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Full Show Podcast: 26 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps
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Speaker 1: business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be good morning to you six after five. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. Richard Chambers still the top cop
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Speaker 2: even though he's being investigated. We'll look at that before
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Speaker 2: the top of the hourbit. And Magaviny is in the
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Speaker 2: UK for us. You know the heat wave they got
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Speaker 2: going on over there. Some of them aren't allowed to
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Speaker 2: install air conditioning units because of wait for it, climate change.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that. Simeon Brown on solar panels here
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand. And the doctor who was arrested at
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Speaker 2: our border over a student owned debt.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, twenty sixth of June. Those two massive
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Speaker 2: earthquakes have struck Venezuela just a minute apart, causing major damage.
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Speaker 3: I must inform you that the hardest hit state by
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Speaker 3: this unprecedented seismic event is the state of Laguira. There
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Speaker 3: are tens of collapsed buildings and we're working hard to
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Speaker 3: save as many lives as God allows us.
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Speaker 2: Ten times the power they of the Canterbury quakes, the
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Speaker 2: second one the worst than the century marker, Rubio the
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Speaker 2: US helping you.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm already deploying a search and rescue teams from
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Speaker 4: Fairfax County, Virginia and Los Angeles. There'll be some others. Well,
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Speaker 4: that's the most immediate need right now is search and
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Speaker 4: rescue efforts. To have a much of collapse buildings and
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Speaker 4: so they need a light of help in terms of
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Speaker 4: digging through that.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the UK seventeenth of July market in
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Speaker 2: new calendars, Andy Burnham will become the Prime Minister of
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Speaker 2: Great Britain. Labour's National Executive Committee, who announces this stuff,
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Speaker 2: says the timetable for selecting the new leader will go
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Speaker 2: like this. If there's only one candidate, which surely there
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Speaker 2: will be Andy Burnham, he'll be announced as the leader
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Speaker 2: on that date.
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Speaker 5: One of the criticisms of this process so far is
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Speaker 5: that he needs to prove he has the Monday if
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Speaker 5: he needs to really set out what his policies would be.
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Speaker 2: Right, Let's go to Australia. Cal Stefanovic, you would know
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Speaker 2: him from morning television screens over in Australia, had a
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Speaker 2: bit of a backlash, backlash, I should say, to his podcast.
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Speaker 2: He started it in January and he interviewed Tommy Robinson.
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Speaker 2: Tommy Robinson is a far right activist in the UK.
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Speaker 6: I really do with my tenacity and the courage that
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Speaker 6: he's showing and trying to stand up for what you.
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Speaker 2: Believe is right. Channel nine employee Stefanovit for his morning show.
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Speaker 2: They're not saying he's going, not saying he's gone, but
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Speaker 2: they've gone quiet, and that's normally not a great sign
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Speaker 2: here At first.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving News Talk said bea one.
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Speaker 2: Up to five great to have your company. Nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two is the number to text. I will get
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Speaker 2: to Winston Peters and the FDA stuff, and I will
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Speaker 2: also get to a new forecast on the ocr from Westpac,
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Speaker 2: which is interesting reading. It makes sense but interesting. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: the stuff has a great story in This Morning. This
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Speaker 2: is about an airport arrest. So a doctor not normally
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Speaker 2: the type of person you would expect to be arrested
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Speaker 2: by the police when they enter New Zealand, but this
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Speaker 2: is exactly what happened. A doctor arrives at Wellington Airport
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Speaker 2: and has quickly arrested over an ird debt. Apparently the
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Speaker 2: student loan arears almost one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: So apparently now the thirteenth person arrested at the border
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Speaker 2: in the last decade student loan debts and the idea
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Speaker 2: is cracking down. What do we think about that? I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's clearly clearly, if you've got a debt of one
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty thousand dollars, you'll be wanting to and
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Speaker 2: you're not coming home. You'll be wanting to avoid it.
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Speaker 2: I would have assumed, and perhaps they assume that when
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Speaker 2: they turn up at the border that people just won't
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Speaker 2: know or won't notice. Well, clearly people are paying attention.
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Speaker 2: If you owe money, you owe money, you got to
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Speaker 2: pay it. My question is what happens to him now?
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Speaker 2: Ten after five, Ryan Bread, We'll look at a few
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Speaker 2: more things before we get to this issue of conservation,
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Speaker 2: which in a lot of ways is like the fishing
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Speaker 2: back down that we saw from the government a few
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Speaker 2: weeks ago. We'll look at that. Next News Talks, he'd.
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Speaker 1: Be the early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, how
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Speaker 1: it by News Talks at me before the news breaks
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Speaker 1: here at first, Ryan Bridge on Early Edition with spark
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Speaker 1: for business technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be five twelve. Everyone's talking about a
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Speaker 2: resolution to the war in Iran. I don't know that
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Speaker 2: we can call it a resolution yet, but things have
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Speaker 2: been moving in the right direction. When Westpac now says
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Speaker 2: that the OCR will be not moving in the wrong
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Speaker 2: direction for us, well, certainly not to the extent that
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Speaker 2: they thought it was. They've put out a new track
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Speaker 2: for where they think it's going to go. Inflation won't
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Speaker 2: be as bad. Therefore the OCR can stay lower. They
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Speaker 2: are predicting first hikes September, one more hike before Christmas,
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Speaker 2: so that's only two hikes this year. Remember they were
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Speaker 2: saying three, and they were saying earlier. Peak is four
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Speaker 2: percent for inflation that happens next year. Bryan Bridge back
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Speaker 2: down from some of Paultarker on his plan around the
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Speaker 2: potential sale of conservation land. Emphasis on potential.
