult conversations so that we understand where
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Speaker 2: they're coming from and why, for example, a young man
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Speaker 2: might have been drawn into a toxic online culture of masculinity.
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Speaker 2: Only then perhaps can we be in a position to
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Speaker 2: do something about it. I'm sure the teachers are right
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Speaker 2: when they say parents aren't fully aware of the content
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Speaker 2: their children are being exposed to. I chat to my
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Speaker 2: teenagers about contentious people and issues on social media and
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Speaker 2: the news and I'm curious to know whether they're aware
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Speaker 2: of it, and sometimes I just have to act very
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Speaker 2: cool and hide my surprise when I discover that not
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Speaker 2: only are they cross it, but they've researched it, thought
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Speaker 2: about it, and will already have formed an opinion. Parents
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Speaker 2: are so far behind. Sometimes obviously, if a teacher hears
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Speaker 2: something harmful or disgusting, if they feel someone's been radicalized
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Speaker 2: to a point where the person or others aren't safety, Yes,
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Speaker 2: it needs to be challenged. We don't want to be
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Speaker 2: We don't want this to be normalized, although many teenagers
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Speaker 2: will tell you it already is. But just as many
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Speaker 2: schools put phone bands in place before it was legalized,
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Speaker 2: schools can have guidelines for acceptable behavior in a classroom
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Speaker 2: without government interference. But when it comes to political ideology,
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Speaker 2: Trump or trade wives or canceling people, we need to
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Speaker 2: encourage debate and teach young people to disagree agreeably. Teachers
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Speaker 2: are at the forefront of this and may well bear
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Speaker 2: the brunt of it. It's easy to say that teachers
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Speaker 2: should use these moments as constructive exercises and critical thinking,
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Speaker 2: and I'm sure that many of them do, but others
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Speaker 2: will be terrified of being accused by parents of indoctrinating
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Speaker 2: their children. So there is undoubtedly room for greater media
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Speaker 2: literacy when it comes to understanding misinformation, disinformations in a phobia, misogyny.
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Speaker 2: But teach have got other things on their plates, so parents,
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Speaker 2: you're up.
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Speaker 1: Franchiseco.
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Speaker 2: The thing is that online extremism in what comes from it,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't just actually exist in the classroom. It's outside,
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Speaker 2: in the playground, it's at home. It's constant, it is everywhere.
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Speaker 2: So actually it's not necessarily on the teachers or the
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Speaker 2: government disorted out in schools. It's actually on all of us.
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Speaker 2: We're all responsible. Can to hear your thoughts. You can
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Speaker 2: to You're with early editions.
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Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the day Early
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Speaker 1: Edition with Francesca Rudkin and one roof Love where you
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Speaker 1: live News talks that'd be like whatever.
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Speaker 2: Is this jury edition? On news Chalks. I'm fredisca Rugby
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Speaker 2: and filling in Ryan. You can catch Ryan on Drive today.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for being with us, and the next
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Speaker 2: half hour we're going to head to Europe where former
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Speaker 2: French president Nicholas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years
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Speaker 2: in jail for conspiracy. I think this is the third
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Speaker 2: time he's been convicted. I think there were two previous
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Speaker 2: convictions for corruption. Anyway, we're going to find out whether
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Speaker 2: he'll actually do some jail time. And Federated Farmer's Dairy
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Speaker 2: chair Carl Deene is with me before six to talk
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Speaker 2: about what fon Terra's great result means for farmers and
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Speaker 2: potentially the government and the rest of us. Right, thank
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Speaker 2: you for your feedback. Bre Eden Park more than a Francesca.