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Speaker 7: But over recent weeks it's become clear that many New
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Speaker 7: Zealanders have been left with a different impression. And that's
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Speaker 7: on me. That's on us, and I will be taking
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Speaker 7: out the disposal and exchange provisions from that bill.
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Speaker 2: There go gentoop is with us Greenpeace campaign and in
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, you've won the battle. Congratulations.
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Speaker 5: Oh well, let's talk about what actually happened yesterday, Ryan, So,
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Speaker 5: people across the country spoke out in their droves against
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Speaker 5: this bill because the Coalish and government misunderstood a fundamental truth,
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Speaker 5: which is that people from all walks of life love
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Speaker 5: public conservation land in New Zealand, and yesterday they finally
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Speaker 5: realized that and they are now scrambling around trying to
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Speaker 5: fix an unfixable bill. So what happened yesterday is testament
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Speaker 5: to people power. But this I'd agree with unsalvageable.
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Speaker 2: Do you know, Jen, I'd agree with you. I think
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Speaker 2: that you're right most New Zealanders and more so than
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Speaker 2: any other country. I think in the Western world we
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Speaker 2: all have a bit of an environmental bent, don't we,
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Speaker 2: no matter what side. So okay, you're right about that,
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Speaker 2: But you don't seriously still think that anybody, any Minister, Puma,
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Speaker 2: Pultaker or other, would want to sell off prized bits
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Speaker 2: of New Zealand's conservation estate, do you So?
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Speaker 5: This bill has been written from start to finish to
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Speaker 5: allow public conservation land to be opened up to private
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Speaker 5: commercial exploitation. So even if National manages to convince its
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Speaker 5: coalition partners and Shane Jones in particular, to pull this
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Speaker 5: land sales part out of the bill, the bill still
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Speaker 5: allows for things like open cast minds, private resorts, gondolas, monorails,
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Speaker 5: you name it to be to be on our conservation estate.
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Speaker 5: And I think New Zealanders have.
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Speaker 2: Made it clear. I agree. New Zealander has made it
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Speaker 2: clear that they don't want because New Zealanders thought that
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Speaker 2: we were going to sell Mount Cook, which was never
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Speaker 2: going to happen. There are these prices, but.
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Speaker 5: That was never going to happen because that is a
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Speaker 5: part it's protected.
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Speaker 2: That's the impression. That's the impression that people I think
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Speaker 2: have been left with. But Jen, let's talk about Let's
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Speaker 2: talk about what you want to talk about, which is
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Speaker 2: those activities. I mean, a bit of jet boating here,
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Speaker 2: a bit of river rafting there, maybe a bit of
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Speaker 2: mining on the outskirts of some conservation estate. Is a
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Speaker 2: very different picture to the one that I think is
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Speaker 2: being painted.
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Speaker 5: No, So the government has proposed that they will change
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Speaker 5: the entire purpose of the Conservation Act and the core
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Speaker 5: mandated dock so that they have to enable commercial exploitation
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Speaker 5: of conservation land to the greatest extent practicable under the law.
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Speaker 5: There are three other major problems with this bill and
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Speaker 5: I'll cover them for you. Number one is that they
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Speaker 5: overhaul the concessions framework. They even make it so that
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Speaker 5: the Minister is able to establish any activity as exempt
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Speaker 5: without needing a concession from doc for it to happen.
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Speaker 5: Number two, they.
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Speaker 2: Are they are because the list thing I think, I
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Speaker 2: think we're getting off topic. But but coming back to
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Speaker 2: this idea that I mean, already a lot of our
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Speaker 2: conservation and state is used for private business. We've got
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Speaker 2: cafes there, you know, We've got we've got private businesses
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Speaker 2: doing lots of different stuff on a conservation estate exactly Ryan.
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Speaker 2: So what's wrong to change?
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Speaker 5: Why does there need to be any change, that's my question?
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Speaker 2: Well, what's wrong with a bit more of it? No, so,
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Speaker 2: because we still make we make money off of the state.
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Speaker 5: Down the bill is not about a bit more of it.
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Speaker 5: So there a bill removes vital checks and balances on
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Speaker 5: the minister's power over the conservation estate. And I think
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Speaker 5: we've just seen that one government can't be trusted. He
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Speaker 5: as the custodians of public conservation land, which is what
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Speaker 5: they are supposed to be, so.
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Speaker 2: Gin we have to leave it there. I'm afraid, but
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Speaker 2: I'm enjoying talking to you about this and we will
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Speaker 2: continue to do so. I'm sure because the bell, as
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Speaker 2: you say, is not going anywhere adjust yet. There's a
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Speaker 2: few clauses being ditched. Gen two Greenpeace Campaign at Time
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Speaker 2: News Talks AB Time is twenty half to five. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. Loads of people are going off
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Speaker 2: about the conservation estate. We'll get to those texts. And
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Speaker 2: a second on the student loan borrower, Sally says, good
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Speaker 2: iffing job. You've got to pay your student line. If
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Speaker 2: you talk it out, you pay it. This is the
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Speaker 2: guy doctor arrested at the border coming back into New
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Speaker 2: Zealand with a student loan balance of one hundred and
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Speaker 2: eight thousand dollars unpaid according to Stuff this Morning. Ryan
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Speaker 2: very happy says this person. Hugh, good morning, Hugh, very
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Speaker 2: happy that people are being held to account. If he
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Speaker 2: or she or they or whatever has used New Zealand
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Speaker 2: resources to fund their job, obviously avoided paying by going overseas,
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Speaker 2: It's time for them to pay up. Twenty Outter five
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Speaker 2: and Bridge brig So let's talk solar panels now, because
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Speaker 2: the government, well I should say, the National Party has
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Speaker 2: come up with a policy and what they want to
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Speaker 2: do is low interest loans for solar and home energy
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Speaker 2: upgrades back by a seven million dollar investment paid back
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Speaker 2: through rates over ten years. It will also remove consent
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Speaker 2: requirements for votes. Advocates about for this are stoked.
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Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, this is probably one of the best
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Speaker 7: days of my life. This is the energy system's key.
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Speaker 6: We save a moment.
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Speaker 7: It's billions of dollars of savings available to the customers
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Speaker 7: of New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Simon Brown is with US National Party Energy spokesperson saman
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Ryan. So at present you need
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Speaker 2: a building consent if you want to put them on
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Speaker 2: your roof. Would you still need a building consent?
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 8: Building consents were removed in most cases and will also
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Speaker 8: be making some changes around what's required on farms. If
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Speaker 8: you want to put on ground small scale solar on farms,
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Speaker 8: you've got to get resource consents, so we'll be getting
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Speaker 8: rid of that as well, so that people can just
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Speaker 8: get these things put in place as of right and
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Speaker 8: also have a national standard across the country. There's different
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Speaker 8: rules in different parts of the country which make it
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Speaker 8: hard for people to get these in place. I mean
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Speaker 8: rewiring ar Tros found some conditions being put in place
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Speaker 8: on farms in Canterbury with dischargearge issues because birds might
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Speaker 8: poop on the panels and so you know, these sort
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Speaker 8: of silly rules that get put in place just don't
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Speaker 8: make sense when actually you don't want to use the
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Speaker 8: sun and make some power.
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Speaker 2: So if you're living in the cities, because I had
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Speaker 2: a look this morning, like Auckland Council, you have to
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Speaker 2: have I think you have to have a building consent
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Speaker 2: to go on roof and put them on. You're saying
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't need that anymore. You could go up there
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Speaker 2: on the week and do it yourself. You could cover
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Speaker 2: your roof in solar panels we've already removed, and your
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Speaker 2: neighbors couldn't say, say Diddley squat right.
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Speaker 8: Well, it'll be a national standard which will be put
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Speaker 8: in place, so there will be some there'll still be
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Speaker 8: there'll be a national standard, but ultimately we're removing the
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Speaker 8: requirement for building content. In most cases, it'll be basically
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Speaker 8: saying here's the conditions around how you put in place.
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Speaker 8: It's the same standard across the country. It'll be as
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Speaker 8: of right, you can put solar on your roof. There's
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Speaker 8: still there's still going to be some conditions around safety
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Speaker 8: and other things that obviously you have to make sure
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Speaker 8: it's safely and you still have to meet all the
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Speaker 8: safety rules around how it's installed, et cetera. But you know,
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Speaker 8: other parts so you still have to get its installed.
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Speaker 8: There's safety standards. We have aligned those safety standards with
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Speaker 8: or many of those safety standards with Australia. We did
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Speaker 8: that late last year, and of course there was another
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Speaker 8: issue which of course was making it harder to actually
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Speaker 8: do those installations in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Hey, you know with the loans, because the banks have
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Speaker 2: got the loans of anywhere from zero to one percent
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Speaker 2: or I think one was one and a half percent,
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Speaker 2: your green loans that you can take out if you've
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Speaker 2: got a mortgage to buy a Tesla or put some
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Speaker 2: panels in your roof. Do what you want. Why do
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Speaker 2: you why does the government need to put money into this?
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Speaker 8: Well, what we're doing so so two things. Two points there. Firstly,
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Speaker 8: the green loans that the banks are offering a very
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Speaker 8: short term loans and ultimately the payoff for solar is
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Speaker 8: generally over a period of sort of seven to ten years,
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Speaker 8: So the short term loans once once you once those
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Speaker 8: terms are up, which is Genuly three years, then then
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Speaker 8: those those terms, those those which entice people in are
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Speaker 8: not no longer there. Second point is they're only available
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Speaker 8: if you've got a mortgage. If you're someone without a mortgage,
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Speaker 8: you're not able to access those those loans. So if
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Speaker 8: you think someone who's retired or who's paid off their mortgage,
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Speaker 8: they are not able to access those. So the rate
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Speaker 8: payer assistance scheme, it was an idea put forward by
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Speaker 8: local government New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: We've picked that up.