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Speaker 2: As an adult whose childhood was living three streets away
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Speaker 2: from Eden Park, my parents brought our house, knowing full
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Speaker 2: well about rugby and cricket matches. I can even remember
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Speaker 2: the Osmond's performing there in the early eighties. It was
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Speaker 2: exciting and acceptable and heck here our house and front
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Speaker 2: yard always had rubbish and litter, which us kids benefitted
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Speaker 2: from for purposes of pocket money. Dad even charged two
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Speaker 2: dollars for close to park parking. It was fun and
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Speaker 2: accepted back then. Why not now? Thank you for your
19:10
Speaker 2: text v another one. They just give the local some
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Speaker 2: money or free tickets, they should chut them up. I
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Speaker 2: don't think they're a huge problem. I think what's happened is,
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Speaker 2: once again we've just really over complicated everything when we
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Speaker 2: put this in place, we just tried to take every
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Speaker 2: box and we just made it really, really complicated, and
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Speaker 2: it doesn't need to be that complicated. Its twenty two
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Speaker 2: to six Francisca. Right, let's head around the country, joining
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Speaker 2: us from Dunedin as callum practical morning, callum.
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Speaker 10: Morning, Francisca.
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Speaker 2: So kvy's a calling for more government protection from global catastrophes.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's according to an Ottaga University study here, which
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Speaker 10: has revealed two thirds of New Zealanders want the government
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Speaker 10: to develop strategies to deal with catastrophic disasters. So that's
19:55
Speaker 10: events like nuclear war, bioengineered diseases, or rogue artificial and
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Speaker 10: talent gents sixty six percent. So they want to see
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Speaker 10: a dedicated agency or officer set up to assess and
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Speaker 10: prepare for these risks. Professor Nick Wilson's behind the study.
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Speaker 10: He says we're well prepared for natural disasters, but poorly
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Speaker 10: equipped to cope with global shocks. He says we have
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Speaker 10: to make use of New Zealand's unique positioning as a
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Speaker 10: remote island nation and build our resilience because we'd be
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Speaker 10: in big trouble in a trade ending disaster.
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Speaker 2: And in Eden's weather today callum.
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Speaker 10: Showers some possibly heavy and thundery with hail today the
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Speaker 10: high thirteen sounding fabulous.
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Speaker 2: Thank you have a good day. Claire Shrewood is in
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Speaker 2: christ yet, Good morning, Claire, good morning. Okay, so our
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Speaker 2: high profile property developer, isn't it a bit of trouble
20:40
Speaker 2: with the Christier City Council? But maybe not for what
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Speaker 2: you'd think.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, not for what you'd think. Necessarily. This is Williams
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Speaker 11: Corporation Managing Director Matthew horn Castle. Now what he did
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Speaker 11: on the sixteenth of this month was post a photo
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Speaker 11: of his voting papers online, sharing that to about sixty
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Speaker 11: nine thousand followers across a few different pages, his Facebook,
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Speaker 11: ha his LinkedIn and his Instagram. Now the council has
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Speaker 11: confirmed it's receipt a number of complaints. It also requested
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Speaker 11: the post be removed the day following the post, but
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Speaker 11: ten days later it's still there on all of his
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Speaker 11: social media pages. It is an offense under the Local
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Speaker 11: Electoral Acts to publish a picture of a voting document influencing.
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Speaker 8: Who others should vote for.
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Speaker 11: The thing is it is fine to share who you
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Speaker 11: voted for and to add even the reasons for that,
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Speaker 11: but it's the image of the voting paper itself that's
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Speaker 11: the problem. Porncastle, though, says it's a case of him
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Speaker 11: acting in free expression and is not an attempt to
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Speaker 11: interfere with others.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and the weather today in christ Ex Claire.
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Speaker 11: Cloudy today, a few showers about mainly late this morning
21:43
Speaker 11: and then again by evening. Normally is turning westerly and
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Speaker 11: we should reach sixteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Claire. And look, if you like me,
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Speaker 2: are sitting at home looking at your voting papers, going
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Speaker 2: I must send those. They need to be in the
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Speaker 2: post by October seventh. Neva's looking at me like that,
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Speaker 2: appalling that I haven't got that done yet. It's on
21:58
Speaker 2: the list never, I promise. Where We're hitting to Wellington
22:01
Speaker 2: now with a rather intriguing story. Himex, how are you
22:04
Speaker 2: good morning? Good So tell me about this mirural office
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Speaker 2: disc stuffed with secret files which was sold to a
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Speaker 2: guard the dump.