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Speaker 8: We put forward our policy the Home Energy Fund effectively
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Speaker 8: as setting up an entity alongside local government which the
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Speaker 8: government and local government will be shareholders in.
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Speaker 2: They'll be able to use the.
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Speaker 8: Using the equity in people's property, but also have the
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Speaker 8: backing of the government through a small capital injection that
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Speaker 8: we put into this entity. What's access slow cost debt great?
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Speaker 8: To provide longer term loans excellent?
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Speaker 2: What's very quickly? What's the interest rate? Don't know yet.
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Speaker 8: Well, the advice through the business case that's been done,
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Speaker 8: it'd be about two percent lower than variable rates that
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Speaker 8: banks are offering.
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Speaker 2: Okay, good to know. Simy and Brown, Energy spokesperson for
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Speaker 2: the National Party is twenty five after five five twenty
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Speaker 2: seven news talk sai'd be most key wes have an
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Speaker 2: environmental bent to them that I think most of the
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Speaker 2: rest of the Western world just doesn't have. Even those
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Speaker 2: on the right of politics here care about the oceans
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Speaker 2: and the rivers and the lakes. Matt Watson, which is
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Speaker 2: not to say that people on the right around the
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Speaker 2: world don't, but a general vibe isn't there. Let's be real.
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Speaker 2: Matt Watson and his million fishes. They put Shane Jones,
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Speaker 2: supposedly industry friendly fishing clauses in the bin. A lot
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Speaker 2: of them were Tories fishes. Now the same has happened
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Speaker 2: with Porwtucker and his conservation clauses. In both cases, emotion
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Speaker 2: I think overcame facts. I spoke with Portarcker the day
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Speaker 2: before he turned and he made some pretty clear promises.
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Speaker 2: No parks, no bushland, no great walks, no protected species
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Speaker 2: would be destroyed or sold off under the bill. The
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Speaker 2: problem was the door was left Ajar open for a
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Speaker 2: future government to potentially sell bits of conservation land. Anyone
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Speaker 2: who thinks seriously that means a government would sell Tonga
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Speaker 2: at our National Park to the highest bidder is not
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Speaker 2: serious or mad. They were targeting this is, at least
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Speaker 2: according to Portucker, land with old, disused government buildings or
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Speaker 2: car parks even on them and a state of disrepair.
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Speaker 2: Just flogged them off, get them out of off the books. However,
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Speaker 2: they they left the door Ajar, and opponents drove a
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Speaker 2: truck through that hole. Pawtucker looked like a deer in headlights.
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Speaker 2: They should have seen this coming, especially after the fishing misstep.
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Speaker 2: This is to say it'll not to say I should
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Speaker 2: say that it'll cost them votes. I don't think it will.
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Speaker 2: It just means there's a perception out there. Isn't there.
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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily true, but there is a perception that
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Speaker 2: not only are they not for the environment, is Portucker
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Speaker 2: kept saying they are, but that they might actually be
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Speaker 2: against it. Whatever that vague phrasing means, you can be
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Speaker 2: sure the opposition will seize on it. Clearly it resonates
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Speaker 2: with quite a few Kiwi Crayon Bridge, That's why they
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Speaker 2: made this change. Twenty nine minutes after five. I mean
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Speaker 2: it's it is a very emotional, weirdly for New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: It is quite an emotional debate, isn't it where facts
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Speaker 2: perhaps are a bit lost when you start showing people
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Speaker 2: pictures of a coady tree and and you know with
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Speaker 2: a four sale sign next to it, which is the
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Speaker 2: kind of stuff that was happening, Or you know a
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Speaker 2: tongu at Adow National Park or Mount Cook or whatever
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Speaker 2: with a Bailey's ad on it. Yeah, calls it the heartstrings,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it. Twenty nine after five, News Talks abat We're
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Speaker 2: Live to the UK.
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Speaker 2: News Talks ab twenty four minutes away from six year
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Speaker 2: on News Talks ITB coming up in twenty minutes. Richard Chambers,
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Speaker 2: what's he actually being accused of here? Are two separate complaints.
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Speaker 2: We are told we'll have details for you. And also
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Speaker 2: the UK heat wave will head live to London. Do
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Speaker 2: you know what's interesting about this? Because there are warnings
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Speaker 2: they could at forty degrees celsius this week.
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Speaker 6: Stay at home.
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Speaker 9: The warning from schools and workplaces this morning is a
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Speaker 9: danger to life where the warning comes into.
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Speaker 2: Force, so very serious and they are all sweating like pigs,
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Speaker 2: the Brits. At the moment you turn on a TV
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Speaker 2: you have to look far to see them just absolutely
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Speaker 2: panting to the camera. However, at a time like that,
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Speaker 2: you would think we'll just turn on the aircorn. Right.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people apparently are having the air con
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Speaker 2: ripped out of their homes or told that they cannot
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Speaker 2: install aircorn in the first place if they're doing a
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Speaker 2: new build, and the reason is net zero like climate change.
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Speaker 2: The irony of this, I know not lost on the
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Speaker 2: Brits either. So the Telegraph has a story home owner
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Speaker 2: is being forced to tear out air conditioning from their
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Speaker 2: private properties under climate laws. Council planning offices the worst,
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Speaker 2: ordering residents to remove aircorn units over feares they produce
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Speaker 2: too much carbon dioxide they should be used as a
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Speaker 2: last resort. So apparently what the law says that doesn't
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Speaker 2: ban them, but they have to be a last resort option.
19:02
Speaker 2: So first you have to do instead of active calling,
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Speaker 2: which is an air conditioning unit, you do passive calling,
19:08
Speaker 2: which is using a fan or opening a window, which
19:13
Speaker 2: is like an ashtray on a motorbike. When you're heading
19:17
Speaker 2: forty degrees celsius. You have to say Calum Propter and
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Speaker 2: Dnedan morning Callum morning Ryan. You'd be sort of the
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Speaker 2: opposite there this morning. I abul to imagine very very much.
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Speaker 9: So we've never called the air conditioning units here. They're
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Speaker 9: all called heat pumps.
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Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on with South Dunedin's flooding plans?
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Speaker 9: Well, it's hit a major roadblock this project. Yesterday Dunedan
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Speaker 9: City Council has halted the whole thing after the Regional
19:43
Speaker 9: Council here put a last minute addition on the table
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Speaker 9: to solving this big problem in South Dunedin. Their suggestions
19:50
Speaker 9: around engineered flood protection, and council staff say researching the
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Speaker 9: technical details and costs of that will take four months.
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Speaker 9: So existing options that were on the table prior to
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Speaker 9: this yesterday included council purchasing back properties, raising land and
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Speaker 9: upgrading drainage, costing up to two and a half billion dollars.
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Speaker 9: Miya Sophie Barker says this today is not ideal, but
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Speaker 9: they committed to finding a pathway forwards. His residents deserve
20:16
Speaker 9: action and urgency. But of councils investing that much money
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Speaker 9: over decades, they need to understand all of the options
20:23
Speaker 9: because if they get it wrong, the consequences here are serious.
20:26
Speaker 9: And how is your weather today? Still the odd shower
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Speaker 9: about but clearing this afternoon. The high today just nine.
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Speaker 2: Nice one callum, Thank you Claire and christ this morning.
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Speaker 10: Claire, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Now you've got an update on the spat between residents
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Speaker 2: and Wolfbrook housing development at Pegasus. What's happening here?
20:42
Speaker 10: Yes, swimaked Didi District Council has now confirmed it's received
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Speaker 10: confirmation as of yesterday that Wolfbrook intends to use the
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Speaker 10: fast track process and rezone the golf course to turn
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Speaker 10: it into housing. We know that more than fifteen thousand
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Speaker 10: people have signed a petition opposing that development. Miya Dan
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Speaker 10: Gordon was vocal from the outset saying he did not
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Speaker 10: support the plan. He's now confirmed that he and community
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Speaker 10: leaders have written to the Minister Responsible urging that any
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Speaker 10: application be declined. He says it's very disappointing news for
21:12
Speaker 10: anyone who wants to see this asset protected. He says
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Speaker 10: the Council is continuing to explore a community led purchase
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Speaker 10: of this site that would then be presented to Wolfbrook
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Speaker 10: as an alternative.
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Speaker 2: And how's the weather.
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Speaker 10: They're clear, cloudy with some scattered choweers today, should clear
21:29
Speaker 10: this afternoon to some fine break strong Southerlys and high
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Speaker 10: eight degrees.
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Speaker 2: Nice one. Thank you to Bes Macintosh and Wellington to Bes.
21:36
Speaker 2: Good morning morning Ryan. How you're going to talk about
21:38
Speaker 2: the guy who's going to look at the Wellington Library's
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Speaker 2: new website. How much does it cost? What's the problem
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Speaker 2: with the website?
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Speaker 11: Well, the websites come into the media and until all
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Speaker 11: of our attention because it cost ratepays six hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 11: This is the website for the new library and it
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Speaker 11: was designed by Auckland Agency Journey Digital. So Council Chief
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Speaker 11: Executive Matt Prossoll. He says locals deserve to know why
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Speaker 11: the cost soared so high, and he admits that such
22:10
Speaker 11: a project would be unlikely to get approval if it
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Speaker 11: was proposed today, So they've now gone and appointed the
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Speaker 11: former Internal Affairs Chief Executive, Colin McDonald. He's been tasked
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Speaker 11: with leading a review into y costs got so high
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Speaker 11: and deciding whether the website represented value for money. He's
22:29
Speaker 11: volunteered to do so for free. The council says it
22:32
Speaker 11: offered to pay, but McDonald declined on the basis that
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Speaker 11: he wants to give something back to the city. So
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Speaker 11: he's now going to go and speak with current and
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Speaker 11: former staff and present his findings by mid September.