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Speaker 12: This may be the best story of the year. It
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Speaker 12: is certainly my favorite and an incredible yarn from our newsrooms.
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Speaker 12: Ethan Minia builder Raymond Morgan went to his local dumps
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Speaker 12: tip shop, fancied the look of a new desk he
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Speaker 12: saw there, picked it up for a song, looked inside
22:27
Speaker 12: once he got home. Couldn't believe his eyes. Hundreds and
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Speaker 12: hundreds of pages of some of the most sensitive, highly
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Speaker 12: confidential Wellington City Council documents. We're talking sexual several termination agreements,
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Speaker 12: sexual harassment claims, serious stuff complaints, whistleblower allegations, staff pay details.
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Speaker 12: The desk apparently had been just left as it was
22:49
Speaker 12: when the council had to move, had to vacate their
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Speaker 12: old premises at the town Hall, so the documents are
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Speaker 12: pre twenty thirteen. This part's infuriating. Though he called the
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Speaker 12: council first, he didn't come to us. He called the
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Speaker 12: council to say what he had found and was apparently
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Speaker 12: brushed off as a bit of a crackpot. He's not.
23:05
Speaker 12: He asked his local ratepayers group online about it. What
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Speaker 12: should he do? That's how our newsroom caught wind of it.
23:10
Speaker 12: He can't believe the council's incompetence. Dame fran Wilde, she's
23:13
Speaker 12: commented on this, calls it appalling. The council itself tried
23:16
Speaker 12: to brush it off to us initially as well. It
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Speaker 12: now says it's investigating. You can read this astonishing story
23:22
Speaker 12: online or in today's paper.
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Speaker 2: Well, what is it about Wellington and it's council and
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Speaker 2: its delicious gossip and things?
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Speaker 12: Honestly, Max not doing much to beat the allegations, that's
23:31
Speaker 12: for sure.
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Speaker 2: Wellington's weather today it is.
23:34
Speaker 12: Cloudy, a bit of rain, very strong wind, fourteen the hay.
23:37
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Bex. Have a good weekend. And neither
23:39
Speaker 2: Bricky Manu was in the studio.
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Speaker 13: I have to put my five scenes worse in here? Okay,
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Speaker 13: has the council never heard of a shreder? You know
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Speaker 13: we've even used works? Be'st got a shredder? Hikey, I
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Speaker 13: hear it?
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Speaker 2: What winding up?
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Speaker 12: You know?
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Speaker 13: Did you know what this shredder sounds like?
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Speaker 9: Right?
23:56
Speaker 13: Well, there goes by contract. Oh god, come on, well
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Speaker 13: you're quite right about Wellington. I'm sitting here shaking my
24:06
Speaker 13: head anyway.
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Speaker 2: You were shaking your head at me too, EXA haven't
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Speaker 2: send time my voting papers, like got another week?
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Speaker 1: I want to head of believe it.
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Speaker 2: Fred chescat.
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Speaker 13: As soon as I got my papers in mind, you
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Speaker 13: I am a bit of a girly swat.
24:18
Speaker 2: I went through the booklet. The booklet was a bit dry.
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Speaker 13: I was saying to Ryan a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 13: the photos, it's all based on the photos of the candidates.
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Speaker 2: Just like you're dating. Because that's right.
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Speaker 13: What do they look like?
24:34
Speaker 2: Are they're good looking?
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Speaker 7: They do?
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Speaker 13: They look but anyway is and I straight away, you know,
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Speaker 13: sent it off.
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Speaker 2: That same day you were going to talk about this
24:43
Speaker 2: independent report that's found that Edenpact really should making the
24:45
Speaker 2: most of the twelve concerts. It would contribute so much
24:48
Speaker 2: more to Auckland. We've been talking about you and I've
24:51
Speaker 2: got a bit of an idea. I think we should
24:53
Speaker 2: take some of this money neither that we that's been
24:55
Speaker 2: put aside for the event attraction package that was announced recently,
24:58
Speaker 2: and just used that to get this wal done a sap. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: done real quick and it's.