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Speaker 2: Good dude, Colin McDonald, Good on you. And did the
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Speaker 2: website just did it allow you to loan books? Or
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Speaker 2: was it just a sort of a window into what
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Speaker 2: the library's like?
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Speaker 11: Well it's actually poor from me because I haven't gone
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Speaker 11: and navigated it myself.
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Speaker 2: Well you report back on tomorrow morning. How's that has Monday?
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Speaker 2: Forgive me? How's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Were damaging southerly gusts today one hundred and thirty kilometers
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Speaker 11: an hour in exposed places at this periods of heavy
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Speaker 11: rain nine degrees our high So be careful today, Wellington.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you to bes poor poor to be well,
23:22
Speaker 2: let me not. He should be across it here. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you come on here, well, those damaging ones.
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Speaker 12: I think you should just stay home for the next
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Speaker 12: forty eight hours. Poor boy, I.
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Speaker 2: Need to council. I'm just seeing.
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Speaker 8: What are you doing with your phone?
23:32
Speaker 2: For goodness? Website? You tell us what? Oh look, I've got.
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Speaker 12: To tell you about this, because no, I don't want
23:37
Speaker 12: to do this.
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Speaker 7: Look.
23:38
Speaker 12: Auckland is sky City. They've got this new ride. It's
23:42
Speaker 12: this new sky ride thrill attraction. It's opening today apparently
23:47
Speaker 12: according to the press release, it's the world's highest lift
23:50
Speaker 12: and descent ride. So this is what's going to happen.
23:53
Speaker 12: You will be strapped into a seat. You can either
23:56
Speaker 12: do it by yourself, single or tandem. Then you're slowly
23:59
Speaker 12: lifted about one hundred and ninety two meters up. This
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Speaker 12: is just outside of sky Tower. You know how they
24:04
Speaker 12: do that with a bungee, but this is the seat one,
24:07
Speaker 12: and then you're descended back to ground level. It speeds
24:10
Speaker 12: of up to one hundred kilometers an hour.
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Speaker 2: So is that like a like a proper free fall
24:15
Speaker 2: bunge or not quite?
24:16
Speaker 12: Well, not quite because yeah, yeah, but something like that.
24:18
Speaker 12: Because I had to look at photos. I don't understand
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Speaker 12: this because.
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Speaker 2: Current one is quite slow.
24:22
Speaker 12: If you could get yeah, so this one you're going
24:24
Speaker 12: up slowly, but you're sitting down. You're sitting down and
24:27
Speaker 12: you can do it with a friend or something like that,
24:30
Speaker 12: and then you just go up there and then all
24:32
Speaker 12: of a sudden year it's that big drop drop. No,
24:35
Speaker 12: I'm not going to do it. No, no, I can't
24:37
Speaker 12: even get on the flipping log flume at rainbow's end.
24:40
Speaker 12: I'm not a thrill seeker.
24:42
Speaker 2: I'm not like you. How's that weather?
24:45
Speaker 10: Okay?
24:45
Speaker 12: Well, rain, rain, rain, heavy showers by afternoon, galees south westerlies,
24:50
Speaker 12: those southerlyes whipping and so for Auckland it will be
24:53
Speaker 12: a little bit cooler, not as cold as a South
24:55
Speaker 12: Island to hire fourteen here in Auckland, Happy Friday.
24:59
Speaker 2: Thank you. It is seventeen minutes away from six. I'm
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Speaker 2: just having a look on the website for the Wellington
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Speaker 2: Library and I don't think he's about us. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's very it looks fantastic, it's bright colors, it's very
25:13
Speaker 2: it's got videos. There's a girl dancing outside the library,
25:20
Speaker 2: but I can't see that you can actually rent or
25:24
Speaker 2: loan books from here? Explore what can I do? Library
25:29
Speaker 2: services will presumably rent a book. I don't think you
25:33
Speaker 2: can actually do it from the website, which which if
25:36
Speaker 2: you know, if you're paying six hundred thousand dollars for
25:39
Speaker 2: a website, I would have thought that would be one
25:40
Speaker 2: of the key functions. Perhaps it says somewhere nine two
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Speaker 2: nine two. It is sixteen to six. We're live to London.
25:46
Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
25:50
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:53
Speaker 2: Thirteen minutes away from six news talks would be this
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Speaker 2: textas says Ryan. The library site this is in Wellington.
25:58
Speaker 2: The library web site that's cost six hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: This personance is. The library site is like most library sites,
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Speaker 2: very comprehensive, with a full database of the library collection
26:07
Speaker 2: and enables reservations and even withdrawal of EBox. I've just
26:12
Speaker 2: searched William Shakespeare into the search bar of the site
26:15
Speaker 2: and it is no results. I don't know. Maybe they
26:20
Speaker 2: just don't stock everything. It is thirteen minutes away from six.
26:23
Speaker 2: Now it's Branbridge to the UK. Even cinemcavenis on that Vincent,
26:27
Speaker 2: how hot are you?