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Speaker 13: Move on absolutely. I mean Nix Saunton, Eden Park's CEO
25:05
Speaker 13: is is not you know what. They'd love to have
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Speaker 13: these concerts, but there are barriers preventing that. You know,
25:09
Speaker 13: if you can't have that the ability not to hold
25:12
Speaker 13: the concerts on Sunday. But that all of that, but hey,
25:15
Speaker 13: there's a vibe that's going to be happening at Eden
25:17
Speaker 13: Park tomorrow with that maybe, And you know, I'm so
25:20
Speaker 13: pleased your five pm start so in that afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Do not like it?
25:25
Speaker 13: I think it's great.
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Speaker 2: It's either two thirty maybe or seven five is too early?
25:32
Speaker 2: I like it. The sit down on. Tell me the
25:38
Speaker 2: weather today? Showers in the evening.
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Speaker 13: Oh, no showers today, but then the rain will be
25:45
Speaker 13: heavy tonight. The high is eighteen. I think it's going
25:49
Speaker 13: to be there'll be showery tomorrow. Okay for the game,
25:52
Speaker 13: and you know wind as well, but who cares because
25:55
Speaker 13: it's going to be a great game. People tune up.
25:57
Speaker 2: Both teams have to do. What will you be doing?
25:59
Speaker 13: You'll be making your flop and dinner so you can
26:00
Speaker 13: sit down. We'll all be lunch.
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Speaker 2: I've ought to be.
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Speaker 13: Breakfast for conness, sacred cheese.
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Speaker 2: I'll be on the couch ready to go. Thank you
26:07
Speaker 2: so much. Nuva is always a pleasure. What do I
26:11
Speaker 2: doing next? I think I'll go to a break It's
26:12
Speaker 2: fifteen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with insign Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
26:22
Speaker 2: And Vincent Mecavini joins me now from Europe. Morning. Vincent,
26:27
Speaker 2: Good morning. Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy has been sentenced
26:31
Speaker 2: to five years in jazz. Is this the third conviction?
26:34
Speaker 2: There were two previous ones for corruption, weren't there?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 14: He's had a pretty checkered pass since he left office.
26:41
Speaker 14: He was, of course a president of France prior to
26:47
Speaker 14: the Francis Holans and he was sentenced now to five
26:54
Speaker 14: years in jail. So he's going from the Elise Palace
26:57
Speaker 14: to jail. And this is in a case relating to
27:00
Speaker 14: millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader,
27:04
Speaker 14: Colonel Walmerga Daffy. Now there wasn't a charge, there wasn't
27:09
Speaker 14: a successful conviction of sort of having the campaign finances themselves.
27:14
Speaker 14: This is all about a conspiracy to get money out
27:17
Speaker 14: of Libya for his election campaigning. He was president twenty
27:22
Speaker 14: seven to twenty twelve, so quite a while ago now,
27:23
Speaker 14: But this case has worked its way through the French
27:25
Speaker 14: justice system and in exchange, he was reportedly going to
27:29
Speaker 14: help sort of wash Gadaffi's international reputation. He was a
27:32
Speaker 14: pariah at this point and he You're acted pretty strongly
27:36
Speaker 14: in court, taking down the justice system and being very
27:40
Speaker 14: affronted and quite shocked, it seemed, at the fact that
27:43
Speaker 14: he is actually going to have to spend time in prison.
27:45
Speaker 14: His wife, the supermodel Carla Brunei, was standing next to him,
27:49
Speaker 14: also looking fairly shell shocked by it.
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Speaker 2: Do you think he will have to spend five years
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Speaker 2: in prison?
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Speaker 14: I don't know if he will spell in the full
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Speaker 14: five years, but I think it's very like he is
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Speaker 14: going to appeal against this, but he is going to
28:03
Speaker 14: have to spend a couple of years, it seems, in
28:06
Speaker 14: prison until potentially the results of that appeal.
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Speaker 2: Vincent meccadannny, thank you so much for the update. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: It is ten to six franchise good right. Farmers are
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Speaker 2: getting a record payday. Fonterra has delivered one of its
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Speaker 2: best results ever, with a net profit at one point
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Speaker 2: oh wait billion dollars, shares a jump to just over
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Speaker 2: six dollars, the high since two thy and eighteen, and
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Speaker 2: shareholders get a record dividend of fifty seven cents a share.
28:32
Speaker 2: Carl Deane, the Federated Farmer's Dairy Terr is with me now.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Thanks for your time, Carl. Good morning, record
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Speaker 2: record results across the board. How happy the farmers today?
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Speaker 7: I think fathers are pretty esthetic about hearing a strong
28:49
Speaker 7: farm rate look for us as well as a very
28:52
Speaker 7: strong dividend.
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Speaker 2: Like you said, where will that money go with their
28:56
Speaker 2: investments that need to be made or debt to pay down?
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Speaker 7: I think it's very important to realize that the farmers
29:03
Speaker 7: actually haven't had very a great rate of return or
29:07
Speaker 7: a great profit with the high on farm costs the
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Speaker 7: last two to three seasons, so a lot of us
29:14
Speaker 7: is probably going back into bank debt, back into paying
29:20
Speaker 7: do some capital projects that have been put on hold
29:22
Speaker 7: for the last couple of years, all those sort of
29:25
Speaker 7: things that we like to do. You know, we only
29:28
Speaker 7: have the opportunity to do it for a couple of years.
29:29
Speaker 7: When they're doing there is actually profit made and more importantly,
29:34
Speaker 7: yes there will be some obviously some tasks reven for
29:37
Speaker 7: the government.
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Speaker 2: Hence we all benefit. Right. Do you think farmers will
29:41
Speaker 2: also store some of that money away for a rainy
29:44
Speaker 2: day rather than sort of having a wild time at
29:47
Speaker 2: field days next year?
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Speaker 7: I think most farmers, you know, we've been around around
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Speaker 7: quite a while. I suppose and we know that there's
29:57
Speaker 7: not normally two record payouts, right, Okay, the last time
30:02
Speaker 7: there was a record then there was a quite a
30:05
Speaker 7: significant drop the following season, So sometimes there's things that
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Speaker 7: are one off. Sometimes they might stay out for two seasons,
30:14
Speaker 7: but normally it does come down again.
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Speaker 2: So expectations are in check. How much is Fontira kept
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Speaker 2: for itself, Carl.
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Speaker 7: I don't believe Froontira's information outside sure, I haven't seen
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Speaker 7: any information on the.
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Speaker 2: Chief that was under the impression that they had kept
30:39
Speaker 2: a substantial amounts themselves, which I was just wondering, you know,
30:42
Speaker 2: how if that's the right decision given the current economic
30:46
Speaker 2: and trade out lock.
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Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, I think they have. Obviously they get some
30:51
Speaker 7: of the earnings per year, and we kept about fifteen
30:55
Speaker 7: to eighteen cents, and then they are obviously going to
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Speaker 7: if the divestment went through, there's money of that that
31:03
Speaker 7: would stay in the corporative as well.
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Speaker 2: Someone made a commenter in the newsroom of gosh, you know,
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Speaker 2: do you think that there might be a little bit
31:10
Speaker 2: of angst from regular Kiwi's doing it tough, that they'll
31:12
Speaker 2: see this great result and get jealous. And I thought
31:15
Speaker 2: I don't think so. We all benefit from the start.
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Speaker 2: We Carl, farmers are at the forefront of our economic recovery.
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Speaker 7: Yes, well, I've said that at the end of the day,
31:24
Speaker 7: profit means tax. That's probably the key thing that peoples
31:29
Speaker 7: to realize is when farmers are making a profit, that
31:32
Speaker 7: means that the tax takes loight and that all helps
31:36
Speaker 7: when it comes to the governments able to spend money.
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Speaker 2: So in summary, Carl, farmers are ecstatic today, but they're
31:45
Speaker 2: being cautious and you know about about the future pretty
31:50
Speaker 2: much sums it up.