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Speaker 13: It's pretty hot all this week here in Europe. We've
26:33
Speaker 13: got a heat wave that's sitting right on top of Spain, France,
26:36
Speaker 13: the UK, Germany, Czech Republic and France. Today has experienced
26:39
Speaker 13: its highest temperature ever, getting to forty four point seven
26:43
Speaker 13: degrees in some parts. And here in the UK as well,
26:46
Speaker 13: it's been our The record for the hottest day in
26:48
Speaker 13: June has been broken for the second day in a row.
26:52
Speaker 13: It's been thirty six point seven degrees here on the
26:56
Speaker 13: UK mainland and some of the islands, well Jersey and
26:58
Speaker 13: the Channel Islands it's hit thirty nine degrees, smashing records
27:01
Speaker 13: as well.
27:01
Speaker 2: So incredibly hot cross Europe.
27:03
Speaker 13: Schools are being closed, hostels were told of being a
27:06
Speaker 13: little bit overwhelmed, and trees like France even taking the
27:09
Speaker 13: step of banning consuming alcohol in public spaces as well,
27:13
Speaker 13: and outdoors, trying to keep people in the cool inside.
27:18
Speaker 2: And what about let's go to Andy Burnham for a second,
27:20
Speaker 2: in the fact that he's probably on the seventeenth of
27:23
Speaker 2: July going to become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain,
27:26
Speaker 2: but Chancellor Rachel Reeves urging him to basically stick to
27:30
Speaker 2: her plan. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 13: Andy Burnham is now an MP. I mean last week
27:36
Speaker 13: when we were speaking at this hour, he was only
27:38
Speaker 13: the mayor of Manchester, but he's now an MP and
27:40
Speaker 13: the prime Minister in waiting. It seems no one wants
27:42
Speaker 13: to challenge him and all attention is on who is
27:45
Speaker 13: going to be in his government. Rachel Reeves has been
27:48
Speaker 13: closely aligned as Chancellor with the outgoing Prime Minister Sirkir Starmer,
27:53
Speaker 13: but it's thought that Andy Burnham wants to replace her.
27:56
Speaker 13: She's signaling though that if he does break away from
27:59
Speaker 13: her fiscal rules that could spook the bond markets. It's
28:02
Speaker 13: thought that she might be the sort of first chanceller
28:04
Speaker 13: in history that's offered a sort of demotion within the cabinet.
28:08
Speaker 13: She might well stay on. But all questions, all the
28:10
Speaker 13: sort of speculation now is who he'll want to replace with,
28:14
Speaker 13: because Ed Milliband is a name he used to be
28:16
Speaker 13: the Labor leader. That's someone that's coming up West streeting
28:19
Speaker 13: who people thought might have made a run for Prime
28:21
Speaker 13: Minister himself. And we're starting to hear a bit of
28:23
Speaker 13: signal and noise on tax changes he wants to make.
28:25
Speaker 13: He wants to make capital gains tax be more in
28:29
Speaker 13: line with taxes on work. He might change the taxes
28:32
Speaker 13: that you pay on your housing as well in the UK,
28:35
Speaker 13: So it seems he wants to try to shake things up.
28:38
Speaker 2: Hey very quickly. There are the nit zero laws that
28:41
Speaker 2: apparently mean that some people can't have an ECON unit,
28:44
Speaker 2: But in the UK most people don't actually hear the
28:46
Speaker 2: econ on their homes, do they.
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Speaker 13: No, pretty much no one has a coon in their homes.
28:52
Speaker 13: I mean there are ways you can pay to have
28:54
Speaker 13: them installed, certainly, but it's just so we haven't really
28:58
Speaker 13: needed it until the last couple of years we've had
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Speaker 13: these red strong heat waves. People in the UK hadn't
29:03
Speaker 13: really considered it and there's been a spike in interest
29:05
Speaker 13: in this talling them. But I can tell you that
29:07
Speaker 13: about ninety five percent of homes in the UK do
29:09
Speaker 13: not have our conditioning. The sort of heating the home
29:12
Speaker 13: and getting insulation for the winter is the bigger priority here,
29:15
Speaker 13: but now more people looking at getting it for these
29:17
Speaker 13: hot summers.
29:18
Speaker 2: We're having Vincent mcavvinny, a UK europe correspondent. Great to
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Speaker 2: have you on the show. As always, it is ten.
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Speaker 1: To six brand Bridge, so.
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Speaker 2: The Police Commissioner Richard Chambers under investigation over allegations of
29:27
Speaker 2: inappropriate conduct. Two complaints were made against Chambers, one last
29:31
Speaker 2: November another in February. He strongly denies the allegations. Michael Mora,
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Speaker 2: the Herald senior investigative reporter, on the story, Michael, what
29:38
Speaker 2: do we know?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, as you've pointed out, the Police Minister's Office
29:43
Speaker 6: confirmed to me last night that Mark Mitchell received two
29:47
Speaker 6: complaints November last year in.
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Speaker 2: February this year.
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Speaker 6: Both referred to the IPCA and the National Integrity Unit.
29:54
Speaker 6: It's unclear precisely when the IPC and the Integrity Unit
29:57
Speaker 6: began their investigations proper into each of these two separate complaints,
30:01
Speaker 6: how far along they are, or when they'll reach a conclusion.