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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, we all are under the understanding that, yeah,
31:58
Speaker 7: costs may come up again and income they drop.
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Speaker 2: Carl, good to talk to you. Thank you for your
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Speaker 2: time this morning. That was Fedata Farmer's a dairy chair.
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Speaker 2: My Costing is in the studio with me.
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Speaker 1: Next get ahead of the headlines on an early edition
32:13
Speaker 1: with Francesca Rudger and one roof Love Where you live
32:17
Speaker 1: News talks at me.
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Speaker 2: My Costking, Good morning, greetings. Have you ever been to
32:22
Speaker 2: Nest Kitchen and Bar in Queenstown. No, I have not,
32:26
Speaker 2: just got a very good result on trip Advisor. Do
32:29
Speaker 2: you believe those Well, I suppose it's people who've been there,
32:32
Speaker 2: who are making sang what they think. So you know
32:35
Speaker 2: it's not next it's not.
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Speaker 15: It's like talking to you mother, isn't it. Did you
32:37
Speaker 15: have a good time?
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Speaker 12: Yes?
32:38
Speaker 15: I did? I mean what does that mean? Well, I
32:40
Speaker 15: think it's been good on them anything that promotes, because
32:43
Speaker 15: of course Amisphere is the famous one that gets all
32:45
Speaker 15: the award. Yes, so if things are going well in
32:47
Speaker 15: Queenstown and hospital's going well in Queenstown, then good luck
32:50
Speaker 15: to them.
32:52
Speaker 2: One of a kind category is wanted. It was also
32:54
Speaker 2: listed among the world's best date night restaurants. I'm sure
32:56
Speaker 2: Kate would love a visit.
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Speaker 15: But when you say the world, I mean, really, how
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Speaker 15: many people are you're dealing with? Yeah, I mean, honestly,
33:04
Speaker 15: is it a million people who have gone to all
33:06
Speaker 15: the different restaurants. There's a few thousand people who have
33:08
Speaker 15: just wandered throughout the time. Oh d YEA it could
33:10
Speaker 15: be a date night restaurant, couldn't there any place is
33:12
Speaker 15: a good date night restaurant? You know our favorite date
33:14
Speaker 15: night where we go home, we sit at home, we
33:16
Speaker 15: sit at the counter and we chat away and we
33:19
Speaker 15: had a bit of leg on no no, a bit
33:21
Speaker 15: of old League I thought he said a bit of
33:22
Speaker 15: leg on.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, but I don't need to hear that. I
33:25
Speaker 2: don't need to hear that.
33:26
Speaker 15: No, we don't know that bit of leg on. But
33:28
Speaker 15: we sit at the counter and we have a little chat.
33:29
Speaker 12: We have got it.
33:30
Speaker 15: Anywhere's a date night. It's all about the attitude. I
33:32
Speaker 15: got to Slow Horses, by the way after last night
33:35
Speaker 15: only fifteen minutes because stuff happened. One of the children
33:38
Speaker 15: came home and wanted things done, so that that got stopped. Unfortunately,
33:43
Speaker 15: it looked to me first episode, it looked slightly slow.
33:46
Speaker 2: It looked a bit just give it a couple and
33:48
Speaker 2: then it switches. Give it good about three yepcent? It switches.
33:51
Speaker 2: What have you got on the show?
33:53
Speaker 15: Well, we got a little something bit of an exclusive
33:55
Speaker 15: actually franchise. Oh have you insight into the court system
33:58
Speaker 15: and things that they're reforming courses, the number of cases
34:01
Speaker 15: they deal with, how often they you know, and so
34:03
Speaker 15: things are improving markedly. Actually, So we'll do that. We'll
34:05
Speaker 15: look at the Voluntier result and Scott Robinson is here
34:09
Speaker 15: to explain how they're going to win.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. I love it. Mike Hoskin is with you next
34:13
Speaker 2: have a great day. Join me Sunday on the Sunday
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Speaker 2: Session Ken follow it is my guest. Take Care.
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