30:04
Speaker 6: They're essentially refusing to say. But given these complaints are
30:08
Speaker 6: still being investigated, it's clear that the allegations are yet
30:11
Speaker 6: to be substantiated. Now I understand one of the complaints
30:14
Speaker 6: relates to a woman who's made historic sexual allegations against Chambers.
30:19
Speaker 6: This has prompted two detectives to fly to Australia to
30:22
Speaker 6: interview a woman at her home. Now it's understood this
30:26
Speaker 6: woman has made claims in relation to Chambers when they
30:29
Speaker 6: were in a relationship and lived together in Auckland's Red
30:33
Speaker 6: Beach more than twenty years ago. So detectives went to
30:36
Speaker 6: Australia to interview this woman earlier this month for a
30:40
Speaker 6: couple of days and they have gone back again just
30:43
Speaker 6: yesterday to continue those interviews. Of course, Chambers, since he
30:49
Speaker 6: strongly rejects the claims that had been made, he'll fully
30:52
Speaker 6: cooperate with the investigation and looks forward to having the
30:55
Speaker 6: matter dealt with. We have asked Chambers when he became
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Speaker 6: aware of the allegations or if he's been given a
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Speaker 6: timeline of when the investigation will be complete, and we
31:04
Speaker 6: yet to receive response on that.
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Speaker 2: Is anyone talking at this point, Michael.
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Speaker 6: Look, it's a pretty close shop. I have gone to
31:13
Speaker 6: the Public Service Commission because given Chambers is the chief
31:16
Speaker 6: executive of the public of a public service, the PC
31:20
Speaker 6: has oversight of employment matters and I have asked, you know,
31:23
Speaker 6: on what basis is it appropriate that he remains in
31:27
Speaker 6: his role at this time and a spokesman has simply said, look,
31:31
Speaker 6: based on the information available, the Commissioner, Brian Roach, does
31:35
Speaker 6: not consider that it is required at this time that
31:38
Speaker 6: he stood down. So it is all pretty quiet from
31:43
Speaker 6: various authorities at the moment as investigations continue.
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Speaker 2: All right, Michael, appreciate that up late. Michael Mora, the
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Speaker 2: Herald senior investigative reporter on Richard Chambers Times seven to
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Speaker 2: six News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: B it is five six News Talk said, b it
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Speaker 2: is Friday morning, and MICUs with your next right this
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Speaker 2: textas says Ryan on Europe in the eighties, I had
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Speaker 2: lived through a heat wave. It was awful. Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 14: Well, yeah, I was asking on the show yesterday how
32:16
Speaker 14: many years do you have to have a heat wave
32:19
Speaker 14: and keep saying, oh, we're not used to this before
32:21
Speaker 14: you actually get used to it and buy an air
32:23
Speaker 14: conditioning unit. I mean, how does it need to be?
32:26
Speaker 2: Well, the problem is its seasons are so far apart
32:29
Speaker 2: you forget. It's like it's like when you you know,
32:32
Speaker 2: when you get drunk and you get a hangover and
32:33
Speaker 2: you go, I'll never do this again. No I don't, Well, no,
32:36
Speaker 2: you don't. But this is me every every Saturday. Is that?
32:41
Speaker 5: Is that?
32:41
Speaker 2: What it is? That's what it is? And then the
32:42
Speaker 2: next ones you got, the next timmer you get Oh
32:44
Speaker 2: my goodness, now Ryan, remember well.
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Speaker 14: All I'd recommend is somebody ring somebody and get an
32:49
Speaker 14: air conditioning unit next summer. We're not going to have
32:51
Speaker 14: the same problem. Tim of po tarker On is he's
32:53
Speaker 14: had a hell of a week, hasn't he. So he's
32:55
Speaker 14: he had to back down yesterday.
32:57
Speaker 2: Selling it is not just me, is it?
32:59
Speaker 14: Winstimpeter didn't like the FTA because there were too many
33:02
Speaker 14: indiots coming, and now he doesn't like the FTA because
33:05
Speaker 14: they were clamping down on the Indians coming. What the
33:07
Speaker 14: hell's going on?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 2: I think it's trying to make the point that clearly
33:10
Speaker 2: there was an issue for them to need to clamp down,
33:13
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
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Speaker 14: Okay, So either way he's not happy, but I anyway,
33:18
Speaker 14: we'll deal with that as well. A little bit on
33:19
Speaker 14: the football for the weekend.
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Speaker 2: What's hot for you? Temperature wise?
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Speaker 9: Oh?
33:23
Speaker 2: I regard.
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Speaker 14: It depends where you are, obviously, But I'm a humidity person,
33:28
Speaker 14: so I don't mind. I can do thirty three four
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Speaker 14: five and dry in California thirty four thirty five, No
33:34
Speaker 14: big deal. You get the humidity at twenty seven to
33:37
Speaker 14: discuss it too much for me? London and heat New
33:40
Speaker 14: York and heat. You don't have to be much higher
33:43
Speaker 14: than twenty five twenty six before it gets a bit,
33:44
Speaker 14: you know, but.
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Speaker 2: Too hot under the collar. MICUs with your next news Talks.
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